Donald Trump's Message Mocks Starmer's Leadership As Prime Minister

U.S. Commonwealth. I am the self-declared king of America, the bearer of the East Coast. All of it. I'll take it all. Absolutely. By the way, if I were king, I'd kick out all these Scottish soccer fans. They are really annoying us over here. Please take your Scots back. What's the guilt army? They're drinking up all the beer and they're putting traffic cones on everything. What? And plus of all, first of all, America's annoyed because it's soccer and so we have no use for your third world kickball. And secondly, they're going around, they're singing loud. We're trying to have a nice, you know, beer and watch real, you know, watch a real sport like baseball or whatever. And then they're yelling and screaming and it's just very, very annoying. They're taking over. By the way, how is, how are you guys doing? Yeah. Listen, I've got to tell you this. I mean, is it a bit ridiculous that this, the World Cup, the biggest football tournament in the world is even being held in America? I mean, you know, half of America don't even know what football or soccer, as you call it. They don't even know what it is. But the polls show it's only a third of Americans care at all, like they have no interest whatsoever. And then, but that third, it's like the Olympics every four years, people insist you're going to care about guys who ski and shoot things. No, I'm not ever going to care. I'm not. And so we have to go through this. So now I have to pretend that America's taking over. No, soccer is a 90 minute toothache on grass. It is an unwatchable, unbearable, insufferable event. Much like the years that Keir Starmer was in power. I'm kidding. Well, just before we come to that, I mean, if you look at the NFL as the obvious example, this is now we're on territory that you recognize, Michael. Now, of course, they play a couple of league games over here now at Wembley, as I'm sure you're aware. It's kind of interesting how they transform Wembley into this, you know, although Wembley's kind of weird. One minute there's a football match, then there's the NFL and then there's Coldplay the day after playing a gig. So it's kind of interesting how they can, fair play to whoever works in those places that can transform it from one type of venue to another. But I still find it interesting when I've got a feeling America aren't going to win the World Cup. I just based that on, you know, history. But they might surprise us. I don't know. You know, it could be a moment that Donald Trump takes the glory on this. I've yet to read his predictive text because he predicted the demise of our own prime minister. There we are. We've got it. By the way, a couple weeks ago I was in Vienna, Austria, and I'm at a bus station, walking by a bus station, and there's a huge sign for a sporting event. And it's not soccer, and it's not whatever, you know, opera. It was the Vienna Vikings, I think was the name. It was NFL-style local club football. That's what's happening, is American football. We're pushing it. You guys, you were able to hold off the Turks in the siege of Vienna in 1670. You will not stop American football from coming. Listen, I think of Vienna, if you want me to think of culture, I think of violins and choral choirs playing against the backdrop of a nice illuminated fountain. I don't think of big, beefy guys that date Beyonce. I mean, what's going on? I saw it myself. By the way, I did see an opera while I was there, but it was fantastic. I love Europe. I love the UK. My wife and I are hoping to come over in a few months and hang out with you guys. Anyway, explain to me how Keir Starmer can be leaving, because I'm reading his speech that he gave today. He says that the economy is growing fast, wages are rising faster than inflation, the NHS waiting list is getting shorter faster than it ever has, you're turning away the small boat crossings, asylum hotels are closed. How could you get rid of this guy? I'm reading his speech about him. He's kicking it. He's like, wow. We'd all vote for him based on that. It makes you wonder, and call me cynical, if he's not being entirely truthful with his resume. Just a little. And Trump, of course, Trump says he's gone because he was mean to Trump and it's all about Trump. I assume the immigration issue is still red hot there. I mean, 10 years now since Brexit, you guys still cannot do something as basic as have a border. And I will just say, watching it happen in America, it was very frustrating. In fact, one of the reasons why Trump is suffering in the polls is his success. He fixed the border. I mean, we literally have a normal border. People still, we still have 800,000-ish legal immigrants a year who come to live in America and the borders work and we don't have people just crossing whenever they want. You can do that. It's possible. It's possible if you want to. Because that issue's gone. Yeah, exactly. But now that issue's gone. You know how the voters are. It's like, what have you done for me lately? They don't, ah, you fixed that two years ago. What are you doing now? Yeah, yeah. That's true. And the midterms are going to be more than a little interesting in that respect. And, you know, I can hardly wait for that either. It's interesting over here where we have this curious system, and I don't know how you would find an equivalent to this in America, but, you know, the guy that's likely to be the next prime minister, Andy Burnham, wasn't