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Zohran Mamdani is Humiliated as He Is Forced to Beg Middle Class People Not to Leave
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Dave Rubin
how is that the truth? When you're telling the truth, you don't have to be screaming doing nothing.
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Dave Rubin
we are allowed to have fun. Disgusting, smelly, decrepit. All right, people. It's May 12, 2026. I'm Dave Rubin. This is the Rubin Report. Did you know that on June 11, 2026, right here in the free state of Florida in the greatest city in our wonderful nation, Miami. I will be at the Fillmore with Rhonda Sant is Ben Shapiro, Adam Crowell and Jillian Michaels live. Rubin Report written that day once in a lifetime. Daverubin.com events for tickets and yes, as always, the meet and greet part is selling out quick. People want to touch, they want to just get a little piece of. Dave, join us. You're gonna have a blast, I promise. We're just wrapping up a whole bunch of just general state of crazy today and leftist lunacy and what they're doing. So that's kind of low hanging fruit for us. Second half of the show. Rubinreport.locals.com Community Q&A. We got a nice mix of stuff today, but let's dive right in because as I keep saying, everything right now is just about the midterms, really, all of the fighting, whether it's fighting wars over there or the political fighting that's happening in our cities and states, what it really adds up to right now is what will happen in November. Because the moment that election closes, if the Democrats are in charge, it is what it is. Lame dump, lame dump truck, lame duck. Trump era begins and it will not be pretty. And if the Republicans win, Trump truly unchained for the last two years of his presidency could be absolutely incredible. Absolutely incredible. And that's where everything's leading us up to. So in some sense, I think you can make an argument that everything going on with the crazy Dems right now is a net Good. Because as people watch these cities crumble, as they watch the crime, as they watch the mayhem and just the general state of lunacy, as we get to shine light on the differences between Democrats and Republicans, as we have like an LA mayoral race and a California gubernatorial race, and then the fruits of what Zorhan's doing in New York, it's exposing so much of it so that the hope is enough decent people will be like, you know what, I don't know about these Republicans, but I don't want that Zorhan Mamdami, who is pushing out every productive, sane person in New York City here, he realizes that now there's an. It's not just, oh, we got rid of the rich people and everything was going to be fine. Now the working class are starting to head out too.
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Zorhan Mamdani
Amidst being in the wealthiest city in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, we already see an exodus of working in middle class New Yorkers. So I don't have a hesitation in asking those who make the most amount of money in the city or the most profits in the city to pay a little bit more so that everyone can actually stay in this city. It's also something not just about justice or the ability for working class people to live here, it is also actually about ensuring that corporations can continue to attract the top talent to this city.
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Dave Rubin
So I think we showed you that clip before, but the reason I wanted to start with it is because it shows a real disconnect. We're gonna get you some numbers in just a second on how much money has actually fled New York. But it shows you the disconnect between what they do policy wise and what their results are and how they never realize these things are too, are connected. Right? So on one hand, his whole thing is, I'm going after the rich, I'm going after the billionaires, the millionaires, the corporations, blah, blah, blah. Then the millionaires, the billionaires, the corporations leave. And most of them, as you know, coming to Florida, right? So they get out, they're like, we can't. These are not the cond we can do business in. He's standing outside Ken Griffin's Pieder saying, burn this place down. Like, this is not a great situation. We're gonna go to places with less regulation, less taxes, all of the goodness that free societies have and everything else. What Zorhan seems to be unable to realize, although I think he's doing this intentionally, a lot of people think he just doesn't. He's just kind of like a ding dong Communist doesn't know what he's doing. I think he's intentionally imploding the system. Wherever you fall on that, obviously you not great guy. If you take out the people who are running all the corporations who have a huge chunk of the money, who pay a huge percentage of taxes if they leave, it's not just that they leave and you get to go, yay, we got their apartment. Let's throw a big party. They're taking companies out, right? You guys are always going after the billionaires. Well, we read you the numbers last week. Elon Musk employs, I think it was 144,000 thousand people. So if you hamper him and he has to look at the books a little bit differently, he's gonna have to fire people. So when you push Citadel out, when you push, say, Tesla out of California, whatever it is, you're not just punishing those guys then. You're actually. You think you're for the working class. Well, the working class now are realizing, boy, prices haven't gone down and there are less jobs. We gotta go. And what does it all add up to? Well, this just came out from the New York Post. Blue states have bled to 2 trillion. 2 trillion, that's with a T in wealth. To red states in the last decade. And New York leads the pack. So maybe Zorhan, again, unless you're doing this intentionally, which I think you are, maybe you'd want to go. All right, why don't we put a pause on all this stuff? Sure. I couldn't pull off the free buses and yeah, those free grocery stores, we're only going to have five of them and five boroughs for 10 million people. And we're not going to have them until 2029. And I did push out all these people and maybe I shouldn't have threatened Ken Griffin. And the list goes on and on. And I showed up to a Mets game and I hugged Mr. Met, and then they lost, what, 13 straight games? Like, the guy does not have a good track record. He might want to reverse course on this, but he cannot. They are so deep in their doo doo that they just seem to want more and more and more. Here is Zorhan explaining that violence is not a real thing. It's an artificial construction.
