Friday Wrap-Up with Bob: January 23, 2026 (Transcript)

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Hi, Bob Barney with the Friday Wrap-Up. It’s Friday night and it’s time for the Wrap-Up, and
we’re going to go over the brief stories of the week and go over, if we have time, what’s going
to be up on the weekend, and I guess just two big stories of the week. The big story of the week
was our aggression towards Greenland, and the United States tried to act like a dictatorship
and a Russia or a Germany versus the United States of the past, where we liberated everybody,
and the price of gold and silver.

They are the two big stories of the week. American prestige in the world is at an all-time low.
We are declining rapidly as an empire, and we are declining rapidly as a world power, and we
are being instrumental in being the people, and this president being the person who is going to
turn Europe into the beast that it’s going to become, according to your Bible and the Bible that I
read.

Your Bible reads just like mine, same words, maybe a little different translation, same message,
and the message is we are going into captivity, and the two great powers at the end time, when
I don’t know when that is going to be, but the two great powers is the King of the North, which
is a Europe, the Holy Roman Empire revived, and the King of the South, which is the United
States of Islamic countries, all across Africa into the Middle East, and then there is a third power
talked about, and that seems to be a China or a Japan, or Japan-dominated China, not sure what
that’s going to be. I think it’s a Japan-dominated China, which will have 200 million people in
their army, so it’s going to be a pretty big country from the east. However, what we have to ask
ourselves over this Greenland situation, and I just want to get to here right now, right up front,
I would like to see, if I was running a newspaper, or especially a TV news organization, I would
conduct a poll, and I would like to poll and then also interview World War II veterans, and I
know they’re dying every day, we’re losing them every day, we lose, I think I read somewhere,
10 or 12 veterans from World War II every single day.

You know, it’s an 85-year-old war, so they’re all in their 90s or 100s, but I would like to do a poll
and ask U.S. veterans what they think about Donald Trump claiming he would take Greenland,
even if he had to do so with the army, with a military action, and I’m going to tell you right now,
I believe it would be a 98 percent disapproval rate amongst World War II veterans. What
everybody wants to call the greatest generation on earth, well, those people who I absolutely
think Donald Trump can do no wrong, will all of a sudden not like the military of World War II
veterans, because World War II veterans went to foreign lands where they never even heard
about, in many cases. Country boys grow up on a farm, very limited education back then, many
had a third, fourth, fifth grade education, my father only had an eighth grade education, that
was it, and they went to work on a farm, and they went to war, they went around the world to
places they could not even imagine existed, and they fought bloody fights, thousands and
thousands died in single battles and got maimed and wounded.
We can’t imagine 500 airplanes doing a bombing run, and 100 or 200 of them not returning,
and all of those pilots and air crews either shot down and killed or imprisoned in prisoners of
wars, or came back maimed and wounded time and again, time and again, and when the war
was over, the United States went home. We freed people from Nazi threats and Japanese terror,
and we returned home. We didn’t ask for pieces of land, other than enough land to bury our
dead, like in France and all over Western Europe, but we didn’t ask for countries, we didn’t ask
for restitution like England and France forced Germany to do after World War I, we didn’t even
ask the countries to repay the debt from the loans we gave them to fight World War II.
We forgave the debts. As I remember, and I think I’m right, I’m pretty good with my memory
and history, only the Russians, only the Soviet Union paid America back the loans that they
received during World War II. England never did, France never did, all the allies around the
world never did, and we wanted to forgive the loans.

You know, you have Donald Trump saying that our leaders in World War II were stupid to do all
we did for Europe and not require them to give up their assets to us. No, they were not stupid.
Douglas MacArthur was not stupid.

Eisenhower and the likes, George Marshall, were not stupid. We understood that certain
peoples of this world, and I understand it biblically, I’m not sure all of them understood it
biblically, though I do believe some of them like MacArthur did, but certain peoples of this
world, they have to be controlled and not given power and not able to defend themselves, and
that’s the Germans and the Japanese. They are militaristic peoples, and our leaders said we
would rather pay money than pay our young men’s blood, and that was the reason we did what
Donald Trump calls the stupid deals that we made back at the end of World War II.
We did not want Germany to defend themselves. We did not want Europe to defend
themselves. We did not want Japan rearming itself because we saw that we would soon be in
war again, wars to end all wars.

