Speaker 1: Here's the deal.
Speaker 2: The man was impeached twice, he was convicted on thirty
Speaker 2: four felony camps and the American people still said he's
Speaker 2: closer to the normal than what we see exactly.
Speaker 1: That's what they're saying. He's close to the normal.
Speaker 2: Why because something that pertains when you talk about the
Speaker 2: transgender for community, for example, and you're talking about the
Speaker 2: issues that pertain the less than one percent of the population.
Speaker 2: The Democratic Party came, of course, as if that was
Speaker 2: a priority more so than the other issues. And so
Speaker 2: he comes to the office. Now you're talking about child
Speaker 2: you know, you know, childbirth, citizenship and what have you.
Speaker 2: He knows that's not going to pass the mustard, but
Speaker 2: he knows that he made that promise.
Speaker 1: So when he shows up week one on.
Speaker 2: Capitol Hill and he says, this is what we're going
Speaker 2: to do through the executive order, even though it's going
Speaker 2: to be shot down through the courts and what have you,
Speaker 2: he's saying, I kept my promise.
Speaker 1: A lot of other things that he's going to point
Speaker 1: to that he's going to try to do, I kept
Speaker 1: my promise.
Speaker 2: Then you turn around and you look at the left
Speaker 2: and you say, what promises did you keep? That was
Speaker 2: a clip from my appearance this past Friday on Real
Speaker 2: Time with Bill Maher on HBO. And that's a perfect
Speaker 2: spot to begin a look at some quick hitters from
Speaker 2: Donald Trump's first.
Speaker 1: Full week in office.
Speaker 3: We'll start with Columbia.
Speaker 2: Did y'all see what happened with the White House and
Speaker 2: Columbia this weekend?
Speaker 1: Holding true to his.
Speaker 2: Campaign promise, the President began deporting migrants on military planes
Speaker 2: out of the country. Well On Sunday, Colombian President Gustavo
Speaker 2: Petro blocked those US military flights from landing in his country.
Speaker 2: According to CNN, President Gustavo previously approved the flights into Colombia,
Speaker 2: but revoked the authorization once the flights were en route.
Speaker 1: Petro accused the.
Speaker 2: United States of treating Colombian migrants like criminals, and that
Speaker 2: prompted action from the White House. Trump then ordered steep
Speaker 2: tariffs on all Colombian imports, a travel band for Columbian citizens.
Speaker 2: He called to revoke the visas for Columbian officials in
Speaker 2: the United States and called to suspend visa processing for
Speaker 2: both immigrant and non immigrant visas. Hours later, the White
Speaker 2: House said Columbia had agreed to a deal to accept
Speaker 2: migrant flights, including those on military aircrafts.
Speaker 1: The White House also said.
Speaker 2: That tariffs would be held off pending its implementation of
Speaker 2: the deal.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, if.
Speaker 2: You're a United States citizen, tell me how you'd have
Speaker 2: a problem with this. Tell me how you have a
Speaker 2: problem with it. You have a problem with Trump, You
Speaker 2: have a problem with politicians. You have a problem with
Speaker 2: their segrogates. You can have a problem with just the
Speaker 2: visual of what you see because you see so many
Speaker 2: people clamoring for times of old. You have problems, But
Speaker 2: you can't have a problem with this in its literal sense.
Speaker 2: What's going to be your problem? So you have immigrants
Speaker 2: that are coming over our borders illegally. The President Donald Trump,
Speaker 2: after watching nearly fourteen million people across.
Speaker 1: Our borders illegally over the last four years, said nah,
Speaker 1: we ain't having that.
Speaker 3: And some of y'all you going back, You're going back.
Speaker 2: And when the Columbian president said, hell no, we ain't
Speaker 2: gone for this, similar to what Canada indicated, similar to
Speaker 2: what Mexico had indicated prior to Trump taking office, the
Speaker 2: Columbia president tried to take that position and then the
Speaker 2: next thing, you know, Trump threatened twenty five percent tariffs.