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Zorhan Mamdani
Oftentimes we've even found as legislators, when we go into these courts, the term violent crime is even used when people are stealing packages. Violent crime is even used when people are accused of burglary and there happens to be a housing unit in that same dwelling. So violence is an Artificial construction. And we have to be very clear that what is happening here with these district attorneys, that is violence. That is violence of the highest degree.
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Dave Rubin
Connor, do we have a picture of the artificial construction known as violent crime? Well, that's a man being thrown into the subway. And as you can see, we translated. I'm fine. Violence is an artificial construct. To be clear, we added that part. I think. I think we added that part. I don't know. That's exactly what he said. But these people are ridiculous on every issue that they can be on the wrong side of. They are always on the wrong side. And of course, what happens when you are for defunding the police, what happens when you are for letting violent criminals out of prison or not even putting them in prison in the first place? Well, from the New York Post murders up 300% in New York City subway system robbery surge, NYPD data shows. So murders are going up, violent crime is going up. We've already talked about many times how they don't arrest you. And this started under de Blasio. So this wasn't even from that ding dong Eric Adams before Zoran, that if you jump the turnstile, what does it cost now to get into New York City subway? If you're just throwing one ride, it's probably, I'm gonna guess, $2.50 or something. Man, I remember when it was like 75 cents and. And you put change in. You literally put change in the thing. God, life. But once they said, okay, you could just jump the turnstile and we will not punish you for that. You're actually saying, okay, we will incentivize criminality. And then you're also saying, oh, people who pay. You're just too old to jump that thing, old lady. Well, you're going to pay for yourself and somebody else. It's $3 per ride right now on the subway. And you're a sucker. If you can jump that thing and you don't, you're a sucker. So get out there, do some squats, learn how to jump, get those shoes. What do they call those jumpy shoes that we had back in the day? Remember those jumpy shoes? Get me an image of those jumpy shoes. We're gonna throw it in right here. You know, for basketball players, we had the big. Was kind of like a heel for a guy. All right, we got an image of it. There you go. But of course, it's not just New York. It's everywhere. Everywhere these people are, they ruin everything. And they're always interested in protecting criminals. And illegals instead of you. As you know, Cali is full of these people. Katie Port, Javier here, Becerra, and Tom Steyer, the billionaire. I love this guy. And they all just hate ice.
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Ana Navarro
So I think it's important to recognize
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Dave Rubin
that our sanctuary laws are only as good as the enforcement of them. As governor, I will investigate ice. We will prosecute ice. We will convict ICE if they have violated the law.
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Marco Rubio
And what I will tell Steve and
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Dave Rubin
Chad is that cheerleader is one of the biggest defenders of immigrant rights in this nation. They deserve respect. ICE is a criminal organization. They're coming into our state, they're terrorizing
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people, they're racially profiling people, and they're
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Dave Rubin
harming people and committing violence against them. I'm in favor of abolishing ice, actually, Tom, they're arresting illegals who shouldn't be here. And you're a billionaire, Tom, so I'm sure you have an awful lot of security everywhere you go. The average person doesn't have armed guards wherever they go. But now, the reason I showed you that, and obviously that was a few days ago about the debate, is because this came out and this is just. It's perfection, you know, look at this. Tom Steyer. He's getting an endorsement. It's very exciting. The California Democratic Socialists Voter Guide recommends Tom Steyer quote, the most progressive of the current viable candidates for governor is Tom Steyer. Time will tell whether he's truly a class traitor. Do you see what they did right there? They basically threatened to kill him as they endorse him. And in some ways, I think you could argue that a billionaire who is placating the never placated progressive loony mob is probably in some ways the most dangerous person you could have in politics. Everything that he has to do, his very existence is anathema to these people, right? But. But he has to placate to them so that they don't kill him. So would he do all of the craziest possible things. Open borders, endless criminality, like whatever it is that they