May 2, 2025 • 13 mins
The media tried to claim a Trump cabinet scalp—but did they succeed? Buck breaks down what really happened with National Security Advisor Mike Waltz’s reassignment to U.S. Ambassador to the UN, why it’s not the firing the media hoped for, and what it signals about the upgraded staffing and discipline of the current Trump team. He also dives into deeper tensions within national security circles, including looming decisions about Iran, and blasts the Biden administration’s open border agenda. Plus, Tom Homan sends a warning shot to sanctuary cities, and Buck reacts to the Trump team moving to end protected status for 600,000 Venezuelans.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure
you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or
wherever you get your podcasts. Did the media claim their
first major Trump cabinet scalp? Well, let's take a look
at what happened today. Mike Wallace, the National Security Advisor,
is out. You've probably heard or seen that headline.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
But he's not really out.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
So there's really not a scalp taken here, is there.
He has been moved, reassigned. You could say, Mike Walla's
a good guy, a bit of an interventionist for my
foreign policy taste, a little too into the Ukraine Russia.
We have to do everything to help Ukraine win side
of things, but a good man and from what I
(00:55):
can tell, and he has been moved from National Security
Advisor to US Ambassador to the United Nations, it's going
to be a good gig for Mike. You know, he
was a congressman not too far from where I am
here in South Florida, and now he'll be able to
get a huge I haven't been to the ambassador's residence
in New York. My understanding is like a giant, very
(01:16):
fancy apartment for free and a staff to run it,
and all kinds of other perks, and he'll throw cocktail
parties and go to the UN and give speeches about
how the UN is worthless, which is the best thing
a US ambassador can do for the most part. So yeah,
that's what he'll be doing. It's a high profile position.
It's not really something where you're going to change the world,
(01:39):
to put it mildly, but it's still a senior position
in the Trump administration. So he hasn't been exiled, he
has not been cast out. He has been reassigned. And
I think you could argue there are some people who, well,
national Security advisor, you're very close to the center of power,
to the White House day in and day out, So
(01:59):
most people are going to choose that. But it's still
a very good job right now for Mike Wallace to
be the US Ambassador the United Nations. So that's what
they've been trying to push for this whole time in
the media. They want to get somebody from Trump World ousted,
and they've hoped, they've really been hoping that it would
(02:20):
be Pete hag Seth. He is the one that they
want more than any other, but one thing that I
believe doesn't get talked about nearly enough. I'm sure it's
very frustrating for the Democrats and the Democrat media that
they have a much more squared away, squared away Trump
(02:41):
administration with staff and staffing than the first time around.
So they aren't able to just watch as the clown
car turns into a royal rumble of people who had
no business like Scaramucci and others, no business being in
any White House. That's changed this time around. You've got
very good people, and maybe some of those positions will
(03:04):
change like what we just saw. But I don't think
you're going to have any You certainly haven't had it,
and I don't think you will have anything near the
learning on the job situation of twenty sixteen. I think
that's very frustrating to Democrats. I think that they are, well,
we're hoping that there would be a lot of tumult
(03:26):
with the Trump nominees for the cabinet positions and that
they would come in they would mess things up, and no,
not this time around, and they've realized they have to
take an iron fist approach. If you don't put up,
if you're a DoD facility, and you refuse to put
up a picture of Trump and a picture of Secretary
of Hegseth, you should be relieved the duty or you
should be fired. Insubordination is unacceptable. First time around, State
(03:49):
Department DoD bunch of places. I think there were deep
state leave behinds who thought it was their job to
slow down everything Trump related. This time around, they're still trying,
but it's a lot harder because the Trump team has
come out swinging on this stuff and has absolutely no
interest in playing games with people who are trying to
(04:11):
thwart the agenda. So it was a big headline this morning.
Oh not security advisors out. But I think Trump has
also learned you can't give this Democrat party. You can't
give the left what they want, which is high level firings,
high level departures from the Trump cabinet, because it's just
chumming the water for sharks or piranhas or whatever, however
(04:33):
you want to take the metaphor here, you're just chumming
the waters and that's a terrible idea. So moving somebody. Okay,
we'll find something that's more fitting for Mike Waltaz's skill set.
But I think that this is also indicative of some
of the high level arguments right now within the pentagona
within the national security sphere about whether there should be
(04:56):
a strike on Iran. Now, would it be an Israeli
strike and American backed Israel or American backing of an
Israeli strike, A lot of variations on this, but should
we use force to destroy the Iranian nuclear reactors? Position
on this is we should do everything possible not to
be involved in another Midiast war. That's my priorities. We
(05:18):
don't want to get involved in another Mid East war.
