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So it took us 204 years, what’s now taking us four months. So it’s no wonder Trump was elected, right? Because it’s a referendum against the madness of constant spending and violating the founding fathers warning cry to all of America that said, hey, moving forward, make sure politicians that you don’t actually encumber more debt than can be paid off during your generation, folks. In this update, we were providing Dr. Elliott’s view on a future monetary system backed by gold. He also gets into the fact that we are still under enormous debt with interest payments. And also we have an update on the Doge findings, some more of those and release of hostages.

And we’re actually going to play the entire J.D. vance speech in Munich following the interview. If you missed it or couldn’t find it, I wanted to, I just felt like you guys might want to watch that whole speech. It was absolutely phenomenal. So that historic speech at the Munich Security Conference where he strongly criticized European leaders for their approach to free speech, he specifically targeted the United Kingdom, calling out its restrictive policies and emphasizing the importance of protecting freedom of expression and also migration. And so you saw some of those yesterday in the video that we released.

President Trump was asked about that speech that Vance gave. I just wanted to play this. Vice President Vance’s speech to the conference has ruffled quite a few feathers in Europe. What did he say to ruffle them? He was talking about the freedom of speech and migration in Europe. Do you believe that European leaders have a fundamentally different view of the world than this administration’s? Well, I heard his speech and you’re talking about JD’s speech, right? Yes, sir. I heard his speech and he talked about freedom of speech. And I think it’s true in Europe, it’s losing.

They’re losing their wonderful right of freedom of speech. I see it. I mean, I thought he made a very good speech, actually a very brilliant speech. You know, Europe has to be careful and he talked about immigration and Europe has a big immigration problem. Just take a look at what’s happened with crime. Take a look at what’s happening in various parts of Europe. I thought his speech was very well received. Actually, I’ve heard very good remarks, very good remarks. And so it’s good to have his intake on all that. Of course, something that occurred right before Vice President Vance got up to the podium.

The mother and a toddler died after an Afghan asylum seeker rammed car into the mun crowd a day before J.D. vance gave his speech. So this 37 year old mother and her small two year old girl. They’re gone due to the injuries. And so those are some of the things that were addressed in that speech. And I thought you might want to know about Charlie Kirk said. J.D. vance arrived at the Munich Security Conference with a message of liberation for ordinary men and women in Europe. The new American government wants a strong, free, thriving Europe. And we know that will never happen as long as they live under the heel of transatlantic globalists.

The new American government is going to support free speech. So if Europeans want to keep benefiting from an alliance with us, that means the government. Right. They had better support free speech, too. No more arresting people for Facebook posts saying they wish there was less immigration. No more SWAT teams breaking down the door of someone who tweeted their anger about a migrant rape gang. The new American government is going to support real democracy. If the people want to vote to restrict immigration or leave the European Union or anything else, they have the right to vote for a party that will do that without having their party banned for their elections and canceled.

And so banned of. Or their elections actually canceled. Over 141,000American soldiers fought and died to liberate Europe from fascist tyranny 80 years ago. And this administration will do everything in its power to ensure their sacrifice is not squandered by globalist tyrants in Brussels, Munich or Paris. And so the release of hostages also, you’ll see this one. Thank you. President Trump freed. American dad reunites with family after 500 days. Sugui de Kilchin, an American citizen held captive by hamas for nearly 500 days, has been reunited with his wife and child. It’s very emotional, these things playing out.

President Trump, of course, asking for the release. And some bad things would happen. Buses of 333 released prisoners arrive in Gaza as part of the exchange deal. Yeah, but so it looks like 369, three Palestinians and 366 others were released back to the other side. Of the 14 hostages remaining to be released as part of phase one of the ceasefire agreement, only six are still alive. Of these six, two have been in captivity for over a decade, while the other four have been held since October 7th. That’s from Laura Bowley, and you’re looking at pictures there, of course.

