August 13, 2025 • 36 mins
President Trump's press conference on his efforts to clean up crime in Washington, DC. He addressed criticism he received from former Jeb Bush comms director Tim Miller on MSNBC for his comments about wanting to reduce murder rates in American cities. The hosts noted Trump's ability to dominate news cycles with his DC crime initiatives while preparing for the country's upcoming 250th anniversary celebrations. They highlighted how Trump continues to take questions from the press regularly, contrasting this with the lack of "25th Amendment" discussions that surrounded his first term.
The hour featured some lighthearted moments, including a debate about Buck's tennis serve speed after Clay's wife Lara expressed skepticism about Buck's claim of serving over 100 mph. Buck posted video evidence on social media, leading to audience engagement as listeners weighed in on the tennis serve controversy. The hosts also teased an upcoming special event announcement planned for the second hour of the show. The conversation wrapped up with Clay sharing a humorous listener email about his beard, with the listener jokingly comparing it to that of a "homeless man" while expressing appreciation for the show.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody. Wednesday edition of The Clay Travis n. Buck
Sexton Show kicks off right now. We've got some great stories,
big important things to dive into with all of you.
The cleanup of DC. Clean up on asle crime, if
you will, I'm a dad. Now it can make these
kind of jokes. That is something that we're going to
(00:23):
be discussing because Trump is running rough shot over the opposition.
I think once again there are arguments increasingly pathetic, the
numbers not supporting what they said they would in terms
of DC is safe.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
DC is safe.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Clay and I both speak from experience here because not
only have we lived there, but we know many people
who still live there and have lived there their whole lives.
No one says DC is safe, Okay, no one who
actually lives there thinks that it is a safe city.
So and I know that's safe as a relative term,
but Boston is a safe city. Like I could go
around the country and talk to you. San Francisco, other
(00:59):
than your property is actually a pretty safe city, believe
it or not for violent crime purposes. You know, you
go around and you can find plenty of places that
are you you would be safe. It is not one
of them. It is not one of them deep washing DC.
So we're gonna discuss that. San Diego very safe. Actually
San Diego very nice, very safe city, very expensive. Uh so, uh,
(01:23):
you know, we could do the whole day Al Passo
very safe. So you can go around. There's a lot
of places, not the case in d C. We have
also Trump speaking at the Kennedy Center, some interting cultural
moves there. We have do we get to make an
announcement today, Clay about a little special something that something
going on? Or is this just is this is this
a tease of a tease or can I talk about
(01:45):
your situation? Oh no, it's public. Yeah yeah. I was like,
oh no, what's the Yeah, yeah, we're doing a We'll
get into that a little bit later. But we got
a fun event coming up in September that I think
a lot of people will in ju and so well,
let's let you you can do a big announcement second
hour on that when you could lead everybody into that.
(02:05):
But Clay has and as we say, it is what
you call a teas in the business. Clay has an
announcement for all of you in the second hour. Something
cool that's going on. Let's just say, I may become
Clay's cornerman. I may be there ready to cut. You know,
we may have to cut if Clay gets hit me,
Man gets hit me. Let me get in there, Get
in there, Clay, get in there.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
So I'm looking forward to it. That'll be a lot
of fun. Speaking of athletic endeavors. After the Scuirreless accusations
made yesterday about my tennis serve, there might be video
that we will be able to put up on Clay
and Buck over the course of the next hour or
maybe double tripled, quadrupled down, disbelieving that you could hit
a tennis of one hundred. Like we were picking up
(02:46):
our youngest at school walking back and I said, you know,
because I was on the phone we were talking about
Crockett and I said, no, you know, but can really
do this? And she said, I just don't believe it.
She said, she actually said, she actually said. We went
to Wimbledon probably seven or eight years ago, which was
an awesome experience. And what's cool about Wimbledon is many things,
(03:09):
but center Court is huge, but there are a lot
of small courts where you can sit basically on top
of the right arms. Yeah, that's the great thing about majors.
And you see how they hit it, and it doesn't
come across on television, the absolute power that these guys
just smacked the ball with. And so she was just like,
there's no way bucking hit a ball one hundred miles
(03:30):
an hour. Now, she didn't think I could bench press
one hundred and eighty five ten times. Lara generally believes
neither of us can accomplish anything athletically. Is the overall
the recurring theme on the show. Lara Gyee of Little Faith,
Travis Yees, all right, we will, So I'll post that
video and we can put it up at clayanbuck dot com.
It'st end of the team. They don't speed guns for
(03:50):
tennis are actually tough to come by that are reliable.
So we have video of a serve and you can
do the math on it. The distance from a baseline
to the posing service line is about sixty feet, very
similar to a baseball distance, I believe, Clay, is that right?
Does that sound right? I think that's right. It's about
sixty feet from home play to so you can sixty
(04:11):
six sixty feet six inches I think, or sixty I
don't think it's six sixty six I think it's sixty
feet six inches from pitcher's mound to home play, So
very similar in the realm of baseball and tennis distance.
So those of you imagine that I am pitching instead
of serving, and you will get a sense as to
the speed because that's the same distance when that ball
hits the ground. Okay, we'll get into that though. We'll
(04:32):
get into that, you know what, Let's talk a big game.
We'll see what happens when the video is unleashed, and
we'll do a poll. Do you think this is faster
than one hundred miles an hour? But we have important
things that do, like saving the country and getting into
the news and looking at what Trump is up to.
And Clay, I didn't know the range was hot. I
didn't know you were taking incoming on this one, but
sure enough this was over on was this MSNBC or CNN.
(04:55):
It was one of the communist points. And I'm going
to point this out before you play it. Well, of
all the opinions I've ever given, I want there to
be less people murdered in America seem to me to
be one of the least controversial takes in my twenty
year media career. Hey, I hate murders and I wish
less people got murdered. I thought, man, this is something
(05:17):
that everybody could agree with. I was wrong. I've been
getting lit up over this. It's really one of the
funniest things. Generally, I would as his cornerman, I would
rush to his defense of this. But this is just
weak saw stopped to bottom. But here is a former
Jeb exclamation point Bush Comms director, So one of those
Republicans who now just is a Democrat but refuses to
(05:40):
say it and goes on Democrat channels to attack actual Republicans.
Here is attacking by name Clay Travis on MSNBC for
saying things that all of us are saying. But here
we go play one.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
This is all power play, right. It's all about the
vibes and the look. And that's why you've got guys
like Clay Travis on Fox News. I guess rooting for
living in a military state Nowauince. They're trying to demonstrate
strength and machismo, and it's mostly more about that than
about the policy.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Clay, your testosterone has just overwhelmed the MSNBC table over
there by the way. I don't even see how testosterone
is involved in wanting less murders. Are there people with
high levels of estrogen that just want more people murdered?
Excuse me, Clay. The claim was made that it was
your overwhelming machismo that while driving this. I will acknowledge
(06:30):
to MSNBC that, in comparison to virtually all of the
men that appear on that network, I would have overwhelming machismo.