even a member of parliament until half an hour ago. I mean, I'm not even kidding you. Literally half an hour ago. I know, I know. He was sworn in. And in three weeks' time, he could be running the country. In four weeks' time, he could be walking across the White House lawn for his first meeting with your president. And so you want me, a guy from a country where a guy was a TV reality show star who had never held public office, becomes president of the United States. With the nuclear codes, I'm supposed to be surprised by a guy coming out of nowhere. I'm sorry. That's the wrong thing. But I'm curious. For the average person in Great Britain, what was the fundamental Starmer failure? Because the phrase that he used in his speech that jumped out at me, he says, I'm leaving the UK stronger and more fair, or fairer. And I don't believe the stronger part at all. I would say that from America's side, you guys look weaker internationally, you look less relevant. The more fair part just exudes on our side of the pond, oh, so he was a crazy left-wing woke guy who was shoving guys dressed as women into bathrooms and punishing people for, you know, texting things that are mean. So am I in the right neighborhood? You've caught, you're in absolutely, you're not just at the right neighborhood, you're in the right house. You're right in the living room. You're watching TV, watching the World Cup. That's as close as you are to this. Yes. I mean, it's interesting because, of course, the left-wing equivalent, they love this word fair, and you see it in their Twitter bios, don't they? They write things like, I believe in justice, and it's like, we all believe in justice, you half-wit. I don't like bullies. None of us like bullies. So they do this kind of stuff, and they dine out on this. It keeps them, you know, it keeps them warm and cozy in their bed at night thinking, oh, I've taxed some people a little bit more, therefore that's a fair thing to do. And, of course, there's no evidence for this. It's just a sort of platitude that's wheeled out. And Starmer really became, the problem was, as it became increasingly apparent very early on, Michael, that he didn't have a plan. There was, I think, you know, when Trump came in, you mentioned the unconventional route that Trump took, but, of course, that was back, you know, 2014 or so when he began his campaign for 2016, et cetera. So that's a while back. Starmer has been, you know, he was the head of the Director of Public Prosecution Service, he was the chief lawyer of the country before he became an MP, then he became the leader of the Labour Party, and then Prime Minister. But he didn't have a plan. He didn't come in with any, there was no obvious underpinning philosophical direction, no political ideology. And everyone thought, well, this guy, surely, if nothing else, he thought just by not being a conservative was enough to take him there. And it turns out that despite being a lawyer, he would have stood there at the Old Bailey wearing one of those wigs and, you know, performing to jurors, you know, like lawyers do. They love all of that, don't they? He'd have done all of that. And you thought he should be, anyone who does that, you'd think could be quite good at the speaking bit. But he was not good at the speaking bit, and he wasn't really good at any bit, and it turns out he was just a rubbish Prime Minister. Right. And that's why he didn't get the job of his manager. Exactly. And so when you see that the, whatever, the monarch of Manchester, or some other guy, the King of the North, the King of Manchester would have been better. Why wouldn't he say, okay, here's a thing I can do. We can, we can have our, we can secure the island's borders and I do want to do all this other social spending. I want to build all this house, whatever. But we can do this. We can look, we can have a compassionate, fair way where the people who come here legally, they get treated one way. The people who cheat get treated another way. That's fair. We can do that and give like normal people something to hang on to. But based on the media coverage I've seen, he plans on going full, what we would call in the United States, full Mamdani. We have this new mayor in New York City, Zorhan Mamdani. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, every day there's a crazy new lefty idea. He's like, sounds good. I'll take two. And so is that going to be what he does? Yeah. I mean, why not be the blue collar, I'm not going to make you compete with illegal wages, you know, workers for wages. I'm not going to treat you unfairly by letting other people come in and take taxpayer funded benefits. Why not do that and do the crazy lefty stuff? Yeah, well, you'd think so. I mean, the thing is, the thing is with Andy Burnham. He was previously in, you know, he was previously an MP under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. So, you know, he worked, you know, he knows the territory. Then he left because he wasn't really getting anywhere. He tried to be the leader of the Labour Party, not once, but twice. They didn't want him. So he goes off to become the mayor of Greater Manchester, as distinct from just Manchester. But let's not get into that little technicality, that's a whole other ball game. So he becomes the mayor of Greater Manchester. And now he's back to kind of do this. But you're right. I mean, there's no, why is there no big announcement? What he did say, which is again, if you want