2:30:05 I'm not saying this to the anti-Israel crowd. I'm being completely honest or the pro-Israel crowd. How do we move away from the central issue? I mean, it is a central issue, which is totally insane. I mean, look, okay, I'm sorry 50,000 Gazans are dead, okay? And I'm sad thousands of Israelis are dead. But a million plus dead in Ukraine could destroy the world. Like if you look at scales, it's not even, how do we extricate ourselves from the whole Israel debate, when we've got Netanyahu and all his surrogates grandstanding because they want to play victim because it keeps him in power. I mean, clearly that's what's going to happen. How do we get out of this? Well, look, whatever Israel does and says, there are huge issues that are going on around the world. The persecution of Christians is going on right now in Sudan. It's going on in Nigeria. It's going on in Syria. I was really delighted to see Trump basically say, hey, listen,
2:31:04 You know, either you fix the problem in Nigeria or we're going to come in guns blazing. Now, again, some people hear that and they go, oh, is this going to be World War Three? But Trump is not talking here about U.S. troop involvement. He's talking about sending in SEAL Team Six for like you know, four days to clean up the problem. And if we're not going to stand with the Christians around the world, who are we actually going to stand with? I mean, are we or are we not a society on a Christian foundation? And are these or are these not our Christian brothers around the world? So I agree, Israel is part of a much bigger situation. Now, obviously, if you're the president, you have to have a foreign policy. You can't say things like, forget about Israel, just focus on domestic problems.
2:31:46 Because Trump is dealing with international problems on many different fronts. But if you're telling me that domestic problems need to be a political priority, particularly going into the midterms, yeah, I agree with that 100%. Well, I want to play a clip of Trump here. from yesterday, because I know MTG, she comes on all the time. She always says, I love Trump, overall 90 plus percent good. She's only giving advice on what she thinks bad. Trump obviously doesn't see the clips. He believes the reporter and says, oh, she's an actress now. I don't know what happened to her. When all she does is preface that as she's trying to be fair. So, you know, my issue is, is, is, you know, again, Trump needs to see things before he talks about it. But overall, the point is, is that at least as popular as conservative Christian nationalists
2:32:32 I'm proud of our party and movement that we are introspective, we do debate, we do discuss. And every time I say one thing and we criticizing Trump, it's international media. Jones turns against Trump, it's some edited 10 second clip, that's not what's happening. And so I think it's also important for conservatives to not get mad at an MTG when she levels things that she thinks are credible. A lot of it, I think is accurate and don't eat our own like the left does cuz we're not a cult. Here she is, here's Trump. Yeah, so.
2:33:17 I don't know what happened to Montree. She's a nice woman, but I don't know what happened. She's lost her way, I think. But I have to view the presidency as a worldwide situation, not locally. I mean, we could have a world that's on fire where wars come to our shores very easily. If you had a bad president, we had a horrible president and we ended up with Russia, Ukraine, and we ended up with other disasters, too. Don't forget, I put out eight wars, nine to come. I think I'll get the other one taken care of. But I put out eight wars and look at the damage that Russia, Ukraine has done to us as a country. I mean, we spent 350 billion. We're not spending any money anymore. Now they pay us through NATO. You know, I got NATO to go from 2 percent to 5 percent. Well, that's very important. When you're president, you really sort of have to watch over the world because you're going to be dragged into it. Otherwise, you're going to be dragged into a world war.
2:34:11 I think if I weren't president, first of all, that war would have never happened if I was president. And if I weren't president, that war could have led to World War III. It won't. It's not going to anymore. But when I first got in, I said, wow, this situation could lead to World War III. And I got NATO together. I got everybody together. But with all of that, I passed a great big beautiful bill, which is the biggest tax cuts in the history of our country. So when somebody like Marjorie Taylor Greene, who's now catering to the other side, I don't know what you know, I guess she's, you know, got some kind of an act going, but I'm surprised at her. But when somebody like Marjorie goes over and starts making statements like that, it shows she doesn't know. I don't devote a lot of my time. Let me give you
2:34:55 A, the media misrepresents what she's doing, but B, obviously we're all interconnected, small world, Trump's trying to stabilize the country, the dollar, all of it, I agree with what he's saying, he's right, but so is she, the media has misrepresented it, but you've got Laura Ingraham attacking Trump last night, because the hot thing is to do it, not because the left picks it up, nobody watches them, the constituency, I get one, says it's a gratification, they don't know how far we've moved this quick, And so people say, attack Trump more. I'm like, do you understand that this is very tenuous? I will criticize where there's problems, try to get him back on the straight and narrow. But no, he's a lifeboat we're in. So it's a very narrow tightrope to walk here in my point. And people better be very careful. I'm not talking about Greene or anybody. I'm just saying in general, that if Trump fails, you look at the world economy and things, it goes from bad to worse.
2:35:49 Yeah, look, I mean, number one, I think we know enough about Trump to realize he is a certain type of personality. He is an absolute like alpha male of alpha males. He hates to be criticized. And if you criticize him, he's going to lash out. I mean, that is a given. And it's very different. If you had said the same thing and it was Reagan, Reagan would have been like, well, you know, I think Marjorie Taylor Greene, she's done a great job, but you know, we need to have a little bit of a talking about this and so on. Well, Trump is going to be like, you're off the reservation. What's wrong with you? That is. Trump's personality. Number two, Trump was making a subtle point here. I think that is that while Marjorie Taylor Greene is saying, hey, Trump, you need to pay more attention to domestic issues. Trump is saying, look, these international issues and domestic issues are connected. And so when you look at an issue like tariffs now, is that a domestic issue or a foreign issue? Well, it's a foreign issue. It involves taxing these foreign countries. But it's even more domestic. He's totally right that it's not even secondary.
2:36:50 All his international policy is 100% American-centric. Yes, and not to mention the fact that the globalists are at it internationally. So if you're going to dismantle globalism, you have to do it. You got to take on the world economy. Is she mad that they're threatening Stormer and the EU to stop censorship? No, that's directly suing our companies. Exactly, exactly right. That's the thing about going to Venezuela. I didn't support these other wars. This one's constitutional. They're doing it. They're funding the Democrats. They're shipping in fentanyl. Thomas Jefferson with the Barbary War, he'd already be in there. This is the Monroe Doctrine. So my listeners get mad at me. They go, oh now you're pro-war. No, I think it's dangerous. Let's see how I can set him up. I understand his thinking. Thomas Jefferson would have already hit Venezuela.
2:37:33 Exactly. And Trump's view is we need to have a muscular America First policy that, I mean, look, we hit Soleimani, we hit Baghdadi. hitting Venezuela is very much in the same idea that we go out there, we clobber these guys and we come home and things will be better over there because that's a narco-terrorist regime. By the way, Iran, China, Russia all have their fingerprints in Venezuela. You have Iranians sitting in the Venezuelan parliament. So it's not exactly... Venezuela has become an international playground for a lot of bad guys. Well, that's putting it lightly. They're definitely involved in election fraud. They're definitely being used as a piggy bank by the Democrats. You want to cut the Democrats off, you got to cut Ukraine and you got to cut Venezuela off. So what about Ukraine? Where do you see that going? I mean, we've got like literal road warrior footage. The Russians are taking towns every day, cities every few weeks. They're just, they can already take the whole thing. They don't want a confrontation with NATO, but they're doing it incrementally. I'm not glad any of this happened, but Trump's trying to shut it down. Where do you see Ukraine going?