BHS - 7A – The Trump Transition | History: First 100 Days in Oval Office

was not. Was it a squeaker it was not. I think the word substantial works here now. He has promised to do a lot of things day one. A matter of fact, a lot of presidents do. He hundreds of promises during the campaign, including dozens of Day one a lot of Day one stuff. At the top of the list, closing the US border with Mexico, so mass deportations, increased oil and gas production, retribution against political opponents. Those three are the ones that are most likely to happen on

Day one. Certainly the border, I mean, there is no issue about the border. And that's probably the I think the most important thing to him as a matter of fact, it was. And there were interviews where he said the border is the most important part of his philosophy, dealing with the border. And that's interesting because his advisor said, no, no, no, the economy, and he said to his advisors, let me tell you, I won on the border, and the border

is as important as the economy. Well, you know, the guy succeeds, and his advisors telling him what to do didn't work. So that is what he has promised. Now. A lot of his proposals are going to hit California you very hard. Why Well, because Trump hates California. And if you're on the wrong end of Donald Trump and he has any kind of power, he's going to hit and hit hard. He tells you that you hit me, I hit you back twice as hard. You don't vote for me, I'm going to go right back at you.

You don't support me, I'm going back at you. You go against me, I'm going back at you hard. And that is what's happening to California. Matter of fact, salt in which during Trump's first administration he pulled back the he pulled back the amount of money we could deduct for our property taxes, which used to be one hundred percent down to ten percent. And that's because California has a lot of wealthy people, and because our pricing of

our housing is so expensive. And the other thing is because California is wealthy people, far more than Arkansas or Alabama. Deducting state income tax used to be one hundred percent off your Feds and the federal income tax, and he changed that, where again it's only ten percent. It's over ten thousand dollars. Oh it is Sorry, it was ten thousand dollars each one, not ten percent. So Donald Trump, President elect Trump has repeatedly promised to launch the biggest

deportation campaign in American history. Is that going to happen? Well, let's start talking some practicality. I'm sure he's going to make a move to do that. And here again, California is going to be hit the hardest if in fact, that happens. Why is that? And this comes from the

La Times. These figures. To expel every undocumented immigrant, every illegal immigrant, would deprive California more than seven percent of the workforce, potentially cripple agriculture and construction, divide families, disrupt communities, According to the La Times, Now I'm going to bring something here. You know, everybody he had harangues Donald Trump for this or a lot of people in California. Look, it's going to destroy our economy. Look it is going

to cripple agriculture. Look at our workforce, look at construction. Hey, what are we doing advocating violating the law in the first place? Is California's position is that we want illegal aliens, we want a violation of the law, because we do well with a violation of the law. And there's some realities here. How many people who are here legally are okay with picking strawberries? Not many. So there are two points here. Number one, Yes, it would cripple our economy.

And two, what are we doing advocating the immigration of illegal migrants? So that was sort of up in the air, and I think both sides have a problem here or looking at obstacles. Also, there is a practical problem. Eleven million people. I'm going to start mass deportations the same day. Yeah, we know they're going to be deportations. He has promised the most sweeping deportations in the history of the United States, some of the big ones during Reagan, with some big ones,

Obama were when numbers were very high deportations. But we're talking about mass deportations programs. We go back to the fifties with Dwight Eisenhower and that was a big one. I think it was over two million deportations. Two million

people were deported who were here illegally. And just to give you a quick lesson in political correctness, the official government name of that program like app Operation Desert Storm, Operation Desert Shield, you know those where we have these names that the government comes up with the official name of that deportation programs, Operation wetback. It's a different time, It's a different place, isn't it. What's going to happen day one? A lot of promises are being made by

President to be President elect Donald Trump. One of them being probably the most important one in terms for him is immigration boom, going to shut down the borders and we're going to deport eleven million people day one. Well, you know, obviously that's impractical, but he intends to do as much as he can. And there may be a debate in the new administration over how fast how sweeping.

