
Episode 5277: Iran Rejects Ceasefire Deal; Oligarchs Push For Data Centers Across The Country ...
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Donald Trump
Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban
Steve Bannon
a treata. Thank you for coming on the show over the last, what, 38, 40 days of this war and even beforehand and helping us think this through. What do you think to be helpful, to try to get this thing sorted right? What do you think would be. What would be helpful from President Trump today at 1 o', clock, and then from the Persians? How do you anticipate if we're, if we're to get anywhere or just keep slugging it out? Because President Trump's not a, you know, he's a guy who says, hey, look, if this is what you want to do, we'll just slug it out. What are your thoughts on that?
Trita Parsi
Well, let's first better understand what slugging it out would mean. You know, Trump went in here with some clear objectives. It didn't work out because it was based on a false understanding of the reality on the ground that had been sold to him by the Israelis. But at this point, when you listen carefully to what he's saying, it appears that as if our options here have been reduced to the Israeli strategy of mowing the lawn, which the Israelis use against Lebanon, against the Palestinians, which is every six months to two years, they just go back to bombing them just to make sure that they can never actually end up achieving anything that could pose a challenge to Israel. So it's not solution, it's just a constant state of warfare. And this is how the Israelis have pursued their immediate security in the region, because they have kind of given up or not been interested in actually achieving peace. So they're in this endless state of warfare. And Trump has said that he's just going to take out as much as possible, bomb them back to the Stone Age and add it to that, and then the next president may have to go back and bomb them again in a couple of years. That means that we would end up in a permanent state of war with Iran. Now, that may very well be Israel's preference. I think it is. But this would be devastating for the United States. We should not be here. And Trump himself is the person who, more than any other politician, has railed against these endless wars. And this would be, by definition, an endless war. So I think we have to really recognize that if we agree to that, then we've completely fallen into the trap of doing something that Trump campaigned on not doing and ending, actually. So what can be done at this point? I think, first of all, there has to be an effort to fully end the war, not ceasefire. We don't have any credibility with ceasefires any longer because of what has happened in Gaza and Lebanon for the last two to three years. So if we want to have any serious talks, it has to be about ending the war altogether. Three weeks ago, I thought it would be possible that if we offered sanctions relief, making sure that Iranian oil got back onto the market, which would be good for the US because it would push down oil prices. But if we could add something to that, which is to make sure that the Iranians at least sell half of that oil in US dollars instead of Chinese currency, it actually could be a win for us and the Iranians would agree to it. Open up the straits. At this point, I think it's become much harder because now increasingly I'm seeing messages from the Iranian side or signals from the Iranian side that they're not looking at using the Strait of Hormuz as a way of ending the war. They're looking at it as a way of managing the post war era in which they're going to use the control of the straits, not to close it, but to control who comes in and who comes out, pays transit fees, and to use that to reestablish economic relations with countries that over the last 10, 15 years have more or less ceased to have any economic relations with Iran as a result of US sanctions, if that is the direction they're going, this is going to become much, much harder. But when Trump says, hey, I don't care about the straits, we're not getting any energy out of that region, it's all going to Asia, et cetera. It kind of, I think, has led to the Iranians believing that they can pursue their strategy. Trump will just give up on this trade of Hormuz. They will reopen it, oil will flow again, but they will be in control of this trade as a new geopolitical feature in the region. I don't know if that's going to shift, but that is where they seem to be right now. And I think if we're very honest, we will see that the US's negotiating position has gradually degraded during these last 35 or so days. And there's nothing to point to that really suggests that it could be shift in a positive direction with some sort of a silver bullet. And my fear then is that if we wait too long, we will be in increasingly negative negotiating position vis a vis the Iranians. So I would move fast, and I would move fast to just end the war, not a ceasefire, offer some sort of a sanctions relief, but in return request things from the Iranians that actually really matter to the US which is, for instance, making sure that the petrodollar is not on the mine.
Steve Bannon
Trito, where do people go to get your observations and analysis? Very, very enlightening.
Trita Parsi
They should go to my Twitter, which is TPARCY, or go to the Quincy Institute's website, which is quincyinst.org or my substack, which is Astrita Parsi
Steve Bannon
Trita. Thank you so much. Appreciate it.
Trita Parsi
Thank you so much.
Steve Bannon
And. And appreciate it. Thank you, brother. We're gonna keep. We're gonna go. The White House president's coming out for the Easter egg event they put on for the children. But he's talking about Iran. Let's go right to it.
Donald Trump
Does he have a good voice for a white. I think we're gonna send him to the Met. We'll get a little commission, make a lot of money. Commission, because that man can sing. Thank you very much. Not the first time we've heard him. So today is a very special day. It's a day where we celebrate Jesus. It's a day where we celebrate religion. And it's an honor to be the President of the United States. Our country is doing so well, like it has never done before. You'll see that very shortly. And things that we've done have not been done before. We've broken every record in the stock market. We've broken every record in our military. And what about the rescue that took place yesterday? What about that? That's something that you rarely see. You know, they were giving me a briefing about that, and they said, normally when you're in very hostile territory, and I don't think it gets much more hostile than Iran. They're capable fighters. They're very tough people. And there are others like that. You don't mind when the enemy is weak, but that enemy is strong. Not so strong like they were about a month ago, I can tell you. In fact, right now, they're not too strong at all, in my opinion. But we're soon going to find out, aren't we? But when a thing like that happens, where a pilot shot down, in most instances, you're really not able to go in because you'll go in with 200 people and lots of jet fighters and helicopters, and you really don't have a chance. They get shot down, you lose 200 in order to pick up one. It's a horrible thing, but it's very rare that you can do it. And what we did yesterday is we picked up not one, we picked up two. We kept the first one quiet. And we were able to keep it quiet for about a day, which made it a lot better. But those two pilots were incredible, brave, and we thank them. And we're going to be having a news conference today at 1:00 clock at the Oval Office, and we look forward to it. But I just want to say we have a great military. We have the greatest military, the most powerful military any place in the world. You saw what happened with Venezuela, and it's an honor. I built it in my first term and I didn't know I was going to be using it this much in my second term, but it's my honor. And they're the greatest people on Earth. Our warriors are the greatest fighters on Earth. And they very much appreciate you and love you, and that's why they do it. So this is all about today. I must tell you, I came out and I expected we were going to be talking about farmers, and we love our farmers. We were going to talk about so many different products. But you know what they want to talk about, sir? This is about eggs. Eggs. Because we have the egg farmers of the entire country here, and they are unbelievable. And if you remember, when I first got elected, my first news conference with the fake news, a lot of fake news here today, but I had a news conference and the first question, what are you going to do about eggs, sir? I said, what are you. What's wrong with eggs? I just got there. It's my second day in office at a news conference, and they were screaming at me, what am I going to do about eggs? And I said, well, it's like, tell me what's wrong with eggs? The price was so high, it was four times higher than it was a year before. I said, well, that sounds like a problem. Let me think about it. And Brooke Rollins, our great Secretary of Agriculture, she got involved. We all got involved. They didn't want me. As you know, just last year, it's hard to believe, they didn't want me to order eggs for the Easter egg roll, the Easter egg hunt that we have here every year. They wanted me to use plastic. I said, I'm not using plastic. We'll get it solved. And within a short period of time, eggs came down. They came down 40%, 50%. And by the time we got there, we had so many eggs, we didn't know what to do with them. And today we have more than 40,000 eggs supplied by all of the great egg farmers that are with us. So eggs is a big thing. And it was a big thing. To our great first lady, who's here someplace. Let's see. I think this is our First Lady. What do you think of our First Lady? She's a movie star. I don't know. Do we call her first lady or a movie star? She has the biggest movie. Can you believe this? And she deserves it. Would you like to say a couple of words to your friends?
