Bob Barney News and Commentary for November 17, 2025 (Transcript)

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Hi, Bob Barney with The Plain Truth today, brought to you by theplaintruth.com. And this is just a several topic show today. I guess the heading should just be the date. And the first thing I really want to talk about, and this is probably going to encompass most of the show, is just the, I was the first, I believe I’m one of the first really pro-Trumpers to start warning about Trump 2.0 not being the same as the Trump first time around.

I did, and I played just a few weeks ago, I did a show back in February, and I actually was worried even back in December, after he won the election last November, I was even worried as early as November, or I would say maybe the first week or so of December, when he was going on TV saying he had won a landslide and a mandate. And I think, I don’t remember finding it, but I think I did a show even then saying he did not win a mandate. And I know I said this by January, that he did not win a mandate.What he won was an election because no one wanted Kamala Harris. It was that simple. Most Democrats didn’t want to Kamala Harris.

I don’t think Joe Biden could have beat him either because the vote for Donald Trump was a vote against Joe Biden’s administration and Kamala Harris in particular. But unfortunately, like it always happens in politics, the party that wins an election and not that big of a blowout election, as I pointed out at the time, the party that wins a big election oftentimes misinterprets what the actual reason for their winning was. And like I said, Americans had gone through four years of COVID type policies with Biden, just draconian type policies that the Biden administration had with COVID rules and vaccines, and when you could shop, when you couldn’t shop, how you had to wear a mask, everything like that.And the people of America rejected all of this nonsense when they realized they were lied to by their government and by people like Dr. Fauci and the CDC. And people wanted a change. I actually think most any Republican running that had a pulse would have beat Kamala Harris.

And this was not a mandate, but like I said, many times a party, Democrats did the same thing, Republicans did so with George Bush back in 2004, when they win what looks like a pretty good size election, they misinterpret the results thinking that it’s going to be, they were just loved by the public that voted for them. And Donald Trump kept saying it was a mandate, it was the whole Americans loved him, and he never had 50% approval rating. Ever since becoming president, he never broke 50% approval rating.Just to give you an example, Barack Obama, I think had an 84% approval rating in his first six months in office, and he was a miserable president, first communist president we had. And so what happened was I started seeing, especially at the inauguration, when he surrounded himself in the White House Oval Office by a bunch of billionaires. And I said to my wife, I don’t think this is going to be the same as the first administration of Donald Trump.

And boy, was I right. And I didn’t want to be right. But I started in February, I did a show that I think his presidency, if it does not change soon, was going to end in disaster.I’ve re-said this several times in this program. And more and more, you’re seeing people who supported Donald Trump start to have doubts about his leadership qualities this time around. I think most people who voted for Donald Trump, and like myself, saw the first administration, they saw his problems, they saw his big mouth, they saw his ego, they saw all of this stuff, but the government worked.And that’s because he surrounded himself with people who knew what they were doing. Unlike today, where he has surrounded himself with Fox News media stars who just want to be Trump cheerleaders. I mean, his press secretary is nothing but a cheerleader.They ought to give her some pom-poms and let her go out in front of the press and start doing some cheers for the Trump administration and for herself and for Donald Trump. These people are just blind to what the American people are going through. And the American people are going through a lot right now.

And what you got going now is the biggest pro-Trump person, Marjorie Taylor Greene. And I’ve had problems in the past with Marjorie Taylor Greene. If you listen to these shows or some of the things I wrote on The Plain Truth, I think sometimes she’s just a dummy.And she was a conspiracy theory backer in about everything. And I just tell you the truth, I had a lot of problems with Marjorie Taylor Greene. And I think she’s, I hate to use this word because liberals use it all the time, but I think she’s grown up in the job.And I think she takes principles seriously. I don’t think she’s that intelligent of a person. I do not.I don’t think she, I’m not saying common street smarts and stuff like that. I’m talking about when I say intelligence, I’m talking about having the facts at her hand about history, knowing her history, knowing politics, knowing what’s going on, knowing why things are going on. We don’t have too many politicians, really, that can actually answer any historical questions.

