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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Coon air country. I don't know if any
of you saw his national address to the nation yesterday,
but I got to tell you I had very high hopes,
very high expectations, and the President clearly delivered this. This
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is the President Trump that won a national mandate in
November of twenty twenty four. It was an incredible speech.
It was a very strong speech. It was a very
high energy speech at sometimes a defiant speech. But it
also now clearly set the terms and set framed the
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debate for the next year for Republicans. His aims, his goals,
his objectives, and really now what he wants to achieve
in order to win the twenty twenty six midterms. So
the President spoke for about nineteen minutes to the country.
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The first thing that struck me, it was night and
day in terms of vigor, in terms of passion, in
terms of energy, in terms of power, lucidness compared to
the four years under Joey. It was night and day.
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And the other thing that struck me about the speech,
so clearly we have a real activist, and I mean
active in the sense that you know, he's physically vigorous,
mentally vigorous, full of energy. We have now a real
president in the White House, who is engaged, who is passionate,
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who is purposeful, and who wants to get so much done,
and reminded the country on how much he's all ready
accomplished in eleven months. Furthermore, it was a no nonsense speech.
It's not It wasn't Reagan, it wasn't John F. Kennedy,
it wasn't FDR. There wasn't, you know, soaring rhetoric or
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some poetic turns of phrases. That wasn't Trump's intent last night.
It was a no nonsense speech. It was almost a
speech delivered by the CEO of a company. In other words,
this is the mess that we inherited. It was the
dire situation we had when I first came into office.
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And now almost like he's reporting to the board a
year later, here is how much we've done. Here are
the trend lines. We've reversed everything. It's all going in
a much more positive direction. And by next year, really
the second quarter, i e. The middle of the summer,
we are going to be clicking on all cylinders. So
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it was a very matter of fact, very deliberate. Really,
he just he was all business He was very serious.
He was at times extremely powerful. You can see in
him he wants to shatter the democratic narrative that they've
been creating with the help of the media, that somehow
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the quote unquote affordability issue, i e. High prices, i e.
High inflation is somehow Donald Trump's problem. Well, he smashed
that last night. I thought it was one of the
most effective parts of his speech. President Trump made it
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very clear early on the administration and the president and
the party that delivered soaring inflation, high prices, the affordability
quote unquote crisis didn't happen on my watch. It was
caused by Biden. It was caused by the Democrats, and
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it was caused under the four years of their administration
while they were in power. Listen now to President Trump saying, America,
eleven months ago, I inherited a mess. Roll cut one, Mike.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Good Evening, American eleven months ago. I inherited a mess,
and I'm fixing it. When I took office, inflation was
the worst in forty eight years, and some would say
in the history of our country, which caused prices to
be higher than ever before, making life unaffordable for millions
and millions of Americans.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
This happened during.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
A Democrat administration, and it's when we first began hearing
the words word affordability.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Now, he twinned it right away, and I thought this
was very smart. Basically, his speech had two prongs. There
was more to it, but I'm giving you the essence
of the speech. It had two prongs to it. One,
I inherited a nation and economic crisis, a nation pummeled
and under siege and being crushed by inflation. This was
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all caused by Biden and a wide open border, an invasion.
That's what they bequeathed us, an invasion, a border crisis,
an economy going downward, and an inflation crisis. Listen now
to Trump saying, not only did I have soaring inflation
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and an economy flat on its back, I also had
to deal with one of the greatest crises at the
border in the history of the United States, roll cut
one a Mike.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Our border was open, and because of this, our country
was being invaded by an army of twenty five million people,
many who came from prisons and jails, mental institutions, and
insane asylums. They were drug dealers, gang members, and even
eleven thousand, eight hundred and eighty eight murders, more than
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fifty percent of whom killed more than one person. This
is what the Biden administration allowed to happen to our country,
and it can never be allowed to happen again.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Now, what he showed, and I thought, some commentators, this
is not my phrase or anything. As some commentators said,
this was political shock and awe. What he did was
he reminded the country of just how horrible the situation was,
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and what a disaster Biden and the Democrats were, and
how much of a hole they had dug for the country.
And so a, Trump is shattering the media narrative and
the democratic narrative. WHOA whoa? Since when am I to
have blamed for high prices?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Whoa?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Whoa? Whoa?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You guys are unhappy with all the deportations. You're unhappy
with Ice going into all these cities and deporting all
these violent, criminal illegals. Who let them all in. Biden
who allowed inflation to get out of control, Biden, who
destroyed the middle class. Biden. And so Trump's argument, and
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I thought it was brilliant, and he laid it out
with charts. It was an incredibly effective use of charts
where we said, look, look at the data. Don't take
my word for it. Here is the data. Under Biden,
we had a wide open border. It is now the
most secure border in American history. Under Biden, twenty to
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twenty five million illegals were allowed to pour in. Now
millions of illegals have self deported. Millions more are being
rounded up, detained, and being kicked out. In other words,
the trend now is in the opposite way. Under Biden,
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we were energy dependent. There was a war on oil, gas,
fossil fuel, coal. Now we are energy dominant. And then,
in one of the most effective parts of the speech,
he rolled out these graphs and showed that under Biden
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gas prices went between thirty to fifty percent, they practically doubled.
It was five bucks a gallon under Biden. Under Trump,
it's now less than three dollars a gallon across the
country nationally and in some states now it's less than
two dollars a gallon. Housing is coming down, Eggs are
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coming down, Most groceries are coming down. In other words,
you look at prices across the board, they are starting
to finally come down. And on top of all of that.
Under Biden, real wages plummeted. In other words, you had
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less money in your pocket. Under Trump, whether you're a
factory worker, a construction worker, a coal mine worker, or
you work in the private sector, your real wages are
going up. And maybe to me for me anyway, the
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statistic that stood out under Trump, two million new jobs
have been created. All of it has gone to native
American born workers, not to illegals, not the people who
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come from other countries on dubious visas like they did
under Biden. But that this is now an economy that
is working again for the middle working class, for law
abiding American citizens, every all the pieces are in place,
as he said, for one of the biggest roaring economic
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booms in American history. It was positive. Okay, did you
watch last night's presidential address? What did you make of
Trump's speech? Did you like it? Not like it? Do
you think it shattered as I did? But I could
you know you may disagree with me. The Democrat media
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narrative that the country is in decline under Trump, that
we are in the grips of an affordability crisis, and
that the president is partially to blame and that he
has no solutions to get us out. What he did
last night was he reset the table. He reminded everybody
of just how bad the situation was before he got in,
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how much needed to be done, and what he expects
to accomplish going forward into twenty twenty six. Now, one
of the best parts of the speech, and again I
don't want to repeat myself for be labor this point,
but he used grafts, extremely well charts, grafts, evidence, facts,
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data to back up his case. And so this is
what he said about Joe Biden, and in essence, he
was saying under Biden, inflation was soaring, wages were drop,
the debt was exploding. There was very little investment coming
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into our country. It was horrible trade deal after horrible
trade deal under my leadership during the last nine months
of the last eleven months. Forgive me, it's the exact opposite.
Inflation is down, wages are up, employment is up, prices
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are down. The trend lines are getting better and better
and better. Listen now to President Trump, roll cut five, Mike.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Here at home.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
We're bringing our economy back from the brink of ruin
to last administration and their allies in Congress looted our
treasury for tridians of driving up prices and everything at
levels never seen before. I am bringing those high prices
down and bringing them down very fast.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Now, it's not just talk. So he said, Okay, you
don't believe me, that's fine. Don't believe me. He said,
Let's look at the facts. Now, this is what we
had under the Biden administration. Now, please, because I know
we're a year almost a year into Trump's presidency, and
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so we're kind of getting used to now, you know,
Trump's economy. Trump andomics to me, things have clearly gotten better.
I know I want things to get even more better.
I hear you, But things have gotten so much better,
and I think we're forgetting like because Americans tend to
have a short, you know, a short memory just how
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bad it was, just how bad it was, and the
sense that it was just all spiraling out of control.
Listen now to Trump layout the devastating facts. This was
the economy that he inherited from. Joey roll cut five A, Mike.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Let's look at the facts.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Under the Biden administration, car prices rose twenty two percent
and in many states thirty percent or more. Gasoline rose
thirty to fifty percent, hotel rates rose thirty seven percent,
airfares rose thirty one percent. Now under our leadership, they
are all coming down and coming down fast. Democrat politicians
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also sent the cost of grocery storing, but we are
solving that too. The price of a Thanksgiving turkey was
down thirty three percent compared to the Biden last year.