Steve Bannon
Happy Easter Monday. I hope you enjoyed this beautiful day. We are celebrating a very special Easter Egg Roll this year.
Donald Trump
Year.
Steve Bannon
Because it's 250th birthday of this beautiful nation. Enjoy it, and I hope you have a wonderful day. Thanks.
Donald Trump
Thank you, honey. And she worked very hard with her staff and the staff of the White House on really just making it nice. This is the nicest I've ever seen. And so this is my fifth. And I will say that this is. It gets better every time, right? It gets better every time. You notice the fencing is all brand new. I said, you know, we could have bought used fencing and saved a lot of money. They said, this is for the. This is for Easter, and this is for our egg farmers. And we're going to get new fencing. Everything's new and everything's beautiful. And the White House never looked better, and our country never looked better. So I just want to thank everybody. It's been a special period of time. One year ago, a little bit more. Our country was dead. We had a dead country. We had an administration that didn't know what the hell they were doing. Today, we have the hottest country anywhere in the world. We're respected by everybody, and that's the way we're going to keep it. That's the way we're going to keep it. So, again, I want to thank all of the associations and the egg farmers and all of the people that are here. We think we could have 50,000 people coming all day long. It's open, and they expect between 30 and 50,000 people. So that's great. And most importantly, I want to just say happy Easter and God bless America. We have the greatest country on earth. God bless you all. You are very, very special people. Thank you, everybody. Have a good time.
Steve Bannon
The president. Easter Parade right there. Can we pick up the music? They're going to go the egg roll. Real America's voice. We're going to split the stream, as we call it. You're going to be able to watch that because it's always a fun event, historic event. President Trump and the first lady really get into this and do it right. There are thousands of people there right now, including many of the associates of the war room having a good time this morning with their children, as it should be. We're gonna go back to the war and we're gonna leave the White House with enjoying Easter Monday, traditional Easter Egg Roll. And of course, the screen will be there. Sam Faddis, a tree to Parsi in what the president just said, one o' clock today, folks. You do not want to miss us. Now, the president says back in the Oval Office, I believe because of the demand of so much media that wants to attend, I think they put it into the press briefing room. I would not be surprised. They moved it to the East Room. My understanding is there's an overwhelming response by the media to want to be there because it looks like the Revolutionary Guard has said right now they're not interested in a deal. What did you think about. About that? And then I'm going to get to Eric Bolling about what Trita said on the oil infrastructure. Sam Faddis, your thoughts on Trita Parsi?
Sam Faddis
Well, Steve, look, here's something you don't hear me say every day. I agree with Trita Parsi's assessment in the sense that he understands that the center of gravity of this war is the world economy, the flow of oil and gas, and then all the other really critical byproducts produced from them. And so we're talking about wanting the Iranians to negotiate. They don't. We want them to surrender. We want them to concede. They don't think they need to concede. They don't think they're losing. And they have a point because they have the world by the throat. So we're fighting this conventional war against their military, and they've shut down the Straits of Hormuz. But then they are also poised to take out the oil and gas infrastructure in the Gulf. Which means what when the war finally ends, minimum probably five years and nobody has any idea how many billions of dollars to reconstruct it, and in the meantime, we go into economic free fall worldwide. So that's their leverage. We want them to quit. They don't think they have to quit because they think they're winning right now. That's, that's where we are, whether we like it or not. We can pretend.
Steve Bannon
Does that surprise you, Given, given your, given Your decade, your 20 years of work in this file, but your decade in country, does that surprise you about the Persians?
Sam Faddis
No, nothing about this surprises me. And that and wouldn't surprise anybody who's worked against them and understands that regime in the irgc, if you're going to tee off against them in what is an existential fight from their side, the first thing that's going to come to mind is, okay, well, they're not going to collapse and at some point when we push them hard enough, they're going to basically take a blowtorch to the world economy. So what's the plan for how we stop them from doing that before the first bomb falls? Before how? They're going to send 10,000 drones headed for the oil and gas fields in the Persian Gulf. So how many? And you tell me. We got 90 interception rate. That's fabulous, guys. That's still a thousand drones that are going to hit oil and gas infrastructure. So how much damage is that going to be caused and what are the, what's the impact? And all of that should have happened obviously before anybody pulled the trigger, but apparently we were sold this bill of goods that we don't have to worry about that because in a few days it's all over but the shouting. Those troops will be home by Christmas and we win.
Steve Bannon
Well, well, I think they're going now for state, total state collapse. Hang on, put a pin in it because I want to. One of the buried leads, a treata is something that I did fail to mention this morning on news reports and America's greatest allies have already started, have already started going after the infrastructure. Just hang on for a second, Sam. I want to go to Eric Bolling. Eric, given what Trita said, does that change your assessment at all? Is that how you see this playing out, at least from their, their perspective of what they're trying to accomplish?
