March 5, 2025 • 36 mins
President Trump's home run State of the Union. Texas Congressman Al Green escorted out. Democrat's childish and bratty behavior made Trump look like the adult in the room. One of President Trump's superpowers is his humor. Best lines from the speech: "All we really needed was a new president." EBC: economy, border and crime. Clay's crazy confession after being out late at Kid Rock's bar broadcasting with Tomi Lahren Fox Nation. Clay and Meghan Markle baking together in Clay's dreams? We're blown away by the various takes on the White Lotus HBO show.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody to the Wednesday edition of the Clay Travis
and Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate you being here. Was quite
a speech last night. Some people are saying the greatest
speech of all presidential speeches in recent history. For sure,
President Trump did a phenomenal job. Clocked in at I
think it was over two hours. Definitely was a lengthy one.
(00:23):
The President lighting it up, America is back, that was
at the very top, dawn of the Golden Age, and
a lot of positivity, a lot of good things going
on in this speech. And Clay, we're gonna work through
it piece by piece. I just I will start with
this assessment. There is both a sense of tremendous optimism
(00:49):
and a bulliance on the right about where all of
this is going. It's been a heck of a first
month for Trump and then the left, the Democrat seem
to have nothing other than pouting. I didn't even stay
up to watch the Alyssa Slotkin rebuttal, I'll tell you
the truth. It was late. I had to switch time zones.
(01:09):
I'm an old man, so I had to check it
out this morning. I understand that they feel they have
to do. I actually don't think they have to do this.
I think that this is an outdated model. But the
bigger thing from the Democrats wasn't just the incredibly wimpy response, worthless,
really forgettable response officially to Trump's address to Congress, but
(01:34):
the childishness of the Democrats in attendance does deserve some
of our attention, because all of you are familiar with
the massive accomplishments of Trump's first term, of Trump's now
first month of his second term, and the plans for
the future are incredibly exciting for those of us who
(01:56):
want to see this Golden Age unfold, who want to
see America at its absolute best. Democrats are having a
tough time with that whole concept. You had one congressman
have to be escorted out of the chamber. This is
not a good look. We'll discuss. This is not something
that the Democrat Party should be okay with a lot
of interruptions. They had these little paddles like they were
(02:18):
at an auction in the audience, and Klay, let's just
jump with this and you tell me what your biggest,
biggest feelings were on this. But Trump pointed out early
on it doesn't even matter what he does at this
point whether it's ending the Ukraine War or curing cancer.
Democrats are against whatever Trump is for. Trump derangement syndrome
(02:41):
is in its terminal stage play clip eighteen.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Here this is my fifth such speech to Congress. And
once again I look at the Democrats in front of me,
and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say
to make them happy or to make them stand, smile
or applaud. Nothing I can do.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I could find a cure to the.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Most devastating disease, a disease that would wipe out entire nations,
or announce the answers to the greatest economy and history,
or the stoppage of crime to the lowest levels ever recorded.
And these people sitting right here will not clap, will
not stand, and certainly will not hear for these astronomical achievements.
(03:30):
They won't do it, no matter what five times I've
been up here. It's very sad, and it just shouldn't
be this well.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Clay Trump was having fun.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
He was, and I thought it was the best speech
of his political career. And I don't think that's hyperbole
much of it. If you strip away the politics really
boiled down to basic common sense. And I guess my
biggest takeaway last night, Buck, was Democrats did what they
would have said was impossible. They made Trump look like
(04:06):
the adult in the room. I thought they their behavior,
they looked and sounded like brats. I thought they were
behaving like poorly, poorly regulated school children. They were adults
emotionally outbursting their their uh. It just it felt like
(04:31):
the Democrat Party to me, was on a suicidal mission
to destroy its brand. And to me, Buck, there were
a lot of great things Trump did. He's always got
a real narrative ability to connect, whether it was with
Lake and Riley's mom and sister, whether it was with
Joscelyn Nungerret's mother and announcing that he's going to name
(04:53):
a wildlife refuge after her, whether it was having the
kid in the crowd that was getting his United States
Military Academy admission. And I thought, by far the most
compelling moment of the night the thirteen year old kid
being named a Secret Service honorary member. Democrats didn't stand
(05:14):
for any of that, Buck, and I think the reason
why they did not is their brains are broken because
they're so concerned about being too conciliatory to Trump on
social media and getting dragged by whatever left wing lunatics
are popular on social media, that they abandoned their basic humanity.
I don't care who you are. When that thirteen year
(05:36):
old kid who survived brain cancer stood up and gave
a hug to the Secret Service agent, you should have
almost wanted to cry or cried if you are just
a basic, normal human being with complete control of the
normal life. That was a moment where it was hard
(05:58):
to even if you're a guy, where it was hard
not to feel a bit emotional and buck What stood
out to me, maybe most of all, I watched that
awful You woke up and watched it this morning, which,
by the way, I think is worse start off your
morning watching Senator. At least ad some coffee. I had
some Krockea to take care of it. But what is
the number one criticism that you would have of Trump
(06:19):
if you were a Democrat? Probably that he oftentimes behaves
in an emotional fashion and isn't always acting like an adult.
They took the worst criticism they have ever had about Trump,
you know, leave aside the Hitler stuff, but just his
deportment right, the way he carries himself, and they were
far worse. And I thought, with Slotkin's speech, Buck, we
(06:42):
know Trump has men, men, white, Black, Asian, Hispanic. The
polls are out there, sixty forty approval, fifty seven forty three,
double digit approval. The younger the men, he's got him
even more. I thought Trump, actually, Buck really did a
phenomenal job of connecting with women. And I think there
were a lot of women out there that if you
(07:02):
had heard from MSNBC or New York Times that this
guy's hitler, they were watching and they kept waiting for
some awful shoe to drop, and he was phenomenal the
whole way. Last thought, he waited until the very end
to talk about foreign affairs. I think he spoke for
the longest ever, one hundred minutes. I think was the
final tally, longer than anyone ever spoke. Probably an hour
and a half of that was all American focused policies.
