Conor McGregor’s Presidential Bid, Tariffs, Erasing Irish Culture, and Deporting Rosie O’Donnell

Conor McGregor says the Irish people are intentionally being erased by mass migration. He’s considering a run for president of Ireland to stop it. (00:00) How Is Ireland Doing? (06:38) McGregor’s Humble Beginnings as a Plumber’s Assistant (08:53) The Erasure of Irish Culture (11:31) How They’re Trying to Keep McGregor From Running for President (18:59) Ireland’s Economic Crisis (31:17) How Long Until Ireland Is Unfixable? (35:14) The War on Christianity in Ireland Paid partnerships with: Hillsdale College: Take a free online course today at https://TuckerforHillsdale.com Liberty Safe: Promo code “MADEINUSA” for 5% off at https://LibertySafe.com/Tucker Hallow prayer app: Get 3 months free at https://Hallow.com/Tucker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:01Speaker 00

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• 0:25Tucker Carlson?

  Conor Gregor, thanks a lot for having us. Dublin is one of the great cities in the world, for sure.

• 0:31Speaker 02

  The best city in the world.

• 0:33Tucker Carlson?

  You can make a claim to that. Walk around Dublin for a day, and then think of five better cities. Not possible. It's an amazing place, it's an amazing country. How's the country doing?

• 0:43Speaker 02

  Like a lot of countries in the Western sphere, it is being governed by people with ill intentions of its people.

• 0:52Tucker Carlson?

  Yes.

• 0:52Speaker 02

  And they have not got the interests of their people at its heart. However, our country stays strong. Our people are strong-willed, strong-minded, and we are of amazing spirit. And it's about highlighting the issues that are going on. And as we have been doing, it's turning. We will get there. I am not going to sit here in front of you with a doom and gloom about the things that are going wrong. I will highlight, for sure. But I will highlight the solutions and the resolutions and where we are headed, and keep the outlook positive.

• 1:26Tucker Carlson?

  Yes.

• 1:26Speaker 02

  That is what has worked for me my entire life and my entire career, where I was able to rise up and do things that were once considered unattainable.

• 1:34Tucker Carlson?

  Yes.

• 1:34Speaker 02

  You know, it kept a positive outlook. And that's what I will urge my citizens and my countrymen, my fellow countrymen and women, to do. And that's what we are doing. You know, we had a great moment in the Oval Office with President Trump, where we got to speak, and before the press in the White House, where we got to speak our case. It was the first time it had happened in our history, really, where we felt as a people someone spoke up about our issues. We often hear...

• 2:05Speaker 02

  And very hastily hear about overseas issues or foreign affairs. And we hear about it so much that we are left scratching our head. Well, what about our issues?

• 2:17Tucker Carlson?

  Exactly.

• 2:18Speaker 02

  About the issues the people of Ireland face? And that is a rising sentiment that is taking place behind the doors of every household in the country. What about us? And right now, the citizens of Ireland, not only do we not feel like forced rate citizens, we don't even feel toward rate citizens in our own country. So, you know, we continue to highlight the wrongdoings of a minute government elite, and it is minute, you know, and what they are doing. You know, they are using intimidation tactics, they are using bullying tactics, they are using diversion tactics, they are using public funds and public wealth

• 3:00Speaker 02

  to, eh, to, to, to, to enrich private people and private industries to alter the thinking of the public. And we say no more. And we are in the midst of highlighting it and continuing our motion towards the betterment of our country and the saving of our great country. Ireland is God's country, and you will not go against the nation of Ireland. We are peaceful, we are not harmless, and we will continue this journey onward.

• 3:30Tucker Carlson?

  We are peaceful, we are not harmless.

• 3:32Speaker 02

  Fact.

• 3:33Tucker Carlson?

  Amen. You could be describing the United States in everything you just said, that all the conversations about foreign policy in our country, it's about the Middle East. Who cares? Eastern Europe, double who cares? And very little about what's happening to the people of our country. And you feel that here.

• 3:51Speaker 02

  That is, I feel it's even magnified the more here. I feel in this administration currently in the United States, it seems an America first stance. And it's very, it's a very welcome sight for us over here. We, we wish that for us, Ireland first, you know. But I, I feel, and as many of my countrymen and women feel, there is almost like... An incentive to speak your piece on foreign issues. You know, i- i- if you think about a raise or your next job or your next, your next position. That is where we feel our government elite have their eyes on. They have their eyes on the next role for themselves.

• 4:34Speaker 02

  And then in order to get that next role, they must speak their piece on foreign issues and nothing to do with Irish issues. And then, you know, lo and behold, an announcement of a raise or an employment in the European Union eh delegates and then off they go on their merry way after a running riot eh on Ireland. And, you know, zero accountability of, of doing so. And it's no more. I'm not sure where people think they will go in this small island. You will not, you will not destroy Ireland and, and be free to walk away. And that is a fact.

• 5:11Tucker Carlson?

  How do you, I, I want to get to how you know all this and how you've distilled it to such a, to its essence. I mean, that was such an amazing description, not just what's happening here, but throughout the West, the English.

• 5:22Speaker 02

  The high western sphere for sure that's happening.

• 5:24Tucker Carlson?

  Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Great Britain, which has already gone.

• 5:27Speaker 02

  I feel, I feel our government, again, overseas issues, yes, okay. Internal, I'm an Irishman, I love my country dearly. And nothing or no one could ever change that fact. I would give my life for my nation and I have such a love for this soil. And I, how I know about it, I'm just invested in it heavily. You know, I'm an, I'm an employer of many people here in the country. I have many businesses here operating in the country. And daily I hear about the struggles of people and, you know, the issues they are going through. And it ignites a fire in me to stand up. There's something in my belly for my country that I cannot shake.

• 6:09Speaker 02

  And even despite maybe the worries of my mother and people in my life. Eh, why, why, let's go away, let's sail on the yacht, let's fucking do something, excuse the language, let's do something else. I cannot, my country is my country and I'll fight for it. Till the day I go out, and that is it.

• 6:29Tucker Carlson?

