April 29, 2025 • 50 mins
100 Days of Trump
Clay Travis and Buck Sexton dive into a variety of significant topics, starting with the first 100 days of President Trump's second term. They discuss the transformative and fast-paced changes under Trump 2.0, highlighting major investment commitments totaling over $5 trillion from companies like Apple, Nvidia, TSMC, OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank. These investments are expected to generate over 451,000 high-paying jobs, surpassing the achievements of the previous administration.
The conversation shifts to the upcoming Vice President JD Vance in the second hour. The hosts express their excitement about discussing key issues such as men's and women's sports, tariffs, the border, and the Trump administration's economic policies. They also touch on the Philadelphia Eagles' visit to the White House and briefly mention the Canadian election results, expressing limited interest in Canadian politics.
The hosts analyze the impact of Trump's policies on the economy, emphasizing the importance of maximizing energy production and securing significant trade deals. They debate the potential re-election scenarios for past presidents like Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Ronald Reagan, speculating on their chances if they had been eligible to run for a third term.
VP JD Vance
In hour 2 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show, the hosts cover a wide range of topics, starting with an interview with Vice President JD Vance. Vance discusses the first 100 days of the Trump-Vance administration, focusing on the success in securing the border, the challenges posed by far-left judges, and the efforts to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse within the government. He also addresses the issue of men competing in women's sports and defends the administration's tariff policies.
After Vance's segment, the hosts continue to explore various political and social issues. They discuss the potential presidential candidates for the 2028 election, including Maryland Governor Wes Moore and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro. The conversation includes speculation about the future of the Democratic Party and the challenges faced by certain candidates due to their backgrounds, including former Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Governor JB Pritzker.
The Power of Perception
In hour 3 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show, the hosts delve into a variety of significant topics, starting with Speaker Mike Johnson's praise for President Trump's accomplishments in the first 100 days of his second term. Johnson highlights achievements such as removing men from women's sports, ending DEI in the federal government and military, expanding oil and gas extraction, securing trillions in new investments, and combating antisemitism on college campuses.
The hosts discuss Senator Tommy Tuberville's enthusiastic support for Trump's performance, grading it an A+. They contrast this with CNN's Harry Enten's analysis, which points out Trump's lower approval ratings compared to his first term and other presidents. Clay and Buck argue that poll numbers are less relevant since Trump is not running for re-election and emphasize the importance of his policy actions over approval ratings.
Economic Reality
The conversation shifts to the administration's focus on economic issues, particularly inflation. Clay highlights a poll showing that 44% of Americans consider inflation their top economic concern. They discuss the importance of reducing the cost of goods and maintaining economic stability to ensure public support.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody, Tuesday edition of Play and Buck and it's
one hundred days of Trump into this second term. One
hundred days of Trump, absolutely fantastic stuff to talk about here.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
We will dive.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Into all of the latest with the Trump administration, but
also take a look at what has gone on so far.
It has been transformative, it has been fast and furious,
and it is just the beginning. So we want to
take a moment year to see how it has been
and will be on Trump two point zero and we'll
(00:39):
take your calls on this obviously and have a free
flowing conversation about the wins and the challenges left to
be tackled. We've also got JD Vance, Vice President Advance.
Clay and I both will have to try not to
call him JD because we've known him as JD for years,
but now he is Vice president Vance.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
He will be with us.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
We did an interview with him second hour of the program,
so definitely want to tune in talking about all the
big stuff going on right now, everything from men and
women in sports, to tariffs to the border to Trump
two point zero, So definitely second hour diving into that,
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looking forward to that conversation for all of you, and
we have more to look at here on the sports
side of things, Clay, the Philadelphia Eagles went to the
White House, which is very nice. They had a nice time.
From what I understand, the Canadian election didn't exactly go
the way we wanted to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney,
(01:44):
we won't spend too much time on this because well,
very few of you live in Canada, so not really
our problem. There are some we have some Canadian listeners,
but generally I don't know anything about Canadian politics. We
talked some about Pierre Polyev because he had a couple
of viral videos, but once Trump won, I gotta be
(02:05):
honest with you, my interest in what happened in America's
top hat really kind of vanished. I feel bad for
Canadians stuck behind enemy lines, but we're kind of rolling here,
so it's hard for me to get too worked up
about what happens in Canada. I think that's probably the
general perspective. But we do have empathy for those of
you a that are stuck above the border dealing with chaos,
(02:27):
and they say leadership. They didn't learn the lessons of
Trudeau painfully enough. This is what you see in microcosm
in places well, actually I think California has more people
than Canada. But this is what you see in places
like California, where even when there's tremendous mismanagement, you have
Democrats who double and triple down on the madness. Well,
(02:49):
the liberals, the leftists in Canada doubling and tripling down
on the madness. They want everything to be dysfunctional. They
want to have sky high housing prices and a in
anemic economy and all these things. Okay, they want to
have bad healthcare that they tell themselves is great because
it's free, but actually it's not free at all. It's
very expensive when you add the time and the cost
(03:11):
and the inability to get care. But like I said,
Canada not our problem. Not going to be the fifty
first state either. So who cares? Well, we care a
little bit, but we don't care that much. Now, one
hundred days of Trump and some exciting things going on.
Let's take it first too. This cut to Caroline Levitt
talking about what the some of the top line numbers
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are for this first one hundred days of Trump. Two
point zero play it so far.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Total investment commitments under the Trump administration have reached more
than five trillion dollars, including five hundred billion from Apple
and US based manufacturing and training, five hundred billion from
Navidia and AI infrastructure, one hundred billion from TSMC and
US hips manufacturing, and the five hundred billion dollar private
investment by Open Ai Oracle in soft bank and AI
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infrastructure as well. All of these investment commitments are estimated
to generate at least four hundred and fifty one thousand
new high paying jobs for American workers and families. At
this point, President Trump has secured more investments in the
United States of America in one hundred days than Joe
Biden did in four years.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Trump is a deal maker, as we know, Clay, and
we'll talk more about tariffs wat jd vance about that too.
But in terms of the economy being open for business
in this country, and particularly look at things like going
to maximize trying to maximize energy production, going after our
own resources, a lot to be proud of so far
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in one hundred.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Days, totally.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
And some people are going to say because the negative,
given that we're at a one hundred day is going
to be Hey, let's look at the polling numbers. Here's
what I would say about the polls. First of all,
I don't really care, and you might say, Okay, what
do you mean by that Trump is not going to
be eligible to run for reelection. So I suspect that
(05:08):
by the time Trump's term is coming near an end,
that he will be on a popularity upswing, like we
saw with Barack Obama and with Bill Clinton. By and large,
did you sign on to this, Buck that the only
two two term presidents that could have been reelected if
(05:28):
they had been able to run, would have been Bill
Clinton in two thousand U and Barack Obama I think
would have won in two thousand and sixteen, now maybe not.
I also think Ronald Reagan, if he had been able
to run in nineteen eighty eight, even with his advanced age,
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would have likely won two. I think Trump will be
at his peak popularity. Here's a three year in advance prediction.
Trump in the fall of twenty twenty eight will be
at peak popularity because the impact of his trade agreements
and of his economic policies will be flourishing at a
(06:13):
high level. I think we will have peace, and I
think that if Trump were eligible to run for a
third term that he would win again in.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I think it very lot of history early, a lot
of we can't test the thesis one way or the other.
I mean, I think Bill Clinton is incredibly lucky as
a politician, the luck that that guy had on a
whole range of things. But if you had been in
office when nine to eleven actually happened, the straight line
between him being an imbecile on foreign policy and missing
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every chance and US getting hit with the worst attacks
in Pearl Harbor would have been irrefutable, even for Democrats. Also,
the stock market crash also a lot of things this
guy got out, But justin.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
You disagree that he would have won. I think he
would have beaten George W.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Bush.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I think he would have won. I think Reagan would
have won an eighty eight. This is an argument in
favor Regan. Reagan would have been too Reagan would have
been too old at that point. That would have been
a problem for him. I think he would have won
because the only reason that George Bush Senior one was
because Reagan was so beloved, and obviously Ducaucus was not
a candidate. You don't think Ronald Reagan would have beaten
(07:26):
Doucacas in eighty eight. Reagan, he would have won.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I mean, if you're throwing in the mix, like who
he's going up against, you know, Barack Obama though running
Barack Obama running against Donald Trump. Actually don't think Barack
Obama would have won. I think Trump, I think I
think I think he would have won that election. I
think that Obama would have beaten Trump in sixteen.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Well remember not. You and I disagree vociferously on Remember Hillary.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
First of all, I don't think Trump would have been
the nominee necessarily, but Hillary came within whatever it was
eighty five. Hillary was an awful candidate right off, full candidate.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
She was.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I mean, even Democrats looking back, they're like, man, you
know she just I don't know who she would have
been able to beat. I think Trump was a great
candidate against her. Ran a phenomenal campaign. But I actually
think the best campaign Trump ran was twenty four. Of
his three election campaigns, sixteen was phenomenal. I think he
was so well schooled by twenty four. Sixteen was more haphazard.
(08:27):
I think that this one was great. Again, were sixteen
was was insurgency. He was the insurgency against the machine,
and just like happened sometimes in real life, the insurgency
overcame the superior force in terms of battlefield operations. And
then in twenty four it was the comeback campaign, so
(08:50):
the Great American Comeback, which so the narratives I think
were pretty clear in both of those. And then twenty
twenty was the COVID you know, freak show what the
hell is going on? Campaign for everybody, and I know
all the other stuff quote unquote shenanigans.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
We won't talk about it right now, but anyway, Clay,
I think that Trump's first one hundred days, here's what
we have to remember about it. We wanted him to
do the things we want him to do, the things
that he promised to do, and some of those things
are disruptive, and disruptive things can be a little bit
off putting sometimes to the markets. It can feel a
(09:25):
little bit you can create a little bit of anxiety
among people because oh wait, it's not exactly status quo
is comfortable. This is why so often, and particularly in politics,
I think people get into inertia. Well, this is the
way it is, so, this is the way it will be,
This is the way We've done things, so let's keep
doing it that way. Trump isn't running again. I know
(09:46):
he jokes about the third term. That's the troll Libs.
