How Bad Was Trump's China Trip?

In the aftermath of the 2024 election, America is even more divided than before. Half the country fears the end of democracy and the other half welcomes it. As America inches toward the brink of authoritarian rule, now more than ever, we must force ourselves to have the necessary conversation. Welcome to the necessary conversation. I'm Chad Kultgen. As you can see, I'm still in Oklahoma with my mom and my sister. They are both here with me. We're helping out our mom as Bob, our dad, is still in the hospital. Mom, you want to give an update on his condition? Um about the same. And we get kicked out due to insurances on Tuesday morning. Um he just We had a bunch of doctors come through this morning. We're working on dehydration. We're working on potassium levels, on magnesium levels. Um he's starting to give a little push back. So, I'm pushing back on him Mhm. to do what's right. And if you want to come home, you have to do these things. When we first got to rehab, he was good. He was walking, doing a few things. But now L4, L5 are giving him terrible pain. And he's decided to shut it down for a while and not get up. And he can't. So, hopefully maybe Monday before we get kicked out, I'll have him to the spine doctors. One of the best one here in OKC. That's where we're at. Yeah. Um it's it's been interesting to navigate the American health care system and see that I mean, I kind of already knew this from cancer treatment, but the insurance companies are the ones who control all of your health care decisions. Doctors have no say in it. >> You have no say in it. >> doctor >> like to keep us, he said, at least two more weeks, but the insurance says, "No, you have to go." And we have a first insurance of Medicare, and then we have a secondary, too. But and the doctor will try to code as many things on there to keep you as long as he can, but they're kicking us out on Tuesday, no matter what. So, I have scrambled to get that care at home, too, and go from there. Do you have any ditties, Mom? Ditty you, that's it. What does that mean? Means I have [laughter] no [ __ ] ditties. At this point. >> Well, I got nothing left to ditty. I do have a listener question. I thought we could play one today. I'm just going to play it off my computer screen. I'll turn it around so you guys can see it. If you want to submit a question to our podcast, all you have to do is record it in a 1-minute or shorter video, send it to the necessary conversation [email protected]. I try to play the best ones here. Here is today's question. Good morning, cult fam. Um, my name is Megan. I am 32 years old. I live in Jacksonville, Florida. I own my own home independently, and I have a full-time job and a part-time job. Um, for whatever assumptions Bob wants to make about demographic. Um, my question is for Mary Lou. Um, last week on the pod, uh, Chad was teasing you about, you know, you disagreed with Trump on several points, and it was really difficult for you to say out loud that you disagree with him specifically. Um, I know that Chad and Haley like to tease you about, you know, liberalism, and oh, you're sounding like a lib. Is there a universe that exists where you can remain a Republican and support our country and not support Donald Trump? Thanks. Love the pod. So, that's the question, Mom. your mind, could you remain a Republican and not support Donald Trump? Yes, we've talked about that on another podcast. If he pardons Maxwell, Mhm. um if he is taken down for crimes himself, dealing with children, uh yes. Okay. Now, you I don't know if this was yesterday or the day before. We were driving in the car, coming back from Dad, and you told me that you were not MAGA. Do you remember this? I have never thought I was MAGA. You guys labeled me with this. We labeled you. >> You labeled me. I've always thought I was a Republican. >> You have a [ __ ] hat that says "MAGA". But that's >> You got all the products. that Republicans can uh you can be a Republican and not be a MAGA, and you can be a MAGA and be a Republican. No. MAGA is MAGA, period. It's its own entity. MAGA is the Republican Party at this point. Okay. So, I'm a Republican. Right. That at this point, that means MAGA. I guess I'm still MAGA, then. Right, because you're supporting Donald Trump. If you support Donald Trump, you're MAGA. You do support him. Yes. That's MAGA. >> do. Okay. To be a Republican and not be MAGA, it would mean saying, "I hate Donald Trump." Or the really so I would never vote for him. I think his policies are bad, but I'm still for fiscal responsibility, conservative family values, blah blah blah, all this [ __ ] that Republicans are, but also not be for Trump. Well, there's more and more things that I'm disliking. Yeah. >> Yes. Yes, you can eliminate >> statue and bringing God and Jesus and stuff into that and kissing that. That's not Yeah, there's a lot of things that my eyes are being opened to that I don't like. But, I am still a Republican. I guess you're calling me still a MAGA. Yeah. And Trump is my president. >> You have to renounce like your love of Donald Trump. You can still be conservative and a Republican. You just have to say "Fuck Donald Trump. I see all this terrible [ __ ] happening, but I'm still conservative and I'm still a Republican." Well, not yet. Okay, still MAGA. Speaking of things that are turning your head, changing your mind, let's get into today's topics. First up, we got Trump in China. This week Trump took a two-day trip to China, which was largely seen as a failure for America as Chinese President Xi referred to America as a declining nation and made Trump sit in a smaller chair than he sat in for meeting, effectively humiliating him on the global stage. To make matters worse, Trump chose to take a group of billionaires with him who hold no formal office in the United States government. His billionaire entourage included Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Jensen Huang, Larry Fink, Jane Fraser, Stephen Schwarzman, and Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg. Musk and Huang flew on Air Force One with Trump. Trump also opted to take family members Eric Trump and Lara Trump, but Melania did not join him. But, he did take his 34-year-old executive assistant and social media planner Natalie Harp, who many are speculating is his mistress. Mom, you are one of those people that make that speculation. >> had I It's speculation. It has not been proven, but I did read some of