April 6, 2026 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show kicks off the Monday program with wall‑to‑wall breaking news and analysis as Clay Travis and Buck Sexton return from the Easter weekend amid rapidly escalating developments in the U.S.–Iran conflict. The hour opens with confirmation of a major military success: both American airmen from the downed F‑15 have now been rescued from deep inside Iranian territory. Clay and Buck detail the extraordinary behind‑enemy‑lines rescue operation, describing how U.S. Special Operations forces, drones, and air assets were deployed over rugged Iranian mountain terrain to extract the second airman after nearly 48 hours on the run. Buck explains that Reaper drones were used to strike Iranian hunter teams closing in on the weapons systems officer, while temporary landing zones were established and disinformation campaigns were executed to mislead enemy forces—underscoring what the hosts call a flawless “leave no man behind” mission personally overseen by President Donald Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
The hosts emphasize the broader strategic implications of the rescue, noting Iran’s apparent lack of internal security and operational control despite the pilots ejecting far behind enemy lines. Clay highlights a striking comparison: more people have been murdered in Chicago since the war began than Iran has killed American troops, pointing to domestic crime as a larger relative danger and reinforcing a recurring theme of misplaced priorities in media coverage.
From there, Hour 1 pivots to President Trump’s increasingly explicit warnings to Iran, delivered publicly during Easter events at the White House. Clay and Buck review Trump’s statements from the Easter Egg Roll, including his claim that tens of thousands of Iranian protesters were killed by the regime during earlier uprisings and his assertion that Iran cannot be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons. The hosts dissect Trump’s comments on potential regime collapse, negotiations with what he calls a “more reasonable” third group now running Iran, and his refusal to extend deadlines regarding the Strait of Hormuz, a central flashpoint for global energy markets.
A major focal point of the hour is Trump’s highly provocative Truth Social post, in which he openly threatened Iran with devastating retaliation—including power plants and bridges—if shipping routes are not reopened. Clay characterizes the post as “cinematic Trump,” comparing it to the famous Gladiator line “at my signal, unleash hell,” arguing that Trump believes adversaries respond only to overwhelming, unmistakable force. Buck notes the message’s shock value—including Trump’s first written profanity as president—while agreeing it functions as psychological warfare meant to leave no doubt about U.S. resolve.
The hour also captures the contrast between Trump’s public accessibility and the Biden presidency. Clay and Buck recall viral footage from prior years in which Biden was steered away from reporters by staff dressed as the Easter Bunny, contrasting it with Trump freely answering questions—even discussing issues like the autopen controversy with kids during the Egg Roll. This segues into broader commentary on media credibility, Democratic narratives around Biden’s health, and criticism of post‑hoc media books attempting to excuse years of denial.
In a forward‑looking political discussion, Clay raises a provocative concern about Kamala Harris’s potential viability in a future election, arguing that lingering anger over inflation and affordability could create a “double‑hate” environment where voter frustration—not candidate strength—decides outcomes. Buck strongly disagrees, predicting Harris would lose decisively, but the exchange highlights ongoing uncertainty over how economic aftershocks from the Biden era may shape 2028.
The hour closes on a lighter personal note, with on‑air birthday celebrations for Clay Travis, humorous listener talkbacks, and informal banter—providing levity before the show prepares to carry President Trump’s live White House address in the next hour.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in Monday edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. We
hope that all of you had fantastic Easters with your
family and friends, and that you are ready to roll
with us for what could be could be a very
consequential Monday edition of the program. President Trump scheduled to
(00:24):
speak at around one o'clock Eastern from the White House.
I saw this morning, Buck, as I was getting ready
that the media started staking out their positions inside of
the White House Press Briefing Room starting basically at dawn.
So there is an expectation that a lot of news
(00:46):
is going to come out in a little over an hour,
and that comes on the heels of a lot of
news that happened over the weekend. First, let's start with this.
We rescued both of the pilots, both of the individuals
that were forced to eject from the F fifteen President
Trump and others breaking the news right as Easter Sunday
(01:09):
was beginning on the East coast around midnight Eastern. The
fact that we had rescued that individual coming out still
not been named. Let's start with that, Buck, and then
we'll kind of dive in. The President has already spoken
some today at the Easter egg roll, which was taking
place on the White House lawn. Lots of little kids there.
(01:31):
You'll remember Joe Biden memorably had to be saved by
someone dressed up as the Easter Bunny because they did
not want him to be talking to any reporters. But Buck,
the degree to which the United States put it all
on the line to get this second ejected pilot out
(01:54):
pretty incredible, multiple different aircraft. Secretary of warheag Seth and
a President Trump spent Friday and Saturday basically constantly in
the Oval Office trying to make sure that this individual
was rescued. They had to you could probably speak to
some of this. They had to basically light on fire
(02:16):
and blow up multiple different planes that were landed that
they couldn't get to take off that they didn't want
to fall into military hands, but ultimately leave no man behind.
We have managed to get these two individuals out of Iran.
I think it speaks to Iran's inability to have any
real security inside of its country that two pilots could
(02:41):
eject into that country way behind enemy lines and they
weren't even able to get them, and thankfully they were not.
They would have been used for propaganda. But what just
a phenomenal success story. And let me hit you at
this stat as we come in more people, this is
a downside. More people have been murdered in Chicago alone
(03:01):
since this war started with Iran. Then Iran has killed
American soldiers. We wish the casualty list was zero. Thirteen
American soldiers have been killed in over a month's action
relating to Iran. You are in more danger on the
streets of Chicago than you are actually fighting a war
(03:22):
against Iran. Clay It's it was a remarkable operation to
save particularly the second the second pilot in this case
weapons officer. The pilot was saved early on and Trump
sharing out we got him in a In a truth
social post, he wrote, this brave warrior was behind enemy
(03:43):
lines in the treacherous mountains of Iran, being hunted down
by our enemies who were getting closer and closer by
the hour.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I mean, this is a.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Situation where we were aware of where he was, the pilot.
I'm sorry I keep saying pilot, the weapons officer, airman.
I guess you could say he had to make his
way up I think to six thousand or seven thousand
foot elevation up into the mountains. He had to break
radio silence. Now he could reach the good guys, he
(04:11):
could reach American forces, but the Iranians could pick up
that signal too. So it is very much like I
I being just honest about this, very much like the
Behind Them the Lines movie from the nineties, which is
actually a pretty good movie, but it was a similar situation.
The second that he breaks radio silence, he's giving away
his position to both sides of it. And the fact
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that we're able to do this without a single yeah,
seven thousand foot Ridgeline Clay and the US was having
to deploy reaper drones in real time to take out
the convoys that were because clearly the Iranians were gonna
be able to get to him first on the ground.
So we had reapers in the air blowing up there there.
(04:57):
You know, hunter hunter teams, if you will. There teams
trying to you know the opposite of search and rescue them.
