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Well, as you all know, a few months back, President Trump called people who were critical of his liberation aid care of pannequins and the point that I made with regard to his pannequin comments at the time was, it isn't panic, it's concern about bad policy that might have an impact. Well, the pannequins are back, but they are panicking now over supposed polls showing President Trump's decreased popularity. And those pannequins, like actual pannequins, are people looking at the gallipoles and saying that Trump is in the high 30s, and this is the collapse of his presidency, and it's all Epstein. Okay, let's get real for just one second.
The actual statistics on President Trump's popularity are about where they have always been. And I think it's worthwhile noting that because despite all of the water that he has supposedly taken on with things like Epstein, it just isn't really true. According to the Wall Street Journal, who we by voters improving views of the economy, President Trump's political standing is showing notable resilience, a new Wall Street Journal poll finds despite the unpopularity of the GOP's big tax and spending law to satisfaction Trump's tariff plan and high suspicion the government is hiding important information about his investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. Some 46% approve of his job performance unchanged from April, with 52% disapproving.
88% of GOP voters approve of his job performance and 66% strongly approve. Okay, so what does that mean? It means that President Trump, his support is durable. And the real reason why his support is durable is because life is as good or better than it was back in February or March in the United States.
That is the actual real reason. We have not seen these sort of economic collapse that many people were predicting largely because Trump backed off of many of the tariff rates that he was pushing on Liberation Day. Instead, we are seeing trade deals broken by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, as I said before, President Trump is not tricking out here. This is called responding to reality.
Life in the United States is safer because President Trump took concerted and brave action in bombing Iranian nuclear facilities despite actual panicans in the Republican Party suggesting that it was going to lead to World War III. Not only did that not happen and put Iran on its back foot in a serious way and may completely reshape the Middle East. A lot of people, again, freaking out about the one big beautiful bill but the reality for those of us who actually have been following politics longer than five minutes is that all of the concern over deficit spending in the one big beautiful bill. All of the people who are concerned about that must have been ignoring the fact that the deficit in the United States has been blowing up for decades and that the one big beautiful bill did not actually change that trajectory in any way.
Except a little bit downwards because in order for you to believe that that bill radically increased the debt and the deficit you would have had to assume a snapping back into place of the Obama tax rates from 2015, which was not going to happen. Republicans were not going to let that happen. Okay, why is all of that important? Well, it's important because I think that the American people in markets, we have gotten used to separating the wheat from the chaplain in comes to President Trump's policy, which is the best way of looking at a president.
Not just the stuff that he says, particularly President Trump, but the stuff that he actually does. So yesterday, there's outside focus on a Tedotet that he had with the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. So President Trump went to the Federal Reserve and he took his criticisms of Jerome Powell directly there face to face made for good TV. He went to visit the construction that was happening over at the Federal Reserve Building.
It's a $2.5 billion renovation of two historic buildings designated as part of the Federal Reserve headquarters. There's a bit of a back and forth in which Trump was putting pressure on Powell because he has been suggesting so that the Republicans, that Powell is overspending on the rebuild of the Federal Reserve. Now, just open question here. What is Jerome Powell's interest?
Unless he is one of the contractors who's putting money in his own pocket or something. What is his interest in spending too much money on the rebuilding of the Federal Reserve? He's not going to be there in a year and a half. So this whole sort of narrative that's been retailed about Powell, that he's somehow involved in a crony corruption scandal in which he is spending oodles of money rebuilding the Federal Reserve.
Well, have you seen a lot of Federal buildings that have not gone into cost overrun? Because of union contracts, because of regulations and all the rest. So one point President Trump got pissed at Powell and started arguing with him about the cost of the renovation of Powell, came back at President Trump and he said, well, actually our costs have not gone up, Mr. President, you're just mischaracterizing this.
Here was the back and forth. So we're taking a look at, it looks like it's about 3.1 billion, one up a little bit, we're alive. So 2.7 is now 3.1. You can't just hear me.
I heard that from anybody. I heard that from everybody. People are almost because he's because. I don't know who does that.
You're putting the work out of this. You just stated in a third building. That's a third building. That's a third building.
No, it's been in the third building. OK, so again, in the normal era, people might panic over this, because there's the President of the United States chiding the Federal Reserve Chair in front of everybody about these constructions. Suppose it overruns Trump clearly can prepare. I mean, he had an actual paper in his pocket with the cost on the Federal Reserve reconstruction and he handed it to Powell and Powell immediately looks at it and goes, Mr.
President, you're including here a building we completed five years ago. So Powell happens to be right about this. The bottom line is that President Trump seems to be playing around the edges with the idea that perhaps someone will get rid of Jerome Powell for alleged corruption, that maybe somebody in Congress will do something about all this. Trump was asked about cost overruns.
What would you do if you were leading a construction project and somebody went into cost overrun and President Trump said, I'd fire him. What would you do with the project manager? Generally speaking, what would I do? I'd fire him.
OK, so he's a president of the Trump. Really wants to do that in Jerome Bell, who's standing right there. The reason I'm laughing about this and the reason is funny is because he's going to do it. He's not going to fire Jerome Bell.
It's not a thing that is going to happen. And obviously, it's Trump's trying to exert pressure on Powell to lower interest rates. He literally says that. He slaps Powell on the back, because I'd love for this guy to lower the interest rates.
There are things that come from saying he would today that would make you back off some of the earlier interests. Well, I'd love him to lower interest rates. Other than that, what can I tell you? OK, now anybody who thinks that this is sort of a serious threat, it is not, which is why the stock market did not re-operate panic yesterday.
And President Trump himself said, I don't think it's necessary. When asked if he was going to fire Powell to do that, it's a big move. I don't think it's necessary Trump said. I believe he's going to do the right thing in lower rates.
But again, even if he doesn't, quote, do the right thing and lower the right thing, he's not going to fire Powell. And the reason he's not going to fire Powell is because the markets would freak out. And President Trump does not want the markets to freak out. I have many friends who disagree with me on politics who are on the left.
