Watch Trump DESTROY Hochul as She Tries to BLAME Him for THIS...

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]All right, so let's go to the next one.

[00:00:01]While this is going on, and all these conversations are being had, Long Island strike. 300,000 people are being affected. It's one of the top three stories. If you look up the top three stories, this is one of the top three stories. Hochul is blaming Trump on this because of what's going on. I'll just read it to you.

[00:00:17]Trump and Hochul clash over Long Island's rail strike impacting 300,000 uh New Yorkers. And I'll just kind of read it to you. And then Rob, if you can play this uh clip. Failed New York State Governor Hochul Democrat just blamed me for the Long Island Railroad strike. Do you have the clip on that one as well, Rob? Both of them or that was more of a tweet?

[00:00:35]>> I think that was a tweet. I'll look for it. When she knows it. So, a long 3,500 long uh Island Railroad, LIRR, workers were sent on went on strike on Saturday after negotiations over a new wage agreement fell through. The LIRR workers' first strike in over 30 years and a halt in services expected to impact over 300,000 commuters. New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority, MTA, has encountered with a 3% wage increase proposal, citing concerns that further increase could cut into city and state's budget, raise rate uh fair rates for passengers. Here's Hochul. Go ahead, Rob.

[00:01:11]This potential strike was needlessly accelerated by reckless, unprecedented action from the Trump administration. Don't forget that. Yeah, here she goes.

[00:01:20]>> They thwarted the mediation process, which is what the normal course of business would have been, and perhaps brought us to a better place by now.

[00:01:29]But, be it as it may, I must be prepared to respond.

[00:01:34]And when I became governor, this railroad railroad was struggling.

[00:01:38]Ridership post pandemic was down, and there were calls to right-size this service, which means cut service.

[00:01:45]I took a different approach.

[00:01:47]While our revenues were down, I knew we had a great create a better customer experience to get more people to come back on.

[00:01:54]>> Oh, yeah. Cuz you're very good at keeping customers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure. You don't lose customers at all to other states.

[00:02:04]Yeah. Yeah.

[00:02:07]You can pause it right there, Rob. Let's go to Trump's tweet about this cuz I know she's for 3 minutes and I honestly I want the audience to have a good day today. Filled New York State Governor Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, just blamed me for Long uh uh Island uh strike when she knows full well that I have nothing to do with it. Never even heard about it until this morning. She just blurted out that's President Trump's fault. No, Kathy, it's your fault. And now looking over the facts, you should have you should not have allowed this to happen.

[00:02:30]If you can't solve it, let me know and I'll show you how to properly get things done. This would have been easy one for Bruce Blakeman. He should be our next governor in New York State to uh would turn around fast including far less crime and much lower taxes. Kathy, call me. If you can't do it, I will get it done. I know all the players, great people. And you know he does when he's saying this, Tom. Why is it such a big story? It's a big story because you know what it shows, that you have the the Dems can't run a business. And and I hate to say it like that. I hate to be so blunt, but this is exactly what's going on. And now, the funny thing is, the Dems take money from unions and say, "Oh, just go with us. Go with us. Go with us. Blindly go with us. Just throw your support behind us.

[00:03:12]Bad Trump. Bad Trump. Anti-Republican.

[00:03:14]Anti-Republican." Until there's a strike.

[00:03:19]And during the strike, do you know where they were, Pat?

[00:03:23]The Metropolitan Transit Authority in New York City agreed to give them a 9 and 1/2% wage hike. That's what they agreed. You know what they were asking for? They were asking for 10 and 1/2 to 11. Look how close they were.

[00:03:37]But then the union woke up the next day and said, "You know what? We've been looking at the health care prices and we think instead of a 2% increase in health care, we really need that to be a 10% increase in health care."

[00:03:48]And then they're like, "Well, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I thought we had an agreement over here and we're going to do some retroactive raises." Nope, screw you, we want more. So, just when the MTA came forward to give that 9 and 1/2% they moved the finish line and they said the union ran over here. Well, guess what? Kathy Hochul, you take union money in your election. Go talk to the union boss and make them play ball. Work with them. But instead, no, it's Trump's fault. Sorry, that's why this is so big Pat. The hypocrisy of it is so stark and there's 300,000 people a day. And then New York City, you know what New York City said? Uh we're going to have additional bus service today. You know what the additional bus service offered?

[00:04:34]12,500 extra riders. You know what the delta with LIEE LIRR shutdown? 226,000.

[00:04:42]Wow. So, really thank you so much. Hey, we have extra buses for free. They'll be free buses, extra buses. Yeah, for 12,500 people and you got 226,000 people. And by the way, people were interviewed by CBS New York saying, "Listen, I can't work from home. I'm a teacher. There's 2 weeks left in the school year. I simply have to get to the city to my job." Adam.

[00:05:05]I mean, it's the same thing we always hear. When you have no argument, there's two words that you could use in the in the Democratic Party that will always get you votes.

[00:05:13]>> Blame. Blame Trump.

[00:05:16]Yeah, do you ever just What is this?

[00:05:17]Random, I just thought of this. Do you ever watch uh South Park back in the day?

[00:05:21]They had this song where they go, "What should we do?" Blame Canada. Blame Canada.

[00:05:25]And they they blame Canada. And it and it basically took over. It's like, "What's the problem?" I don't know, just blame Canada. The Democratic Party is the blame Canada version of Trump. Perfect.

[00:05:37]>> They all they want to do is blame Trump.

[00:05:39]Tell me what Trump has to do with the Long Island Railroad, with Kathy Hochul and Mamdani and and socialist policies.

[00:05:46]New York, what does he have to do with it? And then Trump who is not shy, goes, "Look at these Democrats." That's what he calls them these days. They're dumb. They're Democrats.

[00:05:54]Quote unquote, "I have nothing to do with it. And in fact, I never even heard about it until this morning. So, it's like, okay, who's lying? Is Trump lying?

[00:06:05]Or is Kathy Hochul?

[00:06:06]I'll let you be the decider right there. It's like and you notice how I just said in the in the in the previous segment. Like when somebody does something right, give them credit.

[00:06:15]What can you name something that they're doing right? It seems every single thing that you hear Pat from California and New York, nothing is positive. It's promises made and none of them are being kept. It's I feel bad for the people that are there. Yes, they voted and they thought that they were they got they got sold on it. But give me some progress.

[00:06:31]If your entire message is, "Hey, all of you guys, we're going to grab the richest people and take all their money and give it to you guys." And then they're leaving, what the hell's the message? What do you What are you standing on? And Tom, this is horrible.

[00:06:43]I have a lot of family that lives in New York. This is affecting a lot of freaking people and I'm just it's just perpetual. It's bad news, bad news, bad news. Give us something positive.

[00:06:52]>> Hey, hey. You're driving me crazy.

[00:06:54]>> are doing good. Yeah, but it's still pretty early. Everybody knows Not the last 2 weeks. Not the last 2 weeks. Hey guy, I'm sorry. Pat, I tried to give you something positive.

[00:07:01]The Knicks are going to the Eastern Conference finals. And by the way, the Pistons lost yesterday to Cavs because of Donovan Mitchell playing lights out, which is good. Which will I know Listen, I know you guys want us to do hours of sports.

[00:07:12]>> [laughter] >> And I I I wanted to deliver for you, but just be patient.

[00:07:17]The survey was so funny. It was hilarious. We want all sports. It's what we want. All right, let me get to the next story.