It's like the fifty first state Canada. That's the troll.
You know, Canada and Trudeau and the rest of them. Clay,
he's not running again. We need him to do the
things that a politician who's obsessed with his next election
won't do. Yes, And this is what is so key.
That's why I'm saying the polling I'm not focused on.
(10:08):
If he were trying to run for reelection, I think
you'll look at polling and you think about how that's
going to play out. He is uniquely liberated to do
what he thinks the right results are without having to
worry about the day to day polling. And by the way,
that is.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Potentially going to run out in twenty twenty six, when
they're likely going to impeach Trump again. If Democrats take
back control of the House, they don't have anything new
to hit him with, so expect for them to go
back to the tried and true, failed methods of the past.
We've already seen it with them trying to broadcast and
(10:44):
attack him by saying he's hitler. I think where we
are likely headed is Trump has got to get everything
done between now and the summer of twenty twenty six,
and then we will see the House come down to
five or six different rent really close races, and Democrats
are either going to have a tiny minority or Republicans
(11:05):
are going to have a tiny majority. Right, tiny leadership.
I think that we're going to see in the Senate
good stuff. Republicans are going to maintain control of the Senate.
So for judges things like that, Trump is going to
have four years to get his view of the judiciary through,
get as many different judges confirmed. But in order to
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have both control of the House and the Senate, he's
got to be fast. He's got to be decisive, and
I think that's what you're seeing right now, and sometimes
that's going to make people a little bit upset. So
that's why I'm not concerned about any of the polling
to the extent it's accurate as we sit here at
one hundred days, because he's making decisions that are multi
years in nature. Well, yes, and this is why I
(11:50):
want Trump to not care about the polls right now,
because the polls in a year as they pertain to
the midterms and the Republican Party in its future will matter.
The polls right now now do not matter at all.
In fact, all the polls really do is give a
talking point to anti Trump media and the Democrat Party
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that want to create a perception of.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Oh, this isn't working, Oh this is failing. Trump should
not be doing the things that he's doing. He's doing
what he promised to do when he ran. He said
he would take on the terif issue. He said he
would get a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. He
said he'd secure the border. You know, I could go
down the whole list. He's doing the things he said
he would do. Some of these things are, as we've said,
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a departure from the status quo. They are disruptive and
so clay by their very nature, they're going to create
a little bit of friction and a little bit of uncertainty.
If you don't want that, you don't want change, you
don't want someone to fix anything. You just want more
of the same. I think we all need to remember
that the first one hundred days has been a plus. Overall.
(12:57):
It's not perfect, nothing ever will be, and there's no certainties,
there's no guarantees in life. But he's doing what he
said he would do, and he I think he should
have our full support as he continues to pursue that mandate.
If he had veered off into nonsense, I'd be saying,
why did he veer off into nonsense? That's not what
has happened.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I also think, and we'll talk about this more, the
next one hundred days or so are set up to
be incredibly consequential. Hopefully we get some form of resolution
in Ukraine, more resolution in Gaza, and again inflation, which
to me, I'll hit you when we come back, Buck
with what the American public from an economic perspective is
most focused on, and inflation is at four year lows.
(13:40):
To me, that is the number one laser focus. After
Biden took us over nine percent, people still feel like
things cost more than they should. Tomorrow, evening Israel begins
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Speaker 6 (15:09):
Saving America, one thought at a time. Clay Travis and
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hundred days of the Trump Vance administration, and we are
joined now by Vice President JD. Vance, and we're going
to get into all the successes the border and more.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
But JD.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
I don't know if you've answered this question, But on
the first day of your administration, Ohio State won the
National Championship against Notre Dame. But you had a ton
of obligations as the newly inaugurated vice president. Do you
have like an official Buckeye guy who was following you
around that day giving you updates during the course.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Of the game.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
I know you're a big fan. I've actually I wondered
about it that night. I don't know if you've answered it.
I would have if my University of Tennessee ever gets
back in the in the idle game, I would be
terrified to miss any of it. What was your play
there for National Title Game day as a Buckeye.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
Yeah, there are a couple of different things going on.
So first I actually talked to my team about whether
it would be possible to skip the inaugural balls so
that I would be able to go to the game.
And actually, you know, I guess we'd get inaugurated, we'd
go to a few parties, and then I'd be able
to watch the game while the president took care of
the inaugural balls. The team was not a huge fan
(16:28):
of that. Apparently it would have been unprecedent for vice
president to skip the inaugural balls the night of the inauguration.
What we were able to do, though, is before the
first ball, I actually had all of my friends and
family we got basically we turned a big hotel room
into a sports bar, and so I was able to
watch the first quarter before the first ball, and I
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think it was either right after the second or the
third ball, Notre Dame started to come back a little bit,
and so I sat in a room with like a
nineteen inch TV and just sort of watch the Buckeyes
put it away. So I got to see a little
bit of it. Man. But yeah, it's it's on the
one hand, like, what a cool day for an Ohio
State fan to be inaugurated as the vice president have
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your team win a national championship. On the other hand,
was sad to miss most of the game, but you know,
official duties come first.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Jennie.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I was also happy to see Vice president of Vance,
very happy to see my beloved Buckeyes do so well.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I want to ask you.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I want to ask you about a border if I can,
and what's going on with the administration on Well, let's
get into the next steps. The good news is you
can sit here and tell us. But Clay and I've
been telling everybody about this. So far, the border is
secure ninety five percent drop. The stats speak for themselves.
Biden kicked the border wide open, it was a choice.
Trump has actually secured the border. Fantastic. We still have
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millions and millions of illegals who came in under Biden.
What should we expect from the perspective of building on
the border successes so far in the next six to
twelve months.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Yeah, well, obviously we know we have to ramp up
to porche deportations, and the President talks about this all
the time, both in public and private. It's something that
I'm very focused on. And a lot of this comes
down to, I mean, it turns out we've got to
do some battle with some really crazy, far left judges
in order to allow the administration to do what it
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actually needs to do. And I will say to great credit.
The President expected this when we came in. He said,
you know, we're gonna start deporting people, and a lot
of these far left judges are going to stop us,
and there's no way out of it but through it,
and we're just gonna have to battle. We're gonna have
to win the court cases. We're gonna have to take
some of this stuff all the way to the Supreme Court,
and we're going to have to find alternative ways to
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deport people. When the judges say you can't do this method,
we're gonna have to find another method. So we recognize
that we're dealing battle here, or doing battle with basically
a massive bureaucracy that has decided that it rules the
country rather than the American people. And I think one
of the biggest takeaways of one hundred days is, yes,
we've got a lot of successes. We've also revealed old
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ways in which this deeply entrenched bureocracy tries to fight
the will of the American people. And thank god, we've
got a vice president and a president who are pushing
back against him. And that's exactly what we told the
American people we would do. That's exactly what we're doing.
But I think that is really the biggest focal point
of immigration policy over the next six to twelve months,
is to empower all of the people in the administration,
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from Tom Homer and Christynome to the border patrol agents
on the ground to do their job and to get
a lot of these people out of our country. Now
that said, we have had great success, but we're not
resting on our laurels here. We're shutting down the border
traffic coming into the country and we're dealing with what
Biden left us simultaneously. That's exactly what we have to do.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
You're not only an Ohio State grad, you're also a
Yale law grad. And you just talked about where the
resistance two point zero, I would say is coming from,
largely the six hundred and some odd district court judges
who are regularly putting in place nationwide in junctions.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
What's a fix to that?
Speaker 4 (20:02):
And are even you surprised by how aggressive the judiciary
has been to try to strip the president's executive authority?
Speaker 7 (20:10):
You know, I'm not surprised by it, because again, the president.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Actually expected this.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
He told us this would happen, you know, he felt
and I think he was right about this that you know,
the left felt defeated in a certain way, that there
were a lot of you know, grassroots activists that just
weren't nearly as fired up in twenty twenty four as
they were in twenty sixteen. And he's talking about people
on the far left. But he said that, look, the
courts are going to try to stop everything that we do.
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And it's actually not just immigration. I mean, the courts
have tried to stop Pete Hegseth from not allowing you know,
transgender military personnel to continue serving. They've done a lot
I mean, which goes to the heart of military readiness,
right the Secretary of Defense saying that, you know, if
you're dealing with a serious mental health issue, our compassion
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goes with you, but you can't be deployed to the
battlefield like that. That is the heart of the president
and the Secretary of Defense's authorities. And so you have
these district courts who really want to run the country
and have decided that they are actually in charge of
the United States of America. There's this very funny I
think headline from the Babylon be that was, you know,
(21:17):
something like Donald Trump considers resigning to become a very
powerful district court judge. But it's one of these jokes
with a kernel of truth, which is that the district
courts in this country have tried to take upon themselves
powers that belong to the President of the United States.
And it's funny, guys, you know, you hear the media
and they'll say, well, this is a constitutional crisis. And
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the constitutional crisis is not Donald Trump refusing to allow
the district courts to govern the country. The crisis is
the district courts trying to govern the country, and our approaches.
We're fighting it legally, of course, we're taking some of
these cases to the Supreme Court and we think we're
going to get success there. We're finding alternative methods to
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do what we need to do in compliance with the law.
And we're just going to have to keep on fighting this,
you know, day by day, figuring out where the district courts.
