October 27, 2025 • 36 mins
In Hour 3 of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, the hosts deliver a dynamic and wide-ranging discussion centered on politics, media narratives, and cultural authenticity, with a strong emphasis on California Governor Gavin Newsom and President Donald Trump. The hour opens with a sharp critique of Gavin Newsom, whom Clay and Buck describe as the “de facto leader of the Democrat Party.” They dissect Newsom’s attempt to portray himself as a self-made man, highlighting his privileged upbringing, financial backing from billionaire Gordon Getty, and his efforts to rebrand ahead of a likely 2028 presidential run. The hosts mock Newsom’s “rags-to-riches” narrative, including his claims of hardship involving mac and cheese dinners and basketball practice, calling it political posturing designed to appeal to working-class voters. A major theme is Newsom’s strategic “code-switching” and rhetorical shifts depending on audience demographics. The hosts analyze his appearance on the “All the Smoke” podcast, where he frames anti-woke criticism as “anti-Black,” and question whether this messaging will resonate with Black voters in key Democratic primary states. They note California’s relatively small Black population (6%) and compare Newsom’s approach to Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton’s past attempts to connect with Southern voters through accent changes and cultural signaling. The conversation then pivots to President Donald Trump’s controversial yet widely praised initiative to build a new White House ballroom. Clay and Buck defend the project as a long-overdue improvement to the White House’s hosting capabilities, emphasizing its practicality, elegance, and bipartisan utility. They cite support from former Obama and Biden staffers and editorial approval from the Washington Post, framing the ballroom as a legacy gift to future administrations. The hosts ridicule opposition from Democrats like Rep. Eric Swalwell, attributing the backlash to “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” In a lighter segment, the show features listener emails and humorous banter, including a debate over Chick-fil-A biscuits, showering with dogs, and nudity in locker rooms. The hosts also joke about Gavin Newsom adopting a Southern accent on the campaign trail, comparing it to infamous Hollywood portrayals like Keanu Reeves in Devil’s Advocate and Nicolas Cage in Con Air. The hour concludes with commentary on White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s book tour. Her refusal to acknowledge any regrets while serving under President Biden is met with skepticism, and the hosts suggest her identity politics deflection is emblematic of the administration’s broader communication failures.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Third hour of Clay un Buck kicks off now, and
let's talk about the I would argue any factor leader
of the Democrat Party today Gavin Newsom, the governor of California,
who has.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Done a lot to make California a less pleasant and
reasonable place to live, which is something considerable when you
think about California as a piece of real estate, I
fully admit I don't know that there is a more
blessed piece of real estate in America for the purposes
(00:41):
of year round weather, tremendous access to gorgeous beaches as
well as incredible vineyards as well as mountains as well.
You know, California is a fantastic piece of geography, and
Orange County in particular has a special place in my heart.
I just can't afford to live there.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
The real estate prices clayed. That place is wild.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
But that's coming from a Miamian. But Gavin Newsom has
made it very expensive, very difficult, very disorderly, and he
is trying to tell everybody that he's a guy who
made it on these mean streets through nothing but gumption.
(01:23):
The continuous persistence.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Of a guy who just yeah, so what if he
grew up with wealthy parents and a perfectly square jaw
and a house.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Maybe it was in bel Air, who knows. It was
really nice, it was fancy, but clay, there were days.
There were days when Gavin would pull up the Santa
Monica and there was no valet to take his convertible.
There were times when Gavin went out to see the
vineyard that he started when he was like thirty, and someday,
(02:00):
you know what happened. The grapes were a little sour
and he had to just take that. He had to
just deal with that kind of challenge throwing his way.
Here is Gavin Newsom telling everybody, man, it was so hard.
He was on a on a podcast. What was we
know what was the podcast?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It's former NBA players, Okay, And here he is telling
the former NBA players it was so tough that he
had to eat mac and cheese, play eleven.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
It was also about paying the bills, man, and it
was just like hustling and and so I was out
there kind of raising myself, turning on the TV started,
you know, just getting obsessed, you know, sitting there with
the you know, the wonderbread and five stacks of.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
You know, like the white.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
Cot every day, every day in the backyard, just bouncing
the basketball, throwing the ball against the wall until the
ball is just like fraying.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Man, and you're telling yourself.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
That's it, whole thing, so just and and then you know,
then this student that was students in the back with
his head down, all of a sudden started throwing the
baseball a little fashion than everyone else and started, you know,
make a few free throws because I was sitting there
practicing five hundred of them every damn night. And in
high schools, I look up in the stands, my dad's
back up there, okay, and it's like man, and then
(03:32):
he's bringing his friends and your captain of the team,
and you're like geez, you know, and it just saved
me and it got me into college.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Oh man, what are rags to richest story from Gavin Newsom?
I haven't played basketball in like fifteen years. Play I
think I could smoke him in one on one and
I don't even play anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Do you remember the video of Gavin Newsom playing basketball
in China when he just wrecked the little kid. It's
one of the funniest awkward politicians videos that I've seen
that anywhere. So there's several things that stand out to
me about this. First of all, I looked up Gavin Newsom.
His dad may have not been that president at home.
(04:13):
I don't know what his dad's day to day relationship
with his dad was. Like we were talking about dads earlier,
I wish more dads were present as father figures for
their sons and daughters. Okay, but Gavin Newsom, I'm looking
this up. His dad was a warrior for the Getty
Oil dynastic family. So for those of you in Los
(04:35):
Angeles who have driven is it five, the four or five?
I think you can look up in the hills and
see the Getty Art Museum, the Getty Mansions. So Gavin
Newsom's daddy was a very very high end attorney. And
you can say, Okay, well, his dad's got a good job.
That's fine. Gavin Newsom has had a bunch of different businesses.
(04:58):
I don't know very much about his busines. This acumen,
it's made him very wealthy. Do you know who stroked
the checks to allow Gavin Newsom to begin in the
business A guy by the name of Gordon Getty, one
of the richest billionaires in the United States, who is
a close family friend, and he invested stroke checks to
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Gavin Newsom to allow him to found the businesses. So
Gavin Newsom is what's going on here? Really? Gavin Newsom,
as he gets ready to run for president in twenty
twenty eight, is trying to redefine himself as in up
by the bootstraps, everyday normal guy, when the reality is
he's born wealthy and he's been wealthy his entire life.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Here's speaking about that aspiration. We know he's running. I mean,
that's not even a pretty it's basically a certainty that
he's running. Here he is Gavin Newsom cut twelve.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
I'll looking forward to who presents themselves in twenty twenty
and who meets that moment. And that's the question for
the American people there.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
To say, after the twenty twenty six midterms, you're going
to give a serious thought.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Yeah, I'd be lying. Otherwise I'd just be lying.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
And I can't do that.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Oh no, he could. He could never lie. First of all,
him pretending like mac and cheese is some kind of
hardship mac and cheese is a luxury my friends, Okay,
especially if you're watching your waistline a little bit. I'm
gonna tell you the truth. I think it was on
Thursday during the show. I told Carris that, honey, he
just makes some mac and cheese for us right now.