Eric Bolling
So I'm, well, what Trita said, it's something we've been talking about a long time, that yeah, they're, they're the, the whole Mideast loves $100, $120, $150 barrel of oil here. I also think I'll add to what Trita said and what Sam said is that they do have the ability to go after oil infrastructure in the region. But before they go down, these people are martyrs. They'll blow up their own infrastructure as well and then they'll do whatever they can to keep the straight closed as long as they can before any sort of relent or, you know, surrender to the Trump administration. So they're going to fight it out. I'll also take the other side of both of those very astute, smart gentlemen say it's a fool's game to doubt Trump even if you don't see it coming. There's always something up his sleeve that he has. And I just think he's got some form of negotiation that he's ready to play there. I've never seen a president that could stand at the, you know, the South Portico of the White House and talk about egg rolls and Easter bunnies while bombing the spit out of the Iranian people. He's just got that. And I just, I hope that he realizes something that I think they do. I hope they realize that. Yeah, we're up, we're 412A gallon right now, Steve. We're headed to $5 a gallon. The faster it gets there and starts its way down, the better because I don't. This sounds ridiculous on the short term, we could lose aggressively lose the midterms, the House, maybe even the Senate. And that, that's something that I don't in America. I don't really. We've made so many strides with Trump. I'd hate to give it all back over, over one issue like this.
Steve Bannon
Talk to me about Trita mentioned the petrodollar. People have to understand, I think right now, at least what we're seeing is that the tolling that the, the, the Revolutionary Guard pirates are putting on anything coming out of Hormuz, first of all, it's only going to really their allies is or their new would be ally, I think India, because India gets some of this too. It's all being my understanding. It's everything's being transacted in yuan, the Chinese currency. He mentioned the petrodollar. And this is going to get to be the pressure on the US Dollars. This is getting the BRICS nations another bite at the apple and trying to destroy the United States financially, particularly folks on this budget that just got put up and it's been out three days. We haven't had a chance to talk to you about it because it is pretty, I think, shocking. Right. And we have to address it because the deficits are talking about are substantial and going to put additional pressure on the US Dollar. Talk to people about this whole fight behind the scenes on the financial war between using the Chinese currency and you can tell Iran is hardwired with the Chinese Communist Party on this and not and treated as like a give. Hey look, it's a big negotiation. We'll give you the survival of the petrodollar. I mean that's, you know, just said casually that is a huge deal. And to understand that they think and remember he was given their perspective that they think that they got us by the throat on that Is a, is a pretty big headline, sir.
Eric Bolling
Yeah, he's right about one thing. That, that if you do open up this idea to the world that the US dollar is no longer the, the currency that you trade global commodities, oil, gold, various forms, you have to go to the US buy US Dollars to trade a barrel of oil all around the world. If you move to the yuan or some sort of bric currency which they been trying to do, you devalued the dollar. Greatly, greatly devalued the dollar. And that means every asset that we hold in US dollars will be devalued as well. It's a very dangerous game of chicken there as well. I think the stability, the global stability of the dollar will remain. There are too many weird things going on in China, too many things going on in let's say Russia and then the brick countries where businessmen are smart, they're not going to do it just out of politics or political feelings or ideology. They're going to do it where the money is the safest. And still so far, the US dollar is the safest currency on the planet, bar none, by a long shot. But if you start undermining the integrity of the dollar, yeah, that is a major, major risk. These things are all so detrimental to our economy. A lot of folks are saying, oh, you know, this isn't a big deal, it's going to go away soon. It's not. Prices are going. Inflation is what we got Biden out of office with. We're going to be up against some massive inflation at the worst possible time politically. So I think this thing has to end fast. Even if it ends badly ended fast.
Steve Bannon
Many people are saying, hey look, this is just another Middle east war. I'm not interested in it. I want to watch what's happening on TV or other events or the final four. That's all fine. You may not have an interest in this war. This war definitely has an interest in you. First off, everything about the dollar and what they're trying to do with the dollar is directly involve you. Interest rates, the 10 year treasury, how we finance all this. I think diesel price, somebody told me diesel was six over. The engine room in Phoenix told me that Diesel was over six bucks a gallon. I think $6.18 in Phoenix today. Gasoline, increasing fertilizer, price for food, this is all inextricably linked into the global economy. That's why the Iranians, although they're getting crushed and Captain Fennell and CENTCOM are absolutely correct on a conventional military sense, they are getting crushed like very few people in this world have gotten crushed. I think it shows you their toughness. Now there is this thing they've already had to go to, a barter economy. They may be relatively close to a state collapse. Even in a state collapse, is that going to stop their kind of asymmetric warfare? Particularly as you got these pirates that are down close to the, to the Hormuz, the Strait of Hormuz and those islands down there that have really set up a tolling operation to kind of restrict flow. And right now it doesn't even mean insurance. Just captains aren't prepared to put it at risk and go there and take a couple of incomings sitting on a million barrels of oil that'll blow them to kingdom come. So this war has a direct interest in your financial and economic well being. Eric Bolling, closing thoughts and then tell us where to get you. We're going to have the president's at 1, Eric Bolling will be at 4. We're going to do a transition with Eric, talk all about it. And then at five and six o' clock tonight live, we're going to break it all down for you. Eric, closing thoughts and then where do we get you, sir?
Eric Bolling
So, so the closing thought is this. First of all, there's only 13 ships that have navigated the Strait of Hormuz in the past week. Still ridiculously low. It's nowhere near open, not even close. So what happens, Steve, if the dollar gets devalued? A weaker dollar forces inflationary. It's an inflationary force because you need more dollars to go after the same goods. So you're chasing more goods. Inflation isn't up. It just gets jacked up as the dollar gets sold, which will happen if they take the geopolitical requirement of the US Dollar to trade oil and others. And then you already have the fuel prices pushing inflation higher as well. You have a double bang effect of inflation higher on the US Economy. There's only one solution to that. That's raising interest rates. That puts, that puts a weight an anchor on the equity markets. It's all bad. Inflation is the silent killer and it will kill the economy. The US Economy, maybe the global economy as well, needs to happen fast, faster, better. Steven and economies again. I'm very, very worried about midterms at this rate. I'm not being doom and gloom. I think Trump has the ability, even if it goes to five bucks a gallon, he can start working the down south and go into the midterms with better pricing.
Steve Bannon
Eric Bolling, thank you. We'll see you back here at 4 o'.
Trita Parsi
Clock.
