1 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: Live from vall Hartbeiner and the Crossroads of America. It's 2 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: Tony Katz today on and. 3 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:24,160 Speaker 2: Up as they say, yes, yes, yes, Welcome to Tony 4 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 2: Katz Today. I am Mike Coolidge in for Tony. My 5 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:35,479 Speaker 2: last name is spelled ko l I Dge. You can 6 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 2: find me on X Believe Tony will be back on Monday. 7 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:45,239 Speaker 2: Today is Monday too? Write? Or no? Is it Friday? 8 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:49,720 Speaker 2: I don't know. It's so confusing. This January twod on 9 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 2: a Friday thing after Thursday being the first day of 10 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 2: the year, everybody had off. I hope you had off yesterday. 11 00:00:57,760 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 2: If you're listening to this, you are listening to this, 12 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 2: were listening to this. But the second day of the 13 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:05,720 Speaker 2: year is the first day of the week kind of, 14 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:09,039 Speaker 2: but it's the last day that we right, absolutely love it. 15 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 2: We have a weekend completely ahead of us, and we 16 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 2: still have an hour on this radio show. Of course, 17 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 2: the show after this one on this radio station is 18 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,320 Speaker 2: awesome and you should listen to that too. It's so good. 19 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:24,840 Speaker 2: I'm going to listen to it as soon as I'm done. 20 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 2: I'm going to continue to listen to the radio. Yeah, 21 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:31,640 Speaker 2: that's right. Radio is awesome. I hosted my own radio 22 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 2: show for fifteen years called the Michael Coolidge Show. I 23 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 2: ended it specifically to run for Congress. I didn't win. 24 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 2: It was twenty twenty two, and then I worked for 25 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 2: some packs political action committees. Then I worked for a 26 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 2: political nonprofit grassroots conservative organization, and I also do some 27 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 2: work for some candidates behind the scenes who are running 28 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 2: for statewide office in my state. So I am on 29 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 2: the board of an organization that is called Unified Solutions 30 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 2: America that's trying to decouple companies and institutions from d EI. Yeah. Thankfully, 31 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:19,760 Speaker 2: our culture has gotten smarter over the years and realized 32 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 2: how corrupt the whole philosophy of DEI is. The whole disity, 33 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:30,919 Speaker 2: equity and inclusion, talk about siphoning money from people, from 34 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 2: good money from people, from taxpayers, from institutions like universities, hospitals, 35 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 2: all this stuff. I mean, for the whole show, the 36 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 2: last two hours, in case you're just joining us, we've 37 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 2: been breaking down the big difference between the left and 38 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 2: the right. Collectivism versus individualism, communism and Marxism versus capitalism, socialism, 39 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:06,240 Speaker 2: progressivism versus conserva to vism, Democrats versus republican left versus right. 40 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:11,919 Speaker 2: My wife criticizes me, mocks me frequently because I think 41 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 2: I see politics in everything, absolutely everything, and I think 42 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:21,239 Speaker 2: the evidence backs me up. There are so many things 43 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 2: that are political that use not to be. But on 44 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 2: this last hour of the week and this first show 45 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 2: of the week slash slash show of the week, we'll 46 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 2: lighten it up a little bit. We're going to get 47 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 2: into President We're also going to get into some of 48 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 2: the amazing things, in fact, the twenty best things that 49 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 2: President Trump did in twenty twenty five, yes, the previous year, 50 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:51,480 Speaker 2: his fifth year of the presidency, yes, yes, yes, But 51 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 2: to kind of tie a bow on some of the 52 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 2: other things we've been talking about as the show has developed. 53 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 2: Why are we talking about collectivism versus individualism? You know, 54 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 2: and liberty well, and you know left and right? Because 55 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:07,240 Speaker 2: the mayor of the biggest city in our country, Yeah, 56 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 2: he's the mayor now he's no longer the mayoral elect, 57 00:04:09,960 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 2: He's the mayor. This Zorn Mumdani character, you're going to 58 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:18,920 Speaker 2: be a lot more from the national stage. And uh, 59 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 2: I don't thinet. I don't think it's talked about. At 60 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:25,600 Speaker 2: the end of the last tower that that's a bad thing. I, 61 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 2: as a conservative, have confidence in my political philosophy. I 62 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:33,720 Speaker 2: want the left to be able to express themselves and 63 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 2: let the whole world see what they believe and why. 64 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:42,679 Speaker 2: And I as a conservative and confident that rational people 65 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:45,160 Speaker 2: in the middle, people who aren't political, people who don't 66 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 2: see politics in everything, which is the majority of people. 