We’ve got some Doge updates. Before getting to the interview with Dr. Kirk Elliott, the Department of Government Efficiency released this. US taxpayer dollars are going to be spent on the following items. $10 million for Mozambique Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision. $9.7 million for UC Berkeley to develop a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise driven skills 2.3 million for strengthening independent voices in Cambodia $32 million to the Prague Civil to the Prague Civil Society Center $40 million for Gender Equality and Women Empowerment Hub 14 million for improving public procurement in Serbia 486 million to the consortium for Elections and Political process strengthening including 22 million for inclusive and participatory political process in Moldova and 21 million dollars for voter turnout in India 29 million dollars to strengthening political landscape in Bangladesh 20 million for fiscal federalism in Nepal 19 million for biodiversity conversation in Nepal 1.5 million for voter confidence in Liberia 14 million for social cohesion in Mali 2.5 million for inclusive democracies in Southern Africa 47 million for improving learning outcomes Asia 2 million dollars to develop sustainable recycling models to increase socio economic cohesion among marginalized communities of Kosovo, Roma, Ashkali and Egypt.

All of your hard working money going to work for other countries. And yet our own families here in America who have been hurt so bad over all these policies and told you get 700 bucks just for your family even though they lost everything. I hope that all comes to an end and we finally see everything returned back to us that they’ve stolen. And so with all of that, now we have the update from Dr. Kirk Elliott. It’s great to have Dr. Kirk Elliott with us back again. And we know.comforward/gold simple link below this video, folks. You click on that, you’ll have the conversation I’m having with him or somebody on his staff.

In the meantime, Elon Musk keeps tearing it up and scaring all of these folks that are out there screaming the loudest. And those that scream the loudest are the ones that are actually in big trouble. Huge trouble. And we’re talking about departments like entire Department of Energy. You’re looking at the department, whatever it’s called, the Bash basically has the oversight of financial institutions in America. I mean, they basically shut their doors for whatever reason until February 14th. And then after that it’s unknown if they’re actually coming back. Right? It’s like, and then you’ve got all the other lawsuits happening against different states.

I mean, Trump’s administration is not messing around. But here’s where it becomes. I saw this post early this morning that that basically said Elon Musk was going to stop inflation. Not going to stop inflation. Right. We’re just going to stop excessive spending. So ultimately, if you don’t have all this government spending, you’re not going to have to either print your way out of it or tax people into oblivion. But really we’re never going to get out of. We’re never going to be a completely closed economy, meaning 100% of everything that we buy is domestically made. Right.

You’re still going to have stuff from other countries. Who knows what it could be? Right. But if those are tariffs on those things, that’s going to cause those prices to go up. The goal then becomes we just want more of what we consume to be American rather than more of what we consume to be from another country. Right. So inflation’s never going to go away. And here’s the thing, as an economist, because there’s so many people on our side that say, oh, Elon’s going to do great things. He’s going to end inflation. It’s like if you ended inflation, it means the economy stops growing.

Because like you and I have talked about this before in the past. There’s a good inflation and a bad inflation. Bad inflation is what we had under Biden where wages were coming down, taxes were going up, people were being laid off, and they had to print their way out of every single thing on earth. Right. Stimulus money. And, and that causes inflation, but wages didn’t keep up with it. That’s the problem under Trump. Inflation can also just mean that more people are making money and the economy can sustain higher prices. Right. So as more people are earning, more people are spending, more people are spending, everything’s growing.

So that’s good inflation. If the inflation rate, let’s say, is 8% and basically wage rate growth is 8%, they’re going up together. And you don’t actually even realize that there’s inflation because your wages are going up with it. The problem that we’ve had over the last four years is, oh, my goodness, inflation has been like not 4% like they’ve talked about LT it’s been 15, 20% and wages have been coming down. That’s a multiplier effect of bad news for most American families. And this is the economy that Trump inherited that Elon Musk is trying to fix with Doge, you know, get rid of the expense side.

Trump is trying to fix with tariffs, working on the income side. You put both of those together and it is going to be an amazing journey moving forward. Right. Trump inherited just a hornet’s nest of awfulness. Yeah. You had this headline you sent to me. U S Budget Deficit hits a record $840 billion in the first four months of 2025. Interest on debt hits record $1.2 trillion. Those are big Numbers massive. I mean, up until Biden, we’ve never had a trillion dollars a year in interest only payments. Like when, when you look at your, when you look at your credit card bill, it’s like, man, if I could just pay this thing off, I was like, I wouldn’t have all this interest that I have to pay.

