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JUST IN: Declassified JFK file tells the story of a man named Gary Underhill who confided in his friends and family that he knew the CIA was responsible for the assassination one day after it occurred and that he was fearful for his life. Six months later, he "committed suicide." Coincidence?
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Today marks the release of 80,000 pages of JFK files, 62 years after his assassination. I also explore why the 'Magic Bullet Theory' surrounding the event is deemed impossible, shedding light on the complexities of that tragic day.
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80,000 pages of JFK files will be released today Tue Mar 18, 2025 — 62 years after the assassination JFK assassination Nov 22, 1963 in HD showing the headshot and blood burst: https://t.co/TLmtfIiCEp
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Why the 'Magic Bullet Theory' in JFK assassination is impossible: https://t.co/dX0AFaGd1n
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A forensic engineering and animation lab, Knot Laboratory, claims to have new evidence disproving the Warren Commission's single bullet theory in the JFK assassination. The Warren Commission concluded that one bullet struck President Kennedy in the neck and then struck Texas Governor John Connolly.
Knot Laboratory created a digital twin of Dealey Plaza using laser scans and matched it to the Zapruder film. Their analysis suggests Governor Connolly's wound was misaligned with the trajectory of the bullet that supposedly passed through Kennedy, indicating a second bullet.
Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, a former mafia informant, claimed JFK was shot from the front, from the Grassy Knoll. Knot Laboratory welcomes feedback and hopes their findings will prompt further investigation by ballistics experts and law enforcement. A podcast episode will delve further into the visualizations and Gravano's claims, including who he believes was responsible for the fatal shot.
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Speaker 0: They mark sixty years since former President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while driving through downtown Dallas. It is a historic event that has fueled theories and conspiracies for decades about what exactly happened.
Speaker 1: But now with modern technology and engineering and animation lab has found something new that they say proves the single bullet theory is wrong. True crime correspondent Brianna Whitney is here now to show us what the lab found and this could alter history.
Speaker 2: It sure could. This could be a big deal. The Warren Commission who investigated the assassination after the fact found the bullet that first struck President Kennedy is the same bullet that then went through Texas Governor John Connolly, who was sitting in the front passenger seat of the limousine. This is widely known as the magic bullet or the single bullet theory, but this lab claims after years of research, the same bullet hitting both men is scientifically impossible.
Speaker 3: President and Mrs. Kennedy, a warm welcome. The usual welcoming committee presents Mrs. Kennedy with a bouquet of red roses.
Speaker 2: 11/22/1963. Hundreds lined the streets of Dallas to see JFK and first lady Jackie O.
Speaker 4: President's car is now turning on to Elm Street, and it will be only a matter of minutes before he arrives at the trademark.
Speaker 2: Then one of the country's most famous tragedies, president Kennedy shot twice by Lee Harvey Oswald.
Speaker 4: It appears as though something has happened in the motorcade route. Something, I repeat, has happened in the motorcade route.
Speaker 2: Walter Cronkite coming on the air.
Speaker 3: President Kennedy died at 1PM Central Standard Time.
Speaker 2: The Warren Commission was tasked with investigating and presenting the findings of the shooting. They found JFK was shot twice from behind by Lee Harvey Oswald from the Sixth Floor of the Texas School Book Depository, and that the bullet that struck John F. Kennedy in his neck is the same bullet that struck and went through governor John Connolly, who was sitting in the passenger seat in front of JFK.
Speaker 5: The analysis that we've gone through so far is that that those can't be the same bullet. They they don't align. We can't make Governor Connolly's position match.
Speaker 2: Stanley stole his CEO of Knot Laboratory, a forensic engineering and animation lab who was hired by a former Justice Department attorney to reexamine the single bullet theory. They took laser scanners to Dealey Plaza, then brought it back to their computers, and the data they collected from the lasers are tiny points, Millions of them to make a point cloud.
Speaker 5: It's a digital twin. It's it's it's bringing the field to your computer. You know the exact, replica of what whatever you wanted to scan. Everything used to be two dimensional and what you saw on camera may or may not be accurate. Now you can truly analyze it.
Speaker 2: They then took the infamous Zapruder film that has the clearest video of when John F Kennedy was shot and matched it to their point cloud and everything was matching up perfectly until the Texas governor was shot too, reportedly by the bullet that went through the president first.
Speaker 5: What? Through the evaluation comes to show is that those aren't in line. Governor Conley is his wound is sitting, you know, six to 10 inches towards the outside of the vehicle. You have to slide Governor Conley to the inside of the vehicle. You have to slide him to the left to get that alignment.
Speaker 2: Based on those findings, Stoll says you have to look at a new hypothesis that there was a second bullet. The question from where? One person with inside knowledge of the government investigation believes there was another bullet too. Sammy the Bull Gravano was questioned by the FBI about this after he became a government informant for the mafia.
Speaker 6: I know what it is to kill someone. You don't bounce and come this way. When you bounce and come this way, you got hit in the front with a bullet, another one.
Speaker 2: So you think JFK was struck from the front?
Speaker 6: It was you can see it. That went in, and that's from the Grassy Knoll.
Speaker 2: Sammy said he is sure. However, there were no mafiosos on the Grassy Knoll. Stoll says while their lab doesn't know where the second bullet came from, their technology and visualization is ready for ballistics experts to analyze just that.
Speaker 5: Okay. Here's here's here's where our science ends. Okay. Now now everybody else, law enforcement investigators, those people that are fantastic at that, now come in and use our information and see what you think.
Speaker 2: Stoll says Knot Laboratory welcomes any and all feedback from the public after listening to and viewing their scientific findings and evidence. Their lab is also hoping after getting their findings out in the media, they'll be able to meet with the federal government about what they found.
Speaker 0: Fascinating there. And for decades, it has always been interest for so many people. So if people want to just delve into this even more, is there a way that they can?
Speaker 2: So we're working on a podcast episode. It's coming out on Monday. We're going to talk a lot more about all the visualizations there. Then Sammy the Bull, that government informant ended very abruptly in a very interesting way. And he also tells us who he believes is responsible for the fatal shot that hit JFK.
That'll be in the podcast.
Speaker 0: So hey. Always so much more. Thank you, Brianna.
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I believe the Iranian regime is at its weakest point ever, and it's only a matter of time before it falls. The Iranian people have the power to overthrow this long-standing regime, and they need support from the free world to do so. They are ready to take action, as evidenced by their recent protests against the regime. It's crucial for the international community to recognize the difference between the Iranian people and their government. The solution lies with the people, not with negotiating a regime that cannot be trusted.
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Exiled Crown Prince Says Iranian People Have 'Tremendous Opportunity' To Topple Weakened Regime 'GET RID OF THEM': Exiled crown prince reveals why Iranian regime is weaker than ever The Iranian regime is weaker now than ever, and it's only a "matter of time" before it's toppled, exiled crown prince HRH Reza Pahlavi said on Sunday. Pahlavi said the people of Iran are exactly the "boots on the ground" needed to overthrow the terrorism-sponsoring regime that has been in place for decades, and they now have a "tremendous opportunity" to make it happen. "It is not a matter of if, but a matter of when…" he told Maria Bartiromo, responding to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim that Iranian senior leaders are "packing their bags" in light of his country's military strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, military infrastructure and more. "The last time we spoke, I mentioned that the regime is at its weakest. As of the last three days, the regime was ten times weaker than it was two weeks ago," he added. At this stage, Pahlavi said, the Iranian people realize the "playing field" has been more equalized for them to take action and put power back into their own hands — but they need support from the outside world. "What they need… is solidarity from the free world to, once and for all, get rid of the problem, help Iranians overcome this regime and put an end to all the threats that this regime has been the root cause of for decades now in the region and beyond." Pahlavi warned the free world that eliminating the regime is the only way to secure a better tomorrow, thereby abolishing the threat of nuclear terror, reducing the stress of global economic instability and lessening the loss of innocent victims. "The Iranian people are willing to do their part. In fact, they've done this so many times with no help whatsoever, but they're willing to risk life and limb in order to finally overcome [this regime]," he said. "Last night, people on the streets were angry, chanting death to the dictator yet again. They know who the enemy is. The regime has been giving them the slogans of ‘death to America’ and ‘death to Israel’ for the past four decades, and Iranians have been responding, 'They lie to us when they say it's America. Our enemy is right here,' meaning the regime." "Fortunately, I see that more and more people, public opinion, media [outlets] and foreign governments, are finally making a clear distinction between the people of Iran and the regime, and that's key. That tells you right there that the solution is in front of your eyes. The Iranian people are your solution. Not negotiating with a regime that cannot be trusted."
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Following overnight Iranian retaliation that killed 10 Israeli civilians, Israel continues its attacks on Iranian military infrastructure and nuclear capabilities, with Prime Minister Netanyahu stating the operation will last as long as necessary. An Israeli official said the plan is a two-week operation to destroy Iran's nuclear capabilities. Israel claims to have diminished or destroyed three out of four Iranian nuclear facilities, striking 250 targets and 720 components. Iran retaliated with 200 missiles, killing three on Saturday and ten on Sunday.
Exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi stated this is not the Iranian people's war but Ali Khamenei's, who is using Iranians as human shields. He believes the regime is weaker than ever and can be toppled by the Iranian people with solidarity from the free world. He urged the world to eliminate the regime to end economic instability, casualties, and the nuclear threat. He stated the Iranian people want cordial relationships with their neighbors and celebrate peace, unlike the regime that thrives on warmongering. He claimed Iran is seeking a ceasefire through other countries only to buy time.
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Speaker 0: And we begin this Sunday morning on day three of Israel's war with Iran and Iranian retaliation fired overnight. 10 Israeli civilians killed last night as Iran targeted neighborhoods, and Israel continues its massacre on military infrastructure in Iran and Iran's ability to make a nuclear bomb. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the operation to remove the Iranian threat to Israel will last, quote, as many days as it takes. Earlier, an Israeli official saying Israel had planned a two week operation to destroy Iran's nuclear capabilities. The Israeli attack beginning before dawn on Friday when Israel launched waves of strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities and its leadership, taking out the head of Iran's revolutionary guard and three other major generals along with nine plus scientists working on Iran's primary nuclear sites throughout the country.
Israel saying three out of four of Iran's nuclear facilities have been diminished or destroyed as Israel struck so far 250 targets and 720 components. A major nuclear facility still exists in Iran underground with enriched uranium. Iran is firing back and has picked up the retaliation overnight and the weekend. First, sending 200 missiles into Israel, killing three people on Saturday, and then another 10 last night. The Israeli defense minister said yesterday, Tehran will burn if it continues to fire missiles at Israel.
Here's Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday.
Speaker 1: We paved the way to Tehran, and our pilots over the skies of Tehran will deal blows to the Ayatollah regime that they cannot even imagine. And I can tell you this, we have indications that senior leaders in Iran are already packing their bags. They sense what's coming. I'll tell you what would have come if we hadn't acted. We had information that this unscrupulous regime was planning to give the nuclear weapons that they would develop to their terrorist proxies.
That's nuclear terrorism on steroids. That would threaten the entire world.
Speaker 0: President Trump has been warning Iran to make a deal on its nuclear ambitions and reiterating that Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb now for several months. Back on April 12, the president gave Iran a sixty day ultimatum to make a deal. Israel attacked Iran on day 61, which was this past Friday. And as far back as March of this year with president Trump in office for the second time just a month and a half, the president told me directly. He sent a letter to the Ayatollah Khomeini trying to achieve a peaceful outcome.
Speaker 2: The people of Iran are great people, but they had a tough regime, and they'd meet and they'd be shot in the streets. I mean, it was a tough it was a tough deal, But I would rather negotiate a deal. I'm not sure that everybody agrees with me, but we can make a deal that would be just as good as if you won militarily. But the time is happening now. The time is coming up.
Something's gonna happen one way or the other. I hope that Iran and I've written him a letter saying, I hope you're gonna negotiate because if we have to go in militarily, it's gonna be a terrible thing for You
Speaker 0: wrote a letter to the Khomeini? Yes. When did you send the letter?
Speaker 2: Yesterday.
Speaker 0: And you said you better negotiate or we want you
Speaker 2: to negotiate? Better. I said, I hope you're gonna negotiate because it's gonna be a lot better for Iran. And I think they wanna get that letter. The other alternative is we have to do something because you can't let them have a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 0: That was on March 9. Joining me now from an undisclosed location is the exiled crown prince of Iran, his royal highness Reza Pahlavi. Your highness, thank you so much for being here today. What is your reaction to this conflict?
Speaker 3: Maryam, the first thing I need to say here is that my heart goes out to the victims, civilian victims, both in Iran and in Israel who are, unfortunately, casualties of this conflict. But one thing is very clear, and I mentioned that last time we spoke, that this is not the Iranian people's war. It is Ali Khamenei's war, and he's solely and ultimately responsible for having brought this to this stage. What angers me further is that he's using my compatriots as a human shield while he's while while he is currently hiding in some underground tunnel like a rat. And we have had reports that senior members and officials have already had their families fleeing the country to foreign destinations, perhaps even including some of his own.
Speaker 0: You heard Benjamin Netanyahu say that there are leaders that are packing their bags and leaving. Do you believe that this Iranian regime can be toppled?