World War I caused World War II, and our leaders, and they were smart leaders, they were not
stupid, did not want World War II to be the cause of World War III, and they stopped World War
III. It worked. What these people did worked, and now we’re reversing it.
We’re going to let Japan arm themselves. I guarantee you they already have the A-bomb, the H
bomb. Germany made all kinds of statements last week over this Denmark thing, and basically
the Chancellor of Germany is basically saying we are done with America.
We’re not caring about America. In fact, the EU just now said, you know the deal we signed with
Trump about the tariffs? Out. We’re not going to accept them.

Europe has basically gone to war with the United States of America. Canada made a deal with
China, which totally destroys Americans’ relationships with Canada, and American businesses
now forced to pay tariffs through China that their competition in Canada does not have to pay.
A paint company, for example, manufacturing in Canada now will get all the resin and materials
they need that are made in China with no tariffs, zero, and they will be able to come to the
United States, and there is no tariffs with this UMC agreement for paint, and they will be able to
come to the United States, and they will have an advantage over my company because I am
paying 100% tariff on resin to this day, and they’re paying none.

So if a gallon of resin costs, let’s say, $50, I’m paying $100, and they’re paying $50. Do you think
they have an advantage? This is what these policies have done, and we are building up a beast
around the world, and that is what’s happening there, and that goes into the second subject of
the day, and that is the gold and silver prices. All that is is a reflection of the world’s situation
that we are in today, and it’s not very good, and when people think war is going to break out, or
they think there’s going to be runaway inflation, or they think that leaders don’t know what
they’re doing, or people are being just bombastic to other nations, and nations can’t get along.
Allies are now fighting against each other. Well, what people run to is gold and silver, and that’s
what we saw this week. We saw gold go up $600 this week alone, and silver went up, what, $30
this week alone.

Do you realize that month to date, which is what, 21 days, 22 days, I guess it is today, in 22
days, silver has made a rate of 35% return on investment. If you bought $100 worth of silver on
January 1st, it went up to $135 by yesterday afternoon. The stock market went down.
If you you would have $98. If you bought $100 worth of gold, you’d have $120. If you bought
$100 worth of bonds, you’d have about $104.

You get the point? Silver and gold is where everybody’s going to run to, because that’s where
you’re making your money, and that’s the big story of the week, is the price of silver and gold.
Is it a bubble? I don’t believe it is a bubble yet. There may be a day that it’s going to be a
bubble, but as long as this administration continues to bully the world and causes the world to
panic in perceptions reality, then we are going to see runaway prices in gold and silver, which is
going to cause countries to stop buying our bonds.

They’re going to buy gold by the ton and silver by the 10 ton, and that’s going to be their
investment, and they’re going to sell American bonds in order to pay for that gold and silver,
and Americans’ interest rate to its creditors are going to have to double or triple or quadruple.
We could see 8 or 9 or 10% interest rates on our bonds to foreign owners, or they won’t touch
them. The other thing we will do if we can’t sell our bonds is we will start printing money again,
and the minute we start printing money, we are going to be in a runaway inflation where you
think it was bad under Joe Biden, it will be 40, 50% inflation if we had to print $30 trillion in extra
money, and that is the only two things.

You either get it from your enemies now that used to be your friends, you go hand in hand and
say, well, you buy our bonds for 2.5% interest rate, even though we hate you and we want to
take over your territory by force, and we don’t like you, we don’t respect you, we think you’re
maggots on the face of the earth, but we need your money, or we’re going to just, and if you
don’t give us the money, we’re just going to print money. We’re going to print $30 trillion, and
we don’t need your money until our dollar is worth 10 cents. Our dollar from 1973 is worth 27
cents today, or that’s the last report I remember seeing.

A dollar in 1973 today is worth 27 cents. A dollar today that was worth 27 cents, if we have to
print $30 trillion in cash, in currency, is going to be down to 10 cents, which means a 1973
dollar would be worth today 1.3 cents after that happens. Think about that.
Are you going to be able to keep up with that? Will you be able to afford to double all of the
prices you pay for everything? Because that’s what 50% inflation would do. Think about it,
because that’s what we’re heading for, and it seems like everybody’s got their head in the sand
except this broadcast that’s trying to give you the plain truth of what’s going on, and nobody
wants to believe it. I always said, you know, it’s really not smart for a deer to be looking at a
pride of lions and saying, I don’t believe they’re going to attack us.
I bet in my life they won’t attack us. And as they get closer and closer and closer, they keep
saying to themselves, well, I’m hungry. I’m going to keep eating this grass because these lions
aren’t going to attack us.