Gluten free mac and cheese taste delicious. She made some,
(06:36):
so mac and cheese is great. I don't know why
he's got to throw that under the bus. Beyond that, though,
Clay yes, he's running for president. I'm not sure this line, though,
is going to work as well as he wanted to see.
Gavin Newsom knows what is wo did Biden have that
Gavin doesn't have really strong support in the black community
(06:57):
among Democrat primary Votersvin's here says that anti woke stuff
is in fact, this has cut ten just anti black
play it.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
You got the Supreme Court talking about getting rid of
the Voting Rights Act, and that's very real.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
That may likely.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Happen in just a matter of months. I mean, they're
rewriting history, sensory and historical facts. It's an unbelievable moment.
All this anti woke stuff is just anti black, period,
full stop. All the crtesg DEI stuff. That's all this is.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
It's this great.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Purge and it's happening in real time, and I'm just
I'm sitting here and I feel like, you know, luckily
i'm governor, but like we're not doing enough. We're not
calling this out, we're not drawing a line here. And
again it's not about Democrats or Republicans.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
It's about who we've right, wrong.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Man, yeah, right, wrong, daylight and darkness.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
All right. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
I don't know how this is going to play for Gavin.
I'm not sure that when you get into Democrat primaries
in particularly some southern states, I don't know that his
his appeal to the black community is going to be
as powerful as it needs to be for him to
go right to the front of the Democrat nominees.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
This has been my argument for why Kamala is going
to see a path for herself because James Cliburn. We
still don't know which state's going to be first, but
presuming that James Cliburn is still the dean of South
Carolina Democrats, certainly the dean of black South Carolina Democrats,
he's going to be able to give that odd Remember
(08:33):
Biden came in fourth, I believe in Iowa and fifth
in New Hampshire. Everybody wrote him off, and then he
won South Carolina and swept to the wins. A couple
of other things here, Buck that I think stand out
about this Gavin Newsom. I think the black angle is interesting.
This stat always blows people's minds. What percent black is
(08:53):
the population of California for everybody out there to us, Yeah,
but I think this is going to stun people. Six percent.
Only six percent of California is black. That is a stat.
There's a huge Asian population, there's a huge Hispanic population,
a lot of white people. Only six percent of California
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is black. It's actually one of the states out there,
certainly of a high population state. Way more black people
in Florida, way more black people in Texas, way more
black people in New York. California actually does not have
a very significant black population. So I think you may
be right about Gavin Newsom not really having that political
cornerstone of the black community, which obviously is a huge
(09:37):
part of the voting base of the Democrat Party. Secondarily,
this ties in he is doing what it feels to
me like lots of Democrats do. He's code shifting based
on the audience. This is the All the Smoke podcast
with a couple of former black basketball players, and like
Kamala Harris, where when she goes around to different parts
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of the country, like Hillary Clinton, when they do these
Southern accents, he's talking differently. The thing that I think
works for Trump is he always sounds exactly like Trump,
whether he's talking to a black podcast host, White, Asian, Hispanic,
it doesn't matter. He's comfortable in his own skin. It
reminds me Buck, I'm going to connect it here. We've
(10:18):
got this audio. You may not even know this LSU.
Everybody in Louisiana knows this has fired their head football coach,
Brian Kelly. That happened over the weekend. They may own
fifty million dollars now in buyout, but I knew this
guy was a fraud the minute he showed up. This
is a Midwestern born coach. I think he lived in
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Massachusetts for a long time. You know, I always talk
about how dishonest accents are when people come to the South.
Listen to Brian Kelly try to sound like he's been
a lifelong Southerner. When he introduced himself to LSU fans
in Louisiana, all of us Southerners, everyone who's from the
South listening to me right now, we can smell a
fraud when they try to do this. Listen, that's a
(11:02):
great way to get started.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
And I haven't even won all my games yet.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
It's a great night to be a Tiger. I'm here
with my family and we are so excited to be
in the great state of Louisiana, but more importantly to
be with you great fans and to be part of
what is gonna be an incredible ride here at Louisiana
(11:29):
State University.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Guy gets off a plane in Louisiana and suddenly he's
rhet butler. I just I don't everybody who does these
fake accents, you cannot trust them anywhere, mark my words.
When Gavin starts running for president, we are gonna suddenly
find out that Gavin Newsom has the deepest Southern at
This guy is the biggest fraud. He's gonna show up
(11:54):
and he's gonna sound like Brian Kelly. He's gonna be
campaigning all of you know it. He's gonna be campaigning
in South Carolina and Georgia and Tennessee, all the places
all over the South, and he is going to sound
like Brian Kelly did there with the fakest Southern accent
known demand. I think it's actually a good test case
for are you comfortable in your own skin? And are
(12:15):
you trustworthy in any way? Is there?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I can't I can't thank the people of the South
enough for the warm embraced they've.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Giving me everywhere I go. Just tell me to bless
my heart. But that's still Gavin Newsom talking like Gavin Newsom.
What we needs you now to mix is what would
happen if Keanu Reeves suddenly decided that he was actually
from Mobile, Alabama.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
I need you.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
I need you to go to the go to the
go to the shop. I need you to test it out.
I need this is for Gavin's tour of the South.
We need Keanu Reeves if he had actually been born
in Mobile, Alabama. What would Keanu mobile version sound like?
You've got to go to the workshop and come up
up with Gavin Newsom on the campaign trails.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Streams like it could end the universe as we know
it if I try this. But I'm gonna give it
some thought for sure, all Right, we got some funny emails,
we got some funny talkbacks. We'll hit some of those
when we come back.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
And Buck's gonna be working on his Keanu from Mobile,
Alabama in personation, which I'm telling you just prepare yourselves.
Y'all are gonna remember that I said this, Gavin Newsom
is going to drop a Ain't Tired Yet line like
Hillary Clinton did back in the day. Trust me, it's
gonna be so bad. It's coming because this guy is
the most fundamentally inauthentic politician out there and he's trying
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We got an email rolling in here from a VIP
I thought this was funny. Matt right caught up yesterday
on the Sunday Hang. I encourage all of you. Sunday
Hang is fun, just like a not very serious. If
you're just looking for something to hang with, it's a
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great name for it. Producer ally puts this together. I
have a bone to pick with you for two horrible
takes number one, and I'm gonna stand by these takes, Buck,
but I want you to hear them. Chick fil A
biscuits are terrible, way too sweet. Your credibility took a
nose dive after hyping them up. I will go to war.
(15:19):
That Chick fil A biscuits are amazing, and I bet
I have an entire army of people lining up behind me. Matt,
you're wrong on that second part. Here. You grilled Buck
on why he showered in a swimsuit with his dog
Ginger after she rolled around in poop, paraphrasing Buck's response,
I wanted to protect my man region from dog peep
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dog poop. How about I don't want to shower with
my dog naked. That'd be a strange thing to do.
