
Episode 4444: Canadian elections Kick Off Today; Trump Numbers Polling Like Obama ...
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Maria Bartiromo
News Washington Post poll finds that Trump's economic approval stands at 39% versus 61% who disapprove. Just two months ago, before announcing his wide ranging tariff plan, 45% had approved with 53% disapproving.
Steve Doocy
That's a real drop.
Maria Bartiromo
The latest AP NORC poll finds Trump.
Viva Fry
24 points underwater on the issue of.
Maria Bartiromo
The economy, while the latest New York Times Siena College poll finds Trump 12 points underwater on that issue. The poll also finds that Trump's pursuit of widespread tariffs opposed by 55% of voters and 63% of independents gays. If you look at this right here, if you look at some of the issues, what is fueling this right now, it shows us really across the board right now. And if you look at where he was in mid February and you look where he is right now, he is underwater on every issue from a minimum of 3 percentage points to a maximum of 9 percentage points. Specifically when it comes to inflation in the economy, as you point out, which is supposed to be his, you know, his expertise at this point was also interesting just overall to Sarah is that he is down seven points from late February as we note him being an all time low. That is an amazing drop in such a short period of time. So Donald Trump right now is having to deal with some of this, some of the fallout with the reality that many of his programs that he's trying to institute and many of his cuts that he's trying to institute are just not taking hold.
Steve Doocy
One thing that was not on the screen that has been rumored that I have to ask you about is should the American people expect an increase in the top marginal tax rate? There have been some reports out there that the Trump administration is looking at pushing the top tax rate for those making over a million dollars back up towards 39, 40%. Is that something that we should expect from a Republican bill?
Maria Bartiromo
I would not expect that. We have been working against that idea. I'm not in favor of raising the tax rates because that's our party is group that stands against that traditionally. So there were lots of ideas thrown out on the table along this process over the last year. But I would just say for everybody, just wait and see. There's more details coming and I think you're going to be very pleased by what you see. I don't think we're raising taxes on anybody. What we're trying to do is prevent the largest tax increase in U.S. history. Before we let you go, we want to get your reaction to something that just occurred. The White House has put up about 100 posters of what they say are unauthorized immigrants who have been arrested for violent crimes.
Steve Doocy
You can see them there.
Maria Bartiromo
They put them up on the driveway.
Viva Fry
Of the White House. If you look here, that's the West.
Maria Bartiromo
Wing just at the forefront, the Executive Mansion itself to the left. But what's particularly noteworthy about this location is it is right directly behind the positions where TV correspondents do their hits from the White House lawn. So therefore, no matter what network you're on, that includes msnbc, if you're doing.
Viva Fry
A hit from the White House right.
Maria Bartiromo
Now, those pictures will be behind you. The White House doing a briefing in about a half hour about what they're doing here. Maria, your response to this image. So I have to say, one of the biggest challenges that we have with the deportations that we know of so far, for example, with Kilmer, Abrego, Garcia, we don't know if they've had due process. We don't know if, in fact, these individuals do have a rap sheet. So I would encourage those individuals that have that as a backshot to blur those people out. The job of journalism is to ensure that we are presenting the facts that we are cross referencing. We know that Polyfact actually checked the Trump administration because of an earlier picture that they released on Kilmer, recognizing that it was altered, that it was false, that they had placed gang signs on gang signs, tattoos on him that weren't real. And so I would really.
Steve Doocy
The press right now, we are absolutely under attack.
Maria Bartiromo
Our job is always to have our true north, to make sure that we're presenting balanced news and making sure that we are not putting folks that are potentially in danger and having that representation of those pictures in the background, we can't allow that to basically for us to carry the water of potentially innocent people. So I would encourage. I recognize live shots are tough, but.
Tom Homan
I would encourage folks to actually make.
Maria Bartiromo
Sure that those shots are blurred to the best of your abilities.
Tom Homan
Well, first of all, how many illegal aliens, I think, are in the United states? At least 20 million. Where'd you come with that number? We've been speaking about 12 million for 20 years. We know we got 10.5 that we know of, came to the border. How many don't we know of? I talked about known gotaways at 2 million. How many unknown gotaways we have, like between the Big Bend sector in Texas where there's no technology. How many thousand people dig across from there? We wouldn't know. We would know now. But, you know, so I would venture over 20 million. But your question is. Last count we got. Last I looked, There was about 700,000 illegal aliens with criminal charges walking the streets of this country. 700,000. And that's what we're looking for now. That's what we're prioritizing them and national security threats, the Registration requirements under 8 U.S.C. 1302. If you're illegal alien in the United States, this message is for you. You cannot hide from ice. We're actively looking for you. Federal law requires every alien in the United States who has been present in the United states more than 30 days needs to register. For those 14 years or older, you need to be fingerprinted with the Department of Homeland Security. Federal law requires every alien in the United to tell DHS in writing if you have a change in address within 10 days of changing the address. Failing to register with DHS in failure to tell DHS about your new address are criminal offenses and they will be treated as such starting today. Make no mistake, if you're in the country legally and you fail to do what the law requires, we will prosecute you. You will go to jail, then we'll deport you. Second law penalties for failure to depart. 8 USC 1253 if you're alien inside the United States who has a final order? This message is for you, if you have a final order. The Trump administration is committed to enforcing our immigration laws, especially for those aliens who have received final orders of deportation. There are currently around 1.4 million illegal aliens who have been ordered removed but remain here in violation of the law. We will aggressively prosecute, consistent with long standing law, those aliens for failing or refusing to depart or who takes other related actions aimed at hindering their removal. You cannot open the door. You cannot answer our questions. You cannot open your car door. You can consider it to evade law enforcement. If you fail to leave the United States after receiving a removal order, we can and will issue monetary fines up to $998 a day. Evading your arrest. Knowing you have a final order or removal is a criminal offense. We will prosecute, then we'll deport you. Get your affairs in order. If you're in the country illegally, work with ICE, go to CBP1 home app and leave on your own because we have to find you, deport you and prosecute you. You'll have a bar placed under you and you won't come back to this country. You won't be able to come back on a visitor's visa, a tourist visa. We have your assistance and child can't petition for you if you're in this country, will you get your affairs in order and work with us and get yourself removed from this country. That's what law requires and we're going to enforce that law.