So if there's a way to do a strike that
is clean enough or that the Israelis think will be
clean enough that that's not going to happen, well maybe,
but of course there's that concern that you think you
pull that off and then somehow things get far more
complicated as they always have in Middle East, in the
(05:40):
Middle East in recent years. So I just don't want
to see Americans dying in the Middle East for any
reason right now, for any of the things that are
being talked about. And I think that you know, Israel
and Iran are going to have more of a showdown here,
and it's certainly more of a national security concern for
them than it is for US. So that's where the
(06:03):
argument is. Though within the Pentagon, that's where I think
there's a lot of back and forth at the top levels.
And Mike Waltz is a we got back Ukraine to
the hilt. We've got to do anything, including back Israel
with US if they strike Iran, and maybe give them
the green light to do it. And I think that
was part of the tension. I don't really think it
was the signal Gate story that wasn't great, but I
(06:24):
don't think that was what resulted in this. I think
there's been tension at a high level. All right. Our
sponsor here is Paradigm Press. You know, some nations have
a fund called the Sovereign Wealth Fund Japan, Norway, Saudi Arabia,
just to name a few. It allows citizens of that
country to benefit after the nation invests in the development
of an asset or assets. The development of oil is
one such asset. Our nation has never had one, though
(06:46):
several states do, like Texas for example. But in America's case,
there are more than a few people who believe our
nation has an asset worth one hundred and fifty trillion
dollars buried on American sorel. There could be the basis
for such a sovereign wealth fund. This endowment, so to speak,
is so large it could pay off our national debt
four times over. Why has it been kept secret for
so long? Wealth? Thanks to a Supreme Court decision, President
(07:07):
Trump could soon release it to the public. Jim Rickords,
former advisor to the White House and Federal Reserve, says,
if you're over fifty, this could be your best chance
to build lasting wealth from a once in a century event.
To hear more of Jim's thinking, go online to Birthright
twenty twenty five dot com. He's right. It could make
President Trump the most popular president in history and help
millions of investors retire wealthy. Go to birthright twenty twenty
(07:29):
five dot com to get the details free of charge,
paid for by Paradigm Press. That's Birthright twenty twenty five
dot com. Go check that out. So now we can
talk about immigration a little bit. And this is quite
a moment here with Tom Homan.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
So the presidents signing the executive order just this week
threatening to defund sanctuary cities burger policies, why not just
aprest the leaders who are harboring and shielding legal aliens
actually terrorists from deportation.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
But see what's Yeah, he has asked, why don't you
just start arresting people who are obstructing in sanctuary cities,
and he basically says, just wait and see what we got.
We're just getting started. This is a critical fight for
the country, for the future of this nation. If the
Democrats can flood the country with the legals, and we
(08:23):
can't even get rid of the most recent flood over
four years of a Republican presidency, it's all over. The
country is on a glide path into the side of
a mountain. We're not It's not really going to be
America anymore. It's going to be some someplace where the
third world shows up and demands you know, they're they're
(08:44):
piece of the pie and thinks that they're entitled to
your labor, your work, the country that you and our
ancestors built. They're going to say, well, you know, we're
here now, we came illegally, and we want what we want.
And when there's enough of them, they'll have political power
and they'll just turn this into a spoil system and
(09:05):
there'll be a lot of tribalism, and people from different
you know, from different as cities who have arrived here
are going to want to help their group within the
country and not think of themselves as Americans necessarily. First.
This is all the stuff that's going to come if
we don't have secure borders. We have to be able
to control who comes here. And that's where the Biden administration,
(09:27):
I mean, the complete and utter abdication of any sense
that we have a border on and they did this
on purpose. I have to always just remind everyone this
was not They weren't overwhelmed, it wasn't too challenging. They
wanted the border wide open, and they got what they wanted. Well,
as we see that has had horrible results for the country.
(09:53):
The expenses that are being run off in cities like
New York billions and billions of dollars. You have illegals,
thousands and thousands of illegals among the millions who came in,
who are murderers, who are rapists, who are very bad people.
A lot of countries all over the world were not
sending us their best. And you see there are people
within the system who have been supporting all of this.
(10:14):
They want this and I mean Democrats who are not
just in the media, but in government itself and the judiciary,
in the in law enforcement, elected branches of elected office.
They want this to continue. In fact, they'll do everything
they can just to get in the way of anyone
who's trying to deport illegals, which is why they've all
(10:35):
rallied around this Abrego Garcia guy. The whole game here
is just talk about due process. You say, hold on
a second, he's an illegal. He's gone, so we're gonna
bring him back here so we can have more process
to have him sent out of the country. And that's crazy.
