RADIOAugust 04, 2025

What everyone’s MISSING about the “BAD” July jobs report

The media has branded the July 2025 jobs report as “bad,” since only 73,000 jobs were added. But Glenn Beck explains the reason why he believes it’s still “remarkable.”

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GLENN: All right. Stu, go over the jobs report that just came out today.

STU: Yeah, they showed a gain of over 73,000 jobs. This is not a particularly good number.

GLENN: No.

STU: I think, you could look at it and say, when you examine it a little closer, it does show some pretty strange things.

GLENN: Like?

STU: First of all, it seems almost all of the job gains are coming from the health care industry.

GLENN: Makes sense.

STU: And that is consistent over several months. In fact, there's a chart that shows, the six-month change of employment.

And like all -- most of the lines are either flat or slightly negative. There's a couple industries that have slight growth, financial activities, leisure and hospitality.

But overwhelming -- I mean, it's almost like one of those old COVID charts with jobs, where like you just see all these little lines, and there's this giant line, that careens off the screen almost.

Private education and health services are the industries that are showing, that are almost all the growth in the United States, right now.

GLENN: Yeah, I'm so glad to hear that about private education. I mean, it shows that we are actively engaging in something that we know has failed us. And we are -- we are changing our lives.

As a people. I think that's good. The other thing, health care. I would love to know, what parts of health care. Is that insurance, or is that like doctors and nurses?

Do you have any idea.

STU: I don't have the breakdown of that in front of me. I can look for it, though.

Probably in this data. Probably skating through a bunch of data. It does show, without health care jobs, we as a nation have lost jobs overall for three straight months.

GLENN: Wow.
STU: Part of this was a major revision to the data, which showed a loss of 255,000 jobs from the two previous months that had already been reported. So a major --

GLENN: What is wrong. Why can't they get this right?

This is not that hard?

This was happening, all the last four years. Much worse than that.

And now it's -- it's happening again.

STU: You're talking about just revisions? Yeah. There have always been revisions.

At his seem to have been bigger lately.

GLENN: Yes. Yes.

STU: So you look at all that. This is largely just discouraging report, I would say overall.

But, you know, we're seeing some of the prediction markets. You know, odds for a recession are going up.

However, what we're talking about as far as where they result is like 15 to 20 percent. Is what people are saying. Is their chance for a recession.

So it's not like.

Again, a lot of times, I think this stuff gets blown out of proportion.

Or catastrophe ping or incredibly jubilant.

Gosh, everything is working. We shut up all these economists. They were all wrong. I think what we're seeing now. It's probably too early to take a victory lap or, you know, jump off a building.

GLENN: You know, I have to tell you, I think we should take a moment here, and recognize, do you remember what the economy was like, you know, six months ago?

A year ago.

Everything was trending in the wrong direction.

Everything was trending in the wrong direction.

For us not to be in a recession, at this point, I think this is -- I think is pretty remarkable. Especially with the amount of changes that Donald Trump is making, to some of the fundamental structures of America.

You know, look at the job numbers. And then the numbers of the people he has fired from government. When you're talking about reducing, for instance, the Department of Education, by 50 percent.

That is going to affect your job numbers.

It's going to.

STU: Yeah. And it's important to note as well. That is in the data. The government jobs are down.

Again, not to a point where it would outweigh some of the other stuff that we're talking about. But it is down.

We expect there to be more of that, coming.

And, you know, I think you could -- you could look at that. And I think -- it is an important factor.

It doesn't necessarily overwhelm the fact that these reports from jobs have not been positive.

It doesn't -- well, because, again, to me and, you know, government jobs going away is a necessary thing.

It might hurt the job number reports for a few months.

GLENN: Carol Roth has been saying for months: Got to be careful. Don't want to move too fast on that.

STU: Yeah. Yep. And I think you have to be careful.

But I look at that as a situation that is needed.

And I think Donald Trump does as well.
So I don't like at that and say, okay. Well, that's -- I'm going to sit here and cry about government jobs going away.

And it will take time for people who lost those government jobs, to find their way in another industry. But it is an important part to note, that that is, you know, a chunk of this picture.

GLENN: So here's what I would really -- I would like to -- I would like to try to reframe this in your mind as a listener, if I can.

We have got to stop looking at everything through the lens of the glasses that we have always used.

Our entire life. My entire life, you can look at job numbers. And you can say, well, it's this. Or this. And you have to fix this. And this is growth. This is not.

And here's the growth industry.