I get a laugh. I watch TV sometimes, even with the news anchors, and they do this trivia. The other day, when did the Transcontinental meet? What year was it? They had 1861, 1869, 1874, 1901.And every single expert, every single newscaster, and one being a politician as well, got the answer wrong. The answer, and I said out loud in my office in front of my staff, 1869. But I was the only one right, and all of these experts on TV didn’t even have the right year of the Transcontinental Railroad.We do not have an intelligentsia running our government right now. That being said, Marjorie Taylor Greene has done more to be on what I have been saying than any other person right now. She’s come out against Trump, especially over the Jeffrey Epstein affair.Now, yesterday on CNN, she did say she does not believe that Donald Trump himself is involved because the victims that she’s talked to, and she’s talked to quite a few, all claim that Donald Trump was not involved in sex with underage girls. And she said that even the girl that died, I can’t think of her name right now, Guffrey, she even, with a sworn affidavit, said Donald Trump always treated everybody with respect and was not one of the people that was the monsters that were being done to. And the thing that I think she was hinting to, and this bothered the CNN news person, that she thinks Israel had something to do with it.

And I do believe, and I’m not saying, I’m not going to this anti-Semitic type thing, because Americans are very anti-Semitic right now, and they don’t even understand what’s going on with that. But I do agree that it is possible that Jeffrey Epstein was a spy for Mossad, which is the Israeli version of our CIA, their intelligence system. I do believe that he was an agent for different governments, including our own CIA, and he probably had a lot of close contacts with Arab leaders as well, especially in Saudi Arabia, I would say more than in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and probably Dubai, places where Donald Trump wants to do business personally, as well as with our government.And I think there is a pressure put on Donald Trump by these people, and I think Israel’s Mossad could be one of them, and our CIA as well, to hamper this story. And I think it has more to do with that than what it has to do with Donald Trump. But that being said, this deal between those two are just getting worse and worse and worse.

Donald Trump comes out and says, Marjorie Taylor is a traitor, which really hurt her, and she said that on her interview. She is no traitor. She stands up for the MAGA movement.She stands up for America First. And she said, how is it America First to have a terrorist from Syria, who was on our terrorist watch list up until June of this year, now the president of Syria, a monster, come to the White House on the day of the 250th year anniversary of the Marines. And she said that was an absolute disgrace to the White House, to the Marines, and to the American people, and I agree with it.She also had a problem with the Argentina deal. We’re going to have a government shutdown, but we’re going to get Argentina $20 billion and lower the tariff to zero on beef so we can put American farmers and ranchers out of business. And she had a problem with that.She also had a problem with the idea of him saying we need foreign workers. Now, I agree with him here, and I don’t agree with her. But the point being is she’s standing up now saying he’s not doing what he said he was going to be doing.

And I have been saying that from day one. He’s just simply not doing the things that he said he was going to do, and that comes down to being really a liar. And on that same note about Donald Trump, I saw a cartoon the other day, I thought it was kind of funny.The penny is not going to be minted anymore. This is the last week I even believe they’re minting the penny. It’s coming to an end after 232 years of being minted uninterruptedly.And the cartoon was this. The penny survived George Washington’s Revolutionary War, which it did not. It didn’t start until 1792 when we became a country, but it survived the War of 1812, the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Vietnam, Korea, Watergate, Clinton, Obama, even Joe Biden.But the penny could not survive Donald Trump. And I thought that was kind of funny because Donald Trump is the reason the penny is being done away with. And I said in the Friday wrap-up, I think it’s a tragedy.I think they still should make pennies, even if it’s in a limited mintage. It would just make the value of the penny go up. But what you’re doing when you’re doing away with the penny, now you’re rounding up to the five cent.

You’re admitting, and Donald Trump’s trying to say his administration is bringing lower prices to the people, a bold-faced lie. You’re admitting that no longer are we within pennies, we’re now within nickels. And they’re going to soon be done away with because it costs eight cents to make a nickel.And so when they’re done away with it, probably under Trump, then we’re going to have a 10 cent minimum coin. And what does that mean? It means that we have a 10% inflation rate. That’s what it tells me.When you no longer can use a penny because a penny is worthless, you’re trying to say really that our dollar, a hundred pennies, is worthless too. And that is really what my message in this whole thing was all about. Just the idea that we can’t make pennies anymore.We’re giving up on, that was to me, a symbol that we’re giving up on the idea of inflation and conquering inflation and bringing prices down where I thought Donald Trump would do. And you want to know what? If Donald Trump did what he did in his first term and acted the same way, I think prices would be coming down today. But tariffs has destroyed the average middle-class.