Maria Bartiromo
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. There's not got a free shot. All these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that.
Viva Fry
I know you try to do everything.
Maria Bartiromo
In the world to stop that but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen. And where do people like that go to share the big lie? MAGA MEDIA I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. Ask yourself what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this, this country will be saved. War ROOM here's your host Stephen k. Banner. Monday 28 April Year of early 2025 how's the President start off the the week of his hundred days? He has Tom Homan do oppressor Caroline Levitt and Tom Holman started 8:30 this morning with a double barrel shotgun blast. Dave Bratz ride and shotgun today I love with the first hour Harnwell for second hour Brett I love Tom Holman. Get your affairs in order right because you're leaving the yard they throw down hard. This for president's already stopped the invasion of the country. Now it's time to reverse it. Homan says hey there's 20 million. We're just focused on the 10 million. They're here under Biden. Let's get that done first. But Homan I think is it's focused in and they've got the, they got the want ads, they got the wanted I think 100 or 200 signs in back of the mainstream media over this so they can't avoid it. They got to talk about it right up in your grill. Happy, happy White House correspondence weekend to you.
Stephen K. Bannon
No it's, it's a beautiful thing. The rule of law is just what it says and we just got. No the press, the mainstream media always talks about inclusivity, caring about everyone. The Pope over the weekend. Inclusivity for all the voices. The only voice though that's not been listened to.
Maria Bartiromo
Slow down the Pope. Inclusivity. What are you talking about?
Stephen K. Bannon
Oh the mainstream media. That's the.
Maria Bartiromo
Oh yes, yes, yes. Inclusivity. Yeah. Another mainstream media propaganda lie.
Stephen K. Bannon
Yes. They put him forward as Mr. Inclusivity. The Vatican's got walls we don't go over. But his, his remarks. And even in the, in his funeral, the, the Vatican couldn't resist putting in a mark.
Maria Bartiromo
About took a couple of shots at Trump.
Stephen K. Bannon
Oh, yeah, building bridges.
Maria Bartiromo
No, no, in the homily, they took the President Trump.
Stephen K. Bannon
Trump's building bridges to the rest of the world. He's going to end up saving Europe from itself. He's going to save the world. He's going to save this country. He's going to save the American worker through manufacturing. And there's no competing plan. The mainstream media is just continually deconstructing everything. They're incapable of constructing a positive vision. And so, Holman, thank God we got a few patriots left. You follow the law. And these judges, these court cases coming up. Trump was funny the other day on the news. He said, I think this is going to be kind of like another men in the women's locker room issue. You know, these jobs and going down.
Maria Bartiromo
To lock them, lock them up. A judge sitting there letting the illegal alien go in. The FBI's out in the lobby. She knows it, lets it go, lock her up.
Stephen K. Bannon
And we got a Democrat congressman who was a friend of mine when I was in. He's one boy. He said, I don't think this is the guy yet to go save. Right, The.
Maria Bartiromo
No, no, no. The guy's a human trafficker. John Solomon and Michael Patrick Leahy in the team Benzeman have proven he's a human trafficker, but it's emblematic of what they want to do. We're pretty packed today. I want to talk about Canada guy. Viva Fry here. Also, Mark Mitchell saying this polling is a psyop. Also yesterday in Fried Zakara's gps, the show on Saturday. Yeah, he had, he had Zandy the head. The Zandy's the head of the Economist she was on. But it also had Ray Dalio. And Dalio kept talking. They would ask Zani Summer, she would give all this kind of, you know, Trump's, this trade this. All this kind of superficial. Ray Dalio, who I'm no fan of, and he's no fan of War room, he would come back with pure war room. This model's unsustainable. You're spending 2 trillion every, you know, every hundred days, another trillion dollars. Fried Zakar could not wait to cut this guy's mic off. It's pretty amazing. We'll see it. Okay, let's go to. We have an open for Viva Fry on Canada. Let's play Today's election Day in whether you should call it the Great White North. The old TV show, the old comedy show. Let's go ahead and play Fever. Fry is open. Have you taken any steps to carry out President Trump's plans as he has said he would like to annex Canada? Have you taken any steps in that direction? No, I think no. No. What the president has said, and he has said this repeatedly, is he was told by the previous prime minister that Canada could not survive without unfair trade with the United States, at which point he asked, well, if you can't survive as a nation without treating us unfairly in trade, then you should become a state. That's what he said. They'll have their elections this week. They're going to have a new leader, and we'll deal with a new leadership of Canada. There are many things we work with cooperatively on Canada on, but we actually don't like the way they've treated us when it comes to trade. And the president has made that point when he responded to the previous prime minister in regards to this. So does the President, does the U.S. still want to make Canada the 51st state? I think the president has stated repeatedly he thinks Canada will be better off as the state. Now, it's unclear if former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau actually ever made that statement to Trump that Rubio claims. But the current prime minister, Mark Carney, whose party is now poised to win today's election, well, he's pushed back on the idea of the United States ever taking over Canada, saying in a recent press conference, quote, to be clear, as.
