Speaker 1: The first order of businesses to get in the Trumpet.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna even call it politics. I'm gonna call
Speaker 1: it social commentary because that's what I feel it is,
Speaker 1: and that's where I need to get started.
Speaker 2: First, the news.
Speaker 1: The tragic news out of Washington, DC, Wednesday night, the
Speaker 1: plane crash between an American Airlines commuter jet and a
Speaker 1: black Hawk helicopter. All sixty seven people aboard the American
Speaker 1: Eagle flight and Army helicopter were killed when an aircraft
Speaker 1: collided over the Potomac River. Victims on the American Airlines
Speaker 1: flight included Russian Olympic figure skaters, youth skaters, and their parents,
Speaker 1: just to name a few. The cause of the collision
Speaker 1: is unclear, and the National Transportation Safety Board is investigating. However,
Speaker 1: a preliminary report by the FAA by the FAA indicated
Speaker 1: that air traffic control staffing was quote not normal end
Speaker 1: quote at the time of the crash. Meanwhile, President Donald
Speaker 1: Trump spoke to reporters and implied that diversity, equity and
Speaker 1: inclusion in programs the EI may have been the cause
Speaker 1: of the tragedy. Here's what President Trump said before reporters
Speaker 1: at the White House yesterday.
Speaker 3: So, as you know, last week, long before the crash,
Speaker 3: I signed an executive order restoring our highest standards for
Speaker 3: air traffic controllers and other important jobs throughout the country.
Speaker 3: So it was very interesting about a week ago, almost
Speaker 3: upon entering office, I signed something last week that was
Speaker 3: an executive order, very powerful and restoring the highest standards
Speaker 3: of air traffic controllers and others. By the way, then
Speaker 3: my administration will set the highest possible bar for aviation safety.
Speaker 3: We have to have our smartest people.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what they.
Speaker 3: Look like, how they speak, who they are. It matters intellect, talent,
Speaker 3: the word talent. They have to be talented, naturally talented geniuses.
Speaker 3: You can't have regular people doing that job. They won't
Speaker 3: be able to do it, but will restore faith in
Speaker 3: American air travel. I'll have more to say about that.
Speaker 3: I do want to point out that various articles that
Speaker 3: appeared prior to my entering office, and here's one. The
Speaker 3: FAA's diversity push includes focus on hiring people with severe
Speaker 3: intellectual and psychiatric disabilities.
Speaker 4: That is amazing, And then.
Speaker 3: It says FAA says people with severe disabilities the most
Speaker 3: underrepresented segment of the workforce, and they want them in,
Speaker 3: and they want them they can be air traffic controllers.
Speaker 4: I don't think so. This was.
Speaker 3: In January fourteenth, so that was a week before I
Speaker 3: entered office. They put a big push to put diversity
Speaker 3: into the FAA's program.
Speaker 1: Now, before I get to my comments, because I got
Speaker 1: a lot to say about that we just saw, I
Speaker 1: want to play some sound from New York Senator Ruck
Speaker 1: Schumer reacting to Trump's comments.
Speaker 2: Take a listen.
Speaker 4: I just watched President Trump's news conference. Listen. It's one
Speaker 4: thing for Internet pungits to spew off conspiracy theories. It's
Speaker 4: another for the President of the United States to throw
Speaker 4: out idle speculation as bodies are still being recovered and
Speaker 4: families still being notified. It just turns your stomach.
Speaker 1: Amen, Amen, and let me stay for the record. I'm
Speaker 1: not one that usually agrees with Chuck Schumer. I don't
Speaker 1: like a lot of things he says. It does personally
Speaker 1: because I think a lot of it is pomping circumstance
Speaker 1: and not much to do about anything. Half the time,
Speaker 1: I know how knowledgeable and formidable he is and has
Speaker 1: been in the United States Center, but nevertheless, there are
Speaker 1: things that I disagree with him about this.
Speaker 2: Is not one of them.
Speaker 1: To say that President Trump was utterly irresponsible in the rhetoric.
Speaker 2: That he viewed is an understatement.