that. Okay. President Xi made no commitment to help with Trump's war in Iran, and he warned that if Trump mishandled the situation in Taiwan, it would put the America-China relationship, quote, "in great jeopardy." And Trump was convinced by Xi to let Chinese nationals uh buy American farmland. Trump left China with no major breakthroughs on trade or tangible help in Iran, despite heaping praise on Xi. Mom, why do you think Trump took so many billionaires with him to China? Well, what I have read is that some good things did come of that. That they were um, you know, the Boeing, we got 200 aircraft now. >> But China committed to buying 500. Then we got there and he was like, "Nah, [clears throat] we're just going to do two." 200 plus more in the future. Okay. Okay? Um, there are there was soy soybeans, wheat, beef, poultry, some of that. China signaled willingness to reduce tariffs on that and that's okay. So, that kind of opened stuff, I guess. Uh, the airplanes, um, it was But why do you think like the CEO of Nvidia was taken? Why was Elon Musk taken? Why did Elon Musk get to take his little kid X AE X X X there? This was all about business deals. For them. Yes. >> Yes. And us. No. And the United States. >> What business deal do you think Elon Musk was making for the United States? I have no idea. He's not even part of the cabinet. What business deal do you think Tim Cook was making for the United States? >> I have no idea. They weren't. This was all personal gain. It's a whole bunch of billionaires making personal contracts with China. And Donald Trump being the facilitator. Hm. And bringing his family in addition to make more money for his family. Kind of like taking people. Kind of like when Biden went on his trips and had to have Hunter right there to make deals for him, too. Oh my god. And that's the truth. And we don't like that, either. No, we don't. Right. This is a little different in that even if what you're saying is true, which I don't necessarily agree with, but let's say that it is. Let's say uh Joe Biden took Hunter Biden everywhere around the world to do these illicit business dealings and and enrich their family. >> Yes. They did not do as much as Trump is doing. Trump is in the multiple billions arena at this point with how much he has taken from other countries and given to his family. Nor did Biden take a group of 12 billionaire CEOs with him to do business for their companies that has nothing to do with America. No, he took family members. And then all that money trickled down into his family. So did Trump. Okay. So what's the what's the difference? >> that off. These billionaires that are coming in to do this I'm assuming they're giving kickback to Trump in some way or at least special treatment through their companies. Oh, I never thought of that like that. >> Why else would he be taking them? No president in the [ __ ] history >> Most of those people are like the head of of of things that he does and is around him. No. No. They're just [ __ ] billionaires with companies that they want to further their agenda and make money. No president in the history of the United States has done this. To take a bunch of [ __ ] billionaire CEOs to a a chat with China with another country? They also talked about Taiwan. Yeah. >> Yes. We're going to get to that. >> Okay. Well, let me ask you this. Why do you think he didn't take Melania to China? Because she's mad at him, I'm sure. Okay. Maybe over the blonde chicks that he took. And you believe this executive assistant that he took with him uh I had her name written down. >> Speculation. Speculation. >> We don't know. Speculation. >> of that relationship is? Well, they said she's what? His executive assistant. And behind some of the weird stuff on X and uh social media. >> does post for him. I'm not there. I don't know. I speculate. >> who told me this. >> yeah. Okay, I wouldn't even put this in the list. This question that you brought it up. >> brought it to the table and you were like, "There's this blonde." >> go? You tell me. >> Why would our first lady not go? Why? Right. Answer the question. Because she is mad. Uh-huh. Because? Because the blonde chick is there. Okay. Yeah. Um why do you think Trump couldn't get President Xi to commit to aiding us in the war in Iran? They They're in discussions, I guess. Got to wait and see. Those discussions are over. He left China. >> Okay. There'll probably be more discussions, hopefully. No, that was the discussion. That was it. Why do you think Trump is allowing Chinese nationals to continue to buy American farmland? There's going to be give and take, maybe. I don't know. Yeah, the the give is they're giving money to Donald Trump. >> Mhm. And the take is they're taking American farmland. But they're buying the airplanes from us. Right? What does that have to do with anything? How does that help American farmers that Boeing is going to sell 200 of the 500 promised planes to China? >> Give and take. And they're they're going to buy soy and stuff like that from us, right? And more beef. American farmers are [ __ ] >> No, I think this trip helped them, I thought. What? >> It doesn't matter. If they Let's say that China is agreeing, "Yes, we'll buy all your beef and all your soybeans." Right. Also, we own the land it's grown on now. >> Right. Yeah. So, those farmers are gone. [ __ ] you. We're putting our farmers there or our factory farming or whatever they want to do. I don't see that. >> He's literally giving American land to China. I don't see that as happening. >> him? What do you mean you don't see this happening? I don't see that as happening. It is happening. >> That's literally part of what they talked about. I thought the American farmers that are producing all that, that that now is going to be sold to China. But China is being allowed to buy their land. So when these farmers get hit hard and it's like [ __ ] we have we had a bad year, we can't sell our stuff like we used to. I'm in financial dire straits and then a Chinese mega corporation comes in and is like, we'll we'll buy your farmland, maybe even for more value than it's worth. That farmer now has no choice. I'd like to see what percentage they own of the land. Okay, I'll I'll look for that and >> not today, but yeah, I would like to see that. All right, so do you think overall Trump's trip to China was a success? I think it was. I don't think it was as bad as everybody's saying it was. >> Successful for him Okay. and the billionaires, but