Jimmy Kimmel's Audience Shocked at How Sick He Actually Is as He Doubles Down on Dark Joke

26:01And this is becoming ubiquitous across the left right now. Take a look. The Trump administration has caused so much pain to people's everyday lives that some folks are fed up and willing to risk it all. Simple as that. And if you're going to talk about anybody toning down violent political rhetoric, start with the president. All right. So first off, Lenny, I'd be happy to do the show and explain to you why you are wrong about that. But let's try it this way. Let me read you a tweet that I put up this morning. actually. Allow me to quote Dave Rubin on The Rubin Report. How about that? I think this will get it right.

26:32Joe Biden let in 20 million illegals into the country. That is far worse than anything Donald Trump has ever done. That still wouldn't have been a legitimate reason to excuse violence towards him. These people have no idea the Pandora's box they are opening. And that's the point. Lenny, you may feel that Donald Trump has made life bad for people, even though the economy actually is doing quite well right now, and the markets are really high, and gas prices are basically down, and if nothing else, he closed the border and stopped the invasion. But let's say you disagree with all of those things.

27:06Once you open that Pandora's box, once you open that thing, you cannot close it, and you have no idea what will come out of it, and you guys are opening it right now. Hassan Piker took the same position. Well, you know, Brian Thompson, healthcare CEO, Yo, he was a bad dude and people don't like their healthcare. So, you know, someone's gonna assassinate him in Times Square. It's the exact same thing you're saying. People are upset about Donald Trump, so someone's gonna do it. By that very logic, you, you would have a target on your own head, right? Like you say political things, Lenny. Bernie Sanders says political things.

27:46AOC says political things. And there are people on the right who find those things quite noxious. I find all of the ideas of the modern Democrat party which is a radically anti-American, anti-capitalist party, I find them all horrifically noxious. Once I go from, okay, you guys have a horrible set of ideas, and I'll mock you, and I'll make fun of you, and I'll call you out, and I'll expose you. Once I take that next step to, oh, and, you know, I'll kind of get it if somebody blows your brains out. Well, guess what? It's coming both ways, and truly it would be the end of the American experiment.

28:20And, guys, it's everywhere on the left right now. There is no one moderating this. We've shown you some videos of this guy, Wujahat Ali. I debated this ding-dong on Piers Morgan a couple of times. Here he is after the assassination attempt. Listen to this. I think most of the country is just done. We're like, mother effer, just die. Just leave. Just like, you know, let the grim reaper come in and take you from your cankles. I think people are sick and tired. You know, what we predicted while we're on that street, on street by uh on saturday says i was talking to some journalists i'm like by tuesday people will move on no one's gonna give a all right so he wants him to just die grim reaper come around now again first off he says most of the country well most of the country voted for donald trump and i'm gonna guess that there's even some people in your crazy democrat party that are not okay with the assassination or wouldn't be happy if donald trump just died today as as much as they hate him.

29:18If the president of the United States just had a heart attack today, God forbid, I'm going to guess that there's going to be a couple people that still have a little more of a heart than you do in that party, and they wouldn't be happy about it. But again, all they've got left at this point, basically, is not only tearing down everything that's good about America, but basically joking about, and in this case, wishing death on the president of the United States. Again, I despise Bernie Sanders as a human being. I think he has been an unbelievably horrible influence on this country, showing young people particularly, or tricking young people into thinking that envy is virtuous and ushering in socialism.

29:59And the revolution will eat him one day too, right? Because at the end of the day, he'll be an old white man, or in his case, he's an old white, he's LARPing Jew basically, but that's even worse than just being white. So it'll take him out one day, but I'm not for someone killing him, and I wouldn't excuse it in the slightest. And I guess what? I wouldn't excuse it if it happened to Rashida Tlaib or Ilhan Omar or anything else. We have to have basic rules here, and if we do not, it's over. But let's show you a little bit how they play both sides on this stuff. Watch this. I mean, these things, again, it's so easy, thanks to the internet, to expose their ridiculousness.

30:31This is representative, New York Democrat representative. He's a total buffoon, Dan Goldman. And you tell me how this edit makes him look. We know what Donald Trump's rhetoric leads to because we know many times over how his followers use violence. The point is that we do need to dial it down on all sides. It is just unquestionable at this point that that man cannot see public office again. He is not only unfit, he is destructive to our democracy and he has to be he has to be eliminated. has to be eliminated. We have to tone down the rhetoric. Do you see how profoundly ridiculous these people are?

