February 7, 2025 • 37 mins
Media melts down over DOGE. Paper straw EO coming soon? Dems reflexively hate everything Trump does, which further exposes their anti-common-sense views. Kamala and Doug attend Lakers game, no one cares. Trump meets with Japan PM. USAID spends more than DOJ and border security and is really just a Democrat slush fund.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate everybody hanging
out with us. I am in New Orleans getting ready
for the big super Bowl this weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Kind of a big game.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Donald Trump going to become I was stunned by this,
and even a lot of people in sports don't believe
it's true, but it is. Donald Trump set to become Buck,
the very first sitting president of the United States to
ever attend a Super Bowl. Like I would have if
you would come on and told me that stat last week,
(00:35):
I would have said, there's no way on Earth that's
possibly true.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It is.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
There have been past presidents, there have been vice presidents,
there have been first ladies. There has never been a
sitting president of the United States at the Super Bowl.
Donald Trump, among many other things, really a monster sports fan,
and Buck, I think he's going to go to almost everything.
So a lot of fun down here in New Orleans.
We'll get into that, including a photo that has gone
(01:04):
viral the world over of legendary former New England Patriots
quarterback Bill Belichick age seventy two, and I believe it
is his twenty five year old girlfriend and the dress
that she wore. That let's just say Lauren Sanchez got
some competition in several different several different fronts. If you
haven't seen that picture, we'll have some fun with it.
(01:25):
But there's a lot of ridiculous stories I would say
that are out there right now. Buck Trump just announced,
and who's opposed to this, that paper straws are done,
that he is ending paper straws because they don't work.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I mean, the guy is legitimate. I think I'm in love. Honestly,
I don't even know what to say at this point.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I saw the message and Trump has basically just decided
that he's going to fix everything ridiculous that has existed
in the country for the last decade, whether it's our
policy in the Middle East or what kind of raw
as we drink out of, So both both significant and
in the grand scheme of things, insignificant.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Has he done a single thing yet that you know
since he's taken office that you're like, why would he
do that? This is what's amazing to me is that
for me, I think he's batting a thousand right now.
I think there's a thousand. I mean, there's one hundred
percent chance he's batting a thousand. However, you want to
say it everything that he's doing. I'm like, yeah, absolutely,
do that. Absolutely do that.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I were if I were grading him, I would give
him like a ninety nine. The only thing I would
have changed is maybe don't go as hard on the
DEI at the announcement of the jet crash, and I
probably would say, uh, you know, the Gaza, the Gaza
cannonball into the swimming pool. I still don't know what
(02:47):
exactly is going on there. Uh, those are Gaza.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I think the Gaza breaking the uh, the established paradigm
about should happen with Gaza. We may look back on
and say was quite brave and even brilliant in time.
But I think that may well be true.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
But those the only two things I can point to,
and I'm trying to nitpick. It's like when you win
a game fifty two to three and you're the coach
and you have to go back over the film and
you're like, you know, on third and six, our tackle
could have done a better job here picking up. We
should have gotten that we only got four yards. There
was fourteen there to get I mean, this is the
kind of stuff that you're fortunate when you win and
(03:26):
you go back over the film and you've won by
forty plus points.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I think what's amazing, Buck.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Is it used to be that there was at least
some opposition to Trump, Buck, that seemed founded in a
form of rationality from the Democrat Party, and or there
were spokespersons where I wouldn't agree with them, but I
would at least listen and I would say, Okay, I
can see he's like the Maxine Waters is screaming outside
(03:53):
the Department of Education, Chuck Schumer is dancing around with
an avocado in one hand and a beer in the other.
We're talking about not only Trump succeeding in the first
three weeks on a level that neither of us, I
don't think even and we were optimistic thought was possible,
but we're also seeing an implosion of every Trump critic.
And it actually leads Buck to this is what CNN
(04:16):
is talking about right now. I mean, I'm going to
play this and many of you out there are going
to say this can't possibly be a real news segment.
