September 5, 2025 • 18 mins
Buck dives into the Trump administration’s consideration of banning gun ownership for transgender individuals, a move that’s already sparking heated debate. He breaks down the legal complexities, the mental health angle, and the inevitable political battle ahead. Plus, Buck tackles the ongoing fight with “resistance judges” and what’s really at stake in Trump’s tariff battles.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure
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wherever you get your podcasts. The Trump administration considering a
ban on trans gun ownership and gun buying. Purchasing a
firearm is something that there already are a lot of
(00:32):
rules around. I know because I've bought a whole bunch
of guns myself. And the reality is this is going
to get very contentious with Democrats because they've been saying
in the aftermath of a lot of shootings, but in
this most recent one where a trans terrorist shot up
a Catholic church full of kids, killed two of them,
(00:54):
shot over a dozen, they've been saying, you must do something.
You must do something. That's the refrain, and if you're
not willing to do something, you're the problem. It's on you.
It's your fault that this keeps happening. Okay, well, let's
take that then to the next step. Here we are
with the Trump administration saying that they want to do something,
(01:17):
they want to prevent trans individuals from buying guns. Now,
because the trans community has been elevated by the left
as really the pre eminent and ultimate victim status individuals
in America today, to the extent that they'll say there's
an active genocide and an erasure of them going on
(01:40):
in America. The most extreme kind of language, a genocide,
a genocide of trans people, the erasure of trans people
when you erase a person. What do they mean by that, Well,
when you say genocide, we talk about ethnic cleansing. These
are terms that evoke the worst crimes in human history
of all time that's going on when it comes to
trans people. Or they'll talk about an epidemic of anti
(02:03):
trans violence. Where is that coming from? Who's doing this?
How many times is occurring? Show me the data, show
me the numbers. I'm not seeing this. Why do they
say it? They say it because they're trying to create
a perception that trans individuals are under continuous violent assault,
and therefore anybody who tries to adjust or stands in
(02:28):
the way of any trans specific policies is part of
that genocidal effort. Right, This is the moral blackmail that
they engage in. But on this issue, it's interesting to
me because the prohibition that currently exists for people that
are going to buy a gun is under federal law,
a person is prohibited from buying or possessing a firearm,
(02:49):
if they have been involuntarily committed to a mental institution
or formally adjudicated as a mental defective, so a judge
has said this person's crazy or they've been involuntarily committed
to a mental institution. Now, as we know, the bar
to involuntarily commit someone is very high, and that's actually
(03:13):
become a problem. I think a lot of people have
seen this in recent years where it shouldn't be as
difficult as it is to get people committed to mental
because it's bad for them, it's bad for other people.
There is so much to see when you look at
the data, the information on individuals who hurt themselves or
(03:33):
hurt others, and they had been known for a long
time to be a risk, It had been known for
a long time, but they were severely mentally ill. Right,
mental illness, I think to put it in this context
is helpful. Mental illness is like physical corporeal illness in
that you know a lot of people struggle with it
(03:54):
at different levels. Everyone will have some mental health challenges
at some point in their life. Death of a spouse,
maybe depression follows postpartum depression after a baby PTSD if
you serve in the military. Right, there's mental health stuff
that comes up that we know is just the result
of dealing with difficult events or being people. And then
(04:16):
there's stuff that is extreme. Then there's you know, being
a paranoid schizophrenic. Then there's having a severe depressive disorder.
And and I bring it to the mental health physical
health comparison because you know, we all can get a
cold and that's that's okay, and you want to get
healthy from that cold. But if you're somebody who has,
(04:39):
you know, a severely contagious and deadly disease, that has
to be treated differently. Right, there's severity differences. So just
to say a mental health issue that covers so much,
just like a cold is a health issue and ebola
is a health issue, but very different in the severity
and how they should be treated by those individuals and
(05:01):
how society treats them. Right, no one locks you in
your room. Well with COVID they did, but no one
locks you in your room and you have a cold,
but you might have to be contained while you're fighting ebola,
and and that's fair, right, same thing with mental health.