We're very freaked out about President Trump being elected. Oh my god, it's going to be the end of the world. He's so crazy. It's going to be one.
And the thing that I always said to them is that there's a beauty to the American constitutional system. And that is, that it's going to sift out most of the stuff that actually is quite bad, that the judiciary will prevent President Trump if he seeks to from trying to really violate the Constitution. And the judiciary has on that. They told President Trump many times not to do a thing.
And then he'll buy his by the judicial rulings. And in many cases, he's been right. He's been right in the Supreme Court. He's ruled in his favor after a lower court does the wrong thing.
But there's something else about President Trump that is unique. And that is that President Trump, when he runs up against the guardrails of reality, steps back from the brink. And so when it comes to Jerome Powell, and again, there's a lot of outside of his panic today, at least in the commentary about Trump and Powell, he's not going to touch Powell. He's not going to because if he were to do so, then the markets would react badly.
And Trump does not want the markets to react badly. So that's what reduces this. It's the level of essentially vaudevillian slapstick comedy. Now, there is a case to fire Powell.
That case is made by Muhammad El-Aryan, the former chief economic advisor to Ali Anz. I'm friends with Muhammad. He's been on the show before. And Muhammad says that Powell should step down mainly because his keeping of the interest rates where they are is now perceived as a political act.
I've been critical of Chair Powell for a while. He made a major policy mistake that saw inflation go up to 9%. We have supervision of banks problems that were inside the trading allegations to his committee. There's mission creep.
The list goes on. I think that Chair Powell has decided to redefine his legacy in terms of protecting the independence of the Fed. But by staying on, he's actually threatening the independence of the Fed. So those of us who believe that an independent central bank is critical to economic outcomes.
I think that the right thing for him to do is to step up. Now, if you want to step down and President Trump were to put, for example, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in his place that has been one of the conversations Kevin Hassett has been discussed as possible, federal, reserve, chairman. There's some other people who have been discussed. If that were to happen, they would likely also not lower the interest rates at this point in time given the fact that there is a little bit of upward pressure that we are seeing on inflation in terms of prices.
And really the only thing that's holding that back is lower demand that yes, tariffs are or would increase prices except that demand is falling off at the same time. And so what that means, the prices have basically stayed stable. So if President Trump would like for the interest rates to decrease, then he should cut a hundred trade deals and then the interest rates are going to go down, whether it's how or anybody else. Bottom line here though is this, and this is the important thing again about President Trump.
President Trump is pursuing heterodox policies. Many of those things are good. He's breaking a lot of the stalemate that has characterized Washington to see a lot of the traditionalist thinking that has characterized Washington to see on everything from economics to executive policy to the Middle East. This is just what he does.
President Trump likes to break things and many of those things deserve to be broken. But President Trump also understands that if he is about to irrevocably break a thing that is going to hurt him politically, he just will not do it. Which is again, why the visit yesterday to the Federal Reserve was more funny than anything else. But if you're in the city, they keep telling people that no one can make it because if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere, but apparently no one can make it anymore.
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Meanwhile, President Trump pushing forward on attempt to fix America's major cities. He's directing federal agencies to find ways to make it easier to forcibly hospitalize homeless people with mental illness and addiction for longer periods in efforts to fight what he'd be administration calls vagrancy threatening the streets of US and cities according to the Washington Post and executive order signed Thursday pushes federal agencies to overturn state and federal legal precedent that limits how local and state governments can voluntarily commit people to risk to themselves or others. The order says that shifting homeless people into long term institutional settings will restore public order. The order says surrendering our cities and citizens to disorder and fear is neither compassionate to the homeless nor other citizens.
This is 100% true. This is 100% true. A huge percentage of people who are living on America's streets are either mentally ill, seriously mentally ill or drug addicts or both. And the notion that it is some sort of active benevolence to keep those people living on the streets in penury in terrible conditions.
This is an aspect of American freedom that a core liberty involves living on the street in your own feces while you are diseased and you have a disease of the mind. Why that is a good thing is beyond me, absolutely beyond me. I have relatives who have been mentally ill. If they were simply allowed to lie around on the street, that would not be a good thing.
That would not be a worthwhile thing. The executive order says federal resources could ensure detainees with serious mental illness are not released into the public because of lack of bed space in jails or hospitals. Now this is one of the reasons we left Los Angeles. My family and my company is because of the rampant homelessness and vagrancy that had taken over the city which very often turned into a public threat to order, created crime problems, created chaos on the streets, people sleeping in the gutters with next open needles and stuff that would happen in residential areas.
I remember one morning outside of our house in Los Angeles, fairly decent area. We opened the gate outside the house and there's literally just a vagrant lying in the gutter, lying in the gutter with open needles on him. I mean, that is not a good way of living. That is a terrible thing for that person and for the society around them.
The president moving on this is definitely a very good thing. I mean, if you're wondering what percentage of homeless people either are mentally ill or have drug addiction or both, I asked our friends and sponsors over at perplexity. And the answer is about 67% of people experiencing homelessness in the United States currently have a mental health disorder based on recent systematic reviews and large-scale studies. The lifetime prevalence is even higher reaching 77%.
Estimates for severe mental illness among the homeless, like schizophrenia, a major depressive disorder or bipolar, range from 20 to 25% with some sources indicating at least 25%. Okay, these are, of course, extraordinary numbers. And those extraordinary numbers mean that you have people who are living in terrible conditions. And again, it is just a demonstration that misplaced sympathy is a bad idea.
You should have something for people who are homeless, but that sympathy should not extend violation of the law. The laws exist for a reason. And the best thing that can happen for a lot of these people is to be placed in a situation where they have to take their meds, for example, where they actually have people looking after them, where they are drying out. Like, that is a good thing.
So good for President Trump for taking that on. Meanwhile, President Trump's DOJ is looking to sue New York City for protecting illegal aliens with sanctuary policies. Again, they move by the president to clean up America's major cities. This goes back to why the president retains a fairly high level of popularity, particularly for President Trump, who's, again, is in president before, and is popularity rating, and still 46% according to the Wall Street Journal, which is near his historic eyes.
