5.14.2025 -- NLS -- Trump, Qatar, Biden & The Power Game

On this episode with Neal and Julie, the conversation centers around Donald Trump’s recent pardon and potential reinstatement efforts, exploring how the media has shifted its narrative and how political power dynamics continue to shape public perception. Neal highlights the long history of Democratic strategies, tracing back to Barack Obama's rise and Joe Biden's eventual candidacy, pointing out how media and party interests often overlap.

The show dives into concerns over Biden’s cognitive decline, contrasting media coverage of Trump and Biden, and critiquing the selective outrage over alleged scandals. A major focus is on the controversy surrounding Qatar's offer of a plane to the United States and whether Trump should accept it. Neal and Julie debate the implications of the Emoluments Clause, public perception, and how the gift would be used—whether for official government purposes or eventually tied to Trump's library foundation.

Listeners are invited to weigh in on whether accepting the plane is appropriate, with Neal drawing parallels to historical diplomatic gifts like the Statue of Liberty. The episode also touches on Trump's unique political resilience, his unmatched ability to read opponents, and how the Republican bench might struggle to replicate his style and impact.

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Transcript

Good morning. The Wednesday, it's a Wednesday on Newstalk 179. Welcome to the Neil Larson Show. I have no idea why that just happened, but we're going to proceed without morning show bumper music. But that's okay. There's plenty to, to talk about. That was a tech issue. I touched nothing, by the way. That was not user error. That was a separate issue.

But we do have a lot to talk about today because, do you ever have a moment where you're wondering, okay, that Mandela Effect thing is, is real, and I have no memory. I was telling Julie this a few minutes ago, I have zero memory of Pete Rose dying last September. I'm like, okay, I and I saw the story about Trump doing the pardon and now the reinstatement.

And now he can be in the Hall of Fame, which is sadly, it's it's too late for him to enjoy. But I think ultimately the right thing to do. And, but I thought I didn't actually. I have no memory of Pete Rose passing away, and I'm not sure, but, certainly last September in 2024, he did.

And, this is the right, the the right thing for him. So, we have that happening. We also have President Trump continuing in the Middle East. What appears to be a very historic, trip. And I believe he's going to come home with a massive, massive victory in terms of securing economic deals. And I will tell you, I had to snooze, friend on social media yesterday.

There Democrat, they share lots of Democrat stuff. And I just, for me, it wasn't so much irritation as it was sadness. Sadness for them that they are in the state, that they are sharing every little shred of an anti Trump orange man bad propaganda that they can find. And I'm just like, I don't really want this taking up my bandwidth anymore because there's no truth to it.

You read through it. In this particular case, it was an account called Occupy Democrats. And I'm like, why? Why are you sending this stuff? The Democrats are in complete and utter disarray, and I have multiple, examples for you. Today you have Jake Tapper, which I don't quite understand exactly how Jake Tapper does what Jake Tapper does.

I mean, he's a media guy. I get the idea of communicating. But in terms of his mental gymnastics, where he's sometimes I'm Jake Tapper, straight down the middle newsman, and then other times he is political partizan hack. And you've got to decide what you're going to be. You really do. You've got to to decide what what you are.

I think he would always say he's a fair, unbiased journalist, but his actions would say otherwise about 70% of the time. But Katie Pavelich, I believe this is, her she summed it up very, very succinctly. Listen, they wanted Joe Biden to stay in office because he was an empty vessel. They were allowed to push through whatever they want.

And we still have no answers about who was actually making these decisions. We don't even have a lot of information. Still, on the day that he dropped out and posted his resignation letter for the campaign on Twitter, we don't have very much information about that. So this is about a lack of trust. And for Jake Tapper to come out now and say, oh, well, the white House was lying.

Well, so were you. And CNN covered a presidential election, and you don't think that it was pertinent to the American people and important for them to know about all of these details now all of the sudden that these are anonymous sources and people are willing to talk about it. They want a pat on the back for saying what was obvious.

We have more details now, but this is happening. And for now, for them to say the doctor was recommending there may need to be a wheelchair for the second term. Let's not forget they never made the white House doctor available for questioning. Not a single time. Do you think there will be a congressional hearing? I do think there will be.

Yes. Well, okay. As as there should be. And, there, there probably will be, but we could go through, you know, this sort of reminds me about being able to not govern someone else's level of enthusiasm. And obviously, the Supreme Court cannot govern Donald Trump's level of enthusiasm when it comes to facilitating the return of a breakup.

Garcia, we've we've certainly talked about that. And by the same token, I and you cannot govern the level of enthusiasm the media should have been investigating the cognitive state of Joe Biden. I'm going to tell you something I knew day one of Joe Biden's presidency. There were problems. We saw this leading up. You might remember. And I don't mean to make you all twitchy, but I'm going to go back to Donald Trump's last year as president, the Covid year 2020.

And, sorry, I'm getting twitchy now. We went through so much that year, so incredibly much. But it was it wasn't all bad. In fact, we're now less than a month away from Newstalk 179 being five years old. And, we'll be talking about that, by the way, in the coming weeks, we're very excited to reach this five year milestone.

We launched on June 8th of 2020, and, we're now coming up on June of 2025. So we're excited here. And we feel like we've, we've accomplished a lot. And there's so much more to accomplish. But, but we love that. But that year was obviously a crazy year for every last one of us. Our jobs, may have been affected.

The economy was affected, health was affected, our circles of friends were impacted. The amount of, power that government has and our relationship with the government, it it changed in very, very dramatic ways. It was big. It wasn't just sort of a thing we went to. And then we snapped back to normal. I think it's kind of changed us permanently and created a new normal kind of environment.

But I remember the, the media, as did Joe Biden, campaigned from his basement and called a lid on his campaign. There was a realization, and I think if you were to ask me, when was the first edge, that first little glimmer, a glimpse into Joe Biden's struggling? I don't know if I could tell you the exact moment, because if you remember, you had, Barack Obama was the president, Joe Biden was his vice.

But Hillary Clinton, as a deal to her, you might remember 2016 and all of the drama surrounding that presidential race where Bernie was gaining steam and momentum and that couldn't stand. So they changed the rules about the superdelegates, and they basically booted Bernie, like they kind of booted Biden, and Bernie got booted and, Hillary came in and, kind of kept the nomination from the traditional process.

And then she lost disastrously. But that actually stems from 2008. If you want to go back to that drama where a deal was made and Barack Obama was the thing, and it was actually a really good chess move for the Democrats to put Barack Obama in place because he was young, he was articulate, he was handsome, and he went on to become a two term president for the Democrats, did lots and lots of, damage that the Democrats think is progress and accomplishment.

And, but as a favor, back to Hillary Clinton, she got to be the nominee in 2016. And furthermore, she got to be secretary of state, during the Obama years. So, this stretches back the strings of events, the domino that fall over the years in history are kind of interesting to reverse engineer about how we got to the point where Joe Biden was even a candidate in 2020.

If if there was a natural course of things, he probably should have been the candidate in 2016. But that wasn't going to happen. However, I think I may have started thinking something's wrong with Joe. Not long after he stopped being vice president, you saw the verbal lapses and little, little signs. Nothing terrible, you know, like it was just like, oh, he's just getting older.

