April 30, 2025 • 8 mins
Joe Concha talks to Mendte in the Morning about his new book out today and why he was so confident in Donald Trump winning the election when he started working on the book.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Our good friend Joe Kancha Fox News contributor, has a
new book out. It's called The Greatest Comeback Ever, Inside
Trump's Big Beautiful Campaign. It just came out yesterday, and
I love what's on the back of the book. But first,
before we get to that, let's introduce Joe Kancha. Joe,
thanks so much for being here today.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Oh thanks for having me. This is a very exciting
week and MENTI in the morning is a big part
of that. So thank you, guys.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Oh absolutely, I'm so glad you could come on. I
went to the back of the book. I have a
copy of it here, and most people on the back
of their book have all these accolades and people recommending
the book. Instead, you have all of these people that
were wrong about the election, badly wrong about the election,
like Nikki Haley and Bill Maher and Chris Christy, Nancy Pelosi,
(00:50):
and at the very bottom you have Joe Kancha. In
October of twenty twenty four, it says Trump wins this
quite easily. Save the tape, play it back if I'm wrong.
This is how it's going to end. How did you
know then?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I said it on w R. Believe it or not.
And that was with our friend Sean Hannity. You know, Larry,
I just a Kamala Harris was the opponent to Donald Trump.
So I just cannot see in the end America saying
this person should be the next president, along with goofy
Tim Walls being the vice president. But more importantly, Donald
(01:29):
Trump was on the right side of every issue. He
was winning in the early vote, which was something that
we had never seen before. And in the end, I
just saw this as like a manifest destiny kind of
thing where Trump was gonna win back this presidency, despite
the fact that he had ninety one felony charges against
him at one point, despite the fact we had a
(01:50):
hostile media that was against him and still is at
every turn, and the fact that he survived those two
assassinations attempts, particularly the first one where the ear and
instead of staying on the ground like I think most
of us would have been, said get me the heck
out of here, he stands up, doesn't know there's a
second shooter or anything like that and says fight, fight, fight,
(02:11):
And Larry, when I interviewed the president for the book,
I wanted to talk about that more. I said, what
made you, in that moment, want to stand up despite
the fact that you could be exposing yourself again. You're bleeding.
Why would you do that? And he said, you know,
I knew my youngest son was watching that rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
(02:31):
I knew my wife was watching. I knew the country
was watching. And I want to make sure everybody knew
that I was okay and that nothing's going to stop me.
I'm going to continue moving forward no matter what you do.
And I'm like, wow, I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
No, but out of here, that's a wonderful anecdote, and
the fact that he thought of his family first says
a lot about the man. You list a lot of
reasons why big moments in the campaign and why he won,
and I think the big moment and I thought he
won way with the debate in Biden. I think once
(03:05):
Biden fumbled so much in that debate, all of America
saw behind the curtain and realize we've been lied to.
And I think that that launched Trump. There were other
big moments I realized, but would you agree that maybe
the biggest.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
That they're probably three, that was one of them. Absolutely,
Larry and the fact is that I love the that
we hear from so many people now that wow, we
didn't know about Biden's cognitive decline. We were misled, we
were deceived. No, you were talking about it on this
radio show. I was talking about it on Fox. We've
(03:42):
known since like twenty nineteen that Joe Biden's brain had
turned applesauce right and a long time ago had no
business being near the Oval office. So certainly the debate
was one of them. I think another one was the
vice presidential debate, because all we heard about was how
weird JD. DNS was and then he gets up there
and just blows Tim Walls out of the water, who
(04:03):
looked like a deer in the headlights. You're like, oh boy,
we can't let the scoopy guy be anywhere near even
the vice presidency. But then I think that visit to
McDonald's was so huge. And on the cover of the book,
that's the photo that I used is Donald Trump waving
goodbye to somebody at the drive through when he did
a shift over in Pennsylvania at McDonald's as the fries guy,
(04:24):
as the drive through guy, and all we heard was
that Trump is Hitler, Trump is a fascist, Trump is
a threat to democracy. Well, you know, in last check,
Keitler probably didn't do a shift at McDonald's. And he
was the happy candidate, right, He was a joyful warrior,
and it was Kamala and Tim Wall's who were the
angry ones. And I think that he just showed there
(04:45):
a that Kamala never worked at McDonald's, because she wrote
two memoirs on her own life and never mentioned that once,
never mentioned it when she ran for president in twenty nineteen,
never mentioned it when she was vice president. Suddenly she's
saying she worked at McDonald's, so she didn't. More importantly,
this was the billionaire that people could relate to. And
that photo of Donald Trump at McDonald's photos, I should
say that went to places non propensity voters, viral that
(05:09):
Kabla Harris could never touch. And I think that was
the genius of the campaign. And that's why I used
it on the cover of the book.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Larry, I'm sure you have this in the book. But
another thing that he did that was brilliant, and I
understand this might have been Baron's idea, and it's more
than a strategy than a moment exact that culminated with
Joe Rogan was go to alternative media, and it turns
out that was huge in his victory.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, I mean the Joe Rogan interview Donald Trump was
born in three hours with him and Kamala. Harris tries
to put conditions on Joe Rogan says, I'm not going
to go to Austin, Texas to do the interview. I'm
too busy. Uh huh. Also, by the way, we're only
going to do an hour. We're not going to go
any more than an hour, and I want to know
what the topics are beforehand. When she did do that
(05:58):
interview and Trump and Jade Vance did that was huge.