Speaker 3: Absolutely. It's just a matter of time. I believed that for forty four years. It's not a matter of if, but a matter of when. But now we have a tremendous opportunity.
Last time we spoke, I mentioned that the regime is at its weakest. As of last three days, the regime is 10 times weaker than it was two weeks ago. So at this stage, I think the Iranian people obviously realize that the playing field has been more equalized for them to give them finally an opportunity to rise and get rid of this regime. Because we always believe that the ultimate solution to the problem is for this regime to no longer be there, not at the hand of foreign troops or countries, but at the hand of the Iranian people themselves. The Iranian people are the boots on the ground that we need.
What they need, however, is solidarity from the free world to once and for all get rid of the problem, help Iranians overcome this regime, and put an end to all the threats that this regime has been the root cause of for for decades now in the region and beyond.
Speaker 0: Do you think the rest of the world, the free world, will heed that call and come to the aid of the Iranian people? What would you like to see?
Speaker 3: What I like to see is for the world to know that the only way you can have less stress for the economic stability of the world, have less casualties of innocent victims here and there, have an end to all distress, including the nuclear threat, is to eliminate this regime. The sooner they come to this conclusion, the sooner we'll be rid of the problem, and we can all breathe a sigh of relief. The Iranian people are willing to do their part. In fact, they've done this so many times with no help whatsoever, but they're willing to risk life and limb in order to finally overcome. Last time, on the streets were angry chanting death to the dictator yet again.
They know who the enemy is. The regime has been giving them slogans of death to America and death to Israel for the past four decades, and Iranians have been responding, they lie to us when they say it's America. Our enemy is right here, meaning the regime. And, fortunately, I see that more and more people, public opinion, media, and foreign governments are finally making a clear distinction between the people of Iran and the regime, and that's key. That tells you right there that the solution is in front of your eyes.
The Iranian people are your solution, not negotiating with a regime that cannot be trusted. Case in point, the latest report of the IAEA. They are not to be trusted, and I've said that so many times already.
Speaker 0: And you've said also that the Iranian leadership is at its weakest. How would you assess based on your own knowledge of this? How would you assess the nuclear capabilities today?
Speaker 3: Well, it certainly has been tremendously a setback, but the whole point here is that how much more time do you want the regime to catch a second breath and come back online? How many times are we going to yet again throw them a lifeline? How many times are we going to allow them as they were going down in their ability to spend money on their proxies or for repression machineries at home to get access to more funding that they shouldn't have had? I think this is the perfect time. The G7 are meeting right now in Canada.
Why not prescribe the IRGC, which is the element that has been the root cause of repression at home and terrorism abroad as part of the kind of pressure that the world can bring? And at the same time, have the parallel track, you and I have spoken about this many times already, a a parallel process of maximum support. Some people have already been talking about Internet interruptions in Iran that regime has always tried to use as a tactic to make people have more difficulties communicating. Starlink and Elon Musk are trying to do their part. We need much more of that.
This is how, in fact, they can help the Iranian people have a better chance to succeed, and their success will be in your own interest at the end of the day.
Speaker 0: Your highness, Iran is apparently reaching out to several countries right now trying to get a message to Israel to stop and put in some kind of a ceasefire. According to Israeli officials, Iranian leaders are sending messages to Israel through Italy, Azerbaijan, Cyprus. They may be using Qatar and Oman to relay signals to The United States. What is your message to those countries?
Speaker 3: I think, again, if the fundamental argument is that the source and the root cause of all the problems and all the threats is directly linked to the survivability or the continued survival of this regime this far, the quickest way to eliminate all these problems is to put an end to this regime. If out of desperation, they're begging for yet again another life insurance, I think, you know, they have plenty of opportunity to come clean, and they haven't. And the minute they they get a chance, they will go back to their old tricks. They're only trying to buy time. This is a pattern that has been many, many times observed by this regime.
Every time their their back is to the wall, they try to come across as, okay. Now we are willing to consider it. But the minute they get a chance, go back to their old ways, which is why I'm saying it is not a reliable formula. You will always be in anxiety of how far can we rely on this, how far the negotiation could succeed if they were to to resume. And at the end of the day, you still have the same problem in place because let's say for the sake of argument, and we talked about this before already, let's say there is a deal on the nuclear issue.
What about terrorism? What about funding of the proxies? What about radicalization? What about all the other aspects that this regime has been involved with? What about their funding of radical groups in Europe and in The United States on university campuses fomenting all this kind of anti Semitic rhetoric and whatever we have seen.
This is Ali Khamenei's regime yet again. The Iranian people, on the other hand, want to have cordial relationship with our neighbors, whether it's the Israelis or the Saudis or the rest of the Persian Gulf in our neighborhood. Because unlike this regime that survive on warmongering and celebrate martyrdom, we wanna celebrate peace and brotherhood and life, and that's the difference. Invest on the Iranian people after forty six years of trying the other way around, give the Iranian people this time a chance to put an end to all the problems. A, to to to free themselves, which is my mission in life, in But we need the world to understand that which side of history will they be standing on this time.
Speaker 0: Your highness, you wanted to give the people a message in Farsi.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Biryah.
Speaker 0: Your royal highness, thank you so much for being here, and we will be watching your your work. Thank you, sir.
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In my interview with Bret Baier, I discussed Israel's recent military actions against Iran, specifically "Operation Rising Lion," which targeted Iran's military leadership and nuclear sites. I stated that these attacks could lead to regime change in Iran, as the current regime is weak. Our goal is to eliminate the existential threats posed by Iran's nuclear and missile capabilities. I also mentioned that I informed Trump about our military actions, and while he supports our offensive, he warned Iran against targeting U.S. interests.
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Full Interview Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Bret Baier — Sun 15, 2025 Netanyahu says regime change in Iran could be result of Israel's attacks Regime change in Iran could be a result of Israel's military attacks on the country, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday Jun 15, 2025, saying Israel would do whatever is necessary to remove the "existential threat" posed by Tehran. Israel launched "Operation Rising Lion" with a surprise attack on Friday morning that wiped out the top echelon of Iran's military command and damaged its nuclear sites, and says the campaign will continue to escalate in coming days. Iran has vowed to "open the gates of hell" in retaliation. When asked if regime change was part of Israel's military effort, Netanyahu said: "Could certainly be the result because the Iran regime is very weak." "We're geared to do whatever is necessary to achieve our dual aim, to remove ... two existential threats - the nuclear threat and the ballistic missile threat," Netanyahu said in one of his first interviews since Israel's attacks began. "We did act - to save ourselves, but also, I think, to not only protect ourselves, but protect the world from this incendiary regime. We can't have the world's most dangerous regime have the world's most dangerous weapons," he said. Regarding the Reuters report that Trump vetoed an Israeli plan to kill Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Netanyahu said: "I'm not going to get into that." But he said he had informed Trump ahead of Friday's military action. American pilots are shooting down Iranian drones headed toward Israel, he said. With worries growing of a regional conflagration, Trump has lauded Israel's offensive while denying Iranian allegations that the U.S. has taken part in it. He warned Tehran not to widen its retaliation to include U.S. targets or else face the "full strength and might" of the U.S. armed forces.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated the strikes on Iran were launched due to the imminent threat of Iran weaponizing enriched uranium to create atomic bombs and increasing their ballistic missile arsenal. He claimed Iran was months away from a test device. Netanyahu said the goal is to eliminate these existential threats, targeting military and nuclear sites, not Iranian civilians. He stated that Iran intends to give nuclear weapons to its proxies and develop intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the US.
Netanyahu said he has been in constant contact with President Trump, who was informed ahead of time. He said the US is helping defend Israel with pilots, missile batteries, and Aegis ships. Netanyahu claimed Israel destroyed Iran's main enrichment facility in Natanz and a conversion facility in Isfahan. He said Iran was surprised by the attacks.
Netanyahu addressed the situation in Gaza, stating the ratio of civilian to combatant deaths is one to one due to Hamas preventing civilians from leaving. He said there are efforts to resume negotiations for a ceasefire and the release of hostages. He denied claims that Israel is trying to make Gaza unlivable and supports a plan for voluntary relocation of Palestinians.
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Speaker 0: Coming up in a few minutes, my world exclusive live interview with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the first since the Israeli strikes on Iran began. But first, this afternoon, a Fox News alert, the growing conflict in the Middle East, Israel launching a third day of airstrike across Iran. Israeli officials advising Iranians to evacuate arms factories and threatening to use even greater force. Iran saying one hundred twenty eight people have been killed, nine hundred wounded so far. The Islamic Republic responding with missile attacks of its own, which have killed thirteen people wounding more than three hundred sixty.
Iran's foreign minister saying today his country will stop its attacks if Israel stops theirs. Let's get the latest now from chief foreign correspondent Trey Yankst live in Tel Aviv. Good afternoon, Trey.
Speaker 1: Brett, good afternoon. Since the conflict began, Iran has launched more than 250 ballistic missiles into Israel. Overnight, 11 people were killed when some of those missiles slipped past air defense systems, slamming into residential areas. Hundreds more have been wounded. When we arrived at one impact site this morning, rescue crews were combing through the rubble of an apartment building in Central Israel looking for survivors.
One man in his fifties named Mair was still trapped as his son, who had been wounded in the attack, waited to learn the fate of his father. Right now, workers are digging through the debris following that Iranian ballistic missile attack that targeted Central Israel. They are looking for survivors who are trapped under the rubble, including Mayer, that father. His son, Ophik, is off in the distance, still wearing his hospital gown after he was pulled from the blast site. He is hoping for a miracle today following this Iranian attack.
Israel is responding to these recent attacks with more airstrikes targeting both military and energy positions inside Iran. Iranian media reports a hundred and twenty eight people have been killed and nine hundred injured. We know among that list are Iranian nuclear scientists and top IRGC commanders targeted by Israel. Iran's foreign minister spoke today about the American support for Israel during the conflict. Now in conversations with Israeli sources, they are drawing a stark contrast in what is happening here.
The Israelis are going after military and nuclear sites. The Iranians are firing ballistic missiles toward Israeli civilians. Brett.
Speaker 0: Trey Yext in Tel Aviv. Trey, thank you. Joining us now, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Mister prime minister, welcome back to Special Report.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Good to be with you, Brett.
Speaker 0: First of all, let me start at the beginning. Why did you launch this operation now?
Speaker 2: Because we were facing an imminent, threat, a dual existential threat. One, the threat of Iran rushing to weaponize their enriched uranium to make atomic bombs with a specific and declared intent to destroy us. Second, a rush to increase their ballistic missile arsenal into the capacity that they would have 3,600 weapons a year, new weapons within three years, 10,000 ballistic missiles, each one weighing a ton, coming in at mach six right into our cities as you saw today. And then in 20 in six years, 20,000. No country can sustain that and certainly not a country the size of Israel.
So we had to act. It was the twelfth hour. We did act to save ourselves, but also I think to not only protect ourselves, but protect the world from this incendiary regime. We can't have the world's most dangerous regime have the world's most dangerous weapons. We're protecting ourselves, but by doing so, we're protecting many others.
Speaker 0: You know, I just wanna press you on the intel on the nuclear part. Less than two months ago, the new director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, testified on Capitol Hill, saying that everything had been suspended since 2003 and had not restarted, that the nuclear program had not been restarted by the Iranians. So did something change from March until this week? Was The US intel wrong?
Speaker 2: The intel we got and we shared with The United States was absolutely clear. It was absolutely clear that they were working in a secret plan to weaponize the uranium. They were marching very quickly. They would achieve a test device and possibly an initial device within months and certainly less than a year. That was the intel we shared with The United States.
I think we have excellent intel in Iran. I think we've proven that. And that is something that we couldn't possibly accept. Whether it would be six months or twelve months or thirteen months is immaterial. Once they go that route, it's too late, and we will not have a second holocaust, a nuclear holocaust.
We already had one in the previous century. The Jewish state is not gonna have the holocaust mated on the Jewish people. It's not gonna happen. Never again is now, and we have to act now.
Speaker 0: What is the goal of these strikes? You talked early in one of your speeches after, the attacks began, with a message directly to the Iranian people. Clearly, some of these strikes have targeted Iranian leadership, military, nuclear scientists, and other leaders. So is regime change part of the effort here?
Speaker 2: Could certainly be the result because the Iran regime is very weak. I I think it's basically left with two things. It's, its plans to have atomic bombs and ballistic missiles. That's basically what Iran has. They certainly don't have the people.
80% of the people will throw these, theological thugs out. I mean, they they murder them. They oppress them for forty six years. They've yearned for freedom. I mean, they shoot women because their their hair is uncovered.
They shoot students. They they just suck the the oxygen from the this brave and gifted people, the Iranian people. And, you know, the Persian people and the Jewish people have had an ancient friendship. Goes back to the times of Cyrus the Great. That could happen again.
But again, the decision to act to rise up at this time is the decision of the Iranian people. We decided to act because we had to we saw enough uranium, enriched uranium for nine bombs. And all they had to do was weaponize them. We stopped that by attacking we're attacking their nuclear sites. We attacked their chief nuclear scientists working it's like Hitler's nuclear scientists.