not for us. He didn't broker any deals that benefit the American people. Talk about Taiwan, they did the farmer thing, they did the airplane thing. >> They talked about Taiwan, yes, but well I had it in here somewhere. Uh President Xi said he made no commitment to help with the war in Iran and he's Xi basically said if you mishandle the situation in Taiwan it could put our relationship in {quote} great jeopardy. That basically means you're going to let us do whatever we want there, right? Mhm. Yeah. The the bottom line is Trump got his ass handed to him. He looked so stupid when they put him in that little tiny chair. He always looks so stupid. >> That part I didn't see. I just saw him walking. I didn't see him in the tiny chair that y'all are talking about. >> Let's move on. Trump doesn't care about Americans is our next topic. This week Trump was asked to what extent Americans' financial situations were motivating him to make a deal with Iran. He said, "Not even a little bit." "The only thing that matters when I am talking about Iran. They can't have a nuclear weapon. I don't think about Americans financial situation. I don't think about anybody. I think about one thing. We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That's all. I can't understand [laughter] you. So, stop it. When NBC's Kristen Welker pressed him to clarify, "What about the pressure on Americans prices right now?" He doubled down. This was on the same day. "The most important thing by far is Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon." He added that, quote, "Including whether our stock market, which by the way is at an all-time high, but including whether our stock market goes up a little or down a little, the most important thing by far is Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Every American understands." This landed on the same day inflation data showed gas prices at $4.50 a gallon, up 28% in the past 2 months. Then later this week in a Fox News interview with Bret Baier, taping in Beijing, Baier said, "You can imagine how many people" stop the sound bite at "I don't think about Americans financial situation." So, what's your response to that? And Trump replied, I can't do the voice cuz that hurt my throat so bad. >> [laughter] >> Trump replied, "It's very simple. When people hear me say it, everybody agrees. Short-term pain. It's going to be short-term pain." And he added, "I'd make it again." The decision to say that exact same thing. Triple down on this. So, Mom, Trump has said twice he does not care about Americans financial situations. Do you think he does? I do. I totally think he cares and he does. And I think they stopped that right where he said it and then they broadcasted all of that. He has like a one a tunnel vision mind and or and he's he wants the war to end and he wants no bombs over there. And that's what he was trying to say. No, he's just a selfish piece of [ __ ] and that's what he said. I don't give a [ __ ] about the American people. He said it. >> I'm trying to find what He said it? What do you mean you're trying to find what he said? I just read you everything he said. >> Rubio said about his statement. Who cares? >> Mom, That he cares. >> They're running interference for him. He said, I don't care about America's financial situation. Then on that same day, like immediately after that, he's asked by a reporter, "Did you mean to say that?" "Yep, meant to say it." Then multiple days later in China, he's asked about it again, and he's like, "I would say it again." Okay, here's what Johnson said. It wasn't Rubio, it was Johnson. I can tell you the president thinks about Americans' financial situations. I talk to him on an average twice a day, sometimes three or four times a day, and we talk about it constantly. He is laser-focused, that's what I was trying to say, laser-focused on trying to resolve the conflict in Iran. >> Okay. Because if we get the Strait of Hormuz reopened, that will alleviate pressure on gas prices and the economy in the United States. The message is he does care. >> So first of all, Obama had a deal with Iran, so none of this existed, and we were all fine. This is all Donald Trump's fault. Now they're backpedaling and like, "Oh, we got to get the Strait open." It [ __ ] was. They did this, okay? And this is coming from Mike Johnson, a guy who just came before the [ __ ] public and said, "We should be able to insider trade because my salary of $250,000 isn't enough for my family." Mhm. >> Did you see that? >> No, I did not see that. >> be able to do stock trading. Yeah. He was asked basically like are federal politicians doing insider trading, and do you think it's a good idea that you guys should all be able to trade against basically what's going on? And he was like, "Well, we only make $250,000 a year, and so we need to do insider trading." >> No, I didn't see that. >> They're all [ __ ] crooks. >> He said he talks to him three and four times a day. He said he does care and that's I do believe he does. >> Donald Trump himself said, "I don't give a fuck." thrice. They They said like if you want to go ahead and like say that wasn't what you meant, go ahead and do it. And he said, "No, [ __ ] I meant it and I'll say it again." >> Yes, because he's tunnel vision about this. >> a selfish piece of [ __ ] >> I'm sorry you feel that way. >> he's a billionaire making international deals against the interest of the United States. He knows that he's hurting the regular American with all this [ __ ] Like he's seeing gas prices go up. He's seeing the price of everything go up. He does not give a [ __ ] He could end this war tomorrow. He could just say, "It's over. We're out. Sorry, Iran." He's not going to do that. >> I think he cares that if they have a bomb and they drop it on us, we're all gone anyway. >> This is all [ __ ] >> dropped it on us? I don't know. It's not there. It's not real. >> the capabilities making it and he's going to stop it all. >> This was just like nuc- nucla- nuclear weapon. >> Nucla- nucla- Nucla- G-nucla- I can't even say it wrong. Nuclear. God. Nucla- They have nucla- nucla- nucla- weapons of mass destruction. >> He wants it. He wants that stopped and that's what he was focusing in on. >> And I do believe he cares for the American people. >> They're praying upon >> Okay. fear. They're trying to make you scared that they have this big bomb that's going to blow everybody up. It's not real. Just like the weapons of mass destruction were