Steve Doocy
I've said to anyone who's raised this issue in private or in public, including.
Maria Bartiromo
The president, and it will never happen. Okay? Viva Fry. Viva. Just give me a heads up because we got to go to break right here. Right. I got that clock right. Okay. I just want to make sure. Viva. You hang on. We're going to talk about Canada and we're going to talk about if the quote, unquote populace had gone more Trump would have a better outlook on today. Little cloudy up there in Canada. Carney, I can't believe you're gonna elect that Goldman Sachs guy electing her. Who? Who elects Goldman Sachs guys in this day and age. Short commercial break Viva Fry. On the other side, you went and lost your pride, but I'm American made.
Steve Doocy
I got American power. I got American babe.
Maria Bartiromo
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Viva Fry
Jonathan in the Greater Toronto area. And first of all, if you've talked.
Maria Bartiromo
To Canadians or gone to Canada since Donald Trump took over, you know this. They are stung. They feel betrayed about the treatment, not.
Viva Fry
Just the tariff, the talk of annexation.
Maria Bartiromo
Because they're obviously a sovereign country. They can't understand why they're a best friend to the south, a place where they travel to and any Canadian with.
Viva Fry
Like five bucks and the bank has.
Maria Bartiromo
A condo in Florida or Arizona and.
Viva Fry
They can't understand for the life of them why they're being treated like this.
Steve Doocy
Now politically speaking, this has gone from.
Viva Fry
A sure thing for the Conservative party.
Maria Bartiromo
To take back power for the first time in a decade to a certainly tilt liberal race almost entirely because of Donald Trump.
Viva Fry
Here's why. The conservative standard bearer is in a jail. A third of conservative Canadians kind of like Donald Trump.
Maria Bartiromo
Most of the country can't stand them.
Steve Doocy
But the conservative is squeezed between the.
Maria Bartiromo
Conservative base of his party, especially out west in the western provinces who do.
Viva Fry
Like Trump and the rest of the country who hates Trump so he can't criticize Trump directly like you saw Mark Carney the liberal did there and then.
Maria Bartiromo
Sort of put the conservative in a vice.
Viva Fry
And then secondly, Jonathan, what's fascinating about this race is where are Bob and.
Maria Bartiromo
Doug McKenzie when you need them, right? The famous duo of the great white North. Viva Fry. Tell me what's going on up there. Because I tell you, if Carney does happen to pull this out, the progressives are going to use this as the flag they plant to say, okay, this is the international The Americans, the Democrats are too screwed up. The progressive movement here is too far gone. But the international liberal order will come to the rescue to save the world. They'll start in Canada and you'll start to see the big universities overseas backing Harvard and the Ivies. This will lead to institutional support. So this is what they're going to consider their rally point will be today. Your thoughts are why have the quote unquote populist, not really run as a fire breathing populace? Is Canada just too nice? You just gotta be too nice up there, sir?
Viva Fry
Well, that is, that analysis was pretty on point in that there's a substantial base of the conservatives up in Canada who do like Trump or don't have a problem with him, but there's a substantial portion that are as brainwashed as the Liberals as relates to Trump. And so Pierre, he had a fine line to walk, but it's a line that I don't think he had to walk in the first place because he could have just stayed silent on Trump and leveled all of his attacks and blame against the Liberals. In terms of blaming whatever Trump tariffs and threats of annexation Trump was issuing, blame it on the Liberals because it was a result of 10 years of failed liberal policy. I don't think this will start a cascade of liberalism or the liberal world order worldwide. I do think Canada is something of an anomaly in their opposition to or reluctance to embrace populism. We see populism thriving in Europe, albeit, you know, it's struggling, but it's thriving in Romania, South America, Brazil. We see it. My level of being flabbergasted is how much resistance there is to the populist movement in Canada. And I think it has to do with having a media that is totally corrupt and totally captured by the government that basically acts as their watchdogs and their lap dogs and not their watchdogs. And so you have the media convincing everybody in Canada that their woes are the result of three months of tariff threats and discussion of annexation and not a decade of liberal devastation. And Pierre fumbled the ball in terms of making sure Canadians understood where that blame should lie. But we'll see today if the Liberals win, let alone a minority. But I say, heaven forbid, a majority government. If they win a majority government, I do predict that it's going to lead to the breakup of Canada, not a liberalist New World Order. It's going to lead to Alberta moving to secede from Canada because you've got a bunch of Liberals, environmental panicking, you know, anti science nut bags who are exploiting Alberta for its resources while crippling Alberta's ability to exploit its resources, stealing their money, spreading it throughout Canada to the have not provinces. And Alberta's gonna say, I've had, we've had enough of this. Quebec and Ontario dictating the politics of the land and exploiting us while crippling us. So I think it'll lead to the breakup of Canada if the Liberals get a majority. But I'm still mildly optimistic that that Pierre can eke out a minority Conservative government. And one can only hope he manages to get a majority Conservative government. But that's looking very, very unlikely.