Tom Homan, who is the forming former acting director of ICE under Trump and now the new Czar of the Border said in a sixty minute interview last week, it's not going to be a mass sweep of neighborhoods. It's not going to be building concentration camps. And I think he'd have a hard time doing anything like that because polls show most of us want tougher enforcement of immigration.

We're okay with that. I'm okay with that, but not indiscriminate deportation, especially if they divide families, which happened the first time around and was a political disaster for the Trump administration. On the environmental side, he has plans and he has said this. He has said at many rallies Drill Baby, Drill, doesn't believe in climate change. He has called it a hoax. Has never walked back from that.

He has plans, and he has the power to roll back a lot of the environmental gains if you look at them as gains. Day one, he's expected to open more federal lands and offshore waters to oil and gas drilling. Oil companies are thrilled with that one. He's also probably going to ease restriction on the oil industries emissions of methane. That's a big plus for them, and Joe Biden had

a pause on increasing with petroleum gas exports. He basically put a moratorium on increasing the liquid petroleum gas exports, and Trump's going to reverse that probably day one. Also, looking at EV's, a lot of it has to do with the fact that evs are promoted by Democrats. And I don't know if Trump really believes evs are terrible.

I don't know, But there's no issues going to roll back Biden's efforts to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles, repeal federal subsidies for solar, wind, renewable energy park programs. He just doesn't like them. He's an oil and gas guy. Also, when you talk about alternative energy, guess where the heart

of alternative energy is. Why it's California. And so he's not particularly happy with California, right, And there is no way that to California is going to be fossil fuel neutral by twenty thirty five, as Gavin Newsom has indicated, there's no chance without federal money. Just can't happen. Later on, I'm going to do a story about how we can't do this without nukes, and I'll explain why. So you're going to see permits slowing down for new offshore wind

energy project. Now this is I don't know if this is a fact other than maybe it's a coincidental time wise. But Trump really became a strong opponent of wind energy ever since Scotland built a wind farm that spoiled the view from one of his golf courses. And now does that change anything? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, is that just an attack on Trump? I don't know, But he looks at his property and this again according to interviews done by the La Times. Take that with whatever

you want. Also, he talked about tariffs, and this is where a president can act almost immediately and has full power to do so. He said last month, to me, the most beautiful word in the dictionary is tariffs. He has proposed tariffs on at least ten percent of the goods from every country, at least sixty percent, tariffs of at least sixty percent on China, and as high as two hundred percent on Mexico. Now there's a discussion about

that because here's what happens. Tariffs are basically taxes on imports, and two things happen. They raise the prices because goods become more expensive they raise the prices on what we buy, and that pushes inflation. They also almost always prompt other countries to retaliate by imposing their tariffs on our goods. But China is already doing that. And this is where President elect Trump is dead right. If we don't do that,

China is cleaning our clock on this stuff. And he's the one that had the balls to say that's enough. Other presidents didn't want to rattle that saper, and he says, we're not going to have this anymore. And so is there going to be a tariff war? Well, the reality is is how do you undo a tariff war? Reciprocal?

That's it. You charge ten percent tariffs on our goods going into your country and allow us to do it freely and import or export our goods into your country, and we will charge exactly the same the other way around. China has been abusing that, even though it signed treaties abusing that from day one. And then the retribution part. Man he's threatened to prosecute Vice President Harris Adam Schiff former US Representative Live Cheney. Here's one man that is

just woe. During his first term, he publicly demanded that Attorney General William Barr arrest Biden, arrest former President Obama and Hillary Clinton, who was Secretary of State at that time, for what he claimed was a treasonous plot to spy on his twenty sixteen campaign. That was treason and they should be arrested. Barr just ignored it, didn't even discuss it, just didn't pay attention. Now, he does have the power to order the Justice Department to investigate. He absolutely does.