67 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:52,960 Speaker 2: I admit, we'll look at the both arguments insides and say, ah, 68 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,040 Speaker 2: those guys are crazy, those guys are not. I'm going 69 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:58,920 Speaker 2: with these guys. And these guys, for the most part, 70 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:01,600 Speaker 2: are those of us the right. Now, yes, there are 71 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:03,520 Speaker 2: people who claim to be on the right, and even 72 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 2: who get elected to office who do the bidding of 73 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 2: the people who keep them in office too often and 74 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:15,280 Speaker 2: many times that's people on the left. But we still 75 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 2: compared to the left, have to keep fighting this fight 76 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 2: because the left is never going to stop. Ever, They're 77 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:27,359 Speaker 2: never going to stop. And when they lose an election 78 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 2: like they lost in twenty twenty four, like they lose 79 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:35,479 Speaker 2: an election like they lost in twenty sixteen, they don't 80 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 2: skimper and off, Sam, you know, the people spoke. I guess, uh, 81 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:43,480 Speaker 2: I guess we should change our philosophy or just realize 82 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 2: that we're mortally ethically bankrupt. We shouldn't. We should give 83 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:51,839 Speaker 2: it the fight. Oh no, they don't stop. They will 84 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 2: constantly continue their fight. And if they continue to lose, 85 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 2: what can they do? What can they do to get 86 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:05,240 Speaker 2: back into power If they lose elections and their arguments 87 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 2: aren't being successful and convincing those in the middle to 88 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:12,599 Speaker 2: vote for them, what do you? You just need more vote? 89 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 2: You gotta find more voters, right, people who aren't legally 90 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 2: eligible to vote, like I don't know people who are 91 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 2: here illegally, or people who are here legally but not 92 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 2: citizens of the country. You're not going to vote if 93 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 2: you're here, you know, on a visa or here temporarily, 94 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 2: you're not a citizen. You can't vote. But and which 95 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 2: is the way you should be? Right? If I go 96 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 2: to work in Paris for half of a year, I 97 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:43,160 Speaker 2: shouldn't be voting in their elections there right or in Canada? No, 98 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 2: you need to. You should need to be an actual 99 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 2: citizen in the United States. You should produce an idea 100 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,239 Speaker 2: to prove who you are. You should go vote in person, 101 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 2: locally and vote anyway. I know I'm going off on 102 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 2: a bunch of different avenues here, but this particular fight 103 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:06,159 Speaker 2: between the left and the right, it's it's out in 104 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 2: the open. Now, this new mayor, this young guy you're going, 105 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,680 Speaker 2: he's he's the shiny new object in politics because he's young. 106 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 2: He's good looking for a politician. He's got an attractive wife, 107 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 2: he's got a young family. He's he's got that smile 108 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 2: where he squints his eyes when he smiles, you know, 109 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 2: and and and always talks with a with a big 110 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 2: grin and uh, you know, is articulate. And he's got money. 111 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:35,720 Speaker 2: This guy, this guy is not a uh a man 112 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:37,640 Speaker 2: who came from the wrong side of the tracks. Oh no, 113 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:42,160 Speaker 2: he comes from elitism and power already. And he swore 114 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 2: in an oath too, of a Quran, first guy ever 115 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 2: to swear into the mayoralship of New York City. We're 116 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:54,680 Speaker 2: on a Koran, not a Bible, so a lot too 117 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 2: unpacked there. But his his religion, believe it or not, 118 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 2: is not what you should be concerned about. It's his philosophy. 119 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 2: It's his political philosophy specifically, and he was right out 120 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 2: there and open about it. Collectivism, in fact, if you're 121 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 2: just joining us, let's just you'll play. This is twenty 122 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 2: nine seconds of what he said on his speech, in 123 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 2: his speech, his inauguration speech yesterday, laid it off, laying 124 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:29,880 Speaker 2: it all out there for God and everybody to hear. 125 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 2: We will draw this city closer together. We will replace 126 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 2: the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. 127 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:48,559 Speaker 2: Replace the rugged, the frigidity of rugged individualism with the 128 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:54,960 Speaker 2: warmth of collectivism, the warmth of it. Make no mistake, 129 00:08:56,400 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 2: he's planning his flag. He's got people supporting him. He's 130 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:04,080 Speaker 2: got the the old old guy who you know, some 131 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:07,840 Speaker 2: days someday, probably not too long from now, he's you know, 132 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 2: he's going to, uh, you know, pass on talking about 133 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:12,800 Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders because he's getting up there in age. It's 134 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 2: the fate of us all. And but this torch has 135 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 2: already been passed. And you've got a lot of young 136 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:21,440 Speaker 2: people who will be here for decades. Bernie Sanders isn't 137 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 2: gonna probably be here a decade from now. But Zoran 138 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 2: Mundani will, and aoc will, and this new mayor of 139 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 2: Seattle will, Brandon Johnson, the mayor of Chicago is not 140 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:35,640 Speaker 2: going to be the mayor of Chicago. Uh. In the 141 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:40,080 Speaker 2: next election cycle. I can almost promise you that, But 142 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:42,559 Speaker 2: I don't think he's going anywhere. I think he'll still 143 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:45,679 Speaker 2: be around. I don't think he has well, he's a 144 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:50,400 Speaker 2: whole other topic. But this discussion about the left and 145 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 2: the right, those of us who are conservative, like most 146 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 2: of you listeners, I'm sure, uh don't