But this felt like somewhat of a calculated attack Buck,
because yesterday I'm just Media Matters. Media Matters wrote the headline,
this is a real headline out kicks Clay Travis, federal
takeover of DC should be a test case for whether
(06:52):
we can go into other cities, and then they pulled
here's my quote that they said was so unbelievable. I
would like DC to be a test case for whether
we can go into other cities where far too many
people are being murdered and help to drive down the
violent crime rate there as well. Again, I'm not surprised
usually when people come after me or you for something
(07:14):
that we might say, because there are things that we
say that people on the left would be unhappy about.
This to me, is the least being in favor of
there being fewer murders. Is the least controversial thing I
may have ever said in my media career. But I
think it's indicative of their uninability to pick rational things
(07:35):
to fight about, because they're just so reflexively anti Trump
that even things that are not particularly political, hey let's
have less people die in DC, they automatically line up
against him on It really is derangement that is not
getting better. Well, I'm glad Clay was able to take
a moment to stop smashing beer cans against his face
(07:57):
and belching the alphabet with all of his machismo talking
about Yeah, it was amazing. I saw that. I said, Wow, really,
just just throwing elbows at my man Clay over this one. Dude,
this is not even you. You say, way crazy. No
one even remembers what you said about Michelle Obama. I
was like, Oh, they're going to come after him on
that one, but nope, apparently not. So that's like the
(08:19):
seven hundred and forty eighth the least controversial thing that
I said yesterday, and somehow that's the one that they
just This is like when I got attacked on HBO
for my hot take on sports for Simone Biles not
being like the bravest for stepping out of an event.
You remember that one. It's always the ones that you
don't expect. It's always the ones, you know, the takes
that you put out there that you don't Okay, let's
dive into now the crime situation and this back and
(08:41):
forth because I think once again trumpet, well, oh wait, no,
this was my favorite. This is my favorite. A non
jurord Haad jiedd Haradas Jurra Haradus. I'm not trying to
get that one right. Jured Haradus was on Morning Joe.
I did not see this live. Unfortunately my Morning Joe
viewing did not catch this one. But this is the
(09:04):
kind of stuff that is being offered up. Well. Meanwhile,
Cash Bettel is saying, yeah, FBI just arrested a whole
bunch of very scary, very bad bad dudes, bad people
who have committed very serious crimes who are out there
in DC. So things are already happening. They're already taking
action to take violent criminals off the streets. Over at MSNBC,
(09:24):
this guy, mister Jerorda Hardis is saying that this is
what he's worried about play two.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
A relatively small crime problem is being used for specific
authoritarian purposes that we know and understand. So let's be
clear about DC does have a really one, really big
crime problem, which was the January sixth insurrection incited by
the current President of United States, and his first act
(09:50):
in coming back was pardoning all the people who tried
to overturn constitutional republic order in Washington, DC.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I go to DC.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
I'm not afraid of losing my wallet so much as
I'm afraid of losing my vote. I'm not afraid of
losing my wallet so much as I'm afraid that my
children's freedom to breathe will be stolen in a world
where climate change policy is non existent.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Clay, I'm not scared of crime in DC, I'm scared
of climate change. Might be the most perfect distillation of
lib MSNBC delusion I have ever heard post COVID. I mean,
it might be the craziest thing, and I'm sure he's
not alone in believing this. I think that opposing Trump
trying to bring down violent crime in DC maybe the
(10:40):
craziest anti Trump position that Democrats have taken.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Yet.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I look, there are other things Trump I think has
exposed them on men and women's sports, for instance, But
that's a choice they made prior to Trump. This is
a direct response to Trump saying I want to bring
down the overall death rate in the country, and our
nation's capital, I want it to be a beautiful jewel
of a city with low crime, low homelessness, less graffiti,
(11:08):
less waste product everywhere. And this guy comes on and
says that he's worried about climate change more than he's
worried about being mugged. First of all, that's a lie.
There's no one who, especially an effeminate man like him.
There's no one out there walking the streets of DC
(11:28):
late at night that is thinking as they breathe the air,
oh my goodness, I am terrified of climate change. But
thank the Lord, I don't have to worry about getting
somebody knocking me in the back of the head. That
doesn't exist. And this is one of the things that
I think is exposing democrats is that their arguments are
so profoundly inauthentic that even people who might believe in
(11:50):
climate change don't believe that argument. And I'm surprised that
guy has kids, because I'm Frankly, that's not an argument
that sounds like someone with a functional penis would make.
So congratulations to him on that, I guess, But this
is you know, maybe that's machismo coming out of me.
But come on, like, this is not This is not
a real argument that a rational human being would make,
(12:12):
and he doesn't even believe it, right, I mean, this
is the essence I think of their collapse as a party,
why they keep hitting new lows in support and why
they basically have no men in America that are supporting
the Democrat Party. Now would that have functional brains at all?
I think it's arguments like these spoken like the man
(12:33):
splaining machismo expert himself, Clay Travis, all the machismo just
just you know, oh I can't handle it all. Yeah, man,
crime is bad, and anyone who's lived in DC or
spend time there knows that this has been a member.
At one point was the murder capital of the United States.
I understand it's gotten a lot better since then, but
it also got a lot worse than twenty twenty three
(12:54):
relative to where it has been in the twenty first century.
And there's also more and more evidence the books and
that the prosecutors are downgrading felony crimes to non felonies
to make things look better. Anyone who has seen the
show The Wire remembers this, and anyone who's worked in
a major police department knows this is something that is
a temptation for the brass. Oh yeah, we're doing a
(13:17):
great job in this precinct because we're actually not doing
the arrests that we were doing before. Or on the
prosecutorial side, same idea, we're just going to downgrade all
these arrests to something that's not a big deal. Also,
Jan sixth as in some way a you know, the
worst day for America since the Civil War. Even trying
to continue to make that argument, which is something that
(13:38):
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden tried to sell, there was
barely a blip when Trump pardoned everybody who was involved
in Jan six Now, partly that's because Biden pardoned his
entire family right beforehand, but I also think it's an
understanding that they played that for every ounce that they could,
and there's just no juice left in that in that orange,
(13:59):
so to speak. I'm telling you, when I'm walking down
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Speaker 1 (15:07):
Welcome back in President Trump, I think is still talking.
By the way, another press conference, and I do think
it's worth mentioning you haven't heard a single even discussion
point of the twenty fifth Amendment in Trump two point zero.
I think greg Our producer had a great clip where
(15:28):
it was comparing and contrasting the way they went after
Trump's health compared to Biden's. And Trump is taking questions
at all moments. We'll pull some of those cuts, but
he is continuing to explain why he's making the decisions
that he is surrounding DC, and I don't think there's
any way to avoid or ignore that. Next year is
(15:49):
the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the country. And
I think one reason that Trump wants Washington, d C.
To be ready for its proverbial close up is because
they're going to be many different, really awesome events to
celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth birth of our country.
And so again, this is now what three days that
(16:09):
Trump has basically owned the new cycle by saying I'm
going to clean up DC and we're going to have
violent crime. And then tomorrow the new cycle will pivot
to Trump is traveling to Alaska. He's going to meet
with Vladimir Putin, and that will lead us through the
whole weekend, and whatever Democrats we're trying to talk about
is going to vanish. Heck, remember Texas redistricting. It's like
(16:33):
that story has already completely vanished. And I do think
this is Trump's unique ability to really be able to
dominate the narrative cycle and take command of it. It's
been remarkable to watch as Democrats try to do this.