Maria Bartiromo
Okay, as we go through the day, we'll try to get you back on. What should we be looking for? What are going to be the tells that because right there, a liberal majority government, you said, leads to a breakup of Canada and Alberta with all its resources and kind of, I would say, cowboy culture, I take it, become independent or maybe even associate with the United States of America.
Viva Fry
Move to secede. Like, hey, if Canada finds the 51st state offensive, Albertans certainly don't. And so whether or not they secede and it leads to Quebec seceding. Quebec tried twice. Under ordinary circumstances, it'll lead to the breakup Balkanization of Canada. But what to look for today? We've just got to wait until the results trickle in and the east typically goes Liberal. If it goes less liberal, then we'll be more optimistic for the rest of Canada. But it's just wild that after a decade of literal devastation, everything is worse in Canada, regardless of how you want to frame it. After a decade of this three Liberal governments, people in Canada are sufficiently propagandized and ignorant and politically amnesiac that they're gonna vote for the Liberals a fourth time. It's enraging as far as I'm concerned, watching it transpire from down here. And I don't understand what it takes to wake up Canadians to the fact that it's the Liberals and not Trump that is the source of their problems.
Maria Bartiromo
Viva, how can people follow you today? What's your social media? And we'll get you back on to see what's your social media. People follow you during the day.
Viva Fry
So Viva Fry on Rumble. And I'll be live. I got my daily lineup on rumble at 4 o'clock. I'll be live streaming the results tonight. And thevivafry on twitter and viva barneslaw.locals.com is our Locals community. So I'll be live all day. I'm tweeting my needles at the Liberals. You Know, elbows up. It's really funny when you're being held up at gunpoint because crime in Canada is at basically a decade high because of liberal policies. Gun violence is at a high despite all of the gun laws that the Liberals have implemented on law abiding citizens. So elbows up, Canadians. Go vote for the Liberals. You're abusers yet again.
Maria Bartiromo
Elbows up. Beaver fried. Thank you, brother. Appreciate you. Fourth time. Think about that. They'll vote him in for a fourth time. The Trump derangement system syndrome north of the border is something to behold. When he got Castro's son's been there and destroyed the country. Although not so sure that the populace ran a fire breathing campaign. But you should have had those conservatives sitting there saying, hey, look, this is not Trump's problem, this is not Trump's fault. Let's see, we got Mark. So Mark Mitchell Rasmussen, you're known as the, as the person that can poll maga and one of the best analytic people following the President and his everything associated with the MAGA movement. All I hear all weekend in on Drudge and everywhere is polls. The lowest in 100 years, the lowest in human history. 39%, 41%, 40%. Every issue. Immigration, right, which he closed. He basically sealed the border in 60 days. On immigration, on economy, on everything this awful. Upside down. 70, 30 against. 60, 40 against. Although all those issues still seem to be pretty popular with the people in the United States. What say you, sir?
Steve Doocy
You know that meme with the cat in the tinfoil hat? Every day I wake up and there's another psyop. That's exactly what's happening right now. They have nothing else. They have no political power. And so all they have is to just rail against Trump. And after the election I had an honest question about, well, maybe they'll finally put getting into the black ahead of propaganda. And it looks like they haven't. And it's because they're shills for the establishment and they're going to continue to shill for the establishment. But you're spot on. The reason Trump got elected is because his policies were more popular than he was. Overwhelmingly so. And we've measured it so many different ways. But I have a new fresh one to read you here. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? You can't just free the criminals and think crime is going to go down magically. You have to imprison criminals so you can liberate 350 million Americans. They're asking for the end of crime and the end of terrorism. That's naive Bukele quote, 66% of U.S. likely voters agree. 43% strongly. Only 20% disagree. Only 99% strongly disagree. So Americans overwhelmingly see what's happening on the news. They're like, oh, sweet. Illegal aliens are getting deported. And so all they have to do is try to undermine this guy's approval rating. But it's not going to work. After Biden and we poll every night, I think we're the ones that people should pay attention to because we've done more approval polling than any other pollster. And we've been pretty good as far as elections go too. I mean, we've disproven this whole Rasmus and leans right thing. And if you look at the polling, you know, take the first six months of Obama and set that aside, right, because something different was going on there. The great financial collapse recovery and a whole bunch of cultural zeitgeist. If you set that aside in our numbers, Trump pretty much polls like Obama did it and Biden does not. He's like four or five points on average lower than everybody else. And I'll tell you what, our Biden approval is higher than everybody else. So here's the thing. Two or three years ago, everybody be like, look at Quinnipiac. They have Biden approval at a 33%. Well, no, Biden approval wasn't at 33%. Quinnipiac just sucks. So don't quote him now if you're trying to do a story about Trump approval. Trump came in north of 50. He's at 47% underwater 5 right now. The Real Clear Politics aggregates underwater 7. So about 2.5 points to the left of me, where it should be. And that's what happens. That's what happens to presidents. They have a honeymoon, it goes away. Trump's going to probably hang around 50%. But it's like, okay, well, let's focus on the economic issues. And voters overwhelmingly say, no, the economy isn't about the stock market, it's about jobs. By almost a 4 to 1 margin, they actually rate him pretty good. We asked in the middle of the stock market crisis and Donald Trump pulled out a 44% excellent or good as a rating on the issue of the economy and also tradies in the 40s too. Those are higher than any issue ever in all of our polling that Biden was rated on. It just was. His best issue is national security. Trump's worst issue blows Biden out of the water.