And it’s more so than they even realize right now. It’s going to come really to an ugly head by the middle of next year. But I wanted to get into one last thing before we take a break.I’ll take the break first and then we’ll get back. And I want to talk about why is it always the poor and the middle class that is costing the country money, but not the rich people stealing?

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So what I said before we went and took that little break was SNAP benefits now are coming back up and now people are going to have to reapply in order to get their SNAP benefits. Now I know that the Trump mega ever Trumper types are going to say this is the greatest thing that ever happened.

And I’m not necessarily against it. But why is it that you listen to even like Dr. Oz, I like the guy, but you listen to Dr. Oz, you listen to all these Republicans talking about the American, the Obama healthcare, that it’s unaffordable. We can’t afford doing it.And I’m not disagreeing with that, but I’m also agreeing they don’t have a policy to replace it. And they’re going to, the result of which is going to be millions of Americans, Americans, not foreign illegals coming here illegally, but millions of Americans, probably mainly in two groups, senior citizens and young women led households in their twenties with young kids. And they’re all by themselves because they either got pregnant out of wedlock and they don’t even know who the father is or the father took off.But those are the two groups that’s going to really see the brunt of this Obamacare shutdown, you may as well call it, by the Republican party. And it’s always that we can’t afford to take care of these people. We can’t afford to pay this price, but we can afford to send $20 billion to Argentina.

We can afford to send arms and money to Ukraine. We can afford to send money to any place we want to send it around the world, even though we’re borrowing that money from China and the Saudis and other people buying our debt. But we can’t find any money to fix our rail system, to fix our road system, to fix our infrastructure, or to take care of the hardworking American slob that goes to work every day, pays his taxes or her taxes, and they can barely make it.And today, if you really want to be frank about it, most houses do not live paycheck to paycheck. They don’t make it from paycheck to paycheck. And I told you that story last week about how people even work for me, they get paid good money, but by the middle of the week they’re broke and they come to me for a loan for the next.And it’s like a never ending thing. Sometimes we forgive the loan because we understand how hard it is for people making what most people would consider great money five years ago is barely getting by because of this record inflation by the Biden administration and that nothing that Trump has done to stop it. And it’s a pure evil thing going on when you turn the hardworking, lower and middle class Americans into the problem.

I told you the story that the original Obamacare was Nixoncare, and I was against it. And I was a Ronald Reagan supporter in 1976, and it was not very popular to be in the Republican Party and hold office and be a Reagan supporter because you were considered an outcast. But I remember going to campaign management school in 1977, the year I graduated from college as well, at Wesleyan University, when Fred Biebel, Ronald Reagan’s future campaign manager, but at the time was defending Nixoncare and saying, we can’t afford to give your father the same health care that billionaires or at the time he said millionaires can afford. And that’s exactly how he said it. He said, your father is going to spend more money in the last five years of his life on his health care, or the government’s going to spend it or insurance companies are going to spend it, then or social security was what he was implying, then he ever made in his life, he said, probably in his entire life, he might have made a million to $2 million. But he’s going to spend that in the last five years of his life.

And we as a country can’t allow it or afford it. So what I said was because you as politicians inflated and deflated our dollar and inflated our goods, goods and services, you took a great middle class system of the 1920s, 30s, 40s and 50s. And you turn these people into debt ridden poverty, people because of their health care that they always thought they were going to have.And again, we can find money for whenever a hurricane comes through and destroys the city, or we can find money for this country when a hurricane hits them or we can find money for another country when they have to defend themselves against our enemies, whoever that may be. We can find money for Argentina, we can find money for rich corporations to bail out banks, for example, we could come up with trillions of dollars to bail out banks back in the 2008 crisis. But we cannot find the money, we cannot figure a way that the middle class and lower Americans on the economic scale can afford health care.

And what you’re seeing from the Republican Party, in my opinion, is the end of their chances of winning in 2026 if they continue down the road of deporting every person that they deem to be not legally here, even though they might have been here for 30 years and they’re part of the workforce. You saw in these last elections that the Hispanics that Donald Trump won in 24, the black votes that he won in 24, they lost in 2025. The Republicans have lost the black vote again, and they’ve lost the Hispanic vote again, and they’re going to lose other people, working people that were Democrats that went to Donald Trump based on his America First program.