Little memory lapses. But by the time we got to 2018, 2019 and Joe was reemerging on the national stage, I thought, something is very, very wrong here. And there was a there was not a single day of his presidency that I felt like we have a fully cogent president of the United States. It became one of the most burdensome things for not just me, but I, I actually think for the country.

And I think you had people on the left willing to bury it where it built, willing to deny it, willing to cover it up. Because and this is very important, the because is very, very important here. Political power means that much to them. That is how high and addicted they are on political power that they will toss an old codger that is dementia ridden into the position, knowing they can control him and get outcomes that they want.

And he got a lot in return. And everybody pretended and everybody gaslit and where. And now what's interesting is this has been incredibly costly for the Democrat Party. It's like in an adjustable rate mortgage with a nice teaser interest rate. They got into it thinking, okay, we get the presidency in 2020. They didn't think about the costs that were they were going to incur down the road.

They didn't want to. But you always in life have to pay the piper. It those debts that you're incurring ultimately get paid one way or another. And right now when I say the media and the Democrats linguistically, that sounds like I'm talking about two different entities, and conceptually it feels like a couple of different entities. But in reality, they're all one thing.

They operate largely in unison. At times they might appear to be at odds, but quite often that simply political theater for the most part, and for the thrust of what American progressives are about the media, the mainstream media and the Democrat Party are essentially part of the same entity. And the piper's getting paid. Now, the American public has a lower opinion of people like Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, and certainly Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and all the rest of that.

We're done with them. They talk about they throw this garbage out like, Donald Trump, the worst, lowest, least popular president in the who what are you smoking? First of all, a weekly poll result from maybe one poll does not translate into the least popular in history, but that's what they do. This is the game that they play.

It's the semantic game that they play. So they have a talking point to try and distract you from what we all see, which is they've been lying to us for years. They have been disrespecting the American population for years. We talked earlier about how the press is really the only industry that is mentioned and protected in the Constitution, right there in the Bill of rights, there's an industry mention, and they are given protection.

Maybe there's others I don't know, but but that one is protected as a core to the integrity of our republic. That's and it's in the first Amendment. It's one of the first things they made sure was included after signing the Constitution was that the press would be protect, did to report they would be free from government pressures and inner interference because our founders wanted that transparency.

They wanted that scrutiny on the way government works. But we reached a point and manifested no more plain during the Biden administration than at any other time in history that that relationship has been compromised. But now the papers are getting paid and CNN's ratings are in the tank. MSNBC may not even survive there. It's been rumored that they're going to be on the either the chopping block or the selling block.

You you have the attitude and the opinion of the mainstream media at the lowest point in history, and it has been sustained now for quite some time. And I think in part because of and maybe it's a microcosm, maybe it's just one example that is emblematic of other things and, and malfeasance that they commit. But this issue with Joe Biden and the cover up of his cognitive collapse and pretending like everything was okay because they love political power that much.

But and this is will be my final point. If they were willing to do that and they were. And now you have books being written about it by people like Jake Tapper, that this is just another chapter in the cover up. This is Jake Tapper pretending he didn't participate when he did. He I've got the audio. He characterized Joe Biden's problems as a stutter.

That's the category. That's the box that Jake Tapper put what we were saying with Joe Biden into that. It was a stutter. Yeah, I know I'm thinking of Stanley from the office, but did I stutter? He that's what that's how Jake Tapper characterized it. And then there's that old buffoon over on MSNBC, Joe Scarborough, that said, roll the tape.

And if you if you don't believe me, this is the best Biden. We all saw it. We all knew it wasn't true. But yet now you have these people trying to not want to go down with that Titanic. And they're writing books about it, exposes and tells, but they're not absorbing the personal responsibility that they should if they truly had integrity.

There's no I was I had my part in it and I'm sorry I got carried away. Oh, no, they're acting like they weren't even a part of it. Which just makes that the next chapter in it. They're still covering up, they're still gaslighting. And if they were willing to do that about an American presidency, do you honestly believe they told you the truth about Covid?

Do you honestly believe they've told you the truth about January 6th? Do you? Jenna, you only believe them when they told you about Donald Trump and Russia. No, I Donald Trump on multiple occasions, has characterized the mainstream media as the enemy of America. And at first I thought, okay, that's that's Donald Trump hyperbole. That's him just being kind of going over the top because that's his personality.

But when you stop and you examine what they did and what they've been doing, and there's a pattern of behavior there, now that's no exaggeration. They're not there for you. They're not looking out for the rights and the freedom and the well-being of the American people. In the spirit of transparent and government scrutiny. They're they're to help far left Democrats in government achieve their agenda, which I believe is a very painful catalyst, but a catalyst nonetheless to a new age.

And it's a new frontier. And right now, the media is the wild, wild West. We have X, we have we start blogs, you have podcast, you it hey, people are making an exodus from legacy media so quickly because they are so untrustworthy that it is making viable the new media that sometimes. Yeah, I will readily admit, maybe what's coming from that is a little bit sketchy, but is it any more sketchy then telling us for years that Trump colluded with Russia, or that masks work, and that Fauci is the bee's knees?

Or that everything's fine with Joe Biden? There's nothing less or more sketchy than then what the legacy media has served up. So I look forward to it. I, I'm hopeful. Like anything else, the wild, wild West will become somewhat civilized, hopefully, respectable will and that we will reach a point and, and, have a press as protected in the First Amendment that one day we can trust again to be telling us the truth.

But we don't have that right now from the people who are wearing the costumes of journalists, and they show up every day. It's cosplay. It is. Cause I'm telling you, mainstream media journalism is cause play today. And it's a fascinating phenomenon at how much the people are trying to occupy that are now trying to distance themselves from. And they resort to one tactic in, in that effort, and it is just to keep lying.

It's 828. We'll be back after this. On Newstalk 179. It's 833. Newstalk 1079 Julie I just we actually watched this video together from Town and Country Gardens, from their Illuminate the Night event from not this past Saturday, but the prior Saturday. That was the big reveal of the Firefly Petunia. Long lines, lots of people, lots fun, lots of music, lots of party.

It was a big party and, good for them. And we were, thrilled to be at least a part of helping to, promote that event for town and country gardens. And I was just there, a couple of days ago. And, they they've got the firefly. Petunia, if you want to grab one, you still can add town and country gardens.

Plus, they have all your lawn and garden needs. It's not too late to get going on the four step lawn program. Both of our lawns are looking amazing. Yours should too. And the right steps are those four steps. So get on down there to get that if you haven't yet. Also, they have other seeds and mulch and fertilizer and you can get your tomato plants like Neil did.

Or if you're just looking to beautify your yard, they have so many flowers. I'm thinking about trying something with my tomato plants. Tell us I have five for kind of traditional tomatoes and then some cherry tomatoes. I kind of want to pick one to bully like insult it. Oh, you're going to talk me into it? Well, yeah, maybe a little bit.