And then the Al Smith dinner Larry right here in
New York, Kamala blows it off, all those Catholic voters.
Cardinal Dolan speaks about it to this day, and Trump
goes there and is like the Dean Martin of roasters
as far as roasting Kamala that night, while Kamala says
a video, I think that was a huge moment as well.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I love that you brought up the vice presidential debate.
I thought that's when I became an enormous jd Vance fan.
And I hope he runs for president. But you're right
when you have Tim Walls, when you have Tim Walls
saying sometimes I'm a knuckle hud, and that is the
that's the audio that's played over and over again. You
(06:40):
lost that debate, right then?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Oh yeah, and maybe he lost the election, right. I mean,
this is the guy who said that he handled weapons
of war and war zones and actually no, he actually
dipped his National Guard unit, said that he was in
Hong Kong during the Tieneman Square massacre. No, he was
in a Nebraska cornfield. But the thing that made me
the most angry was when he said that AOC when
they're playing some video game football video game against each other,
(07:05):
he says that AOC runs a real being pick six.
If you don't football, you don't run a pick six.
It's the thing that just kind of happens organically. And
that's where I'm like, all right, these guys are phony.
That was the thing. Trump was authentic. JD was authentic,
and Tim Walls and Kamala Harris not so much. So
here we are now. It's the greatest comeback ever. And
I hope everybody buys the book.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah, I think they This is a great book. It's
just the right size for me. By the way, I'm
going to get through this. I'm reading this book. I'm
gonna absolutely read it. It looks fascinating and I just love
the way you write as well. So I'm absolutely going
to read it, and then we get to talk again.
I'll go through it with you again because I think
it's extremely important. I think it's maybe the most important
(07:47):
campaign in history, and I'm glad that you documented in
this book. It's called the Greatest Comeback Ever, Inside Trump's
Big Beautiful Campaign. It's available online and in bookstores now,
written of course, by the incomparable Joe Kanja. Thanks so much, Joe, Larry.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I'm a married man, but it's a date. Let's do
it again.
Our good friend Joe Kancha Fox News contributor, has a
new book out. It's called The Greatest Comeback Ever, Inside
Trump's Big Beautiful Campaign. It just came out yesterday, and
I love what's on the back of the book. But first,
before we get to that, let's introduce Joe Kancha. Joe,
thanks so much for being here today.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Oh thanks for having me. This is a very exciting
week and MENTI in the morning is a big part
of that. So thank you, guys.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Oh absolutely, I'm so glad you could come on. I
went to the back of the book. I have a
copy of it here, and most people on the back
of their book have all these accolades and people recommending
the book. Instead, you have all of these people that
were wrong about the election, badly wrong about the election,
like Nikki Haley and Bill Maher and Chris Christy, Nancy Pelosi,
(00:50):
and at the very bottom you have Joe Kancha. In
October of twenty twenty four, it says Trump wins this
quite easily. Save the tape, play it back if I'm wrong.
This is how it's going to end. How did you
know then?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I said it on w R. Believe it or not.
And that was with our friend Sean Hannity. You know, Larry,
I just a Kamala Harris was the opponent to Donald Trump.
So I just cannot see in the end America saying
this person should be the next president, along with goofy
Tim Walls being the vice president. But more importantly, Donald
(01:29):
Trump was on the right side of every issue. He
was winning in the early vote, which was something that
we had never seen before. And in the end, I
just saw this as like a manifest destiny kind of
thing where Trump was gonna win back this presidency, despite
the fact that he had ninety one felony charges against
him at one point, despite the fact we had a
(01:50):
hostile media that was against him and still is at
every turn, and the fact that he survived those two
assassinations attempts, particularly the first one where the ear and
instead of staying on the ground like I think most
of us would have been, said get me the heck
out of here, he stands up, doesn't know there's a
second shooter or anything like that and says fight, fight, fight,
(02:11):
And Larry, when I interviewed the president for the book,
I wanted to talk about that more. I said, what
made you, in that moment, want to stand up despite
the fact that you could be exposing yourself again. You're bleeding.
Why would you do that? And he said, you know,
I knew my youngest son was watching that rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
(02:31):
I knew my wife was watching. I knew the country
was watching. And I want to make sure everybody knew
that I was okay and that nothing's going to stop me.
I'm going to continue moving forward no matter what you do.
