A Trump year in review with James Rosen (12-23-2025--Hour1)

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I did not win Powerball and you didn't win either. Once again, there was no winning tickets or tomorrow night, Christmas Eve, the jackpot will be one point seven billion dollars. We talked a lot about this yesterday. Anytime you want to chime in, by the way, seven oh four five seven oh one oh seven nine, seven oh four five seven oh one oh seven nine, someone is going to win one of the biggest lottery jackpots in history on Christmas. Talk about a Christmas blessing or a Christmas miracle. Honestly, at this point, I think it's fixed, right, like they want someone to win on Christmas because it's such a great story. I mean, there are people like buying hundreds of dollars worth of tickets for the last week or two. As soon as it got near a billion people going in there, like give me one hundred tickets, maybe some people spending thousands and still no winter. It's unbelievable. And what's what this magnificent weather in Charlotte sixty degrees It's going to be seventy on Christmas, right, seventies or into seventies. That is not Christmas. The one time that you want it to be cold, it's warm. Never fails Murphy's law, it should be cold on Christmas. I know you may not be complaining about the weather, but it's much more Christmas y when it's cold. Right. When I moved to Charlotte January twenty twenty two, the very next day it snowed. I'm from Florida. I drove to Charlotte on Saturday, woke up on Sunday morning it was snowing. Not kidding. Two weeks later it snowed again. Everybody there at WBT was like, you know, joking around, Ah, you must have brought the snow from Florida. It hardly ever snows in Charlotte, and after those two snows, I don't think it snowed for a while, but it was pretty darn cold in the winter. Oh. Speaking of Christmas, on my podcast yesterday, I featured a couple of segments on faith, Christianity, and keeping Christ in Christmas. I had even posed the question on X do you display a Nativity in your front yard, you know, with your Christmas decorations or at least somewhere in your home at Christmas time? Right, David Chadwick is probably talking a lot about this this week, or maybe today he did. That was yesterday on The news Max Daily. The news Max Daily with Tony Marino available everywhere you get your podcasts and you can follow me at Radio Underscore Marino as well. I have to get a few shameless plugs in while I'm here, right And someone asked me yesterday too. No, you do not have to be a Newsmax viewer to enjoy the podcast. The podcast is all about the news delivered by me and Newsmax hosts, you know, the TV stars. But I would encourage you if you don't watch Newsmax to watch it anyway, but at least listen to the podcast. Check it out, great way to stay informed. Twenty twenty five minutes every day, all the top headlines, lots of commentary. Then last night I come across this story from Mullen, South Carolina. You may have heard about this. We're the mayor of the town, Miko Pickett, ask the people in charge of the town's Christmas decorations. They have a little committee, the Beautification Committee, I think it's called. The mayor asked them to take down the Nativity scene out of fear that it would offend residents of other faiths. Are you kidding me? Or what? Miko Picket? Mayor Picket, that is everything that is wrong in America right now right there. Oh, we don't want to hurt anybody's feelings or offend anyone. Why should anyone be offended by someone's religious beliefs, right, I personally know people that celebrate Ramadan. Who cares Mayor Miko Picket of Mullens, South Carolina, the town's beautification committee, who said they paid for some of the decorations themselves. On top of all of that, they paid for some of the decorations themselves because they thought it would help the city and maybe help drive some business. They refuse to take down the Nativity, So good for them, good for the people of Mullen's, South Carolina. Bad on the mayor. Mayor Picket, in a Facebook statement said he only asked for them to be removed the Nativity to be removed from the public parking area because the separation of church and state applies to municipalities. I see all kinds of municipalities all over the place with nativities and minoras for Hanakah. Right. Anyway, that is the kind of stuff that Christians and people of faith are now up against. It's ridiculous. Yesterday on this show here on WBT, I spoke with former RNC chair and North Carolina Senate candidate Michael Wattley. Hopefully you will hear for that if you were not and you're interested. It is now on the WBT website under the Pete Calender podcast. But today another challenger has emerged in the GOP primary for the North Carolina's open Senate seat, despite Wattley having President Trump's complete endorsement. We talked about the event in Rocky Mount on Friday night, which, you know, Trump gave a big speech, of course, but it was essentially a rally for Michael Wattley, and again Trump endorsed him. Michelle Morrow, who previously ran unsuccessfully for state superintendent, has thrown her hat into the Senate ring. She also told Queen City News that right now she is the only person in the race that can beat former Governor Roy Cooper. Morrow's one of several Republican challenges for Wattley for the seat that's opening up from Tom Tillis's retirement. Retiring Senator Tom Tillis. Yesterday, we spoke a lot about former Governor Cooper, Michael Wattley, and I the presumed Democratic nominee, but didn't really talk that much about the challengers within his own party because really, you know, mainly because he has the complete endorsement of the President. But there you go. Michelle Morrow thinks she is the person for the job. She's thrown her hat into the ring challenging Michael Wattley for the Republican Senate seat in North Carolina. She