And it's to be clear, it's not all district courts,
it's the far left crazies. But when these far left
crazies stop and try to prevent the president from doing
his job, we've got to do it through alternative means,
and that's what we're trying to do.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
We're speaking of Vice President Vance, and mister Vice President,
let me ask you about how things are going at
this stage with not just identifying the waste, fraud and
abuse within the government, a big mission that DOGE has
taken upon itself. But what we can expect now, how
much of this do you think has been completed when
(22:39):
you look at Elon and Doje's mission. Does Congress have
to play a major role with recisions? Essentially, we know
there's a lot of shenanigans going on, but how do
we actually get the shenanigans in government spending to stop?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Where are we on that?
Speaker 7 (22:52):
Yeah, I think we're making a lot of progress. I
wouldn't say that it's done by any means. And yes,
Congress has a role because here, here's what happens. If
DOGE and Elon find ten billion dollars of spending, that's
just ridiculous. That's not consistent with the law or with
the administration's policy priorities. That money just kind of sits there,
and so it's still been taxed from the American people.
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And if we want to use it to pay down
debt or to give it back to the American people
through tax relief. Then that does require an Act of Congress,
and I think Congress is very willing to do it.
But I don't know if you saw. I think it
was today or maybe yesterday, a report came out that
Treasury actually is borrowing less money than they expected to borrow.
And I think that's because of the success of DOGE.
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You're seeing them make meaningful cuts in some of these
crazy foreign aid programs. But I also think they're finding
a lot of fraud in programs that are meant for
American citizens that are going either to illegal aliens or
to complete fraudsters. And so I think DOGE is making
a lot of progress, but it's not done, and I
don't think it's ever going to be truly done right.
This is one of these problems that we have to
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continually fight against. And the reason why it was such
a shock to the systems. We had allowed the waste
and the fraud to become so endemic in the way
that we did government in this country, and I don't
think we should ever go back. And I actually do think,
and maybe this is too optimistic, that when all the
political controversy is cleared, we look back on this a
few years from now, we're going to realize that doges
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saved the American people a lot of money, that cut
a lot of fraud out of our government, and that
even some Democrats are going to say, well, we have
to keep doing this because we can't just let hundreds
of billions of dollars of fraud every single year become
part of how the US government functions.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
We're talking to Vice President jd Vance. You guys have
made tremendous strides with young men. The data continues to
reflect that young men are breaking for both you and
Donald Trump in big numbers. I think a big part
of that is because young men are over this idea
of men being able to play women's sports. I can't
believe this is even a thing. Nike, you may have seen,
(24:56):
recently paid for a study all minors to study trans
drugs and how it might impact athletics. How did the
world get so broken here? What are companies like Nike
even trying to accomplish? And this feels like an eighty
twenty ninety ten issue for Americans. Do you feel that
when you're out and about I.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Do feel that. I definitely think it's a winning political
issue for the Republican Party, because it's just basic common sense, right.
I mean, people don't want women competing against grown men
and sports, especially in some of these contact sports where
the women could get injured. You know, I'm the father
of a three year old daughter. I'd like her to
play sports. I think it teaches valuable life lessons, but
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I don't want her competing against grown men when she
does it. This is just, again, it's basic common sense.
I think it's the basic masculine instinct to protect young women.
And one of the ways you do that is to
not let, you know, a male boxer in the room
with a female boxer. Just things like that I think
have turned it into a ninety ten issue, that basic
common sense. But man, I think that so many of
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these companies, Nike or otherwise, they got caught up in
this cultural zeitgeist of twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, and
it's like, I don't know, maybe they just thought the
progressors were going to win, and so they decided to
fund this stuff to the hilt, not realizing that the
American people would have a rebellion against the craziness. I
think that rebellion on the trans issue in particular, I mean,
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think about this, giving hormonal therapies to twelve year old kids,
causing irreversible damage to their bodies, forcing young girls to
compete against boys in sports, sometimes causing serious injury in
the process. I think this issue is such a bad
loser among the American people that even some of the
true believers have dropped it as a political issue. But
(26:45):
I think it's our job to remind the American people
this is what they've tried to do, this is what
they're promising to do. The trans issue hasn't gone away.
You just had some Democrats who are smart enough to
recognize it as a political loser. But yeah, they're going
to try to force twelve year olds to take cross
sex hormones, and they're going to try to force young
girls to compete against young boys if we give these
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guys power. The craziness, in other words, hasn't gotten away.
They've just gotten a little bit better at hiding it.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Mister Vice President, one war for you. Appreciate you making
the time for us today. The tariff's issue is something
that has gotten a lot of attension on this show
across the country. For obvious reasons. People are very attuned
to what the Trump negotiations with these countries and his
approach to China is doing to the economy, the market
prices everything. Wall Street Journal being a little salty about
(27:36):
it today on their front page. What do you say
to anyone who is trying to steer Donald Trump away
from this course because they're a little nervous about the
tariff situation.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
So I've had so many conversations guys in private with
the President about this, and I think his public statements,
I mean, going back to the nineteen eighties, this is
an issue that he feels very deeply about. I happen
to think that he's right. He can'paiged on it. The
American people elected him on it. And there's a lot
of misinformation out there. There's a lot of people saying, well,
Donald Trump doesn't know what he's actually doing. Look, I
(28:09):
promise you I've spent many hours discussing these issues with
Donald Trump. You can disagree with him, but he knows
exactly what he's doing. And here's the fundamental problem. America
doesn't produce enough of its own stuff. That is the issue.
We don't have enough manufacturing in our own country. We're
too reliant on sometimes hostile foreign powers to make the
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things that we need. And that's true in electronics, it's
true in technology, it's true in God forbid. You know,
we've had shortages of critical pharmaceuticals in this country over
the last few years. We cannot have a real successful,
prosperous country if we're dependent on the communist Chinese for
the drugs that we put into the bodies of our children.
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And so what the President has said here is, yes,
this is going to be disruptive, Yes this is going
to require some transition, but he's fundamentally to the basic
process of manufacturing more in the United States, creating good
paying jobs in the process, but more fundamentally making America
more self reliant. And I think the problem is that
we had a bipartisan consensus in this country for forty
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years that we could just ship all of our heavy
industry overseas, that we could ship a lot of our
good jobs overseas, a lot of our factories, and that
somehow that would make the United States more prosperous. I
think the reality is that it's made us weaker. It's
made us more dependent on the communists Chinese. And when
you see, for example, the Chinese respond to the President's
(29:36):
trade policy by saying, well, we're going to cut off
the United States from critical supplies that are necessary for
the American people. Doesn't that just prove that Donald Trump
was right? How did we ever get into the position
where the People's Republic of China could threaten the American
people with the loss of critical supplies? And given that
we are in that position, Donald Trump is exactly right
(29:58):
that we have to get out of it. I'm not
going to tell you it's going to be easy, because
it's not, but it's necessary, and I think the President
recognizes he is a once in a generation opportunity to
do it.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
JD.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Van's, Vice President of the United States. Congratulations on the
first hundred days and your Ohio State Buckeyes being the
national champs.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
We hope to talk to you again soon. Keep up
the good work.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
Thanks guys. Stick here.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
That's Vice President JD.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
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Speaker 8 (31:52):
He is the most consequential American leader of the twenty
first century. And that's an understatement.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
A President Trump has. Here's a list.
Speaker 8 (31:59):
Removement from women's sports into dei in the federal government,
in the US military, expanded oil and gas extraction to
lower prices, taking steps to end unfair trade practices, secure
trillions of dollars in new investments in American manufacturing. Deported
criminal illegal aliens, stood up religious liberty and rooted out
anti Christian bias, Combated virulent anti semitism on college campuses.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
The list goes on and on and on.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
That's just barely scratching the service.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
That's in one hundred days. We're just getting started, just
getting started.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
That was Speaker Mike Johnson talking about Trump's first hundred days.
We are at that mark right now. The time is
flying by, but certainly a lot already for the Trump
administration to tout in terms of accomplishments, and.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
A lot more on the way.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
And Clay, I don't know if you saw this, but
our friend Senator Tommy Tubberville, he went full A plus
in his grading here so I scaled mine down to
an A because I think you can't really give an
A plus. But Senator Tubberville he thinks you can play six.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
One hundred days.
Speaker 9 (33:01):
What do you think a plus?
Speaker 2 (33:03):
What else can he do? Larry?
Speaker 9 (33:04):
They left it in a total mess. I was up
here for four years of Joe Biden. They did not
do one thing for the American people or for this country.
They actually try to destroy it and everything went down.
Now President Trump has got foreign wars, he's got deportations,
you know, the border, the tax cuts, he's trying to
save the economy. What a total disaster the Democrats created.
(33:26):
And they're on the steps of the of the capital,
you know, Kumbai Yah and all this kind of stuff
going on, and they make absolutely no sense of what's happened,
and they don't know how to They don't have a
clue how to fix anything, So they're just trying to
create problems.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I think that's certainly the case. Democrats are just an
opposition party or a party of no. Now that when
you're out of power is always somewhat true. But you
can also say I don't like what he's doing, here's
what should be done. Democrats just still chant about Hitler
and all kinds of exaggerated, crazy nonsense to oppose Trump.
But Clay, here's one area where they're going after him
(34:03):
using numbers. This has cut sixteen. CNN's Harry Engine yesterday
on the one hundred day mark saying, or just before
the hundred day mark, saying that the poll numbers aren't
in his favor.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Play that one. These numbers are just horrible.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
There's no way to sugarcoat it. And the first way
we'll sort of point that out is we'll look at
where Donald Trump is now versus where he was one
hundred days into his first presidency. And you see it here.
You don't have to be a mathematical genius. Forty one
percent approve of him now. It was forty four percent
back in twenty seventeen around.
