Will the News About Melania Trump Impact Voters?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, look at that. I like, Oh saucy, isn't it
that little saucy action a little bit. Yeah, it's a
little saucy. Look at this.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Oh I forgot. Oh that's great all right, Yeah, tell
people what you're saying. Western Kentucky, the Hilltoppers. They got
one of the best mascots in the game, Big reds
his name. He's a big red blob. Would you say
that he's related to Grimace, Yes, he's very Grimace like.
I think he's Grimace's younger brother who's just happier in life,
you know, like he's doing better.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
He's happier. He's not eating money together, he's not eating
as many hamburgers, but he's better cholesterol. Yeah, he's going
to a lot of sporting events.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
But they got some new gear coming out. In that helmet,
I'm loving that helmet. The helmet, what does the helmet
look like? It's just got two cartoon eyes on the side.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
It's a big line. That's amazing. This is a home run.
I knowle'stern Kentucky leaning in on it. You gotta love that.
That's incredible. Hey, I got to get a few few
different things here. Kaylen Clark officially wins Rookie of the Year.
This isn't a big deal except for the fact that
it's over now. The conversations are over. The WNBA playoffs

(01:11):
are going on. The Indian and Fever were eliminated in
two games are done. But the reason I bring this
up is because we'll see this is. I hate making
this leap because I hate equating everything the politics. But
is it not like a Donald Trump type effect? Kayln
Clark has a Donald Trump effect on the WNBA. Oh

(01:33):
kind of divisive. I think everybody kind of likes watching
her play. People like to cheer against her in some
ways because they like to buck the trend, right, But
she's out of the playoffs in WNBA, still setting like
pretty higher ratings from their history, but it's less than
half of some of the ratings of the games that
she played in. Wow, you know what I mean? And

(01:54):
that leads me to my next point. I have the
ratings from the vice presidential debate. Remember when we talked
about this on Tuesday. I do you remember what the
number was that we had discussed? What do you think
the number would be? Now? It was about sixty seven
million people who watched the presidential debate and we were
trying to think about, like, what the right amount you

(02:16):
could expect on now, you guys in the mid twenties,
I said, closer to maybe fifty forty five to fifty
forty three point one five million people. Ahka, down twenty
five percent from the vice presidential debate in twenty twenty.
Really that had nearly fifty eight million viewers. Now we
knew Mike Pence, and we obviously we were in the

(02:38):
midst of COVID still in the early fall of twenty twenty,
so I think we all were pretty interested in anything
that was happening to get our minds off of what
was going on in the real world. Right. That probably
is more of an outlier than this is. I don't
think that many people in history care that much about

(02:59):
the vice president's debate. It was a civil debate. There
wasn't a lot of fireworks on there. There wasn't a
lot of moments where people were like, hey, you got
to turn the TV on and watch this debate kind
of thing, right, And it was two guys that on
a national sense, most people didn't know about or had
barely heard of, if they've heard of them at all.
In tim Walls and JD Vance until this summer? Is
that fair to say? I mean, if you're not in
the states of Ohio or Minnesota, or you're not a

(03:22):
book advocate, if you're not a book enthusiast, who might
have heard of, you know, fig mounds or whatever it
was called. We're a fan of Amy Adams, which I am.
She in that show. I think she was in the movie, right?
Is that what was going on on Netflix? What is
it called hillbilly elergy? Is that what was called allergy? Yeah?

(03:46):
The f effigy mounds which I referenced, is a like
an area in northeastern Iowa where Native Americans and tribes
have buried their loved ones and chiefs into these giant
mounds that are shaped like animals. Gotcha, it's pretty cool.
I don't know why I pulled that word instead of

(04:07):
he'll billy ellergy, but it's close. Effigy allergy, Yeah, effigy mounds. Yeah,
look it up though, those the pictures of effigy mounds
is pretty cool. Completely unrelated to the conversation here anyway.
Forty three point one five million people, if you had
to guess, is that more? We don't know these guys
that much, or people generally are just not attracted to

(04:28):
non Trump situations. It's interesting.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
I wouldn't have if you would have said, guess which
one got more last time twenty twenty or this time?
I would have absolutely said this.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Time down twenty five percent from last time. Yeah, that's surprising. Yeah,
did we need more fireworks? I mean that one didn't
have fireworks either. Do you remember anything other than the fly?
Oh right? I mean, can you remember anything that Mike
Pins Kamala Harris were talking about in that? I remember
nothing of that. If you would have told me that
actually didn't happen, I would have believed you, because I
just don't remember it. It was so unmemorable. There were