need to be 147 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:00,960 Speaker 2: sold on this, don't need to have this explained to you. 148 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 2: What we, as a group of people who share a 149 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:09,960 Speaker 2: political philosophy of right of center, you know, conservatism, need 150 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:15,679 Speaker 2: to be better at is making sure that our arguments 151 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:19,080 Speaker 2: by those in the middle, those that don't see politics 152 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:23,439 Speaker 2: and everything, that those that only vote in the big elections, 153 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:26,359 Speaker 2: you know, got to convince them to vote in the midterms, 154 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:28,720 Speaker 2: got to convince them to vote even in the local 155 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 2: municipal elections too. We need to do a better job 156 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 2: at explaining our political philosophies to them and pointing out 157 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:43,960 Speaker 2: the absolute insanity of leftist collectivists like Zorron and Donnie. 158 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:46,200 Speaker 2: We've been doing it most of the show today, but 159 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 2: we're also going to h on the other side of 160 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 2: this break talk about people on our side of the 161 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:56,600 Speaker 2: political aisle who are doing good things, namely the President 162 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 2: of the United States Donald J. Trump. No, he won't 163 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 2: be joining us, But I, like Tony Katz, have interviewed 164 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 2: Donald Trump. I broadcast my show from the White House 165 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen. Tony Katz, I know, broadcast his show 166 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 2: from the White House. Do I think the previous year? 167 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 2: We are going to talk about the twenty best things 168 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:17,720 Speaker 2: President Trump did in the last twelve months? After this 169 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:20,520 Speaker 2: On Tony Kats today, I am Mike Cooliage in for Tony. 170 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:26,320 Speaker 2: Don't go Anywhere. We're back on Tony Katz today, I 171 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:30,440 Speaker 2: am Mike Coolidge in for Tony Little Urge Overkill. For 172 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 2: you fans out there, Gosh, that album is so good. 173 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:38,880 Speaker 2: Saturation the most underrated albums of the entire decade of 174 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 2: the nineteen nineties. So good. All right, So Mark Theeson 175 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 2: in the Washington Post lists twenty of the best things 176 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:54,200 Speaker 2: President Trump did in twenty twenty five. Are you ready? 177 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:57,839 Speaker 2: Little talking points for you those of you having those 178 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:02,240 Speaker 2: discussions after church with people or after temple about hey, well, 179 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:04,119 Speaker 2: you know, where should I have over for the Republicans 180 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 2: in the midterm? Just give me the elevator pitch, give 181 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:14,839 Speaker 2: me some talking points there, Steve or Melissa or Margaret. 182 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 2: Here's some ideas. We have a president who's actually accomplishing things, 183 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 2: actually doing things. Let's go over some of them. Number twenty, 184 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:28,800 Speaker 2: he delivered justice for the Abbey Gate bombing after terrorists 185 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 2: killed thirteen US service members during President Joe Biden's catastrophic 186 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 2: withdrawal from Afghanistan. Brought Biden promise, we will not forgive, 187 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 2: we will not forget. We will hump you down and 188 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 2: make you pay. He left office three years later having 189 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:47,640 Speaker 2: made no one pay. It took less than six weeks 190 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 2: to capture what he described as a top terrorist responsible 191 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:56,400 Speaker 2: for the attack. A lot of people forgot about that. Yeah, 192 00:12:57,040 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 2: Trump did that. Number nineteen he created Trump Accounts to 193 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:05,560 Speaker 2: give every American child a trust fund. Now. I know 194 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 2: that President Trump is, you know, known as a showman 195 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 2: or like a salesman, even while he's in office, not 196 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:17,200 Speaker 2: just before office. Whatever, that's his character. You you take 197 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 2: him for all of his all of his personality traits. Right, 198 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:22,880 Speaker 2: This might come across as some kind of like you know, 199 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 2: Trump Stakes or trumpel but this Trump account thing is real, 200 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:27,959 Speaker 2: and it's a really good idea. The federal government will 201 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 2: put one thousand dollars into a taxed a tax advantage 202 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:36,480 Speaker 2: investment account for every American child born between January first, 203 00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:39,960 Speaker 2: twenty twenty five that's last year and December thirty first, 204 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:45,480 Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight, to be locked until they turn eighteen. 205 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:50,400 Speaker 2: The Treasury Department estimates the accounts could grow between three 206 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 2: thousand and thirteen thousand dollars in eighteen years, and as 207 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:58,440 Speaker 2: much as one point nine million by age twenty eight 208 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:02,280 Speaker 2: if fully funded with the additional contributions and left untouched. 209 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 2: Giving every American child a financial foundation as they begin adulthood. 