(07:26):
And then at the very end he talked to Ukraine,
he talked to Middle East. I thought it was a
home run. I just I don't know that that we
have seen a better version of Trump than what we
saw last night. And I think Democrats are starting to
panic because they have no answer for him. Well, they
looked pathetic last night, And I really mean that when
you have somebody who in the very opening is just
(07:46):
being flagrantly disrespectful to the President of the United staateably
so yesing, there's nothing you can say about that other
than he's acting like, you know, a street com a
community organizer. I mean, he was acting like some guy
from Code Pink who is shrieking in the back of
a congressional hearing. Except he's a member of Congress and
(08:09):
this is a joint addressed to Congress. So that's pathetic.
The little paddles that they held up in the audience
made them look made them look effeminate and weak and preposterous.
I mean, the whole thing was an absurdity.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
And on the issue of women in the narrative right
now and who I think is doing a better job
or who's in a better position with it, we've discussed this.
Democrats got a little extra boost for themselves because of
the fear mongering around abortion in the midterms. Right we
know that they were able to use that to greater
effect in the midterms in Biden's first after Biden's first
(08:48):
couple of years, but now it's gone to the states,
and Democrat states have incredibly. I was just in Colorado,
which has a just barbaric abortion law for the state
of I mean it is all nine months, by the way,
it's officially all nine months of a pregnancy. But the
states have been able to do what they should have
done in the first place from a constitutional perspective, which
(09:08):
has addressed this issue. And on the other side of it, Democrats,
and this came up last night specifically, Democrats are the
ones who keep saying, I want large hairy men to
be able to play against your high school or college
aged female athlete, daughter or sister. I want that to
happen when they have somebody the audience who is a
(09:30):
female athlete who had brain damage, brain damage from the
you know, this would be like clay if somebody who
was twenty was on the football field with a kid
who's twelve and paralyzed him. I mean, everyone think that
was a horrible and monstrous thing, right, Like, what are
you doing as a twenty year old playing well? The
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male female differential isn't that far off from that, especially
in a contact board, and Democrats are all in that.
We just saw the Senate Senate Democrats all voting against
protection for women in sports. So I think actually the
Republicans have the issue that they can club the other
side with. They can spike the volleyball in the face
(10:12):
of the Democrats on this one. They can go after
them in a way that's far more aggressive. And I
think that the whole thing is falling apart for Democrats
Alyssa Slotkin. Does anyone think that Alyssa Slotkin is the
future of any party? No, she's not. She doesn't have
the any of the political skills, doesn't have the The
(10:34):
whole thing is appalling, honestly, And I think that we
saw last night you got one side that wants America
to be fantastic and the other side just wants to
sit and pout and act like children. And if you
were watching that, and by the way, this is not
just our take, sixty nine percent of CNN viewers found
Trump's speech to be very favorable, seventy six percent of
(10:56):
CBS News. All of the numbers rolling in are and
I just Democrats could have been somewhat reasonable. They could
have clapped for a thirteen year old cancer patient who survived.
They could have clapped for Lake and Riley's mom. And sister.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
When they were standing, they could have clapped for Joscelyn
Nongaret or the US Military Academy Cadet all which, by
the way, the thirteen year old walked over and gave
him a handshake, which was just perfect and authentic and real.
And I think, really, what ultimately this comes down to
is Democrats are supremely fake and also the party of
(11:38):
super old people. Did you notice, Buck, I think I
was watching Fox News, but when they panned from our
friend Riley Games sitting in the upper deck and they
went straight to Nancy Pelosi and the disconnect as they
were talking about women and men's sports. The disconnect between
(11:58):
Riley Games, Eiley Gains, young, effervescent, brave, fearless, and Nancy
Pelosi sort of vacantly chewing on her gums looking lost,
was I thought, just a perfect epitomization of how lost
Democrats are. We'll continue to break this down because I
(12:19):
think it was significant. I think it's going to register
resonate for some time. But last night was an incredible
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Speaker 1 (13:38):
Sounded so good.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
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I thought the most compelling part of the entire speech.
Secret Service Director Sean Kurrn comes out and gives DJ Daniel,
thirteen year old cancer Rain cancer surviving kid, a hug
(14:02):
after Trump surprised him making him a Secret Service agent.
Listen to this what it sounded like. I'm sure most
of you were watching, but I thought it was the
most compelling moment of one hundred minute address from Trump.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Cut twenty.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
The police love him, the police departments love him, and tonight, DJ,
We're going to do you the biggest honor of them all.
I am asking our new Secret Service Director, Sean Kerrn
to officially make you an agent of the United States
Secret Service.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
That was buck for Democrats not to stand leave aside
all politics. There are moments where your common humanity, if
you are not trying to be a monolithic Trump deranged moron,
would rise to the occasion when a mom is crying
(15:17):
about the death of her daughter, when you just heard
all that, a normal person I talk a lot about
how politicians JBN just be normal. A normal person would
stand and clap, because that is a uniquely powerful human moment.
We can share with everybody what an abnormal person does,
which is what Nicole Wallace did after this. A former Republican,
(15:41):
mind you, a Bush era Republican who has now sold
her soul to MSNBC.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Oh if she got a good price for them, because
that stock has only been going down. Here she is
in response to this, this is cut five play it.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I've let myself feel a boy about DJ And I
hope he's alive for another ninety five years, right, And
I hope he lives the life he wants to live.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
He wants to be a cop.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
He knows what he wants to do, and maybe when
you have childhood cancer that crystallizes for you. And I
hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer.
But I hope he never has to defend the United
States Capital against Donald Trump's supporters. And if he does,
I hope he isn't one of the six who loses
his life to suicide. And I hope he isn't one
who has to testify against the people who carried out
(16:28):
acts of seditious conspiracy and then live to see Donald
Trump pardon.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Those people can't even say the human thing without turning
it into a political attack, like had to twist it
right away.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
I just think their brains are broken, and it is
to respond to that moment by saying I hope he
doesn't commit suicide when he grows up after a January
sixth attack on a capital. I mean, it is just
so dark, and I think that's really kind of the
message that Democrats is they're opposed to everything. I don't
(17:04):
remember them cheering, and some people say, wow, this is
innately how these sort of addresses go. I don't remember
an entire political party refusing to stand and clap for
a single line in an entire address like we saw
last night. And again, I think it played to Trump's
favor because see when CNN and CBS News come out
(17:27):
and say, hey, Trump, sixty nine percent, seventy six percent
approval of the speech. We never see numbers like that,
even when you think Trump does a good job. Usually
the numbers immediately come out and they're like forty five percent,
hey died it, forty two percent liked it. You know
what I'm talking about? Every major of any does thirteen
percent were undecided, whatever the math is, and for them
(17:49):
to come out basically with rave immediate reactions and the
reverberations on social media, I think are going to continue
to benefit in book.
