40 posts from Wednesday, August 5, 2026

There was a threat, there was a man who was arrested, seemed to be heavily armed near the property here on Sunday. Is it, it's an ongoing concern, sir. Talk about that for briefly if you can. Well, the only thing I get a little solace from is they say only consequential presidents. And I am definitely consequential. I mean, if you look at the economy, if you look at what's happening, Iran, as an example, will never have a nuclear weapon. They already can't, but it's going to be formal. The strait's going to be open very soon, or they're going to get hit very hard, and then the strait's going to be open. We were going to a tremendous attack, the biggest since World War II. And they called me and said very politely, "Please, can we talk? Can we talk?" They didn't want. And I said, "Yes, we can talk. Let's get it done. Finally, let's get it done." This should have been done by other presidents for 50 years. You know, you keep here in '47, but that's been for three years now. It's been over 50 years. Other presidents or other countries should have been able to do this. And I did something that I had to do, because if they had a nuclear weapon, this whole world would be a different place. If they back out again, are they done? Well, if they back out again, they're going to get hit really hard. You know, they know that. They understand that. I have no choice. They can't have a nuclear weapon. It's very simple. It's not like, "Gee, let's, you know, think about something else." No. It should have been done by many presidents over many years, and it wasn't. And I'm doing it. Obama was taken to the cleaners. He thought he could bribe his way out. He gave them billions, tens of billions of dollars, so stupidly. $1.7 billion in cash, green cash, on a Boeing 757, an airplane, loaded up with cash. They probably looked at it. They said, "You've got to be kidding. Now, you can't bribe your way out. All you can do is fight your way out." And if they didn't, they wouldn't be talking if we weren't doing what we're doing. We hit them very, very hard. But the hard hit is yet to come, and hopefully we won't have to use it. I hope we won't have to. We're having very good discussions. They don't like to admit that. But, you know, it's a little bit disconcerting. You tell people like you, "We're having wonderful discussions." And then some guy will come out of Iran and say, "We have not met. We have not..." Just until, like, all day long, you understand. It's just incredible. They'll say, "We didn't talk about nuclear." "Well, what do we talk about? We're sitting there twiddling our thumbs, right?" But it doesn't matter. Let's talk. The only thing that matters is action, and they want to make a deal. We'll see what happens. If they don't make a deal, it's going to be too bad. Sir, thank you for doing this for us. We very much appreciate this. One of the big stories of the day, and we'll talk about the markets. The markets were way up today. But one of the big stories, of course, is the primaries. In Michigan, specifically, where it looks like Abdul El-Sayed is going to win, has a very good chance to win that Senate race, at least his primary race. What do you think about the traction these candidates who were backed by the DSA and members of the DSA are getting? Well, I think it's crazy because they're going to ruin our country. They want to... I don't know if they want to. I think either they're very naive or they actually want to ruin the country. No matter where you look, go back a thousand years with different names. Anybody doing what they're doing and what they're espousing, everything turns out to ashes and junk and filth. You know, one thing I said the other day for the first time ever. Never thought of it. But you go to these cities that are taken over by the socialists and the communists. They're always filthy dirty. They're disgusting. They're always dirty. And you know, I'm a clean person, and people I know are clean. And you are. I know you very well. You're very clean. But aside from crime, aside from all of the other problems, no jobs, no anything, no money, they're always filthy, disgusting, dirty. And that's what you'll get. You know, I won Michigan. I did great in Michigan. And we should win. We have a man. Mike Rogers is going to be fantastic. Now, I'm not a big believer in polls, but I believe in him somewhat. And based on the polls, he'll do much better against Abdul than he's going to do against the Congresswoman. Do you think, sir, that that the Republican Party is hitting home the facts that these people literally want to open up to prisons? They want to privatize. They literally want to get rid of of private insurance. They want Medicare for all, which means private insurance for none. Are they hammering that home so people get an idea of how radical these agendas are? Well, outside of you and people that happen to be in Fox and a few others, they don't talk about it. Really, they don't. You turn on NBC fake news or ABC, which is the worst of all, where CBS or CNN, any of them, they don't talk about that. They talk about as positive as you can talk, which isn't easy to do, but they don't talk about the consequences because it's all about the consequences. And a guy like this is just look at his views and then they change the views for the election. Now, they're actually having to go a little bit right, which is very hard for them to do. But it's a very sad thing when you look at it. And as far as the Republicans, like the Republicans talk about it, it's not put on. But they've got to get tougher. They've got to talk. And