8 posts from Monday, July 28, 2025

I remember I, along with probably most people, was saying at the beginning, oh, you know, by the 4th of July, somebody had to think of how the country was, the economy was gonna be tanked by then. And I was kinda like, well, that seems right to me, but that didn't happen. Now, it could happen tomorrow. I'm just saying, that's reality. So let's work first from the reality of that, not from I just hate Donald Trump, 'cause that's boring and doesn't get us anywhere, and leads you to dishonesty. Because the truth is, I don't know what his strategy is, but look, the stock market is at record highs. I know not everybody lives by the stock market, but I also drive around. I don't see a country in a depression at all. I see people out there just living their lives, and I would have thought, and I gotta own it, that these tariffs were going to fucking sink this economy by this time, and they didn't. So, you know, how do we deal with that fact? 'Cause that's the fact.

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Yeah, a ceasefire is possible, but you have to get it, you have to end it. You're talking about with Israel, you're talking about there. Because we have many ceasefires going on. The whole world is... If I weren't around, you'd have right now six major wars going on. India would be fighting with Pakistan. You see what we just did yesterday with two nations that we're training with. And during the trade I said, "I'm not going to do any trade deal unless you guys settle your differences." And we got it settled in 24 hours. I mean, they just announced it was settled, which is a tremendous thing. But Serbia Kosovo is another one. We have many hot spots that were at war. I think a very big one was India and Pakistan because you're talking about two nuclear nations. That was a very big one. And we get help from the UK, the Prime Minister's helped. We have cases where we specifically need the help because somebody comes from here that you're aware of. And, you know, when you come from a country, you can do things. And I call up the Prime Minister and all of a sudden he's able to do things. True also with other presidents and Prime Ministers. But we've done it... Nobody's ever done what we've done. We have six different major... If you take a look at Rwanda and the Congo, Republic of the Congo, they've been fighting for 31 years, 8 million people dead. It was going on. Nobody could go to that part of Africa. They were being killed. If they even walked there, you'd be killed with machetes. And it was a violent situation. And I was able to... They liked Trump. They wanted to make a trade deal with Trump. They wanted us to take their rare earth. They want to give us their rare earth. And I got to know the leader of the Congo. I got to know both of them indirectly. And I called him. I said, let's end the war. I don't want anything until you end the war. But we ended the war. As you know, the foreign ministers came up two weeks ago. And the leaders are going to be coming very shortly to Washington. Rwanda and Congo. I mean, that's another one that we did. So we've done a lot. It's an honor to do it. It's not hard for me to do it. And I use... Not in all cases, but I use a combination of knowing them a little bit, or in some cases, knowing them a lot.

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We have some good news because the recent war that you just saw, they just announced, I see. The newest of the five, now this would be six that we've stopped. I have six wars on the list. I'm averaging about a war a month, but the last three were very close together. India and Pakistan and a lot of them. Congo was just, and Rwanda was just done. But you probably know, I won't go into it very much because I don't know the final numbers yet. I don't know. Numerous people were killed, and I was dealing with two countries that we get along with very well, very different countries from a certain standpoint. They've been fighting for 500 years intermittently, and we solved that war. Probably, so it just came out over the wire, so we solved it through trade. I said, "I don't want to trade with anybody that's killing each other." So we just got that one solved. And I'm going to call the two prime ministers who I got along with very, very well and speak to them right after this meeting and congratulate them. But it was an honor to be involved, and that was going to be a very nasty war. Those wars have been very, very nasty. So we've done a lot of good work. We've had great support from the prime minister any time we needed help, any time we needed any form of support. You've been there. We appreciate it very much. And we're going to continue onward.

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