Why? Because he actually is focused on improving the life of people, even in places that didn't vote for him, like New York City. According to Breitbart, President Trump's Department of Justice has now filed the laws against New York, Mayor Eric Adams over the city's new sanctuary policies that shield illegal aliens from federal immigration enforcement. And this, of course, is another problem that has plagued America's major cities, is people who are living off the books and who are violating the law and who are affecting quality of life.
And again, that is not unsympathetic for people who are crossing the border for economic reasons. That is just a reality, is that American citizens deserve to be protected and defended, and their cities should not be turned into repositories for poverty and crime through no actual will of their own. On Thursday, attorneys general Pampagny announced a lawsuit against Adams and other city officials for their enforcement of sanctuary policies that DOJ prosecutors say are a violation of the supremacy clause of the United States Constitution. The DOJ lawsuit notes events of this week when two illegal aliens would have been set loose by New York City's sanctuary policy, ended up allegedly shooting a customs and border protection officer in the face and leg during an attempted armed robbery.
Both of those aliens entered the United States illegally and repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior since. In fact, after an April 5, 2024 arrest for fourth-degree felony grand larceny and petite larceny, ICE placed an immigration detainer on one of the aliens, New York City PD instead ignored that and released amounts of the streets were handed up shooting a member of Homeland Security, a customs and border protection agent. And so the Trump administration again, taking action on that as well. And as long as Democrats are continuing to double down on stupid, as long as they continue to move toward people like Zoramom Donny is the solutions to their cities problems, nationally, they know they want their cities.
These do have a national impact if America's major cities are all dominated by radical Democrats who do not care about crime rates like Brandon Johnson in Chicago, or they do not care about problem homelessness like Karen Bass and Los Angeles, or they are totally fine with the destruction of America's major financial centers like Zoramom Donny. Republicans are going to be able to use that to run on. That is just a reality. Rihan Salan has a really good piece over at the Wall Street Journal asking who are the supporters of Zoramom Donny.
And he says that essentially it's the downward elite mobile elites. He says drawing on decades of IRS research, researchers had opportunity insights in economic policy institute found that among Americans born in 1940, 92% earned more than their parents at age 30. For those born in 1984, only 50% did, and that declined has political consequences. Researchers at the Social Economics Lab have found a strong correlation between perceiving yourself to be less well off than your parents and zero-sum thinking, or the belief that gains for some people come at the expense of others.
Roughly 40% of the nation's 72 million millennials, people born between 1981 and 1996, live in high cost, hyper-competitive metro areas where milestones like owning a home or paying off student loans that can loom as distant dreams. Between millennials who are worse off than their parents, those who believe in their worse off and those who live in dysfunctional blue-state metros where households can feel like the hunger gains, America has a critical mass of people whose expectations of intergenerational progress have gone sour. Billion-hour bashing political entrepreneurs like Mamdonny have figured out how to scratch that cycle political itch. That is exactly right.
And I want to point out here that it's not just that their millennials who are worse off than their parents. Okay, millennials are making different choices than their parents. They have lower marriage rates. Many of them are not in the workforce.
There are a bunch of different in lifestyle choices that are happening for millennials. Because if you look at the broader overall economy, there's no question that people in 2025 are better off than people in 1981 when these people were born. I'm a millennial. I am better off than my parents.
And that is not because I grew up rich. I did not grew up rich. I understand that this is one of the favorite things for people on the left to claim is that everybody who is now rich was one-rich. That is not true.
I grew up in an 1100-square-foot home in Burbank, California. It was a home with two bedrooms. I had three sisters, all four kids were in one room. My parents were in the other bedroom.
We had one bathroom for six people. That was not a terrible life. It was a good life. And then our life got better because my parents moved into a 2300-square-foot home in North Hollywood, California, where I finally had my own room for the first time at the age of 11.
It was not a huge house either, but it was a good life. And now we live in a much bigger house. And my parents live in a bigger house than we did when we were growing up. Part of that is living in the state of Florida, but that is just the reality is that upward mobility is not remotely dead, but liars in both parties and they are liars have a desire to tell you and they make political buck off of telling you that you're worse off than your parents, that your life is harder than your parents, that you have worse off than anybody in modern American history.
And that's just not true. The vast majority of people that is not true. Already coming up, we'll get into some culture talk. It's a Friday.
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But overall in the broader American economy, we'd rather live in 2025 or 1981. You have to think about the things that are available to you in 2025 as opposed to 1981. The vision of the economy is a giant zero-sum game in which redistribution is the goal or equality of result, in terms of pure dollar amount, is the goal it ignores all of the subsequent economic, and lifestyle development that has happened since 1981. You have a magical machine in your pocket, your parents could not remotely have conceived of, that allows you to not only get any piece of information at any time but a few clicks of a button, but also allows you to order any product for significantly cheaper than it for your parents.
Yes, significantly cheaper than it would have been for your parents. Power is less expensive than it was for your parents. Everybody right now is complaining about rent. So I asked our friends at Perplexity, our sponsors, what percentage of people's income was spent on rent in 1981, how about 2025?
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So about what they always did. But that varies widely among locations. For example, renters in high-class metros like New York City or Miami might spend between 35 and 55% of their income on rent. Less expensive cities fall below 20%.
And that is after all of this over regulation. So where you live, basically defined what kind of rent you pay. So when you're talking about those downwardly, mobile elite as Rayan Salaam is talking about, the reality is that a huge percentage of discontent is because you have many people in power who are failing in their regulatory policies, they will promise redistributionism and economic boom times and all the rest who are blaming a system that they are attempting to overthrow for people's discontent and they are lying to people by claiming they're not upwardly mobile anymore. They just keep lying.
And this is unfortunately true for a lot of people in both parties. Here's the reality in the United States of America. If you do the following things, you will not live in poverty in the United States. If you finish high school, if you get married, if you get a job, those three things, get married before you have kids, finish high school, get a job.