Even though there is a longstanding norm right where the Justice Department is held at Bay there's a firewall between the Justice Department and the White House. That's been the tradition. You don't meddle. Well, he is going to meddle, and he can meddle because that firewall is not protected by law. It's simply been tradition, nothing more, nothing less. A lot of presidents say, day one, what is going to happen? Well, in reality, it's really not day one, because day one occasionally,

but it really is legitimately the first hundred days. That's how presidencies are looked at, and the first one hundred days has become an iconic time when a first term president comes into office. By the way, just a little bit of history where the one hundred day concept actually came in. It refers to the period in eighteen fifteen between Napoleon Bonapartes returned to Paris from his exile on the island of Elba and his defeat at the Battle

of Waterloo, and that was one hundred days. So out of that came sort of the concept of one hundred days when you're dealing with a return. What happened King Louis the eighteenth returns and anyway, so let me just go on the first hundred days. In the US, it really wasn't very important. No one paid attention until FDR took office in nineteen thirty three, and he had a day one. He shut down the banks for four days.

He had a banking holiday because people were making runs on the bank and he says, we have to call him down. And he's given the credit for stabilizing and keeping the run on the banks from going crazy. Also, he started his fireside chats, and boy, you talk about a brilliant communicator on the radio. He would go, Hi, this is Franklin Roosevelt, and I'm in front of the fireplace.

We're just talking. Of course, it was a room set up and it was a full broadcast facility, but he did it was a very friendly, almost family like ambience to calm the country down. And he began rolling out his programs. Fifteen major pieces of legislation in the first one hundred days, and we're talking about the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Work Progress Administration, all of the programs just keep people working. Now, for those people that think FDR started

us on a road to socialism, he did. We turned into a much more left wing government support government control of our economy. But what you can't argue with is he kept millions of people alive, putting them to work, producing, not being paid very much, but enough to eat. Not only was it construction, he had writers, he had filmmakers, he had photographers, He had drama troops going around that were paid for by the government. They were government employees.

So that first hundred days was absolutely extraordinary, and by far most of the programs that have been created in the first hundred days were FDR. But what he inherited very few other presidents have. You can argue that Barack Obama inherited something pretty crazy because we were going into a free fall and you could also argue that Joe Biden inherited craziness because COVID was going full blast and

he inherited that. So a little bit of history of those first hundred days JFK eighty seven days into his presidency, he ordered the Bay of Pigs invasion, which came very close to destroying his presidency. The decision, the ordering of the overthrow of the Castro government. The CIA set this up really badly, I might add, and he was talked into it by his Joint chiefs of staffs, the military guys, and it was horrible and he came back and just he admitted it. He just said, I blew it. That's

it goes. It was a horrible decision. Gerald Ford, within the first one hundred days pardon Richard Nixon. And that was the reason, by the way, I voted against Gerald Ford, and I thought that cost him his presidency. And he knew it that he was going to lose the next election because of his pardoning of Richard Nixon. Today, it's viewed as a very heroic act, saying, I know it's going to cost me my election, but this is the decision I'm going to make for the good of the country.

Liz Cheney feels the same way she got slaughtered in her view that President Trump should not be president. The biggest day ones Ronald Reagan. Boy, did he start off with a bang. Remember the Iranian had the hostages. US diplomats were being held hostage. And he made it really clear to Ian. To Iran, Jimmy Carter was useless by the way in terms of negotiating, And Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, prior to his being sworn in, made it very clear to Iran, you do not want to screw

with me. You do not. The minute I become president and those hostages are still there, you're in for a world of hurt. And they understood that he was not screwing around. So as he's being sworn in to the presidency, the plane is taking off from the Iranian from Tehran Airport with the hostages aboard. What were the most laws passed during the first hundred days, Franklin Roosevelt. He was able to pass. When I talk about the fifteen major programs,

he was able to pass seventy six programs. George Bush the least, George W. Bush seven, Harry Truman fifty five. During his first hundred days. This is after he was elected president, not from the time he assumed the presidency after the death of FDR. The foreign countries visited just a little aside the most Barack Obama, the fewest, Dwight Eisenheighers Eisenhower, JFK Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Donald Trump. All are tied at zero. So are you going to see

Donald Trump? Probably he's going to visit a foreign country. And then approval ratings, that gets really interesting. The highest approval rating the first hundred days John F. Kennedy with AD three. The lowest approval rating of any president during the first hundred days Donald Trump between forty and forty five percent. So, and I don't know why you even deal with approval ratings. You've got four years of a presidency.