Maria Bartiromo
Hang on one second. I want to keep you around. Dave Brenner going to have some repartee and some questions for you. This is quite important. This the best pollster of the MAGA movement and Trump. What's so bad about saying you lean right, don't you lean right, Mark. There's worse things to be said. Short commercial break Birch Gold now more than ever, by the way, as Dave Brad's going to tell us the worst April in the history of the stock market since the Great Depression. Remember ladies and gentlemen, 10 days days ago, that blaring headline and every show, that's all they talked about. Stock markets made it all back, I think and maybe a tad up. Suck on that CNBC. Birch Gold birchgold.com ban and end of the dollar empire. Get it Today it is all free. Heard me talk about my patriot supply because I trust them when it comes to my family's well being and I just got word they're doing something they've never done before. Right now you can get the best selling mega 3 month emergency food supply for the same price as the standard kit. Now what do I mean by that? That's more than A$360 off of real beef, real chicken plus farm fresh fruits and vegetables included at no extra charge. Even better, this kit now gives you 2500 calories a day, more than any other emergency food supply I've seen. And let's be honest, when things go sideways, you're going to need more than just survival. You need strength. You need energy. You need real food. This kit will be there when you need it, stays fresh for up to 25 years and it ships fast and discreetly. If you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. Go to my Patriotsupply.com and claim your mega kit. While this offer lasts. That's my patriotsupply.com here's your host, Stephen K. Ban. It's a Monday. Let's get to work. Go to Birch Gold. Take your phone out, text Bannon B A N N O N 989-898 we're trying to make you smarter. By the way, I'm so honored to be at Hillsdale to give a talk on Thursday and then had a great opportunity to have Chris Caldwell and Chris Leonard. My favorite book, the Lords of Easy Money joined us out in Kansas City. He's Kansas City and had Shaun Davis from the Federals. Just some fantastic people. One thing I got the entire time was tremendous compliments on the war room audience. The power and stroke you have. One of the reasons is you've you're learned. Up you go. Up the learning Curve Bannon at 989-898 Texas. You go to Birch Gold, you get the ultimate guide for investing in gold and precious metals in the era Trump boom. Get it today. Make sure you understand what's going on, particularly the dollar as the prime reserve currency. That may come back to bite us, but you're going to be head of the curve, trust me. We have Ray Dalio on here with Freed Zakar. Do you buy Mark Mitchell's thesis that not that they're the best pollster, but the fact that this is essentially a psyop that you know, because it's come out in unison, it's hitting wave after wave after wave. Trump's unpopular, although the issues and the job he's done and some of the. Remember Lankford had a bill in front of us two years ago. You sat right here. We went through it. It would take us a decade. We spent another hundred billion dollars to do what Trump did in 60 days, seal the border. Right. And now you got Tom Holman up there today saying, hey, get your affairs in order, because if you're still here when we track you down, it's going to be some. It's going to be a criminal penalty.
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah, yeah. It's a psyop. It's what's covered and what's not covered. Can you imagine if the mainstream media went after the cell phone records of, of every Democratic politician and every secretary under President Biden and track them on national defense issues and whatever they were working against the country on national defense issues. Our guys are all patriots and Cub Scouts doing good. And you hear, and there you make a technical mistake or whatever. But yet what's covered versus what's not covered. I looked up a few stats with the Canada News. They won't cover any of this. Right. Canada's government as a percentage of GDP. Right. So they have a huge government. Canada is 43%. Their government's 43% of their GDP of their economy. The UK is the same. That's why they're tanking. The US is 37. Nothing to be proud of. And then percentage, nothing to be proud of.
Maria Bartiromo
We're tanking, too.
Stephen K. Bannon
You can't be at 37 and in Christian, only 53% in Canada. U.S. is still at 67. I think it's a hair higher than that. But those are also correlated. And so we saw with the Pope, no one's in the pews in Europe and their economies are tanking. I ran regressions on this stuff 35 years ago when I, you weren't allowed to publish that. You couldn't say anything in mainstream academia about religion and you still can't. And that's why Harvard and Yale and Columbia and all these are under fire. They don't pursue truth anymore. The mainstream media says that in the open clip. But the role of the media is to tell the truth. You tell everything except the truth. Right. Just these basic stats I looked up in five minutes. The mainstream reporters can't seem to find any of them. And so, yeah, Mark Mitchell, he's always solid. He gives the numbers. We need to do more of that. And, and so congratulations to Rasmussen.
Maria Bartiromo
So Mark, just lay out the thesis once again with, with people being bombarded this weekend and this morning with the, and you're going to see it all the way through. Trump is going to go to Michigan for a rally. We're going to special coverage here in the war room. Eric Bolling will be in studio. We're going to do a special like four hours. Eric Bolling, myself, Brian Glenn will be on Air Force One with the president. And the great Steve Gruber will be up in Michigan because he's the Rush Limbaugh of Michigan. He'll be up there hosting all day. Mitchell, they're going to be bombarding US on the 100th day that Trump is the most unpopular, is the most unpopular president in 100 years. Yeah.
