October 16, 2025 • 23 mins
(October 16, 2025)
Trump warns of relocating Olympics from LA, World Cup from Boston. I-5 may shutdown due to concerns over live-fire military event at Camp Pendelton. US drops out of world’s most powerful passport top 10 list for the first time.
Trump warns of relocating Olympics from LA, World Cup from Boston. I-5 may shutdown due to concerns over live-fire military event at Camp Pendelton. US drops out of world’s most powerful passport top 10 list for the first time.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty. I am six forty Bill Handle. Here.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
It is a Thursday morning, October sixteenth.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Sorry, I want to share with you.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
And this is another story of this president doing things
that other presidents not only have never done, never dreamed
of doing. And this is a story about the president
saying that if Boston wasn't prepared enough for crime, it
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wasn't being made any safer than he would seek to
move the twenty twenty six World Cups World Cup out
of Boston. But where's it gonna go? No idea, but
we wanted out of Boston. He also said the same
thing about la and the Olympics. This is and this
(00:57):
is not a statement that he made pursuant to a
press conference or a policy statement. These are reporters that
throw stuff at him and he.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Reacts because that's what he does.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
So, mister President, do you plan on assassinating you know,
Macrone of France?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well, I haven't thought about it.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
And then that becomes world that becomes front page news.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
And it's almost as this as these were, as if.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
These reporters are goating the president into responding, and usually
things that aren't even at issue there and so, and
the President does respond. And as I said during the
news segment, the president has such unbelievable influence that when
the President of the United States sneezes, the world catches
(01:44):
a cold. And so his lines are just they're ridiculous.
So he doesn't have any jurisdiction. Does he really have
the authority to tell Boston you or tell FIFA move
the World Cup out of Boston eight months before the
World Cup is scheduled to start.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
How do you do that?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Or how about the Olympics move the twenty twenty eight
Olympics out of Los Angeles? Because Los Angeles has a
Democratic mayor in California is newsome, and Boston is a liberal.
Chicago has a mayor who is Democrat. And the President
has made absolutely no bones about it. He thinks that
(02:31):
all democratic cities, who well mayors of democratic cities, those
cities are in ruins.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Those cities are overrun with criminals.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
There's no republican city in the United States, by the way,
that has that problem. I want to point that out.
There is not a republican city. When I mean republican
city that's run by a Republican mayor or city council
and mayor. So this became a really big deal. So
there's a couple of bits of politics I want to
throw in here too. The head of FIFA is actually
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a friend of Trump's, if not a friend, certainly an
ally of Trump's. Matter of fact, Trump invited him to
be at the signing in Gaza or in Egypt for
the peace conference. And what the hell does the head
of FIFA I have to do with anything? And so
as he said, I love the people of Boston. I
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know the games are sold out, but your mayor is
not good. And this is during the lunch with the
Argentinian president, and I think she, the mayor, is hurting Boston.
The answer is yes, if somebody is doing a bad job,
and if I feel there's unsafe conditions, I would call Giannini,
the head of FIFA, who's phenomenal, and I would say
let's move it to another location. Now, of course that's
(03:53):
not physically possible, but again it is simply a statement.
So a word about the Argentinian president, another ally of
President Trump's, who is truly ally the president could do
no wrong. He can do no wrong as far as
the president is concerned. And Argentina just got a twenty
billion dollar bailout from the government. Okay, I can't tell
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you the intricacies of that, but I can tell you
what's going on in Brazil. Brazil, the president of Brazil
is no friend of Donald Trump's. Okay, Lula and he
(04:37):
loved bol scenario who was tried and convicted of or
who has been convicted of corruption. Now the president currently Lula,
Lula da Silva was convicted of corruption and spent four
years in prison or two years in prison, and that
was overturned. So it's one corrupt after another, corruption replaced
by another corrupt individual. But here's the point I want
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to make. It is as President Trump argues in terms
of tariffs, and he's absolutely right in the vast majority
of cases, and that is it's about balance of trade.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
It's about just fairness.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
So when we have a negative balance of trade, for example,
when China sells US five hundred billion dollars worth of
goods and we or we buy five hundred billion dollars
worth of goods but we only sell them two hundred billion,
there's a balance of there's an imbalance of trade. You're
always better off selling more than buying. That makes so
(05:38):
much stronger economy. And when it's unfair, it's unfair. So
with China, it's unfair. With the European market, it's unfair.
