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Here to discuss this daily wire reporter, Amanda Prestajakamo. So, Amanda, Trump signed numerous executive orders on Monday addressing the military. Let's start with this order on trans-identifying military members. What does that order say? Right. So, building off of past declarations on gender, Trump signed an EO that directs the DOD to ban men from using or sharing sleeping, changing, and bathing facilities that are designated for females.
And it also resins a Biden order that allowed other gender identity related accommodations, arguing that it hinders military readiness and other standards. Now, additionally, this EO stops taxpayer dollars from funding gender transitions, including surgeries for military members. This was actually happening under President Biden to the tune of millions of dollars.
The Trump administration said that this applies to trans identifying children of service members as well. Trump's order on the whole intends to emphasize that the military will have high fitness, health, and readiness standards that will ensure military members are able to deploy, fight, and win.
Now, Trump also addressed the thousands of troops that were forced out of the military over the COVID vaccine mandate. What did the president do there? So, under Biden, about 8,400 active and reserve service members were forced out of the military between 2021 and 2023, because they refused the COVID-vax. Trump's executive order restores those troops' previous rank, and it gives them full back pay and benefits. This is a fulfillment of a Trump campaign promise, and it targets the last administration's recruitment crisis.
After the Vax mandate was rescinded by Biden, those who were forced out were allowed to reapply, but only 43 service members chose to do so. Now, there was also an order signed on Monday that specifically targets DEI. Can you break down that order for us?
Yeah, that order eliminates diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives from the DOD. The order ends race and sex-based preferences by any branch of the military, the DOD, or DHS. It will also eliminate remaining DEI-related bureaucracy from those departments and order a review of the Curricula from Military Service Academies.
Military recruitment goals were repeatedly missed during Biden's tenure, and many critics tied that to these DEI initiatives. Here's newly confirmed DOD Secretary Pete Hegseth addressing these issues during his confirmation hearing. You have to rip, root, and branch.
the politics and divisive policies out of these institutions, and then focus them on creating and preparing actual future military leadership. And we need more uniformed members going back into West Point, the Air Force Academy, the Naval Academy, as a tour to teach with their wisdom of what they've learned in uniform, instead of just more civilian professors that came from the same left-wing woke universities that they left, and then try to push that into service academies. When that changes, Senator,
I truly believe under Donald Trump, we will have a recruiting renaissance. HEXATH himself is actually a big change on what we can expect from the military. Before he was tapped for Secretary of Defense, he wrote a book on the Woke policies and initiatives at the Pentagon and he categorized them as a betrayal to war fighters. Here's Vice President J.D. Vance discussing HEXATH during an interview on CBS.
Pete is a disruptor, and a lot of people don't like that disruption, but Margaret, that disruption is incredibly necessary. If you think about all of those bipartisan, massive votes, we have to ask ourselves, what do they get us? They got us a country where we fought many wars over the last 40 years, but haven't won a war about as long as I've been alive. They've got us a military with a major recruitment crisis. We need a big change.
Peg Seth said on Monday that he's working to implement Trump's orders as quickly as possible. Well, as we've reported on this show, military recruitment has been suffering for many years now, so hopefully this can turn it around. Amanda, thanks for reporting. You're welcome.
Tech stocks tumbled Monday after a stunning announcement from DeepSeek and emerging AI powerhouse in China. Herewith more is Daily Wire senior editor, Cabot Phillips. So, Cabot, what exactly is DeepSeek and why did it shake up the market so badly?
Yeah, so for the last year, the general consensus has been that America is leaving the rest of the world in the dust when it comes to artificial intelligence, especially generative AI like ChachiPT. But yesterday, a new player introduced itself in a major way, stunning Silicon Valley and leaving Wall Street in a frenzy. That new force is Chinese startup DeepSeek, which announced Monday that their latest generative AI service, DeepSeek R1, was not only on par with top models like ChachiPT,
but that it had been created or trained as they put it at a fraction of the cost shortly after the news broke deep-seek rocketed the top spot on the app store. For more, I spoke with Tom Colopolis, an AI expert and author of Giga Trends.
What is causing all the uproar is that deep-seat R1, which is their current version of their reasoning AI, has been able to achieve cost efficiencies that are just unheard of. To the extent that, believe it or not, it is 93.5% less expensive to operate from what we're told than OpenAI's chat GPT, which is pretty extraordinary.
And that news sparked a massive market sell-off, correct? Yes, it did. Tech stocks in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. tumbled following the news. By Monday afternoon, video, which had enjoyed a record-breaking 2024, was down a whopping 15% that translated to over $500 billion in losses. That's the single largest one-day drop-off of any stock in history.