they've got to talk about how well we're doing. I watched Laura before and she was saying this is the most incredible. She's giving the numbers, the financial numbers of the trade numbers that just came out today. Our trade deficit is way down. There's never been anything. It's never gone down in history like it has during this a little bit more than a year. Think of that. And she was going over just point after point. I'm saying how many people report this? People don't know. Then they saw in the economy. Trump is at 42 percent. I shouldn't be afraid. We have the greatest economy, maybe in the history of the world for any country of 19.2 trillion dollars being invested in the United States. And if I wouldn't have won, you would have had 10 trillion being taken out of the United States and your welfare would have doubled and tripled. And we would have had a bankrupt. You touched on Iran there. You know, it's got to feel like Groundhog Day to you. So I mean, they're they're in. They want to deal the deals off. I mean, at what point do you say enough? And there's no coming back for Iran. Well, I I have plenty of time. You know, people talk about the midterms for the midterms. They want to see winning. You know, in Venezuela, we oh, people were so opposed to what I did in Venezuela. It lasted one day. And now they look, we're making hundreds of billions of dollars. And so are they. They're getting Venezuela is like a different place, but we're taking out hundreds of billions of dollars. They're taking out hundreds of billions of dollars. It's a different place. It's actually becoming me. They had the tragedy the other day with the with the problem, as you know. But there was a terrible problem. The earthquake, I guess you'd call it. It was a bad one. But outside of that, they have a country that is a very happy country again. But we are we paid for the cost of that war many, many times over. Where have you heard that? But everybody was against it. And then when I won, they all think it was great, but nobody talks about it anymore. So I have to talk about it. Nobody talks about the fact that we have the safest border in history. And I probably got elected partially, at least in big part, because of the fact that the border was so bad. Twenty five million people, you know, people say 14. It's only 19 or it's only 20 to 25 million people. Probably it's probably more than that. They came pouring into our totally unchecked and unvented pouring into our country. And many of these people are not the people you want in our country. We have drug lords. We have people from many people, millions of people from prisons, eleven thousand. You've heard me say it. Eight hundred and eighty eight murders, most of whom or many of whom committed more than one murder. We're getting them all out. We've got so many of them out. We're doing such a good job. But with the hardest thing we inherited, we inherited the worst inflation in the history of our country. But the worst thing we inherited was the fact that Biden allowed twenty five million people. They would not have qualified many of them, most of them, but many of them to come into the country. And we're getting them out. Why is it you think that nobody is talking about the fentanyl deaths? Fentanyl deaths have come way down since the border has closed. It should be one of those prime topics because we have saved tens of thousands of lives in the short period. You look at the numbers from just a couple of years ago, they have come down dramatically. It doesn't seem to be a topic. Sixty eight percent. I'll tell you what. By sea, by ocean. Ninety seven point two percent. Ninety seven percent. Now you've seen the pictures of the boats and it's all horrible. But when you think that each time you knock out a boat, you're saving ten thousand people. More than that. Probably they say twenty five thousand. You know, they're carrying massive amounts of fentanyl. And that's an occupation that's very hard to fill right now. Nobody does it. Nobody would have done what I did. But we are down over ninety seven percent in drugs coming in by sea. And now we've started a very heavy push for drugs coming in by land, which is actually comes through Mexico, which is actually much easier. The land is the sea is the hardest. But we we have a solution to that. Nobody's I mean, basically, they can't do it anymore. They don't get away with it. We know every boat that's coming in. We know who it is and what's on that boat. And it's largely fentanyl and other really bad drugs. So we're down ninety seven percent. But we're down the numbers on fentanyl. If you would have said that you were going to do that, nobody would believe it. They say it's just a politician talking much higher than anybody ever thought was even part. People thought if we could get it down two or three percent, it would be good. We get it down sixty seven, sixty eight percent. Nobody seen. And that's why your fentanyl numbers look so good. The markets were way up today. You had oil coming down to seventy five dollars a barrel. It was in the high sixties before the war started. Yet gas is still thirty percent higher than it was six dollars and twenty seven cents here in California. I paid yesterday. It's a little different thing because they charge taxes on gas every time every time it goes down, they take taxes. I mean, they've done a terrible job in California, but I think we're going to have it coming down to the oil companies have to start going. They're making too much money and they've got to start lowering it. But we're going to be down into the threes and maybe the twos pretty