Benny Johnson
Appearances
Next Up with Mark Halperin
What Gets Ignored By the Partisans, Plus Sen. Ted Cruz on Two Different Tariff Paths Ahead for Trump
It feels like August and September. It feels exactly what happened. It's like, oh, we got a new entrant into the race, Kamala Harris. Let's see how the polling is going to do. And my numbers, it tightened a little bit, went from Trump plus five down to about Trump plus two. And my numbers stopped there and everybody else just kept going.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
By the way, you got me. That's what this sounds like, a patent of a wine. This is why people like Trump. People like Trump because he's dad, all right? Our home, I look at it as a metaphor of a house. Our proverbial house where we live, our country, has not only been a house that has been abused by all of our neighbors. They literally walk onto our property and steal from us.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
They take our doorknobs. They take our light bulbs. They actually take things from our home. Our children live here. We have a horrible deal with the bank. We're horribly in debt on our house. We need somebody to renegotiate for us. And more importantly, we need somebody to sit in a rocking chair with a shotgun outside to say you're not going to be stealing from our home anymore. Daddy's home.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
And that's what Donald Trump is. And that's what these tariffs are. He's sitting there with a polished 12 gauge out front. with a cigarette or a Zin in or whatever, you know, an Alpen. And he's saying, you're not going to steal from us any longer. And if you do, there's going to be horrible consequences. He's resetting the neighborhood. And that's what's happening here.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Europe has taken total advantage of us. There's a great chart. I don't have it on hand, but there's a great chart about the value of companies that were created in Europe over the last 70 years versus the value of American companies that were startups. And there is zero innovation. Europe has to depend on the American economy.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
They are dependent on us for their military, for their economics, for their innovation, and quite frankly, for the social welfare programs that they love to invest in. And Donald Trump is simply saying, there it is. Perfect. Awesome. Look at that. Look at how humiliating. So that's leverage. PBD. Pat, PBD. Is that in business? Who has the leverage here?
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
And the heels, did we ever get to the bottom of that? Are there heels in the boots? Do we know? Do we have forensics of this? Did anybody ever decide? What do they call it?
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Good one.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
What do you think about that? What do you think about that? Because a lot of people are like, wait a second, we don't know Casey DeSantis. We think it's nepotistic. Does she have the qualifications to be governor? It'd just be Ron running everything behind the scenes anyway, which I think some people would be okay with. I'm team Byron. I like Byron. Byron's my boy. I've worked with him before.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
decade 50 50 years of watching trump 50 what what do we know about his resume so this would be my point this would be my point to all this like it's chaos we didn't know oh my god fire drill uh you haven't been paying attention because dwight's been trying to set the fire for 50 years dwight's been sitting there with a cigarette because he lights it with a cigarette he's been sitting there for 50 years lighting that cigarette putting it in the trash donald you can go back to 70s donald trump's sitting there in his earliest interviews the guy's maybe 20 late 20s
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
And he's sitting there and he's going, these companies, they're ripping us off. It's terrible. And we've got to do something about it. And we should put up tariffs. And they're abusing us. We played clip after clip after clip. You can find so many of them. One's a great one with Roger Ailes. One of the first Fox News interviews was Donald Trump and Roger Ailes.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
And they're sitting here in this golf course. And Trump's just going off in 1995. And he's just going off on Japan at the time because China wasn't in the World Trade Organization. But it was Japan at the time. They're ripping us off and he's talking about Japanese vehicles. Why are we so weak? Why are we such pussies? And why can't we tariff Japanese vehicles back?