And then he comes after me, and then he comes
after me. Hold on, Clay, love you man, But after
hearing your sentiment on nudity, you strike me as one
of the old guys at the gym who chills in
the locker room for way too long, strikes up conversations
(16:04):
with everyone while all caps fuck naked. Cheers, Fella, keep
up the good work. I think it would. I think
I understand your argument for why you were in a swimsuit.
I think it's weirder to be in the shower with
the dog in a swimsuit. Can we think the dog
swim trunks?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Can we call them swim trunks or something or swim shorts.
You know, swimsuit makes it sound like I'm wearing a
one piece in there, but yes, yes, swimsuit.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
I don't think the dog would be troubled by your nudity.
And and maybe I I, I, well, may.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
This may shock the collar. The dog is naked when
it sleeps in my bed at night. The dog is
constantly walking. The dog walks around my house naked.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
All the time. Doesn't even care, so I don't think
the dog minds. I'll also point this out. I'm not
a locker room naked guy, but I don't care if
people see me naked. Most of my life has been
trying to get people to be willing to see me
naked as a single man. We have a new house
that we built buck the window, the mirrors, I mean
(17:06):
the window treatments are not in yet, and there are
people building across the street. I just walk through right naked.
My wife is like, oh my god, they're going to
see you. Why do I care? It's all male construction workers. Now, She,
because she is a woman, is used to people trying
to see her naked, so she protects her nudity. I
got no issues if people want to watch me as
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I'm walking from my shower to go get my first
is not that exciting of a view for the construction. Guys.
I'm sorry, but I'm not going to be running across
like the room like trying to shield myself like there's
some like great scandal of minudity.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
So maybe I'm the old actually blown right now. So
let's come back to this.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
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Speaker 8 (18:42):
So we tell you things here because they're true, because
we believe though, and then it's it's fun to see
how even our ideological enemies will often have to say,
you know, that thing that Clay and Buck among others,
I've been telling you, particularly about anything Trump related.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
That thing that they've been telling you is true. It
actually is true. Like they're not just saying it because
they're saying it because it reflects reality.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
It is accurate, it is honest, it is necessary.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
And a great example of this is how we've been
saying this Trump ballroom East Wing demolition situation, which if
you if you were to veer over an MSNBC, they
act like Trump is like silk screening his hair onto
the Mona Lisa or something. I mean, they are so
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freaked out about this, like, oh my gosh, the history,
the history of America. They're all so upset. But the
reality is this is a good idea and the design
looks good and this is for future presidencies and they
will be happy to have it. This from the Washington Post,
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which is occasionally, I think, so that Jeff Bezos doesn't
just turn it into like a big cooking channel or
something occasionally tries to be rational. Clay, I'm going to
read from some of this is from the editorial board.
This is not from one person. This is the editorial board.
Read you some of this editorial in Clay, I want
you to react, Okay. Quote, in classic Trump fashion, the
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president is pursuing a reasonable idea in the most jarring,
jarring manner possible. Privately, many alumni of the Biden and
Obama white Houses acknowledge the long overdue need for an
event space like what Trump is creating. It is absurd
that tents need to be erected on the South lawn
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for state dinners, and VIPs are forced to use porta potties.
The State Dining Room seats one hundred and forty, the
East room two hundred. Trump says the ballroom at the
center of his ninety thousand square foot edition will accommodate
nine hundred and night guests. The next Democratic president will
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be happy to have this one more thing. Preservationists express
horror that Trump did not submit his plans to their scrutiny.
But the truth is that this project would not have
gotten done, certainly not during his term. If he had
gone through a traditional review process. The blueprints would have
been faced by death by a thousand paper cuts. End
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quote Clay. As we have been saying, this is sensible.
It looks like it is being well designed and well executed.
And the people that are saying book both the process
the process. The process to get this done would be insane,
and it would take a decade to build this freaking ballroom.
And Trump is getting it done in Trump fashion, which
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means right away, there is a big article and I
maybe the team can look up to make sure which
newspaper it is, because I again read him every morning,
so you don't have to in either the Wall Street
Journal or the New York Times, which goes into in
earnest how this came to be.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
And basically the biggest takeaway is there essentially is no
zoning restriction on the White House. So for all of
you out there that have ever built anything, typically there
are community boards, there are cities, there are states. I mean,
sadly California is a perfect example of this, because almost
no one whose home was burned down in the LA
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fires has yet been able to get a permit to
be able to start rebuilding. And what the article points
out is that I believe it's the White House, the
Supreme Court, and it's the Capitol building are essentially zoning
free and the president can just decide that he wants
to remodel. And Trump saw this, couldn't believe it, and said, okay,
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well let's do it. I mean, he's a builder. And
the article says that as all the way back at
twenty ten buck he called unsolicited David Axelrod. They said
that Mina Brazinski gave Trump David Axelrod's phone number. He
was the Obama chief of staff, I think, and Trump
called in twenty ten and told David Axelrod this ballroom
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situation can well imagine when he was just a reality
television star before he had gotten into politics. He said, look,
the ballroom situation is a disgrace. There's no way you
should have to be tenting the South Lawn to be
able to host big events. He said, I want to
build a ballroom for Obama. Back then, he just said
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for the country. He said, I build beautiful ballrooms. You
can come down and check it out at mar A Lago.
And this is something that he's been obsessed with now
for fifteen years. And to me, what is interesting from
a metaphorical perspective, and this is what drives people crazy,
is Trump is making decisions to a large extent for
things that he will never benefit for personally because he
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thinks it's better for the country. And this is what
oftentimes builders do is I wrote about it quite a
lot in my new book. But when I was at Bedminster,
most recently, when I went with Trump to the NCAA
wrestling tournament, Trump was right around in his golf cart
picking locations for new trees on Bedminster. It's a beautiful
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golf course out there. Some of you have had the
opportunity to play it in New Jersey. He's not going.
The thing I love about trees, my wife makes fun
of me for how much I like trees, is if
you ever have been on a property which has beautifully
laid out trees, a perfect lane or an entrance to
a home. Trees are left for the next generations, typically
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not for the individuals who plant them. Because it takes
so long for the trees to grow. It's an effort
to try to make the world more beautiful after you're gone.
And Trump with the ballroom, also with Air Force One. Frankly,
he's not really going to benefit much himself. He just
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wants for the United States to have a majestic venue
that befits the majesty of this country. And he's basically
bequeathing it to the nation, even though for most of
the time he's going to be gone when it's being
used by Democrat, Republicans or parties we don't even know
of in the years ahead.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
This is just another I know it's the thousandth millionth
example of this, but it's so childish and just so
exhausting to be on the other side of the childishness
that whatever Trump does, we have to say it's horrible.