The price of eggs is down eighty two percent since March,
and everything else is falling rapidly, and it's not done yet,
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but boy, are we making progress. Nobody can believe what's
going on.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
So look, I can just speak for myself, all right,
I go at the pump. There's no question. Gas prices
are lower. I mean, they just are. Gas prices are lower.
My grocery again, I wish I was paying less, There's
no question. But you know, grocery prices are coming down.
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You know. I'm just overall inflation, you can see it's
really beginning to cool. Under Biden, it was, you know,
it depended on what you were buying, but you were
looking at inflation of nine, ten, eleven, twelve, double digit
inflation fifteen percent. Trump has it down to under three percent.
In other words, he stopped inflation. Inflation has been stopped now.
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He then went on to say, just in terms of
your take home pay, real way, Okay, this is your
money after taxes, after inflation, he goes under Joe Biden,
the middle working class got destroyed under my leadership. Under
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my leadership, you're getting now more take home pay, real wages,
especially if you work in the private sector. I don't
care construction, you work in a factory, you work in
a coal mine, anywhere in the private sector. Your take
home pay is going up. Your wages are going Your
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real wages after taxes and inflation are going up. And
the best is yet to come. Roll cut five b
Mike here.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
It's just some of the efforts that we have underway.
You will see in your wallace and bank accounts in
the new year. After years of record setting falling incomes,
our policies are boosting to compay at a historic pace.
Under Biden, real wages plummeted by three thousand dollars. Under Trump,
the typical factory worker has seen a wage increase of
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one thousand, three hundred dollars. For construction workers, it's one thousand,
eight hundred dollars for miners. We're bringing back clean, beautiful
call is three thousand, three hundred dollars. And for the
first time in years, wages are rising much faster than inflation.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Remember that that's the key.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
That's the key. If the wages keep going up, and
they will and I'm gonna explain this when when I
come back from the break.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
If wages continue to go up and they keep it
continues to outpace inflation, well that's that's how you restore
and rebuild the middle class. Six one seven two six,
six sixty eight sixty eight is the number.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Let me put my cards on the table, my friends.
I think this was one of the most important speeches
that Trump has ever delivered in his political career. I
think there's no question it was an incredibly powerful speech.
As you can tell by the clips. It was a
no nonsense speech. It wasn't one of his campaign rally speeches.
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He wasn't taking potshots at his political opponents. He you know,
wasn't having a little bit of fun with the crowd
or anything. It was all business. And what he did
on many levels is he now has really reset the debate.
He in fact, he destroyed the entire narrative, the lies
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being peddled by the media. No, we have an inflation problem.
We inherit it from Biden. Don't try to pass it
off on me. You want to call it quote unquote affordability,
call it whatever you want. This was all created by
Joe Biden and his reckless spending and his reckless parties.
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All I'm doing now is fixing his mess, his disaster.
That's all I'm doing now. What he clearly laid out
is that he's put the pieces together now for rebuilding
the American economy and really centering it on the private sector,
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on the middle and working class. And so what he
said yesterday in a nutshell, I'll give you Trumpenomics. We're
gonna make energy low, the price of energy low. We're
gonna be energy dominant. We're drilling oil, natural gas, we're
developing clean coal. This is gonna drive energy costs down.
Gas prices are going way down. There are at three
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dollars a gallon nationally. He says, give this another six
more months, because you look at the trend line, it's
gonna be at about two bucks a gallon nationally. So
you're gonna have low energy gas prices that's going lower
inflation across the entire economy. Then you have the massive
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tax cuts that he signed in the one big, beautiful
bill that is only gonna kick in next year. That's
in twenty twenty six. So you're gonna get the largest
tax cut in American history. No tax on tips, no
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tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security. As he
said in part of his speech, wait until the spring,
you're gonna get the largest tax refund check maybe in
the history of the United States. So as he put it,
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we're gonna be saving you in total eleven to twenty
thousand dollars a year per family. That's gonna be real money,
real savings in your pocket. Furthermore, because of the tariffs,
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and I'm telling you, I am a big tariff person.
I am an economic nationalist. I always have been, all
the way back to George Washington. Washington was pro tariff,
and I could go on and on. Successive presidents have
always said, use a tariff. Better to use a tariff
than to use an income tax. And I completely agree,
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but let that go. His tariffs have done now two things.
He has now sold trillions of dollars of American products
to countries all over the world. So we're gonna be
selling a lot more, making a lot more, and we're
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reshoring trillions and trillions. In fact, it's about twenty trillion
dollars in investment, which means plants are being built, factories
are being built, manufacturing is coming back. We're set for
one of the greatest booms in the history of the
United States. And as he told the country last night,
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I need a Federal Reserve chairman that isn't trying to
choke and strangle the economy. I need someone and I'm
gonna put this person in by the early next year.
Who's gonna cut mortgage rates and interest rates so you
can afford to borrow money, you can afford to buy
a home. Developers will want to build homes. So it's
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all gonna come together at the right time. Listen now
to President Trump, roll cut six, Mike.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I've secured a record breaking eighteen trillion dollars of investment
into the United States, which means jobs, wage increases, growth,
factory openings, and far greater national security.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Much of this success has.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Been accomplished by tariffs, my favorite word, tariffs, which for
many decades have been used successfully by other countries against US,
but not anymore. Companies know that if they build in America,
there are no tariffs, and that's why they're coming home
to the USA in record numbers. They're building factories and
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plants at levels we haven't seen AI automobiles. We're doing
what nobody thought was even possible, not even remotely possible.
There has never, frankly been anything like it.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Amen, Brother, Amen, that one of the big changes. And
he addressed it last night, and I thought he was
a thousand, not one hundred, one thousand percent correct. Biden
was killing the auto industry. There's no question he was
killing killing the auto industry. He was forcing them to
make these electric vehicles, these evs that nobody wanted to buy.
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They were making cars that people didn't want, and they
were trying to force people to buy cars we didn't want,
and the car companies to make cars they didn't want
to make because there was no real market for these
evs and these electric vehicles. All in the name of
quote unquote climate change, all in the name of quote
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unquote green energy. Trumps came in. Trump has said over
the last eleven months, I saved the American car industry
what I said was build the cars that your customers want.
They want the internal combustion engine, Give it to them.
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They want gas powered cars, Give it to them. And
now cars are flying off. I mean they're just flying
off the factories they're starting. People now are finally they're
buying cars. They're making cars, gas powered cars. Also, when
you lower the cost of gas, it's much more affordable
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to drive around in a gas powered car. So he
has rescued the American auto industry and saved millions of
good paying jobs. Now furthermore, listen to him saying I
want the tax cuts now are going to kick in,
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and people have no idea how much a it's going
to generate an economic growth, how it's going to lead
to a booming economy, but how much money you're gonna
have extra in your pocket? Roll cuts six a Mike.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
One year ago, our country was dead. We were absolutely dead.
Our country is ready to fail, totally failed now with
the hottest country anywhere in the world, And that's said
by every single leader that I've spoken to over the
last five months. Next year you will also see the
results of the largest tax cuts in American history that
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were really accomplished through our great, big, beautiful bill, perhaps
the most sweeping legislation ever passed in Congress. We wrapped
twelve different bills up into one beautiful bill that includes
no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no
tax on social security.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
For our great seniors.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Under these cuts, many families will be saving between eleven
thousand and twenty thousand dollars a year, and next spring
is projected to be the largest tax refund season of
all time.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
That's what I'm talking about, haha, a luluja. It's about time.
We don't have an economy anymore that we had under
bidenen the Democrats, which was Obama's economy that is there
to benefit welfare, deadbeats, illegal aliens, and powerful corporate Wall Street, Hollywood,
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big banks, hedge fund special interests, the globalists. Under Trump,
he has shattered that model. And now what he's told
the country is now, it takes time. As he said,
Rome wasn't built in a day. Okay, as the famous
saying goes, but we're going to build a middle working
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class economy that puts the taxpayer and productive citizens first first. Now,
he announced two things, and I want to mention him
because I want to take calls. On the other side,
he wants to give a two thousand dollars refund check
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from the tariffs to working middle class families, a two
thousand dollars check. Okay, a check to you, a check
to me, to my family, to your family, two thousand dollars.
