FIREWALL WITH LANCE WALLNAU | JUNE 7th, 2026

Summary

Podcast Summary: FIREWALL WITH LANCE WALLNAU | June 7, 2026

Overview

In this episode of Firewall with Lance Wallnau on Real America’s Voice (aired June 6, 2026), the host delves into the crossroads of American politics, international tensions, cultural conflicts, and the enduring power struggles shaping the nation’s future. With a recurring focus on the 250th anniversary of America, Trump-era dynamics, U.S.-Iran tensions, and the culture wars—particularly the “seven mountains of influence”—Lance Wallnau offers sharp commentary interwoven with prayer, biblical allegory, and biting humor.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. International Crisis: Iran, Oil, and Geopolitics

• Victor Davis Hanson & Iran’s ‘Cops and Robbers’ Game (02:14–06:07)
  • Hanson (via Mark Levin's show) describes Iran's dual negotiation strategy: civilian leaders play 'good cop' to the Revolutionary Guard's 'bad cop,' creating deliberate obfuscation in talks.
  • Quote: “You can't believe anything they say because they don't believe it's a lie. They think it's a strategic advantage not to tell the truth.” — Victor Davis Hanson (05:40)
• Impact on Oil and the U.S. Economy (06:07–10:29)
  • The host references insider conversations at Exxon Mobil about decreasing global oil supplies and depleted U.S. reserves, raising the specter of $150/barrel oil if crises escalate.
  • Discusses the economic and political bind this puts Trump in, advocating practical but tough responses to Iran while lamenting failed deals.
• Editorial Note on Iran Negotiations (09:00–13:59)
  • Channeling Mike Huckabee, Wallnau argues against negotiating with Iran's "homicidal 7th century psychopaths," suggesting military deterrence and arming Iranian dissidents.
  • Quote: “As long as Iran is run by homicidal 7th century psychopaths... anything they sign will be as worthless as Ilhan Omar’s financial disclosures.” — Host (09:54)

2. Escalating Middle East Tensions & Israel-Hezbollah-Hamas

• U.S. Military Strikes and Iranian Retaliation (16:31–17:57)
  • Reports on CENTCOM actions against Iranian military targets following a drone shoot-down, Iranian attacks on Kuwait, and Trump’s strong public stance.
  • Iran’s foreign minister links any ceasefire violation in Lebanon to the broader U.S.–Iran deal, escalating pressure.
• Israel’s Predicament and Defensive Innovations (17:57–22:23)
  • Israel combats sophisticated, foreign-supplied drones used by Hezbollah, developing innovative defensive tech (netting to intercept drones).
  • Wallnau emphasizes the impossibility of rational agreement with terrorist actors and highlights the ongoing instability in Gaza and Lebanon.
  • Quote: “You cannot deal with this by rational agreement, you have to uproot a thing.” — Host (13:32)

3. The China Factor & Global Oil Smuggling

• Iran-China ‘Dark Fleet’ Scheme (22:23–24:27)
  • Military analyst reveals Iran’s covert oil shipments to China, bypassing sanctions through deceptive techniques like altering ship identifiers and relabeling oil origins.
  • “90% of Iranian oil is going to China. China gets 40% of all of their oil from Iran.” — Military/Defense Analyst (23:40)
• Reflections on U.S.–China Power Dynamics (24:27–30:27)
  • Wallnau invokes the “Thucydides Trap,” warning that China faces structural weaknesses despite its rise (energy dependence, declining birthrate) and the U.S. must maintain global assertiveness.

4. Domestic Culture Wars: The “Seven Mountains” and Institutional Battle

• Federal Rulings, Trump’s Kennedy Center, and the Weaponization Fund (30:27–36:49)
  • Federal judges block Trump’s planned renovations & naming at the Kennedy Center; funding for victim restitution is frozen.
  • Wallnau decries leftist ‘branding’ and casts the fund as restorative, not partisan: “It's a restoration fund to restore the lost dignity and costs of Americans targeted by government out of control tyranny.”
• Seven Mountains of Cultural Influence (36:49–40:00)
  • The host expands on his “seven mountains” thesis: academia, media, government, law, entertainment, business, and religion are captured by left-wing elites, stifling dissent and pushing a progressive agenda.
  • Entertainers are deterred from participating in bipartisan events if Trump is involved, exposing the pervasiveness of intimidation and the culture of cancellation.
  • Quote: “We're not done until we have moved the Overton window on top of these institutions and they no longer control the definition of what's cool and what's not cool.” — Host (39:19)

5. The 250th Anniversary: Patriotic Celebrations & Celebrity Fears

• Artists Fleeing America’s 250th Event (42:23–44:19)
  • Entertainment reporter recounts artists withdrawing from the national celebration upon learning of Trump’s involvement:
    • Martina McBride: “I was assured this was a nonpartisan event... that turned out to be misleading.” (42:43)
    • Young MC, Bret Michaels, and Commodores echo similar sentiments about newfound divisiveness.
  • Contrasts with Vanilla Ice’s patriotic embrace of the celebration: “It's all about enjoying the great times of 250 years, man... Proud to be an American and proud and honored for this event.” — Vanilla Ice (43:46)
  • Wallnau rails against double standards in celebrity culture: “Evidently, nonpartisan means not having Republicans present... That's terribly shallow.” (44:19)
• Trump’s Reaction (44:50)
  • Trump pivots, proposing a huge “Make America Great Again” rally instead, predicting legal wrangling over the event’s partisan character.

