Trump Says “Let Them Take Out Los Angeles”, His “Small Price to Pay” Politics

Ultimize. Donald Trump stood in front of a cheering crowd in Nebraska and offered Iran a 2-for-1 coupon on California. Defending high gas prices from his Iran war, he said word for word, it's a little bit high. 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 with very soon. His team calls critics buffoons. Translation: out of context. And I get that defense. Rally speeches ramble, and nobody wants to believe a president just put 2 cities on clearance. So here's what out of context means. If I say I'd be crazy to say TJ has a great head of hair because he barely has any, And you quote me as saying, TJ has a great head of hair, that's out of context. Real words, fake meaning. Also, the nicest thing anyone has said about my hair since 1991. Now, when Trump says out of context, he means you quoted me perfectly and I sounded insane. That's not context, that's a mirror. Focus on 2 words: let them. Not, we'll stop them. Let them. That's how you talk about raccoons in your garbage. Eh, let them. Small price to pay. Remember, this is the man who promised to get gas below $2. Turns out the plan was never cheaper gas. It was fewer drivers. And look at the cities he picked. San Diego is the principal home port of the US Pacific Fleet. He volunteered our own Navy's driveway. And Los Angeles has one of the largest Iranian communities in America. He offered Iran a city full of Iranians. That's not deterrence. That's a family reunion with incoming. Notice he didn't say, let them take out Mar-a-Lago. Funny how the sacrifice is always a city that didn't vote for him. Trump's ideas of shared sacrifice is simple. You sacrifice, he shares the video. Even Jim Desmond, a Republican running for Congress in San Diego County, said he vehemently disagreed. When the Republicans standing in the blast radius start backing away, that's not a gaffe; that's an evacuation drill. And it's going to be over with very soon. This war started in February with a four to six week timeline. Remember that? In Trump time, very soon lives somewhere between two weeks and infrastructure week. So what does the quote really mean? It means the man carrying the nuclear football. Talks about American cities like loose change in a couch cushion. He is temperamentally unfit to be president. He may have truly lost his mind, and I say this as a man who sells a course on finding yours. He's a national and international disgrace, and he should be removed from office. If you voted for him, you should feel ashamed. But I'm a personal development guy, so let's make it a program. Week 1, Shame. Week 2, accountability. Week 3, a brand new vision board, and for the first time in 10 years, his face isn't on it. Trump will sacrifice 2 cities over gas prices, so imagine what he'll do to one Olympian over a swimming pool. Donald Trump blamed vandals for wrecking his brand new reflecting pool, and then his own handpicked prosecutor, Jeanine Pirro, Told him it was his contractor. Before that, his government charged David Hearn, a 67-year-old former Olympic canoeist, with a felony. His crime? On a bike ride, he touched a loose strip of peeling liner. Park police held him about 5 hours. A grand jury indicted him. Maximum sentence, 10 years for touching a pool. And I understand the instinct. Nobody wants vandals at the Lincoln Memorial. And this man literally had his hand in the water. But a government assessment found damage throughout the pool as early as June 8th, 11 days before Hearn rode up. Pirro dropped the case and blamed a botched installation. Trump attacked her for it. Jeanine Pirro built an entire TV career. Jeanine Pirro built an entire TV career Jeanine Pirro built an entire TV career agreeing with Donald Trump loudly. And if even Jeanine Pirro won't prosecute your case, the evidence isn't weak, it's imaginary. As an accountability coach, I teach one rule: when your project fails, own it. Trump teaches the advanced course— indict an Olympian. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum went on TV describing 350 feet of gashes from a small group trying to destroy part of the Lincoln Memorial. It turns out the gang was the contractor. The only knife in this story is the one they stuck in this man's back. Let's be clear, David Hearn is a hero. He represented the United States at the Olympics paddling through whitewater, and his country thanked him by sending him through the rapids of the Justice Department. When the president brands you a vandal, a certain kind of fan treats that as a to-do list. I bet this man has spent his summer checking his front porch before he checks his mail. In the old Soviet Union, when the 5-year plan failed, the government found a saboteur. Trump's 5-year plan was a pool, and he still needed a saboteur. His lawyers say that after they asked the government to preserve the evidence, the government repaired the exact section of liner at the heart of the case. That's not an investigation. That's a crime scene with a renovation crew. And even now, with the case dismissed, the Interior Department still tells reporters Heard admitted to tampering. His lawyers say he never used that word. He touched it. Under Trump's legal standard, every toddler at a petting zoo is a felon. An innocent patriot faced 10 years in prison because Because a madman's ego needed a villain more than his pool needed a decent contractor. Now, Hearn is asking the inspectors general at Justice and Interior to investigate. Good for him. Somebody in this administration should finally inspect something. Here's a story where the villain isn't a person; it's a business model. Would you like to be the sort of successful person who is dominating news, at least in your industry? Well, if so, it's time to up. your skills. At ultimize.com, I've created online courses to help you do that. Now, here's the thing. No obligation. You can get a free course on communication skills, a free course on how to build better habits. All you have to do is go to ultimize.com. That's ultimize.com. No obligation. Go there now. Cancer researchers found a treatment that helps keep colon cancer from coming back. Rivals some drugs and cost a few thousand dollars a patient, and our healthcare system mostly shrugs. The treatment is— get this— exercise. In the CHALLENGE trial, 889 colon cancer patients finished chemo, and a 3-year exercise program improved survival and kept the disease at bay. And I get why the system loves pills. 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That government is the Republika Srpska. Yeah, that's a real country dominated by Milorad Dodik's party. Dodik is a Putin pal whose U.S. sanctions Trump lifted last year. After Sunday's vote, Daddick said that without Trump, quote, we would probably be politically dead today. And to be fair, consultants go where the money is. That's not treason. That's LinkedIn. But picture it. Republicans are fighting for the House and Trump's admin are in the Balkans polishing a Putin pal. That's like your fire department missing your house fire because it's overseas helping the arsonist with his resume. I have no Proof Trump is a Russian agent. But as a productivity coach, I judge by results. If the goal were weakening America and helping Moscow's friends, could a 40— note to editor, redo. If the goal were weakening America and helping Moscow's friends, could a 40-year plan have gone any better? That's not a conspiracy theory. That's a performance review. If John F. Kennedy's top advisers had flown to Moscow to help Khrushchev prep for a debate, or Joe Biden's team had flown to Havana to help Cuba's ruling party win an election, Fox News would have exploded so hard it would have registered on seismographs. A House Democrat report says República Srpska has spent at least $8.9 million on Washington lobbyists since January 2025. Filings show Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser, was paid $100,000 a month to advise and lobby for that government. The same report named Rudy Giuliani and Laura Loomer as acting in Dodik's favor. At this point, Trump and Russia isn't a conspiracy theory. It's a family tree. Republicans spent 70 years warning that Moscow wanted to infiltrate Washington. Turns out Moscow never needed spies. It just had to wait until Washington started freelancing. And somehow in Trump's America, this is treated as completely normal. That's insane. So let's add it up. Los Angeles, small price to pay. San Diego, small price to pay. And Olympian's freedom, small price to pay. A cancer treatment you can do in sneakers, too cheap to bother with. But a Balkan election for a Putin pal, that's worth a transatlantic flight in the middle of midterm season. You can quote me on all of it. And while you're at it, quote me on this. TJ has a great head of hair. Go ahead, take it out of context. It's the only way it's true. I'm TJ Walker. See you tomorrow. Ultimize.