Speaker 2: So in the end, it's not just about the migrant pride.
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about that for this particular story. I'm
Speaker 2: sitting there talking about don't you feel good if the
Speaker 2: president of the United States?
Speaker 1: Because we're supposed to be a superpower.
Speaker 2: Right, We're supposed to be the richest nation of the world. Right,
Speaker 2: we're supposed to have all of this influence. We're supposed
Speaker 2: to have tentacles everywhere, We're supposed to be able to
Speaker 2: get things done. Right, don't you like seeing somebody ultimately
Speaker 2: acquiescing to our wishes instead of it.
Speaker 1: Being the other way around.
Speaker 3: Again, We'll learn more as we go along.
Speaker 2: I'm quite sure there's plenty of things Trump is going
Speaker 2: to do that we don't like.
Speaker 1: I'm about to.
Speaker 2: Get into a couple of things that I don't.
Speaker 1: Like right now. But that particular.
Speaker 3: Story, I must admit it tickled me. I gotta admit it.
Speaker 2: In other words, and then I loved the I love
Speaker 2: the whole visual of the story. It wasn't in the
Speaker 2: White House, they said the White House Administration. That's what
Speaker 2: I just read to you, But they didn't tell you
Speaker 2: that Trump was on the golf course, and while he
Speaker 2: was on the golf course, he heard about the position
Speaker 2: of the Columbian president and they handed him the fall
Speaker 2: while he was on the golf course, and a couple
Speaker 2: of hours later he changed his mind. You gotta like
Speaker 2: stuff getting done. We've got to be to that point
Speaker 2: right now. Desperate times called for desperate measures. Let's not
Speaker 2: acting like the immigration process. It's just about folks coming
Speaker 2: over our borders illegally.
Speaker 1: It's about the.
Speaker 2: Fact that somehow, some way, they've got to be taken
Speaker 2: care of. It cost to feed folks, it costs to
Speaker 2: house folks, It cost to make sure clothes on people's back,
Speaker 2: It cost to take care of them, and that was
Speaker 2: coming from the taxpayer's money. That's why you got people
Speaker 2: in an uproar. It ain't just that folks are in
Speaker 2: this country. It's that it's costing American taxpayers.
Speaker 1: They're dollars. That's the issue.
Speaker 2: And when we absorb it from that perspective, understanding it
Speaker 2: from that premise, then all of a sudden, we got
Speaker 2: to if we don't have it already, we've got to
Speaker 2: develop an open mind about what exactly is gonna work
Speaker 2: and what's not gonna work to the benefit of our country.
Speaker 2: Why you think you see people complaining about the war
Speaker 2: between Ukraine and Russia. You know why, because American taxpayer
Speaker 2: dollars have gone towards supporting Ukraine. These are the kind
Speaker 2: of things that provoke emotion from American citizens, particularly in
Speaker 2: this day and age, because there's a whole bunch of
Speaker 2: people suffering right now, and it ain't just one demographic,
Speaker 2: it's a whole bunch of people. We gotta pay attention
Speaker 2: to this stuff. I gotta admit I looked at the story,
Speaker 2: and when I heard the Columbian president changed this mond,
Speaker 2: I kind of chuckled. Yeah, when you're the United States
Speaker 2: of America, that's the kind of effect you're supposed to
Speaker 2: have if you are indeed a superpower.
Speaker 1: Just a thought. Let me get to my next subject.
Speaker 2: That's Pete Hegseth, the new Secretary of Defense for the
Speaker 2: United States of America. Heg Seth was confirmed in the
Speaker 2: vote mostly along party lines, with fifty one senators voting
Speaker 2: in favor of him and fifty against. Three Republicans, including
Speaker 2: Mitchell McConnell, broke with the party to oppose the HeiG
Speaker 2: Seth nomination that forced Vice President JD. Vance to cast
Speaker 2: the tie breaking vote. Hegseth was sworn in on Saturday
Speaker 2: to lead the Department of Defense despite a myriad of
Speaker 2: allegations against them that included sexual misconduct, public intoxication, and
Speaker 2: financial mismanagement. A couple of things to get out the way. First,
Speaker 2: financial mismanagement. Okay, sexual misconduct. We've heard those allegations before,
Speaker 2: and we know who we've heard them about. That would
Speaker 2: involve the now President of the United States of America,
Speaker 2: the forty seventh President of the United States of America,
Speaker 2: mister Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: So clearly the standards have been lowered. The standards have
Speaker 1: been lowered.
