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When Donald Trump was running for office, he made it very clear that one of his big promises was going to be to protect Americans from terrorists around the world.
Donald Trump paying off on that.
Over the past week, President Donald Trump has intensified counter terrorism efforts both domestically and internationally. Here's a summary of just the latest developments that you may have missed. Airstrikes were ordered on March to fifteenth. President Trump authorized large airstrikes targeting Aramback Houthi rebels in Yemen's capital. This action was in response to the hoothy threat to the US shipping assets in the Red Sea. The offensive aims to protect American interests and ensure navigational.
Freedom for our ships in the region.
The strike resulted in over thirty deaths and more than one hundred injured. The Houthi leader vowed to continue attacks on American shipping in the US if US operations persist quote unquote. Iran's foreign minister also criticized the US actions, urging an end to Yemeny's civilian casualties. As he described it, even though, as you and I both know, Iran's foreign minister has sanctioned an incredible number of deaths of civilians in their attacks and backing of Hesblat and Hamas and going.
After the Jews in Israel.
Following by the way the air strikes, US warships intercepted and destroyed approximately twelve drones that were launched by the Houthis targeting the US Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier. This marks a significant escalation in hostilities, with the Huthis claiming the use of the ballistic and cruise missiles along side drones in their assault. Then the President said, that's not all I'm dealing with them.
Let me say it again.
The President then said, that's not all I'm doing to protect you, the American people. Domestic counter terrorism measures also happened the arrest of an activist on March the tenth, The Palasinian activists Muhammad Khalil, known for leading the pro Palestinian protests at Columbia University, was arrested by ICE agents and the arrest was filmed by his wife. President Trump praised the arrests, labeling it the first of many to come, quote unquote. He also accused activists like this individual of being paid agitators involved in anti American and anti Semitic activities. This move sparked criticism from quote free speech advocates and New York City leaders who deemed it unconstitutional. Guess what, it is absolutely constitutional what the President has done. Then the President also decided to do something else, the designation of domestic acts as terrorism. In response to recent vandalism that has happened against Tesla dealerships, President Trump announced that such acts would be labeled as domestic terrorism. He emphasized that perpetrators would face severe consequences, underscoring his support for the Tesla CEO, who we set down with in our interview, Elon Musk. Now, the present smart to do this because what's happening now is radical leftists in this country, anarchists, Marxists, and socialists. What they have decided to do is go after Tesla users. They're attacking people in their cars, They're keying cars, they're destroying cars or setting Tesla charging stations on fire. They're going after Tesla dealerships and doing incredible damage to the dealerships, all because Elon Musk is going after waste, fraud and abuse. We also had the President doing something else that was pretty amazing, and it comes to the issue of leadership appointments, Joe Kent's nomination. In early February of twenty twenty five, President Trump's nominated Joe Kent, a former Army Special Forces soldier and two time congressional candidate from Washington State, to lead the National counter Terrorism Center. Kent's extensive military background is expected to influence the administration's counter terrorism strategies. So again he's leading, for example by the people that he's picking. And then there was also some counter terrorism operations that took place in Africa. In fact, there were airstrikes in Somalia. The US conducted air strikes against Islamic State militants hiding in caves in Somalia. The operation, the first of its kind since President Trump's returned to office, targeted key ISIS operatives and aim to disrupt their operations in the region. We also know about the capture of a terrorist behind the Abby Gate bombing. The apprehension was announced on March the fourth, when President Trump announced the capture of the terrorists responsible for that bombing during the Afghan withdrawal in August of twenty twenty one that results in the deaths of thirteen American service members. The individual is currently en route to face American justice, with the operation highlighting cooperation between US agencies as well as the Pakistani government. Now, what does all this say put together? Very simply, it says this, Donald Trump is back in office with a robust and multi facet approach by his administration addressing terrorism threats both domestically and internationally. And this is just over the past week. Look at the headlines. US shares photos of Trump watching deadly strike against the Houthi rebels as it revealed US informed Russia of the attack. Another headline, US military shoots down Houthy drones is Trump strikes against counter against terrorism groups continue US here strikes. Another headline reads took out multiple Hooty terror leaders. Trump says, as Yemen reports thirty one killed. So, whether it is at home or abroad, what we are witnessing right.
Now is law and order.
Law and order that is clearly now a major part, I mean a major part of this entire government approach to putting America first. The President of the United States of America is putting America first.
And that's incredible, and that's all you can ask for.
That's what the voters asked, That's what the voters wanted, they wanted this to happen. They voted for it to happen, and it was amazing. The reason why the American people right now are clearly behind Donald Trump is for the simple reason that they actually understand.
That this president is keeping us safe.