Right, or your mortgage or anything like that. We are now at $1.2 trillion a year, which is pushing about 20% of everything we bring in as a country is just going towards interest payments. It’s ridiculous, right? But the scary part about this is what Trump inherited. You know, it’s going to be hard to unwind from this, which is why he has to focus on tariffs or income and cutting departments and expenses, which is what Doge is doing. Right? So you have to have both of them at the same time, because this number is astronomically huge. In the first four months of this year, first four months, we spent $840 billion of new deficit spending.

Okay, so that’s one third of a year. You multiply 840 times three, right, to get you full year, you’re looking at about two and a half trillion dollars this year in new debt that we’re adding to our national debt. Right? Put that dumb number into perspective. They’re adding up, you know, 840 billion over, over four months. So from 1776 until 1980, 204 years, we went from zero to about 950 billion. Oh, my God. So, so it took us 204 years, what’s now taking us four months. So it’s no wonder Trump was elected, right? Because it’s a referendum against the madness of constant spending and, and violating the Founding Fathers warning cry to all of America that said, hey, moving forward, make sure politicians that you don’t actually encumber more debt than can be paid off during your generation.

Because if you pass it on to the next generation, the next generation after that, that’s really unfair to future generations that they have to pay for debt that you’re going to be dead, you’re never going to know. But now they had to take on the weight. It’s like that the kids have to take on the sins of their father. Kind of a, kind of a message, right? This is where America is. Because if, if we would actually pay off every debt that we had in the generation that was alive, like was warned to us in 1776, well, then we wouldn’t have $37 trillion of debt.

We wouldn’t have hundreds of trillions of Dollars of unfunded future obligations. We wouldn’t have multiple quadrillions of dollars of derivatives debt exposure, which is going to probably topple the system. Right. So this is a global pandemic of living on other people’s money. It’s time to pay the piper. Every cycle finishes. We just happen to be the generation that’s alive when that happens. But fortunately, while all this is happening, people are waking up. I mean, they’re waking up to the fact of. I didn’t realize it was this bad. Thank goodness that Trump’s in charge and doing things differently the way that the founding fathers envisioned.

And maybe we’re going to get back to reasonable spending, not spending beyond our means, not trying to keep up with the Joneses. Right. We’re trying to get back to a society that’s going to be healthy and prosperous and abundant again and bring jobs back. This is what I’m excited about, what Trump is doing. Oh, yeah. I mean, these numbers on this article, we’ll put it below this video so everybody can look at these, these numbers, these charts, I mean, they really help show us what’s going on. I mean, this, that’s phenomenal how these guys put this together to help us out and moving forward.

You had some positive information too. I was able to pull out that presentation you sent me also. But we’ll show this one first. Something’s happening in the gold and silver markets. Deliveries and delayed, they’re actually delayed. Lease rates are soaring and institutions are scrambling for physical metal. And then there’s a question from Sprott Money. Is the US preparing to monetize gold? What’s going on here? This is some of the most exciting news I’ve ever seen because a lot of times throughout the last 20 or 30 years, I mean, I see all of the ads that, that other gold and silver dealers are placing and it’s always this fear based thing, oh, Biden’s going to destroy the economy and boy, you big brother.

And, and these are realities, right? We are going to have central bank digital currency coming. It is going to be an elimination of our privacy and freedom. It is. Right? But now you’ve got this message of rather than something ugly that’s causing people to go into gold and silver. It’s actually something that’s very encouraging that’s going to cause them because we, the story that we’ve touched on now, I think two out of the last three weeks is London bank vaults are running out of gold. And I mean, they’re just running out so much so that in the London bank vaults.

And lbma, just for a little refresher lesson is the depository in the vaults that hold gold and silver for central banks around the world, right? And it’s the largest holder of physical metals on the planet, comes out of London. So they can’t provide physical delivery because they have like no inventory. And so what they’re doing is they are number one giving people this astronomical interest rate of 16% a month right? Now for people to say, hey, I’ve got my gold or silver stored in the London bank vaults and so I will loan it to you, I’ll give you that in a replacement of 16% per month interest rate so you’ll have the inventory to send out to the people that you have to fulfill your contracts with.

