Latest / Sid & Friends In The Morning / Bill White | United States Ambassador to Belgium | 07-07-26
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Every time this gentleman comes on, I introduce him as
- 0:02Speaker 1: my favorite homo sexual. Yesterday I had Wyatt I Miss
- 0:07Speaker 1: on the program, who reminded me that his late great
- 0:10Speaker 1: father don Imus referred to this guy as the rear Admiral.
- 0:14Speaker 1: Either way, he's a brilliant, gorgeous great man, royal friend
- 0:20Speaker 1: and now the ambassador in Belgium. The Belgiums, of course
- 0:24Speaker 1: beat us in soccer last night, so I couldn't wait
- 0:27Speaker 1: to talk to the Great Bill White this morning. And
- 0:30Speaker 1: here he is live from Greece. We'll get to that
- 0:33Speaker 1: in just a moment. The Great Bill White, Bill, Good morning, buddy,
- 0:35Speaker 1: How are you.
- 0:36Speaker 2: Good, said the honorable Sid Rosenberg, the greatest radio talk
- 0:40Speaker 2: show guy out there. Congratulations on all the success. I
- 0:43Speaker 2: love you, I miss you. I'm so proud of you.
- 0:46Speaker 1: Thank you, Bill. I yeah, be inducted into the National
- 0:49Speaker 1: Broadcast excuse me not National New York Forecasting Hall of
- 0:52Speaker 1: Fame this October, and you know I wish you could
- 0:55Speaker 1: be there, you and Brian, I really do. But either way,
- 0:57Speaker 1: you know, you played such an integral part of my
- 1:00Speaker 1: my career, you know, getting back to the days on
- 1:02Speaker 1: the Intrepid with I miss and that whole crew. And
- 1:05Speaker 1: and I just told you mentioned Wyatt. I've kind of
- 1:08Speaker 1: got Deirdre and Wyatt back in my life and they
- 1:11Speaker 1: love you and know you what did just a couple
- 1:13Speaker 1: of weeks ago. So all that seems to come back around,
- 1:16Speaker 1: you know.
- 1:16Speaker 2: Bill, Yes, sir, you know it's funny you said, I
- 1:19Speaker 2: miss called me the rear admiral. My mother called me
- 1:22Speaker 2: right after this and she says, William, do you understand
- 1:26Speaker 2: there what iMOS said.
- 1:27Speaker 3: Doesn't he know that you're.
- 1:28Speaker 2: Not in the military. And I said, well, Mom, yes
- 1:33Speaker 2: he does. And she said, oh, gross, and she hung
- 1:37Speaker 2: the phone up. Anyway, that's that's imus for you. But you, you,
- 1:41Speaker 2: my friend, I will tell you this. You're one of
- 1:43Speaker 2: the most strongest supporters of President Trump. You're fighting for
- 1:47Speaker 2: him everywhere, strongest supporter of Israel like I am. I
- 1:51Speaker 2: follow your lead. There is no room, no daylight in
- 1:54Speaker 2: between our thinking. And yes, it's true that Belgium did win,
- 2:00Speaker 2: but if we were going to be beat, I hate
- 2:02Speaker 2: to say that our team's a great team. It's nice
- 2:05Speaker 2: to be it's nice to give a victory to some
- 2:10Speaker 2: of our best friends, and Belgium is one of our
- 2:13Speaker 2: best friends. You know, we have one hundred and fifty
- 2:15Speaker 2: billion dollar trade relationship with Belgium. It's the headquarters of NATO,
- 2:20Speaker 2: it's the capital of the EU. We're about to sign
- 2:24Speaker 2: almost a trillion dollars trade deal with the EU. It's passing.