Speaker 1: You don't know if DEI had anything to do with it,
Speaker 1: He admitted he didn't know. Well, do what the hell
Speaker 1: you say it for? Watch you open your mouth. Why
Speaker 1: would you do that? Because you see the more he
Speaker 1: opens his mouth about stuff like that, and the quickness
Speaker 1: with which he's willing to throw in DEI, it's crystallizing
Speaker 1: what ultimately your gender in terms of your administration is
Speaker 1: really really all about. If you're going to go that direction,
Speaker 1: and let's understand what we're talking about and what we're
Speaker 1: listening to when we hear him spew this diversity, equity,
Speaker 1: and inclusion, regardless of the fact that when you talk
Speaker 1: about diversity usually women, primarily white women, benefit from such things,
Speaker 1: just as they had benefited from affirmative action because they
Speaker 1: were labeled a minority. We're never including them when we're
Speaker 1: talking about this stuff. When you say diversity, an inclusion,
Speaker 1: when you say DEI, you know what that means to
Speaker 1: people outside of the minority communities, unqualified minorities. It's automatically
Speaker 1: assumed that that's who you're talking about, and.
Speaker 2: Nobody wants to take into account.
Speaker 1: As I reiterated and regurgitated just the other day, how
Speaker 1: did it come about? How was affirmative action? How did
Speaker 1: affirmative action ever come about? How did stuff like the
Speaker 1: Rooney Rule ever come about? How did DEEI come about?
Speaker 1: DEI came about in the aftermath of George Floyd's murder
Speaker 1: by a police officer in Minnesota, Derek Chauvin, who kept
Speaker 1: his foot on Floyd, George Floyd's neck for more than
Speaker 1: nine minutes and twenty seconds, and the other cops right
Speaker 1: near him did nothing as this young as this man
Speaker 1: was calling for his mama and losing his breath of life,
Speaker 1: and an uproar ensued, and protest ensued, and riots ensued,
Speaker 1: and White America couldn't deny how heinous that act was.
Speaker 2: So they stood up and.
Speaker 1: They raised their hands and they said, we're listening, we
Speaker 1: want to hear you. And what they did is they
Speaker 1: engaged in overkill. Let's admit it. Let's call it what
Speaker 1: it is. We're talking business now. Overkilled ensued and what
Speaker 1: happened is you saw corporate America and beyond trying to
Speaker 1: make amends for its negligence, for its unfair its unfairness,
Speaker 1: the inequities that it had exercised.
Speaker 2: And they said, we want to make up for it.
Speaker 1: So they went in and overload, and they poured money
Speaker 1: in resources into certain things in.
Speaker 2: Some cases DEI.
Speaker 1: And what you're seeing now is the scaling back of
Speaker 1: that because the momentum is died down and you no
Speaker 1: longer have to prioritize things the way that you once did.
Speaker 2: You feel me, air and you feel me Mikey, hear
Speaker 2: what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And as a result, now you're saying, let's get back
Speaker 1: to normalcy per se. Let's not engage in overkill, let's
Speaker 1: not be a bit too excessive, let's not just throw
Speaker 1: money against the wall. Money, by the way, most folks
Speaker 1: don't have. And now you're seeing the scaling back of it.
Speaker 1: And in my opinion, and it's just an opinion, there's
Speaker 1: a justification on the part of the Trump administration to
Speaker 1: hide behind the EI to justify cuts that you know
Speaker 1: inevitably have to come in order for you to shave
Speaker 1: some of the overhead that you have to have because
Speaker 1: of the national debt and beyond, with thirty six trillion
Speaker 1: dollars in debt. You really really think that immigration it's
Speaker 1: just about people feeling safe in the streets. We've had
Speaker 1: immigrants in our country forever. Immigrants help build this country.
Speaker 1: That's why, for the most part, we've been proponents of
Speaker 1: folks coming across our borders. Just didn't want flagrantly open
Speaker 1: borders like President Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: Authenticated or okayed. But we've always had.
Speaker 1: Immigrants coming to this country, and we've always benefited from
Speaker 1: their participation in this country, in building this nation.
Speaker 2: So this is not new.
