April 30, 2026 • 14 mins
Buck breaks down the viral idea of renaming ICE to “NICE” and why some think it could flip the narrative overnight. Would it actually change public perception or just spark more backlash?
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Let make
sure you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app
or wherever you get your podcasts. Is President Trump going
to change the name of ICE to Nice? Now this
might sound silly to you at first, but let's just
walk this through for a moment. President Trump knows that
(00:33):
there's a huge effort to undermine Immigration and Customs enforcement
in the public eye, doing everything possible to make it
seem like they're bad guys. And they blame the two
shootings in Minneapolis on ICE officers the whole thing. Well,
how can he change that discussion, change that narrative of
(00:53):
it while also driving libs insane? That, my friends, is
where we get nice, the National Immigrations and Customs Enforcement
Agency Nice, it is. It would be worth it alone
just to have them saying the nice agents. Think about this.
(01:14):
Here we are the big, the beautiful, nice agents doing
all the deportations, the arrest going into the communities. You'd
know something about that, going into these communities. It's beautiful
arresting the nice agents tackling the bad ombrais one after another.
Uh yeah, I think it would be quite a thing
(01:36):
if he were to change this. This all happened, by
the way, because a conservative influencer named Alyssa Marie wrote
this on the social media platform. Actually wrote, I want
Trump to change ICE to nice National Immigrations and Customs Enforcement,
so the media has to say nice agents all day
every day. And then Trump responded, great idea, do it
in a truth social post. So I don't know if
(02:00):
they can do this. I don't think they can, although
I don't really see how it would be that different
from what happened with the Department of War, which was
the Department of Defense, and I don't think that there
was any change made by Congress to that. I think
they just as an executive decision, decided that they were
going to change the name of it. I will remind
you the Democrats will absolutely go back to calling it
(02:23):
the Department of Defense, and even some have said they
might start calling it the Department of Peace to really
annoy the rest of us. That would not under Democrats.
They want to make it the Department of Low Testosterone.
The Low T DoD is what they're hoping to do.
So we'll see if they get that opportunity in the
next election. But I do like this idea of changing
(02:48):
the name to Nice just because it would drive Democrats insane,
and also because this is one of the primary means
by which they have tried to undermine Trump's immigration efforts
by making just demonizing the people who are paid law
enforcement officers operating with their full legal authority to deport
individuals who come into this country illegally. So the Nice
(03:12):
officers President Trump may in fact have h that as
to something to think about. I don't think it's gonna happen,
but it's something to think about. Our sponsor is Supershore.
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Now Brian Stelter, Brad Stelter, he's over at CNN. That
(04:23):
is really upset. He's really upset because Trump is silencing
comedian Jimmy Kimmel. This is the whole Kimmel Malania thing
where kim Will made a joke about it wasn't. First
of all, it's not. There are two things that can
make a joke a problem. There are two issues that
you can have with a joke. One is is it
over the line. And there is such a thing as
(04:44):
a joke that's over the line, right, you know, making
a joke about a kid with cancer, for example, a
child with cancer, like, I think we got up, but
that's not funny. It's just not funny. There's nothing right
over the line? Is one part of it. But also
there's the is there anything even humorous about the joke too?
So right like, is it over the line? And is
(05:05):
it funny? Those are two things. It can be a
little over the line but still be funny. It can
also be over the line and entirely unfunny, in which
case it is a fail top to bottom. And I
think there's no question but that that's the situation we
deal with here. The joke that Jimmy Kimmel made about
(05:28):
Milania Trump isn't expecting widow is not funny, and it's nasty,
and it's in our political environment way beyond the pale,
and it doesn't cross I don't think into the doesn't
cross into a legal issue, but it does cross into
a people have every right to call this out with
(05:50):
really bad taste. Notice though, that these people who want
to be the conscience of the public and the conscience
of the administration, people like Ryan Stelter, they have nothing
to say about how this was. All they want to
talk about is Trump's efforts to silence this, and Jimmy
Kimmel's not silenced. In fact, the show is doing better
now than it was before the alleged silencing libs love
(06:11):
to play the victim. In fact, there's really nothing they
love more than to cause a problem and then claim
that they are the one being victimized as a result
of the problem that they caused. Classic victim passive, aggressive, cowardly,
dishonorable left wing action. Right, oh, I did this thing.
