B (5:43)

If Donald Trump wants to debate me anytime, any place in the Oval Office, publicly, on camera, I'd be happy to do it. And we'll see who's intellectually superior in that Today junior contest. I've got no doubts as to what the outcome would be. And it's extraordinary to me that Donald Trump keeps recycling this low IQ insult. This is from the dumbest president ever to sit at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and there's not even a close second. Instead of insulting people all over the world, and I'm not really worried about what he has to say about me, he's so slow, but he's insulting our allies. He's worsening the United States security posture. In doing so, he's fighting with his own MAGA base. The economy is collapsing. It's a train wreck. Which is why it's going to take Democrats to get things back on track.

A (6:54)

Yeah, the Democrats, the party of getting things back on track, they're the party of stability and peace and law enforcement. I love that clip. What a great clip to Start us on a Friday. Keep Jeffries challenging President Trump to a battle of wits. Well, sir, you shouldn't enter that battle unarmed. I love that. I do think that. Wouldn't that be great if they debated? That'd be pretty funny. I love how he's like, no, I'm not dumb. You're dumb. Okay, that's. Yeah. Good. That's a great debate. Well, way to go. Way to go. Hakeem Jeffries. Is that really the most impressive guy that they have? I saw that earlier this week. One of the big D.C. publications, they had an anonymous quote from a Democrat who claimed that Hakeem Jeffries is, quote, secretly a badass. Yeah, that's a. That's a pretty well kept secret, that man. That his badassery is deeply in the closet. This guy is not impressive. He's pathetic, actually. And you know what's going on in the House. Nancy Pelosi is still pulling the strings. Nancy Pelosi is still calling the shots. Nancy Pelosi is just using Hakeem Jeffries as her puppet. Another. Another, you know, Joe Biden, somebody who doesn't really have the mental faculties to do the job with some sinister force guiding all of their actions for their own power advantages, which is what Nancy Pelosi is doing is why Nancy Pelosi just threw Eric Swalwell out of the race in California and pretended like she had nothing to do with it. Even an interviewer asked her, like, hey, you know, didn't you. Did you have a hand in this? And she's like, well, it was his decision. It was his. It was his decision. You told him to get out of the race. You opened up the blackmail file to destroy him. You people are awful. You are awful people. And so, yeah, would I want to see Hakeem Jeffries debate Donald Trump? Yes. Just for my own. Hilarious. Only. Only for my own hilarity. Only for my own enjoyment. That's exactly why I'd want to see that happen. You know what should happen, actually? President Trump should invite him to the Oval Office, have him over, and then just give him the Chuck and Nancy treatment. You know what I mean? Remember that when he just has the cameras on. Just invite all of the television cameras in, have Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries sit there, and then Donald Trump can read them the riot act. I think that'd be a perfect television. And great. Ahead of the midterms. I think it'd be absolutely wonderful ahead of the midterms. Just show how ridiculous these people are. Sure. Yeah. Do Your debate, son, that'd be wonderful. Yeah. Okay, let's, let's talk a little bit more about what the left is up to this week. The big election rigging operation in Virginia, they thought it went so well they can convinced all of these compliant lefties to jump in on voting yes to steal four congressional seats in Virginia. But you know, we talked yesterday with Ken Cuccinelli, of course, the former Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and boy, wasn't that great. Those of you who were with me yesterday, you got a chance to see his expert legal analysis and as he said during the interview, he's like, look, I'm not a guy who comes into anything with rose colored glasses. He goes, Vince, you've known me for years now and it's true, I've known Ken Cuccinelli for a long time and I've always found him to be a pretty straight shooter. Yes, he wants Republicans to win things, but I've never found him to just be like making stuff up, wish casting. That is going to happen. He said yesterday, he goes, if I could bet on this, if I was a betting man, I'd bet at all on the fact that this thing's going to be thrown out by mid May, that the court, the Supreme Court in Virginia, which has four Republican appointees to the three Democrats, is going to throw it out. And he goes, and I think it's going to be a 7 decision. That's how crystal clear the, the violations of the law and the Constitution were in Virginia this week. This thing should have never happened, but since it did, it's about to be thrown out. And for those of you who are curious like, well, why didn't the lawsuit get filed before the election? Why do we have to wait until after? Why did Republicans take so long? Good news, they didn't take so long. They did it before the election. Everything was on ice pending the results. And because the election came through with the yes vote to rig the election, boom, we're off to the races. Now the courts are moving forward with the process. They were waiting to see if it was going to be a yes vote. There it is. And now they're going to try and redress the damage. That's what they're doing. So we got it in two places. Tazewell, that's where we have that big ruling in Tazewell, Virginia, yesterday there, two days ago, saying it's completely unconstitutional. The other spot, the Supreme Court of Virginia, where there are going to be arguments coming up on Monday morning on this very Important case. Things are moving with alacrity very quickly right now and that's very good news. And so if what Ken Cuccinelli is promising here comes to pass, or what he expects to come to pass, not outright promising it, but very much expects to come to pass, does, that'll happen very soon and we'll have thwarted one of the most consequential election rigging. The Democrats even devised this cycle. That's great. In fact, if for any reason you think that Ken's judgment is filtered through a partisan lens, well, then let's go check in on cnn. Here's their legal expert, Ellie Hoenig, delivering what is bad news to that limited size audience. Watch.