Speaker 7 (34:30):
The one hundred day mark.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
And what's so notable here is that throughout his second
term as president, he tended to be running ahead of
where he was in his first term. No longer is
that the case. He has fallen below where he was
at this point in his first term. Of course, this
is just Trump. Let's compare him to other presidents. And
I really think this kind of puts a bow on it,
and you can see it here. You see the forty
one percent. That is twelve points below Joe Biden. That's
(34:53):
three points below where he was in his first term.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Shouldn't that tell us Clay that it doesn't matter If
Biden was to twelve points ahead of where Trump is now,
he had a failed presidency, he was a disaster, and
he was hiding dementia from the American people. That's just
one example of or one data point toward. I don't
care what Trump's pull numbers are right now. I care
that Trump is pursuing the agenda. That's what he's supposed
to do, and people who are getting weak knees over
(35:17):
tariffs need to stiffen their spines a little bit.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
I also think that poll numbers for presidents only matter
if they can run for reelection. We talked to jd.
Vance at the top of the last hour. Jd Vance,
I imagine would like to be the successor of Trump.
He is the person who would be running in some
way more than anyone on what the legacy of Trump is.
(35:43):
If Trump has, as I think he will, a very
popular legacy in twenty twenty eight, then I think JD.
Vance will win the presidency because I would expect that
JD will be the favorite in twenty twenty eight, and
as the vice president, he will be running on the
legacy of the president to some extent. Obviously, you try
to also put your own spin forward on things. But look,
(36:06):
I mean, this is the challenge that Kamala Harris had.
And whatever you think of Kamala Harris, and I think
she was a very weak candidate. The reason she lost,
in addition to being a weak candidate herself, was because
she said there wasn't anything that she would do that
was different than what Joe Biden had done. And when
you have a profoundly unpopular sitting president and your answer
(36:27):
is hey, more of the same, it's unlikely that the
American public is going to respond favorably to you. But Buck,
here's what I think from the pole perspective, to the
point you said weak need, I think that Trump came
in and said, we have major, huge, systemic issues that
need to be solved. The border, I would argue, Buck,
(36:49):
is pretty much solved now. Deportation is a challenge, but
in terms of allowing things to get worse, he solved
it in the first hundred days the global trade imbalance
and says this is a major battle that's going to
continue for a long time.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
But he took it on.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
And then the other one is the fact that we
have a thirty six trillion dollar national debt. He tried
to take that on. Where do you think the negativity
is coming from. Not the border where overwhelmingly people agree
with him. It's taking big swings and big cuts at
global trade and at the overall economic basis of our budget.
(37:27):
He's taken some lumps there because he's trying to fix
two really substantial issues.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Well, this is where the psychology of propaganda also is
so important, because they were talking about a Trump recession
or even a Trump depression just a couple of weeks
ago when there was a choppy week in the markets,
up down, up down, and you could say, well, Buck,
clearly we're not in market's up today. We're doing backflips
over it. But the point is they can make people
(37:56):
feel negatively about things, even when they're hoarding is premature
or just flatly untrue. Right, So if you tell people
enough things are about you know, they've done interesting, interesting
studies about this. If you're a person who is just
positive about other people in general, people view you more positively,
(38:16):
which makes sense, right. And if you're somebody who's always
talking smack, who's always saying that, you know, Sally from
Accounting needs to, you know, work harder, or you know,
Joe from Accounts Receivable needs to put in more time, whatever,
if you're always the negative person, people tend to view
you more negatively.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Well. This is true of news reporting as well.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
If you're just talking negative stories endlessly, even if those
stories are exaggerated or turn out not to be what
you initially reported, you can make people think things are
worse than they are. And this is why Democrats also
rush with the and the Democrat aligned media rushes with
the negative narrative as fast as they can. They don't
want to wait for things to play out because they
(38:59):
want to turn the per against the administration because this
is politics, right, That's how they view it. They just
want people to think things are bad. Remember when to
Biden they had this in the opposite direction when for
a while Biden's strategy, i think going into the midterms
and then afterwards for a while Clay was the economy's great.
People just don't know how great it is right.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
That was the Yeah, that was their argument. That was
their argument.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
You don't even know how great things are for you
right now, you just need to pay attention to how
great they are. It's like, well, that did not exactly resonate.
They're trying a different version of sure, you think things
are pretty much okay and actually going pretty well. They're
actually terrible though, and that's what they've been doing, certainly
for the last month in the economy. So the long
story short, I think the poll numbers don't matter. Why
(39:46):
would they matter right now? No one's going to care
what the polls were now, in six months or even
in six weeks, So it's just an effort to try
to create negative perception.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
I think they would matter maybe if there were a
more popular politician in a Marria, and there isn't one, right, so,
I mean if Democrats the Biden poll numbers always occurred
with the shadow of a Trump presidency and a Trump
reelection bid hanging out there. I know we talked about
Wes Moore in the last hour and who the Democrat JB. Pritzker,
(40:18):
Peter may or Pete that are trying to kind of
set the agenda to try to be the nominee in
twenty twenty eight. Who's a more popular politician right now
than Trump? Is there any Democrat? I mean, the Democrat
approval ratings in Congress make the Trump approval ratings look phenomenal.
So I think you have to look at it in
the context of is anyone else doing better? You also
(40:41):
hit on something that I always thought was super fascinating.
Do you know what the number one likelihood of who
was going to get sued as a doctor was? You
talked about how people are seen. Do you know what
they've studied from.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
A if you don't like If you don't like the doctor,
the chance of the doctor of you suing the doctor
goes up like tens or.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Something bedside manner.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
It's not does the doctor screw up a lot the
If the doctor has a likable comportment, the odds of
him being sued or her being sued much lower the
bedside manor aspect there, And so I think that factors
in on some level.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
Trump is now a known quantity.
Speaker 4 (41:21):
And the thing that Trump got right back in twenty
sixteen when he said it is, Hey, I could shoot
somebody on Fifth Avenue, and my base is not leaving me.
And I'm paraphrasing him on that quote, but that was
basically the quote. The Trump base is not leaving. Now,
we've all we've talked about.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
This for some time. What is the Trump base?
Speaker 4 (41:39):
I think forty percent of America is died in the
wall Trump team, and so he's gonna have that forty
percent no matter what. He got a big percentage growth
I think in the twenty twenty four election. And now
the question is I think this is going to ultimately
determine everything. What's the economy?
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Like?
Speaker 4 (41:58):
This is what I told you, Buck. I think I
said that I was going to tease this, and I'll
I told you inflation was number one. I'll hit you
with the other things, but it's inflation overwhelmingly. If the
price of gas keeps coming down and if the price
of groceries does not go up, the average American is
going to consider Trump to have done a decent job.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
I'll also later.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
On foreign affairs, doesn't feel like we're very close to
a war now. I hope I'm not jinxing it, but
it feels like for Americans in terms of our stability
and safety around the world, I feel pretty good about that.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
As we If Canada decides to just get it together
and invade us, I am going to blame you for
this now.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
And this will be on me.
Speaker 4 (42:38):
If Canada or Mexico, Canada or Mexico Costa Rica decides
to finally get an army and decides to try to invade,
this will be on me.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
Because I just said I feel very safe, but in general,
I feel like we're a long way from any wars. Also,
I would just say, what would people want Trump to
be working on right now? Who voted for him? Yeah,
that he's not doing. I think that's an import question
to ask if this is what is the thing that
Trump said I will in the first hundred days do
the following, start to do the following.
Speaker 7 (43:08):
Right.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
I'm not saying the results are all in or that
everything has been accomplished, far from it. But what is
the area of focus where Trump has not focused and
we were told he would. I cannot think of it
because I don't think it exists. I think he has
come out and started going after everything he said he
would go after. Deportations are in the early phase, but
it is happening. The border is secure. It happened even
(43:30):
faster than I anticipated that it would. He's getting the
negotiations going on tariffs, he has the negotiations going on
Russia Ukraine, he is looking at Iran and Israel, and
you know mid EA's peace, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
What is he not doing that he said he would do.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
That's I think in a lot of ways, the real
test of the first hundred days is that, you know,
promises made, promises kept goes a little bit too far
because well, have we gotten the results yet that we
need know? But what focus is important? And the focus
has been on what he said it would be, And
I think in the first hundred days of an administration,
(44:08):
that's about the best you can ask for. Is you're
actually doing this stuff right. You're trying to do this
stuff actively. You're not delaying, you're not prevaricating, You're not saying, oh,
I don't want to go as hard in this direction
as I said, I wull that was just a fool
you idiots to vote for me.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
He said, no, Okay, let's go.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
And so I think that there's a lot of credit
that should be given to him on that and the
other stuff Clay that we're talking about. With the loss
of some support in the polls. A lot of that's
media perception. A lot of that is people freak out quickly. Okay,
you know, they hear that there's a recession coming.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
They go, oh, my gosh, the recession.
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Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. I mentioned
this poll earlier, and I do think it's interesting. This
is from NBC News. They say they surveyed nearly twenty
thousand adults and asked top economic issue for you and
your family. Forty four percent, Buck said inflation. So if
(46:43):
I were giving advice to anyone in the Trump team
over the next one hundred days, I would say manighacally
focus on bringing the cost of goods down, because I
think that's the number one way that people tend to
react right now to the economy. Second is taxes. We know,
Buck that the bill is rolling through, the big beautiful
(47:05):
bill that will enshrine the tax cuts. We'll take some
of your calls on that. Third is the national debt. Again,
these are big, major systemic issues, and then you get
into housing, the stock market, which is in many ways
a snapshot of whatever the economy is at any given time.
Those are things that I think Trump gets. But if
(47:27):
I were saying, if you could focus on one thing
and solve one thing, inflation is down. But I think
if you could change the idea that Biden built in
that things are going to cost far too much, that
would be the most helpful in the next one hundred days.
It's what I would say to Trump, Hey, if you
were going to be judged on something, what would you
want to be judged on? Bringing inflation down and cost
(47:51):
of goods being not a massive thing that everybody's obsessed with.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
It would be nice, though, at some point to get
a reduction in rates here. That could be You know,
Trump has been very vocal about that. I think he's
right about that too. Free up a little bit of
liquidity in our economy would be a good thing. I
think people are waiting to make moves based upon this
that could be very helpful overall.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
So we shall see.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
But yeah, the main thing is you don't want overspending
like we saw under Biden, because that is what creates inflation,
and it really is a tax on the working class
and those who are trying to pay bills and maybe
even get ahead of bills. That is what ends up happening.