Would you leave them? Of course not. We attacked their top command. I can inform you, Bret, that moments ago we also got the chief intelligence officer and his deputy in Tehran because we're now over the skies of Tehran. Our pilots, our brave pilots are over the skies of Tehran and we're targeting military sites, nuclear sites.
That's what we're doing to take out those two threats. Unlike the Iranians who your reporter said correctly, they're targeting our civilians. Yeah. They're bombing our civilians. So that's the difference.
They're a terrorist regime. We can't have Iran have nuclear weapons. And by the way, our intel shows that they intend to give these nuclear weapons to their Houthi proxies and others. And that's nuclear terrorism on a global scale. It threatens everyone.
And the last thing is they have plans to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles. Right now, 8,000 kilometers very soon, just add a little distance, and they can reach the Eastern Seaboard Of The United States. These people who chant death to America, try to assassinate president Trump twice, kill 241 of your marines in Beirut, killed and injured thousands of American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, try to bomb a restaurant in Washington, DC, Chant, death to America. Burn the American flag. Do you want these people to have nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them to your cities?
Of course not. Yeah. So we're defending ourselves, but we're also defending the world.
Speaker 0: I wanna talk about the nuclear threat. I wanna talk about president Trump. You just said, Iran tried to assassinate president Trump twice. Do you have intel that the assassination attempts on president Trump were directly from Iran?
Speaker 2: Through proxies, yes. Through through their intel, yes. They want to kill him. Look, he's enemy number one. He's a decisive leader.
He's a he never took the path that others took to try to bargain with him in in a way that is weak, given them given them basically a pathway to enrich uranium, which means a pathway to the bomb, padding it with billions and billions of dollars. He took up his fake agreement and basically tore it up. He killed Qasem Soleimani, He said made it very clear, including now, you cannot have a nuclear weapon, which means you cannot enrich. He's been very forceful. So for them, he's he's enemy number one.
Yeah. Look. They also tried to kill me, but I'm his junior partner.
Speaker 0: When did
Speaker 2: understand that president Trump is a great threat to Iran's plans to, to weaponize nuclear weapons and use them.
Speaker 0: When did you tell president Trump you were gonna launch these strikes?
Speaker 2: Look. I've been in contact in in constant contact with president Trump. We've known each other for many years. And, obviously, we informed, our American friends and president Trump, our great friend, ahead of time. Now, we did he he knew about it, of course.
Speaker 0: I mean, there were reports that president Trump kinda helped you achieve your strategic surprise by publicly urging you not to attack when he already knew you had decided to do it. So you were closely coordinating with The US throughout this process.
Speaker 2: Look, we're fully coordinated, but understand that America under president Trump will make president Trump will make the decisions that are best for America. And that's the way it is. He understands that I, as the prime minister of Israel, the one and only Jewish state, must make the decisions that are important for the survival of my country, and he will do what is best for America. That is a relationship of mutual respect and mutual confidence.
Speaker 0: Does Israel have the capacity to strike Iran's nuclear sites deep underground?
Speaker 2: Well, we we've certainly done quite a bit. We've destroyed the main facility in in Natanz. That's the main enrichment facility. And if we need to, we'll add whatever is needed. But, we're committed to achieving both goals, and I'm not going to get into all of our objectives.
I don't want to get into specific operational plans, but it's our existence. But not only ours, I think it's a wider battle here of civilization against barbarism, of good against bad. I mean this regime, look at what it's done without nuclear weapons. It's just fomented evil everywhere. I mean they've pushed international terrorism to the hilt, into every part of the Middle East, in Syria, in Iraq, Lebanon where they had Hezbollah, Hamas where they encouraged the Houthis, the great massacre of October seventh.
The Houthis, that's what they're doing when they don't have nuclear weapons, including attacking American targets. Imagine what they'll do if they had nuclear weapons. And I'm always amazed at people who say they care about America, and they don't want a war. They're right. This is a forever war that Iran is doing without nuclear weapons, and imagine what they will do if they have them.
I think for the security of Israel, America, the world, they must make sure that they don't have these weapons and the means to deliver them, and they're working on both.
Speaker 0: Just wanna ask you about the the nuclear sites. Fordo, nuclear enrichment facility located deep inside a mountain. These are from Iranian nuclear experts inside this mountain near Qom. Esfahan, deeply buried facility where Iran stores its highly enriched uranium. In some ways, experts say it might even be more important than Forto.
The IAEA says it's a half mile deep. So I guess the question is, if the goal is destroying Iran's nuclear program, how do you do so without the 30,000 pound bunker buster bombs that really the only The US has? Have you asked president Trump to use that 30,000 pound penetrator bomb to get to those facilities?
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna get into my discussions with the president, but understand that his decisions are his decisions. As for these targets, we've destroyed in Isfahan the conversion facility they had. That's a very important facility that without which you can't really build a weapon. That's gone. There are other plans that we have.
I won't get into it. I think it's really shown that it has well, how should I say it? We're the innovation nation that we're called that, startup nation. So we have quite a few startups too and quite a few rabbits up our sleeve, and I don't think that I should get into that.
Speaker 0: Okay. Well, mean, are you getting everything from The US that you've you've asked for? Is there something that you've asked for that you're not getting?
Speaker 2: What I'll say this is that I deeply appreciate president Trump's decision to help in the defense of Israel. American pilots are shooting down drones that are headed to towards Israel as do our pilots. American THAAD missile batteries are helping defend Tel Aviv and the greater Tel Aviv area. American Aegis ships are in the Mediterranean. That's all a decision by president Trump, which I deeply appreciate.
Again, his decisions on what to do, what to do at any given time is the president's decision. I trust his judgment completely.
Speaker 0: Do you have any estimate on how much you have set back Iran's nuclear program?
Speaker 2: I think we've set them back quite a bit. I think they were completely surprised. And, you know, surprise is the is a great element of success. Remember the Pagers, remember Nasrallah, that's part of breaking up the Iranian axis. And we achieved that with surprise, and I think we achieved a great surprise the other day when we started.
You know, we could wait and wait and wait. They'd string along the negotiations. We gave them a chance. I gave them a chance, but it was clear they were not serious about it. It became clear, I think, to, The United States as well because the president was very clear.
He said, you can't have nuclear weapons. And in order not to have nuclear weapons, you can't enrich uranium. And they basically strung everybody along, and it was clear to us it was going nowhere. I could wait and wait and wait until they officially declared that the talks were off or they, you know, and we'd officially declare that we're gonna attack them. That's not how I conduct wars, and it's not how Israel conducts wars.
So we're, you know, we're geared to do whatever is necessary to achieve our dual aim, to remove two existential threats, two existential threats, the nuclear threat and the ballistic missile threat. And we're doing that as we speak now in Tehran, but we're not bombing the population. We're telling the population leave, so when we hit the targets embedded in civilian areas, you won't be hurt. And there is now mass migration from from to Iran right now. That's what's happening.
So Because we're giving them forewarning.
Speaker 0: Mister prime minister, what proportion of Iranian air defenses do you think you've taken out? Back in October, the air defenses were really decimated. Now you say you have kind of control of the skies as you're picking these targets, yet these missiles and drones are still coming your way as they attack, as you point out, civilian areas inside Israel.
Speaker 2: Well, you're right. First of all, we're we're doing a lot to prevent a lot of them from coming in, it's not hermetic. You're quite right. But when I say we have control of the skies, you correctly said that they had a very dense anti aircraft batteries between the western border of Iran and Tehran. And basically, our incredible, just there's no other way to describe it, our incredible Intel guys and the Mossad, they did wonderful work to peel off the layers of protection that they had and our pilots took them out.
And so we have a free highway to Tehran and we can now pick off the targets that we need in Tehran and other places without having our planes shut down. And so far, none of them have been shut down, and I hope that continues. But we are absolutely resolute to remove this threat. This is what you have to do when you stand at the brink of catastrophe. And I think it's not just our test.
You know, Churchill talked about the slumber of democracies. He said that democracies tend to sleep until the jarring gong of danger wakes them up. Well, sometimes it might not wake them up. Certainly, we didn't need to wake up Gong. I've been talking about the Iranian threat for forty years.
Three years, I think, or four years after the Iranian regime, the Atollah regime hijacked Iran and the people of Iran. I said the greatest threat facing Israel and potentially the world is this regime that will try to arm itself with nuclear weapons. And I've devoted a considerable part of my life, in fact most of my life Mhmm. To preventing that. And when the gong of danger sounds, and you know it's the last moment, it's the twelfth hour, You've got to act.
That's what responsible leaders do. And what I want, what I seek is that the entire world will do what President Trump is doing. He's standing up for good against evil. He's standing up for the right against the wrong. He's standing up for good against bad.
And I think that's very admirable. I salute you for it, president Trump.
Speaker 0: The president's also, however, mister prime minister, calling for Iran to get back to the table, to the negotiating table. You don't seem to be saying that that's worth it. How does this end?
Speaker 2: Well, in fact, I said it is worth it if they'll do what the president wants, and that is eliminate their enrichment capacity. You know, that's a lot better than my having my country, my forces, my brave pilots having to do it. It's much better than our Mossad operatives on the ground having to do it. But, if they don't do it, and then they certainly didn't wanna do it, it became very clear, we had to act. We don't wait until, you know, until we have a nuclear holocaust.
That's not gonna happen again.
Speaker 0: So how does it end?
Speaker 2: Well, it'll end when we remove those capacities, and we will.
Speaker 0: You stopped short of killing Iran's civilian leaders. Just, military commanders I mentioned, nuclear scientists, but not the supreme leader Khamenei. There is a Reuters report just moving saying that president Trump in the last couple of days vetoed an Israeli plan to kill Iran's supreme leader, according to two US officials. Is that true?
Speaker 2: Actually, there's so many false, reports of conversations that never happened, and I'm not gonna get into that. But I can tell you, I think that, we do what we need to do. We'll do what we need to do. And I think The United States knows what is good for The United States, and I'm just not gonna get it.
Speaker 0: Okay. The Iran foreign minister today, told reporters this, if Israel stops attacks on Iran, quote, our responses will stop. The attack on Iran in the midst of nuclear talks clearly demonstrates the Israeli regime's opposition to any form of negotiation. Of the canceled talks that were intended to take place today, he said Iran would have presented a counter proposal that, quote, could have opened doors for an all out agreement with the Americans. So as again, the foreign minister saying, if you stop, they will stop.
What's your response to that?
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, it's hogwash. While they were negotiating, Diatollah himself, I mean, I issued tweeted again and again, death to Israel. Israel must be destroyed. So some good faith there, right? Aside from that, they had bad faith because they were cheating and we saw it in our intel.
It was very clear. And The U. S. Had that same intel. Believe me, we shared it.
We shared that intelligence. One of the great things of our unprecedented cooperation that has happened under president Trump is that we share every bit of information. So number one, he's lying. That's not new. Iran lies all the time.
They cheat. But the second point is that they are they say, okay, we'll stop if you stop. Stop what? You'll continue to develop your engines of death, mass death, continue to develop your nuclear bombs, continue to develop the ballistic missiles like the one that fell in Tel Aviv, near Tel Aviv today. Was there, know, the whole building just slammed through.
Children sleeping in their beds, killed. Women sleeping in their beds, killed. Horrible stuff. Yeah, they'll stop and continue to develop the means for extermination. That's not going to happen.
So obviously that's not said in good faith. The issue here is not de escalation. The issue here is not cease fire. The issue here is stopping those things that will threaten our survival, and we're committed to stopping them. And I think we can achieve them.
Now if they are willing to accept president Trump's terms, that's a different matter. I said that I said that months ago, and I said and in my meeting with the president in Washington Yeah. Overnight get a deal that does it, fine. But but he did not because the president didn't want it, it's because Iran didn't want it, and they cheated.
Speaker 0: Overnight, you expanded your air strikes to include, oil and enter energy infrastructure in Iran. Is that a different phase? What's the point?
Speaker 2: Well, this this was, an oil container. It wasn't a production site. But it merely means that we're ready to take whatever action is needed. And of course, we'll take some of those actions in response to what Iran does to us. But as I said, our main targets are the military and nuclear targets, and we're taking them out with the precision and with purpose.
Speaker 0: You know, we're not hearing much harsh criticism from your from the Gulf Arab countries. There have been some statements. Saudi Arabia putting out the kingdom of Saudi Arabia expresses its condemnation, strong denunciation of the Israeli attacks that targeted the Islamic Republic Of Iran, which violated sovereignty. These attacks represent a blatant violation of international laws and norms. That was early on, but not much since then.
How do you judge the Gulf states' response to what's happening now?
Speaker 2: Well, I'll leave that to them. They can, they can speak for themselves, but I think I truly believe, you know, that we have a great future if we take out Iran. Iran has been the systemic systematic fomentor of wars, sabotage, terrorism. They attacked Aramco, you know, the Saudi oil facilities. They sent terrorists everywhere throughout the Middle East.
So I think that I have a different conception, a different future. And it was embarked on with the help of president Trump and his leadership in the Abraham Accords where we signed peace treaties with four Arab states, expanding the peace, something that wasn't done for a quarter of a century. And I believe that we'll have opportunities to expand the peace as well with other of the Arab states next to us. I think they understand that Iran is a mortal threat to them as well. They have their eyes on their oil facilities.