They're trying to take this guy's they can you know, capture,
torture and make him a propaganda piece. So we were
deploying all kinds of resources. I think there was a
temporary airstrip we formed inside of Iran. We had special
operations deployed on the ground. There was a there was
(05:20):
you know, gunfire. I mean, it's just the whole thing.
I mean, it is the stuff of a Tom Clancy
novel or a Jack Carr novel. To update things, our
friend Jack Carr. This is very much out of the
pages of a Jack Carr novel and it's real life.
And it was an incredible operation where it's glad that
the second service member was brought home safely, but there
(05:41):
was there was a disinformation operation as a part of
this play to make it seem like he was already
on the way out somewhere else. I mean, this was
an all hands on deck operation and it was pulled
off flawlessly. So that's that's something that everyone should just
take a moment to understand. I mean, this could have
wrong one hundred different ways. And our guys home safe
(06:03):
and sound, with with the the good guys tonight today
and thank God for that.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
No doubt.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Then President Trump puts out on Easter a basic forty
eight hour notice letting the Iranian government know, and I'm
you know, paraphrasing here that he would rain down Holy
hell on them if they did not agree to open
up the.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Strait of hor Mooz.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
So that is the deadline that is underway right now
as we prepare for this press conference at one o'clock,
let me give you a couple of the latest statements
from the President. Again, he's scheduled to speak in about
forty five minutes from now, and we will be joining it. Also,
the head of the CFTC, I should mention, Michael Sellig
(06:54):
is going to be with us. He's going to be
here in my studio in Nashville. And for those of
you out there that are interested in polymarket Calshi, all
of that that is going to be I think super
interesting as this is turned into a huge illegal battle there.
But here is Trump this morning at the Easter egg Roll.
(07:16):
I'm just going to run through several of these.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
First.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Trump says the Iranian people will fight back when they
know they're not going to be shot, and as soon
as they can get weapons. He's still saying that there
might be an uprising in Iran, although I'll give Buck
credit here. Buck has been skeptical that was going to
occur for some time, and it has so far not
been that many signs that it is going to occur.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
But here's cut one.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
The Iranian people will fight back as soon as they
know they're not going to be shot, and as soon as.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
They can get weapons.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
If they had weapons, not many of them. If they
had weapons, that would go to the other way, and
you know what happened.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Iran would give.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Up a two seconds because they wouldn't be able to
take it. But in Iran they have absolutely no weaponry.
They've been told point flank, if you come out, if
you come out to the street, you will be killed.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
As of this morning, and we have this.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
On pretty good information, forty five thousand protesters have been killed.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Pretty bad. Forty five thousand protesters killed in that initial uprising.
When was that January buck, If I'm remembering correctly, this
was before we did anything and went in at all.
Here is cut to Trump talking about who they're negotiating with.
He says he would just take the oil if he
had his own choice.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Cut too.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
We are obliterating that country, and I hate to do it,
but we're o glittering and they just don't want to
say uncle. They don't want to cry as the expression
goes uncle, but they will and if they don't, they'll
have no bridges, they'll have no power plants, they'll have
no anything. I will go further because there are other
things that are worse than those two, and we might
(08:56):
have well, the thing I had my choice, what would
I like to do? Take the oil?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Because it's sam for the taking.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
There's not a thing they can do about it. Unfortunately,
the American people would like to see us come home.
If we're up to me, I'd take the oil. I
keep the oil. I would make plenty of money, and
I'd also take care of the people ever ran much
better than they've been taking care of.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
It's for horrible And then one yeah, buck kind just
there was a tweet that we are a truth that
we need to note that goes along with this. Also
a little bit a little bit of dissonance there with
what Trump's talking about and the groovy tunes in the background.
It was a little threw me off a little bit,
you know, jazzy jazzy sounds in the background.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Trump put this out.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I had to check to see this is one of
those even at this stage, is this real from Trump?
And it is it's from his truth account. Tuesday will
be power plant Day and Bridge Day, all wrapped up
in one. In Iran, there will be nothing like it.
Open v F bomb. It's great, you crazy bastards, or
(10:02):
you'll be living in hell. Just watch Praise Be to Allah.
President Donald J.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Trump. That was out on his truth social account. Oh
I saw it. Yes, that is That.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Is maybe the most wow Trump truth of all time.
I think that's the first time he's ever written an
F bomb out on social media as the president.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Easter morning, Easter Morning, and it's look I read it,
and I my immediate thought was, this is all like
letting Iran know as publicly as possible we're gonna wipe
you out. And I saw it straight as a negotiation strategy,
(10:49):
also with a little bit of humor thrown in. So
I saw it in many ways as very vintage Trump.
And so it didn't it didn't shock, but I know
that it did shock some people. I think it's just
evidence that Trump feels like he's been restrained so far
(11:10):
and he is letting it be known that there that
he is ready to unleash Holy Hell. You know that
great scene, uh at. It reminds me of the opening
of Gladiator when Maximus is sitting and he says, it's
one of the all time great lines. At my signal,
unleash hell. Just such an absolute badass opening scene and
(11:35):
line right like that moment we do in life, echoes
in eternity, Clay Claire, so many every Gladiator line, I
love it, so many great lines. But at my signal,
unleash hell. For those of you have not seen that
clip or don't remember it, that is what I immediately
I'm not kidding, that is what I immediately thought of.
And we've talked about this, whether.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
You like it or not.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Trump thinks cinematically. He thinks in story, big epic narrative
arc story, And to me, that was Trump as Maximus,
letting it be known. Hey, at my signal, we will
unleash hell, and I will say, bad guys. They don't
(12:18):
respect nuance. Bad guys are not like sitting around contemplating
the philosophy of force and what is and what is not,
the rules of engagement and how they're going to be
implied applied. They respect raw, unadulterated force. Can you kick
(12:41):
their ass before they kick your ass?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
That is the.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Ultimate schoolyard bully test, and Trump is basically letting it
be known. I am going to unleash hell on you
unless you make a decision to agree to these terms
very quickly. And then one more cut Buck. This is
again just a little bit earlier, and we're expecting tons
(13:05):
of news here in about forty minutes. Iran can't have
a nuclear weapon. They're lunatics. This is one more statement
from the White House. As Buck pointed out the melodic
tunes in the background from a kid's Easter egg roll
as Trump is sounding off, cut three, Hopefully it.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Should be over with quickly. Again, there are lots of
different alternatives. We have many alternatives. We could leave right now,
and it would take them fifteen years to rebuild what
they have. We could leave right now, but I want
to finish it up. Iran ready cannot have nuclear weapons.
They are lunatics, and you can't put nuclear weapons in
the hands of a lunatics.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
That's the fundamental mission set as Trump has lit it out.
So we'll continue to update you on the Iran situation
and the efforts that JD. Vance apparently is making to
get some kind of a deal underway in advance of
the Tuesday deadline. My sense is there won't be a deal.