The media, by the way, they are like losing their minds because they don't know how to cover this president in a way that can hurt him right now, because the American people clearly are responding. I mean, look at the video that was put out by Donald Trump of all these gang members being sent out of the country on these flights. Like I mean, Donald Trump said, these are monsters that were sent into our country by crooked Joe Biden, the radical left Democrats. How there they thank you to El Salvador and in particular President of El Salvador for understanding of this horrible situation which was allowed to happen to the United States because of incompetent democratic leadership.
We will not forget.
And he put to the video of all of these hardened criminals, like hardened criminals, and it's amazing. By the way, we've got a response now for the White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, responding to allegations of the Trump administration quote violated of federal court order by not turning the deportation flights around that we're going to El Salvador.
Here is what she said. Quote.
The administration did not refuse to comply with a court order. The order, which had no lawful basis, was issued after terrorists TDA aliens had already been removed from US territory. The written order and the administration's actions do not conflict. Moreover, as the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear, federal courts generally have no jurisdiction over the presence conduct of foreign affairs.
His authorities under the.
Alien Enemies Act and his core Article two powers to remove foreign alien terrorists from the US soil and repel a declared invasion.
A single judge in a single city.
Cannot direct the movement of an aircraft carrier full of foreign alien terrorists who were physically expelled from US soil quote unquote. So that is what the White House Press Secretary has just said. Now there's something else that you need to know, and this is this new number that I love Trump is his highest approval rating ever, period, full stop.
More Americans say the US is on the right track than.
Any time in twenty years, so the last two decades.
That is where we are.
The New York Posts coming out with his new poll numbers, and let me just explain to you how they put it. They said Trump ties for highest approval he's ever had. That's kind of a big deal, highest approve rating he's ever had. Three months into his second term, President Trump hit the highest approval rating he's ever had as.
A commander in chief.
While more Americans say the country is on the right track than at any point since two thousand and four, the new poll found go back to two thousand and four. That was when that was in the year when George Bush was reelected. That's a long time ago, folks. That's the good news. According to an NBC News poll released on Sunday, This is NBC News. The bad news is that Trump still has not won over a majority of Americans.
Fifty four percent.
They say they disapproved of his handling of the economy, the first time he's lost the majority on that issue in the NBC polled. That's what they say. Now, I've love to look at this data and see exactly how they're getting it, and do they go after more hardcore liberals than an actual voting block that would represent America.
But we can deal with at in a minute.
Even so, the survey found that voters generally filled Trump is bringing the right kind of change on the key issues, even tariffs. More Americans support his changes to trade policy than oppose it.
According to NBC News.
That despite the side market selloff last week as Wall Street grappled the Trump's decision earlier this month to slap twenty five percent across the board tariffs on Canadian and Mexico goods, as well as twenty percent tariffs on China, on many other key issues, voters felt the same way, with Trump's actions.
On the border being the most popular.
Fifty eight percent said it was a positive change on government cuts. Forty seven percent said his changes were good, compared to twenty one percent who opposed it. Again, these are major numbers. On many other key issues, voters felt the same way, with Trump's actions on the border being the most popular, fifty six percent said it's a positive change on government Cutt's forty seven percent says changes were good compared to twenty nine percent who opposed it.
Even on the handling of the Ukraine War and NATO policies.
He has received a significant pushback on mainly for the media and the press. More respondents said his actions were good forty one percent and forty percent that opposed his actions.
Now, this is again coming from.
NBC News and using their polls are very slanted against Donald Trump. I go back to the basic issues here. Donald Trump is hitting on the issues. Caroline Levitt, White House Press Secretary, on Sunday Morning Futures talking about invoking the Alien Enemies Act against these gang members who have invaded our country, which the presidents saying we're going after into pouring them to El Salvador.
Listen.
In just one month, President Trump has used his executive authority to secure our other border. It proves that everybody who claimed we needed a border bill was wrong. We just needed a new president who actually cared about securing our homeland and enforcing our immigration laws. You mentioned daily Godaway's seventy seven. That's an astronomical decrease from the previous administration. There's been a ninety nine percent decrease of illegal migrants crossing through the Darien Gap. If you talk to border patrol agents and ICE agents. They will tell you the camaraderie in these agencies is at an all time high because they are actually being allowed to do their jobs. In breaking news, this morning, Maria, the President signed a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act against trendy Aragua members who have invaded our country. These are the most violent, heinoused criminal monsters you could ever imagine. They have taken the lives of innocent American women like Jocelyn Nungray and Lake and Riley. And the President invoked this authority to deport nearly three hundred of them who are now in El Salvador, where they will be behind bars where they belong, rather than roaming freely in American communities.
This is a massive win.