Speaker 1: What happens is you have an inordinate amount of bodies,
Speaker 1: and because you have that inordinate amount of bodies, you're saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: that has to stop because it's costing the tax.
Speaker 2: Payer billions of dollars.
Speaker 1: It's very simple when you look at it, how it's
Speaker 1: handled is where the crime kicks in. Because when you
Speaker 1: handle it the way that the Trump administration is handling it.
Speaker 1: We want the most qualified, we want the smartest, we
Speaker 1: want this, we want that. What you're really saying is
Speaker 1: we want white dominance. Again, that's what you're really saying,
Speaker 1: you want white dominant. Because if you're pointing the DEI,
Speaker 1: and that's usually pointing towards quote unquote unqualified minorities, because
Speaker 1: you're always using the word qualified, qualified, qualified, as if
Speaker 1: everybody they got a position through DEI is not qualified.
Speaker 1: We know what you're implying, we know what you're insinuating.
Speaker 1: And you got folks in the administrats, and Pete Heg says,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the nerve of him to just join
Speaker 1: into the frame and give his quote about making sure
Speaker 1: qualified people have these jobs. You're the Defense secretary whose
Speaker 1: only job prior to this was as a weekend host
Speaker 1: on Fox News. I didn't bring up personal allegations against
Speaker 1: Pete hegseth. What I said was not being qualified for
Speaker 1: Defense secretary all of a sudden going from a weekend
Speaker 1: host on cable television to overseeing the department with over
Speaker 1: three and a half million people.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying, not an accident.
Speaker 4: The nerve.
Speaker 1: Derve Hell was Taluk qualified to be president? If we
Speaker 1: want to get if we want to get down to
Speaker 1: the bare bones of it I'm talking about first go round,
Speaker 1: was he wasn't Hillary more qualified? Just qualifications. I'm not
Speaker 1: talking about who you prefer you vote for. I'm just
Speaker 1: talking qualifications. Wasn't Hillary more qualified? But you decided to
Speaker 1: go that route anyway, Right, But here we are talking qualifications,
Speaker 1: and I'm all for qualifications and having the best of
Speaker 1: the brightest, especially when it comes to.
Speaker 2: Public safety, no doubt about that.
Speaker 1: But what you had to bring up DEI for every
Speaker 1: white person was qualified.
Speaker 2: Every white person that got that job deserved that job.
Speaker 2: Every white person that wasn't high.
Speaker 1: Through DEI was exceptional and the best and the brightest.
Speaker 2: You ain't got any black.
Speaker 1: People, any Hispanic people that you want to sprinkle.
Speaker 2: Into the mix. Could you do that? Could you do that?
Speaker 1: No? You cannot, And I know why because Trump is
Speaker 1: catering to his base. See a difference between the magarite
Speaker 1: and the rest of the people who voted for Trump.
Speaker 1: And where Trump has an opportunity to really cement a
Speaker 1: legacy and to push the Republican Party forward in a
Speaker 1: positive direction is if he remembers how he got elected.
Speaker 1: Margarite is magarit. They gonna vote for him regardless.
Speaker 2: But it was those.
Speaker 1: Swing voters that couldn't convince themselves to cast at the
Speaker 1: ballot for Kamala Harris that ultimately won him the election
Speaker 1: and what has he done since, given executive orders all
Speaker 1: over the place. Just today he sat up there and
Speaker 1: talked about tariffs are coming away of Mexico and Canada
Speaker 1: this weekend. We know what other executive orders he's given
Speaker 1: as it pertains to being identified as a man or
Speaker 1: woman and know in between all.
Speaker 2: Of this stuff.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying I got a problem with some
Speaker 1: of the stuff he's did.
Speaker 2: Some I did some I did it.
Speaker 1: I ain't got time to get in all of that today.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is we got to know what he's doing.
Speaker 1: Fifty seven percent of the American population a minimum, is white.
Speaker 1: He's making sure he caters to them because somehow, some way,
Speaker 1: like Chris Rock pointed out in his stand up comedic
Speaker 1: routine on Netflix, he said white folks were trying to
Speaker 1: overthrow a government that day.
