Trump DID NOT Say He Wants Iran to Nuke California

Does Trump want LA and San Diego to get blown up? Will cheaper diesel actually make everything cheaper? And the Paramount Monopoly is complete, upsetting even people who were cool with the Disney Monopoly. That and more on this week's America Uncovered headlines. Welcome to America Uncovered, I'm Chris Chappell. Trump, he has the best words. Said so himself. I know words. I have the best words. Which is why he wants you to use super intelligence, It's not artificial intelligence, or else you're the enemy. But perhaps his best choice of words came at a recent speech in Nebraska, where he's talking about high gas prices due to the war in Iran. It's a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe. They can take out a city, let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay, and it's going to be over very soon. Ugh, I'm gonna have to do another round of Trump Interpreter, aren't I? Okay, so many saw this as an invitation for Iran to attack these liberal West Coast cities. He particularly received backlash from the left and California governor and pretty presidential pick-me candidate Gavin Newsom, who called the remarks dangerous if not treasonous and directed the State Threat Assessment Center to monitor if anyone would take it as an invitation to target California. Although, if a bomb did go off in downtown Los Angeles, would you even be able to tell? The White House said Trump wasn't calling for attacks on US cities, but rather was explaining how he's preventing them. Which, okay, yes, as a tenured Trump interpreter, that is what he meant. That yes, prices are high now, but that's a small price to pay to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons that they could use to take out American cities like Los Angeles or San Diego. Trump even clarified a few days later. You want to see a horror show? You want to see problems? Let them hit San Diego. Let them hit Los Angeles, and you want to see some bad things happen? You want to see a country that would be in free fall? We're not going to let that happen. We protect our cities. We protect our country. We're not letting that happen. So yes, what Trump meant was that the Iran war is preventing Iran from taking out American cities like Los Angeles or San Diego. But given all the confusion he caused, I think we can all agree that he might want to work on his phrasing. Although I guess if he didn't have word salad, he wouldn't have any salad at all. Besides, Trump isn't the type to let others take out his enemies. He can do it himself. He just doesn't wanna. I could have done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could have done very, very bad things to Joe Biden. I could have done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama. I thought it was inappropriate to do so because you have to treat the office of the presidency with respect." See, he's totally benevolent. He shows the office of the presidency the respect and dignity it deserves. So much respect and dignity! But that poorly worded LA-San Diego remark might not have been the smartest thing to say this close to the midterms. I mean, I guess Trump doesn't feel like there's any cause for worry, since... CNN poll numbers are faking, your whole outfit is faking, so are you. But apparently the rest of the Republican Party is worried. So worried that part of their strategy now is posting scare tactics saying crazy makeup-wearing liberals are coming out in full force to elect radicals. How many of these crazies do they think there are? Enough to bring in a blue wave? Where have they been hiding all this time, especially in 2024? Oh, um, maybe here they are. We charge you with genocide, all of us, all of us. Wow. When Zohra Mamdani isn't far enough left, well, you know the entire world has lost the plot. But hey, if fear isn't a motivator for Republicans to vote, then how about cold, hard cash? If Republicans win the House of Representatives and the Senate, I am going to give all adult citizens in the United States of America $5,000. Yep, Trump doubled down on his bribe. I mean promise. And you know he's good for it. Just like he sent us our $5,000 doge dividend checks. And those $2,000 tariff dividends. Yeah, the only money I'd say you can expect to see in the mail is the yearly $5 your grandma sends you on your birthday. Unless of course she lived in New York and died under Andrew Cuomo's Covid policies. I feel like I'm gonna be Nana's age and still won't see the consequences for that. But one way Trump actually may put more money in Americans' pockets is by allowing cheaper dyed diesel on highways to blunt the historic fuel cost spike. Dyed diesel is diesel fuel that's been marked with a red dye to show that it's exempt from the 24.4 cent per gallon highway fuel tax. It's primarily used in farming equipment and off-road vehicles. But at the same Nebraska rally where Trump talked about Iran taking out Los Angeles and San Diego, he signed an executive order to allow it for highway use until the end of the year. Man, a lot went down at that rally, didn't it? The White House says this could save truckers over $100 per fill-up, which, if true, would make just about everything cheaper, since it would reduce the cost of shipping stuff over land. But there's a problem. Actually, there's a lot of possible problems. For one, some worry that if truckers suddenly start using fuel that's usually reserved for farmers, they might not have enough for future harvests, which would cause supply shortages and ultimately raise prices. For another, the tax hasn't