Steve Bannon
We'll do a transition towards the end of the show. You're going to be following President Trump. 1:00pm President Trump said Oval Office, Caroline Levitz so they may shift down to the briefing room. We're going to see. You're going to get the president in rare form today and we're going to cover it all. Short break. The dollar's convertibility into gold ended in 1971. Gold was fixed at $35 an ounce. Well, fast forward to today and the US dollar has lost over 85% of its purchasing power. Gold, on the other hand, is increased in value by over 12,000%. That's why Central banks are buying gold at record levels. That's why major firms like Vanguard and BlackRock hold significant positions in gold. And that's why I encourage you to consider diversifying your savings with physical gold from Birch Gold Group. But it starts with education. Birch Gold just announced the their Learn and Earn Precious Metals event. This free online event rewards you for learning the basics of investing in precious metals. Sign up to get a free silver on your next purchase. Get even larger incentives as you go. The more you learn, the more you can earn. But you must act now as this special event only runs through April 30th. The dollar lost its anchor in 1971. You don't have to lose yours. Text my name, Bannon B A N N O N to the number 989-898 to join Birchgold's Learn and Earn Precious Metals event by April 30th. Text Bannon B A N N O N to 989-898 and do it. Today, everyone's focused on how the conflict in the Middle east is raising oil prices. But there's another grim reality to this contention. Oil isn't the only resource being constrained. About one third of global fertilizer trade happens through this region. And with spring planting season on top of us, American farmers are sounding the alarm with some saying they can't afford to plant their fields. When one piece of the supply chain gets hit this hard, you know what comes next? Higher fruit prices, reduced availability, maybe even panic buying. That's why having an emergency food supply and at home makes so much sense. And that's where our friends at My Patriot Supply come in. Right now@preparedwithbannon.com that is preparewithbannon.com we've set up an entire just site for the war room posse. You go to preparewithbannon.com that's all one word. Preparewithbannon.com you get a three month emergency food supply. They'll include a free mega protein Upgrade, an incredible $200 bonus you don't want to miss. It's a simple way to protect your family from whatever comes next. Go to preparewithbannon.com that is preparewithbannon.com to get your emergency food supply today. That's preparewithband.com do it today. Go check it out.
Donald Trump
Here's your host, Stephen K. Ban.
Steve Bannon
We've got Terry Schilling on data centers for AI. I have Jeff Reyer on this heroic, heroic grassroots effort. Denver D, Commonwealth, Virginia. We're going to try to get to all that. Sam Faddis, your closing observations here. I want to thank you for taking your Easter Monday morning and joining us sir.
Sam Faddis
Here's the bottom line Steve. We're in this war. We have to win this war. And the answer to ending the war is not to go and sit down at the table with the Iranians and concede to them and give them what they want. All on bottom line is I'm saying the initial conception for how we were going to win this war it didn't work. It was never going to work. We need to figure out why, who we listen to, where we're getting our information from and we need to craft a strategy that wins. And it has to make oil and natural gas and the world supply of that and all the materials that come from it the center of gravity. We need to cut off the Iranians capacity to sell oil and gas and cut off their capacity to threaten the world's oil and gas. That's got to be the centerpiece of the policy we're at and magazine at substack and magazine.substack.com
Steve Bannon
Sam Unbelievable. Always great observations and a steady safe pair of hands. Thank you sir. Appreciate you. The Phoenix engine room reminds me and they send me that diesel is $6 and basically 50 cents in the Phoenix area. $6.50 in America runs on diesel. Let's go. By the way, Birchgold, our A3 installment on Birchgold. Go to birchgold.com promo code Bannon right now you can get access to all eight free installments of the end of the Dollar empire. The eighth really addresses this pressure that's on the US dollar today. Remember one of the centerpieces of this fight is an economic warfare. That's why they just talked about sanctions relief and true sanctions relief. Also how are they getting cash? Where is it going? Why are we allowing the Chinese Communist Party to get oil and pay for it and they're paying for it in their own currency to break oil, the US dollar, the Brics nations. So all comp. Very complex. We make it all accessible. Birchgold.com promo code Bannon into the dollar empire the President is answering a few questions. Let's go ahead and cut back to the White House. Here are a couple of these questions before we get Terry and Jeff Ryer up.
Donald Trump
From this morning. I've seen every proposal you can imagine.
Steve Bannon
Your final deadline is Tuesday at 8pm Your final deadline. If Iran does not meet your demands,
Donald Trump
Mr. President, are you willing to continue the war? Well, you'll have to watch. It's an easy question. The answer is yes, but you'll have to. What do you think of the latest proposal? They've made a proposal and it says significant proposal. It's a significant step. It's not good enough but it's a very significant step they have made. They're negotiating now and they've made a very significant step. We'll see what happens. Have you spoken with his Thomas? Do you believe the UK could resurrect like Jesus this Easter weekend? Well, that's what they need. They have long way to go. The UK has a long way to go. We don't want another Neville Chamberlain.
Trita Parsi
Do we agree?
Donald Trump
We don't want. We don't want Neville Chamberlain. How is the airman rescued doing? He's doing really well. They both do hit almost two and we held off to one because we. If you. If they would have known we had him so we held off the one. They are both recovering very well. They were both injured and they're doing well. What else? Well, you know what, when you do thousands and thousands of flights and you have one plane shot down and not mortally the two violence got out. They got a little bit lucky. And you know what? In war you need a little bit of luck also. They got a little bit lucky. That's all they got from ending the war. What's stopping you from ending the war? Well, it could end very quickly the war if they do what they have to do. They have to do certain things. They know that they've been negotiating, I think in good faith. We've had total regime change. You know, the people there now are much more reasonable than the lunatic that you had in phase one and phase two. They were lunatics. The people that we're negotiating with now on behalf of Iran are much more reasonable. You can call it what you want, but I call it regime change. And I think most people are giving us credit for that the first regime was taken out, the second regime was taken out. Now the third group of people that we're dealing with is not as radicalized and we think they're actually much smarter.
Steve Bannon
Why did you use such vulgar language
Jeffrey Ryer
in that true social.
Donald Trump
Only to make my point. I think you've heard it before.
Steve Bannon
Have you spoken to the families in
Donald Trump
the airmen that were safe? I'm going to be doing it right now.