not [ __ ] real. It's all like a cash grab. >> I do believe he cares about America. Okay, you believe that. But when other MAGA see him say this three times, I don't care about Americans financial situation again and again and again. Do you think other MAGA are starting to get turned off by this? No. My MAGA No. My MAGA friends are more turned off about kissing the golden statues, that kind of stuff. The bringing the religious freak lady in. That We're concerned about that. >> But do you have any mega friends who are being financially affected by this? No, in fact, one of them said the other day, "I don't know what's wrong, but my gas has gone down a little bit. Kind of look good at the gas pump." That's not true. That's what That's what she said. >> That's not true. They may be living in a delusional world, I don't [laughter] know. That's not true. They're They're seeing the numbers on the gas pump differently than they actually are, I don't know. >> They're astral projecting into another plane. Um all right, let's move on to our third topic. >> [laughter] >> Mamdani >> Mamdani Mamdani >> His first 100 days in office as a New York mayor. This week marked 100 days in office for New York mayor Zohran Mamdani, and he has some significant accomplishments. Perhaps most notably, he announced that he has reduced New York's $12 billion deficit inherited from prior mayor Eric Adams to zero. He has also instituted universal child care with $1.2 billion funding from Governor Kathy Hochul to fund child care for 2-year-olds from existing state revenue with sign-ups starting in June, and spots uh announced by August. Delivered without requiring any tax increases. He also secured more than 30 million in settlements with bad landlords, repaired over 6,000 apartments, and recovered nearly $100,000 a day for workers exploited by corporations and delivery apps. He also announced plans for a city-run grocery store at La Marqueta in East Harlem, plus expanded fast bus lanes and garbage containerization. Mom, you said when he was elected that New York City would fall. It has not fallen. It seems to be doing very good. Do you still think it will fall? Yes, I do. Okay. What I have read about those grocery stores are like 3 years from now, maybe they'll open. I also read that all this stuff that they said he just did is a temporary fix. 4 billion of this money that he has so erased has come from help and actions by the New York state uh by the state of New York, the governor Kathy How do you say her name? Ho Hochel including pension restructuring. So she's take he's taking money out of pensions of people. He's getting it from the state. Around 1.77 billion of that came from agency savings. So he's cutting contracts. He's cutting people's pensions as a temporary fix to say look what I've done. And everything I've read said this could be a huge future shortfall because the fixes are temporary rather than permanent. So maybe he's done it for now, but it's not going to stay. So you still feel like New York City will in quotes fall? I think it will because the billionaires that he's taken money from will leave also. And they'll get the heck out of there. So they're going to say you're you're not going to get all my money. Not going to give you my billions. Okay. And so what is the fall to you? What will that look like? Um a lot of the housing, a lot of the good houses, people will leave. It will all be sold off. Um the free grocery stores and all that 3 to 4 years down the line if it's there, I don't even know. Taken money from people's pensions, that's not good. They're not going to put up with that. >> Donald Trump does that every day. He's stealing 1.7 million dollars >> We'll get to it. Donald Trump does that every day. His goons are literally robbing us blind every day. >> Okay. But you want to go after Mom Donny for setting up like daycare Like I said [ __ ] giving people apartments that aren't [ __ ] Like what? >> Like I said, people have said that it's temporary. So I guess give him more time and see if it sticks. That's what I want to say. >> Regardless of if it's temporary or not, it exists right now. Is that not good? Did he not do good? >> For a for a couple days? Couple months? >> What It's what? Stealing from the rich, giving to the poor, or stealing out of pensions? >> Stealing? You mean making billionaires pay their [ __ ] taxes? Um taking money from pensions, giving to other people. I don't know. Give him time. We'll see. We'll see if it sticks. Do you think universal child care is good? >> Yes. Okay. So, then he's done good there. Yes. Do you think lowering the deficit of his city to zero from $12 billion is good? >> But he's taken it from places that they say may not be permanent. >> Okay. I mean, anybody can shuffle money around. All right. But when you look at that and you're like, anybody can shuffle money around, which you would agree Trump does as well. Probably. They all do. >> Probably. >> He definitely did. He fired a bunch of government agencies Mhm. and then stole that money and put it in his own pockets and called it waste, fraud, and abuse. Okay. So, when Momodou is shuffling the money around, he brings his city's deficit to zero. When Trump's doing it, he is enriching himself and his family to the tune of billions of dollars. The American deficit ain't zero. No. So, who do you think is shuffling the money better? >> I'm sure it's greater for Trump to have to do stuff than a than one state like that, too. Okay. But he has shuffled enough of this money around that he could have affected our deficit. He hasn't. He's trying. No, he's not. The deficit is growing. >> He's trying. Um All right, let's move to our simmer down. Mom, you and I have already done this a little bit. We've We've had an intense week here in Oklahoma City to say the very least. Uh and sometimes we just need to laugh because it's like I said, intense. And so, was this in the car yesterday or I forget where we were. I sometimes will speak in gibberish. Let me simply say that. Okay. [laughter] It's an affectation I have that I can't really control. Sometimes I just hear gibberish phrases and I say them. >> Thank you. He is right. >> He is. And so sometimes I'll just do it. And I was speaking some gibberish around the kitchen and Mom you became enraged by it. What are you doing? Shut that up. And I said no. In fact, you should speak gibberish. It's fun. And then you did. You gibbed a little bit. So I thought today it could be fun if we all three speak some gibberish. But like that's your So at the bakery we sometimes will do gibberish, but we do noises. So like we try to it's just the repetition of like sound. And >> [laughter] >> Also known as glossolalia. So we try to like I think I can sound like a train whistle. Oh, let's hear it. It might take me a minute. I have like a double voice. Yeah. You have Like I can I can >> I can do that. Can you speak like that? No, I've tried. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, so we do [ __ ] like that. Oh dear god. I have little phrases that will trigger in my head like anytime I'm in the bathtub and I lay down and then when I sit up I have a phrase that goes through my head that is this. Boy quala quine. >> [laughter] >> Then I say it out loud. What is wrong with you? You are your father's children. You're not mine. We do yes. >> [laughter] >> Mom, GIVE US SOME GIBBING. >> [laughter] >> IT'S STEMMING. GIVE US SOME GIB. >> THAT HURT MY THROAT. >> [laughter] [laughter] >> GIB FOR US. GIVE [laughter] US SOME GIB. Come on. Jib it. I >> [laughter] >> I don't I don't jib though. Jib it now today. That's your task, dude. Do it. Do it. Do it. But mine is more rhythmic. Like it's I think in the real world >> Do it. Yeah. There you go. >> [laughter] >> That's nice. You're scatting. You're jibbing. >> [laughter] >> I'm done. I'm done. Great. Talk as low AS YOU CAN. >> [laughter] >> I'M DONE. TALK AS HIGH AS YOU CAN. >> [laughter] >> I'm done. I can't >> Go as high as you can. I can't do no more. Go as high as you can. I can't do no more. I can't. All right. All right. Hey, you're going to break the mic. Okay. All right, but see that was fun. Oh, yeah. All right. We needed something like that after You were laughing. I loved it. You having a good time? All right, back to the serious stuff. We jibbed. Our fourth topic is Trump steals 1.7 billion dollars. >> [laughter] >> Trump steals 1.7 billion dollars in taxpayer money. Trump is expected to drop his 10 billion-dollar lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for creating a 1.7 billion-dollar fund to compensate allies who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration. The fund would also be open to anybody alleging harm from Biden era in quotes weaponization of the legal system including the nearly 1,600 January 6th defendants, all of whom Trump already pardoned. The money comes from the Treasury Department's judgment fund, a permanent appropriation normally used to pay legitimate court settlements. Trump will have unchecked authority in the settlement to remove commission members without cause and determine where the money is sent. And with no oversight, that money could be given directly to any number of companies affiliated directly with Trump or his family. Um there's also another settlement on the table that would require the IRS to agree to never audit Donald Trump or any of his family members for anything. Essentially making them immune from any investigations and any kind of financial fraud they could be doing. Mom, do you think Trump should be able to give himself $1.7 billion of taxpayer money? That's not all going to go to him. No. It's going to go to like 1,600 individuals who were charged in connection of the January 6th, which they'll get some of the money. That's criminals. Some of his political allies will get some of the money, it says. It's not all going to Donald Trump. >> But do you think taxpayers, should Haley and I, should you have to pay one point Let's say that it's not going to go to Donald Trump at all, which it is. He's going to give, I think, the majority of that to his family. But let's say he's not. Let's say it's all going to go to criminals, convicted criminals who attacked our country, basically, who tried to lead a violent insurrection. Should we have to pay them money? No, they were I feel they were wrongfully targeted by our government and thrown in jail on that day. I watched it. >> Would you feel that same way if it was liberals scaling those walls and storming the building? >> If they were wrongfully targeted on that day and thrown in jail, yes. So you you saw I mean, I played you clips of them shattering windows, pulling a cop out of a window, almost killing a cop. You think the people who killed or almost killed that cop should be given $1.7 billion of taxpayer money? I saw clips both ways. I saw doors being opened saying, "Come on in." Nobody did that. Yes, they did. They allowed people to come in. They wanted them in there. They were screaming that they wanted to kill all kinds of politicians, Nancy Pelosi. Right, and she could have stopped it all by sending in the National Guard, and she refused to do that, too. So. So, that means the people committing the crimes, it's not their fault? I don't feel I feel maybe a some of them maybe did crimes. I feel there were undercover agents in there uh doing a lot of stuff that they shouldn't have. So, should the undercover agents get part of this 1.7 billion dollars? Were they wrongfully targeted? Okay. Whoever was wrongfully targeted, yes. >> Uh-huh. That's my belief. Why do you think Trump is is taking 1.7 billion dollars from taxpayers? To give it to the people that were thrown in jail. So, let's just do some quick math here. Mhm. I'm going to do 1.7 billion >> are always empty. So, remember when [clears throat] we were all supposed to get like a $2,000 check? I haven't got mine yet. >> And you never will. We'll see. Hasn't he promised us money twice now? He's promised us money twice. He He sold 500,000 Trump cell phones making millions of dollars, and now they've come out and said basically, "Yeah, we're not making that, but we're keeping your money. [ __ ] you." >> Oh, I'm glad I didn't buy one of those. Right, but he has now defrauded Yeah, that's all right. >> those phones. Yeah. So, with this money, if he gives if he splits up the 1.7 billion dollars, takes nothing for himself, and gives it all to the 1,600 people who committed violent crimes to try and overthrow our government >> on that day. >> Each one of those people will get 1,062,500 dollars. >> That would be fine with me. >> that They were targeted. They were not They were wrongfully targeted and thrown in jail. What the They stormed the Capitol building. That is illegal. They were protesting on that day. >> wrongfully targeted. >> How many liberal protests have you seen where they're [ __ ] scaling walls and breaking into capital buildings? >> Summer of love, all