want. Meanwhile, he will of course be living in his mansion with his armed security and everything else while all hell breaks loose so that he can bow to them. I mean, put that statement up again. I mean, that last line is just. It's so beautiful. Time will tell whether he's truly a class traitor. So we'll endorse. I mean, it's the biggest mafia. That's an awful nice restaurant you got there. It'd be a damn shame if something happened to it. That is unbelievable. But just in and of itself. We hate billionaires. We hate billionaires, but we'll vote for a billionaire as long as he will be a slave to us. And also if he isn't, we'll kill him. So good luck. But let's connect this to some of these other things going on all over the world. We've wanted to show you this one for a little bit, but I thought this was interesting. This is an African refugee in Germany. And as you guys know, Germany, Angela Merkel opened up the doors. Germany is so screwed and so much of it has to do with their guilt from generations ago. They opened up their country. They are really. The idea of Germany for Germans is, well, they have some parties like the AfD who are fighting for that. But the country is really screwed up right now. And here is an African refugee, he's just telling a joke. He's going to actually tell you a joke. You'll read the translation and you can see within this, this hysterical laughter about how they even realize how ridiculous the whole thing. I gotta say, the joke is actually pretty good. It's a pretty good joke, right? Like the Germans are out there working everyone else that's wandering around the streets all day, they're not even German in the first place. But the fact that this guy would be a migrant or whatever you want to call him, legal or illegal, from another place, and in the case of Germany, they let in all these people legally, so he's probably not even illegal. But that he would sit there that the joke got out there, he would sit there laughing about it on video knowing no one's going to do anything about it, no German's going to take their country back or anything else. Again, AfD party does exist and they're fighting and all that stuff. But that tells you like these things can happen here too. They will take what is yours and laugh about it in your face and you will do nothing. And then it will be 10, 20, 30 years later and you will not know what your country looks like. If you'd like an example of that, well, England just had a bunch of local elections and here is video of the London borough known as Tower Hamlet. And here is their new city council. It's like right out of Downton Abbey. Now, on the non joke side for a second, I just want to be clear. I'm sure some of these people are perfectly fine, but what will happen? Okay, so now a generation goes by, another generation goes by. Will this have anything to do with the England that any of us knew or the London that any of us knew or anything else. Here's a list of some of the Tower, hamlet, mayor names. Before these people, you had Richard Desmond, George Cheney, B. Holmes, Daniel Kelly, John Riley, Mr. Durrell over there, Crook, Thompson, Neal, et cetera, et cetera. You got Duffy, you got Shaw, you got Ludlo. And then let's jump over to the 2000s. What happened in the 2000s? Well, yeah, we're going to have a Jones and an alum and a Melvin and a Ullah and a Sardar and an Ahmed and a Ullah and a Hockey and a Siddiqui and a Omer and Al Zaman. Again, it's not in and of itself. It isn't necessarily a problem except when it happens everywhere and then it completely changed the cultural makeup of the nation and everything else. Then it starts becoming a problem. But how did this all happen? Well, it was feckless leaders. You know, my friend Gad said his new book is coming out this week on a phrase that I have mentioned a million times that Elon has tweeted about endlessly, which is suicidal empathy. That this is what the Islamists and the leftists preyed upon. And it's really what the Islamists did. Oh, it's those ding dong leftist progressives. They're so tolerant, they're so nice, they will commit suicide, commit Harry Carey. They will fall on the sword in the name of being nice and we will be able to take over their countries. And that is what is happening in the uk. So the UK just had these elections again, did not go well for Keir Starmer, who's in a whole bunch of trouble. But what's he worried about? He's worried about that Tommy Robinson, who I've had on the show multiple times. That Tommy Robinson, who is the leader, I would say, of the Britain for British People movement, sounds pretty racist. He's the real problem here. And they better stop people from going to Tommy's rallies.
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Keir Starmer
And you'll see it again on Saturday at a march designed to confront and intimidate this diverse city and this diverse country. That is why this Labour government will block far right agitators from travelling to Britain for that event. Because we will not allow people to come to the UK to threaten our communities and spread hate on our. This is nothing less than a battle for the soul of our nation.