Honestly, we don't know what tomorrow holds anymore because of AI.

Because of this -- this AI revolution that we are on the verge of, and I've told you this for years, but maybe it will start to make sense to you. Between now and 2030, that's four years!

Now and 2030, there will be as much change to business and life itself, as there has been for the last 400 years!

So from the moment of the enlightenment, until today, that amount of change is coming in the next four to five years!

And that's so huge, it's hard to believe or get your arms around. But that is true!

So when we look at jobs, I mean, you know.
If I were looking short-term, and I'm 20. And I'm like, okay. What do I do?

I learn how to weld. I learn how to build.
I learn how to get involved in building power plants and server farms.

Because I know that's an industry, that is going to grow in the next five to ten years. It's going to be non-stop growth.

And AI is not going to be able to take over an actual build, yet!

Maybe in the ten years, maybe.

But not right away.

So it's going to take labor. If I'm looking to do something and in labor, that's the kind of labor I'm looking at.

You know, but when you're going to school, what do you go to school for? Health care and -- and I'm telling you. Being a doctor is getting harder and harder. You don't necessarily, you know, make the kind of money that you used to, because you've got this gigantic bill you're paying off.

And it's very frustrating.

And I believe in -- within ten years, I think easy in ten years, there's going to be so much growth on AI.

That your job as a doctor will be more of hand holding. Than anything else.

I mean, you still, for a while, will be doing surgery.

But if you're a doctor, you should be doing robotic surgery right now.

You should be looking.

You should be leading the movement in robotic surgery.

To be able to do what you do, faster, and better.

And using new technology in -- in health care. I think the -- I think the growth. And I could be wrong. I don't know anything about health care.

Just trying to understand -- let me say it this way. What is the biggest problem our kids are dealing with right now?

They're dealing with nothing having meaning.

And they're dealing with the -- whether they know it or not, they're dealing with these problems, because they -- they don't have real human connection, anymore.

Okay?

They're talking to each other, all the time. But it's all on -- you know, it's -- it's all on text. They're not relating. And when you're sick, there comes a time that you're going need to human interaction. And you will be monitored by all kinds of AI devices. And everything else.

And you're in the hospital, whatever.

You may not have a lot of nurses. Because AI will be doing all of the grunt work, if you will.

Bit there's going to come a time, where nurses are so important. Because they're your human connection. You need to look somebody in the eye.

Who is human.

That can hold your hand.

The -- the empathetic things are going to be growth industry.

And I'm not sure I even know what this is.

I'm just thinking about these things out loud.

But sending your kid into college, right now. To be an accountant, again, this is not my area of expertise.

So take it for what it's worth. But I would reconsider.

If you're going in for law, I would reconsider.

Already, you know, the law clerk. Those jobs are gone. Those jobs are gone.

Or quickly going away. Because you can get AI to do so much.

You're going need to somebody to argue cases. But you're not going to need somebody that needs to go through, you know -- go through all of the records. All of the law check.

You know, can you read this contract, and check this contract, and make sure -- AI is already doing most of that. You know, you just don't know that. But the attorneys do.

You're going to school. And in this time, it might be better until we know what's coming.

To focus on trade, to focus on trade schools. For instance, you know, building, welding, health care. Things that you can do, even temporarily. Or honestly, things that make you more empathetic.

Instead of building debt for a world where you just don't know what's going to be -- I mean, honestly. Accounting.

It's -- a machine is going to do it.

A machine is going to do it. It's just the way it is. You're going to need the personal interface. But the -- this large pool is not going to be needed, and everything is going to change!

So when you're looking at these job numbers, what we should be talking about is that these -- these numbers may actually be good, looking back three years from now. And let me explain that when we come back. First, let me tell you about our sponsor this half-hour. It's Lear Capital. I've got to tell you, Lear Capital, hmm. This is a number you should call. This is a number you should call. Your groceries, you know, one day your groceries cost 120 dollars.

The next time, you know, all of a sudden, you're paying $400. And you're like, wait!

Did I just accidentally buy a flat screen TV here? I thought I got eggs.

So when I say, we're going to look back and these jobs -- you know, these job numbers were a dream come true.

What I mean is, as AI becomes stronger and stronger, there are going to be other jobs.

I don't know what they are yet.

There are going to be other jobs that grow. That we may not be thinking about right now.

That's why I would not rack up debt to go into accounting or law.

But be careful with your debt. Because those jobs may be gone.