This is your dollars are worthless. You have to pay
(48:38):
more for the things that you need. Asset holders do fine.
People that have big stock accounts, you know, multiple homes,
own businesses.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
Et cetera.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
They generally do much better when inflation is high, or
rather they can weather the inflation much better. But you know,
the Treasury Department is going to borrow five hundred and
fourteen billion dollars this quarter. According to Bloomberg Clay. This
is a three hundred and twenty percent increase from its
previous estimate. We're still spending too much money, everybody. But
I guess this is the problem, is that the biggest
(49:08):
challenge I think for Doje all long has been so
we can't touch seventy percent of spending, Let's see we
can do to make the other thirty percent of spending
not so crazy.
Speaker 2 (49:17):
That's not good.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
Enough, but nobody wants to hear it.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
Nobody wants to hear it all.
Speaker 4 (49:23):
I mean, this is the thing that we're speeding at
rapidly is frankly, if you don't address the thirty six
trillion dollars in debt sooner or later, the bill is
going to get paid, maybe by your grandkids, but economic
reality doesn't disappear. We can't continue to live on borrowed money.
Speaker 1 (49:44):
And yet we're going to try. Yes, this is unfortunately,
this is what we're doing. So yeah, great, no doubt.
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Into all of the latest with the Trump administration, but
also take a look at what has gone on so far.
It has been transformative, it has been fast and furious,
and it is just the beginning. So we want to
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(00:39):
take your calls on this obviously and have a free
flowing conversation about the wins and the challenges left to
be tackled. We've also got JD Vance, Vice President Advance.
Clay and I both will have to try not to
call him JD because we've known him as JD for years,
but now he is Vice president Vance.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
He will be with us.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
We did an interview with him second hour of the program,
so definitely want to tune in talking about all the
big stuff going on right now, everything from men and
women in sports, to tariffs to the border to Trump
two point zero, So definitely second hour diving into that,
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looking forward to that conversation for all of you, and
we have more to look at here on the sports
side of things, Clay, the Philadelphia Eagles went to the
White House, which is very nice. They had a nice time.
From what I understand, the Canadian election didn't exactly go
the way we wanted to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney,
(01:44):
we won't spend too much time on this because well,
very few of you live in Canada, so not really
our problem. There are some we have some Canadian listeners,
but generally I don't know anything about Canadian politics. We
talked some about Pierre Polyev because he had a couple
of viral videos, but once Trump won, I gotta be
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honest with you, my interest in what happened in America's
top hat really kind of vanished. I feel bad for
Canadians stuck behind enemy lines, but we're kind of rolling here,
so it's hard for me to get too worked up
about what happens in Canada. I think that's probably the
general perspective. But we do have empathy for those of
you a that are stuck above the border dealing with chaos,
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and they say leadership. They didn't learn the lessons of
Trudeau painfully enough. This is what you see in microcosm
in places well, actually I think California has more people
than Canada. But this is what you see in places
like California, where even when there's tremendous mismanagement, you have
Democrats who double and triple down on the madness. Well,
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the liberals, the leftists in Canada doubling and tripling down
on the madness. They want everything to be dysfunctional. They
want to have sky high housing prices and a in
anemic economy and all these things. Okay, they want to
have bad healthcare that they tell themselves is great because
it's free, but actually it's not free at all. It's
very expensive when you add the time and the cost
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and the inability to get care. But like I said,
Canada not our problem. Not going to be the fifty
first state either. So who cares? Well, we care a
little bit, but we don't care that much. Now, one
hundred days of Trump and some exciting things going on.
Let's take it first too. This cut to Caroline Levitt
talking about what the some of the top line numbers
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are for this first one hundred days of Trump. Two
point zero play it so far.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Total investment commitments under the Trump administration have reached more
than five trillion dollars, including five hundred billion from Apple
and US based manufacturing and training, five hundred billion from
Navidia and AI infrastructure, one hundred billion from TSMC and
US hips manufacturing, and the five hundred billion dollar private
investment by Open Ai Oracle in soft bank and AI
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infrastructure as well. All of these investment commitments are estimated
to generate at least four hundred and fifty one thousand
new high paying jobs for American workers and families. At
this point, President Trump has secured more investments in the
United States of America in one hundred days than Joe
Biden did in four years.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Trump is a deal maker, as we know, Clay, and
we'll talk more about tariffs wat jd vance about that too.
But in terms of the economy being open for business
in this country, and particularly look at things like going
to maximize trying to maximize energy production, going after our
own resources, a lot to be proud of so far
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in one hundred.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Days, totally.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
And some people are going to say because the negative,
given that we're at a one hundred day is going
to be Hey, let's look at the polling numbers. Here's
what I would say about the polls. First of all,
I don't really care, and you might say, Okay, what
do you mean by that Trump is not going to
be eligible to run for reelection. So I suspect that
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by the time Trump's term is coming near an end,
that he will be on a popularity upswing, like we
saw with Barack Obama and with Bill Clinton. By and large,
did you sign on to this, Buck that the only
two two term presidents that could have been reelected if
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they had been able to run, would have been Bill
Clinton in two thousand U and Barack Obama I think
would have won in two thousand and sixteen, now maybe not.
I also think Ronald Reagan, if he had been able
to run in nineteen eighty eight, even with his advanced age,
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would have likely won two. I think Trump will be
at his peak popularity. Here's a three year in advance prediction.
Trump in the fall of twenty twenty eight will be
at peak popularity because the impact of his trade agreements
and of his economic policies will be flourishing at a
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high level. I think we will have peace, and I
think that if Trump were eligible to run for a
third term that he would win again in.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I think it very lot of history early, a lot
of we can't test the thesis one way or the other.
I mean, I think Bill Clinton is incredibly lucky as
a politician, the luck that that guy had on a
whole range of things. But if you had been in
office when nine to eleven actually happened, the straight line
between him being an imbecile on foreign policy and missing
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every chance and US getting hit with the worst attacks
in Pearl Harbor would have been irrefutable, even for Democrats. Also,
the stock market crash also a lot of things this
guy got out, But justin.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
You disagree that he would have won. I think he
would have beaten George W.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Bush.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I think he would have won. I think Reagan would
have won an eighty eight. This is an argument in
favor Regan. Reagan would have been too Reagan would have
been too old at that point. That would have been
a problem for him. I think he would have won
because the only reason that George Bush Senior one was
because Reagan was so beloved, and obviously Ducaucus was not
a candidate. You don't think Ronald Reagan would have beaten
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Doucacas in eighty eight. Reagan, he would have won.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
I mean, if you're throwing in the mix, like who
he's going up against, you know, Barack Obama though running
Barack Obama running against Donald Trump. Actually don't think Barack
Obama would have won. I think Trump, I think I
think I think he would have won that election. I
think that Obama would have beaten Trump in sixteen.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Well remember not. You and I disagree vociferously on Remember Hillary.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
First of all, I don't think Trump would have been
the nominee necessarily, but Hillary came within whatever it was
eighty five. Hillary was an awful candidate right off, full candidate.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
She was.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
I mean, even Democrats looking back, they're like, man, you
know she just I don't know who she would have
been able to beat. I think Trump was a great
candidate against her. Ran a phenomenal campaign. But I actually
think the best campaign Trump ran was twenty four. Of
his three election campaigns, sixteen was phenomenal. I think he
was so well schooled by twenty four. Sixteen was more haphazard.
(08:27):
I think that this one was great. Again, were sixteen
was was insurgency. He was the insurgency against the machine,
and just like happened sometimes in real life, the insurgency
overcame the superior force in terms of battlefield operations. And
then in twenty four it was the comeback campaign, so
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the Great American Comeback, which so the narratives I think
were pretty clear in both of those. And then twenty
twenty was the COVID you know, freak show what the
hell is going on? Campaign for everybody, and I know
all the other stuff quote unquote shenanigans.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
We won't talk about it right now, but anyway, Clay,
I think that Trump's first one hundred days, here's what
we have to remember about it. We wanted him to
do the things we want him to do, the things
that he promised to do, and some of those things
are disruptive, and disruptive things can be a little bit
off putting sometimes to the markets. It can feel a
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little bit you can create a little bit of anxiety
among people because oh wait, it's not exactly status quo
is comfortable. This is why so often, and particularly in politics,
I think people get into inertia. Well, this is the
way it is, so, this is the way it will be,
This is the way We've done things, so let's keep
doing it that way. Trump isn't running again. I know
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he jokes about the third term. That's the troll Libs.
It's like the fifty first state Canada. That's the troll.
You know, Canada and Trudeau and the rest of them. Clay,
he's not running again. We need him to do the
things that a politician who's obsessed with his next election
won't do. Yes, And this is what is so key.
That's why I'm saying the polling I'm not focused on.
(10:08):
If he were trying to run for reelection, I think
you'll look at polling and you think about how that's
going to play out. He is uniquely liberated to do
what he thinks the right results are without having to
worry about the day to day polling. And by the way,
that is.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Potentially going to run out in twenty twenty six, when
they're likely going to impeach Trump again. If Democrats take
back control of the House, they don't have anything new
to hit him with, so expect for them to go
back to the tried and true, failed methods of the past.
We've already seen it with them trying to broadcast and
(10:44):
attack him by saying he's hitler. I think where we
are likely headed is Trump has got to get everything
done between now and the summer of twenty twenty six,
and then we will see the House come down to
five or six different rent really close races, and Democrats
are either going to have a tiny minority or Republicans
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are going to have a tiny majority. Right, tiny leadership.
I think that we're going to see in the Senate
good stuff. Republicans are going to maintain control of the Senate.
So for judges things like that, Trump is going to
have four years to get his view of the judiciary through,
get as many different judges confirmed. But in order to
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have both control of the House and the Senate, he's
got to be fast. He's got to be decisive, and
I think that's what you're seeing right now, and sometimes
that's going to make people a little bit upset. So
that's why I'm not concerned about any of the polling
to the extent it's accurate as we sit here at
one hundred days, because he's making decisions that are multi
years in nature. Well, yes, and this is why I
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want Trump to not care about the polls right now,
because the polls in a year as they pertain to
the midterms and the Republican Party in its future will matter.
The polls right now now do not matter at all.
In fact, all the polls really do is give a
talking point to anti Trump media and the Democrat Party
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that want to create a perception of.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Oh, this isn't working, Oh this is failing. Trump should
not be doing the things that he's doing. He's doing
what he promised to do when he ran. He said
he would take on the terif issue. He said he
would get a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. He
said he'd secure the border. You know, I could go
down the whole list. He's doing the things he said
he would do. Some of these things are, as we've said,
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a departure from the status quo. They are disruptive and
so clay by their very nature, they're going to create
a little bit of friction and a little bit of uncertainty.
If you don't want that, you don't want change, you
don't want someone to fix anything. You just want more
of the same. I think we all need to remember
that the first one hundred days has been a plus. Overall.
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It's not perfect, nothing ever will be, and there's no certainties,
there's no guarantees in life. But he's doing what he
said he would do, and he I think he should
have our full support as he continues to pursue that mandate.
If he had veered off into nonsense, I'd be saying,
why did he veer off into nonsense? That's not what
has happened.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I also think, and we'll talk about this more, the
next one hundred days or so are set up to
be incredibly consequential. Hopefully we get some form of resolution
in Ukraine, more resolution in Gaza, and again inflation, which
to me, I'll hit you when we come back, Buck
with what the American public from an economic perspective is
most focused on, and inflation is at four year lows.
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To me, that is the number one laser focus. After
Biden took us over nine percent, people still feel like
things cost more than they should. Tomorrow, evening Israel begins
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Speaker 6 (15:09):
Saving America, one thought at a time. Clay Travis and
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or wherever you get your podcasts. Playing buck here one
hundred days of the Trump Vance administration, and we are
joined now by Vice President JD. Vance, and we're going
to get into all the successes the border and more.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
But JD.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
I don't know if you've answered this question, But on
the first day of your administration, Ohio State won the
National Championship against Notre Dame. But you had a ton
of obligations as the newly inaugurated vice president. Do you
have like an official Buckeye guy who was following you
around that day giving you updates during the course.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Of the game.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
I know you're a big fan. I've actually I wondered
about it that night. I don't know if you've answered it.
I would have if my University of Tennessee ever gets
back in the in the idle game, I would be
terrified to miss any of it. What was your play
there for National Title Game day as a Buckeye.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
Yeah, there are a couple of different things going on.
So first I actually talked to my team about whether
it would be possible to skip the inaugural balls so
that I would be able to go to the game.
And actually, you know, I guess we'd get inaugurated, we'd
go to a few parties, and then I'd be able
to watch the game while the president took care of
the inaugural balls. The team was not a huge fan
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of that. Apparently it would have been unprecedent for vice
president to skip the inaugural balls the night of the inauguration.
What we were able to do, though, is before the
first ball, I actually had all of my friends and
family we got basically we turned a big hotel room
into a sports bar, and so I was able to
watch the first quarter before the first ball, and I
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think it was either right after the second or the
third ball, Notre Dame started to come back a little bit,
and so I sat in a room with like a
nineteen inch TV and just sort of watch the Buckeyes
put it away. So I got to see a little
bit of it. Man. But yeah, it's it's on the
one hand, like, what a cool day for an Ohio
State fan to be inaugurated as the vice president have
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your team win a national championship. On the other hand,
was sad to miss most of the game, but you know,
official duties come first.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Jennie.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I was also happy to see Vice president of Vance,
very happy to see my beloved Buckeyes do so well.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I want to ask you.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I want to ask you about a border if I can,
and what's going on with the administration on Well, let's
get into the next steps. The good news is you
can sit here and tell us. But Clay and I've
been telling everybody about this. So far, the border is
secure ninety five percent drop. The stats speak for themselves.
Biden kicked the border wide open, it was a choice.
Trump has actually secured the border. Fantastic. We still have
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millions and millions of illegals who came in under Biden.
What should we expect from the perspective of building on
the border successes so far in the next six to
twelve months.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Yeah, well, obviously we know we have to ramp up
to porche deportations, and the President talks about this all
the time, both in public and private. It's something that
I'm very focused on. And a lot of this comes
down to, I mean, it turns out we've got to
do some battle with some really crazy, far left judges
in order to allow the administration to do what it
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actually needs to do. And I will say to great credit.
The President expected this when we came in. He said,
you know, we're gonna start deporting people, and a lot
of these far left judges are going to stop us,
and there's no way out of it but through it,
and we're just gonna have to battle. We're gonna have
to win the court cases. We're gonna have to take
some of this stuff all the way to the Supreme Court,
and we're going to have to find alternative ways to
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deport people. When the judges say you can't do this method,
we're gonna have to find another method. So we recognize
that we're dealing battle here, or doing battle with basically
a massive bureaucracy that has decided that it rules the
country rather than the American people. And I think one
of the biggest takeaways of one hundred days is, yes,
we've got a lot of successes. We've also revealed old
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ways in which this deeply entrenched bureocracy tries to fight
the will of the American people. And thank god, we've
got a vice president and a president who are pushing
back against him. And that's exactly what we told the
American people we would do. That's exactly what we're doing.
But I think that is really the biggest focal point
of immigration policy over the next six to twelve months,
is to empower all of the people in the administration,
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from Tom Homer and Christynome to the border patrol agents
on the ground to do their job and to get
a lot of these people out of our country. Now
that said, we have had great success, but we're not
resting on our laurels here. We're shutting down the border
traffic coming into the country and we're dealing with what
Biden left us simultaneously. That's exactly what we have to do.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
You're not only an Ohio State grad, you're also a
Yale law grad. And you just talked about where the
resistance two point zero, I would say is coming from,
largely the six hundred and some odd district court judges
who are regularly putting in place nationwide in junctions.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
What's a fix to that?
Speaker 4 (20:02):
And are even you surprised by how aggressive the judiciary
has been to try to strip the president's executive authority?
Speaker 7 (20:10):
You know, I'm not surprised by it, because again, the president.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Actually expected this.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
He told us this would happen, you know, he felt
and I think he was right about this that you know,
the left felt defeated in a certain way, that there
were a lot of you know, grassroots activists that just
weren't nearly as fired up in twenty twenty four as
they were in twenty sixteen. And he's talking about people
on the far left. But he said that, look, the
courts are going to try to stop everything that we do.
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And it's actually not just immigration. I mean, the courts
have tried to stop Pete Hegseth from not allowing you know,
transgender military personnel to continue serving. They've done a lot
I mean, which goes to the heart of military readiness,
right the Secretary of Defense saying that, you know, if
you're dealing with a serious mental health issue, our compassion
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goes with you, but you can't be deployed to the
battlefield like that. That is the heart of the president
and the Secretary of Defense's authorities. And so you have
these district courts who really want to run the country
and have decided that they are actually in charge of
the United States of America. There's this very funny I
think headline from the Babylon be that was, you know,
(21:17):
something like Donald Trump considers resigning to become a very
powerful district court judge. But it's one of these jokes
with a kernel of truth, which is that the district
courts in this country have tried to take upon themselves
powers that belong to the President of the United States.
And it's funny, guys, you know, you hear the media
and they'll say, well, this is a constitutional crisis. And
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the constitutional crisis is not Donald Trump refusing to allow
the district courts to govern the country. The crisis is
the district courts trying to govern the country, and our approaches.
We're fighting it legally, of course, we're taking some of
these cases to the Supreme Court and we think we're
going to get success there. We're finding alternative methods to
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do what we need to do in compliance with the law.
And we're just going to have to keep on fighting this,
you know, day by day, figuring out where the district courts.
And it's to be clear, it's not all district courts,
it's the far left crazies. But when these far left
crazies stop and try to prevent the president from doing
his job, we've got to do it through alternative means,
and that's what we're trying to do.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
We're speaking of Vice President Vance, and mister Vice President,
let me ask you about how things are going at
this stage with not just identifying the waste, fraud and
abuse within the government, a big mission that DOGE has
taken upon itself. But what we can expect now, how
much of this do you think has been completed when
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you look at Elon and Doje's mission. Does Congress have
to play a major role with recisions? Essentially, we know
there's a lot of shenanigans going on, but how do
we actually get the shenanigans in government spending to stop?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Where are we on that?
Speaker 7 (22:52):
Yeah, I think we're making a lot of progress. I
wouldn't say that it's done by any means. And yes,
Congress has a role because here, here's what happens. If
DOGE and Elon find ten billion dollars of spending, that's
just ridiculous. That's not consistent with the law or with
the administration's policy priorities. That money just kind of sits there,
and so it's still been taxed from the American people.
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And if we want to use it to pay down
debt or to give it back to the American people
through tax relief. Then that does require an Act of Congress,
and I think Congress is very willing to do it.
But I don't know if you saw. I think it
was today or maybe yesterday, a report came out that
Treasury actually is borrowing less money than they expected to borrow.
And I think that's because of the success of DOGE.
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You're seeing them make meaningful cuts in some of these
crazy foreign aid programs. But I also think they're finding
a lot of fraud in programs that are meant for
American citizens that are going either to illegal aliens or
to complete fraudsters. And so I think DOGE is making
a lot of progress, but it's not done, and I
don't think it's ever going to be truly done right.
This is one of these problems that we have to
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continually fight against. And the reason why it was such
a shock to the systems. We had allowed the waste
and the fraud to become so endemic in the way
that we did government in this country, and I don't
think we should ever go back. And I actually do think,
and maybe this is too optimistic, that when all the
political controversy is cleared, we look back on this a
few years from now, we're going to realize that doges
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saved the American people a lot of money, that cut
a lot of fraud out of our government, and that
even some Democrats are going to say, well, we have
to keep doing this because we can't just let hundreds
of billions of dollars of fraud every single year become
part of how the US government functions.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
We're talking to Vice President jd Vance. You guys have
made tremendous strides with young men. The data continues to
reflect that young men are breaking for both you and
Donald Trump in big numbers. I think a big part
of that is because young men are over this idea
of men being able to play women's sports. I can't
believe this is even a thing. Nike, you may have seen,
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recently paid for a study all minors to study trans
drugs and how it might impact athletics. How did the
world get so broken here? What are companies like Nike
even trying to accomplish? And this feels like an eighty
twenty ninety ten issue for Americans. Do you feel that
when you're out and about I.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Do feel that. I definitely think it's a winning political
issue for the Republican Party, because it's just basic common sense, right.
I mean, people don't want women competing against grown men
and sports, especially in some of these contact sports where
the women could get injured. You know, I'm the father
of a three year old daughter. I'd like her to
play sports. I think it teaches valuable life lessons, but
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I don't want her competing against grown men when she
does it. This is just, again, it's basic common sense.
I think it's the basic masculine instinct to protect young women.
And one of the ways you do that is to
not let, you know, a male boxer in the room
with a female boxer. Just things like that I think
have turned it into a ninety ten issue, that basic
common sense. But man, I think that so many of
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these companies, Nike or otherwise, they got caught up in
this cultural zeitgeist of twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, and
it's like, I don't know, maybe they just thought the
progressors were going to win, and so they decided to
fund this stuff to the hilt, not realizing that the
American people would have a rebellion against the craziness. I
think that rebellion on the trans issue in particular, I mean,
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think about this, giving hormonal therapies to twelve year old kids,
causing irreversible damage to their bodies, forcing young girls to
compete against boys in sports, sometimes causing serious injury in
the process. I think this issue is such a bad
loser among the American people that even some of the
true believers have dropped it as a political issue. But
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I think it's our job to remind the American people
this is what they've tried to do, this is what
they're promising to do. The trans issue hasn't gone away.
You just had some Democrats who are smart enough to
recognize it as a political loser. But yeah, they're going
to try to force twelve year olds to take cross
sex hormones, and they're going to try to force young
girls to compete against young boys if we give these
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guys power. The craziness, in other words, hasn't gotten away.
They've just gotten a little bit better at hiding it.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Mister Vice President, one war for you. Appreciate you making
the time for us today. The tariff's issue is something
that has gotten a lot of attension on this show
across the country. For obvious reasons. People are very attuned
to what the Trump negotiations with these countries and his
approach to China is doing to the economy, the market
prices everything. Wall Street Journal being a little salty about
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it today on their front page. What do you say
to anyone who is trying to steer Donald Trump away
from this course because they're a little nervous about the
tariff situation.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
So I've had so many conversations guys in private with
the President about this, and I think his public statements,
I mean, going back to the nineteen eighties, this is
an issue that he feels very deeply about. I happen
to think that he's right. He can'paiged on it. The
American people elected him on it. And there's a lot
of misinformation out there. There's a lot of people saying, well,
Donald Trump doesn't know what he's actually doing. Look, I
(28:09):
promise you I've spent many hours discussing these issues with
Donald Trump. You can disagree with him, but he knows
exactly what he's doing. And here's the fundamental problem. America
doesn't produce enough of its own stuff. That is the issue.
We don't have enough manufacturing in our own country. We're
too reliant on sometimes hostile foreign powers to make the
(28:31):
things that we need. And that's true in electronics, it's
true in technology, it's true in God forbid. You know,
we've had shortages of critical pharmaceuticals in this country over
the last few years. We cannot have a real successful,
prosperous country if we're dependent on the communist Chinese for
the drugs that we put into the bodies of our children.
(28:52):
And so what the President has said here is, yes,
this is going to be disruptive, Yes this is going
to require some transition, but he's fundamentally to the basic
process of manufacturing more in the United States, creating good
paying jobs in the process, but more fundamentally making America
more self reliant. And I think the problem is that
we had a bipartisan consensus in this country for forty
(29:14):
years that we could just ship all of our heavy
industry overseas, that we could ship a lot of our
good jobs overseas, a lot of our factories, and that
somehow that would make the United States more prosperous. I
think the reality is that it's made us weaker. It's
made us more dependent on the communists Chinese. And when
you see, for example, the Chinese respond to the President's
(29:36):
trade policy by saying, well, we're going to cut off
the United States from critical supplies that are necessary for
the American people. Doesn't that just prove that Donald Trump
was right? How did we ever get into the position
where the People's Republic of China could threaten the American
people with the loss of critical supplies? And given that
we are in that position, Donald Trump is exactly right
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that we have to get out of it. I'm not
going to tell you it's going to be easy, because
it's not, but it's necessary, and I think the President
recognizes he is a once in a generation opportunity to
do it.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
JD.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Van's, Vice President of the United States. Congratulations on the
first hundred days and your Ohio State Buckeyes being the
national champs.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
We hope to talk to you again soon. Keep up
the good work.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
Thanks guys. Stick here.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
That's Vice President JD.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
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Speaker 8 (31:52):
He is the most consequential American leader of the twenty
first century. And that's an understatement.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
A President Trump has. Here's a list.
Speaker 8 (31:59):
Removement from women's sports into dei in the federal government,
in the US military, expanded oil and gas extraction to
lower prices, taking steps to end unfair trade practices, secure
trillions of dollars in new investments in American manufacturing. Deported
criminal illegal aliens, stood up religious liberty and rooted out
anti Christian bias, Combated virulent anti semitism on college campuses.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
The list goes on and on and on.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
That's just barely scratching the service.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
That's in one hundred days. We're just getting started, just
getting started.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
That was Speaker Mike Johnson talking about Trump's first hundred days.
We are at that mark right now. The time is
flying by, but certainly a lot already for the Trump
administration to tout in terms of accomplishments, and.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
A lot more on the way.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
And Clay, I don't know if you saw this, but
our friend Senator Tommy Tubberville, he went full A plus
in his grading here so I scaled mine down to
an A because I think you can't really give an
A plus. But Senator Tubberville he thinks you can play six.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
One hundred days.
Speaker 9 (33:01):
What do you think a plus?
Speaker 2 (33:03):
What else can he do? Larry?
Speaker 9 (33:04):
They left it in a total mess. I was up
here for four years of Joe Biden. They did not
do one thing for the American people or for this country.
They actually try to destroy it and everything went down.
Now President Trump has got foreign wars, he's got deportations,
you know, the border, the tax cuts, he's trying to
save the economy. What a total disaster the Democrats created.
(33:26):
And they're on the steps of the of the capital,
you know, Kumbai Yah and all this kind of stuff
going on, and they make absolutely no sense of what's happened,
and they don't know how to They don't have a
clue how to fix anything, So they're just trying to
create problems.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I think that's certainly the case. Democrats are just an
opposition party or a party of no. Now that when
you're out of power is always somewhat true. But you
can also say I don't like what he's doing, here's
what should be done. Democrats just still chant about Hitler
and all kinds of exaggerated, crazy nonsense to oppose Trump.
But Clay, here's one area where they're going after him
(34:03):
using numbers. This has cut sixteen. CNN's Harry Engine yesterday
on the one hundred day mark saying, or just before
the hundred day mark, saying that the poll numbers aren't
in his favor.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Play that one. These numbers are just horrible.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
There's no way to sugarcoat it. And the first way
we'll sort of point that out is we'll look at
where Donald Trump is now versus where he was one
hundred days into his first presidency. And you see it here.
You don't have to be a mathematical genius. Forty one
percent approve of him now. It was forty four percent
back in twenty seventeen around.
Speaker 7 (34:30):
The one hundred day mark.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
And what's so notable here is that throughout his second
term as president, he tended to be running ahead of
where he was in his first term. No longer is
that the case. He has fallen below where he was
at this point in his first term. Of course, this
is just Trump. Let's compare him to other presidents. And
I really think this kind of puts a bow on it,
and you can see it here. You see the forty
one percent. That is twelve points below Joe Biden. That's
(34:53):
three points below where he was in his first term.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Shouldn't that tell us Clay that it doesn't matter If
Biden was to twelve points ahead of where Trump is now,
he had a failed presidency, he was a disaster, and
he was hiding dementia from the American people. That's just
one example of or one data point toward. I don't
care what Trump's pull numbers are right now. I care
that Trump is pursuing the agenda. That's what he's supposed
to do, and people who are getting weak knees over
(35:17):
tariffs need to stiffen their spines a little bit.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
I also think that poll numbers for presidents only matter
if they can run for reelection. We talked to jd.
Vance at the top of the last hour. Jd Vance,
I imagine would like to be the successor of Trump.
He is the person who would be running in some
way more than anyone on what the legacy of Trump is.
(35:43):
If Trump has, as I think he will, a very
popular legacy in twenty twenty eight, then I think JD.
Vance will win the presidency because I would expect that
JD will be the favorite in twenty twenty eight, and
as the vice president, he will be running on the
legacy of the president to some extent. Obviously, you try
to also put your own spin forward on things. But look,
(36:06):
I mean, this is the challenge that Kamala Harris had.