Both that is oh, it is they have decided that
they are going to essentially focus on the guys that
Elon Musk is bringing in to try to save billions
(04:38):
of dollars in fraud payments. Like this is their opposition
now and they have gone in and they're doing deep dive.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
We're going to listen to cut four here, right, So
cut four Aaron Burnett CNN. They're going after the twenty
somethings working for Elon. Now, this is where the eye
of Souron has focused. Listen to what they're saying on CNN.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Nineteen year old high school graduate who has used the
unfortunate nickname Big Balls online, so that would be one
way that we could refer to him. He is now
working at Musk's behest inside Doge. This individual has founded
multiple companies, including one with another unfortunate name, Tesla dot SEXYLLC,
(05:20):
which he established in twenty twenty one. He would have
been around sixteen years old. So now you look.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
At these young men who are now in data and
in the private information about maybe hundreds of millions of
American citizens as young as nineteen.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
The Big Balls here, most of them are in their
early twenties. There's an exception. I'm going to get to
you in a minute. I'm curious though, Kara, how well
does even Musk know these young men? Do you think
I have no idea? I'll be okay, Clay. They are
attacked like they don't even realize that what we're all
hearing is they're attacking big balls on CNN. This is
(05:54):
this guy's online name, and they don't seem to understand
that we're in this era where the low t DNC
and the sad Karens of the Democrat Party and all
the rest are are being told enough is enough. Elon
has brought in a team of computer whiz you know,
(06:15):
superminds essentially. I mean you see what they're not talking
about the kid who who just deciphered the scroll using
AI like the first person in the world to do it.
If Elon has picked you to do this, you're impressive. Okay,
we all under you have like the c plus students
who run you know, homecoming committee, whining about the quarterback
(06:37):
of the football team and the smartest kid in the class,
who are working together Trump and Elon to fix everything.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
This is also just an impossible conversation to have for
anyone who has a scentilla of understanding of online culture.
Video gameplay, your kids and your grandkids. Your teenage boys
probably have ridiculous uh names call signs that they have
(07:07):
created for themselves in their online alter egos to make
people laugh when they see them.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
This is of course young like teenagers may or may
not play some I might play some call of duty.
I know, when the baby comes, I'm gonna have to
stop and I'm gonna be swaddling and staying up super
late and all that stuff. But I might play some
call of duty. The names that people have on on
whether it's FIFA soccer, call of duty, these games that
like the more sort of creative and and you know,
(07:33):
raunchy slash hilarious, the better. That's very standard in the
online online culture world. But even more than that, Clay,
we're seeing such a disparity. It's a little bit like
at some levels when you know Trump and Vance we're
up against old man Biden and Kamala. You're seeing the
skill gap. You're seeing journals who are liars and who
(07:56):
have had their credibility destroyed attacking I mean, Eli Musk
is an entrepreneurial genius. If he is not an entrepreneurial genius,
who is in the modern world okay, And for these
journals who are lucky to be making, you know, half
a million bucks a year or something to read off
a prompter, to be attacking, and at CNN some'ing to
(08:18):
make a lot more than that, which is insane. It
just shows you how disconnected from reality the Democrat Party
has become clay. They've got Chuck Schumer and it was
I think it was like Maxine Watson Water. They got
a bunch of they got a bunch of Democrats getting together.
It looks like someone left the door open at the
old folks home that nobody's paying attention to. And they're
(08:41):
the ones opposing Doge.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
It is not only that the Democrats are wrong on policy.
