Transcription
That's what I said earlier when people say, "What is Donald Trump doing?" Well, he's cutting all these deals. He's got foreign policy stuff galore. He's got investments. He's got trade wars. He's closed the border. But he also understands that the problems were caused by the progressive project.
And the progressive project does not rely on public support for their power. They feel that even though people don't like their positions on transgenderism, problems were caused by the progressive project. And the progressive project does not rely on public support for their power. You look at energy prices; there are near historic lows. You look at inflation; it was 2.3. You look at GDP; they're going to readjust the GDP higher. You look at corporate profits; they're up. You look at investment; Trump announced this week and I think it's been reified and ratified too that he's got $10 trillion in commitments for uh foreign investment into the United States. So all of that even has hasn't even been digested. So the economy is not responsible for Gavin Newsom.
What's responsible for Gavin Newsom having a 12 billion deficit is the following: the highest income tax in the United States at 13.3 of any state. I think it's the sixth highest sales tax, the highest gasoline tax, the highest priced gasoline, the highest priced electricity, half the nation's homeless, nearly half the nation's illegal immigrants, 200 to 300,000 of the professional class and upper middle class leaving per year, schools that are rated in the bottom 10 of the 50 states, a poverty rate about 21%, like almost like Appalachia. That is the problem.
And what caused that problem? You have from La Jolla to Berkeley about a 50-mile radius of the ocean some of the wealthiest people in the world. And you can calibrate that by real estate or zip codes or anything, and they have created what they feel is heaven on earth, a utopia, and they're not subject to the consequences of their own ideology. So, what does that mean? We shut down a nuclear power plant. We shut down some oil plants. We put all these solar farms in. We have an excess of solar energy in the daytime. And then we pay expensive imported energy at night. We thought we were going to store it at Moss Landing. We had two catastrophic fires costing over a billion dollars. We've thrown down a rat hole $30 billion for high-speed rail. Not one foot of track laid. It's the most mismanaged and incompetently managed state in the union. It's not all Gavin's fault. He inherited that from Jerry Brown.
And Jerry Brown and all of these people when they destroy the state, they all go off to a pleasant… Diane Feinstein had a big beautiful home on the shores of Lake Tahoe. Barbara Boxer went down to Rancho Mirage and had a beautiful place. Uh, Kamala Harris lives in Brentwood. Gavin Newsom just bought a big beautiful home in the Bay Area. Jerry Brown is on his Grass Valley off-the-grid estate. So that's what they do. Nancy Pelosi can't decide whether she'll go to her mansion in San Francisco or her palazzo in Napa Valley. But they are the people who did this. They did not care about the average Californian, whether their schools were safe and competitive. They didn't care whether they could afford gas. They didn't care whether they could afford timber and lumber. They shut down the timber industry. They're shutting down the refinery industry. They didn't care that one quarter of the population does not is not or will not pay their power bill. That's it. He will not touch any of those issues. Not one. So he'll just blame Donald Trump and he'll kind of say, "We can't afford to give any more free healthcare to illegal aliens." That was his idea. And he will tinker around and he'll do his little jaw-jaw jazz with his hands and his slick hair and he'll say that he's going to the middle and he's preparing for 2024. But he won't ever undo the damage that he and Jerry Brown and other leftists have done because to do that they would rather be ideologically orthodox and have everybody poor than to be unorthodox and have everybody well off.
We have 52 seats in Congress. I think we only have 11 Republicans. We have a state senate and a state assembly. They have super majorities. So the Republicans are… there is no statewide Republican office holder, no state controller, no attorney general, no lieutenant governor, no governor. And so and all of the court system, the appointees have been there now for what will be 16 years. So the Schwarzenegger appointments are well early. They're all retiring. So they have the judiciary, they have the legislative, and they have the executive branch. And the only thing that's going to change are two things. One, whether the Silicon Valley grandees who have $9 trillion in market capitalization, and these are people like formerly of California, Elon Musk, David Sacks, Ben Horowitz, Andreessen, Larry Ellison, whether they divorce themselves entirely from the left-wing project. They're starting to. And then just say, you know what? we're either going to move out of the state or we're not, but we're not going to subsidize all this stuff. You make it impossible to do business, and you're hurting the middle class. And then whether the Hispanic community, which as we've talked about, just pulled 62% in favor of Donald Trump's 100 days, get it and say all of these Latino elites that go to universities, uh, they're no different than these out-of-touch so-called white elites and they're two peas in a pod and all they care about is climate change, transgenderism, the new green deal, DEI, ESG, but they do not care about us. They do not care to get timber here. They uh… the material, rare earth materials, natural gas, gasoline, all of these rich things we could do. They'd like to blow up dams on the Klamath River rather than use the money allotted for dams to build four or five more so we have water. There's some signs. So if those two groups said we've had it with the progressive agenda, we could change. But so far they haven't.