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Clay and Buck. So we're talking about Trump's phenomenal speech
last night. We loved it. The people loved it, and
I mean the people in the general sense, not just
Trump voters, but really broadly across the country polling shows,
the optimism, the brightness, the the dare I say, Trumpian effervescence.
It was incredible. It was a really well done speech,
(19:23):
well written, well structured, well delivered. Trump was having fun
with it too. He is a great showman. He's funny.
He dealt with the hecklers with all the confidence and
cool of a stand up comedian, which he does have.
That he has that you know part of him too.
I mean, he can just off the cuff be very amusing,
(19:43):
as we know, it's one of his political superpowers. And
then there was this which I thought and Clay agreed,
and we were talking about it before the show. Today
was just a remarkable recitation of government absurdity, and and
I think Trump did it better than anybody could have imagined,
just laying it out piece by piece, whether it's trends
(20:06):
mice or tiny African nations getting a whole lot of
money for stuff, or here was the list of expenditures
that DOGE has found and the American people should know about.
Play it well, sorry, they're going to play it momentarily Clay.
(20:26):
For me, I thought that that was one of the
most most memorable, best parts of the whole speech. I
thought the shout out to Elon Musk wearing a suit,
by the way, I think you might have seen this
Zelenski treatment and realize, you know what, for this one,
Elon could definitely afford a suit. You could afford a
very nice one. I think that the sense of Democrats
(20:49):
and this came across with Alyssa Slopkin's response, Oh, we
agree that fraud and waste are bad. We just don't
want that to happen. We just don't want to do
it this one. And to me it's it's they actually
just don't want to do the cuts. Right. This is
when one person is trying to fix something and okay,
now it's ready we got the list. You want to
play this and then we can read Yeah. Play. This
(21:10):
is the list of expenditures that Trump went into.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Just listen to some of the appalling waste. We have
already identified. Twenty two billion dollars from HHS to provide
free housing and cars for illegal aliens. Forty five million
dollars for diversity, equity and inclusion scholarships in Burma, forty
(21:34):
million dollars to improve the social and economic inclusion of
sedentary migrants. Nobody knows what that is. Eight million dollars
to promote LGBTQI plus in the African nation of Lesuto,
which nobody has ever heard of. Sixty million dollars for
(21:58):
indigenous peoples and Afro Colombian empowerment in Central America. Sixty
million dollars, eight million dollars for making mice transgender.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
This is real, just.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
An innate sense of timing and how to work a
room buck. And this is where all of those rallies
do come in handy because your point on a Alyssa Slotkin.
It's tough to follow Trump no matter who you are,
but when you watch her, she's such a boring plotting
(22:37):
read off a teleprompter politician. Even right down it seems fake,
right even right down to at the opening of her speech,
she took like two steps and then she had the
American flag backdrop.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
And it was so bad.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
It was just so bad and predictable and planned, and
it didn't react to anything that Trump said. And even
Trump calling out Pocahontas. Have you've seen they're trying to
call it. They're trying to say, this is the most
racist attack that we've ever seen from the rosterrum. And
it's like she lied about being Native American. Making fun
(23:12):
of her for lying about being Native American is not racist.
Claiming that you are a race you are not is
arguably the racism right, But.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
They just don't.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
But I don't ever remember this before. What do Democrats
actually support? Trump laid out something again. I think it's
so important. This speech was not even particularly partisan. Hey,
we want to spend less money on government. Hey, we
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want peace in Ukraine and in the Middle East. Hey,
we want to keep American citizens safe. We want law
and order. We want to make sure that people who
are illegally in our country can't come here and when
they commit violent crimes if they are here, illegally, that
we get them out. Bill Clinton argued in favor of
(24:05):
a lot of this. Buck Barack Obama two thousand and
eight argued in favor of a lot of this. Democrat
brains are so broken that Trump has trapped them by
getting them to oppose things that they used to support
because they are so reflexively anti Trump and they're so
afraid of whatever tiny little cadre of online influencers is
(24:28):
out there, that they abandon their basic humanity when it
comes to just things like, hey, let's stand in cheer
for people doing good things on behalf of humanity.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Well, they've also lost in very real ways on some issues,
and this, for me was one of the most powerful
Spike the football moments of the whole speech, and it
was on immigration because Biden and his regime, and Kamla
of course was the borders are, which is classic because
(24:58):
then she ends up once the push Grandpa Biden aside
for his dementia, Kamala comes forward and then they say, oh, no,
she wasn't really, so they lied about Biden's dementia, and
then they lie about Kamala being the borders are because
dementia Biden kicked the border wide open. It was purposeful.
They wanted this to happen. It is part of the strategy.
This has cut seventeen President Trump Clay laying out what
(25:21):
we have seen. This is irrefutable. If Trump is able
to make the border, illegal border crossings go down ninety
five percent in the first month. What happened under Biden
is a choice. It was a choice. It was not
a natural disaster. It wasn't a hurricane that hit somewhere
somewhere nobody was expecting. It wasn't oh, we need a
whole new system to handle this. It was Biden wanted
(25:43):
it to be so, or the people making the decisions
for him wanted it to be so. Trump has stopped
at play.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Seventeen since taking office, My administration has launched the most
sweeping border and immigration crackdown in American history, and we
quickly achieved the lowest numbers of illegal border crosses ever recorded.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
The media and our friends in.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
The Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
We must have.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Legislation to secure the border. But it turned out that
all we really needed was a new president.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
All Right, We're good with that. Okay, let's just say Clay.
It's a great line because it's true and because it's
yet another huge lie that the media on behalf of
the Democrats and the Democrat Party were telling us, which was,
our hands are tied. Sorry, nothing we can do about
all these illegals pouring into the country. They've betrayed American sovereignty.