I think I sent this tweet. They've also become huge
dorks and losers. And if you're watching this and you're
a teenager or you're a young person and you're watching
Chuck Schumer talking about the Super Bowl with an avocado
in one hand and a corona in the other, nobody
(09:06):
is like, you know what.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I want to be on that guy's team.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
You know, what we're seeing is also a disassembling of
the apparatus. You know, we talk a lot about the
apparatus here in the show, which is just everything the
left has infiltrated, controls, leverages, uses, and what you see
with a lot of this federal government auditing, which is
really what's going on here, whether it's FBI agents assigned
(09:33):
in obscene numbers to January six cases and the FBI
a just being five thousand of them for overwhelmingly non
violent crimes with no destruction and no actual victim other
than sad faces on MSNBC. It's an absolute outrage. And
as honestly the FBI I thought was bad, it's far
(09:55):
worse than even I anticipated. I've been focused more on
how the CIA needs to be reformed Elon Trump. The
whole system has come in now, this whole new government
has come in and looking at it and saying, we
can't have the forever government of the left anymore. You
don't get to win even when you lose. You don't
get to govern even when the elections show the people
(10:16):
want something else. And that is where the panic is
coming in. This is bigger to the Democrats than one election.
This is the next fifty years that they see slipping
away from them.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
And this is I think what you just said is
so important. Four years can't change everything, but if we
through ELON, can remake what baseline expenditures are appropriate and allowed.
Democrats were super strategic with COVID. They knew they could
expand the size of the federal government by a massive amount.
(10:52):
They were able to do it, and they gambled that
they would be able to embed the cost of government
whatever COVID was into future budgets, and to a large extent,
they've been correct, which is why I think it's so
important for everybody to remember and understand. If you go
back to twenty nineteen's budget, it's balanced right now. The
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insane growth that we've seen of federal government expenditures over
the last roughly five years, much of it dovetailing with
COVID at the end of Trump and then the early
years of Biden. They were able to establish a new normal,
and if we don't counter their establishment of new normal,
all we're trying to do buck is slow the rate
of now inflated growth that we never can address. When's
(11:36):
the last time we went back in government expenditures. It's
been a quarter century, probably No.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
The truth is we've been having knockdown, drag out fights
about whether we could negotiate a slight decrease in the
expected and planned increase in government spending, which is completely insane.
I also think Clay, that this is tying in to COVID,
did believe it or not in a lot of ways
(12:03):
that people didn't anticipate because what we saw, because remember
Trump was in office when COVID first hit, was the
apparatus completely unleashed when it had the opportunity. I mean,
you turn around, what area of government would you assume
just assume you don't know anything about how they actually
you know, assume you didn't know what Fauci did about
HIV and all the things that he did that were
(12:24):
horrific on public health policy before. But I think people
will turn around and say, you know who we can
trust Clay, maybe even more than anybody else, you know,
because the military industrial complex and all the contractors and
the money in the wars, So maybe even more than
the Defense Department. To be truly bipartisan, you might say
the health authorities. And what we found out during COVID
(12:46):
because of Fauci was that nationally and in a lot
of states, the health authorities were some of the most
virulent left wing partisans imaginable, and they were able to
subvert the Trump administration and the Constitution because they had
burrowed so deeply into these mechanisms of the forever government.
(13:06):
The forever government is being uprooted now and it is
a beautiful thing. And you know how we both know
it's a beautiful thing. The Democrats are in a panic,
you can see it. They are in And why do
they care so much? Why does USAID matter so much
to them? We're seeing why.
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Speaker 3 (14:57):
I will be signing an executive order rights next week
ending the ridiculous Biden push for paper straws which don't
work back to plastic. I'm just gonna throw this out
there because maybe somebody could get this into Trump's here.
Can we also stop the farce, the absolute farce that
is paper bags and grocery stores instead of plastic bags.
(15:20):
It's one of these things that are in stores in general,
you know, one of these things that has been mandated
from above. It is it is idiocy. It is not
better for the environment. That is a live People actually
use plastic bags more. I take plastic bags from the
Free State of Florida grocery store where I live, and
then we use them for little trash cans. I use
them to you know, I'll throw them my gym bag
(15:41):
if I'm gonna have like, you know, swim trunks or
something wet. Point being it's an idiotic idea. But you know, Clay, see,
you've never you've never really dealt with the sting of
the plastic bag band. But in New York, for example,
you have all these weird rules now and you end
up walking out of places with paper bag and it breaks,
(16:02):
and it's just a total nightmare. Why Because the environmentalists
are a bunch of crybabies who don't live in reality.
