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The Tudor Dixon Podcast: WEF, Trump’s America First, AI, Energy & Newsom Exposed
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This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Welcome to the Tudor Dixon Podcast. Let's break down what's happening at the World Economic Forum. I think if you watch our administrations and the discussions that have been had by the President and key members of the administration, you will hear overwhelmingly, America first messaging. And surprisingly, the message of some of the European leaders has been almost an understanding that there's like, this adult back in the room that we're getting back to business. And that's been really nice because if you hear people here at home and Gavin Newsome, who happens to be there, they're arguing that there is not an adult back in the room. At the beginning of the week, we were hearing all these concerns from the left over Greenland and the Greenland discussions. And some of the European leaders, I guess they were also freaking out over the. The Greenland discussion. We had France and Germany and Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Finland and Britain dispatching, like, a few dozen military personnel to Greenland because they were thinking, I guess, that the President would just, like, start a war or something, even though he's talking constantly about not having a war. This is a guy who's talked endlessly about ending wars, who's made it clear that the United States needs Greenland for protection. But you've got all these, like, child leaders, like President Emmanuel Macron of France. He doesn't really know how to negotiate. If you've noticed that some of these countries, I mean, they've let in all of these immigrants who don't share their values, they don't want to assimilate to their culture. They were ready to shoot before they were ready to have talks with President Trump about the idea of Greenland being in control of the United States. But once he got there, you could see that this entire demeanor of the rest of the world kind of changed. I mean, you could even see as he was walking up to shake hands, it was funny because as you watch these videos, you see the other world leaders, like, almost geeked out to see him. You know, they're very excited. He's like a celebrity. I mean, he's the President of the United States. What we've seen out of Davos has been, in some cases, reluctant but consistent acknowledgement that President Trump has brought the whole world to a different level of not only economic preparedness, but also military preparedness. President Trump pointed out how populism has nearly crushed the United States. The President spoke about this in regards to energy. He talked about how the created concern of climate change was. Was stopped just in time by him. Because when he took office. There was like this movement to stop all energy production and it almost crushed the United States. But Europe hasn't really been that lucky. Here's the President talking about why it was so important for him to take office at the moment that he did.
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Because of my landslide election victory, the United States avoided the catastrophic energy collapse which befell every European nation. The consequences of such destructive policies have been stark, including lower economic growth, lower standards of living, lower birth rates, more socially disruptive migration. That's why issues like energy, trade, immigration and economic growth must be central concerns to anyone who wants to see a strong and united West.
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He's very strong in what he says. I think that's critical. We have not had this in four years. I mean, obviously Joe Biden wasn't going to go and have any type of coherent discussion or coherent speech at a World Economic Forum. This was never going to happen. But it's not just that. It's very interesting to see how Donald Trump goes beyond that. He's not afraid of insulting people, but he's not trying to insult them. He's pointing out the fact that things haven't gone the way that they should. Of course he's, he's showing the United States has now reversed course on these terrible energy policies and the future of the country is in better shape. But you have to listen to what he's really saying because he's not mincing words. He's looking at these other leaders and he's saying, you were allowed to be led into this false sense of climate change, this false sense of belief that you had to change the way your economy worked to fight this cultural issue that now you're not even talking about. Remember the World Economic Forum, it's like this meeting of elites. It's the rich, it's the out of touch. Remember the crowded airports with their private jets and they told us, like, you can't even have a gas powered vehicle while they're taking their private jets. Remember the airport was so crowded they couldn't get all their private jets in. And they're telling us like, you should live in a 15 minute city. You should ride a bicycle for transportation. Don't look at us, we know what's best. We'll take our private jet so that we can sit in this forum and talk about what you should do. The forum was meant to determine the economic future of the world. And it became one of these elitist monsters that the average person felt was creating more destruction than prosperity. The CEO of BlackRock, he's the co chairman of the WEF, Larry Fink, even he acknowledged that the core issue they've been preaching about was actually hurting the Western world. Between preaching about climate change and the recovery from COVID lockdowns, he recognized that the World Economic Forum needs to win back the trust here. He's saying it here. He's acknowledging that he needs to win back your trust.