Well, based on traditional calculus of the number of troops, enlisted men versus the number of four stars, three stars, two stars, one stars, we are overstaffed as we always are in peacetime it seems like. So, and that's going to be very controversial because an officer… I mean it's… I'm not saying it's easy, but major to lieutenant colonel is doable. Lieutenant colonel to colonel is doable. There's a big jump from colonels. Most of them don't make one star. One star to two star is kind of not easy. I won't say to major general is easy, but the next step from major general to lieutenant general, third, three star, that's hard. And the three to four is a little harder. What I'm getting at is you're going to tell people who feel that they have done everything possible and reach the pinnacle of power. Four-star generals are almost like deities in the military, and you're going to cut them, and they're going to cut a lot of them. They're going to do other things that they're going to be very angry. If you're a four-star general or admiral, I don't want to name names. I do not want to stereotype, but that is a very good salary. They get a wonderful pension. But more importantly, they, as they came up through the ranks, they have thousands of subordinates that they knew as a captain, as a major, as a lieutenant colonel, as a colonel, as a one, two, three. They have a whole network of people, and they ended up in the Pentagon at some point, four-star. So when they come out of there, they go to work for Raytheon or the Boston Arms Group or Northrop or Lockheed or General Dynamics and they make a fortune. They can make $2 or $3 million a year, not even… and you know in a good year with stock options, they can end up fabulously wealthy. So what you're telling them that you're going to abort all that? That's going to be very controversial. And there's other things he's talked about and one of them is procurement that we're not going… I mean Trump announced the fifth-generation fighter. Well, those are going to be $150 million minimum. The F-22 was $170 million. The F-35 is about $100 million. And we don't have a lot of those. And as I said, I was listening to a lecture by a technocrat, probably the most famous Silicon Valley person other than uh Elon Musk. And he pointed out that why pay $70 to $170 million for a pilot that can only endure a G-force at 9 Gs when a drone can do 19 Gs. So they're going to… that's what he's looking at, a whole new way of procurement, uh, cut down the the whole basis of how the Pentagon functions. I doubt…
Have you noticed another thing? To be quite frank, I haven't seen one retired general weigh in on Donald Trump. And I won't mention names, but just a mere 5 years ago, we were told that he was like the people on the other side of the beach at Normandy, Nazi. We were told that he was a Mussolini. We were told he built cages on the border just like the Nazis built Auschwitz. We were told that he was a congenital liar. We were told that he should be removed the sooner the better. And we were told by two lieutenant colonels that Milley should intervene and get rid of him. We were told by General Milley that he had diagnosed, as Dr. Milley, professor of psychiatry, he had diagnosed his commander-in-chief as not too stable. So he decided to call up his People's Liberation Army counterpart and said, you know, if it comes to existential tensions and I think that our commander is uh a little bit too ready to consider the nuclear… I will call you first and warn you. So all of those under Article 88 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice what I just delineated were actionable offenses that according to the statute which covers retired general and active they would be subject to court-martial for publicly disparaging the commander-in-chief or the main officers of the government. This was all done after Douglas MacArthur said terrible things about Truman in 1951. And they got together and they said, "Well, the Army says this and the Air, this Army Air Force that's becoming the Air Force says this and the Navy says this and the Marine says this and we need a uniform code for everybody." And they put it so it involved everybody, but they also said we can't have another MacArthur. Everybody thought he was going to run for the Republican, you know, nomination. And then two things happened to him. Number one, there was a guy called Ike. And everybody loved Ike. MacArthur, they respected him, but he was vain, glorious. Ike was just a Kansas, Texas guy, and he was just a shoo-in and he was a… he got along with everybody. He was an administrator. McCarthy worked for MacArthur. MacArthur didn't like him. He or he crashed him. So once Ike, who was the president now of Columbia University, once he said he was going to run in the '52 convention, they… they gave a little speech for MacArthur and I think Wainwright, his subordinate that he kind of abandoned in the Philippines and spent four years in a prison of war. He was emaciated. He… he gave this speech for MacArthur and he got like 10 delegates. And why did he not get popular? Because after his ticker-tape parade, he was the most popular general in history in the United States. And they asked him, they brought him in there and the Democrats asked him, "What's your plan for Korea?" And he said, "There's no substitute for victory." And they kept asking him, "So, how many troops would you need?" "Well, I need this." And they said, "Oh my god, we're disarmed." And then they said, "Would the Russians… would the Russians intervene?" He