We simply buy more than we sell. And what Donald
Trump is doing and saying, okay, we're gonna make it fair,
We're gonna make it an even playing field, all right, tariffs,
that's what tariffs are all about, is to make it
as even playing field field as possible. Let me tell
(05:59):
you something about Brazil. Brazil not only does not have
a negative trade balance with US.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
We do better than Brazil does.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Brazil is one of the very few countries that actually
buy more from US than we buy from them. We
have a positive balance of trade with Brazil. Why they
still have a fifty percent tariff? Why do you think
because he does not like the president and the guy
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who was thrown out polscenario who lost the election a
rigged election, I might add, that's the language that was used.
It was a rigged election in Brazil. Interesting, isn't it.
And so that's what's going on in that world. So
now does the president have the right to throw on
a fifty percent tariff of course he does, and in
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many cases is for great reasons, and in this case
with Brazil is ridiculously and simply because he likes bols narrow.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
That's it. That's it, you know, he said it. And
how about.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Forcing the Olympics to be moved from Los Angeles. Maybe
I'll force the Olympics to be moved, or I'll ask
the mayor to undo the FIFA Games World FIFA Games,
or excuse me, I'll ask FIFA to transfer the games out, which,
by the way, I don't think they can anyway.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I mean, let's get.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Practical about it, and back to my original position. These
are just throwaway lines. A reporter throws something at the president.
The president instead of being measured, let me think about it,
and hands it off to a and hands off to
one of his staffers. Because presidents tend to be measured
and very careful in what they say and think things
(07:48):
through sometimes too slow, Biden. But very few presidents do
what this president does, and that's just throw things out
and reporters though it. So there's a lot of gotchats
going on in the world of press conferences. But the
question is does he think he has the influence to
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have the US, the International Olympic Committee, remove LA and
go someplace else?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Can they?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I don't think they can't, even contractually if they wanted to.
All Right, enough of that, Okay, what's going on on
the I five? And this is the I five goes
right next to the ocean and Camp Penalton is on
each side, and you're when you're going next to the ocean,
there's only a few hundred yards of beach between the
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freeway and the and the ocean, and it's kind of neat.
I've seen a couple of amphibious training exercises. They are
and you don't know what is happening. It's just happenstance, man.
They look great with the helicopters and the hovercraft and ah,
it's just tremendous. Well, there's going to be a big
one coming up to commemorate the Marine Corps two hundred
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and fiftieth anniversary, and it's being called See to Shore,
a Review of Amphibious Strength, and Vice President Vance is
going to be there and this is going to be
a big one. One of the things about the Trump administration
is they are not shy about showing American fighting force,
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not shy at all, this is an administration that is
proud of its ability to fight, proud of its armed services,
and we're going to show you that we're going to
do it well. Obviously, there's all kinds of controversy because
we've got a governor, the governor's administration that doesn't particularly
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like the Trump administration and saying, wait a minute, we've
heard that there are going to be live exercises, live fire. Okay,
then you just shut down the freeway and it becomes
part and par soul of the event or the argument
here or the stories is that the freeway is still
going to continue on and there will be live fire
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over the freeway, as in attacking the amphibious forces coming
in with live fire.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Now, are they going to hit anybody?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Of course not. That's not the point. The point is
is that the governor is so pissed off, saying, how
can you possibly do this on our beaches. By the way,
Camp Pendleton is a federal property. How can you do
this and allow people to go through? Well, we're talking
about shutting down.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
We don't know. It may be closed.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
It may be closed by the federal government and may
be closed by the state government. We have absolutely no idea,
but there will be a huge.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Show of force that we know. It's kind of neat.