  Where did you, what was it like growing up here? Where'd you grow up? What were the circumstances? What was Ireland like as you were growing up?

• 6:35Speaker 02

  Ireland's a beautiful place, beautiful place to grow up. Very, very community driven and family driven. And I grew up in a, in a Dublin suburb off the city centre called Crumlin. At Dublin twelve is the district. It's why I named my whiskey Proper Number Twelve, after my district. It's where my public house is that we will go after in Dublin twelve, the Blackforgian. It's also home to the largest children's hospital in the country. So, most people in Ireland have a relationship with the area. It's a rough and tough area also, and uh.

• 7:04Tucker Carlson?

  Was it growing up rough?

• 7:05Speaker 02

  For sure it was, for sure it was. You know, we, we moved out when I was about seventeen years of age and that kind of got me a little break from it, if you will. But I had, I was seventeen years of age. I had already made my friends. I was like an alien in the new place. So, I always made my way back down. My boxing club was down there. My football club was down there. All my friends were down there. So, I met, although I moved out at seventeen, I never really moved out, you know, so. But um, Ireland's a great place, full of great people and.

• 7:34Tucker Carlson?

  But it wasn't a rich neighbourhood you grew up in?

• 7:36Speaker 02

  No, no, not, no, no, it was not, no, for sure not.

• 7:40Tucker Carlson?

  What, so you're seventeen, what did you, how far did you get in school?

• 7:44Speaker 02

  I went, I went all the way to my leaving cert. I was the only one in my family to do it, so I held that up, I held that.

• 7:51Tucker Carlson?

  At what age did you leave, eighteen?

• 7:52Speaker 02

  Eighteen years of age. I didn't go to college, I went into an apprenticeship. It's either you get a job, you go to college, or you get an apprenticeship. And I got an apprenticeship as a plumber on an industrial site in Kiltirnan County Wicklow, which was actually at the time, one of the, actually it was the largest building site in Europe at the time. And low and behold, misspending, overspending, over budget, all the rest of it. You know, backhand or central, the thing fell apart. The ass fell out of it, we'll say. And that is one of my issues here in, in Ireland and the people of Ireland. The overspending that's going on. This is our public wealth being administered into private hands,

• 8:37Speaker 02

  enriching people to bring in this influx of illegal mass migration that is changing the fabric of my country. It is, Ireland is. Very close to losing its Irishness. And we will not let that happen, you know, and that's it. We must continue to raise, raise our voice and speak our piece. It's almost taboo to speak it. And it has been made that way by our government elite. Like I said, they use bullying, they use intimidation tactics. They use our funds to eh, to pay our legacy media to push an agenda. They do not push facts, they push agendas and.

• 9:18Tucker Carlson?

  Yeah, what is, I mean, I've only been here two days, but um, I'm a little bit confused by it. Cause Ireland is not like the United States in that you have an indigenous population of Celtic people called the Irish. Who've been here since the beginning of known history. And so it's not like you were invaders. You were also never a colonial power, you never invaded anybody else. You didn't have overseas colonies, you just kind of stayed on your island and brewed alcoholic beverages and.

• 9:45Speaker 02

  At the best brewery in the land, not to me, not to me, yeah.

• 9:48Tucker Carlson?

  Innocent was given, I mean, you just, you never bothered anybody. You don't have any national crimes to atone for. So I come here to Dublin, your biggest city, and not one advertisement on any public space has Irish people in it.

• 10:01Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 10:01Tucker Carlson?

  And it's clearly part of the same propaganda campaign.

• 10:05Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 10:05Tucker Carlson?

  Like make white people hate themselves, make white people feel ashamed to be white. White people are criminals. It's like, okay, but why would they, who's doing that to you and why? Like, what is that?

• 10:16Speaker 02

  I feel since the turn of the crash. Our government elite have been accosted into full-time globalist traitors of Ireland. And they take their orders from above. And it is not even them. They are being ordered and the orders are coming down onto the people and the people have no say. We need amendments to the constitution. We need to remove this tight grip that the political elite have over the public. And that is it, and that is our goal here eventually. I operate my businesses and my entire life on fairness. That is it. What is fair, what is correct? Our government elite do the absolute opposite. And it has to change. It has got to change.

• 11:00Speaker 02

  Our culture is being erased, you know.

• 11:03Tucker Carlson?

  And you have a very distinct thousand-year-old or older culture that's based on Irishness, the indigenous population of the island that we're on right now. And they're being replaced at super high speed. So you have said immigration is treason, mass migration is treason. Describe the scale of it to Ireland and its effects.

• 11:24Speaker 02

  Well, in the olden days, my family, the McGregor clan, you know, treason is, you're hung draw and quartered if you commit treason against your nation. So, you know, it's, what is going on here is an abomination, a travesty. And it cannot continue for much longer. As you said, we are an island unto ourself, a small island. And we are being governed by a small people who are in turn being governed by another minute group of people. And it must stop, and that's it. There is so much worry in this government elite circle about myself running for president. And if we are a true democratic nation, which we are not, and I don't believe so, and it's becoming more and more clear and more evident,

• 12:09Speaker 02

  and the more Irish people are being awakened to this fact. But if we are, let the people decide. You know, it is this cozy clique where you have to, you have to almost bend the knee, you know, to even have a shot at this. We should be on the ticket. And a citizen of Ireland should be allowed to be on the ticket above a certain age, of a certain creed, and let the people decide.

• 12:36Tucker Carlson?

  A ticket to run for president.

• 12:37Speaker 02

  Ticket to run for president, that is it. I do not even-

• 12:40Tucker Carlson?

  Well, wait, hold on. Why, this is a democracy supposedly, why can't you run for president?

• 12:43Speaker 02

  Because you have, there's stipulations. You have to get four county councils, which are controlled by the government parties. You have, or you have to get 20 nominations of the Oireachtas, which are all mostly party affiliates.

• 12:55Tucker Carlson?

  So you can't just run for president?

• 12:57Speaker 02

  You can't just run for president.

• 12:58Tucker Carlson?

  So how is it a democracy?

