April 9, 2025 • 34 mins
In the second hour of today's edition of The Dan Caplis Show, Dan looks at what Donald Trump's plan is in his trade war with China.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
How lucky we are to be alive right now?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
To paraphrase Hamilton, though, I think that's verbatim, What a
time think about what we're living through, right And it's
exactly what we talked about when Trump announced the quote
tariff play. Though it's much more than that, and it's
unfolded just as we predicted it would, which is really
not that hard to predict, right because you look at Trump,
it's always been the art of the deal, and you
need leverage to make the deal. And he sees smart,
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he's successful, yet you know that he is going to
win one way or the other. So when he needed
to pivot today, and I think he did, I think
he pretty much admitted that he needed to pivot today,
needed to have some tariff relief in order to politically
keep enough people on the reservation, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
He did that.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
And that's why from the very beginning I've said brilliant play.
Use the leverage. We're going to come out better than
where we started. It's just a matter of how much better.
And we can trust Trump to adjust along the road
as he needs to. And that's what we're watching unfold.
Love your thoughts. We have great text as well, the
d A N five seven seven three nine. We'll go
back to the phone lines in a second. Three oh
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three seven to one three A two five five the number.
And again, you know, I think we called this one
right from the very beginning in terms of what would
likely happen in the market, and that's unfolded.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Nobody could be precise on the timing, but the flow
of this.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah, but hey, I think there's going to be chop ahead.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
You've still got China out there, You've still got this
trade war I want to call it that with China.
It needs to be fought, and Trump's the guy to
fight it. But that isn't necessarily going to end painlessly.
So I'm not saying we're going to see every day
is going to be an upday on Wall Street. The
futures right now are up a tick across the board,
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but I don't read anything into that. I wouldn't be
surprised if tomorrow's a down day, if tomorrow's an up day,
if tomorrow's a mix.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
All.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I'm saying that overall because I think that's what most
people invest for, right, is not day trading.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Overall. Trump's in control here and for.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
All the reasons we've discussed, this thing is going to
land well. And then there are going to be other
major events as a backdrop for this, including Aron. So
we'll talk about all that and some important local stuff.
Let's go to Jim in Denver. You're on the Dan
Kaplis Show.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Welcome Jim, Hi, Dan, how are you.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I'm living the dream, and thank you for calling earlier. Normally,
Jim Cole, we love Jim. He calls to disagree, but
normally it's at like five point fifty seven. So we
have thirty seconds left, so laid on me.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Brother.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
You know two things that Donald said at the Republican
dinner last night. I thought we're just utterly disgraceful. He
said that by using our towerff threat, but we were
going to be able to start ripping off these countries,
and that those were his words.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
He's ripping off, We're going to start.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Ripping them off.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Okay, Okay, I thought that was that in full context?
Is that in full context? Full? Unfair?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
CONTI they've been what he said was they've been ripping
off us off. Now we're going to start ripping them off.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Okay, that's just looking up because your enthusiasm is so admirable,
but it's led you to be a not so reliable
historian at times.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Jim, So, I just want to check that, all right?
And you got a problem with.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
That, oh Dan. I don't want us to rip anybody off, Okay,
I want a fair deal. That's all ripping off. I mean,
if it was wrong for them to rip us off,
it's wrong for us to rip them off. What We're
the richest country in the history of the world. What
do you want to rip off countries poorer than us?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
My friend, my friend, it wouldn't be my choice of words.
But did the president define ripping off? Because here's where
I think your premise is flawed. And I'm trying to
find the quote right now. What Trump has often said,
right is, Okay, China's been ripping us off for years,
and I don't blame them if they can get away
with it. But I'm not going to let him get
away with it is normally what he says, and he
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normally expands on his belief that nations have a right
to act and their best interest. I mean not talking
about wars but starting wars, but nations have a right
tect and their best interest. And that's normally even his pitch.
He doesn't fault the people out there, other nations who've
been ripping us off, but says it's time to stop
that and we need to start acting in America's interest.
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Where his comments in that context.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
He didn't confine it to China. He says the EU,
the Europe has been ripping us off for years. He says,
Canada's been ripping us off. He says Mexico has been
ripping us off off. Yeah, you know, and so anyway,
the term ripping is off. I don't want to see
the I think you can agree you don't want to
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see the United States off.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And I'm still trying to find the quote, my friend,
and I'm not saying you're wrong, but I can't find
it anywhere.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
It might very well be there.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
We'll see it.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, yeah, but listen, when we come back to like,
Trump's a disruptor, right, so sometimes he uses language to
get attention. If he uses typical economic jargon, then is
Jim talking about it on some radio show.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
So listen.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
If the idea is cheating people, no, we don't cheat.
That's not who we are as Americans. If the idea
is we're not going to be cheated and we're going
to make sure that we act in this nation's interest. Yeah,
and I think that's what he's been all about.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
But he said on something even worse than to my mind.
He said these countries. He said, I announced the tariffs,
and now all these countries are looking to negotiate. They're
all trying to kiss my ass and they say, hey, sir, please, sir,
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could you please give us these tariffs? And I mean,
he was mocking them. And he's talking about Japan and
South Korea and Vietnam, these countries that have already, you know,
tried to negotiate some kind of settlement on this, and
he's mocking them in a really vulgar way. He's humiliating them,
and I think it's disgraceful.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Well, let me ask you what's more disgraceful Trump using
language like that or the other countries doing to us?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
What they've been doing.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
I have no idea I have.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Oh you do, Jim, you just don't want to admit it.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
You know that the actual actions, rather than some rough words,
are much more disgraceful.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
And we can all agree on this.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Right If Donald Trump talked like every other politic ever,
would have been president and the good things he's doing
would not be happening. Now, it's not the way I
choose to talk. But last I checked, I'm not president.
Ryan may correct me on that sometime soon.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
But but no, I don't mind. I don't mind some crudity.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I don't mind some rough language as long as the
underlying actions are doing good and stopping evil in a
perfect world. Would you love to have that without anybody
ever saying a curse word?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
You bet?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I just don't think humiliating our allies, you know, would crude,
schoolyard bully language. Is that any president should do that?
As what he's saying, we're going to take your lunch.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Money, Well that's not what he's saying. What he's saying
is he wants a fair deal for America. But what
I think is so revealing, Jim, and this isn't meant personally,
just actually is that you're unwilling to condemn the underlying
conduct of the allies who've been taking advantage of us.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I mean, what do you think a trade deficit is
with France?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
It's big, it's it's very big in Japan.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I love the Japanese people, But what's the trade deficit
with Japan?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
So you know you finally got a guy. Oh, it's
not a problem. Problem.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Oh, okay, power kind of our wealth. We have a
lot more money than to take myself from us.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Let me ask you, my friend Jim, and I'm only
interrupting because we're up against a heartbreak. Let me ask you,
do you get to spend much time in the Midwest?
Do you get to spend much time in those areas
of the country that that are doing pretty poorly right now?