I don't know if you've ever seen, as I told you,
it's really neat to see that.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I've lived out here forever and passed by Pendleton one
thousand times. Games doesn't don't they have signs that always
say that there's possibility of live fire?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
You know what, I've never noticed that. Yeah, I've never
noticed that. I've never noticed that. Yeah, and brother graduated
there at Pendleton as a marine, and I remember driving
back and forth. There's signs on those beaches everywhere that
say caution live fire drills.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Okay, how do you caution against live fire? Droves? Explain that?
Just don't don't go onto the beach. It doesn't say.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Don't look at you're not You're not allowed on the
beach anyway, are you No?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
But are you allowed onto a Pendleton beach? No, but
you're not allowed in area fifty one.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
It doesn't mean there isn't people that try and get in.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
There every year.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
But but there are signs all over there, Okay that
I don't remember seeing that.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
The one thing I do remember, I've seen a couple
of exercises and they are neat to see that they
really are.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
So in any case, we'll see what happens with this.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
And it's going to coincide with No King demonstration or
No Kings demonstration on Saturday, demonstrations all over the country,
the anti Trump administration demonstration.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
The demonstration is saying that they're.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Over the government is overreaching of course when it comes
to immigration and all the stuff that people have a
problem with. So we're going to have a dual demonstration.
So who's gonna win. Are the demonstrators going to win
or are the guys who have artillery pieces, helicopters, tanks
and armed infantry.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Who do you think is going to win that bottle?
I mean, they're not gonna fight.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
But it's a it's a fun visual, it really is,
all right now, Oh this is another one.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Oh god, I love politics. All right.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
There were some weak messages from young Republican leaders, and
these messages included this is political, pick this up, racist slurs,
rape jokes, gas chamber commentaries, and man, you've got politicians
on both sides of the aisle going nuts and calling
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for those who were engaged in these slurs and commentary
just to resign.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Well, the vp jd Vance dismissed it.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
You're just doing pearl clutching that these participants were just
kids telling stupid jokes and that shouldn't ruin their lives,
one of the kids being Vermont state Senator Sam Douglas,
who happens to be a very young sixty nine. So
it was just kids doing this, mind you. And this
is the Young Republicans National Federation, the GOP's political organization
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for Republicans between eighteen and forty and other people in
this case, for example, Sam Douglas was in on the
chat and the group described the exchanges as unbecoming of
any Republican. The official group is saying, come on, guys,
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this is ridiculous. And there were months of exchange of
this crazy stuff that Politico picked up. Now Here is
the problem, and that is Vance immediately comes out and
rips into the one interview that was said by I
think a Democrat about somehow two shots should be put
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in someone's head, you know, an assassination, and he said,
that's the problem, not kids making jokes about the Holocaust
or rape. That's the problem. Guys like this, which is
far far more dangerous. You know what, why can't you
call for the resignation of both sides on that? Why
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can't you simply say both are reprehensible? And you can't
advocate or say it's a good thing that Charlie Kirk
was killed. You can say you disagree with Charlie Kirk.
You can certainly say the world has changed because Charlie
Kirk was killed. But to say that's a good thing,
if you're a politician, I'm gonna argue you're done with that,
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You're gone. And the same thing with anybody who says
and these were open chats, Holocaust jokes and rape commentary,
and I mean just such offensive stuff. Vance does not
want those people to resign. That was just jokes among
young people. So according to Vance, it doesn't matter what
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a Republican says, it does not matter. There will be
no retribution, there will be no accountability. If the Democrats
say it, it's all over. They've got to go. They've
got to go. And you know, when we talk about polarity,
even that even people talking about and joking about the
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Holocaust and rape and lynching. I don't know if lynching
even took place in this conversation, But no, no, we
don't resign for that because those are just ah shucks,
just kids. It's just kids having a good time. You know,
I've really gotten there. And by the way, on both
sides of the aisle, I mean politicians who in my opinion,
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actually have a decent view of what this country is about.