(04:56):
so many other things in twenty twenty I was worried about,
yet that I had twenty five percent more viewership than
this one did. Why is that what happened there? COVID
people didn't have anything else to do. Yeah, maybe it's
just weird. Are we burnt out these things? Yes, no doubt, absolutely,
one hundred percent. Most there are hardcore radical people on

(05:17):
both sides of the aisle that when this election is done,
that the fight is just beginning for them win or lose.
If they win, they're going to go around. They're going
to be banging, you know, pots and pans together in
the streets and saying, hey, look at how great our
country is taking a victory lap, while the other side
is in the midst of, you know, trying to figure
out how they can make their voices heard now that
they've lost a major election. Both sides, there's going to

(05:40):
be people like that. That is going to be an
inevitability no matter what happens in November. I think a
ridiculously large amount of America, probably eighty plus percent, are
going to be like, can we move on now? Kind
of thing. I don't think that's bad necessarily. I think
it's important for us to exercise our voice and be
as in tune as possible. But at the same time,

(06:03):
I think burnout is absolutely something. I mean, look at
the Marvel movies and they're opening weekends now like a
fraction of what they were five six, seven years ago. Right,
you know why, because there's like thirty five of them.
After a certain point. Once we got through Avengers Endgame
and it felt like the story kind of like finished,
people are like, man, I don't nearly need more Marvel movies.

(06:25):
I'm one of those people. I watched all twenty three
of the first phase. You know, how many of the
new ones I've seen since then?

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Like two of them. I mean, how many more superheroes
can we come up with?

Speaker 1 (06:34):
That's what I'm saying, right, And that's the thing about politics, right,
how many different ways can we talk about the same stuff,
especially after the election is over, with local and national.
I mean this goes for the local ads too. We
were talking about Deb Fisher against Dan Osborne. Dan Osborn's
really ratcheted up the ads on social media. I mean
there are Dan Osborn ads on social media everywhere. There's

(06:56):
a lot of money going into that campaign right now
to try to take that Senate seat. Deb Fisher, I
would imagine it is still feeling pretty comfortable about winning that.
But who's to say. I mean, Vargas and Bacon, who's
to say, right? It's been close every single time that
Bacon has run for reelection, so who knows, right, there's
a lot of uncertainty there. I mean, look across the
river from my Iowa people in the fourth Congressional District,

(07:20):
Zach Nunn trying to defeat Lennan Beacom. I would bet
Zach Nunn feels pretty good about that. But who's to say.
If the Moin really shows out and shows up and
Lenan Becom is able to gather some votes from some
of those more rural areas in that district, there's a
chance they flipped that seat too. That matters, It matters.
Apparently this vice presidential debate didn't really move the needle

(07:40):
that much though, So that kind of tells me that
people are kind of ready for this whole thing to
be over with. Well, if you got some thoughts on this,
or if you really do think that there's something more
to this than meets the eye, maybe these are just
two boring guys. I don't know. Callus at four h
two five five eight to eleven ten. Why was the
vice presidential debate watched twenty less than the last vice

(08:01):
presidential debate, much less than either of the debates between
the presidential candidates. You can tell us at four h
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We mentioned the low ratings of the vice presidential debate,

(08:24):
and low is relative, you know, forty one million people.
That's our forty three million people. That's large for pretty
much everything that's not the super Bowl. But it's just
lower than what you would imagine considering what's at stake
in this election. A couple of other things that was
on my mind in regards to the election. The election
is like thirty three days away. It's less than five

(08:44):
weeks away. Matt, I sent you a link to a
post on x from this morning from Milania Trump. You
remember Milania Trump? Yeah, yeah, first lady for Donald Trump.
Still married to the guy. Obviously, there's some tumultuous things
that people accuse of what's going on outside of that
marriage potentially and all that jazz. Where's where did she

(09:06):
grow up? Since she Russian? Let me just double check that. Um, Slovenia,
my bad, Slavinia, Slovenia, Yugoslavia, USSR. Isn't it all kind
of the same? When she was born born in Hugoslavia, Uh,
now what would be Slovenia and uh fifty four years old,

(09:29):
so she's she's like twenty five years younger than Donald Trump.
It's crazy? Is it crazy? I don't know, is it
that crazy? It's probably not that crazy. It sounds crazy
to me because I'm in my early thirties. Well ask
Leonardo Dicapria. Okay, yeah, that's a good point. That's a
good point. The guy who won't date somebody older the
age of twenty five. Yeah, I like he ends his