Where you've got a lot of towns that have been
hollowed out, You've got a lot of opioid addiction, you
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got an awful lot of problems because so many of
our good and best paying jobs average manufacturing job paid
about one hundred and two thousand with Betty's so many
of our best jobs have now gone over to our allies.
I think you need to spend some more time in
those parts of the country because we have paid an
enormous price for the wealth of some of our allies, and.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
We out manufacture every single one of our allies. China's
the number one manufacturer in the world. The United States
is number two.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
But you're not basing that, Jim. I'm sorry interrupt, but
you're not basing it per capita. You got it, base
it on per capita. Yeah, we have a whole lot
of people. So when you got a whole lot of people, yeah,
maybe the top line number is we're doing more of that,
but when you break it down to per person that
there is no denying, Jim. There's no denying the six
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million manufacturing jobs we've lost. That manufacturing is about a
third of what it used to be. How well most
of those jobs, there's no denying all that, Jim. So
all I'm saying is, let's have a heart. Let's have
a heart for the American people first, That's all I'm saying.
Doesn't mean we mistreat the rest of the world, but
I'd love to see the same kind of passion and
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concern that you have for our allies directed to our
American brothers and sisters. Hey, Jim, you're welcome to hang,
but I got to hit this brake. You're on the
Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
I'll tell you why she can only stay the Supreme
leader if people are employed, if we wipe out any
business there, Because we are still thirty nine percent of
all consumables on Earth and twenty five percent of the
world's GDP. America is the number one economy on Earth
with all the cars.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
We will not have that forever.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
It's time to squeeze Chinese heads into the wall.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Now, Kevin O'Leary, Hey, linezer Jam.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
We'll give Jim a few seconds to complete he held
through the break, and then we'll get onto our other callers.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
So, Jim, what's your wrap? Hello Dan?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Hey Jim, do you have a quick wrap up on this,
my friend? Because we've got gem lines and want to
get to everybody.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yeah. I did you have a chance to listen to
Trump's speech from the things he said last night?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Jim?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I did not during this break, but I have had
texters say Jim is wrong.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Trump said, Hey, now we're going to do the ripping. Yeah, Okay, Jim.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Sorry, sorry, we don't have time to kind of litigate
what he did or didn't say. But your your bottom
line point is you don't like his you don't like
his rough language, right, and you don't like the idea
of Trump saying, Okay, now we're going to rip people off.
But Jim, gratefully you called hope, you call again off
and we always appreciate that. I want to try to
get everybody in. Let's go to a Jill. You're on
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the Dan Kaplas.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
She'll welcome.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
Oh, hi, Dan, I'm to talk to you again.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
Yeah, poor poor Jim. Seriously, I feel sorry for him, Uh,
because you know our president, he he doesn't talk like that.
He doesn't say that. He says what he says, and
then other outlets tell you that he said this or that.
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But if you watch him, you know what he said,
and he's saying, we need to be equal, we need
to we need to go back. I wasn't in favor
of this thing to begin with, back in the day
of this thing with China, and UH ended up losing
losing a marriage over it, actually over China, but over yeah,
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over like implementing trying to take over our lives, you know,
back in the day. And my husband and I at
that point in time, I didn't you know, politics wasn't
in my life. I didn't know you had to be
politically related to be married because I love the guy,
you know. I thought he was wonderful. She's been a
good dad, all those things. But and he was pro
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China and pro shipping our jobs and everything. And I
told him, I said, this is not going to be
bode well for America.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
That ended up being a major event in our lives.
And yeah, so you had.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
A marriage break up over politics. It wasn't something else
in politics.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
It was just like an aggravator. It was politics.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
It was politics, and it was well it started in
eighty nine.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Well, Jill may ask you this, and I'm starting to
interrupt just because we've got these gam lines. But okay,
but my wife and I that the way we resolved
it would not this have worked for you and your
husband was we just don't talk politics.
Speaker 7 (13:43):
Oh yeah, that would be smart.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
So maybe there was something else going on.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
Yeah, but good for you, you know, I mean, I'm
glad you were able to have that, But I'm saying
that we were so I was so vital and this yeah,
you know, I had a child. I was thinking, are
you kidding? This is not going to bode well for
my son, who is now forty one years old.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (14:11):
But wigged me out and I realized what a different
person he was. And yes it was you know, it
was me doing the okay standing up?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Okay, Okay, Well I admire the strength of your convictions.
I do, and just out of curiosity, because I know
every listener is wondering, chill your child.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Did your child turn out to be conservative? To be liberal?
More like you? More like your ex husband?
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Oh, he was very conservative until they went to college.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Okay, I'm serious.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
He's an attorney now.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Okay, and.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
He was a very very conservative. Yeah, and then he
goes to college. Well he didn't know. Let's not do that.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
And Jill, I am, I'm so very sorry I let
you down that path. Thank you for colling. I think
a lot of people probably have to balance that issue
at home with politics and relationships. So I would guess
probably about eighty percent of the people marry somebody politically
aligned just happened to be my soulmate had different political views,
and yet we've been able to thrive.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Thank God, let's go to Mike. You're on the Dan
Caplis Show.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Welcome Mike, hey dand to talk to you again.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
You too.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
You know I'm calling Tumps me good because he's got
me listening to some of these people are really getting
to me. I'm older, I'm not in my age.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
And when they say we're the richest nation, do people
out look at this street? We are out the riches
around everywhere nations because there's space as you can go
and I've been there, they don't have to say atm
they're not ATMs that stood out though, not say for
money that's been made up seven of all? What about
all of the US When we have to rebuild.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
The path, rebuild Germany, we never got where. I think
they're still time to collect on some of that. So
now we've got a president that's trying to bring it
back to America. People don't want to give him a chance.
He'd been a chance even in his life. They want
to cut him down. Are they afraid to be able
to say, maybe we were wrong?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
You know what they're afraid of, Mike. They're afraid, as
I said, from day one, they're afraid the tariffs will work.
They're afraid that Trump's power play will succeed.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
That's what they've been afraid of.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
That's why they've been generating this panic porn, hoping that
it would force Trump to stop.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
That's what they're afraid of.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Hey, Mike, where where can you go where there's gold
coming out ATMs?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
That's got to be our next feel really? Wow?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Yeah, some of the some of the areas, uh you know,
some of Asia, different places in Asia.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
Yeah, it's for good, you know, you.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Go and there you put in because it's not so
much money.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
I'm not saying we're we're not the parish, but we're
not the richest. And look for all the countries we
help out all the time. That's these people see that that,
like you said, I think what it is they're saying
it it is a chance all working already. So that's
time to knocking dollar, the time of not sucked down.
How's anybody going to do anything if you don't give
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them a chance and get rid of some of these judges,
federal judges that don't only have the rights in their state.