They'll just be a pushing back the Tuesday deadline. But
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Welcome back into Clay and Buck. Talking a lot about
Iran today. Hope you all had a fantastic Easter weekend,
and we'll get into some of that conversation later. But
back to the war in Iran. Well, there's a lot
of talk about Iran on the Easter Sunday, including from
the President himself. But you had a rescue mission underway
for a downed airman, two of them. One was picked
(15:45):
up very quickly, but the other one after they had
been shot down. They were shot down. There was some
discussion initialist whether or not it was some kind of
mechanical failure with the F fifteen Eagle plane that they
were in. But here's a Fox News correspondent, Mike Tobin,
on the rescue situation, which of course, as we know,
(16:06):
was successful.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
But this.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Was a tight You know, this was a really difficult
tense situation. Play fifteen.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
The picture that is being created out here is this
remarkable tense situation where you had elements of the besieged
forces and the Irundian Revolutionary Guard, as well as a
mob that was forming up for the population trying to
get to the remote area where this weapons systems operator
officer was hiding on this ridgeline with his beacon out,
(16:39):
waiting to get some rescue. And how tense the situation
was as you had the mob descending on him, so
there was contact with people on the ground, there was
contact with fighting forces, and they were able to gather
this individual up through a long tense period and get
him out of that area.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
So we knew that they were trying to get to him.
We had to take it.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
We had to take kinetic action and apparently many cases
to take out Irani enforces on the ground. Gives evere
a sense of how tight the timeline was here.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Also, the fact that this guy could be on the
ground for roughly forty eight hours and Iran couldn't get
to him is a sign that they don't have very
much operational control inside of their country either. And they
were offering fifty thousand dollars. I think to anybody who
could help to apprehend this guy, which is crazy money
(17:33):
in Iran, and I'm so glad we got him out.
And again, President Trump's scheduled to speak in about thirty minutes,
and we will see what the latest is. I bet
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more cuts coming from President Trump at the Easter egg Roll.
(19:00):
This is one of the maybe most significant here cut
thirty four. Trump says there's been regime change and that
the people that they are talking with now are reasonable
again thirty four, We've had.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Total regime change.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
You know, the people there now are much more reasonable
than the lunatics that you had Phase one and phase two.
They were lunatics. The people that we negotiate with now
on behalf of our n are much more reasonable. You
can call it what you want, but I call it
regime change, and I think most people are giving us
credit for that. The first regime was taken out, the
(19:37):
second regime was taken out.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Now the third group of people.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
That we're dealing with is not as radicalized.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
And we think they're actually much smarter.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Okay, and then Buck, you and I were talking about
off air, So he feels comfortable with the people they're
dealing with. We'll see if that means that there is
going to be a agreement reach because President Trump says
that iran Is had plenty of time and he's not
gonna push back the deadline. We'll see if that changes
when he talks here in about twenty minutes. But you
(20:07):
and I were talking about this off air. Trump talking
to kids is honestly a really great part of Trump.
And there's a bunch of different cuts going viral of
Trump talking to young kids at the Easters.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Like Iron doesn't listen. But you probably know that better
than anybody. You're in kindergarten. The smartest in all the
kindergarten classes. I've heard, the best, the most smart student.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I mean, they used to have the show Kids Say
the Darnedest Things, right, That was actually just adults interviewing
kids to find out what they were going to see
that Bill Cosby.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Are to day our political life has turned into Trump
says the Darnedest things. Yes, yes, I think it was
Bill Cosby back in the day. Who did a version
of that show. But here is Trump asking kids, do
you know what the this is real? Do you know
what the auto pin was? Joe Biden couldn't sign his
own name. He's sitting with the kids and the Easter eggs,
(21:01):
and this is Trump talking about the auto pen.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Listen, Biden would use.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
The auto peck, you have an auto pen. Biden didn't sign.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
He was incapable of seventy six. So they'd follow him.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Around with his big machine and auto pen and he'd
have the autop sign.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
He takes the payer handed to his guys, signed it.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
With an auto back.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
There it is uh President Trump explaining the auto pin
to the little kids at the Easter egg roll on
the White House lawn. Right now, this again twenty minutes,
he's going to be talking about what the situation is
with Iran. But if you remember, it wasn't very long
ago that Joe Biden was trying to do the Easter
(21:49):
egg roll buck and remember one of his staffers was
dressed up as an Easter bunny and Biden started answering
questions and the staffer dressed up as the Easter bunny
came that viral video and got Biden and basically took
him away from being able to respond to questions from
the media. Meanwhile, Trump is standing there just answering questions
(22:11):
left and right. And over the weekend, I'm sure you
saw this start to circulate, a bunch of people on
the left started saying, oh, we haven't seen Trump for
a few hours. It was because he was in the
Oval Office monitoring the rescue of the American troops. But
Biden would vanish for days and we would have no
idea what was really going on. When Trump doesn't answer
(22:33):
questions for a few hours, people on the left just
start making up stories. That's how available he is. That
if he doesn't have a public event almost every ten
hours or so, they start to clamor where is he?
He's not healthy. Meanwhile, they told us forever that you know,
Biden was sharp as attack.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Sure enough, they have changed nothing since all of their
Joe Biden's just fine. You know, notice there's no can
trition about it at all. There's really no soul searching
or anything else. There was that hilarious book by Fake
Tapper over at CNN about how I read how they
(23:12):
covered it up, which was amazing to me that you actually, well,
then again, I read Kamala's books. Yes, by the way,
I'm going to tell you this right now, Kamala's numbers play.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Maybe you're gonna be right. You're probably gonna be right.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I got a little ahead of my skis, you know,
I got a little, a little too much.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
But her numbers in.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
California are awful, awful, most recent numbers for her to
be to be the nominee, Democrats recognize, that is a
that is a bet the farm situation. If Kamala runs again,
you could bet the farm that she will lose. She
will lose the overall election, or lose that nomination, lose
(23:50):
the overall election for sure.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I was thinking about this this morning as I was
doing my prep. Not I'm afraid that Kamala could win.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
What Yeah, what Buck? This is the craziest thing. You said.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
She was two hundred and forty thousand votes away from
winning in twenty twenty four. And if the economy were bad,
and if JD. Vance were trying to run on the
Trump turn without having I think it's fair to say
the same ability to grab control of the narrative like
(24:34):
Trump has if people are still just angry, my concern,
if you wanted me to project for twenty eight for
how things go bad, is that the average voter could
still be angry over affordability in twenty twenty eight and
just be I think you're gonna have a double hate situation.