(06:35):
It's the person who you know. There's the old joke
that hutzpah is is about. Hutspa is an It's a
joker if it's a maxim or whatever. But Hutspa is
a child who murders his parents and then claims that
he should get mercy because he's an orphans. That's what
(06:55):
Hutspa is. Democrats do this stuff all the time. Democrats
cross the line, cause the reaction, and then they immediately
claim that the problem isn't what they did at all.
They won't even address that the problem is our reaction
to what they did, and that is just gross. That
(07:16):
is not the way things are supposed to be. That
is not the way that a person of honor and
dignity and integrity would operate. But they don't have those things.
They are not those things, and so this is why
we get the crying and the whining and the nonsense
from these libs about how Trump is trying. I just
want to say, silence, How is he silencing them? Well,
(07:38):
what exactly has been done to Jimmy Kimmel who silence him?
There's no there has been no broadcast license that has
taken away, There's no you know, they haven't thrown him
in some cell somewhere. There's no secret police force that's
showing up at his door. But Democrats, like I said,
they caused the problem and then they play victim, and
that's what they do. Our sponsor's birch. Gold inflation does
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of England who gave actually a very good speech, jolly
good speech. My voice is actually from doing the King
(09:03):
of England voice. It's actually getting scratchy now, and the
King of England's kin kind of an imbecile, but his
speech and his whole visits so far has been very good.
I have to give credit where it is due. I
think the King of England has been very additive on
this trip and been very strong, said some really good things,
(09:27):
and it is just such an important reminder for people
in this country as we approach our two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of American Independence. That there is a thread here,
there is a path. The torch of liberty has been
handed down from one Western civilization to another over millennia,
(09:48):
and the last ones to have it before us really
the leaders at the forefront. People would say, there's the
French and the Spanish and other but the leaders were
the United Kingdom of Great Britain, and certainly are progenitors
as a nation would be the British, and they are
a great people with a great history, and they've given
so much to the world as we have two there
(10:11):
is such an important moment here for all of us
to take to remind ourselves of the greatness of America
and how much good exists in the world, how much
suffering has been alleviated or prevented altogether because America is
the global hedgemon. I mean, I say this to people.
(10:32):
Just imagine for a second that China had by far
the most powerful military and by far the biggest economy
in the world. What do you think the world looks like? Then?
What does the world look like when China is calling
the shots? And like I said, the true leader, the
(10:55):
true number one nation, we would have a very different
humanity right now, we'd have a very different human race
in terms of our freedoms, our liberties, our rule of law,
our aspirations. So it's a very special thing that we
have this country of America. I know, I spend a
lot of time talking about with the problems were the
(11:15):
criticisms of wrong ideas within it, But overall, there has
been no nation state force for good, No people, if
we can refer to the American people, no people who
have done more for humanity to make things better than
(11:36):
we have, And I hate that we have to then
do this. I know we've made mistakes and the history
of slavery and internment camps in World War Two and
wars of aggression and all these things that people will
talk about who like to hate America. But even taking
all that into account, we're still the greatest force for
(11:57):
good progress, decency, happiness, human flourishing of any organized political
entity in history. And it's not even close. It's not
even close. The only the next thing would be the
British Empire, which had all of the problems that we
had and way less of the upside in a lot
(12:18):
of ways. But that's something that I think people should
reflect on. And I think that the visit of King
Charles to the United States is indicative of that reflection
and how we should take time going to the two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our independence, which is just
(12:38):
a remarkable thing. This place is so incredible for what
it is. For all the flaws and all the faults
and all the things that we can talk about, the
reality is that the world basically sleep soundly at night.
Even though we have the capability to destroy the global
financial markets if we wanted to take us down to
(13:00):
but we could destroy any country in the world with
our nuclear arsenal. We could destroy any countries we wanted to.
We could really end the human race if we wanted to.