soon per gallon. We'll see what happens with the war. We have a very good day today. You know, they don't like to say that the Iranians, they always like to say we didn't discuss that. We didn't. People have found out that's not true. They had an all day negotiation today and it looks like things are very good. And if that happens with the straight has opened up, they'll never have a nuclear weapon. But if the straight opens up and it's partially opened anyway. And as you know, we control the straight totally through the blockade. But if we have no friction, then oil will go down to I think it'll go down to two and a half dollars a gallon. Two and a half dollars. You know, it was down to one eighty five before I had to make this little journey to the Islamic Republic of Iran. I had to make it. We had the best numbers that anybody's ever seen. But now you take a look with that going on. We have you just hit to get today. I think it's number seventy nine. Seventy nine days. We had an all time stock market. I have four or one case of the highest they've ever been by double and triple. Yeah. And then I read where we're doing badly on the economy. I just by the way, job numbers. We have more people working in the United States today than ever in history. We're doing an unbelievable job. Costs are coming way down. I inherited, you know, they talk about costs. I inherited very, very high costs. And they're all coming down now. The food, the groceries, it's all coming down. We've done a great job. You know, I think we should be given an A plus on the economy. But I think that's coming. People are starting to talk about it. I'm wondering, sir, I wanted to ask you about A.I. as the president. You know, everybody is. Everybody wants A.I. But everybody's scared of it. Right. Nobody wants the A.I. data centers in their backyard. But nobody wants China to have them either. How do you navigate that as the president of the United States? Well, a big part of it is China. Look, whoever wins the A.I. race is going to win. A.I. It's bigger than the Internet. It's bigger than maybe anything that has happened for many, you know, for literally hundreds of years. It is the biggest thing. And it's mostly good. And the communities that are giving a hard time now, a lot of people think that's China oriented. You know, that China doesn't want. They're spending a lot of money on promoting. Don't, you know, build because we're beating China in A.I. We're really doing a great job. I approve it was my idea, actually, for every plant that's built, they build their own electricity. So this way, they're building unbelievably modernized, you know, much better than anything we have had in the country. You know, these are super genius, as they know about building plants and they're building their own power. We need tremendous power for that. China is building massive amounts of power. We are, too. We're building more than China because every one of those buildings that you see going up is building their own. So they're not taken to the community and the excess power that they have, which is substantial. They're selling them that back at a very low cost to the grid. So we're getting more and more electric. Of course, there's nothing. I think any community that turns down A.I. is making a big mistake because your taxes are going to go way down. If you own a house, it's going to be more valuable. It's a tremendous thing. And I see it. It's almost like there's a there's a campaign against, you know, data centers. But data centers, if you look at the stats, everything's good around them. Now, the thing they should look at is blue states and blue cities, cities run by Democrats because that's really the threat to the country because they're a disaster. But when you turn down data, since and within this country where they get turned down, there's other communities that want them desperately. Two quick questions, sir. One, you're here to talk about the economy. Right. What's what's your big message? You want to leave one takeaway with this crowd? What is it? So tariffs have been incredible. We've taken in hundreds of billions of dollars. Supreme Court gave us a little shot, but we're allowed to do it in a different manner. They said that. But we are anyway. I mean, regardless, we have the law. I was doing it great. It was a very close decision. But we've done it a different way. And it's just frankly, it's just as good, a little more complex, but just as good. We took in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs. And what it's done is it's brought all these companies that didn't want to pay. Because if you build here, if you make your car here like Toyota just announced they're building one of the largest car plants in the world. They're coming out of Mexico. Others are coming here at numbers, drug companies, A.I., yes, but not even talking about A.I. We're building more automobile manufacturing plants than at any time in the history of our country. For 40 years, we didn't build one, not one. Now we're building many and the biggest in the world. We're building them the biggest in the world. So I think if there's anything I say, our country is rocking and rolling. We've never been this successful. They don't want to talk about it, but they're having no choice. And again, whether it's Laura or Sean or Jesse or you, you have such a good show. I watch you all the time. Sometimes they tape it and watch it. It's OK. I don't know what they call it today. They used to call it TiVo. Maybe they still do. But I love TiVo or its equivalent. But you do a great you do a great job. Thank you. Really good.

