Punchbowl Town Square

When it comes to honest debate, through often we see facts twisted into half-truths, outrage, soul for clicks and views, and a liberal agenda packaged as the honest reporting, division has become their business model and business is booming. Different opinions, Democrats, blue dog Democrats, never scared me. Thinking differently and having a freedom to do so is what makes this country great. Thanks to my tariffs, Korea's zinc is investing over $6 billion at creating 740 jobs right here in Montgomery County and Smith County, Tennessee. It's a lot. And your estate will soon be home to the first new mineral smelter in the United States. First one built since 1979, a big one, beautiful one, great jobs, good high paying jobs. And General Motors just announced a $275 million investment in Spring Hill manufacturing facility to build the next generation of turbocharged Cadillac engines, great company. General Motors has been great by the way. That today, I had a press conference today and this is big. Well, the message I had today, I had a press conference today and this is big news. I discussed the renaissance of American manufacturing. Ed, since the boss took office in January 2025, we've had over 500 new major projects to build factories in America across the 47 of our states, across nine sectors. It's an absolute boom since January of this year, we've seen the ISM manufacturing industry, which is the best measure of it. Go like straight up, trend up. And what bothers me is we head into this election is you can't get people to talk about the economy of Trump, where the economy is absolutely performing beautifully. I took some questions afterwards and the only thing that one of these woke reporters wanted to do, they go, what about diesel? I go, wait a minute, I just explained you how we got over 500 major projects you're going to employ close to half a million people and all you're doing is you're talking points from your executive producer. It's like, give me a break. And Fox didn't even show. I just, there's something desperately wrong with that Fox news corporation right now, the way they're just stepping all over the people of America. They will not report the news in the Trump White House, which is most important to the people of America. All of that great information to the American people. The purpose of publishing these suppression polls, it's designed to demoralize people, to convince people that it's not worth continuing the fight to save and rescue their country. The reason why America has lower energy prices than everyone else in the developed world is because of President Trump. The reason why we have record job creation is because of President Trump. Democrats fought bloody murder to stop all of this. Every single step President Trump took to secure the border, they ran to court and sued to try to order us to keep the border open. Every single thing that President Trump did to bring our energy supply chains back to America, they fought us in court and sued us. Every single thing he did on Biden crime, sanctuary Democrat mayors and sanctuary Democrat politicians fought us relentlessly. They voted against tax cuts for every single American family. They voted against the child tax credit. They voted against the Trump accounts. They voted against no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on social security. They have not been our partners in a single one of the victories that President Trump has delivered for America. Under Joe Biden, we saw inflation records like we've never seen before. And obviously that has been something that the America people have felt every step of the way. Every time they've gone to the grocery store, every time they've gone to fill up their gas tank. And obviously that is the number one issue for voters right now is the cost of living. President Trump, Tame's inflation faster than any advanced economy has ever tamed inflation. I want to most important issues that affects the cost of living as the price of prescription drugs. American R&D, research and development creates these miracle healthcare breakthroughs. So this is something that's created by our doctors, our scientists, our tax dollars, our researchers, our intellectual property, our everything. So even though these are the drugs that we created with our genius and our innovation and our capabilities, our market was paying the highest prices in the world. President Trump for the first time in history entered into what's called most favorite nation deals on drug pricing. What does that mean? It means the drug companies cannot charge us any more than they charge foreign countries. Then he went to the ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Good morning. That's Monday. Yeah. So ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Are you standing right now or leaning or laying on your side? I'm on my side. ... ... ... ... ... I appreciate all the prayers and well-being. All the prayers and well-wishes from everybody. Yeah. It's good to be back. So, Skill 1-10, how are you? Cover-wise. I think about a five. It's a good number. It's a good number. Yeah. I mean, today's the first day that I felt okay, I didn't ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... But I still have more faith. So I'm okay. Well, I'm glad you're doing a lot better. Welcome back. I can relate for some reason. Yeah. Yeah. I've been there before, and it was many minutes ago, but ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... which wasn't the most ideal situation, but I may