6. Parables and Spiritual Framing

• The Wheat and the Tares: Determining True Patriots (45:30–49:09)
  • Wallnau applies the biblical parable to the American cultural and political landscape, lamenting the challenge of distinguishing genuine patriots from those with hidden agendas.

7. Double Standards in Sports and the Media Mountain

• Conservative Athletes Versus Liberal Athletes (49:09–50:31)
  • Respect for conservative athletes introducing Trump (e.g., New York Giants’ Jackson Dart) is not reciprocated as it was for Obama-era athlete endorsements, revealing media and institutional bias.
  • Quote: “When Jackson Dart wanted to introduce the president, he had to address his team. I mean, this is a double standard. Americans are tired of it.” — Sports Commentator (49:35)
• Jackson Dart’s Perspective (50:31–51:30)
  • Dart expresses respect for the presidency, regardless of party: “My intentions were just... I've always loved this country... regardless of political party.” — Jackson Dart (50:31)

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Notable Quotes and Memorable Moments

• Prayer for Victor Davis Hanson (02:14)
  • “Lord, give him health in his battle against cancer... we command in Jesus’ name that death and disease take its hands off of him.” — Host
• On the Media/Academia Takeover:
  • “This is why they hate Christianity in America... the battle is to control the minds of people. So academia, yeah, Academic Mountain, K12 and then College and university, boom. That’s a whole area right there.” — Host (35:00)
• On Cultural Events:
  • “Nonpartisan means not having Republicans present. Now I'm serious, if this was a Democrat in office... the celebs would be just dripping off him on the platform... But if Donald Trump's president... that’s what they mean by divisive.” — Host (44:19)
• On Patriotism:
  • “This problem with the New York Giants quarterback here, it’s the same thing. It’s the entertainment and arts mountain... You can’t have athletes now get together with Trump.” — Host (49:09)
• On the “Seven Mountains” Strategy:
  • “We need Trump right now, man. We need Trump to push back against these gates. He’s doing it. The Kennedy Center is an iconic [institution]. But, oh boy, if it’s going to be Trump’s name up there, you can’t have that.” — Host (35:31)

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Important Timestamps

• Iran Analysis and Prayer for V.D. Hanson: 02:14–03:36
• Victor Davis Hanson on Iran: 03:36–06:07
• Oil Crisis & Strategic Dilemma: 06:07–13:59
• US Military Strikes, Middle East Escalation: 16:31–22:23
• China-Iran Oil Smuggling: 22:23–24:27
• “Seven Mountains” and Institutional Takeover: 36:49–42:23
• Celebrity Withdrawals from 250th Anniversary: 42:23–44:19
• Trump’s Response & MAGA Rally: 44:19–45:30
• Athlete Double Standards (Jackson Dart): 49:09–51:30
• Closing Prayer & Vision for Awakening: 52:09

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Tone & Language

The episode is marked by a conversational, sometimes fiery, often humorous style. Wallnau leverages biblical analogies, cultural critique, and rhetorical flourishes, speaking unabashedly as an advocate for conservative, Christian, and pro-Trump viewpoints. Emotionally charged moments—especially regarding prayer, patriotism, and perceived injustices—are balanced with sarcasm and strategic cultural analysis.

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Conclusion

This episode provides a sweeping look at the current American moment through the eyes of a committed conservative commentator. It synthesizes international dangers, economic risks, domestic culture wars, and the struggles for influence in a landmark election year. For listeners, the podcast offers both a playbook for cultural engagement (“seven mountains”) and a rallying cry for political, spiritual, and societal renewal—rooted in faith, patriotism, and resistance to what the host views as elite, leftist overreach.

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The Trump train is on track. I know it. Because liberals are having a meltdown. I want to play this. Victor Davis Hansen Iran is playing a very strange game. You know, I love Victor. Like I always say, he's the Gamaliel for us in Jerusalem right now. He. He's the wise old sage that puts things in perspective and let's pray for Victor in Jesus name. I'm praying right now. Lord, give him health in his battle against cancer. I, in Jesus name, agree with thousands of others that this man's life is precious. We need his voice on the earth, and we pray that you will arrest sickness in his body and give him an extension of years, like Hezekiah who turned his face to the wall and wept. Give Victor 15 years of strength and let his voice not be cut short like a Rush Limbaugh or a Charlie Kirk. We command in Jesus name that death and disease take its hands off of him for a red rover, Red rover. We call Victor over in Jesus name to be a strong voice for the body of Christ in the years ahead. In Jesus name. Amen.

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They also are playing a very strange game. They're giving signals that the people talking to us, the quote, unquote, elected leaders, that they are at odds with the Revolutionary Guard. And we don't know because we've eliminated so many people if that's true. But you get the sneaking suspicion that they are the good cops and the Revolutionary Guard and the theocrats that every once in a while try to take out a carrier or hit the Kuwaitis or somebody. They're the bad cops, but they actually work in unison. And then the negotiators say to us, well, we can't control these people. We're sorry. We don't know what they're doing in the Gulf, laying mines and everything, but don't ruin the negotiations. And then that gives each of them credibility, I guess, against their competition for power. But at some point, we have to stop it. And there's a lot of ways to stop it, Mark, because militarily it's not a problem. It's a political problem, and it involves the world economy and the midterms and everything. But I think the President can find a way to kind of square that circle if he. He tells them informally, there's going to be a deadline to this nonsense, and you're not. You're going to regret it. And we're going to do enough damage to your economy and your military that it's going to take you a quarter century to recover, and we're going to leave a residual force that's going to keep that strait open along with the allies. And then I think he can say that to them, because we can't continue to do this, because they interpret survival, I know that sounds Orwellian, but they do. Every day that they're still there, they say, see, we took on the superpower of civilizational history and we're still here and they couldn't stop us. And they give no context, that all of our restraint is itself imposed on us. It's humanitarian, it's political, but it's not military. And we don't have to use great weapons. We can defeat them from the air as we were doing, but we've lost about almost two months time in these negotiations. And they interpret that as. They look at magnanimity on our part as weakness to be exploited, Mark, not as magnanimity or kindness to be reciprocated. That's just the way they do. And you can't believe anything they say because they don't believe it's a lie. They think it's a strategic advantage not to tell the truth. So it's difficult to negotiate with them.