You know, whatever Trump does, the Washington Democrat media and
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the Democrat machinery and politics and the left and the progressives,
and they are, oh my god, you're so terrible what
Trump is doing. He's doing something with private money that
will look great, that will be great for the White
House currently and future. That makes sense to anybody who
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understands the current situation of the White House, and all
you'd have to do is sit there and think this
through for a second. You know, if you want to
freak out about Trump, there's a lot of things that
you could find where at least I get, you know,
how they're making an argument about it, or I get
why it bothers them so much. But for this, it's
just another instance of Trump derangement syndromunfull display. The Washington
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Post editorial. I think it's because at some level they
recognize that people who know about this White House are
starting to make this argument. And you know when you
have former Obama staffers who are saying, yeah, that's a
pretty good idea. If that gets out, a lot of
people on MSNBC, the people on Morning Joe who are
acting like Trump is is bulldozing the louver. They got
(26:55):
the guys, by the way, we should probably that maybe official.
Well I haven't seen that they officially officially got the
guys yet.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I mean, I know they made a rest, but they haven't.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
We think it was the guy in the photo who
looks like the fancy French detective, you know that photo
like that inspector. No, but I'm there's a there's a
that's not really inspector cluz. So there's a guy who
when they in the you know what I'm talking about.
There was a outside the louver. Oh, there's some guy
who's a French detective who looks like if you were
casting a French detective. Unless this is Ai, guys, I
(27:28):
don't know, I don't know what the You cannot get
mad at Ai because some of these photos. Now, with
the Ai, you're gonna have a really good eye and
you'll miss it. So maybe that's what I'm thinking of.
On the ballroom, did you see that? Swalwell tweeted?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
This is Congressman Swalwell from California, he of the Feng
Fang Dalliance, Chinese spy. Don't even think of seeking the
Democrat nomination for president unless you pledge to take a
wrecking ball to the Trump ballroom on all Caps Day one.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
I just.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Is he actually this dumb well? I mean, the ballroom
is going to be a phenomenal edifice for all parties
to be able to host. I might mention also, Buck
and I would imagine a much safer way. I can't
imagine that having tents on the South Lawn is an
(28:25):
ideal security mechanism for all of the heads of state,
to say nothing of the difficulty associated with it. And again,
Trump has been trying to get this done since before
he was a politician. Fifteen years ago. He called up
when Obama was in office and said, hey, let me
build a really great ballroom for the country. And now
(28:48):
this just comes back to he's just trying to solve
as many problems as he possibly can in what is
going to be a relatively short four year term, and
he's a builder. I think you can criticize him for
a lot. You've been in the Mara Alago ballroom. We
did chows from basically there. It's a spectacular hosting event location.
(29:10):
This is an incredible gift that Trump is giving to
the country, and again every president for the rest of
our lives will be able to use it, no matter
what political party they're in, for the betterment of the
overall hosting facilities at the White House. It's just a
no brainer.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Yes, you would think that Democrats would be so excited
that now they will have a massive White House venue
to host Drag Queen Story Hour, you know, like you
would think that they would see that this will soon
be the shoe, so to speak, will be on the
other foot, and that they would be in a position
to use this for their own purposes, and that it
makes a lot of sense and it's a smart thing
to do, and it's good for security as well, which
(29:50):
you and I have pointed out, much better than having
a tent on the lawn. That's not something that you
really want to continue to mess around with. So it
makes sense in every respect. But Democrats it because Trump
was doing it. But now they're having to figure out that,
like so many things that Trump has done that they hated,
they just hated it because Trump was doing it, And maybe,
just maybe they should grow up and pick and choose
(30:11):
their battles and say, hmmm, nice, the guy who's famous
for building incredible towers and incredible buildings all over the world,
the golf courses, all this stuff, maybe he knows what
he's doing on this one like he does on a
whole bunch of other things. You know that they could
take a deep breath, but they're not there yet. Eventually, Clay,
when we get it, when we get past the midterms
and we start seeing them, we start talking about whether
(30:34):
it's going to be the advance Rubio ticket. This is
where they'll start to say things they'll mutter under their
breath and then louder and louder over time. Well, that
thing Trump did was actually pretty good, you know, it
kind of made some sense.
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Speaker 1 (32:04):
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. We got
some fun talkbacks and we'll have some more fun talkbacks
to get to tomorrow. But Brian and Wooster I said
that Buck needs to prepare himself for Gavin Newsom to
be campaigning in the South and suddenly debut a great
(32:26):
and by great I mean ridiculous Southern accent. And I
said we need a mixture between Keanu Reeves and a
guy from Mobile, Alabama. And Brian says he's got a
theory for you, Buck, on a little bit of research.
Let's play ahh. If you want to hear what Keanu
Reeves would sound like if he was born in the South.
All you have to do is watch Devil's Advocate with
him and Paccino. One of the worst Southern accents ever
(32:49):
put on film. I think we have a clip of that. Buck.
This is what Keanu sounded like. Actually, it was a
pretty good movie. I thought Devil's Advocate back in the day,
and there are a lot worst movies, But here's what
he sounded like.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
How about Cullen, how's it going?
Speaker 8 (33:03):
Have youthing on beam?
Speaker 5 (33:05):
That's a long conversation.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Want to come up and tell me?
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Now, let's talk tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
All right, So there's Keanu. You can go watch Devil's
Advocates and I that was a pretty bad Southern accent.
I don't recall it. He's an attorney h jj don
in Florida. I think he this is the worst Southern
accent in a movie. Uh Don, what you got for us?
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Hey, CLAYM Budd You want the worst Southern accent, look
at Nicholas Cage and con Air.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Nicholas Cage and con Air is a the bundant down.
I remember that. It is an unbelievably awful Southern accent.
It's not not an awful movie. I mean, given the premise, I.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Mean it's it's an absurd movie, but not an awful movie, right,
That's that's yes.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Yes, that's what I'm saying. Like the premise is ridiculous
and it shouldn't be as good. I mean much like
honestly the movie about the the oh, what's it called?
The Rock? The Rock from the nineteen nineties, the Alcatraz
movie with Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage is actually a
(34:17):
really fun movie. It's patently absurd in many differences talked
a bottom, yes, yeah for possibly, but really a fun watch.
And those are these Let's play this. Maybe we can
talk about this a bit tomorrow, buck. Karine Jean Pierre
has got a book out, I guess, and she's doing
(34:38):
all sorts of touring. And I want to roll over
a couple of these cuts. The other one roll it over, guys,
But let's play this first one from Karine Jean Pierre.
She's asked whether she basically bears any blame at all
for Joe Biden. Listen to her answer. This is perfect watch.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Charin, do you have any regrets at all for anything
that you said while you were speaking on behalf of
this administration.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
I look.
Speaker 9 (35:04):
No, no, no, because you're asking for a yes or no question.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
I want to put some context to it too. I
wake up every day.
Speaker 9 (35:10):
I woke up every day very proud to be the
White House pre Secretary.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
I woke up every day.