And they’re going to go back to the Democrats and they’re going to say, and I’ve had people tell me this in the past, I don’t want to ever vote for Republicans because the minute they get in charge, they take away the money from the middle class and they give it to the wealthy. And I don’t believe that’s necessarily true, by the way, and especially it was not true under Ronald Reagan. But I understand why people come that way and they feel that way, because that’s what it appears like.It appears like whenever they benefit from some program that costs a lot of money, somehow that’s got to end when it’s a Republican in charge. But all these other programs that benefit Republican causes, for some reason, we can find money for that. And I said last week on the Friday wrap up, this idea, and we did yesterday on, this may be rebroadcast later on as a best of Bob, but yesterday in our Sunday show, we showed a Jon Stewart making fun of Trump’s presidency during the shutdown.While SNAP payments were not going out and people were not being able to get food, some of which really needed that food, I would have to say of the 46 million. I don’t think they’re all frauds. I don’t think they’re all illegals.And we have this big party at Mar-a-Lago and it was based on the Great Gatsby. And they don’t even understand the symbolism of having a great big party, while other people in America, because of you guys in Washington, DC and the president of the United States, the Republicans and the Democrats shut down the and put poor people and middle-class people in jeopardy for their livelihoods. But you can have this lavish party in Mar-a-Lago and not see a problem with it.

Well, I got news for you. The American public are going to see a problem with it when it comes to the 2025 elections and the Democrats, as awful as they are, they are pretty damn bad, are going to probably win in 2025 in spite of themselves and the Republicans could stop that instantly. I’ll be right back.Please go to theplaintruth.com and to Your Health Today. Click on the Your Health Today link and you will see a story by my wife, by the way, about microplastics and many other health stories that I think will help you understand what you can do for you and your family to live a healthier, longer life and a health that God wants you to have, because God wants you to be healthy. You know, one of the names for God is he’s the God of health and the God of healing.This is Bob Barney for Your Health Today at theplaintruth.com saying thank you. Please go there every day. Well, for the last eight minutes of the show, I just want to get into this whole idea with the Trump corruption thing and I do believe it’s a corrupt administration right now.

I think we’re every bit as corrupt with the Donald Trump administration as Joe Biden and Hunter Biden was and the news this week was the chief executive of the Saudi firm says a Trump branded project is just a matter of time. The Trump’s organization’s major foreign partner is also signaling a new Saudi deal. Now, it seems like never listen to what a politician says and Trump is nothing but a crooked politician right now, in my opinion.That’s what he is. I’m sorry if you don’t like that, but that’s what he is and you had a problem with Hunter Biden and you had a problem with Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton with all of her stock picks. Well, you have a family right now that’s made five billion dollars in six months and none of that money is coming from American investments.They’re investing in Estonia. They’re investing in Vietnam. They’re investing in Dubai and now they’re investing in Saudi Arabia.Makes you wonder why because I think Saudi Arabia has a very big Jeffrey Epstein connection and it may explain why Donald Trump wants to bury the Jeffrey Epstein files even though he has nothing to hide himself. It’s because he’s trying to make deals for his family in nations that I think Jeffrey Epstein and his organization compromised and had compromised and I think Israel is one of those, but another major player in young girls for sex and sexual slavery is Saudi Arabia where for anybody who wants to do any studying will realize that a very pretty blonde 18-year-old girl, 20-year-old girl in Saudi Arabia is worth over a million dollars. She’s worth more than her weight in drugs or gold because that is what these perverts in Saudi Arabia and a lot of these leaders of Saudi Arabia are nothing but a bunch of sexual perverts.

They want white women and they really want blonde white women and there’s a big sex trade going on, sexual slavery. I shouldn’t even call it a sex slave and Saudi Arabia is in my opinion going to be a lot a part of this and maybe because Donald Trump wants to deal with Saudi Arabia and Dubai, another place that does the same thing, but wanting American young girls for sex partners that they really enslave and maybe you never see them again. They disappear off the face of the earth and these people the Trump administration is doing deals with and just maybe in order to do the deals, they come to him and they say we don’t need this Jeffrey Epstein thing to go any further because they’re going to be named.I guarantee you there’s a lot of sheiks involved in this Epstein deal, but going back to this Saudi deal, the negotiations are the latest example of Donald Trump lending governance and family business together, particularly with Persian Gulf countries and that’s the key. He’s really going overboard trying to get Persian Gulf Muslim nations to invest in his family’s businesses and he’s giving them the world and maybe he’s burying the Jeffrey Epstein files for the same purpose. It might not all be just Musaad and Israel as the anti-Semites want to say, it could be a large part the Arab countries having some pull over Donald Trump.