• 12:59Speaker 02

  Yeah, there you go. How is it? It isn't.

• 13:01Tucker Carlson?

  Oh, are you gonna do it anyway?

• 13:04Speaker 02

  I'm gonna push forward and carry on my journey highlighting uh my country's plight, my country's fight, and also my country's delight. You know, I do not want to be doom and gloom here, as I said. Dublin is the greatest city on earth, and Ireland is the greatest country on earth. And I know as an American man, you're probably sitting there in your chair, but we love Ireland dearly, our people.

• 13:29Tucker Carlson?

  No, I'm not actually. I'm just the opposite. I'm thinking, you've got a claim on being

• 13:33Speaker 02

  You've got a claim for sure. And it's worth fighting for, and that's it. That's what I'm here for.

• 13:37Tucker Carlson?

  But so why wouldn't people, I know the media here hates you, but I've never understood why. I mean, you're not calling for invading anybody, or throwing anyone in prison, maybe other than your crop leadership, who sound like they deserve it. Why would they hate you?

• 13:52Speaker 02

  I'm just calling for uh our, our, our national safety. Right now, our security, our national security is at risk, and that is a fact. We are being overrun, and it's a danger to the public. And on top of that, is our overspending of our public wealth. It is preposterous, the, the, the splashing of our money on issues that have not, one, not got to do with us, and two, that actually directly put us in danger. And these are my issues that I wish, we'll say, run on our campaign. You ask about my political aspirations. I am of the belief that the era of the politician must end. It must come to an end. It has

• 14:33Speaker 02

  proven unfruitful, and that is clear as day by the statistics and by what we see around us. It is straight chancery. Our ministers and our appointed ministers have no history in the roles that they are appointed to. Our Minister of Finance has no history in accounting. Our Minister of Health has no history in the health industry. Our Minister of Education was never a schoolteacher, as an example, as an example, as an example. It is straight chancery we are dealing with. The era of the politician must end, Tucker. And I can see with the selections of the Trump administration that we look upon, which has been 24/7 work, work rate from, from my vantage point.

• 15:19Speaker 02

  You know, Trump, a businessman, you know, he he's running it more like a business and with common sense, you know, that that is where I I would see it more so than this politicians where they're all in this clique and it's a party, they they are working on behest of the party and not the people, they are working to curry favor within the party to rise up the ranks and then the heads of the party are working to curry favor on on the people above them again to rise up another rank, it just it serves the country, it does not serve the country and that is it, I'm simply highlighting highlighting it, putting it out to the people, if they wish for me to run, whatever my nation wants, I'm here for, that's it, that's it.

• 16:04Tucker Carlson?

  CNN has described you as the leader, and I'm quoting, of Ireland's far right.

• 16:09Speaker 02

  Who has?

• 16:10Tucker Carlson?

  CNN, which is a news channel in the United States.

• 16:15Speaker 02

  Far left, far right, all of these terminologies mean nothing to me, I'm a family man, I'm an employer of the country, you know, I'm a supporter of many people and I care about my land and the safety of its citizens and the prosperity of its citizens, I want preference, I want peace, preference and prosperity for the citizens of Ireland, for my people and isn't that, isn't that fair for our countrymen and women, it is our country, Ireland is for Ireland, you know, and and that is it, I'm not right, left, you know, I I I feel I'm centered, grounded, that is what I feel, in fact, I ground myself every day, I walk out and I ground myself every day, barefoot in the grass, barefoot is king, I fought in

• 17:00Speaker 02

  the octagons in the cages all around the countries of Ireland and then into the United States of America, barefoot, so I am a grounded man, neither left, right, I am center and grounded.

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• 20:51Tucker Carlson?

  So, in the conversations I've had with people in Dublin, every single person I've talked to has said the same thing, which is Irish people can no longer afford houses, their kids can't afford to get married, and their kids can't afford to have kids, and they can't afford to have kids. You know, the Irish family of 12 children doesn't exist anymore, in part because no one can afford that, and yet your government is subsidizing immigrants to have kids.

• 21:15Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 21:16Tucker Carlson?

  So, and that's true in my country too, in Australia, and New Zealand, and Canada, and the UK. Like, what is that?

• 21:21Speaker 02

  It's suicide, is what it is. It's absolute suicide. And, you know, it has to stop. It has to stop. The rising cost of living is a national emergency.

• 21:35Tucker Carlson?

  Yes.

• 21:35Speaker 02

  And, you know, it's, it's, it has to stop. It has to, we say no. We built a toll bridge here in Ireland. We built toll bridges. They sold to foreign companies. The funds of this goes to foreign companies. It's silly.

• 21:49Tucker Carlson?

  So, the people of Ireland build something, and then your government sells it to foreigners, and then you have to pay for it?

• 21:55Speaker 02

  Exactly. And it's billions per annum, billions in profit per annum. And people... Another, another thing, the traffic corps of the Ongarde Shíakona is one of the most successful divisions in, in the Gardaí, in the Gardaí, in the police force, in our police force, for convictions and, you know, it is the most successful. And it has caused untold stress unto the people of Ireland. I could, I, I wonder the amount of suicides, the amount of lives lost and families destroyed over the stress of, eh, of, of, of, of, of the traffic corps, eh, institution with, you know, you get caught driving without tax or, you know, no N C T or, it's all a money racket, first of all.

• 22:34Tucker Carlson?

  So just for foreigners watching this, you're talking about parking and minor traffic violation.

• 22:38Speaker 02

  Parking and minor traffic violation, you're put through the wringer. And now in this day and age, which is why it's so infuriating, and then, you know, we'll keep calm with it, but it's why people in Ireland are waking up. Because everyone has felt in some way, shape or form, the stress of having to make sure that you're by, you know, you're above board on this, on this money racket is what it is.

• 22:57Tucker Carlson?

  So it's not to keep you safe, it's to steal money from you.

• 23:00Speaker 02

  Not to keep you safe, but on this day and age now, we've got our, our new visitors to the, to the island who get fully exempt from driving without tax, insurance, N C T, and even on Irish reg plates, free as a bird, right through, after our nation-

• 23:16Tucker Carlson?

