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Independent Political Commentator
Cancel contact T Mobile State regime media known as Fox was panicking live on air. They see Donald Trump crashing in the pulse right now and they're trying to do whatever they can to protect them. Like they have one of their chief propaganda sean Hannity, he went on his show last night and he goes, let's be clear. Trump is not an authoritarian. This is not an authoritarian country. There is no dictator in charge right now. Actually, Hannity, there is right now. His name is Trump. Here, play this clip. And there are enablers like you. Let's play it.
Fox News Commentator (Sean Hannity)
It's not, not the 1930s. We don't live in Nazi Germany. This is not fascism. This is not Stalin. This is not an authoritarian country with a dictator in charge. This is the United States of America. Our country can be and should be and hopefully will be better than this. Our elected officials should be better. The legacy media mob is just as bad and they have been complicit and they use the same rhetoric, the same language.
Independent Political Commentator
I mean, just look at what Trump's propaganda PR team is posting. The Trump war room official account. Then you have Hannity say the following about California Governor Gavin Newsom. He's like, maybe you need to just bring the people of California together rather than making fun of Donald Trump. Here, play this clip.
Fox News Commentator (Sean Hannity)
You know, your time as governor is running short. You know, you got a little over a year left in office. Maybe focus on actually bringing the people of California and the country together.
Independent Political Commentator
More from Hannity right here where he goes, look, listen, Gavin, you're not Donald Trump. Stop pretending to be Donald Trump. Okay, okay, Hannity, just losing your mind Here, play this clip.
Fox News Commentator (Sean Hannity)
No, it's just, it's not real, it's not authentic. You're not Trump. So tonight, here is my message to the part time governor, full time Tweety Burke, full time podcaster who pretends to run the state of California. Gavin, we were old friends. Maybe it's time to stop tweeting, stop podcasting, start governing your state. You can attack me all you want and I will gladly respond.
Independent Political Commentator
And then they always play victim right away. Like as California Governor Gavin Newsom is effectively calling Donald Trump out. Notice what Hannity and the Fox state regime media does. They're like, all right, stop it now. This needs to stop. This is because of you, Newsom, everything. We're just going to blame everything on leftists and Newsom and whatever. So pathetic. Here, play this clip needs to stop now.
Fox News Commentator (Sean Hannity)
Look at where we are at this moment as a country.
Independent Political Commentator
And they bring on Tom Homan, the border czar, with apparently $50,000 of cash in his kava bag, which he still has. Not denied that he's got the cash in his bag, but I think he's saying what he did was perfectly legal. We all get paid with money in kava grocery bags, right, everybody? Then Tom Homan goes, let's be very clear. Every congressman and governor out there bad mouthing ice, all to be thanking us. Say thank you to us right now. Okay? What are you talking about? Homan? What a weird dude, by the way. Also here, play this clip.
Fox News Commentator (Sean Hannity)
Every congressman and governor out there bad.
Independent Political Commentator
Mouth and ice ought to be thanking.
Fox News Commentator (Sean Hannity)
President Trump for making their communities safer.
Independent Political Commentator
Okay, then, you know, state regime is getting a. State regime media is getting extra desperate when you have Jesse Waters bring out Ron DeSantis. This is how Ron DeSantis refers to Gavin Newsom. He's wielding executive power to muzzle people. And so I think he thinks that he just has the ultimate power to do this. That's how they're referring to Governor Newsom. You know, they're scared. You know they're scared. Here, play this clip. But this is the same governor who forced two year olds to wear masks.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant
During COVID And he wielded executive power to muzzle people.
Independent Political Commentator
And so I think he thinks that he just has ultimate power to do this. Then they bring on Greg Gutfeld. This guy's just a total fool. And, like, he actually thinks that, like, people really care about him. Like, he thinks that because Donald Trump posts about him that he's like, funny. Like, no, like Gutfeld, no one thinks you're funny. You're a loser. And then Greg Gutfeld says, like, look, on the right, we call people stupid, but we never call them evil. You see, on the left, they call us evil and that's what's leading to violence, everybody. What do you mean you don't call people evil? That's. Donald Trump has made his entire political career of demonizing people with the most sadistic terminology. Like literally calling people like vermin. Basically, you're playing this clip.
