Putting America First and Cutting UN Bureaucracy

0:00 Speaker 1 Calling in right now is Michael Waltz. And he is the, well, Ambassador Michael Waltz. He used to be Congressman Michael Waltz. We used to talk to him all the time. And now he’s the Ambassador to the United Nations. And so many things are happening. And, well, Mr. Ambassador, or otherwise known as Michael, what the heck is going on in Cuba?

0:22 What’s going on in France? Bring us up to date.

0:27 Speaker 2 Well, I’ll take it, John. Good to be with you. Probably the title I’m most proud of is Colonel. That was the hardest one in serving in 27 years in the Army. But look, it’s, you know, every day is, I think, is a fight here for America first. It’s a fight for Western values. What you are seeing in

0:51 France and across Europe right now is the crumbling of I think it’s a cultural suicide. It is the result of years and years of open borders, out-of-control debt, rot in education, and progressive policies are really coming home to roost.

1:12 And I hope every American, as they’re thinking about the future of this country, keep that in mind. We’ve seen, just to pivot to what we just had at the UN yesterday, We’ve seen the results of communism and socialism.

1:28 It has never worked, does not work, and will never work. And it’s ruined country after country. As a native Floridian, Cuba is near and dear to my heart. And every year, the Cuban regime uses the UN as a global platform to spread its propaganda, to blame its failures on the United States, to spread lies that there’s some kind of

1:51 blockade of Navy ships around the island that’s preventing... them from doing business. It’s all fake. It’s all false. And under President Trump, we’re not going to put up with it anymore. So yesterday, we had in a group of political prisoners, Cubans who have recently been released, or we negotiated out of their prisons, corruption experts, John. You know,

2:17 they export their doctors all over the world. It was something Castro was very proud of. But the reality is it’s slave labor. These doctors don’t get paid. They’re forced to raise revenue for the regime. It goes right into the regime’s, the Castro family’s pockets. And as we all pointed out, the elites, like you see in all of

2:38 these communist governments, the elites are living high on the hog. No one on the island has electricity anymore except for the Castro family compound, their private jets. their military, and the intelligence sites that are trying to collect on the United States. Everyone else is living in squalor, but the communist elites that call all the shots in their dictatorship

3:01 are living high on the hog. Don’t take that from me. Don’t take it from President Trump. Take it from the Cuban people that we just had here at the United Nations.

3:09 Speaker 1 The last time I was in Havana, the last time I was in Havana, The doctors are making $ 40 a month.

3:21 Speaker 2 It’s even less. We had experts testifying that they were making $ 10 a month. While they get paid millions, if not hundreds of millions, by these various governments, it goes right into the regime, right into their pockets. We also pointed out, one of the think tank experts, that the military-industrial complex has billions and billions in offshore accounts all

3:46 over the world, in Spain and Latin America. And no surprise, like you see with the Iranian regime elites, their kids are living lives of luxury with Louis Vuitton and Hermes purses and bags in places like Panama and Spain while the Cuban people live in squalor. So enough is enough.

4:06 We’re going to call it out at every turn. The UN isn’t going to be their propaganda playground while the The so-called Cuban diplomats here, we have to allow them here into the U.N. by treaty, tried to harass and film and scream at and threaten, it’s all online, these poor political prisoners as they walked out of our forum.

4:34 Speaker 1 Understood. And is solutions coming any closer?

4:41 Speaker 2 Well, we’re, you know, President Trump, he’ll talk to anybody. Members of our team are talking to the regime and saying, look, we have to see. I mean, we’ve got a lot of pressure on them, John, a lot. And they’re asking, what do they need to do? They need to do the basics. They need to stop arresting everyone. I mean,

4:59 some of these political prisoners we had were artists. They had written some songs. that the regime felt like threatened them. One of them earned two Grammys, but yet the songwriters have been in jail the last five years. So basic freedoms of speech allow people to own a business, allow people to actually import and export goods that 80% of

5:21 it isn’t taken by the communist elites that causes every business to fail. I don’t know if your listeners have seen video of what Cuba looks like today. It looks like a communist bomb went off. It’s heartbreaking, and what they try to do with the UN is blame everybody else.