I just want to see if there's any truth to that, that the plants actually pay attention to what you think of them. I think it's real. You think, okay, maybe what I'll do, actually. No, no, because that just feels like cruelty. Yeah. Because abuse, it's one of God's creatures, right? It's right. It's if it's a living thing.

And it. This feels hokey to me. Like I've heard this before, but if it's actually real, then I don't want to be cruel to a plant, like. Like, you know. Yeah. So maybe I'll pick one. That's my favorite. Okay. Do the reverse. Yeah. Positive love. And, And I'll pick one that is not the right, right now. The most vibrant tomato.

But I'll pick one that maybe is struggling a little bit in the front. Oh yes. And I'll turn it into a little bit of a project and just say, I love you so much. You're looking beautiful. You'll say, I actually like you better than the other tomatoes. I can just feel the chlorophyl coming off of you. Yeah that's true.

Your chlorophyl is the most beautiful chlorophyl superior. You photosynthesize way better than the other plants. But no, I got my tomatoes at Town and Country gardens and, the really, really good looking plants. All of them. But I do have to pick one to kind of help along. So we'll we'll keep tabs. We'll have updates from you as the summer goes along.

All right. And, pick up your tomatoes or whatever else at town and Country south of Idaho Falls, Yellowstone highway, across from the Budweiser plant. Did you already say that? No. Okay. All right. Yeah. As you were fantasizing about your tomato plants over there. No, I did not say that I was not. Okay. That sounded terrible.

No, but I feel like because I put cages in right in the pots, right? Because I want them to be supported. And, I feel like I'm one of them. It's already taller. Like, it's actually grown a little bit more. So I, you know, two years ago when I tried, I didn't do anything last year, but two years ago when I tried it, I was just disappointed, like some.

I did something wrong. I wasn't wrong, something wrong with tomato plants. It was just I don't think I fed the soil enough. So. Okay, I'm excited because you did get the expert advice. Yeah. So now let's see what happens. Yeah, yeah, I think so. All right. Well Julie moving on, moving on. Trump's Trump's killing it. Yeah. Did he already do the signing.

Yeah. That's all done in Qatar Doha. Yeah okay. All right. We're just signing all over the place. This is day two and at least four days. They're they're teasing that he might add a fifth okay I know we'll see. Do you think though going over there. They knew the itinerary very specifically. But they're leaving some things vague because they don't obviously he's under constant security and threats.

And so should I explain to them what I noticed yesterday with him? Oh yeah. Absolutely. Okay. So while he was in Saudi Arabia, there were four people seated. And of course, the center was Trump and the prince. Is that what we're calling him in Saudi Arabia? And so they were next to each other. Then to Trump's side was Marco Rubio.

And then there was another Saudi Arabian dignitary to the other side. So four men up there, they brought them the special tea. Coffee is supposed to be like this brew that is amazing. And Saudi Arabia and these little teeny almost looking like Dixie cups, they hand went to all four men. Marco Rubio downs his immediately. The two Saudi Arabian dignitaries down theirs.

Trump looks into his glass, puts it down and just holds it with both hands. Never drink out of the cup. And I, I know it's because he there is a risk to his life. Yeah I, I would agree with that. And not here. Here's the thing. It would not have to be a state action for something.

But you could just have a some lower level worker in the kitchen who's part of the help. Sure. Dropping a couple of things into it, you know. And so yeah, I would bet you that Secret Service has told him, don't ever eat or drink anything that we haven't tested for you. Right, Joe? Right. Yeah. It was pretty interesting.

I he is just so calm too, in all of these situations, there isn't a difference between Trump who is outside of, you know, getting on the helicopter and just riffing with reporters versus the Trump who stands up in front of that entire audience full of money is there was so much money in that room yesterday. Isn't that his superpower?

He doesn't give a rip like, oh, now he'll be respectful to them. But he's not self-conscious about anything. Now he just is doing Trump. Yeah. Yeah. Which that's it. That's why we like him. It's such a winning attitude. Yeah it is. He just keeps rolling forward and I feel like we're going to get spoiled, Julie, because I, I, we have a lot of really good up and coming Republicans.

I don't know if I see any of them matching what Trump is though. Like I think they'll be good. I think they'll be presidential material. And I think I think it'll be fine. Trump is is a one in a gazillion. He really is figure and I don't I don't think we'll ever replicate Donald Trump. And, but you know what?

I would have said that about Reagan, right? Since he was president, I'd be like, we're never going to have another Reagan. He was a he was the one in a gazillion guy. But so there will be another brand of something maybe in 30 or 40 years that. Yeah, please. But I if I had been in here with you during the monologue, I would have asked you a question you were referencing, the Democrats in their past and the ousting of Bernie Sanders and the putting in of Hillary Clinton.

Yeah, I mean, it's obvious Trump beat Hillary. Do you think he would have beat Bernie? I think he could have. And here's why. Because I, you know, we we always do this game where we go back, I, I do it to, and we try to create an alternate path, an alternate universe, a skewed timeline.

I, I think Trump is very good at reading his opponent and identifying weaknesses. And I think, let's say instead of Hillary Clinton, it was Bernie getting the nomination in the summer of 2016. I think Donald Trump would have exploited how socialist Bernie was and would have lasered in on that and mocked his appearance and mocked his the way he talks and and even though we say we don't like that those tactics work, and I think they are, they're designed to demoralize your opponent and your opponent's fans.

And it inflames them sometimes. But it it also is demoralizing. I when I look at Donald Trump and I don't know if I would have said this prior to Butler, Pennsylvania, I think God has created a path for Donald Trump to be the president of the United States. And so if I'm going to retroactively apply that, yeah, I think in 2016, even if Bernie had become the nominee, Trump probably would have figured out what are his weaknesses, what's his Achilles heel and and, and exploited that and very possibly could have become the president again, even though it was razor thin with with Hillary and Hillary did win the popular vote.

Sad for the Democrats. That's an irrelevant metric in our system. But, there but I but I think there's a very good chance Trump could have figured out Bernie. Because I, I'm not sure the enthusiasm for Bernie could have would have had a long burn. Yeah, no pun intended. Yeah, but I don't know if if it would have lasted until November.

Yeah, I actually feel like he would have demolished Bernie. I. Yeah, okay. I do just because I don't think the machine has ever been behind Bernie. The machine was behind Hillary. Oh my goodness. Oh so much. Yeah. And so I think with that deficit that Bernie would have been experiencing because he wouldn't have had the machine behind him.

And then with Trump's laser attitude, I think that that would have just been the undoing to to Bernie completely. That's that is a good point because in some ways maybe Bernie they they found Bernie as distasteful as Donald Trump because he won't play there. The machines game. So yeah. And that's your sin. It's not what you believe.

What you stand for your sin is you won't play their game. Your obedience. Yeah. Yeah. That's. Yeah. So so yeah. You know you bring up a good point that they might have been ambivalent actually if it was Bernie versus Trump they'd be like it doesn't matter. We're getting someone who's not gonna we can't control them anyway. Yeah.

Yeah. All right 843 Newstalk 1079. Quick break. We'll come back and continue after this. 849 on Newstalk. 107 another head bobbing you know can it can I song here Neil Larsen along long Julie Mason do you just play that bumper music when you know you're going to throw it to me for an ad? Do I do that a lot?