I think a lot of average Americans are just super
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frustrated with Democrats and republic lickings because they don't feel
like their genuine issues on affordability are being addressed. There's
still this anger over Biden allowing inflation to skyrocket to
such a degree it takes years. This is why I've
asked people out there in the audience, how long did
it take for the anger over Jimmy Carter and inflation
(25:21):
to dissipate. I think the answer was for a lot
of people it didn't really go away until like eighty five,
eighty six, and then I mean eighty four Reagan won
the obvious, the big win, but it was uncertain who
was going to win in eighty four. It takes several
years to work through. My hope is by twenty eight
(25:43):
it's going to be you know, everybody's going to be happy.
But I think it was like eighty five or eighty six,
you were barely born. I was a little kid until
people really kind of got over the massive inflation that
Jimmy Carter had created. And I still think they're a
lot of anger over the nine percent inflation that we
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saw and the fact that things cost more than people
believe they should cost.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Speaking about when I was born, that's irrelevant right now,
but when Clay was born very relevant.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Happy birthday, mister Clay Travis.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
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You're I'm not wrong, am I?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
No? No, you're right today? Okay?
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Oh god, I thought I thought I was. I thought
I jumped the gun or something that actually buckets tomorrow.
I'm like, no, I have it on my calendar.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
It's today. Happy birthday to Clay. He is he is
thirty two years old.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
For years old today, look like I'm eighty seven, but
I feel like I'm forty seven.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
He's doing great, everybody, He's doing great. Mister Clay Travis,
forty seven years young. Fit is a fiddle. Could he
throw up three hundred and fifteen pounds like our secretary
of war? Obviously obviously no problem. I've heard stories of
a sixty yard spiral. I've heard stories of a Clay
Travis four hundred yard drive off the off the back tee.
(27:09):
So is that what they call it? So yeah, this
is the this is the reality of our man, Clay.
He has a birthday today. Send him your birthday wishes, ladies, Ladies,
especially if you're over sixty. He's still married. No grabbing,
no touching, Okay, only nice birthday wishes. Don't get don't
get too salty. Grandma's the grandma's got a little salty
when it comes to Clay.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
I mean, look, they understand that that I'm an incredibly
lovable person, and so yes I have. I have reached
forty seven and I'm gonna celebrate today. Well, first of all,
we're gonna play the President about twenty minutes, so we'll see,
we'll see what kind of birthday stories we get there.
And then tonight, Buck, I'm gonna have steak, I'm gonna
(27:52):
have cake, and I'm gonna watch the NCAA Championship game
between Yukon and Michigan with some some friends and family
here locally. So that is where that's the big that's
the big festivities that.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Are going on tonight. Had a good weekend, though.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Do you have a do you have a preferred style
of birthday cake? Is there you know, flavor wise or anything?
What what is the what is the icon iconic the
pinnacle of birthday cake?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
To me, you just go. I mean, I don't think
you need to overthink this. I think you go white cake.
Uh and I think you go like a nice butter
cream topping. So white on white, not trying to be racist,
but white on white is the best of the cakes
in my opinion. I understand there's a chocolate cake community
out there, not a fan. I would just go straight
(28:38):
white icing on white cake.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
What about you?
Speaker 3 (28:42):
You have a preferred No, I have nothing interesting to
Actually I actually co sign what you're saying there. I
just there as some people out there who are ice
cream cake people, and I'm just like, what what? What
are we Marxists an, I'm not anti ice it's ice
cream or it's cake. You get you get ice cream
with your cake. You don't do ice cream cake. I
(29:02):
don't know what this is. This is crazy talk. My
boys are very much ice cream cake people. So I
might have raised Marxist in that respect, but I'm an
old school I don't think we had ice cream cakes.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Really.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
When I was a kid, so I never really got
to got to experience them. So I can go in
white cake, white icing, I will say, And I don't
want to alienate anybody. You know, the worst thing I
could ever do is offend anyone. The one thing that
I will say, anyone who gets coconut on their birthday
cake is just in terrorist savage.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
I mean, they may be a terrorists.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
I'm very anti like coconut in general, but have you
ever been to a birthday party where somebody's like, oh, yeah,
we have a coconut.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Shredded coconut on their birthday cake? You go straight deportation
on that one.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Really, I think you should join the Iranian Solamani's family.
You should be in a detainer facility. They picked her
up in La. It's good looking, by the way, they
picked her up in La.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
All of a suddenly everyone it was pretty funny.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
It was a very male moment online, meaning the guys
out there whatever.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
It's like the Iranian general's you know, niche lives here.
That's outrageous.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
And then there's photos of her in a bikini and
guys like, I mean, do process like, do you think
do you think she deserves her day at court.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
I mean, yeah, oh, there's a.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Lot of a lot of huffing and puffing about the
grand niece of like the Ayatola because she looks nice
in a mini skirt here in America, not over in Iran.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I my dad, but yeah, and I do have to
say that you should join her.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
If you are having birthday cake and I ever show
up and you say, hey, here's my coconut shaved birthday cake,
I mean, it's just terroristic moves in my But the
coconut to me, lemon cake is always the worst. Honestly,
I put lemon cake maybe beyond because the flavor of
the coconut cake I think is superior. But the little
shredded coconut is gross. But people go lemon birthday cake,
(30:55):
and I'm just like, why, why do you hate fun
and things that taste good?
Speaker 2 (30:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Lemon cake to me is a very I'm okay. Carrot
cake I'm a fan of. I wouldn't do it for
birthday cake though, I feel like that's against the rules.
But carrot cake is delicious. German every every cake but
the coconut stuff. German sheet cake s h E E T.
German sheet cake is very good as well. I've never
even heard of this. This is like, no, I've never
(31:21):
heard of German sheet cake. I gotta be careful saying
that I don't want to get us an FCC violation
on on my birthday here.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
This is uh.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
By the way, we'll open up the phone lines, but
very quickly here because the President's scheduled to talk in
a few minutes. And uh, I do have Buck, we
can play this on the backside. One of the astronauts
was really pretty fantastic in his Easter message, and I
want to make sure we play it before the President speaks.
And certainly everything is going to be reacting to the
(31:57):
President for the rest of the show, although I would
bet that he's going to be a little bit a
little bit late. And the team, for those of you
watching on video, trying to be healthy, and the team
has sent me a fruit dish.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
If we just talked about cake for ten minutes, and
our gift to you is fruit. I don't know about
that team New York team, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I think.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Fruit special here. So everybody's telling me I need to
be in better shape. I will tell you though, Buck,
as we go to break, We've got a brand new advertise,
we got a lot of new advertisers that are coming
on and this is this is pretty fantastic. Lots of
people out there are going to be.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Impressed.
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Clay Travis and Buck Sexton telling it like it is.