I don't know about you, but I could. I would
like a nice to I could use a nice two
thousand dollars check. Okay, pay the groceries, energy bills, whatever,
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put it in the bank. And he announced yesterday because
next year is going to be the two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of our declaration of independence of seventeen seventy six,
obviously a warrior dividend. Okay, let me just play. I
forgive me. I want to go to the phone lines,
but just let me play one last cut. So one
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of the new proposals that came out of yesterday's speech,
one was not so new, He's been talking about it
now for months. Was the two thousand dollars refund check
for every working middle class family that he wants to
give from the tariffs, which I'm completely for. But he
announced something else, a little extra bonus, and that was
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for our wonderful members in the military, one point four
million of them are warriors. Next year, two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the American Revolution, of our declaration of independence,
and so he's announcing now a Warrior dividend of one thousand,
seven hundred and seventy six dollars. This is going to
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be a check that is going to go to every
military member. They are going to send this amount to
everyone who serves in honor of their sacrifice, in honor
of their service, and of course, in honor of our
nation's founding in seventeen seventy six. And these checks, says,
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will arrive just in time for Christmas. Roll cut seven, Mike.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Because of tariffs.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Along with the just pasted one big beautiful bill tonight,
I am also proud to announce that more than one thousand,
four hundred fifty thousand, think of this, one million, four
hundred and fifty thousand military service members will receive a
special we call Warrior dividend before Christmas.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
A warrior dividend in.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Honor of our nations founding in seventeen seventy six, we
are sending every soldier one thousand, seven hundred and seventy
six dollars.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Think of that, and the checks are already on the way.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
The checks in the mail. Okay, do you like this idea?
Do you support this idea? Already the left Democrats are
poo pooing it, saying it's a gimmick. What's one thousand,
seven hundred and seventy six dollars, He's trying to buy
votes of the military. Blah blah blah blah. Look, I
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can tell you this. I got text after text from
service members, many of them listen to the show, love
this show. They go, you know, to these rich Democrat fatcats. Yeah,
maybe they can scoff at seventeen hundred and seventy six dollars.
Let's just round it off, eighteen hundred dollars. You know,
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when you're struggling and you're living check to check, and
you're living hand to mouth, as many members in our
military do, believe me, an eighteen hundred dollars check, especially
at Christmas time, pay for some gifts, Maybe put a
little money into bank. I don't know, maybe go out
and buy some extra groceries, maybe pay some bills. It helps.
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Let me put it to you this way. So is
it better for them not to have seventeen to one,
seven hundred and seventy six dollars. It's better for them
to have no refund whatsoever, no dividend check whatsoever. If
someone said to you, hey, would you rather get an
eighteen hundred dollars check from the government, a dividend check
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for your service to our country, a little bonus, or
to get zero? Would you turn down the eighteen hundred.
I wouldn't turn down the eighteen hundred. Now, maybe for Pelosi,
maybe for Kamalaw, maybe for the Clintons, maybe for the Obamas,
maybe for the Bidens. Maybe this is tipping money. I
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get it, but not everybody's a politician and not everybody's
a crook. So to me, I like the gesture. I
think they deserve it. I wish they could get more.
But something is better than nothing. That's me. Now. I
want to ask you, let's set the table. Did you
watch Trump's speech? Question number one? What was your reaction?
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Did you like it? Did you not like it? What
did you make of him trying to reframe the issue
and the debate over his first year in office, especially
on the affordability issue. Did he shatter the Democrat media narrative.
Or do you think that Democrats are still going to
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run on so called affordability next year? And is did
trump speech sway you or persuade you that the trend
lines are going up, They're looking good. He's made some
inroads and more and the best is yet to come?
Or do you think it was all smoke and no fire.
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I'm just curious six one seven two six six sixty
eight sixty eight over the last eleven months, dominating now
to today under Trump as your personal economic standard of living,
your personal economic life, has it gotten better or worse?
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And are you happy with Trump's stewardship of the economy
six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight. Okay,
I want to read to you and email and you
can email the Kooner Man, Jeffrey Kooner all one word
kuh n e r at iHeartMedia dot com and it's
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from Michael. We'll mention Michael's last name. But he's been
listening to the show. I know for many years because
he's been emailing me for many many years. He is
a conservative, he is a Trump supporter, He's a staunch Republican.
He's one of us Okay, he's he's a member of
Kooner Country, diehard member of Kooner Country. So when I
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got this email from him this morning after my opening
monologue while we were off air, I always check my emails,
and I checked the text messages and anyway, and I
saw other text messages saying similar things to what Michael
was saying. I said to be fair, and I always
want to be fair to this incredible audience. I need
to read this because it's different from my take. It's
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radically different from my take, and he has the right
to have a different take than mine, and I think
it needs to be heard and for all of you
to tell me if you agree or disagree with it.
So here is what Michael wrote, and very respectfully and honestly,
very well written. Jeff, I love you like a brother
in a non sexual way. Well, thank you, Michael, But
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I do not know what planet you are living on.
I make a decent salary in the mid one hundred
k range. Basically, i'd say about one hundred and fifty
thousand a year. My family is barely scraping by car
insurance jumped forty percent this year. Wow, I just got
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my homeowner's insurance renewal, it's going up thirty three percent.
My employer provided health insurance at work is going up
twenty five percent in January, and the collpays and deductibles
are soaring. So, in other words, his car insurance is
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way up, his homeowner's insurance way up, his healthcare costs
way up. He continues. Housing isn't coming down, not with
taxes and insurance rising at the rate they are. At best,
it is staying the same. I go to Big Why
by the way, So do Why, Michael, But let that go.
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I go to Big Wy by the way. It's a
grocery store, a chain for those of you listening in
other parts of the country. I go to Big Y
and I walk out with a single plastic bag of groceries,
and it's a one hundred dollars plus bill. My raise
for this year two point five percent. Did I get
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a quote unquote raise this year? Hell no, Sure. Gas
is down. I can't afford to drive anywhere except to
work anyway, So what's the difference. Eggs are down, so
what I can't eat them or my cholesterol will go
through the roof and I'll end up with a ten
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thousand dollars hospital bill from my deductible. When I have
to pay, I have to have to have stints put
into my arteries. The political party in power always quote
unquote cooks the books when it comes to job reports
and inflation reports. People out there aren't falling for it.
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We know what the real inflation rate is because we
have to try to pay the bills each month. The
Republicans are tone deaf. Trump is more interested in foreign
affairs in an attempt to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
He is completely out of touch. The Republicans are going
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to get decimated in the midterms. It is too little
too late. That speech should have been given on January
twenty first, twenty twenty five. I e over eleven months ago.
I've been a Republican my whole voting life. My friends
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are all Republicans, and we all say the same thing.
So Michael Powerful eloquently personally is saying, my life under
Trump hasn't gotten better. My home insurance up, my car
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insurance up, my healthcare costs up. I go to the
grocery store, I buy one bag. It's over one hundred dollars. Yes,
some things are better, but it doesn't make much of
an impact in my life. Yeah, gas is down, eggs
are down, but so what on the bigger ticket items
I'm bleeding And that he believes and many like him
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do believe his friends and others. I know because I
get the emails in the text all the time that
Trump has squandered too much of his eleven months in office,
chasing a Nobel Peace Prize, overly preoccupied with foreign affairs,
and he has not focused on affordability issues and on
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the domestic economy enough on the border, yes, on deportations, Yes,
on drugs and fentanyl, yes, but on bread and butter,
economic cost of living issues. This is the I'm hearing
this criticism of many Trump supporters. They feel he has
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fallen down on the job or not delivered. Michael expressed
that in his email to me. Do you agree with Michael?
Do you disagree with Michael? Six one seven two six
six sixty eight sixty eight is the number I can
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tell you from my experience, and this is just my life.
My family life has gotten better under Trump, not dramatically better,
but better. And the key is the bleeding has stopped.
It was infinitely worse under Biden. And I'm feeling more
optimistic today than I was eleven months ago. But that's me.
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I want to hear from you. All right, Let's unleash
the hounds, as they say, best audience in the business,
Let's go to them. Six one seven two six six
sixty eight sixty eight. Dave in Western Pennsylvania, our constitutionalist
correspondent out in the Pittsburgh area. Did you watch the speech, Dave?
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What did you make of it? Go my friend?
Speaker 3 (41:31):
So I did.
Speaker 6 (41:31):
Jeff, I'm really getting on at seven. But that's okay. Listen, Jeff,
I think Trump hit the ball out of the park.