- 2:29Speaker 2: So this is all good news coming out of our relationship,
- 2:32Speaker 2: despite what the media is trying to say. Sid President
- 2:36Speaker 2: Trump with the screws to everybody, and it's working. So,
- 2:40Speaker 2: you know, Europe sometimes doesn't like the exact way that
- 2:44Speaker 2: President Trump might say something. I love it how he
- 2:47Speaker 2: says everything he says because he's getting it done. If
- 2:50Speaker 2: he asked them nicely to spend money on NATO their
- 2:53Speaker 2: own defense, they never do it. So he made them
- 2:56Speaker 2: do it. And now there's a trillion dollars one trillion
- 2:59Speaker 2: with that Mark Ruta and the EU countries are able
- 3:04Speaker 2: to spend on their defense because of Donald Trump. So
- 3:07Speaker 2: things are great in Europe and we're about to have
- 3:09Speaker 2: the NATO summit and the Boss is flying over today.
- 3:13Speaker 1: Yeah, I know he's there already, but I want to
- 3:15Speaker 1: go back to Belgium for one second. Then I do
- 3:17Speaker 1: want to touch on the NATO summit because you mentioned
- 3:19Speaker 1: Israel and they are watching this very very closely, and
- 3:22Speaker 1: I'll tell you why, Bill, But you know, it got
- 3:24Speaker 1: a little testy when President Trump went out of his
- 3:28Speaker 1: way to make sure that our leading goalscorer played last night.
- 3:31Speaker 1: But Logain, it didn't matter. They beat us easily Belgium
- 3:34Speaker 1: five to two in the friendly game a month ago,
- 3:36Speaker 1: beat US easily again last night, four to one. So
- 3:39Speaker 1: they prove in Belgium there are a much better soccer
- 3:42Speaker 1: team than we are. That's the bottom line. But I
- 3:44Speaker 1: know that the Belgian players, for example, they were giving
- 3:48Speaker 1: Donald Trump the business when they won last night. So
- 3:51Speaker 1: I know you in Greece this morning, but I have
- 3:53Speaker 1: to imagine that they partied in the streets of Belgium
- 3:57Speaker 1: last night because they really wanted to beat the Americans.
- 3:59Speaker 2: Ye, they did, and something very nice. I spoke to
- 4:03Speaker 2: my head of security for diplomatic security. I was just
- 4:06Speaker 2: a little, you know, happy and concerned because as ambassador,
- 4:09Speaker 2: I'm responsible for the eight hundred US citizens and the
- 4:14Speaker 2: nineteen hundred US service members that live in Belgium. They
- 4:17Speaker 2: are under my care and concern. There were people at
- 4:20Speaker 2: the US embassy, cheering, celebrating outside our embassy, so look
- 4:26Speaker 2: the Belgian people are very nice. They are big football fans.
- 4:30Speaker 2: They won fair and square. I think they're much happier
- 4:33Speaker 2: that this guy who got the red card, Bullagun was playing,
- 4:37Speaker 2: because if they did win and he wasn't playing, I
- 4:40Speaker 2: think people would say, well, they didn't really play the
- 4:43Speaker 2: US team, they played part of it. So I think
- 4:46Speaker 2: it all works out in the end. I don't like
- 4:48Speaker 2: what people are saying criticizing President Trump. He didn't interfere.
- 4:51Speaker 2: He just asked for a review, and as president of
- 4:55Speaker 2: the United States of America, he has a right to
- 4:57Speaker 2: ask for that. He didn't tell them to put a
- 5:00Speaker 2: back in. He said please review it, and Johnny Ifentino
- 5:03Speaker 2: put out a statement that the President called him. Yes,
- 5:06Speaker 2: but they were already reviewing this and you saw the results.
- 5:10Speaker 2: So I think all in our barons square Belgium. One congratulations,
- 5:15Speaker 2: let's go on to the next one. By the way,
- 5:17Speaker 2: the King of Belgium called me yesterday, his Majesty King Philippe,
- 5:22Speaker 2: and he is now traveling to the United States to
- 5:27Speaker 2: see the next game in the United States of his team,
- 5:30Speaker 2: which I think is a great honor for the team
- 5:33Speaker 2: and an honor for the United States to have his majesty,
- 5:35Speaker 2: the King come to America. City's very grateful that the
- 5:40Speaker 2: United States saved his kingdom twice, first from the Germans
- 5:45Speaker 2: in one and then from the Nazis in World War Two.