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Speaker 3 (34:18):
And welcome back in here to Clay and Buck. Let's
get to some talkbacks team, because we have some great
ones here. For example, this is talkback b Rob from
West Palm Beach, Florida, listens on WJNO hit that one.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
Hey, Glay and Bug, this is Rob from West Palm
I listened to you guys fifteen hours a week. I
can do that because I'm a contractor and I keep
my earbuds in all day long. Although I'm gonna have
to cut down on some of my listening. I caught
myself saying fabulous this weekend. I'm sorry, I can't do
it anymore.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Is that your faulter? My faulter? Pone?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
I think that it could be mine. I've been criticized
for using the word fabulous. This is a nice word
like dread.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Be positive. Everything's fabulous speaking of being positive. Bob from Houston,
Texas on kt R the Great k t RH where
our friend Michael Barry is a dominant leading for us
on k t R H. Thank you, sir, she Bob
from Houston. Play it, Clay Buck. I love you guys,
But if you really aren't terrified that Kamala's gonna win,
(35:22):
y'all need to get out and smell the roads.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Is a little bit more come on.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
As much as of a lunatic, she is as insane
as some people are in our country.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
No, she is not gonna win. Squat.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Please get out and smell the roses more. Please left
from town. I think she's yeah, I think she's a loser.
That's all Clay, that's all Clay there, he's team Kamala.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I just think again, if you had said, if you
were listening to big left wing media, if somebody had
predicted that Trump was gonna win by basically a landslide,
right when all seven toss up states win the popular
vote like he did in twenty two four. If you
had said that in twenty twenty two, a lot of
(36:04):
people would have said you were crazy. And so I'm
just It's sometimes hard to completely eliminate some of these
contenders because larger economic cycles often dictate the outcome of elections,
not individual political talent, which Kamala is sorely lacking in
good political talent.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
President Trump scheduled to speak at the top of the
next hour. We are going to go and carry him
live whenever he starts speaking again. It is scheduled to
be at one o'clock Eastern. He maybe started, although I
would bet twenty minutes late. That's my prediction. We'll see,
but it could be the president talking when we come back.
This is Clay and Buck. Thanks for hanging with us.
Welcome in Monday edition Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. We
hope that all of you had fantastic Easters with your
family and friends, and that you are ready to roll
with us for what could be could be a very
consequential Monday edition of the program. President Trump scheduled to
(00:24):
speak at around one o'clock Eastern from the White House.
I saw this morning, Buck, as I was getting ready
that the media started staking out their positions inside of
the White House Press Briefing Room starting basically at dawn.
So there is an expectation that a lot of news
(00:46):
is going to come out in a little over an hour,
and that comes on the heels of a lot of
news that happened over the weekend. First, let's start with this.
We rescued both of the pilots, both of the individuals
that were forced to eject from the F fifteen President
Trump and others breaking the news right as Easter Sunday
(01:09):
was beginning on the East coast around midnight Eastern. The
fact that we had rescued that individual coming out still
not been named. Let's start with that, Buck, and then
we'll kind of dive in. The President has already spoken
some today at the Easter egg roll, which was taking
place on the White House lawn. Lots of little kids there.
(01:31):
You'll remember Joe Biden memorably had to be saved by
someone dressed up as the Easter Bunny because they did
not want him to be talking to any reporters. But Buck,
the degree to which the United States put it all
on the line to get this second ejected pilot out
(01:54):
pretty incredible, multiple different aircraft. Secretary of warheag Seth and
a President Trump spent Friday and Saturday basically constantly in
the Oval Office trying to make sure that this individual
was rescued. They had to you could probably speak to
some of this. They had to basically light on fire
(02:16):
and blow up multiple different planes that were landed that
they couldn't get to take off that they didn't want
to fall into military hands, but ultimately leave no man behind.
We have managed to get these two individuals out of Iran.
I think it speaks to Iran's inability to have any
real security inside of its country that two pilots could
(02:41):
eject into that country way behind enemy lines and they
weren't even able to get them, and thankfully they were not.
They would have been used for propaganda. But what just
a phenomenal success story. And let me hit you at
this stat as we come in more people, this is
a downside. More people have been murdered in Chicago alone
(03:01):
since this war started with Iran. Then Iran has killed
American soldiers. We wish the casualty list was zero. Thirteen
American soldiers have been killed in over a month's action
relating to Iran. You are in more danger on the
streets of Chicago than you are actually fighting a war
(03:22):
against Iran. Clay It's it was a remarkable operation to
save particularly the second the second pilot in this case
weapons officer. The pilot was saved early on and Trump
sharing out we got him in a In a truth
social post, he wrote, this brave warrior was behind enemy
(03:43):
lines in the treacherous mountains of Iran, being hunted down
by our enemies who were getting closer and closer by
the hour.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I mean, this is a.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Situation where we were aware of where he was, the pilot.
I'm sorry I keep saying pilot, the weapons officer, airman.
I guess you could say he had to make his
way up I think to six thousand or seven thousand
foot elevation up into the mountains. He had to break
radio silence. Now he could reach the good guys, he
(04:11):
could reach American forces, but the Iranians could pick up
that signal too. So it is very much like I
I being just honest about this, very much like the
Behind Them the Lines movie from the nineties, which is
actually a pretty good movie, but it was a similar situation.
The second that he breaks radio silence, he's giving away
his position to both sides of it. And the fact
(04:33):
that we're able to do this without a single yeah,
seven thousand foot Ridgeline Clay and the US was having
to deploy reaper drones in real time to take out
the convoys that were because clearly the Iranians were gonna
be able to get to him first on the ground.
So we had reapers in the air blowing up there there.
(04:57):
You know, hunter hunter teams, if you will. There teams
trying to you know the opposite of search and rescue them.
They're trying to take this guy's they can you know, capture,
torture and make him a propaganda piece. So we were
deploying all kinds of resources. I think there was a
temporary airstrip we formed inside of Iran. We had special
operations deployed on the ground. There was a there was
(05:20):
you know, gunfire. I mean, it's just the whole thing.
I mean, it is the stuff of a Tom Clancy
novel or a Jack Carr novel. To update things, our
friend Jack Carr. This is very much out of the
pages of a Jack Carr novel and it's real life.
And it was an incredible operation where it's glad that
the second service member was brought home safely, but there
(05:41):
was there was a disinformation operation as a part of
this play to make it seem like he was already
on the way out somewhere else. I mean, this was
an all hands on deck operation and it was pulled
off flawlessly. So that's that's something that everyone should just
take a moment to understand. I mean, this could have
wrong one hundred different ways. And our guys home safe
(06:03):
and sound, with with the the good guys tonight today
and thank God for that.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
No doubt.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Then President Trump puts out on Easter a basic forty
eight hour notice letting the Iranian government know, and I'm
you know, paraphrasing here that he would rain down Holy
hell on them if they did not agree to open
up the.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Strait of hor Mooz.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
So that is the deadline that is underway right now
as we prepare for this press conference at one o'clock,
let me give you a couple of the latest statements
from the President. Again, he's scheduled to speak in about
forty five minutes from now, and we will be joining it. Also,
the head of the CFTC, I should mention, Michael Sellig
(06:54):
is going to be with us. He's going to be
here in my studio in Nashville. And for those of
you out there that are interested in polymarket Calshi, all
of that that is going to be I think super
interesting as this is turned into a huge illegal battle there.