kinds of stuff on fire in Portland, all of that. Shooting, killing. >> No, things on fire in Portland, you're making [ __ ] up. >> No, that was the summer of love. I forget what summer was that. When they were Antifa was going crazy. You talking about the George Floyd protests? Long time ago, yeah. 2020? Yeah. What? I don't I mean certainly there were some violent actions going on in the protests that summer. Mhm. But they weren't committing those actions against the capital. >> believe January 6th was one thing, I believe it was another. We're never going to be on the same page there. >> that. These people were convicted of crimes using evidence in courts of law. >> Wrongfully committed. That's where the money's going to go to them for having to be in prison for that. Um What about the pedophiles that have gone back to prison for that? Do they deserve part of that 1.7? No, a pedophile is a pedophile, they deserve nothing. Go to hell. >> of those people are actual criminals. >> They're not There's a few pedophiles, yeah. >> With records. They're going to get 1. whatever million dollars. They should not. A pedophile should not. What about people who have been convicted of financial fraud, but they're Trump supporters, so he has pardoned them? That That's happened multiple times. >> know. I don't know. Should they get money? >> My brain can't process that right now. I don't know. >> Wow, Mike Johnsoning us. All right, let's move on. Mike Johnson. Huh? What'd you say? You're Mike Johnsoning us. Good. >> That's what he always says anytime anybody brings up something like, "Oh, Trump said this crazy shit." I don't know anything about that. I haven't seen that footage. I [ __ ] hate Mike Johnson. He's such a piece of [ __ ] Oh my god. Um Topic number five, Kash Patel disrespects American soldiers at Pearl Harbor. This week Trump appointed uh head of the FBI, Kash Patel, appeared before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee and angrily lashed out at Democratic lawmakers. Senator Chris Van Hollen confronted Patel directly saying, "Reports of you're being so drunk and hungover that your staff had to force entry into your home are extremely alarming." Patel fired back accusing Van Hollen of running up a $7,000 bar tab and telling the senator, "The only person that was slinging margaritas in El Salvador on the taxpayer dollar with a convicted gang banging rapist was you." Referring to Van Hollen's trip to >> [clears throat] >> Sorry, referring to Van Hollen's trip related to deported migrant Kilmer Abrego Garcia, where he was photographed near a margarita, an image that has been proven to have been staged by El Salvadoran officials. Also this week the Associated Press obtained government emails revealing that during an official trip to Hawaii last summer, Patel took a VIP snorkel around the USS Arizona, the sunken battleship that entombs more than 900 sailors and Marines killed in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Snorkeling and diving are usually prohibited around the wreck. A Marine veteran who dives on the Arizona annually to check on its condition called it inappropriate saying, "It's like having a bachelor party at a church. It's hallowed ground. It needs to be treated with the solemnity it deserves." Mom, do you think Kash Patel is doing a good job as the director of the FBI? No, and I think Trump will fire him soon. Okay, well we had this discussion about Pete Hegseth and he's still standing. Well, Patel's a little bit more crazy doing weird stuff and I do know if Donald Trump thinks you're not doing the job and there's too much too much things in public like this, which he should have not done that in hallowed ground, that's ridiculous. Mark my words, he's going to be fired. >> Have you been there? Dad has. I have not. Dad has. It's um I I remember going there once when I was younger with a girlfriend and we saved our Pearl Harbor memorial kind of trip for the last day right before we left. That was a mistake. It is incredibly sad. >> Emotional. >> Yeah. They They basically tell you, you know, that there were um Marine sailors that were trapped in the boat as the attack happened. Their bodies are still there and there are some guys who served with them that were not trapped in the boat, survived the attack on Pearl Harbor, and then after they died when they died had their bodies put in that uh >> Wow. >> boat in the wreckage to be with the guys that they served with. Wow. He's swimming around. He's snorkeling. >> Yeah. >> over their bodies. >> Ridiculous. The more stuff that shows up like this and he's doing stuff in public, Trump's going to fire him. >> So, if he doesn't fire him, what are you going to do? Trump will fire him. >> What if he doesn't? >> Trump will fire him. Mark my words. >> Hypothetically, if Kash Patel remains and he is not fired, >> Mhm. how do you perceive Donald Trump at that point? >> Donald Trump on his decisions, but I know him. When he gets fed up with people doing stuff like this, they're going to go. When he gets fed up with women doing stuff like this, they go. >> We'll see. So far, he's only fired women. >> He's not firing Patel and he's not firing Hegseth. >> We'll see. We'll see. We'll see what I mean, what else do you need to see? Kash Patel continuously does [ __ ] like this. It's not ending and there is no firing in sight. I think he will fire him. Put it down as a prediction. >> But why do you think let's say he fires him. He appointed him in the first place and lobbied hard to have this guy installed. >> He He gives people chances. He picks who he thinks, he gives them a chance. If they don't produce, bye-bye. But this has been going on for months. These accusations against him, reporting coming out that he's drunk all the time and people can't wake him up. He's used FBI taxpayer money to have FBI agents escort his drunk girlfriend and her friends home. >> Trump will focus back on him when he gets this war done and I do think he will fire him. That's my opinion. And who do you think he'll replace him with? I have no idea. I'm not the president. But like you're you're seeing all these things. He's fired three people so far, all women. Right. He appointed them in the first place and was very gung ho about them. >> Right. Now you're seeing Kash Patel is doing this [ __ ] Appointed him, very gung ho. All the people he appoints are terrible. He fires the women. Maybe he will fire Kash Patel. Who knows? >> But do you question at all his judgment