(09:50):
relationship as they like on their twenty fifth birthdays, like
they graduate to like someone else.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
You think there's like a pretty bittersweet They're like, oh audios.
But nah, I mean, you know it's getting into it
at this point. Don't you think you think there's a contract. No, No,
I don't think there's a contract. I just think that
they know what his behavior is.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
Like. So Leo, in twenty years, he'll be in his
seventies and everybody's going to be like, is he ever
going to date somebody that's not twenty five? The answers
probably know he's got a ton of money, he's one
of the best actors in the world, of course not Also,
you know he went to a party at Ditty's. Oh boy,
oh boy. When that list comes out, as they say

(10:27):
at night, I mean, is are we going to get
an Epstein situation here where they're going to do everything
they can to prevent that from happening, like like some
overlord is going to come in flying from the heavens
and be like, hey, by the way, uh, we're going
to eliminate this list in anyone who may know the list,
because it'll just take down too many celebrities.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
Who's a celebrity that's got nothing to lose? But would
be the one to take out Diddy jay Z he's
got something to lose. What does he have to lose?

Speaker 1 (10:56):
I don't think he wants to spend his life in jail.
You think he actually cares? This guy's as he's from
the streets. What I don't know. I'm sure he has
a very nice life. He wouldn't want to spend the
rest of it in jail. Anyway, back to Milania here
real quick. Milania very attractive woman, former fashion model. That's

(11:17):
how she met Donald Trump. She's been with him. They've
been married since two thousand and five. And I don't know, like,
is it safe to call her a Republican? It should, right,
she's attached to a Republican former president who's running for
president again. Right, has she said well, you'd think I mean, like,
I don't know, does she have to does she have to.

(11:38):
I don't know, it's weird whatever, it's a weird situation
with Milania in the way like she was in Manhattan
for part of the White House stay, Avonka did a
lot of the traditional first lady duties and stuff. There's
so many different things that have been going on here.
But she is still, I think, a very graceful person.

(11:59):
She's somebody I think it's good to hear from, even
though she isn't traditionally like out in front of the
cameras all that much talking to people about stuff that
she wants to do. And I'll play this audio in
the next segment. But there's a video that she dropped
because she's writing a book. Of course she is. Everybody's
writing books. It can't be a coincidence. Malania's book's coming

(12:20):
out here a month before this election, right, that's very strategic, right,
I would think. So the book is coming out on
the eighth. You can pre order it now wherever you
get your books. She made quite an interesting statement in
this book, which has just come to light in the

(12:40):
last twenty four hours. And she also made a video
that kind of teased this specific thing on her x account,
and I will play that video and tell you read
to you an excerpt from this book about this specific thing,
because I think it's going to shake some things up.
Maybe not, I don't know, but I think it is
pretty interesting, especially considering where her husband seems to be

(13:04):
sitting on the political spectrum. That coming up next stick
around news Radio eleven ten Kfab and Rie's songer on
News Radio eleven to ten Kfab. Well, Milania Trump again,
it's hard to know. Like she's Slovenian American, she's a
fashion model, married Donald Trump, had Baron Trump, you know,
the young man who just graduated from high school this year.

(13:26):
Congrats to him, by the way, And I mean she's
still married Donald Trump. Donald Trump's a hardcore Republican conservative,
at least that's what we've led to believe. Now, I
do need to like reiterate something about this real quick.
Donald Trump on the issue or about to talk about
isn't necessarily as hard line on the Republican side as

(13:47):
you might think if you haven't been paying attention. But
let's just get it to Milania here. This is Milania
on a video on x that she posted this morning.
And you can figure out what this is about. And
I got an excerpt from this upcoming book that she
is releasing. We'll do that here, but first let's play
this video.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
Individual freedom is a fundamental principle that I safeguard without
a doubt. There is no room for compromise when it
comes to this essential right that all women possess from
birth individual freedom.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
What does my body my choice really mean? Okay, so
that's a it's a They show the book Milania at
the end of the video. What does my body and
my choice really mean? That's open ended. She doesn't really
say what she feels about stuff there. Well, thanks to

(14:45):
the Guardian who's done some of the digging here. The
Guardian is an overseas company. They have a chance. They
have the book in advance. I have an excerpt here.
Shall I read it. I'm not going to do the
Malania accent.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
It's a tough one, surprisingly thick, except for how long
she's lived statewide.