- 5:48Speaker 2: He's a great guy and I'd love you. I'd love
- 5:51Speaker 2: you to meet him. Actually, if he's in New York,
- 5:53Speaker 2: we should arrange an interview.
- 5:55Speaker 1: Oh, I would love to do that. This is the
- 5:57Speaker 1: great ambassador in Belgium. Bill whiteyed up to meet the
- 6:01Speaker 1: King of Belgium. I really would. And they're going to
- 6:03Speaker 1: take on Spain the end of the week. And I'm
- 6:05Speaker 1: rooting for Belgium now because I saw a picture yesterday,
- 6:09Speaker 1: Bill White of a big rally in Spain where they
- 6:13Speaker 1: had a huge sign. When I say a huge sign, Bill,
- 6:16Speaker 1: I mean the sign was as big as Belgium, which
- 6:18Speaker 1: said basically death to Israel. So we know, we yeah,
- 6:22Speaker 1: we've got to listen. I know you're high on Europe
- 6:25Speaker 1: and President Trump, you know, one hundred percent, right, is
- 6:28Speaker 1: improving what's going on there, and they're becoming more accountable
- 6:32Speaker 1: and paying more money. But the anti Semitism factor in
- 6:36Speaker 1: Europe is a disaster, and Spain may be right there
- 6:40Speaker 1: at the very top of the list.
- 6:42Speaker 2: Yeah, let's let's talk about that, because I didn't want
- 6:44Speaker 2: to let that go over. You're one hundred percent right.
- 6:47Speaker 2: You know we don't have a perfect relationship, right, but
- 6:50Speaker 2: we're all humans and we need to improve. But this
- 6:53Speaker 2: is a very big problem said in Europe, and I
- 6:57Speaker 2: know you're focused on this. I want you to know
- 6:59Speaker 2: I'm fighting so hard here. We have a moylum, this
- 7:03Speaker 2: is the rabbi that performs the bris melal, which is
- 7:08Speaker 2: the circumcision and the Jewish tradition, and there is a
- 7:13Speaker 2: prosecutor who's a zealous prosecutor. He's the son of a bitch.
- 7:17Speaker 2: I'm after him.
- 7:18Speaker 3: They don't like when I interfere.
- 7:20Speaker 2: With these things, but I'm not going to stop until
- 7:23Speaker 2: he drops the prosecution or he releases these charges. But
- 7:28Speaker 2: this man has performed safely thousands of circumcisions and they're
- 7:33Speaker 2: prosecuting him for mutilation of a child. So this is
- 7:37Speaker 2: an anti Semitic prosecution. The Belgians don't like to admit this,
- 7:43Speaker 2: but that's why I'm here, and that's why I'm fighting
- 7:46Speaker 2: for this man who happens to have been born in Brooklyn,
- 7:50Speaker 2: so he's a US citizen. And I will not stop sid,
- 7:54Speaker 2: I promise you until we get him cleared of these charges,
- 7:58Speaker 2: because it is anti Semitic to prosecute a Moyle for
- 8:02Speaker 2: doing his job that they've been doing for three thousand years,
- 8:04Speaker 2: for Christ's sake.
- 8:05Speaker 1: Oh God, bless you, Bill, seriously, God bless I love
- 8:08Speaker 1: you so much. You're such a terrific guy. You're really
- 8:11Speaker 1: and that brings me to Israel than BB net in Yahoo.