Speaker 2: Because obviously, if he's in office, and now hag Seth
Speaker 2: is in office, it's not something that a vast majority
Speaker 2: of American citizens, particularly those who voted for Republican care
Speaker 2: to discuss or even think about.
Speaker 1: They're beyond that.
Speaker 2: Now, a lot of you are gonna be out there
Speaker 2: and you're gonna be, you know, lamenting the fact that
Speaker 2: they didn't care.
Speaker 1: But that's how it goes because you see.
Speaker 2: All of this kind of stuff has been going on
Speaker 2: in politics for quite some time, you know it. Bill
Speaker 2: Clinton he was accused of some things. Liberals didn't care. Okay,
Speaker 2: all of us cared during the primaries and stuff like
Speaker 2: that when it happened to Gary Hart, former presidential candidate,
Speaker 2: or John Edwards, former presidential candidate. On both sides of
Speaker 2: the hour, we've seen this kind of stuff all the time.
Speaker 2: If you think people are going to care to the
Speaker 2: point where it's going to dissuade them from voting from
Speaker 2: their candidate in a buying earvery system where you got
Speaker 2: to choose between one and the other, it's.
Speaker 1: Not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Which brings me again to the Democrats on Capitol Hill
Speaker 2: during the whole confirmation hearing. If you're Tim Kane or
Speaker 2: anybody else, what were you focused on? If you Adam
Speaker 2: shift to somebody else, what were you really really focused on?
Speaker 2: You just look at some of these things in some
Speaker 2: of the fights that you're willing to fight, and you're
Speaker 2: just wondering how tone deaf can you be? Because it's
Speaker 2: not like it's the campaign trail anymore. The president is
Speaker 2: in office. His selection for Secretary of Defense is Pete hegsaid.
Speaker 2: If you don't want to, if you don't want him
Speaker 2: in there, if you don't want.
Speaker 1: Him to get confirmed. You know what you do?
Speaker 2: How about attacking his resume, because there's no one who
Speaker 2: can refute that his resume is worth attacking. I am
Speaker 2: quite sure that he has served this country honorably. You
Speaker 2: saw soldiers and other military officials and attendance endorsing his confirmation.
Speaker 2: Obviously as a soldier who served in Afghanistan, if I
Speaker 2: remember correctly, along with other places, and it served honorably.
Speaker 2: His service to our country cannot be denied. So we
Speaker 2: ain't going there. I'm just talking about his resume, the
Speaker 2: ability to be a leader of over three and a
Speaker 2: half million people in a defense department, this national defense.
Speaker 2: And his brother's resume involves him being a host on
Speaker 2: Fox News, by the way, over the weekend, not even
Speaker 2: during the weekday.
Speaker 3: I'm on TV more than him.
Speaker 2: But somehow, some way, that qualified him in Trump's eyes
Speaker 2: to be the Secretary of Defense, because of his military background,
Speaker 2: because of the fact that he's obviously a patriot in
Speaker 2: their eyes, should be in all of our eyes, because
Speaker 2: he has served our country. We should feel that way
Speaker 2: about any of our soldiers who serve honorably.
Speaker 1: By the way, you.
Speaker 2: Could bind all of that with the fact that he's
Speaker 2: loyal to Trump, and he spoke out against a lot
Speaker 2: of what his predecessor, Lloyd Austin and others were doing
Speaker 2: with the Defense Department over the last four years.
Speaker 1: You could see.