Speaker 9 (35:17):
As a as a black woman who is queer, who
had never no one had ever seen someone like me
at that podium, standing behind that lectun It was an
honor and a privilege to have that job, and I
did it to the best of my abilities.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Immediately going to no, you know, we covered up. We
lied about a guy who had no business being in
the White House too. Oh well, let me talk about
the fact that I'm black and gay in case you
didn't know, rather than actually answer your question.
Speaker 9 (35:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
I think that her book is going over so poorly
that it actually has made one hundred and seven days
Kamala's book, which you left me behind on the battlefield
to read solo, which was way harsh. I think that
Karine Jean Pierre's book is even more negatively received by
(36:09):
Democrats than Kamala's book was, which tells you a lot
about the legacy of the Biden administration and why Kamala's
gonna end up not running and becoming a provost that
Clay's gonna owe me a stake.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Clay, Travis, and Buck Sexton on the front lines of truth.
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Third hour of Clay un Buck kicks off now, and
let's talk about the I would argue any factor leader
of the Democrat Party today Gavin Newsom, the governor of California,
who has.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Done a lot to make California a less pleasant and
reasonable place to live, which is something considerable when you
think about California as a piece of real estate, I
fully admit I don't know that there is a more
blessed piece of real estate in America for the purposes
(00:41):
of year round weather, tremendous access to gorgeous beaches as
well as incredible vineyards as well as mountains as well.
You know, California is a fantastic piece of geography, and
Orange County in particular has a special place in my heart.
I just can't afford to live there.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
The real estate prices clayed. That place is wild.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
But that's coming from a Miamian. But Gavin Newsom has
made it very expensive, very difficult, very disorderly, and he
is trying to tell everybody that he's a guy who
made it on these mean streets through nothing but gumption.
(01:23):
The continuous persistence.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Of a guy who just yeah, so what if he
grew up with wealthy parents and a perfectly square jaw
and a house.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Maybe it was in bel Air, who knows. It was
really nice, it was fancy, but clay, there were days.
There were days when Gavin would pull up the Santa
Monica and there was no valet to take his convertible.
There were times when Gavin went out to see the
vineyard that he started when he was like thirty, and someday,
(02:00):
you know what happened. The grapes were a little sour
and he had to just take that. He had to
just deal with that kind of challenge throwing his way.
Here is Gavin Newsom telling everybody, man, it was so hard.
He was on a on a podcast. What was we
know what was the podcast?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It's former NBA players, Okay, And here he is telling
the former NBA players it was so tough that he
had to eat mac and cheese, play eleven.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
It was also about paying the bills, man, and it
was just like hustling and and so I was out
there kind of raising myself, turning on the TV started,
you know, just getting obsessed, you know, sitting there with
the you know, the wonderbread and five stacks of.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
You know, like the white.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
Cot every day, every day in the backyard, just bouncing
the basketball, throwing the ball against the wall until the
ball is just like fraying.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Man, and you're telling yourself.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
That's it, whole thing, so just and and then you know,
then this student that was students in the back with
his head down, all of a sudden started throwing the
baseball a little fashion than everyone else and started, you know,
make a few free throws because I was sitting there
practicing five hundred of them every damn night. And in
high schools, I look up in the stands, my dad's
back up there, okay, and it's like man, and then
(03:32):
he's bringing his friends and your captain of the team,
and you're like geez, you know, and it just saved
me and it got me into college.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Oh man, what are rags to richest story from Gavin Newsom?
I haven't played basketball in like fifteen years. Play I
think I could smoke him in one on one and
I don't even play anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Do you remember the video of Gavin Newsom playing basketball
in China when he just wrecked the little kid. It's
one of the funniest awkward politicians videos that I've seen
that anywhere. So there's several things that stand out to
me about this. First of all, I looked up Gavin Newsom.
His dad may have not been that president at home.
(04:13):
I don't know what his dad's day to day relationship
with his dad was. Like we were talking about dads earlier,
I wish more dads were present as father figures for
their sons and daughters. Okay, but Gavin Newsom, I'm looking
this up. His dad was a warrior for the Getty
Oil dynastic family. So for those of you in Los
(04:35):
Angeles who have driven is it five, the four or five?
I think you can look up in the hills and
see the Getty Art Museum, the Getty Mansions. So Gavin
Newsom's daddy was a very very high end attorney. And
you can say, Okay, well, his dad's got a good job.
That's fine. Gavin Newsom has had a bunch of different businesses.
(04:58):
I don't know very much about his busines. This acumen,
it's made him very wealthy. Do you know who stroked
the checks to allow Gavin Newsom to begin in the
business A guy by the name of Gordon Getty, one
of the richest billionaires in the United States, who is
a close family friend, and he invested stroke checks to
(05:24):
Gavin Newsom to allow him to found the businesses. So
Gavin Newsom is what's going on here? Really? Gavin Newsom,
as he gets ready to run for president in twenty
twenty eight, is trying to redefine himself as in up
by the bootstraps, everyday normal guy, when the reality is
he's born wealthy and he's been wealthy his entire life.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Here's speaking about that aspiration. We know he's running. I mean,
that's not even a pretty it's basically a certainty that
he's running. Here he is Gavin Newsom cut twelve.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
I'll looking forward to who presents themselves in twenty twenty
and who meets that moment. And that's the question for
the American people there.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
To say, after the twenty twenty six midterms, you're going
to give a serious thought.
Speaker 6 (06:09):
Yeah, I'd be lying. Otherwise I'd just be lying.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
And I can't do that.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Oh no, he could. He could never lie. First of all,
him pretending like mac and cheese is some kind of
hardship mac and cheese is a luxury my friends, Okay,
especially if you're watching your waistline a little bit. I'm
gonna tell you the truth. I think it was on
Thursday during the show. I told Carris that, honey, he
just makes some mac and cheese for us right now.
Gluten free mac and cheese taste delicious. She made some,
(06:36):
so mac and cheese is great. I don't know why
he's got to throw that under the bus. Beyond that, though,
Clay yes, he's running for president. I'm not sure this line, though,
is going to work as well as he wanted to see.
Gavin Newsom knows what is wo did Biden have that
Gavin doesn't have really strong support in the black community
(06:57):
among Democrat primary Votersvin's here says that anti woke stuff
is in fact, this has cut ten just anti black
play it.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
You got the Supreme Court talking about getting rid of
the Voting Rights Act, and that's very real.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
That may likely.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Happen in just a matter of months. I mean, they're
rewriting history, sensory and historical facts. It's an unbelievable moment.
All this anti woke stuff is just anti black, period,
full stop. All the crtesg DEI stuff. That's all this is.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
It's this great.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Purge and it's happening in real time, and I'm just
I'm sitting here and I feel like, you know, luckily
i'm governor, but like we're not doing enough. We're not
calling this out, we're not drawing a line here. And
again it's not about Democrats or Republicans.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
It's about who we've right, wrong.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
Man, yeah, right, wrong, daylight and darkness.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
All right. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
I don't know how this is going to play for Gavin.