210 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:12,520 Speaker 2: What an absolutely brilliant idea. Seriously, Like, you know, I 211 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 2: have nieces and nephew who are in their mid twenties 212 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:19,200 Speaker 2: and this is that time where they've been working in 213 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:21,640 Speaker 2: the private sector for a couple of years now and they're, 214 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 2: you know, getting their first kind of promotions and they 215 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:26,840 Speaker 2: have a little bit of money. And if they weren't 216 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 2: conservative in Republicans before, they're definitely becoming conservative Republicans now, 217 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 2: because well they all were already, but a lot of 218 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 2: the friends are. When you start getting paid and you 219 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 2: see how much money the government takes out of your paycheck, 220 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 2: and you realize all of the fraud and abuse and 221 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:45,160 Speaker 2: waste that the government goes does with it. You say, yeah, 222 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:48,600 Speaker 2: which is the side that wants less of that money 223 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 2: taken down? That's Republicans. And which is the side that 224 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:56,760 Speaker 2: wants more of it taken out? That's Democrats and more 225 00:14:56,920 --> 00:15:00,200 Speaker 2: government spending and growth of government. Yeah, that's Democrats voting 226 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 2: for the Republicans. But you keep telling them like, this 227 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 2: is the time right now to start those investment accounts. 228 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 2: Right now at twenty five, you have just you put 229 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 2: away one thousand dollars or five hundred dollars a month, 230 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:16,520 Speaker 2: just five hundred bucks a month, if you can afford it. 231 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 2: You start doing that at twenty five, you're gonna have 232 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 2: a million dollars when you're sixty five. Guaranteed you're gonna 233 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:24,480 Speaker 2: have maybe more if you invest it properly. Five hundred 234 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:27,120 Speaker 2: bucks a month, that's nothing. Well, if you started when 235 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 2: you were a baby, which nobody does. Babies, you know, 236 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 2: can't do anything, it could grow even longer and higher, 237 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 2: and just one thousand dollars, that's it. Tax advantage investment account. 238 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 2: What we're doing is setting up the generation twenty years 239 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:47,560 Speaker 2: from now from not being dependents on the government. No, 240 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:49,440 Speaker 2: you're not gonna be able to live off of thirteen 241 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 2: thousand dollars for the rest of your life. But when 242 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 2: you see that in your account, you have some money 243 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:59,120 Speaker 2: to play with and invest in hopefully, and you start 244 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:01,760 Speaker 2: to appreciate money a little bit more, you're probably going 245 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 2: to be smarter with it, and you'll be That's of 246 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 2: a burden on taxpayers that those who are really terrible 247 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 2: with their money are not always their own fault. I 248 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 2: do admit that, But often it's the people who often 249 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:18,680 Speaker 2: the people who are not to not doing well in society, 250 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 2: that's a result from very bad choices that they made. 251 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:27,920 Speaker 2: Number eighteen. He drove illegal migration to a virtual halt. 252 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:32,240 Speaker 2: Biden claimed he needed legislation from Congress to subcure the border. 253 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:35,280 Speaker 2: Trump shut down the border in weeks with no new 254 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:38,320 Speaker 2: congressional authority. Encounters at the border are at record lows, 255 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 2: Apprehensions at our ninety five percent lower than the daily 256 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,240 Speaker 2: average under Biden, and no illegal migrants have been released 257 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:51,200 Speaker 2: into the United States for seven months. Number seventeen. Trump 258 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:55,560 Speaker 2: used tariff threats to strike new trade deals in his 259 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 2: first term. Trump offered the European Union a zero for 260 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:02,600 Speaker 2: zero trade deal zero percent tariffs for zero percent tariffs, 261 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:04,639 Speaker 2: but the EU failed to take them up on the offer. 262 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 2: Seven years later, Trump struck a deal that included a 263 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 2: fifteen percent baseline tariff on most European exports to the 264 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:14,439 Speaker 2: United States, while most US exports to the EU will 265 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:19,200 Speaker 2: be duty free. What changed Trump's trade war. He also 266 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:23,040 Speaker 2: used tariffs as a leverage to reach deals with Great Britain, Japan, 267 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 2: South Korea, and Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Cambodia. 268 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:30,160 Speaker 2: Hopefully the Supreme Court will keep these tariffs and plates. 269 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 2: I again, I go back and forth on it. I'm 270 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:37,320 Speaker 2: not super small on international economics and trade and tariffs, 271 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 2: but I try to educate myself on it, and I've 272 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:42,440 Speaker 2: heard arguments from both sides. From conservatives, there are a 273 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:44,359 Speaker 2: lot of conservatives who are anti tariffs, are a lot 274 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 2: of conservatives who are pro tariffs. I lean a little 275 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:54,200 Speaker 2: bit more towards pro tariffs for this negotiating with other countries, 276 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:58,919 Speaker 2: thing the leverage he's able to enact and have with 277 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:01,720 Speaker 2: this tariff, not threats but enacting them. I like that 278 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:04,239 Speaker 2: because we finally have a president who is I don't know, 279 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:09,480 Speaker 2: putting America and our people First Right. Sixteen, he brought 280 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:13,160 Speaker 2: many of the nation's elite universities to heal. He forced 281 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:15,680 Speaker 2: Columbia University to sign a two hundred and twenty million 282 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:19,879 Speaker 2: dollars settlement over diversity, equity and inclusion and over the 283 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 2: anti Semitic civil rights violations on campus, and reached similar 284 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 2: settlements with Brown, Cornell, Northwestern, the University of Pennsylvania, and 285 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:31,600 Speaker 2: the