  The immigrants don't have to.

• 23:17Speaker 02

  Has gone through the most stressful periods of our life. Lives have been lost due to the stress caused of this, of this, eh, of this branch in, in Ongarde Shíakona. And yet now people, now our, our, our, our neighbors from other countries are moving here and with full exemption to drive around our roads with supercharged vehicles that have been imported on the taxpayers' dime. And then also even another crazy, eh, eh, eh, statement is if something happens to your vehicle, if you're a nice friendly visitor or potential new, eh, eh, new member of our country, you get your vehicle repaired at a cost of the state. So it is just ludicrous and the people of Ireland are rising up to it. Not even, we're just being awakened to it and that's it.

• 24:02Speaker 02

  As it, as we awaken, you know, we're noticing some great-

• 24:06Tucker Carlson?

  Wait, is what you said real?

• 24:07Speaker 02

  That's very, very real, very, very real and it's-

• 24:10Tucker Carlson?

  How can they justify you?

• 24:11Speaker 02

  They cannot, there is no justification. You know what there is? Silence. And that is, that doesn't work. You cannot be silent on this. Like I said, you're not gonna get off ruining Ireland or ripping off Ireland. Never in a million years.

• 24:23Tucker Carlson?

  But if they're paying foreigners to have kids while you can't afford to have kids, if they're shaking you down with the armed police, but allowing foreigners a pass. If they're paying to fix foreigners' cars but not yours, they hate you and they're trying to kill you, right?

• 24:40Speaker 02

  It's an erasure. It's an attempted erasure of our, of our, of our people. That is it. I could have went, I could have went all that way in the White House. I had to climb, we had to, you go incrementally up, right? You go in, hey, it's, you talk about a genocide. This is the genocide of our people.

• 24:56Tucker Carlson?

  Obviously.

• 24:57Speaker 02

  But you know, you gotta climb it right. So, we're getting there. And awareness is being made. And we'll make the moves. And there's many great people. In fact, the majority of the Irish people are great people. Majority, majority are great people.

• 25:10Tucker Carlson?

  I agree with you.

• 25:11Speaker 02

  Doing great things for our nation. And we're, and the pressure and the awareness we're, we're, we're putting on our government elite is causing slight changes. You know, they're, they're, they're doing, they're doing certain things to appease. However, how genuine that is, how much of a facade that is, we're skeptical. Our trust is at an all-time low. And, you know, you see we walk the length of breadth, the length and breadth of the Dublin city capital, and it's love and, you know, cheer and support. Not one politician under any party can do the same. And that is a shame. And I actually, I, I don't understand why they, Ireland, we are the greatest supporters. If you do good by Ireland,

• 25:57Speaker 02

  Ireland will do good by you. And none more is, is that evident than in myself. We are the greatest supporters of the, in the world, they say. How are politicians do not wish to receive this love? I do not understand it. Fundraising efforts will begin and there will be a large fund built into this where we're gonna really take back our country. And that's it. Funds are needed. Money is needed.

• 26:20Tucker Carlson?

  Is anybody, so you've made a, I think...

• 26:22Speaker 02

  If I, if I think about these tariffs, what's going on right now, while their money dries up... And they're panicking about their money, our government elite, our money rises up. And that is an exciting thing for the people of Ireland to hear. And that's what this is. My funds are infinite and I'm all in for the country of Ireland. And I've got incredible backing from your country and other countries that wish to support our cause. And this is it, it's a real movement for change.

• 26:45Tucker Carlson?

  So let me ask you, this, so a lot of political movement, or one political movement in particular in Ireland had support from rich Irish Americans for years. The Republicans, the nationalists here had support from donors in the United States. Do you think Irish Americans in the US, a lot of whom are rich, understand what's happening?

• 27:05Speaker 02

  No, no, for sure. And when I seen Miho Martin, our T-shock, our rotating T-shock, grace the Oval Office on March 12th, five days before St. Patrick's Day, five days before myself, I saw softball. I saw a game of softball by Vance, by Vice President Vance and President Trump, and almost a little bit of pandering to him, being safe with him. Because you cannot be seeing, that's 40 million Irish Americans and that vote is very strong for, for, for, for the administration. You know, you need that on strong, you need that on side. So they couldn't be seen, although their feelings are well known, you know, they, they're well against what's going on here in this country, they could not be seen to be tearing

• 27:49Speaker 02

  through an Irish delegate on the St. Patrick's Week. So they played it, they played it correct. And then when I seen this, I said, okay. And I got my call to go and show, show up. I said, I'm gonna highlight this to the Irish American people. This is what's really going on, you know. Some people are saying, hey, I'm from Wexford. I'm from Wexford, my grandmother's from Wexford. I said, Wexford was the sunny southeast is what we used to call Wexford. Well, we do call it a holiday destination. It is now no more. There is no hotels available in Wexford. They're all transferred into IPAS centers, which are International Protection Applicant Services. It's this fuck, it's this racket where they're all getting housed. It is a, it is an office block. It is a hotel.

• 28:33Speaker 02

  It is a, it is even a school. It is even schools now are being transferred into these, into these.

• 28:37Tucker Carlson?

  Filled with immigrants.

• 28:38Speaker 02

  Filled with immigrants, yes.

• 28:40Tucker Carlson?

  So they totally wrecked the town.

• 28:42Speaker 02

  Wexford, Rosslyn Airport is another port where they arrive in. And they're in County Wexford, which used to be the sunny southeast, a beautiful holiday destination, is now without a hotel in the county. They have all been transferred into international protection.

• 28:57Tucker Carlson?

  Why doesn't someone overthrow the government?

• 28:59Speaker 02

  Here?

• 29:00Tucker Carlson?

  Yeah, I mean, that's like an act of war against your country. I mean, I shouldn't say that to you because I don't want to get you in trouble.

• 29:04Speaker 02

  Look, I'm statesman like.

• 29:05Tucker Carlson?

  But in a normal, let me just say.