31:21It's, I don't even know how to analyze this properly. Everything that you guys do is what you're accusing us of doing. And at the same time, it's your side that's constantly trying to kill the president of the United States. Think about the four years that we had under Joe Biden, COVID lockdowns, an absolute invasion of the country, crime rampant everywhere. No one knew who the president was. Did I, or can you think of one Republican once that implied that Joe Biden, that if someone just killed Joe Biden, things would be better. Or I'd, you know, I get it. You know, there's been an invasion, 20 million people came to the country.

31:56We have no idea who they are, what they're doing. They're bringing in drugs and raping people. I'd get it if someone killed him. Can you think of one person that said that? I can't. Can you? He can't either. and he knows about this stuff. Let's go to, you're an astute political thinker, right? You're not just sitting back there pressing buttons all day. Let's go to Arizona Democrat Senator Mark Kelly. And of course, what do the Democrats do? They never let a crisis go to waste. And what they really want right now, of course, is gun control. President Trump is making this argument. It's a security argument.

32:26He needs it. There are a lot of things he could be talking about right now. What do you make of his focus on that, on Kimmel as what he's using this moment for? I mean, instead of the ballroom, why isn't he calling out the need for some stronger gun laws? Or maybe we should figure out how to regulate social media companies so they're not making a profit off of dividing us as a nation. That's where some of this dangerous action comes from. And then, by the way, what's next? He builds this ballroom. He stays inside the compound. I mean, is he gonna put up a moat or a wall next around the White House?

33:07I mean, our president is not a monarch. They should be out there with the people. This is so dangerous and dumb what these people are doing. Okay, first off, let's do, he did a couple different things there. Number one on the gun thing. First off, an armed population is a safe population. I don't even have to explain that any further. Okay, you have every right and it is your God given right to protect your family and your property and everything else. Just because someone had a gun and had horrible intentions doesn't mean you take away our God-given rights. But think about it this way. Let's say right now, Donald Trump was like, you know what, I thought about it.

33:45It's the third time someone's tried to shoot me. Let's take away some guns. Do you realize what you've done right there? You've fully incentivized more people to shoot more people because the people who are anti-gun will be like, boy, if we threaten and we start shooting people, what does the government do? It takes away more people's guns. So that is the most trap door of a move you could possibly ever do. That's number one. Then he's upset about the polarization that's happening on social media. Well, I agree that that's happening, but it was your party that admittedly was working with, and you might argue a fascist type way because fascism is when the government works with giant corporations to silence all of us and manipulate and de-boost and demonetize and everything else, particularly during COVID and around the 2020 election and everything else.

34:29So I don't like you very much, Mark Kelly, but I don't think anyone should kill you. That's the fundamental difference between what it seems to be to be the most moderate position of someone on the right versus what a position, you know, whatever it is on the left at this point. Now there is one or two guys, you know, who we're talking about already on the left who are not completely insane. One of them had horrific brain damage And as his brain healed, he became more conservative. It's a rather interesting story that will make a hell of a movie one day. Of course, I'm talking about Mr. Hoodie sweatshirt himself, John Vetterman.

35:04And here he is saying that he never really got why Trump wanted the ballroom. But, you know, after all the shootings, maybe he kind of gets it now. It's just absurd to me why we wouldn't have a more secure issue and have the kind of event just like the ballroom. I never really had an issue with the ballroom before all that. But clearly what happened there, I can't imagine why we can't just agree. Like, look, I don't have to love everything about it. You know, we do need that kind of a facility. And, you know, the president may not even be in office when it's even finished, how it's done. But our country deserves that.

35:42And that's going to create a venue for more secure and inclusive and really more accessible for people. I don't know what he means by inclusive there, but we'll let that go. First off, remember guys, the ballroom that they are building right now is not costing taxpayers a dime. It is privately funded, not one dime. You will not have paid for this ballroom. By the way, it never popped into my mind, I literally mean this, it never popped into my mind until the last couple of days that Trump's intention with the ballroom had anything to do with security, right? The guy goes everywhere all the time, despite the threats.