Even Chris Matthews, by the way, this is cut ten.
He's a Democrat who used to have his show on MSNBC.
(16:54):
He's like Democrats are because he lives in the DC area.
He knows they're defending the indefensible. Play it.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
This is a strength move against the big cities who
are a difficult situation on crime and the murder rate.
You can't keep saying violent crime is down, with the
murder rates up to the average person.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
The murder RUP's about life and death.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
You don't brag about a rising murder rate, and the
Democrats are they're falling into the trap of defending what's indefensible.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
They are we've been telling you this, right, this is
when isn't it funny? You'll hear things on Clay and
Buck and we'll be taking a position here, and then
you'll hear the smarter, higher IQ more realistic Democrats the
next day say exactly what we've said on this show,
because it's well, I think there's just there is still
a rational element, and it tends to be the older
(17:43):
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Shots were fired. Shots have been returned on the tennis court.
The video is up. We're putting it up at clayanbuck
dot com. For those of you who aren't on x
put it elsewhere as well. Now I understand where this
is going. You're gonna you're gonna see that serve. I'm
gonna give Laara the opportunity to watch the video. Clay.
I just tagged her, I just tagged social media. I'm
(19:10):
gonna let her. I'm just telling is not going to
attack and retract. She's gonnatract attack. She's going to demand
that there be radar I'm going I have many police
friends here in Miami. Uh and I because I think
what would a would a radar gun for a car
(19:30):
work for a serve to I don't know this is
I gotta figure this out like this is. I don't
know what the what the method by which they measure
the speed of a serve. But anybody who watches tennis
has seen immediately after every serve they flash it up.
It's sponsored by Rolex or somebody I think right, usually
IBM shot Spot. They have all these things. Yeah, but
(19:52):
that's like very high tech and a multimillion dollar you know,
enterprise of the technology involved. Somebody in Miami, in the
super high end tennis universe has got the ability to
I bet they have this. I'm just gonna say. I'm
just gonna say, you know, Laura has the opportunity to
retract the scandalous accusation, the scandalous doubting of my serve
(20:12):
after seeing video. Because I'm a gentleman. If she wants,
though the radar gun, she's not going to accept. I'm
just telling you, I've been We've got to put a steak.
We gotta put a steak wager on this. We're gonna
have to She's gonna have to take a you know,
I don't know which steakhouse in Nashville, and we'll do
we know, we'll take her to the dancing steakhouse here
in Miami Beach. If I'm wrong, all right, we'll go
to the fun place. So, because I think I think
(20:35):
she sees that video, she might get a little might
feel little iced on this one. I could be a
little you know, I think she's gonna be surprised. This
has been the story of my life. People underestimate the
strength and speed of the buckster because he just looks cuddly.
But it turns out that there can be there could
be surprises in store, all right, man. The confidence. By
the way, on Twitter after I shared this, you're getting
(20:56):
lit up. People are not. They're actually lining up behind
our law or maybe eighty miles an hour maybe, and
let's see here, maybe seventy miles an hour sixty seven,
about seventy five. People are out of their minds. People
are out of their minds, no idea what they're talking about.
(21:19):
The pros serve routinely now one hundred and twenty five,
one hundred and thirty miles an hour. So if Lauren
said one hundred and twenty I'd be like, that's tough
one hundred miles an hour played the women's tennis players.
Women's tennis players routinely one hundred and ten miles an
hour now, so this time they are asking Groc to
(21:40):
answer the question on Twitter. Now, I don't know if
I don't think about that, that's actually AI you would
think does potentially have the ability to actually to actually
time this out. So you can go see the video
for yourself from Buck's Twitter account at buck Sexton. I
just retweeted it. Laura Travis is in meetings for our
(22:01):
house that we are building, so we will. I will
let you know when I hear. I'm just telling you
the average the average pro tour women serve. The average
women serve is about one hundred miles an hour. Now,
the question is not can I serve in a match
every serve over one hundred miles an hour? The question
is can I juice it over one hundred miles an
hour one time and get it in? I mean, if
(22:23):
any of you can do math, you get sixty feet.
Look at that. You can do slow moo if you
want seventy miles seventy miles an hour, that's proprie. And
throw a basketball seventy miles an hour, it's insane. So anyway,
all right, all right, So so now we get into
real things. I'm just saying, this is uh, you know,
when one is called out on this, one is called
out on this. I mean, we're Did people think that
(22:43):
Clay was using dummy weights when he did his one
eighty five ten times? I don't know, maybe some people
thought that, but it turned out Clay could bench one
eighty five ten times. All right, I know you don't
come here for all the silliness only, So let's dive
into some of the realities here of what Trump was
just saying. You know, I want to I want to do
this interest rates actually, because this this has got to happen.
(23:06):
It has been far too delayed. Trump was just speaking.
He just he just finished, right, guys, because he was
speaking while we went on air. Who's going off for
quite some time? Cut thirty two? Here Trump talking about
where interest rates need to be. Listen to this one
play it, and.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Now he's got us in a bad place. So we're
paying three hundred and sixty billion dollars a year for
each point. Now I believe we should be three or
four points lower. So that's over at trillion dollars we
pay every year in interest, And it's really just a
paper calculation. You signed a document and you save almost
a trillion dollars because that number equates very much to
(23:41):
the bonds that we have to buy. But despite that,
we're powering through it, and we have the greatest economy
maybe we've ever had.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I think this is going to be fantastic for the economy.
Look the number one thing, and I'm just going to
keep hammering this. We were just talking about this off air.
I've been in my house for ten years. I have
like a two point eight percent interest rate, because that
was the rates that you could get at some point
over the past decade. If, however, you if you're if
(24:12):
you're fortunate enough to have a rate like that, which
many of you are, you don't want to move if
you are unfortunate, and you bought just a couple of
years after that, Right, you bought in twenty twenty two,
you bought in twenty twenty three, you've got around a
seven percent interest rate on your house, and you are
desperate to be able to bring that rate down, and
(24:33):
it just hasn't happened. But that disconnect has broken the
housing market. Joe Biden broke the housing market. And Trump
understands interest rates. If he can get them back to
five percent on the mortgage rates, if you can get
them to four and a half, then all of the
housing market suddenly opens up. People are willing to pay
a bit more. You had a kid, Maybe you had
(24:54):
a kid leave college, and you leave for college and
you don't need the same size home anymore. It is
just I think the number one bottleneck right now that
exists in our economy is the mortgage run up from
around two and a half points to seven overnight, basically
because Biden let inflation go to nine percent, and people
can always say, well, seven percent historically is not a
(25:19):
crazy awful rate for a mortgage. I understand that argument,
But in the context of going from about two and
a half to seven plus in the space about eighteen
months is truly unheard of in much of modern life
for most people out there buying homes. So this is
the thing Trump's hundred percent right on now. Inflation has
(25:39):
not taken off. There is an expectation that the Fed
is going to lower rates in September, maybe also in October,
probably going to get a half basis point minimum before
the end of the year. So if you were out
there and you're looking at housing markets and you're thinking
about making a move to the extent that you want
to listen to Clay Travis' interest rate officionado, I would say,
if you start to buy some time around Thanksgiving, you're
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probably going to get a much lower rate going forward,
and hopefully those rates will continue to get cut going
into twenty twenty six. So you can add mortgage rate
expert to my list of things that I've predicted here.