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
And all you have to do is then reapply that to China entering the World Trade Organization that has rules. There's rules. We let them into the WTO. They've never followed the rules. They've only ever stolen IPs.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
If you have buddies that do business in China, every one of them will tell you that the number one thing that will happen if you bring an innovation to China and manufacture it there is a hundred different version of your product will pop up on Timu and Amazon the next day. They'll steal it. They'll rip you off. And you have no grounds in Chinese courts to file for patents. You're screwed.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
You're completely effed as an American innovator. They are thieves. They're a technocracy that the World Economic Forum has created as the new super state to take down Western civilization. They are an absolute abomination, and they're a total and complete dictatorship, closed society. So what's the actual end goal here? I think the destruction of globalism.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
China is the model super state for what they wanted to bring to the rest of the world. China was the laboratory. They cooked in that laboratory to bring a technocracy, dictatorship, single party rule where all of us are slaves. Every one of us is slaves. Western civilization is gone. Religion is gone. Free market's gone. And we have this new overlords.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
It's exporting slavery to the rest of the world. And China was the first laboratory. They needed it to work. So they could bring that model out. And you've seen that model actually start popping up little places. And Trump is slamming that model's head against the locker. putting it down. And that's, I think, what is actually happening here.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
He's been on the show all day. He's ready to go. He's a new generation. But I understand people like the DeSantis... governorship and policies here. This is one of the reasons why I moved my business and family to Florida, actually.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
The destruction of the horrific future they had planned for all of us, the COVID level lockdowns, all of us living in these little pods and boxes and eating the bugs. That's what they had planned. China's it. And they want to destroy that right now. Final thing I'll say to your allegory of the office.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Let's say you had a business and you were able to actually see who was betting against the business. You have a bunch of employees. There are 187 countries in the world. You have 187 employees and you're able to actually open up the trades and see who's shorting your company, your publicly traded company.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
You're able to open up the trades and they're not anonymous and see who's betting on the company. What employees are taking like the five, 10 bucks they have a month and like betting that your company will succeed and like putting that in, driving that into the stock. And driving that equity into your security. And which employees are saying, I'm going to screw this company over.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
I'm going to make a fortune when this company goes down. And they're working inside your company. That's the World Trade Organization. China's that employee. They're betting against us who run the global economy. And Trump turned the lights on. Trump was able to reveal who was shorting the American market. And it was China. And he caught them dead to rights with their dick in their hands.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Thank you. Thank you.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
That's not going to work out, right? I told him the other night in the domestic, and he slept in the garage. Yeah, I kicked his ass out.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Benny! What's going on, guys? All right.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
So two, let's get the terms right. So two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Recession.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Yeah, that's because that happened under Biden. Yeah, that happened. There's a lot of this stuff that happened under Biden. Obviously, you have these self-made billionaires that are in charge of the country. And I would say, and I just want to give a shout out, I don't know him. I've never met him. But the person who has become a rock star in all of this is Scott Bessett.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Man, that guy is impressive. And everybody is now hanging on his every word. I've never seen a treasury secretary command so much power and also have such clarity. He spoke to the banks, and we talked about banks, and then I want to get back to the recession point. He spoke to the banks just yesterday, and Scott Bessett is sitting there giving a talk to all of the large American banks.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
And it was just a point that you made about large banks and conglomeration with financial services. And he said, your days are over. You had a great run. Now it's time for Main Street. We're done with Wall Street. Now it's time for Main Street. The ball's on this guy. To stare down the banks right here, this clip, to stare down the banks and say, this administration is not about you.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
We ran for the working man, and now it's time to serve them. I don't know how long this clip is. 27 seconds. Let's have a listen.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
For too long... PBD is exactly what you just talked about. This was yesterday? When was that, Rob? This was yesterday. Yep, yesterday. To the National Bankers Association, funded by the big banks, created wholesale by corporate banks. And so to be able to have the temerity to go in and say that and then also his background is so impressive. And I cannot believe I'm doing this.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Please don't come for me in the comment in the chat. Please chat. Don't come for me over this. But I'm telling you, like I can when you go into his background and see that he worked with George Soros. Scott Bassett worked with George Soros as his chief risk manager when he collapsed the British pound. When George Soros did a strategic collapse of the British government, doing it through...