They're not really environmentalists, they're green communists.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I haven't spent much time.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
First of all, Trump just banning paper straws is really hysterical.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I don't even know if you can do it. I
just trying.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Well, yeah, exactly. And also there's a meme out there
where it's like you struggling to drink through a paper
straw to save the world. And you know, the celebrity
flying on their you know, cross country jet that's going
to take up more more you know, emissions than anything
that you'll do in your entire life, basically than one
(16:43):
private jet flight. So I do think that there is
a recognition about how absurd all of.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
This has become.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
And this is why, I mean, I was talking about
this last night with some some people down here around
the Super Bowl. I know that reflexively, Democrats have just
gotten so used to being opposed to everything Trump. But
Trump has moved so far into the common sense realm
(17:10):
that he's now got Democrats painted into a complete corner
opposing things that huge majorities of the American public are
in favor or opposed to. Right, Like, I mean, it
just it's staggering. They reflexively hate everything that he says.
A part of me is like Trump's going to come
out and say, hey, everybody should have a hamburger for
you know, the Super Bowl and kick back and enjoy football.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
And you know, like Chuck Schumer is going to come
out and be like.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
No one can eat Hamburgers and enjoy football. You know,
it's like they have painted themselves into the party of
being anti everything that people enjoy now and or anti
common sense. And it doesn't even really register on the
Republican Democrat to me political scale as much as it
does sanity and insanity.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
And this is what they're fighting on with the weakest
Democrat political army I've ever seen. They have nobody, there's
no one who see what they generally have been able
to rely on the past, is someone who can with
some degree of credibility, yeah, speak to the middle of
(18:17):
the country, but also just speak to normal dudes, you know,
just speak to dudes who are not deeply ideologically left wing.
That is where this was the huge problem in twenty
twenty four, and this is the huge problem they have
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Democrat presidential candadate Kamala Harris, who every single day I
am thankful is not the President of the United States,
as virtually every single one of you listening as well
has that same feeling. She has begun to re emerge
on the national stage. And I saw last night Buck
she went to a Lakers game with her beloved husband,
(20:22):
Doug ima Hooff. No one seemed to care about them
being there at all. And if you compare it, I
was with Trump. I did an interview of him at
the Alabama Georgia game Georgia was hosting. Alabama was hosting
Georgia back in September. Everywhere Trump went it was like
Elvis was walking through the building. Based on everything I've
(20:46):
ever read, I mean, it was pure bedlam, pure chaos
everywhere in the vicinity of Trump. Kamala walked in and
walked to her seat with Doug Imhoff and virtually no
one in the entire arena in Los Angeles cared at all.
I think it's emblematic that there was never really a
Kamala or Biden fan base. And finally, when we got
(21:10):
a little bit of a taste of what Joe Biden
and Kamala Harris would be capable of, the anti Trump
element of their success has faded, and Kamala just kind
of seems like she's fading into obsolescence in many ways.
She doesn't have a political office to hold, she doesn't
have a job. It's I don't even know what she's gonna.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Do at this point.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
You know, I've been saying the whole time, if she lost,
she's going to end up the provost or chancellor of
some UC school. I still think that's probably going to happen,
because she has, you know, residents and name recognition in California.
So she'll get a job that pays her, you know,
a million and a half dollars a year to live
in a mansion that somebody else pays for and you know,
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just has to like exist and show up to cocktail parties.
I think husband has gotten a big law firm job,
that is a bicoastal law firm job. They'll pay him
several million dollars a year basically to glad hand and
not really work very hard. But I think you're right.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
If she is going to try, she'll either stay out
of a job buck and decide to run for governor,
or she'll take a job like you're talking about, make
several million dollars.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I don't think Kamala Harris really well. She wants to
be the governor of California. That she wants to be
important and famous and have power, but I don't think
she actually wants to do that job. And for somebody
who's already been the Senator from California, I think that
there's a lot of headache to being the governor unless
you think you're going to use that to run for president. Right.