Other jobs will be created.

But there's going to be this massive overturn of jobs.

And lots of job losses, coming.

If you're going -- what we should be teaching our kids right now is not -- you know, our entire education system is built on, this is going to be on the test.

Hey. Write this down.

Because this is going to be on the test.

Why are tests so important right now?

Why?

Why is that memorization stuff of dates and names so important?

Because this system was created to get you to follow rules.

Can you follow rules?

Can you do what you're asked to do?

This is going to be on the test, write this down. And remember this!

Okay?

It's not taught to teach you -- to think outside of the box.

It's teaching you to remain in the box!

All right?

That is -- that was important in 1950. 1970.

Even maybe 1990.

It was important that you could assemble a car.

That you could stand in line. You could do these things. Okay?

But that's not what's going to be important in the very near future.

We're not talking 20 years down the road.

We're talking five and ten years down the road.

What's important is not what to think. But how to think.

How to think.

They were teaching us how to get a job.

How to work in these industries.

You need to teach your kids now. And they need to be learning. And you need to learn.

How to think.

How to question.

Because this system that we have built is built for an old era. We're -- we're in a -- we're in a time period.

Think of -- think of what it was like between 1850. And 1930.

That's the span of somebody's lifetime.

Think about what they saw.

My father said to me, you know, he was born in 1926.

Glenn, when I was growing up.

We never thought about going to the moon.

That wasn't even a possibility.

He said, now we're on the moon.

We're in space. We have computers.

Think of that!

That's the kind of stuff that will happen in five years.

You will go from that kind of change.

That happened over the life span of my father.

This will happen, really, in the time that your kids go to school or graduate school.

It will all be different. And it will continue to change.

We have to have the conversations of no debt. No debt. Not for education. Stay out of debt. Do you have any usable skills?

Can you fix things yourself?

Without having to get somebody else to do it.

You know, you look at some of the things that is happening with Generation X.

They are teaching themselves by using YouTube. They're teaching themselves how to fix a sink, how to do different things. And they're doing it really, kind of out of entertainment in a way.

A lot of them are just watching, and you're like, you don't have a sink. You don't own a sink. What are you doing?

I don't know. I find this fascinating.

I think it's because there is a call now, to real things and real work, and doing things with your own hands. Usable skills. Usable skills.
Critical thinking. And the last thing that we should be encouraging our kids to explore and learn, is anything about meaning. Meaning is going to be -- it's already crisis-level.

It's why our kids are killing themselves.
They don't have meaning in life. They don't -- they don't know how to find meaning.

That has been a lifetime struggle for most of us.

But it is a critical situation for our kids. So no at the time.

Usable skills. Critical thinking. And meaning.

That's what we should focus on, for the future.

THIS is what the media should show you from Gaza

Hamas has released footage of a starving hostage who says he’s digging his own grave… so, where is the media outrage? Glenn Beck reviews the photos, which look eerily like they were taken at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. Plus, he reviews the story of an East Jerusalem resident who found a way to give aid to the Gazan people while bypassing Hamas and private contractors, who have turned hunger into “a business.”

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GLENN: Now, I don't know if you saw the living skeleton hostage, the video that came out on Friday. Of the Hamas hostage.

It is -- it's really sick. I've only seen the pictures. I haven't seen the video.

But the pictures of this guy, who was buff. And really healthy looking. I mean, he looked really -- like he was really in shape.

He was out at the -- you know, at the concert, there in -- there in Israel.

And at the concert, he's one of the guys that was grabbed by Hamas.

They released a five-minute clip of him.
He's 24 years old. He's in a tunnel, he's standing in this tunnel with a ceiling as high as he is. They show him crossing off dates on a calendar, and digging a grave. He says, I haven't seen for a few days in a row. And if you look at him, he's nothing, but skin and bones.

I haven't seen a Jewish person look like this, since the Holocaust.

I mean, that is the image that I think -- that Hamas is trying to send to the world.

Because I think they're proud of all of this. In the middle of the video, a person behind the camera hands them a can of beans. And David said, this can is for two days. This whole can is for two days, so I don't die. This is the grave that I think I'll be buried in. Time is running out.

This is the deliberate starvation, of this hostage.

And you would say, well, the kids are starving. Now I -- let me tell you another story. I want to read this one verbatim.