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And you know the problem here, folks, and I'm the optimist in the family, the problem here is that available global oil supplies are running very low. I'm talking to folks at Exxon Mobil, the senior vice president, for instance. If you listen to Neil Chapman, he'll tell you that releases, releases, releases of oil from the national strategic reserves and other measures have limited the war's impact on global oil prices. But the remaining commercial inventories now are approaching a really, really low level. So the buffer isn't going to be there. And if those levels fall even further, Chapman warned that in two or three weeks, oil prices could spike to $150 a barrel or more. Now that would be devastating to the economy, not good for the midterms. And this is where Trump is, in a real impossible situation, one that I say can only be resolved by a divine intervention of some sort. And we're not even sure what that is. But I want you. Do you remember how many of us were saying, even Victor, many people were saying, well, they have to do something in Iran because within two weeks they're going to lose their ability of their wells to operate. Because once the wells stop, once the oil, oil well stop, you know, working, it takes them a long time to get them reactivated again. And we heard that. I mean, these talking points are suddenly they kind of go viral. And so guys like me, I'm listening to qualified other people and I'm saying, well, you know, they only got certain number of weeks before the wells stop working. I don't understand. They don't care, evidently, in Iran that stopping those wells, them not pumping oil is not an issue to them. And that's the part that I think is concerning. They don't care. You'd almost think they're irrational terrorists. You would think you were negotiating with Hezbollah, Hamas or Al Qaeda. Well, yes, we are. That's the point. Only they have state power. It's scary when you got crazy people in charge of the state apparatus. I mean, that's why I care about midterms. I want to keep the crazies out of the Oval Office. All right. So having said that, I have one other thing I want to tell you. Editorial note here. And I kind of got this from Huckabee, and I agree with him 100%. We don't know why so much time and effort has been wasted on trying to get Iran to agree to a deal. As long as Iran is run by homicidal 7th century psychopaths who believe lying to the infidel is actually a sacrament. By the way, that's the problem with talking to Muslims because they have this Taqiyah law that says that, well, you know, you can lie to the infidel if it's for a righteous cause. They don't have to tell you the truth. They're lying to the infidel. They think it's a sacrament. Anything they sign will be as worthless as Elon Omar's financial disclosures. They will treat any peace agreement the same way they treated the Obama nuclear deal, which, which means they'll sign it and then immediately start cheating. Our unsolicited advice would be it's not unsolicited. Huckabee is the ambassador to Israel, so he must be another one of those thorns in Trump's side. Every now and then I got Huckabee, evangelical Baptist guy over in Israel, and here's what, here's what he says. Obliterate their military and nuclear program, then let them sign anything they want on a promise that we're going to be watching them like hawks. And the second they start rebuilding the centrifuges, we're going to blow them to bits again. In the meantime, help arm the population so we can someday deal with an Iran that isn't run by homicidal 7th century psychopaths. I've said all along we should be working with the Kurds, which have territory in Iran. We should be using them as a back channel for getting armaments through. They should be pumping those armaments through to the, the citizens who somehow, you know, you got to get the weapons in the hands of the people. The problem is you can't have 30,000 protesters mowed down by the Revolutionary Guards and then expect them to come up with a fresh crop of women and young men to get martyred on the street. They this is why that, you know, the freedom of speech and the right to bear arms is kind of like how you protect yourself from the tyranny of a government gone bad. So I don't know how the president could possibly go to war with them without creating the $150 oil problem right away. I hate to say it now, I'm not certainly an advisor, but you know what I would do? I'd say, hey, we're going to open up the Strait of Hormuz. We're going to just agree to let traffic flow. You guys need the business. We want the traffic to flow. And somehow they've got to guarantee that, that the traffic does flow through the Strait of Hormuz equitably. Not just China and Iran clients, but clients of other parts of the Middle east that also provide oil, Saudi Arabia, et cetera. But they got to figure out that part. And then, and Trump has to say, this is just my theory here. Trump says, hey, we're watching those centrifuges. We're watching those areas where, where we bombed, where the nuclear, we believe the nuclear stuff, material is underground. And any activity there to unearth it, to access it, to get into it without our authorization, we'll just bomb it again. We'll keep doing that. So, and then you do that through till after the midterms, get the economy going again, release the oil, get the thing flowing. And then I'm sorry to say this, but then once the midterms are done, Trump can go back and if necessary, he could do the ground game that has to take out the Revolutionary Guard. There will be no peace in the Middle east if we continue having these big photo op sessions and, you know, the spiking of the football like we did. For instance, when, when the Gaza. When, when all of the refugee. Not refugees, when all the prisoners were released from Hamas, everybody did a photo op with Trump down there. Remember, that was kind of interesting period of time everybody wanted to pose for. The president's kind of curious looking and. But the reality is Hamas is still there in Gaza. The reality is that Hezbollah is still in Lebanon. And Iran is saying there are going to be no peace unless Israel stops fighting with Hezbollah. Well, Hezbollah is a terrorist organization. Is. And they're. And they're sending missiles in and they're. And they're sending drones in to, to attack Israel. So Israel has a right to go after them. And, and Gaza hasn't disarmed. Hamas has not disarmed in Gaza, by the way. They're there with weapons. I mean, Israel just had to take out their Hamas leader. Thank God they can do that. And then Israel just recently said we're going to have to move in and occupy 70% of Gaza just to make sure that there's even. Even. Because humanitarian aid is flooding in there in the millions multiplied millions and billions of dollars. And guess what? It's not getting to the people. Who do you think is getting that money? The people that built the tunnels and armed themselves. Now you got. You cannot deal with this. By rational agreement, you have to uproot a thing. We'll be right back.