That guy that just emailed you. I don't know what
universe he's on, but he's out. He's out in the
outer part of the Milky Way, near the Uranus the planet.
But Jeff, listen, he hit the ball out of the pocket.
Could give the military maybe twenty one seventy six that
would be better, but you know who's counting. But you
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know what, Jeff, It's okay because you know what, Usually
the Democrats give a response to these speeches, right, they
will left dumb, null and void, as they always are.
And Jeff in what he needs to do, He needs
to do more of these during this midterm election year.
Come on like every two weeks and maybe twice a month.
Remind Look, and he needs to say this, Jeff, because
you know there's a lot of dumb Rhinos and middle
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of the road conservatives out there. I'mti party, Jeff. Okay,
here's a Jewish Christian, a Messianic jew that's my faith.
Like we said last time, you're a Catholic. I respect that,
But Jeff, here's what it is. He needs to remind people.
I may not be on the ballot, but act the
zip I'm on the ballot because that's going to help
us keep the House and keep the center his Membersjef in.
In the midterms, usually the inside patty loses, you know,
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the web As a presidency, and when Trump's name is
on the ballot, Republicans, there's no red wave, Jeff. There
needs to be a red wave, Jeff, conservative wave, not
a Rhino wave, a conservative wave.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Well, Dave, I got to tell you, I'm so with
you Trump. When you were talking, I'm nodding my head
up and down. Yes, yes, yes. He needs to do
a lot more of these, the way FDR did his
fireside chats. I love the speech. He gave yesterday. I
thought it was a great speech. He finally's really communicating
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his message directly to the American people. I want more,
and he needs to do more. That's the only way
he can bust through that filter that the media has
where they just keep running him down, running the country down,
running the economy down, always with doom and gloom. The
sky is falling. So I agree with you. I'd like
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to see it once a week, every week. And if
he can't, you get the networks to carry him. Do videos,
do whatever you got to do, but keep getting that
message out. Dave. I know you're a worker. You got
to go into work. I want to ask you this
question in relation to Michael's email, and I don't want
you to react to Michael. I want to he says, Look, Jeff,
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and he's just ticking stuff off my car insurance, my
health insurance. Uh, you know, right down the line, my
my home insurance. When I go to the grocery store,
everything inflation is killing me. Things are becoming too expensive.
I'm drowning man. And as he put it, I'm making
about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year and
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I'm working my rear end off in your life for
you and your family. Is the economy getting better for
you the same or worse over? Let's say the last
eleven months.
Speaker 6 (44:33):
It's getting better, Jet because obviously gross is going down.
And Jeff, I don't mean to correct you, but I
have to respectfully disagree. I think it's the big beautiful
bill that's going to hit in the first quarter. You know,
end of match in April. The first quarter is obviously
three months, three times four for the liberals out there,
because you think you know your math, it's three times
four that a third to three months is a quarter
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Democrats point twenty five. Okay, two hundred and fifty thousand's
on a scale. But Jeff, no, it's going.
Speaker 5 (44:59):
To hit between manch in April, right before tax Day,
and Trum needs to come a rout and around April
fifteenth and have one of these speeches and say, look,
it's tax Day, democrats favorite day.
Speaker 6 (45:11):
They love to touch the hell out of us. So but
that's all I got to say yet. But Merry Christmas
to you, to my everybody.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
Yes, Dave, thank you again for your call and for
your warm wishes, and Merry Christmas. All the best to
you and your family, Dave. So look you heard Dave.
Dave says, yeah, maybe for Michael, but for me, my
basic you know what, I for my basic living expenses.
Things are better for me under Trump. Agree disagree six
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one seven two sixty six sixty eight sixty eight. Tom
in the Great Commonwealth of Virginia. Thanks for holding Tom,
and welcome.
Speaker 4 (45:52):
Thank you, Jef. Good morning. How you doing, Buddy good?
Speaker 1 (45:54):
I love your accent, by the way, love that accent.
Keep going. You could talk all day and I'm just
gonna listen. Tom, go ahead, my friend.
Speaker 4 (46:03):
Really well, I kind of call it disaster recovery, you know,
crawling from the wreckage of the Biden administration by the
Obama administration, and you know there you go right there,
and you know it goes back to energy. I'm an
over the road truck driver when things went south, went
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really bad. I mean I was sending pictures at the
pump thousand bucks to fill up the truck a thousand dollars.
You know that's just one fillip for diesel.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (46:36):
Yeah. And I'm like I told everybody, I sent a pictures,
let's get ready to pay now, and here we are.
You know, so I think Trump really needs to focus
on our energy costs.
Speaker 1 (46:48):
Tom, Sorry I need to cut you off, but all right,
So under Biden was a thousand bucks. What is it now?
Speaker 4 (46:56):
Oh, it's dropped down considerably, one hundreds of dollars now.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
Or would you say ballpark?
Speaker 4 (47:03):
No, lot less? It's really decent. Prices are still high,
but it's gone down a lot.
Speaker 1 (47:08):
Okay, seven hundred. I feel like I'm bidding here.
Speaker 4 (47:11):
Seven Probably I was driving, you know, when I was
driving different truck, but they have different sized gas tanks.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
But basically, roughly, roughly you're saying it was a thousand
under Biden, it's basically now seven hundred under Trump. I
mean give or take a few bucks.
Speaker 4 (47:25):
Correct, Yeah, yeah, because visa was up over five dollars
a gallon, So yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
That's that's three hundred bucks a load. I mean, correct
me if I'm wrong, Tom, That's that's not peanuts. Am
I wrong?
Speaker 7 (47:38):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (47:39):
No, it's sir. And you know, and in things of
you know, like my my car insurance is the same,
you know, and my homeowner's insurance didn't change. But yeah,
food's still expensive. You know, it's and you know, it's
like the old thing, you know, you gotta walk before
you run. It's gonna take a while, you know, for
this to come back around.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
We got hit, Tom. I gotta say, I think your
analogy is brilliant. Really. It's like it's like disaster relief,
you know, like the disaster recovery. I mean it's sort
of like, you know, like a plane crash and it's like,
you know, Trump is like pulling people out of the plane,
you know, and Okay, we're gonna start and we're gonna
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rebuild a plane. Now you know what I mean, Like
we're saving lives, we're rescuing people. Okay, now we're gonna
start rebuilding the plane. Uh. And I think that's pretty
much that, you know, if I was to summarize the speech,
I think that was a speech.
Speaker 5 (48:34):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
And he's basically saying I just he really saying give
me six more months. He's really basically what he said
is give me to the second quarter. The end of
the second quarter, you're gonna get the tax cuts kicking in.
You're gonna get your tax refund. I'm gonna give everybody
a two thousand dollars tariff refund check. You're gonna see
prices continue to go down. He's basically saying by about
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six about say, June of next year, he says, the
economy is going to be clicking on all cylinders, So
we'll see fingers crossed. Tom Nice, call Merry Christmas and
keep on trucking, my friend. Six one seven two six
six sixty eight sixty eight agree, disagree? Mary in Florida,
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Thanks for holding Mary, and welcome.
Speaker 7 (49:25):
Hey, Jeff, Listen, I'm so angry right now because Michael's
and many many other Republicans are sitting there in the
saying all of this should be fixed. He's been in
office eleven months. I mean, give me a break. What
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are they expecting? He needs to lay the ground walk
to get all of this charging again, That's what he's doing.
And we as Republicans do exist exactly what our you know,
in our Congress and the Senate do. We spit on
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each other all the time. And nobody is giving this
me and the opportunity to try and wave the groundwork
to get this whole thing walking. Instead, we're we're we're
just giving each other a difficult time about it. We're
not sticking together. And I honestly believe Trump is doing
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exactly the right thing. Look at what's happening with all
of these lawsuits.
Speaker 1 (50:37):
Mary, can you do me a favor. I want to
give you a chance to fully finish your point, So
please hang on. I'm up against the break. I want
to ask all of you, as the economy under Trump
Good morning, Coon air country. I don't know if any
of you saw his national address to the nation yesterday,
but I got to tell you I had very high hopes,
very high expectations, and the President clearly delivered this. This
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is the President Trump that won a national mandate in
November of twenty twenty four. It was an incredible speech.
It was a very strong speech. It was a very
high energy speech at sometimes a defiant speech. But it
also now clearly set the terms and set framed the
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debate for the next year for Republicans. His aims, his goals,
his objectives, and really now what he wants to achieve
in order to win the twenty twenty six midterms. So
the President spoke for about nineteen minutes to the country.