A lot of you are way better versed in interest
rates than me, but I do spend enough time involved
(26:23):
in it. I know you've got different properties. I've been
involved in a variety of commercial real estate transactions over
the years, still have a bunch, and then personal residents.
So this is a big deal. And Trump knows this
better than anyone. And Jerome Powell's been a disaster. He
was too late to stop inflation, and now I think
he's been too late to bring back down the rates
(26:44):
that he was forced to raise rapidly because he was
too late. He's always too late reacting to the underlying
economic data. In my opinion, I think Trump's right about this.
He also goes into this here he says on the
issue of the crime, this is cut twenty nine. What
we want to do is make wash Well, let's let
the president say it, play it.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
What we want to just make Washington, DC the greatest,
most beautiful, safest capital anywhere in the world. And that's
going to happen. I mentioned the word bones before the
bones here the bones. We have the greatest bones. When
you look at that Supreme Court building, I think it's
one of the most beautiful buildings. When you look at
some of the buildings here, so magnificent and everything's good,
(27:26):
but it's just dirty and not properly maintained. It's not
taken care of potholes in the roads. All of it's
going to happen very quickly. We're going to seek a
relatively small amount of money to fix up.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I just I don't understand how this is something that
Democrats have decided they're going to be opposed to it.
Just it to me is one of the most ridiculous
arguments maybe that they've ever adopted. Yeah, I think that
this is another situation where maybe they just there's reflexive
(28:00):
anti Trumpism that comes across and they think, well, that's
what I have to do. And now they've created this
position for themselves where why like, why wouldn't you want
the FBI dealing with violent crime on the streets, you know,
why wouldn't you want people to be in a situation
where they're safer. And it reminds me a little bit
of the immigration issue, which is that they started off.
(28:25):
Remember they're used to just being able to say it's
racist and like we are a nation of immigrants and
all this stuff. Well, first of all, on the racist point,
majorities of minorities in this country want to secure border too,
so that's tougher than ever to sell. But Clay, they
started out going after what was that guy's name, the
one who got sent to you know what I mean,
A brao Garcia, A brao Garcia. They started out. That
(28:48):
is completely vanished, by the way, because we're thirteen gang
members MS, thirteen gang members and you know, you sit there,
you just say to yourself, this is something that's not
going to go well for them. But you almost get
the sense that there's no adult in the party who
is out there to say, hey, guys, you know this
(29:11):
is this is not helping you, right, Like there's no
voice of reason from the top of the Democrat Party,
not that there ever really is, but there's usually a
savvy you know, there's somebody who can read the polls
and understands. Look, as much as he was a dementia patient,
Biden knew even at the height of BLM not to
go with defund police. Yeah, he was a savvy enough
(29:31):
cat or his advisors were not to go with defund
the police. It's like, right now, there's no voices in
the Democrat Party who are really or at least that
are big because we're playing some Democrats right like Chris Matthews.
But there's no big, prominent voices who were saying, guys,
on this crime thing, you gotta at least say we
have a better approach to it. The DC's really safe.
You're lying at such a great city and no one
(29:53):
should worry about this, or we should worry about climate change.
Just makes you look insane. Here is a guy, let
me give you a name that I think could come
out of nowhere in twenty twenty eight in the Democrat
primary process. Rama Manual, I think he is a relatively normal,
rational guy who is in the nineteen nineties era Democrat, which,
(30:16):
by the way, nineteen nineties era Democrats are basically Republicans. Now.
In fact, there are a ton of you out there who,
maybe in your younger days, might have voted Democrat in
the nineteen nineties, and you now are voting for Trump
because the whole concept of a centrist Democrat doesn't really
exist anymore. By and large, it's basically become a rational,
(30:38):
common sense Republican. And I think Rama Manual is of
that ilk in the nineteen nineties Democrat Now that's where
they tried to run Joe Biden as and Buck. The
question that I think is still floating around out there
is are any of the Democrats that try to take
the moderate, rational, common sense lane, Are they actually just
(31:00):
going to be liars like Biden was, and then as
soon as they get into office, bend their need of
the progressive wing of the party and go out there
and run the country not as some form of centrist
but as a far left winger. That's what Biden did. Right,
Biden was a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Right.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
They pretended that he was not, that he was Grandpa Joe,
and he wasn't really going to do anything that aggressive.
And then they got him in there, and I don't
think he really had any idea what was going on,
and they ran him like he was Bernie Sanders. And
I think that's why his entire political universe collapsed. Not
to mention, he had dementia, and so he didn't have
the mental or physical ability to stand up to any
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Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. We'll have
some fun. The talkbacks are phenomenal from you guys. Relating
to yesterday's show, I'm sure from today's show also. But
my buddy Gary who told me that I had the
beard of a homeless man after we talked about him.
First of all, he's a big fan, so I appreciate
(33:43):
him still listening, he said, Clay, I listened to your
show today, as I do most days. My wife and
I enjoy your show tremendously. You were discussing the email
regarding your homeless appearance. That was my email. Sorry about that,
but I couldn't resist. Please shave the beard. My wife
and I lived in Middle Tennessee for a number of years.
We love the area. Maybe we will see you down
(34:05):
the road if you will speak to me. Gary smiley
face a little bit so so Gary, who has gone
from I don't know. I don't I've shaved the beard
before and my wife said, no, just put it back on.
I've had a beard for twenty three years, so that's
a long time to have a beard. So, you know,
(34:27):
I remember when I was a kid. You ever go
on vacation and you get your dad to not shave
and see if he can grow a beard, and you
think it's kind of a fun thing. I imagine that
kids today still I took the beard off on a vacation.
I was like, Okay, I'm gonna do the reverse, and
my kids were like no, no, no, and Laura was like, yeah, really,
you need to grow the beard back. So I think
I need to cover up as much of my face
(34:48):
as possible. Is the big takeaway here, Gary. Although I
will say now that my beard is going white, I
am noticing how many of you out there are. I
don't know why beards go white for the hair, but
a lot of you out there are dying your beards,
and I just got to call you out because now
that I'm getting into my upper forties, there's no way
(35:12):
that you're sixty five and you have a midnight black beard.
Nobody buys it. You're out there doing the painting of
the beard. I don't even know how you dye your hair.
I've never done it so far, but I don't know
what I'm gonna do when I've got the full white
beard and still the dark hair. That's kind of a
weird look. I don't even know biologically why that would happen.
(35:32):
Somebody out there is probably an expert and can explain this.
Have you noticed that Buck, your beard goes gray? For
almost all men before your hair does. What would make
Why would that make sense? I mean, I know the
beard hair is shorter, so maybe it's getting replaced more frequently,
But it doesn't make sense to me that that would
happen first. These are kinds of things I sit around
and think about. I used to think that I'd have
(35:55):
to sort of cut out like little bits of the gray.