Both sides were screaming, they've got to go. You cannot
have this, you cannot have this, and here we go.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
He reiterated about the kids.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
This is on Wednesday Vance and on the Charlie Kirk
Show podcast, which I think is run by Charlie Kirks,
Charlie Kirk's wife.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I think she's handling the podcast and.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Other conservatives are coming in and taking turns doing the podcast.
And he was asked about the reporting that a person
seriously wishing for political violence and political assassination is one
thousand times worse than what a bunch of young people,
a bunch of kids say in a group chat. You know,
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when I say we've gone crazy, when I say politics
has gone absolutely nuts, I mean it. And that's all
the way up up, that's up the ladder to the
very highest reaches of our government.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
It's all crazy.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Pritzker, who absolutely disagrees with the president. So the President
doesn't come back and say Pritzker is nuts. Well he does,
you know, And I am I'm okay with that. I mean,
I like, thank frankly Donald Trump getting to our level
and being real. The guy's a jerk, the guy's an ass.
But how about the guy should be arrested. We should
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arrest him for what he's doing.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
You know what. And I'm saying, this is the president,
you know what, have some balls? Have some balls? Call
cash Pttel call him.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Right now, get on the phone and say, you go
arrest Pritzker, and you argue that he has violated some
kind of federal law, and you go handcuff him right now,
you gutless wonder you say he should be arrested.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Then do it? All right? Oh all right? Let me
tell you what used to happen.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I think if you did any traveling decades ago, and
when I started traveling in my twenties and through my
thirties and my forties, even my fifties. Now I'm one
hundred and thirty years old, I was told many times
that that American passport that you hold is the most
valuable passport on earth. And why is that well, because,
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first of all, the most countries in the world that
allow you to come in without a visa was the
American passport. The countries that accepted and wanted to mar
Americans in more than any other country in the world.
And so we've sort of gone down. The Henley Passport Index,
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which of course no one knows what they hell that is,
has rankings measuring passport potency in this regard the number
of countries that let you in without a visa. Countries
will let you in without a visa, are countries that
want you in, and that is a part of this index.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Okay, for the first time in twenty years, we're out
of the top ten.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Three Asian passports now command the top Singapore one hundred
and ninety three destinations worldwide visa free, and then South
Korea and then Japan.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
We're now down to twelfth place.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
We were number one even as late as twenty fourteen,
where the American passport was worth everything. The American passport
was worth real, real money back in the day. I
mean people, what you were told is you hang on
to your money, your wallet, and your passport, with your
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passport being the most valuable thing that you had on
you if you were traveling overseas, and so now it's
just access changes. In April, Brazil withdrew the visa free
access for citizens from the US, Canada, Australia. Because of reciprocity,
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China has been introducing more welcoming policies. It used to
be impossible to go into China. Now, man, they want
everybody in there except the US citizens. We still need
a visa and it's not that easy to get in.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Papua New Guinea and me and mar they're higher than
we are.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Somalia, okay, Somalia is a launch of a new eVisa
system and Vietnam's exclusion of the US from its visa
free edition. Now keep involved. I don't know if you've
ever been to Somalia, but Somalia they're chefs. They have
a couple of three star Michelin chefs who use branches
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to serve you dinner.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Because that's it sticks.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
This is Somalia, and you need a visa to get
into Somalia. You think Somalia would desperately want anybody with money.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Nope.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
The UK had the top spot on the index in
twenty fifteen. I remember twenty fourteen the US dropped out
and the UK is now in its lowest ever six
to eighth place. Okay, there are a few that are
at the bottom, at the very bottom of the list.