C (12:03)

I do think it has a chance of success. This battle is not over. So if you look at their various challenges here brought by the RNC and other Republican entities, they're basically making two types of challenges here. One is substantive. So they're arguing that the way the question was phrased on the ballot was unfair, was misleading, and there is some legitimacy to that. I mean, the question asks, do you want to, quote, restore fairness to the process? Who's going to realistically vote no on that? I mean, a lot of people did, but it's slanted. I don't know if it's slanted enough to win the legal challenge. But the second category is the procedural challenges. And that's where I think the challengers have some real heft behind their arguments. For example, one of the laws says, if you're going to do this, the Virginia General assembly has to pass a law. And then voting, the referendum can't start for 90 days after the law is passed here. We're not even 90 days out now and the voting's done. So I don't know how Virginia's gonna defend that. There's another procedural quirk, I guess, that says the way you have to do this is the Virginia General assembly has to pass a law, then you need to have an intervening election, then a second General assembly needs to pass the law again. And the argument here that you're hearing from the defenders is, well, the 2025 governor election, that's the intervening election. The problem is that overlapped with the first vote. So there's some procedural nuance here that I think is going to be a real problem for people defending this outcome. And I think it's going to give the Republicans a chance to actually get it knocked down on the legal challenges.

A (13:33)

It's not merely nuance, it's devastating ship sinking holes in the argument. That the left is even attempting to mount here. They no basis, no basis, no support in the state constitution for this. It's theft, pure and simple. One thing that was left out of Ellie Honig's analysis, maybe he doesn't know it, maybe he was concealing it, I don't know. But remember I asked Ken Cuccinelli yesterday about how the districts are drawn and Ken Cuccinelli said even that is a matter of constitutional precedent here. Because in Virginia they have to be contained and contiguous. These have to be like real communities. And that's not what the map is. The map is just sort of like, like a, like a fan of left wing power emanating entirely from Northern Virginia. And so, so in other words, if that doesn't violate the state's constitutional provision, nothing will. I mean nothing will. That, that element of the state constitution is meaningless if this map that Democrats are trying to introduce isn't disqualified based on that provision. So we'll keep our eyes on it. But you know, I was admittedly kind of discouraged by of course, the results on Tuesday, especially cuz you and I had worked so hard for a better result. And then we see what happens and we go, okay, well that's crap. What do we do now? How do we navigate out of this? Well, one path out of it clearly is to defeat them in court right now. And so that, that, that's underway. We'll keep our eyes on it, especially on Monday as that argument gets underway, I imagine by Tuesday, hopefully. I've got some good news to share with you about how the court handled this case. So we'll, we'll keep watching it. Another piece of this is the way the United States Senate handles election integrity. We've got to get the SAVE act passed. Should I gavel in? I should gavel in. It's the SAVE act, ladies and gentlemen. We gavel into the SAVE act as we talk about this. Of course, the Save America Act. Anytime we talk about it, we have to keep the meeting minutes. That's what producer Jim Verde does for us with the big national radio show. But here's the thing. Yesterday in the United States Senate, there was an effort, there was an effort to put the Save America act into the reconciliation package. The reconciliation package. This would be the big funding bill. It was a chaotic moment. I'll explain why here in just a moment as we dive further into the Save America act and this edition of. Vince, great to have you with us as always, want to thank Fast Growing Trees for being a great sponsor of our program. Fast Growing Trees, which is responsible for making my yard look better. I have Fast Growing Trees. I love them. They arrive super healthy, well packaged, very safely packaged and ready to plant. Ready to plant. I love Fast Growing Trees. They're America's largest and most trusted online nursery. 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You know, this is like, you ever see like, like some poor, like, store clerk having to deal with some angry, disgruntled customers just being super annoying and particular, and you're just waiting in line and you're like, I just can't wait for this person to leave. And the clerk's just figuring out a way to diffuse the conversation. So they finally do leave. This is kind of the way John Thune is treating us. Except our grievance is legitimate. We just want integrity to our elections. That's all we're asking for. And so what Republicans in the Senate devised is this plan. They said, well, how about this? Instead of giving you legislation, we'll just put it into the reconciliation bill. That works, right? No, it doesn't work. Michael Lee has already told us it doesn't work. It doesn't work because it has to be budgetary to be in the reconciliation bill. This is a policy. This is about securing our elections. It doesn't have anything to do with dollars going, going out the door. Not anything meaningful anyway. Not meaningful enough to include in reconciliation. It would be excluded. It wouldn't work. And the. The news yesterday is it didn't even get that far. And why didn't it get that far? Well, when it came up for a vote to be included in reconciliation, it was defeated by four of the usual suspects. It was defeated by Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitch McConnell, you know