For the American public and it is going to save lives.
It is going to save lives.
This is exactly why the President of United States of America, exactly why he has so much support.
Now I'm faced the nation.
This morning, Senator Marco Rubia was asked a simple question by a hardcore leftist. Her name is Brettan. She's the host there, and I want you to hear what she said. And this is the reason why the media is just losing the American people.
Is there any evidence of a link to terrorism or is it just his her point of view?
Yeah, they take over, I mean do not. I mean you should watch the news. These guys take over entire buildings, shut down.
I'm asking about justification for the revocation of his visa.
By the way, they're referencing this student that was arrested and green card taken away? Who did all these protests on the college campuses? And I love how Mark Rubia looks as like, did you should watch the news?
I'm gonna back it up. Listen to that.
He's talking to CBS. He's like, are you guys stupid? Are you stupid?
Yeah?
They take over, I mean do not. I mean you should watch the news. These guys take over entire buildings, college, they shut down.
Justification for the revocation of his visa? Was there any evident?
So was the negotiator on it, negotiating on behalf of people that took over a campus, that vandalized buildings, negotiating over what that's a crime in and of itself that they're involved in, being the negotiator of the spokesperson this that and the other.
We don't want it.
We don't need these people in our country.
That we don't need these people in our country. Amen.
Now you look at all the President Trump is doing and all the things that we're talking about here, and it goes back to what Donald Trump said in an interview recently. He said, simply put, we didn't need a bunch of new laws. We just needed a new president. He's not wrong. You secure the border and days after becoming president there was no new laws passed.
We have ninety nine percent.
Improvement from Biden and that was his better you know, he started around the election working a little bit harder and they got a little bit better. Was horrible still, So we're comparing it to his best time, comparing it to the worst time. It's like it's not even you can't calculate it. How much better. So we have now the best border we've ever had, and we did that in.
A period of five weeks.
Pretty amazing.
Actually, does that.
Imply that we don't need to add a bunch of money and forces. In fact, maybe you could draw down or reappoint the force and manpower that's down there, and we don't need new laws and new money.
Well, you don't need very many new laws because I did it without new laws. I did it twice without new laws. I had the best border ever. And now I think we're going to beat those numbers. Actually think these numbers, i'd be slightly better, and we're going to get them better yet. And I said during the speech on Tuesday night, I said that you didn't need anything, you just needed a new president for that. I said, close the border, and they closed the border. He could have done the same thing. I think he wanted open borders. I don't know if he did, but somebody into it ran the operation. Nobody really knows who was running it.
I mean, it's incredible, isn't it it? I mean, really, it really is incredible. The president, what he's been able to do so quickly, Like this is not hard. It's just it's it's a simple issue of enforcing what's happening.
Like you just enforce the laws. That's it.
You enforce the laws that are on the books. And when you enforce those laws the way that he's clearly doing it now, then what happens. It's a huge victory for everyone. Again, it's not harror. And you notice how like just calm and collected the president is when he's talking about it like we didn't need a bunch of different things. We need a new leadership. We need something that actually did the job and and and said we're going to stand up.
For the American people.
We're going to put the American people's safety and security first instead of putting it last. That's what we're going to do differently. And when you hear the President talk about the way that he has and you look at the results that we're talking about here, like the results that we're talking about here are incredible.
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.
Talked about just the US launching the air strike that these are ramback Hooti rebels and Yemen. And again the media is angry that Donald Trump is taking out terrorists, and listen to what he said.
The difference is these were not kind of ten prick back and forth what ultimately proved to be effeckless attacks. This was an overwhelming response that actually targeted multiple hoothy leaders and took them out. And the difference here is one going after the Hoothy leadership and two holding Iran responsible. It is Iran that has repeatedly funded, resourced, trained, and helped The Hoothy's target not only US warships but global commerce, and has helped the houthis shut down two of the world's most strategic sea lanes.
We have Martha.
Seventy percent of global shipping is now diverting around Southern Africa, adding to the cost of goods, disrupting global economies, adding to or shutting off supplies to the United States. President Trump is founded unacceptable. What we inherited was a terrible situation, and this is one of what will be a sustained effort to right that wrong and to reopen global commerce.
This is the reason why the president has the highest approval rating of any president since two thousand and four. You go back to Marco Rubio and what he said about the same thing. Why are we going after these terrorists this way? By the way, this isn't preemptive, This isn't reaction too. And the media doesn't want you to understand that. They want you to think, oh, Donald Trump's just going rogue.
Listen to Rubio.