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I believe in this forum for a long time. I certainly wouldn't be leading this if I didn't believe that we can change and make the world better. But it's also obvious that the world now places far less trust in us to help shape what comes next. If the World Economic Forum is going to be useful going forward, it has to regain that trust.
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Do you think that that kind of conversation would have ever been had with Joe Biden as President of the United States? If you think that this is just a gathering of countries and that everyone's on equal footing, you're wrong. They're aware that Donald Trump has an influence and a power unlike any other leader, any other world leader. And they're not coming out and acknowledging as much. They're acknowledging that they've led us down a dark road, that renewable energy was a disaster. It nearly put us in grave danger with what they've done in just the last 10 years with their push, their, their Al Gore push for climate change. He admits it. Here he is.
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World is going to be short power. Short power. And to power these, these data companies, you cannot have just this intermittent power like wind and solar. You need dispatchable power because you can't turn off and on these data centers.
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I mean, mind blowing. You can't have intermittent power. We've been saying this for years. We have been saying this very strongly for four years now, as we've been told, we're going to switch over all of our automat or all of our auto manufacturing to electric vehicles. We're going to have all electric vehicles and we're going to power them all by wind and solar. Okay? So that alone we were saying, impossible. You cannot power all of these cars by wind and solar. But now we're in the next generation of needing energy in a different way. Because you're seeing these data centers and look, I understand the data centers sound scary. A lot of people are saying, don't bring it to my town. I get it. You don't want to pay the higher energy costs. You don't want it to suck energy out of your town. You don't want to go through the blackouts, the worst possible situation for this is that you are trying to run a country or a state on purely renewable energy, not just in time energy. That is why you'll hear people like Alissa Slotkin say, oh, they want to get rid of certain energy. No, no, no, no, no. Let me be clear. Republicans have not been saying, we want to get rid of energy. We've been saying, don't get rid of energy. Don't get rid of any kind of energy. It was the Democrats who were demonizing certain kinds of energy. Nobody's saying we can't have solar or we can't have wind, but we are being realistic about the fact that solar and wind alone are never going to be enough. And the future is not just energy for our houses. As much as you'd like to believe that, the future is just making sure the lights are on, data centers are the future. And they are the future because that's what we're going to see in China, and that's what we're going to see in Russia, and that's what we're going to see in all of. In all of Europe. We cannot get behind other countries. And that's what, obviously now they're saying at the World Economic Forum. Turns out we were wrong. We can't just have renewable energy. In fact, we actually have to have a massive amount of energy because times have changed now. Data centers are changing. Everything is changing everything. And AI, whether you like it or not, is going to be diagnosing your health problems, whether or not you have cancer, whether or not you have a bladder infection. You're going to find out from AI whether or not you have a cavity. You're going to find out from AI. You're going to find out if your car has a problem from AI. There's going to be a massive change in how we make products because of AI. Everybody was telling kids, you got to code, you got to code, you got to code. Now AI is going to do all of the coding. The future is going to be this, whether we like it or not. And now you're hearing them openly admit it. And I'm telling you, I promise you, without President Trump, there was never going to be a time when they would openly admit this. There were definitely tensions at the World Economic Forum. This forum. This is not Biden's Democrat America anymore. The administration knew they needed to create a united front, that globalism had failed. They had to talk about this. Secretary Lutnick, Howard Lutnick, I think that he was probably the most forceful about it, but he calls himself the Hammer. So here he is saying globalism is dead.
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We are in Davos at the World Economic Forum and the Trump administration and myself, we are here to make a very clear point. Globalization has failed the west and the United States of America. It's a failed policy. It is what the WEF has stood for, which is export offshore, far shore, find the cheapest labor in the world, and the world is a better place for it. The fact is it has left America behind. It has left the American workers behind. And what we are here to say is that America first is a different model, one that we encourage other countries to consider, which is that our workers come first. We can have policies that impact our workers. Sovereignty is your borders. You're entitled to have borders. You shouldn't offshore your medicine. You shouldn't offshore, offshore your semiconductors. You shouldn't offshore your entire industrial base and have it be hollowed out beneath you. You should not be dependent for that which is fundamental to your sovereignty on any other nation. And if you're going to be dependent on someone, it darn well better be your best allies.