I'm not sure that when you get into Democrat primaries
in particularly some southern states, I don't know that his
his appeal to the black community is going to be
as powerful as it needs to be for him to
go right to the front of the Democrat nominees.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
This has been my argument for why Kamala is going
to see a path for herself because James Cliburn. We
still don't know which state's going to be first, but
presuming that James Cliburn is still the dean of South
Carolina Democrats, certainly the dean of black South Carolina Democrats,
he's going to be able to give that odd Remember
(08:33):
Biden came in fourth, I believe in Iowa and fifth
in New Hampshire. Everybody wrote him off, and then he
won South Carolina and swept to the wins. A couple
of other things here, Buck that I think stand out
about this Gavin Newsom. I think the black angle is interesting.
This stat always blows people's minds. What percent black is
(08:53):
the population of California for everybody out there to us, Yeah,
but I think this is going to stun people. Six percent.
Only six percent of California is black. That is a stat.
There's a huge Asian population, there's a huge Hispanic population,
a lot of white people. Only six percent of California
(09:15):
is black. It's actually one of the states out there,
certainly of a high population state. Way more black people
in Florida, way more black people in Texas, way more
black people in New York. California actually does not have
a very significant black population. So I think you may
be right about Gavin Newsom not really having that political
cornerstone of the black community, which obviously is a huge
(09:37):
part of the voting base of the Democrat Party. Secondarily,
this ties in he is doing what it feels to
me like lots of Democrats do. He's code shifting based
on the audience. This is the All the Smoke podcast
with a couple of former black basketball players, and like
Kamala Harris, where when she goes around to different parts
(09:57):
of the country, like Hillary Clinton, when they do these
Southern accents, he's talking differently. The thing that I think
works for Trump is he always sounds exactly like Trump,
whether he's talking to a black podcast host, White, Asian, Hispanic,
it doesn't matter. He's comfortable in his own skin. It
reminds me Buck, I'm going to connect it here. We've
(10:18):
got this audio. You may not even know this LSU.
Everybody in Louisiana knows this has fired their head football coach,
Brian Kelly. That happened over the weekend. They may own
fifty million dollars now in buyout, but I knew this
guy was a fraud the minute he showed up. This
is a Midwestern born coach. I think he lived in
(10:39):
Massachusetts for a long time. You know, I always talk
about how dishonest accents are when people come to the South.
Listen to Brian Kelly try to sound like he's been
a lifelong Southerner. When he introduced himself to LSU fans
in Louisiana, all of us Southerners, everyone who's from the
South listening to me right now, we can smell a
fraud when they try to do this. Listen, that's a
(11:02):
great way to get started.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
And I haven't even won all my games yet.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
It's a great night to be a Tiger. I'm here
with my family and we are so excited to be
in the great state of Louisiana, but more importantly to
be with you great fans and to be part of
what is gonna be an incredible ride here at Louisiana
(11:29):
State University.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Guy gets off a plane in Louisiana and suddenly he's
rhet butler. I just I don't everybody who does these
fake accents, you cannot trust them anywhere, mark my words.
When Gavin starts running for president, we are gonna suddenly
find out that Gavin Newsom has the deepest Southern at
This guy is the biggest fraud. He's gonna show up
(11:54):
and he's gonna sound like Brian Kelly. He's gonna be
campaigning all of you know it. He's gonna be campaigning
in South Carolina and Georgia and Tennessee, all the places
all over the South, and he is going to sound
like Brian Kelly did there with the fakest Southern accent
known demand. I think it's actually a good test case
for are you comfortable in your own skin? And are
(12:15):
you trustworthy in any way? Is there?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I can't I can't thank the people of the South
enough for the warm embraced they've.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Giving me everywhere I go. Just tell me to bless
my heart. But that's still Gavin Newsom talking like Gavin Newsom.
What we needs you now to mix is what would
happen if Keanu Reeves suddenly decided that he was actually
from Mobile, Alabama.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
I need you.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
I need you to go to the go to the
go to the shop. I need you to test it out.
I need this is for Gavin's tour of the South.
We need Keanu Reeves if he had actually been born
in Mobile, Alabama. What would Keanu mobile version sound like?
You've got to go to the workshop and come up
up with Gavin Newsom on the campaign trails.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Streams like it could end the universe as we know
it if I try this. But I'm gonna give it
some thought for sure, all Right, we got some funny emails,
we got some funny talkbacks. We'll hit some of those
when we come back.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
And Buck's gonna be working on his Keanu from Mobile,
Alabama in personation, which I'm telling you just prepare yourselves.
Y'all are gonna remember that I said this, Gavin Newsom
is going to drop a Ain't Tired Yet line like
Hillary Clinton did back in the day. Trust me, it's
gonna be so bad. It's coming because this guy is
the most fundamentally inauthentic politician out there and he's trying
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We got an email rolling in here from a VIP
I thought this was funny. Matt right caught up yesterday
on the Sunday Hang. I encourage all of you. Sunday
Hang is fun, just like a not very serious. If
you're just looking for something to hang with, it's a
(14:59):
great name for it. Producer ally puts this together. I
have a bone to pick with you for two horrible
takes number one, and I'm gonna stand by these takes, Buck,
but I want you to hear them. Chick fil A
biscuits are terrible, way too sweet. Your credibility took a
nose dive after hyping them up. I will go to war.
(15:19):
That Chick fil A biscuits are amazing, and I bet
I have an entire army of people lining up behind me. Matt,
you're wrong on that second part. Here. You grilled Buck
on why he showered in a swimsuit with his dog
Ginger after she rolled around in poop, paraphrasing Buck's response,
I wanted to protect my man region from dog peep
(15:41):
dog poop. How about I don't want to shower with
my dog naked. That'd be a strange thing to do.
And then he comes after me, and then he comes
after me. Hold on, Clay, love you man, But after
hearing your sentiment on nudity, you strike me as one
of the old guys at the gym who chills in
the locker room for way too long, strikes up conversations
(16:04):
with everyone while all caps fuck naked. Cheers, Fella, keep
up the good work. I think it would. I think
I understand your argument for why you were in a swimsuit.
I think it's weirder to be in the shower with
the dog in a swimsuit. Can we think the dog
swim trunks?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Can we call them swim trunks or something or swim shorts.
You know, swimsuit makes it sound like I'm wearing a
one piece in there, but yes, yes, swimsuit.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
I don't think the dog would be troubled by your nudity.
And and maybe I I, I, well, may.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
This may shock the collar. The dog is naked when
it sleeps in my bed at night. The dog is
constantly walking. The dog walks around my house naked.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
All the time. Doesn't even care, so I don't think
the dog minds. I'll also point this out. I'm not
a locker room naked guy, but I don't care if
people see me naked. Most of my life has been
trying to get people to be willing to see me
naked as a single man. We have a new house
that we built buck the window, the mirrors, I mean
(17:06):
the window treatments are not in yet, and there are
people building across the street. I just walk through right naked.
