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I am up in Michigan. Buck is back from Europe. Yesterday he was, but in the event you missed some of yesterday's show, he is in Miami. So we have got...

A large swath of the nation, top to bottom, covered. I am near the northern border, I think it's fair to say, at News Talk 580 WTCM in Traverse City, Michigan. Buck, near the southern border in Miami. It is hot all over the country as summer has arrived in full force.

Mayor's race, Democrat primary taking place today in New York City. We will talk some about that. But the number one story remains Iran, Israel, the ceasefire that, as I speak to all of you, remains in effect. And that is to a large extent based on the work that President Trump did yesterday. We played some of the audio of Trump yesterday.

Basically, as a frustrated dad who's on a summer vacation and doesn't understand why things can't get resolved there. But we will dive into this. And also, I'm going to tie this in because the leading New York City Democrat candidate.

Mamdani, who is a crazy left-wing socialist who wants to run grocery stores on behalf of the city of New York, who wants to replace police officers with social workers. I mean, this is crazy town. He would say that he would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he came to New York City.

I think there's a lot of you out there that are saying, man, this is crazy town. This is how Democrats are responding. And speaking of crazy town, I do want to run through some things that many people out there said would happen if we got involved in any way or if Israel bombed Iran. World War III, Buck, as a former CIA analyst said,

It seems like a little bit of a stretch to argue that Iran, which did not have one public ally,

Not China, not Russia, not Saudi Arabia, not Iraq, not the UAE, not Qatar, not Syria. No one came out and said, hey, we've got your back, Iran. But a lot of people said this was going to start World War III. A lot of people said there would be thousands, if not tens of thousands, of American troops killed. That your oil prices would skyrocket. That the stock market would collapse.

Here is where we are right now. Oil prices. Oil prices have collapsed since all of this has been resolved. They are around $65 a barrel.

Oil prices, for those of you who have paid attention over time, you know this. During summer, when everybody, dad and mom, grandma and grandpa, get out on the road, oil prices tend to go up in the summer and then come back down in the fall through the winter. That is basically what is happening right now, but they are substantially below where they were two summers ago, three summers ago, for those of you out there. As I am talking to you right now,

Here is another thing that you were told. The economy is going to collapse. Trump has no idea what he's doing with tariffs.

Buck, as I am talking to you right now, the S&P 500, 500 largest companies in America, is within one half percentage point of its all-time high. That means that if you had bought in February at the absolute peak of the market, the all-time high that had ever been set in the history of the stock market,

And you had done nothing. You had just put those stocks off to the side. And you had paid zero attention to it for the past, whatever it is, five, six months, four months since that happened.

you would actually have lost on paper about one half of 1%. You would still have 99.5% of your assets, even if you had bought at the all-time high. And by the way, we are close to setting a new all-time high, in which case you would be back in positive territory. Just in the last couple of months, I think this is important.

A lot of people out there on the left, on the right, in media in general, have tried to terrify you about stock market prices. They have tried to terrify you about what the price of oil and gas was going to be. They've tried to terrify you about the tariff. They have tried to terrify you about World War III. And as we sit here coming up on the end of June and hopefully what is going to be a really fun July 4th,

With Trump back in office, I would just point out everything's kind of awesome. I mean, let's be honest. Yes, true. It's going. It's the country's doing great right now. And Trump has six months in here pretty much or close to six months into his first or second term.

He is he's just kicking ass and taking names. And if that wasn't the case, we would say so. We would try to tell the president via this show, tell his staffers via this show what we think could be going in a markedly different direction or a different focus or whatever. They're doing a really good job on a whole range of things. And I know that they haven't gotten everything done yet, but of course not. Right. That's a completely unrealistic thing.

View of what could happen and you're never done as an administration. There's endless things that that need to get work and attention. But if you're looking at this with a realistic eye, Trump has had a remarkably successful opening to term two here or in the first few months of term two.