The fearsome powers of America are are something that it's
really even hard to comprehend, and yet they are overwhelmingly
a force for stability and good and things that should
(13:23):
be celebrated. So and the principles that we have did
come to us from the British, and we are as Americans,
we are the inheritors of in a sense, the British
legacy of the Charter of Liberties, signed in twelve fifteen
at a field at Running Meede with Magna Carta and
(13:44):
the establishment of a state that wasn't just a plaything
of the ruling elite or the king or whatever it
may be, but that there was something that God gives
us that's right, inalienable rights, and that those rights must
be respected by a state in order for it to
be legitimate. And that whole way of thinking which now
(14:08):
dominates it not everywhere, but it dominates global thinking, with
the exception of the big hole that is China, but
it dominates global thinking, and it has made the world
such a better place. So we talk about the downsides,
we talk about the challenges, it is worth taking a
moment to celebrate the beautiful experiment that is America and
(14:29):
how we as Americans because basically all of you listening
to this, there are some Canadians and a few other foreigners,
but the Canadians are extension of America, so they're really
enjoying the same inheritance. Of course, British, British are their forefathers,
some French too, But it's an amazing thing and we
should be grateful for it, and it is not something
(14:50):
that we can assume will be there forever shield time
You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast. Let make
sure you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app
or wherever you get your podcasts. Is President Trump going
to change the name of ICE to Nice? Now this
might sound silly to you at first, but let's just
walk this through for a moment. President Trump knows that
(00:33):
there's a huge effort to undermine Immigration and Customs enforcement
in the public eye, doing everything possible to make it
seem like they're bad guys. And they blame the two
shootings in Minneapolis on ICE officers the whole thing. Well,
how can he change that discussion, change that narrative of
(00:53):
it while also driving libs insane? That, my friends, is
where we get nice, the National Immigrations and Customs Enforcement
Agency Nice, it is. It would be worth it alone
just to have them saying the nice agents. Think about this.
(01:14):
Here we are the big, the beautiful, nice agents doing
all the deportations, the arrest going into the communities. You'd
know something about that, going into these communities. It's beautiful
arresting the nice agents tackling the bad ombrais one after another.
Uh yeah, I think it would be quite a thing
(01:36):
if he were to change this. This all happened, by
the way, because a conservative influencer named Alyssa Marie wrote
this on the social media platform. Actually wrote, I want
Trump to change ICE to nice National Immigrations and Customs Enforcement,
so the media has to say nice agents all day
every day. And then Trump responded, great idea, do it
in a truth social post. So I don't know if
(02:00):
they can do this. I don't think they can, although
I don't really see how it would be that different
from what happened with the Department of War, which was
the Department of Defense, and I don't think that there
was any change made by Congress to that. I think
they just as an executive decision, decided that they were
going to change the name of it. I will remind
you the Democrats will absolutely go back to calling it
(02:23):
the Department of Defense, and even some have said they
might start calling it the Department of Peace to really
annoy the rest of us. That would not under Democrats.
They want to make it the Department of Low Testosterone.
The Low T DoD is what they're hoping to do.
So we'll see if they get that opportunity in the
next election. But I do like this idea of changing
(02:48):
the name to Nice just because it would drive Democrats insane,
and also because this is one of the primary means
by which they have tried to undermine Trump's immigration efforts
by making just demonizing the people who are paid law
enforcement officers operating with their full legal authority to deport
individuals who come into this country illegally. So the Nice
(03:12):
officers President Trump may in fact have h that as
to something to think about. I don't think it's gonna happen,
but it's something to think about. Our sponsor is Supershore.
Here's a question, how many insurance brokers does it take
to ensure your business? If you're like most business owners,
the answer is too many, multiple policies, multiple applications, and
no clear view of how it all fits together. Supershore
(03:33):
changes that there's one broker for all your business insurance,
backed by a team that works with you year round,
not just at renewal. And if you've ever stared at
a policy wondering what it covers, Supershore has a fine
print facts tool that translates the legal jargon into plain English,
so you know what's covered and what's not. Go online
to supershore dot com and get a full report on
your current policies with no obligation. Find out if you're overinshured,
(03:57):
under and shured, or somewhere in between. Go to supershort
dot com. One powerful platform, all your policies in one place.
