Here's the deal.
The man was impeached twice, he was convicted on thirty four felony camps and the American people still said he's closer to the normal than what we see exactly.
That's what they're saying. He's close to the normal.
Why because something that pertains when you talk about the transgender for community, for example, and you're talking about the issues that pertain the less than one percent of the population. The Democratic Party came, of course, as if that was a priority more so than the other issues. And so he comes to the office. Now you're talking about child you know, you know, childbirth, citizenship and what have you. He knows that's not going to pass the mustard, but he knows that he made that promise.
So when he shows up week one on.
Capitol Hill and he says, this is what we're going to do through the executive order, even though it's going to be shot down through the courts and what have you, he's saying, I kept my promise.
A lot of other things that he's going to point to that he's going to try to do, I kept my promise.
Then you turn around and you look at the left and you say, what promises did you keep? That was a clip from my appearance this past Friday on Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO. And that's a perfect spot to begin a look at some quick hitters from Donald Trump's first.
Full week in office.
We'll start with Columbia.
Did y'all see what happened with the White House and Columbia this weekend?
Holding true to his.
Campaign promise, the President began deporting migrants on military planes out of the country. Well On Sunday, Colombian President Gustavo Petro blocked those US military flights from landing in his country. According to CNN, President Gustavo previously approved the flights into Colombia, but revoked the authorization once the flights were en route.
Petro accused the.
United States of treating Colombian migrants like criminals, and that prompted action from the White House. Trump then ordered steep tariffs on all Colombian imports, a travel band for Columbian citizens. He called to revoke the visas for Columbian officials in the United States and called to suspend visa processing for both immigrant and non immigrant visas. Hours later, the White House said Columbia had agreed to a deal to accept migrant flights, including those on military aircrafts.
The White House also said.
That tariffs would be held off pending its implementation of the deal.
Ladies and gentlemen, if.
You're a United States citizen, tell me how you'd have a problem with this. Tell me how you have a problem with it. You have a problem with Trump, You have a problem with politicians. You have a problem with their segrogates. You can have a problem with just the visual of what you see because you see so many people clamoring for times of old. You have problems, But you can't have a problem with this in its literal sense. What's going to be your problem? So you have immigrants
that are coming over our borders illegally. The President Donald Trump, after watching nearly fourteen million people across.
Our borders illegally over the last four years, said nah, we ain't having that.
And some of y'all you going back, You're going back.
And when the Columbian president said, hell no, we ain't gone for this, similar to what Canada indicated, similar to what Mexico had indicated prior to Trump taking office, the Columbia president tried to take that position and then the next thing, you know, Trump threatened twenty five percent tariffs. So in the end, it's not just about the migrant pride.
I'm not talking about that for this particular story. I'm sitting there talking about don't you feel good if the president of the United States?
Because we're supposed to be a superpower.
Right, We're supposed to be the richest nation of the world. Right, we're supposed to have all of this influence. We're supposed to have tentacles everywhere, We're supposed to be able to get things done. Right, don't you like seeing somebody ultimately acquiescing to our wishes instead of it.
Being the other way around.
Again, We'll learn more as we go along.
I'm quite sure there's plenty of things Trump is going to do that we don't like.
I'm about to.
Get into a couple of things that I don't.
Like right now. But that particular.
Story, I must admit it tickled me. I gotta admit it.
In other words, and then I loved the I love the whole visual of the story. It wasn't in the White House, they said the White House Administration. That's what I just read to you, But they didn't tell you that Trump was on the golf course, and while he was on the golf course, he heard about the position of the Columbian president and they handed him the fall while he was on the golf course, and a couple of hours later he changed his mind. You gotta like
stuff getting done. We've got to be to that point right now. Desperate times called for desperate measures. Let's not acting like the immigration process. It's just about folks coming over our borders illegally.
It's about the.
Fact that somehow, some way, they've got to be taken care of. It cost to feed folks, it costs to house folks, It cost to make sure clothes on people's back, It cost to take care of them, and that was coming from the taxpayer's money. That's why you got people in an uproar. It ain't just that folks are in this country. It's that it's costing American taxpayers.
They're dollars. That's the issue.