• 29:07Speaker 02

  I'll say this, we are peaceful, we are not harmless.

• 29:09Tucker Carlson?

  In a normal country, people wouldn't put up with that.

• 29:12Speaker 02

  We move under God and we let God guide us. We're capable of many things. We're capable of many things as a great nation, as a great people. And we move under God.

• 29:22Tucker Carlson?

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• 30:04Tucker Carlson?

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• 30:38Speaker 00

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• 31:02Speaker 05

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• 31:32Tucker Carlson?

  So you believe that Irish Americans, again, who funded a lot of stuff in Ireland over the years, a lot of investment.

• 31:39Speaker 02

  Need to realize where you originated from is on the cusp of being done. And some are already gone. Some are already gone. However, it's not, it's not, I don't, I don't see it as, I see it as correctable still. I see it as fixable. You know, even if you think about like deportation efforts. I asked Speaker Johnson, "Where are you going to go? Like, you're talking about this, it'll be the largest deportation effort in the United States history. Where do you plan on going?" He said, "The prisons." He said, "The prisons for us." He said, and I just thought, "Okay." And then I thought, and then I thought about our prisons. Our prisons are overrun right now. We've got, I think, maybe just thousands of people without a bed even in the prison, let alone we can't house our people. We can't even house, we can't even have a bed for the prisoners.

• 32:24Speaker 02

  So, you know, straight away, you're going in there. You came in, you committed a crime on our soil, you're gone. You know, that's it. No ifs, ands, or buts. Why is the taxpayer paying to keep prisoners from foreign countries in our prisons? And it's, and it's being overrun? So, you know, that, I would be up for that. And then I would be going to these IPAS centers. I would be going to the direct provision centers. How did you enter our country? Illegally, you're gone. You know, have you a criminal history? Gone. Is there a genuine attempt to assimilate into the culture and achieve a job and give to the community and support the community? If so, yes, Cade Milaford. If not, gone. And, you know, we can do that. And then also a turning off of the tap.

• 33:10Speaker 02

  You know, right now, as I said about the car situation, you know, they arrive, they get, you get favor if you're from another nation, but if you're from, if you're not.

• 33:19Tucker Carlson?

  Why? Who thought of this?

• 33:21Speaker 02

  It's it's an order from above. It's a globalist agenda. That's the truth of it. It's a globalist agenda.

• 33:27Tucker Carlson?

  I know it is.

• 33:27Speaker 02

  So i- i- for me, if I get in, I'm gonna be exerting my influence to turn off the tap. If you think about what Trump has done, they're actually stopping to, they're stopping coming in. Because it's not there no more. The gravy train isn't there no more. What is there is actually resistance. You know, and that's that's where it's at. Now, there is a human, there's compassion for me. There's compassion. I employ people from all walks of life. So there is a compassion element. Many people have eh emigrated here, have done great things for our country, and that has to be highlighted also. But it's like at a stage now where the great people who have came here and emigrated and and contributed greatly to our society are now being, feeling the strain of of of of of and are feeling the wrath almost because of this social unrest.

• 34:12Speaker 02

  It has to stop. It has got to stop, you know, and we're at we're at a limit with it. We are really at a limit with it. How the next few years go.

• 34:23Speaker 02

  It's a bit, it's worrisome. It is worrisome. This EU pact, this EU migration pact, that as a president I could get in and I could really rattle it and put it to a stop, push to stop it, which is, which would be the main thing. They're trying to now hurry it through, which if goes, if it goes through,

• 34:41Speaker 02

  it's like thirty thousand, forty thousand, fifty thousand. It's an unlimited number that we'll have to take. It's on the orders of.

• 34:47Tucker Carlson?

  And move all around your country, right, into small towns. This is what they've done in the United States. They move them into small towns around the country. So then your country's gone and you don't even know it.

• 34:55Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 34:56Tucker Carlson?

  Are they doing that here?

• 34:57Speaker 02

  Yeah, there's counties, there's counties all over right now. There's a county in Ireland, a county, it's a Gaelic eh county, it's a Gaelic town. And there's more IPAS, it was a home for the Ukrainians and now it's being altered into an IPAS center. And it's it's it's one of the last places of our language. And that is being, that is feeling an influx of it and there's, you know, the people are out in the streets against it. So it is happening in counties all over Ireland for sure. And with this EU migration pact, if the floodgates are open on that. It's a difficult time.

• 35:29Tucker Carlson?

  It's changing the religious composition of your country, which since Saint Patrick has been a Catholic country, you had Anglican overlords from across the water, but it's been a Catholic country for over a thousand years. So now they're trying to put a refugee center in, what, at a Christian holy site town in Ireland, I was reading this?

• 35:49Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 35:50Tucker Carlson?

  It's hard to think that's not on purpose.

• 35:53Speaker 02

  Yeah. Yeah, it is purposeful for sure.

• 35:57Tucker Carlson?

  Is anyone saying anything about this, like in your media?

• 36:01Speaker 02

  You know, I wonder, I do often wonder.

• 36:05Speaker 02

  And I'm almost certain they must behind doors. You know, it's like if your boss says something and you don't agree, but you're gonna, you might have to agree because your livelihood is on the line, which is essentially what it is. A lot of people's livelihoods are on the line. In fact, the only people that, the only people that agree with it are in public, because I actually, I could not believe that they could believe it behind closed doors, boss or not, livelihood or not. I'm almost certain they cannot, they cannot, you know, believe in this way for our country. But that's it, I'm just, you know.

• 36:46Tucker Carlson?

  So you, your biggest media company, State Media, it's like North Korean State Media, it's called RTE.

• 36:52Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 36:53Tucker Carlson?

  And it literally is an organ of the state, which is amazing. But then you have social media, and you tweeted on social media, Ireland were at war.

• 37:01Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 37:02Tucker Carlson?

  You obviously are. What was the reaction from the government to that tweet?

• 37:07Speaker 02

  uproar. You know, I was the scapegoat. And then an incident happened where an Algerian visitor or citizen had an Irish passport, and Algeria, or so we believe that the information is very, is not fully revealed.