him. Old Mitch the Glitch McConnell of Kentucky. He. He voted against this yesterday. And then, of course, there's Thumbelina. Good old Thumbelina. Thom Tillis, North Carolina, destined for retirement. You guys know what he looks like? Here he is. Look at him on screen. There's Thumbelina. Thumbelina yesterday voted against including the Save America act in the reconciliation package. Didn't even give it the old college try. And as I told you, you know, maybe we could try it. We could try it. You know, if you tell us it's going to work, prove it, try and pass it, see if we can get it. It doesn't even get that far because Thumbelina gets in the way because he hates Donald Trump, he hates Trump's voters. He hates everything that we represent and stand for. He. And he can't wait to continue to drive more knives into our agenda before he leaves office. Right now, he's standing directly in the way of President Trump's Federal Reserve nominee because he doesn't want the Justice Department investigating Jerome Powell. I'm sorry, are you part of the Justice Department? Are you aware of the evidence against Jerome Powell, or are you just making it up? Because it kind of sounds like. Correct me if I'm wrong, ladies and gentlemen, it kind of sounds like Thumbelina is blackmailing the Trump administration. You don't get to have a Federal Reserve chairman unless you end a criminal investigation. That's what Thumbelina is saying. Up yours, buddy. It's just this guy is. Is so completely out of control, and he's supposed to be on our side. He's not. He's not on our side. Sorry about your eyes, Carolyn. I, my apologies. I just had to show you. That's, that's, that's him. There he is in his customary outfit. Thumbelina. For those of you watching rumble.com Vince, you can see him there. He's got his princess crown on and his fairy wings. Yeah, his wings are nice. Data Martian. I totally agree. That's, that's, that's the one thing that's put together on Thumbelina, those wings. They are on point. They are absolutely on point. He's a psychopath. He's a psychopath. So these four all voted against what the what Fox reported as a modified version of the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility America Act, SAVE act early Thursday morning. Their defection came during the Senate's marathon vote a Rama where lawmakers could force votes on any number of amendments regardless of whether they mesh with the underlying budget blueprint. The amendment's 48 to 50 failure crystallized what several Republicans had warned for weeks before launching a quasi floor takeover to debate the Save America act last month that it didn't have the support among our own Republicans. Among our own Republicans, the House Freedom Caucus, which has been pretty aggressive and wonderful on, on this subject, they posted the following about Thumbelina and company. They said today four GOP senators voted down, including the Save America act as a part of a filibuster proof reconciliation bill, despite weeks ago floating this very idea. You see this, see the fun game that they play? So the establishment Republicans float the idea of putting it into reconciliation and then they kill it during the reconciliation process. How wonderful. While Democrats rig Virginia's map and undermine election integrity, what are Republicans doing to save our republic? Well, these guys are doing nothing and every one of them should leave. I guess the sole exception here is like everyone kind of makes their peace with the fact that we get Susan Collins. An unusual situation where you've got this Republican senator from Maine, an incumbent, so everyone sort of like holds their nose about that fact. And I get the political tactics of it. I'm not, I'm not ignoring those, that, that means something to me. But the rest of these guys, easy call retirement. Phyllis is on the way out. Thumbelina is on the way out. You've got McConnell retiring. On the way out. On the way out. This is a good let's, let's replace him with Nate Morris, shall we? Let's, let's put somebody in there who actually loves the country is going to fight like hell for it. And then Murkowski, Murkowski, the ranked choice voting pick in Alaska. What a scam, what a complete scam as these guys fight against even the basics that we need. So if you're ever wondering, like, hey, who are our, who are the targets here? Who are the guys who are in the way? Well, you're looking at four of them. And then of course, you can't forget John Thune himself, who keeps acting like he's a play by play announcer and not the coach. He's like, well, we just don't have the votes. What do you mean you just don't have the votes? Tell us about your effort to get them. Tell us, report back to me. Tell me what you did to try and get those votes and then go back and try some more. I'm just asking for the bare minimum. The bare minimum. President Trump still wants it, by the way. He still wants the Save America Act. He would like to, to, to see this thing passed. Here he is yesterday. Take a look at this. This is President Trump yesterday being asked about the Save America act and whether or not he does want to see it included in reconciliation or anything else. Here he is talking about this yesterday. Watch security lending. Would you support them expanding that to include other tax and defense?

D (25:13)

Well, I'd love to see one thing, you know, that is Save America. I'd love to say the Save America act, which is voter id, which is proof of citizenship, which is, by the way, no mail in voting, which is a fraud. Anytime you have mail in voting, you're going to have a fraudulent election. But I'd leave it for military, you know, mail in voting for military, for people that are sick, for people that are traveling, like business or whatever, different things. But disability, where they have a problem. But no mail in ballots. We added a couple of things. No men playing in women's sports. It's unrelated, but it's a popular thing. And no transgender mutilization of our children. So that's it.