University of Virginia, with more potentially on the way. 286 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:37,119 Speaker 2: Number fifteen, he took on radical gender ideology and protected 287 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:40,639 Speaker 2: women's sports. He signed in an executive order and issued 288 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:43,760 Speaker 2: new regulations to stop US hospitals from engaging in the 289 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:48,800 Speaker 2: chemical and surgical mutilation of children, and ordered that federal 290 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:52,200 Speaker 2: funds be rescinded from any educational a student that deprives 291 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:56,320 Speaker 2: women and girls of fair athletic opportunities. As a result, 292 00:18:56,359 --> 00:19:00,240 Speaker 2: the NCAA and the US Olympic and Paralympic committe He's 293 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 2: changed their policies to ban men from competing in women's sports, 294 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:08,920 Speaker 2: and the University of Pennsylvania agreed to restore women's school records, 295 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:12,560 Speaker 2: post the definition of a woman on its website, and 296 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:17,200 Speaker 2: apologize to the athletes at harms, it harmed with past 297 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 2: Title nine violations. That's thanks to President Trump. We're reading 298 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:25,120 Speaker 2: twenty of the best things Trump did in twenty twenty five. 299 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:27,919 Speaker 2: We will continue after this on Tony Katz today. I 300 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:35,040 Speaker 2: am Mike Coolidge in for Tony. We'll we're at back. 301 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:41,640 Speaker 2: We are back on Tony Katz today, today being January two, 302 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:45,440 Speaker 2: the year of our Lord, twenty twenty six, get used 303 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 2: to it. We're in the late twenties now. I am 304 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:52,639 Speaker 2: Mike Coolidge in for Tony, reading from Mark Deeson's piece 305 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 2: where tisain I forget how to pronounce it in the 306 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:58,439 Speaker 2: Washington Post. Yeah, that's right. The twenty best things President 307 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:02,880 Speaker 2: Trump did in his first term. Number fourteen, he ended 308 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:08,919 Speaker 2: collective bargaining for a million federal workers. Federal workers. Uh, 309 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 2: there shouldn't be if you work for the government, you 310 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 2: shouldn't be in a union. They shouldn't need they shouldn't exist. 311 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 2: Government unions should not exist. Yeah, that's right, because who 312 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:25,960 Speaker 2: and even Fdr of all, you know, the biggest hero 313 00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:31,680 Speaker 2: of Democrats, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, even he agreed with this. 314 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:37,960 Speaker 2: You know, the private labor union's fine completely Okay, My 315 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 2: dad was in a union. You know, I'm not anti 316 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 2: private unions at all. I don't like how a lot 317 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:48,480 Speaker 2: of the private unions try to intimidate their members into 318 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:51,240 Speaker 2: voting for Democrats. That I have a problem with. But whatever, 319 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 2: it's free country. They can do that. But we should 320 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 2: not have government unions because who are they collectively bargaining 321 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 2: against when they get together. Its government union people, the taxpayers, 322 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 2: you and me. That's a conflict of interest anyway. President Trump, 323 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 2: in his second term ended collective bargaining for a million 324 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:15,919 Speaker 2: federal workers. His executive orders gutting public worker unions mean 325 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 2: many federal departments can terminate union contracts and hire and 326 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:23,600 Speaker 2: fire based on merits. Imagine that number thirteen. He scrapped 327 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 2: Biden era policies intended to force people into electric cars 328 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:30,240 Speaker 2: and unleashed oil and gas production. Trump is rolling back 329 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:34,639 Speaker 2: Biden's fuel efficiency and tailpipe emission standards and signed legislation 330 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 2: ending California's electric vehicle mandate policies intended to coerce Americans 331 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:43,159 Speaker 2: into buying electric vehicles. Trump also lifted Biden's pause and 332 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:48,399 Speaker 2: natural gas exports, dramatically increasing US exports, opening up millions 333 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 2: of acres in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife refuge to drilling 334 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:55,680 Speaker 2: and mining, approving record numbers of drilling permits, rolling back 335 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:58,880 Speaker 2: climate regulations, and revoking Biden era orders that blocked oil 336 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:04,920 Speaker 2: and gas drilling in most coastal waters. Bra Vo President Trump. 337 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:09,080 Speaker 2: Number twelve, he made our nation's capital safer by sending 338 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 2: in the National Guard. After Trump took federal court control 339 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 2: of the DC Police and deployed the Guard, crime in 340 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 2: the district dropped by double digits in virtually every category. 341 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 2: Ask any fair minded person who lives in Washington, d C. 342 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:26,800 Speaker 2: What it's been like since the National Guard has been 343 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:31,960 Speaker 2: deployed there, fair minded person, not some liberal leftist, and 344 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 2: they'll tell you it's awesome. It's so great going out 345 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 2: and not worrying about being muked or you know, worse. 