- 8:14Speaker 1: You know again, I know you with Kimberly Gilboyle this
- 8:17Speaker 1: morning in Greece. I guess you're going to make that
- 8:19Speaker 1: two hour flight over to Turkey. That's my assumption here
- 8:23Speaker 1: to see President Trump at the NATO summit. And bb
- 8:26Speaker 1: has made it very very clear to President Trump do
- 8:30Speaker 1: not give f fifty threes to Ertawan. So I know
- 8:34Speaker 1: the President likes to keep his enemies close. I get it,
- 8:38Speaker 1: even Mam Donnie. It bothers the hell out of me,
- 8:40Speaker 1: it really does. I've complained to Trump about that because
- 8:43Speaker 1: I hate Mam Donnie's guts. But whether it's putin or
- 8:46Speaker 1: or in this case Ertowan, who's not a good guy,
- 8:48Speaker 1: in fact, he's a bad guy. Ask the Greeks, ask
- 8:51Speaker 1: the israelis BB does not want Trump giving Erdawan f
- 8:55Speaker 1: fifty threes any opinion on that story, which is now
- 8:58Speaker 1: a big story here in Maria.
- 9:00Speaker 2: I do trust like with my heart and souls. You know,
- 9:05Speaker 2: I've known President Trump for thirty five years. You have
- 9:07Speaker 2: known him for the same. It goes way back. I
- 9:10Speaker 2: was twenty two years old. He gave me a million
- 9:13Speaker 2: dollars of his own money to save the Veterans Day Parade.
- 9:15Speaker 2: I've been working with him hand in glove since then.
- 9:19Speaker 2: I'm fifty nine. He's He's an amazing man. He loves Israel.
- 9:24Speaker 2: He wants to have peace one hundred percent. No one
- 9:28Speaker 2: to bring peace to these places except Donald Trump, because
- 9:33Speaker 2: it just has not happened for all these years, the
- 9:35Speaker 2: un all the efforts past presidents. He's the only one.
- 9:39Speaker 2: So I do trust him sid emphatically and with my
- 9:43Speaker 2: heart and my soul, and he will do the right thing.
- 9:45Speaker 2: I think we all have to do that, and we
- 9:47Speaker 2: have to have some patience to let him work these
- 9:50Speaker 2: important angles so that it will have a lasting piece.
- 9:53Speaker 1: What else do you think is is on the docket?
- 9:57Speaker 1: Bill White for Trump at the NATO summit, obviously we
- 10:01Speaker 1: saw a Stormer walk out a couple of weeks ago.
- 10:04Speaker 1: I hope and pray that somewhere in the near future,
- 10:06Speaker 1: my friend Nigel Faraj takes charge there in the UK.
- 10:10Speaker 1: But what do you expect will be at the very
- 10:12Speaker 1: top of the list that Trump wants to get done
- 10:15Speaker 1: as you join him in Turkey later on today.
- 10:18Speaker 3: Well, I think the main message, which is going.
- 10:21Speaker 2: To be resounding, I could.
- 10:22Speaker 3: Just imagine said and by the way, I agree.
- 10:24Speaker 2: With you about mom Dami, the city that I love.
- 10:26Speaker 2: He's just destroying it piece by piece. So I hope
- 10:30Speaker 2: people will get straight the next time, coming from the
- 10:34Speaker 2: gay guy saying that they need to get straight and
- 10:36Speaker 2: they need to go vote in the primary. They can't
- 10:39Speaker 2: let the Healthcare Union elect some clown like this guy
- 10:44Speaker 2: in the primary, and they have to vote for someone
- 10:46Speaker 2: who's a business person who'll save New York because it's
- 10:49Speaker 2: going down in the toileta.