Well, what a stupid thing, right? Because if they don’t have the inventory, there’s no inventory coming in and you’re giving it to them to ship off to somebody, you’re not getting it back, right? So it’s like, I wouldn’t do that. But this is the pickle they’re in. So where is the metal going? It’s coming to New York, right? That picture you just had on the screen, these are basically US bank vaults and depositories. Look at that spike on the end of the screen. It’s so fresh and so new because it’s happened over the last couple of weeks and this is a multi year chart that it’s all going to New York, that’s coming to America, right? And so there’s this repatriation happening where it’s almost like the gold is almost like being audited.

There’s stories of, of cargo planes all over the world bringing physical gold and silver into the depositories in New York, into the CME Comex depositories and to what end? Right? Because about a month ago I reported the story with you that the available inventory of silver was like very, very low and refineries are about three months backlogged on even getting things done because they didn’t have it. Right. The demand was too high, but yet gold was spiking. And I couldn’t figure out the reason why back then. But now we know full on why is. I think because over the weekend, over this weekend, Trump and Secretary of Treasury Besant were signing some executive order, right? It wasn’t, wasn’t related to what they talked about, but some kind of a question was asked and here’s what Besant said.

He said, well, we’re going to within the next 12 months monetize the assets of the United States balance sheet. It’s like, what? Monetize the assets. This is amazing, right? Because if you think about what assets do we have, right? So if you were like a United Arab Emirates or whatever, and oil was, is nationalized, the government owns the oil there, right. So you could monetize that by selling it. Right. We don’t own the oil. Private industries do. And even the oil that we used to have in the strategic oil reserves, Biden depleted, it’s not even there.

But we have land, right? So here’s the thing. We in the west, where I live, we have tons of federal, you know, open space and land. But that’s not an asset they can monetize. Unless you’re charging people $15 a day for parking International Park. Right. But you could monetize it ultimately by doing what Trump wants to do. When he says drill, baby, drill, it’s like, okay, there’s tons of oil and gas in this, this wildlife land all over the West. Right. But that’s not what percent was talking about, in my opinion. He’s talking about things that they already have.

Right. So for example, they have 8, 500 tons of gold. Well, how about you monetize that? Why, why is. This is where I’m putting two and two together. They’re all the gold is coming in from other parts of the world coming to New York. It’s almost like an audit, right. They’re bringing what they have, they’re repatriating it back home because they want to monetize the assets of the United States balance sheet. Meaning I think what Sprott said in that article, we’re possibly going to have a gold backed currency. You can’t have backing to a currency if it’s not here.

I wouldn’t trust it. So it’s all coming back. This kind of makes sense to me. The other thing that Trump said is they want to have a strategic Bitcoin reserve. You know, so if the, if the government or the treasury owns cryptocurrency, that’s an asset that they monetize by taking advantage of the growth. And you can sell it off down the road at a higher price. Like what we do is individual investors. They’re just doing it as a country, right? So, so I’m looking at this and it’s like, this is why those vaults that we’re seeing have the skyrocketing amount of inventory.

It’s coming back home. The rest of the world doesn’t have inventory. And I think Trump’s bringing it back to Ultimately have a gold backed currency. And it makes sense to me. It’s like if you go back to what he’s wanting to do is what the founding fathers said, have tariffs be the income stream for America, not personal income taxes. Right, right. So income taxes didn’t come into this country until 1913. Prior to that, we funded everything in America with tariffs. It’s the price to pay to sell your goods and services to U.S. consumers. It’s like, yeah, you want to have access to this massive 300 million plus people marketplace, you’re going to have to pay a tariff.

That’s it. I mean, it’s the price of admission. Then if you get rid of income taxes, we all have 30% more every month to spend. We create this massively prosperous economy. But you go back to Founding Fathers, which is what the tariffs were all about. What else did they say? You can’t have legal money in America unless it’s gold or silver coinage. So is Trump really going back to what the Founding Fathers envisioned for America? Because what the banks have done, the era of central banking, fiat based money that has no backing, has only created a world of debt.

So much so that even if Elon Musk can get rid of $2 trillion worth of debt, of spending a year, our debt still grows. It’s just so bad. Right? So, so I think Trump is, is doing this now. This is just my opinion, right? It’s just, it’s, it’s not that God told me, it’s not that you see all these things of, of all these stories and people think that this is absolutely 100. Sure. Can’t say that. But what I can say, these pieces are sure adding up right where why would Trump say that we want to monetize the assets of our US Balance sheet? Why is gold leaving the rest of the world coming here? Right.