Speaker 1 (15:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm not going to try to do
that though. Here's Milania's Here's an excerpt for Malania's book,
which is called Milania by the Way, set to be
released next week. And I quote, it is imperative to
guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of
having children based on their own convictions, free from any

(15:23):
intervention or pressure from the government. Why should anyone other
than the woman herself have the power to determine what
she does with her own body. A woman's fundamental right
of individual liberty to her own life grants her the
authority to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes. Restricting a
woman's right to choose whether to terminate an unwonted pregnancy

(15:45):
is the same as denying her control over her own body.
I have carried this belief with me throughout my entire
adult life. End quote. Wow. I mean that's this hard
line Democrat liberal progress of a perspective on abortion as
you could possibly get. So I have to ask you,

(16:05):
Matt Case, I'm going to get me pig this thought
on you, and then we'll take some calls. I have
no doubt if Malania wrote this in her books, she
probably believes this. I have no reason to believe that
she thinks anything else. First question is why didn't we
know this until now? Why didn't she speak up about
this until now? Number two? Timing is everything. We're thirty

(16:26):
three days away from an election. Her husband is trying
to win. How much of this is a chess move
to try to really take abortion out of the election.
What do you say to those two things?

Speaker 2 (16:37):
From a strategic standpoint, it would make sense that that
would be part of the reasoning.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
Is there a Republican out there that won't vote Trump
after this? Probably not, right, There's too many other things
that they care about. If you're a Republican voter. Milania
is saying she's pro abortion and Donald Trump saying he's
against a federal abortion ban, there's way too many other
things you probably care about, right.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
Well, And there's probably any other things that they disagree
about as well asn't I mean as their beat. I mean,
you know, he's really old and big, and he's really
asked her about her her personal thoughts on stuff.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
Right. That's kind of goes some of the first questions
like why didn't we know this till now? Did anybody
ask her? Had anybody ask her about anything? Like do
we know how she feels about anything? I mean, this
is a woman who was born somewhere else and moved
to the United States and married an American and wasn't
really in the political realm until Donald Trump decided to
run for president of the twenty sixteen cycle, right, I mean,

(17:35):
I'd be interested in her views on immigration. Does anybody
asked her? But I think this whole thing, this is
so against everything that we know Republicans to be in
this is she is the opposite. I mean, and she
makes no bones about it in the book. But is
there a chance that there are people that were unsure
about voting for Trump based on this singular issue that
now may be like, you know what, if she feels

(17:56):
that way, there's no way he'd support a federal ban
on abortion, maybe I would vote for him. I feel
like there's way more chance of that happening than people
leaving the Trump camp because of this.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
Well, I see the chess piece there, because he's stated
over and over again that he's not going to have
a federal ban.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
And says this should be a state's rights issue.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
And over and over again there are paid for political
ads saying that that's not what he says.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
The left is trying because they know they can win
on abortion. That's the one thing policy wise that over
the last decade Democrats have won over and over again
around this country. And again, we're not talking about abortion
and debating the merits or demerits, if you will, of
abortion as a right or as a policy itself. We're

(18:45):
not debating abortion. We're debating this that the timing of
this and this opinion being released by Milania Trump, that's
what we're debating. There's no doubt as a political ploy,
this does neutralize abortion quite a bit with a month ago,
does it not. Do you really think Donald Trump would
support a federal abortion maan at this point, knowing that
his wife is so adamantly opposed to any restriction on abortion.

(19:08):
I mean, I know if I did something that was
completely against what my wife would feel like, I'd be
in a lot of trouble. I'd be a lot less
likely to do that, regardless of how I truly feel
about it myself. So when she comes out and says this,
this should count for something in the way that we
think Donald Trump would vote on this right. Do you
think Donald Trump, at this point what we know here,
should he be elected based on all this Project twenty

(19:30):
twenty five stuff the Democrats have been thrown around. Do
you really think after hearing this you could see him
like trying to push a federal abortion ban at this point,
there's no way right. Well, he said is such many times,
I know, But they say he's lying. They say he's
lying to win the election. So is Milania also lying here?
Is that what they're gonna say next?