- 10:51Speaker 1: Well, let me stop you right there before you get
- 10:53Speaker 1: to what you think is at the very top of
- 10:55Speaker 1: the list of what Trump wants to accomplish at the
- 10:57Speaker 1: NITO summit today. You know, I've had people, I've had
- 11:01Speaker 1: real discussions, real discussions about running. Now. Look, I'm about
- 11:05Speaker 1: to hopefully do a new radio deal, and I've got
- 11:07Speaker 1: other deals down the road. So I'm at the point
- 11:10Speaker 1: in my career I'm going to the Hall of FAMEUM
- 11:12Speaker 1: in October. I can finally start making a lot of money,
- 11:14Speaker 1: you know. But there's a lot of people, from Bruce
- 11:16Speaker 1: Blateman who's running for governor, to Lauren Trump, the President's
- 11:19Speaker 1: daughter in law, who really want to see me one
- 11:22Speaker 1: familiar In twenty twenty nine, I even sent the text
- 11:25Speaker 1: to President Trump asking him his opinion, what are your
- 11:28Speaker 1: thoughts on that?
- 11:29Speaker 2: Well, first of all, as you know, because I don't
- 11:32Speaker 2: want to be in violation of the Hatch Act, just
- 11:34Speaker 2: in case the FBI and the State Department and the
- 11:38Speaker 2: CIA are listening who they are, which they might be.
- 11:43Speaker 2: But when I am out said, I would love to
- 11:45Speaker 2: talk to you about that. That's twenty twenty eight. You're
- 11:48Speaker 2: a great friend, you're a great patriot. You love the
- 11:50Speaker 2: city so much that you live, work and have your
- 11:53Speaker 2: family in and so we need candidates who love New
- 11:58Speaker 2: York City and who are not communists and socialists. That's
- 12:02Speaker 2: all I'll say, because I think that's a good way
- 12:06Speaker 2: to end that. But I yeah, but you know, I
- 12:10Speaker 2: love you said, so.
- 12:12Speaker 1: Well talk Well, we'll talk in private. But getting back
- 12:15Speaker 1: to NATO, what is at the very top of Trump's list?
- 12:17Speaker 2: Do you think so so importantly? And this is directly
- 12:20Speaker 2: from the President himself. I don't like to interpret what
- 12:23Speaker 2: he says. I like to repeat exactly what he says,
- 12:26Speaker 2: because he's very clear, he's consistent. NATO has finally stood up.
- 12:31Speaker 2: I'll give you an example. Belgium was at one point
- 12:35Speaker 2: one percent of GDP on spending for NATO, as a
- 12:39Speaker 2: percentage has to be at five percent. They did agree
- 12:42Speaker 2: they have more than double their expenditures in the last
- 12:45Speaker 2: twelve months, which is a miracle. This country of Belgium
- 12:50Speaker 2: did not plan to double their defense budget, and because
- 12:54Speaker 2: of President Trump, they did and they're now more ready
- 12:58Speaker 2: for a conflict God forbid if Russia were to go
- 13:01Speaker 2: that way or other adversaries. Belgium is on its way
- 13:05Speaker 2: to the five percent. And that's a miracle. So if
- 13:08Speaker 2: he doesn't keep the pressure on, you know, when we're
- 13:11Speaker 2: doing Operation Epic Fury, you've heard him say, where was
- 13:15Speaker 2: NATO when I needed to land a plane instead of refueling,
- 13:18Speaker 2: which is dangerous in the air. It would have been
- 13:20Speaker 2: nice to land at one of these bases. You know
- 13:22Speaker 2: that the United States basically paid for right and they
- 13:26Speaker 2: didn't do it. So I think he's going to be
- 13:29Speaker 2: tough as he should be. I think he's going to
- 13:31Speaker 2: deliver a strong message. But he'll do it, you know,
- 13:35Speaker 2: in the Donald Trump respectful way to get them to act,
- 13:38Speaker 2: because if he asked them nicely, they would never do
- 13:41Speaker 2: a damn thing. Because he has to be firm. That's
- 13:45Speaker 2: the way he's getting things done. I'm so proud of him.
- 13:47Speaker 2: I love the man. We've never had a better president
- 13:50Speaker 2: in the history of our country, and I can't wait
- 13:53Speaker 2: to see what happens tomorrow NATO. I think he's going
- 13:56Speaker 2: to make NATO stronger, better, and more prosperous.