Why is he going to tariffs and saying that he wants to get rid of income taxes? This is an about face of 180 degree turn from what we’ve seen, not just from Biden, but from Clinton and Obama and the two Bushes before, where they sold out American futures for a globalist agenda. And this is just so much different. Trump is saying, no, I don’t care about the rest of the world. I care about us. I’m the President of the United States, for crying out loud, not the President of the world. We’re going to make America great again.

Which is why he’s also wanting to pull out of the World Health Organization, out of these Paris Accords, out of all these things it’s like, good grief. It makes me feel so good that we’re moving in the right direction finally. That’s right. That’s right. It’s amazing. I mean, I’ve kind of read up on Terps just a little bit and could tell me that I’m wrong. But they say, you know, it’s really about controlling the prices across America to keep us high. The same products that we sell In America, they’re 75% higher. They’re 75% lower in other countries.

So the other countries are the ones that get the big breaks on all of our products. Well, we’re paying high prices already on our products. So it’s like. It just doesn’t make sense when you look at the whole thing. The mainstream media just seems to be out there causing all kinds of chaos. And to me, they’re lying. I mean, just the other day I saw to the European Union offered to lower their tariffs on US Cars following the Donald Trump’s terror threat. So mainstream media is always complaining and trying to make him look like a bad guy.

But what’s happening, it’s creating a major shift in what in these other countries that were robbing us. I mean, they argue about the dumbest things. It’s like, okay, just, you know, stop bellyaching that the press secretary won’t let you into the Oval Office or the White House to cover stories because you won’t call the Gulf of what used to be the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. It’s like, stop arguing about stupid stuff. I’m so glad that, you know, you look at, oh, FEMA and all this waste that they’ve had, right? And so now noma’s going after him and saying, no, we’re going to actually make sure that this doesn’t happen again.

You look at USAID and the colossal blunder of wasted money that we’ve seen over so many years, it’s like we might actually be on the verge of being a wealthy country again and getting rid of this debt. And in doing so, when you’ve got central banks and you’ve got currencies, they’re going to probably be backed by gold. You don’t have to be a hedge fund to participate in that. You don’t have to have billions of dollars. You don’t have to. You can just be you and me, right? Because you can buy silver, like for 500 bucks.

You know, get, you know, it’s like a minimum purchase size. Well, at least with us, you know, other firms might have 15, 25 $50,000 minimums. I want to help everybody. So God called us to do Amen. And on gold, $3,000, because that’s what one ounces, it’s like, you know what? We don’t have to be wealthy to start doing. And if you own the thing that currencies are going to want and governments are going to want to back their currency, it’s like, oh, my word, it’s not the currency that’s going to be profitable. It’s the backing of the currency.

And you can own the same thing that they want to own. You know, on the backing. That’s phenomenal. That’s good news. You know, it’s, it’s great that folks can reach out to you, get this started. And if they have questions, that’s the best part. They can have conversations with you and your team and you make it so easy to, to have access to you guys. And man, we’re just grateful for that. They can hit that link nwe know.com forward/gold in the description box below. And there’s also a number they can call. Yeah, 720-605-3900 at 720-605-3900. Amazing, amazing, you guys.

Great time. Reach out. Amazing update and let’s all jump on board with what’s biblical. As always, thank you so much, Dr. Elliott. We look forward to talking to you again soon. This is a great, great info. Absolutely. It’s my pleasure. We’ll talk soon. An amazing interview, folks. Just to make sure you understand, we are going to play the entire J.D. vance, Vice President speech in Munich now. And then we’re going to close in prayer. Well, thank you and thanks to all the gathered delegates and luminaries and media professionals and thanks especially to the hosts of the Munich Security Conference for being able to put on such an incredible event.

We’re, of course, thrilled to be here. We’re happy to be here. And you know, one of the things that I wanted to talk about today is of course, our shared values. And you know, it’s great to be back in Germany. As you heard earlier, I was here last year as United States Senator. I saw Foreign Minister, excuse me, Foreign Secretary David Lamian joke that both of us last year had different jobs than we have now. But now it’s time for all of our countries, for all of those who have been fortunate enough to be given political power by our respective peoples, to use it wisely to improve their lives.