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Dave Rubin
Yeah, bucko. And you're on the wrong side of it. You know, it's funny, for two years following October 7th, you guys had jihad rallies every weekend, taking over London with no British flags. Tons of Palestinian flags, tons of Hezbollah flags, tons of ISIS flags, things of that nature. You didn't stop anybody from traveling to London. Now, a British guy who's upset that his hometown was complet completely Islamized, who is talking to the people of the country that you're supposed to be the leader of and saying, hey, we do have a problem with immigration, and we do have a problem with sovereign borders, and we have a problem with the EU and the rest of it. You're gonna literally ban people from traveling to his rally. How are you going to do that? Are you gonna be arresting people on the roads and asking for their political affiliation or checking out what underwear they're wearing? What are you doing? But either way, let's say you could do that. Well, why is it you only do it to that guy, not to the guys who are calling to decapitate you, unless you're actually afraid of them? And that's why. Yeah, that's probably why. Of course, there are some countries that are not doing it this way. And that's the lesson. The reason I do so much of this kind of stuff from an American perspective is we're not there yet. And we have many, many better strengths. States rights and gun rights. We were born in revolution. Americans are much more. We're more diverse in the right sense of diverse. They're diverse. And like, oh, we got that many brown people and that many white people. We're all diverse. We have created something in America that is much. It is. Well, we used to call it the melting pot, but it is a much better stew of Americana where people put aside ancient hatreds, but it's being boiled up again. But there are some places that they are dealing with it correctly, and I do think it's worth noting that. So when we are confronted with this stuff, we will know what to do. Look at this video from Eric Daughtry. I'll read it to you as you're watching the video. Incredible sight. As thousands of Japanese recently stormed to resist building the first mosque in Fujisawa. The Japanese people are getting fed up not only with the invasion, but the fact that the mosque would be larger than the Shinto shrine. Keep pushing. Prime Minister Takachi and the Japanese people must repel the third world and Muslim conquerors. Look, obviously that's Daughtry editorializing a little bit, but the point is, is it racist for Japan, a tiny little set of islands? Is it racist for them to say, our culture is for us, and we have certain cultural habits. We have certain. We. We have a certain language, we have certain foods and a certain history and we want to protect it for us. Is that racist? And the answer is it's obviously not racist. And in the 50 some odd Muslim countries, if a whole bunch of Japanese people came in and started saying we are going to build our places of worship here, how would it go? Well, we know it wouldn't go well. There are no churches in Saudi Arabia. Qatar contains their Christians to this couple block radius and they're really actually all slaves, mostly from Thailand who they take their passports away. So it's not a two way street. I suppose if we did some of the two way street stuff then it would be a little harder to push back on this stuff. But Japan is fighting for its culture. There are certain places that are doing it and we better start modeling it before we give this stuff all the way because the left is going bananas and we've got a right that's pretty decent right now and we're going to have to solidify around it. I'll have more on the future of the right in just a second. But first, cheers. You know how drinking just hits different now? 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All right, so you guys remember last week when Marco Rubio stepped in for Caroline Levitt and gave the White House press briefing and just did a bang up job. And the highlight of course of it was when he gave this wonderful soliloquy on what it means to be an American. I want to read a bit more to give you some context there. This is from Fox, a viral clip of Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivering a hopeful vision for America's future while answering a question this week at the White House is stoking more buzz about a possible 28 presidential bid, Rubio, in his debut performance at a White House press briefing, gave an uplifting answer that noted America's story of perpetual improvement when asked about his hope for the country in the years ahead. Recordings of The Secretary of State 53 second answer, including a campaign style video put out by Rubio's team, grabbed tons of views on social media. The frenzy is understandable as every move and each comment Rubio makes is often seen as a possible prelude to a potential White House run in the race to succeed his boss, term limited, President Donald Trump. So, you know, there's a lot of talk in some sense, I'm not that interested in it, in who's running in 28. Like, we gotta get through these freaking midterms right now. Now do I think Rubio is an absolute all star who has proven himself at every possible level to be the most highly competent Secretary of State we've ever had to step in and do the White House press briefing to explain what America is, why we're doing the things we're doing. Like as this guy just knocked it out of the park almost completely, flawlessly. I can't even think of a flawed moment. His last flawed moment was. What was that 10 years ago when he gave the rebuttal to Trump in one of the speeches and his mouth was a little dry. That basically was his last fault. The guy's been that good. I just don't think it's worth spending too much time on this because whatever happens with the Republicans, there's a deep bench, right? So, okay, so you got Rubio. We'll see where DeSantis shakes out on this. As I keep saying, people don't mention Hegseth, but I think there could potentially be a lane there. And he has been great. Obviously, JD Is the presumptive nominee as the vice president and he's been excellent. I think there is going to be a contested convention. I think there's going to be a fight. But regardless of who I like the most, and can we move this guy into this slot and everything else, it's like there's a deep bench there, and that's pretty good. And when you compare that to what's going on on the Democrat side, it's night and day, right? Like, they're in a constant race to the bottom kind of who hates America the most, who would give the government the most power, who wants to fundamentally change everything as we know it, versus a bunch of Republicans. That, okay, if Rubio becomes president, pretty good. JD Becomes president. Pretty good. Hagseth, pretty good. Desantis pretty good. We'd probably give you a couple more that would all be like, yeah, America will be pretty solid. And we got out of all those Trump years, and it was kind of crazy, but Trump angled us the right way and gave us somebody that loves the country and we can move forward with. So the Republicans are in a good spot right here. I thought this was interesting because the media loves the little internal fights. Here's Scott Jennings on whether Rubio. He thinks Rubio will run and where. That leaves J.D. watch.