Now I just go with the gray. You've got a
nice out, like a silver fox thing on the chin,
going there, buddies, you just gotta lean into it. I'm
just gonna say this because there's a lot of doubters
out there still. Oh yeah, a lot of doubts. I
bought a speed gun just now. I just spent two
hundred dollars on a speed gun. Now, I want to
be clear. I just posted the first serve that I
hate yesterday on a video. The bet is can I
(36:16):
get it over one hundred miles an hour? I want
to be clear about this. Can I get it over
one hundred miles an hour? In the box serve gun video,
you will have an answer. And I'm paying attention to
all of the doubters here. You will have a video
answer with speed gun by Monday. You just bought the
speed gun during the break, during the I just bought
a two hundred dollars tennis serve speed gun. Some of
(36:39):
you gonna be in your words and my serf
Welcome everybody. Wednesday edition of The Clay Travis n. Buck
Sexton Show kicks off right now. We've got some great stories,
big important things to dive into with all of you.
The cleanup of DC. Clean up on asle crime, if
you will, I'm a dad. Now it can make these
kind of jokes. That is something that we're going to
(00:23):
be discussing because Trump is running rough shot over the opposition.
I think once again there are arguments increasingly pathetic, the
numbers not supporting what they said they would in terms
of DC is safe.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
DC is safe.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Clay and I both speak from experience here because not
only have we lived there, but we know many people
who still live there and have lived there their whole lives.
No one says DC is safe, Okay, no one who
actually lives there thinks that it is a safe city.
So and I know that's safe as a relative term,
but Boston is a safe city. Like I could go
around the country and talk to you. San Francisco, other
(00:59):
than your property is actually a pretty safe city, believe
it or not for violent crime purposes. You know, you
go around and you can find plenty of places that
are you you would be safe. It is not one
of them. It is not one of them deep washing DC.
So we're gonna discuss that. San Diego very safe. Actually
San Diego very nice, very safe city, very expensive. Uh so, uh,
(01:23):
you know, we could do the whole day Al Passo
very safe. So you can go around. There's a lot
of places, not the case in d C. We have
also Trump speaking at the Kennedy Center, some interting cultural
moves there. We have do we get to make an
announcement today, Clay about a little special something that something
going on? Or is this just is this is this
a tease of a tease or can I talk about
(01:45):
your situation? Oh no, it's public. Yeah yeah. I was like,
oh no, what's the Yeah, yeah, we're doing a We'll
get into that a little bit later. But we got
a fun event coming up in September that I think
a lot of people will in ju and so well,
let's let you you can do a big announcement second
hour on that when you could lead everybody into that.
(02:05):
But Clay has and as we say, it is what
you call a teas in the business. Clay has an
announcement for all of you in the second hour. Something
cool that's going on. Let's just say, I may become
Clay's cornerman. I may be there ready to cut. You know,
we may have to cut if Clay gets hit me,
Man gets hit me. Let me get in there, Get
in there, Clay, get in there.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
So I'm looking forward to it. That'll be a lot
of fun. Speaking of athletic endeavors. After the Scuirreless accusations
made yesterday about my tennis serve, there might be video
that we will be able to put up on Clay
and Buck over the course of the next hour or
maybe double tripled, quadrupled down, disbelieving that you could hit
a tennis of one hundred. Like we were picking up
(02:46):
our youngest at school walking back and I said, you know,
because I was on the phone we were talking about
Crockett and I said, no, you know, but can really
do this? And she said, I just don't believe it.
She said, she actually said, she actually said. We went
to Wimbledon probably seven or eight years ago, which was
an awesome experience. And what's cool about Wimbledon is many things,
(03:09):
but center Court is huge, but there are a lot
of small courts where you can sit basically on top
of the right arms. Yeah, that's the great thing about majors.
And you see how they hit it, and it doesn't
come across on television, the absolute power that these guys
just smacked the ball with. And so she was just like,
there's no way bucking hit a ball one hundred miles
(03:30):
an hour. Now, she didn't think I could bench press
one hundred and eighty five ten times. Lara generally believes
neither of us can accomplish anything athletically. Is the overall
the recurring theme on the show. Lara Gyee of Little Faith,
Travis Yees, all right, we will, So I'll post that
video and we can put it up at clayanbuck dot com.
It'st end of the team. They don't speed guns for
(03:50):
tennis are actually tough to come by that are reliable.
So we have video of a serve and you can
do the math on it. The distance from a baseline
to the posing service line is about sixty feet, very
similar to a baseball distance, I believe, Clay, is that right?
Does that sound right? I think that's right. It's about
sixty feet from home play to so you can sixty
(04:11):
six sixty feet six inches I think, or sixty I
don't think it's six sixty six I think it's sixty
feet six inches from pitcher's mound to home play, So
very similar in the realm of baseball and tennis distance.
So those of you imagine that I am pitching instead
of serving, and you will get a sense as to
the speed because that's the same distance when that ball
hits the ground. Okay, we'll get into that though. We'll
(04:32):
get into that, you know what, Let's talk a big game.
We'll see what happens when the video is unleashed, and
we'll do a poll. Do you think this is faster
than one hundred miles an hour? But we have important
things that do, like saving the country and getting into
the news and looking at what Trump is up to.
And Clay, I didn't know the range was hot. I
didn't know you were taking incoming on this one, but
sure enough this was over on was this MSNBC or CNN.
(04:55):
It was one of the communist points. And I'm going
to point this out before you play it. Well, of
all the opinions I've ever given, I want there to
be less people murdered in America seem to me to
be one of the least controversial takes in my twenty
year media career. Hey, I hate murders and I wish
less people got murdered. I thought, man, this is something
(05:17):
that everybody could agree with. I was wrong. I've been
getting lit up over this. It's really one of the
funniest things. Generally, I would as his cornerman, I would
rush to his defense of this. But this is just
weak saw stopped to bottom. But here is a former
Jeb exclamation point Bush Comms director, So one of those
Republicans who now just is a Democrat but refuses to
(05:40):
say it and goes on Democrat channels to attack actual Republicans.
Here is attacking by name Clay Travis on MSNBC for
saying things that all of us are saying. But here
we go play one.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
This is all power play, right. It's all about the
vibes and the look. And that's why you've got guys
like Clay Travis on Fox News. I guess rooting for
living in a military state Nowauince. They're trying to demonstrate
strength and machismo, and it's mostly more about that than
about the policy.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Clay, your testosterone has just overwhelmed the MSNBC table over
there by the way. I don't even see how testosterone
is involved in wanting less murders. Are there people with
high levels of estrogen that just want more people murdered?
Excuse me, Clay. The claim was made that it was
your overwhelming machismo that while driving this. I will acknowledge
(06:30):
to MSNBC that, in comparison to virtually all of the
men that appear on that network, I would have overwhelming machismo.
But this felt like somewhat of a calculated attack Buck,
because yesterday I'm just Media Matters. Media Matters wrote the headline,
this is a real headline out kicks Clay Travis, federal
takeover of DC should be a test case for whether
(06:52):
we can go into other cities, and then they pulled
here's my quote that they said was so unbelievable. I
would like DC to be a test case for whether
we can go into other cities where far too many
people are being murdered and help to drive down the
violent crime rate there as well. Again, I'm not surprised
usually when people come after me or you for something
(07:14):
that we might say, because there are things that we
say that people on the left would be unhappy about.