And I want to say that, you know, I was fortunate in my time here to spend some time outside the walls of this conference over the last 24 hours. And I’ve been so impressed by the hospitality of the people, even as, of course, as they’re reeling from yesterday’s horrendous attack. And the first time I was ever in Munich was with. Was with my wife, actually, who’s here with me today on a personal trip. And I’ve always loved the city of Munich, and I’ve always loved its people. And I just want to say that we’re very moved, and our thoughts and prayers are with Munich and everybody affected by the evil inflicted on this beautiful community.

We’re thinking about you, we’re praying for you, and we will certainly be rooting for you in the days and weeks to come. Now, I hope that’s not the last bit of applause that I get. But we. We gather at this conference, of course, to discuss security. And normally we mean threats to our external security. I see many great military leaders gathered here today. But while the Trump administration is very concerned with European security and believes that we can come to a reasonable settlement between Russia and Ukraine, and we also believe that it’s important in the coming years for Europe to step up in a big way to provide for its own defense, the threat that I worry the most about vis a vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor.

And what I worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America. Now, I was struck that a former European commissioner went on television recently and sounded delighted that the Romanian government had just annulled an entire election. He warned that if things don’t go to plan, the very same thing could happen in Germany. Now, these cavalier statements are shocking to American ears. For years, we’ve been told that everything we fund and support is in the name of our shared democratic values.

Everything from our Ukraine policy to digital censorship is billed as a defense of democracy. But when we see European courts canceling elections and senior officials threatening to cancel others, we ought to ask whether we’re holding ourselves to an appropriately high standard. And I say ourselves because I fundamentally believe that we are on the same team. We must do more than talk about democratic values. We must live them now, within living memory of many of you in this room. The Cold War positioned defenders of democracy against much more tyrannical forces on this continent. And consider the side in that fight that censored dissidents, that closed churches, that canceled elections, were they the good guys? Certainly not.

And thank God they lost the Cold War. They lost because they neither valued nor respected all of the extraordinary blessings of liberty. The freedom to surprise, to make mistakes, to invent, to build. As it turns out, you can’t mandate innovation or creativity, just as you can’t force people what to think, what to feel or what to believe. And we believe those things are certainly connected. And unfortunately, when I look at Europe today, it’s sometimes not so clear what happened to some of the Cold War’s winners. I look to Brussels, where EU Commission commissars warn citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest the moment they spot what they’ve judged to be, quote, hateful content.

Or to this very country where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti feminist comments online as part of, quote, combating misogyny on the Internet. Day of action. I look to Sweden, where two weeks ago the government convicted a Christian activist for participating in Koran burnings that resulted in his friend’s murder. And as the judge in his case chillingly noted, Sweden’s laws to supposedly protect free expression do not in fact grant, and I’m quoting, a free pass to do or say anything without risking offending the group that holds that belief. And perhaps most concerningly, I look to our very dear friends, the United Kingdom, where the backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britons in particular in the crosshairs.

A little over two years ago, the British government charged Adam smith Connor, a 51 year old physiotherapist and an armed army veteran, with the heinous crime of standing 50 meters from an abortion clinic and silently praying for three minutes. Not obstructing anyone, not interacting with anyone, just silently praying on his own. After British law enforcement spotted him and demanded to know what he was praying for, Adam replied simply, it was on behalf of the unborn son he and his former girlfriend had aborted years before. Now the officers were not moved. Adam was found guilty of breaking the government’s new buffer zones law, which criminalizes silent prayer and other actions that could influence a person’s decision within 200 meters of an abortion facility.

He was sentenced to pay thousands of pounds in legal costs to the prosecution. Now I wish I could say that this was a flat fluke, a one off, crazy example of a badly written law being enacted against a single person, but no. This last October, just a few months ago, the Scottish government began distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay within so called safe access zones, warning them that even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law. Naturally, the government urged readers to report, report any fellow citizen suspected guilty of thought crime in Britain and across Europe.

Free speech, I fear, is in retreat. And in the interest of comedy, my friends, but also in the interest of truth, I will admit that sometimes the loudest voices for censorship have come not from within Europe, but from within my own country. Where the prior administration threatened and bullied leads social media companies to censor so called misinformation. Misinformation like, for example, the idea that coronavirus had likely leaked from a laboratory in China. Our own government encouraged private companies to silence people who dared to utter what turned out to be an obvious truth. So I come here today not just with an observation, but with an offer.