the mother of all platitudes, Michael, he said we need to get rid of 40 years of neoliberalism. Governments haven't been working. And he's talking about from Thatcher to the present day. We need to do things differently. What the heck does that mean? This guy's got two and a bit years to try and change the system. And when you think about the progress that was made in regular people's lives from the time that Thatcher took office until the time she left for this massive explosion of wealth, the number of people in the British middle class went up. People didn't see an opportunity to become middle class, suddenly found, oh my gosh, my labour's worth so much, I can become middle class too. And to say we've got to put an end to that, I'm sorry, so what do you want to go back to? Like massive labour strikes and trash mounting up in the streets and the explosion in cost? I mean, is that what you want to go back to? Here's one of the problems. Everybody thinks that somewhere out there, because technology has gotten so amazing, so amazing I can just think I want a pizza and my phone will call the guy and have it sent to my house. I mean, it's amazing. They think there's got to be some way to have everything be good and nothing be bad. And we just don't live on that planet. I'm sorry. You know, you've got to work for a living. Stuff goes wrong. Stuff is expensive. Your work is worth something in the real world. You may think that you're the world's greatest garage guitar band guy, but if no one wants to pay to see you, that's no money. That's the way the world really is. Why not make it the best world for the most people instead of saying it can be a perfect world for all people? Because that just isn't possible. And one of the things the left constantly do is believe that governments are more capable of doing things than they actually are. You know that famous Reagan line of the most haunting words in the English language, I'm from the government. What can I do to help? And I'm here to help. I'm here to help. That thing. And the left constantly think, well, the government can just do it. The government can just do it. The government can do very little, really. If you think about it, the governments don't build. They don't innovate. They don't engineer. They don't invent. They don't grow. Other individuals do that. Corporations do that. But it eludes the left, and they just, as I said earlier, Michael, they seem to be of the belief that as long as you can tax some people that are doing okay, then they go to bed and sleep nicely. It's almost that simple. There's the money, and then there's how you spend it. And so what I wanted, I start not with the money. I start with how you spend it. And so I'll go back to this. When you give me a government that can do something as simple, particularly on a bleeping island as keeping people from coming illegally, I mean, you've got a huge border with Canada. We've got this huge border with Mexico. You can walk into our country illegally. You guys have a freaking island, and you cannot keep people. Your government is too stupid to keep people out? Come on. Do that one thing, and then come talk to me about, oh, yeah, we're going to manage your health care, too. Don't worry. It's going to be great. The most complicated thing in your whole life is health care and brain surgery and cancer surgery, and we're going to run that. No, no, no, no. You do the keeping people off my island thing first. That's a great, great ... I hope Andy Burnham ... By the way, a prime minister called Andy in itself is worth the analysis on any other side. I liked your Gandhi comment. I liked the sandals in Gandhi. You will never catch Donald Trump in sandals ever. You see him on the beach. He's got wingtips on. I'm telling you. There's no way you're going to catch him. In fact, if he puts, he's got a big toe like a turtle's head. You just know it. Can I just finish on this? Comes from Kevin. It says, your American guest. His wonderful baseball is called Rounders here in Britain, a game played by schoolgirls. And perfected by American men in the 1880s and turned into a fantastic sport where every time a batter is at the plate and every time a pitch is thrown, it is a scoring opportunity. That could be a score right then as opposed to soccer where in 90 minutes, there are like two minutes and 32 seconds where something might happen that involves a score, which is why they shout goal for 20 minutes because they know it's going to be 20 minutes where anything happens. My little boy's last head teacher at school, it happens to be an American, and he came over and he was trying to teach the kids in a kind of, it was a summer prize giving. He was trying to teach the kids, you know, why sometimes losing, you know, he said, you know, if you play baseball, you don't always hit that ball. In fact, he gave the stats. It was unbelievable. How often? Yeah. Indeed. And so to demonstrate this, he got a kid out the audience. He bought the baseball bat. He had the glove and everything. And he did. I don't know why he decided to whack a baseball into the audience of a load of kids striking one of their heads. They were fine, by the way. They managed. We really don't manage it fine. It was absolutely great. It was just extraordinary. But that's the that's the most interesting interpretation of baseball, Michael. We've got to go. Thank you. Michael Graham, U.S. commentator, managing editor of Inside Sources with us here on talk.