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Number one oh six Afghanistan visa free access to just
twenty four destinations. I want to know which countries love
Afghanis coming into their countries because Afghanis have so much money. Right,
Syria is way down at the bottom too, not good, so.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Highly desirable passports.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Well, not only do they represent people who countries want
in read money investment, we want to treat people from
that country very well. But also that also translates into
very few restrictions between the US and Europe. For example,
we don't have a passport issue. I mean, there's no
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country that gives me we need a visa with flying
to Germany, fly into France, we fly into the UK
in a native passport. Other countries. Yeah, all right, this
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
It is a Thursday morning, October sixteenth.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Sorry, I want to share with you.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
And this is another story of this president doing things
that other presidents not only have never done, never dreamed
of doing. And this is a story about the president
saying that if Boston wasn't prepared enough for crime, it
(00:36):
wasn't being made any safer than he would seek to
move the twenty twenty six World Cups World Cup out
of Boston. But where's it gonna go? No idea, but
we wanted out of Boston. He also said the same
thing about la and the Olympics. This is and this
(00:57):
is not a statement that he made pursuant to a
press conference or a policy statement. These are reporters that
throw stuff at him and he.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Reacts because that's what he does.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
So, mister President, do you plan on assassinating you know,
Macrone of France?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well, I haven't thought about it.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
And then that becomes world that becomes front page news.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
And it's almost as this as these were, as if.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
These reporters are goating the president into responding, and usually
things that aren't even at issue there and so, and
the President does respond. And as I said during the
news segment, the president has such unbelievable influence that when
the President of the United States sneezes, the world catches
(01:44):
a cold. And so his lines are just they're ridiculous.
So he doesn't have any jurisdiction. Does he really have
the authority to tell Boston you or tell FIFA move
the World Cup out of Boston eight months before the
World Cup is scheduled to start.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
How do you do that?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Or how about the Olympics move the twenty twenty eight
Olympics out of Los Angeles? Because Los Angeles has a
Democratic mayor in California is newsome, and Boston is a liberal.
Chicago has a mayor who is Democrat. And the President
has made absolutely no bones about it. He thinks that
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all democratic cities, who well mayors of democratic cities, those
cities are in ruins.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Those cities are overrun with criminals.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
There's no republican city in the United States, by the way,
that has that problem. I want to point that out.
There is not a republican city. When I mean republican
city that's run by a Republican mayor or city council
and mayor. So this became a really big deal. So
there's a couple of bits of politics I want to
throw in here too. The head of FIFA is actually
(03:09):
a friend of Trump's, if not a friend, certainly an
ally of Trump's. Matter of fact, Trump invited him to
be at the signing in Gaza or in Egypt for
the peace conference. And what the hell does the head
of FIFA I have to do with anything? And so
as he said, I love the people of Boston. I
(03:32):
know the games are sold out, but your mayor is
not good. And this is during the lunch with the
Argentinian president, and I think she, the mayor, is hurting Boston.
The answer is yes, if somebody is doing a bad job,
and if I feel there's unsafe conditions, I would call Giannini,
the head of FIFA, who's phenomenal, and I would say
let's move it to another location. Now, of course that's
(03:53):
not physically possible, but again it is simply a statement.
So a word about the Argentinian president, another ally of
President Trump's, who is truly ally the president could do
no wrong. He can do no wrong as far as
the president is concerned. And Argentina just got a twenty
billion dollar bailout from the government. Okay, I can't tell
(04:17):
you the intricacies of that, but I can tell you
what's going on in Brazil. Brazil, the president of Brazil
is no friend of Donald Trump's. Okay, Lula and he
(04:37):
loved bol scenario who was tried and convicted of or
who has been convicted of corruption. Now the president currently Lula,
Lula da Silva was convicted of corruption and spent four
years in prison or two years in prison, and that
was overturned. So it's one corrupt after another, corruption replaced
by another corrupt individual. But here's the point I want
(04:59):
to make. It is as President Trump argues in terms
of tariffs, and he's absolutely right in the vast majority
of cases, and that is it's about balance of trade.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
It's about just fairness.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
So when we have a negative balance of trade, for example,
when China sells US five hundred billion dollars worth of
goods and we or we buy five hundred billion dollars
worth of goods but we only sell them two hundred billion,
there's a balance of there's an imbalance of trade. You're
always better off selling more than buying. That makes so
(05:38):
much stronger economy. And when it's unfair, it's unfair. So
with China, it's unfair. With the European market, it's unfair.