This to me, is the least being in favor of
there being fewer murders. Is the least controversial thing I
may have ever said in my media career. But I
think it's indicative of their uninability to pick rational things
(07:35):
to fight about, because they're just so reflexively anti Trump
that even things that are not particularly political, hey let's
have less people die in DC, they automatically line up
against him on It really is derangement that is not
getting better. Well, I'm glad Clay was able to take
a moment to stop smashing beer cans against his face
(07:57):
and belching the alphabet with all of his machismo talking
about Yeah, it was amazing. I saw that. I said, Wow, really,
just just throwing elbows at my man Clay over this one. Dude,
this is not even you. You say, way crazy. No
one even remembers what you said about Michelle Obama. I
was like, Oh, they're going to come after him on
that one, but nope, apparently not. So that's like the
(08:19):
seven hundred and forty eighth the least controversial thing that
I said yesterday, and somehow that's the one that they
just This is like when I got attacked on HBO
for my hot take on sports for Simone Biles not
being like the bravest for stepping out of an event.
You remember that one. It's always the ones that you
don't expect. It's always the ones, you know, the takes
that you put out there that you don't Okay, let's
dive into now the crime situation and this back and
(08:41):
forth because I think once again trumpet, well, oh wait, no,
this was my favorite. This is my favorite. A non
jurord Haad jiedd Haradas Jurra Haradus. I'm not trying to
get that one right. Jured Haradus was on Morning Joe.
I did not see this live. Unfortunately my Morning Joe
viewing did not catch this one. But this is the
(09:04):
kind of stuff that is being offered up. Well. Meanwhile,
Cash Bettel is saying, yeah, FBI just arrested a whole
bunch of very scary, very bad bad dudes, bad people
who have committed very serious crimes who are out there
in DC. So things are already happening. They're already taking
action to take violent criminals off the streets. Over at MSNBC,
(09:24):
this guy, mister Jerorda Hardis is saying that this is
what he's worried about play two.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
A relatively small crime problem is being used for specific
authoritarian purposes that we know and understand. So let's be
clear about DC does have a really one, really big
crime problem, which was the January sixth insurrection incited by
the current President of United States, and his first act
(09:50):
in coming back was pardoning all the people who tried
to overturn constitutional republic order in Washington, DC.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I go to DC.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
I'm not afraid of losing my wallet so much as
I'm afraid of losing my vote. I'm not afraid of
losing my wallet so much as I'm afraid that my
children's freedom to breathe will be stolen in a world
where climate change policy is non existent.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Clay, I'm not scared of crime in DC, I'm scared
of climate change. Might be the most perfect distillation of
lib MSNBC delusion I have ever heard post COVID. I mean,
it might be the craziest thing, and I'm sure he's
not alone in believing this. I think that opposing Trump
trying to bring down violent crime in DC maybe the
(10:40):
craziest anti Trump position that Democrats have taken.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Yet.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I look, there are other things Trump I think has
exposed them on men and women's sports, for instance, But
that's a choice they made prior to Trump. This is
a direct response to Trump saying I want to bring
down the overall death rate in the country, and our
nation's capital, I want it to be a beautiful jewel
of a city with low crime, low homelessness, less graffiti,
(11:08):
less waste product everywhere. And this guy comes on and
says that he's worried about climate change more than he's
worried about being mugged. First of all, that's a lie.
There's no one who, especially an effeminate man like him.
There's no one out there walking the streets of DC
(11:28):
late at night that is thinking as they breathe the air,
oh my goodness, I am terrified of climate change. But
thank the Lord, I don't have to worry about getting
somebody knocking me in the back of the head. That
doesn't exist. And this is one of the things that
I think is exposing democrats is that their arguments are
so profoundly inauthentic that even people who might believe in
(11:50):
climate change don't believe that argument. And I'm surprised that
guy has kids, because I'm Frankly, that's not an argument
that sounds like someone with a functional penis would make.
So congratulations to him on that, I guess, But this
is you know, maybe that's machismo coming out of me.
But come on, like, this is not This is not
a real argument that a rational human being would make,
(12:12):
and he doesn't even believe it, right, I mean, this
is the essence I think of their collapse as a party,
why they keep hitting new lows in support and why
they basically have no men in America that are supporting
the Democrat Party. Now would that have functional brains at all?
I think it's arguments like these spoken like the man
(12:33):
splaining machismo expert himself, Clay Travis, all the machismo just
just you know, oh I can't handle it all. Yeah, man,
crime is bad, and anyone who's lived in DC or
spend time there knows that this has been a member.
At one point was the murder capital of the United States.
I understand it's gotten a lot better since then, but
it also got a lot worse than twenty twenty three
(12:54):
relative to where it has been in the twenty first century.
And there's also more and more evidence the books and
that the prosecutors are downgrading felony crimes to non felonies
to make things look better. Anyone who has seen the
show The Wire remembers this, and anyone who's worked in
a major police department knows this is something that is
a temptation for the brass. Oh yeah, we're doing a
(13:17):
great job in this precinct because we're actually not doing
the arrests that we were doing before. Or on the
prosecutorial side, same idea, we're just going to downgrade all
these arrests to something that's not a big deal. Also,
Jan sixth as in some way a you know, the
worst day for America since the Civil War. Even trying
to continue to make that argument, which is something that
(13:38):
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden tried to sell, there was
barely a blip when Trump pardoned everybody who was involved
in Jan six Now, partly that's because Biden pardoned his
entire family right beforehand, but I also think it's an
understanding that they played that for every ounce that they could,
and there's just no juice left in that in that orange,
(13:59):
so to speak. I'm telling you, when I'm walking down
the street, I'm not worried about climate change, but I
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Speaker 1 (15:07):
Welcome back in President Trump, I think is still talking.
By the way, another press conference, and I do think
it's worth mentioning you haven't heard a single even discussion
point of the twenty fifth Amendment in Trump two point zero.
I think greg Our producer had a great clip where
(15:28):
it was comparing and contrasting the way they went after
Trump's health compared to Biden's. And Trump is taking questions
at all moments. We'll pull some of those cuts, but
he is continuing to explain why he's making the decisions
that he is surrounding DC, and I don't think there's
any way to avoid or ignore that. Next year is
(15:49):
the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the country. And
I think one reason that Trump wants Washington, d C.
To be ready for its proverbial close up is because
they're going to be many different, really awesome events to
celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth birth of our country.
And so again, this is now what three days that
(16:09):
Trump has basically owned the new cycle by saying I'm
going to clean up DC and we're going to have
violent crime. And then tomorrow the new cycle will pivot
to Trump is traveling to Alaska. He's going to meet
with Vladimir Putin, and that will lead us through the
whole weekend, and whatever Democrats we're trying to talk about
is going to vanish. Heck, remember Texas redistricting. It's like
(16:33):
that story has already completely vanished. And I do think
this is Trump's unique ability to really be able to
dominate the narrative cycle and take command of it. It's
been remarkable to watch as Democrats try to do this.
Even Chris Matthews, by the way, this is cut ten.
He's a Democrat who used to have his show on MSNBC.
(16:54):
He's like Democrats are because he lives in the DC area.
He knows they're defending the indefensible. Play it.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
This is a strength move against the big cities who
are a difficult situation on crime and the murder rate.