when every person he puts in one of these places of power, he then has to fire or they turn out to be terrible or whatever? No, in businesses and he was a businessman before he became our president. If you put someone in that position and they don't do the job, Has this ever happened? What? Like in the history of presidencies? This level of corruption? Firing? Uh yeah, that >> maybe. People do get fired out of cabinets kind of all the time I think or they leave or they, you know, get Well, I mean Dan Dan Bongino wasn't in his cabinet but he was the number two guy at the FBI. >> Right. Um he's gone and he got the [ __ ] out on his own accord. He was like, "Actually, this looks terrible. I'm just going to go back to podcasting." Cuz I think when you see people like dip their toe into this Elon Musk is like this too. He's still traveling around but like in the beginning he was trying to take full control. And you can tell like that little kid X that he he's always [clears throat] like >> not in charge." >> trailing around. That kid he's just he's pumping that kid up to be like the the owner of the world. You can tell that. And I don't know what's going to happen to that kid as it ages. I'm hoping that it will snap out of it and maybe [laughter] even use some of Elon Musk's money, power, influence that he's going to inherit to like make the world a better place but I doubt that's going to happen. I think Elon Musk is telling him, "You're God. I'm going to give you more money than anybody's ever had and you'll be able to do anything and here's what you use it for. That's what it feels like to me. >> We'll see. Let's just let Trump focus back and I think he will fire him. That's what I'm sticking to. >> You're the president of the United States. From the war. He's trying to He's trying to get this war done. No, but he's not focused on the war. He's repaving or or painting blue the reflecting pool at the in front of the Washington Monument. He's fixated on this [ __ ] ballroom, which has now doubled in price. >> He's doing improvements and stuff, yeah. He He will get this war done. >> Improvements. Come on. You're like, when he when he gets his focus off the Iran war, then he'll look at Kash Patel. This is the head of the [ __ ] FBI. That means every crime, every federal crime that is going on the United States right now, this guy's in charge of investigating it. And you're like, yeah, forget about that. He's got the war in Iran. But he's also, again, fixated on building a ballroom, doing the reflecting pool, his golden statue. >> never sleeps. He does a lot. I cannot wait till he fires him and I'll be sitting right here with you too saying, I told you so. Maybe he will, but at this point shouldn't that be immediate? Yes, he he will get to it. He'll get to it. He'll get to it. Let's move on to our final topic, the American reality show. This week we learned Trump's Secretary of Transportation, former reality star Sean Duffy, is returning to reality TV in a brand new show called The Great American Road Trip funded by Boeing, Shell, Toyota, United Airlines, and Royal Caribbean. All companies that Duffy's Department of Transportation has direct regulatory control over. But Duffy's travel to and from filming locations was not paid for by those companies. That was paid for by all of us, United States taxpayers. The show is a five-part reality series set to air on YouTube celebrating America's 250th anniversary. It follows Duffy and his reality star wife, Rachel Campos Duffy, and their nine kids traveling across the country with a kickoff from Trump in the Oval Office. So, Trump is in this reality show. As Duffy and his family happily drive across America with gas paid for by corporate bribes and taxpayer dollars, the rest of us are paying $4.50 a gallon, up roughly 50% since the Iran war began. Shell, one of the companies sponsoring the reality show, has seen profits double as a result of increased gas prices. The Duffy family claims they filmed one or two days at a time over 7 months, meaning he couldn't have been working during that time as Transportation Secretary. Mom, do you think it's okay for a cabinet member to use taxpayer money to shoot a reality show about their family? No. So, should we fire Sean Duffy? Might be next in line. What is he supposed to be doing for us right now as the Transportation You've got airplanes. They were shooting the show while those planes were [ __ ] crashing. While we were having when they Air traffic controllers like >> TSA was like falling apart. He's [ __ ] running around shooting this reality show with his family. America's a beautiful place. Right now, we've got gas prices higher than they've ever been. What's he doing? Spending money, spending our money on higher priced gas to literally drive across the [ __ ] country with his family. >> he's supposed to oversee nations aviation, highway, railroads, transit systems, and work to ensure safety, regulate the airline industry, and build infrastructure. That's what he's supposed to be doing. >> see the corruption here, right? >> And not making movies, yes. But he oversees companies that do all those things you said. >> Uh-huh. Those companies are paying for the reality show. So, there's uh all these these companies that I I mentioned, Boeing, Shell, Toyota, United Airlines, Royal Caribbean. They're coming to be like, "Oh, we'll we'll fund your reality show. But you're going to help us out, right?" That's strange, yeah. Very strange. >> And he was appointed by Donald Trump. >> Right. And he's a reality TV star. >> He might be fired, too. Just like Donald Trump. Do you think the fact that Trump is a reality star, has wrestled in the WWE, constantly is lying to cameras, which is what reality TV is. Do you think that has in any way permeated our government to a degree that is negative now? I see it filtering in. I do see some of that. And all that AI stuff that I see on Instagram with um Pratt. Yeah, he's also a reality star who's now running for office. Which he might win. >> the laughter stop in the world? He might win. Our government is a [ __ ] joke. I I don't think so. How do you see this and not think that Trump is in this? The reality show, per the reporting on it, starts with Trump being like, "Okay, Daffy, have a good drive. Bye-bye." He's in it. Okay. That means he had to a [ __ ] approve this. >> Right. So, like, I don't know. It's being changed. It's being tilted into weird stuff right now. It's all about making