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Scott Jennings
Yeah, look, Rubio, you talk to people. Hardcore MAGA voters. I think more than anybody else in the administration, Rubio has out kicked his coverage based on the expectations for him, A, with that crowd, and B, for the, you know, old world normie Republicans who've always loved Rubio, they're like, this guy is terrific. So I agree with Brad on the buzz. My assumption is, and Rubio has said this, Vance and Rubio will not run against each other. And so however this shakes out, and I still think it would be enormously difficult to take the nomination away from a sitting vice president if he wants to get it.
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Ana Navarro
I don't know.
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Dave Rubin
Is a funny thing. Okay, so let me say again, I don't like getting lost in some of this stuff, but it is worth noting, right? Larry's jockeying for position here. You know, every time we play a Scott Jennings clip, how often has it been, out of all the thousand we've played, probably 500 of them that have actually disagreed with him? I do actually disagree with him right there. I sense that at the end of this thing, meaning the Trump thing, Trump's gonna want a fight. And I don't mean a fight like we're all gonna destroy each other necessarily, although there certainly could be some of that. But I think Trump's gonna want there to be like, all right, I did this MAGA thing and what is the future of it? And let's get all of the best players in. Trump loves the media. He loves the show. So while Jennings there is saying, hey, I don't think that Ruby will jump in if JD Does. I'm not so sure of that. And also think about it. Yes. Would it be kind of unnecessarily nasty, sort of the way the Trump Desantis thing was, even though they never even got onto a debate stage together? But like, if you had some of those guys that I just let. That I just mentioned up there. Right. If you had them up there and they were really getting into debates and going at it, it would be pretty damn healthy, right? Like you'd go, all right, well, they have marginal disagreements on this or that. I happen to like this guy's personality more. Or I really agree with this guy's foreign policy. I agree with this guy on this. Like, there would be something to actually debate, and may the best person win. And I think Donald Trump, did he not once have a reality show called the Apprentice? I think there might be something there. We will see. Of course, either way, Rubio is really upsetting the ladies of the View right now. And here is Ana Navarro and the most racist woman on television, Sunny Hostin,
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Ana Navarro
when he has been silently confident, complicit. Yes. Serving an administration that targets people, racially profiles people, you know, is basically persecuting and torturing Latinos and Latino immigrants, is taking away voting rights from the African Americans, firing people for the color of their skin. So it just. To me, it's heartbreaking. He's the son of immigrants from Cuba that came here in 1956. How dare he stand by complicitly and allow Latinos to be rounded up, Allow them, American citizens to be shot in the face and shot in the chest and shot in the back. How dare he allow the voting, Stand by idly while the Voting Rights act is gutted and disenfranchising African American voting.
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Dave Rubin
You know, there's something about the show. It's like a fever dream. It's like when they're off camera, they're probably all perfectly fine, and the second they sit down on that set and the camera's gone, they all go completely insane. Ana Navarro. They're persecuting and torturing Latinos. Christy, my assistant Christy here. Latina, Cuban, live in Miami. Have you been persecuted and. Or tortured under Marco Rubio? No. Okay, thank you. Back to the office. So there you go. Okay. Was she just let off the hook or did those crazy people make all of that stuff up? I think, you know, interestingly, Christy and Marco Rubio are both Cuban. And as I often talk about living down here, Miami. The Cuban people love freedom because they fled communism, Right? So they get it. They really get it. It's recent. It's not five generations ago. It's basically last week. So Rubio really does have his eye on Cuba right now. And you can sense Trump's trying to figure out, how do we order this thing? We gotta wrap up Iran. We knocked that. We took out Maduro in Venezuela. There's a bunch of stuff going on. But here is Rubio explaining a bit more on what we are doing with Cuba right now. We're not going after the people of Cuba. We're trying to help them.