You can't keep saying violent crime is down, with the
murder rates up to the average person.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
The murder RUP's about life and death.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
You don't brag about a rising murder rate, and the
Democrats are they're falling into the trap of defending what's indefensible.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
They are we've been telling you this, right, this is
when isn't it funny? You'll hear things on Clay and
Buck and we'll be taking a position here, and then
you'll hear the smarter, higher IQ more realistic Democrats the
next day say exactly what we've said on this show,
because it's well, I think there's just there is still
a rational element, and it tends to be the older
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Shots were fired. Shots have been returned on the tennis court.
The video is up. We're putting it up at clayanbuck
dot com. For those of you who aren't on x
put it elsewhere as well. Now I understand where this
is going. You're gonna you're gonna see that serve. I'm
gonna give Laara the opportunity to watch the video. Clay.
I just tagged her, I just tagged social media. I'm
(19:10):
gonna let her. I'm just telling is not going to
attack and retract. She's gonnatract attack. She's going to demand
that there be radar I'm going I have many police
friends here in Miami. Uh and I because I think
what would a would a radar gun for a car
(19:30):
work for a serve to I don't know this is
I gotta figure this out like this is. I don't
know what the what the method by which they measure
the speed of a serve. But anybody who watches tennis
has seen immediately after every serve they flash it up.
It's sponsored by Rolex or somebody I think right, usually
IBM shot Spot. They have all these things. Yeah, but
(19:52):
that's like very high tech and a multimillion dollar you know,
enterprise of the technology involved. Somebody in Miami, in the
super high end tennis universe has got the ability to
I bet they have this. I'm just gonna say. I'm
just gonna say, you know, Laura has the opportunity to
retract the scandalous accusation, the scandalous doubting of my serve
(20:12):
after seeing video. Because I'm a gentleman. If she wants,
though the radar gun, she's not going to accept. I'm
just telling you, I've been We've got to put a steak.
We gotta put a steak wager on this. We're gonna
have to She's gonna have to take a you know,
I don't know which steakhouse in Nashville, and we'll do
we know, we'll take her to the dancing steakhouse here
in Miami Beach. If I'm wrong, all right, we'll go
to the fun place. So, because I think I think
(20:35):
she sees that video, she might get a little might
feel little iced on this one. I could be a
little you know, I think she's gonna be surprised. This
has been the story of my life. People underestimate the
strength and speed of the buckster because he just looks cuddly.
But it turns out that there can be there could
be surprises in store, all right, man. The confidence. By
the way, on Twitter after I shared this, you're getting
(20:56):
lit up. People are not. They're actually lining up behind
our law or maybe eighty miles an hour maybe, and
let's see here, maybe seventy miles an hour sixty seven,
about seventy five. People are out of their minds. People
are out of their minds, no idea what they're talking about.
(21:19):
The pros serve routinely now one hundred and twenty five,
one hundred and thirty miles an hour. So if Lauren
said one hundred and twenty I'd be like, that's tough
one hundred miles an hour played the women's tennis players.
Women's tennis players routinely one hundred and ten miles an
hour now, so this time they are asking Groc to
(21:40):
answer the question on Twitter. Now, I don't know if
I don't think about that, that's actually AI you would
think does potentially have the ability to actually to actually
time this out. So you can go see the video
for yourself from Buck's Twitter account at buck Sexton. I
just retweeted it. Laura Travis is in meetings for our
(22:01):
house that we are building, so we will. I will
let you know when I hear. I'm just telling you
the average the average pro tour women serve. The average
women serve is about one hundred miles an hour. Now,
the question is not can I serve in a match
every serve over one hundred miles an hour? The question
is can I juice it over one hundred miles an
hour one time and get it in? I mean, if
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any of you can do math, you get sixty feet.
Look at that. You can do slow moo if you
want seventy miles seventy miles an hour, that's proprie. And
throw a basketball seventy miles an hour, it's insane. So anyway,
all right, all right, So so now we get into
real things. I'm just saying, this is uh, you know,
when one is called out on this, one is called
out on this. I mean, we're Did people think that
(22:43):
Clay was using dummy weights when he did his one
eighty five ten times? I don't know, maybe some people
thought that, but it turned out Clay could bench one
eighty five ten times. All right, I know you don't
come here for all the silliness only, So let's dive
into some of the realities here of what Trump was
just saying. You know, I want to I want to do
this interest rates actually, because this this has got to happen.
(23:06):
It has been far too delayed. Trump was just speaking.
He just he just finished, right, guys, because he was
speaking while we went on air. Who's going off for
quite some time? Cut thirty two? Here Trump talking about
where interest rates need to be. Listen to this one
play it, and.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Now he's got us in a bad place. So we're
paying three hundred and sixty billion dollars a year for
each point. Now I believe we should be three or
four points lower. So that's over at trillion dollars we
pay every year in interest, And it's really just a
paper calculation. You signed a document and you save almost
a trillion dollars because that number equates very much to
(23:41):
the bonds that we have to buy. But despite that,
we're powering through it, and we have the greatest economy
maybe we've ever had.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
I think this is going to be fantastic for the economy.
Look the number one thing, and I'm just going to
keep hammering this. We were just talking about this off air.
I've been in my house for ten years. I have
like a two point eight percent interest rate, because that
was the rates that you could get at some point
over the past decade. If, however, you if you're if
(24:12):
you're fortunate enough to have a rate like that, which
many of you are, you don't want to move if
you are unfortunate, and you bought just a couple of
years after that, Right, you bought in twenty twenty two,
you bought in twenty twenty three, you've got around a
seven percent interest rate on your house, and you are
desperate to be able to bring that rate down, and
(24:33):
it just hasn't happened. But that disconnect has broken the
housing market. Joe Biden broke the housing market. And Trump
understands interest rates. If he can get them back to
five percent on the mortgage rates, if you can get
them to four and a half, then all of the
housing market suddenly opens up. People are willing to pay
a bit more. You had a kid, Maybe you had
(24:54):
a kid leave college, and you leave for college and
you don't need the same size home anymore. It is
just I think the number one bottleneck right now that
exists in our economy is the mortgage run up from
around two and a half points to seven overnight, basically
because Biden let inflation go to nine percent, and people
can always say, well, seven percent historically is not a
(25:19):
crazy awful rate for a mortgage. I understand that argument,
But in the context of going from about two and
a half to seven plus in the space about eighteen
months is truly unheard of in much of modern life
for most people out there buying homes. So this is
the thing Trump's hundred percent right on now. Inflation has
(25:39):
not taken off. There is an expectation that the Fed
is going to lower rates in September, maybe also in October,
probably going to get a half basis point minimum before
the end of the year. So if you were out
there and you're looking at housing markets and you're thinking
about making a move to the extent that you want
to listen to Clay Travis' interest rate officionado, I would say,
if you start to buy some time around Thanksgiving, you're
(26:01):
probably going to get a much lower rate going forward,
and hopefully those rates will continue to get cut going
into twenty twenty six. So you can add mortgage rate
expert to my list of things that I've predicted here.
A lot of you are way better versed in interest
rates than me, but I do spend enough time involved
(26:23):
in it. I know you've got different properties. I've been
involved in a variety of commercial real estate transactions over
the years, still have a bunch, and then personal residents.