(01:05):
The first thing that struck me, it was night and
day in terms of vigor, in terms of passion, in
terms of energy, in terms of power, lucidness compared to
the four years under Joey. It was night and day.
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And the other thing that struck me about the speech,
so clearly we have a real activist, and I mean
active in the sense that you know, he's physically vigorous,
mentally vigorous, full of energy. We have now a real
president in the White House, who is engaged, who is passionate,
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who is purposeful, and who wants to get so much done,
and reminded the country on how much he's all ready
accomplished in eleven months. Furthermore, it was a no nonsense speech.
It's not It wasn't Reagan, it wasn't John F. Kennedy,
it wasn't FDR. There wasn't, you know, soaring rhetoric or
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some poetic turns of phrases. That wasn't Trump's intent last night.
It was a no nonsense speech. It was almost a
speech delivered by the CEO of a company. In other words,
this is the mess that we inherited. It was the
dire situation we had when I first came into office.
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And now almost like he's reporting to the board a
year later, here is how much we've done. Here are
the trend lines. We've reversed everything. It's all going in
a much more positive direction. And by next year, really
the second quarter, i e. The middle of the summer,
we are going to be clicking on all cylinders. So
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it was a very matter of fact, very deliberate. Really,
he just he was all business He was very serious.
He was at times extremely powerful. You can see in
him he wants to shatter the democratic narrative that they've
been creating with the help of the media, that somehow
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the quote unquote affordability issue, i e. High prices, i e.
High inflation is somehow Donald Trump's problem. Well, he smashed
that last night. I thought it was one of the
most effective parts of his speech. President Trump made it
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very clear early on the administration and the president and
the party that delivered soaring inflation, high prices, the affordability
quote unquote crisis didn't happen on my watch. It was
caused by Biden. It was caused by the Democrats, and
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it was caused under the four years of their administration
while they were in power. Listen now to President Trump saying, America,
eleven months ago, I inherited a mess. Roll cut one, Mike.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Good Evening, American eleven months ago. I inherited a mess,
and I'm fixing it. When I took office, inflation was
the worst in forty eight years, and some would say
in the history of our country, which caused prices to
be higher than ever before, making life unaffordable for millions
and millions of Americans.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
This happened during.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
A Democrat administration, and it's when we first began hearing
the words word affordability.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Now, he twinned it right away, and I thought this
was very smart. Basically, his speech had two prongs. There
was more to it, but I'm giving you the essence
of the speech. It had two prongs to it. One,
I inherited a nation and economic crisis, a nation pummeled
and under siege and being crushed by inflation. This was
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all caused by Biden and a wide open border, an invasion.
That's what they bequeathed us, an invasion, a border crisis,
an economy going downward, and an inflation crisis. Listen now
to Trump saying, not only did I have soaring inflation
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and an economy flat on its back, I also had
to deal with one of the greatest crises at the
border in the history of the United States, roll cut
one a Mike.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Our border was open, and because of this, our country
was being invaded by an army of twenty five million people,
many who came from prisons and jails, mental institutions, and
insane asylums. They were drug dealers, gang members, and even
eleven thousand, eight hundred and eighty eight murders, more than
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fifty percent of whom killed more than one person. This
is what the Biden administration allowed to happen to our country,
and it can never be allowed to happen again.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Now, what he showed, and I thought, some commentators, this
is not my phrase or anything. As some commentators said,
this was political shock and awe. What he did was
he reminded the country of just how horrible the situation was,
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and what a disaster Biden and the Democrats were, and
how much of a hole they had dug for the country.
And so a, Trump is shattering the media narrative and
the democratic narrative. WHOA whoa? Since when am I to
have blamed for high prices?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Whoa?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Whoa? Whoa?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You guys are unhappy with all the deportations. You're unhappy
with Ice going into all these cities and deporting all
these violent, criminal illegals. Who let them all in. Biden
who allowed inflation to get out of control, Biden, who
destroyed the middle class. Biden. And so Trump's argument, and
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I thought it was brilliant, and he laid it out
with charts. It was an incredibly effective use of charts
where we said, look, look at the data. Don't take
my word for it. Here is the data. Under Biden,
we had a wide open border. It is now the
most secure border in American history. Under Biden, twenty to
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twenty five million illegals were allowed to pour in. Now
millions of illegals have self deported. Millions more are being
rounded up, detained, and being kicked out. In other words,
the trend now is in the opposite way. Under Biden,
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we were energy dependent. There was a war on oil, gas,
fossil fuel, coal. Now we are energy dominant. And then,
in one of the most effective parts of the speech,
he rolled out these graphs and showed that under Biden
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gas prices went between thirty to fifty percent, they practically doubled.
It was five bucks a gallon under Biden. Under Trump,
it's now less than three dollars a gallon across the
country nationally and in some states now it's less than
two dollars a gallon. Housing is coming down, Eggs are
(09:13):
coming down, Most groceries are coming down. In other words,
you look at prices across the board, they are starting
to finally come down. And on top of all of that.
Under Biden, real wages plummeted. In other words, you had
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less money in your pocket. Under Trump, whether you're a
factory worker, a construction worker, a coal mine worker, or
you work in the private sector, your real wages are
going up. And maybe to me for me anyway, the
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statistic that stood out under Trump, two million new jobs
have been created. All of it has gone to native
American born workers, not to illegals, not the people who
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come from other countries on dubious visas like they did
under Biden. But that this is now an economy that
is working again for the middle working class, for law
abiding American citizens, every all the pieces are in place,
as he said, for one of the biggest roaring economic
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booms in American history. It was positive. Okay, did you
watch last night's presidential address? What did you make of
Trump's speech? Did you like it? Not like it? Do
you think it shattered as I did? But I could
you know you may disagree with me. The Democrat media
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narrative that the country is in decline under Trump, that
we are in the grips of an affordability crisis, and
that the president is partially to blame and that he
has no solutions to get us out. What he did
last night was he reset the table. He reminded everybody
of just how bad the situation was before he got in,
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how much needed to be done, and what he expects
to accomplish going forward into twenty twenty six. Now, one
of the best parts of the speech, and again I
don't want to repeat myself for be labor this point,
but he used grafts, extremely well charts, grafts, evidence, facts,
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data to back up his case. And so this is
what he said about Joe Biden, and in essence, he
was saying under Biden, inflation was soaring, wages were drop,
the debt was exploding. There was very little investment coming
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into our country. It was horrible trade deal after horrible
trade deal under my leadership during the last nine months
of the last eleven months. Forgive me, it's the exact opposite.
Inflation is down, wages are up, employment is up, prices
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are down. The trend lines are getting better and better
and better. Listen now to President Trump, roll cut five, Mike.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Here at home.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
We're bringing our economy back from the brink of ruin
to last administration and their allies in Congress looted our
treasury for tridians of driving up prices and everything at
levels never seen before. I am bringing those high prices
down and bringing them down very fast.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Now, it's not just talk. So he said, Okay, you
don't believe me, that's fine. Don't believe me. He said,
Let's look at the facts. Now, this is what we
had under the Biden administration. Now, please, because I know
we're a year almost a year into Trump's presidency, and
(13:32):
so we're kind of getting used to now, you know,
Trump's economy. Trump andomics to me, things have clearly gotten better.
I know I want things to get even more better.
I hear you, But things have gotten so much better,
and I think we're forgetting like because Americans tend to
have a short, you know, a short memory just how
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bad it was, just how bad it was, and the
sense that it was just all spiraling out of control.
Listen now to Trump layout the devastating facts. This was
the economy that he inherited from. Joey roll cut five A, Mike.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Let's look at the facts.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Under the Biden administration, car prices rose twenty two percent
and in many states thirty percent or more. Gasoline rose
thirty to fifty percent, hotel rates rose thirty seven percent,
airfares rose thirty one percent. Now under our leadership, they
are all coming down and coming down fast. Democrat politicians
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also sent the cost of grocery storing, but we are
solving that too. The price of a Thanksgiving turkey was
down thirty three percent compared to the Biden last year.
The price of eggs is down eighty two percent since March,
and everything else is falling rapidly, and it's not done yet,
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but boy, are we making progress. Nobody can believe what's
going on.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
So look, I can just speak for myself, all right,
I go at the pump. There's no question. Gas prices
are lower. I mean, they just are. Gas prices are lower.