Right.

gosh, he's talking to Kim Jong, Kim Jong Il or Kim Jong Un. It's all going to fall apart. You know, it's a no, no, no. Oh, it used to be the Democrats are worried about World War Three when there was no realistic prospect of World War Three. Now we've had some Republicans and some Trump supporters, at least ostensibly Trump supporters.

who are screaming about World War III. You know, if you have any knowledge of World War I or World War II, I think you're a lot slower to talk about World War III because of what that would actually mean and what that would look like in a modern context. And Trump knows what he's doing. He has a very clear understanding, I think, of a lot of the risks and the challenges that go into the thinking of people that lets them believe that things are about to go completely off course

you know, off the rails. It's going to be a total mess. So the faith that we all should have in Trump at this point, I think is something that should be a constant. And, and I think that the, the freak out stuff is just, is just unhelpful. Here's Trump, by the way,

He doesn't want to. This is cut three. He doesn't want to hear all this stuff now. But oh, but he didn't. He didn't really take out the nuclear program. Now that's the latest complaint. Play three. When I see CNN all night long, they're trying to say, well, maybe it wasn't really as demolished as we thought it was demolished. You take a look at the pinpricks.

And you see, that place is gone. And I will say, I think CNN ought to apologize to the pilots of the B-2s. I think that MSDNC ought to apologize. I think these guys really, these networks and these cable networks are real losers. You really are. You're real losers.

Your gutless news is I say that to CNN because I watch it. I have no choice. I got to watch that garbage. It's all garbage. It's all fake news. But I think CNN is a gutless group of people.

Gutless losers is a hell of a lot of it by talking. And by the way, let's just mention this. I've got on the screen right now. Trump is going to be visiting the Royal Palace in the Netherlands soon.

Trump is 79 years old, Buck. You just came back from Europe. Now, I know you didn't get to travel on Air Force One. He's probably got a little bit better living quarters than you do on your airplane flight. But he just landed in Europe.

After spending the last 12 days trying to mediate the conflict between Israel and Iran, and he's immediately going to go to a late night in Europe event for NATO, and the guy's energy, leave aside his age for a moment,

I don't think most 45-year-olds, I don't think most 35-year-olds would be able to keep up with what Trump is doing purely from a day-to-day existence level. The guy's barely sleeping, managing every conflict under the sun. I think I need naps more than Trump does. I think I need more naps than Trump, and I'm not the president.

I'm not almost 80. I don't know how many of you out there are in your 70s, but I think if you are listening to us and you're in your 70s, you are even more impressed than the average 30 or 40 or 50 year old. Because, you know, if you're in really good health, you don't know necessarily what you're going to feel like in your 70s. The number of 79 year olds, first of all, that are alive.

Isn't the average age of death for men? I don't want to be super dark, but the average 78-year-old man is not even alive. Much less traveling all over the world managing the biggest conflicts that are going on anywhere. The guy's energy is off the charts.

He also, he called them gutless over at CNN. And look, I agree with his frustration. It's like, oh my gosh, if you do the airstrikes, World War III is going to happen. Airstrikes happen, no World War III of any kind, not even close. It's pretty much all over. And now it's,

Well, maybe you didn't get everything with the airstrikes. Like, you can never, you can't win with these people. I get his frustration. And so Trump went, this is cut four. He goes further here and just says, guys, okay, they're not getting nukes. I told you they wouldn't get nukes. It's not happening. And maybe now they actually want to make some money and be a normal country a little bit, a little bit. Play four.

Did Iran make any commitments yesterday about uranium enrichment? About what? About uranium enrichment. They're not gonna have enrichment and they're not gonna have a nuclear weapon. And they know that. They're gonna get on to being a great trading nation. You know, they're very good traders. And they're gonna be a great trading nation and they have a lot of oil. They're gonna do well. They're not gonna have a nuclear weapon. So do they promise? The last thing on Iran's mind right now is nuclear weapons.

They want to sell their oil clay. They have beautiful carpets, a lot of pistachios. Trade. Great future for Iran.

I would love at some point in time to visit Iran. I've heard that it is a really beautiful country with great history. I'm going to need you to wait on that a little bit, buddy, okay? Otherwise, I'm going to have to talk to our JSOC listeners. It's going to get messy. I'm going to have to be back at the seventh floor of Langley. Give it a few years, okay? I don't think we have a great affiliate in Tehran. So I don't think I'm going to be doing iHeart Tehran anytime soon. But...