If you have minor anxiety, like about I don't know
thirty or forty million Americans do where it's clinical level,
but it's it's something you can manage, that's a mental
(05:23):
health challenge. You should still be able to buy a
gun if you are someone though, who is seeing pink
elephants flying in the sky that aren't there obviously. Uh.
And you have severe schizophrenia if you've been committed to
a facility, you can't buy a gun legally, and there
(05:43):
is a prohibition against that. So I'm saying all this
so that we can put into context where would transgenderism
fall on this spectrum. Now, I know people would say
right away, transgenderism is a who you are thing, It's
not a mental illness at all. It was in the
DSM file and the DSM four I think, I forget
the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders. It
(06:05):
was there until pretty recently, certainly in the last ten years,
I think, and it was under gender dysphoria and it
was considered a mental health condition and since it has
been removed, And so now you get to gender identity
issues is what it's being called. Okay, Well, this is
(06:26):
a conversation we should have out in public. Because if
someone is trans are they mentally ill? If they're mentally ill,
how mentally ill, and how does that factor into the
laws that we have around firearms. I mean, I've said
this before. If I because I go shooting, I go
to the gun range. And I'm also I'm a range
safety officer, a certified pistol instructor. So I've spent some
(06:51):
real time at the range, especially the last couple of years.
And I'll tell you this, the everyone who ever who
spends time in the range knows that there's always a
risk of someone doing a suicide at the range. And
then there's the risk additionally of just because they can
go there with their firearm and you know, take their
time and they have the fire amount in their head.
There's a whole horrible thing. But this does happen occasionally.
(07:11):
And also they sometimes will take somebody else with them
on the way. This happens rarely, rarely, but it can happen.
If somebody told me that they were struggling with heroin
addiction and they were going through withdrawal, I wouldn't want
them shooting next to me on a gun range. I
wouldn't want to take them out to the gun range.
I would say you're having some issues. I don't same
way someone was drunk, I mean really drunk, not like
(07:33):
had a beer. If you you know, a couple hours
ago someone was really drunk, would you want to be
the shooting range of them? Know, if they're impaired, you're
talking about lethal firearms in their hands. And we get
to if you are trans are you psychologically impaired? Is
your judgment impaired? This is the question the Trump administration's asking.
YouTube may have a problem with me for saying this,
(07:55):
but this is the discussion. This can be something that
we can either talk about openly or we can try
to have places that don't want to deal with reality
shut this stuff down. But that is what's going on.
So even if the Trump administration does not see this
through or maybe is not successful, because I do think
there are constitutional issues with this right, you know, you'd
(08:15):
have to pass legislation. It would be deprivation of rights
before you trigger any kind of you know, specific if
it's not if you're not adjudicated, how can you have
your rights taken away? And this is why a lot
of really crazy people can still buy guns because they're crazy,
but they were never committed to a facility, and so
they don't have so it becomes complicated. But I think
(08:38):
the discussion is important because it gets to this whole
issue of well is transgender? Is being trans a mental
health issue? And is it something that should be treated
as a serious mental health issue that has public safety
risk it heightened? I'm not, of course, are you saying
all trans people are dangerous? I know trans people, of
(08:59):
course they're They're not all dangerous, of course. But you know,
I also know a lot of people that have drug addictions.
I still love them, They're still my fellow human beings.
I still but you know, they got a problem. I
don't encourage the drug addiction. I want them to seek help, right,
I know people who are recovering alcoholics. And so when
you're talking about trans where does that fall in the
(09:21):
spectrum of mental illness? How serious? How seriously should it
be treated as a problem for society to tackle as
we go forward? I mean, this is the discussion, all right.