And is this what it's going to be like for
everybody that they try to deport out of the country.
We're gonna have to have to hear this whining all.
(10:56):
But there's we should have had another you know, there's
some judge that stopped this. We should have had another
person sit down with them and talk about the lies
about the asylum they're seeking or whatever it may be. No,
it's enough is enough. And you know I can see
that the Trump administration has requested that the Supreme Court
terminate protected status for six hundred thousand Venezuelans. Yeah, it's
(11:19):
called temporary protected status for a reason. It's supposed to
be temporary, time to go home, time to go. We're
a very nice country, we Americans. We are very nice people,
and we gave save harbor to a lot of people
while their countries were a mess. Because this country, as
much as that has problems, is awesome and a lot
(11:39):
of other countries are crappy. We gave them save harbor here.
But now it's time to go home. Maybe fix that
country that you came from. Things have quieted down a bit.
In this case, that would be Venezuela. You know, socialism
has a cost. Everybody destroys countries all the time throughout history,
but people still get sold on it and then they
want to bring their socialism here after it destroys their
(12:00):
home country. Sorry, no, not interested, Not interested. Now. I
know there are people who come here legally who are
refugees from whether it's communism or the Soviet Union, who
are great, But that's not temporary protected status. That's a
different process. Temporary protected status is temporary times you go
home for other people who have come here. In this program.
(12:20):
It's not supposed to be an n run on our
entire immigration system. So I am hoping that the administration
prevails in this one. I think it is likely that
they will. Our sponsor here is Preborn. If you want
to donate to a really worthy cause, look no further
than Preborn. You'd be amazed at what twenty eight dollars
can do when you donate to support they donate it
(12:40):
to support their mission. Put that money aside. Make a
donation to Preborn if you can. Their clinics help across
the country. When it comes to women who have a
crisis pregnancy, Preborn welcomes them and gives them a free
ultrasound and says, hey, look, we want to introduce you
to your baby, because when you see that tiny heartbeat,
it's going to be so much easier for you to
make the decision.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
To give your baby life.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
And so Preborn does this with care, compassion and love
for women and for that unborn child. And they've saved
hundreds of thousands of babies. While this organization has been
going for decades, twenty years time, three hundred thousand plus
babies save. Please consider making a donation today. Dial pound
two fifty say the keyword baby. That's pound two five
zero Say baby, or go to preborn dot Com slash
(13:22):
buck that's preborn dot Com slash b u c K
sponsored by Preborn all Right, that's it for today. Team
Shield tie
You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure
you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or
wherever you get your podcasts. Did the media claim their
first major Trump cabinet scalp? Well, let's take a look
at what happened today. Mike Wallace, the National Security Advisor,
is out. You've probably heard or seen that headline.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
But he's not really out.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
So there's really not a scalp taken here, is there.
He has been moved, reassigned. You could say, Mike Walla's
a good guy, a bit of an interventionist for my
foreign policy taste, a little too into the Ukraine Russia.
We have to do everything to help Ukraine win side
of things, but a good man and from what I
(00:55):
can tell, and he has been moved from National Security
Advisor to US Ambassador to the United Nations, it's going
to be a good gig for Mike. You know, he
was a congressman not too far from where I am
here in South Florida, and now he'll be able to
get a huge I haven't been to the ambassador's residence
in New York. My understanding is like a giant, very
(01:16):
fancy apartment for free and a staff to run it,
and all kinds of other perks, and he'll throw cocktail
parties and go to the UN and give speeches about
how the UN is worthless, which is the best thing
a US ambassador can do for the most part. So yeah,
that's what he'll be doing. It's a high profile position.
It's not really something where you're going to change the world,
(01:39):
to put it mildly, but it's still a senior position
in the Trump administration. So he hasn't been exiled, he
has not been cast out. He has been reassigned. And
I think you could argue there are some people who, well,
national Security advisor, you're very close to the center of power,
to the White House day in and day out, So
(01:59):
most people are going to choose that. But it's still
a very good job right now for Mike Wallace to
be the US Ambassador the United Nations. So that's what
they've been trying to push for this whole time in
the media. They want to get somebody from Trump World ousted,
and they've hoped, they've really been hoping that it would
(02:20):
be Pete hag Seth. He is the one that they
want more than any other, but one thing that I
believe doesn't get talked about nearly enough. I'm sure it's
very frustrating for the Democrats and the Democrat media that
they have a much more squared away, squared away Trump
(02:41):
administration with staff and staffing than the first time around.
