We rebuilt the military during my first term, and, we, we have great, great things happening with our military. We also, essentially approved a budget which is in the facility. You like to hear this of $1 trillion, $1 trillion. [00:00:18] And nobody's seen anything like it. The military is very, very powerful. And, it's going to remain that way. We spent $1 trillion on servicing US debt last year. [00:00:33] And according to Donald Trump, we are poised to spend now $1 trillion on the Pentagon. When we heard all sorts of promises from the Trump administration about how they wanted to cut spending, including over at the Pentagon. Yeah, we're about to give you direct quotes from Elon Musk [00:00:49] and Donald Trump Jr on that. But lo and behold, it turns out they're not going to cut the Pentagon. They're going to add to it spectacularly, which is exactly why we challenged them in the first place. Are you actually going to cut real waste, fraud and abuse, or are you going to do [00:01:05] the same exact thing that establishment Republicans and establishment Democrats do? Add more pork and more pork to defense? Well, our answer is in. So, here's more from Trump's Oval Office meeting yesterday. This was the press conference that he held with Israeli Prime Minister [00:01:21] Benjamin Netanyahu. In the middle of that press conference, he addressed the Pentagon. Let's take a look. We have to build our military, and we're very cost conscious. But the military is something that we have to build, and we have to be strong, because you got a lot of bad forces out there now. [00:01:36] So we're going to be approving a budget. The and I'm proud to say actually the biggest one we've ever done for the military. We're cutting other things that were, under Doge, but under a lot of other when you look at, a woman getting $2 billion for environmental and it had nothing to do [00:01:55] with environmental, and they had $100 in the bank and they gave her $2 billion. Many, many of those cases, all that stuff is going to be cut out. But we are getting a very, very powerful military. We have things under order now the likes of which we've never had before. [00:02:10] We've never had the kind of aircraft, the kind of missiles, anything that we have ordered. And of course, it's not lost on me that Trump is sitting next to Benjamin Netanyahu, who's been egging the U.S. To go to war with Iran on behalf of Israel, as Trump is mentioning, [00:02:29] increased spending for the Pentagon, which we'll talk a little bit about Iran later in the show. But Pete Hegseth was very happy about this. Of course he's celebrating it. He's the the head of the Department of Defense. And he says, thank you, Mr. President. Coming soon. [00:02:45] The first trillion dollar Department of Defense budget. President Trump is rebuilding our military and fast. P.S. We intend to spend every taxpayer dollar wisely on lethality and readiness, by the way. I seriously doubt that the Pentagon has failed every single audit [00:03:04] that has been done. They can't pass a single audit because there's a lot of waste, fraud and abuse at the Pentagon. But fascinatingly enough, there hasn't been much attention on that. Waste, fraud and abuse when it comes to cutting spending. And look, we're not going to cut spending. We're going to add spending when it comes to the Pentagon. [00:03:22] - So, Jake, take it away. - Yeah. So we're asking in the live chat poll, how many Trump voters do you think want to want to cut the military budget? None. Some. Most or all. Okay. I, I would definitely not go with all, and I would definitely not go with none, [00:03:37] but I know that some will. But let me give you some facts on this. So, if you remember, I, did this tweet right in the beginning of the administration. I actually not even then, but after the election, before they came in. [00:03:52] Hey, Elon Musk, I said put me in charge of the Pentagon. Slash $400 billion. Easy. That'll get you 20% of your goal of $2 trillion right out of the gate. I went to Wharton three years before you. I own a media company, so I know how to run a business. If you really want to cut, put me in, coach. Now, I did that because I wanted to see what the reaction was both from, [00:04:11] mainly from the right wing commenters. Right. I to be honest, I didn't think Elon was going to reply when somebody told me that, Elon replied. I didn't even quite believe it. And so I went. And it turns out he did reply and several times, let me show you one of them. And he said, dramatic changes for the better are coming on another tweet. [00:04:30] And he said, if massive change is not made, America's security is in danger. So he agrees that we should be cutting. And then not only that, let's