36:19It never crossed my mind that maybe this had something to do with, so that they would have a venue at the White House, an indoor venue, they do a lot of stuff outdoors, an indoor venue that would be better suited related to security if they want to have hundreds or thousands of people inside at the same time. So I think there is something legit there. So again, it's not going to cost you a dime. And there obviously are some security reasons that it is legitimate. But this, I thought this was super interesting. So this is my buddy Jimmy Fallon over on Fox. You know, he does the Saturday night, late night show over there.

36:52And he was doing like red carpet stuff at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. And here he is caught on a hot mic before the shooting, before the shooting, and listen to what he was saying about the lack of security at the Hilton. And what do they have like two random chicks holding the front door open? We're not even trying anymore. That's just off the cuff stuff before the shooting. Now, there were metal detectors. People have shown pictures of it. I've also seen reports and people, one or two people who I know, who were saying that the security was seriously lax and not everyone had to go through.

37:32Hopefully the FBI will look into all of that stuff and they'll do a full autopsy, no pun intended, on the entire thing and figure out what worked or what didn't. But it is fairly obvious, as the temperature keeps getting ramped up by the Democrats, that doing things at the Hilton Hotel or a lot of these things are at massive convention centers. You know, many of the political things that I've been to over the years, the Turning Point events, etc., they're at huge convention centers where there are, you know, dozens of entries and people can get in all sorts of ways. And the question is, in the climate that we seem to be in right now, is it worth having a facility at the White House itself that would make these things more secure?

38:16I see no reason to not do that, especially, again, because we're not paying for it. But hopefully everything can get turned down and then the president would be able to be doing more of these things out there. Here is Dan Bongino with a rather intense request for Tmue Obama, Hakeem Jeffries. Hey, I got to address one thing. Yeah, go ahead. Sorry. Well, I want to ask you. You addressed earlier Hakeem Jeffries talking about this civility thing. Listen, Hakeem, we're not asking for civility, guy. We're just asking that your Democrats just stop trying to shoot President Trump. OK, we're not. Forget civility.

38:58We don't give a damn if you're nice and if you write respectfully at the end of your emails. Just please stop trying to shoot the president. Can we just agree on that, Mr. Jeffries? I'm sorry. I just had to address. I was a little annoyed when I heard that. I really love Dan. He's just great. Look, he's right, of course, right? And Dan's a free speech guy. So again, this is not that we want the government to come in now. I can speak for myself. I don't want the government to come in and force ABC's hand. on Kimmel. But that's really a, that's just one symptom of the much larger disease right now.

39:34And the disease is what we showed you with Dan Goldman. And the disease is what we showed you with Lenny Charlemagne. And the disease is what we've been showing you with Hassan and blood in the streets and Rick Scott's not for universal healthcare, go kill him and the rest of it. Like they are testing and testing and testing. You know what this is? Maybe we can make a meme about this. It's Jurassic Park. Remember at the end of Jurassic Park, like that last half hour, that great moment with the raptors when they're trying to break into the kitchen and you suddenly realize they can open the door and they're testing, right?

40:07They're testing and they're tapping and they're testing that. Can we grab that? Maybe we grab that image or we'll throw it at the end of the show or something. And they're just trying to make, see if what they can do. And you realize they're learning. They're quite literally learning and they're learning together. Well, that's kind of what the Democrats are right now. They're a bunch of raptors and they are testing the system and seeing how far they can pull and push. And, you know, it's ironic. I think I really nailed this one. They are trying to open that door or in this case, the Pandora's box that I mentioned earlier.

40:35Do we have the image of that crazy hook that the velociraptor have? We're working on it trying to open up that door. And once they, again, once they open up that door, we can do the exact same thing on our side and it will not be just and it will not be right or anything else. And there you go. So that's it right there. Yeah, right, that's it right there. So you've got what a great, I saw that in the theater, I think on opening night, 1994, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, Syosset Triplex, Long Island, and the smoke out of his nose, the little steam right there. And then yeah, he's testing that door, and that's what they are doing right now.

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41:45This season, give yourself and your loved ones the gift of perfectly cooked meals with Chef IQ. And with promo code Ruben, you can save 30 % and finish your holiday shopping in one shot. Go to chefiq.com and use promo code Ruben. All right, so let's talk about some of the other threats that are happening right now. You guys know Nick Shirley. Nick Shirley, the very unassuming, I always call him a kid, young man who went to Minnesota to see about the fraud at the quality leering center and all of these daycare centers that apparently were not taking care of children and then started looking into hospices where they were not taking care of old people who were on the verge of death.

