19 MAY 2025: Trump to Walmart: Eat It // China Plays Rare Earth Games // Gaza War Escalates, Palestinians to Libya // Pope Leo’s Good News About Christians -- And Shop Class
The Wright Report
Bryan Dean Wright
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🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Join Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA Operations Officer, as he breaks down today’s biggest stories shaping America and the world.
Trump to Walmart: “Eat the Tariffs” – President Trump criticizes Walmart for raising prices, arguing the retail giant and China should absorb the tariff costs. Treasury Secretary Bessent tries to calm fears, but stacked tariffs and a weakened U.S. dollar are squeezing importers. Meanwhile, the GOP’s "Big, Beautiful Bill" aims to cut spending and taxes, but conservatives remain divided on whether it goes far enough.
China Tightens Grip on Rare Earth Exports, Delays Trade Talks – Xi Jinping selectively permits rare earth shipments to foreign firms, leaving U.S. companies scrambling. Analysts suspect the delay is strategic, possibly a prelude to fall military action around Taiwan.
Middle East Shift: Hamas Leaders Killed, Gaza May Be Carved Up – Israel reportedly eliminates top Hamas leaders and rolls out a plan to divide Gaza into three security zones. Meanwhile, a leaked proposal reveals a U.S.-backed effort to relocate 1 million Palestinians to Libya, raising alarm over European security and regional stability.
Pope Leo XIV’s First Mass Aligns with Youth Revival of Christianity – As the new pope champions human dignity and labor, more young people in the U.S. and Europe are turning to Christianity—and to the skilled trades. High school shop programs are making a comeback as Gen Z skips college for $70K job offers and deeper purpose.
"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." – John 8:32
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| 0:00.0 | It's May 19th. I'm Brian Dean Wright, former CIA operations officer, and this is The Wright Report. |
| 0:12.2 | A good day to you, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to The Right Report, Your Daily News Podcast. |
| 0:22.5 | I've got four briefs for you this Monday morning that are shaping America and the world. |
| 0:27.9 | First up, President Trump says Walmart can eat it. And by that, he means the price increases from tariffs. |
| 0:34.2 | We'll explore that this morning, plus how it is tied to a really big fight in D.C. going on right |
| 0:39.2 | now about tax increases. That involves your pocketbook, for sure. We'll talk about it. Second, |
| 0:44.9 | President Xi of China continues to play games with President Trump. The communist leader is still |
| 0:49.7 | kinking the supply chain of rare earth minerals. He's given it only to China's preferred buyers, |
| 0:55.3 | and that is not us. Third, we've got updates this morning out of Israel and Gaza to include a plan |
| 1:00.7 | to send one million Palestinians to Libya. Look up for why. That could be a disaster for Europe. |
| 1:07.1 | Fourth, as Pope Leo the 14th delivered his first mass at St. Peter Square in Rome yesterday, |
| 1:12.8 | he got some really good news. |
| 1:14.4 | More young people are turning to Christianity in both the U.S. and in Europe. |
| 1:18.0 | And that, folks, affects some shop classes in America's high schools. |
| 1:22.1 | I'll make that interesting connection in just a bit. |
| 1:25.4 | But first, before we get to our top stories of the morning, we've |
| 1:28.7 | got developing news about Joe Biden. He has advanced prostate cancer of the most aggressive kind. |
| 1:34.4 | We're going to keep tabs on this update as part of the broader news about Mr. Biden. |
| 1:38.6 | That's because last week, audio tapes of his interview with special counsel Robert Hurr were |
| 1:43.6 | released. That, of course, was the |
| 1:45.1 | gentleman, the DOJ official who interviewed Mr. Biden about his criminal holding of all that |
| 1:50.3 | top secret information in the intel that was in his garage and Lord only knows how many other |
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