will no doubt be confronted about some of the very controversial things that she has said and posted on social media in the past, once saying something about Obama should go in front of a firing squad. So when she starts speaking to the media again, that'll be interesting because, like I said, I anticipate her having to answer a lot of questions. Last night was the Kennedy Center Awards on CBS. Did you see that was actually filmed? As you likely know, in Washington a week or two ago, President Trump had handed out the awards to Kiss, Sylvester Stallone, singers Gloria Gayner, Michael Crawford, and George Straight in the Oval Office. This is a snippet of what it sounded like. Then, all right, we'll Cot. And the members of the incredible rock band Kiss, Paul Sanley, Gene Simmons, Peter Chris and Ace Frehley, who now is resting in peace. And his beautiful daughter is here too accept the award. Thank you very much, thank you for being here. Thank you. So that was like a week and a half, two weeks ago in the Oval Office. The President went on to talk about how he's known Gene Simmons for a long time. Gene Simmons was on the TV show that Trump used to have the name of the show now slipping my mind. But you know you're fired, which I think Gene Simmons got fired. Yeah, the Apprentice, Thank you, Nick. Yeah, Gene Simmons, you know, was one of the many, many many guests on The Apprentice, which ran for all of those years. But anyway, so that was in the Oval Office, and then they went over to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Did the whole show. It aired on CBS last night. This, of course, after all the hubbub. Now a boy President Trump adding his name to the Kennedy Center after allocating millions of dollars for renovations. It's now called the President Trump and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Members of the Kennedy family are all up in arms over this. All right, Holiday football has arrived, right with Draft Kings sportsbook and official sports betting partner of the NFL. The Unexpected can turn game day into payday, and don't forget Draft Kings as you're back with early exit pretty neat function here. If your player goes down in the first half, you still get paid in cash. Download the Draft Kings sportsbook app and use the code PETE. That's code pete. 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Talking about the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Awards show that aired last night, I mentioned you probably knew that it was filmed more than a week ago in Washington, DC. President Trump brought all the rest recipients into the Oval office, gave them the actual medals, talked a little bit about each of them, and then after that, a couple of days after that, I think it was, he went on to add his name to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts there in DC, which, if you don't know, has undergone a massive renovation, mostly thanks to the efforts of President Trump. It's now called the President Trump and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He did not replace JFK's name, He just added his name in front of it. I mentioned that the Kennedy family is now all up in arms about it. Maria Shriver on X this is what she wrote, adding your name to a memorial already named in honor of a great man who snuck mistresses into the White House, including an underage girl. No, she didn't say that. I just added that in. But she said, this doesn't make you a great man. Quite the contrary. Putting your name on top of someone else's doesn't mean that people will speak of you in the same breath as they speak of the other man. Putting your name above another man's name on his existing memorial. What is this all about? What does that do? What are people supposed to think? And what will be next? Will Donald Trump add his name to the JFK Airport in New York or will it become the Donald Trump Abraham Lincoln Memorial? And she went on, you know, she went on with a lot of other digs, Maria Shriver on the renaming of the Kennedy Center or the additional name we should say. And there's you know, there's a lot of people that are upset about that. You remember Judge Boseburg, the guy that had ordered the return of flight the Flight Full of the illegal aliens several months ago. Well, Judge Boseburg is at it again. On Monday, he ruled that the Trump administration must arrange the return of one hundred and thirty seven Venezuela and men who were deported to L. Salvador and jailed over alleged ties to criminal gangs. The men that they were deported back in March under the Alien Enemies Act, US District Judge James Boseburg ruling that their removal violated due process rights and are entitled to return to court to contest their deportation. The Trump administration now has to submit a plan to allow for their return within two weeks. That prison in L. Salvador. And by the way, you remember the very first time the flight was on its way and Boseburg ordered the flight come back, and they just ignored the orders and went on with the flight. But now they have two weeks to respond to this order. And that prison inn L. Salvador is the same prison that's at the heart of this whole CBS sixty minutes thing. Right, this has been blowing up over the last couple of days, and this is becoming another big fiasco for the network that has already paid out millions of dollars in the Kamala Harris edited sixty minute interview fiasco. So they're making a lot of changes at CBS, right. It's a new person at the helm shuffling around talent or bringing in new talent. They're making a lot of changes. But after the whole Kamala Harris edited interview on sixty Minutes and the millions of dollars they paid out, now they have another big fiasco going on with sixty Minutes and that prison story, and now DHS is offering three thousand dollars to illegal migrants to voluntarily self deport from the United States before the