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Targets over the weekend, according to Central Command. We understand these strikes went after Iranian radar systems and command and control sites for drones in Gurak, Iran, along the coast and on Kesham Island. Centcom described the action as defensive in nature to prevent Iran from attacking international shipping lanes. And after Iran shot down a $4 million US drone, the Iranians responded by targeting Kuwait with drones and missiles. Early this morning. Overnight, President Trump posted a truce social, saying in part, Iran really wants to make a deal and it will be a good one for the USA and those that are with us. Iran's parliament speaker and top negotiator Mohammad Kalibov said this on Sunday about the ongoing talks.

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What matters to us are the tangible achievements we must obtain in order to undertake our own commitments in return. And until we are certain that we have secured the rights of the Iranian nation, we will not approve any agreement.

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New this morning, Iran's foreign minister trying to attach the possible deal with the United States to the situation in Lebanon. He said on X the ceasefire between Iran and the US is unequivocally a ceasefire on all fronts and including in Lebanon. Its violation on one front is a violation of the cease fire on all fronts. The US And Israel are responsible for the consequences of any violation.

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So basically, here's what Iran is saying. Sure, we've got a terror organization. You guys are really hurting our terror business here. And it's, it's not, I mean, I'M not talking a little bit. You're. You really, you messed up our whole cartel there with Hamas and now you're trying to uproot my terror group. And in Lebanon, I mean we're attack. We want you guys to stop uprooting terrorist activity. Even though we're firing 50 missiles at Israel, there should be no retaliation. I think that that's a precondition for us to be able to make believe we're going to settle things with the United States. So of course Benjamin Netanyahu says there's no situation, I'm quoting him, in which Hezbollah attacks our cities and our citizens and its terrorist headquarters in Beirut and Daya Dahia. It's going to remain out of bounds. Netanyahu with Israel has continued to deepen its ground activity in Lebanon where Israeli troops have carved out a self declared security zone in the south. And they're saying they're aiming to shield northern Israel from Hezbollah attacks. Now Hezbollah evidently has now acquired from some other countries and it makes you wonder how is China, how is Russia? All these guys that meet with us and act like they're our friends, but they are selling heat seeking night vision drones so that the casualty list is mounting on the Israeli military because they go at night in the dark and they can find wherever human body warmth is and then they go in and fire on where the Israelis are. So Israel has to figure out, they don't have to figure out where they're coming from. They're probably coming from China, probably coming from, who knows. I don't think Russia is in a position right now to afford that. But who knows? They're getting support in order to fight Israel. You're dealing with global principalities and powers and Israel has to respond anyway. President Trump announced Lebanon and ceasefire on April 16. Even his hostilities have raged in southern Lebanon. The conflict erupted again on March 2 when Hezbollah opened fire at Israel in solidarity with Iran as it came under US Israeli attack. So this is the third time since the ceasefire that we're going from place to place, as says Najee Mussomani, 61 year old pickup truck driver in Beirut. So the why is that important? Well, because Hezbollah is not stopping its attacks on Israel and so Israel is going to guarantee that the battle and the war in Lebanon isn't over yet. And just like I said, Hamas has not disarmed itself in Gaza, even though Trump has all these nations, including Turkey being the peacekeeper over there. They haven't been able to get Hamas to give up their weapons and they're not going to require it of them either. And so it's, I'm just saying, not trying to be negative, I'm just saying this is the situation we are in and it's going to request why this whole Abraham Accords thing, Trump is ratcheting it up. He's saying we have to go deeper. We have to be more committed to creating a new ecosystem in the Middle east where it's in our mutual interest to not let Hezbollah and Hamas and Iran continue to do what they're doing. Let me cover this again here. They're using thermal sensor drones, right? And so the, the Israeli just got a note here, I want to share with you. The Israel is so innovative, you know the Jewish people, they have to come up with something. So they're using an interesting technology which is netting. And so the moment that they could detect the direction of a drone, they fire a net at it. They don't know that they can necessarily hit the, the drone in the dark, but if they fire a net in the direction of it, they tangle up the drone in the net. So they've got these weapons which is actually like soccer netting that's going up and exploding in the direction of the drone. Interesting new technology. They're trying to find new defensive measures. You guys got a video here? Play Video 5. On the China funded network that's helping Iran bypass the US Iran is cooperating