It was an active decision. It was subversion of our borders.
(27:05):
It wasn't just oh gosh, there's so much chaos. They
wanted the chaos. They created it.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
And a lot of more on Republicans in Congress tried
to give them cover, which I don't think we can forget. Remember,
they were prepared to suddenly sign a bill at the
end of the Biden administration which would have allowed Biden
to argue, maybe truthfully, that Congress needed to act in
(27:33):
order for him to secure the border. I don't mean
that that was true. I mean that if the border
had gotten secured after Congress acted, Biden could have escaped
responsibility for all of his executive orders by saying I
had to wait till Congress acted to shut down the border.
What Trump did is come in and sign all the
(27:53):
executive orders exactly like he told us. He would like
Tom Homan said he would on this program for years
and immediately the border is completely shut down, and that
is what do we say. This is a three letter
election EBC, economy, border crime. Certainly the border connects to
crime as well. That's taken care of, and now the
(28:15):
Trump focus, in my opinion, should almost exclusively be on
the economy. We've got to get the economy chugging along.
We've got to beat inflation. We've got to get your
average paycheck increasing at a faster rate than inflation. We
got to get prices under control, so every time you
walk out of a grocery store or walk outside of
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a fast food restaurant, you aren't shaking your head in
disbelief over what you just had to pay. That is
the next battle. It is a hard one to win.
It is going to probably take the better part of
the year, but I think Trump economic policies win put
in place, will make a tremendous difference there By the way,
I don't know if we've mentioned this. We're going to
talk with Steven Miller, one of the architects of this dress,
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Welcome back in Buck. I'm about to make a confession.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
I understand if you and anyone else out there listening
right now can no longer trust me after this confession.
I was out late last night did Fox Nation with
Tommy Larn, Ben Dominic and Aaron Perini. I was at
the kid Rock, same place where we were for the
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election night Kid Rock honky Tonk downtown Nashville. In fact,
I was kidding with Tommy Laren that she was hosting
the show last night and the last time we did
a show there, Pete Hegseth was hosting, and now he
is the head of the Defense Department. So Tommy Laren,
in line for a promotion, got back home late, went
(31:26):
to bed, and I had a crazy dream. I dreamed
that I was in and maybe this is the Hillsdale
College Continuing Learning ads that were doing. I don't know
how this happened. I dreamed that I was in an
adult Study abroad program, and in that Adult Study abroad program,
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I became best friends with Megan Markle, and that we
liked to spend our free time baking together.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I think this is a nightmare, not a dream, Clay.
To be clear, this is like I woke up and.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I was like my friend Megan Markle, like, I mean,
why are we not still baking? I legitimately there's a dream.
I'm like, I don't know that any of you can
trust any of my opinions anymore. If I'm now dreaming
that I'm gonna be doing adult study classes with Megan
Markele and that we're gonna be buddies, So I just
try to be honest with the audience as much as
I can. Maybe this is connected to me becoming the
(32:25):
greatest flute player in the world. Maybe I'm just really
in touch with my feminine side now. Maybe I'm actually
gay and I just didn't know it. But I don't
know what to say about me becoming best friends with
Megan Markele and an Adult Study abroad program and enjoying baking,
which is you well know, Buck, I've never cooked anything
in my life, So maybe I don't even know how
(32:47):
to explain this.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
I think we're at the full on, multimillion person therapy
session stage of the show. Now, Clay, this is is
this what happens when you get old?
Speaker 3 (32:57):
You stop having like really kind of adventurous, awesome dreams,
and you're just like, I'm going to go to an
adult study abroad program and I'm gonna get into baking,
like am I am? I like Tim Walls levels testosterone
right now? Am I gonna be doing spirit fingers and
leg kick soon? I don't know. I'm troubled. I was
troubled when I woke up. This might joined the space.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
I think we can all say it's brave for you
to share it with me and people listening on five
hundred stations across the country, plus all of our podcast audience.
So your fearlessness, Clay, has to be respected, irrespective of
your flute playing and Meghan markele baking skills.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
I know that there is a new Megan Markle baking
show out. I saw Piers Morgan tweeted that he made
it through ten minutes, so maybe that is also resonating.
I'll also say this, I needed my Crockett coffee this
morning because I had a late night out in downtown
Nashville doing Fox Nation television, and the Crockett coffee is
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coming in handy in a huge way. Go to Crocketcoffee
dot com, use code book, but buck.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
I will also.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Say I was blown away by how many of our
audience we talked yesterday about the culture change and the
vibe shift and how everything is altering.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
In many ways.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
I was blown away by how many people had really
interesting takes about the White Lotus Show, how many of
you have watched it, and how many of you pointed
out that while Yellowstone is seen as this sort of
epitomization of Western values, Red State America jumped the shark
(34:33):
ran the pickup truck into a brick wall in the
last season, sorry to tell you. And White Lotus actually
ridicules a lot of the woke universe. Now, it is
a satirical program, so it is ridiculing lots across the spectrum.
But I actually thought more and more after we talked
about that conversation about the three women in one of
(34:55):
them voting Trump, is White Lotus actually selling its health
to a left wing audience while coding that is sort
of subtextually actually embracing much of the critique of left
wing audiences and doing it in such a hidden way,
(35:17):
in such a subterranean fashion that a lot of the
white liberals don't realize how much they're being ridiculed by
a show they love. Just an idea out there for
some of you that may want to check this out
and tell me whether or not you think I'm crazy,
because the more I think about it, that conversation among
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those three women did not stand alone, and I do
think it's indicative of the overall larger vibe shift that
we have seen that's making opposing Trump so much more
difficult for Democrats overall.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
They just have no counter narrative. Well, the America that
we have all been living in until very recently with
Trump's win, has been one in which all Democrats believe
that if they were to go with their best friends
in the whole world on vacation and find out that
one of their best friends since they were in college
or whatever you know of twenty years considered voting for Trump,
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that is a mic drop. Oh my gosh, catastrophe moment,
whereas Republicans just like whatever, man, let's go to the beach.
We just don't have that same Well, for one thing,
I think sense of entitlement and sense of being able
to determine what other people believe and think, and there
(36:34):
is a recognition I think now the Democrats have gone
too far with this stuff even seeping into pop culture.