So to me, if the governorship at California for her
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is not a stepping stone, why is she going to
put herself to do that? Because she doesn't really want
to fix California because she can't. I mean, this is
the other thing. She is just not very capable. I
you know, she's We try to be very honest here
about the deficiencies but also the skills of various Democrats.
You know, some democrats are devious but smart. Some democrats
(23:06):
are just really dumb. And so we tell you the
truth about this because it's important to be able to
say this stuff out loud. With that in mind, we
have Kamala Harrisy. This was when she showed up to
talk about the wildfires, right, she toured the wildfires. This
is part of Kamala emerging back onto the national scene
and I believe she was asked about what her future
(23:26):
plans are.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
We have this, I believe Cut twenty two.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
As we think about the future, we must as a society,
as a country, invest in adaptation and resilience, and we
have to understand these extreme weather occurrences are extreme, but
they are increasingly less rare.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
She knows nothing, She really knows nothing. She is an
absolute ignoramus. And Democrats try so they made a dementia
pati president, and they tried to make some buddy who
knows nothing president.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
That is her talking about the wildfires. We also have
cut nineteen where she talks buck about what her future
plans are, also not particularly well said.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
But listen, I have been.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Home for two weeks and three days.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
My plans are to be in touch with my community,
to be in touch with the leaders and figure out
what I can do to support them, and most importantly,
to lift up the folks who are surviving this extraordinary
crisis and do what I can do to offer any assistance,
even if it is a kind word along the way.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
So there is Kamala.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
What do you think? So do you think she's done?
Like if we were let's flag this. It's February seventh,
twenty twenty four. And let me just put this out there,
because I do think it's significant. February seventh, of roughly
twenty twenty one would have been about a month after
January sixth. I think if you or I had been
on the air on that day and we had said, hey,
(25:00):
Trump is going to win the popular vote in twenty
twenty four. He's going to win all seven of the
so called battleground states. He's going to get over three
hundred electoral votes, over seventy five million votes cast, I
think a lot of people would have said, you're crazy, right,
because Trump was at his absolute lowest point, probably around
this time four years ago. Having said that, do you
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think that Kamala will run buck in twenty twenty eight
or do you think she's basically done with the political
universe at this point in time.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
I think she's done because think about how Hillary Clinton
made it a lot closer than Kamala did. Right, Kamala
is the worst performing Democrat to run as their candidate.
I mean, obviously Obama won twice, Biden won once. Biden
goes out one for one sort of, she is the
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worst performing Democrat since John Kerry in two thousand and four.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I think it has even make it worse the Candida
that I think you could make an argument it's worse
since ducaucas I was gonna say, you probably could stretch
it even more so. But at least in the twenty
first century, she's the worst performing Democrat candidate for the
presidency that you've seen. So to me, of course it
can't be her.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Again. The only reason why I wouldn't bet the farm,
so to speak, on that is their benches absolutely so weak,
and it's their own it's their own doing because they
had people who their understanding of the system and their
longevity in the system, their longevity in the apparatus was
really their currency. People like Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden.
(26:42):
These people have been around this game forever. Their donor
lists are enormous, the political favors they can call upon,
and the way that they understand how to wield power
is But Clay, they did not build up another generation
feed Buddha. Judge isn't going to get it done for them.
I mean, you look at who else they've and we
(27:03):
could talk about that another time, but you know, there's
no way that they can look at who they have
on the bench. I mean, keep in mind all of
the people that you would really have a conversation. I've
talked Wes Moore, Maryland. I think they're going to really
make up a big push to build up Wes Moore.
And you know, he actually does have things going for him,
a bunch of things that I think would be appealing.
(27:24):
But they swatted down all of the next generation to
make Biden the nominee in twenty twenty, and that was
the time they had to be real. But they couldn't
admit how left wing the party was, so they went
with Biden because that made it seem like they weren't
as insane as they are.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
I think Democrats are going to find a version of
Trump as their nominee in twenty twenty eight. I don't
mean someone of similar political skills necessarily or political opinions
as Trump.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
A global celebrity, like a global brand.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yes, I think they will go and they will find
somebody who is not a traditional politician. I think there'll
be two or three of those people potentially who run.
