Friday Wrap-up with Bob: MAY 9, 2025 (Transcript)

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Hello, Bob Barney here with the Friday Wrap-Up and we’ll go over the big news of the week in this broadcast .

There are two items that are going to take most of the time because the big news that happened just yesterday was that we have a new Pope and it didn’t take very long. I told my wife I didn’t believe they were going to hold off picking a new Pope even to make it through the weekend because I think they already knew who they wanted. It’s surprising to me and maybe it’s a pretty good surprise to me because they picked an American. This is the first time ever that an American Cardinal has become a Pope and he happens to be from Chicago.

The new Pope’s name is Robert Prevost, and he will be Pope Francis’s successor. It took about only two days for him to get the position. The pontiff will be named Pope Leo XIV and he will be the 267th person to be Pope since it started. He’s 69 years old and from Chicago as I mentioned. I have not really had the time. I’ve been busy. I have really not had the time to investigate if he was a very liberal American Cardinal or was more of a conservative American Cardinal.

4:01 My guess is that he’s probably because he is an American Cardinal probably on the more liberal side however, sometimes it really surprises you once they become Pope how they end up being because sometimes they surprise everyone including the people that voted for him.

A lot of politics is behind the Vatican when they pick a Pope. Don’t think it’s something that Jesus Christ is behind because Jesus Christ has nothing to do with the Catholic Church first of all and second of all that when you really study the history which I have of the Catholic Church and all the Popes you will find to be some of the most corrupt evil-minded people to ever grace the face of this earth…if you even want to call it grace!

5:23 We have had Popes that dug up other Pope bodies and put them on trial as a corpse and found them guilty of all kinds of crimes against the papacy. There has been one scandal after another amongst these holy fathers as they want to be called and so the thing that I take away from this is I was worried. I don’t know where we are with the end times. I know according to the Bible since you know around AD 70 we’ve been in the end times. It’s clear but we’ve been gone almost 2,000 years and there’s no return of Christ yet. So, I don’t know when the end times are going to be, but I do believe when the end times come of course you know when you listen to these programs you realize that the final Pope will be a very evil Pope; eviler than any others probably that were before him and I believed it would be a Pope from the third world probably from Africa is my take.

The very first Antichrist was someone called Nimrod. The Tower of Babel story. Well, the mighty hunter was Nimrod and if you really understand the table of nations after Noah’s Ark and realize who’s who you will realize really quickly that Nimrod was a black man and so the very first Antichrist was Nimrod. He was a black man. Of course, the second type Antichrist was Nebuchadnezzar and then Alexander the Great and then the Caesars and then we know by understanding Daniel the prophet quite well that the end time Antichrist is going to come out of Europe…in a revised Holy Roman Empire.

So the idea that we got what looks to be his mother was let me read this here his mother was an Italian and his father was French so we have a French Italian Pope and I do not believe that that combination is going to lead to someone who’s all that powerful or harmful according to God’s scripture. So I think that means we have some time left.

7:56 I don’t know about how long America’s got left.

I will admit I’m kind of pleased with the choice, but I haven’t really researched what this guy stands for or how bad he will be or where he will move the church. Will he make it in a more conservative like Pope John Paul II did or will he be like Francis and continue his communistic way. I say this because Pope Francis was absolutely a communist and from the third world and I thought he would be followed up with another third world pope. I have to be honest I think it’s good for the world that it’s not.

Next subject I want to touch on: These tariff’s and all about them that go back and forth all over the place…Wall Street crash is coming back a little bit still nowhere near the high of what the stocks were and this uncertainty I’m beginning to see has a goal. You hear these ever-Trumpers say, ‘well he’s got a plan and his plan is going to be great for America!’.

Well I have a strange feeling the plan is going to be great for Donald Trump and Donald Trump’s businesses.

I hate to say this because I have been a Trump supporter since 2016 as a matter of fact. Even to my editor I predicted to her in 2013 after Obama won another term and beat Mitt Romney who I thought was going to beat Obama but personally I did think he was going to be I thought the country was so sick and tired of bad economy under Obama that they would pick a businessman. I’m not a Romney man but I thought he was going to win and maybe he did win, maybe we had stolen elections a lot quicker than 2020 for pity sakes but I told her in order for the Republicans to win they’re going to need to have a billionaire run. ‘Something like a Donald Trump’, is what I said. I think when she’s transcribing this, she will remember that conversation and lo and behold in 2016 when he came down the stairs and he announced his run for president I knew that was going to be something like that or someone like that and I believe then he was going to win. I also knew he was an arrogant man. I knew he was a New Yorker and lot of the world especially a lot of American’s do not trust New Yorkers. This is what started the Never-Trump movement and I think most people realize that the Never-Trump movement would have never gained steam if Donald Trump didn’t fuel the fire.

That’s the truth about Donald Trump.