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Marco Rubio
I don't know if you know this. There's the Cuban government and they have a budget and then there's this private company that has more money than the government does. None of the money in that company goes to build a single road, a single bridge, provide a single grain of rice to a single Cuban other than the people that are part of Geyser. So that's what we're sanctioning, is a company that basically is taking anything that makes money in Cuba and illegally putting it into the pockets of a few regime insiders. So that's not sanctions on the Cuban people because the Cuban people don't benefit from gaisa. It's a sanction against this company that is stealing from the Cuban people to the benefit of a few. And we didn't discuss those sanctions yesterday, but we imposed them yesterday and we're going to be doing more, by the way.
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Dave Rubin
I mean, once again, what a perfect illustration of how Rubio knows how to communicate what is going on, explain something with great detail. And what that leads us to is that something is going to happen with Cuba. It's fairly obvious that they've been teasing it for quite some time. And here's Trump again from the Cheryl Atkinson interview that we showed you a portion of yesterday talking about what's going on. And you know, Marco's had his eye on this situation.
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Dave Rubin
Latest with Cuba and are there talks underway now?
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Donald Trump
Well, it's a failed country. It has been for years and we'll take care of one before we take care of the other. But no, it's a failed country, Cuba and people are living poorly. It's a bad experiment.
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Dave Rubin
Are you or is someone from the administration communicating with.
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Donald Trump
Well, Marco is. Marco Rubio is doing it. His parents came from Cuba. Cuba. And if we can help out. Good. We have a lot of people, 94% of whom voted for me from Cuba. I did great with the Hispanic vote anyway.
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Dave Rubin
It is true, I assure you. 94%. I didn't know if can we check that 94% of Cubans voted for Trump? That sounds probably ballpark right to me, certainly the ones down here in Florida. But yeah, that sounds right because they do get it. Marco's got his eye on it and it's interesting. Trump as can you. One thing at a time. One thing at a time. We did Venezuela taking care of Iran. We'll get to it. But Cuba will be more free by the end of Donald Trump's presidency than it was before. They're all the lefties who we want to help all oppressed people. Donald Trump doesn't talk. He actually does. All right, let's spend the rest of the time on rubinreport.locals.com community Q&A. Dave. Oh, Dave says Dave, what's your. The guy asking the question is Dave and my name is Dave. That could be rather confusing. Dave, what's your first and best concert? I think I've maybe this has been brought up once before. My first concert that I ever went to was probably 12 years old, sleep away camp and somewhere in Pennsylvania, outdoor concert. We went to see the Steve Miller Band and Steve Miller, you know the Steve Miller Band. I don't know that I was like into that music per se back then. I don't know what I like really as a 12 year old. But Steve Miller Band is awesome. I mean they've got probably 20, 20 great songs. My best concert. That was my first concert. My best concert. Well, we got engaged at a Fleetwood Mac concert to the song Dreams at the Forum in Los angeles back in 2014, many lifetimes ago. So that was my favorite concert we ever went to for sure. And the most enjoyable time I ever had a concert. You guys know I've been to many, many Frankie Van concerts and gotten to see him personally and spend some time with him and interview him and all that. But even just at the last one that I went to, which was he's 91 years old and two months ago I went to see him in Tucson, Arizona and I got to show him some of video of the kids dancing to some of his songs and talk about how they love music. And he was. That's when he really, really, really lit up and And I just love, you know, I don't know, I guess in that sense, I'm just an old soul. I like, I like 70s, 80s, don't care much for the 90s. Got a little depressing. But you give me all the 70s, 80s stuff, but I like doo wop from the 50s, too. So I got a bit of an eclectic mix when it comes to music. Mark says. Dave, given the political dynamics before and after the midterms, do you think there might be changes on the Supreme Court? Who do you think might get nominated? DeSantis, Cruz, or even J.D. well, it's a good question because as some of these guys age, guys and gals, Trump or any president realizes, boy, I'm at the end of my run here. What could part of my legacy be? Could we get somebody to retire who's going to age out? Because if they resign or pass away or whatever, under a Democrat president, it goes the other way. So could Trump try something here? How many years does Clarence, Tom and so on and do this, you know, that sort of thing? I don't know the answer on that. Like, I don't know that there was any discussions about any of those things. Ted Cruz would be a phenomenal choice. Ted Cruz, you know, Alan Dershowitz, who's the legendary Harvard law professor, he said that. Ted Cruz, I think he either said he was his best student or best debater that he ever had. Maybe we could check the specifics on that. But Ted Cruz, like, he is, he knows the Constitution in