Fox News Host Kennedy
Just tell me why.
Fox News Guest
It's ok. No, I'm getting there. I'm getting there.
Fox News Host Kennedy
I'm enjoying this, okay?
Fox News Guest
You won't be for long. The left calls Trump a hate monger. They have called me a hate monger because I ridicule the left. I ridicule protesters, I ridicule academia, Hollywood, the news media. I make fun of the View every day. I make fun of the un Guess what? No one acts on the things that I say because my side doesn't do that. We say people are stupid, we say people are wrong, but we don't say they're evil. That is your game. Okay? And then you come and you say, okay, ma', am, this is a mentally ill loner. Well, who do you think does this stuff? It's not Ben Affleck, it's not Tom Brady, it's not even Carrot Top. People who do this stuff are always that way. The question is, who points them in that direction?
Independent Political Commentator
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Fox News Host Kennedy
It is shocking how she lost. I mean, this woman just has stunning political instincts. You know, the way she is able to make these base and blanket statements targeted at people that she used to seek votes from. And she wonders why she no longer has influence in the party. I mean, I'm amazed when people still pull the string and she's like with, you know, this rhetoric that is so offensive and contrary to her initial statement. You know, her political career is based on attacking other people, not really putting forth Ideas because if she had great ideas, she would have finished her second term as president. She didn't. And you know, Donald Trump she thought was the greatest gift the political gods had ever bestowed upon her. Because she just attacked him the entire time during the presidential campaign in 2016. And it didn't work for her. People saw right through it. So the people that she's attacking now, she wrote them a handwritten note to go vote for literally anybody else. And she's not doing herself any favors right now. She's just having this like insane contest with Kamala Harris, like which former female leader of the Democrat Party can say the most offensive things to voters who patently dislike them.
Independent Political Commentator
Then they bring on their Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary, one of the top officials, Trisha McLaughlin. And Trisha McLaughlin's like, what did we do in World War II? What did we do to the Nazis then? So if they're calling us Nazis, what do you think that they mean? Can you even believe these people are real? Here, play this clip.
Department of Homeland Security Official Trisha McLaughlin
It is incumbent upon Gavin Newsom, AOC Hakeem Jeffries, any of these politicians to tone down the rhetoric. You mentioned Gavin Newsom, his unconstitutional mask banning in California that legislation was called the no Secret Police Act. Of course he's likening our law enforcement in that piece of legislation to the Gestapo, to the Nazis. And what did we do in World War II against the Nazis? We fought them and we killed them. And this is the rhetoric that is directly contributing to threats and violence against our law enforcement.
Independent Political Commentator
Oh, then they bring out Treasury Secretary Scott Besant. I'm Scott Besant, everybody. I'm very arrogant. Scott Bessant's like got the most shit eating grin. This guy is one of the strangest people ever, by the way, before getting in this position. You know, Barbie Malibu mansion, like the pink one, this guy lived in the real one in Charleston, South Carolina, I think like a $25 million actual pink Barbie mansion. But he's going to tell us what, what America first means. And he now goes on fox. America first means we've got to bail out Argentina's President, Javier Milei. Argentina is about to go bankrupt. Argentina is led by a MAGA puppet in Melaye. So we, the American taxpayers, we have to apparently bail them out now. And that's America First. Okay, sure. Here, play this clip.
Fox News Host Kennedy
Want to get your take on Argentina? Because, Mr. Secretary, Argentina's peso sliding politics and capital outflows rattling investors there, Javier Milei, I guess, has lost the confidence of investors. They're pulling their money out of Argentina. They're fearful that he will scrap his defense of the of the peso. You say all options are on the table from swap lines to direct currency support. What's the plan in terms of supporting Argentina?