So they aren't able to just watch as the clown
car turns into a royal rumble of people who had
no business like Scaramucci and others, no business being in
any White House. That's changed this time around. You've got
very good people, and maybe some of those positions will
(03:04):
change like what we just saw. But I don't think
you're going to have any You certainly haven't had it,
and I don't think you will have anything near the
learning on the job situation of twenty sixteen. I think
that's very frustrating to Democrats. I think that they are, well,
we're hoping that there would be a lot of tumult
(03:26):
with the Trump nominees for the cabinet positions and that
they would come in they would mess things up, and no,
not this time around, and they've realized they have to
take an iron fist approach. If you don't put up,
if you're a DoD facility, and you refuse to put
up a picture of Trump and a picture of Secretary
of Hegseth, you should be relieved the duty or you
should be fired. Insubordination is unacceptable. First time around, State
(03:49):
Department DoD bunch of places. I think there were deep
state leave behinds who thought it was their job to
slow down everything Trump related. This time around, they're still trying,
but it's a lot harder because the Trump team has
come out swinging on this stuff and has absolutely no
interest in playing games with people who are trying to
(04:11):
thwart the agenda. So it was a big headline this morning.
Oh not security advisors out. But I think Trump has
also learned you can't give this Democrat party. You can't
give the left what they want, which is high level firings,
high level departures from the Trump cabinet, because it's just
chumming the water for sharks or piranhas or whatever, however
(04:33):
you want to take the metaphor here, you're just chumming
the waters and that's a terrible idea. So moving somebody. Okay,
we'll find something that's more fitting for Mike Waltaz's skill set.
But I think that this is also indicative of some
of the high level arguments right now within the pentagona
within the national security sphere about whether there should be
(04:56):
a strike on Iran. Now, would it be an Israeli
strike and American backed Israel or American backing of an
Israeli strike, A lot of variations on this, but should
we use force to destroy the Iranian nuclear reactors? Position
on this is we should do everything possible not to
be involved in another Midiast war. That's my priorities. We
(05:18):
don't want to get involved in another Mid East war.
So if there's a way to do a strike that
is clean enough or that the Israelis think will be
clean enough that that's not going to happen, well maybe,
but of course there's that concern that you think you
pull that off and then somehow things get far more
complicated as they always have in Middle East, in the
(05:40):
Middle East in recent years. So I just don't want
to see Americans dying in the Middle East for any
reason right now, for any of the things that are
being talked about. And I think that you know, Israel
and Iran are going to have more of a showdown here,
and it's certainly more of a national security concern for
them than it is for US. So that's where the
(06:03):
argument is. Though within the Pentagon, that's where I think
there's a lot of back and forth at the top levels.
And Mike Waltz is a we got back Ukraine to
the hilt. We've got to do anything, including back Israel
with US if they strike Iran, and maybe give them
the green light to do it. And I think that
was part of the tension. I don't really think it
was the signal Gate story that wasn't great, but I
(06:24):
don't think that was what resulted in this. I think
there's been tension at a high level. All right. Our
sponsor here is Paradigm Press. You know, some nations have
a fund called the Sovereign Wealth Fund Japan, Norway, Saudi Arabia,
just to name a few. It allows citizens of that
country to benefit after the nation invests in the development
of an asset or assets. The development of oil is
one such asset. Our nation has never had one, though
(06:46):
several states do, like Texas for example. But in America's case,
there are more than a few people who believe our
nation has an asset worth one hundred and fifty trillion
dollars buried on American sorel. There could be the basis
for such a sovereign wealth fund. This endowment, so to speak,
is so large it could pay off our national debt
four times over. Why has it been kept secret for
so long? Wealth? Thanks to a Supreme Court decision, President
(07:07):
Trump could soon release it to the public. Jim Rickords,
former advisor to the White House and Federal Reserve, says,
if you're over fifty, this could be your best chance
to build lasting wealth from a once in a century event.
To hear more of Jim's thinking, go online to Birthright
twenty twenty five dot com. He's right. It could make
President Trump the most popular president in history and help
millions of investors retire wealthy. Go to birthright twenty twenty
(07:29):
five dot com to get the details free of charge,
paid for by Paradigm Press. That's Birthright twenty twenty five
dot com. Go check that out. So now we can
talk about immigration a little bit. And this is quite
a moment here with Tom Homan.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
So the presidents signing the executive order just this week
threatening to defund sanctuary cities burger policies, why not just
aprest the leaders who are harboring and shielding legal aliens
actually terrorists from deportation.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
But see what's Yeah, he has asked, why don't you
just start arresting people who are obstructing in sanctuary cities,
and he basically says, just wait and see what we got.