go to graphic five. Now. Then Donald Trump junior, jumped in and said, and oh, by the way, earlier Elon had asked for suggestions on how to cut on my tweet. [00:04:46] Okay, so they're definitely at that point, they're saying we're cutting. No question. We're cutting the Pentagon. Then Donald Trump junior says, I'm I'm for all of this. So it's pretty much everyone I know on the right. If the left doesn't believe me, there's probably countless tweets, interviews, and my triggered podcasts to refer to. [00:05:02] This seems more like a universal to most Americans I've spoken to. This is about cutting the Pentagon. Okay. And then he has one more. He says only condition I know of would come from the establishment on both sides. Permanent. Washington likely does not like a lot of this. [00:05:18] You heard it here first, folks. Don Junior says that his father is part of the establishment. But by the way, guys, that's part of why you have a conversation with the right wing. That's why you talk to them and say, okay, what do you think? What are you going to do? And then they went on the record and they said, yeah, we're [00:05:34] definitely going to cut the Pentagon. And then here comes Trump and says, yeah, just kidding. Of course I'm not going to cut the Pentagon. I'm going to add $150 billion to it. But this is why I told you guys all throughout leading up to the election and afterwards, that Donald Trump is a fake populist. [00:05:52] Now, there are important parts of that. He was smart enough to at least pretend to be a populist while the Democrats kept punching themselves in the face about all the corporate CEOs are. On our side. Well, nothing will fundamentally change. We love the status quo. I'm like. [00:06:08] Stop, stop. You're going to lose the elections. Right. But does Donald Trump mean any of the things that he says in terms of sticking it to the, you know, the billionaires and and deliver for the average guy? His cabinet has more billionaires than any cabinet in history. [00:06:24] Did he actually reduce the debt last time he was in charge? No. He added to it more than any American president in history. $8 trillion. 5 trillion of which came before Covid. It was record breaking. You know, debt and deficit creation. Why? [00:06:42] Giant tax cuts for corporations, the wealthy. - Et cetera. - So then there was Covid, of course. And then Covid added another 3 trillion on top of the five he'd already created. Yep. Okay. So that was it. So this time around, he's going around saying, oh, I'm going [00:06:58] to cut taxes for tips and Social Security. There's this hilarious rumor that some poor folks in MAGA believe that he's going to eliminate tax income tax for everyone under $150,000. [00:07:13] There's no chance, quote me from here to eternity. There's no chance that's going to happen. Know what's going to happen instead is a tiny amount of cuts for the middle class just as window dressing, right? And then massive cuts for the wealthy and take corporate taxes from 21 to 15%. [00:07:30] So but hey, $5.5 trillion in tax cuts. But don't worry, Doge is cutting. Oh my god. And the tariffs and the gold card and stuff. But Doge is on top of this. If you take them at their word, at what they published publicly, they cut $130 billion. [00:07:47] Now there's a lot of people that have shown that that's not really true. And it's a lot less than that, but 130 billion compared to 5.5 trillion in tax cuts is literally nothing. And they said, no, no, no, it's okay, it's okay because we're going to cut the Pentagon. - The Pentagon. - Has a lot of waste. Fraud and abuse. [00:08:02] And don't worry, Don junior said everyone he knows in the right wing agrees we should cut the Pentagon. And by the way. And now, where are the savings? The 130 billion that Doge cut? They're going to add that every single year plus 20 billion on to the Pentagon. So they've done no net cuts at all. [00:08:20] They've added spending and they're going to do massive tax cuts. Yeah, that's exactly right. And look, I was one of those folks who would like roll my eyes at Republicans like the fiscal conservatives that would like they kept talking about the debt and the reason why I rolled they're [00:08:36] rolled my eyes at them is because they would only talk about the debt when Democrats were in charge and when Democrats were proposing policies that would require some spending, and then they would come in when they're in charge, they add to the deficit and the debt. And so that's why I would roll my eyes. But look for those who are actually interested in the truth and like a genuine [00:08:57] concern with what's happening economically speaking in this country. It is definitely true that our debt has become