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Something I have been saying for so long, it was so great to hear the secretary saying this. It's so critical that we make sure that we, what we rely on, we are not getting from our adversaries. We saw this out of COVID There were some other people on the panel who admitted, yes, after Covid, we realized that we had outsourced so much that we had no security left in our country. And he wasn't saying, America first means we don't want anything to do with you. He was saying America first means we, we work with our allies. But America first also is why you see Trump talking about our hemisphere and making sure that our adversaries aren't taking over our hemisphere and that if somebody is going to invest in that area, that it should be the United States. Let's take a quick commercial break. We'll continue next on the Tudor Dixon Podcast.
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Secretary Lutnick got into details about the failures of getting sucked up into aligning with China, making poor economic choices with China and the need for being strong against those countries that your adversaries and making sure that you have a strong economy. Here it is with the United States.
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Of America which has oil and natural gas. Try to convert to all electricity. China does not have oil and natural gas. Electricity and electric cars make perfect sense to them. That is practical and logical. So the point I want to make and I want people to think about is that America first is the job of our government to take care of our workers, to make sure their lives are better for it. And then don't be America alone, right? But be America first. And I would suggest that policy is something for other countries to deeply consider to take care of their own and then we will work out wonderful relationships between us. But I want to point out when America shines, the world shines. Close your eyes and think of a world without America in it. It becomes pretty dark, pretty darn quickly when America shines, right? And everyone said, oh, you're going to do all these tariffs, you're going to destroy the world. The world's stock markets are up. Which ones of them? All of them.
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He's telling these other countries without saying it in a nasty way. Everything they said was very positive. But he's making the point you were duped. You were duped with this energy conversation that, let's be honest, has consumed the globe for over a decade now. We've been told that we had to be concerned that we were going to run out of energy, that we were going to go into this dark global warming state. We were duped because it benefited our adversary and an adversary to all these European countries, an adversary to the west, and that's China. And why were we duped? Because they don't have the access to energy that we have. As he pointed out, they have to have electric cars. They don't have the ability to create energy. And just so you know, they have wind and they have sun. China has wind and they have sun. And yet they don't have, have enough energy to power vehicles because you have to have natural gas. You have to have oil, you have to have that kind of energy to have the kind of economy that we have. But they let us believe that we didn't. And the west fell for it. He was very kindly saying, you've been duped. Don't let it happen again. Go back and build up your economy. Look inside your own borders and say, how can build your country in a very genius way, in a very positive way, without humiliating them, but letting them know you were duped. Canada recently came out. The Prime Minister was like, oh, you know, we can't work with America, so we're going to make a deal with China. Obviously you just heard that the Secretary of. The Secretary Lutnick was saying, this is a stupid move. You should not do this. But even the Canadian Minister of Finance chimed in and said that he, he kind of agreed with this. He thought that this was like a radical deal maybe that the, the Prime Minister was making with China. And he's saying that he's kind of on board with what the United States is saying. Here it is.
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What we need now is scope and scale. Because I think what we're facing now is, is, is a rupture point where we need to change the future together. And I would say when I look at Canada, you know, we're still a big magnet for talent. I mean, like the United Kingdom. Rachel and I were in Downing street recently and looking at the talent piece and, and if you can attract the right people, you're going to have the right economy and you're going to have the right strategy, the right prosperity. The second thing I would say, you need strong industries. And I think that was the point of our. You need to make cars, need to make ships, you need to make planes. You need to have that industrial base that is going to ensure your resiliency. Whatever happened in this new world. I'd say in terms of critical minerals, it's true. With, with our G7 colleagues, we said, we cannot let uncertainty become the new certainty. So how do we, you know, make sure that we improve the resilience in the system? And we've seen what other actors have been trying to do on critical minerals. So we need to learn from that and we need to, we've said let's have an initiative to make sure we'd be more resilient. And for us, it's about how can we be the best possible partners to our friend, allies so that no one has a choke point when it comes to that.