So this is a big deal. And Trump knows this
better than anyone. And Jerome Powell's been a disaster. He
was too late to stop inflation, and now I think
he's been too late to bring back down the rates
(26:44):
that he was forced to raise rapidly because he was
too late. He's always too late reacting to the underlying
economic data. In my opinion, I think Trump's right about this.
He also goes into this here he says on the
issue of the crime, this is cut twenty nine. What
we want to do is make wash Well, let's let
the president say it, play it.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
What we want to just make Washington, DC the greatest,
most beautiful, safest capital anywhere in the world. And that's
going to happen. I mentioned the word bones before the
bones here the bones. We have the greatest bones. When
you look at that Supreme Court building, I think it's
one of the most beautiful buildings. When you look at
some of the buildings here, so magnificent and everything's good,
(27:26):
but it's just dirty and not properly maintained. It's not
taken care of potholes in the roads. All of it's
going to happen very quickly. We're going to seek a
relatively small amount of money to fix up.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I just I don't understand how this is something that
Democrats have decided they're going to be opposed to it.
Just it to me is one of the most ridiculous
arguments maybe that they've ever adopted. Yeah, I think that
this is another situation where maybe they just there's reflexive
(28:00):
anti Trumpism that comes across and they think, well, that's
what I have to do. And now they've created this
position for themselves where why like, why wouldn't you want
the FBI dealing with violent crime on the streets, you know,
why wouldn't you want people to be in a situation
where they're safer. And it reminds me a little bit
of the immigration issue, which is that they started off.
(28:25):
Remember they're used to just being able to say it's
racist and like we are a nation of immigrants and
all this stuff. Well, first of all, on the racist point,
majorities of minorities in this country want to secure border too,
so that's tougher than ever to sell. But Clay, they
started out going after what was that guy's name, the
one who got sent to you know what I mean,
A brao Garcia, A brao Garcia. They started out. That
(28:48):
is completely vanished, by the way, because we're thirteen gang
members MS, thirteen gang members and you know, you sit there,
you just say to yourself, this is something that's not
going to go well for them. But you almost get
the sense that there's no adult in the party who
is out there to say, hey, guys, you know this
(29:11):
is this is not helping you, right, Like there's no
voice of reason from the top of the Democrat Party,
not that there ever really is, but there's usually a
savvy you know, there's somebody who can read the polls
and understands. Look, as much as he was a dementia patient,
Biden knew even at the height of BLM not to
go with defund police. Yeah, he was a savvy enough
(29:31):
cat or his advisors were not to go with defund
the police. It's like, right now, there's no voices in
the Democrat Party who are really or at least that
are big because we're playing some Democrats right like Chris Matthews.
But there's no big, prominent voices who were saying, guys,
on this crime thing, you gotta at least say we
have a better approach to it. The DC's really safe.
You're lying at such a great city and no one
(29:53):
should worry about this, or we should worry about climate change.
Just makes you look insane. Here is a guy, let
me give you a name that I think could come
out of nowhere in twenty twenty eight in the Democrat
primary process. Rama Manual, I think he is a relatively normal,
rational guy who is in the nineteen nineties era Democrat, which,
(30:16):
by the way, nineteen nineties era Democrats are basically Republicans. Now.
In fact, there are a ton of you out there who,
maybe in your younger days, might have voted Democrat in
the nineteen nineties, and you now are voting for Trump
because the whole concept of a centrist Democrat doesn't really
exist anymore. By and large, it's basically become a rational,
(30:38):
common sense Republican. And I think Rama Manual is of
that ilk in the nineteen nineties Democrat Now that's where
they tried to run Joe Biden as and Buck. The
question that I think is still floating around out there
is are any of the Democrats that try to take
the moderate, rational, common sense lane, Are they actually just
(31:00):
going to be liars like Biden was, and then as
soon as they get into office, bend their need of
the progressive wing of the party and go out there
and run the country not as some form of centrist
but as a far left winger. That's what Biden did. Right,
Biden was a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Right.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
They pretended that he was not, that he was Grandpa Joe,
and he wasn't really going to do anything that aggressive.
And then they got him in there, and I don't
think he really had any idea what was going on,
and they ran him like he was Bernie Sanders. And
I think that's why his entire political universe collapsed. Not
to mention, he had dementia, and so he didn't have
the mental or physical ability to stand up to any
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Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. We'll have
some fun. The talkbacks are phenomenal from you guys. Relating
to yesterday's show, I'm sure from today's show also. But
my buddy Gary who told me that I had the
beard of a homeless man after we talked about him.
First of all, he's a big fan, so I appreciate
(33:43):
him still listening, he said, Clay, I listened to your
show today, as I do most days. My wife and
I enjoy your show tremendously. You were discussing the email
regarding your homeless appearance. That was my email. Sorry about that,
but I couldn't resist. Please shave the beard. My wife
and I lived in Middle Tennessee for a number of years.
We love the area. Maybe we will see you down
(34:05):
the road if you will speak to me. Gary smiley
face a little bit so so Gary, who has gone
from I don't know. I don't I've shaved the beard
before and my wife said, no, just put it back on.
I've had a beard for twenty three years, so that's
a long time to have a beard. So, you know,
(34:27):
I remember when I was a kid. You ever go
on vacation and you get your dad to not shave
and see if he can grow a beard, and you
think it's kind of a fun thing. I imagine that
kids today still I took the beard off on a vacation.
I was like, Okay, I'm gonna do the reverse, and
my kids were like no, no, no, and Laura was like, yeah, really,
you need to grow the beard back. So I think
I need to cover up as much of my face
(34:48):
as possible. Is the big takeaway here, Gary. Although I
will say now that my beard is going white, I
am noticing how many of you out there are. I
don't know why beards go white for the hair, but
a lot of you out there are dying your beards,
and I just got to call you out because now
that I'm getting into my upper forties, there's no way
(35:12):
that you're sixty five and you have a midnight black beard.
Nobody buys it. You're out there doing the painting of
the beard. I don't even know how you dye your hair.
I've never done it so far, but I don't know
what I'm gonna do when I've got the full white
beard and still the dark hair. That's kind of a
weird look. I don't even know biologically why that would happen.
(35:32):
Somebody out there is probably an expert and can explain this.
Have you noticed that Buck, your beard goes gray? For
almost all men before your hair does. What would make
Why would that make sense? I mean, I know the
beard hair is shorter, so maybe it's getting replaced more frequently,
But it doesn't make sense to me that that would
happen first. These are kinds of things I sit around
and think about. I used to think that I'd have
(35:55):
to sort of cut out like little bits of the gray.
Now I just go with the gray. You've got a
nice out, like a silver fox thing on the chin,
going there, buddies, you just gotta lean into it. I'm
just gonna say this because there's a lot of doubters
out there still. Oh yeah, a lot of doubts. I
bought a speed gun just now. I just spent two
hundred dollars on a speed gun. Now, I want to
be clear. I just posted the first serve that I
hate yesterday on a video. The bet is can I
(36:16):
get it over one hundred miles an hour? I want
to be clear about this. Can I get it over
one hundred miles an hour? In the box serve gun video,
you will have an answer. And I'm paying attention to
all of the doubters here. You will have a video
answer with speed gun by Monday. You just bought the
speed gun during the break, during the I just bought
a two hundred dollars tennis serve speed gun. Some of
(36:39):
you gonna be in your words and my serf
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