A (26:03)

That's it. We need the Save America Act. The president not giving up on this. Remember, you know, there's, there's, all week long, you and I have been seeing reports that John Thune is trying to figure out how to make this thing go away. He doesn't really want people talking about it this much. There was apparently there was a Senate lunch this week where it came up, the issue came up and people were talking like, let's stop talking about getting rid of the filibuster. Let's stop talking about. And no, no, Sorry, I don't. You, you might want to stop talking about it. The whole reason you, you are forced to talk about it is because we're talking about it. Maga's talking about it. The base is talking about it. Americans are talking about it. That's why you're going to keep talking about it. We're gonna, we're gonna keep making you uncomfortable until you do what we want. That's it. That's it. We're your parole officers. We're watching your every move, every single utterance. Give us election integrity so we can pick great people to be in the offices that you are so poorly handling right now. All right, more ahead on the program. We've got quite a bit to get to. The Trump administration is doing some good stuff. You know that there are a lot of foreigners who have come into our country and who have been naturalized as American citizens who have gone on to defraud us pretty consequentially. Ilhan Omar comes to mind. Yeah, the Trump administration is doing something about that. Coming up, what the left is complaining about and what I am absolutely celebrating. This is another one of those this is what I voted for segments all ahead on the Vince Show. All right, let's tell you about one of our great sponsors, Rumble Wallet. Love Rumble Wallet. They're great and Rumble is great. Rumble has been such a great platform for us and for getting the word out and having this great community and this gorgeous looking chat. Look at you. You're adorable. Look. 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It's a big cleanup operation we got going on and, you know, sometimes you have to, you know, put the gloves on, put the gas mask on, go in there with the intense chemicals and really, really deep clean the entire operation. And that's what we're working on right now. We have to, we gotta keep chipping away at that. Never for a moment let them rob you of your agency. Never for a moment allow Democrats and corrupt establishment Republicans to try and dissuade you from staying involved in the process to fix this country. Never. If I see people giving up, you're out. Leave, give up, Go. I don't want you here. I want fighters. This is a collection of fighters. The people who are composed of this audience are people who are fighting for their country. Fight. Fight. Fight. We have agency. We have a great country. We're all together to save it. That's it. That's all this is. That's all this is. I'm doing this for my kid. And my guess is you're doing it for years. And the people that then your grandchildren, the people that you love and you should. It's a great country. And, you know, what do they say? We just, every generation needs to fight to preserve liberty. Yeah, we're here to do it. We're here to do it. Okay, now let's talk about how President Trump is staying involved in this fight. You know, he's denaturalizing people by the hundreds every single month. You know about this story. Just to give you some perspective on this, between the years 1990 to 2017, 1990 to 2017, long stretch of time, the United States Department of Justice was attempting to denaturalize 11 people a year. 11 each year for decades. That's like nobody. 11 people. In case you don't realize, denaturalization just means somebody who was a foreign, who was born in a foreign country, became a naturalized US Citizen. And by virtue of their breaking the law, especially as it relates to becoming a citizen, like lying about their intents, defrauding the country, fraudulently becoming a citizen, they denaturalize. They say, okay, wait a second. We strip you of your citizenship and then we give you the heave ho. We throw you out of the country 11 times a year is the way it was done in the past. Well, when President Trump arrived The first time, Trump, 45, they upped that pretty dramatically, but not a huge number of cases. They, they denaturalized 168 people. 168 in the United States Department of Justice. And then, of course, President Otto Penn comes in and they drop it down to nothing. Nothing. They drop it down all the way to nothing again. Now President Trump is back. You know how many denaturalization cases he's pursuing every month now? Well, as many as he pursued in his entire first administration. This isn't just to be clear. This is not illegal aliens we're talking about. This is. These are people who became naturalized citizens who are now being denaturalized. This is a separate category from mass deportations. 100 to 200 denaturalization cases every single month. Every single month. What do you mean? Where's my evidence of Trump denaturalizing citizens? That's literally what denaturalizing is. Getting rid of people who are citizens, who are not supposed to be you know what I mean? Does that make sense? Mama, Mama. Amaz wants to know what? Yeah, this is not. I'm not talking about deporting people who are born in the United States of America. I'm talking about getting rid of the citizenship of people who got it when they shouldn't have got it in the first place. President Trump's removing them and giving them the boot. Giving them the boot. Mama was a little confused, but I got you, Mama. No worries. I'm looking out for you. So here's the update today. The New York Times has a very whiny piece up today about this, and here's what they say. Justice Department targets hundreds of citizens in new push for denaturalization. This is cause for celebration. This is. We love this. We love it. I voted for this. I love it. I voted for this. Yeah, I know. Where is Ilhan on that list? Kaylee asks. I agree with you. The justice department has identified 384 foreign born Americans whose citizenship it wants to revoke, part of a push to increase the pace of denaturalizations by assigning the cases to prosecutors in dozens of U.S. attorney's offices across the country. Senior Justice Department officials in Washington told colleagues during a meeting last week civil litigators in 39 regional offices would soon be assigned to file denaturalization cases against the individuals, according to an official familiar with the announcement who is not authorized to describe it on the record. Two people familiar with the plans confirmed the broader effort to ramp up denaturalizations. It was not clear what led the department to target the 384 individuals. I know what's clear. Lawbreaking. You obtain your citizenship fraudulently, we take it away from you and we kick your ass out of the country. Under federal law. The New York Times goes on in the next paragraph, the government may ask a court to strip the citizenship of people who obtained it fraudulently, for instance, by entering into a sham marriage. Ilhan. Ilhan. Ilhan. That's an Ilhan alert, ladies and gentlemen. We got an. We got an Ilhan alert. Or by withholding information about their past that would have made them ineligible. Some who commit crimes may also be denaturalized. Now we're getting somewhere. The government must present evidence to a federal judge through a civil or criminal proceeding, making the process challenging and time consuming. So what's happening here is the Times is whining. They're boohooing over the fact that the law is being enforced. And I'm celebrating about the fact that the law is being Enforced. I will take this every day of the week. They're denaturalizing hundreds of people a month. Yes, please, more of that, please. I love this. I absolutely love it. I love it. Can't love it more. All right. The President of the United States was in the Oval Office yesterday. He was busy as always. They had a bunch of people over to the White House yesterday. They had a big meeting at the White House. In fact, the President confirmed it. They're trying to create peace, peace all over the place. And here's what the President said yesterday. He said, the President of the United States, this is an official statement. Donald J. Trump, Vice President of The United States J.D. vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and Ambassador to Lebanon Michael Issa all met today with high ranking representatives of Israel and Lebanon in the Oval Office. The meeting went very well. The United States is going to work with Lebanon in order to protect, to help it rather protect itself from Hezbollah. The ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon will be extended now by three weeks. I look forward in the near future to hosting the Prime Minister of Israel, Bibi Netanyahu and the President of Lebanon, Joseph Aoun. It was a great honor to be a participant at this very historic meeting. President DONALD J. Trump So the President yesterday trying to create yet another peace deal, this time between Israel and Lebanon as they deal with the terrorists in Hezbollah and of course an extension of the Iranian pen terror regime. The President still working feverishly to resolve that problem as well. Yesterday while he was in the Oval Office, he answered a number of questions from the, the instigators in the press corps and he said, I'm working on it. Don't rush me. Here he is. Cut three. Watch with Iran. How long are you willing to wait until you get a response?