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Well, he says that, but his prime minister just made a deal with Those other groups that are doing weird things with minerals. He's talking about China. He knows what's happening. He knows China is manipulating the system, and yet his own prime minister has made a deal there. He is saying what we've all been saying, and that is that you need to build industry from what within that's happening in the United States because elections matter. This conference made it abundantly clear. We have seen this in the past. But you know what? We have to make sure we go forward and not backwards. You ask how did we get here? How did we get to the point where the backwards seems to be pushing through the left of the United States? Well, Gavin Newsom was there at the World Economic Forum. He's like the. The, I guess, the poster child for what's backwards. And he was trying to put President Trump down. We're going to get into that. We're going to take a quick break, and then we'll come back and we'll talk about what happened with Gavin Newsom at the World Economic Forum. Welcome back to the Tudor Dixon Podcast. Let's talk Gavin Newsom at the World Economic Forum. He was there. You probably saw him talking to the media, trashing the president. He was looking exhausted. I don't know if you noticed, but President Trump gets off the plan. And the guy looks like he is never tired. He just immediately starts talking. He gets right into it. He starts negotiating. He never slows down. Gavin Newsom's got these puffy spots under his eyes. He's got, like, these under eyelids that are just hanging there. He looks miserable. He's angry. He has left California. Now, think about this. He has left California simply to go on the world stage and go after Donald Trump. Can you imagine this happening any other time, where you have a governor of a state going to world leaders and saying, our president is an idiot? It's so much worse than that. But I think that the best reaction we got was from Scott Besant, the Secretary of Treasury. He was asked about what was going on with Gavin Newsom. He kind of like, led into his speech with, well, Gavin's here. This is what he had to say about him.
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I think it's very, very ironic that, you know, Governor Newsom, who strikes me as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach. Ken may be the only Californian who knows less about economics than Kamala Harris. He's here this week with his billionaire sugar daddy, Alex Soros. And the Davos is a perfect place for a man who, when everyone else was on lockdown, when he was having people Arrested for going to church. He was having thousand dollar a night meals at the French Laundry. And I'm sure the California people won't forget that. And I can tell my message to governor newspaper is the Trump administration is coming to California. We are going to crack down on waste, fraud and abuse. And I was told he was asked to give a speech on his signature policies. But he's not speaking because what have his economic policies brought? Outward migration from California, a gigantic budget deficit, the largest homeless population in America, and the poor folks in the Palisades who had their homes burned down. He is here hobnobbing with the global elite while his California citizens are still homeless. Shame on him. He is too smug, too self absorbed and too economically illiterate to know anything.
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Shame on him is right. Think about this, think about this fire. There's not been a single house rebuilt. But he is so concerned with his own image and putting on this political show, this political stunt, he wanted to leave California. Even though these people have never been able to get in and so much as take their houses apart, they can't rebuild at all. Imagine. Also think about this. You have a piece of land where you used to live and you paid your mortgage because you had a house, but your house burns down. You don't no longer have a mortgage, you still have a mortgage. What happens to all of these people? They have to pay on a mortgage and they have no home and they can't rebuild because of the over regulation in California, because of the fraud, because of the high taxes. This is a common problem in California, all of these things. But his ambition to become the next President of the United States is so big that he thought it was better to leave his state for a forum. Think about this. Are you going to remember this in 28? That he was there with knee pads, bullying everybody, telling everybody that the United States President was an embarrassment. Are you going to remember that? Actually, I hope you do. I don't think it was worth it for him to leave his state and go to California or go to Davos and try to humiliate the President. But I think it should be meaningful to you that in the midst of crisis, because this is still a crisis in California and in the midst of crisis when he has residents in California that cannot build their homes, he decided to pull a political stunt. And I say he's pulling a political stunt because he really did pull a political stunt. He goes up on stage and he talks about all of the support that the President has. And I'm not kidding you this is like there is no decorum when it comes to this guy. He went there and he said, look, I've decided that I'm going to embarrass other world leaders and corporate leaders. Because he went up on stage and he said he really did bring knee pads. For those people who were getting down and kissing the ring of Donald Trump, the President of the United States, for people who were trying to make deals with our country. Talk about wanting the pilot to crash the plane you are on. I mean, give me a break. This is what he chooses to do. So he goes there and he says, I brought these because I wanted everybody who is trying to make a deal with Donald Trump ultimately, AKA the United States of America, AKA the country that his state is a part of. He's one of the United States. He says, I brought these knee pads for people who want to bend the knee.
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Here it is, the new Trump signature series knee pads.
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Yeah. And they are available online. I told you, the last one sold out.
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And.