They want the waterways with the Houthis. They wanna conquer the Middle East. And the one obstacle they've had so far is the state of Israel because we're the ones fighting Iranians. And the other obstacle they have is president Trump. And I think, I'll I'll tell you.
They think that president Trump is an enormous obstacle. They think that Israel is a very big obstacle, and they're out to get us both. In fact, they tried to kill me too. This is my they fired a missile into my bedroom window. They missed.
Speaker 0: Wow. The saudicom crown prince, as you remember, in September of twenty three, told me he was getting closer every day to recognizing Israel and normalization. The very next day, you repeated that to me. Take a listen. Reports that you had suspended talks.
Speaker 2: No. No. That's that's not true.
Speaker 0: Not true. So you think if you were to characterize it, are you close? Every day we get closer. I know you heard those words from the Saudi crown prince. What was your response?
Speaker 2: Well, I was delighted to hear what he had to say and to to borrow a phrase, I think we're getting closer to peace every day that passes.
Speaker 0: Obviously, October 7 was just a few days later. Can you get back to that moment pre October 7?
Speaker 2: I think what you heard was correct. One of the possible reasons for the timing of Hamas' attack and remember, Hamas is Iran's one of Iran's terror proxies. One of the reasons that they may have brought up the attack and not even coordinated with others as they were supposed to do is perhaps that they were afraid that the words of the Saudi crown prince and my own words were about to materialize. But they will materialize one day. I'm sure of it.
And that day will be a lot sooner once we get rid of this mortal threat that Iran poses not only to Israel, but to our Arab neighbors, to Europe, to The United States, to many others.
Speaker 0: Last thing, mister prime minister, I'd be remiss if I didn't ask about the situation in Gaza. One of the reasons it's not moving forward, the normalization, is because of how that's happening. Understand that you put the onus on Hamas for everything that's happening there. But as of now, you know, we take the Gaza Health Ministry for what it is. They say the death is fifty five thousand.
The United Nations puts it at that number as well, but they're citing the Gaza Health Ministry and women and children making up half of the dead. Is there an Israeli estimate as far as the death in Gaza since the start of that operation?
Speaker 2: Well, the ratio of civilian combatants to noncombatants is about one to one, which is unheard of in such a dense urban environment. And that's happening because we're telling the population leave in Hamas at gunpoint and sometimes shooting them, saying stay in the war zone. That's why you have or had a lot of civilian casualties. That is decreased, and happily because we're doing everything in our power to separate combatants from noncombatants. The reason this, war has been going on for so long is, well, one primary reason is the hostages.
They've taken hostages. Remember, this is the regime that took Americans hostage.
Speaker 0: There's fifty three three, captives, less than half of them believed to be alive. Is that 20
Speaker 2: are alive. The rest, unfortunately, are not alive. But, you know, we started out with, we've already brought back, two hundred and two two zero two hostages, most of them alive. Some people believed in the beginning of the war, in fact, our senior, the most senior military people, they said, we'll be lucky if we got one. And I said, no, I don't think so.
I think that a combination of military and diplomatic pressure will get us, we can get them out. And I'm committed to getting all of them out. I've said two days ago, I've instructed our people to try to resume negotiations for a ceasefire that would enable us to take up Steve Witkoff, the American envoy, has made an offer to begin a sixty day ceasefire in which half of those hostages would be released right away. And I said, yes, We're ready to go. There's been some development there.
I hope we are able to do that because I'm committed to getting them out. And I'm committed to getting them out and also to get to separate the Hamas from controlling the humanitarian aid that we're trying to give the people of Gaza. Because they rob it, they steal it, and then they take a a good chunk for themselves, and then they hike up the prices and give a pittance to the civilian population. So we have a plan that we devise with the help of American firms to separate the giving of the humanitarian aid to the population from Hamas control. And we're accused of starvation policies and all these other demonizations and vilifications against Israel.
Look, we're a democracy fighting an island in a sea of evil, and we're doing what we can to remove this proxy, this Iran terror proxy as well. But the big problem, the big question for Israel, for humanity, for the world, for Israel and The United States is whether we can take away the weapons of mass death from this cult of death that is in Tehran. The tyrants of Tehran will not win. Yeah. We, with God's help, we will win.
Speaker 0: So just address the critics who say about Gaza that you're trying to make Gaza unlivable in order to push Palestinians out of the territory permanently. When they say that That's false. What's the response?
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, because it's another lie. These are incredible lies. I I think first of all, no army in the history of the world has gone through the lens that Israel has gone to separate combatants from noncombatants using millions of text messages, phone calls, you name it, everything, leaflets even, getting the population out. Otherwise, we'd have an enormous number of civilian deaths.
And of course, Israel has that firepower, but we don't use it because we're that's our moral base. But the other thing is equally that we're not trying to destroy Gaza. We're trying to remove the threat from Gaza. And as far as the choice of people, if they wanna leave or not, president Trump has given a brilliant idea. He said, look, Gaza has to be rebuilt.
It's been destroyed because every place is booby trapped. So, you know, the population finally leaves. They overcome the threats by by Hamas to shoot them and they just leave. They tell Hamas leave our buildings, and they all almost get shot by Hamas. But when they leave, they booby trap everything.
So when we come to fight the terrorists, they set off these charges and they kill our soldiers. What we do is we bring a supercharge. It detonates all the booby traps and that's how you have buildings destroyed. We also go into tunnels, sometimes at great sacrifice. Our UN ambassador Leiter had his son, 39 year old father of seven, killed because he went as a reserve soldier to diffuse these tunnels.
But we put charges there. They blow up the tunnels. The tunnels are below buildings. The buildings collapse. So there's a lot of demolition in Gaza.
It has to be rebuilt. President Trump said, okay, let the people have a choice. Why are they locked in? They're not locked in in other battle scenes, you know, and people leave by the millions in Ukraine and Iraq and Syria. They're left by the millions.
In Gaza, they're locked in. You said why? Give them a choice. If they want to leave to other locations, help them with a voluntary relocation. If they want to come back, they'll come back after the work of basically restructuring Gaza is complete.
And I think that's a brilliant plan. I think it's, it's all for the good. It's good for peace. It's good for, Israel and The United States. I think it's good for Palestinians.
They should be given a choice.
Speaker 0: Mister prime minister, very last thing. I asked you how long this may last. You said it's up to the Iranians. If you had the opportunity, and you do now, to speak directly to the supreme leader and to speak directly to the Iranian people, what are those two messages you'll say?
Speaker 2: Well, the Iranian pre the the Iranian, dictator, really. He's a dictator. He's a tyrant. He has sent us a message calling just about every day for the death of Israel, the destruction of Israel and America, but the death of Israel. So my answer to him is with action, not with words.
But to the people of Iran, I say you're a great people. You're a people of great talent and genius. You have been usurped by this this tyranny that has robbed you of of hope, has robbed you of a good life. You know, I speak to the Iranian people directly. I don't know if you know this, Brad.
I do these these videos. I get millions and millions of responses. And they they say, viva Israel, Bravo Israel. Free us from this tyranny. And I say to them, your hour of freedom is near.
Rise up. Be free.
Speaker 0: Mister prime minister, we appreciate your time in the middle of a very dangerous time inside Israel. We should point out, you are inside Israel. We've kept your location private since it's a security situation, but we appreciate all the time you've given us. You're welcome back on Special Report Anytime. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Brett. Thank you.
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I reflect on the surreal day, June 16, 2015, when Donald Trump officially launched his presidential campaign. He descended the escalator at Trump Tower with Melania by his side, announcing his candidacy for the Republican nomination. His controversial remarks about immigration, stating that Mexico sends people with problems, sparked significant attention and debate. This moment marked the beginning of a tumultuous political journey that would shape the 2016 election.
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Trump Golden Escalator Ride June 16, 2015 Looking back in history: The surreal day Donald Trump kicked off his bid for president in the 2016 presidential run. Donald Trump descends Trump Tower with Melania on an escalator to announce his candidacy for US president on June 16, 2015. Donald Trump announced his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. He made the announcement at Trump Tower in New York City. “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best,” Trump said. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
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Donald Trump announced his candidacy for President of the United States, promising to "make our country great again." He criticized other candidates as "all talk, no action," asserting they lack the ability to bring back jobs or confront China's economic practices.
Trump claimed the U.S. has become a "dumping ground" and that Mexico sends people with "lots of problems," including "drugs," "crime," and "rapists." He stated that ISIS has oil and Iran is taking over Iraq, blaming past U.S. foreign policy decisions. He cited GDP below zero, a horrible labor participation rate, and real unemployment of 18-20% as signs of economic weakness.
Trump vowed to repeal and replace Obamacare, build a wall on the southern border paid for by Mexico, and be tough on ISIS. He promised to bring back jobs from overseas, renegotiate trade deals, and reduce the national debt. He stated he would impose a 35% tax on Ford cars manufactured in Mexico and sold in the U.S. He touted his $8.7 billion net worth as evidence of the kind of thinking needed to make the country rich again.
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Speaker 0: Wow. Woah. That is some group of people. Thousands. So nice.
Thank you very much. That's really nice. Thank you. It's great to be at Trump Tower. It's great to be in a wonderful city, New York, and it's an honor to have everybody here.
This is beyond anybody's expectations. There's been no crowd like this. And I can tell you, some of the candidates they went in, they didn't know the air conditioner didn't work. They sweated like dogs. They didn't know the room was too big because they didn't have anybody there.
How are they gonna beat ISIS? I don't think it's gonna happen. Our country is in serious trouble. We don't have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don't have them.
When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let's say, China in a trade deal, they kill us. I beat China all the time. All the time. When did we beat Japan at anything? They send their cars over by the millions.
And what do we do? When was the last time you saw a Chevrolet in Tokyo? It doesn't exist, folks. They beat us all the time. When do we beat Mexico at the border?
They're laughing at us at our stupidity. And now they're beating us economically. They are not our friend, believe me. But they're killing us economically. The US has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems.
Thank you. It's true. And these are the best and the finest. When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you.
They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists.
And some, I assume, are good people. But I speak to border guards, and they tell us what we're getting. And it only makes common sense. It only makes common sense. They're sending us not the right people.
It's coming from more than Mexico. It's coming from all over South And Latin America, and it's coming probably probably from the Middle East. But we don't know because we have no protection and we have no confidence. We don't know what's happening. And it's gotta stop.
And it's gotta stop fast. Islamic terrorism is eating up large portions of the Middle East. They've become rich. I'm in competition with them. They just built a hotel in Syria.
Can you believe this? They built a hotel. When I have to build a hotel, I pay interest. They don't have to pay interest because they took the oil that when we left Iraq, I said we should have taken. So now ISIS has the oil.
And what they don't have, Iran has. And in '19 and I will tell you this, and I said it very strongly. Years ago, I said and I love the military, and I wanna have the strongest military that we've ever had, and we need it more now than ever. But I said, don't hit Iraq because you're going to totally destabilize the Middle East. Iran is going to take over the Middle East.
Iran and somebody else will get the oil. And it turned out that Iran is now taking over Iraq. Think of it. Iran is taking over Iraq, and they're taking it over big league. We spent $2,000,000,000,000 in Iraq.
2,000,000,000,000. We lost thousands of lives, thousands in Iraq. We have wounded soldiers who I love. I love. They're great.
All over the place. Thousands and thousands of wounded soldiers. And we have nothing. We can't even go there. We have nothing.
And every time we give Iraq equipment, the first time a bullet goes off in the air, they leave it. Last week, I read 2,300 Humvees, these are big vehicles, were left behind for the enemy. 2,000 you would say maybe two, maybe four, two thousand three hundred sophisticated vehicles. They ran and the enemy took them. You're right.
Last quarter, it was just announced, our gross domestic product, a sign of strength. Right? But not for us. It was below zero. Whoever heard of this?
It's never below zero. Our labor participation rate was the worst since 1978. But think of it, GDP below zero. Horrible labor participation rate. And our real unemployment is anywhere from 18 to 20%.
Don't believe the 5.6. Don't believe it. That's right. A lot of people up there can't get jobs. They can't get jobs because there are no jobs because China has our jobs and Mexico has our jobs.
They all have our jobs. But the real number the real number is anywhere from 18 to 19 and maybe even 21%, and nobody talks about it because it's a statistic that's full of nonsense. We want jobs now. Our enemies are getting stronger and stronger by the day, and we as a country are getting weaker. Even our nuclear arsenal doesn't work.
It came out recently. They have equipment that's 30 years old. They don't even know if it worked. And I thought it was horrible when it was broadcast on television because, boy, does that send signals to Putin and all of the other people that look at us and they say, that is a group of people and that is a nation. Calling from Arlington, Virginia, Democrats line.
Hi, Rick. Hello. This is Aku speaking. Hi. Alright.
I got you. Thanks. We have a disaster called the big lie, Obamacare. Obamacare. Yesterday, it came out that costs are going for people up twenty nine, thirty nine, 49, and even 55%.
And deductibles are through the roof. You have to get hit by a tractor, literally a tractor, to use it because the deductibles are so high it's virtually useless. It is a disaster. And remember the $5,000,000,000 website. 5,000,000,000 we spent on a website.