They have the right to say something, but how are
they going and saying, oh, why are here in Colorado,
but you've got to buy my state wife of fifty.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
No, hey, I might appreciate the call. Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
The music means we've got to hit our break, come
back and talk to everybody else filling our lines.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
And I do want to get some time.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I mean, we're in the middle of this major play
by Trump, so that might have to wait a day
or two. But the US Supreme Court stepping in and
starting to decision by decision make it clear how it
views the role between you know, different district court judges,
pellet levels and the Supremes.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Here on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
The second Trump announced Liberation Day and the left launched
its panic porn because it's scared to death that Trump's
going to succeed with this play, which has been labeled
a tariff play, but it's broader than that. It's about
economic justice for the United States of America across the globe,
and tariffs are a tool to get the leverage you
need to cut the deals you need to cut, which
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are broader than just tariffs. So that's what we're in
the middle of. And the reason on day one, I said, hey,
this is a smart play. Trust Trump. It's going to work.
Is because Trump's can control and he can adjust as
we go along. And as he said today, Hey, he
needed to adjust today. So what he did today he
left the ten percent tariffs in place most places across
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the globe, but he brought down some of the extra
tariffs for a ninety day period.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
So people could come and cut deals.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
And he did that because he had some Republicans getting shaky.
And that's what he said today when he said that
some people were getting yippie. So that's why from the
beginning I felt that this was going to be a
very successful play, and that it was at least in
my mind, you know, save to layer some more money
into the market, because Trump would be in control of
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all of this.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
So, hey, do I expect every day to be like today? No,
of course not.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I expect there are a lot of ups and downs
ahead as Trump takes on the big Kohuna, which is China,
the Communist Party of China, the big cheater, and it's
not going to be as easy to hammer out that deal,
but it will get done. So yeah, a brilliant move
by Trump, one way or the other. We're going to
come out far ahead of where we were when we started.
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And the only issue is how ahead, because you know,
you rarely get one hundred percent of what you're after.
But it's going to be a lot better than it was,
that's for sure. So let's get to some of these
great texts. Three oh three seven one three A two
five five, the number Oh, I love this one. Dan,
please remind anyone offended by Trump of the topless transgender
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people dancing around outside the White House in response, we
love our color. Jim, he always calls to disagree. He
was offended by some gruff language from the president. And
what a great point the text are make. Now, I
had asked, Jim, is is he more offended by the
bad conduct of the country's Trump was.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Aiming the bad language yet? But I guess not for Jim.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
And listen, that's the reality, right is there going to
be some people out there, as Trump said, you know,
he could cure cancer, bring total peace to the world,
all in the same day, and you're going to have
forty seven percent of the people who.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Are still going to hate him.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
And part of the magic of Trump, right, Ryan, I mean,
it's and this is such an interesting just part of
human nature is that he has never let the haters
control him.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
He is never he has never let pleasing others.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Dictate how he acted, and that's why he has become
this successful, great disruptor.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
He doesn't let the haters get him down.
Speaker 9 (21:18):
He does it with a twinkle in his eye, and
he's got a sense of humor about it.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
And then he makes fun of the haters. Maybe they
like me a little bit now, you know, he's always
open to having them come back in the fold, like
he wants to be my friend Bill Mark and have
dinner with me.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Okay, yeah, Because my theory on Trump is that his
default is affection.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yes, that he's a lover at heart.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
And now, listen to some of the greatest fighters I've
ever known are lovers at heart. And I consider myself
a kind of a lover at heart, and it's one
reason that I'm so passionate and so aggressive when it
comes to certain things. But yeah, I think that's his default,
that's his setting. Now, we all know a lot of
people who are not lovers at heart. They're kind of
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angry haters at heart, Biden, and then they kind of
mask it with this passive, aggressive phony smile stuff Joe
Biden and and well this is one example. All right,
let's get to some more texts. We'll work in some
more calls. It's been just a fiery day on the phones.
Three h three someone three eight two five five have
some more hot sound. I want to bring you as well.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Dan.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
What Trump said is these countries have been ripping us off.
Now it's our turn to do the ripping Dan. Trump
reiterated being fair the whole time. And I don't doubt
that for a second, because you know, Trump has lived
in the real world, right and anybody who lives in
the real world, as I assume most of our listeners do,
they know that for something to work long term, any
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deal to work long term, that's in your best interest,
or your client's best interest, your country's best interest, whatever.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
That deal has got to be roughly fair or it's
not going to preserve long term, you know.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
So with any kind of ongoing relationship, you know, and
Trump has always understood that. So I don't think Trump
is looking at this point to disadvantage the rest of
the world. I think Trump wants to use American might
to rebalance the scales and get a fair deal for
the American people, because we have been getting ripped off
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over and over and over again.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
All over the world. And part of it is Ryan.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
And I don't want to get all philosophical, but everybody
knows it's true. Part of the reason for that is
because the modern Democratic Party wants a smaller, weaker America.
I mean Barack Obama, right, he said it. He said
it at the United Nations. No world order that elevates
one nation or group of people over another will succeed.
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And that has been the rallying cry of the Democratic
Party since at least two thousand and nine, which is
America cannot have any more economic influence, or might any
more military influence might than any other nation on Earth.
And we have got to reverse that or we don't
survive as a nation. And Trump is the guy to
reverse it. That's what he was elected to do. Dan,
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can you please give me a list of players, young
and old that can hit a golf ball three hundred
and seventy five yards?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Okay, Well, where do you want to start it?
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Tiger Woods in his prime? How far did he ot it?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Well, I mean I thought you were going to start
it right here. Well, you of course, Dan, Well, no, listen,
I mean come out. We play at altitude here right, correct,
So that distorts it about ten percent. But I'm routinely
driving the ball three point fifteen to three forty five.
You know, you catch something downhill, maybe you're not into
a win, maybe a little tailwind, you get it out
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to three point fifty and you know I'm over fifty
right now. So yeah, I think there are an awful
lot of people who can hit it long. I just
think the short game's tougher. And by the way, we
got off on this because President Trump used a golf
term today in describing why he was, you know, pausing
some of these higher terrorists today because some Republicans were
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getting quote yippie, which is a golf term for you
got a three foot put and you hit it thirty
feet because you know, your nerves fire up and it
looks like you had a stroke the Hey, by the way,
I don't want to digress, but did I tell you
what my uncle's telling me that story about his friend
who died on the golf course.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
What was this?
Speaker 7 (25:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah, yeah, my uncle, who Ryan knows, is.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
A Catholic priest and still does multiple masses a week
and big crowds. He's awesome about my uncle Roger. Yeah,
buddy of his priest, Buddy, he's you know, because these
guys love to go down to Florida in the winter.
I mean they're over ninety now, they deserve a little break.
So buddy of his, he's out there, avid golfer like
my uncle. They're not together. The buddy, he's feeling bad,
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eventually dies of this heart attack. But he lays down
next to the ninth green and he sees laying there
and he looks over and he says to the guy
next to him, why is that angel.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
In the golf cart?
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yeah? And then he dies. Wow.