I don’t believe it. Well, you know what? You may not believe it’s going to happen, but it’s going
to happen if you follow the policies that cause it to happen, because we already know what
happens when you try to inflate your way out of debt. We’ve seen it time and time and time
again through history, and history will always repeat itself.
If you put your hands on a hot stove, it will always burn you 100% of the time. There won’t be a
time you put your hand on that stove and it’ll feel cold. It will always burn you.
That is how you learn from history. And if you refuse to learn your history and you keep saying,
well, I don’t think the stove is going to be hot this time. I don’t think it’s going to burn me and
keep doing it and keep getting burned, then you’re pretty stupid.

But this is what the American people have done over the years with their economy. They keep
going into debt personally. They keep going into debt in their businesses and they keep going
to debt with their governments and they keep printing their way out or bankruptcy their way
out.

And, you know, the average American doesn’t have a choice many times. They have to live like
the government because they can’t afford to do things. So what they have to do in order to feed
themselves and their families, they put it on a credit card.
That’s 29, 35% interest rate. And then Donald Trump wants to cap that at 10%. It’s never going
to happen by the way.

But if they did, I don’t think that would actually be bad in the long run because it would take
credit away from 75% of Americans that don’t know how to use it. But at the same time, you get
mileage, you get cash back on your credit card, all of that will go away. So the people who pay
their credit cards off every month like I do, we’re going to get screwed.
We’re going to lose all the perks we get because of the people who can’t pay their bills and pay
29% interest. There’s ramifications for everything you do. And that’s the problem when you are
a president that is just winging it day after day and convincing people you have a great plan
when you don’t.

I’ll be right back. Hi, Bob Barney for The Plain Truth Today. This is the Friday wrap up.
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thank you for listening to these broadcasts, but go to theplaintruth.com every day.
You will not be disappointed. Well, we’re back for the last half hour of the Friday wrap up, and
we’ve covered the top two stories, but now we’re going to get into a few others. Well, we’re
back from that commercial, and one of the stories that we have in The Plain Truth that
everybody’s talking about today is about the new Governor Spanberger of Virginia.

Anybody who thinks that any Democrat, I don’t care what they claim to be, is a moderate or
center of the road politician, they just simply have their head in the sand. Her first day in office,
she showed what everybody knew she was going to be, and that is a liberal, moronic, anti
middle class, anti-American, pro-boys-in-the-girls-locker-room idiot, and I knew that, and
anybody who voted should have known that. I think the only reason she won was, again, this is
the problem that Donald Trump has brought us.

He’s brought us, Democrats are going to start winning offices they do not, really should not
have. It’s that simple, but the problem here is that he has such negatives, even though the ever
Trumpers out there do not want to admit it. We are going to see many, many bad Democrats
take office, even when it gets to next year’s House and Senate races, and it’s going to be very
bad because once the Democrats gain control again, I don’t believe they’re ever going to allow
themselves to ever be pushed out like Trump was able to do in both 2016 and again in 2024.
If Donald Trump tried to be in the middle of the road, he tried to be like a good president, he
was like Trump 1.0, instead of following his rabid base and trying to feed red meat to them, I do
believe that most of these elections that went Democrat would not have gone Democrat, even
though we’re in an off-year election. It’s that simple, and it’s a crying shame that this happened,
but it’s going to continue to happen as long as he wants to be so controversial. He wants to be
like a TV rock star instead of a United States president.