Because of what you're just laying out, there is no
sort of pre eminent favorite who's out there soaking up
so much of the dollars and the attention to make
it difficult for someone to think they could have a
(28:18):
run there. I think they're going to have a situation
where they are desperate and they're trying to find somebody
who is not particularly political because the overall Democrat brand
is in the tank to such an extent that it's
going to be hard. I think for somebody to get
elevated in a way that gives themselves a lot of opportunity.
(28:38):
So I think they will have a Trumpian like candidate.
Who that is, I don't know. By the way, Trump
right now live in the Oval Office. We are going
to monitor that he's with Japan's Prime minister taking questions.
As we have got to learn with it was very
rare back in the day for the last four years
buck that we were like, oh, Biden suddenly live taking questions, like,
(28:59):
let's see what he does. It just didn't happen very often.
Happens all the time now with Trump.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
I bet Trump doesn't eat Bet Trump doesn't sushi at all,
you know how. I know that he orders his red
meat well done, and I just feel like, if you're
a red meat well done. Guy, You don't eat sushi.
That's my guess. He's a big bad guy.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Trump's worst flaw from a food perspective because a lot
of people come after him for the fast food. You guys,
most of you out there like fast food. Getting a
great steak well done is just absolutely indefensible.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I hold I would hold back tears at home if
I was taking out one of my dry age steaks
from perhaps good ranchers, and and then I was to
say someone was to tell me cook it well done.
It's like, why don't Why don't I just take one
of those hockey puck burgers they used to give you
in summer camp that had like the little craters on them.
Do you remember those that came? Just throw one of
(29:50):
those on your plate. Taste just the same.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
It's his worst flaw, and maybe his worst flaw overall
is the well done steak and ketchup? Doesn't he eat ketchup?
And I tell you I've given in his stance on straws.
I forgive him for the snake thing entirely. This is
a This is amazing.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
I wasn't expecting to wake up on a Friday and
have the most powerful person on Earth say, the paper
straw thing is stupid. I mean, have you ever been
I've actually experienced this in a kind of casual but
a business meeting setting when you're you know, you're drinking
a coffee or something and and your straw just just
sort of disintegrates in real time, just falls apart. You
look like some little kid. You've got, like, you know,
(30:25):
your lattee all over your hand now because the straw
was just disintegrating it. What is this? They think this
is saving the Amazon? When did libs become insane? They
really clay that Trump should do an executive order that
all communists have to listen to the Clay and Buck show.
We need to deprogram them. It would be very helpful.
My wife is texting me about the straw thing. She says,
(30:45):
our boys are going to be so excited about this.
They lose it when we get paper straws and they
have to they have to try to drink out of
the paper straws.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Trump saved TikTok for my fourteen year old. Now he's
doing away with paper straws. He's the greatest.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
You know, you're not in a sane and free state
in this country when they force you to drink out
of paper straws. I mean, California is obviously well.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Especially when you're getting lectured by all the celebrities flying
around their private jets telling you that you need to
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Speaker 3 (32:26):
President Trump putting on a show in the Oval Office
once again, talking about how he is running up the scoreboard.
It is fantastic, and he's covering a whole bunch of
topics right now. We're gonna bring them all to you
in just a few minutes. It's talking about Doge, says
Oh strap In. You're just seeing the early stages of Doge,
(32:49):
which has already exceeded my expectations. I have to say,
I mean, I think Elon's a genius, but I thought
the federal government, the Leviathan, was just too too much
of a bulbous blob for anyone. Oh, Elon is identifying
the weak seems he is finding the cracks, the fissures
in the facade of the federal government. We've also got
(33:11):
to the gaza idea, which I want to discuss. Clay,
we shouldn't have a conversation about that because the fact
that there was so much outrage for a moment I
think overshadowed, well, hold on a second, what really is
the plan here? And I think Trump opened up that
discussion Ai Ukraine. Trump is meeting it with Zelenski next week,
says he wants to meet with Putin. So we've got
a lot of things to dive into here coming up
(33:33):
in a moment. But I love Clay that there's just
a very clear mandate from this White House to just
keep just keep going. You know we were talking before.