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to fight through some crazy stuff going on with these judges,
and I gotta tell you it's it's it's very frustrating
(11:11):
to see the hashtag resistance judiciary continue to do what
they do because even when they're getting overturned by the
Supreme Court, which is happening with frequency, and they know
it's happening, there is the time that is lost in
this process. They're trying to as much as they can
run out the clock. And let me give you a
(11:33):
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review by the Supreme Court of the tariff decision that
came down from the Court of Appeals because think about
what this would mean if they're ruling his tariffs are unconstitutional.
If that is held, there's almost a trillion dollars that's
(11:55):
going to come in on tariff's revenue this year, or
do we give it back? What does that mean for
his negotiations with countries, Well, we already know. Scott Bessen,
this Treasury Secretary, has said that countries are beginning to
back away from the negotiations. Countries are beginning to say, well,
I'm just gonna wait this out and see because maybe
you don't even have the authority to be making these deals.
This is a huge problem, huge problem. And you know,
(12:20):
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the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which lets the president
take unilateral action to regulate the economy during an emergency.
Appeals court seven to four vote said that none of
these actions explicitly include the power to impose tariff's duties
of alike or the power to tax. Well, the Emergency
(12:42):
Economic Powers Act sounds like it would include teriff stuff.
But point is, and four judges agreed with Trump just
because this wasn't like a slap down by all, and
four judges agree with what Trump has done. So this
is going to have to go up to the Supreme Court.
But once again you have these judges who are standing
in the way of something that we've already seen now
(13:02):
is a good thing. This is helping the country, This
is sensible. And yet these judges, because they hey, Trump,
want to stand in the way of it. They just
they continuously do this, and it is very frustrating to
watch because yet, yes, we have respect for a system,
and so there's really no way that we can sidestep
(13:24):
any of this. We have to go and that's what
Trump does. They always say he is a dictator, and
his response is, all right, I'll see you in court.
All right, our solicitor General, we'll present this to the
Supreme Court, and then we'll abide by the system. That's
not what dictators. Dictators explicitly don't do that. So I
just think it's really important that we all understand when
they say that Trump's a dictator, they're just full of it,
(13:46):
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situation here. This one's even crazier in some ways. Trump
administration is not allowed to cut funding to Harvard. According
to a judge at Boston, Obama appointee judge, What a
shock that is right? Of course, how do we know
that was the case? How do we know it be
a Boston Demomocrat appointee and sure enough, Well, let me
(15:14):
talk about the case a little bit. I'll tell you
a little bit about this judge's background. So the White
House is going to appeal this, obviously, but they're saying
you can't take funding away from Harvard. So I just
want to be very clear on this. Is it Is
it then the case that this situation is it? Then
the case that Harvard is entitled to taxpayer funds in
what amount and for how long? Right? This is what
(15:38):
you see. This is when the system is exposing itself
that what's supposed to be a privilege is treated like
a right as long as it isn't helping the right,
as long as it is for the left or the
Democrat Party, then it is sacrosanct. And people have seen
enough of this, I think to understand how far the
rot spreads. But that judge, Judge Burrows. She also shut
(16:02):
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presided over and went again Students for Fair Admission VI
versus Harvard, which eventually made its way to the Supreme
Court and found in favor of students for fair admission.
She's a lib commie propagandist jurist, and yet she's in
(16:24):
a position to say that Harvard still gets billions of dollars.
Why government grants aren't can't be changed by the executive branch.
Someone explained it, says, it's the Administrative Procedures Act. You know,
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rely on the Administrative Procedures Act. It's just I don't
like it. That's their version of I don't like it
(16:46):
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before you made this decision. Huh, I'm making the decision.
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see judges who are just usurping the authority of the
legislative branch and deciding that they are going to do
(17:08):
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You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure
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wherever you get your podcasts. The Trump administration considering a
ban on trans gun ownership and gun buying. Purchasing a
firearm is something that there already are a lot of
(00:32):
rules around. I know because I've bought a whole bunch
of guns myself. And the reality is this is going
to get very contentious with Democrats because they've been saying
in the aftermath of a lot of shootings, but in
this most recent one where a trans terrorist shot up
a Catholic church full of kids, killed two of them,
(00:54):
shot over a dozen, they've been saying, you must do something.