When much of the world had written off Northern Gaza as unreachable, 30-year-old east Jerusalem resident, Sara Awatta and her team, carved out a lifeline. Under the umbrella of Mena Aid, a regional partner coalition operating through the multi-faith alliance and in coordination with Israeli authorities, she built a system, that moved hundreds of trucks of food and supplies into Gaza bypassing Hamas and private contractors, who had turned hunger into a business.

Did you catch that line? Bypassing Hamas and private contractors, who had turned hunger into a business. More than 100,000 families have been fed.

The cost? Her own safety.

Quote, I never imagined, that I would be creating safe, independent, humanitarian route, would become the reason my life might end, said Sara.

After delivering 346 trucks of aid, between September '24 and February '25, we have reached 100,622 families. We decided to scale up distribution on June 30th, at a time when no one was able to get anything into Gaza because of looting, chaos, and multiple layers of obstruction on the ground.

Operating through Mena Aid, her team designed an alternative route to deliver food and essential supplies.

In Israel, a trusted logistics company transported the goods from the Port of Ashdod to the Curam Shalome (phonetic) and Zitkum (phonetic) crossings. Inside Gaza, another logistics partner handled the transport, while her staff, coordinating to realtime with Israel shadowed every shipment.

Once the aid crosses into Gaza, it's picked up by another trusted logistics partner.

Our teams are present, during the off-loading, and accompany the aid from the crossing to secure warehouses. Inside the warehouses, we begin distribution immediately, aiming to deliver everything the same day. And at most, within two to three days.

Nothing is allowed to sit idle.

That level of control, allowed them to achieve what few others could, reaching northern Gaza where people had not seen a stable supply of food for months.

Her breakthrough exposed a darker reality.
An economy where hunger itself has become a business.
Now, this is reporting. That she says, quote, there's a lot of private sector businessmen.

Some associated with Hamas. And other political groups.

By the way, this is not somebody who lives in the Jewish quarter of Israel.

She's living in the Islamic quarter of Jerusalem.

They tried to use -- they try to use aid to make millions of dollars.

Because there's such a shortage of goods, and prices are so high.

Some steal aid, and sell it in the market.

Others try to take over the supply route, so they can resell it. Her team's success, threatened by those who profit from scarcity.

By flooding the market with free goods, they not only fed families, but also drove down the inflated prices charged for basics like sugar and flour.

If there's no sugar in Gaza, and we bring it in for free. They can't keep selling it at outrageous prices. So we became their problem.

Israeli authorities also tried to cut off these private sector schemes, by shutting down the routes that allowed commercial profiteering. Listen to that. Did you -- have you heard anywhere, New York Times?

While this helped curb some corruption, it also made the remaining humanitarian channels, more dangerous. The private sector was blocked. And so those who lost their profits, started trying harder to threaten and infiltrate the humanitarian route.

They couldn't control it. So they tried to break it, and me. The attacks on her came quickly.

I began receiving death threats, not just from Gaza, but from the West Bank. Heartbreakingly, some came from people I once trusted. One of the most painful betrayals come from someone close to her. She said, I even discovered I was in a relationship full of lies. That person was part of a game, that wanted to exploit the aid operation, and he tried to use me too.

But I stood firm. I made sure he and people like him never got near it.

And now my life is at risk. Because I refuse to let the private sector hijack aid for commercial gain, or let political actors bend it to serve their goals.

The families she helps, are the reason she refuses to quit, she said.

We've created distribution model, based on verified beneficiary lists, using ID checks to ensure fair and dignified access to food. People stood in line calmly, organized, and even in impossible conditions. That's something the media just doesn't show.

The dignity and patience of the people.

Now, why isn't everyone covering this woman?

I want to get this woman on the phone, if possible. I want to talk to this woman. I would feel very comfortable in helping raising money for her. She's somebody who understands that there is a problem.

That's the only reason why people are not saying, hey, we can't -- we can only do so much with the food thing in Gaza. Because it's hijacked. It's hijacked, and used for political purposes. Do you think the Hamas fighters look like the guy in the tunnel?

No, of course not. Absolutely not. Why?

Because they have the food.

They're only giving it to people, they want to give it to. They're controlling everything.

They're -- they're -- honestly, Hamas, they're animals. They're animals.

But I don't have a problem with people from Gaza. Children. Women.

Now, I don't know if they're part of Hamas or what.

But, I mean, I don't mind helping feed them, if the food is actually being distributed.

But it hasn't been.

This woman seems to be distributing the food.

Carving out a lifeline. And risking her life to do it.

Thank you, Fox news, for bringing this story to my attention.

It's fabulous!