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So yellow. Yeah. I went to say yes and something else. And I said yellow. Okay. But maybe that can be like a new word, like, yellow. Yeah. Like skip toilet, skip the toilet. Yellow, yellow. Okay, okay. So, yeah, I guess they're, they're saying a gift is a bribe. Okay. Okay. Now, I don't know, usually a bribe means you're getting something in return, like I don't.

Is there a bribe here? Do we know there's, like, two sides to a bribe? Like a transaction that constitutes a bribe? I think what they're saying, because I've heard the left talk about this, is that, because of this gift, there will be expectations now that Trump will have to fulfill. So when when they come to Trump and say, hey, you got to do this, Trump's going to relent.

Okay, okay, well, I mean, all right. But to actually say it's a bribe, don't you need to know what the so I looked back in this person's text history, they were the same person that told us back on April 30th that the that, unemployment is 200%. Yeah. So is the reliability of them saying Trump is bribed by cutter?

Is that the same as the reliability of things they've claimed prior to the in the text? This person who texts in, I absolutely can say they do not have the quality of spitting facts. No, that's true. They are unencumbered by the truth. Right. And, so I just very humbly and nicely texted back and said, aren't you the one who told us unemployment was 200% a few days ago?

Yes. They have not responded back yet. But don't let the facts get in your way. Yeah, don't let that be a problem. All right, it's 854. We do have to take another break really quick. Here. We'll be back. We'll wrap up this hour coming up, but we have another hour ahead. Right here on Newstalk 107 and nine.

Okay, Julie, we have our flash poll for this morning. In the next hour, early in the next hour, we will ask the audience, should Trump accept the plane from Qatar? Cut is a guitar cutter. It's both ways. It's cutter cut. Both are good. It works better to say Qatar a Lago, because that's what the left is saying.

Should Trump accept the airplane or not? So we'll lay it out for you. We'll do a flash poll in just a few minutes. Okay. Welcome back. It's our two. And it's interesting Julie, for about 30s. We teased the upcoming flagpole about the plane being offered to Trump. Well, the United States by Qatar and Trump's like, yeah, we'll take the plane.

We could use the plane. Boeing's not getting their crap together. So yeah, we'll take the plane. And now you have these breathless, frantic accusations of bribery and violation, the Emoluments Act and all the claims that this is an impeachable offense. All the pearl clutch and orange man, bad garbage that you expect. Okay, so I look at this, and Rand Paul is actually siding with the Democrats because he says the Constitution says that the president cannot accept accept gifts from foreign nations.

But here's the problem. This plane is not going to Donald Trump personally. It's not going to his family. It's coming to the United States of America to be used as the presidential official plane. And the plan, according to the reports I've read, is that the plane would then go to Donald Trump's the Presidential Library Foundation. So when I look at this, that's kind of my only hang up here is if it's a gift to the the Justice Department already said it's a gift to the Department of Defense because they're the ones that oversee Air Force One.

Why would it not stay with the Department of Defense then, once Trump is done in 2029? Is that that's that's my only question here. I think you would make it much more clean if you didn't have the Trump Foundation keeping the plane and and rather just keep it for the use of the the federal government of the United States of America.

Right, right. It's interesting to me how many people are saying don't accept the plane. I would ask the question behind that because I'm actually pretty neutral about this. Yeah, I don't have a strong feeling one way or the other. For the people who are saying don't accept the plane. Yeah, why just optics. Like, I want to know the reasoning of why not to accept the plane.

Yes. And you know what? We'll find that here in a moment with the flagpole when people text or call in, I mean, we want to know if we should expect accept the plane, yes or no, but back it up with a sentence or two. Yeah. With a with a because, a statement, I also said this, Julie and other people apparently think like me, but I thought we now have to dismantle the Statue of Liberty and return it to Paris, because we should have never accepted that.

Yeah, that's a con. Constitutionally. We make money off that gift. Yeah. That's true. So I actually went to ChatGPT, and, I wanted to see what other gifts that we need to give back. And Statue of Liberty was actually the first one that came up. All right. So get the ships ready. We need to take the Statue of Liberty back.

We need to dig up a whole bunch of cherry blossom trees in Washington, DC and send them back to Japan. Yeah. In 1912 they gave us 3000 cherry trees. The United Kingdom. We need to send the bust of Winston Churchill back to them. Oh, that one's always kind of stuck in my craw. I don't like that one.

Yes, I know, it just felt unfair. That's that's true. Canadian embassy site in Washington, DC was given to us by Canada. Oh, shoot. In a 1989, Canada completed the embassy between the Capitol and White House. First time a foreign government was granted land so close to key, U.S institutions. So, yeah. Then we.

Oh, you know what? While we're digging up the cherry trees, we got to dig up the tulips and send them back to the Netherlands. We've got a, a boatload of problems we didn't even know about. Apparently, this is an annual gift. Oh, the troops come every year. Yeah. Every year the Netherlands sends thousands of tulip bulbs to the US.

Thanks for aid during and after World War two. So we need to cancel their flowers.com subscription and stop accepting that, because that's a violation. Do you remember when the trade in, like, Liberation Day was threatened right at the very beginning, right at the very beginning, you know, and the left leaning news media was going, oh, no, this is going to be so harmful between the products that we trade back and forth between Canada, Mexico.

And one of the things they said was flowers are going to be so expensive. Yeah. Yes. Okay. Strollers and flowers. Here we go. Strollers. Yeah. They do remember the strollers. Mexico. Get ready. Make space for that statue of Benito Juarez you gave us back in 1968. Because we're sending that back. And the fountain of the turtles replica in Italy.

It was gifted to the US by Italy back in 1927. And I think Ling-Ling and Sing. Sing are dead. Those are the giant pandas China gave to Richard Nixon. Somebody said that. Send those dang pandas back. So we got to give the pandas back. And, you know what? Maybe the offspring. Maybe we find the offspring of Sing Sing and Ling Ling, and then bang bang ting ting and Bang bang can take them.

No, the same thing is bang faith. No, that's. That's Falwell's girlfriend. Maybe Swalwell girlfriend. Bang bang could read. She can take them and read them. Ting ting and wink wink. Yeah. She'll stay home them to bang bang bang bang bang. That's true. South Korea gave us a statue of General Douglas MacArthur back in 1957. It's not physically on US soil, but it does symbolize Korean gratitude for U.S. involvement in the Korean War.

So they they erected it in their own their own country. So, and then it says here that, numerous smaller tributes and cultural gifts have been, exchanged. So that bottle of Cologne we got from Morocco, that that needs to go back as well. Someone says, you understand Congress has approved those gifts. There is a difference. Can you ask ChatGPT if all of those gifts were approved by Congress, right?

Yes, I will, let's do that. We're all, because they're saying all of them. Yeah. The text, as you understand, in Congress, has approved those gifts. There is a difference. Okay. But here's the thing. These people who are. And I'm waiting for the answer here. No, not all of the gifts, listed were explicitly approved by Congress, but most followed appropriate legal and diplomatic protocols.