And I'm like, wow, I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
No, but out of here, that's a wonderful anecdote, and
the fact that he thought of his family first says
a lot about the man. You list a lot of
reasons why big moments in the campaign and why he won,
and I think the big moment and I thought he
won way with the debate in Biden. I think once
(03:05):
Biden fumbled so much in that debate, all of America
saw behind the curtain and realize we've been lied to.
And I think that that launched Trump. There were other
big moments I realized, but would you agree that maybe
the biggest.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
That they're probably three, that was one of them. Absolutely,
Larry and the fact is that I love the that
we hear from so many people now that wow, we
didn't know about Biden's cognitive decline. We were misled, we
were deceived. No, you were talking about it on this
radio show. I was talking about it on Fox. We've
(03:42):
known since like twenty nineteen that Joe Biden's brain had
turned applesauce right and a long time ago had no
business being near the Oval office. So certainly the debate
was one of them. I think another one was the
vice presidential debate, because all we heard about was how
weird JD. DNS was and then he gets up there
and just blows Tim Walls out of the water, who
(04:03):
looked like a deer in the headlights. You're like, oh boy,
we can't let the scoopy guy be anywhere near even
the vice presidency. But then I think that visit to
McDonald's was so huge. And on the cover of the book,
that's the photo that I used is Donald Trump waving
goodbye to somebody at the drive through when he did
a shift over in Pennsylvania at McDonald's as the fries guy,
(04:24):
as the drive through guy, and all we heard was
that Trump is Hitler, Trump is a fascist, Trump is
a threat to democracy. Well, you know, in last check,
Keitler probably didn't do a shift at McDonald's. And he
was the happy candidate, right, He was a joyful warrior,
and it was Kamala and Tim Wall's who were the
angry ones. And I think that he just showed there
(04:45):
a that Kamala never worked at McDonald's, because she wrote
two memoirs on her own life and never mentioned that once,
never mentioned it when she ran for president in twenty nineteen,
never mentioned it when she was vice president. Suddenly she's
saying she worked at McDonald's, so she didn't. More importantly,
this was the billionaire that people could relate to. And
that photo of Donald Trump at McDonald's photos, I should
say that went to places non propensity voters, viral that
(05:09):
Kabla Harris could never touch. And I think that was
the genius of the campaign. And that's why I used
it on the cover of the book.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Larry, I'm sure you have this in the book. But
another thing that he did that was brilliant, and I
understand this might have been Baron's idea, and it's more
than a strategy than a moment exact that culminated with
Joe Rogan was go to alternative media, and it turns
out that was huge in his victory.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, I mean the Joe Rogan interview Donald Trump was
born in three hours with him and Kamala. Harris tries
to put conditions on Joe Rogan says, I'm not going
to go to Austin, Texas to do the interview. I'm
too busy. Uh huh. Also, by the way, we're only
going to do an hour. We're not going to go
any more than an hour, and I want to know
what the topics are beforehand. When she did do that
(05:58):
interview and Trump and Jade Vance did that was huge.
And then the Al Smith dinner Larry right here in
New York, Kamala blows it off, all those Catholic voters.
Cardinal Dolan speaks about it to this day, and Trump
goes there and is like the Dean Martin of roasters
as far as roasting Kamala that night, while Kamala says
a video, I think that was a huge moment as well.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
I love that you brought up the vice presidential debate.
I thought that's when I became an enormous jd Vance fan.
And I hope he runs for president. But you're right
when you have Tim Walls, when you have Tim Walls
saying sometimes I'm a knuckle hud, and that is the
that's the audio that's played over and over again. You
(06:40):
lost that debate, right then?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Oh yeah, and maybe he lost the election, right. I mean,
this is the guy who said that he handled weapons
of war and war zones and actually no, he actually
dipped his National Guard unit, said that he was in
Hong Kong during the Tieneman Square massacre. No, he was
in a Nebraska cornfield. But the thing that made me
the most angry was when he said that AOC when
they're playing some video game football video game against each other,
(07:05):
he says that AOC runs a real being pick six.
If you don't football, you don't run a pick six.
It's the thing that just kind of happens organically. And
that's where I'm like, all right, these guys are phony.
That was the thing. Trump was authentic. JD was authentic,
and Tim Walls and Kamala Harris not so much. So
here we are now. It's the greatest comeback ever. And
I hope everybody buys the book.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Yeah, I think they This is a great book. It's
just the right size for me. By the way, I'm
going to get through this. I'm reading this book. I'm
gonna absolutely read it. It looks fascinating and I just love
the way you write as well. So I'm absolutely going
to read it, and then we get to talk again.
I'll go through it with you again because I think
it's extremely important. I think it's maybe the most important
(07:47):
campaign in history, and I'm glad that you documented in
this book. It's called the Greatest Comeback Ever, Inside Trump's
Big Beautiful Campaign. It's available online and in bookstores now,
written of course, by the incomparable Joe Kanja. Thanks so much, Joe, Larry.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I'm a married man, but it's a date. Let's do
it again.
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