Are those we've said, Hopefully the Trump voting mom from Austin,
Texas on the show you know doesn't storm the capitol
or something in the last episode. You know, we don't know,
like you know what I'm saying. True, Yeah, who knows.
There could be a major pivot.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
We come back, will continue to break down spectacular address
from Trump.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Thanks for hanging
Welcome everybody to the Wednesday edition of the Clay Travis
and Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate you being here. Was quite
a speech last night. Some people are saying the greatest
speech of all presidential speeches in recent history. For sure,
President Trump did a phenomenal job. Clocked in at I
think it was over two hours. Definitely was a lengthy one.
(00:23):
The President lighting it up, America is back, that was
at the very top, dawn of the Golden Age, and
a lot of positivity, a lot of good things going
on in this speech. And Clay, we're gonna work through
it piece by piece. I just I will start with
this assessment. There is both a sense of tremendous optimism
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and a bulliance on the right about where all of
this is going. It's been a heck of a first
month for Trump and then the left, the Democrat seem
to have nothing other than pouting. I didn't even stay
up to watch the Alyssa Slotkin rebuttal, I'll tell you
the truth. It was late. I had to switch time zones.
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I'm an old man, so I had to check it
out this morning. I understand that they feel they have
to do. I actually don't think they have to do this.
I think that this is an outdated model. But the
bigger thing from the Democrats wasn't just the incredibly wimpy response, worthless,
really forgettable response officially to Trump's address to Congress, but
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the childishness of the Democrats in attendance does deserve some
of our attention, because all of you are familiar with
the massive accomplishments of Trump's first term, of Trump's now
first month of his second term, and the plans for
the future are incredibly exciting for those of us who
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want to see this Golden Age unfold, who want to
see America at its absolute best. Democrats are having a
tough time with that whole concept. You had one congressman
have to be escorted out of the chamber. This is
not a good look. We'll discuss. This is not something
that the Democrat Party should be okay with a lot
of interruptions. They had these little paddles like they were
(02:18):
at an auction in the audience, and Klay, let's just
jump with this and you tell me what your biggest,
biggest feelings were on this. But Trump pointed out early
on it doesn't even matter what he does at this
point whether it's ending the Ukraine War or curing cancer.
Democrats are against whatever Trump is for. Trump derangement syndrome
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is in its terminal stage play clip eighteen.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Here this is my fifth such speech to Congress. And
once again I look at the Democrats in front of me,
and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say
to make them happy or to make them stand, smile
or applaud. Nothing I can do.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I could find a cure to the.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Most devastating disease, a disease that would wipe out entire nations,
or announce the answers to the greatest economy and history,
or the stoppage of crime to the lowest levels ever recorded.
And these people sitting right here will not clap, will
not stand, and certainly will not hear for these astronomical achievements.
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They won't do it, no matter what five times I've
been up here. It's very sad, and it just shouldn't
be this well.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Clay Trump was having fun.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
He was, and I thought it was the best speech
of his political career. And I don't think that's hyperbole
much of it. If you strip away the politics really
boiled down to basic common sense. And I guess my
biggest takeaway last night, Buck, was Democrats did what they
would have said was impossible. They made Trump look like
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the adult in the room. I thought they their behavior,
they looked and sounded like brats. I thought they were
behaving like poorly, poorly regulated school children. They were adults
emotionally outbursting their their uh. It just it felt like
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the Democrat Party to me, was on a suicidal mission
to destroy its brand. And to me, Buck, there were
a lot of great things Trump did. He's always got
a real narrative ability to connect, whether it was with
Lake and Riley's mom and sister, whether it was with
Joscelyn Nungerret's mother and announcing that he's going to name
(04:53):
a wildlife refuge after her, whether it was having the
kid in the crowd that was getting his United States
Military Academy admission. And I thought, by far the most
compelling moment of the night the thirteen year old kid
being named a Secret Service honorary member. Democrats didn't stand
(05:14):
for any of that, Buck, and I think the reason
why they did not is their brains are broken because
they're so concerned about being too conciliatory to Trump on
social media and getting dragged by whatever left wing lunatics
are popular on social media, that they abandoned their basic humanity.
I don't care who you are. When that thirteen year
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old kid who survived brain cancer stood up and gave
a hug to the Secret Service agent, you should have
almost wanted to cry or cried if you are just
a basic, normal human being with complete control of the
normal life. That was a moment where it was hard
(05:58):
to even if you're a guy, where it was hard
not to feel a bit emotional and buck What stood
out to me, maybe most of all, I watched that
awful You woke up and watched it this morning, which,
by the way, I think is worse start off your
morning watching Senator. At least ad some coffee. I had
some Krockea to take care of it. But what is
the number one criticism that you would have of Trump
(06:19):
if you were a Democrat? Probably that he oftentimes behaves
in an emotional fashion and isn't always acting like an adult.
They took the worst criticism they have ever had about Trump,
you know, leave aside the Hitler stuff, but just his
deportment right, the way he carries himself, and they were
far worse. And I thought, with Slotkin's speech, Buck, we
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know Trump has men, men, white, Black, Asian, Hispanic. The
polls are out there, sixty forty approval, fifty seven forty three,
double digit approval. The younger the men, he's got him
even more. I thought Trump, actually, Buck really did a
phenomenal job of connecting with women. And I think there
were a lot of women out there that if you
(07:02):
had heard from MSNBC or New York Times that this
guy's hitler, they were watching and they kept waiting for
some awful shoe to drop, and he was phenomenal the
whole way. Last thought, he waited until the very end
to talk about foreign affairs. I think he spoke for
the longest ever, one hundred minutes. I think was the
final tally, longer than anyone ever spoke. Probably an hour
and a half of that was all American focused policies.
(07:26):
And then at the very end he talked to Ukraine,
he talked to Middle East. I thought it was a
home run. I just I don't know that that we
have seen a better version of Trump than what we
saw last night. And I think Democrats are starting to
panic because they have no answer for him. Well, they
looked pathetic last night, And I really mean that when
you have somebody who in the very opening is just
(07:46):
being flagrantly disrespectful to the President of the United staateably
so yesing, there's nothing you can say about that other
than he's acting like, you know, a street com a
community organizer. I mean, he was acting like some guy
from Code Pink who is shrieking in the back of
a congressional hearing. Except he's a member of Congress and
(08:09):
this is a joint addressed to Congress. So that's pathetic.