And when we absorb it from that perspective, understanding it from that premise, then all of a sudden, we got to if we don't have it already, we've got to develop an open mind about what exactly is gonna work and what's not gonna work to the benefit of our country. Why you think you see people complaining about the war between Ukraine and Russia. You know why, because American taxpayer
dollars have gone towards supporting Ukraine. These are the kind of things that provoke emotion from American citizens, particularly in this day and age, because there's a whole bunch of people suffering right now, and it ain't just one demographic, it's a whole bunch of people. We gotta pay attention to this stuff. I gotta admit I looked at the story, and when I heard the Columbian president changed this mond,
I kind of chuckled. Yeah, when you're the United States of America, that's the kind of effect you're supposed to have if you are indeed a superpower.
Just a thought. Let me get to my next subject.
That's Pete Hegseth, the new Secretary of Defense for the United States of America. Heg Seth was confirmed in the vote mostly along party lines, with fifty one senators voting in favor of him and fifty against. Three Republicans, including Mitchell McConnell, broke with the party to oppose the HeiG Seth nomination that forced Vice President JD. Vance to cast
the tie breaking vote. Hegseth was sworn in on Saturday to lead the Department of Defense despite a myriad of allegations against them that included sexual misconduct, public intoxication, and financial mismanagement. A couple of things to get out the way. First, financial mismanagement. Okay, sexual misconduct. We've heard those allegations before,
and we know who we've heard them about. That would involve the now President of the United States of America, the forty seventh President of the United States of America, mister Donald Trump.
So clearly the standards have been lowered. The standards have been lowered.
Because obviously, if he's in office, and now hag Seth is in office, it's not something that a vast majority of American citizens, particularly those who voted for Republican care to discuss or even think about.
They're beyond that.
Now, a lot of you are gonna be out there and you're gonna be, you know, lamenting the fact that they didn't care.
But that's how it goes because you see.
All of this kind of stuff has been going on in politics for quite some time, you know it. Bill Clinton he was accused of some things. Liberals didn't care. Okay, all of us cared during the primaries and stuff like that when it happened to Gary Hart, former presidential candidate, or John Edwards, former presidential candidate. On both sides of the hour, we've seen this kind of stuff all the time.
If you think people are going to care to the point where it's going to dissuade them from voting from their candidate in a buying earvery system where you got to choose between one and the other, it's.
Not gonna happen.
Which brings me again to the Democrats on Capitol Hill during the whole confirmation hearing. If you're Tim Kane or anybody else, what were you focused on? If you Adam shift to somebody else, what were you really really focused on? You just look at some of these things in some of the fights that you're willing to fight, and you're just wondering how tone deaf can you be? Because it's not like it's the campaign trail anymore. The president is
in office. His selection for Secretary of Defense is Pete hegsaid. If you don't want to, if you don't want him in there, if you don't want.
Him to get confirmed. You know what you do?
How about attacking his resume, because there's no one who can refute that his resume is worth attacking. I am quite sure that he has served this country honorably. You saw soldiers and other military officials and attendance endorsing his confirmation. Obviously as a soldier who served in Afghanistan, if I remember correctly, along with other places, and it served honorably. His service to our country cannot be denied. So we
ain't going there. I'm just talking about his resume, the ability to be a leader of over three and a half million people in a defense department, this national defense. And his brother's resume involves him being a host on Fox News, by the way, over the weekend, not even during the weekday.
I'm on TV more than him.
But somehow, some way, that qualified him in Trump's eyes to be the Secretary of Defense, because of his military background, because of the fact that he's obviously a patriot in their eyes, should be in all of our eyes, because he has served our country. We should feel that way about any of our soldiers who serve honorably.
By the way, you.
Could bind all of that with the fact that he's loyal to Trump, and he spoke out against a lot of what his predecessor, Lloyd Austin and others were doing with the Defense Department over the last four years.
You could see.
What Trump's agenda is. My position is, Look, y'all, it is what it is. Look at his resume. If you attack this resume, there's nothing anybody could say, because all you're saying to him is that, excuse me. If you were the president of the United States, would you pick you to be the Secretary of Defense? If your previous job was hosting the show on the weekends on Fox News and you had never led a department, let alone one with three and a half million people answering.
To you, that should have been the focus.
It wasn't, because you had liberals on Capitol Hill that wanted to bring up financial mismanagement, public intoxication, and allegations of sexual misconduct. When his boss has the history or the documented history that's been on the books for years, and you actually thought that was gonna work. It's almost like you never learned, y'all, never learned. Let me move on something more important than me anyway. The Duskegee Airmen.
For those of you who don't know, the Duskegee Airmen are the four hundred and fifty black pilots who fought overseas and.
Segregated units during World War Two.
This success in combat helped pave the way for President Harry Truman's decision to desegregate the armed forces in nineteen forty eight.