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Hear me out on this. A overinflated stock market in the UK, overvalued currency in the UK, mass immigration that was disproportionate and making the culture wobbly, and an elite class that had sold out the working class of their country. That's what the UK was in the 90s.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
And Scott Bessett, our current treasury secretary with George Soros, swooped in and made a fortune that couldn't be spent in 100,000 lifetimes by betting against, by shorting the UK government in the pound. And this man saw the structural inefficiencies and the risks associated with this single greatest financial coup in world history, arguably, what made George Soros famous.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
I'm only saying that to say this. Trump is a genius, man, for bringing this guy on, for ignoring the fact that he's friends with Soros, bringing this guy on to work out these structural inefficiencies in our country so that this can't happen to us. And that's what I believe is actually happening here. Will it lead to a recession? I don't know. I'll leave that for people with much higher IQs.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
I went to community college. But is Scott Bessett on a war path to create a wall around our home? And I'd like using the home analogy, the metaphor. I'm sorry. It's going to get old. But Scott Bessett is out there to reinforce against someone like Soros doing that to the American dollar and the American economy. I am 100% in favor of that. Yes, there will be pain.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Yes, you'll have to exercise some demons. These are the kind of things that happen when you have demonic possession, which is what the country has right now. When you have things that are really bad and wrong with the country, you're going to have to exercise them out. but that's what Scott Bessett is doing.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
And if you understand the full picture of what's happening there, as he's trying to reinforce, to protect against what he did to the UK, he's doing that for us. That's amazing.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
It's a medicine we have to take. Can somebody explain to me why Joe Biden wasn't hit with the R word?
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
I just threw it out there. You're talking recession? So PBT just goes like the Biden recession, but that did not sink in. They changed the definition of that. Okay. So what happened there?
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Yes, he did. Like, literally. I did.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Okay. Okay. No.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Trump's already beat Obama three times. So he already won in 2016. That was an Obama cutout. Remember, Joe Biden was like begging to run Obama. gave Hillary Clinton the crown, and Trump romped. Then in 2020, Obama did everything they possibly could to rig and to steal that from President Trump. And then in 2024... Obama went hard in the paint.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
All of this happening behind the scenes, cloak and dagger stuff, that was all Obama. The George Clooney op-ed, it was all Obama. Obama ran the White House. Does anybody really believe that Joe Biden was in charge of the White House? It was clearly Obama, the first president in our lifetime, that moved down the street. No president has ever moved from the White House.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Five blocks from the White House to a mansion in Colorama, Washington, D.C., is where Barack Obama moved. So as he says on Stephen Colbert's show, I can run the White House from my sweatpants with the phone, with the earpiece in.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
And what's the first thing you see when Joe Biden, when they're inaugurating Joe Biden at that dystopian, weird inauguration that nobody went to, that the military had to protect? What's the first thing you see is Joe Biden like saying things as though he has an earpiece in? I'm telling you, man, Trump's already beat Obama three times, and there's no way that you can convince me otherwise.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
This last time was a seven-state, seven-swing state romp with the popular vote. Barack Obama is cooked, and I'll give you one final piece of data to prove that. They have to bus people into Obama rallies. Obama can't draw the crowds anymore. Who can sell merch? I think it's Andrew Schultz who said this. Politics is who can sell merch, right? How did your merch move, bro? Right? That's it.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Obama can't sell merch. Here's a perfect example of this. We got 40,000 people right now watching on YouTube. What would happen if Michelle Obama went live on YouTube? She got a little channel, same platform. I can show you. You can pull up Michelle Obama's YouTube channel right now, and you will see views of Dozens of views. Like 12-year-old Minecraft kid started a YouTube channel.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
I'm telling you, those people.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