42:29And in essence has exposed hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud, of federal money going to these largely Somali run schemes in the state of Minnesota, which are deeply connected to not only Ilhan Omar, but Tim Walz, who quite literally is not running for governor again for re-election, even though he wanted to be vice president because he's caught in the scheme himself. Here's Nick Shirley about some of the threats he has faced as two months ago or three months ago, he was not known by anybody. And now basically everyone knows who he is. The threats and the risk are actually very real. In fact, today, April 27th, is a day that I'm supposedly supposed to die according to a threat made on the Internet.

43:10In fact, it's a photo of me in a ditch with a decaptated head that says this is going to be you on April 27th, 2026 in a muddy ditch alongside the highway with your mother. Enjoy your last couple of months, buddy. So, I share this not to scare people, but to more so show them what it's actually like kind of being in the political climate, not just seeing it from the outside, but being someone who's actually living through it. Especially with the last assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the threats are real, and you do have a small percentage of the country, even if it's just 1%, that has gone radical.

43:53Paul. All right. There's a couple of things to talk about here. Look, he was just some guy that was like, I'm going to look into something. Does he strike you as someone that really wants fame, really wants what now is coming to him? Does he strike you as someone that's like money hungry or something like that? He went and did what the mainstream media is supposed to do. He just started doing a little exploration, a little investigative reporting, and he's getting crazy debt threats. You know, I get all sorts of threats, all sorts of threats. And sometimes I have to have police cars outside of my house.

44:27I got crazy amount of cameras here. We have other security things. We have, sometimes we have people that are, that are working here on site. I don't like talking about it. I don't like getting into it or anything else. We've been doxed. We've all sorts of crazy stuff, right? To me, it now, unfortunately, is just baked into doing what I do, right? And Charlie paid the ultimate price for doing what we do. But it does not have to be this way. And I suspect that the people who are the equivalents of, say, me and Nick Shirley and Charlie Kirk and ironically Donald Trump, the equivalents of us on the left, I don't think they're dealing with these kind of threats.

45:08Now, that doesn't mean they don't happen at all. They obviously do. But again, it is not a 50-50 situation. Now, the irony about Nick Shirley, oh, wait, can you throw up the screenshot there of what he showed you? So apparently the guy who made the death threat, his screen name, I guess, on X is Joey Mountains. Now, what's particularly interesting about this is that guy's got the blue check. That means that his account, you only can get the blue check if you're verified on Twitter, meaning you've connected your account to a credit card. So I suspect that that right now is being looked at by the FBI or the DOJ, and we will see what comes of that.

45:45Like these people often are not the brightest bulbs available. Anyway, what is it that put Nick Shirley on the map? It's that he exposed the fraud in Minnesota. And then what happened yesterday? Well, there were absolutely massive, the biggest yet FBI raids in Minneapolis. this. Large scale raids targeting federal fraud currently underway. Federal agents seem leaving the quality learning center. And Brooke Taylor has more on that and what they're looking for. Brooke, good morning. Hi, Bill. Good morning. Yeah, we have had a photographer there at the daycare since this morning capturing video of those federal agents just going in and out of the building, collecting evidence as part of the DOJ's fraud investigation in Minnesota.

46:33Take a look at this video here. Sources tell Fox that federal agents are raiding about 22 businesses across Minneapolis this morning, and sources say many of them are tied to Somali-owned operations. All of this comes after that viral YouTube video from Nick Shirley. It was back in December. In that video, he visited different child care centers. And you'll remember they were either closed or there were just no children inside despite receiving state child care funding. OK, so 22 businesses in Minnesota, largely Somali run, are now being looked at because of Nick Shirley. And then what subsequently has happened to Nick Shirley?

47:13Well, he's got people threatening to kill him. Did he do anything bad? Did he do anything mean? Did he do anything racist or or anything else? Obviously the answer to all of that is no. He quite literally did the reverse. But they've created the conditions that, oh, you're exposing fraud. There happens to be a lot of fraud in the Somali community. And by the way, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who I had on the show months ago, who is also Somali, she talked about how the Somali community, that it's kind of baked into some of their cultural norms to you abuse a system as much as possible once you're in it. She talked about that from a Somali perspective.