[Military/Defense Analyst]

with China in an elaborate scheme to get Iranian oil to China to fund their wartime operations in an elaborate scheme using what's called a dark fleet. Now let's uncover this. Iran has old, aging ships that they've loaded oil on for years and recently in months, in, during the war, anticipating the war. We believe there's 90 million barrels of Iranian oil outside the Strait of Hormuz. They got that out before the blockade and They've got roughly 1500 ships of these aging ships. Now here's the path. There's three phases. It starts in Iran. They load the old oil ships and send them all the way down here into what is a nautical no man's land called the Eastern Outer Port limits. It's in the Strait of Singapore just off the coast of Malaysia. And what happens there is the whole operations secrecy. They transfer, they connect ship to ship to, to Asian Chinese shipping ships that come in and they sit next to each other. They transfer the oil from the Iranian old ship into the new Asian ship and they disguise it, mask it and relabel it before it then goes up to China. Remember, 90% of Iranian oil is going to China. China gets 40% of all of their oil from Iran. This is the, the pipeline of the Shadow fleet that's been going on when they did the ship to ship before they put them on there, they used disabling trackers to get the ships into this secret nautical no man's land. They paint over identity numbers of the ships so they can't be identified and they change the flags from which the ships are coming from. And what happens when the ship, ship happens once it leaves strait and heads to China, it's relabeled as being from a questionable Malaysian source and it's not tracked and it's all done illegally.

[Radio Host (Conservative Commentator)]

You know, there's an interesting book in the book of Revelation chapter where it says that these two kings sit down at one table and they both lie to one another since they're having their negotiations. But each one of them has an angle, they're working. And I always think about that. I think about how yet this strange world where people that are are posturing like their great powers working in diplomatic harmony and then they break the huddle and it's like how can we deal with, how can we, how can we derail, how can we screw those guys up or, or how do we control them? And so this is, this is just the day that you're living in. We know that China, the Thucydides trap, remember that the kind of the hubris of the Chinese to say to Trump right there in front of the international community, a parallel written by. Not by, not by a Chinese scholar, by no, no means. But by. By an American writer about the emerging power is sometimes seen as a threat by the old receding power. So it's kind of like the old line and the new line and that new power comes up and the old is. Goes to war with them, but they can't stop it. So they're saying China is the rising power on the earth. And indeed the dragon may be the rising power in the earth for all I know. It could be. But, but the analogy, as Victor Davis Hansen Agamaliel has articulated, it's actually, if you want to go back to the Peloponnesian wars and the wars with Spartan and Athens and the, the origin, the Thucydides trap, you'll find out that of the 10 conflicts, the majority of them are actually won by the old lion. The new one doesn't win, curiously enough. I don't think anybody told Xi that part. And Trump wasn't prepared for this. He had no notes, evidently. And then the other, other other examples are that there's stalemates and on rare occasions does the upstart actually overcome unless you go to perhaps Alexander against Persia and taking on Darius. But my point is this, that China's birth rate, they made a big mistake when they decided to sterilize the nation and abort. What did they do? They were killing girls or something. And for a period of time and millions of forced deaths. The one child rule is what I'm talking about in China. Now they're realizing it was stupid because they have a deficiency of labor force to sustain an aging population. And they realize that they've got two real problems. One is their energy into their energy dependent on other sources. That's a vulnerability in your rising nation status. And their birth rate has hemorrhaged a decline. It isn't able to sustain its own growth obligations for the future with 1 billion people. And so China has a couple of challenges that make them not quite at this moment in history. The rising power, though they have the advantage of nobody meddling with them like everybody is, is fighting seemingly Trump. And the US has to exert itself as a global power in order for it to sustain a world in which the United States can coexist. And even at that, we have our poorest borders broken open with some people say 30 or 40 million that we are paying for in an economy that is fragile and cannot sustain the weight of that. Other than that. We'll see you in the next segment. So Trump raises all the money necessary himself to fix up buildings in Washington the Democrats and Republicans are allowing to fall into into disrepute. Now, Trump is always about the image, the brand, the Kennedy center collapsing. It's like screwball. They need to get this ballroom because what are they using in the United States when you come over from China, Xi's coming over or King. They got Buckingham palace, they got the Great hall in China where Trump is like amazing. It's like going into Yankee Stadium with chandeliers everywhere. And then you come to the United States, they had tents and porta potties. And so he goes, hey, this is ridiculous, man. You're the United States. Get it together. So and he thinks that way. He thinks when he goes and travels through airports, looks at airports, he sees LaGuardia and Kennedy says, compare that to Dubai or Singapore, where the United States, man, he's right. Trillions of dollars you flush down the toilet every year. At least you could have the veneer of looking like a first class nation anyway. Wouldn't you know it? Obama, and this is the thing with the left, that bothers me the most. They're not, it's not about principle. They'll find some squirrely principle like a fig leaf they could put on the naked intention they have to simply frustrate Trump and America from any semblance of what looks like progress. Remember when Trump would do that State of the Union address and he'd get up there, this is when I first became aware of how sick this problem is. He'd say, hey, we've gone from inflation 5.8 down to 2.5, and it's happening. We've got inner city work is coming back and we got programs for jobs. And there's, there's the caucus over there. That's, you know, folded arms, steely eyed. They don't want to cheer for progress if it's you. They'd rather have destruction if it's you. What kind of squirrel brain governs like that Anyway? Play video 7 so people can see what I'm talking about.

[Military/Defense Analyst]

A pair of rulings by federal judges against the president today.

[Radio Host (Conservative Commentator)]

What happened?

[News Correspondent / Commentator]

Yes, first this morning, a federal judge ruled that the administration cannot move any money for the time being into the $1.8 billion weaponization fund, which is meant to pay out people who think they have been victimized by the federal government. Then this afternoon, a separate federal judge ruled that President Trump's name has to come off the Trump Kennedy center and the administration cannot move forward with planned renovations that would close the center for two years. And that is too much for the president. In a very long post, he concludes with, I have instructed the Department of Commerce to make all necessary arrangements with Congress to allow a full and complete transfer of this institution, giving them the responsibility for its operation, maintenance and management. And so his argument in this long post is basically, if they're going to take my name off it and they're not going to let me fix it, it's not worth my time.