We're just getting started. This is a critical fight for
the country, for the future of this nation. If the
Democrats can flood the country with the legals, and we
(08:23):
can't even get rid of the most recent flood over
four years of a Republican presidency, it's all over. The
country is on a glide path into the side of
a mountain. We're not It's not really going to be
America anymore. It's going to be some someplace where the
third world shows up and demands you know, they're they're
(08:44):
piece of the pie and thinks that they're entitled to
your labor, your work, the country that you and our
ancestors built. They're going to say, well, you know, we're
here now, we came illegally, and we want what we want.
And when there's enough of them, they'll have political power
and they'll just turn this into a spoil system and
(09:05):
there'll be a lot of tribalism, and people from different
you know, from different as cities who have arrived here
are going to want to help their group within the
country and not think of themselves as Americans necessarily. First.
This is all the stuff that's going to come if
we don't have secure borders. We have to be able
to control who comes here. And that's where the Biden administration,
(09:27):
I mean, the complete and utter abdication of any sense
that we have a border on and they did this
on purpose. I have to always just remind everyone this
was not They weren't overwhelmed, it wasn't too challenging. They
wanted the border wide open, and they got what they wanted. Well,
as we see that has had horrible results for the country.
(09:53):
The expenses that are being run off in cities like
New York billions and billions of dollars. You have illegals,
thousands and thousands of illegals among the millions who came in,
who are murderers, who are rapists, who are very bad people.
A lot of countries all over the world were not
sending us their best. And you see there are people
within the system who have been supporting all of this.
(10:14):
They want this and I mean Democrats who are not
just in the media, but in government itself and the judiciary,
in the in law enforcement, elected branches of elected office.
They want this to continue. In fact, they'll do everything
they can just to get in the way of anyone
who's trying to deport illegals, which is why they've all
(10:35):
rallied around this Abrego Garcia guy. The whole game here
is just talk about due process. You say, hold on
a second, he's an illegal. He's gone, so we're gonna
bring him back here so we can have more process
to have him sent out of the country. And that's crazy.
And is this what it's going to be like for
everybody that they try to deport out of the country.
We're gonna have to have to hear this whining all.
(10:56):
But there's we should have had another you know, there's
some judge that stopped this. We should have had another
person sit down with them and talk about the lies
about the asylum they're seeking or whatever it may be. No,
it's enough is enough. And you know I can see
that the Trump administration has requested that the Supreme Court
terminate protected status for six hundred thousand Venezuelans. Yeah, it's
(11:19):
called temporary protected status for a reason. It's supposed to
be temporary, time to go home, time to go. We're
a very nice country, we Americans. We are very nice people,
and we gave save harbor to a lot of people
while their countries were a mess. Because this country, as
much as that has problems, is awesome and a lot
(11:39):
of other countries are crappy. We gave them save harbor here.
But now it's time to go home. Maybe fix that
country that you came from. Things have quieted down a bit.
In this case, that would be Venezuela. You know, socialism
has a cost. Everybody destroys countries all the time throughout history,
but people still get sold on it and then they
want to bring their socialism here after it destroys their
(12:00):
home country. Sorry, no, not interested, Not interested. Now. I
know there are people who come here legally who are
refugees from whether it's communism or the Soviet Union, who
are great, But that's not temporary protected status. That's a
different process. Temporary protected status is temporary times you go
home for other people who have come here. In this program.
(12:20):
It's not supposed to be an n run on our
entire immigration system. So I am hoping that the administration
prevails in this one. I think it is likely that
they will. Our sponsor here is Preborn. If you want
to donate to a really worthy cause, look no further
than Preborn. You'd be amazed at what twenty eight dollars
can do when you donate to support they donate it
(12:40):
to support their mission. Put that money aside. Make a
donation to Preborn if you can. Their clinics help across
the country. When it comes to women who have a
crisis pregnancy, Preborn welcomes them and gives them a free
ultrasound and says, hey, look, we want to introduce you
to your baby, because when you see that tiny heartbeat,
it's going to be so much easier for you to
make the decision.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
To give your baby life.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
And so Preborn does this with care, compassion and love
for women and for that unborn child. And they've saved
hundreds of thousands of babies. While this organization has been
going for decades, twenty years time, three hundred thousand plus
babies save. Please consider making a donation today. Dial pound
two fifty say the keyword baby. That's pound two five
zero Say baby, or go to preborn dot Com slash
(13:22):
buck that's preborn dot Com slash b u c K
sponsored by Preborn all Right, that's it for today. Team
Shield tie
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Buck Sexton
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!