Speaker 2: What Trump's agenda is. My position is, Look, y'all, it
Speaker 2: is what it is. Look at his resume. If you
Speaker 2: attack this resume, there's nothing anybody could say, because all
Speaker 2: you're saying to him is that, excuse me. If you
Speaker 2: were the president of the United States, would you pick
Speaker 2: you to be the Secretary of Defense? If your previous
Speaker 2: job was hosting the show on the weekends on Fox
Speaker 2: News and you had never led a department, let alone
Speaker 2: one with three and a half million people answering.
Speaker 1: To you, that should have been the focus.
Speaker 2: It wasn't, because you had liberals on Capitol Hill that
Speaker 2: wanted to bring up financial mismanagement, public intoxication, and allegations
Speaker 2: of sexual misconduct. When his boss has the history or
Speaker 2: the documented history that's been on the books for years,
Speaker 2: and you actually thought that was gonna work. It's almost
Speaker 2: like you never learned, y'all, never learned. Let me move
Speaker 2: on something more important than me anyway. The Duskegee Airmen.
Speaker 2: For those of you who don't know, the Duskegee Airmen
Speaker 2: are the four hundred and fifty black pilots who fought
Speaker 2: overseas and.
Speaker 1: Segregated units during World War Two.
Speaker 2: This success in combat helped pave the way for President
Speaker 2: Harry Truman's decision to desegregate the armed forces in nineteen
Speaker 2: forty eight.
Speaker 1: So why are we bringing this.
Speaker 2: Up Because President Trump's ban on diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Speaker 2: DEI initiatives nearly erased their story from being taught to
Speaker 2: new trainees in the military. On Saturday, royd Is reported
Speaker 2: that a video about the Duskegee Airmen, as well as
Speaker 2: civilian female pilots trained by the United States military during
Speaker 2: World War Two, we're no longer being taught and basic
Speaker 2: training at joint based San Antonio Lachland, pending a review.
Speaker 1: Well. On Saturday, the Air Force said.
Speaker 2: The training videos passed the review to ensure compliance with
Speaker 2: President Trump's.
Speaker 1: Ban on DEI initiative.
Speaker 2: Really, ladies and gentlemen, remember one of the United States
Speaker 2: Supreme Court issued the decision outlaw and affirmative action and
Speaker 2: college admissions.
Speaker 1: Remember that you remember how conservative activists used.
Speaker 2: The courts and social media, the target workplace programs.
Speaker 1: Prior to the election. Remember all of that. Pay attention
Speaker 1: to what's going on.
Speaker 2: Remember when Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, brought up
Speaker 2: and challenged that they were actually good things about slavery,
Speaker 2: and someone to write echoed those sentiments. Remember all of that.
Speaker 2: Why are all of those things relatable? It's a concerted
Speaker 2: effort to shove aside history. Even Trump didn't do that
Speaker 2: in his first term, if I remember correctly, he honored
Speaker 2: at least one member, one living member.
Speaker 1: From Tuskegee. This is what he did.
Speaker 2: But suddenly he's in office again, and now he's saying,
Speaker 2: all right, let's eradicate DEI programs all over the.
Speaker 3: Place, and let's not try to teach history.
Speaker 1: Why is that?
Speaker 2: We all know when all of this came about, particularly
Speaker 2: with DEI, much of corporate America endorsed a lot of it.
Speaker 2: Following the protest to the company the Minneapolis police killing
Speaker 2: of George Floyd in twenty twenty. So you remember at
Speaker 2: that time when people were protesting, there were riots in
Speaker 2: the streets that would protest all over the place.
Speaker 1: People will lock at arms, and white Americas stand up.
Speaker 1: We want to hear you.
Speaker 2: We want to listen to you, we want to be
Speaker 2: sensitive to because there's a level of sensitivity that we lacked,
Speaker 2: and it was an opportunity for all of us used
Speaker 2: to come together.
Speaker 1: But somehow, some way, they put in DEI programs.
Speaker 2: And although you had several people who were benefiting more
Speaker 2: from DEI programs or initiatives rather than Black people, primarily
Speaker 2: white women as well, just like they primarily benefited from
Speaker 2: Affirmative Action, it was black folks that everybody's talking to.