Speaker 9 (26:07):
So now not quite like the Caddyshack scene with the
Catholic priest out there.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
You know what I'm gonna do. I got all these
trials coming up, but then I'm gonna take a break. Yeah,
and I'm going to write a book. Oh, I got
to write a book. Have nothing to do with me,
just about all the stuff I've seen on the golf course.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Yes, what agree on me?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Caddying for years and then working as a car parker
at the same country club. You got it, Dan I
mean all the stuff I've seen on the golf course
and uh yeah, no, gotta do that, gotta do that, Okay,
I digress Tara three is someone three eight two five
five takes d an five seven seven three nine. But
you got to understand this, this course that I caddied
at and the members so generous they sent me to
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college like the movie Caddyshack on what's called the Evans Scholarship,
which is one of the greatest things ever created. If
your kids looking for a summer job, have them looking
to cadding because that's how you can win the Evans
Scholarship eventually, but yet just a tremendous experience.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
When we come back.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
No more golf talk, unfortunately, but I want to get
you some some of this hot takes. Dound of the Day,
give you a little preview on what polus it looks like.
Is ready to threaten one of the top priorities, the
veto pardon me threatening to Vito one of the top
priorities on the left. You're on the Dankaples.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Show and now back to the Dan Kapless Show podcast.
Speaker 10 (27:34):
Wall Street has grown wealthier than ever before, and it
can continue to grow and do well. But for the
next four years. The Trump agenda is focused on main street.
It's main street's turn. It's main street's turn to hire workers,
it's main street's turn to drive investment, and it's main
street's turn to restore the American dream.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Boy, I love hearing that.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
And it needs to go beyond the purely economic as
well into, for example, school choice. Because President Trump talked
about the tariff play on April too. Right, But you
talk about liberation like, the true, lasting, profound liberation in
America will come when we have the tipping point breakthrough
to true school choice. Charters are awesome, different forms are awesome, awesome,
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but pure level the playing field unleash the massive potential
of all these kids in America who have not had
a fair chance to compete because they don't get a
fair chance to compete in education. Man, you talk about
the next big liberation in America, it's going to be
true school choice. Just financially empower all of those working family,
(28:43):
class families, middle income families, all of the economically disadvantaged
family in America. All of a sudden, you give those
parents this massive purchasing power that they can use in education,
and you just watch the free market rise up to
serve those people and their children.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
And once these.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Kids, all of these kids you know who are locked
right now into non competitive government run schools, you just
watch them as their potential gets unleashed and see what
it does for this country. That that is truly exciting,
and that day will come and Trump is committed to
that as well. Three out three someone three eight two
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five five text d A N five seven seven three nine.
Want to get to some more of these great texts,
but also some of the hot take sound of the day,
and I really want to get your take on Okay,
where does it go from here?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Right?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
I mean, you've still got this major economic battle going
with the Communist Party of China, and you know, those
tariffs have just been increased. That's not over, and there's
still aren't deals with you know, Vietnam for example, where
we have this one hundred and twenty nine billion trade
deficit each year and a lot of China cheating going
on through Vietnam.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
So still a lot of work to be done.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
But I like that President Trump has now given the
administration these ninety days to work with to cut deals,
and I think you're going to see a parade virtual
as well as physical, of other nations coming to Washington
to cut those deals. But China, Yeah, that's the one
eventually that just has to be done and has to
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be done the right way.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Dan, China holds a lot of our debt.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
What happens if they call our debt because of this
trade war and we can't repay? A great question, But
I don't think there's any chance of that happening right because,
first of all, China needs to China needs to be
able to cash in on that. They need a financially
healthy America to do that. Second, there is is so
much that America can do right now, you know, to
(30:45):
undermine g and his very you know, leadership in China
is very survival in China. You know, for example, how
about cut sixteen. Kevin O'Leary's take on that, well.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Maybe cut eighteen.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Let's stay on cut eighteen, because he assumes that she,
you know, because he is an evil, brutal dictator, is
just guaranteed to stay in power, but not necessarily, and
I don't think he can toy with the US the
way you're suggesting.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Four hundred percent.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
Tomorrow morning, he'll tell you why she can only stay
the supreme leader if people are employed, if we wipe
out any business there, Because we are still thirty nine
percent of all consumables on Earth and twenty five percent
of the world's GDP. America is the number one economy
on Earth with all the cars, we will not have
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that forever. It's time to squeeze Chinese heads into the wall, now, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
And you know that's Kevin O'Leary with his take on it.
And I think the bottom line is nobody's denying, right.
Have you heard anybody from the left try to deny
that the US has been taken advantage of four years
by China, by the Communist Party of China and many
of these other nations, including allies. I don't think anybody's
denying that. The question is just how you go about
(32:01):
dealing with it. And Trump he's got this window, he's
using the leverage, and we're going to kind of come
out better where we started.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
And I think we already are there.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
It's going to take some pain along the way, but
every great accomplishment does right, particularly when you're riding wrong.
So then Ryan, this is against the backdrop of other
major things that may very well be happening on the
international stage. I mean, Trump is in a hurry for
good reason, and he's going to deal with Iran. I
don't think you're going to see American troops go to
(32:32):
war in Iran. I certainly hope not. But I think
Iran's either going to cut a deal where they agree
not to get nuclear weapons, or Trump is going to
fully back Israel and taking out Iran's nuclear weapons. Because
this we've been talking about for years. This is as
true as any statement you can ever conceive of. Israel
is not going to sit back and allow Iran to
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get nuclear weapons. Israel is not going to sit back
and allow Israel to be destroyed, because the two are
the same. So I think something major is going to
happen with Iran in the next six months.
Speaker 9 (33:05):
It just makes me wonder, too, Dan, why the Obama administration,
John Kerry, Joe Biden, we're so hell bent on trying
to open those floodgates, those doors for Iran and remove
the shackles on them. It doesn't make any sense that
it would be in the United States interest to do that,
but they don't.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Well, it doesn't make any sense to you, because you're
a great American and you want a strong America. But
if you're Barack Obama and Barack Obama acolytes, you want
a weak America.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
And he said it.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
I mean, he's dead wrong, but he at least said
it to the United Nations verbatim. No world order that
elevates one nation or group people over another will succeed.
So he made it very clear he wanted the United
States of America to have no more military or economic
influence than any other.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Nation on Earth.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
And the quickest way to accomplish that is gives psychotic
enemies nuclear weapons.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Foggles the mind.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Well, but that was the play, right, That was the play,
was to neutralize America by giving our enemies nuclear weapons,
but particularly unstable psychotic.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Enemies like that regime. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
So well, lots ahead tomorrow, Glad you were here today,
and we will talk about Polis. Looks like he's ready
to veto some top priorities from the left. Will dive
into that tomorrow. Thank you, Ryan, Thank you Kelly. Please
join us tomorrow on The Dan Kaplo Show.