We simply buy more than we sell. And what Donald
Trump is doing and saying, okay, we're gonna make it fair,
We're gonna make it an even playing field, all right, tariffs,
that's what tariffs are all about, is to make it
as even playing field field as possible. Let me tell
(05:59):
you something about Brazil. Brazil not only does not have
a negative trade balance with US.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
We do better than Brazil does.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Brazil is one of the very few countries that actually
buy more from US than we buy from them. We
have a positive balance of trade with Brazil. Why they
still have a fifty percent tariff? Why do you think
because he does not like the president and the guy
(06:33):
who was thrown out polscenario who lost the election a
rigged election, I might add, that's the language that was used.
It was a rigged election in Brazil. Interesting, isn't it.
And so that's what's going on in that world. So
now does the president have the right to throw on
a fifty percent tariff of course he does, and in
(06:55):
many cases is for great reasons, and in this case
with Brazil is ridiculously and simply because he likes bols narrow.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
That's it. That's it, you know, he said it. And
how about.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Forcing the Olympics to be moved from Los Angeles. Maybe
I'll force the Olympics to be moved, or I'll ask
the mayor to undo the FIFA Games World FIFA Games,
or excuse me, I'll ask FIFA to transfer the games out, which,
by the way, I don't think they can anyway.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I mean, let's get.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Practical about it, and back to my original position. These
are just throwaway lines. A reporter throws something at the president.
The president instead of being measured, let me think about it,
and hands it off to a and hands off to
one of his staffers. Because presidents tend to be measured
and very careful in what they say and think things
(07:48):
through sometimes too slow, Biden. But very few presidents do
what this president does, and that's just throw things out
and reporters though it. So there's a lot of gotchats
going on in the world of press conferences. But the
question is does he think he has the influence to
(08:12):
have the US, the International Olympic Committee, remove LA and
go someplace else?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Can they?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I don't think they can't, even contractually if they wanted to.
All Right, enough of that, Okay, what's going on on
the I five? And this is the I five goes
right next to the ocean and Camp Penalton is on
each side, and you're when you're going next to the ocean,
there's only a few hundred yards of beach between the
(08:41):
freeway and the and the ocean, and it's kind of neat.
I've seen a couple of amphibious training exercises. They are
and you don't know what is happening. It's just happenstance, man.
They look great with the helicopters and the hovercraft and ah,
it's just tremendous. Well, there's going to be a big
one coming up to commemorate the Marine Corps two hundred
(09:05):
and fiftieth anniversary, and it's being called See to Shore,
a Review of Amphibious Strength, and Vice President Vance is
going to be there and this is going to be
a big one. One of the things about the Trump administration
is they are not shy about showing American fighting force,
(09:27):
not shy at all, this is an administration that is
proud of its ability to fight, proud of its armed services,
and we're going to show you that we're going to
do it well. Obviously, there's all kinds of controversy because
we've got a governor, the governor's administration that doesn't particularly
(09:48):
like the Trump administration and saying, wait a minute, we've
heard that there are going to be live exercises, live fire. Okay,
then you just shut down the freeway and it becomes
part and par soul of the event or the argument
here or the stories is that the freeway is still
going to continue on and there will be live fire
(10:09):
over the freeway, as in attacking the amphibious forces coming
in with live fire.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Now, are they going to hit anybody?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Of course not. That's not the point. The point is
is that the governor is so pissed off, saying, how
can you possibly do this on our beaches. By the way,
Camp Pendleton is a federal property. How can you do
this and allow people to go through? Well, we're talking
about shutting down.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
We don't know. It may be closed.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
It may be closed by the federal government and may
be closed by the state government. We have absolutely no idea,
but there will be a huge.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Show of force that we know. It's kind of neat.
I don't know if you've ever seen, as I told you,
it's really neat to see that.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I've lived out here forever and passed by Pendleton one
thousand times. Games doesn't don't they have signs that always
say that there's possibility of live fire?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
You know what, I've never noticed that. Yeah, I've never
noticed that. I've never noticed that. Yeah, and brother graduated
there at Pendleton as a marine, and I remember driving
back and forth. There's signs on those beaches everywhere that
say caution live fire drills.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Okay, how do you caution against live fire? Droves? Explain that?