And just as the Biden administration seemed desperate to silence people for speaking their minds, so the Trump administration will do precisely the opposite. And I hope that we can work together on that in Washington. There is a new sheriff in town and under Donald Trump’s leadership. We may disagree with your views, but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square. Agree or disagree? Now, we’re at the point, of course, that the. The situation has gotten so bad that this December remote Romania straight up canceled the results of a presidential election based on the flimsy suspicions of an intelligence agency and enormous pressure from its continental neighbors.

Now, as I understand it, the argument was that Russian disinformation had infected the Romanian elections. But I’d ask my European friends to have some perspective. You can believe it’s wrong for Russia to buy social media advertisements to influence your elections. We certainly do. You can condemn it on the world stage, even. But if your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand dollars of digital advertising from a foreign country, then it wasn’t very strong to begin with. Now, the good news is that I happen to think your democracies are substantially less brittle than many people apparently fear.

And I really do believe that allowing our citizens to speak their mind will make them stronger still. Which of course, brings us back to Munich, where the organizers of this very conference have banned lawmakers representing populist parties on both the left and the right from participating in these conversations. Now, again, we don’t have to agree with everything or anything that people say, but when people represent, when political leaders represent an important constituency, it is incumbent upon us to at least participate in dialogue with. With them. Now, to many of us on the other side of the Atlantic, it looks more and more like old entrenched interests, hiding behind ugly Soviet era words like misinformation and disinformation, who simply don’t like the idea that somebody with an alternative viewpoint might express a different opinion or, God forbid, vote a different way, or even worse, win election.

Now, this is a security conference, and I’m sure you all came here prepared to talk about how exactly you intend to increase defense spending over the next few years in line with some new target. And that’s great, because as President Trump has made abundantly clear, he believes that our European friends must play a bigger role in the future of this continent. We don’t think you hear this term burden sharing, but we think it’s an important part of being in a shared alliance together that the Europeans step up while America focuses on areas of the world that are in great danger.

But let me also ask you, how will you even begin to think through the kinds of budgeting questions if we don’t know what it is that we are defending in the first place? I’ve heard a lot already in my conversations, and, and I’ve had many, many great conversations with many people gathered here in this room. I’ve heard a lot about what you need to defend yourselves from, and of course, that’s important. But what has seemed a little bit less clear to me, and certainly, I think to many of the citizens of Europe, is what exactly it is that you’re defending yourselves for.

What is the positive vision that animates this shared security compact that we all believe is so important? And I believe deeply that there is no security if you are afraid of the voices, the opinions and the conscience that guide your very own people. Europe faces many challenges, but the crisis this continent faces right now, the crisis I believe we all face together, is one of our own making. If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you. Nor, for that matter, is there anything that you can do for the American people who elected me and elected President Trump.

You need Democratic mandates to accomplish anything of value in the coming years. Have we learned nothing? That thin mandates produce unstable results? But there is so much of value that can be accomplished with the kind of democratic mandate that I think will come from being more responsive to the voices of your citizens. If you’re going to enjoy competitive economies, if you’re going to enjoy affordable energy and secure supply chains, then you need mandates to govern because you have to make difficult choices to enjoy all of these things. And of course, we know that very well in America, you cannot win a democratic mandate by Censoring your opponents or putting them in jail, whether that’s the leader of the opposition, a humble Christian praying in her own home, or a journalist trying to report the news.

Nor can you win one by disregarding your basic electorate on questions like who gets to be a part of our shared society. And of all the pressings challenges that the nations represented here face, I believe there is nothing more urgent than mass migration. Today, almost one in five people living in this country moved here from abroad. That is, of course, an all time high. It’s a similar number, by the way, in the United States, also an all time high. The number of immigrants who entered the EU from non EU countries doubled between 2021 and 2022 alone.

And of course, course it’s gotten much higher since. And we know the situation. It didn’t materialize in a vacuum. It’s the result of a series of conscious decisions made by politicians all over the continent and others across the world over the span of a decade. We saw the horrors wrought by these decisions yesterday in this very city. And of course I can’t bring it up again without thinking about the terrible victims who had a beautiful winter day in Munich ruined. Our thoughts and prayers are with them and will remain with them. But why did this happen in the first place? It’s a terrible story, but it’s one we’ve heard way too many times in Europe, and unfortunately too many times in the United States as well.