Elsewhere, large AI companies like Micron Technology and Advanced Micro Devices were down 10% and 6% respectively, while Microsoft, which backs OpenAI, fell 3%. Altogether, those dips represented over a trillion dollars in value. Now, the big reason for that sell-off is that prior to Monday, the general idea was that generative AI required incredibly expensive high-tech chips to operate, chips manufactured by companies like NVIDIA.
But DeepSeek appears to have upended that notion, seemingly proving that groundbreaking AI can be trained and operated at a much lower cost, and with less complex chips. For context, DeepSeek says they trained their latest model for just $5.6 million. Similar programs here in the US cost anywhere from $100 million to $1 billion. So you can see why the news sent such a shockwave. Here's Colopolis.
I think we've overreacted, to be quite honest. I think this will be a back and forth, a game of leapfrog, certainly between the US and China for quite some time. But I think markets were spooked because they expected, especially after the announcement we just made with the enormous investment of $500 million in AI infrastructure, that we somehow had a lead that was not going to be easily displaced. And the reality is that is not the case.
This is very much going to be a tit for tat, an arms race, and we are not going to be able to take the lead and keep the lead without some serious innovation on our part as well.
Now keep in mind, this all comes as President Trump just announced a collaboration between the federal government and tech giants OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank that will pour up to $500 billion into AI infrastructure here in the US. Trump really has made clear that America must lead the way on AI and cannot afford to fall behind China in this new arms race. For his part, monopolist views it as a cold war.
What we have in the U.S. is this incredibly rich ecosystem of technology players, and that ecosystem I think gives us a significant leg up. China is going to have to try very hard to scale what they've just demonstrated, and while there's an element of cooperation that we can, I think, certainly exercise going forward, we also have to keep in mind there's an element of national interest and national security at play here, too.
Their CEO, Leon Wangfeng, is someone who needs to be taken quite seriously. I don't think that they are being hyperbolic in their claims. I think there's a question as to whether or not they can scale their claims. Fascinating. Well, we'll have to see if Deepseek is the real deal. Cabot, thanks for reporting. Anytime.
Border Patrol agents exchanged gunfire with suspected cartel members along the U.S. Southern border on Monday. The eruption of violence comes after President Trump labeled Mexican drug cartels terrorist organizations. Here to talk about the latest news on immigration and Trump's criminal crackdown as Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce said, Tim. So first, where was this shootout? It was right across the border near from Texas. Border Patrol agents responded to a group of aliens that tried to cross the river and enter the U.S. illegally.
And then an incident that would seem to justify Trump's strong stance against the drug cartels, those border agents were fired at by suspected cartel gunmen. According to Fox News' Bill Malugin, the agents then fired back. Nobody on either side was hit in the firefight, nor did the group of aliens make it across the river. Alarming development, to say the least. And this comes as the Trump crackdown on illegal immigrants is really ramping up, correct?
Right, the deportations he promised are well underway, and so are the political fights around them. The current count is well over 2,000 arrests, and unsurprisingly, the crackdown is sparking a lot of debate, which Trump's top lieutenants are definitely not shying away from. They've been out defending the administration's approach. Vice President J.D. Vance appeared on CBS Face the Nation over the weekend. He talked about a lot of things, but he specifically addressed criticism by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on exemptions Trump lifted on deporting aliens from schools and places of worship.
I believe the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that they're worried about the humanitarian costs of immigration enforcement. Let them talk about the children who have been sex trafficked because of the wide open border. CBS anchor Margaret Brennan also questioned Vance of the administration moving to freeze refugee programs. Here's that exchange.
Now that we know that we have vetting problems with a lot of these refugee programs, we absolutely cannot unleash thousands of unvetted people into our country. These people are vetted. Just like the guy who played a terrorist attack in Oklahoma a few months ago. And here's Trump's deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, talking to reporters last week.
We've seen, as you know, half a million children trafficked over a four-year period in the United States. This administration is going to investigate every instance of child trafficking, labor trafficking, sex trafficking, child smuggling, and all the attendant crimes involved in that. And our message to every one of the country is to cooperate fully with immigration and customs enforcement so that we can end the scourge of child trafficking and child abuse that has been endemic these last four years.
So as you heard in those clips, the White House is continuing to hit on the public safety aspect to promote its immigration policy and major concern for Americans. So it makes sense to do that. How are deportations going so far? In Trump's first week, I says it's arrested over 2,500 aliens. The administration has been publishing videos of some of those raids. For instance, one such documented raid featured Trump's borders are Tom Homan and Dr. Phil. Here's some sound after agents arrested and illegal alien from Thailand.
So the administration is really running a full court press to show and explain its agenda to the American people. It's an aggressive media campaign that sort of matches its pace on deportations. Tim, thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me.
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