My wife is like, oh my god, they're going to
see you. Why do I care? It's all male construction workers. Now, She,
because she is a woman, is used to people trying
to see her naked, so she protects her nudity. I
got no issues if people want to watch me as
(17:27):
I'm walking from my shower to go get my first
is not that exciting of a view for the construction. Guys.
I'm sorry, but I'm not going to be running across
like the room like trying to shield myself like there's
some like great scandal of minudity.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
So maybe I'm the old actually blown right now. So
let's come back to this.
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Speaker 8 (18:42):
So we tell you things here because they're true, because
we believe though, and then it's it's fun to see
how even our ideological enemies will often have to say,
you know, that thing that Clay and Buck among others,
I've been telling you, particularly about anything Trump related.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
That thing that they've been telling you is true. It
actually is true. Like they're not just saying it because
they're saying it because it reflects reality.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
It is accurate, it is honest, it is necessary.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
And a great example of this is how we've been
saying this Trump ballroom East Wing demolition situation, which if
you if you were to veer over an MSNBC, they
act like Trump is like silk screening his hair onto
the Mona Lisa or something. I mean, they are so
(19:35):
freaked out about this, like, oh my gosh, the history,
the history of America. They're all so upset. But the
reality is this is a good idea and the design
looks good and this is for future presidencies and they
will be happy to have it. This from the Washington Post,
(19:58):
which is occasionally, I think, so that Jeff Bezos doesn't
just turn it into like a big cooking channel or
something occasionally tries to be rational. Clay, I'm going to
read from some of this is from the editorial board.
This is not from one person. This is the editorial board.
Read you some of this editorial in Clay, I want
you to react, Okay. Quote, in classic Trump fashion, the
(20:21):
president is pursuing a reasonable idea in the most jarring,
jarring manner possible. Privately, many alumni of the Biden and
Obama white Houses acknowledge the long overdue need for an
event space like what Trump is creating. It is absurd
that tents need to be erected on the South lawn
(20:44):
for state dinners, and VIPs are forced to use porta potties.
The State Dining Room seats one hundred and forty, the
East room two hundred. Trump says the ballroom at the
center of his ninety thousand square foot edition will accommodate
nine hundred and night guests. The next Democratic president will
(21:04):
be happy to have this one more thing. Preservationists express
horror that Trump did not submit his plans to their scrutiny.
But the truth is that this project would not have
gotten done, certainly not during his term. If he had
gone through a traditional review process. The blueprints would have
been faced by death by a thousand paper cuts. End
(21:25):
quote Clay. As we have been saying, this is sensible.
It looks like it is being well designed and well executed.
And the people that are saying book both the process
the process. The process to get this done would be insane,
and it would take a decade to build this freaking ballroom.
And Trump is getting it done in Trump fashion, which
(21:46):
means right away, there is a big article and I
maybe the team can look up to make sure which
newspaper it is, because I again read him every morning,
so you don't have to in either the Wall Street
Journal or the New York Times, which goes into in
earnest how this came to be.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
And basically the biggest takeaway is there essentially is no
zoning restriction on the White House. So for all of
you out there that have ever built anything, typically there
are community boards, there are cities, there are states. I mean,
sadly California is a perfect example of this, because almost
no one whose home was burned down in the LA
(22:28):
fires has yet been able to get a permit to
be able to start rebuilding. And what the article points
out is that I believe it's the White House, the
Supreme Court, and it's the Capitol building are essentially zoning
free and the president can just decide that he wants
to remodel. And Trump saw this, couldn't believe it, and said, okay,
(22:50):
well let's do it. I mean, he's a builder. And
the article says that as all the way back at
twenty ten buck he called unsolicited David Axelrod. They said
that Mina Brazinski gave Trump David Axelrod's phone number. He
was the Obama chief of staff, I think, and Trump
called in twenty ten and told David Axelrod this ballroom
(23:14):
situation can well imagine when he was just a reality
television star before he had gotten into politics. He said, look,
the ballroom situation is a disgrace. There's no way you
should have to be tenting the South Lawn to be
able to host big events. He said, I want to
build a ballroom for Obama. Back then, he just said
(23:34):
for the country. He said, I build beautiful ballrooms. You
can come down and check it out at mar A Lago.
And this is something that he's been obsessed with now
for fifteen years. And to me, what is interesting from
a metaphorical perspective, and this is what drives people crazy,
is Trump is making decisions to a large extent for
things that he will never benefit for personally because he
(23:58):
thinks it's better for the country. And this is what
oftentimes builders do is I wrote about it quite a
lot in my new book. But when I was at Bedminster,
most recently, when I went with Trump to the NCAA
wrestling tournament, Trump was right around in his golf cart
picking locations for new trees on Bedminster. It's a beautiful
(24:22):
golf course out there. Some of you have had the
opportunity to play it in New Jersey. He's not going.
The thing I love about trees, my wife makes fun
of me for how much I like trees, is if
you ever have been on a property which has beautifully
laid out trees, a perfect lane or an entrance to
a home. Trees are left for the next generations, typically
(24:47):
not for the individuals who plant them. Because it takes
so long for the trees to grow. It's an effort
to try to make the world more beautiful after you're gone.
And Trump with the ballroom, also with Air Force One. Frankly,
he's not really going to benefit much himself. He just
(25:07):
wants for the United States to have a majestic venue
that befits the majesty of this country. And he's basically
bequeathing it to the nation, even though for most of
the time he's going to be gone when it's being
used by Democrat, Republicans or parties we don't even know
of in the years ahead.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
This is just another I know it's the thousandth millionth
example of this, but it's so childish and just so
exhausting to be on the other side of the childishness
that whatever Trump does, we have to say it's horrible.
You know, whatever Trump does, the Washington Democrat media and
(25:46):
the Democrat machinery and politics and the left and the progressives,
and they are, oh my god, you're so terrible what
Trump is doing. He's doing something with private money that
will look great, that will be great for the White
House currently and future. That makes sense to anybody who
(26:07):
understands the current situation of the White House, and all
you'd have to do is sit there and think this
through for a second. You know, if you want to
freak out about Trump, there's a lot of things that
you could find where at least I get, you know,
how they're making an argument about it, or I get
why it bothers them so much. But for this, it's
just another instance of Trump derangement syndromunfull display. The Washington
(26:31):
Post editorial. I think it's because at some level they
recognize that people who know about this White House are
starting to make this argument. And you know when you
have former Obama staffers who are saying, yeah, that's a
pretty good idea. If that gets out, a lot of
people on MSNBC, the people on Morning Joe who are
acting like Trump is is bulldozing the louver. They got
(26:55):
the guys, by the way, we should probably that maybe official.