Go to supershore dot com. That's supersure dot com paid
for by Supershore in Surance Agency, LLC, a licensed insurance agency.
Now Brian Stelter, Brad Stelter, he's over at CNN. That
(04:23):
is really upset. He's really upset because Trump is silencing
comedian Jimmy Kimmel. This is the whole Kimmel Malania thing
where kim Will made a joke about it wasn't. First
of all, it's not. There are two things that can
make a joke a problem. There are two issues that
you can have with a joke. One is is it
over the line. And there is such a thing as
(04:44):
a joke that's over the line, right, you know, making
a joke about a kid with cancer, for example, a
child with cancer, like, I think we got up, but
that's not funny. It's just not funny. There's nothing right
over the line? Is one part of it. But also
there's the is there anything even humorous about the joke too?
So right like, is it over the line? And is
(05:05):
it funny? Those are two things. It can be a
little over the line but still be funny. It can
also be over the line and entirely unfunny, in which
case it is a fail top to bottom. And I
think there's no question but that that's the situation we
deal with here. The joke that Jimmy Kimmel made about
(05:28):
Milania Trump isn't expecting widow is not funny, and it's nasty,
and it's in our political environment way beyond the pale,
and it doesn't cross I don't think into the doesn't
cross into a legal issue, but it does cross into
a people have every right to call this out with
(05:50):
really bad taste. Notice though, that these people who want
to be the conscience of the public and the conscience
of the administration, people like Ryan Stelter, they have nothing
to say about how this was. All they want to
talk about is Trump's efforts to silence this, and Jimmy
Kimmel's not silenced. In fact, the show is doing better
now than it was before the alleged silencing libs love
(06:11):
to play the victim. In fact, there's really nothing they
love more than to cause a problem and then claim
that they are the one being victimized as a result
of the problem that they caused. Classic victim passive, aggressive, cowardly,
dishonorable left wing action. Right, oh, I did this thing.
(06:35):
It's the person who you know. There's the old joke
that hutzpah is is about. Hutspa is an It's a
joker if it's a maxim or whatever. But Hutspa is
a child who murders his parents and then claims that
he should get mercy because he's an orphans. That's what
(06:55):
Hutspa is. Democrats do this stuff all the time. Democrats
cross the line, cause the reaction, and then they immediately
claim that the problem isn't what they did at all.
They won't even address that the problem is our reaction
to what they did, and that is just gross. That
(07:16):
is not the way things are supposed to be. That
is not the way that a person of honor and
dignity and integrity would operate. But they don't have those things.
They are not those things, and so this is why
we get the crying and the whining and the nonsense
from these libs about how Trump is trying. I just
want to say, silence, How is he silencing them? Well,
(07:38):
what exactly has been done to Jimmy Kimmel who silence him?
There's no there has been no broadcast license that has
taken away, There's no you know, they haven't thrown him
in some cell somewhere. There's no secret police force that's
showing up at his door. But Democrats, like I said,
they caused the problem and then they play victim, and
that's what they do. Our sponsor's birch. Gold inflation does
(08:00):
horrible things to the value of the dollar over time.
Our dollars lost forty eight percent of its value over
the last twenty five years. Now, compare that to the
value of gold. Gold over that same of time is
up over seven hundred percent. Look, there's a reason why
millions of Americans already owned gold as part of their
retirement savings account. Whether it's four oh one k or ira,
I own gold. My first purchase was a decade or
(08:20):
so ago, and looking back on it, I should have
purchased more. If you have not transferred some portion of
your retirement account to gold, this year. This is the
time to do it. Birch Gold Group can help you
do this. Birch Gold has announced their Learn and Earn
Precious Metals Event. Great opportunity to learn more about our
nation's economics, your saving ability, and how gold and precious
metals plays a part. This free online event rewards you
(08:41):
for learning the basics of investing in precious medals. Sign
up to get free silver on your next purchase. If
you qualify, you get even larger incentives as you go.