We know a lot of these people, we've known them
over the years for media and stuff, and I don't
want to bother anybody right now. You know, I feel
like they're they're in the matrix and I want to
(33:54):
let them do their thing. You know, they're they're running around.
Neo's in the matrix and he's fighting Agent Smith, and
I'm back in the ship, you know, watching this on
the screen because I think, Clay, what they're doing is
honestly just the beginning of so much critical work for
all of us, and we can see it. It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
It is what Elon is doing. I thought he would
get totally burned out. I also questioned whether there was
any way to get real optics on what the government
is spending. Buck, I was just reading, we are spending
more at US eight than they are spending for the
Department of Justice. I mean, when we start talking about
(34:36):
the side, more than we spend.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
You pointed this out.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
I think last week that USAID was spending more than
we spend on border security. The degree to which this
was a Democrat a lot more, just to be clear,
many times more, this was just such a Democrat slush
fund that they were effectively using to distribute as much
money around to people as they could to try and
(35:00):
take advantage of using your mind tax dollars to give
to all of these left wing ideologues as well as media,
and then using it as an opportunity to be able
to influence the overall existing narratives. It's really amazing that
Elon has gotten in here and figured this out. And
you know what Elon does, Buck is he said, his
(35:23):
management straw style. And I think it's kind of fascinating.
Probably a good lesson for anybody out there is figure
out what the biggest obstacle is and go work hard
to fix that big obstacle because then that basically, for
lack of a better way to kind of discuss the metaphor,
cleans up the rest of the company to move more smoothly.
(35:45):
So find the bottleneck, which is a very kind of
engineering way of thinking. And really what he's done with
the government is figure out, Okay, where is the money
going and what do the ledgers look like to distribute
that money, And they're just going and with granular detail
examining how all those payments work. And the fit that
(36:07):
Democrats are throwing right now kind of gives you a
sense that he has uncovered their honeypot where they were
using as much of their money as possible to try
to use our tax dollars to implement their government agenda
without anybody really noticing was going on.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Even the Politico thing.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
They're charging twenty thousand dollars a year for this stuff
and they're like, well, this is just what our product costs.
Can you imagine if Fox News had a twenty thousand
dollars a month subscription service and the Trump White House
was paid for with tax dollars, yes, tens of millions of.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Dollars on it. I mean, people would lose their minds justifiably.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
It's the whole thing is outraged. It's obviously a scam.
I mean it's a scam. The same way that you know,
Hillary Clinton raising hundreds of millions of dollars for the
Clinton Foundation. Where did that money actually? I mean they
were spending over fifty million dollars on prime jet flights
for Bill and Hillary and their cronies. I mean, the
whole thing was just graft. It was just corruption. They
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Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck
Sexton Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome in Clay Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate everybody hanging
out with us. I am in New Orleans getting ready
for the big super Bowl this weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Kind of a big game.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Donald Trump going to become I was stunned by this,
and even a lot of people in sports don't believe
it's true, but it is. Donald Trump set to become Buck,
the very first sitting president of the United States to
ever attend a Super Bowl. Like I would have if
you would come on and told me that stat last week,
(00:35):
I would have said, there's no way on Earth that's
possibly true.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It is.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
There have been past presidents, there have been vice presidents,
there have been first ladies. There has never been a
sitting president of the United States at the Super Bowl.
Donald Trump, among many other things, really a monster sports fan,
and Buck, I think he's going to go to almost everything.
So a lot of fun down here in New Orleans.
We'll get into that, including a photo that has gone
(01:04):
viral the world over of legendary former New England Patriots
quarterback Bill Belichick age seventy two, and I believe it
is his twenty five year old girlfriend and the dress
that she wore. That let's just say Lauren Sanchez got
some competition in several different several different fronts. If you
haven't seen that picture, we'll have some fun with it.