Speaker 2 (19:49):
I don't know, but I am curious to hear from
one person who sincerely has a change of feelings or
opinion or even voting decision based off of this news today.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Well, that leads me to our next point. We should
farm this out to the people who listen to this
show who will be exercising their right to vote. Do
you feel any differently about Milania, about Trump, about the
Republicans one way or the other now that Milania Trump
has said she actually is in favor of abortion rights
in America. She thinks abortion should be the right of

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the woman and made no bones about that in her
upcoming book. If you'd like to take part in this conversation,
we'd love to chat with you. Call us at four
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and Nice. She thinks abortion should be completely allowed in
this country. She's believed that her entire adult life. This

(20:43):
is new to most of us. We don't know much
about the policy beliefs of Milania Trump. It's not something
anybody really investigated over the last decade or so. But
what I will say is this certainly has people talking
on both sides of the aisle and trying to understand
what this means and why this came out in this book,
which I'm sure the timing is not an accident. Our
phone lines are open to chat about it. Four two, five, five, eight, eleven, ten,

(21:05):
and Kim is on the line. Kim, welcome to our
show today. What do you think about this?

Speaker 4 (21:10):
Hi? Thanks for having me. I am shocked that she
feels that way, and it's fine. It doesn't change my opinion.
Abortion has always been my number one issue. But as
we can tell in this cycle, this presidential election, there's
a way more on the table than just that, So
my vote would never change. I would never vote I

(21:32):
would never ever vote for a Democrat. I don't think
this affects Trump in any way. It shouldn't. I mean,
most pro life people like myself are disappointed in Milania,
of course, but I don't think it matters the Trump,
you know, and how he is going to govern us.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
You know, so him not being super hard line. I
mean he hasn't met either. I mean, he said this
is a states rights issue. He says he personally feels
like abortion is wrong, and he truly believes in just
the three exceptions, the rape, incests, and health of the
mother in those determinations. At the same time, now that

(22:10):
we've heard Malania in the way that she feels about this,
is there any concern that you have that about this
being your number one issue and the fact that it
seems like the Republican Party is really softening on this.

Speaker 4 (22:24):
No, I mean, because that's her stance. And again she
didn't matter to anybody on the last election, or nobody
even clearly no one has ever bothered to ask her before.
So and Trump's I don't think Trump's opinion will change
on abortion. It is the state's rights. I would wish
it would be out on altogether. I know it probably
will never be. Yeah, you know, but if an in

(22:44):
person chooses to do that, that on their soul not you.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Know, right. And I kind of felt like this to Kim.
At some point, it's got to be about winning an election,
and if you have to make concessions on one issue
like abortion, even though there's a lot of people out
there that's the most important thing. Well, Democrats have been
winning on abortion for the better part of the last decade,
and this kind of seems like it neutralizes that. From
the campaign trail, you would think at least now that

(23:10):
this has come out, do you feel better about his
chances of winning now that this isn't something over the
last four weeks that the Democrats can really run on.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
Oh no, I'm sure they'll put I'm still I'm sure
they'll still push it. It's like they're still pushing project
you know, twenty twenty five has been proven false. Nothing
will change what they're going to do. They will still
tell you that he's going to monitor abortion or monitor
your pregnancies and whatnot. So we can't have a perfect candidate,
we can't have a perfect everything. Everything else that Trump

(23:39):
brings to the table is way more important. I mean,
abortion is still the most important thing, but we're not
going to get that. So I'm not going to concede
and give give this to the Democrats ever.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
You know, now I'm hearing that there's definitely a hierarchy
of topics and issues, I think for sure, And there's
a lot at stake here, Kim, and I appreciate you
calling in with your thoughts on this today.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
Yeah, thanks for having me Trump twenty twenty four.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Let's go all right, Thanks Kim. Appreciate that if anybody
else wants to call in, you can four h two
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calls on this this morning on my morning show because
it was it was still pretty fresh news. People are
trying to kind of come to terms with it. What
do you think about that idea though, of like who cares?
This is the first lady? Like nobody's going to be
asking her about governance. Is there going to be any

(24:25):
impact or ripple to this realistically, because in all reality,
the Democrats could just say, well, look, he has not
respected his wife anyway. I mean, they did a trial
and Stormy Daniels said straight up that he cheated on
her with her and the Democrats choose to believe that
is a fact, right. I don't know. I think that

(24:47):
there is a bit of this that I think that
there's a piece of this in reality where it is
a nothing burger because she is just the first lady.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
Potentially, Well, if you're someone who would say Taylor Swift.
I don't care what you think about politics, it doesn't
matter to me. Then I think the same would apply
here because she's not governing. Yeah right, she's married to
a guy that could be governing.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
But at the same time, there's a lot of people
in their significant others that do disagree on certain issues
at the same time. When was the last time we
asked a first lady about what she thought about things
that people changed their votes because of that. I don't know.
This one just seems a little bit out of left field.
Anybody who wants to call in you cant four roh
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(25:31):
conversation rolling into the next hour. You can also email
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