• 37:22Tucker Carlson?

  You can never get a straight answer from these people.

• 37:24Speaker 02

  Never get a straight answer. Actually, children were stabbed outside of an Irish school on Parnell Street. And a teacher was stabbed trying to fight them off and then an Irishman jumped in and then an immigrant from Brazil jumped in and together they wrestled them down and then it was, you know, hide it and my my blame my tweets as the reason it kicked off and that's kind of what we're dealing with.

• 37:46Tucker Carlson?

  Wait, an Algerian stabbed Irish children but it was your fault somehow?

• 37:50Speaker 02

  Pretty much, pretty much was kind of what the rhetoric was, yes. And then, you know, that that was it, yeah, pretty much. I, like I said, I often wonder about if I think about, you know, who, uh, do they believe in this? We have six thousand, uh, members of the Defence Force, six thousand army, and we have about twelve thousand Gardaí. I really wonder how many are are are happy with the direction our country was going. I cannot see, I cannot see many behind closed doors.

• 38:16Tucker Carlson?

  Gardaí or the police?

• 38:17Speaker 02

  Gardaí or the police. I cannot see many closed doors that are happy with this. Even if I look at, uh, what is happening in some of the protests where the Gardaí are essentially the Gardaí are following orders, they're doing their job. It's a tricky one and it's it's a sad one to see. It was very sad and upsetting to see our Gardaí turning on their compatriots and that's what we saw and used excessive force. But it's an order coming down and I feel, I feel sad seeing it. I feel sad seeing it. And, you know, uh, most recently, one of them came out unnamed and said it has stayed with him. They are, they are very, very troubled by it. And it's just, it's just a sad sight to see. You know, Ireland, we should be together. And I, and that's what I said. I wonder how many behind closed doors are really with this cause that we are fighting.

• 39:03Tucker Carlson?

  So if nothing-

• 39:04Speaker 02

  I would assume it's most, the majority.

• 39:06Tucker Carlson?

  I think that's true in the US too. Um, I think prob- our FBI is totally corrupt as I'm sure you've read. I think most FBI agents are probably appalled but too afraid to do anything. How long, if nothing changes, will Ireland remain Ireland, do you think? How much time do you have before it's just not?

• 39:25Speaker 02

  Well, we are a small island. We are a small, small island. And we are now, I don't even want to highlight. I actually do, I'm actually at a stage now where I'm cautious of highlighting the benefits of arriving here. Because it's only gonna attract more. You know, if I look at Trump's situation, he's, it has decreased the amount of people who are attempting to immigrate to the United States of America because of what's going on. This is what I wish for to happen. You know, if you turn off the tap, they go. Or they stop coming. If you start, if you, if you show a basket full of golden eggs, you know, they just arrive for it, you know? And that's kind of what it is, so...

• 40:02Tucker Carlson?

  It's awful here, I just want to say that.

• 40:05Speaker 02

  It's a free for all with our public wealth, with our money. A free for all. And it's being stolen. And it has to stop, it's not... How, how long? I couldn't give you the exact figures, you know? Statistics, it doesn't look right. It could happen, not, not long. Anyway, not long.

• 40:26Tucker Carlson?

  Feels that way. So how did you, just back to my original question, you're a plumber's apprentice on an industrial site in Ireland, cutting cast iron pipes and replacing them, or whatever you're doing, probably something like that. And then you wind up here, thinking about running for president with these very evolved political views. How did that happen?

• 40:50Speaker 02

  Having a love for one's country. That's it, I have a love for my country. I fought to represent my nation's flag on the grandest stage of fighting. That was my aspiration, to represent my nation. To open the doors of the fighting world and the martial arts world to the Irish public. And to support my teammates. We don't, we were all, we had a kindred spirit rising up, chasing our dreams and a very tight-knit, tight-knit crew. And we rose up, and I got in there. I was successful. I opened it up. Now, the martial arts lifestyle is a real way of living for many people in Ireland. And I take great happiness in seeing that. And... I suppose it's just continue off of that.

• 41:34Speaker 02

  You know, it's, it's, it's a different fight now. You know, it's a different fight, but it's still a fight to represent my country to the best of my ability.

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• 42:57Speaker 00

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• 43:51Tucker Carlson?

  So when you started fighting, as you said, you're a plumber's apprentice on an industrial site, and then you announce in public a few years after that, "You haven't heard of me, but I'm gonna be the world champion," and then you were.

• 44:04Speaker 02

  Yeah, five times.

• 44:06Tucker Carlson?

  Five times. Did you know that you were gonna be, or were you trying to put your marker out and then live up to it?

• 44:15Speaker 02

  Well, that's what I will say here about, you know, I do not wish to be doom and gloom. My outlook on life has always been to have a positive outlook, you know, borderline delusional. I could walk into a burning house and see her birds chirping, as an example. And that assisted me in being able to block out certain things that may have impacted me and hammered me and slowed me down from getting to where I was going. So I wish to continue with that and have a positive outlook and say, it's not all doom and gloom. Like I said, there are positive changes happening incrementally, slowly, but surely. Slowly but surely. And as I said, there's a great group of people, and it's the majority of Irish people, that

• 44:59Speaker 02

  are at the helm of it. I'm a voice and a support. And as I said, I'm here to serve my country, serve my country to the best of my ability and protect my country. That is all I wish. I wish for the people to have the power and myself to have a vote amongst the people. That is my aim.

• 45:22Tucker Carlson?

  What did you think of President Trump?

• 45:24Speaker 02

  What do I think of him? I think he's doing very, very well. I think, you know, I was present for his 2016 inauguration, although not officially. I was there on fighting business. I was fighting in Madison Square Garden for my second UFC world title. And MMA and UFC had just became legalized in New York at the time. And I remember Trump had been just voted in and he won the election, and it was uproar on the streets and anger and, you know, fear, I suppose, was going on. And at that time, I was just an observer. You know, politics wasn't really on my mind at that time. Ireland was not really going through what it was going through at that stage in 2016. Although it was rising, it was unbeknownst to me and many in the country.