said, "No." He said, "Well, you said that about the Chinese. You said if we went out up to the Yellow River, they wouldn't uh intervene." And a million of them did. And we had the longest, most humiliating retreat in American history back down to South Korea and we lost Seoul. Well, you didn't let me use nuclear weapons. So, you think a commander should have nuclear weapons in the field? Yeah. And so, he didn't do well in congressional testimony. And by this time he was doing all this, Ike was saying when they nominated him, I… cuz you know, he was still a very powerful guy, MacArthur, kind of a tragic figure really. And then Ike was saying, "I will go to Korea." And they said, "What are you going to do?" I will go to Korea. Uh, will you try to take all of Korea back like MacArthur wanted to do? He wanted to reinvade again. And they, you know, a lot of people made the argument that after 1952, given Matthew Ridgway's genius who restored all of South Korea, took back Seoul, and probably inflicted a million casualties on the Chinese, they were beaten. And so if he had at that point… had they invaded they might have taken the whole thing back. But Stalin said he would not let that happen and he had nuclear weapons at that point. So… and Ridgeway, the hero was now in… he didn't… he didn't want to do it. And so he had con… he said, you know what, if you go back up there the American people will be fickle and we won't have a lot of public support. We'll have to completely mobilize to rearm and we'll be right next to nuclear Russia on the border and China. Let's just consolidate what we have and work with the South. But every time they asked Ike, I'm gonna go to Korea and what are you gonna do? I'm gonna solve the problem. So when he came in in 1953, he took a look at it and he said, I'm going to invade North Korea and get in a big endless forever war. I am going to solidify where we are and you know they had some six months of this and that and then he… he solved it. So get a treaty, and that was the end of MacArthur as a political person. Yeah.
What happened to all of these self-appointed American saviors like Milley who was willing to breach his, you know, his orders, his responsibility? What happened to them when Joe Biden, who was really demented, did… not a word. Is that weird? Yeah. Milley had said that Donald Trump was non-compliant and he would have to intervene. He didn't say a word after that. Afghanistan, humiliating. Thirteen brave Americans were killed. Fifty billion dollars in ammunitions handed over to terrorists which are being on the terrorist mart right now being sold. We gave up a billion-dollar embassy at a $300 million retrofitted bagwam. He didn't say a word, but he did say a word all during the campaign. Remember he gave an interview and said that Donald Trump was a certified fascist. And then he thought, if I keep saying this and he wins the election this time around, he's going to court-martial. They're going to court-martial me because he'll get a defense secretary that won't be Jim Mattis. And they will court-martial me. And they would have Pete Hegseth will court-martial anybody who breaks the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Article 88. He will court-martial them. And they know that. So they're all quiet, and we haven't heard a word out of General Hayden. And we haven't heard a word out of General McCaffrey. And we haven't heard a word out of General McChrystal. And we haven't heard a word out of Admiral McRaven. I… I guess they either think Trump is not the existential threat that he was or they believe that that Pete Hegseth will institute court-martials about anybody who retired or active disparages the commander-in-chief. Yes. I guess we have to write it all down to Trump derangement syndrome or something because it certainly seems inconsistent.
I never understood why Andrew McCabe and Rod Rosenstein discussed… Rod Rosenstein wearing a wire so they could go talk to Trump and then they could find him in an embarrassing conversation and then they would have it on tape and then go in and play it and then to the Congress and then they would or to the cabinet and then they would vote for him to be removed on the 25th Amendment. And the same people were… didn't say a word when Joe Biden had that disastrous interview with Robert Hur of which his own speechwriter um destroyed the tapes of you know when he when he violated um classified material talking about it with Joe Biden. But the point I'm making that tape they didn't want the tape out. Now the tape is going to be released. And where will those people be? Will they come forward? Will Andrew McCabe come forward and said, "Oh my god, I listened to that Robert Hur tape. What was I doing? I had the wrong president. He is completely incapable." Rod, why didn't we… why didn't we go talk to Biden and and trap him? I'm not going to say a word. Just like Jake Tapper the other day was on TV. He's been on TV for all week and saying that well, you know, Chuck Todd and it wasn't just his handlers that that lied to us. It was the press. So, I've got a co-authored book coming out and we're going to tell the… we're going to break it wide open and tell everybody how this slanderous derelict media didn't do their duty and tell the truth that their president was unfit to serve. And then people started saying, "Well, didn't you do an interview with Laura Trump and bite her head off when she said just that?" And then I… I think John Davidson or somebody in the Federalist wrote 11 times Jake Tapper attacked and ridiculed people