The little paddles that they held up in the audience
made them look made them look effeminate and weak and preposterous.
I mean, the whole thing was an absurdity.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
And on the issue of women in the narrative right
now and who I think is doing a better job
or who's in a better position with it, we've discussed this.
Democrats got a little extra boost for themselves because of
the fear mongering around abortion in the midterms. Right we
know that they were able to use that to greater
effect in the midterms in Biden's first after Biden's first
(08:48):
couple of years, but now it's gone to the states,
and Democrat states have incredibly. I was just in Colorado,
which has a just barbaric abortion law for the state
of I mean it is all nine months, by the way,
it's officially all nine months of a pregnancy. But the
states have been able to do what they should have
done in the first place from a constitutional perspective, which
(09:08):
has addressed this issue. And on the other side of it, Democrats,
and this came up last night specifically, Democrats are the
ones who keep saying, I want large hairy men to
be able to play against your high school or college
aged female athlete, daughter or sister. I want that to
happen when they have somebody the audience who is a
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female athlete who had brain damage, brain damage from the
you know, this would be like clay if somebody who
was twenty was on the football field with a kid
who's twelve and paralyzed him. I mean, everyone think that
was a horrible and monstrous thing, right, Like, what are
you doing as a twenty year old playing well? The
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male female differential isn't that far off from that, especially
in a contact board, and Democrats are all in that.
We just saw the Senate Senate Democrats all voting against
protection for women in sports. So I think actually the
Republicans have the issue that they can club the other
side with. They can spike the volleyball in the face
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of the Democrats on this one. They can go after
them in a way that's far more aggressive. And I
think that the whole thing is falling apart for Democrats
Alyssa Slotkin. Does anyone think that Alyssa Slotkin is the
future of any party? No, she's not. She doesn't have
the any of the political skills, doesn't have the The
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whole thing is appalling, honestly, And I think that we
saw last night you got one side that wants America
to be fantastic and the other side just wants to
sit and pout and act like children. And if you
were watching that, and by the way, this is not
just our take, sixty nine percent of CNN viewers found
Trump's speech to be very favorable, seventy six percent of
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CBS News. All of the numbers rolling in are and
I just Democrats could have been somewhat reasonable. They could
have clapped for a thirteen year old cancer patient who survived.
They could have clapped for Lake and Riley's mom. And sister.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
When they were standing, they could have clapped for Joscelyn
Nongaret or the US Military Academy Cadet all which, by
the way, the thirteen year old walked over and gave
him a handshake, which was just perfect and authentic and real.
And I think, really, what ultimately this comes down to
is Democrats are supremely fake and also the party of
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super old people. Did you notice, Buck, I think I
was watching Fox News, but when they panned from our
friend Riley Games sitting in the upper deck and they
went straight to Nancy Pelosi and the disconnect as they
were talking about women and men's sports. The disconnect between
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Riley Games, Eiley Gains, young, effervescent, brave, fearless, and Nancy
Pelosi sort of vacantly chewing on her gums looking lost,
was I thought, just a perfect epitomization of how lost
Democrats are. We'll continue to break this down because I
(12:19):
think it was significant. I think it's going to register
resonate for some time. But last night was an incredible
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Speaker 1 (13:38):
Sounded so good.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you
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I thought the most compelling part of the entire speech.
Secret Service Director Sean Kurrn comes out and gives DJ Daniel,
thirteen year old cancer Rain cancer surviving kid, a hug
(14:02):
after Trump surprised him making him a Secret Service agent.
Listen to this what it sounded like. I'm sure most
of you were watching, but I thought it was the
most compelling moment of one hundred minute address from Trump.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Cut twenty.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
The police love him, the police departments love him, and tonight, DJ,
We're going to do you the biggest honor of them all.
I am asking our new Secret Service Director, Sean Kerrn
to officially make you an agent of the United States
Secret Service.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
That was buck for Democrats not to stand leave aside
all politics. There are moments where your common humanity, if
you are not trying to be a monolithic Trump deranged moron,
would rise to the occasion when a mom is crying
(15:17):
about the death of her daughter, when you just heard
all that, a normal person I talk a lot about
how politicians JBN just be normal. A normal person would
stand and clap, because that is a uniquely powerful human moment.
We can share with everybody what an abnormal person does,
which is what Nicole Wallace did after this. A former Republican,
(15:41):
mind you, a Bush era Republican who has now sold
her soul to MSNBC.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Oh if she got a good price for them, because
that stock has only been going down. Here she is
in response to this, this is cut five play it.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
I've let myself feel a boy about DJ And I
hope he's alive for another ninety five years, right, And
I hope he lives the life he wants to live.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
He wants to be a cop.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
He knows what he wants to do, and maybe when
you have childhood cancer that crystallizes for you. And I
hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer.
But I hope he never has to defend the United
States Capital against Donald Trump's supporters. And if he does,
I hope he isn't one of the six who loses
his life to suicide. And I hope he isn't one
who has to testify against the people who carried out
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acts of seditious conspiracy and then live to see Donald
Trump pardon.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Those people can't even say the human thing without turning
it into a political attack, like had to twist it
right away.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
I just think their brains are broken, and it is
to respond to that moment by saying I hope he
doesn't commit suicide when he grows up after a January
sixth attack on a capital. I mean, it is just
so dark, and I think that's really kind of the
message that Democrats is they're opposed to everything. I don't
(17:04):
remember them cheering, and some people say, wow, this is
innately how these sort of addresses go. I don't remember
an entire political party refusing to stand and clap for
a single line in an entire address like we saw
last night. And again, I think it played to Trump's
favor because see when CNN and CBS News come out
(17:27):
and say, hey, Trump, sixty nine percent, seventy six percent
approval of the speech. We never see numbers like that,
even when you think Trump does a good job. Usually
the numbers immediately come out and they're like forty five percent,
hey died it, forty two percent liked it. You know
what I'm talking about? Every major of any does thirteen
percent were undecided, whatever the math is, and for them
(17:49):
to come out basically with rave immediate reactions and the
reverberations on social media, I think are going to continue
to benefit in book.