But here is Trump this morning at the Easter egg Roll.
(07:16):
I'm just going to run through several of these.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
First.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Trump says the Iranian people will fight back when they
know they're not going to be shot, and as soon
as they can get weapons. He's still saying that there
might be an uprising in Iran, although I'll give Buck
credit here. Buck has been skeptical that was going to
occur for some time, and it has so far not
been that many signs that it is going to occur.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
But here's cut one.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
The Iranian people will fight back as soon as they
know they're not going to be shot, and as soon as.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
They can get weapons.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
If they had weapons, not many of them. If they
had weapons, that would go to the other way, and
you know what happened.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Iran would give.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Up a two seconds because they wouldn't be able to
take it. But in Iran they have absolutely no weaponry.
They've been told point flank, if you come out, if
you come out to the street, you will be killed.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
As of this morning, and we have this.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
On pretty good information, forty five thousand protesters have been killed.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Pretty bad. Forty five thousand protesters killed in that initial uprising.
When was that January buck, If I'm remembering correctly, this
was before we did anything and went in at all.
Here is cut to Trump talking about who they're negotiating with.
He says he would just take the oil if he
had his own choice.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Cut too.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
We are obliterating that country, and I hate to do it,
but we're o glittering and they just don't want to
say uncle. They don't want to cry as the expression
goes uncle, but they will and if they don't, they'll
have no bridges, they'll have no power plants, they'll have
no anything. I will go further because there are other
things that are worse than those two, and we might
(08:56):
have well, the thing I had my choice, what would
I like to do? Take the oil?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Because it's sam for the taking.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
There's not a thing they can do about it. Unfortunately,
the American people would like to see us come home.
If we're up to me, I'd take the oil. I
keep the oil. I would make plenty of money, and
I'd also take care of the people ever ran much
better than they've been taking care of.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
It's for horrible And then one yeah, buck kind just
there was a tweet that we are a truth that
we need to note that goes along with this. Also
a little bit a little bit of dissonance there with
what Trump's talking about and the groovy tunes in the background.
It was a little threw me off a little bit,
you know, jazzy jazzy sounds in the background.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Trump put this out.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I had to check to see this is one of
those even at this stage, is this real from Trump?
And it is it's from his truth account. Tuesday will
be power plant Day and Bridge Day, all wrapped up
in one. In Iran, there will be nothing like it.
Open v F bomb. It's great, you crazy bastards, or
(10:02):
you'll be living in hell. Just watch Praise Be to Allah.
President Donald J.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Trump. That was out on his truth social account. Oh
I saw it. Yes, that is That.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Is maybe the most wow Trump truth of all time.
I think that's the first time he's ever written an
F bomb out on social media as the president.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Easter morning, Easter Morning, and it's look I read it,
and I my immediate thought was, this is all like
letting Iran know as publicly as possible we're gonna wipe
you out. And I saw it straight as a negotiation strategy,
(10:49):
also with a little bit of humor thrown in. So
I saw it in many ways as very vintage Trump.
And so it didn't it didn't shock, but I know
that it did shock some people. I think it's just
evidence that Trump feels like he's been restrained so far
(11:10):
and he is letting it be known that there that
he is ready to unleash Holy Hell. You know that
great scene, uh at. It reminds me of the opening
of Gladiator when Maximus is sitting and he says, it's
one of the all time great lines. At my signal,
unleash hell. Just such an absolute badass opening scene and
(11:35):
line right like that moment we do in life, echoes
in eternity, Clay Claire, so many every Gladiator line, I
love it, so many great lines. But at my signal,
unleash hell. For those of you have not seen that
clip or don't remember it, that is what I immediately
I'm not kidding, that is what I immediately thought of.
And we've talked about this, whether.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
You like it or not.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Trump thinks cinematically. He thinks in story, big epic narrative
arc story, And to me, that was Trump as Maximus,
letting it be known. Hey, at my signal, we will
unleash hell, and I will say, bad guys. They don't
(12:18):
respect nuance. Bad guys are not like sitting around contemplating
the philosophy of force and what is and what is not,
the rules of engagement and how they're going to be
implied applied. They respect raw, unadulterated force. Can you kick
(12:41):
their ass before they kick your ass?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
That is the.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Ultimate schoolyard bully test, and Trump is basically letting it
be known. I am going to unleash hell on you
unless you make a decision to agree to these terms
very quickly. And then one more cut Buck. This is
again just a little bit earlier, and we're expecting tons
(13:05):
of news here in about forty minutes. Iran can't have
a nuclear weapon. They're lunatics. This is one more statement
from the White House. As Buck pointed out the melodic
tunes in the background from a kid's Easter egg roll
as Trump is sounding off, cut three, Hopefully it.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Should be over with quickly. Again, there are lots of
different alternatives. We have many alternatives. We could leave right now,
and it would take them fifteen years to rebuild what
they have. We could leave right now, but I want
to finish it up. Iran ready cannot have nuclear weapons.
They are lunatics, and you can't put nuclear weapons in
the hands of a lunatics.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
That's the fundamental mission set as Trump has lit it out.
So we'll continue to update you on the Iran situation
and the efforts that JD. Vance apparently is making to
get some kind of a deal underway in advance of
the Tuesday deadline. My sense is there won't be a deal.
They'll just be a pushing back the Tuesday deadline. But
I could be wrong. We shall see. Very tough to
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Welcome back into Clay and Buck. Talking a lot about
Iran today. Hope you all had a fantastic Easter weekend,
and we'll get into some of that conversation later. But
back to the war in Iran. Well, there's a lot
of talk about Iran on the Easter Sunday, including from
the President himself. But you had a rescue mission underway
for a downed airman, two of them. One was picked
(15:45):
up very quickly, but the other one after they had
been shot down. They were shot down. There was some
discussion initialist whether or not it was some kind of
mechanical failure with the F fifteen Eagle plane that they
were in. But here's a Fox News correspondent, Mike Tobin,
on the rescue situation, which of course, as we know,
(16:06):
was successful.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
But this.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Was a tight You know, this was a really difficult
tense situation. Play fifteen.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
The picture that is being created out here is this
remarkable tense situation where you had elements of the besieged
forces and the Irundian Revolutionary Guard, as well as a
mob that was forming up for the population trying to
get to the remote area where this weapons systems operator
officer was hiding on this ridgeline with his beacon out,
(16:39):
waiting to get some rescue. And how tense the situation
was as you had the mob descending on him, so
there was contact with people on the ground, there was
contact with fighting forces, and they were able to gather
this individual up through a long tense period and get
him out of that area.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
So we knew that they were trying to get to him.