You will not live in poverty in the United States, which means that you will be upwardly mobile. It turns out responsible decision-making in a free society makes you richer. That's not true for every single person. Of course, there's luck involved.
Of course, there are bad things that happen to people. But there's sort of widespread perception mainly by millennials and younger in urban areas. So if chosen to live in these areas that are more expensive, a lot of people cost you $10. If you choose to do that, as opposed to making different decisions, of course, that's going to impact your life.
And people like Zornom Donny are going to lie to you. They're going to tell you they can fix all of your problems by pushing zero-sum politics. People are moving less than they ever did in America, even though moving is now easier than it ever was in America. You're a great-grandparents, had to get in a covered wagon and cross a continent filled with hostels in order to get to a place where there was nothing and then build the house out of nothing.
And now we complain about having to move from city to city, which caused you the flight, the cost of a plane ticket and the moving company that moves all your stuff for you. Now, all of this leads to this does not mean that people don't have real problems. It doesn't mean the economy is working perfectly. Of course, it is largely because of left-wing policy.
What it does mean is that when people like Zornom Donny lie to you, they make your life worse. Right and left is my problem with economic populism is that it tells a series of lies that are unsustainable. That free market economics is a quote-unquote system designed in order to empower issue. It is not a design system.
It's an evolutionary system, free market economics, springing from basic concepts of freedom and private property. And it is that that has made the world inestimably richer by every available metric. And this is a part that drives me absolutely insane. So yes, complain if you want about your personal situation.
Let's try to find solutions to your personal situation. Complain about policy. Many policies are bad. But the general idea that America, where people are richer than at any point in literally all of human history, is some sort of hellhole backwater, literally visit another country, seriously, and spend some time there and see whether you think that's true or not.
The Zornom Donification of the Democratic Party is wrong and bad. And President Trump should take advantage of that. I think Republicans are going to take advantage of that. They should look at America's major cities and say, these places are worse off because of policies like those of Zornom Donny.
And if city-goers continue to believe in that nonsense, then frankly, you get what you bought. You get what you voted for. Andrew Cuomo is still running in that New York City mayoral race. I've said before, I think Andrew Cuomo stinks.
I think he's terrible. Eric Adams should drop out so she'll criticize what it is ridiculous to run multiple candidates against Momm Donny at this time. If you care about the city of New York and people who inhabit it, but if New York votes from Momm Donny, they're going to get what they asked for good and hard. Even Andrew Cuomo is now saying that the shift of far left politics is paralyzed the city of New York.
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I think the problem with New York City has been twofold. Number one, you've had an incompetent government. Basically, since Mayor Bloomberg, that's 12 years, where you just haven't had a competent mayor in charge. Second, in this city, you've had this shift of far left politics that has paralyzed the government.
So he is right about all that. Our people of New York smart enough to see that. We're going to find out in very, very short order. All right.
Meanwhile, there's a lot of focus on what's going on in the Gaza Strip. Obviously, there is a starvation issue in the Gaza Strip. The question is from whom? Where is that starvation issue arising from?
So the media are jumping all over this, obviously, because what they hope to do is essentially preserve Hamas in the Gaza Strip. That's what this is all about. Hamas is responsible for the starvation of the Gaza Strip on a wide variety of levels. One, if Hamas surrendered, if leadership went into exile today, and if they surrendered, the 20 life hostages they're still holding have now been held for almost two years.
If they did that, this word would be over. It would be done. Two, the aid is there. It's just being stolen by Hamas or held up by the UN.
Hamas has been operating based on stealing humanitarian aid going into the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war on a per capita basis. There is no war zone on Earth into which more humanitarian aid has entered than Gaza by a multiple in enormous amount of aid has gone into Gaza. The problem is the Hamas steals all of it, which is why the price of flour in the markets in Gaza is like 50 shekel for a kilogram of flour. Why?
The reason is because Hamas steals an enormous amount of it. And this is how Hamas makes its money. You wonder how Hamas can continue to operate? The answer is by stealing humanitarian aid.
And actually, the shift of the humanitarian aid away from the UN, which is a tool of Hamas without a doubt, UNRWA is simply an adjunct organization for Hamas, United Nations, does the bidding of Hamas. The minute that the humanitarian aid in Gaza shifted over to organizations that were not working with Hamas, Hamas is funding started to dry up. That is not a coincidence. According to the Washington Post, Hamas is facing its worst financial and administrative crisis in its four decade history, facing stiff challenges and mustering resources it would need to continue to fight Israel and rule Gaza.
With its coffers depleted, Hamas' military win can no longer adequately pay the salaries of its fighters, but it is still able to recruit teenage boys from missions like keeping lookout replacing explosives along Israeli military routes. According to Ode to Alam, who is a former high level Israeli intelligence officer and current IDF forces officers, the group has been unable to replace the well-equipped tunnels and underground command centers. Israeli forces have destroyed in their bid to uproot Hamas. Hamas can't pay people because they have lost access to the aid.
That aid is the funding mechanism for Hamas. It always was. That is why you are seeing, by the way, there are some Israelis who are protesting aid going into the Gaza Strip, not because they want Gaza to starve, but because they know that Hamas wants to hijack that aid and use it to prolong the war. If you want to get to the end of the war, Hamas has to be starved out, not to the Palestinian people.
That is why the Gaza humanitarian foundation is in there trying to separate the weed from the chaff, trying to ensure that actual Palestinian civilians, non-Kamaz affiliates, gain the aid. So what exactly is going on while people are starving in Gaza because Hamas is literally shooting people in the lines, or shooting Israeli soldiers from the lines. They shot a rocket just two days ago at the Israeli soldiers and members of the Gaza humanitarian foundation, who are handing out aid. This has been a regular feature of everything happening with the Gaza humanitarian foundation.
A bevy of GHF workers have been killed trying to hand out aid by Hamas, which is actively attempting to monopolize the distribution of aid so that it can steal all of that stuff for itself, resell it, use it as leverage over people. This is what they do. And the reason the media are covering us the way that they are and really is disgusting is because they've been doing the bidding of Hamas instead of their beginning. Let us be very, very clear about this.