47:51but now he's under death threat. And then this one is just wild. I honestly thought this was AI when I saw it yesterday for the first time. This is now Governor Tim Walz to the backdrop of these raids that are happening. He wrote this. If you commit fraud in Minnesota, you're going to get caught. And that's exactly what we saw today. We catch criminals when state and federal agencies share information. Joint investigations work and securing justice depends on it. That has got to win the most ironic tweet of 2026. period, we can end it, end it. We're not even five months into this thing, end it right now.

48:25The guy who is in charge of the fraud, who's going to go down because of the fraud, who isn't running for reelection because of the fraud, he is now like, oh, who also accused ICE of being racist and get out of our streets and we're not gonna work with you and we're gonna defund you and everything else. He's now, because he sees that this thing can't be stopped, he suddenly is like, yeah, well, we love the FBI and you guys could fix some of this stuff up and everything else. And well, Kash Patel, head of our FBI, he saw that and he wrote this. Come again? This FBI and DOJ with our DHS partners drafted and executed every search warrant today.

49:02But go ahead and take credit for our work while we smoke out the fraud plaguing Minnesota under your governorship. Like if you think that Tim Walz had anything to do with helping the federal government on this, well, I've got a quality leering center to sell you. Here's more of what's going on in Minnesota. And I was actually in Minnesota yesterday. We'll tell you why in a couple of days. But here is a speaker at the Minnesota State Capitol explaining to us once again that Somalis built Minnesota. They just, they were out there building the entire thing out of bananas and rice apparently. So Minnesotans, I mean not Minnesotans, Somalis brought more than just, more than just built the, they didn't just build the economy, but we contribute to the soul of this great state.

49:47and I want to remind you that no human is illegal ever.

50:01Can I get the translation on that one? Did anyone? That was a little my, no? No, we can't. He's like, dude, I'll do Chinese, I can't do Somali. Let me remind that lady that the phrase, no human is illegal is completely idiotic. If I went to Canada today and I said I'm Canadian, they would say you're illegal, you have to go. We can do this in any country. So to say, okay, so you wanna tell us how great the Somalis have been for Minnesota, fine. We'll have some numbers on that in just a second. But okay, you wanna tell us the Somalis built Minnesota. They didn't have the Mayo Clinic there or anything else before the Somalis, fine.

50:32You wanna tell us that, okay. But don't tell me no one is illegal. And it's ironic, you're telling us they built the place and then you're also basically like no one's illegal. The implication being is a whole bunch of them are illegal. Well, let me just give you some basic stats. This is from the Center for Immigration Studies, and you can like them or you cannot like them, but these are the stats. 81 % of Somali households in Minnesota are on welfare. 73 % are on Medicaid. 54 % are on food stamps. 89 % of Somali households with kids are on welfare. But they built Minnesota somehow. Now, again, I don't want you to be racist against them or have prejudice against them or anything else.

51:12Phoenix and I were at the Minnesota airport yesterday. Our waitress was Somali. She was very lovely and we tipped her accordingly. Okay, so you have to treat people as individuals, but that doesn't mean you ignore overall patterns. And in this pattern, for whatever reason, the Somali community has not only been abusing the system via fraud, but they are taking way more out of the system than they are putting in. That just is reality. I'm sorry to say it. I'm also sorry that this lady's in Congress and this is a doozy. So first, here's Ilhan mocking Americans who voted for Trump, and then the most viral video clip of the last two days, which was just extraordinary.

51:50These people are just idiots. I really, you know, I'm at the point where it's become really hard to have an intellectual debate with any of these people. The dumbing of the United States has arrived because how else do we get a Trump presidency again? The last time the Alien Enemies Act was invoked, it was used to detain and deport German, Japanese, Italian immigrants during World War XI. Did I hear that right? World War XI? Have I been in a coma, guys? Did something go down? So, of course, what she's reading is the Roman numerals, World War II, and she thinks it's World War XI. And look, you know, you can read things and make mistakes.

52:35I do it. Sometimes it happens. Sometimes you're reading a prompter. It might go too fast. You know, whatever it is, you look away, something changes. That she read World War XI and then didn't stop for one minute and think, what did I just say? What? World War XI? Does anyone remember World War XI? I think we actually have some video from World War XI, which I believe took place in Minnesota. It was the Great Bananas and Rice War. This is war! Charge for the bananas! For the bananas! Rice is ready! Let's go! Fire for the Alliance! Charge for the food!