end of the year. Three thousand dollars plus transportation expenses. DHS Secretary Christy Nome's been on several major news shows over the last day or two talking about this. This is something they were already doing. I think they were paying one thousand dollars. Now they're upping the ante to three thousand dollars and paying travel expenses. Just think about that. I'm just randomly going to say, Mexico, Okay, so that's the only one of those countries I've ever been to. I guess you know El Salvador as well. But think about how much three thousand dollars is worth, you know, in a South American country or in Mexico. Right, that has to be incentive to go back. I mean, if you're an illegal alien and you're worried about being deported. This is an opportunity to bypass the chance of being deported and go back to your country, you know, with a really good start. And I'm being completely sincere about this. I'm not trying to be funny about it. Three thousand dollars. It is triple the bonus. They call it an exit bonus. It used to be one thousand dollars. Now it's three thousand for illegal migrants who sign up with the federal government and depart by December thirty first, twenty twenty five using the newly rebranded CBP Home app. DHS says eligible participants will also receive free airfare to their home countries and may have certain civil finds or penalties waived if they leave voluntarily. And of course they're using this, you know, sort of as ammunition, like here's your chance. And that's what I'm saying. This is legitimately a valid and good chance to go back home. Now, you probably left for political reasons or other reasons. You may not care about the money, but again, three thousand dollars and all expenses paid, that's a lot of money in a lot of these countries, right, But they're using that as ammunition to say, if you don't take advantage of our generous offer, if you are in the country illegally and we catch up with you, you're going to be stripped of everything and have no chance of ever coming back to the country. That's the you know that, that's the ultimatum. Take advantage of the offer, or get caught by ice, get arrested, and never be welcomed back into the United States. That app, the CBP Home App, is the same app from the Biden presidency, the CBP one You remember that that was originally used to schedule asylum appointments. They say the app has been reworked and rebranded, reconfigurated where now illegals can go on the app and sign up to be deported with a huge bonus to go back to their state. Coming up on the bottom of the hour here on the Pete Callander Show one O seven nine WBT, if I mentioned that I am the host of the Newsmas Daily podcast, if you do watch Newsmax, there's no doubt that you know. Washington correspondent James Rosen, a veteran of Washington, to say the least, he will be joining us next here on WBT, so make sure you stick around for that. We're going to kind of do a year in review for Trump forty seven. 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I use the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to every feature your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports ground news as they make the media landscape more transparent. I'm Telly Marina holding things down for Pete Calendar. And it's that time of year, right when everyone starts looking back on everything in the year that was. And we seem to say this more and more often now as the years past, but this year twenty twenty five really was one like we haven't seen before, especially when it comes to Washington, DC and the White House. Newsmax Chief Washington correspondent James Rosen is with us to break it all down. Good afternoon, James, Tony, great to be with you. Thank you. I'm very happy to have you. Thank you, And I mean, with all that's going on in Washington today, how did you find time to come on the radio with us. I took the extraordinary step of going on vacation. So greetings from vacation lands. Oh very good, very good. Okay, So I'm going to just toss this over to you and let you kind of work your magic. But for folks that may not be familiar with you, I mean, you have been in Washington, DC, covering the White House, covering Capitol Hill, covering all things politics, for a few decades, right. I don't know if a few, I guess a decade. I came through Washington in nineteen ninety nine, so we're coming up on reaching the milestone of a few decades. Right, right, Okay, so you've seen a lot, is what I'm trying to say. It all started. But I like to think of myself as youthful and vibrant. Tony Well, knowing you personally, you are youthful and vibrant. Also an author, Also an author, James has a great book about Scalia. That's actually the title of the book. We can talk more about that at the end, but you definitely want to check out james book. At James's book and going back, let's go back to the beginning of the year, James, because I said, you know what everyone is saying that this was one heck of a year and what's been happening in the White House. In fact, all started out with the first outdoor inauguration in forty years, right. Well, it got moved indoors, right because the cold was so bad. Oh yeah, yeah, that's what I meant. And I'm sorry, that's what I meant. The first indoor inauguration in forty years. Yeah, yeah, and President Trump delivered his inaugural address inside the capital, and then the earliest measure of how different this presidency was going to be from anything else we've seen, certainly in modern times, was that the president's remarks didn't end with his inauguration address. He gave two or three sets of remarks, some of them I think equally long as the inauguration address. People might forget. The very first act of the Trump two point zero presidency was what it was after it was for the presidents of the United States to point his finger directly at the Chief Justice. That's what