346 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:43,680 Speaker 2: Number eleven, He dramatically cut taxes on tips, over time, 347 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:46,160 Speaker 2: and social security. His one Bag Beautiful Bill also made 348 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:50,600 Speaker 2: his twenty seventeen pro growth tax cuts permanent. We are 349 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:54,720 Speaker 2: going to see the effects of that this year. This 350 00:22:54,760 --> 00:23:00,479 Speaker 2: is why I'm confident that Republicans are going to maintain 351 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 2: the House and the Senate. I'm cautiously confident. I'm not 352 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,040 Speaker 2: a slamm dunk. Trust me, they can screw it up 353 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:13,199 Speaker 2: if they run terrible campaigns. But I'm confident that the 354 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:16,840 Speaker 2: Republicans are going to maintain control of the House. They're 355 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 2: almost certain. I am confident they're going to maintain control 356 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 2: of the Senate, almost for sure. The House is a 357 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:27,560 Speaker 2: question mark. Historically, the party not in power of the 358 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 2: presidency always gains in the midterms, and we have a 359 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 2: Republican in the White House, so Democrats should gain. Historically 360 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:38,919 Speaker 2: it almost always happens, with very rare exceptions. But if 361 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:42,119 Speaker 2: the economy is booming this year, people are going to 362 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:46,080 Speaker 2: keep Republicans, especially if they're represented by a Republican right 363 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:47,640 Speaker 2: now in Congress, They're going to keep them there because 364 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,480 Speaker 2: they're like, yeah, we're doing okay. And I am confident 365 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:53,120 Speaker 2: that the economy is going to be awesome this year. 366 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 2: First day of the year. Let's check it back when 367 00:23:56,280 --> 00:23:58,879 Speaker 2: I fill in for Tony again, God willing, you know, 368 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,840 Speaker 2: middle of the year, the end of this year, let's 369 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:04,680 Speaker 2: check on that, right, how'd the economy do? Number ten? 370 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 2: President great things that President Trump did just in this 371 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,399 Speaker 2: last year. He forced Panama to crack down on Chinese 372 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:14,680 Speaker 2: influence over the Panama Canal. Under pressure from Trump, Panama 373 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:19,560 Speaker 2: replaced Whwai teletcommunications infrastructure installed at thirteen sites with secure 374 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:23,879 Speaker 2: American technology, pulled out of China's Belt and Road initiative, 375 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:26,959 Speaker 2: and scrapped its contracts with a Hong Kong based company 376 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 2: to manage port facilities. Bravo. I was having this conversation 377 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:33,359 Speaker 2: on New Year's Eve with a a couple friend of 378 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:36,360 Speaker 2: ours who we went to dinner with on New Year's Eve, 379 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 2: and they're, you know, Trump supporters, but you know, not 380 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:45,159 Speaker 2: as deep political junkies as I am. And I was 381 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:49,480 Speaker 2: saying about one of trus One of the cool things 382 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 2: about President Trump that not a lot of people understand, 383 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 2: but it's international thing, is he's flexing in this hemisphere. 384 00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:03,639 Speaker 2: He realizes that the United States being the world's biggest 385 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:09,080 Speaker 2: superpower and only superpower. But you know, we do have threats, 386 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:14,359 Speaker 2: namely China and Russia and you know, certain countries in 387 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 2: the Middle East. We need to maintain our power in 388 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:26,199 Speaker 2: the Western hemisphere. Yeah, the entire Western hemisphere going all 389 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:28,200 Speaker 2: the way down to South America. Doesn't mean we're taking 390 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 2: over countries or we're starting wars or anything like that. 391 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:36,080 Speaker 2: But the whole Gulf of America thing and possibly Greenland 392 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:42,600 Speaker 2: and trying to limit Chinese influence in the Panica Panama Canal. Yeah, 393 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:46,120 Speaker 2: that's Trump saying, hey, guys, uh, this is our hemisphere. 394 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 2: You Russians and Chinese and others, stay out this our 395 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:55,160 Speaker 2: this is our territory. Not literally. But I like that. 396 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,160 Speaker 2: I like that about President Trump. He has no qualms 397 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:02,960 Speaker 2: about that. Previous president certainly did. Number nine. He added 398 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:05,400 Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty six billion to the defense budget. 399 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 2: I'm a veteran, I'm pro national defense. I'm not exactly 400 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 2: pro increasing the government size in anything really, so I'm 401 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,879 Speaker 2: not going to say that I absolutely love this. But 402 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:21,679 Speaker 2: as Mark Theessen says, as part of his One Big, 403 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:23,840 Speaker 2: Beautiful Bill, Trump made a down payment on his second 404 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 2: Trump Defense build up, including funding for his Golden Dome 405 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:29,680 Speaker 2: Defense Shield to protect America from ballistic missile strikes. Which 406 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,080 Speaker 2: will fulfill the vision of Ronald Reagan with this strategic 407 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,160 Speaker 2: defense initiative star Wars as they called it back then. 408 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:37,960 Speaker 2: But he still needs to increase regular defense spending to 409 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:42,000 Speaker 2: deliver on his promise of peace through strength. I would 410 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:46,919 Speaker 2: be really happy if we reduced the size of the Pentagon, 411 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 2: including those at the senior levels in the Pentagon. We 412 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,680 Speaker 2: have way too many four star and three star generals 413 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,800 Speaker 2: in the Pentagon. Yeah, that's right, we need best of them. 414 00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:00,160 Speaker 2: And yeah, I'm this is one that I'm not one 415 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,680 Speaker 2: hundred percent behind. We need a strong national defense, obviously, 416 00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:08,119 Speaker 2: but the Pentagon budget is bloated. Number eight. He shut 417 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:11,760 Speaker 2: down the US Agency for International Development. Eliminating us AID 418 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 2: as an independent agency has been a Conservative goal since 419 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:17,920 Speaker 2: the nineteen nineties. Trump finally did it. While permanently abolishing 420 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,680 Speaker 2: USAID requires an Act of Congress, Trump has folded its 421 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:25,320 Speaker 2: functions into the State Department, eliminating, eliminated wasteful programs, and 422 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 2: made sure that USA decisions support US foreign policy objectives. Bravo, 423 00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:34,520 Speaker 2: thank you. Number seven. He fixed the military recruiting crisis. 