It is really sad. And it's with billions of dollars of free promotion from the corporate media. The ship has sailed. People are over the Obamas. They're done with them. Michelle Obama's podcast is a perfect example of how people don't care anymore about them. They know that they're frauds. Well, because Michelle Obama stands up at the DNC convention, and we were all there, and we all heard it.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
She stands up at the DNC convention. Here's why. She's standing there at the DNC convention, and she goes, my parents are suspicious of people who took too much. And right before she gets on her G5 to go back to one of her private islands where she has a mansion in some of the whitest neighborhoods in all of the world. Everybody knows that they're frauds.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
They're worth hundreds of millions of dollars. They ran to say that we are, there's not, this is a good one. You want to get them? Here we go. Pull up Gallup poll race relations in America. Because this is what the Obama thing was all about. Obama said, my mom's white, my dad's black. It's not white America, black America. It's the United States of America. It's not red or blue.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
It's all for us together. Why don't we check out what happened while Barack Obama was president? Well, let's see here. Everybody said that race relations was just fine. And then Barack Obama got into office. And decided to infect a virus into this country and use race for political purposes to try and separate us, to really rend and pull at the fabric of this country. And people are sick of that.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
People have seen the divisiveness. What did Barack Obama say right there when race relations collapsed in 2013? He said, he said, Trayvon Martin's my boy. If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon. That's it. That's the destruction. And then he went and he fomented race riots in Ferguson, Missouri. We hadn't seen race riots in decades in this country. He fomented race riots in Ferguson, Missouri.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
People are sick of it. They see the Obamas for what they are, which are opportunistic goblins. who are just in it for themselves, and anybody who's close to them will tell you that. And the failure of the Michelle Obama podcast is the world telling them, we don't care about you.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Michelle Obama actually thought that hundreds of millions of people were waiting on bated breath to listen to everything she has to say to her eunuch brother, who somehow looks more feminine than she does. Eunuch brother. Adam. But that's it. Who do you got? Obama or Trump?
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Yeah. That's right. Obama's kissing the ring. We all saw him at the funeral. Obama's sitting right next to Trump, cracking jokes. How are we doing? They were talking about golfing. That's what the lip reader said. Obama wants to golf with Trump. Like, no, man. Obama's the one who said, I can't win. Obama sat there. Can we pull that up? The lip reading. I'm so sorry to abuse. Rob.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
I'm so sorry, Rob. The lip reading is unbelievable. Here's your perfect response to that poll. The first thing Obama says is, I knew you'd win. To Trump. Beating Kamala. Beating Kamala. That's right. Kamala and Obama. There's like a professional lip reader that used AI to track what they were saying. And the first thing Obama says is, I knew you'd win. Yeah, of course. I knew you'd win.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
I don't doubt it. Oh, no, that's a deaf girl. Sorry. Well, she. Goodness, that's me. I mean, that's probably me responding to the clip. Yeah. See if it's in here. Yeah, it is. Hello, Mr. President. Yep.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
They're going to golf together. The photo. Who wouldn't want that?
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
This is the professional lip reader with AI putting this together. Thank you.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Thank you. Thank you.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Thank you.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Yes.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
RFK is going to mandate these at every Corral. Every Golden Corral. You want to come in here, you slob? You want to come in here and mainline seed oil? You got 5%. You got to get through the RFK fat camp humiliation bars.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Rob barely fit in the full price bar.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
It's great. I mean, it's great. I mean, first off, it's good fun. And everyone's clearly having a blast there. And then second off, who doesn't want a healthier country? And if you can't fit through the first three rails, do you really need to get the fried egg rolls? Like, do you really need them? You know, this is in Thailand where this restaurant is.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
So, like, if you can't fit through the first three bars, you know, if you can't get through the rails, you know, no wontons for you.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Get your ass through there. Get your bony ass to the 20%. Right, so then if you get a 20% discount, you're going to eat more, you know?