The more you learn, the more you can earn. Birch
Gold Group fantastic stuff. And then we have the King
of England who gave actually a very good speech, jolly
good speech. My voice is actually from doing the King
(09:03):
of England voice. It's actually getting scratchy now, and the
King of England's kin kind of an imbecile, but his
speech and his whole visits so far has been very good.
I have to give credit where it is due. I
think the King of England has been very additive on
this trip and been very strong, said some really good things,
(09:27):
and it is just such an important reminder for people
in this country as we approach our two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of American Independence. That there is a thread here,
there is a path. The torch of liberty has been
handed down from one Western civilization to another over millennia,
(09:48):
and the last ones to have it before us really
the leaders at the forefront. People would say, there's the
French and the Spanish and other but the leaders were
the United Kingdom of Great Britain, and certainly are progenitors
as a nation would be the British, and they are
a great people with a great history, and they've given
so much to the world as we have two there
(10:11):
is such an important moment here for all of us
to take to remind ourselves of the greatness of America
and how much good exists in the world, how much
suffering has been alleviated or prevented altogether because America is
the global hedgemon. I mean, I say this to people.
(10:32):
Just imagine for a second that China had by far
the most powerful military and by far the biggest economy
in the world. What do you think the world looks like? Then?
What does the world look like when China is calling
the shots? And like I said, the true leader, the
(10:55):
true number one nation, we would have a very different
humanity right now, we'd have a very different human race
in terms of our freedoms, our liberties, our rule of law,
our aspirations. So it's a very special thing that we
have this country of America. I know, I spend a
lot of time talking about with the problems were the
(11:15):
criticisms of wrong ideas within it, But overall, there has
been no nation state force for good, No people, if
we can refer to the American people, no people who
have done more for humanity to make things better than
(11:36):
we have, And I hate that we have to then
do this. I know we've made mistakes and the history
of slavery and internment camps in World War Two and
wars of aggression and all these things that people will
talk about who like to hate America. But even taking
all that into account, we're still the greatest force for
(11:57):
good progress, decency, happiness, human flourishing of any organized political
entity in history. And it's not even close. It's not
even close. The only the next thing would be the
British Empire, which had all of the problems that we
had and way less of the upside in a lot
(12:18):
of ways. But that's something that I think people should
reflect on. And I think that the visit of King
Charles to the United States is indicative of that reflection
and how we should take time going to the two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our independence, which is just
(12:38):
a remarkable thing. This place is so incredible for what
it is. For all the flaws and all the faults
and all the things that we can talk about, the
reality is that the world basically sleep soundly at night.
Even though we have the capability to destroy the global
financial markets if we wanted to take us down to
(13:00):
but we could destroy any country in the world with
our nuclear arsenal. We could destroy any countries we wanted to.
We could really end the human race if we wanted to.
The fearsome powers of America are are something that it's
really even hard to comprehend, and yet they are overwhelmingly
a force for stability and good and things that should
(13:23):
be celebrated. So and the principles that we have did
come to us from the British, and we are as Americans,
we are the inheritors of in a sense, the British
legacy of the Charter of Liberties, signed in twelve fifteen
at a field at Running Meede with Magna Carta and
(13:44):
the establishment of a state that wasn't just a plaything
of the ruling elite or the king or whatever it
may be, but that there was something that God gives
us that's right, inalienable rights, and that those rights must
be respected by a state in order for it to
be legitimate. And that whole way of thinking which now
(14:08):
dominates it not everywhere, but it dominates global thinking, with
the exception of the big hole that is China, but
it dominates global thinking, and it has made the world
such a better place. So we talk about the downsides,
we talk about the challenges, it is worth taking a
moment to celebrate the beautiful experiment that is America and
(14:29):
how we as Americans because basically all of you listening
to this, there are some Canadians and a few other foreigners,
but the Canadians are extension of America, so they're really
enjoying the same inheritance. Of course, British, British are their forefathers,
some French too, But it's an amazing thing and we
should be grateful for it, and it is not something
(14:50):
that we can assume will be there forever shield time
Host
Buck Sexton
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