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I'm so glad you brought this up, Trace, because it's a really underreported story and so many Americans and their families have suffered because of the deaths of fentanyl. And President Trump always says, he says, "No drugs, no drinking, no smoking," and he's totally right. But so many Americans, unfortunately, do struggle with addiction. And it's because of drugs like fentanyl that are highly addictive. And we have to remember that it wasn't just millions of people who came across our wide open border under Biden. It was drugs, and it was drugs that killed Americans. I want to mention also, there have been zero, zero border crossings the last 14 months under President Trump. That's what a change of leadership does. Not only that, the president has gone further. He's designated drug cartels for the first time in our nation's history as foreign national terrorist organizations, meaning they now share the same designation as Hezbollah, which they absolutely deserve. So bang up job by the president. I mean, I was talking about this, Katie, where, you know, a lot of times we on the air say, "Listen, you know, the chaos happened." People say, "Oh, Trump chaos." The chaos happened in the previous administration when you let all those illegal immigrants in. Cleaning up the chaos can sometimes be messy, but it's necessary. And that's what we have been seeing for the past 18 months. Absolutely. And President Trump is right. He's not getting enough praise for the decrease in fentanyl deaths. And the other component of this trace is how tough he was with China. He said to China, "I will keep a 20% tariff no matter what, as long as you continue manufacturing fentanyl precursors and they dropped it." That combined with the lowest, if not to none, border crossing in the history, plus a strong ice. He has been the most effective president for the border and interior enforcement. Back to Iran, Elizabeth Pipko, for you, because I asked the president directly, it's like Groundhog Day. The Iranians said they want to cut a deal and then the deal's off and then they want to come back. And I think you can tell by his body language when he says it, he's done. He's had enough of this. It's going to happen or it's not going to happen. I completely agree, Trace. And I think when it comes to President Trump, when it comes to what's been going on here, he should be applauded, right? Instead of criticized for being able to restrain himself, he should be applauded for wanting to exhaust every single diplomatic possible option that he has in front of him before he has to unleash what he knows will be a very destructive attack. He knows how capable our incredible military is in the US and he knows he doesn't want to do this. He also knows he's the only one that has the courage to do this. I can tell you, Trace, we're getting close right now to the 25th anniversary of 9/11, a day that I remember living through as a first grader in New York City. And since that day, I think growing up, I waited for a leader to enter into the White House that I believed would have the courage to stand up against absolute evil. And unlike those before him, Donald Trump actually has that courage.