Hamas, launch a war, could not win. They launched this war, betting that the media would save them, that the legacy media in the United States, in Europe, that European governments would step in and save them, and that's happened over and over. They're right. How do they know that would happen?
Well, because those organizations have always been pro-terrorism in the Middle East. They've always been sympathetic to the quote-unquote decolonialist anti-colonialist case made by Hamas, up to and including violence. They've always soft-pedaled this stuff, and they continue to do so pretending that it's somehow Israeli intransigence. It's leading to shortages in the Gaza Strip, which is a lie, a full-scale ridiculous lie.
It is not an Israel's interest to starve people in the Gaza Strip. It's in Israel's interest to starve out Hamas, but not the Palestinians, which is why again the distribution of food aid in the Gaza Strip is going on, a pace. And yes, Hamas is stealing it. Here, for example, is a video from just a couple of days ago of members of Hamas gorging themselves on aid that was brought in not for them, but for Gaza civilians.
People holding bananas, dates, meat, rice, and the Hamas terrorists in their tunnel enjoying their food. Chancing about mangoes, bananas. By the way, there's a recording tactic as well. If you can show people that you have the food, that if you join the Hamas, you'll get fed, maybe you're able to garner more terrorists.
Here's footage from just a couple of days ago of massive amounts, 950 trucks worth of undistributed food aid. Why is it not being distributed? Because the United Nations refuses to allow distribution inside the Gaza Strip of this food aid by the GHF. And Israel doesn't want the UN distributing it except at approved IDF sites, because they believe the UN is working with Hamas, which of course they are.
The entire goal of the United Nations at this point is to maintain Hamas dominance. By the way, that is also the goal of the Qatari government. The Qatari government has been undermining negotiations between Israel and Qamas of the Steve Whitcough, the negotiator, the special envoy in this area. For legitimately a year, every time a deal looks like it's going to be cut to end the war or at least get some hostages out on the basis of a ceasefire, Qatar steps in and changes the terms.
And one of the things that has happened here is repeated attempts to achieve a ceasefire, and then there'll be a spate of media articles or announcements as well discussed by people like the ridiculous French President Emmanuel Macron. That there should be a Palestinian state or that Qamas should be given more humanitarian aid. And Qamas then pulls out of the talks, which is precisely what happened yesterday, by the way, according to the Washington Post, the United States is withdrawing its negotiating team from Doha Qatar for consultations, according to Trump on Boise Whitcough. He said that, well, US-Qatari and Egyptian mediators have made a great effort.
Qamas does not appear to be coordinated or acting in good faith. By the way, Qatar can end this tomorrow. Qatar could end this tomorrow. All Qatar would have to do is call up Qamas and tell them that financial support is gone, and they need to go into exile right now and release the hostages.
And Qamas would take them and put them up at their five-star hotels. After all, Qamas used to that, they were keeping Qamas's top negotiators like Ismail Hania, political leader in Qatar for years on end at five-star hotels. Israel had accepted the latest Whitcough proposal for a 60-day ceasefire during which it said it would withdraw its troops from certain parts in Gaza in exchange for the release of some of the remaining hostages. By the way, that ceasefire would have likely been the last and the remaining hostages would be killed because Qamas is not going to release all the hostages or it's over.
Now, all of this is tied into Immanuel Macron and the rest of Europe attempting to do the work of Qamas. Can you imagine that the result of October 7th, the result of the mass slaughter of Jews and non-Jews, by the way, in Israel and October 7th, taking captive of 250 people, the murder of babies with their hands, which is what happened to be bus kids, that that would be met by the French declaring a Palestinian state. Well, that's basically what's going to happen right now, which shows you exactly where the French are. I know that Candace Owens is currently being sued by the president of France and his wife for her claims that Brigitte Macron has balls.
Well, if Brigitte Macron does have balls, that would make the only member of the pair that does because Magna Macron is a ridiculous and stupid figure as the president of France. He put out a statement yesterday, quote, consistent with its historic commitment to a just and lasting piece in the Middle East. I've decided that France will recognize the state of Palestine. Well, cool.
I recognize the state of Narnia. Exciting stuff happening all over the place. What are the borders of the state of Palestine? What are the governments of the state of Palestine?
Who are the governing bodies of the state of Palestine? If you can't name them, it doesn't exist, my friend. That's the reality. I will make the solemn announcements, Emmanuel Macron before the United Nations General Assembly this coming September, who the UN General Assembly, the most isolated international politics of wretched high of scum and billy.
The urgent priority today is to end the war in Gaza and to bring relief to the civilian population, he says, well, you know what would end that? Hamas not being there. That's what would end that. By the way, the best possible solution here is the setting up of a humanitarian aid zone in which GHF runs the distribution of aid.
So it's not Hamas doing it. It's not the UN doing it, where Israel is basically using its military to ensure that people who are entering that humanitarian aid zone have security and safety in that zone, presumably in the south of Gaza. That would be the actual solution, because we are now in the Gaza Strip. That right there is a counterinsurgency operation.
That is what they have right now. And the only successful counterinsurgency strategy ever devised is to create safe zones for civilians, noncombatants, and non-terrorists that are safe and secure. That is the only way and then allow people who want to leave to actually leave. I can't think of another war zone on planet Earth, where the rest of the world is dedicated to keeping people in the war zone who want to leave.
It's an amazing thing and demonstrates what the actual goals are. Macron says, peace is possible. Cool, cool, cool. So if peace is possible, why don't you name the terms?
How's that going to work? Emmanuel, by the way, he should declare a state of Palestine in France. It seems that the Islamic radical population of France is dictating policy over there. So why not just set up a state over there?
Why not? Huge percentage of your population is antithetical to traditional French principles and politics. So you can do it on the Riviera. That, of course, is the suggestion of America's ambassador to Israel, my cochlearty.