D (38:11)

Don't rush me, Jeff. You know, guys like you, you want to say, oh, so we were in Vietnam like for 18 years. We were in Iraq for many, many years. We were in for all the, I don't like to say World War II because that was a biggie, but we were four and a half, almost five years in World War II. We were in the Korean War for seven years. I've been doing this for six weeks and the military is totally defeated. They're outside of the little wise guy ships. I call them the wise guy ships. The little boats that they have running around with guns in them. We'll take them out too when we see them, but their navy is gone, their air force is gone, their anti aircraft is gone. All of their anti aircraft machinery is gone. Maybe they loaded up a little bit during the two week hiatus, but we'll knock that out in about one day if they did.

A (39:08)

I think I'm gonna need a T shirt with Trump's face on it that says don't rush me on making America great again. I love, I love don't rush me. I also love the wise guy boats. I just love how he describes things. Isn't he good at describing things? It's pretty funny. Don't rush me. Don't rush me. I got this covered. Now, having heard him answer that question, another reporter decided to ask the same exact question again, as if he didn't just answer it. So Trump smacked her into another century. Listen to this. How much longer this will take. Obviously you know that they are having

D (39:42)

you hear such a disgrace. Did you hear what I just said? Vietnam. How many years was Vietnam? I understand, sir, but how many years was Vietnam? Well, I did my act. I took, I took, I took the country out militarily in the first four weeks. I took it out military. Now all we're doing is sitting back and seeing what deal. And if they don't want to make a deal, then I'll finish it up militarily with the other 25% of the targets we've hit, 78% of the targets that we've wanted to hit. We've knocked out their manufacturing, we've knocked out their missile production, we've knocked out their drone production. We've knocked out everything. In some cases, when I say knocked it out, 70, 80, 90%, it's amazing what we've done. So I've done that within that period of time that I mentioned. But I don't want to rush myself, you know, because every story say, oh, Trump is under time pressure. I'm not. No, no. You know who's under time pressure? They are. Because if they don't get their oil moving, their whole oil infrastructure is going to explode.

A (40:44)

True, they're at capacity because they have

D (40:46)

no place to store it. And because they have no place to store it, if they have to stop it, something happens that only Len can explain. Something happens underground that essentially renders it in very poor shape. And you never recover fully. You can recover 50, 60%, but you can never have it like it is right now. And they have a matter of days before that event takes place.

A (41:10)

Yes.