You must do something. That's the refrain, and if you're
not willing to do something, you're the problem. It's on you.
It's your fault that this keeps happening. Okay, well, let's
take that then to the next step. Here we are
with the Trump administration saying that they want to do something,
(01:17):
they want to prevent trans individuals from buying guns. Now,
because the trans community has been elevated by the left
as really the pre eminent and ultimate victim status individuals
in America today, to the extent that they'll say there's
an active genocide and an erasure of them going on
(01:40):
in America. The most extreme kind of language, a genocide,
a genocide of trans people, the erasure of trans people
when you erase a person. What do they mean by that, Well,
when you say genocide, we talk about ethnic cleansing. These
are terms that evoke the worst crimes in human history
of all time that's going on when it comes to
trans people. Or they'll talk about an epidemic of anti
(02:03):
trans violence. Where is that coming from? Who's doing this?
How many times is occurring? Show me the data, show
me the numbers. I'm not seeing this. Why do they
say it? They say it because they're trying to create
a perception that trans individuals are under continuous violent assault,
and therefore anybody who tries to adjust or stands in
(02:28):
the way of any trans specific policies is part of
that genocidal effort. Right, This is the moral blackmail that
they engage in. But on this issue, it's interesting to
me because the prohibition that currently exists for people that
are going to buy a gun is under federal law,
a person is prohibited from buying or possessing a firearm,
(02:49):
if they have been involuntarily committed to a mental institution
or formally adjudicated as a mental defective, so a judge
has said this person's crazy or they've been involuntarily committed
to a mental institution. Now, as we know, the bar
to involuntarily commit someone is very high, and that's actually
(03:13):
become a problem. I think a lot of people have
seen this in recent years where it shouldn't be as
difficult as it is to get people committed to mental
because it's bad for them, it's bad for other people.
There is so much to see when you look at
the data, the information on individuals who hurt themselves or
(03:33):
hurt others, and they had been known for a long
time to be a risk, It had been known for
a long time, but they were severely mentally ill. Right,
mental illness, I think to put it in this context
is helpful. Mental illness is like physical corporeal illness in
that you know a lot of people struggle with it
(03:54):
at different levels. Everyone will have some mental health challenges
at some point in their life. Death of a spouse,
maybe depression follows postpartum depression after a baby PTSD if
you serve in the military. Right, there's mental health stuff
that comes up that we know is just the result
of dealing with difficult events or being people. And then
(04:16):
there's stuff that is extreme. Then there's you know, being
a paranoid schizophrenic. Then there's having a severe depressive disorder.
And and I bring it to the mental health physical
health comparison because you know, we all can get a
cold and that's that's okay, and you want to get
healthy from that cold. But if you're somebody who has,
(04:39):
you know, a severely contagious and deadly disease, that has
to be treated differently. Right, there's severity differences. So just
to say a mental health issue that covers so much,
just like a cold is a health issue and ebola
is a health issue, but very different in the severity
and how they should be treated by those individuals and
(05:01):
how society treats them. Right, no one locks you in
your room. Well with COVID they did, but no one
locks you in your room and you have a cold,
but you might have to be contained while you're fighting ebola,
and and that's fair, right, same thing with mental health.
If you have minor anxiety, like about I don't know
thirty or forty million Americans do where it's clinical level,
but it's it's something you can manage, that's a mental
(05:23):
health challenge. You should still be able to buy a
gun if you are someone though, who is seeing pink
elephants flying in the sky that aren't there obviously. Uh.