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Clay and Buck. So we're talking about Trump's phenomenal speech
last night. We loved it. The people loved it, and
I mean the people in the general sense, not just
Trump voters, but really broadly across the country polling shows,
the optimism, the brightness, the the dare I say, Trumpian effervescence.
It was incredible. It was a really well done speech,
(19:23):
well written, well structured, well delivered. Trump was having fun
with it too. He is a great showman. He's funny.
He dealt with the hecklers with all the confidence and
cool of a stand up comedian, which he does have.
That he has that you know part of him too.
I mean, he can just off the cuff be very amusing,
(19:43):
as we know, it's one of his political superpowers. And
then there was this which I thought and Clay agreed,
and we were talking about it before the show. Today
was just a remarkable recitation of government absurdity, and and
I think Trump did it better than anybody could have imagined,
just laying it out piece by piece, whether it's trends
(20:06):
mice or tiny African nations getting a whole lot of
money for stuff, or here was the list of expenditures
that DOGE has found and the American people should know about.
Play it well, sorry, they're going to play it momentarily Clay.
(20:26):
For me, I thought that that was one of the
most most memorable, best parts of the whole speech. I
thought the shout out to Elon Musk wearing a suit,
by the way, I think you might have seen this
Zelenski treatment and realize, you know what, for this one,
Elon could definitely afford a suit. You could afford a
very nice one. I think that the sense of Democrats
(20:49):
and this came across with Alyssa Slopkin's response, Oh, we
agree that fraud and waste are bad. We just don't
want that to happen. We just don't want to do
it this one. And to me it's it's they actually
just don't want to do the cuts. Right. This is
when one person is trying to fix something and okay,
now it's ready we got the list. You want to
play this and then we can read Yeah. Play. This
(21:10):
is the list of expenditures that Trump went into.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Just listen to some of the appalling waste. We have
already identified. Twenty two billion dollars from HHS to provide
free housing and cars for illegal aliens. Forty five million
dollars for diversity, equity and inclusion scholarships in Burma, forty
(21:34):
million dollars to improve the social and economic inclusion of
sedentary migrants. Nobody knows what that is. Eight million dollars
to promote LGBTQI plus in the African nation of Lesuto,
which nobody has ever heard of. Sixty million dollars for
(21:58):
indigenous peoples and Afro Colombian empowerment in Central America. Sixty
million dollars, eight million dollars for making mice transgender.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
This is real, just.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
An innate sense of timing and how to work a
room buck. And this is where all of those rallies
do come in handy because your point on a Alyssa Slotkin.
It's tough to follow Trump no matter who you are,
but when you watch her, she's such a boring plotting
(22:37):
read off a teleprompter politician. Even right down it seems fake,
right even right down to at the opening of her speech,
she took like two steps and then she had the
American flag backdrop.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
And it was so bad.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
It was just so bad and predictable and planned, and
it didn't react to anything that Trump said. And even
Trump calling out Pocahontas. Have you've seen they're trying to
call it. They're trying to say, this is the most
racist attack that we've ever seen from the rosterrum. And
it's like she lied about being Native American. Making fun
(23:12):
of her for lying about being Native American is not racist.
Claiming that you are a race you are not is
arguably the racism right, But.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
They just don't.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
But I don't ever remember this before. What do Democrats
actually support? Trump laid out something again. I think it's
so important. This speech was not even particularly partisan. Hey,
we want to spend less money on government. Hey, we
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want peace in Ukraine and in the Middle East. Hey,
we want to keep American citizens safe. We want law
and order. We want to make sure that people who
are illegally in our country can't come here and when
they commit violent crimes if they are here, illegally, that
we get them out. Bill Clinton argued in favor of
(24:05):
a lot of this. Buck Barack Obama two thousand and
eight argued in favor of a lot of this. Democrat
brains are so broken that Trump has trapped them by
getting them to oppose things that they used to support
because they are so reflexively anti Trump and they're so
afraid of whatever tiny little cadre of online influencers is
(24:28):
out there, that they abandon their basic humanity when it
comes to just things like, hey, let's stand in cheer
for people doing good things on behalf of humanity.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Well, they've also lost in very real ways on some issues,
and this, for me was one of the most powerful
Spike the football moments of the whole speech, and it
was on immigration because Biden and his regime, and Kamla
of course was the borders are, which is classic because
(24:58):
then she ends up once the push Grandpa Biden aside
for his dementia, Kamala comes forward and then they say, oh, no,
she wasn't really, so they lied about Biden's dementia, and
then they lie about Kamala being the borders are because
dementia Biden kicked the border wide open. It was purposeful.
They wanted this to happen. It is part of the strategy.
This has cut seventeen President Trump Clay laying out what
(25:21):
we have seen. This is irrefutable. If Trump is able
to make the border, illegal border crossings go down ninety
five percent in the first month. What happened under Biden
is a choice. It was a choice. It was not
a natural disaster. It wasn't a hurricane that hit somewhere
somewhere nobody was expecting. It wasn't oh, we need a
whole new system to handle this. It was Biden wanted
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it to be so, or the people making the decisions
for him wanted it to be so. Trump has stopped
at play.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Seventeen since taking office, My administration has launched the most
sweeping border and immigration crackdown in American history, and we
quickly achieved the lowest numbers of illegal border crosses ever recorded.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
The media and our friends in.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
The Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
We must have.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Legislation to secure the border. But it turned out that
all we really needed was a new president.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
All Right, We're good with that. Okay, let's just say Clay.
It's a great line because it's true and because it's
yet another huge lie that the media on behalf of
the Democrats and the Democrat Party were telling us, which was,
our hands are tied. Sorry, nothing we can do about
all these illegals pouring into the country. They've betrayed American sovereignty.
It was an active decision. It was subversion of our borders.
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It wasn't just oh gosh, there's so much chaos. They
wanted the chaos. They created it.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
And a lot of more on Republicans in Congress tried
to give them cover, which I don't think we can forget. Remember,
they were prepared to suddenly sign a bill at the
end of the Biden administration which would have allowed Biden
to argue, maybe truthfully, that Congress needed to act in
(27:33):
order for him to secure the border. I don't mean
that that was true. I mean that if the border
had gotten secured after Congress acted, Biden could have escaped
responsibility for all of his executive orders by saying I
had to wait till Congress acted to shut down the border.