Just don't don't go onto the beach. It doesn't say.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Don't look at you're not You're not allowed on the
beach anyway, are you No?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
But are you allowed onto a Pendleton beach? No, but
you're not allowed in area fifty one.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
It doesn't mean there isn't people that try and get in.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
There every year.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
But but there are signs all over there, Okay that
I don't remember seeing that.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
The one thing I do remember, I've seen a couple
of exercises and they are neat to see that they
really are.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
So in any case, we'll see what happens with this.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
And it's going to coincide with No King demonstration or
No Kings demonstration on Saturday, demonstrations all over the country,
the anti Trump administration demonstration.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
The demonstration is saying that they're.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Over the government is overreaching of course when it comes
to immigration and all the stuff that people have a
problem with. So we're going to have a dual demonstration.
So who's gonna win. Are the demonstrators going to win
or are the guys who have artillery pieces, helicopters, tanks
and armed infantry.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Who do you think is going to win that bottle?
I mean, they're not gonna fight.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
But it's a it's a fun visual, it really is,
all right now, Oh this is another one.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Oh god, I love politics. All right.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
There were some weak messages from young Republican leaders, and
these messages included this is political, pick this up, racist slurs,
rape jokes, gas chamber commentaries, and man, you've got politicians
on both sides of the aisle going nuts and calling
(13:07):
for those who were engaged in these slurs and commentary
just to resign.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Well, the vp jd Vance dismissed it.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
You're just doing pearl clutching that these participants were just
kids telling stupid jokes and that shouldn't ruin their lives,
one of the kids being Vermont state Senator Sam Douglas,
who happens to be a very young sixty nine. So
it was just kids doing this, mind you. And this
is the Young Republicans National Federation, the GOP's political organization
(13:40):
for Republicans between eighteen and forty and other people in
this case, for example, Sam Douglas was in on the
chat and the group described the exchanges as unbecoming of
any Republican. The official group is saying, come on, guys,
(14:00):
this is ridiculous. And there were months of exchange of
this crazy stuff that Politico picked up. Now Here is
the problem, and that is Vance immediately comes out and
rips into the one interview that was said by I
think a Democrat about somehow two shots should be put
(14:26):
in someone's head, you know, an assassination, and he said,
that's the problem, not kids making jokes about the Holocaust
or rape. That's the problem. Guys like this, which is
far far more dangerous. You know what, why can't you
call for the resignation of both sides on that? Why
(14:48):
can't you simply say both are reprehensible? And you can't
advocate or say it's a good thing that Charlie Kirk
was killed. You can say you disagree with Charlie Kirk.
You can certainly say the world has changed because Charlie
Kirk was killed. But to say that's a good thing,
if you're a politician, I'm gonna argue you're done with that,
(15:09):
You're gone. And the same thing with anybody who says
and these were open chats, Holocaust jokes and rape commentary,
and I mean just such offensive stuff. Vance does not
want those people to resign. That was just jokes among
young people. So according to Vance, it doesn't matter what
(15:34):
a Republican says, it does not matter. There will be
no retribution, there will be no accountability. If the Democrats
say it, it's all over. They've got to go. They've
got to go. And you know, when we talk about polarity,
even that even people talking about and joking about the
(15:55):
Holocaust and rape and lynching. I don't know if lynching
even took place in this conversation, But no, no, we
don't resign for that because those are just ah shucks,
just kids. It's just kids having a good time. You know,
I've really gotten there. And by the way, on both
sides of the aisle, I mean politicians who in my opinion,
(16:18):
actually have a decent view of what this country is about.
Both sides were screaming, they've got to go. You cannot
have this, you cannot have this, and here we go.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
He reiterated about the kids.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
This is on Wednesday Vance and on the Charlie Kirk
Show podcast, which I think is run by Charlie Kirks,
Charlie Kirk's wife.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I think she's handling the podcast and.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Other conservatives are coming in and taking turns doing the podcast.