the president after the two men shook hands, and it was a bracing gesture, and he did it with a smile on his face. And yet it kind of announced how this presidency was going to unfold in your face, bold, unprecedented, and sometimes with a wink and a nod. That's the kind of presidency we've had in two point zero so far. But it has been so different in so many categories, and policy itself has changed so sharply in so many different categories that there isn't a radio segment long enough to tally it all. But just by way of hitting some of the highlights, Tony. Certainly, foreign policy has been upended. We saw this president unleash strategic bombing attacks on Iran's nuclear sites. That was something that had been talked about by presidents for perhaps we can say safely a few decades, and it had never been done before. And President Trump did it, and that helped reshape the Middle East. He got the hostages home with the aid of Steve Witcoff and Jared Kushner and a number of intermediary countries such as Egypt and cutter and we've seen the reaffirmation of his ties with Saudi Arabia. The Russia Ukraine War has remained stubbornly beyond President Trump's reach to resolve. It was something that he boasted and he now tells us mockingly or it was in jest sarcastic. During the campaign. He told us he would get that settled within a day, and it's proved elusive. And of course, that scene with President Zelensky in the Oval Office, that was February of this year. It seems like maybe a decade ago, because but he hadn't seen anything like a scene like that in the Oval Office play out in public in American history, and the tariff program, which has brought in a lot of revenue but which has upended our alliances. It has been truly a presidency like no other, and we had some good reason to expect that, given the way mister Trump operated in one point Zho. So, I don't think anybody, even his severest critics, have been prepared for the sheer velocity with which he has attacked policy changes on so many fronts. And we already knew going in to this uh to this presidency from his first presidency. Just at the pace at which he works and gets things done. It's it's it's funny when you sometimes see some of your your your Washington colleagues, you know, admitting that they just can't keep up with it. Right, I'll tell you who else couldn't keep up with it. The White House Stenographer's Office. So they stopped providing White House transcripts of White House events. That's a big change. There is no official record from the White House of these events except that which they place on the White House YouTube page or in less release forms sometimes. But the official transcripts of everything that the President of the United States says, that's not a function the White House performs anymore, perhaps because the sheer torrent of words coming out of President Trump on a day to day days was too much for their tired fingers, right. And of course in those White House press briefings, they've also it's not only the tone and the pace of the briefings, but now they've opened it up to let's say, non traditional journalists, right, all these podcasters and independent journalists that are now will get a seat in the press briefing, which has never happened before either. And the phenomenon you're describing, Tony really takes a number of different forms itself. There is, as you say, the admission of what we might call new media to the briefing room. And they've gotten this sort of seat of honor to the left of the presidential lectern there or the Press Secretary's lectern, and they get to ask the very first question of each briefing. But even more sweeping, the White House announced that it was removing from the White House Correspondence Association the traditional purview over who fills out the pool every day. The pool is the smaller group of journalists and photographers that consists of personnel on a rotating basis from the three broadcast networks, plus CNN and Fox News. Fox News was added to the pool in nineteen ninety seven, and those five organizations share the burdens and the privileges of covering the presidency on a day to day basis. There's an in house pool for when he's in the White House, there's the in town pool for when the president travels somewhere within the vicinity of the White House, and then there's the out of town pool for when the president leaves towns. And this is an elaborate operation. Traditionally, the White House Correspondence Association and the Bureau chiefs had set which print organization is in the pool today, which which radio organization is in the pool today, et cetera, and the White House announced it's simply commandeering that. And for example, the Associated Press, which is the venerated wire service along with Reuters, typically they used to ask the first question. The senior Wire Service reporter would ask the first question at every presidential event or news conference that's gone. And in fact, because the Associated Press refused to recognize the legitimacy of the president's renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, to the Gulf of America. The Associated Press has been effectively blocked out of covering a lot of presidential events at the White House and then from enjoying the traditional role of the wire Service. And in fact, the Associated Press has sued the White House on this basis, and as I understand it, not gotten the greatest ruling so far. So yes, treatment of the press another area of major sweeping and very swift change. We should point out tony that in the eyes of the of the president's critics, some of the velocity with which he has accomplished these things, that the implosion, let's say, of USAID or the Department of Education, the trimming of some three hundred thousand workers from the federal workforce, Some of these major things that have been accomplished in large measure through the