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant
Is there one the supply? The plan is as long as President Malay continues with his strong economic policies to help him to bridge him to the election. You know, I call this the screens moving to the streets. We are not going to let a disequilibrium in the markets the cause backup in his substantial economic reforms. I don't think the market has lost confidence in him. I think the market is looking in the rearview mirror and is looking at decades, if not a century of terrible Argentinian mismanagement. And people are concerned, people are skittish. It's very hard to believe that it is different this time. But I believe with President Milei it is. It is.
Independent Political Commentator
And they bring on their energy secretary in the Trump cabinet, Chris Wright, who said says here's my prediction. In a few years, not only they're going to give Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they are going to give him something called the Climate Hero Award because he called out the climate hoax. It's all one big hoax. This is what the energy secretary saying here, play this clip.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright
The funny thing is I predict in a few years President Trump will win the Climate Hero award because his policies, which is pro natural gas and pro nuclear, those are the only two needle movers we have today to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. He's not doing it for that reason. You're right. That's not, that's nowhere near our biggest issue.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant
Let's get the plastic out of the.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright
Ocean and let's get the CO2.
Independent Political Commentator
It's a longer conversation. And you know, I don't know in many ways this is just as bad as Donald Trump saying do not take Tylenol or Donald Trump giving you his feelings about the MMRV vaccine and hepatitis B vaccines. This guy goes deaths. This is the secretary of Energy. He's like deaths from extreme weather are in a 100 year plunge. We've never been. Weather is perfect right now. What you're playing this clip?
Energy Secretary Chris Wright
Well, we're the EPA is working on a rule and they're going to decision will come out and if they decide to remove the endangerment finding, which I personally believe the data overwhelmingly supports. Get rid of the endangerment finding. Talking about extreme weather, deaths from extreme weather on 100 year plunge. It's never been a safer time to be alive from extreme weather. So then It'll be challenged in the course and hot for what kills people. Five times more people die from the cold than die from the heat. Well, it's causing that too.
Independent Political Commentator
The global warming causes the coldness.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright
But everything in weather is climate change, hot, dry, warm, wet year. But yeah, it'll be litigated of course. But that's exactly what we want is discussing these energy climate trade offs in a public setting. But yes, it enabled the Clean power plan which, which started the rise in electricity prices that has everyone angry today.
Independent Political Commentator
And then Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant says that U.S. troops won't get involved in defending Europe. Don't we have something called NATO where we will defend Europe if Russia attacks. And by the way, Russia was coming awfully close to Alaska. You're going to eat your words, Bessant. I mean just think about how Besson speaking about Europe right here. Putin isn't marching into Boston. So we don't care. Why would we defend Europe? There's something called NATO and again I don't care what political party all are from watching this but when you see this, this is very anti American, huh? Here, play this clip.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant
The Russians are testing the Europeans and the European resolve needs to stiffen. They need to put everything on the table in terms of economic sanctions that as I told my European counterparts about two weeks ago, all I hear from you is that Putin wants to march into Warsaw. The one thing I'm sure of, Putin's not marching into Boston. He's not marching into Boston. So but having said that, Poles are great allies. Before they had to be told to, they were already spending 5% of GDP. Polish economy is one of the great success stories that since the wall came down. When the wall came down, the Polish economy, Ukraine economy were the same size. Polish economy is three times larger. Now if the Ukraine economy were the size of the Polish economy, Ukraine would be financing their own war effort right now and I doubt Putin would have come in.
Independent Political Commentator
So that's what they were doing on regime media. I could show you more clips but I think you get the point right there. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers together and thank you so much for watching. Love this video. Support independent media and unlock exclusive content, ad free videos and custom emojis. By becoming a paid member of our YouTube channel today, you can also gift memberships to others. Let's keep growing together.
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Date: September 25, 2025
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