Here it was yesterday. First of all, it's incredibly inappropriate in the midst of a war that Israel is dealing with to go out and present something that I think increasingly Israelis are steadfast against. October 7th changed a lot of things. If France is really so determined to see a Palestinian state, I've got a suggestion for them.
Carve out a piece of the French Riviera and create a Palestinian state. They're welcome to do that. Good for ambassador Huckabee. Macron said, we need an immediate ceasefire.
The release of all hostages and the massive humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza. Okay, so I mean Israel just tried to do that. Come on, said no, you may have noticed. I must also ensure the demilitarization of Hamas, secure and rebuild Gaza.
Cool, cool. Does he have any ideas on how to accomplish that other than the idea of just extra pain in Hamas? Or is it empty verbiage from the ball as president of France? And finally, we must build the state of Palestine, guarantee its viability, and ensure that by accepting its demilitarization and fully recognizing Israel, it contributes to the security of all in the region.
But you're not doing any of those things. Those are all preconditions. You're just recognizing a non-existent state that doesn't do any of those things, literally any of them. Ridiculous person Emmanuel Macron.
By the way, him trying to suggest that the Palestinian Authority will be the governing body in the Gaza Strip is just plainly ridiculous. The Palestinian Authority cannot even govern itself in the so-called West Bank, Judea and Samaria. When we talk about Hamas being the obstacle to peace in the region, Hamas keeping people in starvation conditions, and not just coming to a ceasefire agreement, you know, understands very clearly as president Trump here he was this morning. They pulled out of Gaza.
They pulled out in terms of negotiating. It was too bad. Hamas didn't really want to make a deal. I think they want to die.
And it's very, very bad. It got to be to a point where you're going to have to finish the job. They really, they asked the thing, don't forget, we got a lot of hostages out. So now we're down to the final hostages.
And they know what happens after you get the final hostages. And basically because of that, they really didn't want to make a deal like so. So they pulled out and they're going to have to clean it up. You're going to have to get rid of it.
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It is designed by the you and the UN. It is designed in order to maintain a Hamas presence in Gaza. If you want the war in Gaza to come to an end if you want humanitarian aid to flow freely into Gaza, you cannot have that humanitarian aid being used by the terrorist group that has tyrannically dominated this area for 20 years you cannot allow that age to get to them which is why the Gaza humanitarian foundation is the only body that should be distributing aid in the Gaza Strip. Speaking of which yesterday I had the opportunity to speak with Johnny Moore who's the head of the GHF taking his life in his hands legitimately in order to ensure that Gaza civilians get aid in the worst possible situations.
Here's what I interviewed sounded like. And joining us online is Johnny Moore. He's the executive chairman of the Gaza humanitarian foundation, US and Israeli back nonprofit focused on food aid distribution in Gaza. Johnny, thanks so much for taking the time.
Really appreciate it. Thanks then. Good to be here. So in a second I'm getting to the origins of the Gaza humanitarian foundation what led to its creation.
Let's talk about obviously the vast PR attempt by Hamas and its allies in the media and in European governments apparently to suggest that Israel and the Gaza humanitarian foundation are complicit in a mass starvation campaign against the Gaza population of Palestinians. What exactly is GHF doing? Where are these allegations coming from? What's happening in the food lines?
First of all, it's coming from Hamas. So the Hamas health ministry, the Hamas government media office every single day, they create some fabricated story and the media just runs with it. And by the way, it's not just stories. I mean, today, this morning, we had a rocket attack.
So literally Hamas shot a rocket. They got it missed, but it was aiming for one of our distribution distribution sites. And the net effect is that there are many, many people in Gaza that the one thing Hamas wants to do is make sure that they don't get food. And while I'm talking to you now, I mean, today we will surpass 90 million meals of food delivered to the people of Gaza.
We're doing that with the whole UN against us, most of the press against us, Hamas threatening us trying to literally killing our local Gaza and aid workers a couple of weeks ago. It's just absolutely unbelievable. Yeah. When we talk about what Hamas is doing in the complicity of the United Nations.
A lot of people are suggesting Hamas obviously wants the UN to distribute the food in Gaza because they work with the UN. I mean, UNW, it was essentially a wing of Hamas. What they're hoping is that UN will bring in the food. Just give it to Hamas.
Hamas is very survival at this point, is essentially reliant on either hijacking, stealing or being given enormous amounts of food, not because they need it to eat, but because they then resell it at these Gaza markets at inflated prices. And then they use that money in order to obtain further weaponry and do what they need to do in the Gaza Strip. Is that the dynamic? Because it's pretty obvious that right now they are openly negotiating to not have GHF, the food distributor, and to have the food distributor in any sort of hostage deal.
Yeah, it's actually worse than that. So not only is the UN become the press secretary for for Hamas, the UN actually is either complicit in the whole thing. I mean, while we're talking right now, this is crazy, but it's true. There are 950 trucks of UN aid, not outside of the Gaza Strip, inside of the Gaza Strip, ready to be distributed, but the UN won't distribute it and they won't let us distribute it for them.
In fact, they boycotted us from the moment we started, we started because on May 5th, President Trump said in the White House, he said that Hamas was stealing the food of the Gaza people and the United States was going to do something about it. And so we have one mission, which is to get food to the people of Gaza in a way that Hamas can't steal it. But it's not only are they selling it and taxing it. And not only have they made a billion dollars from it over the course of the war, they also were using the UNA convoys to pass messages to their fighters.
They were moving fighters from one part of the Gaza Strip to another part of the Gaza Strip. And the UN has the, they won't meet with us by the way, but they have the audacity to say that we're not neutral, because we delivered this, our Senate is delivering 100 million meals for free to the people of Gaza, the terrorist organization can't steal. So why is it that the UN is still in control of how aid is being distributed in the Gaza Strip? Who makes the decision as to where those trucks go?
You say that all these trucks are on the Gaza side of the border, not on the Israeli side of the Karan-Shallen crossing, but on the Gaza side. So why is it the UN deciding that they should just sit there and mowler in the sun? The UN's playing politics. That's what they're doing.