I would like my point on this. I've never been, you know, I've been to Israel, but I would like to go to Saudi Arabia. I would like to go to the UAE, Qatar, Buran, Bahrain. I've heard it's really incredible to see, and I hope to be able to go to those countries. And I think, again, for the Iranian people to think about.

What the difference is between the last 46 years for Saudi Arabia or Qatar or Bahrain or the UAE, these are countries you used to look down on and basically thumb your nose at because your culture and your history was vastly superior to theirs and you had a higher quality of life. They've all passed you.

This has nothing to do with Israel or the United States. Clearly, we live better here than the people of Iran do. But it's one thing to look around in your neighborhood, in your geographic region. It's a little bit buck, you know, keeping up with the Joneses, so to speak. Everybody talks about this. They've fallen behind. This is also where I think the military inferiority of the Iranians now...

is where a lot of this gets exposed because you cannot have an effective military in 2025 without a serious economy. It is not possible. You cannot compete. It doesn't matter, you know, whether you think Allah's on your side. It doesn't matter, you know, what the history is or how brave your soldiers are or whatever. If you do not have a sophisticated economy, your military cannot compete.

And the Iranians have been exposed on this one. They've gotten all this, you know, mileage, so to speak, strategically out of supporting these proxies. And it's gotten, all it does is just sow further misery and chaos. They're not actually expanding Iranian influence in a way that helps any Iranian people. So.

So I actually like your analogy of how Israel basically just walked up and slapped around the face. They didn't even need to throw a punch. Not even closed hand, you know, not even closed fist. They just kind of they slapped around across the face and they were like, Iran, behave yourself. That's what the that's what the Israelis did, which if you're a guy, all the guys listen. No, it's like I kind of would rather get punched, actually.

At least if somebody throws a punch at you, they respect your ability to punch them back. You punch somebody because you think they can punch back. If you know they can't,

I mean, it was Israel was like, this is a backhand. Wasn't even, you know what I mean? The back of the hand. They basically just took the glove. They didn't even use the hand. They smacked him in the face with the glove. It's embarrassing. Honestly, it is tough. What do you think about that way? All right. We'll take some calls here and dive into this. You know, speaking about all these countries and some of these non-aligned countries, too, when you got representatives from Brazil, China, Russia, India, and yes, Iran gathering together

for a meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in just a couple of weeks, you should ask why. Why is that happening? What has to do with undermining the dollar. The Rio Reset is what people are calling this because these countries are coming together and they're trying to find a way to start trading without doing it in U.S. currency, which is a threat to the U.S. dollar's global dominance, which we've had for 80 plus years.

This Rio reset, so to speak, takes place on July 6th and 7th. And you want to remember those because the value of the dollar could start to take a hit right around then going forward because these countries are laying the groundwork to replace the dollar. And their central banks have been divesting from the dollar and bonds in favor of gold.

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How are the Democrats reacting to Trump's amazing, decisive commander-in-chief moment here with the nuclear? Oh, they want to do some crazy stuff. What a surprise. First of all, they say it was illegal. This is AOC. This is cut 13. This is the dumbest thing you may hear all day. Actually, maybe not. We'll get to that. But play 13. Admitting that he unilaterally...

brought the United States into a war without congressional approval is a very grave public admission. It is illegal. It is unconstitutional. Oh, Clay, now we're going to do the military strike is illegal and unconstitutional. Unlike Bill Clinton in the Balkans, unlike Barack Obama in about 10 different countries, unlike George... I mean...

Are we really going to do this? Apparently you have some info for us. They are. They're going to do this thing. I do indeed. So they just tried to have an impeachment vote, tried to impeach Trump for a third time. And I do think we'll be talking a lot, unfortunately, about this over the Iran strike. Yes. But I do think this is significant because we're going to be talking about this a lot for next year because, again,

If Democrats take back control of the House, even though nothing will happen with it, they will try to impeach him. It just got voted down 344 to 79. 344 to 79. Look...