And he was asked about the reporting that a person
seriously wishing for political violence and political assassination is one
thousand times worse than what a bunch of young people,
a bunch of kids say in a group chat. You know,
(17:11):
when I say we've gone crazy, when I say politics
has gone absolutely nuts, I mean it. And that's all
the way up up, that's up the ladder to the
very highest reaches of our government.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
It's all crazy.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Pritzker, who absolutely disagrees with the president. So the President
doesn't come back and say Pritzker is nuts. Well he does,
you know, And I am I'm okay with that. I mean,
I like, thank frankly Donald Trump getting to our level
and being real. The guy's a jerk, the guy's an ass.
But how about the guy should be arrested. We should
(17:46):
arrest him for what he's doing.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
You know what. And I'm saying, this is the president,
you know what, have some balls? Have some balls? Call
cash Pttel call him.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Right now, get on the phone and say, you go
arrest Pritzker, and you argue that he has violated some
kind of federal law, and you go handcuff him right now,
you gutless wonder you say he should be arrested.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Then do it? All right? Oh all right? Let me
tell you what used to happen.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I think if you did any traveling decades ago, and
when I started traveling in my twenties and through my
thirties and my forties, even my fifties. Now I'm one
hundred and thirty years old, I was told many times
that that American passport that you hold is the most
valuable passport on earth. And why is that well, because,
(18:49):
first of all, the most countries in the world that
allow you to come in without a visa was the
American passport. The countries that accepted and wanted to mar
Americans in more than any other country in the world.
And so we've sort of gone down. The Henley Passport Index,
(19:10):
which of course no one knows what they hell that is,
has rankings measuring passport potency in this regard the number
of countries that let you in without a visa. Countries
will let you in without a visa, are countries that
want you in, and that is a part of this index.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Okay, for the first time in twenty years, we're out
of the top ten.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Three Asian passports now command the top Singapore one hundred
and ninety three destinations worldwide visa free, and then South
Korea and then Japan.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
We're now down to twelfth place.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
We were number one even as late as twenty fourteen,
where the American passport was worth everything. The American passport
was worth real, real money back in the day. I
mean people, what you were told is you hang on
to your money, your wallet, and your passport, with your
(20:11):
passport being the most valuable thing that you had on
you if you were traveling overseas, and so now it's
just access changes. In April, Brazil withdrew the visa free
access for citizens from the US, Canada, Australia. Because of reciprocity,
(20:32):
China has been introducing more welcoming policies. It used to
be impossible to go into China. Now, man, they want
everybody in there except the US citizens. We still need
a visa and it's not that easy to get in.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Papua New Guinea and me and mar they're higher than
we are.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Somalia, okay, Somalia is a launch of a new eVisa
system and Vietnam's exclusion of the US from its visa
free edition. Now keep involved. I don't know if you've
ever been to Somalia, but Somalia they're chefs. They have
a couple of three star Michelin chefs who use branches
(21:18):
to serve you dinner.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Because that's it sticks.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
This is Somalia, and you need a visa to get
into Somalia. You think Somalia would desperately want anybody with money.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Nope.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
The UK had the top spot on the index in
twenty fifteen. I remember twenty fourteen the US dropped out
and the UK is now in its lowest ever six
to eighth place. Okay, there are a few that are
at the bottom, at the very bottom of the list.
(21:55):
Number one oh six Afghanistan visa free access to just
twenty four destinations. I want to know which countries love
Afghanis coming into their countries because Afghanis have so much money. Right,
Syria is way down at the bottom too, not good, so.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Highly desirable passports.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Well, not only do they represent people who countries want
in read money investment, we want to treat people from
that country very well. But also that also translates into
very few restrictions between the US and Europe. For example,
we don't have a passport issue. I mean, there's no
(22:42):
country that gives me we need a visa with flying
to Germany, fly into France, we fly into the UK
in a native passport. Other countries. Yeah, all right, this
is KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
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