Okay, okay. What's the difference, then? I mean, the Department of Justice has already said, yeah, we can accept the plane from Qatar. So I don't know. Yeah. So no they, they were not. Oh. They're listing it now. Statue of Liberty was approved. So sorry France. We're going to keep it. Yeah. The Churchill bust.

No that's why that one bugs me so much. You know what? We can't even get a budget bill. Do you think we can approve tulips every year from the Netherlands? Heavens, no. That ain't happening. I thought that when you started this whole bit saying we'd had. Did we have to send this Statue of Liberty back? And I'm like, it'll take him seven years to dismantle it, because if the government's in charge, it will take seven years.

Well, for crying out loud, don't put Boeing or whoever is overseeing construction in Idaho Falls in charge because it'll never happen. The ten carry bridge people are bidding on it. Yep. I right, Okay. Should we do this? Yeah, let's do it. Okay. And let's just state here Qatar's offering the plane. It'll be used as Air Force One for Trump because Boeing can't get their crap together afterwards.

The plane apparently would go to Trump's library foundation, but not to the Trump family. And not personally. Okay. And, should we accept the gift from Qatar or not? And, let me find the flagpole music. Here we go. (208) 542-1079 send us a yes or no and a because yes, we should because no, we shouldn't because okay, I'm gonna read this one.

Trump should not accept the airplane, even if it was temporary for the use of the U.S government, acceptance of gifts creates an inherent implication of a favor and expectation of return. Favors, gifts of plants or statues to be viewed and enjoyed by the general population are much different than a luxury airplane. Okay. All right. 208542107 that's not listed in the Constitution.

No. So if it's not going to Trump personally because it says no person shall, that's what the emoluments section of the Constitution says. No person shall. And Donald Trump, the person would not be the one exception. If you see headlines or whatever saying this is Trump's plane, that is just not an accurate statement. Air Force One is not Trump's plane.

It's America's plane that Trump uses while he isn't in office. Yeah. Another text. No. On the plane. I want to maintain fierce independence. We don't need a gift like that. I'm also afraid of the security breach possibility that could come along with it. Similar to not drinking anything they don't test first. I don't know how much I trust our ability to secure the plane for the president at this point in time.

I actually share that concern. So, let's go to the phones. (208) 542-1079 Caller take the plane, yes or no? Yes. He should accept the offer. And it sounds like Communist Democrats have become so to pray that he would be angry with President Trump or accepting an offer from another nation if they wanted to pay, you know, say $400 million to go towards clean up, crime ridden, Democrat run cities.

Yeah. Okay. All right. Thank you for the call. 208542 179 they're more no's than I thought there was. Yeah, there's a lot. Okay. This one says I think no on the airplane. And the only reason is because why give the Democrats any more ammunition to shoot at us? And also it just looks cleaner and nicer. Tell him, you know, we could use it during the Trump presidency and we'll give it back.

Or just think, I'm so very or just think, oh, thank them so very much for what they've done and tell them we appreciate it. Yes, yes. Except the plane is long. It is. It is thoroughly vetted. Yes. The United States has given a lot to them. Agree on the security issue. President Trump should absolutely not accept the 747 from Qatar.

It could potentially be a booby trapped assassination weapon, even possibly unbeknownst to the Guattari government. I'm sure the Secret Service has thought of this, but the bomb makers who work for the terrorist groups continue to become ever more clever and creative. Okay, so this story actually didn't blossom into this situation till about 4 or 5 days after it was offered.

Yeah, it kind of hung there. The left leaning media was paying attention, other stuff. And then all of a sudden they decided to make a big, huge deal of this. Okay, so when it was very first, there, that was one of the things like someone asked, I was watching a news report and somebody asked an expert about it and they said, look, this is really no big deal, but you don't understand.

To retrofit this plane to work as Air Force One, it's going to be pretty darn expensive. Okay. So that is a concern that, yeah, we're in this, this horrible mess because a Boeing. But we're also going to have to spend money to make this plane work is Air Force One. And one of it would be that complete sweeping of the plane.

Well they would plus all the added security features that it would. Yes. So, someone says yes just to see the libs hair on fire. You know what? What you could do, you can have this, the security concerns, but still accept the plane. Just don't fly it and then watch the libs meltdown. That's kind of fun. Yeah. Good entertaining.

It just sits there. Yes. Yes. Good grief. It's a breach of diplomacy, isn't it? To not accept the gift. I'm also concerned about security, though. There a little mix there. I would be okay with acceptance of the plane as long as people know about it. I'm not sure I'm okay with it. Going to the Trump Library Foundation after.

It should stay with the Department of Defense. See, I agree with that. I'd tweak the deal. I'd be like, it shouldn't go to a sort of a such, Trump connected entity as the library. Yeah, and I think that's totally workable at this point. Still, I don't think there's any hard, fast deal. In fact, Trump has given it no effort.

The man is trying to secure peace in the Middle East. I mean, give him a break. Oh, yeah. No. No kidding. Yes. He should keep the gift of the plane. It's good for all of us. Saves money. How long is it going to take for Boeing? Look at Biden and all the kickbacks and money he and his family got from China and other.

I keep thinking about that. And I mentioned that a couple of times the last couple of days till I'm like, everybody's looking the other way. On Biden's family getting millions and millions from other countries. And it's not just Biden's immediate family. These tentacles go deep. They have government jobs that they don't even show up for. His great niece is working for a government entity that gets USAID funds like it is.

The kickbacks are enormous throughout the Biden genealogy. Oh, yeah. For sure. Someone suggested Elon should build the new Air Force One. Could you get a Tesla plane? I don't know, but I bet Elon could get it done before Boeing. I bet he could to, keep the plane. The big difference is everyone knows about the plane. How many billions have been laundered through backdoor deals to corrupt politicians.

And. Good point. Let's go to the phones. Hi, caller. You take the plane. Yes or no? Yes, yes, yes. Like you guys say, it is going to be parked at Andrews. It is not going to be parked at Mar-A-Lago. Yes. Democrat. Democratic stupidity is its own subculture of stupidity and is infuriating. Yeah. Yep. It really is. Everything you guys do.

Yeah. All right. Thank you for the call. (208) 542-1279 we heard from Representative Barbie Heart. She said, hey guys, I'd absolutely accept the gift. And afterwards it should continue to be used, but not in the library. I see the gift as a goodwill gesture to America and Trump's efforts. Okay. Yeah. Does Trump Trump has his own plane, right?

Like there's a Trump plane. There's probably more than one. Yeah, yeah. Well, yes, we've seen it, right? Yeah. We've gone on a campaign. Yeah yeah yeah. (208) 542-1079 and boy, the text just keep coming. Oh, somebody has your thought. They think this is a trick to light a fire under Boeing. Yeah. I think this just keeps Boeing in the headlines.

Like we're still in Germany. You're a big failure. Let's get this done. Yeah, yeah. Should I accept the burger from McDonald's? Because Burger King's not. And yet they're getting their burgers made. And I want to love it. That's true. I want it my way. All right, let's go to the next caller. 208542 179 hi, caller. Go ahead. Hey, how are you guys this morning?