What Trump did is come in and sign all the
(27:53):
executive orders exactly like he told us. He would like
Tom Homan said he would on this program for years
and immediately the border is completely shut down, and that
is what do we say. This is a three letter
election EBC, economy, border crime. Certainly the border connects to
crime as well. That's taken care of, and now the
(28:15):
Trump focus, in my opinion, should almost exclusively be on
the economy. We've got to get the economy chugging along.
We've got to beat inflation. We've got to get your
average paycheck increasing at a faster rate than inflation. We
got to get prices under control, so every time you
walk out of a grocery store or walk outside of
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a fast food restaurant, you aren't shaking your head in
disbelief over what you just had to pay. That is
the next battle. It is a hard one to win.
It is going to probably take the better part of
the year, but I think Trump economic policies win put
in place, will make a tremendous difference there By the way,
I don't know if we've mentioned this. We're going to
talk with Steven Miller, one of the architects of this dress,
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Welcome back in Buck. I'm about to make a confession.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
I understand if you and anyone else out there listening
right now can no longer trust me after this confession.
I was out late last night did Fox Nation with
Tommy Larn, Ben Dominic and Aaron Perini. I was at
the kid Rock, same place where we were for the
(31:06):
election night Kid Rock honky Tonk downtown Nashville. In fact,
I was kidding with Tommy Laren that she was hosting
the show last night and the last time we did
a show there, Pete Hegseth was hosting, and now he
is the head of the Defense Department. So Tommy Laren,
in line for a promotion, got back home late, went
(31:26):
to bed, and I had a crazy dream. I dreamed
that I was in and maybe this is the Hillsdale
College Continuing Learning ads that were doing. I don't know
how this happened. I dreamed that I was in an
adult Study abroad program, and in that Adult Study abroad program,
(31:48):
I became best friends with Megan Markle, and that we
liked to spend our free time baking together.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
I think this is a nightmare, not a dream, Clay.
To be clear, this is like I woke up and.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I was like my friend Megan Markle, like, I mean,
why are we not still baking? I legitimately there's a dream.
I'm like, I don't know that any of you can
trust any of my opinions anymore. If I'm now dreaming
that I'm gonna be doing adult study classes with Megan
Markele and that we're gonna be buddies, So I just
try to be honest with the audience as much as
I can. Maybe this is connected to me becoming the
(32:25):
greatest flute player in the world. Maybe I'm just really
in touch with my feminine side now. Maybe I'm actually
gay and I just didn't know it. But I don't
know what to say about me becoming best friends with
Megan Markele and an Adult Study abroad program and enjoying baking,
which is you well know, Buck, I've never cooked anything
in my life, So maybe I don't even know how
(32:47):
to explain this.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
I think we're at the full on, multimillion person therapy
session stage of the show. Now, Clay, this is is
this what happens when you get old?
Speaker 3 (32:57):
You stop having like really kind of adventurous, awesome dreams,
and you're just like, I'm going to go to an
adult study abroad program and I'm gonna get into baking,
like am I am? I like Tim Walls levels testosterone
right now? Am I gonna be doing spirit fingers and
leg kick soon? I don't know. I'm troubled. I was
troubled when I woke up. This might joined the space.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
I think we can all say it's brave for you
to share it with me and people listening on five
hundred stations across the country, plus all of our podcast audience.
So your fearlessness, Clay, has to be respected, irrespective of
your flute playing and Meghan markele baking skills.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
I know that there is a new Megan Markle baking
show out. I saw Piers Morgan tweeted that he made
it through ten minutes, so maybe that is also resonating.
I'll also say this, I needed my Crockett coffee this
morning because I had a late night out in downtown
Nashville doing Fox Nation television, and the Crockett coffee is
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coming in handy in a huge way. Go to Crocketcoffee
dot com, use code book, but buck.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
I will also.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Say I was blown away by how many of our
audience we talked yesterday about the culture change and the
vibe shift and how everything is altering.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
In many ways.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
I was blown away by how many people had really
interesting takes about the White Lotus Show, how many of
you have watched it, and how many of you pointed
out that while Yellowstone is seen as this sort of
epitomization of Western values, Red State America jumped the shark
(34:33):
ran the pickup truck into a brick wall in the
last season, sorry to tell you. And White Lotus actually
ridicules a lot of the woke universe. Now, it is
a satirical program, so it is ridiculing lots across the spectrum.
But I actually thought more and more after we talked
about that conversation about the three women in one of
(34:55):
them voting Trump, is White Lotus actually selling its health
to a left wing audience while coding that is sort
of subtextually actually embracing much of the critique of left
wing audiences and doing it in such a hidden way,
(35:17):
in such a subterranean fashion that a lot of the
white liberals don't realize how much they're being ridiculed by
a show they love. Just an idea out there for
some of you that may want to check this out
and tell me whether or not you think I'm crazy,
because the more I think about it, that conversation among
(35:38):
those three women did not stand alone, and I do
think it's indicative of the overall larger vibe shift that
we have seen that's making opposing Trump so much more
difficult for Democrats overall.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
They just have no counter narrative. Well, the America that
we have all been living in until very recently with
Trump's win, has been one in which all Democrats believe
that if they were to go with their best friends
in the whole world on vacation and find out that
one of their best friends since they were in college
or whatever you know of twenty years considered voting for Trump,
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that is a mic drop. Oh my gosh, catastrophe moment,
whereas Republicans just like whatever, man, let's go to the beach.
We just don't have that same Well, for one thing,
I think sense of entitlement and sense of being able
to determine what other people believe and think, and there
(36:34):
is a recognition I think now the Democrats have gone
too far with this stuff even seeping into pop culture.
Are those we've said, Hopefully the Trump voting mom from Austin,
Texas on the show you know doesn't storm the capitol
or something in the last episode. You know, we don't know,
like you know what I'm saying. True, Yeah, who knows.
There could be a major pivot.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
We come back, will continue to break down spectacular address
from Trump.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Thanks for hanging
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