and out. I think he would, you know, he knows how to. He's been in the public eye forever. Like, he would do well at the confirmation hearings. He wouldn't be caught in a question, you know, what is a woman? He wouldn't be caught like a deer in headlights. And Dershowitz did say he was one of the best and brightest students he ever had. Look, DeSantis also would be incredible. DeSantis was a lawyer. Desantis, to me, though, he has. There's more to do first, right? Like, DeSantis is about to wrap up eight incredible years in this state, and he made it by far the freest state in the union. And he's only been in politics. He doesn't have a huge career before that. He's younger than I am. How old is DeSantis? Maybe 46 or something. He deserves to make some money. He's worth a couple hundred grand. Could he do something else in Politics? Sure. He's 47 years old. He has three young kids. My sense is he either Goes private sector for a couple years, and then a combat. Or maybe he runs for president. I don't know. There's all these rumors that he's. I mean, literally, it's all over the Internet now, that he's gonna announce he's running for president during the show that we're doing in Miami on June 11th. I have no freaking idea. There has not been one implication or discussion around that with my team. I give you my word on that. I have no idea. But his future is bright, one way or another. And again, if you get to that debate stage and you look and you go, man, that's DeSantis up there. Rubio and JD, imagine that's the last three, and they just have to fight it out. Like, I think there would be a degree of honor there. I think. I think it would be. I think it would be something. So. But. So you said Ted Cruz, who was the third name, or jd. Well, jd. I mean, that would be so far in the offing. JD doesn't have a real legal background, as far as I know. Right. JD's not. He's not a lawyer, I don't think. So. That probably is less likely for the Supreme Court, but, you know, with Trump. You just never know with Trump. Right, David. Wow. So we had a Dave ask a question. Now, everyone in the community is. Not your name Dave or David. Any plans for your 50th? So June 26th, I will be 50 years old. Not bad, Connor. You know, there's no Botox, no nothing. Just. I go to my girl three times a year in Miami Beach. I say to her, do whatever you want. She lasers the hell out of my face, puts creams all over me. It burns for a day or two, but I'm doing all right, working out right, you know, eating, eating right and all that stuff. I'm very. I have to say, I'm sort of excited for 50 in a way that I was not for 40. Oh, wow. I do have a correction to make. I like making a correction. Not above corrections. JD went to Yale Law School, so there is a bit of a law background there. Did not see. Even at 49 years old, you can learn something. Who knew? You know, when there's something about turning 50. My 40s. My life has been good on 40s. You know, we had kids. Like, life's good. Career is working. I love doing the show. I love the people I work with. My friends are good. I feel, you know, I feel physically good. So, like, I like being 50 or I like the prospect of being 50. I remember when I was turning 40, I was like, man, like I'm getting old. Like I actually thought 40 was old where 50 seems like great. Like let's roll, let's keep going. Let's see how we can keep improving over time. Where 40, I was like, oh man, the youth part of me is over or something and I don't feel that at all anymore. So I'm very excited. So anyway, as for plans, probably a big Dave Rubin birthday party because I think the 26th is a Friday. So we've been discussing that. So, you know, I'm in London for a couple days before that for the ARC conference. I will not spend my 50th birthday in London. Like if I have to freaking swim the freaking pond across, I will make it back here for my 50th. So likely a party. Thought maybe we'd go away for the weekend. But then you know that Sunday at the is Bill Maher is getting the Mark Twain Prize in D.C. and I was invited to that. So that would be a nice way to wrap up the weekend to go see Bill. Get that. So probably a party, maybe a dinner. I don't need much, you know, I guess that's what happens. You start getting older. You don't need much for your birthday. You don't. I don't want anything. I really don't need any gifts. Nothing. Morgan says, do we think that humanity will course correct at some point or are we doomed to fulfill the plot of the movie Idiocracy? It's a great movie. If you have not seen Idiocracy. Great, great Mike Judge movie from about, I don't know, what year did it come out? I'm going to guess it's probably got to be. It's gotta be 25 years ago. Did it come out? 2006. 2006, wow. So 20 years ago. And it's just a brilliant. It's so funny. It's low budget, but it's a great take on the future of what will happen to people as we just keep elevating the dumbest and just punishing people who are bright and whatever. You know what? I think it's something like this. I think some people will be prepared for the future and know the right things and have been brought up properly. And we'll go through this AI robotics thing that we're going to go through right now. The way the world's going to be so freaking different. It's going to be more different than when your grandma didn't have the radio and then had it, or when we didn't have television and then you had it, or we didn't have the Internet and had it. It's going to be so wildly different. But if you prepare yourself properly, if you know what your values are, if you're ready to incorporate these things into your life, the future is going to be really, really bright. And I think, and again, I