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
I need to lose a couple. RFK just roasted the governor of West Virginia. Just to his face. He said, you're fat. He just said, you're fat. You know? Like, lay off. Play that clip on. We have that one. He did. He said, I'm going to put you through fat camp. RFK said it to his face. He's standing there on stage. That's the governor.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
I love that. The Trump administration is bringing back bullying. If you rethink a lot of the old comedies and a lot of the old films from the 80s, the bullies enforce the societal norms and the standards right, and he's bringing back bullying. This, I think, is one, comedy gold. It's funnier than SNL, what RFK Jr. did there.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
And then two, well, listen, you're going to live a healthier, better life.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Yes. I'm going to learn. I mean, I'm going to learn. I think I want the deportation experience. You can get a free trip to Venezuela. You can get a free trip to El Salvador. This is a very cheap way to take a vacation.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
That's very interesting.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Are they making people pay for double plane tickets now? Exactly. There's airlines that are now charging people for double seats.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
I think Ben Shapiro has always disliked Trump, and he's made that very clear. I think that the Daily Wire has gone through some rocky times as a company, and I think that they're trying to cozy up to Trump for that exact reason, right, to try and, like, reset the company. But listen, like, America first means America first.
PBD Podcast
China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
That means that this country, our children are going to be raised in this country. We put this country ahead of other countries. And so whether it's a Ukrainian flag or whether it's an Israeli flag, I'm against anybody who's going to sit here and try and co-opt a movement and say, but actually I'm going to be a dual citizen or I'm going to be in favor of some other country over America.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
I'm going to see some other country as an escape. And I don't – that just doesn't matter. There's Ukraine flags in my neighborhood. They sicken me. It makes – I'm disgusted by it. I feel the same way about that as I would about a Chinese flag hanging in the neighborhood during this trade war.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
I think that you have to choose, and it goes back to the metaphor of turning the lights on and see who's trading in favor of your company and investing in the equities of your company and who has their foot out the door or is betting against you. Now – To the point that Ben is making here, and I think that's part of the drop-off, right?
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Part of the drop-off is like the America First movement, there's been a lot of people that have tried to glom onto that, right? When it's convenient or when it's the popular thing to do. And a lot of people have backstabbed President Trump when it's fashionable to do that. And I think that's where the struggle is coming from with Shapiro to his point here about the –
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
team of rivals is what they called it with Lincoln, right? When you have like people in your staff that are fighting each other, this is a very good thing. This is a very positive thing. You need fresh minds and you need smart people and you need people that are, that believe in something so much they'll fight for it. And that's a very positive thing to have in your country.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
It's a very positive thing to have in your company. It's a very positive thing to have in your administration.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
You're asking Vinny or you're asking... I'm asking both of you guys. Peter Navarro went to prison for Trump. Peter Navarro decided... He got charged by the DOJ because he wouldn't communicate with the January 6th committee, so calling him a bozo or whatever pejorative, I think that's deeply... No, he said that's what Musk called him, a moron. Right.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
So I just think that it's all I'm trying to say here is that the team of rivals is good and you should want that. And whatever anyone's personal opinions on this, it's very powerful to have people that believe in what they believe so strongly that they'll fight for it. Donald Trump just this week brought Bill Maher to the White House. That is an unbelievable genius move.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Bill Maher is a weapon for his enemy. Donald Trump is bringing, first off, it shows total magnanimity for Donald Trump. Donald Trump's bringing in people that are the weapons for his enemies and then turning those weapons against his enemies. What does Bill Maher go do? Sits down with Chris Cuomo and has this like lavish conversation about how much he loves Trump.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
He literally says, I love this guy. And that is a total 180 reversal for Trump. one of the most powerful voices on the left that was calling Donald Trump Hitler just a couple of weeks ago. And so I think it's a genius move. This is what Trump's always done in his businesses. And so, uh, this is, you know, this, I think is a huge quality of Trump, not an error.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Yeah, exactly. It's what it says. How old are you? Are you old enough to remember Alex Jones with a Nokia camera? It's chemtrails. It's chemtrails. You see them? They're chemtrails. And now that used to be like the cuckoo pants thing. You're a crackpot if you believe that. Now it's like you have to write legislation against it. who are the crackpots.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Hitler was a they-them?