D (41:11)

So I'm not under any pressure whatsoever. We've never had so much ammunition. Our ships are loaded, I call them locked and loaded. They're locked and loaded, they're ready to go. We have much higher quality equipment than we did when we first started the war. And, or the military operation, whatever you want to call it, and they're coming to us. The problem they have is they are very disorganized right now.

A (41:38)

I love how he described that. So what, what he's laying out there after he backhands that, that the hilarious reporter, he, he says, look, time is on our side. We got all the leverage here. We've got the area blockaded, they're at capacity, they're reaching capacity on Carg Island. You know, all these, these kind of the oil capacity that the Iranians have, you can't just leave it sitting there. If it sits there, the infrastructure begins to deteriorate very rapidly. Without that oil moving, it is going to be devastating to the Iranian energy infrastructure. He says basically the pressure is on. If they want to get that oil flowing, if they want their infrastructure preserved, that they don't want it all decimated, well, then they're going to have to move right now. They're running out of time, so hurry up and make a deal with us. And that's him just giving them a very public reminder that their backs are up against the wall and the wall is crumbling. There's not, there's. They don't really have many options here. So. Good, good, good insight from the president yesterday as he offers that update. And then I, I don't know. Why do people go to the Oval Office just to get smacked around? Like, don't you realize that if you, that President Trump is going to point out how stupid you are? This is a PBS reporter yesterday decided to ask Donald Trump, President Trump, are you going to nuke Iran? Now you just heard what everything that he described and then I subsequently described, Iran's back is up against the wall. They have nowhere to go. All of the leverage is currently in the custody of the United States. Why the hell would we nuke the country right now? Who's even thinking of this? This, you know that this question came entirely from Trump Derangement Syndrome. That, oh, yeah, he'll say it's on the table, that he's going to nuke Iran. And then we'll have a headline that Trump wants to nuke Iran. He's a madman and we have to invoke the 25th Amendment. We have to throw him out of office. Listen to this. Sequence cut five. Listen to this. Sir, would you use a nuclear weapon against Iran? You posted on Truth Social.

D (43:37)

No, we don't need it. Why Do I need it? Why would a stupid question like that be asked? Why would I, why would I use a nuclear weapon when we've totally, in a very conventional way, decimated them without it? No, I wouldn't use it. A nuclear weapon should never be allowed to be used by anybody.

A (43:56)

What a stupid question. What a stupid, stupid question. I just love that he says it. Don't you love that he says it? And like, it's not, he's not just playing with it, like, oh, that's an interesting question. No, I don't. I don't think that was a stupid question. Very stupid. Yeah, it was stupid. And then somehow, I don't know. You ever wonder, like, how do these people get access to the White House? Talk about being wide open and transparent. They are the most accessible administration ever. They let morons in off the street to ask questions about whether or not he's going to nuke Iran. It's it really, that is generous. Did she win a contest? How the hell did she get in there anyway? There, there, there she was yesterday. And there's the President. Let me move to another announcement that the President made yesterday, which I, which I thought was wonderful. The President has been working very hard as it's America's 250th anniversary, it's his last term in office, he wants to use it well. He wants to try and improve the quality of the country. He's building a gigantic ballroom right now. He wants to build a magnificent 250 foot arch in Arlington. He's trying to do all sorts of great things for our country right now. And one of them that he's working on, apparently at a massive cost savings, is repairing the reflecting pool out in front of the Lincoln Memorial. You know, the famous reflecting pool, 2,000ft long reflecting pool. Well, it's in a state of awful disrepair. It's leaking like crazy. It's cracked, it's broken, it's destroyed. Here's the President yesterday describing in a video that he posted to Truth Social that he took what was supposed to be a $300 million contract to fix it. And he said, I solved it way under budget and way ahead of schedule. Cut six, watch.

D (45:48)

I thought I'd bring up a subject of interest. I do a lot of this as President and try and save money. And one was the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting pool, which everybody knows that's where Martin Luther King made his great speech and where others have likewise made great speeches and great events held there. It's very famous. It was built in 1922 and it's more than 2,000ft long. It's 167ft wide. It's very big. That's like taller than any skyscraper. 2015. And here's a picture of it. You probably recognize it right now. It's got no water in it because it was in terrible shape. It was filthy dirty, and it leaked like a sieve for many years. So I actually went over, went with Secret Service and a group of people, and I took a look at it. One of the people with me was Doug Burgam, our great Secretary of the Interior. This comes under his purview. And he said, yes, we. We've had a lot of problems with it. It's not working. It hasn't worked for many years. And it's always filthy dirty. And they say, well, we're going to solve the problem. And they had bids to fix it. They were going to take the stone out, which was granite, very expensive, very thick, and replace it with stone. And it was going to cost $300 million, and it was going to take maybe more than three years. And I said, no, there's a better way of doing it. I said, what we're going to do is I'm going to call all three of these people that have worked for me in the past doing swimming pools. That's all they can do is a swimming pool. And I said, give me a good price. We can do it for maybe a million and a half to $2 million, as opposed to $300 million. We scrub the surface of the existing granite that's been there since 1922. We then grouted all of the granite, fixed it up, took about two weeks, and now we have a nice clean surface on which we're putting a industrial grade swimming pool topping. And they said, what color would you like, sir? It's called American flag blue. I said, that's the color I want. I want American flag blue. It'll last for 40 or 50 years. There'll be no leaks, there'll be no anything. It'll look gorgeous, beautiful. So it's a story in business. And here's the difference. Because somebody said, well, sir, but one, wouldn't it be a better job? I said, no, no, this is a much better job. For much less money. It will look far more beautiful, more beautiful than it did in 1922 when they built it much better, more beautiful. So we build it in much less time for much less money. But I don't mean much less. I mean numbers that nobody can even believe. So it's a Million and a half dollars versus 300. It's two weeks versus more than three years. That's just the way it is. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