money. And now he's got all of these corrupt pieces of [ __ ] in charge of all of the different government heads who are just making money left and right from us. Yeah. >> They're stealing our money. I think it's bizarre. I think this one is bizarre. Yeah. And Kash Patel. And Pete Hegseth. He's Well, Patel will be fired. Predict. That's a prediction. Write it down. >> But look at all of these people that you're stacking up that need to be fired. It's our entire government. And they were all appointed by Donald Trump. >> Okay. And but you think the rest of the world looks at this and still thinks we're like the best country ever on top, etc., etc.? Okay, did you see This wasn't one of the topics, but this happened this past week. Um Trump had a deal to build a Trump Tower in Australia. They revoked the deal because the Trump brand is too toxic. They basically were like, "We don't want a Trump Tower anymore. You [ __ ] that up." >> Wow. So, that's an entire country basically saying this multi-billion dollar real estate deal, [ __ ] you. But, I don't think Australia ever liked Trump that much. They liked America. >> I'm I'm using it as an example. You're saying the world sees us or or you believe the world still perceives America to be the superpower and everything we we do is great. This is a whole country saying, "Fuck Trump." [ __ ] your president. They're the country, too, that when COVID hit, no one could go in the street, and if you did, you got tickets and all that. So, they >> Right. that country's turned a little bit different, too. Uh-huh. Okay. Um we we just got some news today about Ebola. It's starting to break out globally. My MAGA friend sent me that. Yeah. Do you feel like we are in a good position as Americans to protect ourselves against this? Probably not. And why do you think that is? >> true, because we listened to Fauci, who is a big fat liar, did all of that. You think the current Ebola outbreak is Fauci's fault? No. I I don't know whether to believe it or not. Okay. I did get something right Oh, it was from my friend who sent it through New Newsmax. Like, the CDC has been dismantled. And like, they're not keeping track of infectious diseases like they used to when Fauci was there. >> Mhm. Now, we don't have information, and Donald Trump is on the screen telling us everything is okay. >> Well, if this is true, they need to lock down that country and not let people in and out, right? It needs a monetization. Let's lock down that country. Okay. What I'm trying to get you to understand that like, Trump has gutted any of our federal agencies that are looking into this or trying to keep us safe anyway. >> Somebody's looking into this right now. No, they're not. Yes, they are. Let's see I can find you something. Like they have defunded all of the programs that, you know, manufacture vaccines for new diseases that we all need. >> Mhm. They shut down all of the funding for the people that monitor this very thing. So, no one is looking at it anymore. They already said the World Health Organization is on it. The big outbreak, they're not letting people in or out now. It's a big emergency. >> us out of the World Health Organization? >> Yes, he did. So, the the organization you're citing right now, he's not even associated with it. Nor is America. >> What he's going to do is lock down America. You guys ain't going to be traveling [ __ ] For [ __ ] probably. He might lock down America, let no one in or out to keep us all alive. Um I want to ask you one more question before we go here. This week saw Trump making 100 million posts with AI, with all kinds of [ __ ] this and that. Many of these posts and many of his public statements were talking about how he is the youngest person in the room. He said he's aging in reverse in one of his posts. And he's very into this idea of like look how young and powerful I am. Do you think he's on the verge of death? Yes. Well, I don't think he's going back in age. >> He said he is. No, he's not. Yeah, he said he is. He did He didn't mean it for real. Why do you do that? When he says [ __ ] you're like, he didn't mean it. He [ __ ] said it. Well, if he did, he's crazy cuz he's not going back in age. None of us do. >> very clear that he's falling asleep. He's got the cankles. He's got bruises everywhere. It's very clear that he's ailing. Yeah. He's not going back in age. I can tell you that. >> He's dying. What are you taking there? Anti-aging pill? What is that? >> Uh-huh. Hot molly. Okay, well. Hot tamale. I guess that's the show. Um the hot tamale is the sign that it has ended, but >> or do they I I just I want you to like take account of how many times you're disagreeing with Trump now. Mhm. And even when you're saying he's going to fire Kash Patel, that's still a disagreement with Trump because Trump appointed him. Yes. Okay. But Trump will fire him. And in his place will put somebody just as bad or worse. Someone better. That's what you do. You fire someone, put someone better. Who do you think Todd Blanche is better than Pam Bondi? No, right. No. No. Todd Blanche said we're not going to even look at the Epstein files anymore. >> He was supposed to be like an interim and they're going to put someone else in there. >> When's that going to happen? Yeah. And when are they going to Soon as we get the war cleaned up. Where is the new elect for Iran and and you know, like we're stealing leaders from other countries and yes, we'll implement new leadership. What when is that going to happen? You're asking me hot hot question. >> And sometimes my hot tamale's coming. >> it's because the answer is they're not going to do that. Hot tamale. All right. Well, well, this has been a hard week. We should wrap this up, I guess. Um thank you everybody for joining us. Before we go as always, Haley, I love you. Thank you for being here this weekend. Mom, I love you. I know you're going through some rough [ __ ] Hopefully us being here has helped a little bit. Yes, it has. I love you, Chad. Love you, Haley. Love you, Bob. Love you, Chad. Love you, Mom. Hopefully Dad gets better. Yeah. Time will tell. I don't think we're going to do a live tonight based on what we have to be at the hospital and this kind of stuff. I think our schedule's a little off. Hopefully we'll get back to the live next week. I'll be back in Los Angeles and uh the show will return to kind of some normalcy. But thanks for joining us and we'll see you soon. Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah.