America First, Again: The Second-Term Surge of Donald Trump

President Trump's first 100 days has led to significant policy shifts with massive changes in border security, government efficiency, and education reform. The administration has demonstrated remarkable speed in implementing campaign promises despite mainstream media criticism.

• Border security stands as a major success with illegal crossings down 96% and significant deportation operations underway
• The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has identified billions in government waste, though Elon Musk is now transitioning back to the private sector as originally planned
• Education reforms include restructuring the Department of Education and addressing ideological issues on college campuses 
• Cabinet standouts include Marco Rubio at State Department and Doug Burgum with energy and land policies
• Economic policies, particularly tariffs, require patience as they're designed for long-term manufacturing growth and market rebalancing
• RFK Jr.'s health initiatives targeting food chemicals and vaccine transparency mark significant shifts from previous administrations
• Some disappointments include limited progress on releasing promised documents like the Epstein files

Keep voting in midterm elections to ensure the administration's momentum continues beyond the first two years.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:27):
Well, hello, hello, how are you Clay?

Speaker 3 (00:29):
I'm good.
How are you?
You know, I just noticed I'vebeen watching our intro for the
longest time.
You have more pictures of mewith no baseball hat on than I
think anybody on the planet,just in that intro.
That's pretty funny.
I'm always with a baseball hat.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
You know what we need more with the baseball cap on?
Because it's more reflective,right?
It's purely by chance, I don'teven.
I just pulled what I pulled,isn't that funny?
Yeah, yeah, how are you?
I'm good, I'm good, yeah, Imean.
What's going on?
Let's see Nothing, really, Imean, but it's quiet.

(01:12):
I just, you know, sitting overhere biting my time until the
next grandbaby's visit, um, canyou believe?
This is wild to me?
Are my fourth grandchild is duein just a matter of months Like
this?
This pregnancy at least for me,maybe not so much for her has
flown by.
It's, uh, I did say grandbabynumber four.
So, yeah, my, my daughter andson-in-law will have, um, four
kids under four.
So wild.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
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have four grandkids.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Oh, stop, stop, Thank you.
Thank you, it's a good filterand good lighting is what it is.
I feel it.
My back tells me all the timeyou are your age lady, but thank
you, I appreciate that.
Yes, I love so.
My grandkids call me Oma, whichis German, and if the Germans
are going to come in and correctme and say it's Oma, I know it

(01:55):
is.
This is the way we say it, howwe said it growing up.
This is the way my grandkidsare going to say it.
It is what it is, but yeah,yeah, it's just it's.
It's a heck of a gig.
I tell you, speaking a heck ofa gigs, what we got to do today
is a lot of fun.
We got to talk about presidentTrump's first 100 days.
That is our, that is oursingular umbrella topic.

(02:17):
Right, cause there's so much init to say right.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, that's, you know.
It kind of hit me Was thatMonday, I guess that you know we
were at 100 days or fairlyclose at that point and I was
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We're just going to, we'regoing to do, I hate to say, what
everybody else is doing, butthat's kind of what everybody
else is doing.
It's, it's a hundred day.
You know, we're at themilestone and there's a it's a
good reflection point.
So that's what we're going totalk about and we'll get started

(02:46):
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Speaker 2 (03:40):
Well, if you believe the alphabet media which I've
taken to just referring to themas everybody's like, mainstream
media, legacy media, but I'mcalling the alphabet media
because that's basically whatthey are but if you only listen
to them, you are going tobelieve that America is in this
horrendous free fall and we'reon the brink of destruction and

(04:01):
catastrophe and all the things.
But Clay and I are going tokind of peel back all these
layers here and we're going totalk about the these first 100
days and we are going to be muchmore fair and hopefully
somewhat unbiased about it andgive the good and the bad right.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah, I mean, you and I were talking before we hit
record and and we were oh, bythe way, it's Wednesday, it's
four 30 on the East coast,that's where we're at.
So there's your, your time, um,but, uh, we were talking about
how, you know, there's a coupleof great uh articles out, or
even some postings, I think thatyou found on X.
Uh, you know where.
We've got some solid evidencethat the media you know more

(04:41):
evidence.
I should say that the media Ilike that, by the way the media
is biased and that even some ofthe polling is biased because
it's taken out of context in thesense of you know, I saw a
thing yesterday that a poll andI can't remember which one for
the life of me they asked thesecondary question of not you
know, primary question was howdo you think President Trump is

(05:03):
doing in this first hundred daysof the second term?
And then they asked the followup question of who did you vote
for?
And so you know that singularpiece of information matters,
because when you ask asignificantly lopsided
population of people polled, youknow that leaned towards not
voting for President Trumpyou're going to get a similar

(05:26):
response.
They're going to follow along.
So, you know, don't believeeverything.
The polls say, folks, becausethey are easily skewed, and
those are some of the thingsthat we're going to talk about.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, and you know those polls are.
It's just wild to me and what'sthe most wild to me is that
people believe it.
They just run with it and thinkthat's it.
And I shared one of them.
I think it was from ABC.
We put them at like 39% or 36.
I forgot what it is now rightLike approval rating, and then I
got to think I'm like samething.

(05:55):
You said, hang on a second, I'mjust curious about this.
So I did a little research here.
I'm like, well, let's thinkabout this, let's use some
critical thinking and thinkexactly what you do, which I
know the majority of our viewersand listeners have already done
the same exact thing andalready dismissed polls like
ABCs and and you know all of thealphabet media polls that are,

(06:16):
you know, obviously so skewed.
And, um, we were actually I wasable to actually to pull up
some some different pollingnumbers and, uh, let's see.
So I've got them here, I'mgoing to tell you, I'm going to
tell you all what they are.
Let's see, so conservative this.
I took some from someconservative and neutral sources
.
Okay, so real, clear politics45% approval.

(06:38):
51% disapproval.
Rasmutian 49% approval.
Epic epoch, depends how youwant to say it.
I guess I've heard both.
Now, this is the most logicalright.
It says Trump's approvalhighest among Republican voters
85% approval, with anindependent split of 44%
approval.
And I think that just lends toexactly what you were just

(07:00):
saying.
If you're going to poll thisone group and not ask that
secondary question, what youwere just saying, if you're
going to pull this one group andnot ask that secondary question
, what are you going to get?
You know what you're going toget.
So this is more reflective ofkind of stating the obvious.
But the independents are.
That is interesting.
If the independent split is,what was that 44% approval?
I guess that would kind of lendto the question or conversation

(07:25):
of saying, okay, so you know,basically, the working class
crowd is really pro-Trump.
Those are probably going to bethe highest numbers in favor of
Trump.
Right, but there's ademographic that he seems to be
losing.
So what do you think that saysabout his current strategy and

(07:45):
what, if anything, he should dodifferently?
Or do people just need to sitback and wait it out?
I mean, because that's kind ofmy lean.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
So I would tell you that it's topic to topic.
We're going to go over a lot ofthese throughout the show but,
topic to topic, patience isgoing to be important.
Topic patience is going to beimportant and it's,
interestingly enough, veryselective, because you'll have a
group of people that will sayhe's moving too fast, he's doing

(08:12):
this, he's not using the system, things aren't putting into law
, they're not going throughCongress, they're not going
through the bureaucracy and it'smoving too fast and he's using
too many executive orders andhe's's bypassing the system and
it's dictatorial, and blah, blah, blah, and those exact same
people will turn around and go.
You know well these tariffsthat he's put in place.
We're not seeing any return onthose, you know.

(08:34):
But right, because they've beenin place for, you know, less
than 30 days, right?
So you know the context of thesubject matters across the board
.
And listen, folks, you know Iof the subject matters across
the board.
And listen, folks, I'm notgoing to lie People who know me.
When I went to college, I tookstatistics in the math
department because I had to andI withdrew.
And then I took statistics inthe psychology department and I

(08:55):
withdrew.
And then I took statistics inthe sociology department.
I had to have statistics tograduate and I finally finished.
But the one thing that youlearn attempting statistics
three times in college is thatthere are lies damn lies in
statistics and you canmanipulate polls and statistical
data to say whatever it is thatyou want.
So I don't put a lot into thehard numbers because they can be

(09:18):
manipulated, but I think whatwe're going to talk about is
kind of the general feel we get,not just from what we see from
our audience, from all of you,but really what we're seeing
across the spectrum on thesocial media platforms you know
in the alphabet news sources andthen from really our
interaction with folks, like allof you, that are listening or
watching.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah, yeah, I love it .
So let's talk about keysuccesses.
Let's talk about his keysuccesses immigration and border
security.
That's kind of like theno-brainer right.
That seems to be the biggestwow.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
I agree and I think most people agree and I think
again.
Some of those statistics thatback that up are the number of
interactions with border patrolare way down, even if you say
the numbers have beenmanipulated a 96% drop, like
even if they manipulated someyou're still in the 80s.
You know what.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
I mean yeah, you can't manipulate it that much.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
Right, you've got the massive deportations.
You know folks will always pullthe onesies, twosies, you know,
and listen, if it's a singleperson, it's a tragedy.
If it's a mass, you know, amass number, it's just kind of
is what it is.
So you know the guy fromMaryland, the MS-13 guy, you
know everybody's focused on thatone person, but they're not

(10:33):
talking about the other 111,000or or whatever it's been, that
have been deported.
Um, they're just focused onthat one guy.
But I would tell you, yes, keysuccess.
This is one of the things thathe ran on, this is one of the
things that people voted for himfor, and that was to close the
frigging border.
And, if nothing else, he hasdone that.
This administration, withKristi Noem, with Hellman DOJ,

(10:56):
that whole team, they havedefinitely abided by that
campaign promise and focused onclosing the border.
So I think that's a huge winfor everybody that voted for
President Trump and for hisplatform.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, absolutely.
And even the people who are nothappy about any of this, they
absolutely have to agree thathe's been a success in doing
what he said he was going to do.
So you may not like it, it maymake you angry and stomp your
feet and wave your little angrysigns, but did what he said he
was going to do.
So you know?
And, by the way, is it just meand, granted, we all know that I

(11:30):
only watch as much news as Iabsolutely have to but is it
just me?
Or have they kind of droppedthe whole?
What's?
What is his name?
Garcia, blah, blah, blah, blah,blah, garcia.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
They've kind of just are they moving on to a new
poster child?
There's been a few that havepopped up.
I think Kristi Noem, maybeyesterday or maybe even this
morning, said she was asked youknow what happens if he gets
returned to the United States?
She goes, we will turn aroundand immediately deport him again
.
So I think we're at the pointnow where you know most folks in

(12:03):
the American attention span and, truthfully, the fact that this
was really kind of a hollow um,you know, cry outcry from the
left, um, I think people aremoving on.
Um, you know, I did see and Ithis hasn't been fact check
folks, um, but I did see thatthat guy being represented as
the dad from Maryland is is notactually that the dad of the
children that are in his house?

(12:25):
The actual father haspetitioned for custody based on,
or had petitioned for custodybased on, that guy living in the
house.
And again yeah, that would justget you messier and messier,
yeah it's single source hasn'tbeen verified, but those are the
kinds of things that are comingback up on this particular

(12:45):
topic around that particular guy.
So yes, to answer your question, I think most of America has
moved on and said we don't care.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I think you know they being,
you know the politicians andactivists on the left you know
probably started backing off alittle bit too.
When you come to find out theother, which I can't a hundred
percent verify, when you come tofind out the other, which I
can't 100% verify, but thisseems to be widely reported that
he was hanging out with a drugor a smuggler, not a drug

(13:11):
smuggler, a human trafficker,human trafficking, yeah, human
trafficking and yeah.
So now they start to kind of golike oh no, we weren't.
I don't know what you're talkingabout.
We weren't talking about him.
What?
Yeah, give me a break.
Yeah, you know, and I don't wantto stay too long, there's got a
lot of things to cover here,but I do just have to, you know,
once again point out the, thehypocrisy and the irony of you

(13:33):
know where, where they choose tograndstand and get on their
soap boxes.
You know, where was all of thisfor the something close to
350,000 migrant children thatseem to have disappeared and I
actually put a post out aboutthat.
So it's a little bit misleadingwhen you say 350,000 children

(13:54):
just disappeared into nowhere.
The truth is just as horrificthey were when they came across.
As much as humanly possiblebased on the massive influx.
And of course, you know there'strafficking and smuggling and
all of these things happening.
So that's a whole other numberthat we couldn't even fathom
because we just simply don'tknow.

(14:15):
But of the ones that we do know, they were actually documented,
taken pictures of the wholeworks.
It was after that point thatthey essentially kind of
disappeared for varying reasons.
So the key difference here isthat that one that happened
primarily under the Bidenadministration, and the

(14:35):
difference is is that the Trumpadministration actively,
currently, right now, is doingeverything they can to actually
find these children.
So there's the difference.
But where's the outrage forthat?
You know where, where, where isall of the you know this
thumping and all of the thingsfor these kids?
They're doing this for a bug, aloser, a piece of garbage,

(14:55):
who's you know?
I'm just going to leave it atthat and we can just.
There's a lot more I can say onit, but I'm going to leave it
at that.
Y'all get my point right.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yeah, listen, there's plenty of selective outrage out
there.
That's definitely one of them.
You know, and we're going totalk about, you know, doge,
obviously we're going to talkabout Doge at some point.
But you know the people whohave been cut from government
contracts, who've been cut fromgovernment jobs, you know those
kinds of things and there's.
You know those kinds of thingsand there's.
You know, oh, my friend whoworks for you know, such and

(15:26):
such agency and organization gotfired and oh, blah, blah, blah,
blah.
Where was the outrage fromthose exact same people when we
were shutting down family-ownedbusinesses during COVID, when
restaurants were going out ofbusiness, when waitresses
couldn't get you know, couldn'tget a wage to feed their kids?
When you know all of thosethings, it's again the selective
outrage which I pay zeroattention to, or I should say

(15:48):
pay zero credence to, because,again, you know it's a, it's a
tragedy when it happens to youor someone you know, but when it
happens to somebody else, thenyou know, it doesn't really
matter that much.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
So and you know and I don't want to say that that's
just so typical of the left, itcertainly is, and you know it's
a human nature thing.
I get that.
That, you know, unlesssomething directly affects you,
you just have no, you just don'tcare that you should.
You know there are atrocitieshappening all over the world of
the likes that we here cannoteven fathom, like, we cannot

(16:19):
even imagine the atrocities thatare happening.
And we hear little blurbs of ithere and there on the news,
like a split second blurb of it.
But it's like, you know, it'skind of like watching a movie or
a video game and something badhappens and you're like, wow,
that sucks Anyhow.
What are we having for dinnertonight?
You know, if it's not you, youtend to not care it's.
It's a definitely a flaw in our, in our, in our behaviors, for

(16:42):
sure.
But I could take don't let metake a whole other tangent Clay,
don't let me.
All right, okay, so all right.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
So the border we, we both agree in general terms.
You know the border is a bigwin.
And again, that whole crew, theDHS, doj, you know, tom Holman,
that whole crowd, you knowthey're doing a bang up job.
And this is exactly one of thethings that President Trump ran
on.
This was top of the list of hiscampaign and he has followed
through and doing this.
So okay that I think that's awinner, yeah, and so I would

(17:14):
tell you that Doge is anotherthing that we all, you know that
those who voted for Trump, youknow, voted for.
We voted for shrinking of thegovernment, getting rid of
government waste, getting rid ofthe overspending, and and Doge
has been the mechanism to dothat with.
Now the question is, how do youfeel about the way Doge is
conducting business?

(17:35):
And I'll throw that at you.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
Oh, my gosh, that's a great question, clay.
It really is.
So I am.
You know my my off the cuffanswers.
I'm fine with it, I'm good withit.
I will say, for all of all ofthe things that are being done,
I think we always have to, andI'm going to include, you know,
one of my biggest passion points.
When we talk about, like youknow, just to segue slightly for

(17:59):
a second, like RFK and hisinitiatives and plans, you know,
for our health, essentially Allof these things in my heart, I
always want to make sure that iswhat they're doing,
constitutionally correct, youknow.
So, yes, I have to be honest.
My initial like knee-jerkreactions go good, more, keep

(18:20):
doing it, keep cutting it, keepdoing it.
My more thoughtful responsewould be as long as it's within
the constitutional powers andrights and things that should be
happening.
So kind of a vague answer, butthat's my answer, clay.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
So I think I think initially it started off great
and, if you remember right,usaid was top of the list.
That's where they first, andthey did a lot of slash and burn
rolling through USAID, which Ithought was it was doing the
research, they were, you know,whatever they were doing
mechanically to find all thisoverspending, it was working and

(19:08):
they were doing it.
Oh, by the way, folks, you know, elon Musk if you haven't
caught this has already movedaway from the White House and is
back essentially running Tesla.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
So you know which was the plan all along this was not
a permanent thing.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
Yeah, everybody who has hated Doge and has been
taking it out on Elon and allthat stuff, they all thought he
was going to do this for fouryears and he was going to be
there.
And there's the word oligarchy,which 99% of America didn't
know what it was until 120 daysago.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
Bernie Sanders that's his favorite word, right, Right
.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
And now what's happening is exactly what we
knew was going to happen.
It was always the plan whichwas under 130 days.
Because he was what's the titlelike?
Special employee of thegovernment, which meant he's a
volunteer.
He can only stay on for so long130 days.
So at a hundred days he's onhis way out and he's going back
to run his car company, which isgreat.
Now his team, some of thosefolks are staying on.

(20:03):
Some of them are staying on aspaid employees and some of them
will roll in you know, Iprobably in cycles and stay
under that 130 day cap would bemy guess.
But regardless the thing, theygot into that rhythm of really
slash and burn.
And I think now that they'vebeen doing this for a couple of
months and they've gotten allthe big chunks out of the way,
now I think it's time to becomemore surgical.

(20:25):
Not that there isn't more tofind, and I am all for finding
the fraud, waste and abuse andgetting it out of the government
, truthfully but now I thinkthat the big chunks have been
cut out.
Now we're getting into thepoint where it's going to take a
surgical knife and not amachete to cut out the waste.
I think a little bit more of arefined touch is what's going to

(20:47):
be required at this point.
I think Doge will start to losesome momentum because the big
chunks of money most of thosehave been found.
I think, conceptually, a hugefan of Doge, everything that
they did the way Musk did it,the team of whiz kids you know
I'm a big fan of and Itruthfully believe, give them

(21:10):
access to everything, yeah, andthen put them into protective
custody after it's over with.
But I think Doge is a win, butI think, just again, a little
bit of appetite suppressant foreverybody.
Doge is not going to lastforever.
Right, you know they're notgoing to keep finding trillions
of dollars or hundreds ofbillions of dollars out there
because they found all of thatand now it's the small stuff.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah, I mean, it's served and is serving its
purpose, which was toessentially clean the house from
top to bottom and then afterthat, and just like when, when
you clean, once you've got itall clean, then you should be
able just to maintain right,just keep up that maintenance
work and and keep a watchful eyeto make sure that more clutter

(21:52):
doesn't find its way in and, youknow, dust doesn't settle into
the corners.
And you know, and I thinkthat's probably even though
that's not the exciting part youknow, of course, the big
slashes and the big fines andall of those things are, you
know, that's what was excitingand I agree that was a really
necessary thing for them to do,because they needed the shock
value to show America what theheck has been going on.

(22:15):
But you know, kind of, like yousaid, okay, that the big stuff
is done, we got the big stuffout.
Now it's now it's kind of likethe quiet, boring work of
maintaining, you know, andthat's not exciting to hear
about, but man oh man, is it,you know, intensely important?
And I think, you know, the thingthat I want to see the most of,
in the most consistent way, isthe transparency.

(22:36):
You know, even though this isnot exciting to hear that they
saved, you know, when we'retalking about like billions of
dollars, you know well, we just,you know, found a hundred, a
hundred thousand dollars worthof waste in this area.
Yeah, I know that's not veryexciting, um, but I want to know
, I want to know you know whowas, who was messing around with
our, with our tax dollars, andI want to know that they got
caught out for it.

(22:57):
And you know.
So, yeah, I Doge is definitely,in my opinion, also huge win,
huge success.
Go ahead.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
The only that just occurred to me in what you said
is that you want to know who whoright.
I think we've seen a lot ofwhat With this burst of Doge in
the first hundred days USAID,this program, this country, this
program in this country right.
But what we haven't seen in anyof that is personal

(23:30):
accountability, and I think anoverarching theme that we keep
seeing I keep seeing all overthe place is more arrests, and I
think that's kind of of anoverstatement.
But I think what we're allasking for is accountability of
the people responsible, and Ithink doge was not designed to
do that.
Right, I don't hold themaccountable, but I I would have

(23:53):
liked to have seen from theirefforts more of that.
I think I would, and I don'tknow how that would have worked.
Maybe doj walks in behind them,or maybe some, maybe not
somebody in there walks inbehind them and says you are
responsible for this.
You know, this, this whateveryou know that, whatever it was
the Sesame Street in Iraq orwhatever it was like, you're

(24:14):
responsible for this.
You're the one who, you know,offered this up.
It's a program under you.
You've authorized the spending.
You are being held accountable.
That would have been, you know,probably the icing on the cake.
Again, I'm happy with Doge andwhat they're doing, but the
thing we haven't seen is nameson you know, dry erase boards
saying these are the responsiblepeople.
We haven't seen that.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
Yeah, and I, you know I would imagine we speak for a
lot of people when we say I wantto see that happen, that needs
to happen, and you know I'llgive some leeway here and
acknowledging that in 100 daysthere has been so much, we can't
even cover how much you know.
If you wanted to like itemizeand go into detail about
everything, this would be like aeight hour show.

(24:56):
We'd still be talking.
You know what I mean, becausethere's so many.
You know subcategories ofsubcategories, of subcategories
of things that have happened.
You know specifics, so we haveto talk in kind of like
generalized terms.
So when you think of it thatthe picture is actually so much
more refined, you know thecloser you go into it.
I think it's fair to to acceptthat we're not going to see

(25:20):
immediate arrests and all ofthose things.
I do very, very strongly hopethat, as things progress, that
these arrests will start to comein and it doesn't necessarily
have to be an arrest.
I want to see whatever legalaccountabilities there are for
things like that and even ifthat means a public calling out
being like you know, well, wecan't do anything to you legally

(25:41):
, but that's the guy right thereand that's the chick right
there that caused thisparticular thing to happen, and
we just want you all to know it.
So I'm okay with that if theycan't get them in a legal sense.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
But yeah, I mean, you know, flogging in the public
square, I'm okay with that, I'mgood with that.
Yeah, really, I mean there's alot to be said for embarrassment
.
Yeah, really, I mean, there's alot to be said for
embarrassment, you know, I meanto put somebody's name out there
and hold them accountable forsome stuff.
I mean that's, you know, it'sinteresting.
You kind of move into the nextbig chunk and that's.
I kind of labeled it aseducation, right?

(26:14):
Yeah, it was part of the Doge,part of the slash and burn, part
of that.
And you know, mrs McMahon, youknow heading up the Department
of Education and shrinking itwas part of it.
But education as a whole spansa lot of things and in the first
hundred days of thisadministration we've had a lot

(26:35):
of education related things,don't you think?

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah, oh, my gosh, yeah, yeah.
A ton of things and I I have tobe honest with you as much hope
as I had from the get go forthe Trump administration doing
the things.
I have to admit I'm stillshocked that some of these
things actually got done.
Is that right?
Yeah, I know it was like Carterera there.
You know that in just one fellswoop, essentially it was like

(27:08):
and you're done, and you're doneBack to the states it goes.
So when you really think aboutit, like I think we and I
include myself in this likethere, we get these moments of
frustration like that it'ssomething's not happening fast

(27:29):
enough.
Well, how come he hasn't doneit yet?
He said he was going to do it.
It's been 100 days.
There's so many thingshappening and it's just wild.
And again and we've mentionedthis a bunch of times since he's
taken office, people are sotheir heads on the left, I mean
their heads are spinning.
They don't even know what toreact to in any given moment,
because they start to react tothis and then that happens and
it's all happening at the sametime.

(27:51):
So it's like they can't evenand I know that's very
deliberate, right, it has to bedeliberate because they don't
know what to lose their mindsover next.
So they just generally losetheir minds.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
Yeah, so you know President Trump is.
You know he, he went after theuniversities for emetism.
Um, you know, we talked aboutthat last week and then I just
read a thing this morning that,like Harvard did a big like we
screwed up.
Um, they, you know theyreleased a report actually two
reports, I think that got meldedinto one because they took um

(28:21):
anti-Semitism and thenanti-Muslim.
They had two committees thatlooked at it from both angles.
They acknowledged that theyscrewed up with their processes
on campus, that it's notnecessarily a safe place for
either one of those groups.
What they need is more freedomof expression without

(28:41):
repercussions, from both facultyand students, and you know.
So what you're seeing is, youknow, the impact of President
Trump across you know education,and this goes all the way down
to, like the main.
You know the state of Maine andthe transgender athletes.
You know he's like listen,you're right, I can't control
what happens in the state ofMaine.

(29:02):
I can make an executive order,but what I can do is I have the
power of the person.
I can withhold funding, whichis what he's doing.
My home state of Illinois juststepped in and said the same
thing and they're going to paythe same price.
And so from again, transgenderathletes in high school all the
way to the Department ofEducation, and in between you've

(29:22):
got university funding,anti-semitism on campus, school
choice.
There's been a lot of movementunder this administration, and
again that's just under theguise of education.
So has it all been a bed ofroses when it comes to education
?
No, there's still a lot ofground to be gained, but there's

(29:44):
momentum, because we haven'tseen any of that.
It's been momentum in theopposite direction.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
So again we're seeing the turning of the tide, which
is just an amazing sight to see,and I think much of the country
, whether they do so quietly orvery loudly like we do are just
breathing that sigh of reliefthat oh my sanity is actually
returning, like common sense iscoming back, practicality is

(30:10):
back and again we're not sayingthat people of different
persuasions I guess that's theway I'll put it don't have a
right to a peaceful life or anyof those things.
I want you to live a happy,healthy, fulfilling life along
with the rest of us.
I just don't need to knoweverything that you're doing.

(30:31):
You don't need to be the centerof attention at all times.
It doesn't need to be all aboutyou.
This is what's for the good ofthe country as a whole, not a
very tiny percentage of thepopulation that has managed to
dominate essentially everyconversation.
You know.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
Yeah, and so we are starting to see a lot more
pushing back against that, whichis great, I think, for the
common American.
You're starting to see a lotmore acceptance of you know what
was before we took this hugeleft swing.
You know normalcy, I think, iswhat most of us would call it,

(31:11):
and you know you don't have toworry about being I shouldn't
say you don't have to.
You don't have to be as worriedabout being attacked in public
based on your beliefs if you'rea conservative, which is good,
you know we are starting to have, you know, some more visceral
reaction, which I don't like.
You know violence and thosesorts of things.
Jd Pritzker, the governor ofIllinois, you know, talked about

(31:33):
this.
You know, I think last week ortwo weeks ago.
You know he did the whole.
You know not a minute of sleepfor all the Republicans.
So you know obviously that's.
You know call for all theRepublicans.
So you know obviously that's.
You know call it what you want.
I think it's proof positivethat what president Trump's
trying to do is working.
Start getting reactions likethat, but that's.
We expect more out of ourelected officials.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
Right, yeah, absolutely.
Let's talk about a couple moreof his cabinet success stories.
Doug Burgum, let's see.
So he's focused on energyindependence and land
development for affordablehousing and wins among
conservatives for scaling backon federal land grabs.
So he's doing a great job.
Marco Rubio is a huge joy to me.
Right, like it's such a huge.

(32:12):
I'm not saying it's the Cubanconnection, I don't know, but I
just I'm so impressed with himand I think it's a very
universal sentiment.
So so impressed with him and Ithink it's a very universal
sentiment.
So so impressed with him and Ireally look forward to seeing
more of who he's going to becomepolitically in coming years,

(32:33):
because I think he's a verypromising man right now based on
what he's doing.

Speaker 3 (32:38):
Yeah, this opportunity for him as sex State
has been a huge future glidepath.
I mean, he is You're right One,he, what was he?
99%, I think, confirmed right.
Yes, everybody was in supportof this so far knocked it out of
the park in terms ofaccomplishing what I think

(32:59):
President Trump wants him to,but also handling it very, very
well.
He's extremely well-spoken, hemoves well and speaks well in
public, et cetera, and so,you're right, I think this sets
him up for a long future.
Now, if you want to talkinternational relations, you and
I both we said before PresidentTrump got elected and even
right after he got elected, likehe's going to fix Israel, hamas

(33:23):
and Ukraine.
Russia, drop of a hat.
He's been fairly successfulwith Israel, hamas, yeah, he has
not been successful with Russia, ukraine.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
Right, yeah, well, you know, little Zelensky there.

Speaker 3 (33:38):
Yeah it's.
You know there's someunforeseen pieces here.
You know everybody thought, ohhe's.
You know he's in cahoots withPutin and you know blah, blah
and all of those things and andum, you know, yeah, he hasn't
stopped that war.
There is a ceasefire right now,although I think it's for
celebration of the end of worldwar two or something, something

(33:59):
like that.
It's some sort of remembranceof some kind.
So there's that.
But yeah, it's that one's beena little bit of a struggle and
OK, you know that there was anyissue.
You know what?

Speaker 2 (34:10):
I mean, it's not going to happen overnight, if

(34:32):
anybody.
But I'll be honest.
My opinion is, if anyone canmake it happen, it will be Trump
and the Trump administrationwho make it happen, and I think
this to him, being PresidentTrump, I think this to him is
just more incentive.
He's not dejected by this atall.
He's strategizing and workingbehind the scenes and he'll
figure it out.
I truly believe that that ifanyone's going to do it, it's
going to be him.

Speaker 3 (34:53):
Well, I think the most important thing for America
is that he's not a war hawk.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
And he wants this done peaceably.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
And he's keeping us out of it, which is great, I
think, because under the Bidenadministration we're headed down
that path of, you know, veryslowly but surely, increasing
our involvement everywhere, from, oh, you know, we're going to
throw in this small piece underthe NATO umbrella and then, oh,
by the way, we're actually goingto throw in more than everybody
else is, and then, you know,and we're going to get closer

(35:22):
and all of those things.
And you know his mindset onthis is absolutely not, which
I'm all in favor of.
So you know, you're right,he'll get it figured out and I
think you know it'll come tosome sort of conclusion inside
of this four-year administrationbefore it gets handed off.
It just may not happen asquickly as everybody wanted.

(35:43):
Again, folks, a hundred days,right, right.
But you know he's ruffled somefeathers other places.
I mean you know the election inCanada just day before
yesterday.
You know positive of his.
What do you think of him in thewhole, like Canada and
Greenland and and all of that,and what, what he's done with
those things.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
You know what I'm.
I'm a little bit torn herebecause, you know, I think like
a lot of Americans were saying,oh, he's just messing with them,
he's just messing with them.
Tell him you can is going to bethe 50%.
But he just said the other dayhe's like I'm not kidding, Like
I'm not kidding, I don't know.
I mean, I don't think we wantCanada.
No offense, canada.
I don't think we want you atthis point, because there's

(36:22):
that's all.
That's a lot of liberal votesthere, um, clearly, so I don't
think we really want them.
But you know, I don't know, Idon't know.
Is he messing with them or whatclay I?

Speaker 3 (36:33):
I thought he was, I thought it was a smokescreen, um
, but when he, you know, did apress conference their election
day or the day before theirelection day, um, and you know I
, that to me was not messingwith them.
I think he he truth, hetruthfully, I think he what?
What he was trying to do, Ithink, is he's trying to rewrite
the alliance between the UnitedStates and Canada.
I think he was trying to helpredirect the um you know,

(36:57):
political trajectory withinCanada itself and it it kind of
backfired, um, because you knowtheir liberal party retained
power.
Um, they went from bad to worse, from what I understand, like
it really sounds like it.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
Idiot and nobody could stand him.
But it sounds like this guy.
Is it Laney?
I think that's behind him.
He supposedly is worse.
So maybe that one you know, putthat one on the back burner for
a while.
We'll figure that one out.
Just worry about holding themaccountable for the northern
border, you know kind of a thing, and the you know the tariffs
associated with fentanyl and letgo of it.

(37:32):
Greenland's interesting.
I don't know how that one'sgoing to play out.
That one I that has to be ajoke, doesn't it?

Speaker 2 (37:38):
It feels like it, Like I can't.
You know, I mean the man's mind.
Let me make some liberal headsexplode.
The man's mind is justabsolutely brilliant.
So, whatever he's done, they'relike he's so dumb.
What are you talking about,Blondie?
You don't know.
No, the man is pretty brilliant.
So, yeah, don't, don'tunderestimate what whatever it
is that he has planned I thinkit's.
You know, I don't know.

(38:01):
I don't know what his strategyis here.
People way smarter than than mewhen it comes to this stuff
need to weigh in and give theirthoughts and opinions on this,
because I'm baffled by it, to behonest with you.

Speaker 3 (38:13):
Yeah, and I think there's got to be a direct.
Like you said, he's a chessplayer, extremely intelligent,
so it's got to be related to theeconomy.
I mean, if it's not related todefense, it's definitely related
to the economy.
And so you know, that's one ofthe places where you know
President Trump's grades arevery mixed when it comes to the
economy.
You know, in one hand, you knowinflation's down, like the

(38:41):
price of oil is going down, youknow those sorts of things.
You've got a lot of people whoare afraid about these tariffs.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Yeah, the tariffs seem to dominate the
conversation whenever you'retalking about anything economic
right now, that that is the youknow the sore spot Right, that's
the thorn right now.

Speaker 3 (39:01):
Everybody's freaking out and that's the place where
he keeps telling people to showsome patience.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
I agree with him 100% .
I do as well.
Yeah, you've got to wait.
Like this is going to be, it'sgoing to be 90 to 120 days from
the 1st of April before we seethe impact of any of this.
You know, I think you can'texpect an immediate impact.
It takes a while even forfinancial data to be collected

(39:28):
and analyzed and all that stuff,so you're not going to get it
right away, although you knowsome people like I don't.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
Did you see the Amazon thing where they were
yeah, I did yeah, so they weregoing to.
If anybody else saw thatCaroline Levitt kind of ripped
into Amazon Bezos for apparentlythey were going to put a little
, a little block there to tellyou what the tariff, the cost
for the tariffs, would be ontheir items coming from other

(39:53):
countries.
They have since denied thatthey're going to do that.
Is that correct, like oh no, Idon't know what you're talking
about, but they flipped in anhour.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
Yeah, so it was, it was we're gonna.
And then, you know, it becamepublic knowledge through the
white house press secretary, andthen Amazon quickly stepped
backwards and said no, no, no,we're not, we're not going to do
that.
Um and and listen, I have no, Itruthfully I have no problem
with them doing that Right,except for the fact that there's
no way that it's accurate orthat you would be able to tell,

(40:25):
because the tariffs are going toskew the market regardless.
So there's a lot, you know,there's a lot to be said for
that, and I'm glad that they'renot doing it, because a lot of
people, I think we get some badinformation or a bad impression,
but the tariffs in general,everybody's just got to be
patient, you've got to be.
You know there's.
I read an article this morningthat China's in a panic right

(40:48):
now and that they are showingsigns of end of regime
activities In other words.
Yeah, you're starting to seesome panic inside the senior
levels of leadership inside ofChina and they're making
decisions that are kind ofirrational.
Listen, folks, don't freak out.
We're not talking nuclear war,but, like there are some

(41:09):
indicators from some politicalscientists who are watching this
and they're saying there's, youknow, it looks like China is at
the end of this administration,of this regime by the way that
they're acting, and a lot of itis attributed to how they're
handling these tariffs from, youknow, in exchange with the
United States.
So the impact that presidentTrump wanted, I think as far as

(41:31):
diplomacy goes, is working, butwe won't know the economic
impact.
Folks, I'm not an economist,but my guess is like we're
talking, you know, 90 to 120days from from now, or even from
the 1st of April, before weknow if this is working or not.
People have to be patient.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
Yeah, and I'll tell you and I know I'm not the only
one who is saying this, and Ifeel this very strongly I am
willing to pay a bit more for ashort period of time if that
means bringing more companieswho have left and gone overseas,
if that means bringing moreAmerican companies back to
America, employing moreAmericans, having more American

(42:09):
made products, better, stronger,all of the things that are the
entire point of what he's doing.
This is his goal.
In a nutshell America first,American made all of those
things.
So if that means paying alittle bit more, you know what's
going to make me do.
It's going to make me spend alittle bit less on stupid crap
that I don't actually need.

Speaker 3 (42:30):
So everybody, I'm sure your husband will
appreciate.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
He will, he will.
I'm just going to isolate thisone clip for him.
Actually, I'm going to isolatethis one clip and take it out.
So yeah.
But yeah, you know, I mean,let's be real guys, we all are
spending stupid money on crapthat we don't need or
necessarily even want.
We're just getting it becauseit's so damn cheap.
And you know and no, I'm notsaying that you shouldn't have

(42:57):
the right to buy cheap shit.
If you want to buy cheap stuff,knock yourself out.
But you know, this might it'sjust going to help you, help him
, help you.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
So here's the other part about patience with the
economy is that you know, we'vehad a bunch of not just
companies, you know corporations, large auto manufacturers and
other things.
We have had whole foreignnations talk about reinvesting
or investing in the UnitedStates, you know, for
manufacturers, automanufacturers, et cetera,

(43:26):
bringing business, bringingfactories back to the United
States, bringing production backto the United States.
We've had foreign nations talkabout investing in businesses in
the United States.
Folks, it is going to be a fewyears before we see and feel and
understand the impact of that,because factories don't pop up

(43:46):
overnight.
It's not how it works, butwouldn't everybody love to see I
don't know Detroit back on themap as a manufacturing hub for
the United States again.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
How awesome would that be?

Speaker 3 (43:58):
That would be so cool and put Detroit back to work.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
Yes, yes, they are so hard hit.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
Right know, with those things, unemployment goes
down, right, and and the cost ofthings goes down too, because
now you're not paying importtaxes, you're not paying tariffs
, you're not paying you know allof those things um, which is
all part of the plan.
But people have got to bepatient.
The worst thing we can do iswhiplash on this.

(44:24):
Yes, the worst thing we can do.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
So you know and I think a large majority of the
right understands this, you know.
I mean, let's face it, asalways we're we're quite a bit
preaching to the choir right.
So there's probably a smallpercentage of people on the
right that are getting nervousand getting anxious about all of
these things and maybe justwish he would stop.
But you know that is themessage Be patient.

(44:49):
We're only in the first 100days.
There has been so much movementthat is happening and every
single bit of it has been forthe betterment or to the
betterment of this country andus, the people who live in it.
So you know, we can give alittle bit of grace and patience
and, you know, if need be,tighten our wallets a little bit
here and there.
I mean, I think it's so worthit, I think what he's trying to

(45:13):
accomplish is so, so worth it.
I mean it's just such a gamechanger for this country to be
able to get these things inmotion.
And I go back to what I saidearlier to answer one of your
questions yes, I want everythingto be constitutionally
appropriate.
You know that's a given and Ithink we should always be
watchful of that and the peoplewho know the Constitution better

(45:35):
than I do.
I do want to hear what theyhave to say, you know, and if
they point something out, Idefinitely want it to be paid
attention to, you know.
But overall, generally speaking, this is all good stuff.
I mean, who are we?
So let's see.
So who do we talk to?
We talked about Marco Rubio,doug, Burgum, you're the RFK

(45:56):
girl.
Oh my God, here he is right here, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (45:59):
So where do you, how do you feel, Give him a grade
for the first hundred days thathe's been?
And I know he hasn't been inthe seat for a hundred days.
You know where we're at thismile marker right now.
How do you think he's doing?
I know you've been a hugeadvocate for him for a long time
, so what do you think?

Speaker 2 (46:16):
Yeah, again, you know I'm always trying to temper my,
my natural impatience forwanting everything five minutes
ago with the, the actual workthat's being done, the progress
that's being made.
Um, he's pushing for vaccinetransparency, which is, you know
, monumental.
Um, some people will say hetook a misstep if they didn't

(46:37):
actually watch the entire thingand listen to what he was
actually saying about the uhlink, uh, or the effects of
autism and people with autism.
Um, that was misconstrued verydeliberately and then, of course
, people ran with autism.
That was misconstrued verydeliberately and then, of course
, people ran with that.
But the people who haveseverely autistic children and
adult children are giving himhigh, high marks for what he's

(46:58):
doing and what he's trying to do.
The dyes getting the toxicchemicals and dyes out of our
food sources is phenomenal.
As far as I'm concerned, Iwould like to see that happen
much faster than this two-yeargrace period.
Interesting thing about that,you know I wanted to look up
like okay, so why?

(47:19):
Why two years?
Why can't you just stop?
Make it gone?
And I found some compellinginformation about it that you
know, this whole process oftesting and blah, blah, blah,
all these things andreformulating and all this stuff
takes time and money andresearch and all that stuff to
reconstitute.
And I was like and I was goingwith that I'm like, ok, all
right, now that's fair and thatmakes sense.
Things take time and money andall of that stuff, fine.

(47:42):
But then a lot of people and Iposted about a lot of people in
the comments like, yeah, howabout just do whatever Europe's
doing, because it's already beenfigured out?
And I was like, oh well, now Ifeel dumb.
Well, I feel like a dumb, dumb.
So yeah, I'm a little torn onthat one because I do have a
problem with this two years tocomply thing.

(48:03):
So again, like we always ask,you guys, weigh in.
I want to know what you think.
If you have more insight,better information than I do on
that, you can kind of qualifythat whole two-year thing.
But at the moment that would bethe thing I have a problem with
Love that he's going to get thefluoride out of our drinking
water in office, not himspecifically.

(48:30):
But it's going to take sometime to get all the things
actively rolling.
I just hope it's not especiallylong, it's just faster, just
faster.
But I'm patient-ish.
So I'm pleased To answer towrap up that long-winded answer.
I am pleased with the progressthat he's making.
I just I'm looking forward toseeing more and more and more.

Speaker 3 (48:47):
Yeah, no, I think that's fair and I think you know
to your point ofconstitutionality.
I think if there's anybody inthis cabinet, you know, and I
would put him on par with Rubioif anybody's going to follow
constitutionality and like thelegal processes and and look you
know, find a balance between,you know, taking care of

(49:08):
American citizens and, at thesame time, not bankrupting
American companies, which wouldput American citizens out of
work, like I think that's theway Kennedy's mind works.
He's like, well, I could shutdown such and such company and
tell them, hey, you can't doanything until you fix this or
you change this.
They're gonna have to lay offhow many thousands of workers
until and I and I think he's aguy who sees that and says, okay

(49:33):
, we've been sucking downwhatever this crap is for
however many years, we can suckit down for another year and a
half to make sure that we don'talso put people out of work at
the same time.
So I think he's he's a guy likethat and the national, you know
, free and those are that's areally great point.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
I'm so glad you said that because that does add some
more perspective to the wholeconversation about that.
And I think, you know, if wewant to look at all the good
points of this, the one of thegreatest points of this is that
he's bringing this problem tonational attention, where there
was just, you know, pockets ofpeople who knew and and believe
this to be a problem or aconcern or an issue.

(50:10):
And now this has gotten suchnational attention and so, yes,
within the next two years, y'allbeen told the stuff is known,
cause or cancer causing agentsare in.
This is linked to autism, it'slinked to behavioral problems,
it's linked to all of thesethings.
You have the choice If you wantto keep consuming it, if you

(50:32):
want your children to keepconsuming it, keep buying that
stuff, I guess, and you know,until it's no longer available.
But at least it's informeddecision-making.
You know, and, and I thinkagain and I, you know I do this
every episode, I pick my, myword of the night and my word of
the night is transparency.
You know these companiesbecause we know what they do.

(50:53):
We know what these corporationsor these food corporations do.
They're required.
You know the FDA requires them.

(51:16):
Feelings about the FDA, by theway, but skip over that for time
constraints.
Yes, they are regulated as faras they have to put their
ingredients on their labels.
We all, if we're all payingattention, and maybe some people
don't know those ingredientslists are so manipulated so when
they're told that they can'tuse, I think I forgot what it

(51:37):
was.
It was a corn syrup.
No more corn syrup.
Oh, okay, no problem, we're notgoing to do that anymore.
So they just renamed it andcalled it something else.
There's so many things in ourfood that's insane, like salad
dressing.
I'm going to get on a tangent.
That's the only thing I'm gonnasay about.
Salad dressing has wheat in it.
If you have a wheat intoleranceand you're having salad
dressing, odds are that's thereason why you're feeling sick,

(51:58):
by the way, and everything else.
But to wrap that up in a bow, Iwant the transparency.
So you know you can't becalling something by a different
name and trying to sneak itpast us.
So no more of that.
So if he can do that, that'd begreat.
I'm sure he's watching.

Speaker 3 (52:15):
Yeah, well, he should be.
He should be.
Yeah, no, I again, I think he'sanother one that we've just got
to wait and see.
You know, we talked aboutMargot Rubio, we touched on DHS.
We haven't really touched ondefense all that much.
And listen, folks, there's alot of people like Pete Hegseth
for a lot of reasons and a lotof people who like him for a lot
or don't like him for otherreasons rap for a lot of stuff

(52:48):
that is well below his.
You know his eyeline, like Idon't know if you saw this.
There was an accident on anaircraft carrier the other day.
We lost a $70 million fighterplane and it literally went
right off the side.
Somebody tried to blameSecretary Higgins for that.
Like it's absurd, you know, oh,it's a trend, it's this, no,
it's not Okay.
Accidents happen and that's oneof them.
Right, they tried to blame himfor and again, this is all

(53:14):
perspective they tried to blamehim and the president for the
helicopter crash.
They tried to blame the Bidenadministration for the
helicopter crash, right?
We're now just learning.
You know what happened in thathelicopter crash and that young
female pilot didn't respond tothe instructions that were given
her from an instructor pilot,right.
Nobody knows why.
You can make a lot ofassumptions, but he's getting
the bad rap for some things youknow.
I would tell you there's some,some program cuts that people

(53:37):
that have happened, that havebeen his decision, that people
need to pay attention to, arebeing cut in a very Doge-like
fashion across Department ofDefense, where I again, I think
you know there's surgical cutsthat need to be made.
I think there's somerevolutionary thought processes

(53:58):
that are going on.
There is a massive, there's acall right now for a massive cut
in the number of generals andadmirals across the services,
which I am a huge supporter of.
We have way too many, way toomany and I'm a big fan of
cutting those down, because whenyou cut that it's a
self-licking ice cream cone.
When you cut them down, all thebureaucratic processes in the
Pentagon start to go away.

(54:18):
Or when you cut the processesout of the Pentagon, then the
generals and admirals who arepart of those processes also go
away, so they're eliminatingsome of the bureaucracy.
I don't like the slash and burnapproach within DOD on the DEI
stuff.
There have been a lot of thingsthat have been taken down and
then reinstituted under thisguise of eliminating DEI, like,

(54:41):
listen when you take out, andthis happened, okay, this is not
.
You know, these aren't likesocial media falsehoods Out of
directive or misinterpretationof directive.
Teachings about the TuskegeeAirmen were taken out of
professional development becauseit related to oh, they were the
first all-Black fighter unit inWorld War II we're not focusing

(55:13):
on.
You know, there were picturesof the first female, you know,
fighter pilot taken down.
You know, and like that, that'sdumb.
It is dumb, right, and I don't.
I hope that that is not theintent of this administration
and specifically the secretary,but those things are happening.
There's been massive policyshifts.
It's been massive policy shiftsand I think they've either been
taken out of context or ifthose were really the, if that's

(55:34):
really the intent, I think it'sa horrible decision.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
So, you know, there's a lot of things going on and I
think, again, dod is a placewhere the scalpel is required
versus a machete, and I thinkthere's been a lot of machete
stuff going on Right and itcould be, it could be a case of
the, you know, similarly to Doge, you know big, splash, big, you

(55:58):
know wow factor, and then let'stake it down a notch and just
do what we need to do a littlebit more quietly because, let's
face it, you know they, whenthey, when the Trump
administration, came into office, high, high expectations from
all of us and we were very, verydemanding of what we wanted,
and I think there was probablythis sentiment that, listen, if

(56:21):
we don't deliver huge and fast,we could lose people, lose
people, you know.
So you know there was probablythere's got to be some
strategizing with that Like,let's come in, like gangbusters
go big wild.

Speaker 3 (56:36):
It's the two-year mark, right.
That's what everybody's beenafraid of, and again so.
One last thing about Hegseth isrecruiting.
Pension numbers are through theroof, right now.
That's a huge pendulum swingfrom the last four years.
Recruiting is very high.
I think retention is kind of ata.
It's not bad, it's onlyimproved a little bit.
And I say that because there'sa lot of people who were

(56:59):
thriving in the previous, underthe policies of the previous
administration, that are notthriving under the current
administration and they arechoosing to leave the military.
And okay, fine.
But retention is up andrecruiting is through the roof
right now.
So good on them.
But that's the other point ofcoming in gangbusters.
The midterm, the two-yearmidterm mark, is the fear.

(57:21):
Right, We've got to get as muchdone as we can in these two
years before we potentially losecontrol of Congress and
therefore we won't get anythingdone.
So that's where I think youknow, we are preaching patience.
You and I, for the past hourWe've been preaching patience
and a lot of it matters.
But the administration ismoving at lightning speed
because they feel like they'reon a clock.

(57:42):
That clock ends at midnightafter two years and they're
potentially going to losecontrol of Congress and then
everything comes to a screechinghalt.
So I think that's why it feelslike everything's on fire right
now.
But, overall Right.
I think we're overall.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
Overall, I'm.
Where are you sitting?

Speaker 3 (57:56):
How are you feeling?

Speaker 2 (57:57):
Yeah, I mean, I still feel as energized and loyal as
I did day one.
Actually, we'll go further backthan that as as long as he has
been in political existence thistime around, more so than ever.
Yeah, my loyalty remainsunwavering at this point.