[Radio Host (Conservative Commentator)]

You understand? First of all, you know what drives me crazy? Why do we on the right allow the left the Affordable Care Act? Why are we giving. Why are we letting them market their branding to us? How about the Unaffordable Government Act? The weaponization Fund. The Weaponization fund. Trump doesn't have a $1.8 billion. It's a 1776, it's a $1.776 billion fund for the Tina Peters people and for the other Americans who were swept up in the trap that was, that was put upon them on January 6 so that them walking through the open doors of the Capitol Taking selfies like they're, like they're on a Disney tour and then coming out the other side. The individuals who were incarcerated and locked up in jail cells without access to their family, in solitary confinement or for a year. This is Trump's own stash, his own money from, from them. Exposing the leftists in government, taking his private taxes and exposing it. The IRS betrayal along with the FBI betrayals, along with the CIA betrayals. He's saying, I'm going to get compensated. I'm going to put that money aside in a fund. The Tina Peters of this world have been locked up for a year or two because they were practicing trying to give election integrity in Colorado. I want them to be compensated for their costs, their expenses, their legal bills, the money that they've lost on their jobs, the homes they've lost. And they call it a weaponization fund. Dingbats. It's not. It's a, it's a restoration fund to restore the lost dignity and costs of Americans who are targeted by government out of control tyranny. Anyway, you could hear. So they're going to freeze the money. They'd rather have the Kennedy center like collapse than have it fixed because Trump would fix it. And they certainly don't want Trump's name up there at all. Well, I understand that. I understand that if anything Trump wants to do, their goal is to not do, which is the reason why there's going to be a battle over. You'll hear more about the 250th. The funding was for a bipartisan 250. What does it mean to have a bipartisan? How the leftists, you see, they've got Antifa funded in New Jersey right now and the Democrats are behind it. They're behind the anarchy. This is going to be our summer love. You know why? It's beginning to look a lot like midterms and they've got a chin upped the cast. Even though Antifa's been designated a terrorist organization, it's back in business in New Jersey. And Trump's got his hands a little bit tied because you see what the left wants to do is they want to push this envelope until there's an act of violence. These guys are crazy. They want one of them to get killed so that they could become a martyr so that you can make the argument that Trump's killing American citizens. No, he's not. He really needs to take out Antifa. That's what he's got to do. He's got to take out foreign funded anarchy machines. That are attacking American citizens and American institutions. If we can only get some media behind that. But you know why I teach Seven Mountains? Why do you think they don't like me? Because I'm right. I've been right all along. I said that. You know, they own academia. 93% of the faculty are all voting Democrat. They. So they're. They're whole. The whole system's been taken. Or it's a spiritual. When you talk spiritual warfare, you got a little more practical. There's a spiritual warfare at the gates of influence. Jesus said, I will build my ecclesia and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. This is why they hate Christianity in America, why they hate Christianity at the 250th, because the Ecclesiasts, the only thing they can go up against the gates of hell and the gates of hell are the gates that are organized over these structures of influence in America. Their battle is to control the minds of people. So academia, yeah, Academic Mountain, K12 and then College and university, boom. That's a whole area right there. The strength on the top of that is the elites that control the gates of influence there. Same thing with the legal profession. They're disbarring everybody that supports. They're out to take. They did it with Giuliani, they did it with Eastman. They go after you as a lawyer to strip your right to practice law. The Bar association has been invaded. We need Trump right now, man. We need Trump to push back against these gates. He's doing it. The Kennedy center is an iconic. There you are on the entertainment mountain. But, oh, boy, if it's going to be Trump's name up there, you can't have that. So you see, the left, they want control of the government and the media, they want control of academia, they want control of justice and the credentialing agencies for education and for the ability to practice law. And if they can get that, then they can control entertainment. Why do you think these entertainers are all bailing doing the 250th with Trump? They're getting the message from the elites that control the top of the entertainment mountain. You know, if you associate with Trump, you do this thing with Trump, it's

[News Correspondent / Commentator]

going to hurt your career.

[Radio Host (Conservative Commentator)]

