Topics: News Commentary, News, Politics
**Todd Starnes** (0:10)
Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable American.
**Todd Starnes** (0:28)
And hello everybody, welcome, happy Friday to you, America, wherever you might be across this great nation. Great to have you with us today.
Wow, we've got a lot going on. I know it's a Friday, and normally we like to be a little bit leisurely, a little casual here on the show, but we do have a lot of stuff going on. By the way, today is also Open Line Friday. That gives you the opportunity to call in, and if you want to go off topic, you can go off topic. If you have a question you want to ask, you can do that as well. I want you to write down our telephone number. You will need this if you plan on calling into the program today. 901-260-5926. That is our telephone number. 901-260-5926. Also, we're going to give you the opportunity to win a copy of my brand new book, The Golden Age, How Trump Saved America. And we would love for you to get a copy of that. You'll be able to have an opportunity to win a copy. But we'd love for you to go to your local bookstore, or you can order online and get a copy of The Golden Age, How Trump Saved America. So, wow. Oh, yes. And DJ Dill is going to be spinning the tunes. So I'm excited about that. I have no idea what's about to happen on my own program today.
I'm just assuming the music is going to be of quality.
**DJ Dill** (1:56)
It's always going to be of quality. You can count on that. You may not know what the song is going to be. It'll be a good song.
**Todd Starnes** (2:01)
All right. I'll take your word for it. I'll take your word. Caleb Park is going to be here for our Regular Friday segment, The Good Report with Caleb Park. He's got some great topics of conversation. Also, our good buddy Joe Messina out in California. And Adam Morgan is going to be joining us from South Carolina. The president, by the way, he's going to be speaking, holding a rally for Darlene Graham. What a disaster that is. Every time this woman opens her mouth, and she's a lovely lady, so the criticism is really about her politics and not her as a person, but every time this woman opens her mouth, it's a reminder that she is woefully, woefully unqualified to be a United States senator. So Ralph Norman generating a lot of attention in the polls, and so we're going to turn to Adam Morgan about that, get the lowdown on what exactly is going on in South Carolina right now. Why is it the Democrats are unloading all of this vitriol? So what is going on here? Our telephone number, 901-260-5926, that's 901-260-5926.
All right, and I think we've got, and ladies and gentlemen, my apologies, we had some sort of a text snafu. I know a lot of you are texting me right now, but I believe we are back up on the air, and all is good. So a couple of things we shall start with. Many of you love hamburgers, many of you love beef. The price of beef is going up quite a bit. And no doubt about that, I think over what, $6 for a pound of ground beef these days at the supermarket, which is up considerably from where it was back during the previous administration. We just call it like it is, ladies and gentlemen. We're not making these numbers up, but beef prices are indeed higher. So President Trump today just announced a 90-day waiver on tariffs for foreign beef. And the president is going to allow up to 300,000 pounds of ground beef to be imported into the United States from other countries. And that is a, that's an interesting thing here. The president also announcing that the beef that is imported, so the foreign beef, will be sold at 25% below current market prices. And the point of that is to lower prices at the grocery store. But it seems to me that is undercutting and undermining American cattle ranchers.
And I don't know about you, but I've got a problem eating foreign beef.
If I want a hamburger, I want to make sure that that hamburger is coming from a cow that was from the United States of America. So anyway, the president says that, look, and I think what's happening is, the White House is now understanding that the American people are in a difficult fix. They're very frustrated over the prices of things at the grocery stores and the gas pumps, and that is not going to ease up anytime soon. And so the president is making this move here. And I'm curious to hear from any of you farmers out there, if this is going to concern you, that the president is going to allow foreigners to sell their beef on American soil at 25% below current market prices. Now, the president, this is according to News Nation, the president did not say where the imported beef would come from. Americans have seen beef prices surge to record highs this year, with the nation's cattle herd the smallest it's been in more than 75 years. A pound of 100% ground beef costing shoppers get ready for this, $6.89 in July, just below April's all-time high, from about $5.55. That's what it was when President Trump began his second term in office. Now, the administration is blaming the Biden administration for the high beef prices.
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