Speaker 2: Run It's what he said. But if you trump, here's
Speaker 2: the warning.
Speaker 1: I'm reading from an article by Jason Riley Jason L.
Speaker 2: Riley in the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 1: I want to read a couple of paragraphs that he
Speaker 1: wrote in this article because I want you to understand
Speaker 1: what he's saying. When I brought up the part about
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris difference between Maggie Wright and swing voters. Here's
Speaker 1: what Jason Riley said. The distinction matters. Trump loyalists don't
Speaker 1: care if the president part is January sixth protesters who
Speaker 1: assault the police officers after he condemned George Floyd protesters
Speaker 1: who assaulted police officers.
Speaker 2: It doesn't care that. It doesn't concern them that Robert F.
Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior, the President's nominee for Secretary of Health and
Speaker 1: Human Services, declared as recently as twenty twenty three that quote,
Speaker 1: there's no vaccine that's safe and effective end quote. They're
Speaker 1: not bothered that he yanked security protection for former key
Speaker 1: advisors involved in planning the lead through drone strike on
Speaker 1: Iran's leading terrorists, Cassim Solomone or Solomone, not because it's
Speaker 1: no longer needed, but because he simply doesn't like them anymore.
Speaker 1: Mister Trump can't be confident that all his supporters will
Speaker 1: ignore such rank hypocrisy, foolishness, and petty behavior.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 1: The threat to anyone involved in President Trump's strike on
Speaker 1: Solomoni is persistent.
Speaker 2: It's real.
Speaker 1: Senator Tom Cotton, Republican ad Varkasas said, chairman of the
Speaker 1: Intelligence Committee and a strong Trump. That's what he said
Speaker 1: on Fox News Sunday last weekend. More all of this,
Speaker 1: it's not just about these men who helped President Trump
Speaker 1: carry out his policy in the first term. It's about
Speaker 1: their family and friends, and it's in bystanders every time
Speaker 1: they're in public. It's also about the president being able
Speaker 1: to get good people and get good advice. He ain't listening.
Speaker 1: He appears back to his old ways. What has he learned?
Speaker 1: And so now, if you're the Democratic Party, why am
Speaker 1: I bringing this up? Because you have a perfect opportunity.
Speaker 1: Suddenly it's not about woke culture, it's not about cancel culture,
Speaker 1: it's not about proper pronouns and all of this.
Speaker 2: Now we're getting into the hearts of the real issues.
Speaker 1: My man Roland Martin was on his show just the
Speaker 1: other day talking about civil rights legislation in nineteen sixty
Speaker 1: four and how you've got folks within the Trump administration
Speaker 1: trying to roll that back sixty years of progress. That's
Speaker 1: what you have minorities in this country fearing right now.
Speaker 1: That was agenda all along, and they're pointing to these things.
Speaker 2: And it's making it and it should.
Speaker 1: Make the Democratic Party stand up and say wait a minute, now,
Speaker 1: Now these.
Speaker 2: Are issues you can fight for, because these are issues that.
Speaker 1: The American people can get behind. And what you have
Speaker 1: to do if you're a Democratic party is be centered
Speaker 1: thinking as in center left. Prioritize the economy, prioritize national security, security,
Speaker 1: prioritize foreign relations, and forget all that other stuff. We
Speaker 1: got battles in this country that we have to fight.
Speaker 1: Why am I giving this advice because some of y'all
Speaker 1: have walked around trying to castigate people like me. Non't
Speaker 1: remind you of who the hell I am. Okay, I
Speaker 1: am a registered independent. Put that damn thing up on
Speaker 1: that screen, Griff for me. Please reminding these people who
Speaker 1: the hell I am. Republican Democrat. I don't like none
Speaker 1: of your asses. I'm talking about as a party, not
Speaker 1: as individuals. I don't like every one of y'all. This
Speaker 1: two party bindary system sucks. It has contaminated our society
Speaker 1: in the United States of America. It has gotten our
Speaker 1: eyes off the ball. You know why, because you have
Speaker 1: to agree with everything. Think about that for a second.