Steve Doocy
I'd like to back up what I've been saying with a little bit of evidence. So don't just take it from me that there's a psychological operation going on. I will say if you look at the real clear politics aggregate right now, just in the last like two days, a whole lot of polls dropped and they were all, they all look the same. Reuters, Ipsos, negative 11, Fox News, negative 11, CBS negative 10, CNN, negative 14, New York Times, who's been missing in action, negative 12 and ABC News, Washington Post minus 13. They all dropped double digit underwater polls for Donald Trump within a few days of each other. And it's all these people that haven't been polling that much. They did it for the 100 days. But then go to Google Trends, which is one of my favorite tools, and look at all of the search history going all the way back for the terms Trump approval, Biden approval, Bush approval and Obama approval. And what you'll see is that for some reason there's something different about Donald Trump. For some reason, Trump approval drives way more, way more organic search volume than any of those other presidents, which is totally crazy considering how popular Obama ostensibly was. And what you see this April, it looks like it's going to be the second highest month of all of Google polling history or Google's data history of searches for Trump approval. So that's how I know it's a psyop. People are getting these stories shoved down their throats. They're going on Google, they're trying to check it out themselves. The mainstream media is going to information gatekeep and shove a Quinnipiac poll in their face that says negative 12. These guys were all between 7 and point 9 points left of me in September. And this is the exact same thing they were doing back then, trying to, you know, use the TikTok videos and Kamala Harris's debate performance to create a fake lead. But I have one other thing I want to bring up and look at. Everybody focuses on Trump approval. And what we've been focusing on is how highly approved of his policies are. But if you look at the electoral math, if you take turnout as a percent of voting eligible population or voting age population, depending on what data is available, and then you take each president their share of the national popular vote that they won't, and then stack rank them based on how many, what percent of Americans that president got to vote for them. Trump 2.0 got 32% of the electorate to vote for him. Where does that stack up higher than JFK, George W. Bush two, Obama two, Reagan one, FDR number four, Bush, H.W. bush, Carter. Trump won. Nixon won, George W. Bush one. George W. Bush one was at 26%. Donald Trump's got 32%.
Maria Bartiromo
Hey, want me through that formula against. It's early on Monday morning and I'm only halfway through my. I had a tough weekend. It was a little under the weather, and I'm still going through my warpath coffee. Give me that, give me that. Don't hit me with that. Mitchell in the morning. Give it to me again.
Steve Doocy
Well, it's like, okay, do people like Trump or not? They saw him first time around and they got a chance to vote for him again, right? And you take how many people turned out like actual voters and then you take the national popular vote. So it's like, okay, of the voters that turned out, how much did that winner get? And Trump 2.O got way more than Trump 1.0. 32% compared to 28%. He improved massively. And his electoral performance was better than like, pretty much everybody except for, like, really. Trump 2.0 was only beaten by FDR number three, Reagan number two. Obama won. But again, we all know craziness that was going on there. And then Biden with that really huge asterisk, about the highest turnout ever in the history of American elections. Right there. There's that. But my point is that the 8.
Maria Bartiromo
Million votes have never showed, the 8 million votes have never showed back up since then. Right? Where'd they go?
Steve Doocy
Right, so Obama went from 33 down to under 30. Donald Trump went from 27.7 up to 32. Donald Trump's first time in office. And the four years of Biden convinced way more people to vote for Donald Trump. And listen, we're only a few months into this second term. The election was barely six months ago. And so you're just not going to like, that's not what's happened. Millions of people did not change their mind about Donald Trump. It's all a media circus. It's all cherry picked stuff in order to drive a narrative. It's probably coming from the top down still is my guess. You know, I'd love to see the talking points that are still being distributed to the news, but here we are. Until somebody, until something pops off, right? Until there's a violent riot or until some state decides to get uppity with the feds, this is what they have to just try. And it's like the mean girls tactic. They're just going to try for months and months to convince everybody that Donald Trump's not cool enough. But Americans can't put food on the tip.
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah. Hey, Mark, I got a quick one for you too. I saw the consumer sentiment index. Republicans 92%, Democrats 35% on consumer sentiment. Can you break that down for us just a hair? Because that, that, that seems more like a political sentiment. The economics is missing, right? There's no way you're going to have Republicans with consumer expenditures or Anything correlated at 92% with Democrats at 32. So are all these variables just being conflated with the political variables and Trump derangement syndrome?
Steve Doocy
I mean, there's so many different ways to measure that. But the Republican Party and Trump supporters are all in on this, right? And so there's an aspect of optimism. Their numbers definitely ticked up a lot. And I think it's this idea that overwhelmingly Republicans say that the economy is jobs and Democrats are a lot less likely to say that. But then there's just the fact that like, you can call it chaos. But we polled, we asked this specific question. Is this what you voted for? It was like a week or two ago. 80% of Trump voters say, yeah, like, yes, this is what I voted. And so there's a bunch of different ways to measure it, but remember we asked that this golden age and Republicans overwhelmingly agreed.
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah, good. And this is a little tongue in cheek, but I just looked up the s and P500 is up 8% for the past year. Not year to date, but for the past year. And it's up 23% over the past three years. Might be 28%. Have you ever asked a question just to see if people know what's going on? Is the, is the stock market up over 5% this year? And just see what they say. Right. Because if you read the mainstream media, there's just this over. You know, it's a Great Depression. They're leading this narrative. That's just so.