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Not representative are her positions, even on things anti-Trump, which you would think would coalesce much of the Democrat Party. Let me just reinforce for you. They just tried to impeach Trump over the Iran attacks. They lost the vote 344 to 79. That's a pretty good ass kicking. But let me simplify it this way for you, Buck. Democrats.

Democrats voted against impeaching Trump 128 to 79. I mean, that's kind of a sign of how crazy the AOC wing of the party is. They can't even mobilize the Democrat Party to move in conjunction with the positions that she's advocating for. Think about this for a second. There are Democrats who just voted in the United States Congress to impeach for a third time.

a sitting president for doing something that, one, is clearly within the scope of what every president in our lifetime has done without Democrat and Republican, and two, has been incredibly successful. So this is pure desperation. It shows that where the Democrat Party is right now, they're in such a weak spot.

that they're just throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks. They're trying to figure out some way to seem relevant as opposition to Trump. I always used to wonder this, Clay. Will there be a point at which, you know, never Trumpism and the hysteria and he's Hitler and all that stuff will exhaust itself?

It has exhausted itself as a useful political force. They still believe a lot of crazy stuff about Trump. I'm not saying they've changed their minds, but they can't move any middle portion of the electorate at all, not even 1% or 2% of it, with this crazy stuff that they're doing. And so they're just at the we-gotta-do-something phase. But this is firing a BB gun at a freight train. Also, the whole Hitler thing, I...

Trump has 100% approval in Israel now. Like, literally, I'm not even kidding. It might be 96% approval. There has never been an American president with a higher approval rating in Israel than Trump. Now, Israel didn't exist as a country at the time of World War II. But I'm going to go out on a huge limb with a crazy take for you.

Hitler never came close to 100% approval with the Jewish population. Just going to, maybe outlandish, maybe outrageous.

I'm just going to toss this out there and obviously being facetious about this whole thing. But the idea that Adolf Hitler, a.k.a. Trump, would have 100 percent approval rating among Israelis would be in a large extent a sign that your argument is moronic on a level that few political arguments have ever been in our respective lives. By the way, Trump arriving at the Royal Palace in the Netherlands today.

stepping out of his beast limo to walk the red carpet for the NATO event as we are speaking to all of you right now. And again, the numbers out there, 128-79. I do think this is significant too, Buck.

You mentioned, like, when is the Democrat Party going to end up acknowledging that many of their arguments are broken? Also, who is even the Democrat Party spokesperson? Listen to Jasmine Crockett here talking about how she should be the one making decisions about, God forbid, about how we deal with Iran and Israel. Cut 14. To understand enough about the Constitution to the extent that I'm the one that's supposed to make the f***ing decision or at least get a vote. That's right.

Okay, so she's ranting and raving. Worth pointing out, there are also people on the right who have tried to argue Trump did not have the authority to do these strikes in Iran. And I think they're also operating in bad faith because...

Clearly, the president of the United States has the ability to act in American interest that he believes requires exigent circumstances. As all American presidents throughout our entire lives have done. I was at 14 bombs that Trump dropped compared to thousands that Obama dropped during his tenure.

Yes. I mean, ordered to be dropped, obviously. Yes. Trump as the B-2 pilot would be kind of cool. He's a talented guy. I don't think he would have hit the target very well if he had been in charge of the B-2 bombers. But, I mean, the idea that you're going to try to argue that this was outside of control. But listen to this cut, too. Cut 15. This is Jasmine Crockett who's trying to... Trump put a big post out about AOC and Jasmine Crockett and...

And Ilhan Omar and all these people who have emerged as his top attackers, I would say, inside of the Democrat Party. Cut 15. So long story short, for those of you that are unaware, the mofo that resides in the White House has unilaterally, in my estimation, declared war.

We have a constitution that seemingly does not matter to this man. I mean, the mofo, first of all, you guys can probably, if you're older, maybe you haven't heard that phrase, she's calling him a mother, you know what? I mean, so that's kind of a pretty good attack in terms of the absurdity of it. But it's not only that...