You know, you do this, you're going to cancel some contracts. You know, you got. We're getting some letters here from people saying they're going to cancel your contract for that concert if you go do this thing with Trump. So these people are. They're not. They're not strong. And it's like, well, I'm not trying to be political. I don't even like Trump. I mean, I'm just going to go, I thought it maybe for America, but I'm not going to do it. If it's going to. They're going to, you know, know you're going to persecute me. I'll just roll over. So Trump says, man, one after another, these entertainers, if they don't have a backbone, if they don't have autonomy, independence, or if they don't have a conservative worldview, they'll cave. They'll cave. They'll cave because they don't have something stronger on the inside to stand up and say, no, man, don't push me around. These are the culture wars, people. You got to see it clearly. That's why I talk seven mountains. We're not done until we have moved the overton window on top of these institutions and they no longer control the definition of what's cool and what's not cool. What you can do and what you can't do, that's got to change. And I don't believe it's impossible. I believe that we're starting to see the structural important part with the redistricting and with what we're doing with removing fake votes off the rolls, having only citizens able to vote. That dangerous little piece of Trump legislation, so brilliantly advanced, where he said, no, it's an executive order. If I can't get the SAVE act through, at least I'll do it as an executive order. Only American citizens can vote. Well, you can't do that. The states have the right to determine that. And in California, we like having our illegals voting. In New York, we want illegals to vote because that way they vote Democrat. That's why the deportation issue is what it is. You understand the game here, the Game of Thrones. The reason why the antifa thing is funded to protest In New Jersey, ICE is because they need 20 to 30 million illegals because they want them counted in the census. That gives them beefs up their representation. Even if they don't belong here, at least they're representing me in Congress so the Democrats can have more representation. They need them in order to get them legalized to vote so that they can take over the country. Even if 70% of their propositions, from transgenderism to open borders, even if they're. Even if America rejects their ideas, that doesn't stop them because they've got the media, they've got academia, they've got political clout. And they have just enough sordid billionaire class wealth management that they can fund their antifa and their BLM and their code pink and their open borders and, and their various Soros funded tides funded antics which gives them power in some perverse way. They benefit from that. What I'm saying, I'm not, I'm not making this stuff up, folks. You know, I'm the soul of sobriety when I say these things. Look at this new Emerson poll on the 2028 presidential race. It's raising some eyebrows. It finds that the entire Democrat field is looking at Pete but a judge's butt because he's leading the race. He, Pete Buttigieg is leading the race of the darling candidates that the Democrats are thinking may be their best representatives. Then he can have a man with the first man instead of a first lady in the White House. California Newsom is right behind with 16%. And then there's Alexandria Ocasio Cortez at 11%. Well, there you go, folks. There's the future of the Republic. I'll tell you what, I can sell a ton of birch gold just off of that ticket right there. I know that because anyone with common sense would head for the hills if they're in charge. Now we have a moment right now, people. We have a moment. We'll be right back. So do you guys see what I'm talking about? Seven mountains of culture. They are the formidable hierarchies of influence that, that control a large part of the battle for the mind. And we're in a battle against spiritual forces. The Apostle Paul says. The Apostle Paul said, casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. This is what Christians do, not just in pulpits, but in every area where there is error, distortion or some other idea that militates against the plain truth of God's ordered universe as revealed in the Scripture and as and as taught in Christian doctrine. We are to help people think clear. It's kind of like observing the traffic laws. You know, you stop at a red light, move at a green light. If people from a foreign country come in and don't understand what side of the street they drive on, they endanger themselves and other people. And human beings need every now and then to be instructed this is the way, walking in it. And to use the persuasive skills, not the antifa intimidating tactics of the left which we're accused of, which we never do, but the power of persuasion. That's what we do. We're still dangerous because we can persuade. Nevertheless, back to this. I found out we have a little video here about the washed up celebs that are fleeing the American 250 concert like cowards. I say let's find out who they are.

[Entertainment Reporter]

We have some of the statements from the people who have dropped out. This is why they say they're dropping out of celebrating America on her 250th birthday. So, so they were, they were booked and then they said, I'm not going to do it. Martina McBride was one of them. And she said, I was presented with an opportunity to perform at a nonpartisan event, but that turned out to be misleading. I asked a lot of questions and I was assured this was a nonpartisan event that was meant to celebrate all 50 states. I'd like to see what, what it is that she saw that was nonpartisan. I'm still trying to.

[Young Emcee]

Young, young emcee is also backing out saying despite the claims by organizers that events are not is nonpartisan. Spin magazine describes it as Trump backed, meaning Trump is involved in it because I don't know, he's the President of the United States. Could be Bret Michaels. This one just kills me. Unfortunately, also backing out. Unfortunately, what was presented to us as a celebration of our country has evolved into something much more divisive than, than what I agreed to be a part of. You know, part of what makes it divisive is that you fall for the nonsense.

[Entertainment Reporter]

Yeah. The Commodores also were going to be performing and they said our music has always been our voice. And we choose not to publicly affiliate with any single political party. But as you said, this is what Vanilla Ice said.

[Radio Host (Conservative Commentator)]

Watch.

[Joe Getty]

I'm super honored to do this concert with everybody. We're going to bring back the 90s. Put your dancing shoes on, you'll be happy. Trust me. It's all about enjoying the great times of 250 years, man. From George Washington to now and all the presidents and everybody in between. This is a magical event that's going to happen and very rare. So I'm honored, man. This is going to be epic. And that's it. Proud to be an American and proud and honored for this event.

[Radio Host (Conservative Commentator)]