We had to take it.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
We had to take kinetic action and apparently many cases
to take out Irani enforces on the ground. Gives evere
a sense of how tight the timeline was here.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Also, the fact that this guy could be on the
ground for roughly forty eight hours and Iran couldn't get
to him is a sign that they don't have very
much operational control inside of their country either. And they
were offering fifty thousand dollars. I think to anybody who
could help to apprehend this guy, which is crazy money
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back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show a couple of
more cuts coming from President Trump at the Easter egg Roll.
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This is one of the maybe most significant here cut
thirty four. Trump says there's been regime change and that
the people that they are talking with now are reasonable
again thirty four, We've had.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Total regime change.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
You know, the people there now are much more reasonable
than the lunatics that you had Phase one and phase two.
They were lunatics. The people that we negotiate with now
on behalf of our n are much more reasonable. You
can call it what you want, but I call it
regime change, and I think most people are giving us
credit for that. The first regime was taken out, the
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second regime was taken out.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Now the third group of people.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
That we're dealing with is not as radicalized.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
And we think they're actually much smarter.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Okay, and then Buck, you and I were talking about
off air, So he feels comfortable with the people they're
dealing with. We'll see if that means that there is
going to be a agreement reach because President Trump says
that iran Is had plenty of time and he's not
gonna push back the deadline. We'll see if that changes
when he talks here in about twenty minutes. But you
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and I were talking about this off air. Trump talking
to kids is honestly a really great part of Trump.
And there's a bunch of different cuts going viral of
Trump talking to young kids at the Easters.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Like Iron doesn't listen. But you probably know that better
than anybody. You're in kindergarten. The smartest in all the
kindergarten classes. I've heard, the best, the most smart student.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I mean, they used to have the show Kids Say
the Darnedest Things, right, That was actually just adults interviewing
kids to find out what they were going to see
that Bill Cosby.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Are to day our political life has turned into Trump
says the Darnedest things. Yes, yes, I think it was
Bill Cosby back in the day. Who did a version
of that show. But here is Trump asking kids, do
you know what the this is real? Do you know
what the auto pin was? Joe Biden couldn't sign his
own name. He's sitting with the kids and the Easter eggs,
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and this is Trump talking about the auto pen.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Listen, Biden would use.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
The auto peck, you have an auto pen. Biden didn't sign.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
He was incapable of seventy six. So they'd follow him.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Around with his big machine and auto pen and he'd
have the autop sign.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
He takes the payer handed to his guys, signed it.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
With an auto back.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
There it is uh President Trump explaining the auto pin
to the little kids at the Easter egg roll on
the White House lawn. Right now, this again twenty minutes,
he's going to be talking about what the situation is
with Iran. But if you remember, it wasn't very long
ago that Joe Biden was trying to do the Easter
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egg roll buck and remember one of his staffers was
dressed up as an Easter bunny and Biden started answering
questions and the staffer dressed up as the Easter bunny
came that viral video and got Biden and basically took
him away from being able to respond to questions from
the media. Meanwhile, Trump is standing there just answering questions
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left and right. And over the weekend, I'm sure you
saw this start to circulate, a bunch of people on
the left started saying, oh, we haven't seen Trump for
a few hours. It was because he was in the
Oval Office monitoring the rescue of the American troops. But
Biden would vanish for days and we would have no
idea what was really going on. When Trump doesn't answer
(22:33):
questions for a few hours, people on the left just
start making up stories. That's how available he is. That
if he doesn't have a public event almost every ten
hours or so, they start to clamor where is he?
He's not healthy. Meanwhile, they told us forever that you know,
Biden was sharp as attack.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Sure enough, they have changed nothing since all of their
Joe Biden's just fine. You know, notice there's no can
trition about it at all. There's really no soul searching
or anything else. There was that hilarious book by Fake
Tapper over at CNN about how I read how they
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covered it up, which was amazing to me that you actually, well,
then again, I read Kamala's books. Yes, by the way,
I'm going to tell you this right now, Kamala's numbers play.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Maybe you're gonna be right. You're probably gonna be right.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I got a little ahead of my skis, you know,
I got a little, a little too much.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
But her numbers in.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
California are awful, awful, most recent numbers for her to
be to be the nominee, Democrats recognize, that is a
that is a bet the farm situation. If Kamala runs again,
you could bet the farm that she will lose. She
will lose the overall election, or lose that nomination, lose
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the overall election for sure.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I was thinking about this this morning as I was
doing my prep. Not I'm afraid that Kamala could win.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
What Yeah, what Buck? This is the craziest thing. You said.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
She was two hundred and forty thousand votes away from
winning in twenty twenty four. And if the economy were bad,
and if JD. Vance were trying to run on the
Trump turn without having I think it's fair to say
the same ability to grab control of the narrative like
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Trump has if people are still just angry, my concern,
if you wanted me to project for twenty eight for
how things go bad, is that the average voter could
still be angry over affordability in twenty twenty eight and
just be I think you're gonna have a double hate situation.
I think a lot of average Americans are just super
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frustrated with Democrats and republic lickings because they don't feel
like their genuine issues on affordability are being addressed. There's
still this anger over Biden allowing inflation to skyrocket to
such a degree it takes years. This is why I've
asked people out there in the audience, how long did
it take for the anger over Jimmy Carter and inflation
(25:21):
to dissipate. I think the answer was for a lot
of people it didn't really go away until like eighty five,
eighty six, and then I mean eighty four Reagan won
the obvious, the big win, but it was uncertain who
was going to win in eighty four. It takes several
years to work through. My hope is by twenty eight
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it's going to be you know, everybody's going to be happy.
But I think it was like eighty five or eighty six,
you were barely born. I was a little kid until
people really kind of got over the massive inflation that
Jimmy Carter had created. And I still think they're a
lot of anger over the nine percent inflation that we
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saw and the fact that things cost more than people
believe they should cost.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Speaking about when I was born, that's irrelevant right now,
but when Clay was born very relevant.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Happy birthday, mister Clay Travis.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Now you can all right in, call in give Clay
You're I'm not wrong, am I?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
No? No, you're right today? Okay?
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Oh god, I thought I thought I was. I thought
I jumped the gun or something that actually buckets tomorrow.
I'm like, no, I have it on my calendar.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
It's today. Happy birthday to Clay. He is he is
thirty two years old.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
For years old today, look like I'm eighty seven, but
I feel like I'm forty seven.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
He's doing great, everybody, He's doing great. Mister Clay Travis,
forty seven years young. Fit is a fiddle. Could he
throw up three hundred and fifteen pounds like our secretary
of war? Obviously obviously no problem. I've heard stories of
a sixty yard spiral. I've heard stories of a Clay
Travis four hundred yard drive off the off the back tee.
(27:09):
So is that what they call it? So yeah, this
is the this is the reality of our man, Clay.