Maria Bartiromo
But I think the general public think the stock market is just a casino. Yeah, that's true. Casino. I don't think it relates to their. And most of it doesn't. Most of it, you know, an equity market. So you have lower, lower cost of capital equity to build businesses and to reinvest. But the stock market is past that. These stocks trade. It's a casino mentality. Whether it's Tesla at a, at A, you know, $800 billion are the MAG7, you know, these, the AI companies that trade. And so first time you hit a speed bump, they flight. I think most people think it's a casino. So it's not a question that. Because I think most people just don't pay attention to it because it doesn't impact their daily lives. Mark Mitchell, one last time before you bounce. Go ahead. Yeah, yeah, go ahead.
Steve Doocy
No, I mean. Well, first off, we know the S and P is driven by like seven or eight stocks. It's not a real accurate measure. And I think the problem is, is that Americans don't trust the government and they certainly don't trust the government to measure things. Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics admitted that it previously overestimated the number of new jobs created in the past year. Which is more likely, that it was an honest mistake or that it was politically motivated? Only 34% say honest mistake, 53% say politically motivated. So I think the issue is they don't really trust anything out of the media or the government.
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah, yeah.
Maria Bartiromo
Unbelievable. Mark Mitchell, where do people go to get all this brain analysis on. This whole thing's been a psyop. And you got the numbers to back it up, where they go?
Steve Doocy
Yeah, Twitter, Rasmussen underscore poll and my account is honest pollster. And we also stream most Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights, usually at 9pm Eastern on Twitter, YouTube, rumble getter even. And so hope to see everybody there.
Maria Bartiromo
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Tom Homan
By and large, I'd agree with that. I don't think it cuts, covers what's going on. So let me just clarify. We have a problem with the debt. We have a problem with internal order, democracy as we know it, the system. We have a problem of a geopolitical order, rising power, challenging an existing power in that global environment. These things exist as the backdrop of this set of circumstances. Now, there's been volatility. There's been. Yes, in my opinion.
Maria Bartiromo
I guess what I'm trying to get at is you seem to be reluctant to comment directly.
Tom Homan
No, I'll comment directly.
Maria Bartiromo
What are the effects of the Trump administration's policies in the last hundred days, economically?
Tom Homan
The effects of those policies, economically is to bring to the surface issues about the polarity that exists. And at the same time, it's doing it in a volatile way that is causing trouble in terms of the volatility of that. So it is dealing with problems and at the same time it is the way it is dealing with problems could be done more smoothly, more cooperatively to produce a less volatile result.
Maria Bartiromo
Zanny, let me ask you, you said we're still. Let me ask you about something you know a lot about because we are right now the deadlock. The most important deadlock is a US China deadlock, where in order to get the world economy to a more stable place. And you wrote this in your post about a beautiful rebalancing between the US And China. You need the two sides to start talking. The US Says they were waiting for China to call and the Chinese say the US Started this. You put these tariffs on first the US has to reduce the tariffs, then we're willing to talk. How is this going to resolve itself? My sense is the Chinese are holding pretty firm.
Tom Homan
The United States has too much debt. It cannot add to the debt the way it is operating. It is the world's biggest consumer, largely financed by government debt. And the way that it's operating, China is the biggest producer. They produce a lot of goods, more than the United States, Japan and Germany combined in manufactured goods. And they put it out and they save too much and they buy the dollars. We cannot continue this debt money problem. We have a we're at the end of a debt money world order.
Maria Bartiromo
So how, how are we going to get the negotiation?
Tom Homan
There's only, it is only through cooperation, calmness and analytical work in which we recognize that these imbalances are unsustainable. They're not just financially unsustainable in a world that is near war that there could be, there cannot be mutual dependencies. And so how that is done together is the most important thing.
Maria Bartiromo
Let me Danny ask you about another thing that I wamp wamp freed. Zakar got a big smelly, you know what right on his head trying to do that little, you know that little maneuver. He does get trouble. Okay. Ray Dalio, largest hedge fund in the world, made a ton of money in China. McCormick of Pennsylvania was his deputy, was his right hand man. I've got a lot of problems with Ray Dalio and Ray Dalio got a lot of problems with Steve Bannon in the war room. However, ladies and gentlemen, that is the gospel of the war room right there. Said by supposedly the smartest or at least regardless if he's smartest or not, he's running the biggest hedge fund in the world and managing more money than anybody that probably except for Larry Fink who's not really a hedge fund guy. He's more of a what asset manager. That's the gospel according to Warren Zandi from economists. She's given the big Trump and tariffs and everything on the surface. And Freed pivots back and the guy goes hey, full stop. It's all about debt and it's about this is consumer financed by government spending and it's got to stop There is the path we are on is unsustainable. When they talk about Trump and everything he's done. Show me what your plan is because the plans understated. And that little weasel Mike Johnson skipping over to see Besson today. I hope Scott Besant knowing like I know Scott hits him upside the head and says hey, what you have here is unworkable. You have somebody's got to step to the table. We have to cut government spending and to cut government spending you're going to have to cut over the Pentagon. We got to start acting like adults. Dave, Brett know you got a bump. The floor is yours, sir.
