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Back to episode — Episode 3035 CWSA 12/03/25

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s or have somebody sitting next to you to wake you up. But it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. But Scott Jennings is pushing back on that. "I saw the man a few days ago in the Oval Office for about an hour. He looked and sounded fine. Wide range of issues. People were coming and going. It was bustling. He was listening attentively and running the entire three-hour marathon cabinet meeting…

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egally doled out lots of trucking licenses that would be unsafe because the people are not qualified. So that's happening. 30 million in federal highway funding. Huh.

So I have a question for Governor Walz of Minnesota. I mean, I'm just reading the news and there are a variety of things in the news about Minnesota. And the overarching question that it makes me wonder about is did Governor Walz do anything right? Or was he literally playing some kind of prank where he wanted to see if he could become governor and just do everything wrong? I'm going to do everything wrong. Just see what happens. I'm just curious what'll happen if I just do everything wrong. Can you imagine? He could have been the vice president. He could have been the vice president. Oh my god.

But you know, a lot of us, and I would put myself in this category, had an instinct about Walz like there's something wrong with this guy. There's just something wrong. And sure enough, there's something wrong with him. He is not to be trusted in my opinion.

Well, the Department of Justice is suing six states, according to Fox News, for refusing to turn over their voter registration rolls because the federal government wants to look at them and make sure that the people on the voting rolls are there legally. And the states that have refused are Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. And now they're being accused of violating federal election laws.

So my question is this. Why would any of those states refuse to turn over their voter registration rolls upon request? What would be the argument? Too busy? Oh, we're too busy. Maybe they don't have the information. Do you think it's possible they don't have voter rolls? No, they have voter rolls. And or they don't think that the federal government has a legitimate right to see that. I don't know. It looks like they have something to hide. I don't know that for sure, but it looks kind of suspicious. So I'm glad that the federal government's pushing on them.

Trump is still talking about him not getting the Nobel Prize and he says, "Every time I end a war," because he's allegedly ended eight wars already, according to him. Every time I end a war, they say if President Trump ends that war, he's going to get the Nobel Prize. If I end that war, well, he won't get it for that war, but he might get it for the next war. So Trump is mocking the Nobel Prize people for not giving him the award for ending what he would say would be ending eight wars. You might debate whether he has ended eight wars, but he's certainly done something in that direction. Certainly impressive. You know, whether it's eight or six or five, it would still be a world's record of ending wars.

And then he says, I should get the Nobel Prize for every war, but I don't want to be greedy. I kind of love that Trump is going after this hard because one of two things is going to happen. He's either going to get the Nobel Peace Prize eventually. Maybe not right away. So he's either going to get it or he's going to destroy the Nobel Peace Prize as a credible prize. One of those two things is going to happen. So he's created sort of like a me or them. And I've got a feeling that he might destroy the old Nobel Prize reputation like he did the news business. You know, if you're sitting over there in the news business and you watch how Trump completely destroyed the credibility of the entire news industry. Well, I think the Nobel Committee might be next.

So Nobel Committee, if you guys want to maintain your credibility, you probably don't want to go up against the most persuasive person who's ever been mad at you. So watch out for that.

But I think everybody's watching the Russia Ukraine situation. If Trump ends that, what do you think will happen? I'm going to make a prediction. Okay. I'm going to predict that if Trump literally ended the Ukraine Russian war that the Nobel Prize committee would not give him the peace prize because they would argue that he ended it in a way that was not let's say good for Ukraine, right? Because you could argue anything. You could argue, well, all he did was give away a country to an aggressor. He gave away the most economically viable part of Ukraine. He just gave it away. We're not going to give him a, you don't get an award for giving land to an aggressor, right?

So I think the Nobel Prize Committee are going to try to not give it to him and they will simply have some argument. Well, yeah, he did solve eight or nine wars, but you know, they would have solved themselves and they'll have some reason. So I suspect he will never get a Nobel Prize, but the cost to the Nobel Committee, I mean, can you even imagine? Imagine if he did solve the Ukraine situation and just got a total lasting ceasefire and then would the Nobel Prize be able to ignore that? Yes, they would. They could. All they'd have to do is say it wasn't a good deal for Ukraine. That's all they'd have to say. Well, yeah, the shooting stopped, but only because they gave away half of their country. You know, the best parts. So yeah, they could weasel their way out of that, but I think that if they do so, it will forever destroy the credibility of the Nobel Peace Prize. Some would say it's already destroyed.

Well, I've talked at length about how the Democrats use that word affordability as a very effective propaganda. And when you hear that they want to make things more affordable, as a consumer, you say to yourself, "Well, that sounds good. I would like some affordable stuff. Please give me some affordable things." So it sounds good. And I've told you that it's a real problem if you're Trump.

So what does Trump do? Well, first of all, I'm going to give him credit for noticing, as I did, that the word affordability is pretty good. You know, if you were coming up with things to say about the other side and you were a Democrat and you came up with that word affordability, you've heard me compliment that, right? It's a really strong word for the common sense ordinary person who just can't pay for groceries. We want to hear that you're fixing affordability and shut up about the rest. Honestly, I never go to bed thinking about Ukraine, but I bet a lot of people go to bed thinking about how to pay for groceries. So it was a super clever, effective word.

So that gives Trump a problem. What does Trump do when the other side, whoever the other side is, what does he do when the other side makes a good play? And it's based on words. Well, he either co-opts it, which it looked like he was trying hard to do maybe a week or two ago, but now it looks like he may have pivoted. So instead of co-opting it, wh

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ich might look like he's just following the Democrats, which is not a good look, I think he's mocking it out of existence. It looks like that's the next play. So Trump says the word affordability is a Democrat scam. All right. So he's going to call it a scam. They say it and then they go on to the next subject and everyone thinks, "Oh, they had the lower prices." No, they had the worst inflation…

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