who's mildly suggested that Donald… that Joe Biden was not all there. It's… that's what I said earlier when people say, what is Donald Trump doing? Well, he's cutting all these deals. He's got foreign policy stuff galore. He's got investments. He's got trade wars. He's closed the border. But he also understands that the problems were caused by the progressive project and the progressive project does not rely on public support for their power. They feel that even though people don't like their positions on transgenderism, on an open border, on massive illegal immigration, on DEI, on ESG, on the new green deal. They don't care. They feel we got these big foundations and they give stuff to all these groups that are suing, you know, to stop my… and they run the bureaucracies. The whole federal government is embedded with anonymies that will pop up anytime. Lois Lerner, a James Comey, Anthony Fauci, they're everywhere. And they have the media, a Chuck Todd, a Jake Tapper, and they have the universities that train all these people. So then they got together in their four years of the wilderness. Apparently, Trump got his little brain trust and they said, "Well, we can… we can deal with the Middle East and we can stop the Ukrainian war and we can get investment. We can cut down the trade deficit, but the left is just insidious." So, somebody said, "Well, why? That nobody likes what they have." And then somebody must have said, "Go after the media. Get rid of NPR. Get rid of PBS. Attack them like they attack you." And then somebody said, "Well, these universities are utterly corrupt. They take Chinese and Middle East money. They don't report it. They violate the Supreme Court decision. They have racially segregated dorms, celebrations, safe spaces. They raise their tuition higher than the rate of inflation. This whole student boondoggle is a blank check for them. They have Chinese people on their faculty. They have people that are spying. Stanford just has a big exposé about it, the Stanford Review. And they don't really… they're anti-Semitic to the core. They don't listen and they uh are racist and they don't defend the Bill of Rights. Go after them for that and you get two birds with one stone. We're going to prune them back. And so foundations, they're going to have a new… I don't know how it's going to affect the Bradley, a smaller conservative, but they're going to go after foundations and tax their endowments because they don't feel they're really non… they're deeply embedded in politics. They're going after the universities for… and then I didn't mention gouging the government with 40 to 50% search charges. So they're going to go after the universities. They're going to go after the media. They're going to go after the foundations, and they're going to go after the federal government bureaucracy and cut it with a Dodge. So they're trying to say to themselves all of these problems were dealing with the symptoms but not the root cause. What caused the Biden administration to do these stupid things? To open the border, to flee Afghanistan, to turn on Israel, to get all these foreign students here. Ah, I know it was these institutions, so we're going to bring them to account. And I don't know if that's going to be… that's why it's a real, as I said, a cultural counterrevolution. You know, when Trump was facing Letitia James, Fani Willis, Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, E. Jean Carroll, remember how the all of the cable left-wing networks, they'd always had… they got their talking points and then they all mimicked them and it was no man is above the law. No person… no person's above the law. What do you think about the no person's above the law? So, here she is.
And she's committed felonies. She's violated her oath of office. She's actively, in a conspiratorial fashion, uh, with the public defender, uh, who alerted her, deliberately tried to impede a federal officer from making an arrest and used, in a conspiratorial, conspiratorial fashion, her own courtroom, secret little passage, the door out to liberate someone who would be arrested, putting federal agents in danger.
And in addition to that, she was derelict. She just walked out of the middle of a trial. So, she's got a lot of felony exposure, but she's not above the law. She thinks she's above the law. That's what the weird thing about the left is. They always say that nobody's above the law, but they really do believe that they're above the law. That's what these representatives did when they went in New Jersey and they attacked, uh, ICE officers and Border Patrol people. They thought, "I'm a representative."
And remember AOC and Hikim Jeff? You know, Haikim Jeff every day is revealing that they're going to have to get rid of him because he is an utter incompetent. He just mouths the same old thing. He has no imagination. They ask him a question and his brain goes, "What was the pre-selected talking points I got on email this morning? Which one do I plug in?" Kind of like Kamala Harris. He doesn't answer a question. And I mean, AOC is a lot more adept than he is. Even Jasmine Crockett is—if they take them off committees, if the Congress punishes them, much less if they face criminal charges, that's a red line. And then they all say, "You better not." What are you going to do? If they broke the law, they broke the law. What if Kevin McCarthy, when he was Speaker of the House, had said to, I don't know, the media, he said, "Listen, if you indict Donald Trump, that's a red line. You better not do that." They would have gone crazy.