53:14And we lost 252 ,000 good bananas during that war. Here's just to contrast where the parties are at right now. Let's step away from the fraud for a second. So you have one party that is completely, well not step away from the fraud. We're going to show you how you go against it. You have one party that is completely in bed with all of the fraud. And by the way, we could connect this to what we talked about last week with the Southern Poverty Law Center funding the bad guys that they claim to be fighting. Like that's fraudulent. It's fraudulent when they fund things that don't actually do the things they're supposed to do like, you know, childcare or hospices, et cetera.

53:46That's what the Democrats are doing. What are the Republicans doing? The Republicans are auditing the hell out of the government and trying to make sure that our dollars are actually spent properly. Here's Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Discipline, accountability, and transparency. These are the basic fiscal standards that every American taxpayer should demand from their government. It's what you deserve, but also what the Pentagon has historically failed to execute on time and time again. Today, that changes, as it has during this administration. The era of excuses is over. Under President Trump, we will secure a clean, unquestionable audit on our 2028 financial statements.

54:29And it is a top priority for the Pentagon, has been since day one. What did I always tell you about Hegsa? They were going to hate him because of two things, pedigree, ability to communicate, and that's it right there. The pedigree part is obvious. He works out with the troops. But the bigger part is he's an incredible communicator of the ideas, and he's camera ready and a clear communicator, whether it was the Iran war, which in essence is on pause at the moment or just talking about an audit that we're going to do. And that's the difference. Can you imagine literally any Democrat? Pick a Democrat.

55:05Do you think any of them? The Democrats, they always want more of your money, but they never want to audit anything. Makes you wonder. You know, they always, they need a little more cash. They never want to tell you where the cash is going, how much cash they're wasting. And here you have the secretary of the head of war. Hey, we're going to see what we're doing over here. And if we can cut, we're going to cut. And guess what? If we cut, you're gonna have a little more money back to yourself. But now let's go back to the Democrats because while the Republicans are trying to keep the wheels on the car so we don't go off into the cliff, the Democrats are continuing to burn down everything that is right about this country.

55:42So let's go back to Tim Walls, a man who now is, as a moment ago, was just taking credit for the FBI going into Minnesota. Here he is with his real thoughts on ICE. And then we experienced an unthinkable federal invasion of our state. For months, armed lawless gangs roamed our communities in a campaign of organized brutality. Families lived in fear. Children were separated from their parents, neighbors from neighbors. Minnesotans who had done nothing wrong were subjected to racial profiling and unlawful detentions. Armed lawless gangs. Well, you know, someone might hear that and, you know, keep telling their Gestapo and everything else, which is what he has said.

56:26You might shoot one of them. You might dox one of them, which is why they wear masks. Neighbor separated from neighbor. People who've done nothing wrong. It is wrong to illegally enter a country. If I went to Japan to have sushi with Jiro, I keep doing this one. Is he still in business? Is Jiro still? Yeah, I don't think he's doing it. Jiro's semi-retired, older. if you don't know the story of, what is it? I Dream of Jiro or Shiro or something. Yeah, dreams of, yeah. The guy makes, an older Japanese guy that makes sushi, okay? Really famous. If I went to Japan to have some sushi with him and then I just stayed there forever, I would be illegal.

57:01Everything they do is a lie. Everything they do. One of the other big lies that they've pushed on us repeatedly is that they are only withholding the DHS funding, this partial government shutdown we are in, because they want to stop, they want to defund ICE. As I have pointed out roughly one billion times, ICE is funded through 2029. It has nothing to do with DHS funding. So they are trying to extract maximum pain on you so that you will hopefully turn that pain on Trump. Here is Ro Khanna again, a guy who just every day this guy gets worse. Here he is with Brian Kilmeade. But you don't need to hope you don't have to hold a segment of the country hostage that live paycheck to paycheck because you decide you thought ICE was overaggressive.

57:46So they changed the way they did. They put a new person in charge, and you're still not funding it. It is just maddening, Congressman. They've got$75 billion already funded, and the real issue is that the Democrats want to fund TSA. We want to fund the Border Patrol. We want changes in ICE because we feel that ICE has been a rogue agency. But, look, we should have a conversation about what we can do in immigration reform to move this forward. They're liars and extortionists. That's all they are. Again, he's just lying. The things are disconnected. So I get you want ICE to be reformed, but this isn't really the language.