An asylum seeker, often a young man in his mid-20s, already known to police, rams a car into a crowd and shatters a community. How many times must we suffer these appalling setbacks before we change course and take our shared civilization in a new direction? No voter on this continent went to the ballot box to open the floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants. But you know what they did vote for? For in England, they voted for Brexit. In agree or disagree, they voted for it. And more and more all over Europe, they’re voting for political leaders who promise to put an end to out of control migration.

Now, I happen to agree with a lot of these concerns, but you don’t have to agree with me. I just think that people care about their homes, they care about their dreams, they care about their safety and their capacity to provide for themselves and their children. And they’re smart. I think this is one of the most important things I’ve learned in my brief time in politics. Contrary to what you might hear a couple mountains over in Davos, the citizens of all of our nations don’t generally think of themselves as educated animals or as interchangeable cogs of a global economy.

And it’s hardly surprising that they don’t want to be shuffled about or relentlessly ignored by their leaders. It is the business of democracy to adjudicate these big questions at the ballot box. I believe that dismissing people, dismissing their concerns, or worse yet, shutting down media, shutting down elections, or shutting people out of the political process protects nothing. In fact, it is the most surefire way to. To destroy democracy. And speaking up and expressing opinions isn’t election interference, even when people express views outside your own country, and even when those people are very influential. And trust me, I say this with all humor.

If American Democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg scolding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk. But what German democracy, what no democracy, American, German or European will survive, is telling millions of voters that their thoughts and concerns, their aspirations, their pleas for relief are invalid or unworthy of even being considered. Democracy rests on the sacred principle that the voice of the people matters. There’s no room for firewalls. You either uphold the principle or you don’t. Europeans, the people have a voice. European leaders have a choice. And my strong belief is that we do not need to be afraid of the future.

You can embrace what your people tell you, even when it’s surprising, even when you don’t agree. And if you do so, you can face the future with certainty and with confidence, knowing that the nation stands behind each of you. And that, to me, is the great magic of democracy. It’s not in these stone buildings or beautiful hotels. It’s not even in the great institutions that we have built together as a shared society. To believe in democracy is to understand that each of our citizens has wisdom and has a voice. And if we refuse to listen to that voice, even our most successful fights will secure very little.

As Pope John Paul ii, in my view, one of the most extraordinary champions of democracy on this continent or any other, once said, do not be afraid. We shouldn’t be afraid of our people, even when they express views that disagree with their leadership. Thank you all. Good luck to all of you. God bless you. Wow, Wasn’t that phenomenal? We’ve got a lot going on around this earth, folks. I hope that you’re hanging on. It’s been a crazy ride, for sure. I mean, we had the Ship of Fools, of course. They’re getting exposed left and right. And again, just a reminder from the cueboard for February 14, 2019, that that’s been playing out for many to see.

One second, I’m gonna show you something. Here is a February 15th one that was released for yesterday. Be alert. Next 10 days false flag attempts may be carried out and attempt to change narrative. Negative optics and high possibility of multiple day coverage event forcing pause on new See something, say something. So stay alert folks. Sometimes we look at these Deltas Even though that’s 2019, sometimes we know that these things match up for six years later. Now it seems to be all adding up. And of course don’t forget no mercy, no bargaining to traitor’s justice, pain and Q.

But nothing is secret that shall not be made manifest, neither anything hid that shall not be known and come abroad. Let’s pray. Heavenly Father, thank you once again for your continued guidance and direction in our daily lives. We have come to you boldly before your throne just asking for continued support, guiding, directing, our own thoughts, our own tongues and things that we say to others. And we definitely need your help. There again you receive, you deserve all the praise and glory and honor for all that’s occurring in our nation. This wake up call that is happening not only in our nation, but around the entire Earth.

We ask that you continue to guide and direct President Trump in the right ways. And J.D. vance, the vice President also and their families would continue to receive full protection. We know that they are going to be on the radar of the enemy at all times as they expose all of this evil. And so again, thank you for all that you continue to do for us. We ask all this in the name of your son, Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen and amen folks. Thank you so much for tuning in. Hope that you have a great Sunday and also look forward to more updates the remainder of this week.

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