If he would shut his mouth, I think the country definitely would be in a better shape than it is
right now. And to continue with that idea, he couldn’t shut his mouth again when he made
comments about Americans could never depend on NATO support in the United States anytime
we needed it, forgetting that during the Gulf Wars, many other countries in NATO actually per
capita had more deaths fighting our war, and that’s what it was in Iraq and Afghanistan than
we did per capita. Denmark, for example, that just been trashed by Donald Trump, actually lost
almost three times more per capita soldiers to death in the Afghanistan war than we did.
And so did England, for example, almost twice as many casualties per capita than we did. And
the man just don’t shut his mouth, and he just cannot understand that when he talks, it causes
problems, and it causes problems for the American people, especially when the American
people have to pay the fiddler for his comments when it comes to taxes, when it comes to
inflation, when it comes to tariffs, when it comes to all kinds of things, when it comes to stupid
statements that have ramifications. And it’s just something that I think even any Trump
supporter has to admit, if they’re honest to themselves, if he would just shut his mouth, we’d be
a lot better off.
And also continuing on, I’m just trying to wrap up some stories for the week that should be
interesting that most people are probably not paying attention to. But Mondami in New York
City is trying to do everything he possibly can do to take over the title of the new San Francisco.
When he had promised that he would stop the homeless encampments from being disbanded,
he would allow them to stay.
And like 50 or 75 of them have popped up almost overnight in the city. And real quickly, New
York City is starting to look like those pictures we saw of San Francisco. It’s just, again, you have
this Muslim influence going on here.
I do believe it’s a targeted takedown of the American way of life. We’re in a jihad with Muslims
against the West, especially we are Israel of the Bible. And they have a motivation against Jews
of Judah, which we call Israel, and of the United States of America in particular, because Satan
knows who the players are.

You and I, well, I do, but you may not know who the players are, but Satan does. And that is the
reason why they are infiltrating our cities and our Congress. And they’re going to try to even
infiltrate into presidency and higher offices.

And they control a lot of the military. People don’t even realize how much of the military could
actually be Muslim terrorists that have joined and could be sleeper cells right in our military
against us. It’s a scandal that is brewing that is part of the takedown of America that everybody
is just unwilling to accept or the news is unwilling to report, but the plain truth will report it.
And that’s what’s going on here. And it’s bad news coming. And we’re seeing it in Minnesota.
What’s going on in Minnesota? I don’t think ICE should be doing what they’re doing, number
one, but I also think that what you have in Minnesota is an example of a rogue, Democrat, anti
American, hate American government that absolutely despises the people who live there. And I
don’t have a problem with Vance not seeing the mayor of Minneapolis because the guy’s a
communist. The guy is, you know, a mom Donnie wannabe.
And there’s just no reason to waste your time. And I don’t even see a reason why we should be
bothering with Minnesota right now. We should leave them alone, let them fall.
That’s what’s going to happen. Just stop the money that’s going there from the federal
government. Clean up all the money.
Stop all money going to Minnesota. See how fast things change. And before we get into what’s
going to be over the weekend and over the weekend, not only on the plain truth, but in two
thirds of the country, major snowstorm, ice storms will affect 230 million Americans this
weekend going into Sunday and even probably into Monday.
It’s a threat to the power grid, which is already in bad shape as it is. And one of the things
already happened is natural prices absolutely soared. It’s a major, widespread, long-lasting
winter storm, probably one of the biggest in five years that will hammer parts of the South and
Midwest.
And it could be a killer for many, many people. It’s going to be very, very dangerous, and I hope
people are prepared. I see this is called, by the way, Storm Fern, and it’s expected to sweep
across the United States.

Already supermarket shelves across the United States in the affected areas are already almost
empty of food. It also shows you the supply chain problems that we have, any major
catastrophe that ever hits America. We’re in trouble as a nation.
I’ve been saying this on the plain truth for a long time now, and I hope people start thinking
about this, and especially people in this storm. You don’t even have a two-day supply of food in
most grocery stores that can go through a catastrophe. Could you imagine a nuclear holocaust
or a major EMP strike? People would be starving to death.

We reported this. People would be starving to death within a few weeks of such an event. A
social media user I saw went on X Thursday to show rows of empty shelves at Trader Joe’s, and
he even said, Trader Joe’s shelves in D.C. look apocalyptic, and that just shows you using a Bible
torm here.

Our Kroger shopper in Tennessee showed photos again showing just nothing but empty
shelves in a Kroger store that was totally bought out because of the storm that is coming. One
person said, this is my sixth store that I’ve been to today, and I have not been able to find
anything I need. This is a problem, like I said, that’s going to affect Americans for a long time to
come because our supply chain is hurting.