So why are we bringing this.
Up Because President Trump's ban on diversity, Equity and Inclusion DEI initiatives nearly erased their story from being taught to new trainees in the military. On Saturday, royd Is reported that a video about the Duskegee Airmen, as well as civilian female pilots trained by the United States military during World War Two, we're no longer being taught and basic training at joint based San Antonio Lachland, pending a review.
Well. On Saturday, the Air Force said.
The training videos passed the review to ensure compliance with President Trump's.
Ban on DEI initiative.
Really, ladies and gentlemen, remember one of the United States Supreme Court issued the decision outlaw and affirmative action and college admissions.
Remember that you remember how conservative activists used.
The courts and social media, the target workplace programs.
Prior to the election. Remember all of that. Pay attention to what's going on.
Remember when Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, brought up and challenged that they were actually good things about slavery, and someone to write echoed those sentiments. Remember all of that. Why are all of those things relatable? It's a concerted effort to shove aside history. Even Trump didn't do that in his first term, if I remember correctly, he honored at least one member, one living member.
From Tuskegee. This is what he did.
But suddenly he's in office again, and now he's saying, all right, let's eradicate DEI programs all over the.
Place, and let's not try to teach history.
Why is that?
We all know when all of this came about, particularly with DEI, much of corporate America endorsed a lot of it. Following the protest to the company the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd in twenty twenty. So you remember at that time when people were protesting, there were riots in the streets that would protest all over the place.
People will lock at arms, and white Americas stand up. We want to hear you.
We want to listen to you, we want to be sensitive to because there's a level of sensitivity that we lacked, and it was an opportunity for all of us used to come together.
But somehow, some way, they put in DEI programs.
And although you had several people who were benefiting more from DEI programs or initiatives rather than Black people, primarily white women as well, just like they primarily benefited from Affirmative Action, it was black folks that everybody's talking to. You must have this job because of DEI. You must have this job because you're not qualified. You must have this job because you're being assisted, you're giving a one up. That's why you have people who want the eradication of
affirmative action, even from the black community. You have people who feel that way about DEI as well, because we know how competent and how qualified we truly, truly are. We don't want that being in question just because.
Of programs like that.
My response to all of that would be fine.
If that's how you feel.
Let's just not forget what provoked its implementation to begin with.
Folks didn't have to fight for civil rights.
It would never have been the need for affirmative action.
They didn't have to fight for equality. It would have never been the need for affirmative action in the NFL. It would have never been a need for the Rooney rule. If black folks were treated like their white counterparts in the coaching profession of the National Football League. DEI programs wouldn't have been necessary. If there wasn't a discrepancy between the black workforce and a white workforce in terms of positions, particularly loftier positions within corporate America, it.
Wouldn't have been necessary.
But we want to forget that, we.
Want to erase that, and Trump, as much as you might be turned off by this, is fulfilling the campaign promise because there are constituents out there, a lot of whom not all, but a lot of whom happened to be white, that are looking at these programs and they're saying, that's the latest example of how we're.
Being minimized and pigeonhole and ostracized.
Remember one Chris Rock joked about the insurrection in January sixth, and he said, you had a bunch of white folks out there trying to overthrow a government that day. Run and everybody laughed about it. But then it makes sense, Show system, show country. You're still a vast majority in this country, the United States of America, even at fifty seven, at fifty seven and a half percent, you're still the majority in this country. But somehow, some way, if you're white,
you're feeling like things are being taken from you. And instead of us as black folks, making that case and saying, no, that's not necessarily true or this is why it was necessary, instead you had the attitude, hell, would y'all good for you? And so white folks responded, but not just white folks, others too, responded by saying there needs to be a change. That's why Trump can do this. That's why he can
get away with doing this. That's why we can't say a damn thing about it, because while folks are trying to find their way again, some of us lost ours, especially on the left. This might be foreign y'all as you sit here watching me speak about black.
And white, well, guess what.
That's better than having to talk about he or she.
Or they? Notice the difference.
One effects one subject affects the dominant majority in this country. Compared to thirteen nearly fourteen percent of the population. The other involved less than one percent of the population.
But who was the left focused on.
Then you wonder why Trump can get away with this.
He can because we lost our way.
And he's looking like he's somebody that's found a way back for a vast majority of American citizens.
I don't feel that way.
I'm saying his voters do, and they're speaking louder than anybody right now, and there's nearly a damn thing anybody can do about it. Live with that, Yes, Left, I'm talking to you.
Live with it.