mentioned it yesterday, but if you've not seen my interview with Joe Lonsdale from Saturday, he's a technologist, a VC guy, and he paints such a bright future for humanity. Elon always painting that bright future that we will be able to automate so many things, so many mundane tests. It will leave us to have the opportunity to do so much more with our lives. Work is important too, and we're going to have to figure out how to incorporate all of those things. So there's just huge things, there's huge problems and incredible horizons that are right in front of us right now. And I think if you leverage them, the future will be incredibly bright. So your question is, will we be an idiocracy? I think blue cities, particularly, I think cities are going to be increasingly hard to live in. Hyper controlled, dumber state school people. And it's just going to be just. Just kind of dumb and stupid and dysfunctional. And then there's gonna be other places that things are really bright and awesome. And hopefully you angle your life towards one of those places. All right, Tappy says, have you been able to speak to Jordan Peterson or Dennis Prager? So I did. I think I mentioned it a few weeks ago. Dennis has been moved down here to the Miami area. I did see him two or three weeks ago. He's doing okay. You know, he's making more appearances. We're actually gonna have him on the show. He does it virtually, you know, in essence, he has no movement below his neck. He actually is moving just a tiny bit for the first time with some fingers. I think I saw his thumb move, which, you know, it feels like nothing in some sense, but it's incredible progress. I just want to say that. Well, first off, Dennis, I. If you're watching today, and he told me he's been watching the show, I love you and I'm thrilled you're here and we're going to try to spend more time together and everything else, and we'll have, we'll have him back on the show soon. But Dennis attitude is so unbelievably positive. You know, this is a guy who I don't know how many books he's written, but wrote extensively and has talked extensively about happiness. And he's so appreciative to be alive. There wasn't a moment, you know, when we went there. You know, I've seen him before. I saw him in the hospital in la. And, you know, it's tough to obviously see your friend at any age or any stage of life to be in that kind of condition. And when I saw him the first time with breathing tubes and all of those things, and it's. You can't. You. There's nothing you could say, right? We've all seen something like that at some point, right? And it's the circle of life and all of those things. But the first time I saw him, he couldn't communicate at all because of the breathing tube. When I saw him this time, you know, he's speaking and everything else, and he has the same smile on his face, the same sense of humor. He's watching videos, he's. He's reading, he's listening. He loves classical music. He's listening to classical music. He's so appreciative to be alive. He's had some treatments done and all you can do is pray. So if you pray, throw in a prayer for this guy. He deserves it. And it's interesting. He said to me, he said, look, likely I'm not going to get my legs back. He'd love his arms back. You could hug somebody. You could do a little bit more type. So who knows, who knows and just love him and Jordan. So I've not seen Jordan. I did go to see him a couple weeks ago and then something came up and it didn't work out, you know, Mikayla, his daughter, has given some updates on where he's at with things, so I don't want to share anything that's not public knowledge, but, man, I've said it before, but in this last year, to have lost temporarily, Jordan Peterson, to have lost for good, Charlie Kirk, to have Dennis be largely MIA for so much of that, we lost heavy hitters and I think it led to some of the craziness on the right. And I do, my senses things are healing a little bit. I'm always trying to do my best to be part of that healing process. Probably failing at it sometimes. But yeah, two absolute all stars in Jordan and Dennis, and we need them both back in, in whatever capacity, either one of them, getting them back at 10%, it's better than getting most people at 100%. One more question. Elizabeth says, did you do anything special for your mom for Mother's Day. So I wanted, there was a brief moment where I thought maybe I could jump home and surprise her. But we did send her flowers and we did the FaceTime thing with the kids and all of that. But thank you for asking the question and love your mom. And I do want to add quickly since you've given me the opportunity to. My mom actually spent most of Mother's Day with our family friend Shelly, who's been my mom's, you know, in that best friend crew for 40 some odd years and she's in hospice right now. And I got to kind of say hi and I suppose goodbye to her. And she was a wonderful positive influence in my life who I remember when I was like 6 years old was telling me how funny I am and that I'm going to host the Tonight show or something. So mom, we love you, Shelly, we love you. I love you and all right, that is our show for today. No post game show. We got a couple interesting things coming out for the rest of the week. I will fill you in online as to why tomorrow with Dr. Drew, then Adam Carolla, then we got Bishop Barron on Friday. And one more time guys, if you have not bought tickets already, I want to see you in Florida June 11, Fillmore, Miami Beach. Me, Corolla Shapiro, Jillian Michaels, and the headliner, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. DavRubin.com events all right, see you later.
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