Well, first of all, the problem here is that this is a very important shipping lane, and in the last year and a half, last eighteen months, to who thieves have struck or attacked one hundred and seventy four naval vessels of the United States, attacking the US Navy directly one hundred and seventy four times, and one hundred and forty five times they've attacked commercial shipping. So we basically have a band of pirates, you know, with guided precision anti ship weaponry and of addacting a toll system and one of the most important shipping lanes in the world. That's just not sustainable. We are not going to have these people controlling which ships can go through and which ones cannot. And so your question is how long will this go on? It will go on until they no longer have the capability to do that.
Well, what does US intelligence tell us at this point? Because the US had been conducting strikes for some time but has not stopped the hoo thies. So what's going to be different right now? Do you have more fidelity in the intelligence that would make this more successful.
Well, those strikes were a retaliation strike, so they launched one missile, we hit the missile launcher, or we sent something to do. This is not a message, This is not a one off. This is an effort to deny them the ability to continue to constrict and control shipping.
And this is not going to happen.
We're not going to have these guys, these people with weapons able to tell us where our ships can go, where the ships of all the world can go. By the way, it's not just the US we're doing the world of favor. We're doing the entire world of favor by getting rid of these guys and their ability to strike global shipping. That's the mission here, and it will continue until that's carried out. That never happened before. The Biden administration didn't do that. All the Biden administration would do is they would respond to an attack. These guys would launch one rocket, We'd hit the rocket launcher.
That's it.
This is an effort to take away their ability to control global shipping in that part of the world.
That's just not going to happen anymore.
And it could be well continue until that's finished.
It could involve ground raids.
Well, those are military decisions to be made, but I've heard no talk of ground raids. I don't think there's a necessity for it right now. I can tell you that as of last night, some of the key people involved in those missile launches are no longer with US, and I can tell you that some of the facilities that they use are no longer existing and that will continue. Look, it's bottom line, an easy way to understand it. Okay, these guys are able to control what ships can go through there. They've attacked the US Navy one hundred and seventy four times. They've attacked the United States Navy. We're not going to have people sitting around with the missiles attacking the US Navy. It's not going to happen, not under President Trump.
Not under President Trump where all this is about, Not under President Trump. And you go on the issue of border security, Trump, you just need a new president. Listen to Donald Trump in a new interview that he did talking about how America is getting ripped off. This goes back to again Donald Trump saying, I'm putting America first.
Well, we as a country have been ripped off for years and years, decades and decades, and you've covered it on your show. I've seen it. To Canada is a disaster for US. We lose close to two hundred billion dollars with Canada. Nobody did anything. Nobody said that with Canada that they charge our farmers think of this. They they have for dairy products, some dairy products two hundred and seventy percent tariff.
Nobody knows that, nobody to trink that down to like common terms. So our farmers may have a product such as what and we sell it to Canada.
So we want to sell milk into Canada, and they throw a two hundred and seventy percent price increase on the milk, which means we don't have much of a market, which means we don't sell milk in Canada. It's almost it's called the monetary tariff. But they have a lot of non monetary tariffs too, that's things unrelated to you know, they'll have a standard that they'll say you didn't meet or something that's called the non monitory.
So you put a tariff on what, for example, to try to counter the milk tariff.
Well, I can put a tariff on anything, but in the case of Canada, I put it on steel and aluminum.
We they want to sell their stuff to us.
We have a lot of tariffs that we're going to be putting on. It really hits on April second, and actually we've been very consistent. I think a lot of Oh, people are loving what I'm doing. The real business people are loving it. We're going to make America rich again. But we're going to have tariffs on automobiles. We're going to have tariffs or on steel. We're going to have tariffs on aluminum and copper and many, many different things. And they're going to be very consistent, and I've been very consistent. I did give General Motors and are Big Three actually a month of relief because they would have had a very unfair disadvantage over other car makers, which I didn't want. So I did that. And I think there was something I did from the fact that you know, I want to take care of our car companies, but you have and you've been reading about it and seeing it. We have companies moving into the United States at levels that has never been seen before. We have many many car factories going up.
If I understand it correctly, the benefits that would come from some of that may largely be down the road, which well.
No, I think immediately, Look, when you're building those plants, a lot of money comes in from those plants. You know, you're using companies, subcontractors, contractors, concrete companies and steel companies and you can see it initially, but you can see it more down the road when they open up.
I love how they try it. Well, this may not happen right away. No, no, it actually will actually will happen right away. This is what winning sounds like. This is what putting America first looks like. This is what having a present that cares about America more than other countries.
How many of you.
Knew what he just said there about the milk the tariffs they put on milk, so it's impossible for us to sell milk to Canada because the tariff on it is so insane. When you hear that, he says, we're getting ripped off by them. Like when you explain it the way that he is explaining it, it's incredibly simple and easy.
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