And to this day, it doesn't work. A $5,000,000,000 website. I have so many websites. I have them all over the place. I hire people.
They do a website. It cost me $3. $5,000,000,000 website. Well, you need somebody because politicians are all talk, no action. Nothing's gonna get done.
They will not bring us, believe me, to the promised land. They will not. As an example, I've been on the circuit making speeches, and I hear my fellow Republicans, and they're wonderful people. I like them. They all want me to support them.
Don't know how to bring it about. They come up to my office. I I'm meeting with three of them in the next week, and they don't know. Are you running? Are you not running?
Could we have your support? What do we do? How do we do it? I like them. And I hear their speeches, and they don't talk jobs and they don't talk China.
When was the last time you heard China's killing us? They're devaluing their currency to a level that you wouldn't believe it makes it impossible for our companies to compete. Impossible. They're killing us. But you don't hear that from anybody else.
You don't hear it from anybody else. And I watched the speeches. Thank you. I watch the speeches of these people, and they say, the sun will rise, the moon will set. All sorts of wonderful things will happen.
And people are saying, what's going on? I just want a job. Just get me a job. I don't need the rhetoric. I want a job.
And that's what's happening. And it's going to get worse because remember, Obamacare really kicks in in '16 2016. Obama is gonna be out playing golf. He might even be on one of my courses. I would invite him.
I actually would say. I have the best courses in the world, so I'd say, you know what? If he wants to see I have one right next to the White House, right on the Potomac. If he'd like to play, that's fine. In fact, I'd love him to leave early and play.
That would be a very good thing. But Obamacare kicks in in 2016. Really big league. It is going to be amazingly destructive. Doctors are quitting.
I have a friend who's a doctor, and he said to me the other day, Donald, I never saw anything like it. I have more accountants than I have nurses. It's a disaster. My patients are beside themselves. They had a plan that was good.
They have no plan now. We have to repeal Obamacare, and it can re be and it can be replaced with something much better for everybody. Let it be for everybody, but much better and much less expensive for people and for the government, and we can do it. So I've watched the politicians. I've dealt with them all my life.
If you can't make a good deal with a politician, then there's something wrong with you. You're certainly not very good. And that's what we have representing us. They will never make America great again. They don't even have a chance.
They're controlled fully. They're controlled fully by the lobbyists, by the donors, and by the special interests fully. That's they control them. Hey, I have lobbyists. I have to tell you.
I have lobbyists that can produce anything for me. They're great. But you know what? It won't happen. It won't happen because we have to stop doing things for some people, but for this country, it's destroying our country.
We have to stop, and it has to stop now. Now our country needs our country needs a truly great leader, and we need a truly great leader now. We need a leader that wrote the art of the deal. We need a leader that can bring back our jobs, can bring back our manufacturing, can bring back our military, can take care of our vets. Our vets have been abandoned.
And we also need a cheerleader. You know, when President Obama was elected, I said, well, the one thing I think he'll do well, I think he'll be a great cheerleader for the country. I think he'd be a great spirit. He was vibrant. He was I really thought that he would be a great cheerleader.
He's not a leader. That's true. You're right about that. But he wasn't a cheerleader. He's actually a negative force.
He's been a negative force. He wasn't a cheerleader. He was the opposite. We need somebody that can take the brand of The United States and make it great again. It's not great again.
We need we need somebody. We need somebody that literally will take this country and make it great again. We can do that. And I will tell you, I love my life. I have a wonderful family.
They're saying, dad, you're gonna do something that's gonna be so tough. You know, all of my life, I've heard that a truly successful person, a really, really successful person, and even modestly successful cannot run for public office. Just can't happen. And yet that's the kind of mindset that you need to make this country great again. So ladies and gentlemen, I am officially running for president of The United States, and we are going to make our country great again.
It can happen. Our country has tremendous potential. We have tremendous people. We have people that aren't working. We have people that have no incentive to work, but they're gonna have incentive to work because the greatest social program is a job.
And they'll be proud and they'll love it and they'll make much more money than they would have ever made. And they'll be they'll be doing so well, and we're gonna be thriving as a country. Thriving. It can happen. I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.
I tell you that. I'll bring back our jobs from China, from Mexico, from Japan, from so many places. I'll bring back our jobs, and I'll bring back our money. Right now, think of this, we owe China $1,300,000,000,000. We owe Japan more than that.
So they come in, they take our jobs, they take our money, and then they loan us back the money, and we pay them in interest. And then the dollar goes up, so their deal's even better. How stupid are our leaders? How stupid are these politicians to allow this to happen? How stupid are they?
We want Trump. We want Trump. Want We Trump. Want Trump. I'm gonna tell you thank you.
I'm gonna tell you a couple of stories about trade because I'm totally against the trade bill for a number of reasons. Number one, the people negotiating it don't have a clue. Our president doesn't have a clue. He's a bad negotiator. He's the one that did Bergdahl.
We get Bergdahl. They get five killer terrorists that everybody wanted over there. We get Bergdahl. We get a traitor. We get a no good traitor, and they get the five people that they wanted for years.
And those people are now back on the battlefield trying to kill us. That's the negotiator we have. Take a look at the deal he's making with Iran. He makes that deal. Israel maybe won't exist very long.
It's a disaster, and we have to protect Israel. Yes, we do. Yes,
Speaker 1: we do. So
Speaker 0: we need people I'm a free trader. But the problem with free trade is you need really talented people to negotiate for you. If you don't have talented people, if you don't have great leadership, if you don't have people that know business, not just a political hack that got the job because he made a contribution to a campaign, which is the way all jobs just about are gotten. Free trade is terrible. Free trade can be wonderful if you have smart people, but we have people that are stupid.
We have people that aren't smart, and we have people that are controlled by special interests, and it's just not gonna work. So here's a couple of stories happened recently. A friend of mine is a great manufacturer. And you know China comes over and they dump all their stuff and I buy it. I buy it because frankly I have an obligation to buy it.
Because they devalue their currency so brilliantly, they just did it recently and nobody thought they could do it again. But with all our problems with Russia, with all our problems with everything, everything, they got away with it again. And it's impossible for our people here to compete. So I wanna tell you this story. A friend of mine is a great manufacturer.
Calls me up a few weeks ago. He's very upset. I said, what's your problem? He said, you know, I make great product. And I said, I know.
I know that because I buy the product. He said, I can't get it into China. They won't accept it. I sent a boat over and they actually sent it back. They talked about environmental.
They talked about all sorts of crap that had nothing to do with it. I said, oh, wait a minute. That's terrible. Does anyone know this? He said, yeah.
They do it all the time with other people. I said, they send it back? Yeah. So I finally got it over there, and they charged me a big tariff. They're not supposed to be doing that.
I told them. Now they do charge a tariff on trucks when we send trucks and other things over there. Ask Boeing. They wanted Boeing secrets. They wanted their patents and all their secrets before they agreed to buy planes from Boeing.
Hey. I'm not saying they're stupid. I like China. I sell apartment for 10 I just sold an apartment for $15,000,000 to somebody from China. Am I supposed to dislike them?
I own a big chunk of the Bank of America building in 1290 Avenue Of The Americas that I got from China in a war. Very valuable. I love China. The biggest bank in the world is from China. You know where their United States headquarters is located?
In this building, in Trump Tower. I love China. People say, oh, you don't like China. No. I love them.
But their leaders are much smarter than our leaders, and we can't sustain ourself with that. There's too much. It's like it's like take the New England Patriots and Tom Brady and have them play your high school football team. That's the difference between China's leaders and our leaders. They are ripping us.
We are rebuilding China. We're rebuilding many countries. China, you go there now, roads, bridges, schools, you never saw anything like it. They have bridges that make the George Washington Bridge look like small potatoes, and they're all over the place. We have all the cards, but we don't know how to use them.
We don't even know that we have the cards because our leaders don't understand the game. We could turn off that spigot by charging them tax until they behave properly. Now they're going militarily. They're building a military island in the middle of the South China Sea, a military island. Now our country could never do that because we'd have to get environmental clearance, and the environmentalists wouldn't let our country we would never build an an ocean.
They built it in about one year, this massive military port. They're building up their military to a point that is very scary. You have a problem with ISIS. You have a bigger problem with China. And in my opinion, the new China, believe it or not, in terms of trade, is Mexico.
So this man tells me about the manufacturing. I say that's a terrible story. I hate to hear it. But I have another one, Ford. So Mexico takes a company, car company, that was going to build in Tennessee, rips it out.
Everybody thought the deal was dead, reported in the Wall Street Journal recently. Everybody thought it was a done deal. It's going in, and that's gonna be it. Going into Tennessee. Great state, great people.
All of a sudden, at the last moment, this big car manufacturer, foreign, announces they're not going to Tennessee. They're gonna spend their billion dollars in Mexico instead. Not good. Now Ford announces a few weeks ago that Ford is going to build a $2,500,000,000 car and truck and parts manufacturing plant in Mexico. 2,500,000,000.0 is gonna be one of the largest in the world.
Ford, good company. So I announced that I'm running for president. I would one of the early things I would do, probably before I even got in, and I wouldn't even use you know, I have I know the smartest negotiators in the world. I know the good ones. I know the bad ones.
I know the overrated ones. You got a lot of them that are overrated. They're not good. They think they are. They get good stories because the newspapers get buffaloed, But they're not good.
But I know the best negotiators in the world, and I'd put them one for each country. Believe me, folks, we will do very, very well. Very, very well. But I wouldn't even waste my time with this one. I would call up the head of Ford, who I know, if I was president, and say, congratulations.
I understand that you're building a nice $2,500,000,000 car factory in Mexico, and that you're gonna take your cars and sell them to The United States. Zero tax. Just flow them across the border. And you say to yourself, how does that help us? Right?
How does that help us? Where is that good? It's not. So I'd say, congratulations. That's the good news.
Let me give you the bad news. Every car and every truck and every part manufactured in this plant that comes across the border, we're gonna charge you a 35% tax. Okay? And that tax is going to be paid simultaneously with the transaction. And that's it.
Now here's what's gonna happen. If it's not me in the position, it's one of these politicians that we're running against. You know, the 400 people that we're already And here's what's gonna happen. They're not so stupid. They know it's not a good thing.
And they may even be upset by it. But then they're gonna get a call from their donors or probably from the lobbyists for Ford and say, you can't do that to Ford because Ford takes care of me and I take care of you, and you can't do that to Ford. And guess what? No problem. They're gonna build in Mexico.
They're gonna take away thousands of jobs. It's very bad for us. So under president Trump, here's what would happen. The head of Ford will call me back, I would say within an hour after I told him the bad news. But it could be he'd wanna be cool, he'll wait till the next day.
You know, they wanna be a little cool. And he'll say, please, please, please. He'll beg for a little while, and I'll say, no interest. Then he'll call all sorts of political people, and I'll say, sorry, fellas. No interest.
Because I don't need anybody's money. It's nice. I don't need anybody's money. Yeah. I'm using my own money.
I'm not using the lobbyists. I'm not using donors. I don't care. I'm really rich. I'll show you that in a second.
And by the way, I'm not even saying that in a bragging that's the kind of mindset, that's the kind of thinking you need for this country. So because we gotta make the country rich. It sounds crass. Somebody said, oh, that's crass. It's not crass.
We got 18,000,000,000,000 in debt. We got nothing but problems. We got a military that needs equipment all over the place. We got nuclear weapons that are obsolete. We've got nothing.
We got Social Security that's gonna be destroyed if somebody like me doesn't bring money into the country. All these other people wanna cut the hell out of it. I'm not gonna cut it at all. I'm gonna bring money in, and we're gonna save it. But here's what's gonna happen.
After I'm called by 30 friends of mine who contributed to different campaigns, after I'm called by all of the special interests and by the the donors and by the lobbyists, and they have zero chance at convincing me. Zero. I'll get a call the next day from the head of Ford. He'll say, please reconsider. I'll say, no.
He'll say, mister president, we've decided to move the plant back to The United States. We're not gonna build it in Mexico. That's it. They have no choice. They have no choice.
There are hundreds of things like that. I'll give you another example. Saudi Arabia, they make a billion dollars a day. A billion dollars a day. I love the Saudis.
Many are in this building. They make a billion dollars a day. Whenever they have problems, we send over the ships. We send we're gonna protect. What are we doing?
They got nothing but money. If the right person asked them, they'd pay a fortune. They wouldn't be there except for us. And believe me, you look at the border with Yemen. You remember Obama a year ago.
Yemen was a great victory. Great two weeks later, the place was blown up. Everybody got and they kept our equipment. They always keep our equipment. We don't send used equipment.
Right? They always keep our equipment. We ought to send some real junk because, frankly, it would be we ought to send our surplus. We're always losing this gorgeous brand new stuff. But look at that border with Saudi Arabia.
Do you really think that these people are interested in Yemen? Saudi Arabia, without us, is gone. They're gone. And I'm the one that made all of the right predictions about Iraq. You know, all of these politicians that I'm running against now, like, it's so nice to say I'm running as opposed to if I run, if I run, I'm running.
But all of these politicians that I'm running against now, they're trying to disassociate. I mean, you looked at Bush, it took him five days to answer the question on Iraq. He couldn't answer the question. He didn't know. I said, is he intelligent?