43-year-old prediction proves how WRONG the media is

Glenn and Stu review a 43-year-old prediction from CBS’ Dan Rather, where he claimed that much of Florida would be underwater soon due to global warming. Plus, they reveal the reason we KNOW the global elites don’t really fear climate change.

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GLENN: All right. This is not going to age well.

It's something that should have been said to Dan Rather about 43 years ago. Stu just found this video.

STU: Yeah, it kind of went viral over the weekend, and I just happened to notice it. And it was just a callback.

It's interesting to always look back at what people were saying, the people you were supposed to understanded and trust had been -- the evidence about what could go on in the future.

They outline many, many times, what they believed is going to happen. And every once in a while, they are a little too specific. Like, they get into specifics. If you're going to make claims of future doom, the appropriate way, if you want to maintain your -- you know, save face if things go wrong.

Is to kind of keep it general and vague.

Which a lot of times they'll do in the global warming world.

They will say really bad things are coming.

And they won't be particularly specific.

Just general horror is around the corner.

GLENN: Right. And they will do it within 100 years. And you'll see the beginning of his in 100 years. So all of us will be dead.

STU: Yeah, so Dan Rather -- this is back in the '80s, forty-three years ago, talking about, what was around the corner here with new evidence from scientists, and look out for what's coming.

VOICE: Concerned about rising temperatures on planet earth, heated up a hearing here in Washington today.

For years, scientists have theorized about the dangers of the so-called greenhouse effect, the warming of the earth's atmosphere, due to the burning of coal and oil. And in recent months, as David Cowan reports, research has uncovered facts to support that theory.

STU: Oh.

VOICE: Many scientists claim that the temperature of the earth's atmosphere has been rising over the past 100 years. That the great sheets of pack ice in Antarctica are melting at a much more rapid rate than previously. Finally, that the sea level has been rising with increasing swiftness over the past 40 years.

If these scientists are correct, about 25 percent of Florida would be flooded, along with low-lying areas all over the world.

Climate changes could produce widespread destruction of agriculture.

The American farm belt might be too dry, and the weed and corn crops would have to move to Canada. Scientists blame the odorless, colorless, carbon dioxide gas for these potentially dangerous changes around the planet. It is the greenhouse effect. The gas allows sunlight to filter down and warm the earth.

But like the glass of a greenhouse, the carbon dioxide tends to trap heat so that it cannot rise into space.

STU: Oh, no. Oh, no.

GLENN: The scientists maintain that the coal, oil, and gas that we've been burning for 100 years have produced more and more carbon dioxide, and helped overheat the earth.

Now, some political leaders endorse the demands for more CO2 monitoring stations like this one in Hawaii.

STU: By the way, the politician was Al Gore in 1982. Making these claims.

GLENN: Oh, my gosh.

STU: So 25 percent of Florida, underwater. Glenn, I don't know if you could look around.

GLENN: We laugh, because it showed the map of the United States, and then it showed the map of Florida.

And Florida was just like this little stick that came out of the bottom. It's ridiculous. It was like America had a bike stand all of a sudden. Just ridiculous.

STU: Yeah. Basically, only if you were in Central Florida, would you have any civilization left. Now, you see, we would not have any agriculture in our country. All of it would have to go to Canada, which you might know. Consider we have been talking a lot about international trade lately, we actually have -- we produce a heck of a lot when it comes to agriculture here in this country.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: All of these claims, of course, didn't come true.

In fact, the coastline of Florida remains one of the best places to buy a home, in the country.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

STU: Most expensive places to buy a home in the country.

People are moving to Florida by the millions.

GLENN: You know, if global warming was true. And the coastlines were going away. No bank, and no insurance company in the world, would underwrite a loan.

STU: Right.

GLENN: Nobody. Nobody would.

Why would you write a 25-year-old mortgage on a house, that if in 25 years, it would be 10 feet underwater. That would be the dumbest thing you could ever do.

Why would you do it?

Because they know.

You know, money doesn't talk, it screams.

And when money is still says, no. Go ahead. Build their 25-year loan. You know this is a bunch of bullcrap. It's just bullcrap.

STU: Yeah. These aren't just small investments.

30 years after this Dan Rather report.

You wrote a book. A best-seller for a while. Called An Inconvenient Book. There was a chapter about global warming. It wasn't all about Al Gore's -- it wasn't a parody of Al Gore's book. But that was the first chapter in the book. The picture that was taken for the first page of that was a picture of the Miami skyline. Which is -- you know, back -- this is 2006ish, maybe.