Stephen K. Bannon
No, I think you just nailed it. Dalio. I've been a little skeptical. He's been a little fuzzy, but that's the strongest statement I've seen from him. And not only the debt and the imbalances, but the debt and the imbalances tied to geopolitics. China a threat coming at us, our dependence on them. Everybody's starting to follow that in all the news. I wish he'd go to the next point. The ditch Trump's been left in. Right. It's a bunch of twos. 2% GDP growth for the next 30 years. That's the ditch. Right. That's CBO, that's World bank, that's the Federal Reserve. We're going to grow at 2% for the next 30 years. That's on paper. What's correlated with that? Wage growth for the American people at 2% for the next 30 years.
Maria Bartiromo
So you bears a key.
Stephen K. Bannon
Why? Why is that the case? Because of productivity at 2% for the next 30 years. And our friend Bob Gordon, the top guy in the world. This is not war room statistics.
Maria Bartiromo
Killer twos.
Stephen K. Bannon
These are the 2, 2 and 2. And if Dalio hits that and shows the ditch we're in. But that was a strong performance on his part. And that goes to the psyop. You heard Fareed way in there. And when he pivoted on the language, Dalio didn't give him what he wanted. And then he said his tone almost reflected what you should certainly side with China. China's narrative and talking points. Right. And the pitch was going toward China and I'm going wow. And then of course no reportage on China's weaknesses. If you really want to finish the story. Where's the reporting? China's got 300% debt to GDP also.
Maria Bartiromo
Yeah.
Stephen K. Bannon
And so come on guys, the psyop is is loud and clear.
Maria Bartiromo
You're back with us tomorrow morning.
Stephen K. Bannon
Tomorrow all day. You bet.
Maria Bartiromo
Dave Brat is is booked this afternoon but we're going to see you tomorrow morning. Be right here in the war room. How about that? Tomorrow we got day Brett in the morning, Eric bowling nice in the afternoon. Kind of the invasion of the Visigoths. Dave. Brad, what's your social media Dave.
Stephen K. Bannon
Yeah, I did post finally from Good Friday. Brad economic side getter and on X. Amen.
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Title: Canadian Elections Kick Off Today; Trump Numbers Polling Like Obama
Host/Author: WarRoom.org
Release Date: April 28, 2025
The episode opens with a deep dive into former President Donald Trump's fluctuating approval ratings. Maria Bartiromo references recent polls highlighting a significant decline in Trump’s economic approval:
Maria Bartiromo emphasizes the breadth of Trump's unpopularity, noting, “he is underwater on every issue from a minimum of 3 percentage points to a maximum of 9 percentage points” (00:22). Steve Doocy comments on the stark decline, stating, “That's a real drop” (00:16).
Steve Doocy raises concerns about potential increases in the top marginal tax rate, questioning whether the Republican bill might push it back up to 39-40% for those earning over a million dollars (01:34). Maria Bartiromo responds by dismissing the likelihood of such changes:
A contentious topic arises when the White House displays approximately 100 posters of arrested unauthorized immigrants accused of violent crimes (02:37). Maria Bartiromo critiques the lack of due process, advocating for blurred images to protect potentially innocent individuals:
Tom Homan underscores the severity of illegal immigration, citing statistics and federal laws:
Maria Bartiromo condemns the administration's approach as “medieval” and accuses the media of perpetuating lies about immigrants (07:53).
The episode shifts focus to the Canadian elections, discussing President Trump's provocative stance on annexing Canada (16:12). Viva Fry highlights Trump's repeated assertions that Canada should consider becoming the 51st U.S. state due to perceived unfair trade practices:
Viva Fry analyzes the Conservative Party's challenges in Canada, attributing their struggles to Trump's unpopularity among Canadian voters:
Maria Bartiromo expresses frustration over the Conservative Party's predicament, linking it to Trump's negative polling (16:50).
A significant portion of the discussion centers on the hypothesis that mainstream media is orchestrating a psychological operation (psyop) to undermine Trump's approval:
Mark Mitchell from Rasmussen Polls is featured as a credible voice countering mainstream narratives, asserting that Trump’s approval remains robust despite media attempts to sway public perception.
The economic discourse involves concerns over national debt, stagflation, and projections for GDP growth:
Maria Bartiromo and other hosts probe into the sustainability of current economic policies, questioning the administration’s handling of debt and growth challenges.
As the episode wraps up, Stephen K. Bannon reiterates the narrative of media adversarialism against Trump, urging listeners to rely on independent pollsters and resist mainstream media’s narratives (33:51). The hosts anticipate further coverage of Trump’s activities, upcoming Canadian election results, and ongoing economic developments.
Maria Bartiromo concludes by teasing future segments on energy outages in Europe, new peace deals in Ukraine, and legislative battles in the U.S. Congress, maintaining a focus on economic and geopolitical stability (54:23).
Episode 4444 of Bannon’s War Room provides a critical examination of Donald Trump’s declining approval ratings, the contentious discourse surrounding tax and immigration policies, the interplay between U.S. and Canadian politics, and broader economic challenges facing the nation. The hosts and guests consistently challenge mainstream media narratives, advocating for independent analysis and emphasizing perceived media bias against Trump. The episode underscores the complexities of current political and economic landscapes, highlighting deep-seated divisions and the ongoing struggle for narrative control.