do. Well, I'll tell you about it. The worst part was watching football over the weekend, when you're used to being animated as TV and screaming and jumping up and down. That wasn't happening yesterday. I learned that really quick. Slow is fast and fast to slow. OK? There you go. My little female dog, I think she has PTSD when football comes on because she'll be sitting there and I'll jump out of the seat. She's springing in the air. Well, I haven't done it lately, but I will move quickly. I will lean forward hard before I had my back surgery. So if y'all didn't hair yesterday, there is a little recording that I released. And it's my understanding that there will be another little recording release today. I have no idea what's going to be on that one, but it will be interesting. Nick Sorter is going to release it. So yeah, caught quite the stir yesterday, quite the stir from the liberal media, and not just liberal media, also conservative media. The Daily Caller. So I mean, I expect this to get ridden about. And I expect Talleriga to still be telling lies, years from now, maybe one day, who'll come out and admit to the truth and just say, who kicked John Brennan from the stage? One me, I don't know. Was that the real John Brennan? Really? Yeah. I'm just the artist's morning. Hey, listen, listen, I listened to all of that. I thought you were in there, yeah. I listened to all of that. And I'm like, you know what, 48 hours. You have 48 hours. Because people suck their neck out over recording. And then you heard both sides, some of the people that came in there to counter the whole recording, the debunk, all of it, were just who are there? There wasn't anybody really with any evidence to prove that Talleriga was in Texas, which is what everybody kept asking for is, OK, if he was really at home sick, then why didn't he post the empathy post saying, oh, what was me? I'm sick here. Please donate to my campaign. I need more volunteers. Well, no, no, no, no, he could have made it what I'm trying to say, Bishop. He could have turned this situation into a big W for his campaign. And then he could have said, look, Republicans are all full of crap. They're all lying. Here I am with the flu. He did not do that. Oh, yeah. No, no, no, I'm not arguing that. I'm trying to figure out he held carrying good enough in Texas. He had a good Ohio, or was he in Ohio? And he got sick. He's never been to Ohio now. He's saying, oh, I've never even been to Ohio. That's what his new claim is. So, look, there's also other information if people really wanted to. They could go online and buy the cell phone pings of the towers around that building. And they could see which numbers were pinging. And they could deduce whether or not any of the cell phones were there. But I'm interested to hear this next recording that's coming out. And I think there's a reason why people have parsed information out. And I'll be interested to see what's on this next recording, of course. But I do believe that James Telerico is a liar. And I do believe he has lied multiple times about all kinds of stuff. So when you're dealing with somebody, it's willing to do that and have the backing of the media behind you. You end up in the same situation where it's just constantly selling lies over and over again, to suit whatever situation you're in. That's the James Telerico we all know. So no one's really surprised that he would come out and make the statement. Also, look, the facility, some people yeshero, oh look, the facility said he was never here. No, he didn't say he was never here. Never been treated. Treat it. In fact, it didn't say he was never there. And so Megan Kelly posted yesterday about 8 o'clock asking the same question. So there are some really noticeable people asking questions about this now, wanting to know the truth. And I think that's all the people want to know here. It's just the truth, regardless. And voters should be able to have access to that. We should know whether or not our candidates are mentally stable, are mentally fit, or are they in some kind of outpatient treatment? K-Grainger was in a memory unit. I don't know if you all remember that. Memory care. For three months and nobody knew. Yes. And that should have never happened either. There's Republicans that have been in treatment before. There's a New Jersey representative right now who just came back. I think his last name is Keen. Nobody knew where the hell he was for months. Yeah, this is a problem. Just like we have people that obviously shouldn't be holding office for various reasons. But this is a major problem. If you're mentally unfit, you can't show up for whatever reason, whether or not you're in cognitive decline or you're dealing with some kind of life issue like Lena Hadago where you feel like you need to take months away from being a public servant. If you're going to run to be a public servant, let's try to make sure that you don't have any problems that are going to take you away from doing your job as a public servant for weeks on in, for months on in. That's not somebody we need to be electing. That's the crux of the topic of conversation here. That really is it. And do we want to elect people that have serious problems that aren't going to show up and perform and represent you with the constituents, which is what their job is. Is that do we want those people representing us and wasting our time and wasting our taxpayer money? It's really like another form of fraud, wasting abuse if you ask me and we're trying to end that. If it's true or not, I really don't care.