a huge, huge problem when we're spending $1 trillion a year now servicing our debt. [00:09:12] That's a problem. So when you hear some of the actual legitimate fiscal conservatives, you know, the economists who are raising alarm over our massive debt, they're right. Right. At some point, servicing that debt is going to become unmanageable. [00:09:28] And no, I don't believe in Modern Monetary theory. I just don't I don't think that the argument is good at all. And I think what we're doing right now is going to lead to a lot of pain and suffering for future generations in this country. Yeah. One one last thing here. So, some folks, either purposely or accidentally misinterpreted, [00:09:48] what I did with Elon as thinking that, oh, I trust Elon. And if I ask him to cut the Pentagon, I bet he'll do it because he likes me. No, of course not. Of course not. But what happened? You asked them. [00:10:03] And by the way, if you're in the right wing, it's also not a trick. Do you want to cut defense or don't you want to cut defense? I'm genuinely curious. My guess was that some of their voters wanted to cut defense, but that their leaders would never do it. So now, not only are Ellen and Don Jr, etc. [00:10:20] Even pretending to cut defense for a second, he's a neocon. He's never going to do it right. So all those guys are on the record, but so are a lot of the right wing hosts on shows I went on and had these conversations on, so let's watch that as well. Pentagon racks up $35 trillion in accounting changes in one year, [00:10:39] and they cannot account for 63% of $4 trillion of assets. DoD regularly buys parts and equipment that it does not need because it can't keep track of parts and equipment it already owns. They're not even keeping track of it, so they keep buying stuff. [00:10:56] They don't even know what they have in their inventory. Think about how crazy that is. Again, you and I are paying for it. The Pentagon has failed. Pentagon started doing audits seven years ago. They have never once passed one. Will the Defense Department budget be cut? It's $850 billion. [00:11:13] And we know there's a lot of waste fraud and abuse inside the Pentagon spending craziness. Yeah because we haven't had a decent audit audit of any of the money spent in years and years and years. We have to start in the Pentagon. We need to make a try on three sides instead of five sides. [00:11:30] In the Pentagon. It is way too big. - We have to cut back. - The Pentagon never passes an audit. They say, oh, we can't find the $400 billion. Well, then you're then I'm going to cut your budget by $400 billion because apparently you can't find it. I'm not going to give you money. [00:11:46] That was Tim Pool saying. Absolutely. That was Patrick bet. David, after I went on his show and talked about cutting the Pentagon. Laura Ingraham segment. She did a bunch of them. One of them was on the night that I was on Tim Poole's show. This became a real thing in the right. And they really believed. [00:12:04] They really believed that, that they were going to cut the Pentagon. They believed that they were actually cutting waste, fraud and abuse. By the way, that's another reason why not to hate Trump voters. So I know it's super frustrating, as you see, like of guys, of course they're not going to cut the Pentagon, but they really think they are. But think about it, guys. [00:12:19] They genuinely believe that. So today they're genuinely disappointed. And yes, for the 18th time, not all of them. Some of them will defend anything that Trump does. And let's be honest, some of us will defend anything [00:12:35] that a Democratic leader does. No, Joe Biden is young. Kamala Harris was flawless. Right. So but here we are. We now have right wing, left wing in the middle going, why on God's green earth are you going to add to the Pentagon [00:12:50] and make it $1 trillion budget when they never pass an audit, they can't account for $400 billion at a time. And this is bankrupting us all for waste fraud and abuse. And look, this is going to continue as long as Americans view politics [00:13:09] as a tribal blood sport, where you defend your side regardless of what they do. It's really important to hold your own side accountable when they break promises. So if you have super strict standards for voters on your side, they have [00:13:26] to follow everything perfectly or else, you know, if they're not perfect adherence to the cult, you know you're going to turn on them. You should have the same, you know, culture in regard to the politicians who actually have the power to pass the policy. So if they make promises on the campaign trail and they turn around and do a 180. 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