And you have severe schizophrenia if you've been committed to
a facility, you can't buy a gun legally, and there
(05:43):
is a prohibition against that. So I'm saying all this
so that we can put into context where would transgenderism
fall on this spectrum. Now, I know people would say
right away, transgenderism is a who you are thing, It's
not a mental illness at all. It was in the
DSM file and the DSM four I think, I forget
the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders. It
(06:05):
was there until pretty recently, certainly in the last ten years,
I think, and it was under gender dysphoria and it
was considered a mental health condition and since it has
been removed, And so now you get to gender identity
issues is what it's being called. Okay, Well, this is
(06:26):
a conversation we should have out in public. Because if
someone is trans are they mentally ill? If they're mentally ill,
how mentally ill, and how does that factor into the
laws that we have around firearms. I mean, I've said
this before. If I because I go shooting, I go
to the gun range. And I'm also I'm a range
safety officer, a certified pistol instructor. So I've spent some
(06:51):
real time at the range, especially the last couple of years.
And I'll tell you this, the everyone who ever who
spends time in the range knows that there's always a
risk of someone doing a suicide at the range. And
then there's the risk additionally of just because they can
go there with their firearm and you know, take their
time and they have the fire amount in their head.
There's a whole horrible thing. But this does happen occasionally.
(07:11):
And also they sometimes will take somebody else with them
on the way. This happens rarely, rarely, but it can happen.
If somebody told me that they were struggling with heroin
addiction and they were going through withdrawal, I wouldn't want
them shooting next to me on a gun range. I
wouldn't want to take them out to the gun range.
I would say you're having some issues. I don't same
way someone was drunk, I mean really drunk, not like
(07:33):
had a beer. If you you know, a couple hours
ago someone was really drunk, would you want to be
the shooting range of them? Know, if they're impaired, you're
talking about lethal firearms in their hands. And we get
to if you are trans are you psychologically impaired? Is
your judgment impaired? This is the question the Trump administration's asking.
YouTube may have a problem with me for saying this,
(07:55):
but this is the discussion. This can be something that
we can either talk about openly or we can try
to have places that don't want to deal with reality
shut this stuff down. But that is what's going on.
So even if the Trump administration does not see this
through or maybe is not successful, because I do think
there are constitutional issues with this right, you know, you'd
(08:15):
have to pass legislation. It would be deprivation of rights
before you trigger any kind of you know, specific if
it's not if you're not adjudicated, how can you have
your rights taken away? And this is why a lot
of really crazy people can still buy guns because they're crazy,
but they were never committed to a facility, and so
they don't have so it becomes complicated. But I think
(08:38):
the discussion is important because it gets to this whole
issue of well is transgender? Is being trans a mental
health issue? And is it something that should be treated
as a serious mental health issue that has public safety
risk it heightened? I'm not, of course, are you saying
all trans people are dangerous? I know trans people, of
(08:59):
course they're They're not all dangerous, of course. But you know,
I also know a lot of people that have drug addictions.
I still love them, They're still my fellow human beings.
I still but you know, they got a problem. I
don't encourage the drug addiction. I want them to seek help, right,
I know people who are recovering alcoholics. And so when
you're talking about trans where does that fall in the
(09:21):
spectrum of mental illness? How serious? How seriously should it
be treated as a problem for society to tackle as
we go forward? I mean, this is the discussion, all right.
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So there's that. Now we have the Trump administration trying
to fight through some crazy stuff going on with these judges,
and I gotta tell you it's it's it's very frustrating
(11:11):
to see the hashtag resistance judiciary continue to do what
they do because even when they're getting overturned by the
Supreme Court, which is happening with frequency, and they know
it's happening, there is the time that is lost in
this process. They're trying to as much as they can
run out the clock. And let me give you a
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few examples of this. For one, Trump wants an immediate
review by the Supreme Court of the tariff decision that
came down from the Court of Appeals because think about
what this would mean if they're ruling his tariffs are unconstitutional.
If that is held, there's almost a trillion dollars that's
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going to come in on tariff's revenue this year, or
do we give it back? What does that mean for
his negotiations with countries, Well, we already know. Scott Bessen,
this Treasury Secretary, has said that countries are beginning to
back away from the negotiations. Countries are beginning to say, well,
I'm just gonna wait this out and see because maybe
you don't even have the authority to be making these deals.