There's no Democrat opposition. It's that the Democrat opposition, Buck, is not even representative of the Democrat Party now. They can't even marshal 100 votes in the House. I mean, I would bet that Congresswoman Crockett has never read the U.S. Constitution. Ever? Ever. I mean, ever. I don't mean like she doesn't know it by heart. I mean, I don't think she's ever read it. Neither read nor understood. I think also if you gave her a map...

of the Middle East with just blanked out countries, and you said, just show me Israel, show me Iran, I think the chance that she could get both of them is almost zero. So I don't think that she should be weighing in heavily on the issue of the constitutional powers of the executive branch in this conflict, but she knows that she raises money and gets media attention by hating Trump,

Even on an issue, as we've said, there's clear precedent for this kind of action. Bill Clinton blew up an aspirin factory in the Sudan, I think it was because there was testimony about to happen in the Monica case or something, because he said maybe there were chemical weapons there. Spoiler alert, there were not. We weren't at war with Sudan, and nobody was impeaching him over that. So, you know, eh.

You look at this stuff, like every president has this. I know he said it's in the imminent national security interest because we thought there were chemical weapons or whatever. It's just about opposing Trump. But even on an issue where it's a massive success, right? This is generally, for example, for example, would any Republican have come out after Obama? Look, Obama got bin Laden. It's just a fact. People can, you know, they can be annoyed about that reality. But he did. Obama got bin Laden.

Republicans coming out like, how dare you violate the sovereignty of Pakistan? The national sovereignty of Pakistan is sacred to us. No, because we're all like, you know what? Thank you for getting bin Laden. And it probably got Obama, at least in some part of it, reelected. Right.

They're kind of doing that here now. The dance is similar with the Democrats where they're saying, you know, how dare you strike the Iranian nuclear facilities? We have been talking and debating and fretting over this issue, Clay, for 20 plus years. What are we going to do about Iran? What are we going to do about Iran? Trump's like, you know what, let's blow up there. Let's blow up there. I tried to give him a deal. They wouldn't take a deal. Let's take this thing out. And they did it and it's done. And we didn't lose a single American. And now we're supposed to do what? We're going to impeach him?

We're going to remove him from office for the thing that we wish somebody else would have done?

It's crazy also because there's nowhere near 67 votes, even if they win the House in 2026 and impeach him. It's not going anywhere. It's pathetic. It's a pathetic move. Yeah. It's like there is no I will point out this. Yes, Obama deserves credit for taking out Osama bin Laden. But every time that comes up, I think we should also mention the secondary part of that, which was Joe Biden opposed that race. Well, of course. I know. I know.

Joe Biden was wrong on every major decision, basically, of his entire career. Obama considered Biden's analysis of taking out Osama bin Laden and said, you moron, we're going in. I give Obama full credit for that, and I don't do some throat clearing about, oh, but it was so obvious. No, no.

You know, he did it, and look, he got four more years to wreck the country as a result of one good decision, at least in part. But he gets credit for being the commander-in-chief when he went and got bin Laden, and there's no way around that. That's reality. Okay, another reality, though, Clay. We haven't really focused much on the Biden book stuff because, you know, I think a lot of that got taken care of. But I have seen some clips circulating. You know what they're saying now? Not just that Biden had dementia. We knew that, right? We talked about this. We've got it on the ad nauseum. Now what's coming out is...

Biden was a scumbag his whole life and a huge liar and a manipulator of people and even his own family.

And using them as props like Democrats are saying this now. Stuff that you and I've been saying. I told people about the the drunk driver. Excuse me. What Biden said was a drunk driver killed his wife. Absolutely zero evidence for it whatsoever. A horrible thing to say. But he said it in public. Why? Because it made his case seem even more sympathetic. His wife, it looks like, ran a red light. It was, you know, it's it is a tragedy. But I mean, you know, she made a mistake and she paid with with her life.