Speaker 1: Whatever workplace you are, whatever family you have, whatever boys
Speaker 1: or ladies you hang out with, each other. Y'all agree
Speaker 1: on everything, everything, one hundred percent of line, and you're
Speaker 1: thinking about everything. Of course you're not, but our system
Speaker 1: of government will have you thinking.
Speaker 2: You have to be.
Speaker 1: All the Republicans vote with one another, all the Democrats
Speaker 1: vote with one another. Nobody has to do any freaking work.
Speaker 1: You don't even have to read the policies. All you
Speaker 1: have to do is ask your sister, how did the
Speaker 1: Republicans vote?
Speaker 2: Vote the opposite? How did the Democrats vote? Vote the opposite?
Speaker 2: That's all you have to do. That's why you.
Speaker 1: Got folks in the eighties still in office. And I'm
Speaker 1: not engaging in agism here, I'm just speaking real. The
Speaker 1: hell you doing on Capitol Hill? You really think I
Speaker 1: believe you reading four or five hundred pages a legislation?
Speaker 2: You think I believe you putting the network. But you
Speaker 2: vote anyway because you don't have to do any work.
Speaker 1: All you have to do is take the side that
Speaker 1: you're on and vote against the other side that ain't
Speaker 1: serving our country.
Speaker 2: That's why the country.
Speaker 1: Pissed off, That's why they put somebody like Trump in office,
Speaker 1: because they sick and tired of the cesspool that is
Speaker 1: our nation's capital. And if you're the Democrats, you've got
Speaker 1: an opportunity to say that, although Trump is different and
Speaker 1: he's a political the dominance with which he's governing over
Speaker 1: his first two weeks on the job is antithetical and
Speaker 1: very detrimental to us as a nation.
Speaker 2: You can say that and as a real so return
Speaker 2: to some level of normalcy. But what is that.
Speaker 1: You're the Democratic Party? Where's your voice? Who's your voice?
Speaker 1: Me calling you out about it? Has you thinking or
Speaker 1: has you acting like I'm the enemy. I'm trying to help.
Speaker 1: I don't want you to see you get your ass
Speaker 1: kicked in another election.
Speaker 2: I don't want to see you losing the mid terms.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see you lose four years from
Speaker 1: now in advance with JD. Vance or Marco Rubio or
Speaker 1: somebody being the next president of the United States just
Speaker 1: because they're opposite you. I want the best candidate for
Speaker 1: the country to win. That cannot happen. That can't happen
Speaker 1: if you have no voice and you have no.
Speaker 2: Face for your party. I doubt I'll ever run. It's
Speaker 2: not me.
Speaker 1: I live a pretty good life and I don't want
Speaker 1: to ruin it by getting involved in politics. But I
Speaker 1: gotta tell y'all something. The Democratic Party looks so pathetic
Speaker 1: after this election.
Speaker 2: I might entertain running. I just might change my mind
Speaker 2: one day. I don't I doubt it, but I might
Speaker 2: because how much would it take to beat y'all? And
Speaker 2: Trump can't run again?
Speaker 1: He's done, regardless of what some representatives want, a third
Speaker 1: term for him, kissing his ass at every turn?
Speaker 2: Will you do your job? Please do your job.
Speaker 1: Keep been back in the office for two weeks, and
Speaker 1: you got one representative caller for him to get a
Speaker 1: third term, and you got another representative talking about.
Speaker 2: Him being put on Mount Rushmore. Will you do your
Speaker 2: damn job? Is that too hard? Just do your job.
Speaker 2: Look at our country, look at.
Speaker 1: The state that's in Understand what policies may work and
Speaker 1: what might not work, what's to the best.
Speaker 2: Interest or what's to the detriment the country? And make
Speaker 2: that damn decision. Is it really that hard?
Speaker 1: Do you have to get on your knees and kiss
Speaker 1: his ass at every turn? Did you see the crash?
