Stephen K. Bannon (29:35)
Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. Okay, we're gonna have a split screen, if we can do that. Denver, there we go, right there. Prime Minister Sheba, I think momentarily would come for a meeting with President States. Remember, the President was very close to Abe, who was assassinated, gunned down in the streets. Think of Tokyo, right? President took that hard. He's very close to Abe. He and Abe. He's the. Abe is the only guy I've seen the President, it wasn't 36 holes. I think they played 27 the first time. Abe was the first one to come and see him. We left, it was about this time, maybe a week later, we left the White House and went down to Mar A Lago and the President and Abe. Abe was as much a golfer as President Trump. They played 18 holes and Abe says, hey, how about another nine? And they went back out, just the two of them with the caddies and in the Secret Service and played another nine holes. I think they wanted to play 36. But he had that kind of relationship with Abe. And every time he went to Japan, they played one of the great courses in Japan. So President Trump was personally had a very, very strong relationship, very deep relationship with Prime Minister Abe. Prime Minister Shiba is there today, obviously, huge talks about the Japanese defense budget. The talks today will be about trade. They're going to be about terrorists. President Trump, this is why he said reciprocal tariffs. I'm sure he's going to have a conversation with the Japanese about that. His External Revenue Service is very high on the president's mind. Because if that cash comes in, maybe you have to do less cutting. Maybe you don't have to increase taxes on anybody, particularly the wealthy. Maybe you have bigger tax cuts, maybe even tax on. No tax on bonuses, which something they've talked about, more populous tax cuts. President's trying to juggle a lot. But the central part of the conversation, besides trade, will be around national security in the first island chain in the Pacific, and that'll be Taiwan, Guam, all of it, with the Japanese committing, I think, to rewrite their constitution, do other things to make sure they're more aggressive and spend more money in defense. I also think a big part of the conversation is going to be South Korea. There's essentially a coup going on there, and the Chinese Communist Party is in back of it, and that has to be addressed. Korea is a dagger. The Korean Peninsula is a dagger pointed at the heart of Japan. Remember, Korea and Japan have had a very, very, very troubled history, very troubled history. Things happened during World War II. And if folks think that things that happen in Nazi Germany, in Poland, in the mainland China, things happen in China that still today fire up the Chinese people, the Korean people still furious about a lot of the activity that went on with the Japanese in, in Korea. And the Japanese had a history of, of trying to dominate Korea. So that'll be a big, big discussion today, because the Koreans, who used to be one of our greatest allies, there's something going in Korea. Probably 25% to a third of the young people, I would say, lean towards kind of pro ccp. It's all got to be addressed. And the Japanese have to step up to the plate. When I talk about cutting the defense budget, one of the reasons is, is as we think about the hemispheric defense strategy of President Trump, remember from Greenland, the Arctic, all the way down to the Panama Canal, and then with Latin America, having people like the Bolsonars, people like Melaye to drive the Chinese Communist Party out of the Amazon and out of really Latin America and really come to what I guess now It's Monroe Doctrine, 5.0. But as he talks about hemispheric defense, it means that we can then pick and choose where we are throughout the world. Obviously, Japan is a, is a great ally. President Trump's always been very upset about how they haven't treated us great in trade. So there'll be some testy conversations, just like the other day with Netanyahu. People talk about Gaza, Gaza, Gaza. One of the most important things. You didn't come out of there. And I know this is important to Tucker and other people and myself. There was no commitment. You didn't hear a lot of talk that you had Lindsey Graham running around on Fox all the time about some sort of military confrontation with the Persians. President Trump, I think, is trying to tamp things down right now and trying to tamp it down in a logical way. I also would recommend that news coming out of Ukraine I think is not great because I think President Trump continues to get tapped along by these people. And my point would be to cut, particularly when Dzlonski came out and said, I've only got $77 billion. Okay, bro, you're saying the quiet part out loud. Maybe we have to rethink this entire thing. Also, President Trump even talking about taking the rare earths and the other mineral rights in Ukraine to pay for all this means you have further engagement in Ukraine, I think. And although they got great mineral rights, I think disengagement is the best on that part of the Eurasian landmass. So prime minister will be here. He'll come through. That's the West Wing entrance right there. They do, when they take them, there's a little reception area. They take them right to the Oval Office. There'll be a, you know, the prime minister in one chair, one of the gold chairs in front of the fireplace, President Trump in the other. They'll have some exchanges. The staffs will talk, kind of get together. Then President Trump, I believe, is going to have oppressor. Clearly it won't happen. It won't happen in. During our show. We thought it might happen. 11:30 today. Real America's voice. Charlie Kirk's up next. I'm sure they're cut in because President Trump's always saying provocative things in the days of thunder. During that and particularly markets. I want to know. They want to know about these reciprocal tariffs. President Trump doesn't do anything that's not kind of, you know, thought through. He just dropped that bomb yesterday with Reuters because the Prime Minister of Japan, it's always been a, he's had a big problem with Japan being such a closed market to American, to American goods and particularly American automobiles where they sell so many automobiles here, although now they make a lot more than they used to. Warpath Coffee. Tage Gill, Warpath Coffee. Make sure we get jacked up in the morning with it. It's the best. What I'm really proud talking to people last night about this. Met with some, some of the magazine people, were talking a little bit about some of the companies, our sponsors of Warpath Coffee. I gave the story of Taj Gill, Navy seal. All the great equipment but what he wanted was coffee that was good as the Navy, the Navy SEALs, you know, guns and parachutes and, and the frogman gear, they, they do. And Taj took years out of his life when he left the service and he was a contractor, as many of these guys are. 