My grocery again, I wish I was paying less, There's
no question. But you know, grocery prices are coming down.
(15:28):
You know. I'm just overall inflation, you can see it's
really beginning to cool. Under Biden, it was, you know,
it depended on what you were buying, but you were
looking at inflation of nine, ten, eleven, twelve, double digit
inflation fifteen percent. Trump has it down to under three percent.
In other words, he stopped inflation. Inflation has been stopped now.
(15:53):
He then went on to say, just in terms of
your take home pay, real way, Okay, this is your
money after taxes, after inflation, he goes under Joe Biden,
the middle working class got destroyed under my leadership. Under
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my leadership, you're getting now more take home pay, real wages,
especially if you work in the private sector. I don't
care construction, you work in a factory, you work in
a coal mine, anywhere in the private sector. Your take
home pay is going up. Your wages are going Your
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real wages after taxes and inflation are going up. And
the best is yet to come. Roll cut five b
Mike here.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
It's just some of the efforts that we have underway.
You will see in your wallace and bank accounts in
the new year. After years of record setting falling incomes,
our policies are boosting to compay at a historic pace.
Under Biden, real wages plummeted by three thousand dollars. Under Trump,
the typical factory worker has seen a wage increase of
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one thousand, three hundred dollars. For construction workers, it's one thousand,
eight hundred dollars for miners. We're bringing back clean, beautiful
call is three thousand, three hundred dollars. And for the
first time in years, wages are rising much faster than inflation.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Remember that that's the key.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
That's the key. If the wages keep going up, and
they will and I'm gonna explain this when when I
come back from the break.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
If wages continue to go up and they keep it
continues to outpace inflation, well that's that's how you restore
and rebuild the middle class. Six one seven two six,
six sixty eight sixty eight is the number.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Let me put my cards on the table, my friends.
I think this was one of the most important speeches
that Trump has ever delivered in his political career. I
think there's no question it was an incredibly powerful speech.
As you can tell by the clips. It was a
no nonsense speech. It wasn't one of his campaign rally speeches.
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He wasn't taking potshots at his political opponents. He you know,
wasn't having a little bit of fun with the crowd
or anything. It was all business. And what he did
on many levels is he now has really reset the debate.
He in fact, he destroyed the entire narrative, the lies
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being peddled by the media. No, we have an inflation problem.
We inherit it from Biden. Don't try to pass it
off on me. You want to call it quote unquote affordability,
call it whatever you want. This was all created by
Joe Biden and his reckless spending and his reckless parties.
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All I'm doing now is fixing his mess, his disaster.
That's all I'm doing now. What he clearly laid out
is that he's put the pieces together now for rebuilding
the American economy and really centering it on the private sector,
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on the middle and working class. And so what he
said yesterday in a nutshell, I'll give you Trumpenomics. We're
gonna make energy low, the price of energy low. We're
gonna be energy dominant. We're drilling oil, natural gas, we're
developing clean coal. This is gonna drive energy costs down.
Gas prices are going way down. There are at three
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dollars a gallon nationally. He says, give this another six
more months, because you look at the trend line, it's
gonna be at about two bucks a gallon nationally. So
you're gonna have low energy gas prices that's going lower
inflation across the entire economy. Then you have the massive
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tax cuts that he signed in the one big, beautiful
bill that is only gonna kick in next year. That's
in twenty twenty six. So you're gonna get the largest
tax cut in American history. No tax on tips, no
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tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security. As he
said in part of his speech, wait until the spring,
you're gonna get the largest tax refund check maybe in
the history of the United States. So as he put it,
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we're gonna be saving you in total eleven to twenty
thousand dollars a year per family. That's gonna be real money,
real savings in your pocket. Furthermore, because of the tariffs,
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and I'm telling you, I am a big tariff person.
I am an economic nationalist. I always have been, all
the way back to George Washington. Washington was pro tariff,
and I could go on and on. Successive presidents have
always said, use a tariff. Better to use a tariff
than to use an income tax. And I completely agree,
(21:30):
but let that go. His tariffs have done now two things.
He has now sold trillions of dollars of American products
to countries all over the world. So we're gonna be
selling a lot more, making a lot more, and we're
(21:50):
reshoring trillions and trillions. In fact, it's about twenty trillion
dollars in investment, which means plants are being built, factories
are being built, manufacturing is coming back. We're set for
one of the greatest booms in the history of the
United States. And as he told the country last night,
(22:14):
I need a Federal Reserve chairman that isn't trying to
choke and strangle the economy. I need someone and I'm
gonna put this person in by the early next year.
Who's gonna cut mortgage rates and interest rates so you
can afford to borrow money, you can afford to buy
a home. Developers will want to build homes. So it's
(22:38):
all gonna come together at the right time. Listen now
to President Trump, roll cut six, Mike.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
I've secured a record breaking eighteen trillion dollars of investment
into the United States, which means jobs, wage increases, growth,
factory openings, and far greater national security.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Much of this success has.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Been accomplished by tariffs, my favorite word, tariffs, which for
many decades have been used successfully by other countries against US,
but not anymore. Companies know that if they build in America,
there are no tariffs, and that's why they're coming home
to the USA in record numbers. They're building factories and
(23:30):
plants at levels we haven't seen AI automobiles. We're doing
what nobody thought was even possible, not even remotely possible.
There has never, frankly been anything like it.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Amen, Brother, Amen, that one of the big changes. And
he addressed it last night, and I thought he was
a thousand, not one hundred, one thousand percent correct. Biden
was killing the auto industry. There's no question he was
killing killing the auto industry. He was forcing them to
make these electric vehicles, these evs that nobody wanted to buy.
(24:10):
They were making cars that people didn't want, and they
were trying to force people to buy cars we didn't want,
and the car companies to make cars they didn't want
to make because there was no real market for these
evs and these electric vehicles. All in the name of
quote unquote climate change, all in the name of quote
(24:33):
unquote green energy. Trumps came in. Trump has said over
the last eleven months, I saved the American car industry
what I said was build the cars that your customers want.
They want the internal combustion engine, Give it to them.
(24:54):
They want gas powered cars, Give it to them. And
now cars are flying off. I mean they're just flying
off the factories they're starting. People now are finally they're
buying cars. They're making cars, gas powered cars. Also, when
you lower the cost of gas, it's much more affordable
(25:16):
to drive around in a gas powered car. So he
has rescued the American auto industry and saved millions of
good paying jobs. Now furthermore, listen to him saying I
want the tax cuts now are going to kick in,
(25:41):
and people have no idea how much a it's going
to generate an economic growth, how it's going to lead
to a booming economy, but how much money you're gonna
have extra in your pocket? Roll cuts six a Mike.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
One year ago, our country was dead. We were absolutely dead.
Our country is ready to fail, totally failed now with
the hottest country anywhere in the world, And that's said
by every single leader that I've spoken to over the
last five months. Next year you will also see the
results of the largest tax cuts in American history that
(26:21):
were really accomplished through our great, big, beautiful bill, perhaps
the most sweeping legislation ever passed in Congress. We wrapped
twelve different bills up into one beautiful bill that includes
no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no
tax on social security.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
For our great seniors.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Under these cuts, many families will be saving between eleven
thousand and twenty thousand dollars a year, and next spring
is projected to be the largest tax refund season of
all time.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
That's what I'm talking about, haha, a luluja. It's about time.
We don't have an economy anymore that we had under
bidenen the Democrats, which was Obama's economy that is there
to benefit welfare, deadbeats, illegal aliens, and powerful corporate Wall Street, Hollywood,
(27:22):
big banks, hedge fund special interests, the globalists. Under Trump,
he has shattered that model. And now what he's told
the country is now, it takes time. As he said,
Rome wasn't built in a day. Okay, as the famous
saying goes, but we're going to build a middle working
(27:44):
class economy that puts the taxpayer and productive citizens first first. Now,
he announced two things, and I want to mention him
because I want to take calls. On the other side,
he wants to give a two thousand dollars refund check
(28:08):
from the tariffs to working middle class families, a two
thousand dollars check. Okay, a check to you, a check
to me, to my family, to your family, two thousand dollars.