This is Dan Caplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
How lucky we are to be alive right now?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
To paraphrase Hamilton, though, I think that's verbatim, What a
time think about what we're living through, right And it's
exactly what we talked about when Trump announced the quote
tariff play. Though it's much more than that, and it's
unfolded just as we predicted it would, which is really
not that hard to predict, right because you look at Trump,
it's always been the art of the deal, and you
need leverage to make the deal. And he sees smart,
(00:41):
he's successful, yet you know that he is going to
win one way or the other. So when he needed
to pivot today, and I think he did, I think
he pretty much admitted that he needed to pivot today,
needed to have some tariff relief in order to politically
keep enough people on the reservation, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
He did that.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
And that's why from the very beginning I've said brilliant play.
Use the leverage. We're going to come out better than
where we started. It's just a matter of how much better.
And we can trust Trump to adjust along the road
as he needs to. And that's what we're watching unfold.
Love your thoughts. We have great text as well, the
d A N five seven seven three nine. We'll go
back to the phone lines in a second. Three oh
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three seven to one three A two five five the number.
And again, you know, I think we called this one
right from the very beginning in terms of what would
likely happen in the market, and that's unfolded.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Nobody could be precise on the timing, but the flow
of this.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah, but hey, I think there's going to be chop ahead.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
You've still got China out there, You've still got this
trade war I want to call it that with China.
It needs to be fought, and Trump's the guy to
fight it. But that isn't necessarily going to end painlessly.
So I'm not saying we're going to see every day
is going to be an upday on Wall Street. The
futures right now are up a tick across the board,
(02:00):
but I don't read anything into that. I wouldn't be
surprised if tomorrow's a down day, if tomorrow's an up day,
if tomorrow's a mix.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
All.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I'm saying that overall because I think that's what most
people invest for, right, is not day trading.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Overall. Trump's in control here and for.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
All the reasons we've discussed, this thing is going to
land well. And then there are going to be other
major events as a backdrop for this, including Aron. So
we'll talk about all that and some important local stuff.
Let's go to Jim in Denver. You're on the Dan
Kaplis Show.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Welcome Jim, Hi, Dan, how are you.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I'm living the dream, and thank you for calling earlier. Normally,
Jim Cole, we love Jim. He calls to disagree, but
normally it's at like five point fifty seven. So we
have thirty seconds left, so laid on me.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Brother.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
You know two things that Donald said at the Republican
dinner last night. I thought we're just utterly disgraceful. He
said that by using our towerff threat, but we were
going to be able to start ripping off these countries,
and that those were his words.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
He's ripping off, We're going to start.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Ripping them off.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Okay, Okay, I thought that was that in full context?
Is that in full context? Full? Unfair?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
CONTI they've been what he said was they've been ripping
off us off. Now we're going to start ripping them off.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Okay, that's just looking up because your enthusiasm is so admirable,
but it's led you to be a not so reliable
historian at times.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Jim, So, I just want to check that, all right?
And you got a problem with.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
That, oh Dan. I don't want us to rip anybody off, Okay,
I want a fair deal. That's all ripping off. I mean,
if it was wrong for them to rip us off,
it's wrong for us to rip them off. What We're
the richest country in the history of the world. What
do you want to rip off countries poorer than us?
Speaker 1 (04:00):
My friend, my friend, it wouldn't be my choice of words.
But did the president define ripping off? Because here's where
I think your premise is flawed. And I'm trying to
find the quote right now. What Trump has often said,
right is, Okay, China's been ripping us off for years,
and I don't blame them if they can get away
with it. But I'm not going to let him get
away with it is normally what he says, and he
(04:21):
normally expands on his belief that nations have a right
to act and their best interest. I mean not talking
about wars but starting wars, but nations have a right
tect and their best interest. And that's normally even his pitch.
He doesn't fault the people out there, other nations who've
been ripping us off, but says it's time to stop
that and we need to start acting in America's interest.
(04:42):
Where his comments in that context.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
He didn't confine it to China. He says the EU,
the Europe has been ripping us off for years. He says,
Canada's been ripping us off. He says Mexico has been
ripping us off off. Yeah, you know, and so anyway,
the term ripping is off. I don't want to see
the I think you can agree you don't want to
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see the United States off.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
And I'm still trying to find the quote, my friend,
and I'm not saying you're wrong, but I can't find
it anywhere.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
It might very well be there.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
We'll see it.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah, yeah, but listen, when we come back to like,
Trump's a disruptor, right, so sometimes he uses language to
get attention. If he uses typical economic jargon, then is
Jim talking about it on some radio show.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
So listen.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
If the idea is cheating people, no, we don't cheat.
That's not who we are as Americans. If the idea
is we're not going to be cheated and we're going
to make sure that we act in this nation's interest. Yeah,
and I think that's what he's been all about.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
But he said on something even worse than to my mind.
He said these countries. He said, I announced the tariffs,
and now all these countries are looking to negotiate. They're
all trying to kiss my ass and they say, hey, sir, please, sir,
(06:06):
could you please give us these tariffs? And I mean,
he was mocking them. And he's talking about Japan and
South Korea and Vietnam, these countries that have already, you know,
tried to negotiate some kind of settlement on this, and
he's mocking them in a really vulgar way. He's humiliating them,
and I think it's disgraceful.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Well, let me ask you what's more disgraceful Trump using
language like that or the other countries doing to us?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
What they've been doing.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
I have no idea I have.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Oh you do, Jim, you just don't want to admit it.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
You know that the actual actions, rather than some rough words,
are much more disgraceful.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
And we can all agree on this.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Right If Donald Trump talked like every other politic ever,
would have been president and the good things he's doing
would not be happening. Now, it's not the way I
choose to talk. But last I checked, I'm not president.
Ryan may correct me on that sometime soon.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
But but no, I don't mind. I don't mind some crudity.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I don't mind some rough language as long as the
underlying actions are doing good and stopping evil in a
perfect world. Would you love to have that without anybody
ever saying a curse word?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
You bet?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I just don't think humiliating our allies, you know, would crude,
schoolyard bully language. Is that any president should do that?
As what he's saying, we're going to take your lunch.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Money, Well that's not what he's saying. What he's saying
is he wants a fair deal for America. But what
I think is so revealing, Jim, and this isn't meant personally,
just actually is that you're unwilling to condemn the underlying
conduct of the allies who've been taking advantage of us.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I mean, what do you think a trade deficit is
with France?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
It's big, it's it's very big in Japan.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I love the Japanese people, But what's the trade deficit
with Japan?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
So you know you finally got a guy. Oh, it's
not a problem. Problem.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Oh, okay, power kind of our wealth. We have a
lot more money than to take myself from us.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Let me ask you, my friend Jim, and I'm only
interrupting because we're up against a heartbreak. Let me ask you,
do you get to spend much time in the Midwest?
Do you get to spend much time in those areas
of the country that that are doing pretty poorly right now?