9:45 In many cases he was his own worst enemy and during his first administration I had shows about this over the course of his time in back then and we’re going to link them under here and on the main page of The Plain Truth.

Here is one from 2019: Bob Barney-Donald Trump Will He Turn Out to Be the Next Jimmy Carter? I was pointing out the things that Donald Trump was doing that seemed to be setting up a fall…a disaster for him and that was the first term which was very very good for small businesses. It was very good for my small business very good for many other people but he had some problems. Here’s another headline from 2019 that was written by me: UNDER TRUMP and REPUBs- SPENDING BINGE WORSE THAN UNDER OBAMA, BUSH… – The Plain Truth. You know we keep hearing about how we have to get rid of this deficit…how we got to get rid of this deficit vote for us and we’ll get a balanced budget and get rid of this deficit. Well every time we voted for an all Republican Congress Senate and House did that back in 2004 with Bush the last time every time we’ve ever done this the Republicans have always outspent and never cut anything like the Democrats and worse than the Democrats another story I did back then was the plain truth predictions about Donald Trump over the years and it’s an article that I wrote I think in 2020 or 2021 where I summarized all of the different articles I wrote about Donald Trump. How some of the things he had to worry about and he just didn’t seem to worry about them and I think it turned out to be a disaster for him in 2020.

11:25 I am still an election denier as I believe that the 2020 election was stolen… minimally stolen because it didn’t take very many votes because Trump is a divisive character. I know many people who voted for Donald Trump in 2020 and they’ll be the first to say they hated the idea they had a vote for him but it was either him or Biden and they knew that Biden was not fit to be president of the United States so right there you see that Donald Trump was a great divider…but there is something going on about this manipulation of the stock market. There is something going on about what seems like a manipulation of tariffs. Why would one man’s word things go up by thousands to be honest things go up by trillions of dollars and then falls by trillions of dollars so if anybody has any knowledge of what’s happening before it happens it’s like that back to the future. Remember where you had that magazine you remember the magazine the sports legends for the was able to make all his money in this one scenario of back to the future part two well it’s the same idea if you know what’s going to happen tomorrow in the stock market and you bet against it if it’s going down or bet for it if it’s going up you get very rich especially if you put in a hundred million dollars or five hundred million dollars because you know it’s a sure bet it’s not a gamble and so that 500 billion the next day could be a you know a trillion dollars I don’t know how much money was made here but insiders made money.

Marjorie Taylor Greene…I have never liked Marjorie Taylor Greene I thought she is just nothing but a showman and a liar from day one well she made 180,000 in the stock market and when she was questioned about making that kind of money and did she feel bad about it her response to the reporter was now it’s our turn to make this kind of money our turn you mean it’s our turn to rob from the American public and to have insider trading? Oh it’s legal she says well of course it’s legal because you’re congress and you made it legal it wasn’t uh it wasn’t legal for example for uh Martha Stewart she went to jail because she overheard at a party that a stock that she had invested a little bit of money in not very much couple thousand dollars was gonna uh take a nosedive because she heard I think it was like the CEO of the company talking to somebody else and so she told her broker to sell that stock. She went to jail for that and I think something much worse than that’s happening right now! The ironic thing she went to jail for insider trading that congress and the white house are legally exempt from the law they exempted themselves talk about corruption at high places well this is what congress both democrat and republicans have been there’s a reason why so many Americans just simply do not want to vote anymore. It is because they see everything as corrupt and you almost can’t disagree with these people when they think that way because it does seem that everything seems to be corrupt and so when I read some of these stories that’s coming out now you gotta wonder.

13:23 Donald Trump says that he wants to make America great again and we need our businesses to invest in American workers we need businesses to come back here from overseas and stop spending our money overseas and bring the money back here with manufacturing jobs and if they don’t do this those companies are going to face very high tariffs. Well I am a manufacturer in America I manufacture American automotive paint and primers and clearers and paint and color and I am forced because there is no other option in the world I am forced to buy a lot of products from China because they’re the only people that have it.

I explained this in an earlier program that for example in order to meet VOC limits set by my government that I have to use products that only are made in China. One is a solvent named oxal invented by Oxal petroleum was sold to China and they have 100 exclusive every country in the world would VOC limits have to use oxal in their formulations and you have to buy it from China why should a little business like mine. You know I’m pretty big for a small business but I’m still a small business why should little businesses like mine face 150 to 250 because 150 is not the only tariff on China certain chemicals he’s got a 250,000 tariff on things that only China makes.

15:36 So turns out I heard a report I do not know if this report is true but after I read you some stuff in this in this uh wrap-up session I think uh I think many people are gonna like myself think it could be true I heard a report on CNBC by a pundit who claims that all the companies that gave a lot of money to the Donald Trump inauguration or reelection campaign. A lot those companies have been exempted from the Chinese tariffs and now we do know that big tech was exempted but this person who claims he knows and he listed some names he didn’t mention like the big paint companies but claims that many companies all of those said one thing in common they gave money to the Trump organization the Trump re-election committee or the inauguration.