Trita Parsi
What do you say to Americans who
Donald Trump
are not a fan of the war? They're foolish because the war is about one thing. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Had we not broken the Barack Hussein Obama agreement. You know that. You know what I'm talking about. The Iran nuclear deal. This is years ago, my first term. You would have had a total. Israel would have been gone, extinguished. Israel would be. Would have been wiped off the face of the earth and the entire Middle east would have been at a minimum in big trouble. But I did did it. That was phase one. We killed solemnity without solemnity. If they had Solomon, it would be a whole different thing. Maybe we'd still be winning, but it would have been harder because we are obliterating that country. And I hate to do it, but we're obliterating. And they just don't want to say uncle. They don't want to cry, as the expression goes, uncle. But they will. And if they don't, they'll have no bridges, they'll have no power plants, they'll have no anything. I want to. I won't go further because there are other things that are worse than those two. And we might have. Well, the thing. If I had my choice, what would I like to do? Take the oil because it's there for the taking. There's not a thing they can do about it. Unfortunately, the American people would like to see us come home. If it were up to me, I'd take the oil, I'd keep the oil and would make plenty of money. And I'd also take care of care of the people of Iran much better than they've been taken care of. It's been a horrible. They've killed 45,000 people as of a month and a half ago. 45,000 protesters. We don't do that. So if I had my choice, I'd keep the oil. But I also want to make the people of our country happy. I think most people wouldn't understand that. I'll give you an example. Venezuela has worked out so incredibly. We've had 100 million barrels of oil right now in Houston being refined it's been great. The relationship with Venezuela, the leaders, has been fantastic. And I think we're going to have a long term, very good relationship. And it might be. And it might be beyond long term, you understand? Well, I tell you what, I'm pretty good at this stuff. And I go around and I check, they'd like to see us win and come home. And I appreciate CNN for the first time maybe in my life. They did a poll and everyone's saying, oh, is Trump losing maga? No, I'm not losing maga. MAGA loves what I'm doing. And CNN did a poll of MAGA voters, a big poll, very important poll, Harry. And he went on, he said, this is amazing, 100%. He said, I've never had a 100% poll at anything before. And is, do you support Trump MAGA people, which is, by the way, mostly Republican. And if you look, I would say MAGA makes up a majority, like about 95% of the Republican Party. All right, so they went out, they did a poll, and CNN came back, 100% support. So they support what we're doing, but they would like to see it end and come back. But remember wars, last years, we're in there for 34 days and we've obliterated a very powerful country in 34 days. Yeah, if it were up to me, I'd like to keep the oil. I just don't think the people of the United States would really understand. How is it taking care of the Iranian people if you're bombing? Yeah. Who you with? Who you with? Well, that's a radical left group of lunatics, if you will. Let me just tell you. Let me just tell you. Very fair question. The Iranian people, when they don't hear bombs go off, they're upset. They want to hear bombs because they want to be free. And the only reason they're not out protesting, you know, that is because they were informed that if they protest, like the wrestler and his friend, if they protest, they will be shot immediately. And that's an edict that's in writing. If they protest, if they go out in the streets, they will be immediately shot. They don't have guns. You know, we sent some guns. But the group that was supposed to give, which I said would happen to my people, I said it, I called it. Exactly. We sent guns, a lot of guns. They were supposed to go to the people so they could fight back against the. These thugs. You know what happened? The people that they sent them to kept them because they said, what a beautiful gun. I Think I'll keep it. So I'm very upset with a certain group of people and they're going to pay a big price for that. But the Iranian people will fight back as soon as they know they're not going to be shot and as soon as they can get weapons. If they had weapons, not many of them. If they had weapons, that would go the other way. And you know what happened, Iran would give up in two seconds because they wouldn't be able to take it. But in Iran, they have absolutely no weaponry. And they've been told point blank, if you come out, if you come out to the streets, you will be killed. As of this morning, and we have this on pretty good information. 45,000 protesters have been killed. Pretty bad. Mr. President, you said Iran has been obliterated. Barbizon, a lot more. It's a big country. They can't fight back. They have no capability. I mean, they'll have, they have some missiles left, they have some drones left, but essentially they have no capability. They had a lucky shot with an airplane, but we got them back out. The rescue was incredible. And it wasn't of one person, it was a two person. There are those that say that's never happened before because usually when you're shot down in strong enemy and deep enemy territory, you can't go after them because you'll end up losing two hundred and fifty people to get one. So it's a terrible thing. But we had to make a decision, do we do it or do we not? And we did. And you know, we have some helicopters with a lot of bullet holes in them right now, probably, you know that. Now I'm very honored by, I'm very honored to have rebuilt our military. We rebuilt our military in my first term. I'm using it as our second term. And we are the most respected country anywhere in the world with the greatest military anywhere in the world. Thank you. So we have a news conference. You'll all be there. So you could ask the question a little while. We have a news conference in a little while. What would you like to ask her? Well, all of this is happening for
Steve Bannon
their future, so they will be safe in years to come.
Donald Trump
We're fighting for children that are now in a war zone. We're keeping them as safe as we can possibly keep them. But we're fighting for their parents, their grandparents. We're fighting for them. We're fighting for their future. And I will tell you, it was given to me loud and clear the time the Iranian people are the most unhappy when you hear bombs all over is when those bombs stop. That's the problem, is that when they stop. Because that means that are they coming back? We want to have them back. And you know, everybody knows that, everybody sees it. So hopefully it could be over with quickly again. There are lots of different alternatives. We have many alternatives. We could leave right now and it would take them 15 years to rebuild what they have. We could leave right now. But I want to find, finish it up. Iran ready, cannot have a nuclear weapon. They are lunatics. And you can't put nuclear weapons in the hands of a lunatic.
Trita Parsi
Thank you.