He has a birthday today. Send him your birthday wishes, ladies, Ladies,
especially if you're over sixty. He's still married. No grabbing,
no touching, Okay, only nice birthday wishes. Don't get don't
get too salty. Grandma's the grandma's got a little salty
when it comes to Clay.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
I mean, look, they understand that that I'm an incredibly
lovable person, and so yes I have. I have reached
forty seven and I'm gonna celebrate today. Well, first of all,
we're gonna play the President about twenty minutes, so we'll see,
we'll see what kind of birthday stories we get there.
And then tonight, Buck, I'm gonna have steak, I'm gonna
(27:52):
have cake, and I'm gonna watch the NCAA Championship game
between Yukon and Michigan with some some friends and family
here locally. So that is where that's the big that's
the big festivities that.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Are going on tonight. Had a good weekend, though.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Do you have a do you have a preferred style
of birthday cake? Is there you know, flavor wise or anything?
What what is the what is the icon iconic the
pinnacle of birthday cake?
Speaker 1 (28:18):
To me, you just go. I mean, I don't think
you need to overthink this. I think you go white cake.
Uh and I think you go like a nice butter
cream topping. So white on white, not trying to be racist,
but white on white is the best of the cakes
in my opinion. I understand there's a chocolate cake community
out there, not a fan. I would just go straight
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white icing on white cake.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
What about you?
Speaker 3 (28:42):
You have a preferred No, I have nothing interesting to
Actually I actually co sign what you're saying there. I
just there as some people out there who are ice
cream cake people, and I'm just like, what what? What
are we Marxists an, I'm not anti ice it's ice
cream or it's cake. You get you get ice cream
with your cake. You don't do ice cream cake. I
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don't know what this is. This is crazy talk. My
boys are very much ice cream cake people. So I
might have raised Marxist in that respect, but I'm an
old school I don't think we had ice cream cakes.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
Really.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
When I was a kid, so I never really got
to got to experience them. So I can go in
white cake, white icing, I will say, And I don't
want to alienate anybody. You know, the worst thing I
could ever do is offend anyone. The one thing that
I will say, anyone who gets coconut on their birthday
cake is just in terrorist savage.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
I mean, they may be a terrorists.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
I'm very anti like coconut in general, but have you
ever been to a birthday party where somebody's like, oh, yeah,
we have a coconut.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Shredded coconut on their birthday cake? You go straight deportation
on that one.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Really, I think you should join the Iranian Solamani's family.
You should be in a detainer facility. They picked her
up in La. It's good looking, by the way, they
picked her up in La.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
All of a suddenly everyone it was pretty funny.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
It was a very male moment online, meaning the guys
out there whatever.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
It's like the Iranian general's you know, niche lives here.
That's outrageous.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
And then there's photos of her in a bikini and
guys like, I mean, do process like, do you think
do you think she deserves her day at court.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
I mean, yeah, oh, there's a.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Lot of a lot of huffing and puffing about the
grand niece of like the Ayatola because she looks nice
in a mini skirt here in America, not over in Iran.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I my dad, but yeah, and I do have to
say that you should join her.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
If you are having birthday cake and I ever show
up and you say, hey, here's my coconut shaved birthday cake,
I mean, it's just terroristic moves in my But the
coconut to me, lemon cake is always the worst. Honestly,
I put lemon cake maybe beyond because the flavor of
the coconut cake I think is superior. But the little
shredded coconut is gross. But people go lemon birthday cake,
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and I'm just like, why, why do you hate fun
and things that taste good?
Speaker 2 (30:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Lemon cake to me is a very I'm okay. Carrot
cake I'm a fan of. I wouldn't do it for
birthday cake though, I feel like that's against the rules.
But carrot cake is delicious. German every every cake but
the coconut stuff. German sheet cake s h E E T.
German sheet cake is very good as well. I've never
even heard of this. This is like, no, I've never
(31:21):
heard of German sheet cake. I gotta be careful saying
that I don't want to get us an FCC violation
on on my birthday here.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
This is uh.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
By the way, we'll open up the phone lines, but
very quickly here because the President's scheduled to talk in
a few minutes. And uh, I do have Buck, we
can play this on the backside. One of the astronauts
was really pretty fantastic in his Easter message, and I
want to make sure we play it before the President speaks.
And certainly everything is going to be reacting to the
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President for the rest of the show, although I would
bet that he's going to be a little bit a
little bit late. And the team, for those of you
watching on video, trying to be healthy, and the team
has sent me a fruit dish.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
If we just talked about cake for ten minutes, and
our gift to you is fruit. I don't know about
that team New York team, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I think.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Fruit special here. So everybody's telling me I need to
be in better shape. I will tell you though, Buck,
as we go to break, We've got a brand new advertise,
we got a lot of new advertisers that are coming
on and this is this is pretty fantastic. Lots of
people out there are going to be.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Impressed.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
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Speaker 3 (34:18):
And welcome back in here to Clay and Buck. Let's
get to some talkbacks team, because we have some great
ones here. For example, this is talkback b Rob from
West Palm Beach, Florida, listens on WJNO hit that one.
Speaker 5 (34:32):
Hey, Glay and Bug, this is Rob from West Palm
I listened to you guys fifteen hours a week. I
can do that because I'm a contractor and I keep
my earbuds in all day long. Although I'm gonna have
to cut down on some of my listening. I caught
myself saying fabulous this weekend. I'm sorry, I can't do
it anymore.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Is that your faulter? My faulter? Pone?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
I think that it could be mine. I've been criticized
for using the word fabulous. This is a nice word
like dread.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Be positive. Everything's fabulous speaking of being positive. Bob from Houston,
Texas on kt R the Great k t RH where
our friend Michael Barry is a dominant leading for us
on k t R H. Thank you, sir, she Bob
from Houston. Play it, Clay Buck. I love you guys,
But if you really aren't terrified that Kamala's gonna win,
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y'all need to get out and smell the roads.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Is a little bit more come on.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
As much as of a lunatic, she is as insane
as some people are in our country.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
No, she is not gonna win. Squat.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Please get out and smell the roses more. Please left
from town. I think she's yeah, I think she's a loser.
That's all Clay, that's all Clay there, he's team Kamala.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I just think again, if you had said, if you
were listening to big left wing media, if somebody had
predicted that Trump was gonna win by basically a landslide,
right when all seven toss up states win the popular
vote like he did in twenty two four. If you
had said that in twenty twenty two, a lot of
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people would have said you were crazy. And so I'm
just It's sometimes hard to completely eliminate some of these
contenders because larger economic cycles often dictate the outcome of elections,
not individual political talent, which Kamala is sorely lacking in
good political talent.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
President Trump scheduled to speak at the top of the
next hour. We are going to go and carry him
live whenever he starts speaking again. It is scheduled to
be at one o'clock Eastern. He maybe started, although I
would bet twenty minutes late. That's my prediction. We'll see,
but it could be the president talking when we come back.
This is Clay and Buck. Thanks for hanging with us.
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