Good. Good doing. Well, I have a good idea. I say let's fly home with veterans to five star hotels, put them up till they can get on their feet again with the plane, with the plane. Use the plane for our homeless veterans and disabled veterans and use it to fly them where they need to go. Put them up in five star hotels like we've been doing for people that shouldn't have been here.

Oh yeah, like the illegals. All right. Thank you for the call. (208) 542-1079 yes. Accept the plane, then borrow it to Bernie and AOC for their oligarchy. Tour.

Somebody said no to the airplane only due to the cost and possible security issues, and a plane would have to be totally outfitted for the presidency. We need to keep the president as safe as possible. So it's interesting how prevalent this security concern is. Even though when I first saw this story, I had that thought. I thought I was the only one that thought like, this could actually be an assassination attempt.

Yeah. No, no offense to the cutter Qatari people. This is an interesting one. They said, take the plane and use it to transport immigrants home. Oh, now, that would be fun. It would be. What a what a troll. Yeah, that would be great. A troll to the Democrats and the left for any media. That would be the I mean, it would be you could use it for that before you even outfit it.

It would be official actions of the United States, deporting illegals. And you, they I mean, the Democrats like to claim that they're treated so poorly. Like that was the whole dustup at the Newark Ice facility is there's horrible conditions inside, and they're treating them so bad. And then they went in and they weren't. The conditions were just fine.

Yeah. How how can you complain? This will be the nicest transportation ride any immigrant has ever had if they fly on this plane. Yeah, yeah. No. That's true. Someone made the earlier point. Wasn't the Statue of Liberty a gift in? Yes, indeed it was. Although, I mean, you can look, I can argue against myself here.

The Statue of Liberty is for the enjoyment of all, like it's. You go to New York and it's a tourist place. And so everyone's enjoying that, which should be different. But let's go to the next caller. Go ahead. Caller. What do you say about the. Oh, they hung up. Okay. But to back up what you said about the Statue of Liberty during the break, I said, but we make money off the Statue of Liberty.

Yeah, it's not a free enjoyment for everybody. It was a gift given to us that we've turned around and turned into a profit center. That's true. Yeah, that's a good point. Accept the plane and give the Dems one more stupid point. Set their hair on fire and continue to waste their time on. Yeah, concerned about security.

The plane that I absolutely love to see illegals be flown home in that plane. Sorry I missed the first part of this. Are there constitutional issues about the president? Yeah, well, some are trying to make it. It's called the Emoluments Clause, which basically says if you're an elected person or someone high in the government, you can't accept gifts from foreign countries.

But that's designed to keep the individual from getting gifts from foreign countries. So, if it's going to be used for the official purposes of the United States, that arguably can be different. And the Department of Justice has already said Trump can accept the plane. Yeah. So you know what's funny about this? The Dems are so they're already talking about impeaching Trump.

If he accepts the plane. And I swear they they Trump had deviled eggs for dinner. Impeach him. I know you're right. That's how they, none of the rest of us can afford eggs, so let's go to the next caller. Oh, they keep hanging up. I don't know what that sound. Sure, either. Yeah. It's mixed though, like there.

Yeah, there's wide. I think, the, someone said this is awesome. Total Trump derangement syndrome. And it it really is. It's true. Yeah, yeah. Just one more example. So you look at it and you're like, well, okay. But it feels a little I think Ben Shapiro said it felt skeezy. Laura Loomer said it's not a good look.

Do we care anymore? Well, here's what I don't care. He's he's on a tour right now, like I said, securing peace in the Middle East. So yeah, billions of dollars of wealth for America. This is nothing. Well, here that's the problem. If if you had people and I don't mean Ben Shapiro and Laura Loomer specifically, but the left is saying this looks corrupt.

This is okay. Trump does a lot of things that are, let's be honest, pretty bad. They never recognize the bad things that Donald Trump does, but they're all over the things that they think look skeezy. So I'm like, I'm not going to trust their assessment of this. And I think we have to be careful as conservatives or not careful, but we have to be aware.

Don't don't give a crap what they think. Their their assessment ability is so broken and wrong. It's not skeezy just because they say it looks right. All right. Let's go to the phones. Caller go ahead. Yes. I think that, they should not be we should not accept the plane. No, they should not. Okay. And why?

Thank you. Well, I don't know, maybe give it to Chanelle and let her try it out if they do. Yeah. Okay. Thank you for the call. (208) 542-1079 take the plane and Ellen is right there. Don't think don't you think he's in on the discussion? I don't know, okay. Are you ready for this? Somebody just tipped us off to this.

Jill Biden received jewelry on a foreign trip in 2023. She was gifted a $20,000 diamond from Indian Prime Minister Narendra modi. She also received a brooch valued at $14,000 from the Ukrainian ambassador to the United States and a bracelet, brooch and photograph album worth $4,500 from the president and First lady of Egypt. Okay, if I'm her lawyer, I'm saying back she's not an elected official.

She's not. She doesn't hold an official capacity in the government, but she can run a cabinet meeting. Well, she can do that. But I'm just saying, I think that that this this is apples and oranges. Yeah, but I think this is a great example of feels. Hip hop like. Yeah, yeah. Looks her looks. And Jill Biden accepted those gifts.

Yeah. Yeah. No it's it's true. Let's go back to the phones. Yeah. What if Carter said, okay, we'll give the plane to Melania. Yeah. And then you use it for what you need. Yeah. Melania can do whatever she likes. It's going to be running around with their hair on. Yeah. Next caller, go ahead. Take the plane. Yes or no?

Good morning. Take the plane, for heaven's sakes. And I don't know why we keep walking on eggshells when talking about the so-called Democrats. Most of them are registered Communist Party members. Yeah. Why don't we call them for what they are, communists. Socialists? I you know what, I agree, I like that call. They walk into the room like they run the place.

Still, Still. Yeah. Their party's in complete disarray. Why are we letting them scatter eggshells around everywhere and we have to walk on them? No, I we're not. No, it may not be the best thing to take the plane, but arrive at that decision independent of what the left in the media and every the TDs crowd is saying.

Yeah. Like yeah, that's a that's a good point. All right. Let's just take another couple of calls here and we'll wrap this up. Caller go ahead, take the plane. Yes or no? Yes. Take the plane. Okay. All right. Thank you for the call. And, how about you call or should we take the plane or not? Like a.

Oh, yeah. I think we should take the plane and then send it to Idaho Falls for a tourist distraction afterwards. Yeah. For what? A tourist attraction. Oh, afterwards. There you go. Okay. I'd. I'd be in on that. We'll sponsor that event. So 932 on Newstalk 117. Quick break. We'll be right back. Okay. Now K no. Okay. No. Oh see that right here.

They're talking about it. It would take up to two years to convert the jet to Air Force One. So okay. But do we trust CNN like I don't know. And oh my goodness. Let's like I told you, in that city in Saudi Arabia where they held this meeting, they built a whole entire entire portion that looks like Times Square in something like 60 days.