Then I looked at Rubio. He was unable to answer the question. Is Iraq a good thing or a bad thing? He didn't know. He couldn't answer the question.
How are these people gonna lead us? How are we gonna how are we gonna go back and make it great again? We can't. They don't have a clue. They can't lead us.
They can't. They can't even answer simple questions. It was terrible. But Saudi Arabia is in big, big trouble. Now, thanks to fracking and other things, the oil is all over the place.
And I used to say it, there were ships at sea, and this was during the worst crisis, that were loaded up with oil, and the cartel kept the price up because, again, they were smarter than our leaders. They were smarter than our leaders. There is so much wealth out there that can make our country so rich again and therefore make it great again because we need money. We're dying. We're dying.
We need money. We have to do it, and we need the right people. So Ford will come back. They'll all come back. And I will say this, this is going to be an election, in my opinion, that's based on competence.
Somebody said thank you, darling. Somebody said to me the other day, a reporter, very nice reporter, but mister Trump, you're not a nice person.
Speaker 1: We don't need nice.
Speaker 0: That's true. But actually, I am. I think I am a nice person. People that know me like me. Does my family like me?
I think so. Alright? Look at my family. I'm proud of my family. By the way, speaking of my family, Melania, Baron, Kai, Donnie, Don, Vanessa, Tiffany.
Ivanka did a great job. Did she do a great job? Great. Jared, Laura, and Eric. I'm very proud of my family.
They're a great family. So the reporter said to me the other day, but mister Trump, you're not a nice person. How can you get people to vote for you? I said, I don't know. I said, I think that, number one, I am a nice person.
I give a lot of money away to charities and other things. I think I'm actually a very nice person. But I said, this is going to be an election that's based on competence. Because people are tired of these nice people, and they're tired of being ripped off by everybody in the world, and they're tired of spending more money on education than any nation in the world per capita than any nation in the world. And we're twenty sixth in the world.
25 countries are better than us at education, and some of them are like third world countries. But we're becoming a third world country because of our infrastructure, our airports, our roads, everything. So one of the things I did, and I said, you know what I'll do? I'll do it. Because a lot of people said he'll never run.
Number one, he won't wanna give up his lifestyle. They're right about that, but I'm doing it. Number two, I'm a private company, so nobody knows what I'm worth. And the one thing is that when you run, you have to announce and certify to all sorts of governmental authorities your net worth. So I said, that's okay.
I'm proud of my net worth. I've done an amazing job. I started off thank you. I started off in a small office with my father in Brooklyn and Queens. Yeah.
And my father said and I love my father. I learned so much. He was a great negotiator. I learned so much just sitting at his feet, playing with blocks, listening to him negotiate with subcontractors. But I learned a lot.
But he used to say, Donald, don't go into Manhattan. That's the big leagues. We don't know anything about that. Don't do it. I said, dad, I gotta go into Manhattan.
I gotta build those big buildings. I gotta do it, dad. I've gotta do it. And after four or five years in Brooklyn, I ventured into Manhattan and did a lot of great deals. The Grand Hyatt Hotel.
I was responsible for the convention center on the West Side. I did a lot of great deals, and I did them early and young. And now I'm building all over the world, and I love what I'm doing. But they all said, a lot of the pundits on television, well, Donald will never run. And one of the main reasons is he's private, and he's probably not as successful as everybody thinks.
So I said to myself, you know, nobody's ever gonna know unless I run. Because I'm really proud of my success. I really am. I've employed I've employed tens of thousands of people over my lifetime. That means medical.
That means education. That means everything. So a large accounting firm and my accountants have been working for months because it's big and complex, and they've put together a statement, a financial statement. This is a summary, but everything will be filed eventually with the government. And we don't need extensions or anything.
We'll be filing it right on time. Yes. We don't need anything. And it was even reported incorrectly yesterday because they said he had assets of 9,000,000,000. So I said, no.
That's the wrong number. That's the wrong number, not assets. So they put together this. And before I say it, have to say this. I made it the old fashioned way.
It's real estate. You know, it's real estate. It's labor, and it's unions good and some bad, and lots of people that aren't in unions, and it's all over the place and building all over the world. And I have assets, big accounting firm, one of the most highly respected, $9,240,000,000. Yeah.
And I have liabilities of about 500. That's long term debt, very low interest rates. In fact, one of the big banks came to me and said, Donald, you don't have enough borrowings. Could we loan you $4,000,000,000? I said, I don't need it.
I don't want it. And I've been there. I don't want it. But in two seconds, they give me whatever I wanted. So I have a total net worth, and now with the increase, it'll be well over $10,000,000,000.
But here, a total net worth of 8,000,000,000 net worth, not assets, not liability. A net worth. After all debt, after all expenses, the greatest assets, Trump Tower, 1290 Avenue Of The Americas, Bank of America building in San Francisco, 40 Wall Street, sometimes referred to as the Trump Building, right opposite the New York Center, many other places, all over the world. So the total is $8,737,540,000. Now, I'm not doing that.
I'm not doing that to brag because you know what? I don't have to brag. I don't have to. Believe it or not. I'm doing that to say that that's the kind of thinking our country needs.
We need that thinking. We have the opposite thinking. We have losers. We have losers. We have people that don't have it.
We have people that are morally corrupt. We have people that are selling this country down the drain. So I put together the statement, and the only reason I'm telling you about it today is because we really do have to get going. Because if we have another three or four years you know, we're at 18,000,000,000,000 now. We're soon gonna be at 20,000,000,000,000.
According to the economists, who I'm not big believers in, but nevertheless, this is what they're saying, that 24,000,000,000,000, we're very close, that's the point of no return. $24,000,000,000,000. We will be there soon. That's when we become Greece. That's when we become a country that's unsalvageable.
And we're gonna be there very soon. We're gonna be there very soon. Make America strong. So just to sum up, I would do various things very quickly. I would repeal and replace the big lie Obamacare.
Yeah. I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me. And I'll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will have Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.
Nobody would be tougher on ISIS than Donald Trump. Nobody. I will find within our military, I will find the general Patton or I will find general MacArthur. I will find the right guy. I will find the guy that's going to take that military and make it really work.
Nobody, nobody will be pushing us around. I will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, and we won't be using a man like Secretary Kerry that has absolutely no concept of negotiation, who's making a horrible and laughable deal, who's just being tapped along as they make weapons right now, and then goes into a bicycle race at 72 years old and falls and breaks his leg. I won't be doing that. And I promise I will never be in a bicycle race. That I can tell you.
I will immediately terminate president Obama's illegal executive order on immigration. Immediately. Fully support and back up the second amendment. Now, it's very interesting. Today, I heard it.
Through stupidity in a very, very hardcore prison, interestingly named Clinton, two vicious murders, two vicious people escaped, and nobody knows where they are. And a woman was on television this morning, and she said, you know, mister Trump and she was telling other people, and I actually called her. But she said, you know, mister Trump, I always was against guns. I didn't want guns. And now, since this happened, it's up in the prison area, my husband and I are finally in agreement because he wanted the guns.
We now have a gun on every table. We're ready to start shooting. I said, very interesting. So protect the second amendment and and common core. Common core should it is a disaster.
Bush is totally in favor of Common Core. I don't see how he can possibly get the nomination. He's weak on immigration. He's in favor of Common Core. How the hell can you vote for this guy?
You just can't do it. We have to end. Education has to be local. Rebuild the country's infrastructure. Yeah.
Nobody can do that like me. Believe me. It will be done on time, on budget, way below cost, way below what anyone ever thought. I look at these roads being built all over the country, and I say, I can build those things for one third. What they do is unbelievable.
How bad? You know, we're building on Pennsylvania Avenue the old post office. We're converting it into one of the world's great hotels. It's gonna be the best hotel in Washington, DC. We got it from the General Services Administration in Washington.
The Obama Administration. We got it. It was the most highly sought after, or one of them, but I think the most highly sought after project in the history of general services. We got it. People were shocked.
Trump got it. Well, I got it for two reasons. Number one, we're really good. Number two, we had a really good plan. And I'll add in the third, we had a great financial statement.
Because the general services, who are terrific people, by the way, and talented people, they wanted to do a great job, and they want to make sure it got built. So we have to rebuild our infrastructure, our bridges, our roadways, our airports. You come into LaGuardia Airport, it's like we're in a third world country. You look at the patches in the the 40 year old floor, they throw down asphalt and they throw you look at these airports, we are like a third world country. And I come in from China and I come in from Qatar and I come in from different places and they have the most incredible airports in the world, you come back to this country and you have LAX disaster.
You have all of these disastrous airports. We have to rebuild our infrastructure. Save Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security without cuts. Have to do it. Get rid of the fraud.
Get rid of the waste and abuse, but save it. People have been paying in for years, and now many of these candidates want to cut it. You save it by making The United States, by making us rich again, by taking back all of the money that's being lost. Renegotiate our foreign trade deals. Yes.
Reduce our 18,000,000,000,000 in debt because, believe me, we're in a bubble. We have artificially low interest rates. We have a stock market that frankly has been good to me, but I still hate to see what's happening. We have a stock market that is so bloated. Be careful of a bubble because what you've seen in the past might be small potatoes compared to what happens.
So be very, very careful. And strengthen our military and take care of our vets. So, so important. Yes. Sadly, the American dream is dead.
Bring it back. But if I get elected president, I will bring it back bigger and better and stronger than ever before, and we will make America great again. Thank you. Thank you very much.
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California has experienced significant changes over the decades, particularly with a large illegal alien population now estimated at 1.8 million, stemming from immigration waves in the 1980s and 1990s. I reflect on the vibrant atmosphere of 1980s Los Angeles, a time filled with fast cars, neon lights, and an electric energy that defined the city. From the lively scenes at Venice Beach to the iconic Sunset Strip, the decade was marked by unforgettable experiences and cultural landmarks that shaped my memories of LA before it transformed.
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California Before Mass Influx of Illegal Aliens California has the nation’s largest illegal alien population, estimated at 1.8 million. In the 1980s and 1990s, the state saw a massive influx of immigrants, particularly from Latin America, driven by economic opportunities and geopolitical instability (e.g., Central American conflicts). Nostalgia: Cruising the Iconic Streets of 1980s Los Angeles before it became the retarded liberal hellhole it is today This was the golden era — fast cars, neon lights, legendary clubs, and sun-soaked afternoons that felt endless. Before the city began to change, there was something electric in the air: roller-skaters on Venice Beach, music blasting from convertibles on Sunset Boulevard, and dreams being chased under the glow of every streetlight. A nostalgic look back to the heart of that decade. From the rock ‘n’ roll chaos of the Sunset Strip to the gritty edge of Melrose, from Hollywood icons to late-night diners — these were the places that defined LA in the '80s.
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Nineteen eighties Los Angeles was a golden age of dreams, fast cars, and neon lights. Sunset Boulevard was the heart of nightlife, with clubs like Whiskey A Go Go and The Roxy launching legendary bands. Cruising Sunset was a ritual of freedom and rebellion. Hollywood Boulevard mixed old glamour with the dreams of stardom. Melrose Avenue was the raw, cool epicenter of LA's alternative scene.
Ventura Boulevard, or "Sushi Row," captured suburban dreams. The Rainbow Bar and Grill was the after-party for rock legends. Cathay De Grande was the underground punk scene's heart. Wilshire Boulevard mirrored the city's diversity and ambition. Musso and Frank Grill offered old Hollywood glamor, while The Source pioneered health-conscious eating.
El Cholo provided authentic Mexican comfort, and Pacific Dining Car offered a timeless, late-night experience. Spago revolutionized LA dining with California cuisine. Flipper's Roller Boogie Palace was a neon-lit cultural phenomenon. Whiskey A Go Go launched rock legends. The 1980s LA was a city of endless possibilities, though some believe its magic has faded.
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Speaker 0: Have you ever dreamed of living in nineteen eighties Los Angeles? For many, it was the city's golden age, a time when dreams felt closer, the nights burned brighter, and every street seemed alive with possibility. It was a decade of fast cars, neon lights, legendary clubs, and sun soaked days that seemed endless. Before the city began its slow transformation, there was magic here in every sidewalk cafe, every roller skater speeding down Venice Beach, every song blasting from a convertible cruising Sunset Boulevard. Los Angeles was a mosaic of energy, creativity, and freedom.
A place where the future fell just around the corner and anything seemed possible. In this video, we're taking you back. Back to the streets, the places, and the unforgettable moments that made nineteen eighties Los Angeles one of the most iconic eras in the city's history. Get ready to rewind time and feel the pulse of a city that, for a moment, truly believed it was unstoppable. In the nineteen eighties, Sunset Boulevard was more than just a street.
It was the heartbeat of Los Angeles nightlife. The Sunset Strip, a legendary stretch between Doheny Drive and Crescent Heights, pulsed with neon lights, loud music, and the scent of endless possibilities. It was where young dreamers and seasoned rock stars crossed paths under the California sky. Clubs like Whiskey, A Go Go and The Roxy were the launch pads for bands that would define a generation. On any given night, you might stumble into a show by rising legends like Guns N' Roses, Metley Crue, or even an unannounced performance by a superstar.