Where you've got a lot of towns that have been
hollowed out, You've got a lot of opioid addiction, you
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got an awful lot of problems because so many of
our good and best paying jobs average manufacturing job paid
about one hundred and two thousand with Betty's so many
of our best jobs have now gone over to our allies.
I think you need to spend some more time in
those parts of the country because we have paid an
enormous price for the wealth of some of our allies, and.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
We out manufacture every single one of our allies. China's
the number one manufacturer in the world. The United States
is number two.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
But you're not basing that, Jim. I'm sorry interrupt, but
you're not basing it per capita. You got it, base
it on per capita. Yeah, we have a whole lot
of people. So when you got a whole lot of people, yeah,
maybe the top line number is we're doing more of that,
but when you break it down to per person that
there is no denying, Jim. There's no denying the six
(09:41):
million manufacturing jobs we've lost. That manufacturing is about a
third of what it used to be. How well most
of those jobs, there's no denying all that, Jim. So
all I'm saying is, let's have a heart. Let's have
a heart for the American people first, That's all I'm saying.
Doesn't mean we mistreat the rest of the world, but
I'd love to see the same kind of passion and
(10:02):
concern that you have for our allies directed to our
American brothers and sisters. Hey, Jim, you're welcome to hang,
but I got to hit this brake. You're on the
Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
And now back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
I'll tell you why she can only stay the Supreme
leader if people are employed, if we wipe out any
business there, Because we are still thirty nine percent of
all consumables on Earth and twenty five percent of the
world's GDP. America is the number one economy on Earth
with all the cars.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
We will not have that forever.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
It's time to squeeze Chinese heads into the wall.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Now, Kevin O'Leary, Hey, linezer Jam.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
We'll give Jim a few seconds to complete he held
through the break, and then we'll get onto our other callers.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
So, Jim, what's your wrap? Hello Dan?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Hey Jim, do you have a quick wrap up on this,
my friend? Because we've got gem lines and want to
get to everybody.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yeah. I did you have a chance to listen to
Trump's speech from the things he said last night?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Jim?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I did not during this break, but I have had
texters say Jim is wrong.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Trump said, Hey, now we're going to do the ripping. Yeah, Okay, Jim.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Sorry, sorry, we don't have time to kind of litigate
what he did or didn't say. But your your bottom
line point is you don't like his you don't like
his rough language, right, and you don't like the idea
of Trump saying, Okay, now we're going to rip people off.
But Jim, gratefully you called hope, you call again off
and we always appreciate that. I want to try to
get everybody in. Let's go to a Jill. You're on
(11:44):
the Dan Kaplas.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
She'll welcome.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
Oh, hi, Dan, I'm to talk to you again.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
Yeah, poor poor Jim. Seriously, I feel sorry for him, Uh,
because you know our president, he he doesn't talk like that.
He doesn't say that. He says what he says, and
then other outlets tell you that he said this or that.
(12:13):
But if you watch him, you know what he said,
and he's saying, we need to be equal, we need
to we need to go back. I wasn't in favor
of this thing to begin with, back in the day
of this thing with China, and UH ended up losing
losing a marriage over it, actually over China, but over yeah,
(12:37):
over like implementing trying to take over our lives, you know,
back in the day. And my husband and I at
that point in time, I didn't you know, politics wasn't
in my life. I didn't know you had to be
politically related to be married because I love the guy,
you know. I thought he was wonderful. She's been a
good dad, all those things. But and he was pro
(13:02):
China and pro shipping our jobs and everything. And I
told him, I said, this is not going to be
bode well for America.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
That ended up being a major event in our lives.
And yeah, so you had.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
A marriage break up over politics. It wasn't something else
in politics.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
It was just like an aggravator. It was politics.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
It was politics, and it was well it started in
eighty nine.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Well, Jill may ask you this, and I'm starting to
interrupt just because we've got these gam lines. But okay,
but my wife and I that the way we resolved
it would not this have worked for you and your
husband was we just don't talk politics.
Speaker 7 (13:43):
Oh yeah, that would be smart.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
So maybe there was something else going on.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
Yeah, but good for you, you know, I mean, I'm
glad you were able to have that, But I'm saying
that we were so I was so vital and this yeah,
you know, I had a child. I was thinking, are
you kidding? This is not going to bode well for
my son, who is now forty one years old.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (14:11):
But wigged me out and I realized what a different
person he was. And yes it was you know, it
was me doing the okay standing up?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Okay, Okay, Well I admire the strength of your convictions.
I do, and just out of curiosity, because I know
every listener is wondering, chill your child.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Did your child turn out to be conservative? To be liberal?
More like you? More like your ex husband?
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Oh, he was very conservative until they went to college.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Okay, I'm serious.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
He's an attorney now.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Okay, and.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
He was a very very conservative. Yeah, and then he
goes to college. Well he didn't know. Let's not do that.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
And Jill, I am, I'm so very sorry I let
you down that path. Thank you for colling. I think
a lot of people probably have to balance that issue
at home with politics and relationships. So I would guess
probably about eighty percent of the people marry somebody politically
aligned just happened to be my soulmate had different political views,
and yet we've been able to thrive.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Thank God, let's go to Mike. You're on the Dan
Caplis Show.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Welcome Mike, hey dand to talk to you again.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
You too.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
You know I'm calling Tumps me good because he's got
me listening to some of these people are really getting
to me. I'm older, I'm not in my age.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
And when they say we're the richest nation, do people
out look at this street? We are out the riches
around everywhere nations because there's space as you can go
and I've been there, they don't have to say atm
they're not ATMs that stood out though, not say for
money that's been made up seven of all? What about
all of the US When we have to rebuild.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
The path, rebuild Germany, we never got where. I think
they're still time to collect on some of that. So
now we've got a president that's trying to bring it
back to America. People don't want to give him a chance.
He'd been a chance even in his life. They want
to cut him down. Are they afraid to be able
to say, maybe we were wrong?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
You know what they're afraid of, Mike. They're afraid, as
I said, from day one, they're afraid the tariffs will work.
They're afraid that Trump's power play will succeed.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
That's what they've been afraid of.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
That's why they've been generating this panic porn, hoping that
it would force Trump to stop.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
That's what they're afraid of.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Hey, Mike, where where can you go where there's gold
coming out ATMs?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
That's got to be our next feel really? Wow?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Yeah, some of the some of the areas, uh you know,
some of Asia, different places in Asia.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
Yeah, it's for good, you know, you.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Go and there you put in because it's not so
much money.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
I'm not saying we're we're not the parish, but we're
not the richest. And look for all the countries we
help out all the time. That's these people see that that,
like you said, I think what it is they're saying
it it is a chance all working already. So that's
time to knocking dollar, the time of not sucked down.
How's anybody going to do anything if you don't give
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them a chance and get rid of some of these judges,
federal judges that don't only have the rights in their state.
They have the right to say something, but how are
they going and saying, oh, why are here in Colorado,
but you've got to buy my state wife of fifty.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
No, hey, I might appreciate the call. Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
The music means we've got to hit our break, come
back and talk to everybody else filling our lines.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
And I do want to get some time.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I mean, we're in the middle of this major play
by Trump, so that might have to wait a day
or two. But the US Supreme Court stepping in and
starting to decision by decision make it clear how it
views the role between you know, different district court judges,
pellet levels and the Supremes.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Here on the Dan Kapla Show.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
The second Trump announced Liberation Day and the left launched
its panic porn because it's scared to death that Trump's
going to succeed with this play, which has been labeled
a tariff play, but it's broader than that. It's about
economic justice for the United States of America across the globe,
and tariffs are a tool to get the leverage you
need to cut the deals you need to cut, which
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are broader than just tariffs. So that's what we're in
the middle of. And the reason on day one, I said, hey,
this is a smart play. Trust Trump. It's going to work.
Is because Trump's can control and he can adjust as
we go along. And as he said today, Hey, he
needed to adjust today. So what he did today he
left the ten percent tariffs in place most places across
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the globe, but he brought down some of the extra
tariffs for a ninety day period.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
So people could come and cut deals.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
And he did that because he had some Republicans getting shaky.
And that's what he said today when he said that
some people were getting yippie. So that's why from the
beginning I felt that this was going to be a
very successful play, and that it was at least in
my mind, you know, save to layer some more money
into the market, because Trump would be in control of
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all of this.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
So, hey, do I expect every day to be like today? No,
of course not.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I expect there are a lot of ups and downs
ahead as Trump takes on the big Kohuna, which is China,
the Communist Party of China, the big cheater, and it's
not going to be as easy to hammer out that deal,
but it will get done. So yeah, a brilliant move
by Trump, one way or the other. We're going to
come out far ahead of where we were when we started.
(19:57):
And the only issue is how ahead, because you know,
you rarely get one hundred percent of what you're after.
But it's going to be a lot better than it was,
that's for sure. So let's get to some of these
great texts. Three oh three seven one three A two
five five, the number Oh, I love this one. Dan,
please remind anyone offended by Trump of the topless transgender
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people dancing around outside the White House in response, we
love our color. Jim, he always calls to disagree. He
was offended by some gruff language from the president. And
what a great point the text are make. Now, I
had asked, Jim, is is he more offended by the
bad conduct of the country's Trump was.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Aiming the bad language yet? But I guess not for Jim.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
And listen, that's the reality, right is there going to
be some people out there, as Trump said, you know,
he could cure cancer, bring total peace to the world,
all in the same day, and you're going to have
forty seven percent of the people who.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Are still going to hate him.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
And part of the magic of Trump, right, Ryan, I mean,
it's and this is such an interesting just part of
human nature is that he has never let the haters
control him.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
He is never he has never let pleasing others.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Dictate how he acted, and that's why he has become
this successful, great disruptor.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
He doesn't let the haters get him down.
Speaker 9 (21:18):
He does it with a twinkle in his eye, and
he's got a sense of humor about it.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
And then he makes fun of the haters. Maybe they
like me a little bit now, you know, he's always
open to having them come back in the fold, like
he wants to be my friend Bill Mark and have
dinner with me.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Okay, yeah, Because my theory on Trump is that his
default is affection.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yes, that he's a lover at heart.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
And now, listen to some of the greatest fighters I've
ever known are lovers at heart. And I consider myself
a kind of a lover at heart, and it's one
reason that I'm so passionate and so aggressive when it
comes to certain things. But yeah, I think that's his default,
that's his setting. Now, we all know a lot of
people who are not lovers at heart. They're kind of
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angry haters at heart, Biden, and then they kind of
mask it with this passive, aggressive phony smile stuff Joe
Biden and and well this is one example. All right,
let's get to some more texts. We'll work in some
more calls. It's been just a fiery day on the phones.
Three h three someone three eight two five five have
some more hot sound. I want to bring you as well.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Dan.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
What Trump said is these countries have been ripping us off.
Now it's our turn to do the ripping Dan. Trump
reiterated being fair the whole time. And I don't doubt
that for a second, because you know, Trump has lived
in the real world, right and anybody who lives in
the real world, as I assume most of our listeners do,
they know that for something to work long term, any
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deal to work long term, that's in your best interest,
or your client's best interest, your country's best interest, whatever.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
That deal has got to be roughly fair or it's
not going to preserve long term, you know.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
So with any kind of ongoing relationship, you know, and
Trump has always understood that. So I don't think Trump
is looking at this point to disadvantage the rest of
the world. I think Trump wants to use American might
to rebalance the scales and get a fair deal for
the American people, because we have been getting ripped off
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over and over and over again.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
All over the world. And part of it is Ryan.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
And I don't want to get all philosophical, but everybody
knows it's true. Part of the reason for that is
because the modern Democratic Party wants a smaller, weaker America.
I mean Barack Obama, right, he said it. He said
it at the United Nations. No world order that elevates
one nation or group of people over another will succeed.
(23:47):
And that has been the rallying cry of the Democratic
Party since at least two thousand and nine, which is
America cannot have any more economic influence, or might any
more military influence might than any other nation on Earth.
And we have got to reverse that or we don't
survive as a nation. And Trump is the guy to
reverse it. That's what he was elected to do. Dan,
(24:10):
can you please give me a list of players, young
and old that can hit a golf ball three hundred
and seventy five yards?
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Okay, Well, where do you want to start it?
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Tiger Woods in his prime? How far did he ot it?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Well, I mean I thought you were going to start
it right here. Well, you of course, Dan, Well, no, listen,
I mean come out. We play at altitude here right, correct,
So that distorts it about ten percent. But I'm routinely
driving the ball three point fifteen to three forty five.
You know, you catch something downhill, maybe you're not into
a win, maybe a little tailwind, you get it out
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to three point fifty and you know I'm over fifty
right now. So yeah, I think there are an awful
lot of people who can hit it long. I just
think the short game's tougher. And by the way, we
got off on this because President Trump used a golf
term today in describing why he was, you know, pausing
some of these higher terrorists today because some Republicans were
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getting quote yippie, which is a golf term for you
got a three foot put and you hit it thirty
feet because you know, your nerves fire up and it
looks like you had a stroke the Hey, by the way,
I don't want to digress, but did I tell you
what my uncle's telling me that story about his friend
who died on the golf course.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
What was this?
Speaker 7 (25:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah, yeah, my uncle, who Ryan knows, is.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
A Catholic priest and still does multiple masses a week
and big crowds. He's awesome about my uncle Roger. Yeah,
buddy of his priest, Buddy, he's you know, because these
guys love to go down to Florida in the winter.
I mean they're over ninety now, they deserve a little break.
So buddy of his, he's out there, avid golfer like
my uncle. They're not together. The buddy, he's feeling bad,
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eventually dies of this heart attack. But he lays down
next to the ninth green and he sees laying there
and he looks over and he says to the guy
next to him, why is that angel.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
In the golf cart?