I don't know about you, but I could. I would
like a nice to I could use a nice two
thousand dollars check. Okay, pay the groceries, energy bills, whatever,
(28:32):
put it in the bank. And he announced yesterday because
next year is going to be the two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of our declaration of independence of seventeen seventy six,
obviously a warrior dividend. Okay, let me just play. I
forgive me. I want to go to the phone lines,
but just let me play one last cut. So one
(28:53):
of the new proposals that came out of yesterday's speech,
one was not so new, He's been talking about it
now for months. Was the two thousand dollars refund check
for every working middle class family that he wants to
give from the tariffs, which I'm completely for. But he
announced something else, a little extra bonus, and that was
(29:16):
for our wonderful members in the military, one point four
million of them are warriors. Next year, two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the American Revolution, of our declaration of independence,
and so he's announcing now a Warrior dividend of one thousand,
seven hundred and seventy six dollars. This is going to
(29:40):
be a check that is going to go to every
military member. They are going to send this amount to
everyone who serves in honor of their sacrifice, in honor
of their service, and of course, in honor of our
nation's founding in seventeen seventy six. And these checks, says,
(30:00):
will arrive just in time for Christmas. Roll cut seven, Mike.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
Because of tariffs.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Along with the just pasted one big beautiful bill tonight,
I am also proud to announce that more than one thousand,
four hundred fifty thousand, think of this, one million, four
hundred and fifty thousand military service members will receive a
special we call Warrior dividend before Christmas.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
A warrior dividend in.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Honor of our nations founding in seventeen seventy six, we
are sending every soldier one thousand, seven hundred and seventy
six dollars.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Think of that, and the checks are already on the way.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
The checks in the mail. Okay, do you like this idea?
Do you support this idea? Already the left Democrats are
poo pooing it, saying it's a gimmick. What's one thousand,
seven hundred and seventy six dollars, He's trying to buy
votes of the military. Blah blah blah blah. Look, I
(31:12):
can tell you this. I got text after text from
service members, many of them listen to the show, love
this show. They go, you know, to these rich Democrat fatcats. Yeah,
maybe they can scoff at seventeen hundred and seventy six dollars.
Let's just round it off, eighteen hundred dollars. You know,
(31:32):
when you're struggling and you're living check to check, and
you're living hand to mouth, as many members in our
military do, believe me, an eighteen hundred dollars check, especially
at Christmas time, pay for some gifts, Maybe put a
little money into bank. I don't know, maybe go out
and buy some extra groceries, maybe pay some bills. It helps.
(31:57):
Let me put it to you this way. So is
it better for them not to have seventeen to one,
seven hundred and seventy six dollars. It's better for them
to have no refund whatsoever, no dividend check whatsoever. If
someone said to you, hey, would you rather get an
eighteen hundred dollars check from the government, a dividend check
(32:18):
for your service to our country, a little bonus, or
to get zero? Would you turn down the eighteen hundred.
I wouldn't turn down the eighteen hundred. Now, maybe for Pelosi,
maybe for Kamalaw, maybe for the Clintons, maybe for the Obamas,
maybe for the Bidens. Maybe this is tipping money. I
(32:38):
get it, but not everybody's a politician and not everybody's
a crook. So to me, I like the gesture. I
think they deserve it. I wish they could get more.
But something is better than nothing. That's me. Now. I
want to ask you, let's set the table. Did you
watch Trump's speech? Question number one? What was your reaction?
(33:03):
Did you like it? Did you not like it? What
did you make of him trying to reframe the issue
and the debate over his first year in office, especially
on the affordability issue. Did he shatter the Democrat media narrative.
Or do you think that Democrats are still going to
(33:26):
run on so called affordability next year? And is did
trump speech sway you or persuade you that the trend
lines are going up, They're looking good. He's made some
inroads and more and the best is yet to come?
Or do you think it was all smoke and no fire.
(33:50):
I'm just curious six one seven two six six sixty
eight sixty eight over the last eleven months, dominating now
to today under Trump as your personal economic standard of living,
your personal economic life, has it gotten better or worse?
(34:16):
And are you happy with Trump's stewardship of the economy
six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight. Okay,
I want to read to you and email and you
can email the Kooner Man, Jeffrey Kooner all one word
kuh n e r at iHeartMedia dot com and it's
(34:41):
from Michael. We'll mention Michael's last name. But he's been
listening to the show. I know for many years because
he's been emailing me for many many years. He is
a conservative, he is a Trump supporter, He's a staunch Republican.
He's one of us Okay, he's he's a member of
Kooner Country, diehard member of Kooner Country. So when I
(35:02):
got this email from him this morning after my opening
monologue while we were off air, I always check my emails,
and I checked the text messages and anyway, and I
saw other text messages saying similar things to what Michael
was saying. I said to be fair, and I always
want to be fair to this incredible audience. I need
to read this because it's different from my take. It's
(35:27):
radically different from my take, and he has the right
to have a different take than mine, and I think
it needs to be heard and for all of you
to tell me if you agree or disagree with it.
So here is what Michael wrote, and very respectfully and honestly,
very well written. Jeff, I love you like a brother
in a non sexual way. Well, thank you, Michael, But
(35:51):
I do not know what planet you are living on.
I make a decent salary in the mid one hundred
k range. Basically, i'd say about one hundred and fifty
thousand a year. My family is barely scraping by car
insurance jumped forty percent this year. Wow, I just got
(36:14):
my homeowner's insurance renewal, it's going up thirty three percent.
My employer provided health insurance at work is going up
twenty five percent in January, and the collpays and deductibles
are soaring. So, in other words, his car insurance is
(36:38):
way up, his homeowner's insurance way up, his healthcare costs
way up. He continues. Housing isn't coming down, not with
taxes and insurance rising at the rate they are. At best,
it is staying the same. I go to Big Why
by the way, So do Why, Michael, But let that go.
(37:00):
I go to Big Wy by the way. It's a
grocery store, a chain for those of you listening in
other parts of the country. I go to Big Y
and I walk out with a single plastic bag of groceries,
and it's a one hundred dollars plus bill. My raise
for this year two point five percent. Did I get
(37:21):
a quote unquote raise this year? Hell no, Sure. Gas
is down. I can't afford to drive anywhere except to
work anyway, So what's the difference. Eggs are down, so
what I can't eat them or my cholesterol will go
through the roof and I'll end up with a ten
(37:42):
thousand dollars hospital bill from my deductible. When I have
to pay, I have to have to have stints put
into my arteries. The political party in power always quote
unquote cooks the books when it comes to job reports
and inflation reports. People out there aren't falling for it.
(38:03):
We know what the real inflation rate is because we
have to try to pay the bills each month. The
Republicans are tone deaf. Trump is more interested in foreign
affairs in an attempt to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
He is completely out of touch. The Republicans are going
(38:27):
to get decimated in the midterms. It is too little
too late. That speech should have been given on January
twenty first, twenty twenty five. I e over eleven months ago.
I've been a Republican my whole voting life. My friends
(38:51):
are all Republicans, and we all say the same thing.
So Michael Powerful eloquently personally is saying, my life under
Trump hasn't gotten better. My home insurance up, my car
(39:12):
insurance up, my healthcare costs up. I go to the
grocery store, I buy one bag. It's over one hundred dollars. Yes,
some things are better, but it doesn't make much of
an impact in my life. Yeah, gas is down, eggs
are down, but so what on the bigger ticket items
I'm bleeding And that he believes and many like him
(39:35):
do believe his friends and others. I know because I
get the emails in the text all the time that
Trump has squandered too much of his eleven months in office,
chasing a Nobel Peace Prize, overly preoccupied with foreign affairs,
and he has not focused on affordability issues and on
(39:55):
the domestic economy enough on the border, yes, on deportations, Yes,
on drugs and fentanyl, yes, but on bread and butter,
economic cost of living issues. This is the I'm hearing
this criticism of many Trump supporters. They feel he has
(40:18):
fallen down on the job or not delivered. Michael expressed
that in his email to me. Do you agree with Michael?
Do you disagree with Michael? Six one seven two six
six sixty eight sixty eight is the number I can
(40:38):
tell you from my experience, and this is just my life.
My family life has gotten better under Trump, not dramatically better,
but better. And the key is the bleeding has stopped.
It was infinitely worse under Biden. And I'm feeling more
optimistic today than I was eleven months ago. But that's me.
(41:05):
I want to hear from you. All right, Let's unleash
the hounds, as they say, best audience in the business,
Let's go to them. Six one seven two six six
sixty eight sixty eight. Dave in Western Pennsylvania, our constitutionalist
correspondent out in the Pittsburgh area. Did you watch the speech, Dave?