Yeah. It takes the government up to two years to do something. If we turned it over to Elon, it would take six months. Yeah. It's so frustrating. But some, some guy who probably worked in aviation for a couple of years, they've called and he's got an opinion and they're like well that fits their time frame. We want to report.

Yeah the Statue of Liberty might be a bomb waiting for Donald. I don't think Donald is visiting the statue at Liberty. Yeah. Okay. Let's come back and do, Grand Peaks, and we'll go right back to the news, and then we'll pretty much be back on track. I've seen two different reports now as, different reporters are covering Trump on this trip.

They literally don't know when he's sleeping. Really? Yeah. Like, there he is going from like four in the morning until two in the morning. And they say we're exhausted. Yeah. We don't know how he's doing this. Isn't that crazy. How do we want from a presidency where they had to call a Litt at 9 a.m.. I remember and I think this is I think I'm remembering this right.

Lavelle Edwards, the coach for BYU years ago, people said that he only sleeps like four hours a night. And and some people just they can function on that, get away with it. And that's all they need. And their their metabolism is built a certain way and they're okay. And so maybe Trump just needs three and a half or four hours of sleep, maybe it's crazy.

You would think he would get on Air Force One. Okay, I want to remind everyone, remember the picture of Kamala during the campaign and she got on the the plane and they were still filming her and they left the window open and she's like rubbing her face. She is so exhausted. Yeah. Trump gets on the plane and holds a presser.

Yeah. He takes questions from the gaggle. Yeah. There's no get on the plane and finally let down and I'm exhausted. Yeah. The most he does is loosens that tie in on buttons. The top button square. He sleeps in that suit I know, I know right. Yeah.

936 on Newstalk 179, let's talk about how you had marinated steak last night. How was it? Oh my goodness. So good. And fresh corn on the cob. It is that time of year in East Idaho where the vegetables are really fresh and high quality. Steak from Grand Peaks make it two. Oh, what a good dinner. And you know what?

I don't know if everyone loves steak. They should. And if you don't, maybe go find a good counselor or something. But, if steak's not necessarily your thing, then you can get ribs. You can get sous vide, crock pot ready meals. You can, get chicken and pork and grilling and bacon. All the things. Oh, yes, I love.

Who doesn't love bacon? Yeah. You know what? I'm going to make, halla pinos cut in half. You fill them up with cream cheese flavored cream cheese, and then you wrap it that up with bacon, and you throw that in the air fryer for just a few minutes, like seven, eight, nine minutes. And then you have these really delicious low carb l'opinion poppers.

Yeah. Awesome. And who are you inviting over bacon? I have a select list. I try luxury appetizers. I try to keep that on the down low. But yeah, that's true. It's a very exclusive event Neil making jalapeno poppers in his air fryer. But you know anyway Grand pigs deep fry meats.com. Go there poke around look at their packages and specials.

See what you want to be put in your freezer this summer for grilling and otherwise. And, you can make new friends too at GP primates.com. Yep, yep. Tell him Neil and Julie say you okay? 938 on Newstalk 1079. You know, to get back on track, let's do. We had a very long first segment because of our flagpole.

We're going to cut away for some news, but we'll come back just ahead. We'll open up the phone lines. And if you'd like to join us on the Stones Automotive Group calling text line, that number is (208) 542-1079. Okay, so here's my question. Were there not January 6th, protesters that spent months in jail for doing far less than what those Democrats did to the, Ice agents or or the Homeland Security, people?

Oh, yeah. They're such hypocrites, total hypocrites. And I'm sorry, but every day, Joe Citizen doesn't have as highest standard as an elected member of Congress. Yeah, well, is this not another example? Because you you simply cannot do that to a law enforcement officer. You can't show up and get rough and tumble with them. You just can't.

This is another example like a break okay Garcia. And where they take someone who clearly has committed crimes and they instantly morph them into a victim. Yes. Yeah. A the criminal becomes the hero in the Democrat Party all the time over and over and over again. Yeah. I don't know, maybe they're just maybe they're finding the people that matched their their internal license.

Well I know, but but it's odd because you watch this and, I don't understand how a normal, average person can see a situation, and it garners condemnation, but they see the same situation and it garners their sympathy. I don't know, it's a it's a it's an honor to have a special personality. Yeah, I have one. Yeah. I'm going to tell this I, I did a fact check on what this person said and it seems to be inaccurate.

Someone said, list of U.S. senators that received pharmaceutical contributions. Oh, I fact check this the other day. It's wrong to. Oh, the John Thune thing. Yeah. It's like in the millions and millions and millions for Bernie Sanders. He's the highest receiver. Bernie is one of the highest. But those numbers are incredibly inflated. Okay. I was I was doing a fact checked on this not last night, but the night before because I thought about sending it to you.

And I'm like, I'm going to do some little deep dive on this. And the numbers are inflated. So this one, says, Bernie Sanders got 1.4 million. Oh, no, that's correct, that is correct. Yes. The one I saw was much higher than that. So Pocahontas got 822,000. Yeah, yeah. Chuck Schumer got 1.5 million. Bob Casey 1.8 million.

Those all sound about right. Klobuchar 700,000. Ron Biden million and a half. Mitt Romney 3.4 million. Yeah. There weren't very many Democrats or Republicans on the list. Did you see my Freudian slip right there about Mitt Romney? There weren't very many Republicans on the list, but but, well, Mitt Romney was one of them because they were giving, like, the top 20 or something.

Top 15, I can't remember how many. Yeah. And and Mitt Romney landed there. Why would Bernie take so much money from a pharmaceutical? I mean, he's the guy that preaches about the oligarchy and the rich and the billionaires, and he's taken a million and a half from pharmaceutical companies because he needs to spread his message. And so it okay, that's what I think he'd say.

It's not okay. So that's why he needs all the homes he has. That's why he needs to fly. Private jet. Yes. By private jet. Oligarch oligarch billionaire Genie says she might trust a plane from cutter before she trust a plane from the Clintons.

Yeah, that's a good point. Okay, so these numbers probably are they are accurate because I that's when I did the deep dive I'm like And it was the same list. But the original list that I did the deep dive on. All of the numbers had been inflated by quite a bit. You know who does those deep dives.

Who are you grok on Twitter. Yeah. Grok on I should say because all you have to do is say at grok. Is this correct. And then grok gives the answer.

944 Now on Newstalk 179, Neil Larsen, along with Julie Mason. So earlier. And you know, it's funny the pace of Trump when you think about all the things, all the things just this, this flurry of activity that the I mean, you have Democrats that are still talking about a prego Garcia and that was two and a half, three weeks ago and multiple significant historic actions by Trump ago.

And, he signed the executive order before he left for the Middle East. That would limit drug prices in the United States, basically telling them, we're not going to cap how much you charge, but we're not going to pay more then the lowest paying country is paying for your drugs. So that that creates some discomfort among members of Congress because they take massive amounts of cash from the pharmaceutical companies and their lobbyists.

And so they're not likely to want to do anything that disrupts that gravy train. The oh, can we look at it like that. Sure. Okay. So, John Thune apparently, and I don't have the news reference on this. I may try to find the audio or the the report of this. He says that codifying Trump's EO lowering prescription drug prices would be, quote unquote, controversial.