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You know, it's interesting, this is obviously my first time seeing the interview with the audience and before the president even said what he said, I thought the exact same thing where he said this only happens to people who are consequential. This is funny, that was my first thought because it's so true. You look at every American president who has had either, unfortunately, a successful assassination attempt or unsuccessful ones, Lincoln, JFK, Ronald Reagan, Donald J. Trump. In the weirdest way, it's a very good company to be in, but I really am impressed with the way that the president carries on every day, the resoluteness that he brings to the job, and it affirms for me how important his presidency is and why I want our Republican establishment to get on board and realize who we have at the helm and keep it going. We have a special guy. We've got to do good things for him. You know what's interesting about it, Katie, is that, you know, when you talk to the president about this, he, you know, he initially will say something with it, and then he kind of moves off the topic very quickly. You look at the Secret Service roaming around the Trump National Golf Club, and they are, I mean, they are on high alert and constantly moving. Yeah, they caught this guy two days ahead of President Trump arriving here, and that's better than they had at West Palm Beach with the first attempt, attempted assassination trace. So they're on high alert. They're doing exactly what they need to do. President Trump moved on so quickly after the White House Correspondents Dinner. He was at the podium. He was in the Oval Office. He was making jokes. He moved on because he knows that the country is more important than what he feels is a threat to him.

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- For incredibly good reason, Trace. Look, as has already been said several times tonight, this is the most consequential leader that we've ever seen, not just in the United States of America, but I think worldwide, and I think that's why he faces as much opposition as he does. And with that, that's why he's loved the way that he is. And I think for someone like him, I like to imagine myself back on that campaign in 2016, the few times I got to either interact with him or see him come and talk to our team, it's almost like he was prepared back then, over 10 years ago, knowing this is exactly what was going to happen. Knowing he was not going to be another leader that went in and did absolutely nothing, and knowing that with those strong actions and with that courage, unfortunately, would come some really dark days, but also some incredibly bright ones as well.

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This is a great interview, by the way. I'm really enjoying watching this. I love that the president makes time to do these great chemistry. I'm just enjoying it. I love hearing from the president. I love that he makes the time to talk endlessly with the press and talk directly to the American people about this. And if you notice, the socialist candidates always come for law and order first, and that's by design. They have to get rid of police. They have to get rid of ICE. They have to get rid of the guardrails that keep society safe so that they can push through their agenda. And what we've seen is a lot of these socialist candidates, they're pretty slick talkers, right? We've seen the mom donnies. We've seen some of these socialist candidates. They're real slick, but you notice the stance that they all distance from when they're pressed on it is law and order. Anytime they have passed comments about defund the police, they try to score them away for those because they don't want to have to own that because they know how unpopular that is with the American people. The president also mentioned Michigan, you know? He won Michigan in 2024. Yeah, he said that. And he did that partly, I just wanted, because it's so important, historic win for him. He won it partly by winning Arab American Democrats. He flipped the endorsement of the Democrat mayor in Hamlet track, Michigan, America leave. We think Al Sayed is going to be, you know, our guy. President Trump has given Republicans the playbook on how to keep Michigan. It's interesting. We talk about this whole thing where there's crime and the Democrats are, I mean, the Democrats have become because they'd love to, you know, as part of the agenda to show how much they hate things, right? Oh, we low, though, it's Israel. We hate this. And they've a lot of hatred for a lot of things. But when you start breaking the law, they start to fall back in love again, and it's just kind of a weird dynamic. Well, it's not a winning message to defund the police. And yet they keep resurfacing this message. What did the DSA platform say? We want to defund the police, defund ICE, but they have to keep coming back. People want safe cities. President Trump has brought crime down to historic lows since like 1900. We're at 126 year low trace and people want this. So the socialist agenda is going to further detach them from the Democrat establishment. And the Democrat establishments are going to have to start saying, yes, we want ICE. Yes, we want police. Yeah. I'm wondering, Elizabeth Pipko, what you think about the trend here, the Democratic Socialist of America and the candidates being backed by the DSA like Al Sayed, I'm wondering what your take on this. You know, a lot of people say, oh, you was the Tea Party and they kind of they were a big thing and then they kind of fell apart and there's still parts of it still moving. What is your thought on the growing, I guess the growing popularity of the DSA? Well, look, I think they're going to continue to grow. I think we're going to see that tonight. We're going to see that next week with the primary in Wisconsin. And we're going to see it with the demise ultimately of the Democrat Party, which I think is exactly what they deserve. Considering Donald Trump warned about the socialist takeover back in 2015, long before he was ever elected to the Oval Office, he was laughed at. He was told he was wrong by several senior leaders in the Democrat Party. And like with many other things, Trace, he was proven to be 100 percent correct. But again, in our country, socialism, which is the easy way out, will always lose. There is a reason that to our capitalist society, thousands of people try to come every single year because they know that in our country, hard work and big ideas will always win a toy. Donald Trump was admired long before he was ever president and that's why socialism will always lose out to those who want to make the world a better place.