And whatever you think of Kamala Harris, and I think
she was a very weak candidate. The reason she lost,
in addition to being a weak candidate herself, was because
she said there wasn't anything that she would do that
was different than what Joe Biden had done. And when
you have a profoundly unpopular sitting president and your answer
(36:27):
is hey, more of the same, it's unlikely that the
American public is going to respond favorably to you. But Buck,
here's what I think from the pole perspective, to the
point you said weak need, I think that Trump came
in and said, we have major, huge, systemic issues that
need to be solved. The border, I would argue, Buck,
(36:49):
is pretty much solved now. Deportation is a challenge, but
in terms of allowing things to get worse, he solved
it in the first hundred days the global trade imbalance
and says this is a major battle that's going to
continue for a long time.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
But he took it on.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
And then the other one is the fact that we
have a thirty six trillion dollar national debt. He tried
to take that on. Where do you think the negativity
is coming from. Not the border where overwhelmingly people agree
with him. It's taking big swings and big cuts at
global trade and at the overall economic basis of our budget.
(37:27):
He's taken some lumps there because he's trying to fix
two really substantial issues.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Well, this is where the psychology of propaganda also is
so important, because they were talking about a Trump recession
or even a Trump depression just a couple of weeks
ago when there was a choppy week in the markets,
up down, up down, and you could say, well, Buck,
clearly we're not in market's up today. We're doing backflips
over it. But the point is they can make people
(37:56):
feel negatively about things, even when they're hoarding is premature
or just flatly untrue. Right, So if you tell people
enough things are about you know, they've done interesting, interesting
studies about this. If you're a person who is just
positive about other people in general, people view you more positively,
(38:16):
which makes sense, right. And if you're somebody who's always
talking smack, who's always saying that, you know, Sally from
Accounting needs to, you know, work harder, or you know,
Joe from Accounts Receivable needs to put in more time, whatever,
if you're always the negative person, people tend to view
you more negatively.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Well. This is true of news reporting as well.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
If you're just talking negative stories endlessly, even if those
stories are exaggerated or turn out not to be what
you initially reported, you can make people think things are
worse than they are. And this is why Democrats also
rush with the and the Democrat aligned media rushes with
the negative narrative as fast as they can. They don't
want to wait for things to play out because they
(38:59):
want to turn the per against the administration because this
is politics, right, That's how they view it. They just
want people to think things are bad. Remember when to
Biden they had this in the opposite direction when for
a while Biden's strategy, i think going into the midterms
and then afterwards for a while Clay was the economy's great.
People just don't know how great it is right.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
That was the Yeah, that was their argument. That was
their argument.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
You don't even know how great things are for you
right now, you just need to pay attention to how
great they are. It's like, well, that did not exactly resonate.
They're trying a different version of sure, you think things
are pretty much okay and actually going pretty well. They're
actually terrible though, and that's what they've been doing, certainly
for the last month in the economy. So the long
story short, I think the poll numbers don't matter. Why
(39:46):
would they matter right now? No one's going to care
what the polls were now, in six months or even
in six weeks, So it's just an effort to try
to create negative perception.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
I think they would matter maybe if there were a
more popular politician in a Marria, and there isn't one, right, so,
I mean if Democrats the Biden poll numbers always occurred
with the shadow of a Trump presidency and a Trump
reelection bid hanging out there. I know we talked about
Wes Moore in the last hour and who the Democrat JB. Pritzker,
(40:18):
Peter may or Pete that are trying to kind of
set the agenda to try to be the nominee in
twenty twenty eight. Who's a more popular politician right now
than Trump? Is there any Democrat? I mean, the Democrat
approval ratings in Congress make the Trump approval ratings look phenomenal.
So I think you have to look at it in
the context of is anyone else doing better? You also
(40:41):
hit on something that I always thought was super fascinating.
Do you know what the number one likelihood of who
was going to get sued as a doctor was? You
talked about how people are seen. Do you know what
they've studied from.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
A if you don't like If you don't like the doctor,
the chance of the doctor of you suing the doctor
goes up like tens or.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
Something bedside manner.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
It's not does the doctor screw up a lot the
If the doctor has a likable comportment, the odds of
him being sued or her being sued much lower the
bedside manor aspect there, And so I think that factors
in on some level.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
Trump is now a known quantity.
Speaker 4 (41:21):
And the thing that Trump got right back in twenty
sixteen when he said it is, Hey, I could shoot
somebody on Fifth Avenue, and my base is not leaving me.
And I'm paraphrasing him on that quote, but that was
basically the quote. The Trump base is not leaving. Now,
we've all we've talked about.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
This for some time. What is the Trump base?
Speaker 4 (41:39):
I think forty percent of America is died in the
wall Trump team, and so he's gonna have that forty
percent no matter what. He got a big percentage growth
I think in the twenty twenty four election. And now
the question is I think this is going to ultimately
determine everything. What's the economy?
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Like?
Speaker 4 (41:58):
This is what I told you, Buck. I think I
said that I was going to tease this, and I'll
I told you inflation was number one. I'll hit you
with the other things, but it's inflation overwhelmingly. If the
price of gas keeps coming down and if the price
of groceries does not go up, the average American is
going to consider Trump to have done a decent job.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
I'll also later.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
On foreign affairs, doesn't feel like we're very close to
a war now. I hope I'm not jinxing it, but
it feels like for Americans in terms of our stability
and safety around the world, I feel pretty good about that.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
As we If Canada decides to just get it together
and invade us, I am going to blame you for
this now.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
And this will be on me.
Speaker 4 (42:38):
If Canada or Mexico, Canada or Mexico Costa Rica decides
to finally get an army and decides to try to invade,
this will be on me.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
Because I just said I feel very safe, but in general,
I feel like we're a long way from any wars. Also,
I would just say, what would people want Trump to
be working on right now? Who voted for him? Yeah,
that he's not doing. I think that's an import question
to ask if this is what is the thing that
Trump said I will in the first hundred days do
the following, start to do the following.
Speaker 7 (43:08):
Right.
Speaker 1 (43:08):
I'm not saying the results are all in or that
everything has been accomplished, far from it. But what is
the area of focus where Trump has not focused and
we were told he would. I cannot think of it
because I don't think it exists. I think he has
come out and started going after everything he said he
would go after. Deportations are in the early phase, but
it is happening. The border is secure. It happened even
(43:30):
faster than I anticipated that it would. He's getting the
negotiations going on tariffs, he has the negotiations going on
Russia Ukraine, he is looking at Iran and Israel, and
you know mid EA's peace, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
What is he not doing that he said he would do.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
That's I think in a lot of ways, the real
test of the first hundred days is that, you know,
promises made, promises kept goes a little bit too far
because well, have we gotten the results yet that we
need know? But what focus is important? And the focus
has been on what he said it would be, And
I think in the first hundred days of an administration,
(44:08):
that's about the best you can ask for. Is you're
actually doing this stuff right. You're trying to do this
stuff actively. You're not delaying, you're not prevaricating, You're not saying, oh,
I don't want to go as hard in this direction
as I said, I wull that was just a fool
you idiots to vote for me.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
He said, no, Okay, let's go.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
And so I think that there's a lot of credit
that should be given to him on that and the
other stuff Clay that we're talking about. With the loss
of some support in the polls. A lot of that's
media perception. A lot of that is people freak out quickly. Okay,
you know, they hear that there's a recession coming.
Speaker 2 (44:40):
They go, oh, my gosh, the recession.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
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Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. I mentioned
this poll earlier, and I do think it's interesting. This
is from NBC News. They say they surveyed nearly twenty
thousand adults and asked top economic issue for you and
your family. Forty four percent, Buck said inflation. So if
(46:43):
I were giving advice to anyone in the Trump team
over the next one hundred days, I would say manighacally
focus on bringing the cost of goods down, because I
think that's the number one way that people tend to
react right now to the economy. Second is taxes. We know,
Buck that the bill is rolling through, the big beautiful
(47:05):
bill that will enshrine the tax cuts. We'll take some
of your calls on that. Third is the national debt. Again,
these are big, major systemic issues, and then you get
into housing, the stock market, which is in many ways
a snapshot of whatever the economy is at any given time.
Those are things that I think Trump gets. But if
(47:27):
I were saying, if you could focus on one thing
and solve one thing, inflation is down. But I think
if you could change the idea that Biden built in
that things are going to cost far too much, that
would be the most helpful in the next one hundred days.
It's what I would say to Trump, Hey, if you
were going to be judged on something, what would you
want to be judged on? Bringing inflation down and cost
(47:51):
of goods being not a massive thing that everybody's obsessed with.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
It would be nice, though, at some point to get
a reduction in rates here. That could be You know,
Trump has been very vocal about that. I think he's
right about that too. Free up a little bit of
liquidity in our economy would be a good thing. I
think people are waiting to make moves based upon this
that could be very helpful overall.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
So we shall see.
Speaker 1 (48:15):
But yeah, the main thing is you don't want overspending
like we saw under Biden, because that is what creates inflation,
and it really is a tax on the working class
and those who are trying to pay bills and maybe
even get ahead of bills. That is what ends up happening.
This is your dollars are worthless. You have to pay
(48:38):
more for the things that you need. Asset holders do fine.
People that have big stock accounts, you know, multiple homes,
own businesses.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
Et cetera.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
They generally do much better when inflation is high, or
rather they can weather the inflation much better. But you know,
the Treasury Department is going to borrow five hundred and
fourteen billion dollars this quarter. According to Bloomberg Clay. This
is a three hundred and twenty percent increase from its
previous estimate. We're still spending too much money, everybody. But
I guess this is the problem, is that the biggest
(49:08):
challenge I think for Doje all long has been so
we can't touch seventy percent of spending, Let's see we
can do to make the other thirty percent of spending
not so crazy.
Speaker 2 (49:17):
That's not good.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
Enough, but nobody wants to hear it.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
Nobody wants to hear it all.
Speaker 4 (49:23):
I mean, this is the thing that we're speeding at
rapidly is frankly, if you don't address the thirty six
trillion dollars in debt sooner or later, the bill is
going to get paid, maybe by your grandkids, but economic
reality doesn't disappear. We can't continue to live on borrowed money.
Speaker 1 (49:44):
And yet we're going to try. Yes, this is unfortunately,
this is what we're doing. So yeah, great, no doubt.
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