They're playing politics with people's people's lives. So they're sharing the Hamas propaganda. They're actually basically a willful participant on the Hamas side of the negotiating table in the ceasefire negotiations by refusing to distribute aid and spreading this narrative around the world that the people of Gaza are going to starve if Hamas doesn't in effect get its demands at the negotiating table. I mean, this is so unbelievably corrupt and profane.
But what we've discovered over the course of this operation, one of the reasons why the UN boycats are never boycats are mass, why they oppose us at all costs and one has dismantled and shut down is because unfortunately this whole system, this isn't just a Gaza problem. This is a global problem. There is a conflict in the world that hasn't been exacerbated and prolonged by this broken UN system. And yet the United States of America until this administration has willfully funded it, are European allies?
I mean, it's the official policy of the EU and of Germany, gigantic Germany, to continue funding UNRRA as the main source of aid. And so the UN has basically said it's UNRRA or else. And UNRRA, of course, is, you know, they're not just corrupt. I mean, UNR employees held hostages.
You know, there's one that report I read that as many as 49% of UNR employees actually were directly connected to Hamas. So the UN has basically decided they're going to save UNRRA, even if it means in Palestinian's die, the war is prolonged. I mean, I have never seen something so corrupt at all. In fact, I told our guys the other day, you know, is it legal?
Somebody asked somebody in the State Department, can we just take the UN aid and distribute it? Yeah. So let's talk about what can be done. Because as you say, if the UN is still very active in the Gaza Strip, why are they still very active in the Gaza Strip?
Is that decision by the United States, by Israel? Does the UN have some sort of independent authority? And why are they the ones who get to decide whether aid is distributed or not? It's because actually we let them do it, and we don't put enough pressure on our allies to join us in fixing the corrupt system.
I mean, the truth is, only right now, as I'm talking to you, only members of Congress basically that are in opposition or aligned with the Hamas side of this discussion are vocal about this at all. I mean, Republican members of Congress, unfortunately, you know, we had a run war, we had, you know, the big beautiful bill, everything going on, everybody sort of asleep at the, you know, at the will. We have a once in a generation opportunity here to fix a broken system that is prolonged. If you are peace through strength, if you don't want war, you know, in this world, I'm a peace activist, I don't want any more war in this world, if we can all avoid it, but the system that was created to avoid it has become the rocket fuel for every conflict around the world.
And as time members of Congress step up and say enough, it's enough that UN should not get a dime of American money as long as they don't work with GHF. You want to get a dime of American money if they can't guarantee their food isn't taken by, by armed actors and used by a globally designated terrorist organization. Yeah, and this, I think is one of the keys that the people need to recognize is that it's not just what happens in Gaza that's dependent on the GHF. It is dependent on the entire Middle East is basically waiting for this problem to be solved and can be only solved if the GHF is distributing aid as opposed to the UN or the UNRWA or any other UN link agency, because there's so much waiting on this.
Everybody wants to get to the end of this war, except for Hamas, Hamas would like to prolong this because the minute the war is over, they're no longer in control. So anybody who's allied with Hamas, particularly, maybe perhaps members of the entire government are interested in prolonging this, but it seems that every time a negotiation takes place in the United States or Israel, say, okay, fine, we're going to get the aid in, we're going to clean up the place, GHF is going to handle the aid. One of the main demands by Hamas that the GHF not do this because Hamas recognizes that the danger to them lies in somebody who is not Hamas affiliated doing this. So if you believe that the Abraham of course, the Saudi Arabia, for example, are dependent on an end to the war in Gaza, that can only happen if GHF is the one distributing the aid in safe areas protected presumably by the Israeli military, because that is the military force on the ground.
Any other quote unquote solution is not a solution, it's a prolongation of the war at the behest of Hamas, at the behest of Hamas is allies. So if you're looking for more peaceful Middle East, if you're looking for an end to war in this arena, you need people distributing food to people who are not in fact terrorist organizations or helpers of terrorist organizations. That's why this issue is important. And frankly, by the Trump administration ought to be getting full scale much partially, full scale behind GHF is the only solution to a distribution in the Gaza Strip.
That's exactly right. And the clock is ticking. We don't have time for people to play politics on this. We need to figure it out now.
And organization is not just the UN, it's other organizations, the UN World Food Program, it's UNICEF, it's all of them. And by the way, the United States should be more influential when appointing the leaders of these organizations as well. Well, it's Johnny Moore, executive chairman of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Johnny, just wanted to give you a chance to talk a little bit about how you got into this.
Why are you doing this? Because whenever there are humanitarian organizations that are formed, there are always allegations that are made, particularly by the media about some sort of ulterior motive. What is GHF? How did it start?
How did you get involved with it? Yeah, I mean, for me, first of all, I'm a volunteer. So I'm a Christian and I can't think of anything more Christian than feeding people who need to. I get a ball because the US government asked me if I would step in and help provide some leadership over this important initiative.
But the ironic thing about GHF is that the idea actually originated more than a year and a half ago, is everyone was recognizing that the one problem that was prolonging this war is that a three single truck of aid that got into the Gaza Strip was immediately stolen by Hamas. And the Hamas would use the aid. They would tax it. They would sell it.
They would manipulate it. No one was willing to solve this problem. And the whole international system considered the cost of doing business. And so the US government decided to make a difference.
They took Donald Trump to actually do it, to do something unconventional to test and take on the whole system. And it will only take the full strength of the United States government to succeed, not only ending this war and getting the food directly. And by the way, Gaza needs more food. We can't do it alone.
And despite our disagreements with the UN, every single day, we extend our hand and say, look, we can work on our differences later. We've got to feed the people. But I did it because I really, really care about the entire region. And we have to solve this problem.
And by the way, then we have already served over 800,000 Gazans. Half of the Gaza Strip, we've already provided food for it. And if the world actually got behind us and the UN partnered with us, we can actually provide food for everyone in the Gaza Strip. We can meet all of the needs, except for ways in which Hamas uses the aid for their nefarious purposes.