And it's just flooded with cranes. All you see is cranes all over the entire skyline.

There's so much destruction going on in Miami. You can't believe it.

Of course, a couple years ago after that. 2008. There was a collapse. We've had COVID in between there.

And in between this entire period, there have been multiple additional construction moves in Miami.

The picture that is in that book. It's so outdated. There's double and triple the amount of skyscrapers that have been built in this area.

GLENN: No.

It's underwater.

STU: Yeah. If it was going to be underwater.

If people actually believed it was going to be underwater, there's no way they would be investigating this type of money into developing Miami and other coastline communities.

It would make no sense.

They all know this isn't true. Or they believe that humanity would come up a solution to it. Right?

Which is also a real possibility.

Like, there are times where there have been -- there are a lot of areas that have problems with flooding. That have generally speaking, been controlled because of human innovation.

This is usually what happens in these situations. So even if they're right. I mean, I don't think 25 percent of Florida has any chance of being underwater.

But even if this -- that problem gets worse, and sea levels do rise a few more inches than expected. Humanity typically has a way of dealing with that.

Did Trump just SLAP Fed Chair Jerome Powell into submission?

President Trump recently visited the Federal Reserve’s headquarters, where they’re spending a lot of taxpayer money on renovations – and Trump let Fed Chair Jerome Powell know he doesn’t approve! Glenn Beck analyzes how Trump used old school power dynamics – including giving Powell a slap on the back – as a negotiation tactic to hopefully get the Fed to lower interest rates.

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GLENN: Did you watch Powell and Donald Trump?

STU: Yeah. Yes.

It was -- it was a fun -- it was a fun moment, I felt like.

GLENN: Let me play you just a clip, yesterday.

Donald Trump went to the federal research, first time, I think in two decades that the fed -- that the president has made an official visit to the Federal Reserve.

STU: Yeah. It was George W. Bush, right?

GLENN: Yeah. So he comes in, and he's getting a tour in hard hats.

Throughout the Federal Reserve. Because they're making a trillion and a half dollar renovation of the Federal Reserve.

Trillion and a half dollars.

STU: Not trillion and a half.

GLENN: No. I'm sorry. Trillion and a half.

STU: Because that would be --

GLENN: But billion does not sound like a lot anymore.

Does it? So a billion and a half renovation.

So you know, Donald Trump said yesterday. That he redid the old post office. And made it into a really nice hotel.

And remember, bathrooms and kitchens are the most expensive.

It had like 200 marble slab bathrooms in it.

For 200 million.

So this is quite the renovation. That the Federal Reserve is doing. On your tax dollar.

STU: You can complain.

You might say, Donald Trump. All the people in the media.

He doesn't know enough about this. He doesn't know enough about that.

He knows enough about this.

Anyone who knows enough about renovating a building.

GLENN: Yeah. So listen here's the back and forth between Trump and Powell.

DONALD: It looks like it's about 3.1 million. It went a little bit, or a lot.

So 2.7. You know, 3.1.

And it just came out.

GLENN: So he takes out. No, that's what it is. And he takes out a sheet.

Like, here, Powell, here it is.

DONALD: Yes.

GLENN: Awkward.

DONALD: You're including the renovation.

VOICE: You just added a third building. That's a third building.

DONALD: It's a building being built.

VOICE: It was built five years ago. More than five years ago.

DONALD: Part of the overall work --
so take a look, you'll see what's happening.

And it's got a long way. You expect any more additional --

VOICE: Don't expect them. We're ready for them.

GLENN: We're ready for them. With our tax dollars, okay?

STU: It's an amazing clip for 100 different reasons.

GLENN: Yeah. Right. And when they first met, I don't know. Do we have the video of him just being slapped on the back?

Look at this. Watch.

DONALD: He has a long way to go.

VOICE: Are there things that they would say to you today, that would make you back off some of the earlier things?

DONALD: Well, I would them to lower interest rates.

GLENN: Huh?

Okay. This is Donald Trump. This is the way -- that visit was all about intimidation. Okay? The slapping on the back, the aggressive handshakes that he gives. Okay? I mean, that's the guy that he is.

And it's not -- it's just the guy he is, and he dominates a room.

You walk into any room with Donald Trump. Even before he's president. He controls the room.

He just does. He's a guy who just walks in, and all the oxygen goes right to him. It's an amazing thing to watch.