- 14:00Speaker 1: Final sixty seconds of Great Bill White and I mentioned
- 14:02Speaker 1: Spain earlier. They were one of those countries that did
- 14:05Speaker 1: not allow us to land. Italy as well. That was
- 14:07Speaker 1: a big shock. But on the way out, Bill, you
- 14:10Speaker 1: know again you're spending time with Brian and Belgium. You're
- 14:12Speaker 1: our ambassador, but you're a New Yorkers through and through
- 14:15Speaker 1: the Intrepid all those years. You love the United States
- 14:18Speaker 1: and know you lived in Florida too. I know your
- 14:19Speaker 1: whole history, but you ever see yourself maybe staying in
- 14:23Speaker 1: Europe or when this ambassadorship is done, is Bill White
- 14:26Speaker 1: going to be back in America the very next morning?
- 14:29Speaker 2: Aha? Oh that's a good question. I think you and
- 14:32Speaker 2: I should sit. Yeah, you always have the best questions.
- 14:35Speaker 2: You were the smartest guys on the radio and one
- 14:38Speaker 2: of the most good looking. Like if I were straight,
- 14:40Speaker 2: I might, I might. We should talk. But in all seriousness,
- 14:45Speaker 2: you know people have said, Hey, Bill, you should run
- 14:47Speaker 2: for office. You should be running this, you know this operation.
- 14:52Speaker 2: I ran twelve billion dollar real estate investment trust. I
- 14:56Speaker 2: ran the intrepids for twenty years to get to a
- 14:58Speaker 2: million paid visitors, raised two billion dollars for our nation's
- 15:03Speaker 2: veterans and fallen heroes. So I think the future is
- 15:06Speaker 2: bright for Brian and I and I thank God for
- 15:10Speaker 2: all the blessings we have. We're very lucky. We just
- 15:12Speaker 2: sold our company, which is called Ghost Energy Ghost Protein,
- 15:18Speaker 2: to qure Egg for two point five billion dollars. Very
- 15:21Speaker 2: proud of my friends Ryan Hughes and Dan Lourenco a
- 15:24Speaker 2: ghost for doing that. I'll send you a case of
- 15:27Speaker 2: the Ghost Energy. I'm sure. The guys listening in the
- 15:30Speaker 2: studio say, please don't send sit any caffeine. Please don't
- 15:34Speaker 2: do that. But you're gonna love the flavors. So I
- 15:37Speaker 2: think the future is bright for you and me.
- 15:39Speaker 3: Who knows, Maybe we do something fun together.
- 15:41Speaker 1: Oh, that sounds amazing. We will talk at any rate.
- 15:44Speaker 1: You're doing a tremendous job in Belgium and have some
- 15:47Speaker 1: fun with Kimberly and the President the next couple of
- 15:49Speaker 1: days a very important NATO summit. You are just one
- 15:52Speaker 1: of the best people. I mean this, Bill, just one
- 15:55Speaker 1: of the best people I've ever met. I couldn't love
- 15:57Speaker 1: you more than I do. So thank you for hopping
- 15:59Speaker 1: on from Greece this morning, and we will talk again
- 16:02Speaker 1: very very soon. Bill White. I love you, Thank you, love.
- 16:05Speaker 2: You said you have the best listeners in all of
- 16:07Speaker 2: radio and all of New York, and God bless you
- 16:09Speaker 2: and your team and your family. Can't wait to see
- 16:12Speaker 2: you soon. God Bless America.
- 16:14Speaker 1: God Bless America. There is, folks, the amazing ambassador in
- 16:17Speaker 1: Belgium on his way to the NATO summit. Today. My
- 16:20Speaker 1: dear friend Bill White will take a short break. More
- 16:23Speaker 1: of the Tuesday edition of SID and Friends in the
- 16:25Speaker 1: Morning right after these.
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