A (48:55)

Isn't that great? Isn't that, isn't that. I was just jaw dropping. $300 million to fix the reflecting pool. Who signed up for that contract in the first place? That's crazy. And he said no. Well, let me, let me see. Let me check with some of my swimming pool guys. What an advantage to have a builder as the President of the United States. This is why they should. I, I get it. Like lefties, your Trump derangement syndrome. I get that it clouds every aspect of your judgment. But insofar as you can remind yourself of what judgment sounds like or feels like. Donald Trump's a builder. You want this guy building the ballroom. You know, if Democrats ever imagined that they're going to have a President of the United States again, hopefully one fairly, not through cheating, then they would want a ballroom at the White House to accommodate the president's events that you should want Donald Trump to build. You want, you wish Joe Biden built a ballroom. What would be the state of that thing? It'd be like no doors. People be bumping in the walls in that place. No, President Trump is building something great. You should be celebrating. You should be grateful to him. It's not even a taxpayer expense. Donors are paying for it. And then with the reflecting pool, dropping that bill from 300 million to one and a half million and getting a couple of his swimming pool guys in there and fixing this thing up real quick. I'll take it American flag blue. I'm really looking forward to it. You know what it looks like when you paint a blue bottom on one of these, on a reflecting pool like this, like a fountain, it has that effect. If it looks good, sometimes it looks tacky. But I don't think this is going to look tacky. I think Donald Trump knows what he's doing. It looks good, and all of a sudden you get this kind of crystal blue look on the water leading up to the Washington Monument. Very cool. What a nice gift to the American people. And I love the cost savings. I think that's great. So I was, I was really pumped about that. All right, one more big thing for you today. I want to, I want to share with you. Speaking of cost savings and get your, get your reaction here. Chat. What do you think of this? The, the New York Times has a piece up that they just posted yesterday about people who lost their jobs, lost the jobs where they were taking American taxpayer money last year. And then President Trump comes into office. Marco Rubio comes into office at the State Department, Elon Musk comes in at Doge, and they start cutting all of these taxpayer funded and in many cases utterly worthless and corrupt gigs Immediately, immediately. Now chat, I don't know about you, but this is what I voted for. I voted for the federal government shrinking dramatically. More people should be working in the private sector. Fewer people should be working in the government sector. If for nothing else. The mathematics of it all. You realize, like our In House economist, E.J. antonio, the official economist of this program, E.J. has for years he's been telling me, you know, Vince, it takes 80 private sector workers to pay for the salary, benefits and retirement of a single federal worker. One, one. Okay, 80 private sector workers for one federal worker. I don't like that math. That math doesn't work out very good for us. We need a small federal government. So President Trump has two shrunk the federal government by 10%. He took it from a workforce of 3 million people and he cut 300,000 out of it already. Already. And there's a lot more to go. There really is a lot more to go. But that's a big drop. We've never seen anything like that. 10% drop. Huge. And, and, and over at the State Department they had an operation called usaid, which was really in the end just a gigantic left wing slush fund of your tax dollars being dedicated to a bunch of left wing operations that powered the Democrat Party. President Trump comes in, Marco Rubio comes in, Elon Musk come in. They all sense all of this garbage and they say, okay, that's the end of that. We're getting rid of it. So the New York Times has just run a piece catching up the people who lost those gigs, those plum gigs. And here's what the piece looks like. It says, a year after USAID's death, fired workers find few jobs and much loss. Few jobs and much loss. Now, of course, the way the Times is framing this, they want this to be a sob story. They want you to feel really bad for these people. And you know, I never want people to be out of work. I want them to be gainfully employed. That's really important. But look at how this piece starts. She was fired by email while on maternity leave, given 24 hours to clear out her desk, and left with three days of health insurance and no severance pay. She had worked for the U.S. agency for International Development, USAID or related groups for more than two decades, she made $175,000 a year. That's a phenomenal salary. That's taxpayer funded. That was January 28th. Today, Amy Uselo and her husband, who also lost his job when USAID funding for his nonprofit dried up. So they were both taking huge amounts of taxpayer money. Now they rely on food stamps, Medicaid, and a supplemental Nutrition program for women and children. What? Well, what happened? You and your husband. I don't know what your husband was making, but let's assume he was making what you were making. You and your husband were making what, $350,000 a year. And then as soon as the taxpayer says, no, thanks, go find something else. Now you're on taxpayer benefits on the bottom end. Now you're taking food stamps and Medicaid. How did that happen? Why didn't you get jobs that paid similarly in the private sector? Why didn't that happen? That's the core question. It's not even directed at these people as