Well I haven't seen that they officially officially got the
guys yet.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I mean, I know they made a rest, but they haven't.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
We think it was the guy in the photo who
looks like the fancy French detective, you know that photo
like that inspector. No, but I'm there's a there's a
that's not really inspector cluz. So there's a guy who
when they in the you know what I'm talking about.
There was a outside the louver. Oh, there's some guy
who's a French detective who looks like if you were
casting a French detective. Unless this is Ai, guys, I
(27:28):
don't know, I don't know what the You cannot get
mad at Ai because some of these photos. Now, with
the Ai, you're gonna have a really good eye and
you'll miss it. So maybe that's what I'm thinking of.
On the ballroom, did you see that? Swalwell tweeted?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
This is Congressman Swalwell from California, he of the Feng
Fang Dalliance, Chinese spy. Don't even think of seeking the
Democrat nomination for president unless you pledge to take a
wrecking ball to the Trump ballroom on all Caps Day one.
Speaker 6 (28:03):
I just.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Is he actually this dumb well? I mean, the ballroom
is going to be a phenomenal edifice for all parties
to be able to host. I might mention also, Buck
and I would imagine a much safer way. I can't
imagine that having tents on the South Lawn is an
(28:25):
ideal security mechanism for all of the heads of state,
to say nothing of the difficulty associated with it. And again,
Trump has been trying to get this done since before
he was a politician. Fifteen years ago. He called up
when Obama was in office and said, hey, let me
build a really great ballroom for the country. And now
(28:48):
this just comes back to he's just trying to solve
as many problems as he possibly can in what is
going to be a relatively short four year term, and
he's a builder. I think you can criticize him for
a lot. You've been in the Mara Alago ballroom. We
did chows from basically there. It's a spectacular hosting event location.
(29:10):
This is an incredible gift that Trump is giving to
the country, and again every president for the rest of
our lives will be able to use it, no matter
what political party they're in, for the betterment of the
overall hosting facilities at the White House. It's just a
no brainer.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Yes, you would think that Democrats would be so excited
that now they will have a massive White House venue
to host Drag Queen Story Hour, you know, like you
would think that they would see that this will soon
be the shoe, so to speak, will be on the
other foot, and that they would be in a position
to use this for their own purposes, and that it
makes a lot of sense and it's a smart thing
to do, and it's good for security as well, which
(29:50):
you and I have pointed out, much better than having
a tent on the lawn. That's not something that you
really want to continue to mess around with. So it
makes sense in every respect. But Democrats it because Trump
was doing it. But now they're having to figure out that,
like so many things that Trump has done that they hated,
they just hated it because Trump was doing it, And maybe,
just maybe they should grow up and pick and choose
(30:11):
their battles and say, hmmm, nice, the guy who's famous
for building incredible towers and incredible buildings all over the world,
the golf courses, all this stuff, maybe he knows what
he's doing on this one like he does on a
whole bunch of other things. You know that they could
take a deep breath, but they're not there yet. Eventually, Clay,
when we get it, when we get past the midterms
and we start seeing them, we start talking about whether
(30:34):
it's going to be the advance Rubio ticket. This is
where they'll start to say things they'll mutter under their
breath and then louder and louder over time. Well, that
thing Trump did was actually pretty good, you know, it
kind of made some sense.
Speaker 9 (30:44):
You know.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
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Speaker 1 (32:04):
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. We got
some fun talkbacks and we'll have some more fun talkbacks
to get to tomorrow. But Brian and Wooster I said
that Buck needs to prepare himself for Gavin Newsom to
be campaigning in the South and suddenly debut a great
(32:26):
and by great I mean ridiculous Southern accent. And I
said we need a mixture between Keanu Reeves and a
guy from Mobile, Alabama. And Brian says he's got a
theory for you, Buck, on a little bit of research.
Let's play ahh. If you want to hear what Keanu
Reeves would sound like if he was born in the South.
All you have to do is watch Devil's Advocate with
him and Paccino. One of the worst Southern accents ever
(32:49):
put on film. I think we have a clip of that. Buck.
This is what Keanu sounded like. Actually, it was a
pretty good movie. I thought Devil's Advocate back in the day,
and there are a lot worst movies, But here's what
he sounded like.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
How about Cullen, how's it going?
Speaker 8 (33:03):
Have youthing on beam?
Speaker 5 (33:05):
That's a long conversation.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Want to come up and tell me?
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Now, let's talk tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
All right, So there's Keanu. You can go watch Devil's
Advocates and I that was a pretty bad Southern accent.
I don't recall it. He's an attorney h jj don
in Florida. I think he this is the worst Southern
accent in a movie. Uh Don, what you got for us?
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Hey, CLAYM Budd You want the worst Southern accent, look
at Nicholas Cage and con Air.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Nicholas Cage and con Air is a the bundant down.
I remember that. It is an unbelievably awful Southern accent.
It's not not an awful movie. I mean, given the premise, I.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Mean it's it's an absurd movie, but not an awful movie, right,
That's that's yes.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Yes, that's what I'm saying. Like the premise is ridiculous
and it shouldn't be as good. I mean much like
honestly the movie about the the oh, what's it called?
The Rock? The Rock from the nineteen nineties, the Alcatraz
movie with Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage is actually a
(34:17):
really fun movie. It's patently absurd in many differences talked
a bottom, yes, yeah for possibly, but really a fun watch.
And those are these Let's play this. Maybe we can
talk about this a bit tomorrow, buck. Karine Jean Pierre
has got a book out, I guess, and she's doing
(34:38):
all sorts of touring. And I want to roll over
a couple of these cuts. The other one roll it over, guys,
But let's play this first one from Karine Jean Pierre.
She's asked whether she basically bears any blame at all
for Joe Biden. Listen to her answer. This is perfect watch.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Charin, do you have any regrets at all for anything
that you said while you were speaking on behalf of
this administration.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
I look.
Speaker 9 (35:04):
No, no, no, because you're asking for a yes or no question.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
I want to put some context to it too. I
wake up every day.
Speaker 9 (35:10):
I woke up every day very proud to be the
White House pre Secretary.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
I woke up every day.
Speaker 9 (35:17):
As a as a black woman who is queer, who
had never no one had ever seen someone like me
at that podium, standing behind that lectun It was an
honor and a privilege to have that job, and I
did it to the best of my abilities.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Immediately going to no, you know, we covered up. We
lied about a guy who had no business being in
the White House too. Oh well, let me talk about
the fact that I'm black and gay in case you
didn't know, rather than actually answer your question.
Speaker 9 (35:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
I think that her book is going over so poorly
that it actually has made one hundred and seven days
Kamala's book, which you left me behind on the battlefield
to read solo, which was way harsh. I think that
Karine Jean Pierre's book is even more negatively received by
(36:09):
Democrats than Kamala's book was, which tells you a lot
about the legacy of the Biden administration and why Kamala's
gonna end up not running and becoming a provost that
Clay's gonna owe me a stake.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
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