Steve Bannon
Okay, President United States right there taking questions. He's got a, he has a press briefing in an hour and a half. Looks like now Oval Office. Caroline Levitt said it might be in the press briefing room. I think with the, the volume of major media globally that want to see this, you would think this might even be in the East Room because it's going to be absolutely packed. Oval will be packed. Real America's Voice will be there, cover all of it live. And then of course, Eric back at 4 o'. Clock. We're here from 5 to 7 tonight to cover all this. And you saw right there, you know, President Trump is the best spokesman for this. He really pulls together all the strategic. You just heard right there how he's. And he's. Some of it's thinking out loud. So it's going to be quite interesting at 1 o' clock and then the deadlines tomorrow night at 8 and it sounds like, you know, he's, he did say broke some news there. It's been reported up to President Trump took the microphone, went to the sticks, is that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard rejected a ceasefire proposal. He said, hey, we're actually in discussions. And they've come back and there has been this discussion that, and they've said we're going to come back with our own 15 point plan. President Trump says they're in discussions and you know, the US and President Trump is chewing things over. I'm sure we're going to get more of that at 1 o', clock, 1pm Eastern Daylight Time. Do not miss it right here on Real America's Voice. So much other news we have to get to. This is why when you start, when the balloon goes up and you start going kinetic, it kind of sucks. Everybody's attention as it should. But there's so many other important things going. A couple things I want to get Jeff Reyer and really give a shout out to and any support we can for the Heroic effort of the, you know, the grassroots in three areas, as I said, at CPAC in Texas, in Georgia and in the Commonwealth of Virginia, have given. If people say, hey, the MAGA movement's dead and people are not responding and running and in writing to the sound of the guns, they would be incorrect. Jeff Reyer, the chairman of the gop, tell us the mainstream media, New York Times, Politico, full meltdown, that it looks like the grassroots are on fire in the Commonwealth of Virginia to basically potentially win this referendum that they've spent. Somebody told me they had raised and were spending 40 or 50 million dollars and thought they were going to bury this. To flip the illegally, kind of unethically flipped The Virginia delegation from 6 5, Democrat to Republican to 101 and virtually ashore, I think will come very close to the impeachment of President Trump, to flipping the house and having them come after President Trump. Jeff, can you give us an update? With a couple of weeks to go,
Jeffrey Ryer
it's really getting kind of electric here on the ground. We have so many different efforts going on simultaneously, and we've gotten a tremendous amount of support from the grassroots who are really driving this entirely. We're starting to get monetary support as well from outside, not to the extent that the Democrats have, but at the very beginning, nobody was looking to give us much of anything, and now we actually have resources to be able to deploy with our grassroots. So it's been huge. This morning I was at a. At a rally town hall hosted by our former attorney general. There's several of these going on during the course of the week. We also have. We have rallies at the end of the week with. With Governor Youngkin. We're going across the state energizing our. Energizing our volunteers. And we have so many of them, and we put it in the hands of our volunteers. They're the best army we've got.
Steve Bannon
Tell people. Because the Republican establishment kind of folded and collapsed in the November elections. And it was just. It was just. It was unbelievable. How did you take. Because the whole word is that Mag is dispirited, that the grassroots don't care anymore, that you can't get people motivated. And. And the Democrats are playing on this is that they've got the momentum. What was it at the very early days?
Donald Trump
This.
Steve Bannon
Because this is like back in 20. This is like January, February, March, April of 2021, where President Trump was sent into exile and people were just going, man, if they can steal it from Trump, they can steal it from anybody. I'm going to Give up. What was it and what was the motivational factor, you and your leadership and the grassroots leadership there, to get people motivated because you had no money and not quite. It was kind of dismissed. This thing in Virginia is gone. Spamberger is going to get it and she'll be Newsom's running mate once she delivers that. What did you guys do to motivate people to get them start going door to door? The hardest thing you got to do, knocking on doors and convincing people that this thing was unfair and had to be stopped?
Jeffrey Ryer
Well, a couple of things. First off, the Democrats in a weird way did us a favor because nothing excites our voters more than the idea that they're going to be silenced. Because they experienced that during the Biden years when it wasn't just that we were being disagreed with, it was that we were being silenced and they were doing everything they could to silence us. This particular referendum is designed to silence conservative and Republican voices across the state. So that was assist number one. But assist number two came and I think it really helped to generate a lot of interest among our base is when they watched what the Democrats were doing. Abigail Spanberger campaigned as a moderate and then governed as a far left liberal. We have had legislation after legislation submitted by the Democrats that's sitting on her desk that she's inevitably going to sign. That makes us a mirror of California, really taking those policies from the west coast and bringing them here to the east. It's that bad. And that makes it a little bit easier to get our base going. And it has made it easier because they've seen the consequences of Democrat rule.
Steve Bannon
Just incredible. And the leadership down there at the grassroots level has been incredible. And the amount of effort, the people going door to door, the hardest thing you have to do. Jeff, where do people go right now to find out more about what you're trying to accomplish? And, and if they want to support you guys, where they go? Because this is a, this is a national, this has national and international impact. What's happening in the commonwealth in the next couple of weeks?
Jeffrey Ryer
Absolutely. If you go to virginia.gop, that's virginia.gop. if you want to volunteer, click on that little no rigged maps box or at the very top of the page. You'll see stop gerrymandering. Click on that to volunteer. But we also, we are in clutch crunch time here. If you can also click on our donate button and send us a little gift, trust me, it'll go directly to voter contact. We're trying to put together Some extra people on the ground and bring some other people into the state. We're doing everything we can to fight. And Steve, I've got to thank you because frankly, the. My appearances on the War Room have brought us a lot of support and made me quickly recognizable around the state. I hear from so many volunteers now, oh, I saw you on War Room. It's this exposure has been fantastic for us and it's really appreciated.
Steve Bannon
Well, you guys rated. I mean, it's been incredible. And there's folks in Georgia and Texas. This is. People say, hey, midterms lost, the Senate's lost, the House lost. Nothing's lost. Nothing is written. Okay? Use it in what Virginia, the Commonwealth shows you. Ryer in this band of patriots down there is human agency. If you just got too much grit and cussedness and say, hey, Spanberger is a radical. She's a CIA trained, absolute neo Marxist. And she showed that, being in your grill the first couple of days of her regime. And she thinks she's gonna turn the Commonwealth of Virginia into California. Jeff's 100% correct and beat Newsom's running mate. That's what America's got in store for you. Look at what they've done. And to see these grassroots patriots with no support and quite frankly, people just dismissing it and the establishment saying, oh, this thing's over, Boom. Next thing you know, after a couple of weeks of intense effort in the use of human agency, guess what? There's a fight. This one's gonna be fought down to the end. I can tell you, Jeff, honored to have you on here. And anything we can do to support you guys, just let me know.