power of velocity, in the eyes of the president's critics, have been accomplished by trampling the law. One example they would cite is that the president early on fired a number of inspectors general at the different agencies, and under the relevant law that's not allowed to happen unless the president gives thirty days notice and sufficient reasons to the Congress. None of that was observed. So the president and his team have been using the power of velocity in ways that sometimes the president's critics or those who would be determined to enforce the law to the strictest letter, can't even catch up with. Well, James, I'm going to have to start wrapping it up. But you know, the president has certainly given plenty of ammunition to both his supporters and his detractors. I just want to mention again real quick. I mentioned that at the open Scalia Supreme Court years nineteen eighty six to two thousand and one. That's James Rosen's book. It's coming out February tenth, the tenth anniversary if Scalia's passing is February thirteenth. Fantastic book. You're definitely going to want to check that out. James Rosen, you do a fantastic job on every single hit, every single day on Newsmax, and I appreciate you coming on today. And as you said, you know at the beginning, there's there's no radio show or hit that is going to give you nearly the amount of time that it would take, you know, to cover what's been happening there in Washington. But thank you I'll talk to you soon. Have a wonderful holiday. You and your family appreciate it. You know. Stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life, and our stories are told through images and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video started in nineteen ninety seven and Minhill, North Carolina. 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Scott Lorimore with the Weather Channel is with us and Scott. It's not just here in Charlotte, but you know, people traveling all over the country to see family and friends. Let's talk about the weather in Charlotte first, but then let's talk about where people may run into some bad weather. Hey, Tony, and merry Christmas. So I'll tell you what. We've got some records on the table for this holiday. It's not just ham and turkey that's being served up for tomorrow and Thursday. We're talking mid seventies for high temperatures here in town. And we will knock on the door of some records, and in fact, on Christmas Day, we will knock on the door of some very long standing records from the nineteen fifties here at the airport. I think we'll easily smoke our record tomorrow. The record high temperature tomorrow is seventy three degrees at the that's from twenty fifteen. We'll push past that one easily tomorrow. We're up into the mid seventies tomorrow, and then on Christmas Day, I think will be just shy of touching or tying our record. Our record high here at the airport officially on Christmas Day is seventy seven degrees from nineteen fifty five. Some of the southern suburbs could get close to that number, but I don't think we'll quite touch that number at the airport for Christmas Day. So it is definitely gonna be warm. If you like a warm December, you will love our forecast for the holiday, although it does get cold again early next week, Tony. Okay for New Year's Like I said, I don't I don't hear a lot of people complaining about the weather, but you know, and I live in Florida, so I'm used to having that kind of weather and even hotter on Christmas, but it just doesn't feel like Christmas. So seventy seven good point Yeah, seven was the record. Yes, yes, almost seven is the record for day. And it's a long standing room from the nineteenth. Sitty nineteen fifty five, nineteen fifty yeah, all right now, so a lot. Of people are going to touch it, but will be close. A lot of people in North Carolina are headed up north where you know they originally came from to visit family. What's it going to be like up in the Northeast, let's say, and in New England. Yeah, so southern New England and New York City, they're going to get a white Christmas right after the holiday. So they're going to have mild weather in New York City for Christmas Day with temperatures in the forties. Boston could have some snow on the ground for Christmas Day, and Albany, New York, could have some snow on the ground for Christmas Day. But that's about it. Southern New England. That's about the only place in the East that you could go to see a white Christmas. Everyone else is warm tony. From Chicago to Florida to the Gulf Coast, everyone is warm. And if you happen to be traveling out west, there's not a lot of snow out west. The big story out west is the flooding rains coming to southern California, and they're actually. Yeah, I've been hearing about that. I've been hearing about pretty sick. Not not just. Rain, but potential not just rain, but potential flooding. Yeah, you know the recent burnscar areas out there that makes it easy for the soil to move. But they're going to get a lot of rain. Talking three and four inches of rain. That would be a lot of rain for us here in Charlotte, right, four inches of rain in Los Angeles is a lot of rain short amount of time. Wow, Okay, so it's not just Charlotte. Pretty warm and and uh, seasonal season, I guess you can say seasonable season all all over the country. No, not too many white Christmases this Christmas. The only exception is, like, yes, southern New England is like the only exception. Everyone else is pretty warm in the east and even the Gulf Coast. We're headed into what's known as a La Nina weather pattern, which is kind of wet in the northwest and warm here in the southeast, and so it looks like it's kind of winning out for the winter forecast. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, So if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to dpetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.