• 46:08Speaker 02

  Were you not political, really? Not really political now at that stage, you know, I was focused on my craft and it wasn't at the forefront. It all kind of took a toll on post-COVID. It all took a real toll on post-COVID. And you could kind of see what was going on and what had gone on post the crash. You know, and who our government are serving. You could kind of see that come to fruition then throughout the COVID era. And then I just became more invested in and then that was it. But I was there for Trump's inauguration when he was sworn in for the first time. Fear, worry, panic. And then I was there the second time in 2024, most recent, and it was elation and excitement. And I thought it was good to see.

• 46:52Speaker 02

  They asked me what do I think he'll be as a president? And I said, well, when it was 2016 in the media runs I was doing. And I said, let's see, you know, we gave the man a chance. He's not from a political background. He's from a different background. It's interesting. Let us see. And I thought he'd done well, you know, towards the end of the term. You know, there may have been times to, you know, as a leader of a country, you almost need to, you know, cool the flames. You know, maybe there were some things that might have fanned the flames towards the end of his term that I thought. But this time around, I feel he's off to a good start and I wish him well. I wish the country of the United States of America well.

• 47:38Speaker 02

  I consider them my dear siblings. We consider America our sibling. And I think it's going well and we're getting a good, fair bit of energy from it, from Ireland. Even amidst the tariff situation that is going on, you know. Ireland's people have not seen the money got to do with this whatsoever. In fact, we have been robbed of our own money. And yet we are supposed to be this wealthy country. Yet the people of Ireland are struggling to heat their homes. So there are many people who are seeing this tariff situation as a, you know, a gotcha moment for our government elite.

• 48:19Speaker 02

  I'm not so much of that. I wish for our country to be prosperous and our people to be prosperous. And that's what my aim is. That's what my wish is and my hope is.

• 48:31Tucker Carlson?

  So you're not necessarily against the tariffs, it doesn't sound like.

• 48:35Speaker 02

  Well, our government say, what good is tariffs? Tariffs are no good for nobody. Yet they've been tariffing the United States. You know, if that's the case, then why have we been tariffing them? Why have we been hitting them with tariffs? I'm not so much against it, I'm watching it. You know, I'm watching it. I wish for economic success for my nation. And, you know, Ireland deserves it, that's how it's raised. We play our cards correct in certain ways. And, you know, that's it. But, like I said, fair, it has to be fair. Fairness is key here. And that's what I push for.

• 49:13Tucker Carlson?

  Since no Irish politician... Well, you're one of the most, maybe the most famous living Irishman. Okay, so there's that, world famous. And you're saying things that the overwhelming majority of your politicians will not say, that are probably pretty popular with the people. So you're therefore a massive threat to the structure running your country now. What do you think they're gonna do to you if you keep talking this way?

• 49:40Speaker 02

  Attempt to tarnish as they are, you know, attempt to disrupt as they are. Or possibly worse. But I do not fear. I do not fear it. Like I said, I move forward under God. And my nation can see. My nation can see my heart and what I'm for. And that's it. That's like, I move on and carry on.

• 50:02Tucker Carlson?

  You're really not afraid at all?

• 50:03Speaker 02

  Not at all.

• 50:07Tucker Carlson?

  When do you have to make the decision about whether you want to formally enter politics?

• 50:11Speaker 02

  Well, we believe the election will take place November 11th. So it's a 60-day run-up prior to that. So I'm just gonna keep, you know, requesting a democratic process to play out and allow the people to decide. And see where it falls, you know, it'll become more evident if they deny this that we are not a democratic country.

• 50:33Tucker Carlson?

  Right.

• 50:33Speaker 02

  And they'll have to answer to their constituents at some stage, you know, there will be accountability. You know, it's how much are they going to be accountable for, they'll have to decide. And that's it.

• 50:44Tucker Carlson?

  You've described yourself as an employer, you said that a couple of times, what, tell us about the businesses you employ people in.

• 50:50Speaker 02

  I've got many businesses here in the country, I've got many, I've got about three hundred staff all in, I've got public houses. I've got construction efforts going on, building social houses.

• 50:58Tucker Carlson?

  Public houses, meaning, we would call them bars, not public housing.

• 51:00Speaker 02

  Hubs, yeah. No, yeah, no, no, yeah, pub, pub, a public, pub is short for public house.

• 51:05Tucker Carlson?

  Right.

• 51:06Speaker 02

  So I've got public houses, I've got breweries, I've got, I've got companies also, we're, we're, we're brand building. And I have also construction efforts where I'm building many social houses, houses towards. Uh, the housing crisis that's going on, I'm currently about, about three hundred houses built already. And, you know, I'm closing in on, you know, my next venture is about a thousand houses built. So I'm doing my part to help this housing crisis, I've always been doing that. And it is at a heavy cost, I'm not gonna lie, it's a heavy cost.

• 51:37Tucker Carlson?

  What, what do you mean?

• 51:39Speaker 02

  Like, there is no profit in it, you know, it's a, it's a build and it's, it's, it's for the people and that's it.

• 51:44Tucker Carlson?

  There's no profit in building houses?

• 51:46Speaker 02

  No profit in it, you know, for social housing, I'm, I'm getting my money, I get my money back if I'm lucky. You know, maybe a little, a little, a little sweet, a, a, a little drink, we'll say, here in Ireland.

• 51:55Tucker Carlson?

  Yeah.

• 51:55Speaker 02

  So, but for the stress it is causing and the time. It's a, it's a difficult task, but it's, it's worth it, you know, there was a time, there was one I done, I completed a build of eight houses. It was actually my very first one, it was maybe two years ago. Only, I've only, I've only, I'm maybe four, three, four years ago, but it was in a, a part of Dublin called Santry. And there was eight homes and I had got them completed just before Christmas. So there were home, eight homeless families that were brought into their new forever home right before Christmas. And that filled me with so, such energy to continue and go and do it. And I went full steam ahead and like I said, now I'm in the process, I've got three hundred strong now in, in, in, in construction, close to finish.