individuals. It's directed as a, as a macro question. If somebody's being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year by the government, why can't they rate that pay in the private sector? Anybody want to do the math on that? What if it turns out that you didn't have any marketable skills to begin with and taxpayers were being fleeced to just give you money because it served some sort of left wing ideological goal that had nothing to do with what you're actually valued at on the job market? In fact, there's a really good example of this in the piece. There's a woman called Cheryl Cowan who is, who is quoted here. And again, this is not directed at Cheryl. I don't know, Cheryl. Maybe she's a nice person. I'm just telling you, this jumps off the page of me. Cheryl Cowan, 57 years old, was making $272,000 a year. Again, these are taxpayer dollars, ladies and gentlemen. Members of Congress do not make that much money. Almost everybody in the White House except for the President does not make that much money. And in fact, this president doesn't make that money. He donates his salary right back to the government. Most federal workers are not making 272. This woman is making $272,000 from your paycheck as a senior vice president at a USAID funded nonprofit. She was let go last March 2025. Just last month, she had an online interview for a $19 an hour job at Penzi's Spices, a store near her home in Falls Church, Virginia. Penzi Spices, by the way, is like a, is a big left wing activist store, whatever. That's what they're into. They hate Trump and they sell spices. That's fine. They can do whatever they want. They're a private business. But she just interviewed, she did an online interview to get paid 19 bucks an hour by a shitlib spice store. Okay, first of all, how Progressive are they? $19 an hour for your manager? I thought you were lefties. I thought you were all in on like ridiculously high minimum wages. I thought that was your whole thing. Why aren't you paying a bajillion dollars an hour to your manager at Pensi Spices? Why isn't that happening? The other thing is why, you know, just look at the comparison here. So she leaves the public sector, the government sector, which is making nearly $300,000 a year, and then she ends up with what, an offer for a 19? I don't even know if she got the offer. A dollar nineteen an hour job working at a spice store, which, what comes out to what, like 34, $35,000 a year. So did you have marketable skills to begin with? What are we paying for? You know, Eric Schmidt, the United States senator, he pointed this out, he posted to X about this story last night. He said, you know, the New York Times frames this as if USAID employees had a quasi property right to high paying taxpayer funded jobs. In, in, in reality, this tells a darker story. We spent half a century debt financing a managerial class of leftists whose only qualifications were ideological. They don't have any real work qualifications. They could produce nothing of value. No company saying I desperately need that person because their expertise would improve my product and would improve our profits. Nobody's saying that because that's not what they've produced. What a world. What a completely different world. You know, it's funny, I don't know if it's universally true, but it definitely feels like it's true that people who are on the right, by and large, conservatives, you know, they go into private industry. They're people who would like the government to remain small. They don't want to be dependent on the government. They want to make their own way. And insofar as they're seeking a payday, they're going to seek it from private industry. They're going to try and do it on the strength of their own talents, work ethic and effort. That's it. Whereas it feels like it is absolutely baked into the left that you make the government as big as possible to steal money. From people by way of their taxes and then to stick your fingers into that cookie jar and take as much of it as you possibly can for yourself. To the left. The government is their payday. Which is why when the real world slaps them in the face, they have no idea what to do with it. That's how you end up going from a $272,000 a year job job where you're taking money from the federal taxpayer to suddenly seeing maybe I can get a job working as a $19 an hour manager at some shitlib spice store. That's, that's a dose of reality. And I hope, and I truly mean this, I hope that everybody who has gone through this sequence of events gets the real world experience that this is going to. I mean, takes all the right lessons from this real world experience that you should. In other words, that you come out of this a better person. Realizing, wait a second, I have to forge ahead on my own. I have to create something of value so that people can take me seriously and then make it so that you're actually worth being paid more money. That's it. That's what everybody else has to do if you're not, you know, leeching off the government. It's amazing. Anyway, what a wild story. What a wild, I mean, just the New York Times frames it is like a total, like, you know, sob story. The rest of us looking at it going, this is long overdue. This is very long overdue. I, I'm so grateful that you're here with me today. We've got a lot more to talk about. We'll do that on the big national radio show today. The VIN Show.com is where you can find your local radio listings. You can join me on rumble from 1 to 3 eastern. We do that. Rumble.com Vince Dan Bongino is on rumble.com.com Bongino that's at 10am Eastern time each morning. Haley Karen is on at noon Eastern on rumble. That's rumble.com Haley. Haley with two Y's. Why? 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