STU: Yeah, these are old-school power dynamics. Right?

GLENN: Yes, but they work. They work.

STU: They work. Because you watch that clip. There's no reason to have that moment in front of cameras.

GLENN: Nope!

STU: There's -- that was a moment -- correct me if you think I'm wrong.

GLENN: And planned. Planned.

STU: Do you think it was planned?

GLENN: Absolutely.

STU: Number one, he does it in front of cameras. He's saying basically, there's a massive cost overrun by the guy he's standing next to, in front of cameras. Which would be an embarrassing moment for this guy in theory.

Then he also has a letter in his jacket to pull out, when he says, no. That's not happening.

He pulls that out.

GLENN: He knows that's coming.

STU: Now, look, the building was finished five years ago.

GLENN: Yeah. But what his point was. You're right.

You're right.

His point was, this is part of your renovation.

STU: Right. That's not true.

It's not a new cost overrun. The way he's presenting it. But he's doing that intentionally.

Because it's old-school power dynamics, right? Because this seems to be something that Trump thinks about a lot for a lot of different reasons.

GLENN: You think?

STU: Well.

GLENN: So let me show you what he did. What he's doing here is the same. What has he been saying about Powell?

STU: He's been saying, he needs to --

GLENN: Resign.

STU: He's dumb. He needs to resign.

GLENN: He's dumb.

STU: He's saying he's dumb. He's a dumb person in the Fed. He's not lowering interest rates.

GLENN: That tactic. The best example of that tactic is Little Rocket Man. Look at Little Rocket Man.

Yeah. Well, Little Rocket Man. Maybe I will just have to wipe him off the face of the earth.

And then what does he do?

He goes where no president has ever gone before to Little Rocket Man's space.

And sucks all the oxygen out of that room. Okay?

And stands -- this giant, standing next to little rocket man. Did you notice, how big Trump looked next to little Powell?

I mean, it was almost the same power dynamic. Okay?

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: And Powell knows. Powell knows. He's -- Trump, I think is older than Powell.
And look at how young Trump looks next to Powell.

STU: He does look younger.

GLENN: So he's been saying, little rocket man. Little rocket man. Little rocket man.

He then goes to the place where little rocket man is. In this case, the Federal Reserve.

And then what happens?

What is he saying today?

You know, I -- I'm not going to fire Powell. Because I think he will do the right went.

I mean, we had a really nice meeting.

And, you know, while those cost overruns are important. I think he's got it under control.

I don't know if there's a reason to investigate.

STU: It gives him an out, basically.

GLENN: Gives him a complete out.

He has hit him hard, then he meets with him and hits him hard again in front of the press.

I can guarantee you, they had a delightful conversation behind.

And he's now -- we're now in that place, where it's lather, rinse, repeat. You don't repeat, if everything is -- your hair is clean. Right?

You don't have to do it a second time, if everything is fine.

So he'll do that. Lather, rinse. Am I going to repeat?

Do I have to repeat?

Because I'll repeat. We'll go back to lather. I just rinsed. I lathered up. Yesterday, we rinsed.

Are you -- are you clean enough now? Or do you need to repeat this cycle?

That's exactly what he's doing.

STU: And he's kind of giving him the message that, I'll make your life a living hell --

GLENN: And he's doing it in Powell's space.

There's something about doing it in someone else's space. Shows, you do not have fear.

STU: But he works on both sides of that, right? Because he does sometimes go into their space and do this type of thing.

GLENN: Yeah.

STU: But also -- and this is -- because when I was watching this interaction. It reminded me of something you were talking about when you were in the White House.

Of the way he's designing the White House.

He's thinking about these old school power dynamics. Constantly, when he's designing what the White House is like.

GLENN: So he is -- because this really bothers me.

Because America is. We don't have palaces for our president.

STU: Right.

GLENN: Okay?

And he's putting gold everywhere.

And I didn't say to him, that, you know,, hey.

The gold thing.

You know, maybe you should cool your jets on that.

He brought it up to me. And he said, do you -- look at the gold.

I mean, this is beautiful. And this is like -- 24 karat gold.

Is that the most -- is that the best? 24 karat.

I can't remember, but it's the most expensive kind of gold. Okay? It's not like spray paint gold.

It's actual gold leaf. Really, really expensive. And he's paying for all of it.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: And he said, you like this.

I will go leaf -- basically, I will go -- I am thinking about gold leafing Melania soon. And I'm sitting there, and I'm thinking, this is not -- this is not a palace.