(58:19):
The cabinet always has mycautious optimism, and that
includes, you know, when we talkabout that.
You know, as we know and as wetalked about earlier.
You know I've been almostironically touting RFK Jr's role
from the get-go and it's stillthe same mentality.
It's cautious optimism based inhigh expectation that can shift

(58:44):
on a dime if he's not doingwhat he's supposed to do.
And that goes for any one ofthem.
None of them have my loyalty.
Trump has a great deal of myloyalty, but you know it's it's
it's always conditional manRight, Like you got my loyalty
as long as you continue to earnit, and that's been the case for
me with Trump specifically.
He has earned that loyalty asfar as I'm concerned about

(59:05):
speaking for anyone else,speaking for anyone else, but
again, nothing is ever, or norshould it be, from anyone blind
loyalty, blind devotion.
It should always be based inexpectation, like a demanded
expectation, and that's the onlyway we should ever look at any
type of leadership right.

Speaker 3 (59:25):
Yeah, I think it's definitely a what have you done
for me lately?
I think they've got to continueto earn trust every day and
continue to earn the votes thatthey got.
I would tell you my my.
I think you know I am a hugefan of small gov, so the more we
can cut, the better.
The happier I am and I'm a hugefan of all of that.

(59:46):
Way too much money wasted inbureaucracy, I think.
Way too much NATO reliance onthe United States and I'm glad
that we're backing away fromthat big applause for that.
You know there's there's a lotof.
I'm shocked at the amount ofthings that have gotten done in
the first hundred days.
I do advocate for patience.
I think probably my biggestdisappointment thus far in the

(01:00:07):
entire thing is Kash Patel has,to me, has done really nothing.
Yeah, to the point where Ithought for sure.
When they handed him the ATF ontop of FBI, I was like there's
the next target for Doe, slashand burn, get rid of the whole
thing.
And I'm a big fan of gettingrid of the ATF.
I think it's a complete waste.
But literally did nothing tothe point where they took it

(01:00:27):
away from him and gave it to thesecretary of the army to manage
Clay did nothing to the pointwhere they took it away from him
and gave it to the secretary ofthe army Right.
What do you think is going onwith that?
I don't know, and I have zero.
I have zero insight, I havezero inside baseball.
On that one, I don't know, it'sbeen deathly quiet, which is so
odd.
I really haven't heard anythingfrom him since he took over and

(01:00:49):
I don't know if that's onpurpose.
It's an uncomfortable silencefor me.
And taking away ATF, thepicture that that painted was
he's either overwhelmed orincapable or less capable than
what they assumed.
So I'm not.
I'm very curious.
What's going on with the FBI,with Kash Patel, if he's staying

(01:01:10):
out of the limelight on purpose, if there's something big
brewing, I don't know.
But that to me has been thebiggest swing and a miss, I
think in the first hundred days.
But patience.
But I do really like the ATF'sgot to go, like get rid of that.
But other than that, I'mimpressed.
So far I think he's doingpretty well, better than
anticipated and more thananticipated.

(01:01:32):
So yeah yeah, it's pretty goodfor a hundred days.

Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
Yeah, I mean I would probably give a quick guess that
maybe one of the biggestdisappointments that the right
would pick out is that you knowwe had extremely high
expectations based on what wassaid for the Epstein files.
That probably is our.
That probably is the bigsticking point right now.
Again and we've talked aboutthis before I think you used the
phrase over-promised, or one ofus both of us used the phrase
over-promised andunder-delivered.
My hopes for that havediminished greatly, which

(01:02:07):
elevates your disappointment inthe handling of that.
So again, wait and see, I guess.
I mean I really can't doanything else.
There's like literally nothingelse you can do, right?

Speaker 3 (01:02:18):
Yeah, and unfortunately you know his, the,
the probably the biggest livingwitness accuser, just passed
away.
Yeah, she killed him inAustralia.
So again a missed opportunity.
And so, yeah, that's, that's agreat catch, because that is, I
think you know, I know they,they released the JFK files,
which I don't think we gotanything out of that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:39):
Not really Nothing that wasn't already kind of
widely known.
You know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:02:44):
Right, and we haven't we haven't heard anything on
RFK or or Martin Luther King, orany of the rest, or Epstein.
So yeah, that's a big swing anda miss too.
That's a great, great catch,cause we were, that was touted
as something we were going toget and we haven't seen it yet.

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
Yeah, yeah, that's um , so that's you know.
I mean, I guess if I had topick the disappointment uh in my
eyes, it would be that one Uh.
Otherwise, everything else, Ihave been overall uh pleased
with and anticipate a lot more.
That's the expectation.
A lot more to come.
President Trump is alwayspromising.
They haven't seen nothing yet.

(01:03:18):
We've just gotten started.
You haven't even seen anythingyet.
It's all just kicking in, andI'm going to give them the
benefit of the doubt on that,one that we are going to be
regularly blown away throughoutthis this term.

Speaker 3 (01:03:34):
Yeah, listen folks, patience, patience, patience,
patience.
And don't forget, in two years,you know, when the midterms
come.
You got to vote as hard as youdid, you know, for the
presidential election.

Speaker 2 (01:03:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:03:47):
Otherwise all this stuff comes to a screeching halt
.

Speaker 2 (01:03:49):
So yeah, that's probably going to be the next
big challenge.
Right, to keep everyone firedup, you know, because that's
what happens when everything'sgoing well, going great, and
you're happy, you get complacent, you get relaxed and you're
like, ah, somebody else will,it'll be fine, we're good.
Nope, never assume that we'refine and that we're good.
Always expect to be in thefight all the gosh darn time.
I have one last closing thingto tell you that I I keep

(01:04:13):
forgetting to mention.
I have a new book release comingout on May 6th.
Yeah, I just kind of I kind offorgot and I know that sounds
ridiculous, you know, you get tothe point and this sounds like
a humble brag and I apologizefor that.
This is like my 26th book, Ithink it is, and you get a
little.
You get a little I don't knowcomplacent with it.

(01:04:33):
Scatterbrained about it mightbe the better thing.
I have so many projects goingon, but anyhow, truth Bombs and
Grace Grenades is coming out May6.
You can pre-order it now.
I'll throw the link in theresomewhere.
And yeah, so I am, believe itor not, despite what I'm saying,
I'm so excited for this book tobe out.
It's, as you can guess, it'sgeared towards the Christian

(01:04:54):
audience and I hope you guyswill buy it, review it, love it,
get some great insights from itand, yeah, so that's my big
thing you got any big excitingtells?
Are you going to keep us insuspense?

Speaker 3 (01:05:05):
I hope that I get to the point where I'm like, oh
yeah, my 26th book is coming out.
No, I'm still on track, all mystuff's still on track.
So we got you know release ofthe second edition of Keep
Moving, keep Shooting by the endof May, and then the sequel,
which is called Cross to Bear,will be out 4th of July.
Still on track.
Awesome, it's not 26.
It's two.

(01:05:26):
But congratulations to you,lady.
It's two.
Congratulations to you, lady.
Thank you, Super impressive.
I'm very, very happy for you.

Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
Thank you very much.
I'm excited too.
All right, my friend, you goahead and close them out with
the good word for the day.

Speaker 3 (01:05:37):
Hey folks, patience, patience, patience, that's all
I'm going to keep saying.
Just take it all with a grainof salt.
Things are going the directionthat we want them to and you,
you know, as always for me, keepmoving, keep shooting.

Speaker 2 (01:05:49):
Take care guys.

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