5:41 Speaker 1 Understood. Now, there’s so many other things going on. We talked about Cuba. France, what a mess!

5:50 Speaker 2 Well, right, it’s this confluence. They try to tell the media this kind of soft narrative that well, these are just some upset students. No, this is organized, it’s aggressive, it’s well-funded, and this is a confluence of violent environmental groups, communist groups, and all kinds of others.

6:11 Speaker 1 And a lot of them, I understand from my sources, a lot of them are paid political operatives.

6:20 Speaker 2 Well, that’s right. And I mean, look at some of Fox News and other investigative journalists who have uncovered dozens and dozens of groups that are all coming together and that are incredibly well-funded and sourced. And meanwhile, where’s Macron?

6:36 Macron is traveling overseas. It is, you know, the president has warned them about these wide open borders and migrants who do not have their best interests, much less their culture and heritage. and well-being in mind. But yet, you know, yet here we are. The vice president has warned. We’ve all warned Europe. You know, people don’t realize Europe used

6:58 to have the same GDP collectively as the United States. Now, a decade later, it’s 30 percent less and declining. Their energy policy is horrific. You know, you watch Germany walk away from coal, walk away from nuclear energy, become dependent on Russian gas. Now they can’t have that anymore. And so an industrial manufacturing economy just can’t run on wind

7:22 and solar. Neither can AI data centers or anything else for that matter. So we’re literally watching our self-destruction and their self-destruction. And I would encourage everyone, look at Marco Rubio’s speech at the Munich Security Conference earlier this year.

7:40 It says we can be family, we can have shared heritage, we can have shared history. We’re not getting a divorce, but you have to wake up Europe. And we need allies, yes, but we need capable allies, John. One more data point just for everyone to take on board. You remember when Margaret Thatcher sent the British Navy to go win back

8:02 the Falkland Islands from Argentina, right? When she did that, they had 55 destroyers and cruisers and frigates. Today they have 13 and only two work. So this isn’t just a Trump talking point telling them to spend more on defense.

8:18 As a soldier, as a veteran, we need capable allies. But right now, frankly, it’s just a lot of hot air coming out of France and elsewhere.

8:29 Speaker 1 Understood. And some of these rioting has expanded. to even Portugal, Spain. Spain is being invaded by Morocco. I mean, are these all orchestrated things to make the election look worse on November 3rd? Just your opinion.

8:51 Speaker 2 Well, I think they are certainly orchestrated in the sense of you have leftist, Marxist, progressive parties political parties and an NGO industrial complex and their funders all, you know, that are all singing from the same tune towards anarchy, towards Marxism, towards progressivism. And as far as they’ve gone in Europe, we’re starting, we’re watching them get a toehold

9:23 here in the United States, right? Sitting in this position, John, I’m not going to get too political as a U.N. ambassador, but I see it every day with these globalist, open border, ideological, environmental concerns. And rather than walk away, the president said, get in there and fight and win for America and America’s interests. And that’s exactly what we’re doing. We’re cutting.

9:53 We are dozing. By the way, John, they’re cutting 3,000 headquarters bureaucrats out of the U.N., out of that building. over there on the East River. They’re cutting 3,000. We have more to go. We’ve made them take their first budget cut ever in their history, over a billion dollars that they’ve cut. And a lot of that’s going back

10:11 to the American taxpayer. But at the same time, We can’t have 192 nations making the rules of the road with China, Russia, Europe, Africa without us. So I’m in the camp, as is the president, of reform, and then get in there and fight and win.

10:29 Speaker 1 Michael Waltz, ambassador to the United Nations, thank you for what you’ve done for our country, being a colonel for, I think, 27 years. Thank you for being a congressman, and thank you for your latest position on the United Nations and the efficiencies that you’re growing. And let’s continue to talk, and I hope we talk again real soon.

10:55 Speaker 2 Happy to, John, and congratulations just on the huge, huge success of your show and getting your message out to so many people.

11:03 Speaker 1 Thank you so much. All right. Thank you.