Evidently, nonpartisan means not having Republicans present. Now I'm serious, if this was a Democrat in office and Obama was going to be hosting the 250th, right. And schmoozing around there with the microphone man, the celebs would be just dripping off him on the platform. They'd be all over him. But if Donald Trump's president, at the time when this is happening, I thought it was going to be non partisan, meaning I can't believe they actually got conservatives involved with this thing. I mean, are you kidding me? How stupid can you get? 50% of the people that are buying your tickets and listening to you happen to be people that voted for Trump. Knuckleheads. I hope, I hope, I hope they suffer for this. I really do. I'm in a, in a kind way. I desire that because I think that it's, it's divisive to America to not have the backbone to be able to show up at an event celebrating the United States because you don't like the president who will be at the event. I think that's shallow. That's, that's terribly shallow. That's the reason why they're not going to be there because Trump will be there. That's, that's what they mean by divisive, nonpartisan, meaning they don't want that partisan there. So I got something else here I want, I wanted to cover with you. What did Trump say about this? Well, you know how he comes out. He's, he's always pretty direct. Put the tweet up there. Tweet number 10. We're still calling it tweets even though it's truth social. Well, there again, microfiche. We should have a giant Make America Great Again rally for the 250th instead of having overpriced singers nobody wants to hear anyway. And whose music is boring. You know, you have nothing and yet who do nothing but complain. Cancel it. Just like I canceled my involvement with the failing and unsafe to be in Kennedy center because of a highly conflicted, crooked federal judge. Said that I should not be allowed to spend my time, my own money in order to make the center great again. Actually make it far greater than ever was before. It would have also been so nice to see a Republican and Democrat union bringing it back to life. The Kennedy center is broken. Trump is even more upset about the Kennedy center rule. He got it all in one day. Imagine him coming back from trying to figure out what to do with a stinking terrorists in Iran. He's got to deal with the terrorists in the Democrat Party. So anyway, the American, the thing is, the Make America Great Again, you know, rally is really putting a finger in the eye of the left because they wanted it as nonpartisan. It wasn't originally a MAGA rally. It was going to be an America rally. Show up and just Celebrate. But since you guys evidently don't want to be with us, we'll have our own party without you. And they will now, of course, I'm sure there's going to be lawfares flying lawsuits. That money was for nonpartisan deblondon. You're doing a MAGA rally. That's partisan. That'll come up next. Trust. Trust me. I can. I can see a lawsuit when I see a lawsuit anyway. But you know what's going on here with the lap. Tell you what it is. Give this to you. And I gotta. I gotta move fast here. Matthew, chapter 13. Jesus says. Talked about, you know, that while men slipped, an enemy sowed bad seed in the field. And when. When he woke up in the morning, he said, oh, my gosh, I got all these tares fake planted with the real. I got people that are claiming they're patriots and claiming they're for America and. But they're. They had an agenda. That's their tares among the wheat. And we got real people here that are really struggling and travailing and trying to do the right thing. And I can't tell who's who. It's hard to know who's who because they're all. They all. They're all saying the same stuff. They're all saying they're patriots. They're all saying they love America. I'm applying the tares in the wheat parable here to what's going on. Let me read it again. Jesus said, while everyone was sleeping, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. And when the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared. And the owner's servant came and said, I thought we sowed good seed in your field, where all these weeds come from. And then he replied, an enemy did this. And the servant says, you want us to go uproot them? He said, no, because at this point, it's too hard to tell who's who. We can't do that. We just got to let him grow to the harvest, and eventually it'll be obvious what spirit each one is of. And it's becoming obvious the left cannot coexist. For instance, athletes. We'll talk really quick about this. This problem with the New York Giants quarterback here, it's the same thing. It's the entertainment and arts mountain. I remember when athletes supported Obama and they were praised by the media and corporations and nobody called it dangerous when athletes got together with Obama. But you can't have athletes now get together with Trump. Watch this.

[Sports Commentator]

You Know, conservative athletes actually treated differently than liberal athletes. It's so double standard. I remember when all the athletes supported Obama, they were getting, you know, celebrated by the corporations, media, Hollywood. You remember back in 2016 when all the athletes were, you know, actually attending Hillary Clinton's rallies and they were celebrated

[News Correspondent / Commentator]

by everybody and Steph Curry was shooting.

[Radio Host (Conservative Commentator)]

Exactly.

[News Correspondent / Commentator]

With Barack Obama at the White House,

[Sports Commentator]

and they were getting no hate. But when, you know, true patriot like Jackson Dart wanted to introduce the president, the sitting President of the United States of America, he had to address his team. I mean, this is a double standard. Americans are tired of it. I'm like, come on, man. I mean, he. He loves his country. You know, he wanted to, you know, have that honor to introduce President Trump. So I think it's a double standard for sure.

[Radio Host (Conservative Commentator)]

You understand what I'm talking about. These sickos control. They are the elite aristocracy at the top of the media mountain and in the sports area, you know, the. Their franchise owners and such. And they're not. They're not representative of the majority of Americans who actually love the country and have no problem supporting the President. All right, play the. Play the clip. Clip 20. Which is what got this New York Giants quarterback in trouble. Just introducing the President.

[Jackson Dart (New York Giants Quarterback)]

I'm grateful, I'm honored, I'm pleasured to

[Radio Host (Conservative Commentator)]

introduce the 45th and 47th President of

[Jackson Dart (New York Giants Quarterback)]

the United States, States of America, President Donald J. Trump.

[Radio Host (Conservative Commentator)]

Poor kid gets beat on for introducing the president. You see, you're not allowed to. They punish you. They're the people that are saying, oh, I thought it was bipartisan. I thought it was bipartisan. Well, the moment you act bipartisan, moment you try to work together. How dare he introduce the President of the United States. So now the poor guy, Jackson Dart, has to demonstrate the courage which all conservatives have to do. For all I know, the guy's a Christian, because inevitably, I find that Christians are the only ones that most of the time, have this internal conviction that they can't back out of this. Something bigger is at stake than just convenience. Play 23.

[Jackson Dart (New York Giants Quarterback)]

You know, I've always loved this country. I have extended family members who have friends, fought in wars. I have two uncles who have retired from the Air Force Academy and served themselves. And I even have a great grandfather who served as Secretary of Treasury at some point. So the president position has always been a position that I've well respected, regardless of political affiliation, regardless. Regardless of political party. And, you know, my intentions were just

[Radio Host (Conservative Commentator)]

that, well, this is the way the world is. I can't change it because as the Bible talks about the end times. But I can tell you this. You can create the world around yourself. And in America on the 250th, we have an opportunity for a great awakening. And I pray in Jesus name that an awakening happens so that we can occupy those mountains and bring a measure of peace to our country and a measure of peace to the world. Amen. And amen.