The tariffs have not helped, and businesses are going out of business in America every day,
mom-and-pop stores eventually, especially, I should say. You’ve got to realize that mom-and
pop stores are a backbone of small town America, not big stores, but mom-and-pop stores, and
they’re the ones that are mainly in trouble. Like I said, about 230 million Americans are going to
be bracing for the storm, and some cities are expected to stay below freezing for over 40 hours
with 14 states already having declared states of emergency.

Some of those states with these states of emergency include Texas, and you remember what
happened last time five years ago when a ice storm ravaged Texas, and for months Texas was
on its arse, I should say, and that’s because Texas, contrary to people who think Texas is a
conservative state, is really a rhino state. It’s controlled by Republicans who are really
Democrats. Texas is California light, and that’s why they have all these windmills, because they
want green, and they didn’t want to have dirty power plants, and that’s why their grid goes
down all the time when there’s a cold storm.

They can’t keep electricity on to keep the pipes from freezing, and Texas is on its way to
becoming, you know, another California. Anybody moving to Texas, in my opinion, are going to
find themselves in California within five years, but some of the states affected, of course, are
Texas, Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, where this show
is being made, we’re getting ready, Georgia, and Louisiana, and then it’s going to move up to
the Northeast, and of course they’re more adept to these kind of storms and probably can
handle it better than the South can do, or the Southwest can do, but it’s something I hope
everybody can stay safe, and we’ll see you back here Monday, but let’s get over to the weekend
program, and I’m the plain truth, so you know what’s going on. So tomorrow morning,
remember tomorrow is the Sabbath day, that’s the day the Lord wants you to follow, not
Sunday, just Saturday is the Sabbath day of the Lord, but tomorrow morning, the 7 11 a.m. is
usually always, it is always a religious Sabbath type show, and we’re going to play the New
Living Testament version of Joel, the minor prophet Joel, it’s an audio bible with text, and it’s
dramatized, and it’s the entire book, I think there’s three chapters to the book, it’s pretty short,
but anyway, it’s very good to listen to, because when you listen to these prophets, realize most
of these prophecies are yet to occur, and most of them really concern the United States of
America, we did that with our Ezekiel program earlier this week, and it’s very important that
people understand this, and then our 7 11 p.m. show is going to be a full movie this time, and
it’s, I figured it’s a winter weekend, a lot of people are going to be in home, and maybe their tv
won’t work, but their computer will, and they want to watch something on tv, well it’s a movie,
it’s a, it’s called, it’s a 1944 wartime movie called Western Approaches, this World War II docu
film propaganda movie, and it was actually a propaganda movie, and we got into how in the
1940s, like the movie Casablanca was paid for by the American government, because it was
really a propaganda movie, and I explained in a former broadcast how that was the case, if
Humphrey Bogart had to leave his love of his life to go fight the war, you should too, that was
the real message of the movie, but it focuses on Britain’s survival during the blitz, and
afterwards, and it depended on the people who served in the merchant navy, and the royal
fleet, and England’s fleet, and navy, and air force is what really saved them until the Americans
joined the war, it’s about an hour and 40 minute movie, I believe, and it’s really worth watching,
and I hope everybody does watch it, I do actually have a Sunday show planned, but I’m not
going to announce it right now, because I’m not sure we’re going to run it Sunday or Monday, it
depends if there’s some late breaking event that maybe Sunday would be better to play it then,
but that’s the weekend showing, this is Bob Barney for the Plain Truth today, brought to you by
theplaintruth.com, we hope that everyone has a safe and warm, if you can stay warm, and if the
power goes out, make sure you have plenty of blankets ready, or ways to stay warm, people
don’t know this, but you’ll die quicker in the cold than you ever will in the heat, once your body
starts going into a deprived heat state, and it starts to freeze, you actually go into a euphoria
stage, and you forget, and you don’t even realize that you’re freezing to death, and your body’s
preparing itself for a death, and you go into a coma, and you don’t even know it’s happening,
so be very safe, pray to God if you’re in trouble, God can save you, and try to stay warm, I hope
everybody’s back here Monday for the next edition of theplaintruth.com, by me, I’ll do the
Monday noon show, until then, Bob Barney saying again, have a safe and blessed week, and a
happy Sabbath, until Monday, bye-bye.
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