been taken away because only Congress can do that. It's just been deferred, which is to say kicked down the road a bit. It's unclear whether truckers would have to pay back the deferred taxes in the future, or whether truckers could get into legal trouble in the future for using the normally illegal dyed diesel, which could stain the inside of their fuel tanks. This is why a major fuel industry group, Energy Marketers of America, warned truck stops against selling the di-diesel. They said they don't expect reputable truck stops to sell this diesel. Which I can only imagine means every truck stop will be selling it, alongside low-grade meth and boner pills 12 feet away from a glory hole. And di-diesel is a slightly different grade, so it could cause issues with truck engines. So yeah, a lot is up in the air about this right now. But one thing is for certain, RFK Jr. isn't going to be pleased when he hears that diesel has red dye in it. Let's talk about corruption. For some strange reason having absolutely nothing to do with the fact that it's October of an election year, corruption stories have been all over lately. First up, Kristi Noem. According to documents reviewed by the New York Times, Noem's agency gave one of her political donors a lucrative contract on her last day as DHS secretary. DHS reportedly bought 10 planes from Daedalus Aviation Corporation, paying millions more than they were worth for five of them, including two 17-year-old Boeing 737 passenger planes for $45 million a piece. Which is a fantastic deal, those things are totally safe. No reason I'm saying that. The chairman of Daedalus Aviation Corporation is William Waters, who reportedly gave $10,000 to Noem's PAC in 2024. Boy, if this was quid pro quo, Walters made out like a bandit. Now, the New York Times doesn't specifically say that Noem was doing Walters a favor. And the source is documents reviewed by the Times that readers can't see, so take that for what it's worth. And Noem says the purchase was finalized under the leadership of Noem's successor, Secretary Mullen. Which is technically true. Reportedly, Mullen considered backing out of the deal, but decided against it because there would be financial repercussions. The planes were supposedly needed for deportations, But according to the New York Times, most of them have ended up idle due to lack of crew. So was this a case of corruption? Government waste? I'll let you decide. Next up, Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle, who reportedly pushed a donor to wire $100,000 to her personal American Express account to pay off debt to them. Wait, you're telling me that this woman had $100,000 in debt to American Express? Was the culprit possibly Botox injections? According to the Wall Street Journal, she wrote on Signal, it won't show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express. Maybe not, but your message on Signal did. And finally, Donald Trump, who has reportedly steered nearly $7 billion into a shipbuilding deal with the weapons maker Anduril, founded by the unabashed Trump supporter Palmer Luckey. Wow, that is not what I expected that guy to look like. Anduril usually makes autonomous weapons such as drones and unmanned sea vehicles, but now it has a contract to make components for submarines, which is definitely a switch up. Meanwhile, Luckey said in 2024 on X, my big league support for Donald Trump is no secret, and was named alongside Elon Musk last week as a key member of a Pentagon project tasked with planning for the future of war fighting. All of this has some people crying corruption and cronyism, which maybe it is, but if I were Trump, I turn to people I can trust, too. And finally, speaking of potential corruption, the $110 billion Paramount and Warner Brothers merger under the Skydance banner. The merger is controversial because Skydance's CEO, David Ellison, who always looks like he's simultaneously farted and just smelled a fart, is the son of billionaire Larry Ellison, Oracle's co-founder and a friend of Trump's, who's acquired a 15% stake in TikTok's US operations. Trump likes TikTok now, remember? Have to update that lore since he became a dancing queen. So as you can imagine, with President Trump being a family friend of the CEO, it has some people nervous that David Ellison is now the boss of CNN. And what does Trump think about this? CNN poll numbers are faking. Your whole outfit is faking, so are you. Well, we'll see if that sentiment lasts a year from now. There could be some big changes. Of course, people might boycott this. And they may want to boycott other media monopolies like Disney, slash ABC, slash Marvel, slash Lucasfilm, slash Fox. The only slash they're missing is Slash from Guns N' Roses. Who I imagine it's only a matter of time before the monopoly blob consumes him and the rest of us. But what are the boycotters going to do instead? Read? Good luck, since US book bans in public schools reached a record annual high of 12,000. And yes, these novels are still available to read elsewhere, they're just not in schools for having been deemed too gay or whatever. Which is silly, since any middle schooler will remind you, reading in general is gay. But what do you think? Leave your comments below. And if you want to support the work we do, making fun of people on all sides of a variety of political issues, join us on AmericaUncovered.tv, where you'll get access to thousands of episodes ad-free, plus a community chat, live streams, and more. Just click this button here or the link below. I'm Chris Chappell. Thank you for watching America Uncovered.