We could solve this problem. Everyone stopped playing politics and did what they say they care about, which is feeding hungry people. Well, that's Johnny Moore executive chairman of the Gaza Commanding Center and Foundation. Thank you so much for your hard work.
And thanks for helping people truly in need. And obviously, we hope that both American, Israeli, international policy change in accordance with the real interests of people in the region. Appreciate your time, Johnny. Thanks for having me.
Meanwhile, President Trump signed another executive order yesterday laying out new rules for the payment of college athletes joining some line to discuss is David Cohen, of course, the co-host of Crane and Co-R Sports Show here at Daily Wire Plus. David, thanks so much for taking the time. Thank you for having me, Ben. So why don't we start off by having you explain exactly what this EO does?
What is it designed to do? Well, first off, all you need to know is the title Donald J. Trump saves college sports. So there's not really anything else that you need to know about it because he fixed everything.
If this guy had an action movie, it would just be Donald J. Trump saves the day at the end and you wouldn't really need to watch the rest of the movie. So that's good to know. But before we dive into the specifics of the executive order, I just want to sort of update you and some of your listeners who may not be that familiar with the current landscape of college athletics.
You know, when I was playing college football at the University of Michigan from 2006 to 2010, not only could I not be paid, I couldn't even receive a cup of coffee on the house. I couldn't sign an autograph and sell that. I certainly couldn't sign some third party endorsement deal with Nike. Okay, so with these class action, anti-trust, and anti-trust is the key term here.
With these lawsuits that have happened over the past 10 years, this is O'Bannon BNCAA, Austin BNCAA, and then most recently just this summer, House BNCAA. What we have the current landscape where the courts are saying to the NCAA, no, you can't limit the earning potential for individuals to monetize their likeness. So we get this term name, image, and likeness or this term NIL, which gets thrown around all over the place. Well, it didn't take that long for these two, the name, image, and likeness payments and pay for play, which is a completely different thing, to be conflated.
And you have athletic departments and ADs and coaches who say, wait, I want that kid over there, that recruit to come play college football here, let's just give them an NIL payment on the off chance that they're going to be really, really good. But then you can't punish them if they're not a good football player because you're not paying them for their pay for play. Now, most recently with this House BNCAA settlement that just happened a couple weeks ago, basically for the first time ever college athletic departments can share their revenue directly with athletes. And that figure is going to start at $20.5 million per year, and it's going to tick up every year over the course of this tenure agreement.
Okay, but that doesn't then limit the NIL potential. So you may have the University of Texas, the Longhorns, who have $20.5 million to spend, but then can spend another $20 million from oil boosters and categorize that as NIL payments. All of a sudden they have $40 million to spend on college sports, whereas a program like Wake Forest may have just a fraction of that. So, in comes this executive order from Donald J.
Trump saving college sports. And there's a couple things that we need to hit here. One, prohibiting third party pay for play. Well, that sounds really good based off what I just told you, right?
The only problem is the NCAA already does that. So this is a bit redundant. The second thing, provide evidence of fair market value. Well, that's very difficult to do.
I mean, Ben, if you wanted to start a university and start a college football program called Shapiro, you and you're like, look, we got to get started here. Let's go find the best quarterback in the country. We're going to pay them $20 million. That's what you're valuing them at.
And we even see this in the NFL. Look, the Cleveland Browns paid to Sean Watson a quarter of a billion dollars, has proven so far not to be a great move that broke the quarterback market even in the NFL where you have a salary cap. And also, if you're thinking about signing a quarterback, Ben, I have an extra year of eligibility, but we can talk about that later. And then another point here, the requirement to preserve where possible, where possible the revenues for women's sports and non-revenue generating sports.
Well, again, that's going to be very difficult. Just take say, Vanderbilt right here in our backyard in Nashville. Vanderbilt is not a great football program. They don't have a great basketball program, but they're excellent in baseball.
They're excellent in golf. Well, those programs don't generate a lot of revenue. They make far more money on being average at football or basketball. How is an athletic director supposed to split the money that they have on baseball, football, basketball, golf?
And how are they supposed to preserve non-revenue generating sports within an executive order when that may not be what's best for the program moving forward? Let's be honest, your home probably isn't quite there yet. The lighting is off, the room's feel unfinished. You're not waking up on your terms.
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I mean, my typical sort of gut reaction is let people pay them whatever they want. The real reason that most of these kids who are actually getting paid to play sports at college are there is because the college wants them there as sort of face of the college, not because they're there to get their degree in business, busy con. Huge percentage of players who are actually going to get paid here are looking to do this professionally afterward. And so essentially the reason these teams exist is not because the college athletic system is designed to make sure that the third string linebacker gets his degree.
It's much more about making money for the college. Just let the college pay what the college just want to pay. And if you want to set up a salary, cap, set up a salary gap. No doubt.
And one of the reasons that we're in this mess right now is because of the exploitative nature of the NCAA regarding those third party endorsement deals. There should have been no rule whatsoever in 2006 that prohibited me from making a couple hundred dollars for being in say a local car car or a local car dealership commercial or something, which is probably the most that I could have commanded. But if you have someone like Arch Manning right now who can make millions of dollars by signing a Nike deal, the NCAA should not have a say in prohibiting that. Obviously, you know, they tried to have the best of intentions by saying, well, no, wait, we're just going to have programs that pay you for your NIL.
And yes, that's exactly what has happened. But at the same time, I do hate to see that we're at a point now where the education and the diploma you get means absolutely nothing to some of these kids because even if you go to the NFL, and look, I was pretty good and I didn't even get close to making it to the NFL. But even if you go, the average career span is 2.2 years. And you know, you're going to be able to have a lifetime, a career full of opportunities based off the diploma that you get and the connections that you made while at college.
With that being said, I'm all for the kids getting paid the money. They're the ones doing the work on the field. And I come from the American South. I've never heard anyone who's obsessed with college football say, I love the sport because those guys aren't getting paid, right?