14 posts from Sunday, July 9, 2023

Where am I on Trump now? I love Trump, personally. I think we're going to see Trump's emergence as the most significant thing to happen in American politics in 100 years because he reoriented the Republican Party against the wishes of Republican leaders. But when I think about Trump right now, so it's July of 2023, I'm struck by his foreign policy views. Trump is the only person with stature in the Republican Party, really, who's saying, "Wait a second, why are we supporting an endless war in Ukraine?" Leaving aside whether Trump's going to get the nomination or get elected president or would be a good president, I can't even assess that. All I can say at this point is I'm so grateful that he has that position. He's right, and everyone in Washington's wrong, everyone, and Trump is right on that question, and it's a big question. That war is reshaping the world. It's reshaping the economy of the world. It's reshaping populations. I mean, I was just in Romania last week, which is, of course, shares a border with Ukraine. The refugees in that region, the number of people killed in that war, I mean, Europe will never be the same because of this war. It really matters, and Trump alone among popular figures in both parties understands that, and I'm grateful for it. Whether he gets the nomination or gets elected, words really matter. Saying something true out loud matters, and he is saying true things about Ukraine, and God bless him. That's how I feel.

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Look, we have a corrupt, incompetent leader in Biden. Everyone knows he's — now, I wouldn't have said this three weeks ago. I wouldn't have said it. I was actually very kind to him. I was very kind to him, but now we can't be kind anymore because the gloves are off. The jar has been opened. He's taken millions of dollars from other countries like China. He's totally compromised. He's taken millions and millions of dollars from other countries, and in history there's never been — never been — a scandal like this, but the fake news doesn't want to report it. There's never been in history anything like it — $10,200,000 from China, millions and millions of dollars from Ukraine. These are compromised people. The people that are leading us are corrupt and they're compromised.

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And we're going to be drilling and we're going to be reducing energy costs. (Applause.) And then we're going to be selling our energy to Europe and other places, and we're going to be reducing our debt and reducing taxes. You know, you've got the largest tax decrease or largest tax cut in the history of our country, larger than the Reagan cuts, largest ever. We're going to be reducing taxes still further, and we're going to be paying off debt. We were all set to start, and then we got hit with COVID, and we had to solve that problem. And we did -- we did a phenomenal job. Never got the credit for that that we deserve. We did a phenomenal job.

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But under our leadership just a short while ago, real median household income in Nevada. Think of this. It rose by $10,992. Nobody has ever had a number like that. Now you're losing that. You're losing it in big ways, but primarily because of inflation, because you're getting a salary and your salary is getting worthless. It's getting just worse. It's going down at a level that nobody's ever seen before. We've never seen levels like this where it's going down. So you think you're employed and you think you're getting the same salary, but your salary is worth a lot less because of what they've done.

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-The crime in this country has gone through the roof at a level that nobody's ever seen before. They walk in to stores now. They just put whatever they want in their cart, and they just walk out. Everyone's afraid to do. You saw that clip yesterday where they're taking pictures of the people that are stealing and stealing them blind, robbing them blind, and the person taking the pictures got fired. Did you believe it? We should hire him. We should find out who he is. Anyway, it's such a sad thing.

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Our leadership, just a short while ago, real median household income in Nevada, think of this, it rose by $10,992. Nobody has ever had a number like that. Now you're losing that, you're losing it in big ways, but primarily because of inflation, because you're getting a salary and your salary is getting worthless. It's getting just worse. It's going down at a level that nobody's ever seen before. We've never seen levels like this where it's going down so you think you're employed and you think you're getting the same salary, but your salary is worth a lot less because of what they've done. And we're going to be drilling and we're going to be reducing energy costs. And then we're going to be selling our energy to Europe and other places, and we're going to be reducing our debt and reducing taxes. You know, you got the largest tax decrease or largest tax cut in the history of our country, larger than the Reagan cuts, largest ever. We're going to be reducing taxes still further and we're going to be paying off debt. We were all set to start and then we got hit with COVID and we had to solve that problem. And we did, we did a phenomenal job. Never got the credit for that that we deserved. We did a phenomenal job. Nobody knew what the hell it was. We knew it came out from China. Although China tried to blame Italy, Spain, France, they were trying to blame everybody. But ultimately, I said where it came from. It came from the Wuhan lab labs. And I said that right at the beginning. See, there's a hat over there. I love the person who says Trump was right about everything. Actually, you're pretty close. You're pretty close, but it came right out of one. But think of that $10,992. That's what you did. And yearly and nobody has ever done. That's never been done in our country before. Now you're losing like amounts because of what they've done with inflation. So we're going to get energy. We're going to pay off debt. We're going to reduce taxes. We're going to then lower interest rates because interest rates are way too high. People care. Anybody looking for a house because you might as well stop. You can't get the money from the banks. The interest rates are way, way too high. And yet they need to do it because they think they have to kill inflation, but you can kill inflation in other ways. Also, you don't have to kill the people who are already being destroyed by what's taken place because we have, look, we have a corrupt, incompetent leader in Biden. Everyone knows he's in and I wouldn't have said this three weeks ago. I wouldn't have said it. I was actually very kind to him. I was very kind to him, but now we can't be kind anymore because the gloves are off. The jar has been opened. He's taken millions of dollars from other countries like China.

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