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yeah? And then he dies. Wow.
Speaker 9 (26:07):
So now not quite like the Caddyshack scene with the
Catholic priest out there.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
You know what?
Speaker 1 (26:14):
You know what I'm gonna do. I got all these
trials coming up, but then I'm gonna take a break. Yeah,
and I'm going to write a book. Oh, I got
to write a book. Have nothing to do with me,
just about all the stuff I've seen on the golf course.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Yes, what agree on me?
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Caddying for years and then working as a car parker
at the same country club. You got it, Dan I
mean all the stuff I've seen on the golf course
and uh yeah, no, gotta do that, gotta do that, Okay,
I digress Tara three is someone three eight two five
five takes d an five seven seven three nine. But
you got to understand this, this course that I caddied
at and the members so generous they sent me to
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college like the movie Caddyshack on what's called the Evans Scholarship,
which is one of the greatest things ever created. If
your kids looking for a summer job, have them looking
to cadding because that's how you can win the Evans
Scholarship eventually, but yet just a tremendous experience.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
When we come back.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
No more golf talk, unfortunately, but I want to get
you some some of this hot takes. Dound of the Day,
give you a little preview on what polus it looks like.
Is ready to threaten one of the top priorities, the
veto pardon me threatening to Vito one of the top
priorities on the left. You're on the Dankaples.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Show and now back to the Dan Kapless Show podcast.
Speaker 10 (27:34):
Wall Street has grown wealthier than ever before, and it
can continue to grow and do well. But for the
next four years. The Trump agenda is focused on main street.
It's main street's turn. It's main street's turn to hire workers,
it's main street's turn to drive investment, and it's main
street's turn to restore the American dream.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Boy, I love hearing that.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
And it needs to go beyond the purely economic as
well into, for example, school choice. Because President Trump talked
about the tariff play on April too. Right, But you
talk about liberation like, the true, lasting, profound liberation in
America will come when we have the tipping point breakthrough
to true school choice. Charters are awesome, different forms are awesome, awesome,
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but pure level the playing field unleash the massive potential
of all these kids in America who have not had
a fair chance to compete because they don't get a
fair chance to compete in education. Man, you talk about
the next big liberation in America, it's going to be
true school choice. Just financially empower all of those working family,
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class families, middle income families, all of the economically disadvantaged
family in America. All of a sudden, you give those
parents this massive purchasing power that they can use in education,
and you just watch the free market rise up to
serve those people and their children.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
And once these.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Kids, all of these kids you know who are locked
right now into non competitive government run schools, you just
watch them as their potential gets unleashed and see what
it does for this country. That that is truly exciting,
and that day will come and Trump is committed to
that as well. Three out three someone three eight two
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five five text d A N five seven seven three nine.
Want to get to some more of these great texts,
but also some of the hot take sound of the day,
and I really want to get your take on Okay,
where does it go from here?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Right?
Speaker 1 (29:35):
I mean, you've still got this major economic battle going
with the Communist Party of China, and you know, those
tariffs have just been increased. That's not over, and there's
still aren't deals with you know, Vietnam for example, where
we have this one hundred and twenty nine billion trade
deficit each year and a lot of China cheating going
on through Vietnam.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
So still a lot of work to be done.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
But I like that President Trump has now given the
administration these ninety days to work with to cut deals,
and I think you're going to see a parade virtual
as well as physical, of other nations coming to Washington
to cut those deals. But China, Yeah, that's the one
eventually that just has to be done and has to
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be done the right way.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Dan, China holds a lot of our debt.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
What happens if they call our debt because of this
trade war and we can't repay? A great question, But
I don't think there's any chance of that happening right because,
first of all, China needs to China needs to be
able to cash in on that. They need a financially
healthy America to do that. Second, there is is so
much that America can do right now, you know, to
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undermine g and his very you know, leadership in China
is very survival in China. You know, for example, how
about cut sixteen. Kevin O'Leary's take on that, well.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Maybe cut eighteen.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Let's stay on cut eighteen, because he assumes that she,
you know, because he is an evil, brutal dictator, is
just guaranteed to stay in power, but not necessarily, and
I don't think he can toy with the US the
way you're suggesting.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Four hundred percent.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
Tomorrow morning, he'll tell you why she can only stay
the supreme leader if people are employed, if we wipe
out any business there, Because we are still thirty nine
percent of all consumables on Earth and twenty five percent
of the world's GDP. America is the number one economy
on Earth with all the cars, we will not have
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that forever. It's time to squeeze Chinese heads into the wall, now, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
And you know that's Kevin O'Leary with his take on it.
And I think the bottom line is nobody's denying, right.
Have you heard anybody from the left try to deny
that the US has been taken advantage of four years
by China, by the Communist Party of China and many
of these other nations, including allies. I don't think anybody's
denying that. The question is just how you go about
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dealing with it. And Trump he's got this window, he's
using the leverage, and we're going to kind of come
out better where we started.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
And I think we already are there.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
It's going to take some pain along the way, but
every great accomplishment does right, particularly when you're riding wrong.
So then Ryan, this is against the backdrop of other
major things that may very well be happening on the
international stage. I mean, Trump is in a hurry for
good reason, and he's going to deal with Iran. I
don't think you're going to see American troops go to
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war in Iran. I certainly hope not. But I think
Iran's either going to cut a deal where they agree
not to get nuclear weapons, or Trump is going to
fully back Israel and taking out Iran's nuclear weapons. Because
this we've been talking about for years. This is as
true as any statement you can ever conceive of. Israel
is not going to sit back and allow Iran to
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get nuclear weapons. Israel is not going to sit back
and allow Israel to be destroyed, because the two are
the same. So I think something major is going to
happen with Iran in the next six months.
Speaker 9 (33:05):
It just makes me wonder, too, Dan, why the Obama administration,
John Kerry, Joe Biden, we're so hell bent on trying
to open those floodgates, those doors for Iran and remove
the shackles on them. It doesn't make any sense that
it would be in the United States interest to do that,
but they don't.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Well, it doesn't make any sense to you, because you're
a great American and you want a strong America. But
if you're Barack Obama and Barack Obama acolytes, you want
a weak America.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
And he said it.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
I mean, he's dead wrong, but he at least said
it to the United Nations verbatim. No world order that
elevates one nation or group people over another will succeed.
So he made it very clear he wanted the United
States of America to have no more military or economic
influence than any other.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Nation on Earth.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
And the quickest way to accomplish that is gives psychotic
enemies nuclear weapons.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Foggles the mind.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Well, but that was the play, right, That was the play,
was to neutralize America by giving our enemies nuclear weapons,
but particularly unstable psychotic.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Enemies like that regime. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
So well, lots ahead tomorrow, Glad you were here today,
and we will talk about Polis. Looks like he's ready
to veto some top priorities from the left. Will dive
into that tomorrow. Thank you, Ryan, Thank you Kelly. Please
join us tomorrow on The Dan Kaplo Show.
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