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President Trump put out an eight point plan on taxes yesterday after this four hour meeting, what jumped off the page at me was the commitment to the tax cuts on Social Security that over the life of, or at least over 10 years, I think so over a trillion dollars. It's a couple hundred. I mean it's a, it's a big deal. It's a big deal for you, particularly if you reach retirement age. It'll put significantly more money in your pocket, which is what you need. Social Security is not much, not much. But the taxes will put additional spending money It'd be great because you guys, unlike giving the cactus to the wealthy, because then you get the whole thing, they can reinvest it, but they actually spend it as a marginal spending. You guys will spend it or tuck it away for a rainy day, as you guys often want to do, as the working class and middle class people do. But that's a, that's a real cut. And if the, if the, if the, if the external revenues, I think it's going to take a while for those to kick in. President Trump's got a real idea about that. He's thinking through. It's a big idea, it's a powerful idea. You've got to get to the spending. And this is why I think we have to have from the Doge guys right now, before the one year CR which is coming, we have to have just a general idea blocked out. Could we cut 500 billion this year? Could we cut 100 billion? If we just cut USAID, then let's cut it, let's zero it. I think it should be zero. I think it should go from 40 to 50 billion to zero. But I strongly believe you can't be over Social Security. And even if you're looking for data, if you're looking to rewire it, even look at waste, fraud, abuse, which is all important, very important, you got to get over to the Pentagon. If you don't show the imperial capital, you're prepared to take on the Pentagon, you're sending a signal that you're weak, just starve. You can sit here and you go through geopolitically, you could build a plan that if you get aggressive against our number one existential threat, the Chinese Communist Party, and the debt that's linked with our financing them and gutting the country goes. How do we get in this situation, the trade deficit and the real deficits are. And I've always said, and Lou Dobbs said, and President Trump believes this, all the Wall street people don't. It's the, it's two sides of the same coin. In gutting the country and gutting the manufacturing, it made us more dependent upon foreign sources. That's why you have these huge trade deficits. And no, when people say, oh, the money's fungible, we can be a service economy, you can't. An advanced nation has to have an advanced, major massive physical capital and a manufacturing base. Manufacturing base provides high value added paying jobs, principally to men, women too, but principally to men. This is why we have 70 million men that are not in the workforce, those are not white Men, it's whites, blacks, Hispanics, everybody. I think there's 72 million men that are not in the labor force. Now. A country like ours can't, you can't go on. If men, and these are working age men. This is not the old guys like myself who still feel they got a lot of fight left in them. I'm talking about, I'm talking about working age men. You have to do that. You do that, you stop the trade deficit. Trade deficit is $100 billion in December. $100 billion. Almost all that tied to China. And of course they try to lie. Oh, this is Trump's threat of tariffs. They're all front loaded. No, it was been categorically shown by economists. That didn' happen. We're just having increasing trade deficits. People, you know, they're devaluing the currency. China's playing every game in the world to keep that manufacturing base and they're very shaky. That's part, that's part of President Trump's tariffs. Remember, you don't have to pay the tariff to get in the golden market. You know, the paid. If you, if you move the manufacturing here, you don't have to pay it. That's part of the thing he's doing with Germany. He's telling Germany, hey, we're not going to let you game the system anymore. We're not going to let you because you have the high tariffs in Germany. We do that, you get to Mexico and you're going to build it all in Mexico and just ship it across the border at the lower wage rates and really gut American car manufacturing. We're not going to allow that to happen. President Trump's going to have a tough conversation here in a moment in the Oval Office with the Japanese prime minister. The topic is going to be trade and it's going to be defense. And when he says reciprocity on tariffs, he means Japan. He's not digging that. Not, he's not into that at all. So you got, you got to take that. So back to Tax Network. We have a problem here in the country. You don't have enough tax revenues coming in. President Trump's cutting taxes in one regard, but he's increasing tax. Increase in taxes on billionaires right there by the sports team. Not a lot of money, but symbolically very important. Taking away carried interest, not a ton of money. It's good. Throwing something in the kitty. It has to be done because Wall Street's getting current income and paying capital gains taxes on it, which you couldn't get because they've they've allowed current income to be rolled up into kind of capital gains. Not fair. It's not fair at all. It's got to stop. But tax network USA just go taxnetwork usa.com ban and go there right now. They'll tell you quickly where they can help you or not. If you got a tax problem, don't put this letter from the IRS in the drawer. That's not going away. It's out of sight. But it shouldn't be out of mind. You should be worried about it until you engage these experts. And if they tell you they can't help you, they can't help you, then you call them up and you fight the IRS yourself. Tax Network USA, tnusa.com the Prime Minister for Japan is going to be here in a moment. We're going to take a short commercial break as we should. I'm going to speak the people of Patriot Mobile, Brian Glenn and these guys have been so, so great to invite me down on the 28th of February to Tarrant County. Posobic's going to be with me. Amanda Millius is going to be with me. A whole bunch of other nefarious characters. We're going to have a good old time. I'm going to give a keynote speech Post office on speak. Amanda Milius is going to be great. Others we get if we put the put it up, you can see it and go to the website. Tarrant County, Tarrant County Republican Party brought to you by Patriot Mobile. This is Glen Story and the team really stepping up to the plate. Okay, there we are right there. Make sure Mo and Grace get it in the chat. When everybody in the local area and I spend time beforehand visit everybody. Short commercial break. We're going to come back. We're waiting for the prime minister of Japan, as is the president United States. We'll kick it all off in just a moment in the war room.