• 52:37Speaker 02

  And, you know, more than a thousand, uh, being built already. And that's what me, my own self, able to do this, with, with every, every, uh, block in my way. You know, as, as, as one individual citizen of Ireland, if I was to get in and, and to have influence. I really fancy my chances. I mean, the bar is so low. Every statistic, every metric is on the floor. Every metric is on the floor. I'd get in and I'd be able to, we have to decrease our homelessness. You know, build our housing, you know, slow down the role of influx of illegal migration. Control the spending. I fancy it.

• 53:18Speaker 02

  Our country has not been run correct and it is clearly evident to everybody outside of the political paywall. Everyone is aware of it and even those inside of the political paywall are also aware of it. However, they are being bullied, intimidated and threatened with their livelihood unless they go along with it. So, a turn will happen, a shift will happen. I'm doing my part.

• 53:43Speaker 02

  And I'm proud to do so and honoured to do so and I will continue to fight for my country and the future of the children of this nation. And that's, that's it.

• 53:51Tucker Carlson?

  Do you really sincerely, be honest, think that your beer is better than Guinness?

• 53:55Speaker 02

  Um, sir, it's another level. It's the world's creamiest stout. Not only is it better tasting, it is better pricing. It is brewed right here in Dublin and there's an employer of about a hundred people in that brewery. It's a fantastic brewery and the Forge Brewery, you can go and visit it if you have time. But we will go and test it if you wish. I would fancy a blind taste test any day of the week and I guarantee victory. We have, we have done, we've done amazing things with the stout to date and it's still only on the rise. But there have been many taste tests done. So there's a couple of stouts. Guinness is the top at the minute. We are number two on the rise and then there's some other brands. You know, there's some other great Irish brands, Murphy's and Beamish. It's a shared pot. A rising tide raises all ships. You know, the others are bullies. Yeah?

• 54:40Speaker 02

  The others are bullies. I am, I wish to build up all our stouts and all our, you know, because Ireland, we are world champions at making stout, like we are the world champions at making whiskey. It's, it's, put them all to the test on a blind taste test, Forge Irish Stout.

• 54:54Tucker Carlson?

  It's just a little weird. I guess I didn't realize that Guinness was an English company.

• 54:58Speaker 02

  Yeah, this is the Irish one, yes. And the Euro, yeah.

• 55:01Tucker Carlson?

  Centuries of colonial oppression and they're still selling their stout here?

• 55:05Speaker 02

  You know, if you're not... accountable or you've got you know you you're free to do as you will that is what it is with with Guinness even even as they go in I'm a publican also so I own pubs so I deal with Guinness and I serve Guinness I serve my competitor no problem we outsell it ten to one ten points to one we outsell it on site but you know other publicans are dealing with Guinness distributors and they're not they're not friendly they're not supportive you know because they've never had to been and then when I came onto the scene with four jars stout all of a sudden they start coming and shaking the the publicans hand a little bit differently

• 55:39Tucker Carlson?

  they start acting Irish

• 55:40Speaker 02

  they start they were held accountable they had to be they had to be by the book it was creating fairness and then there was a hit job done on me and it kind of took me out of the market here in Ireland for a minute and that's kind of what happened and it was it it it is what it is you know but I have the best stout in Ireland four jars stout for sure

• 55:59Tucker Carlson?

  interesting

• 56:00Speaker 02

  and you're gonna have one you don't drink it you don't drink any of it

• 56:02Tucker Carlson?

  no I had a I had a Guinness no alcohol last night

• 56:05Speaker 02

  we can get you one of them we've got the we got the zero zeros in in on on site for sure we get you one of them

• 56:10Tucker Carlson?

  yeah it was it was okay

• 56:11Speaker 02

  yeah that's nice

• 56:12Tucker Carlson?

  so in sad news I know you said you're a you know looking at the bright side kind of guy but Rosie O'Donnell has moved here if you're president and you tackle the immigration crisis and I do think Pakistan and India take a lot of the blame for it Africa but also Rosie O'Donnell like would you deport her

• 56:32Speaker 02

  I I

• 56:33Tucker Carlson?

  can you promise to deport her

• 56:34Speaker 02

  criminal history has she got a criminal background how did she enter the country did she enter the country illegally has she assimilated with our community does she hold our beliefs is she is she a upstanding member of our community or would she be if she is not well then she's gotta go you ain't gotta go home you gotta get the hell out of here but I don't know Rosie O'Donnell from Adam but you know I believe she's a comedian she's I seen her on our national TV she spoke a bit ill of me I don't know Rosie she seems unhappy she seems going through something at the moment and I'm not the type of person to kick a person when they're down I wish for her I believe she's a comedian is what her craft is I wish for her to find her happiness again and that is it I am you know

• 57:19Speaker 02

  that that that that was

• 57:20Tucker Carlson?

  but you could feel that she was going through something even

• 57:23Speaker 02

  I I could feel it for sure and I wish for her I wish you know happiness and spread love in the world that's it

• 57:29Tucker Carlson?

  well you're a very very decent man I have to say last question do you Do you think that Ireland is famously a spiritual country?

• 57:39Speaker 02

  Mm-hmm.

• 57:39Tucker Carlson?

  You know, your patron saint, Saint Patrick, after whom the day is named, you know, was a Christian leader, and you think of Ireland as like a very religious country. It's not really anymore. Do you think it's becoming more spiritually aware or less?

• 57:50Speaker 02

  Yeah, for sure. Mm-hmm.

• 57:53Tucker Carlson?

  So you feel that?

• 57:54Speaker 02

  Yeah, for sure. It's spiritual warfare going on right here, 100%.

• 57:59Tucker Carlson?

  Yes.

• 57:59Speaker 02

  And we fancy our chances. We fancy our chances in a big way.

• 58:05Tucker Carlson?

  Me too. Conor McGregor, thank you very much.

• 58:07Speaker 02

  Okay, Carlson, thank you very much. That was awesome. Danny, right up.

• 58:12Tucker Carlson?

  Thank you.

• 58:16Tucker Carlson?

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