Jeffrey Ryer
Jeff Wright, well, you've been doing a
Steve Bannon
lot and Chairman of the gop, thank you. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you folks go to that website right now. You want to get inspired. Just like the folks in Georgia on the 2020 election, the Heroes down in Georgia, the heroes in Texas, both on Prop 10 and also the Paxton campaign and so many other grassroots campaign center. If you think that MAG is over, if you think maga's, you know, disgruntled, if you think maga's despondent, you couldn't be farther from the truth. There are areas in this country where they're fighting as hard as people have ever fought. Terry Schilling, you've led the fight on this transgender ideology and we're winning. But every day on that is a grind because I don't think people realize how dug in they are in the economics. This is, first off demonic, but they're making. It's demonic and they're making money, which is the worst of all worlds. But you've now joined the fight with us. The other day, you came as part of the alliance on this artificial intelligence. I know you guys have been working behind the scenes and you got such a great team over there, but I wanted you on here today to talk about data centers and particularly some things that are popping up here recently. First off, give me your overall assessment of. Now you've joined the alliance to fight artificial intelligence. And folks behind the scenes, this is the single biggest fight that's going on in the imperial capital because it's only dealing with, I don't know, the future of the species. Right. And unlimited money and power. And that's what, in the imperial capital, that's what they're fighting for. Terry Schilling, the floor is yours.
Terry Schilling
Well, Steve, you're exactly right. We can't let our foot off of the gas on the trans fight. It's going very well. President Trump's essentially doing every single thing he can and then some to protect our children. I kind of stumbled into this AI fight primarily to protect children. But as I've traveled the country more and more trying to figure out how to make life more affordable and attainable for families and for young people who want to get married and have kids, the issue of these AI data centers keeps coming up. I sit down with donors and I tell them we're trying to make life more affordable.
Donald Trump
And.
Terry Schilling
And they always say, you know, it always threw me off in the beginning. What are you doing about these AI data centers? Those are going to jack up the price of living hugely. And you take into it. I stumbled upon this AI data center that they're trying to build in Fort Meade, Florida. It's Fort Meade, Florida, small town, 5,300 people. I grew up in a town of 6,000, so I understand just how small it is. Everyone knows each other, essentially. But this data center, it's. We don't even know who's behind it, but it's being run by this D.C. real estate group called Stonebridge, and they're trying to build. Steve, I'm not exaggerating. I'm not lying. This is a 4.4 million square foot data center right in the heart of rural Florida in Fort Meade. The city council right now is going to be voting to rezone the agricultural land to industrial to allow this data center. It's a nightmare, Steve. This data center, they estimate, will take up to 1 gigawatts of energy to put that in perspective. Nuclear power plants. That's how much they generate each of them. The bigger ones generate 1.3 gigawatts. This is going to drive up energy costs. It's going to drive up water costs. It's going to drive down the value of the land, especially by the people closest to it. And we have to stop it. We have to stop this all over the country, Steve. The ultimate fight. You put it exactly right. This is about the future of humanity. We're being promised that AI is going to usher in a new age of prosperity, when the reality is it sounds more and more that AI is going to be using us to make AI more powerful, not us using AI to make our lives better off. So I'm coming on. The war room posse's come through on so many awesome fights. And we got to flood the phone lines of the Fort Meade city council and tell them, no, we don't want this data center. I got the number, Steve. It's 8632-8511-0086-3285. 1100. We've got to stop these things, Steve, because they don't want to help us. They want to subjugate us and colonize all of rural America, which is where the heart of America truly is.
Steve Bannon
Hold it, hold it. Don't. Don't bury the lead. 4.4 million what? Square feet.
Terry Schilling
4.4 million square feet for this data center. It's a monstrosity, Steve. It's 1300 acres that this company has. 1300 acres. 4.4 million square feet. You could build at least 1000 homes in this area and everyone would have a lot of property. It's absolutely atrocious. Where is this money going? Or right? Why are they doing this here in this small town, America?
Steve Bannon
Or since it's. Since it's. Since it's agriculture. Maybe have a couple of cows out there. Hang on. 1. What do you say the power output? The power output. 4.4 million square feet. 1300 acres. Is going to do what? One gigawatt. You told me. Is that. Is that the power output?
Terry Schilling
That's the estimates that they have for this, for this Data center is 1 gigawatts. That is a nuclear power plant. One nuclear. One regular sized nuclear power plant is 1 gigawatts. It's not sustainable, Steve. All of our rates are going to go up because of this.
Steve Bannon
Unbelievable. On these data centers, boy, you get that kind of power. People walk around town that have half of their. Half of their head won't have any hair on it. The other half. This is outrageous. How did it get this far into the city council? Why was it not shot down beforehand?
Terry Schilling
Well, they did try to sneak it through about a month ago. They had to fire the local city attorney that they hired. They went with a new one. But the vote to rezone is tomorrow evening, Tuesday, April 7th. And I'm encouraging everyone I can to call the city council and make sure that they know that you're opposed to building this data center. They're trying to sneak this. See, we don't even know which company is going to be using this land. It's being run through a secretive D.C. based real estate company. And we don't know if it's Amazon, we don't know if it's Meta, we don't know if it's Google, we have no clue. No one's disclosing anything. And I think it's because it's probably not, you know. Steve, have you. I don't know if you've read this book, but I'm reading this book called the Hideous Strength right now. It's from CS Lewis Sci fi trilogy. It reminds me so much of that book.
Steve Bannon
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Donald Trump
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Donald Trump
Clock.
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Donald Trump
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Terry Schilling
Well, Steve, I think everyone's big concern with AI is that we're being promised that AI is gonna be used to help usher in a new age of prosperity for us as human beings. But the more and more we see of AI and its development, the more it seems like we're going to be working for AI and working for the system. I'm reading this book right now, that hideous strength by C.S. lewis. It's the third of his space trilogy. And it reminds me so much of the era we're in. Even with these secretive committees like they have in this book. They have this committee called the Nice and it's all about ushering in a new age of prosperity. They're going to unleash knowledge upon the people. They just want control. They just want to control us and treat us like the cogs in a machine that they view us as. And they don't want us having freedom and real education, real formation because that's a threat to them. But the reality is we have to shut this thing down. Steve if they can do this in these rural parts of the country, they'll do whatever. They've already won the cities. They've already won urban America. Now they're taking over rural. So we need everyone to flood the zone with the Fort Meade City Council, the phone number to call to make sure that you voice your opposition to this new 4.4 million square foot data center that's going to take up an entire nuclear power plant of energy and jack up everyone's rates for energy and water and jack down or knock down your home prices. Is 8632-8511-0086-3285 1100 for the Fort Meade City Council. Call them today, all the way up until their meeting tomorrow night to make sure that they know that you are greatly opposed to mower AI data centers.