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We're back Katie Zachariah Caroline sunshine Elizabeth Pipko very nice the president to mention the show there It's interesting Elizabeth Pipko to you first I you know, I wanted to bring up the AI thing because it's very true. I mean people are fascinated by AI They're also kind of afraid of AI and and they worry that the data centers might be in their backyard But even worse they might end up in China's backyard That's exactly right trace that is the nightmare scenario and that's what president Trump and let's say honestly Republicans at this point unlike their counterparts actually understand there is a global AI race going on right now Everybody knows that as the president said we cannot avoid but being in this race Competing in this race and making sure that America continues to be the leading technological and military power worldwide It's the only option that we have with the world that has an ever-changing landscape every single day the constant threats that both our country And our president has to face and knowing that China is working over time not just to compete globally But to compete directly with the United States of America You either want to win or you want to lose and thank God our current president wants to keep us on top Yeah, I think what I think he's right the the show really is that good I'm kidding the the whole idea behind the economy here is it's gonna be a struggle because the prices are still kind of high Caroline Yeah, but we talk about you know, look where we are We're in Blue State, California, right and we're in this port of San Pedro So the oil that comes to this port the second it comes off the ships and into the trains before it ever goes into Americans cars in California what happens Gavin Newsom slaps a $2 tax on it So while the rest of the country gets to enjoy low or high gas prices They are always high here in California has Gavin Newsom ever offered to temporarily lift that tax to permanently lift that tax No, what about when the president passed no tax on tips Gavin Newsom said nope not gonna do that here So it's the blue straights blue states that are intentionally obstructing a lot of what the president's trying to do Katie Well, I want to go back to China for a second because no other president has faced China like President Trump has and when he said About Venezuela earlier what he said about Iran China is the purchaser of 90% of their oil comes from Iran and with the AI race Independent energy president Trump knows that the prosperity and sovereignty of the United States is independent energy and he has done that for us And that is for our children our grandchildren and the heritage of future generations and also Greenland trace and so this is his multifaceted approach with China and he gets it and I'm so grateful as Elizabeth Pipko said We have a president who wants and cares about an energy in the AI race

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>> You know, the president had a nice life before this and he chooses to get up every day and do this. I love that he did this interview with you. I love that even at the end of his trip in California, he's taking questions from the press all the time. Look, he's a special guy. And so my message tonight after watching that interview where you see the president get so granular on every issue and you hear that from people who sit down with him. They walk away and they go, he is so granular knowledge on every issue you put in front of him. My message is Republican Congress, Republican establishment, you have a very special guy. You're not gonna get another president like this. So get it together. >> Katie. >> Well, I opened four Trump accounts for my four children and they're all doing excellent, which is indicative of a great economy, oil's down. President Trump's right. We need to give things time to tick out, but I am grateful to be under President Trump. >> Yeah, and Elizabeth Pipko, your final thoughts on this? >> Look, Trace, the president as always is right about everything, including you having one of the best shows on TV. I hope everyone that was watching tonight realized how lucky we are to have President Trump in the Oval Office. And to know again on the background of these day at DSA victories, what it means to have those that want to really steal from our future American children the opportunities that America presents them versus a president like Donald Trump who wants to instead invest in the futures of American children.

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