58:26How about suck it, bitch? I think I could say that. That could be you, right? It's just like enough, dude. Stop lying over and over and over. And what else do they do besides lying? They also, they're liars, and they are also the racists. They're always saying we're racists, but they're the racists. Here they are admitting it. It's Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. I've been very intentional about making sure that my administration, unlike previous administrations, have people who work for me that reflect the community. Once upon a time, just to be very blunt with you, two administrations ago, 70 percent of the mayor's administration were white men, right?

59:05And that's just not a diversified approach. A, who cares? B, you are quite literally breaking federal anti-discrimination law. I know for whatever reason, you're not gonna pay the price for that, but you literally hire people based on the color of their skin. I hire people based on how little I can pay them. That's why I brought these people in. No, I hire people based on whether they work hard and they're good and they're decent human beings. That's what you're supposed to do. So you're not only doing something illegal, you are doing something that inherently, this was the great trick they pulled at us on DEI.

59:39No one's saying don't hire black people. No one's saying only hire white people. What we're saying is in America, which is supposed to be a meritocracy, you hire the best people. And over time, that's how you make things better. But if you artificially say, we're gonna bring in these people to do this thing based on the color of their skin, over time, the services will be degraded, right? That is absolute, your pilots will be worse. You know, I was on a Delta flight yesterday. Delta still, they still have their 2024 awards and they had a DEI sticker on the plane. I took a picture of it. Maybe we'll show it in the post-game show.

1:00:10Like, they still have that. But over time, if you say, okay, we want a certain amount of pilots to be black and a certain amount of doctors to be Latino or whatever else, it's not that black people can't be doctors. They can. It's not that Latino people can't be lawyers or anything else. It's that you are discriminating thus. Well, first off, you're gonna create a generation of people who've been discriminated against who actually will become racist. And in some sense, it will be a sensible racism in a weird way. But you will also degrade the service. And then things will get worse, which actually is kind of what the Democrats want.

1:00:44And to prove that everything they touch, they destroy. This story is so depressing because it was so obvious. So last year, ABC in New York, ABC News in New York, did a story about a bodega owner who was worried about his safety, right? Because the crime was running rampant. This is pre-Mamdami, but the city's been going the wrong way for a long time. Well, a couple of days ago, yeah, he was killed and they covered it. He himself spoke with Eyewitness News a year ago, saying he worried about violence against bodega workers he'd seen on social media. People got shot, killed, sometimes got robbed, and the police never respond quick.

1:01:20Tonight, the organization is wondering if the person who shot Abdul Salah was someone who shouldn't have been on the street. You know, in this case, Abdul Salah sounds like he was Arab, probably. They don't care about that. It's just you let crime run rampant and it's even gonna kill some of your own people like this is what they do in blue cities I mean just the fact that they did a story about the guy saying I'm worried and a year later He's dead, but that that is what's going on there I thought Elon summed it up quite well in one of his many viral tweets He saw that video we just showed you right there He said if extremely violent criminals are not imprisoned eventually they will murder innocent people This is basic low-level stuff and until we become a serious country again And there will be pockets in mostly blue states, in blue cities that continue to get worse and worse.

1:02:05I wanna finish up with one thing, which was sort of the other big story. I told you this is just a jam, like we're doing a lot today, which is that acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, says that former FBI director, James Comey, has now been indicted over his post, which threatened to kill Donald Trump. Go. He knowingly and willfully making a threat to take the life of and to inflict bodily harm upon the president of the United States. Count two, same day, May 15, 2025, that the defendant, James Comey, knowingly and willfully transmitting in interstate commerce, a communication that contained a threat to kill the president of the United States.

1:02:45Both of these counts carry a maximum term of imprisonment of 10 years. Other incidents of threats against the president of the United States, those will be investigated. There's one thing that will never be different, which is that you cannot threaten to kill the president of the United States. Okay, you cannot threaten to kill the president of the United States. You also can't threaten to kill citizens of the United States. That is not protected free speech. As you may remember, what Comey did was this. I think we have the image, right? He posted, he was on the beach and he posted this. It said 8647 in shells.