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And I just wanted to serious moment it actually.
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But we laugh anyway.
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These are available and in bulk too.
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You heard the boos at first. And then obviously people laugh because I think they're so uncomfortable that he would make fun of his own president like that. That anybody would go that low in an attempt to make a political prank on the President of the United States, you would leave the country. It's really bad taste. Meanwhile, remember, Gavin Newsom is known for calling for mass immigration, using the taxpayer dollars for people from people in the state to help other people move into a state. He has a massive healthcare problem on his hands and they can talk about healthcare all they want, but they don't have a solution. Even when he was asked, because he was asked about this at the World Economic Forum, they said, so you're kind of famous for giving healthcare to everybody. To like taking massive amounts of money from the tax paying people in your state, you know, nearly half of their salary, you're from them. You want to raise taxes in the state of California and you have this massive amount of money going to pay for non citizens to pay for illegal aliens to have health care. And he doubled down. He was like, absolutely, yeah, I believe that everyone should have free health care and I don't care what your immigration status is. I think he chose the absolute wrong stage and the wrong moment to have this political prank to try to humiliate the United States of America. Because right now we are building the economy back. We are starting to create peaceful situations. We are starting to get the World moving again. We've already seen massive immigration destroy France. We've always already seen massive immigration destroy the uk, destroy Germany. This is an old message. Come here. We'll give you everything for free. It's an old message. The new message, the new message of President Donald Trump is that we're going to root out fraud. We're not going to allow mass immigration. We will allow people who want to be Americans into America. We're going to get rid of the fraud that we already see in this moment when we see this fraud in Minnesota. And Donald Trump didn't mince words about that either. This is what he had to say about Somalia.
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The situation in Minnesota reminds us that the west cannot mass import foreign cultures which have failed to ever build a successful society of their own. I mean, we're taking people from Somalia, and Somalia is a failed. It's not a nation. Got no government, got no police, got no military, got no nothing. And then we have this fake congressperson who they just reported is worth $30 million. You believe this? Ilhan Omar, talking about the Constitution that provides me. She comes from a country that's not a country, and she's telling us how to run America. Not going to get away with it much longer, let me tell you.
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He says that because Somalia is filled with tribal wars, there is no actual government. They are constantly at war, which is why these people are trying to leave there, come to the United States. But they don't want to be Americans. They're not trying to assimilate, as you can see from what's happening, this idea of constantly taking what is not yours. They continue to do that in Minnesota. So we're done with the old mistakes, and President Trump has made that clear. We are in a new golden age. And don't think that we're going to be dragged back to what the Democrats are talking about. And don't think that other countries want to be dragged back. The other countries want to see a future, and you heard them talking about it in Davos in a different way. See a future of economic prosperity, of preserving their own culture, of getting rid of this culture of war that we've been discussing. They want to bring their countries back. And you can see them following President Trump in a positive way. President Trump went into the World Economic Forum with a stern but a positive message. And I want to share that positive message with you. I've heard it from multiple people. Don't try to have a positive podcast, because people need to be energized, they need to be stirred up inside. They need to feel like they should be mad about something because they think that you can't be stirred up in a positive way. And I understand they want you to swear and curse and get angry, and there has to be a lot of outrage to get people involved. But that's not what Donald Trump did when he was there this week. That wasn't the message that he had overall. This meeting at the World Economic Forum with President Trump and the Trump administration had world leaders walking away saying, we have a plan for Israel and Gaza, we have a plan for the Middle east, we have a plan for peace, we have a board of peace. There's going to be some controversy coming out of this, but President Trump so far has been a genius when it comes to bringing ideas and deals to the table and negotiating with these world leaders and showing them what the future can be for the United States of America. I believe that President Trump will lead the entire world into a new era of prosperity. You have to ignore the voices of the left and you have to focus on what this president is going to bring. We're obviously going to keep watching this administration and seeing the amazing things that they're doing, and we're going to bring it to you every week right here on the Tudor Dixon podcast. So we want to make sure that you subscribe@tutordixonpodcast.com you can subscribe at the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can always watch it on YouTube or Rumble Uterdixon. But make sure you are tuning in to the Tutor Dixon podcast and you're tuning in today. Have a blessed day. This is an I heart podcast, guaranteed human.