Since returning to office, the president’s family and businesses have announced new ventures abroad involving billions of dollars and made hundreds of millions from cryptocurrency. I’ve heard it was over a billion and so tickets to private dinners hosted by Donald Trump, totally corrupt, totally Hunter Biden corrupt. Hunter Biden could learn from what the Trump people are doing. Mr. Trump is set to host Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s ruler, who by the way killed that Saudi Arabian news guy, beheaded him and chopped him up about five years ago. The prince is overseeing a 63 billion dollar project that is set to transform the historic Saudi town of Darayya into a luxury destination with hotels and retail shops and office space. The Trump business has a history of lending its name to these types of projects for money. Nothing is yet announced, he said, but they’re all working on it and I’m telling you right now we have a thing on the message board and it’s called America has never seen corruption like this. And here are some of the things we are posting. It’s got quite a few stories already this year.

Pam Bondi suffers sudden medical emergency after bombshell report claiming AG told Trump he was in Epstein’s file. She got worried about it because she thought her job was on the line. Trump’s 400 million dollar flying palace at 747 that was gifted to him moves forward after bribe backlash. Pam Bondi accused a possible witness tampering with Giselle Maxwell’s prison transfer. And there’s another real dirty thing going on. Here’s a woman who was involved in sex slavery helping Jeffrey Epstein and I would say was more involved than Jeffrey Epstein because it was her connections and now she’s being treated like a princess. Here’s another one. Congressman stock trades draw more scrutiny after key votes. Congress just does what they put Martha Stewart in jail for. Trump has snapped up over 100 million in bonds since taking office. Just goes in. Here’s another article we put up. First family cashes in on infinite money glitch. Eric Trump becomes one of the crypto’s greatest evangelists. Trump Jr., another story we have up, VC company takes stake in Polymarket, a billion-dollar valuation company.

Trump amasses, here’s the one I was talking about, Trump amasses, Trump family amasses six billion dollars in fortune from their crypto launch. Six billion. We’re not talking about millions. We’re talking about billions. And there’s other stories. Trump family backed fund quietly racks up a billion in assets. These are articles, I’m sorry, I am not going to cover up for anyone who’s being dishonest or is a crook. I didn’t cover up for, I won’t cover up for the Clintons. I won’t cover up for the Obamas or the Bidens. And I’m sure I’m not going to cover up for Donald Trump who has a history of some shady deals. And that’s the plain truth. He has history of shady deals. Talk to the people that have dealt with them. You know, there’s a paint, a house paint store in West Palm Beach that went bankrupt because of Donald Trump not paying the paint bill, which was way over a million dollars for Mar-a-Lago trying to renegotiate the deal after all the paint was bought. This is a tactic, by the way, that he prides himself doing.

Buying something at a certain price he agrees to, then deciding it wasn’t worth the money and he was lied to, and then threatens a lawsuit. And little companies just simply cannot go to court and defend themselves against a guy willing to put every lawyer after them in the book. It’s immoral. It’s not conscionable. And it’s against God’s laws. And I’m telling you right now, as I have hinted in the past, and I’m saying it right out now, I think God made Donald Trump president because of his first term and because of his support for Christians. I also believe that like King Saul, God is saying in heaven right now, I’m sorry I made Donald Trump king because that’s what Donald Trump thinks he is, by the way, a king. Well, going back, just one last thing about the currency thing, the penny situation, which he put an end to. There is a law that does not allow any sitting politician whose alive to have a coin with their image on it. And the person who is being nominated for the treasury for the mint, the US mint, would not answer the question if they would make a Trump coin whilst he’s still president. This is what happens when your arrogance absolutely destroys American history and American way of life. And that is what’s going on.

And I’m sorry, I will tell you when I think Donald Trump’s doing well, and he is doing well on certain things. And I’ll tell you when I think he’s being a corrupt enemy of the people of the United States. This is Bob Barney for the Plain Truth today with a basic, I guess you have to say it’s a Donald Trump show. And we’ll be back here again tomorrow, Monday through Friday, we have shows 11am, noontime and 7, 11pm. You can listen to them live at that time, or you can always listen to them later because they’re still there to listen to. And you can always play them after the fact when they’re up, they don’t ever go away. This is Bob Barney for the Plain Truth saying thank you for listening. Bye bye.