424 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 2: After years suffering years of severe recruiting shortfalls under Biden, 425 00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:44,160 Speaker 2: the US Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Space Force 426 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,359 Speaker 2: all met or exceeded their twenty twenty five recruiting goals, 427 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 2: many of them months ahead of schedule. Yeah, because we 428 00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:54,840 Speaker 2: have actual tough leaders in charge the military now at 429 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 2: the very top. Number six. He has eliminated dozens of 430 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 2: suspected Venezuelan drug boats. Trump launched the largest appoyment of 431 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 2: naval assets to the Caribbean since the US invasion of Panama, 432 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:10,000 Speaker 2: and it's taking out the speedboats and submarines the narco 433 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:19,520 Speaker 2: terrorists use, again flexing our power in our hemisphere, not 434 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 2: just to make sure that entities like China and Russia 435 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:30,359 Speaker 2: and Middle Eastern powers don't start poking around over here, 436 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:36,320 Speaker 2: but narco terrorists who are literally killing Americans with their 437 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:40,880 Speaker 2: drugs are much more hesitant. Remember earlier in the show, 438 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,320 Speaker 2: we're talking about consequences for reaction is much more hesitant 439 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,000 Speaker 2: to ship their drugs here on their boats and submarines 440 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:49,800 Speaker 2: as they had been previously. Thanks to these taking out 441 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:54,320 Speaker 2: that has been occurring from our Defense Department or war department, 442 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 2: I should say now on number five, he is standing 443 00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:00,040 Speaker 2: up for the persecuted Christians in Nigeria. He warned that 444 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:02,640 Speaker 2: he would send the US military into Nigeria guns of 445 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:07,600 Speaker 2: blazon to wipe out Islamist terrorists engaged in mass killings 446 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 2: of Christians, and on Christmas Day he delivered, carrying out 447 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:16,600 Speaker 2: multiple strikes against Islamic state targets in northwestern Nigeria. You 448 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:18,800 Speaker 2: might have missed this over the break. It happened on 449 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:22,719 Speaker 2: Christmas Day. It was awesome. Number four, he forged one 450 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:27,160 Speaker 2: of the greatest peacemaking records in United States history. He 451 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:31,800 Speaker 2: made progress towards lasting peace and conflicts between India and Pakistan, 452 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:37,680 Speaker 2: Congo and Romanda, Cambodia and Thailand, Armenia and Azu by 453 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:41,400 Speaker 2: gene iw say it wrong. He also brought war between 454 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:44,360 Speaker 2: Israel and Iran to an end after twelve days and 455 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,320 Speaker 2: broke in to the deal to end the Israel Hamas 456 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:50,760 Speaker 2: War that secured the release of all remaining hostages. Who 457 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:55,240 Speaker 2: also helped avert conflicts between Kosovo and Serbia, Egypt and Ethiopia, 458 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:59,080 Speaker 2: got Kazakhstan to join the Abraham Accords. Russia's war on 459 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:03,120 Speaker 2: Ukrainians Pruis has proven more intractable. But this is an 460 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:08,400 Speaker 2: unprecedented record worthy of a Nobel Peace Prizes. He's he 461 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,520 Speaker 2: should get like five Nobel Peace Prizes for all the 462 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:13,600 Speaker 2: stuff he did. We need to take a break and 463 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:17,360 Speaker 2: we will give you the top three things President Trump 464 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:22,000 Speaker 2: did in twenty twenty five, According to Mark Teeson in 465 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,240 Speaker 2: The Washington Post, this is the Mike oh I got. 466 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:28,440 Speaker 2: This is Tony Kats Today, Old Habits die Hard. I 467 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:31,640 Speaker 2: am Mike Coolidge in for Tony, Stay with us, Welcome 468 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:36,120 Speaker 2: back Tony Cats Today. I am Mike Coolidge in for Tony. 469 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,720 Speaker 2: You have your radio on. When I ended my radio 470 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 2: show in twenty twenty one, gosh, seems so long ago now. 471 00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 2: This was the final song I played to end the show. 472 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:50,480 Speaker 2: It has a really cool ending to it. You have 473 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:54,600 Speaker 2: to look it up. It's Roadrunner is the name of 474 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:58,960 Speaker 2: the song. And man, it's such an awesome song and 475 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:05,160 Speaker 2: it just it's it just explains the love of radio. Really, 476 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:08,200 Speaker 2: it's by the modern lovers. I think it's back in 477 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,800 Speaker 2: the early seventies. It's had such a timeless sound to it. 478 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:14,360 Speaker 2: Spider Guy just driving in the middle of the night, 479 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,880 Speaker 2: listening to radio and just loving life and being connected 480 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:21,040 Speaker 2: to other people through the music on it. And awesome song. 481 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:24,640 Speaker 2: Jonathan Richmond Roadrunner. All right, we got to finish this 482 00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,240 Speaker 2: up here. As we finished this show, this first show 483 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,680 Speaker 2: of twenty twenty six, I am Mike Coolish, by the way, 484 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,560 Speaker 2: in for Tony Kats. Coolidge is spelled with a K 485 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:35,680 Speaker 2: K L I d G E followed me on X. 486 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,840 Speaker 2: I don't know when I'll be back whenever Tony takes 487 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,040 Speaker 2: another break and he asks me to fill in, I'll 488 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,280 Speaker 2: be here. I loved it. I love chatting with the Landing, 489 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,040 Speaker 2: our producer behind the glass. This has been a great time. 490 00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:50,760 Speaker 2: I'm really super excited about I You. I hope they 491 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,440 Speaker 2: win the national championship. I think it's going to be 492 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,520 Speaker 2: I You versus Oh Miss, and it's gonna be close. 