You know if I were to hear this five or six years ago I wouldn’t have believed it because I saw Donald Trump’s wealth actually decline in the first administration he was in and he was law-feared broke and so I did say at this inauguration when he was at the White House signing all of these executive orders and I’m against executive orders I was against it when Obama did it I was against it when Ronald Reagan did them and I’m against it when Donald Trump does them. Why? Because executive orders is bypassing Congress the spirit of executive orders is to take a congressional law and interpret it in a way that makes it make sense but nobody uses executive orders for that. They are used to propagate their propaganda of what they want done and sometimes to line their pockets.

17:02 I said to Tammy my wife when I was watching all of the billionaires and I think I said it on this program several times surrounding that oval office and that resolute desk which I have a copy of by the way if I ever do videos you’ll see that desk that’s where I’ll do it from but I said you notice he’s surrounding himself not just with Elon Musk but he’s got Bezos there…and he’s got all of these Tim Cook from Apple there he has all of these people and they all gave a million dollars each for the for the inauguration parties and I said that’s kind of stinks to high heaven that doesn’t sound like uh somebody standing up for the middle class for the working guy for the little company like our company is.

Monday I’ll back up here long before Donald Trump was he was elected but he was not taking office yet it was back in December China has a major a major shutdown at the end of the most time it coincides around Christmas though it doesn’t it’s called Chinese New Year and they take a month to five weeks off everybody who works in China they’re living in a place where they go to work that’s not their home city because China has so structured their country that all paint is in one canton or province whatever you want to call it like a state all electronics are in another place all uh some other product like parts and tools for automotive is in another place and so people live and they get into a job that they got to do they got to move to where the manufacturing plant is but their family may be miles away inland or in little huts or little villages and so once a year more than that actually but once a year they take a four to five week shutdown the Chinese New Year and all these people and it’s a mass exodus out of these big cities where they manufacture and they go back to their home country and their families and they spend a month there uh worshiping their dragon god or whatever it is and I’m not going to I don’t know what it is and but I just want to say and so every single company think about this every single company in China shuts down for four to five weeks so if you’re an American company and let’s say you need to buy oxal you need to buy certain resins to make your paint you need to buy many different pigments because most all pigments and pigments are the color of your paint you want to buy one of you watch these new cars and they have these red fluorescent red looks well there’s a product you put in that red paint called as a relic pearl comes 100 from China a lot of inks that go into paints that make the paints look so vivid.

19:21 I had to come up with two hundred and ten thousand dollars to throw away in a tariff which now makes my product that I have to sell on sale Memorial Day we’re gonna have this big sale at a price that’s actually lower for my finished goods to raise the money to pay that two hundred thousand because I don’t have that kind of money all my money is in stock and this is how big you know how little companies work they work off their inventory I mean I might have a several million dollars worth of inventory but inventory unless you sell it and this the sales are very bad our sales are off like 54 percent from last year since Trump took office actually our sales under Joe Biden were 54 percent better than they are under this Republican administration but I had I have to come up with the I think the boat comes in at May 17th I have to come up with two hundred and ten thousand dollars I took every bit of my own personal savings to write those checks to have them ready every bit of my purse I’m 70 years old in two more weeks I’m 70 years old and my life savings went to pay for a tariff which is nonsense for materials you can’t buy in America at all just to watch this weekend probably tomorrow they’re going to drop the tariffs to 50 but I won’t get the 50 and I guarantee you I absolutely guarantee you that big paint companies are not paying that tariff they were smart enough to know a bribe when they see one and you don’t believe there’s a bribe.

Let me read you some of the things that you’re going to see links to turns out that Eric Trump is currently working on a Trump branded project in Oman Saudi Arabia Indonesia India Vietnam and the United Arab Emirates his keynote speech to the bitcoin conference on Tuesday will be more than any other recent move encapsulating a complicated ethical environment the family is embracing themselves around did you hear that he is making deals with all of these countries which by the way don’t seem to be the countries that are be given high tariffs on top of this he listen to this here he made a two billion dollar business deal with the United Arab Emirates two billion they gave him two billion Eric Trump two billion for his phony trump coin currency two billion dollars and guess what we ain’t seeing Trump building stuff in America we’re not seeing Trump building buildings here and golf courses here anymore we’re building them in Vietnam we’re building them in the United Arab Emirates we’re building them in Saudi Arabia wasn’t Saudi Arabia the people that attacked us on 9-11 does that bother anybody we’re building them in India isn’t India one of those people that Trump is going to exempt eventually he said how great India was the only thing you didn’t notice here by the way was China and maybe because China didn’t belly up to the bar and give Trump money maybe that is the real reason for all of these tariffs with China.