But he lied about it to get more sympathy and therefore defame somebody who was still alive, I might add, as some kind of a criminal who killed his wife. And he's never apologized. But that's just one incident. That's who Biden is. And that was 40 years ago he was doing. Oh, I is a dad. I know everybody wants to say, oh, Joe Biden's greatest dad ever. I know that his kids in that he may get dressed in suits in their hospital beds.

So that he could get sworn in. For the grossest photo op imaginable. So that he could get sworn in for the Senate in their hospital room? I mean, as a dad, I can't even imagine...

And so what? So he could be wrong on everything in foreign policy in the U.S. Senate for 50 years and be a shill for the credit card companies to suck the bank accounts, drive every American who needs to buy groceries like is that that was his great contribution. You know, think about that. No, I mean, and again, I think that his four year tenure, I think this is one thing that Trump got right, which is.

Jimmy Carter had a more successful presidency. No, I think I was going to say, I think Biden is the worst president in living memory. I think he beats out Jimmy Carter pretty clearly now.

And I think he's going to look even worse in the years ahead as the this is one of the great things about history. Eventually, the passions fade and you start to look at people rationally and realistically, as opposed to thinking about him in the moment of a battle. And I think that Democrat defense of Joe Biden is going to collapse because it really wasn't praising Biden. It was attacking Trump. And now that Trump people see it as hollow, they see how hollow it was all along.

And I think that even the COVID thing, the fact that they hit him and all these other aspects of his presidency that are frankly indefensible, I think are going to become more and more commonplace for discussion. We'll take some of your feedback, some of your responses here as we close up the show on the Tuesday edition. But I want to tell you, Amazon has announced Amazon Prime July 8th.

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Well, hey, guys, real-time update for you. Oklahoma City Thunder just completed their national championship celebration downtown Oklahoma City with hundreds of thousands of people. Not one flag from outside the country, much less outside the state. Not a firework and certainly no unrest. When's the last time have we seen that in a major city? Well.

Well, it's a great point. Congratulations, Oklahoma City Thunder. Hey, I got an idea for you. How about go visit the White House with President Trump? Buck, you watched the NBA a little bit more this year because your Knicks were in the finals. In the finals because of my New York Knicks, yes. They have not had a... I don't think an NBA team has ever visited President Trump in the White House. He certainly has conveyed the offer. Every other league...

has visited this year, kind of returning normalcy. Hey, the president apolitically has the teams as a sign of the meritocracy and American excellence. You get to meet the president, NFL, Major League Baseball, NHL, all the champions from colleges. They've all gone. He just had Juventus, the soccer team. Juventus? Yeah, as part of Juventus.

as part of the process of this new team World Cup that's going on. Next year will be the actual World Cup. And I would just say I think it's a really good move if they would do it, and it would be good for them.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Look, I think they should. I don't think there's any question about that. And, you know, it was tough. I got pretty attached to the Pacers, I'm going to say. I'm not trying to upset them. Congrats to Oklahoma City. But I thought that Pacers team was a really fun, scrappy team to watch. Even though they beat my Knicks, I thought they earned that win against the Knicks. I thought they were just the better team in that series. And then to watch Halliburton go down with an injury in a Game 7, man, that's...

That's crushing. You tore his Achilles tendon. Did he? And this is becoming way too common.

I think it's like a little bit some of these kids in baseball, they were throwing the ball too much and their arms were giving out. I think some of these young kids are playing so many basketball games and so many basketball tournaments that it's just a wear and tear on the process. Now, certainly he had a little bit of an injury. Probably shouldn't have been out there. Tough for him. And, you know, tough for him for being a soldier. He said he would have done it no matter what. It's a game seven of the NBA finals. I'm with him. I mean, unless...

Unless you're putting your life at risk, I think you go. Unless you're worried you're going to have a heart attack or something. So I totally respect the fight that he showed up and did it. Look at me getting all into the story of the sports here, Mr. Clay. But congrats to Oklahoma City. They had a great team. They had a great team. They really did.

I can't tell you how excited I am to see how this ceasefire continues, what a couple of weeks it has been for President Trump. Don't take for granted all of the good things happening in this country. Don't let the panikins get you down. We'll be back Wednesday edition. More things to celebrate. America's back, baby.

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