The strip wasn't just about music. It was a living, breathing scene, a place where the night could take you anywhere. Back then, cruising Sunset Boulevard was a ritual. Cars with the top down, music blasting, friends laughing. It wasn't just about getting somewhere, it was about being there, soaking up the electric energy that made Sunset the ultimate symbol of freedom and rebellion.
If sunset was the soul of rock and roll, Hollywood Boulevard was the dazzling heart of the city's dreams. In the nineteen eighties, it still carried the faded glamour of old Hollywood, a place where movie magic and myth collided under the star lined sidewalks of the Walk Of Fame. Tourists mingled with locals, street performers entertained crowds outside the historic Grauman's Chinese Theater, and the neon glow of the grand old cinemas lit up the night. There was a sense that at any moment, you could catch a glimpse of a star or become one yourself. The boulevard offered both a fantasy and a challenge.
Chase your dreams or get lost among them. Despite its gritty edges, Hollywood Boulevard in the eighties had an undeniable charm. It was a place suspended between past and future where the ghost of Marilyn Monroe might brush shoulders with a punk rocker on the rise. Every star embedded in the sidewalk told a story and those stories felt alive. Far from the polished image of Hollywood, Melrose Avenue in the nineteen eighties was raw, colorful, and unapologetically cool.
It was the epicenter of LA's alternative scene, a stretch of street where punk, new wave, and avant garde fashion collided in a wild creative explosion. Boutiques with handmade clothes, edgy thrift shops, and graffiti covered walls gave Melrose its gritty beauty. Here, self expression wasn't just encouraged, it was required. Artists, musicians, skaters, and rebels made this their playground, redefining style and culture with every step they took. Walking down Melrose in the eighties felt like stepping into another world, one where rules didn't matter, where being different was celebrated, and where every day was a chance to invent yourself anew.
It was chaotic, it was fearless, and it was pure Los Angeles. Tucked into the vibrant chaos of the Sunset Strip, the Roxy Theater was a sanctuary for live music lovers in the nineteen eighties. Though small in size, it held a massive reputation for launching some of the biggest names in rock, pop, and alternative music. On any night, the air inside buzzed with anticipation. The feeling that you might be witnessing the next big thing before the rest of the world caught on.
The Roxy wasn't about spectacle, it was about connection. The intimacy of the space blurred the line between artist and audience, creating performances that felt raw, immediate, and unforgettable. From rising local bands to secret gigs by major stars, every show at The Roxy was its own little piece of Los Angeles history. In an era obsessed with big, flashy production, The Roxy stood as a reminder that magic often happens when the lights are low, the crowd is close, and the music is all that matters. Stretching across the San Fernando Valley, Ventura Boulevard was more than just a long road.
It was a cultural artery. In the nineteen eighties, it earned the nickname Sushi Row, thanks to the sudden explosion of high quality sushi restaurants, a trend that introduced countless Angelenos to a now ubiquitous cuisine. But Ventura was about more than just food. It captured the suburban dream of LA life, malls, movie theaters, record shops, and cruising teenagers in souped up cars. Unlike the glamour of Hollywood or the chaos of sunset, Ventura offered a slice of everyday magic, a place where big dreams simmered quietly beneath the surface.
It was on Ventura Boulevard that the rhythms of ordinary life played out against the backdrop of an extraordinary city. It wasn't flashy, but it was real. And for many, it was the true heart of Los Angeles in the eighties. Just steps away from the Roxy, the Rainbow Bar and Grill was more than just a restaurant. It was the after party of the Sunset Strip.
In the nineteen eighties, it was a second home to rock legends, roadies, groupies, and anyone who lived for the music and the nightlife. The walls seemed to with stories of wild nights and bigger than life personalities. It wasn't unusual to see members of Muttley Crew, Guns N' Roses, or even Ozzy Osbourne hanging out at the bar, sharing drinks, and planning the next chapter of rock and roll history. Deals were made, fans were formed, and legends were born all over plates of pasta and whiskey soaked conversations. The rainbow captured the soul of the decade.
Loud, unapologetic, rebellious, and unforgettable. It was a living monument to a time when rock stars were still larger than life and so was the city around them. Hidden away in a nondescript basement in Hollywood, Cathay De Grande was the heart of Los Angeles' underground punk scene. While other clubs on the strip showcased polished acts, Cathay thrived on the raw, aggressive energy of a scene that rejected commercialism and conformity. The club's dark graffiti stained walls shook nightly with the sounds of punk, hardcore and experimental bands.
Groups like the Red Hot, Chili Peppers, Social Distortion and Bad Religion cut their teeth on its tiny stage. Cafe de Grand wasn't about fame, it was about freedom, about giving a voice to those who didn't fit anywhere else. In a decade often remembered for excess, Cathay was a gritty reminder that Los Angeles was also a place for outsiders to create their own kind of revolution. Wilshire Boulevard, one of Los Angeles' great thoroughfares, was a mirror reflecting the city's incredible diversity. Stretching from downtown to the Pacific Ocean, it passed through the towering skyscrapers of the business district, the art deco splendor of Miracle Mile, and the polished streets of Beverly Hills.
In the nineteen eighties, Wilshire was a corridor of ambition and reinvention. The newly revitalized museum district, anchored by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA, symbolized the city's growing cultural maturity. Skyscrapers rose, shops flourished, and boulevards buzzed with the energy of a city charging toward the future. Wilshire told the story of a Los Angeles that was constantly evolving, blending old elegance with new dreams, weaving together the many faces and ambitions that made the city unforgettable. Stepping into Musso and Frank Grill in the nineteen eighties felt like stepping back in time and that was exactly the point.
Since opening its doors in 1919, this Hollywood landmark had been a favorite haunt of stars, directors, and writers who built the legends of Tinseltown. In the neon glow era of the eighties, Musso and Frank stood proudly unchanged, offering red leather booths, bow tied waiters, and a menu that whispered of old Hollywood glamor. It was a sanctuary where past and present mingled over perfect martinis and timeless steaks. For those chasing dreams in the city Of Angels, dining at Musso and Frank was a reminder that greatness had walked these same floors and perhaps, just perhaps, some of the magic would rub off. In a city obsessed with reinvention, the Source restaurant was ahead of its time, Sitting right on Sunset Boulevard, this pioneering spot introduced Los Angeles to the world of vegetarian, organic, and health conscious eating long before it became a global trend.
During the nineteen eighties, celebrities, artists, and spiritual seekers flocked to the source not just for the food but for the atmosphere. A blend of new age philosophy, clean living, and endless California sunshine. It wasn't just a restaurant, it was a lifestyle statement. The source captured a different side of LA's eighties culture, one that sought meaning beyond fame and fortune, looking inward while still living under the brightest lights. While trends came and went in Los Angeles, some institutions remained beloved constants and El Cholo was one of them.
Founded in 1923, by the nineteen eighties, it had become the go to spot for authentic Mexican food, offering comfort, tradition, and incredible flavors in a city that was always changing. Generations of Angelenos gathered here for green corn, tamales, enchiladas, and icy margaritas served in heavy glasses. Celebrities sat side by side with families, students, and workers because at El Cholo, everyone was welcome. In an LA chasing the future, El Cholo anchored people to their roots, offering a taste of history on every plate. Open twenty four hours a day, Pacific Dining Car was unlike any other restaurant in Los Angeles.
Styled like an elegant vintage train car, it catered to early risers, night owls, and everyone in between a true testament to the city that never really sleeps. By the nineteen eighties, it was legendary not just for its incredible stakes and impeccable service, but for its clientele, politicians, actors, writers, and the occasional insomniac dreamer. Inside its wood paneled walls, time seemed to slow down, offering a rare pause in a city constantly racing forward. Pacific Dining Car wasn't just a meal, it was an experience, a ritual, and a memory tucked away in the heart of the night. No restaurant defined nineteen eighties sophistication quite like Spago.
Opened by celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck on the Sunset Strip, it revolutionized LA dining with its creative, California infused cuisine and relaxed, glamorous atmosphere. Spago was where Hollywood power players sealed deals over smoked salmon, pizza, and handcrafted pastas. Where emerging stars celebrated their first big roles and where being seen was almost as important as what was on the plate. It captured the energy of an LA that was daring, ambitious, and endlessly innovative. In a decade obsessed with reinvention, Spago led the charge proving that fine dining could be both extraordinary and accessible and that Los Angeles had arrived as a true culinary capital.
In the glittering swirl of nineteen eighties Los Angeles nightlife, Flipper's roller boogie palace shone like a neon beacon. Located in West Hollywood, this iconic roller rink wasn't just a place to skate, it was a cultural phenomenon, blending disco fever, fashion, and celebrity glamour under one spinning sparkling roof. Every night, the floor was alive with flashing lights, pounding beats, and the effortless glide of roller skaters dressed in the boldest, brightest outfits the era had to offer. Celebrities, musicians, and artists all flocked to Flippers, blurring the lines between performance and party. Flippers captured the spirit of pure, unapologetic fun that defined much of eighties Los Angeles, A place where for a few hours, anyone could be a star spinning beneath the mirrored lights of endless possibility.
No single place embodied the raw power of Los Angeles rock and roll in the nineteen eighties, quite like Whiskey a go go. Standing proudly on the Sunset Strip, the Whiskey wasn't just a club, it was a launching pad for legends. In the eighties, the Whiskey's tiny stage bore witness to the explosive early performances of bands like Muttley Crew, Guns N' Roses and countless others who would go on to define the decade's sound. The walls vibrated with the intensity of the music, the crowd surging like a living wave of energy and rebellion. More than a venue, Whiskey A Go Go was a proving ground, a place where dreams were loud, messy, and very, very real.
In the smoky haze and electric noise of those nights, the future of music was being written, one unforgettable show at a time. After cruising through these 15 legendary places, it's impossible not to feel the pulse of nineteen eighties. Los Angeles, a city bursting with energy, creativity and a kind of magic that seemed endless. Every street, every bar, every club was alive with the dreams and wild hopes of a generation that believed anything was possible. Today, those same places still exist, but the city around them has changed.
The neon glow has faded in some corners and the spirit of endless reinvention has taken new forms. Some say Los Angeles has evolved. Others believe it has lost a little of the raw, untamed magic that made it so special back then.
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I reflect on the magic of 1980s Los Angeles, a time when the city was vibrant and full of energy. It was an era defined by movie magic, rock legends, and the thrill of being in the moment, long before the influence of social media and corporate culture. I remember the electric atmosphere, the neon lights, and the freedom of cruising down Sunset Boulevard. It feels like a world we’ll never see again, overshadowed by today’s political climate and policies that have changed the city dramatically.
@rayngls - Raymond Ng
What Made 1980s Los Angeles So MAGICAL? California was not always a "liberal stronghold." It was a politically competitive state through much of the 20th century, producing conservative icons like Ronald Reagan. Unfortunately, today the state has become the retarded woke liberal shithole that has been run into the ground by imbeciles like Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass, Norma Torres, and many other Democrat morons. NOSTALGIA: The Best of 1980s Los Angeles – A City We’ll Never See Again Los Angeles in the 1980s — where dreams burned bright and the streets pulsed with energy. Before social media, corporates, or Silicon Beach, LA was raw, electric, and unforgettable. It was the era of movie magic, rock legends, neon vibes, and top-down cruises on Sunset. You didn’t need social media. You just needed to be in the right place at the right time. Remember it? Wish you lived it? Let’s rewind to the wild, vibrant world of 1980s Los Angeles — a moment in time like no other, before the lunatic Left's mass illegal immigration and other stupid policies turned it into the woke DEI anarchistic hellhole it is today.
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Los Angeles in the 1980s was a vibrant era of movie magic, rock legends, and neon lights. Hollywood Boulevard was more than a tourist stop; its theaters were temples, hosting premieres that shut down streets. Indie cinemas thrived, and the streets buzzed with performers and dreamers.
The Sunset Strip pulsed with rock music from venues like the Whiskey and the Roxy, while downtown clubs featured funk, disco, and early hip hop. Nightlife was about feeling alive, with after-hours diners serving as sanctuaries.
LA was the heart of pop culture. Blockbuster movies created lasting memories, and MTV's rise amplified LA's image and sound. Skateboarding became a movement, and street style influenced fashion worldwide. TV shows and cartoons produced in LA shaped global culture.
LA's food scene reflected its diversity, with taco trucks, BBQ joints, and ethnic eateries offering more than just meals; they were cultural experiences. Fusion cuisine emerged as a lifestyle, blending Korean BBQ, birria ramen, and sushi burritos. Food connected people to their heritage and identity.
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Speaker 0: Los Angeles in the nineteen eighties where dreams burned bright and the streets pulsed with energy. It was the era of movie magic, rock legends, neon vibes, and top down cruises on sunset. Remember it? Wish you lived it? Let's rewind to the wild vibrant world of nineteen eighties Los Angeles.
Before Hollywood Boulevard became a tourist trap of mascots and chain stores, it was something else entirely. In the eighties, the walk Of Fame wasn't a selfie stop. It meant something. People actually read the names. Every block told a story.
Neon lit up the El Capitan, the Egyptian, the Chinese theater. These weren't just cinemas. They were temples. Velvet seats, gold trim, the scent of popcorn, it felt sacred. Premiers shut down streets.