(41:27):
What did you make of it? Go my friend?
Speaker 3 (41:31):
So I did.
Speaker 6 (41:31):
Jeff, I'm really getting on at seven. But that's okay. Listen, Jeff,
I think Trump hit the ball out of the park.
That guy that just emailed you. I don't know what
universe he's on, but he's out. He's out in the
outer part of the Milky Way, near the Uranus the planet.
But Jeff, listen, he hit the ball out of the pocket.
Could give the military maybe twenty one seventy six that
would be better, but you know who's counting. But you
(41:54):
know what, Jeff, It's okay because you know what, Usually
the Democrats give a response to these speeches, right, they
will left dumb, null and void, as they always are.
And Jeff in what he needs to do, He needs
to do more of these during this midterm election year.
Come on like every two weeks and maybe twice a month.
Remind Look, and he needs to say this, Jeff, because
you know there's a lot of dumb Rhinos and middle
(42:17):
of the road conservatives out there. I'mti party, Jeff. Okay,
here's a Jewish Christian, a Messianic jew that's my faith.
Like we said last time, you're a Catholic. I respect that,
But Jeff, here's what it is. He needs to remind people.
I may not be on the ballot, but act the
zip I'm on the ballot because that's going to help
us keep the House and keep the center his Membersjef in.
In the midterms, usually the inside patty loses, you know,
(42:39):
the web As a presidency, and when Trump's name is
on the ballot, Republicans, there's no red wave, Jeff. There
needs to be a red wave, Jeff, conservative wave, not
a Rhino wave, a conservative wave.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Well, Dave, I got to tell you, I'm so with
you Trump. When you were talking, I'm nodding my head
up and down. Yes, yes, yes. He needs to do
a lot more of these, the way FDR did his
fireside chats. I love the speech. He gave yesterday. I
thought it was a great speech. He finally's really communicating
(43:12):
his message directly to the American people. I want more,
and he needs to do more. That's the only way
he can bust through that filter that the media has
where they just keep running him down, running the country down,
running the economy down, always with doom and gloom. The
sky is falling. So I agree with you. I'd like
(43:35):
to see it once a week, every week. And if
he can't, you get the networks to carry him. Do videos,
do whatever you got to do, but keep getting that
message out. Dave. I know you're a worker. You got
to go into work. I want to ask you this
question in relation to Michael's email, and I don't want
you to react to Michael. I want to he says, Look, Jeff,
(43:57):
and he's just ticking stuff off my car insurance, my
health insurance. Uh, you know, right down the line, my
my home insurance. When I go to the grocery store,
everything inflation is killing me. Things are becoming too expensive.
I'm drowning man. And as he put it, I'm making
about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year and
(44:19):
I'm working my rear end off in your life for
you and your family. Is the economy getting better for
you the same or worse over? Let's say the last
eleven months.
Speaker 6 (44:33):
It's getting better, Jet because obviously gross is going down.
And Jeff, I don't mean to correct you, but I
have to respectfully disagree. I think it's the big beautiful
bill that's going to hit in the first quarter. You know,
end of match in April. The first quarter is obviously
three months, three times four for the liberals out there,
because you think you know your math, it's three times
four that a third to three months is a quarter
(44:54):
Democrats point twenty five. Okay, two hundred and fifty thousand's
on a scale. But Jeff, no, it's going.
Speaker 5 (44:59):
To hit between manch in April, right before tax Day,
and Trum needs to come a rout and around April
fifteenth and have one of these speeches and say, look,
it's tax Day, democrats favorite day.
Speaker 6 (45:11):
They love to touch the hell out of us. So but
that's all I got to say yet. But Merry Christmas
to you, to my everybody.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
Yes, Dave, thank you again for your call and for
your warm wishes, and Merry Christmas. All the best to
you and your family, Dave. So look you heard Dave.
Dave says, yeah, maybe for Michael, but for me, my
basic you know what, I for my basic living expenses.
Things are better for me under Trump. Agree disagree six
(45:40):
one seven two sixty six sixty eight sixty eight. Tom
in the Great Commonwealth of Virginia. Thanks for holding Tom,
and welcome.
Speaker 4 (45:52):
Thank you, Jef. Good morning. How you doing, Buddy good?
Speaker 1 (45:54):
I love your accent, by the way, love that accent.
Keep going. You could talk all day and I'm just
gonna listen. Tom, go ahead, my friend.
Speaker 4 (46:03):
Really well, I kind of call it disaster recovery, you know,
crawling from the wreckage of the Biden administration by the
Obama administration, and you know there you go right there,
and you know it goes back to energy. I'm an
over the road truck driver when things went south, went
(46:25):
really bad. I mean I was sending pictures at the
pump thousand bucks to fill up the truck a thousand dollars.
You know that's just one fillip for diesel.
Speaker 1 (46:36):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (46:36):
Yeah. And I'm like I told everybody, I sent a pictures,
let's get ready to pay now, and here we are.
You know, so I think Trump really needs to focus
on our energy costs.
Speaker 1 (46:48):
Tom, Sorry I need to cut you off, but all right,
So under Biden was a thousand bucks. What is it now?
Speaker 4 (46:56):
Oh, it's dropped down considerably, one hundreds of dollars now.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
Or would you say ballpark?
Speaker 4 (47:03):
No, lot less? It's really decent. Prices are still high,
but it's gone down a lot.
Speaker 1 (47:08):
Okay, seven hundred. I feel like I'm bidding here.
Speaker 4 (47:11):
Seven Probably I was driving, you know, when I was
driving different truck, but they have different sized gas tanks.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
But basically, roughly, roughly you're saying it was a thousand
under Biden, it's basically now seven hundred under Trump. I
mean give or take a few bucks.
Speaker 4 (47:25):
Correct, Yeah, yeah, because visa was up over five dollars
a gallon, So yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1 (47:30):
That's that's three hundred bucks a load. I mean, correct
me if I'm wrong, Tom, That's that's not peanuts. Am
I wrong?
Speaker 7 (47:38):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (47:39):
No, it's sir. And you know, and in things of
you know, like my my car insurance is the same,
you know, and my homeowner's insurance didn't change. But yeah,
food's still expensive. You know, it's and you know, it's
like the old thing, you know, you gotta walk before
you run. It's gonna take a while, you know, for
this to come back around.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
We got hit, Tom. I gotta say, I think your
analogy is brilliant. Really. It's like it's like disaster relief,
you know, like the disaster recovery. I mean it's sort
of like, you know, like a plane crash and it's like,
you know, Trump is like pulling people out of the plane,
you know, and Okay, we're gonna start and we're gonna
(48:20):
rebuild a plane. Now you know what I mean, Like
we're saving lives, we're rescuing people. Okay, now we're gonna
start rebuilding the plane. Uh. And I think that's pretty
much that, you know, if I was to summarize the speech,
I think that was a speech.
Speaker 5 (48:34):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
And he's basically saying I just he really saying give
me six more months. He's really basically what he said
is give me to the second quarter. The end of
the second quarter, you're gonna get the tax cuts kicking in.
You're gonna get your tax refund. I'm gonna give everybody
a two thousand dollars tariff refund check. You're gonna see
prices continue to go down. He's basically saying by about
(48:57):
six about say, June of next year, he says, the
economy is going to be clicking on all cylinders, So
we'll see fingers crossed. Tom Nice, call Merry Christmas and
keep on trucking, my friend. Six one seven two six
six sixty eight sixty eight agree, disagree? Mary in Florida,
(49:22):
Thanks for holding Mary, and welcome.
Speaker 7 (49:25):
Hey, Jeff, Listen, I'm so angry right now because Michael's
and many many other Republicans are sitting there in the
saying all of this should be fixed. He's been in
office eleven months. I mean, give me a break. What
(49:46):
are they expecting? He needs to lay the ground walk
to get all of this charging again, That's what he's doing.
And we as Republicans do exist exactly what our you know,
in our Congress and the Senate do. We spit on
(50:08):
each other all the time. And nobody is giving this
me and the opportunity to try and wave the groundwork
to get this whole thing walking. Instead, we're we're we're
just giving each other a difficult time about it. We're
not sticking together. And I honestly believe Trump is doing
(50:31):
exactly the right thing. Look at what's happening with all
of these lawsuits.
Speaker 1 (50:37):
Mary, can you do me a favor. I want to
give you a chance to fully finish your point, So
please hang on. I'm up against the break. I want
to ask all of you, as the economy under Trump
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