She's—they're basically calling for an insurrection if you, you know—and they already have when Chuck Schumer said we're—we're going to go into your congressional districts and disrupt—and then Governor Pritzker said we're going to go to the streets and be disruptive. They were calling for what we're seeing now. Not one of them has ever said, got up in front of the Congress or went on major network news and said, "We deplore all the street violence against Tesla. I'm asking all of our supporters, do not take the law in your own hands and attack the Tesla brand in any shape or form. I'm telling all of you students who are protesting against Israel, do not use violence or you will—" Not one of them has said it. Just like not one of them has said, "Let's end the bloodletting in the Ukraine war. It's a million and a half lives have been destroyed."
They're either so desperate or they lack leadership. I think they lack leadership. It's a symptom of a great malady in the United States. There's a third of the country, an affluent third of the country, and they feel that the country is too stupid for them, and they made so much money under globalization. They have so many titles and degrees that they deserve special compensation to run the country the way they think they should, even if the stupid hoi polloi don't appreciate them. That's who the Democratic Party is. And then they have the subsidized poor. The subsidized poor feels that, "I am a victim because of—I don't know what—history, my race, my gender, my sexual orientation—and I'm—I deserve government support and anybody that doesn't do that is a ruthless—" So that's their attitude and that's the Democratic Party.
Those two groups—compare that to Biden when Biden came in. I mean, what is Trump not trying to do? He's trying to solve the Ukraine war. He's trying to solve the Iranian nuclear project. He's trying to get the hostages and solve the Middle Eastern war. He's trying to close the border. He's trying to deport 10 million people who came in illegally under Biden. He's trying to develop energy. He's trying to reboot the entire world trade system. He's doing all of these things. He looks at him sometimes and you think, man, he's 78 years old. He looks tired. But who wouldn't be? I have a tiny little sinus infection and he's got 10 times the energy that I do. I admire him. Deal.
The thing that's different about him is when he sees a problem and he thinks—he talks to people, he does consult, calls people all the time on the phone, Jamie Diamond, you know, Elon, uh, Mike Johnson, the Congress. Then he makes a decision. And he doesn't say, "Well, I'm going to get a committee, a sober and judicious one, and they're going to report back to me in 6 months with pros and cons, and then I'm going to have an audit body overlook them, and then they'll get me a proposal, and I'll consider it 2 years from now." He doesn't do any of that. He just does it. And sometimes, you know, he gets in trouble, but sometime—like his plane deal, he just—he says, "You can't get your boat planes? You don't have any planes? That thing is too old for you." I'm mimicking their accent. The 83. That's befitting a president. You need a new one. We have a new one, don't we? How old is our—the one with the—the Titanic interior? Give it to him. He says, "I'm not going to insult these people. We're going to do a big 200 jet deal." Am I going to say, "No, I can't take your plane. I'm morally superior to yours?" So, he calls up everybody and says, "You can't take anything from the Mullman's clause." So, he said, "Okay, give it to the Air Force. Can the government?" Yes. Then I'll use it for 4 years. And then they said, "What do we do with it?" And he said, "Well, they gave us a base. Nobody said anything wrong with that. They remodeled it. People give us stuff all the time." Yes, but you're going to use this gift, this Air Force plane, after they have to go through it, make sure there's no bugs in it and everything. And then, well, Reagan got a plane. When he left, they gave—I saw it at the museum. So, then they said, "Yes, now he's okay." Everything I've said except the plane goes to the Trump library or foundation. At that point, it's so beautiful inside.
Mr. President, I have a slight suggestion. You have your 757. It doesn't—it's got modern parts. This thing is ancient, even though it's—I guess it's 10, 13 years old, but it's a 747. You don't want to fly around the United States in a 747 as a private citizen. It's a gas guzzler. Take this plane and do just what Reagan did, just park it outside the Trump library and everybody would love to go and look at it cuz it's unlike any other plane in the world. And that way you're not going to be criticized that you took something from a federal government. So tomorrow just say, "Well, they gave us the Elmendorf Air Force Base, uh, military base, naval base, and then they remodeled it for us, spend another billion, and it's handy." And people do all this and they want to give this plane to the Air Force and our planes aren't going to be ready. And frankly, this plane's 40 years old, so we've got to get a new plane. And Boeing let us down. So, we're going to use this, uh, plane for 4 years. And then when I'm out of office, JD Vance or Marco Rubio will use it until the new Boeing planes. And when the new Boeing planes come, we're going to park it as a gift to the government. And—and I was—happened to be the president and it will go to the library and we'll take the keys away and you can't fly it and it'll be a win-win-win-win situation. That would be a win-win. Nobody wants to fly this huge plane. Do you know one person in the United States that has a 747 that flies around with it? That's why the left is so crazy. He's going to take this plane. He's a private citizen. He—it'll take a year's salary to maintain it and fly it and put the gas in it.