And he almost sensed this, I think from me.

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: He said, you know, I know we don't have a palace, but everybody from foreign countries that comes in, they are around palaces.

They see power a certain way. And he said, so I want to make sure when they're sitting in here, they understand, this is the most powerful room in the world, in every language that they might speak.

STU: Hmm. Hmm.

GLENN: Okay? So he's doing all this to -- as a way to intimidate again.

And if you look at it.

You would think, United States is broke.

I can't believe they're leaving.

No. They're not.

He is!

So he's not only saying, this is the most powerful office.

But I'm putting gold all over it. Because I'm wealthy. And powerful.

Because I, unlike maybe you, Macron.

I wasn't in politics.

I went out and actually built giant buildings in the biggest city in the world.

Okay?

So he's, again, exercising a power dynamic.

And when you watch him, in those meetings, where, notice he has press conferences with these guys.

How do we usually announce big things with countries?

When their Prime Minister or their president comes over.

STU: We put them up as equals.

They each get one question. You know --

GLENN: Right. Back and forth.

STU: Yeah. Some --

GLENN: You get -- you get the president on one side of the room.

And the foreign president or leader on the other side of the room.

Back and forth. And they're equal.

And the flags are there.

Not with President Trump.

Very few are getting that.

They're all sitting down in his office. In that intimidating space.

And a gaggle comes in. And he says, hey. I want to introduce you. Here's the president of the Philippines. We're doing some great stuff.

We have this great deal. Blah, blah. And maybe the president of the Philippines will get one question.

Maybe. Maybe. So are you really the president of the Philippines?

STU: Is that really a country still?

GLENN: I didn't know that. So maybe he'll get one question.

But then that guy has to sit there uncomfortably, while the president is answering questions about the world, about the country.

STU: Elon Musk. Or whatever else is going on in his life.

GLENN: He has nothing to say, so he sits there as a secondary. That if we know is a negotiation tactic.

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: Donald Trump people tonight think he thinks about this stuff.

They don't think he's a deep thinker.

Maybe because of his language. But I think his language is also a choice.

His language is a choice. One, I know he can -- I know he can -- I know he understands big words.

But he speaks the language of the common man, for a couple of reasons.

One, I believe that was the language he learned in construction with his father.

Because he had to start working at the bottom. You want to build a hotel, son?

Great. Then you need to know how the air-conditioning handlers work.

In fact, you will go down and work side by side, and you will help build them.

So he grew up in the business world, talking to those guys. That's why those guys love him. Because he speaks their language.

Also, have you noticed, Donald Trump has started to let the F bombs fly? Now, why would he do that? Why would he do that?

Did you see what Joe Rogan was just saying about Hunter Biden?

He was just saying, you know, the guy -- he doesn't care. He just uses the F bombs like everybody else does.

And that was endearing to Rogan and also the Atlantic.

That, you know, he just -- he doesn't care.

He just is who he is.

Well, Donald Trump is showing you a little bit more, who he is.

Where he wasn't, in 2016, 2017. 2018. 2019.

Now, he's speaking the language, because I believe our culture.

Not in a way I would like. But our culture is changing.

And he is adapting to it, as well.

The guy is brilliant.

I wish I could spend a month with him. Because I think I could write a book about Donald Trump. And how he thinks.

Just spending a day with him, a few weeks ago.

And hearing how he spoke about every piece of art in the White House.

He selected every piece of art, and where it should go.

And it was to clarify who he is, and what he wants to accomplish, remind him what his job is.

So all the way from his bedroom, all the way down to the oval.

The -- the art on the wall, is to remind him of who he is. And what he's doing.

If you're on a tour, you come in. And you see, Donald Trump on one wall. And he selected Barack Obama for the other wall.

George Bush doesn't even have a painting in a bathroom. He put Barack Obama there as a symbol of, we're a country that is split. But this house brings us all together.

Would anyone ever give him credit for thinking that way?

He's thinking about what the message is on the tour.

He's really brilliant. And I think that's why things are changed so rapidly.

Is because he's using -- he knows how it works now.

He knows the game he's playing.

He's learned it.

He's mastered it.

And now he's just executing one after another.

Check, check, check, check.

And look at the results in six months.

This weekend is officially six months in.

He's accomplished more than I think any other president, has accomplished, in maybe their full term. In six months.

Now, I would like to see it codified.

But if -- if he had a Senate and a House, that were actually doing the business of the people.

It would be codified.