And if you look at sort of a list here, Chuck Schumer has taken a million and a half from drug companies. Pocahontas has taken 822,000 from drug companies. Bernie has taken. And this is what surprised me a little bit, because Bernie talks about the the billionaires and the oligarchs and that he's taken 1.4 million and change from pharmaceutical and, where.

Well, and this has a caveat health products sector. So I don't know what that means. And I don't know how much that is specifically pharmaceutical companies, but he's taken a lot of money from that, that wing of the, of industry. Now, I think I we should also clarify, because we always want to get the best information out. Out.

A couple of days ago I saw this. And if I believe one of the reasons that Bernie's is so high is it's it's multiple years, multiple campaigns. So you're looking at people who have been in office for many, many years, which is why the amount is so high. You know, the principle is still there, which is there will be potentially politicians who don't want to make sure that these drug prices are regulated because they're scratching the backs of their campaign donor.

It yeah. It you know why, why do they stay in office so long. Because they get kickbacks. You know it would be a fascinating yes kickbacks. But it would be a fascinating dive. And maybe I could help us out with this. How many former members of Congress sit on the boards of pharmaceutical companies making a fat salary for doing almost nothing?

$400,000 for showing up to four meetings a year, right? Yeah, that that would be an interesting. Yeah, just. I'm not saying it's happening, but I'm saying we should ask if it's happening and, and do a quick look at it. So, yeah, I might, I might do a prompt on the, on that one just to, to find out because there might be, you know, what we're going to donate to your campaign, but your real your real reward here won't be $10,000 to your campaign.

You're going to sit on our board and you're going to make a very nice salary for very little. And, and they don't even have to say that if they said that, that would be illegal. But it just might be conveyed to them. You know what. We're probably gonna have a vacancy next year. On our, on our board.

You might be a good fit for our board. I think you have the knowledge base. Yeah. Yeah. Amy Klobuchar $700,000. And, Ron Widen, 1.5 million. And, yet another Democrat, Mitt Romney, $3.4 million. So that was just. I already made the Freudian slip. That's true. Yeah. Sad. Sad. But, anyway, so, yeah, this is an uphill battle for Trump.

It really? Because in a lot of ways, if you were to look at the top industries that have purchased influence in Congress, purchased outcomes, purchased votes, pharmaceutical companies are near the top. It's truly a Goliath. Yeah it is. I mean, he really is taking on a massive, massive challenge here. So, but you know what? I'm I've learned to never underestimate Donald Trump.

Just he may not accomplish everything, and he may not bat 1000, but he usually always gets a lot more done than anybody else who holds that office. Well, and I'll take 80% of him shooting for the moon. Yeah. No kidding. I'm fine with that. Yeah, I know I know the left likes to to tee that up like it's some sort of failure now, but I'm fine with that.

Yeah, I yeah, I am too. I'd rather that then going in just with modest ambitions and accomplishing some of them and, so, yeah, he's certainly an anomaly there at 950 on Newstalk 179. Let's take our final break. We'll come back. We'll wrap it up on this Wednesday edition of the Neil Larsen Show on Newstalk 179.

Okay. Do do do do the lower third on Fox right now. Says Democrat leaders divided over Trump impeachment. Before that, it was. Fetterman says this is going to go nowhere. What? Impeach him for what? I have no idea. Like I said, he made deviled eggs on Thursday. That's enough for them. What? I saw al Green, he's the guy that got up during the came dead escort of Al Green.

Impeachment. Trump I don't let's see here. Oh. This has been going on for more than a week. It's going to be going on for a while. I haven't even seen this because because Trump's doing bigger things. I know they don't. They cannot they don't even have a little teeny tiny corner of the news cycle. Yeah.

He is so massive there's no oxygen left for them. They are suffocating. Yeah. This is it was Trump's statement. He said the Democrats are really out of control. They've already got two no name little respected congressmen, total whack jobs, both throwing the impeachment of Donald J. Trump around total whack jobs Donald J. Trump is in all bold, for about the 20th time, even though they have no idea for what I would be impeach, Trump wrote in a truth Social post.

So fan of Da. Have you ever heard of it? Yeah, that was just on there. No, I when I sit down, I do. I have no idea what that is. That sounds like a lousy character from a B-movie. Yeah, I don't know about that is Greek gods. I'm. I am Senate dog. It includes seven articles of impeachment that detail what he alleges are constitute tional violations, including abuse of trade powers and international aggression.

Well, a judge just yesterday ruled that he could use, that clause. Yeah. To send people away. Okay. Yeah. So good luck with your abuse of immigration laws. Creation of an unlawful office. Referencing the Department of Government efficiency and obstruction of justice and abuse of executive power. Donald Trump has repeatedly demonstrated that he is unfit to serve as president and represents a clear and present danger to our nation's constitution and our democracy.

Senator, he said in a statement. It again, Senator.

Senator, I wrote a windows app yesterday. I showed Juliet this morning, this good first attempt, which is kind of like it feels like I just came home from preschool with a Crayola, picture, and my mom is praising me. No, but it will get better. Anyone listening right now able to write an app that's not preschool?

No, I know things. I mean, I felt like it was very. It was elementary. But you gotta start somewhere. Yeah, right. And it was. The process is fascinating. We'll talk about it in the show. 954 Senator, Senator, apparently that's the last name of a congressman who is trying to impeach Donald Trump, an effort that began last week that has I if.

Okay, okay, okay. Well, then if the news cycle were a stage, this is a little teeny tiny corner where you lean the broom behind the curtain. That's what this part. And it's like this impeachment. He and Al Green can remember the movie Dumb and Dumber. We need to get him the suit. Random thought came out of nowhere but the orange suit and the powder blue suit.

They can each wear them. Yeah. Green can shake his cane. Yes. There we go. Exactly. So, they're trying to impeach Trump on constitutional violations, abuse of trade powers and international aggression, creation of an unlawful office. Is that a crime? Creation of an unlawful office? I would have to imagine offices have been created for decades. For decades, I would think so.

Now, I think to have it be their permanently, it's right now it's actually a tentacle of the Department of Treasury. That's how it, it's so it's under the umbrella of a constitutionally protected department. Okay. So which this happens all the time. Did you know the U.S. Forest Service. Do you know what department that's part of. Department of Agriculture.

Okay. And so they do create these kinds of offices all the time. I mean, I mean, and all the time, but they've created a bunch of them. And this is, the, Yeah, this is just that. And it's accomplished a lot in identifying issues and problems and inefficiencies and waste and fraud and abuse. And, the Department of Treasury can now use that information.

And, it's good information to have to make decisions moving forward. They hate that the swamp was revealed. And that's what they're they're pushing back against. So these things that you've listed, of course, they've had judges who have some have cited and said, yes, you can't do this. Now. Judges are overturning that. It's sad. It's going to probably end up eventually at the Supreme Court.

You know, the big problem is if they've got Democrats who aren't supporting this, you don't have the votes. Oh, no. So what a waste of time. And they know they know everything they're trying is just is is failing. But yeah. Speaking of agriculture, you can get all the things you need for your garden town and country gardens.

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