Crowds packed the sidewalks hoping for a glimpse of stardom. No TikTok. No livestreams. You had to be there. And if you were, it was pure magic.
A few blocks away, indie gems like the Vista and New Beverly played cult classics and midnight double features. No luxury, just love for film shared in packed rooms with strangers who got it. By day, Hollywood buzzed with life, street performers, break dancers, actors with headshots, kids skating past record stores. The Capitol Records Tower loomed overhead, and behind it all, the Hollywood sign, faded, weathered, iconic. This wasn't about clout.
It wasn't about going viral. It was about chasing stories. Some ended in fame, some in heartbreak, but every one of them was real. When the sun set over eighties LA, the city came alive, and the real stars came out. Not just above, but on sidewalks, in clubs, and behind velvet ropes.
The Sunset Strip pulsed with life just a mile and a half from Doheny to Crescent Heights, but it held lifetimes. Rock exploded from the whiskey, the Roxy, and the rainbow bar. Guns and Roses on the rise, Prince playing secret sets, future legends in half empty rooms, no phones, just sweat, sound, and cigarette smoke. Crowds spilled into the streets. Guitars screamed.
Everyone looked like a star even if they weren't one yet. Leather, big hair, rhinestones, denim, attitude. But it wasn't just rock. Downtown, places like the Roxbury And Florentine Gardens blasted funk, disco, and the first waves of hip hop. Breakers, punks, b boys, valley girls, and Hollywood elites all chasing the same high.
And if you knew the right people, you'd end up at the Viper Room or some party in the hills. Brush shoulders with models, actors, producers. LA nightlife wasn't about being seen. It was about feeling something. The night made you feel alive.
Even when the clubs shut down, the city didn't sleep. Diners like Cantor's or Mel's became after hours sanctuaries. Smeared lipstick, sore feet, stories told over pancakes and coffee. Unforgettable nights started with $2 and ended on rooftops watching the sunrise. LA in the eighties wasn't just a city.
It was the heartbeat of a cultural revolution. Every corner buzzed with something iconic, and you didn't even know it yet. To live in LA then was to breathe pop culture. Hollywood was deep in its blockbuster era. Spielberg, Lucas, Hughes.
Not just making movies, making memories. ET wasn't a film. It was a feeling. The Breakfast Club didn't talk at teens. It got them.
Kids quoted Indiana Jones before they understood him because the adventure felt real. LA made those stories, wrote them, cast them, shot them. It turned imagination into reality, and then came the music. MTV dropped in '81, and everything changed. Suddenly, image mattered as much as sound, and LA had both.
Michael Jackson's moonwalk went global, but his creative spark came from here. Madonna, Prince, Whitney. Their videos became mythology, and LA was the backdrop. Skateboarding? Not a trend, a movement.
Born in empty pools, perfected by the z boys of Venice. Surfboards leaned on wagons in Malibu. Roller skaters turned Venice Beach into a stage. Style came straight from the streets. Acid washed denim, neon windbreakers, big hair, high tops.
LA was a runway before the world knew it was watching. TV, filmed just off Melrose and Sunset. Cheers, Knight Rider, the a team, California sunshine, broadcast worldwide. Even the cartoons carried LA's stamp. He Man, transformers, Thundercats, Saturday mornings, kids soaked in culture made right here.
Pop culture didn't just live in LA, it radiated from it. Billboards, magazines, radio waves. From Beverly Hills to East LA, the whole city told a story. It wasn't perfect. It was loud, messy, sometimes fake, but always creative.
To live in the nineteen eighties LA was to feel like you were part of something bigger. Even if you were just watching, a background extra, a skater near a music video shoot, a kid stuck in traffic on the 405 with the radio up, you were part of it. And the world, it was watching, copying, dreaming, trying to keep up. Because LA didn't follow trends, it made them. LA didn't just serve food, it told stories.
One bite spoke of migration, tradition, survival. This wasn't fine dining, this was soul serving. The streets were the menu, strip malls, the guidebooks from Koreatown to Boyle Heights. Every corner had flavor. Every flavor had history.
Taco trucks, not a trend. Institutions, lighting up the night with sizzling carne asada. Onions flying. Tommy's, Roscoe's, In N Out, more than meals. These were rituals, first dates, backroom deals, dreams chased with chili fries on the side in South Central.
Smoke meant home, fish fries, BBQ joints, ribs fire kissed, Mac's so good, it made you rethink life. East LA, tamales weren't seasonal. They were sacred, wrapped in husks and heritage, served from coolers in parking lots because legacy tastes homemade. Little Ethiopia, you broke bread with your hands, not forks. Spices and silence shared alike.
Thai town, pad see you at 2AM, hit like a second wind, bold flavors that woke you up, even health food had swagger, juice bars in Venice, vegan tacos, and eco park, fusion, not a concept, a lifestyle, Korean BBQ tacos, birria ramen, sushi burritos, cultures collided and cooked up art. No passport needed, just a MetroCard and an appetite from Compton to Crenshaw, Fairfax to Pico Union. In LA, food wasn't just what you ate. It was how you remembered who you were, where you came from, and who made it possible for you to be here. Was LA in the eighties better or just different?
Has the magic faded or just evolved?
@rayngls - Raymond Ng
@catturd2 These are morons who never got to understand Trump or his techniques. Most of the morons from 10 years ago are gone today. Those still around are on their last legs & will be gone soon too. Who lives on? Trump & MAGA. Hell yah, baby!👇 https://t.co/ZbSGML0JDn
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I've been reflecting on the current political landscape, particularly how the Democratic Party seems to be driven by what I see as a "loony wing." Senator John Kennedy's remark about "Operation: Let Them Speak" resonates with me; while it may benefit Republicans, I worry about the implications for America. Additionally, I found humor in the Easter Bunny incident with President Biden, which Trump later mocked during the 2025 Easter Egg Roll. Biden's gaffes continue to be a topic of discussion, highlighting his struggles in public appearances.
@rayngls - Raymond Ng
The Democrats Have Gone Crazy: their Loony Wing in Charge! Senator John Kennedy: “Our secret plan for dealing with the Democrats is called Operation: Let Them Speak.” “The loony wing of the Democratic Party is firmly in control. Now that's great for the Republican Party, but it's bad for America. These people are deeply weird. For example, no honest person whose IQ is above his age doesn't believe that they're biological sex doesn't exist, but they do. That's what I mean when I say they're deeply weird. Our Republican secret plan for dealing with the with the Democrats is called Operation: Let Them Speak. That's good for our party, but it's bad for America”.
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The speaker believes the "balloon wing" of the Democratic Party is in control, which is good for the Republican Party but bad for America. The speaker characterizes these Democrats as "deeply weird," giving as an example their apparent belief that biological sex doesn't exist. The speaker claims that no honest person with an IQ above their age could believe that biological sex doesn't exist. The Republican secret plan for dealing with the Democrats is called "operation let them speak," which the speaker believes is good for the Republican party but bad for America.
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Speaker 0: Balloon wing of the Democratic Party is firmly in control. Now that's great for the Republican Party, but it's bad for America. The the the these, the these people are deeply weird. For example, no no honest person who's, whose IQ is above his age doesn't believe that they're that that biological sex doesn't exist, but they do. That's what I mean when I say they're deeply weird.
Our republican secret plan for dealing with the with the democrats is called operation let them speak. But that's and that's good for our party, but it's bad for America.
@rayngls - Raymond Ng
Easter Bunny Directs A Confused Joe Biden Where To Go The Easter Bunny directed a confused President Joe Biden on where to go, during the White House Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn on 4/18/2022. https://t.co/5e3wP9BU6S
@rayngls - Raymond Ng
TRUMP MOCKS BIDEN'S 2022 EASTER bunny incident during 2025 EGG ROLL appearance During the 2025 White House Easter Egg Roll on April 21, President Donald Trump made headlines by mocking a previous incident involving President Joe Biden and the Easter Bunny. In 2022, Biden was interrupted by a person in an Easter Bunny costume while speaking to reporters, leading to widespread media attention.
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The speaker recalls "the bunny with Joe Biden" and "when the bunny took Joe Biden out." The speaker clarifies the bunny will not take Trump out. The speaker repeats "when the bunny saved Joe Biden," calling it a "beautiful moment." The speaker states the bunny will not save them, saying "I got a better bunny."
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Speaker 0: Place. Secretary. You having a good time, everybody? Everybody having a good time? Do you remember the bunny with Joe Biden?
Remember? Do you remember when the when the bunny took Joe Biden out? Not he's not gonna take he's not taking Trump out. Anyway, that was a good that was a beautiful moment when the bunny saved Joe Biden. What a good looking crowd.
You remember when the bunny saved Joe Biden? The bunny's not gonna save me. Right? I got a better bunny.
@rayngls - Raymond Ng
Mumbles, bumbles and stumbles - Joe Biden’s cringiest moments and biggest gaffes https://t.co/wHSB3rbNsm
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The speakers discussed various topics, including mistakenly referring to President Zelensky as President Putin and then correcting it. One speaker stated that they wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president, asserting she was not qualified to be president. They mentioned the need to fix taxes, noting that billionaires in America pay 8.2% in taxes and suggested raising it to 24% or 25% to generate $500,000,000 billion over ten years.
They also touched on COVID vaccinations, mentioning North Carolina's $100 incentive and a 25% uptick in daily vaccination rates in places offering such incentives. One speaker recalled managing the "so-called great recession" under President Obama, a "Freudian slip" after mentioning President Trump.
The speakers discussed Hamas, Putin's weakened state due to the war in Iraq, and convincing the president of Mexico, Sisi, to open the gate for humanitarian aid. They also mentioned a story about someone getting shot down in New Guinea where cannibals existed. One speaker referenced someone named Nathan and his dress.
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Speaker 0: And now I want to hand it over to the president of Ukraine who has as much courage as he has determination. Ladies and gentlemen, president Putin. President Putin. You gotta beat president Putin. President Zelensky.
I'm so focused on beating Putin. We gotta worry about it. Anyway. Mister president. I'm better.
You are hell of better. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: I
Speaker 0: wouldn't have picked vice president Trump to be vice president, but I think she was not qualified to be president. So let's start there. We gotta just remember who the hell we are. We're The United States Of America. By the way, I'm proud to be, as I said, the first vice president, first black woman Mhmm.
Served with a black president. Mhmm. Proud of the of all the first black woman in the supreme court. There's just so much that we can do. Bless him.
But guess what? They wanna they the guy we're running against, what's his name? Donald Dump or Donald whatever. What I'm gonna do is fix the taxes. And for example, we have a thousand trillionaires in America.
I mean, billionaires in America. And what's happening? They're in a situation where they, in fact, pay 8.2% in taxes. If they just paid 24%, 25%, either one of those numbers, they've $500,000,000 billion dollars, I should say, in a ten year period, making sure that we're able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with the with with the COVID excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with look. If we finally beat Medicare Thank you, president Biden.
President Trump. He's right. He did beat Medicare. He beat it to death, and he's destroying Medicare.
Speaker 2: Joe, you did such a great job. You answered every question. You do all the best. And let me ask the crowd, what did Trump do? Why?
Yes. So, Joe, I'm gonna hand it over to you because we have such a great group of supporters here. So thank you all for coming.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Appreciate it. We've been
Speaker 0: here the whole time. I see it. I see that through the patch here. President Biden, can you hear me?
Speaker 1: I you can? Yes. Good. And so
Speaker 0: North Carolina announced its hundred day incentive its $100 incentive today. Places that have offered the 100 thou the $100,100. That'd be really good. I'd go back and get vaccinated three times. The law came in the side, offered the $100 to get vaccinations.
I've seen an uptick of 25% on daily vaccination rates. I caught part of president Trump Putin's press conference, and he talked about the need for us to be able to have some kind of modus operandi where he dealt with making sure the Arctic was in fact a free zone. So called great recession. The president asked me to be in charge of managing that peace, then president Trump. Excuse me.
Freudian slip. That was the last president. He caused anyway, that was president Obama when I was vice president. There is some movement, and I don't wanna I don't wanna well, maybe choose my words. There's some movement.
There's been a response from the opposition, but it yes. I'm sorry. From Hamas. At the meeting, if you don't have a game plan he may have a game plan. He just hasn't shared it with me.
But I tell you what, I don't know about you, but I'm gonna go to bed.
Speaker 1: Extend has Vladimir Putin been weakened by recent events. It's hard to tell, but he's he's clearly moving to war in Iraq. He's losing to war at home. And he is
Speaker 0: As you know, initially, the president of Mexico, Sisi, did not wanna open up the gate to allow humanitarian material to get in. I talked to him. I convinced him to open the gate. They got shot down in New Guinea, and, they never found the body because there used to be a lot of cannibals for real in that part of New Guinea. And increase economic growth.
Folks, imagine what we could do next.
Speaker 1: Four more years, Paul. Four more years. Four more years. Paul, the erection is to store Capitol Hill patriots. He says if reelected,
Speaker 3: he wants, quote, every one of them
Speaker 0: pardon. Let's give him another two inches.
Speaker 1: Alright. What do I do with now? I
Speaker 0: don't know who the hell Nathan's happy dasher is. I like his dress, man. I tell you. Looking good, Nathan.