Steve Bannon
We will be all over this. Terry Schilling. Thank you. Terry. Where they go to American Principles project to get you and all the great stuff you're working on.
Terry Schilling
It's just American principlesproject.org or follow me on X and social. All the social media accounts is just schilling 1776 S C H I L L I N G 1776
Steve Bannon
thank you, sir. Appreciate you. Thanks as always. Okay, Mike Lindell joins us. And I did this, if for nothing more than to show that Mike Lindell was not dressed as the Easter bunny next to the president United States on the South Portico. Mike Lindell, thank you for joining us. What do you got for us on an Easter Monday, sir, that I got you live and in person.
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Steve Bannon
Mike Lindell, we'll see you at five o'. Clock. Thank you for joining us on the Easter Monday. Couldn't be a better way to kick off a week and getting two sales. Easter sale continues, of course, the warehouse, the shifting of the warehouse. Thank you so much, Mike. We'll see you back here at 5. The president is having another press gaggle at east on Easter Monday at the White House. We're going to join it right now and transition over to the Charlie Kirk Show. We're back here at 5 o'. Clock. We'll do a transition with Eric Kohling. Make sure you watch the press conference at 1.
Donald Trump
Stop them. And we can't let them have a nuclear weapon. Very simple. They want a nuclear weapon. They've been trying for a long time. I stopped them with the Obama horrible Iran nuclear deal. I stopped him in a lot of different ways. We got rid of Solemni, the evil genius. Who was an evil genius. We got rid of him and then we stopped him with the B2 bombers not so long ago. And we didn't do it. Israel and the Middle east would have been extinguished by now. Take the chance. If they don't, it's trouble.
Jeffrey Ryer
Are you on board with the 40?
Donald Trump
Who are you with? So bad. It's such a bad. It's such a bad network. Such a pathetic. Is this your camera? You are. Go ahead, go ahead. Just talking about 45. The only one that's going to set a ceasefire is me. I haven't said any ceasefire. But they will. They'd like to have a ceasefire because they're getting obliterated. So we'll see how they behave. Okay? And it's amazing that we had nobody even injured. It's amazing it never happens when pilots go down in war and you're in tough territory Vietnam and places like Iran tough they don't have to fight they're nasty very rarely do you go in because you're going to send 200 people in on a mission and that mission will last likely be unsuccessful and you're going to get one person and you're going to lose 200 people well we have a great military good if it seems like diplomatic talks are picking up are you willing to hold off on
Trita Parsi
attacking well I want to say I
Donald Trump
don't even want to talk about it because I've given them chances and they haven't taken them so I don't want to really talk about it okay. They've had plenty of time in fact they asked the seven days I said I'm going to give you 10 but at the end of 10 all hell's going to break out if you don't
Trita Parsi
get this Mr. President do you expect Vice President this.
Date: April 6, 2026
Title: Iran Rejects Ceasefire Deal; Oligarchs Push For Data Centers Across The Country
Host: Steve Bannon | warroom.org
Key Guests: Trita Parsi, Sam Faddis, Eric Bolling, Jeffrey Ryer, Terry Schilling, Mike Lindell, President Donald Trump (excerpts/remarks)
This episode centers on the ongoing US-Iran war, the breakdown of ceasefire efforts, Iran’s evolving strategy in the Persian Gulf, shifting geopolitics around oil and petrodollars, and the domestic economic risks tied to global instability. The second half delivers an urgent spotlight on the rapid spread of AI data centers—seen as a new oligarchic land grab in rural America. Key voices (including Trita Parsi, Sam Faddis, Eric Bolling) offer up-to-the-minute analysis from within the DC and intelligence community, while President Trump’s live remarks set the administration’s hardline tone and negotiation strategy.
Trita Parsi’s Assessment ([00:45]-[04:57])
“Trump himself is the person who, more than any other politician, has railed against these endless wars. And this would be, by definition, an endless war.”
—Trita Parsi [02:30]
Sam Faddis’s Intelligence Perspective ([13:24]-[16:09]; [28:15]-[29:09])
“We're fighting this conventional war ... but they're poised to take out oil and gas infrastructure. ... That's their leverage. We want them to quit. They don't think they have to quit because they think they're winning right now. That's where we are, whether we like it or not.”
—Sam Faddis [13:38]
Eric Bolling: Political Risk & Petrodollar ([16:38]; [18:19]-[23:19])
“If you do open up this idea to the world that the US dollar is no longer the ... currency that you trade global commodities ... you devalue the dollar—greatly, greatly devalue the dollar.”
—Eric Bolling [20:00]
Easter Remarks (w/First Lady) ([05:35]-[11:55])
“What we did yesterday is we picked up not one, we picked up two. ... those two pilots were incredible, brave, and we thank them.”
—Donald Trump [06:53]
On Iran, War, and Negotiations ([30:34]-[40:58])
“If it were up to me, I'd take the oil, I'd keep the oil and would make plenty of money. And I'd also take care of the people of Iran much better than they've been taken care of.”
—Donald Trump [34:45]
On Dissidence Within Iran
“The Iranian people, when they don't hear bombs go off, they're upset. They want to hear bombs because they want to be free.”
—Donald Trump [38:10]
Bannon’s Synthesis ([21:28]-[24:35])
Petrodollar/Yuan Shift
“Nothing excites our voters more than the idea that they're going to be silenced. ... This particular referendum is designed to silence conservative and Republican voices across the state.”
—Jeffrey Ryer [46:06]
“We're being promised that AI is going to usher in a new age of prosperity, when the reality is it sounds more and more that AI is going to be using us to make AI more powerful, not us using AI to make our lives better off.”
—Terry Schilling [52:51]
On the Real Stakes of Economic War
“You may not have an interest in this war. This war definitely has an interest in you.”
—Steve Bannon [21:28]
On Iran’s Leverage
“Nothing about this surprises me ... at some point when we push them hard enough, they're going to basically take a blowtorch to the world economy.”
—Sam Faddis [14:59]
Eric Bolling’s Warning
“Inflation is the silent killer and it will kill the economy. The US economy, maybe the global economy as well—needs to happen fast, faster, better.”
—Eric Bolling [23:19]
Trump’s Hardline Stance
“We're obliterating that country. ... They just don't want to say uncle. ... But if they don't, they'll have no bridges, they'll have no power plants, they'll have no anything.”
—Donald Trump [34:45]