Speaker 2: You must have this job because of DEI. You must
Speaker 2: have this job because you're not qualified. You must have
Speaker 2: this job because you're being assisted, you're giving a one up.
Speaker 2: That's why you have people who want the eradication of
Speaker 2: affirmative action, even from the black community. You have people
Speaker 2: who feel that way about DEI as well, because we
Speaker 2: know how competent and how qualified we truly, truly are.
Speaker 2: We don't want that being in question just because.
Speaker 1: Of programs like that.
Speaker 3: My response to all of that would be fine.
Speaker 1: If that's how you feel.
Speaker 2: Let's just not forget what provoked its implementation to begin with.
Speaker 1: Folks didn't have to fight for civil rights.
Speaker 3: It would never have been the need for affirmative action.
Speaker 2: They didn't have to fight for equality. It would have
Speaker 2: never been the need for affirmative action in the NFL.
Speaker 2: It would have never been a need for the Rooney rule.
Speaker 2: If black folks were treated like their white counterparts in
Speaker 2: the coaching profession of the National Football League. DEI programs
Speaker 2: wouldn't have been necessary. If there wasn't a discrepancy between
Speaker 2: the black workforce and a white workforce in terms of positions,
Speaker 2: particularly loftier positions within corporate America, it.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't have been necessary.
Speaker 1: But we want to forget that, we.
Speaker 2: Want to erase that, and Trump, as much as you
Speaker 2: might be turned off by this, is fulfilling the campaign
Speaker 2: promise because there are constituents out there, a lot of
Speaker 2: whom not all, but a lot of whom happened to
Speaker 2: be white, that are looking at these programs and they're saying,
Speaker 2: that's the latest example of how we're.
Speaker 3: Being minimized and pigeonhole and ostracized.
Speaker 2: Remember one Chris Rock joked about the insurrection in January sixth,
Speaker 2: and he said, you had a bunch of white folks
Speaker 2: out there trying to overthrow a government that day. Run
Speaker 2: and everybody laughed about it. But then it makes sense,
Speaker 2: Show system, show country. You're still a vast majority in
Speaker 2: this country, the United States of America, even at fifty seven,
Speaker 2: at fifty seven and a half percent, you're still the
Speaker 2: majority in this country. But somehow, some way, if you're white,
Speaker 2: you're feeling like things are being taken from you. And
Speaker 2: instead of us as black folks, making that case and saying, no,
Speaker 2: that's not necessarily true or this is why it was necessary,
Speaker 2: instead you had the attitude, hell, would y'all good for you?
Speaker 2: And so white folks responded, but not just white folks,
Speaker 2: others too, responded by saying there needs to be a change.
Speaker 2: That's why Trump can do this. That's why he can
Speaker 2: get away with doing this. That's why we can't say
Speaker 2: a damn thing about it, because while folks are trying
Speaker 2: to find their way again, some of us lost ours,
Speaker 2: especially on the left. This might be foreign y'all as
Speaker 2: you sit here watching me speak about black.
Speaker 1: And white, well, guess what.
Speaker 3: That's better than having to talk about he or she.
Speaker 1: Or they? Notice the difference.
Speaker 2: One effects one subject affects the dominant majority in this country.
Speaker 2: Compared to thirteen nearly fourteen percent of the population. The
Speaker 2: other involved less than one percent of the population.
Speaker 1: But who was the left focused on.
Speaker 3: Then you wonder why Trump can get away with this.
Speaker 1: He can because we lost our way.
Speaker 2: And he's looking like he's somebody that's found a way
Speaker 2: back for a vast majority of American citizens.
Speaker 1: I don't feel that way.
Speaker 2: I'm saying his voters do, and they're speaking louder than
Speaker 2: anybody right now, and there's nearly a damn thing anybody
Speaker 2: can do about it. Live with that, Yes, Left, I'm
Speaker 2: talking to you.
Speaker 1: Live with it.