This is not England. We do not have a parliamentary government where the government can fall any minute and a new government has to be instituted. We'll see. And the big question is not only does it matter the first hundred days, but what's going to happen the first day day one? Does the president have a little table there where he starts signing directives literally after his hand goes on the Bible and goes up in the year. All right, let me tell you, let's talk a little bit about nukes. Now.

I'm a big fan of nukes, not just nuclear weapons that could blow at cities, but civilian nuclear power, power plants, and it has there's been a history there for a real long time. I mean literally ever since the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs. And that was the peaceful use of atomic power. I mean it started literally right there. This was the future. This was the future. And so we started building an atomic willing

reactors to create power. They are not weapons grade. The way it works is power grade uranium is much much less powerful or developed, if you will. The purity is far less than weapons grade. So it's very different. And so nuclear power started to be used in power plants and ships, et cetera. And so we now have a history and around the world a history of nukes. Very big on nukes. It was growing like crazy, and then what ended up happening, Churno Will happened shut everything down.

And then and then three Mile Island it was moving. I had Three Mile Island happened in one of the units A three mile island had a partial meltdown, shut down everything. Okay, then we start coming back and people realize that nuke power is pretty important stuff. Fukushima happened, shut down everything. Now it's coming back, and here's why it's coming back. One, you can't be one hundred percent safe. You can be ninety nine point nine nine nine percent safe.

The problem is when that point zero zero zero one happens, all hell breaks loose and the fallout, if you will, is pretty extraordinary, and we are not going to make it in terms of the climate change issue, which I already think we've hit critical mass and we're over the edge. But in terms of making us not relying on fossil fuels, which of course is all the damage out there, We're not going to make it without nuclear power just isn't going to happen, which is why environmental so actually spit

on a split on this. Used to be everybody was against dukes and then realized, Okay, maybe that's the only answer is using nuclear energy. So I have always been a fan of nuclear energy, especially going to what is it the Mount Diabolou plant down in San Clementy, because it looks like two giant breasts, and I just I go past, I go, that's my idea of nuclear energy. By the way, I think that's already been shut down. That's been decommissioned, if I'm not mistaken, And power plants

are being decommissioned one after another. So now here's what happened last year. There are a bunch of CEOs meeting and Open AI co founder Sam Altman says, you know what, there is so much need for electrical power. AI needs so much need that frankly, some models they're gonna need

as much power as a large city. Well, they head of Constellation Energy was there, and this guy and Constellation Energy produces about a fifth of US nuclear power, and his name is Joe Domingaz, and he says, wow, boy, are these guys going to be in for a root of awakening about how much power is actually going to be available. So he goes back to Baltimore and thinks, what if his company restarted the undamaged reactor at three Mile Island, which has been shut down. Let's restart, not build,

restart those that are being decommissioned. And that's exactly what is going on now' This was in Pennsylvania. And it's no small deal. I mean, they're gonna spend one point six billion dollars in bringing it up to up to par, up to up to its ability to actually produce power according to regulations. So now are they going to put

it on the open market? Why would you spend one point six billion dollars on the guess that the energy is going to be sold at a profit, particularly since energy is cheaper now outside of the nuclear industry, Alternative energy is cheaper. Coal fired plants are cheaper than nuclear energy. So you know what the deal was cut. It was Microsoft cut a deal with Constellation to supply all of its power for twenty years at a price more so than electrical power or than a gas powered plant or

alternative energy. And by the way, price wasn't a big deal here. Microsoft really didn't care about price. I mean a little bit, but that wasn't the negotiating point. You know what the negotiating factor was here getting the power. Because it looks like there's no other way that that much power. These AI facilities demand so much power that it needs a city's worth of power, and there is no way at this point to connect the grid and make it all happen without nuclear power plants because there

it's already connected. So the bottom line for Microsoft is we need this more than negotiating the price of power. I mean, they're not gonna get raped. But it's interesting that when you see something on a twenty year power deal that prices number three or number four in importance, pretty impressive. KFIAM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.

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