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
So it's called a rat line. A rat line was a line that was a way of travel for tens of thousands. They know that at least 10,000 or more Nazis got out of Germany through Spain to Spanish South America. And this is how rat lines worked. And some of the biggest names, actually, in some of the Nazi leadership got out through here. I think Joseph Mengele did. He was the worst. Yeah. Yeah.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
That's right. Experimental doctor. That's right. And they went and they, they lived, some of them lived till very old ages, uh, in Argentina. And I think we're never, you know, we're never caught. And so that, that's something that did happen. That's 100% real. Uh, some of them traveled by boat, some of them traveled by submarine and there are zero, zero, uh,
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
forensic remains of Adolf Hitler that has ever been uncovered inside of a bunker in Germany or in the Soviet spy museum.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Yes, that's right. Is Epstein alive or was that like a fake Epstein on the stretcher?
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
The Panama Canal is ours. What I mean by that is it's sovereign American territory. The only reason the Panama Canal exists is because America went and built it. And then when it was built, it was American sovereign land for 10 miles north and 10 miles south once the canal was built. That lasted for 100 years. Why we gave that back is so stupid and it's so dumb. It is ours. You go down there.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
There are American military bases. There's American construction. The entire thing was totally laid with American blood. And so this this has kind of this this history to it that is not Chinese, that does not belong to our enemies. And I think it should belong back to America. I really do.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
I think it's like claiming almost like a birthright for something that couldn't that that wouldn't have been possible without our country. Other nations try to do it. France started the Panama Canal. They couldn't complete it. They couldn't get it done. And they failed. They abandoned it. And it was America that stepped in. And also one final thing. Very interesting. Panama is not a real country.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Panama belonged to Colombia. Panama became a real country with American might and naval resources to build the Panama Canal. So Panama should thank us. The leaders of Panama should thank us for the existence of their country, just like China.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Panama was part of a different country. We decided as an American military movement and strategy to break that off to align with the Panamanian Independence Party and to make Panama. We made Panama. We made Panama great again. It's a great. We made Panama great again. And Greenland, you have the same argument.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Greenland was administered after Denmark fell to the Nazis in like, I don't know, a second. Greenland then technically was like, what are we going to do over here? And it was minutes before Nazi submarines and U-boats were showing up on Greenland.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
It was the American military that protected that island and that protected that island in our hemisphere and was the administrator of it for the entire war. And so and we get no thanks for that. Instead, they spit in our faces. And so I love the return to Pax Americana. I freaking love it. I live in the golden era.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
What is this?
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Flies in on a plane. We need these people out of our country. This is the border.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Who the hell is that? Oh, no. Look at this guy. Eagle Pass Airfield. Thank you.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
I just want to say, and I came all the way here to say this, that I am thankful that I'm not wearing my Ron DeSantis Ferragamos today. That is my favorite PBD moment. If I want some motivation in the morning, I watch it. And I think, okay, if PBD offered me a pair of Ferragamos, what would I do? I'm wearing New Balances today. But what happened there was so viral and so special.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
So if she says zero for zero tariffs, why do they have a 30% tariff on American vehicles? Why is it that you can go to Europe, which I'm sure everybody has done here? Did you ever see a Ford truck in Europe? Zero. Have you seen a single American car in Europe? Nope. Have you ever seen a dealership in Europe for Chevy? No. GMC? That doesn't exist. So she's lying.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
Also, she puts out the tweet at 2 a.m., which is absurd, and nobody's going to see that. Learn the time zones.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
If you're speaking to Trump, which is what this is all about, and saying, yes, we agree that you're in control, and you're in control of the entire global economy, and we're going to try and do everything that we possibly can to keep access to the American market because the only innovation that Europe has brought has been –
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
in the last 30 years has been a little piece of plastic that keeps the tab on your water bottles. Have you guys seen that? That's the single European innovation.
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China vs Trump: 90-Day Tariff Pause TRIGGERS Retaliation w/ Benny Johnson | PBD Podcast | Ep. 575
While every AI company is here and every single innovative company on planet Earth, while we're able to catch spaceships with chopsticks, Europe has added a piece of plastic that stabs you in the eye every time you try and drink out of their stupid water bottles.