Speaker 1: After that happened and Trump handed it over to one
Speaker 1: of the aviation executives, I forget his name or its
Speaker 1: title for the moment, don't matter every other word he
Speaker 1: was saying, I want to thank Donald Trump. I want
Speaker 1: to thank Donald Trump. I want to thank Don Trump.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your Lisia. Shut the hell up and
Speaker 1: do your job. How much ass kissing must y'all do
Speaker 1: before your breath starts smelling like shit?
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, it's ridiculous. Just do your job.
Speaker 2: Do your job. If you Trump, that means you too.
Speaker 1: Swing voters got you elected, my man, and they got
Speaker 1: you elected because they couldn't vote for Kamala Harris. But
Speaker 1: you promised them to address inflation. You promise them to
Speaker 1: address our borders, promise them to address national security. You
Speaker 1: promise the thriving economy, you promise.
Speaker 2: The peace in the streets.
Speaker 1: If your actions are to lean on DEI every chance
Speaker 1: you get to point out some supposed discrepancy between white
Speaker 1: individuals and minorities who got jobs as it pertains to
Speaker 1: their qualifications and their intellect and their resume and their accomplishments.
Speaker 1: You don't think that's gonna compromise peace. You don't think
Speaker 1: that's gonna create chaos. Be careful, mister Trump. Be careful,
Speaker 1: President Trump, Be careful. Society is only as strong as
Speaker 1: its weak, as links. You alienate folks, there's a price
Speaker 1: that's gonna be paid for that, and it's going to
Speaker 1: be the compromising and the eradication of peace and tranquility.
Speaker 2: Enough people from all different facets.
Speaker 1: Of this country voted for you because they believed that
Speaker 1: you were going to do a better job at galvanizing
Speaker 1: our nation than the left ever. Could you owe it
Speaker 1: to all of us to do that, not to alienate
Speaker 1: us because you're trying to roll back stuff from sixty
Speaker 1: civil rights legislation from sixty years that was black folks,
Speaker 1: that was minority folks access to capital. That is what
Speaker 1: civil rights legislation did for us, amongst many other things.
Speaker 2: To attack that in any way, it's sacrilegious.
Speaker 1: And if you're the left, you remember what the hell
Speaker 1: I said and you pounced on it like a bunch
Speaker 1: of piranhas. Hispanics in this country make up more than
Speaker 1: seventeen eighteen percent of the population. Black folks make up
Speaker 1: thirteen to fourteen percent of the population, and the Hispanic
Speaker 1: populace is growing.
Speaker 2: If you lost them, get them back.
Speaker 1: Know what Cubans, Dominicans, Venezuela is, Guatemalians and Mexicans, Puerto Ricans.
Speaker 2: And blacks.
Speaker 1: No what they mean in this country and what they
Speaker 1: bring to this country, and remind folks of that instead
Speaker 1: of getting caught up in your frivolous stuff on the
Speaker 1: extreme left that compromised your power in the nation's capital.
Speaker 1: Get it together. I'm sick of tired of people listening
Speaker 1: to me and talking to me, and by the way,
Speaker 1: that includes people that work for me. So I'm sick
Speaker 1: of tired everybody acting like I'm somebody that's some right winger.
Speaker 1: I have conservative views. I have liberal views. Trust me,
Speaker 1: I have plenty of liberal views. But that don't mean
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna call it like I see it. I've
Speaker 1: been doing that for my entire career, and damn it,
Speaker 1: I ain't stopping. Ladies and gentlemen. I'm in the best
Speaker 1: health I've been in in twenty five years. If you
Speaker 1: thought I wasn't going away before, you have no idea
Speaker 1: how the hell I'm not going away now. I'm just
Speaker 1: getting started. Mister Trump. President Trump, I'm sorry. I don't
Speaker 1: like what I'm seeing. In some cases, bruh, I don't
Speaker 1: like what I'm seeing. Democrats pounce on him. If you don't,
Speaker 1: I'll find somebody who will, or I'll do it my
Speaker 1: damn self. I'm gonna give President Trump all the credit
Speaker 1: in the world when he deserves it, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: call him out when he deserves it too. How I
Speaker 1: was going down on this show, Get used to it,
Speaker 1: because I'm coming