493 00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:58,719 Speaker 2: But I think I was going to come out on top. 494 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:01,960 Speaker 2: And I'm on that bandwagon. I'm a Georgia fan, still 495 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 2: broken hearted over their loss to Ole Miss last night. 496 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:08,640 Speaker 2: But I'm on the Iowa, Iowa. I'm on the IU 497 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:13,600 Speaker 2: train now, all right. Top twenty things that Trump did 498 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:17,680 Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five Best things he did. We read 499 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,880 Speaker 2: seventeen of them here the final three. According to Mark 500 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,520 Speaker 2: Tisen in the Washington Post. Three, he is doing more 501 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,240 Speaker 2: to help Ukraine than Biden ever did. Trump is sending 502 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:28,560 Speaker 2: new weapons worth billions of dollars to Ukraine, paid for 503 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:33,760 Speaker 2: by European allies, not American tax payers. That is key. 504 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 2: We're not paying anymore for the billions of dollars of 505 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,680 Speaker 2: weaponry to Ukraine. I'd love to be paid back for 506 00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:43,720 Speaker 2: it by the way for a lot of that that 507 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:46,120 Speaker 2: Biden and stuff. Did I know that wasn't Trump's doing. 508 00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:48,240 Speaker 2: It was Biden's doing. But that'd be kind of nice 509 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,600 Speaker 2: if they paid us back for all that money that 510 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:54,120 Speaker 2: we taxpayers gave to U. Crain, wouldn't it. He's providing 511 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,120 Speaker 2: Ukraine with targeting intelligence for strikes deep into Russia, and 512 00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:59,960 Speaker 2: he's offering Ukraine a NATO Article five style security guarantee 513 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,520 Speaker 2: as part of a potential peace deal. I don't know. 514 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:05,960 Speaker 2: I just want that word to end. Number two, he 515 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:09,760 Speaker 2: got NATO allies to meet and raise their defense spending promises. Today, 516 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:11,840 Speaker 2: all allies are in track to spend two percent of 517 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,880 Speaker 2: GDP on defense this year, and at a triumphant NATO 518 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,240 Speaker 2: summit in the Netherlands, Trump got allies to agree to 519 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:19,960 Speaker 2: raise their spending to five percent by twenty thirty five, 520 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:24,120 Speaker 2: more than double their previous commitment. As NATO Secretary General 521 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:27,640 Speaker 2: Mark Rutt wrote to Trump, that is something no American 522 00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,720 Speaker 2: president in decades could get done. What does that mean? 523 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:35,480 Speaker 2: It means we the taxpayers aren't footing the bill anymore 524 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:42,800 Speaker 2: for Europe protecting themselves from other countries in Europe. And 525 00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:48,560 Speaker 2: Number one, he obliterated the Iran nuclear program. For presidents 526 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,640 Speaker 2: promised to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, but 527 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:56,240 Speaker 2: only Trump took decisive action to halt it. Launching Operation 528 00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,040 Speaker 2: Midnight Hammer is possibly the most important and courageous foreign 529 00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:02,520 Speaker 2: policy decision president has made in the past half century. 530 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:07,280 Speaker 2: Governor Hateen, This is an objectively stunning string of accomplishments. 531 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:10,200 Speaker 2: I cannot think of a president in my lifetime who 532 00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,600 Speaker 2: has accomplished so much in such a short period of time. 533 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:14,960 Speaker 2: And whatever one thinks of Trump's record, he needs to 534 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:19,960 Speaker 2: be judged against the alternative. Kamala Harris was the most 535 00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:24,239 Speaker 2: radical Democrat nominee in history, and the damage she would 536 00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:29,920 Speaker 2: have done as president would have been irreparable. Instead, Trump 537 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,560 Speaker 2: took the oath of office with a popular vote mandate 538 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:39,160 Speaker 2: to do everything on this list and more. Mark Tieson 539 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:42,200 Speaker 2: in the Washington Post Top twenty best things Trump did 540 00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:45,440 Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five. Also, imagine right now who the 541 00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:47,680 Speaker 2: vice president of the United States would be as Kamala 542 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:53,760 Speaker 2: Harris had won. Tim Walls one heart beat away from 543 00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:58,160 Speaker 2: the presidency. A guy who completely embellished his military record, 544 00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:01,280 Speaker 2: a guy who has been the steward of a state 545 00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:07,080 Speaker 2: with rampant fraud and government wasteful spending, abuse happening. And 546 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:11,560 Speaker 2: a guy who is a bonafide moron, and I don't 547 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:14,440 Speaker 2: use that word lightly. Someone who's not a moron is 548 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,680 Speaker 2: Tony Katz. He will be back on Monday. Could say 549 00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:19,880 Speaker 2: a lot better things about Tony kat. Tony Katz is awesome, 550 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,880 Speaker 2: his show is awesome, and I was honored and thankful 551 00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:26,320 Speaker 2: to fill in for him and welcoming back on Monday 552 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:29,800 Speaker 2: with a big round of applause. Will you happy twenty 553 00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:32,880 Speaker 2: twenty six New Year? This has been Mike Coolidge, have 554 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:33,720 Speaker 2: a great weekend.