This is a huge problem, huge problem. And you know,
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the Trump administration is relying on a nineteen seventy seven law,
the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which lets the president
take unilateral action to regulate the economy during an emergency.
Appeals court seven to four vote said that none of
these actions explicitly include the power to impose tariff's duties
of alike or the power to tax. Well, the Emergency
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Economic Powers Act sounds like it would include teriff stuff.
But point is, and four judges agreed with Trump just
because this wasn't like a slap down by all, and
four judges agree with what Trump has done. So this
is going to have to go up to the Supreme Court.
But once again you have these judges who are standing
in the way of something that we've already seen now
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is a good thing. This is helping the country, This
is sensible. And yet these judges, because they hey, Trump,
want to stand in the way of it. They just
they continuously do this, and it is very frustrating to
watch because yet, yes, we have respect for a system,
and so there's really no way that we can sidestep
(13:24):
any of this. We have to go and that's what
Trump does. They always say he is a dictator, and
his response is, all right, I'll see you in court.
All right, our solicitor General, we'll present this to the
Supreme Court, and then we'll abide by the system. That's
not what dictators. Dictators explicitly don't do that. So I
just think it's really important that we all understand when
they say that Trump's a dictator, they're just full of it,
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situation here. This one's even crazier in some ways. Trump
administration is not allowed to cut funding to Harvard. According
to a judge at Boston, Obama appointee judge, What a
shock that is right? Of course, how do we know
that was the case? How do we know it be
a Boston Demomocrat appointee and sure enough, Well, let me
(15:14):
talk about the case a little bit. I'll tell you
a little bit about this judge's background. So the White
House is going to appeal this, obviously, but they're saying
you can't take funding away from Harvard. So I just
want to be very clear on this. Is it Is
it then the case that this situation is it? Then
the case that Harvard is entitled to taxpayer funds in
what amount and for how long? Right? This is what
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you see. This is when the system is exposing itself
that what's supposed to be a privilege is treated like
a right as long as it isn't helping the right,
as long as it is for the left or the
Democrat Party, then it is sacrosanct. And people have seen
enough of this, I think to understand how far the
rot spreads. But that judge, Judge Burrows. She also shut
(16:02):
down Trump's travel ban in January twenty seventeen. She also
presided over and went again Students for Fair Admission VI
versus Harvard, which eventually made its way to the Supreme
Court and found in favor of students for fair admission.
She's a lib commie propagandist jurist, and yet she's in
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a position to say that Harvard still gets billions of dollars.
Why government grants aren't can't be changed by the executive branch.
Someone explained it, says, it's the Administrative Procedures Act. You know,
whenever you see a judicial figure in the Trump era
rely on the Administrative Procedures Act. It's just I don't
like it. That's their version of I don't like it
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because it's things like, oh, you didn't give enough notice
before you made this decision. Huh, I'm making the decision.
They've had plenty of notice. It's been months. Nope, you
need to give them more notice, says I the judge.
It's crazy. And this is, though, what we continue to
see judges who are just usurping the authority of the
legislative branch and deciding that they are going to do
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whatever they can, even if they're going to get overturned
at the Supreme Court, to slow Trump down, to gum
up the works, to sabotage the machinery of MAGA. This
is where it is hard. Look, it's not unusual for
new tech companies to find fifteen minutes of fame. Remember
that open source AI model developed in Asia. I mean
that was a big deal earlier this year. Well, they
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showed up strong and a company based in China with
AI technology rival the well known AI chatbot and others.
For attention, point here is AI. This battle is a
battle for global economic and national security supremacy, and we
need to beat China. That's critical. And America right now
under the Trump administration is making this a focus. This
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administration is preparing an estimated two point two trillion dollar
counter strike to Chinese AI, what I call a Manhattan
Project too, to take back our lead in the AI
arms race. I break it all down in a brand
new interview, including the companies I believe could soar when
this comes out. Find this interview and all the details
online on a new website. We're taking this off air,
so to speak. The website is off air twenty five
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