21:24 My prediction we’ll see if this is going to be a quick prediction if I’m right or wrong this weekend there is going to be a deal that’s going to be better than the deal right now and I don’t mean right now last year under Biden with China it’s going to have a much lower tariff than I ever paid during the Biden years and I will not be exempted from the 154 percent I had to pay because that’s in the past now so I’m going to be all this money my competition maybe was smart enough to wait and didn’t order in December like I did and they will have a price advantage over me in the marketplace that I’m going to have a hard time making a profit when we have this sale Memorial Day weekend I’m going to be selling product cheaper than the replacement value of that product at 100 more than 154 percent tariff and I will say if I am right and there is a deal with China and it’s drastically lowered in tariffs you will see in three to four months time and I will remind you when this happens that Eric Trump will sign some kind of deal with the Chinese government where 10, 20, 30 billion dollars is going to pour into Trump coin and if that doesn’t bother you if these headlines don’t bother you maybe if you’re a maga person like I was.

I was but I have eyes you know I am able to change direction when I see the truth I listen to the name of this program is the Plain Truth Today the plain truth is what we talk about on this on this broadcast what we do on our magazine or our online magazine called theplaintruth.com we tell you the truth if it hurts us or not we don’t take money we are not up for bribes maybe like the Trump organization is we don’t take bribes you can’t pay for a commercial on this site you can’t we won’t take it and it’s all our money it is you know what pays for this Tamco paint Tamco paint now without any money has got to find a way to pay for this because I don’t ask for money but if we find out there’s a big billion dollar deal between China and the Trump administration then you’re going to know it was it was absolute a corruption at the highest order that makes Hunter Biden look like a Boy Scout saint compared to Eric Trump.

23;34 That’s what I’m saying and it bothers me…it bothers me that I sent money we did a probably $5,000 donation to the Trump reelection and to realize that we were fools! We were fools because there is no way that you can see the stories that we’re putting up today and not ask yourself does this pass any smell test all week long on the on these broadcasts. We have put up YouTube videos where is all the Donald Trump memory you know the flag you can buy the banner you can buy the cups you can buy where are they made to this day they’re made in China not the United States China. A person associated with Donald Trump who is selling Donald Trump outerwear shirts and shorts or whatever with Donald Trump on it 47 45 clothing was indicted for having his people wherever what city he was I forgot taking off the made in China labels. He was sewing in made in the USA labels…total corruption and fraud.

If I did that on a can of paint I would go to jail.

If this doesn’t bother you America you got a problem but it does bother me I am I believe in the Ten Commandments. I believe in the Lord God and I believe in being honest with people tell the people the plain truth that’s it that’s all I’m going to say about that.

We’ll see what happens next week and the week after it’s going to be real tough for me and my companies.

25:56 Tomorrow is the Sabbath day however and we got to keep God first in our life and God is first in my life and my wife’s life and we pray to God for and we’ve been in bad trouble before we almost went out of business under Barack Obama and God saved us from a horrible economy when we were barely able to make a dime we weren’t able we were losing money personally we had no savings.

I was you know 60 years old and had absolutely no savings whatsoever 59 I guess I was and God answers prayers.

Tomorrow is God’s Sabbath day and you’re supposed to follow God’s Sabbath days and we will have a Sabbath show up I’ve already put it there and then always Saturday night we either put up a book you know a short story that people can listen to on old time radio or whatnot or we put up a TV show tomorrow nights it will be a video TV show from the 1980s a Sherlock Holmes Jeremy Britt Ash Sherlock Holmes and the Dancing Men it’s a phenomenal great short story 12 29 minutes long I believe and it’s going to be really fun to watch not just listen to but to watch.

27:32 Well that’s the Friday wrap-up for today and I do appreciate those who’s listening we were running Google ads for a while that were quite expensive, but we were getting many thousands of hits a day to this this site theplaintruthtoday.com and theplaintruth.com. We decided because of bad money situation we decided to end those about a month ago and I’m pleased to say that in the last two weeks maybe what I’m saying is resonating I don’t know I’m never going to be a big show because God’s going to make sure I’m never a big show.

 Jesus was able to convert 120 his own ministry I’m not going to get many more but we’ve been having five or six times the normal audience without having advertising than we usually do so more people are listening so thank God for that I appreciate everybody.

29:01 I’m going to continue as long as I can and hope you have a safe weekend I hope you do follow the Sabbath day and of course Sunday we’ll have a Sunday show and we’ll be back Monday with another week’s worth of program and at 7 11 a.m. noon time and 7 11 p.m. Monday through Friday on theplaintruthtoday.com brought to you by theplaintruth.com until then Bob Barney saying thank you for listening friends, I appreciate you…bye-bye

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