1:03:19Now, 86, of course, any of you who've ever been a bartender or a waiter or if you've worked in a restaurant or whatever, 86 is when they're out of something, 86. 86 the steak, we don't have anymore. 86 the filet, we're out. The implication is 86, take out. Everyone knew what he meant. Now, was he really, and he just posted that, and I think he, if I'm not mistaken, he said basically I didn't know what it was or I thought it was funny or something like that. I don't know, do you throw the former FBI director in jail over that? I'm actually not sure what you do in these cases, but they keep, but again, this is the raptor thing that I was saying about Jurassic Park.

1:03:56They're just testing the door a little bit. So the former FBI director will imply someone should kill the president. And the biggest Twitch streamer on the left, this Hassan guy will basically say, I understand why people killed Brian Thompson, the healthcare CEO. And then Lenny, big radio guy on the left, will say, I would understand why somebody might kill Trump, they're upset. And then everyone will keep saying they're Nazis and racist and everything else. And then eventually, do you think something might happen? But again, this is the challenge. not only on the free speech side of what do we want to allow these people to say, protect their free speech, but also do you then want to start jailing people?

1:04:30I'm actually, I'm open to arguments on this one. But anyway, here's Comey's response to the DOJ indictment. This time about a picture of seashells on a North Carolina beach a year ago. And this won't be the end of it. But nothing has changed with me. I'm still innocent. I'm still not afraid. and I still believe in the independent federal judiciary, so let's go. But it's really important that all of us remember this is not who we are as a country. This is not how the Department of Justice is supposed to be. And the good news is we get closer every day to restoring those values. Keep the faith. Even the way he ended that, we get closer every day to restoring these values.

1:05:14So once we get rid of Trump, because I don't like Trump, then we'll be better, right? Everything will be better or we'll be more democratic or something like that. And it's just thin and it's not true. And by the way, if you're worried about a weaponized DOJ, you might want to look at what Biden's DOJ did to Donald Trump, right? Let's try to get him off ballots. Let's make sure he can't do business in New York City, et cetera, assassination attempts as he's running for president, et cetera, et cetera. Let's go back to Senator Mark Kelly from Arizona. Here he is on the Comey indictment. Hey, these are unprecedented times we're in here.

1:05:55I mean, we've never had a government that goes after perceived enemies like this and violate people's constitutional rights. What are you talking about? We've never had that before. Do you know what you guys just did to Donald Trump? Do you know what you did to the January 6th grandmas? Do you know what you did to this group of people, including America's Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Trump's lawyers who have been disbarred and everything else? Do you remember any of that? Any of it? Do you, does anyone remember any of that? Let's just end real quick because obviously we haven't covered the Iran war in the last few days.

1:06:31We're in the midst of a very shaky ceasefire. There are some good things happening. Right now, as we have the Strait of Hormuz blockaded, which is basically costing us nothing, it's costing Iran$500 million a day. That's 1.3 billion a month. That's also choking China on the energy side, Phoenix Roll for me a little bit. And what that in essence is doing is giving us leverage. We don't have to bomb in this case. We're using economic leverage to get Iran to come to the table. This is truth from Donald Trump. Iran can't get their act together. They don't know how to sign a non-nuclear deal. They better get smart soon, President Donald J.

1:07:05Trump. And well, for those of you listening on the audio podcast, it says no more Mr. Nice Guy. And that's Trump holding what I believe is an AR-15 with some things blowing up behind him. Do you think this is negotiation Trump style or what? And here's a little update from Rubio as to where we're at at the moment. Do you believe the Iranians are serious about making a deal? I think the Iranians are serious about getting themselves out of the mess that they're in. All the problems Iran had, they had riots a few months ago and these were economic riots. All the problems that Iran had before the start of this conflict are still in place and most of them are worse.

1:07:36And now they have half the missiles, none of the factories and no Navy. Yeah, so we've done something, guys. We don't have a resolution yet. It all doesn't happen overnight. It's not a forever war. We're exerting maximum leverage. I think everything's gonna be fine. Don't be a panic in. I think I might've set the record for most words ever said in a Rubin Report episode today. I thank you guys for watching. Guys, we can't do a post-game show today. I have to get to some, I have to get to freaking Midtown by one o 'clock. I have to be there. I have to be there. I apologize. I'll make it up to you guys on Locals.

1:08:10Thanks for watching. See you tomorrow. Ciao.