(01:25):
But there's a lot of ridiculous stories I would say
that are out there right now. Buck Trump just announced,
and who's opposed to this, that paper straws are done,
that he is ending paper straws because they don't work.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I mean, the guy is legitimate. I think I'm in love. Honestly,
I don't even know what to say at this point.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I saw the message and Trump has basically just decided
that he's going to fix everything ridiculous that has existed
in the country for the last decade, whether it's our
policy in the Middle East or what kind of raw
as we drink out of, So both both significant and
in the grand scheme of things, insignificant.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Has he done a single thing yet that you know
since he's taken office that you're like, why would he
do that? This is what's amazing to me is that
for me, I think he's batting a thousand right now.
I think there's a thousand. I mean, there's one hundred
percent chance he's batting a thousand. However, you want to
say it everything that he's doing. I'm like, yeah, absolutely,
do that. Absolutely do that.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I were if I were grading him, I would give
him like a ninety nine. The only thing I would
have changed is maybe don't go as hard on the
DEI at the announcement of the jet crash, and I
probably would say, uh, you know, the Gaza, the Gaza
cannonball into the swimming pool. I still don't know what
(02:47):
exactly is going on there. Uh, those are Gaza.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I think the Gaza breaking the uh, the established paradigm
about should happen with Gaza. We may look back on
and say was quite brave and even brilliant in time.
But I think that may well be true.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
But those the only two things I can point to,
and I'm trying to nitpick. It's like when you win
a game fifty two to three and you're the coach
and you have to go back over the film and
you're like, you know, on third and six, our tackle
could have done a better job here picking up. We
should have gotten that we only got four yards. There
was fourteen there to get I mean, this is the
kind of stuff that you're fortunate when you win and
(03:26):
you go back over the film and you've won by
forty plus points.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I think what's amazing, Buck.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Is it used to be that there was at least
some opposition to Trump, Buck, that seemed founded in a
form of rationality from the Democrat Party, and or there
were spokespersons where I wouldn't agree with them, but I
would at least listen and I would say, Okay, I
can see he's like the Maxine Waters is screaming outside
(03:53):
the Department of Education, Chuck Schumer is dancing around with
an avocado in one hand and a beer in the other.
We're talking about not only Trump succeeding in the first
three weeks on a level that neither of us, I
don't think even and we were optimistic thought was possible,
but we're also seeing an implosion of every Trump critic.
And it actually leads Buck to this is what CNN
(04:16):
is talking about right now. I mean, I'm going to
play this and many of you out there are going
to say this can't possibly be a real news segment.
Both that is oh, it is they have decided that
they are going to essentially focus on the guys that
Elon Musk is bringing in to try to save billions
(04:38):
of dollars in fraud payments. Like this is their opposition
now and they have gone in and they're doing deep dive.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
We're going to listen to cut four here, right, So
cut four Aaron Burnett CNN. They're going after the twenty
somethings working for Elon. Now, this is where the eye
of Souron has focused. Listen to what they're saying on CNN.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Nineteen year old high school graduate who has used the
unfortunate nickname Big Balls online, so that would be one
way that we could refer to him. He is now
working at Musk's behest inside Doge. This individual has founded
multiple companies, including one with another unfortunate name, Tesla dot SEXYLLC,
(05:20):
which he established in twenty twenty one. He would have
been around sixteen years old. So now you look.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
At these young men who are now in data and
in the private information about maybe hundreds of millions of
American citizens as young as nineteen.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
The Big Balls here, most of them are in their
early twenties. There's an exception. I'm going to get to
you in a minute. I'm curious though, Kara, how well
does even Musk know these young men? Do you think
I have no idea? I'll be okay, Clay. They are
attacked like they don't even realize that what we're all
hearing is they're attacking big balls on CNN. This is
(05:54):
this guy's online name, and they don't seem to understand
that we're in this era where the low t DNC
and the sad Karens of the Democrat Party and all
the rest are are being told enough is enough. Elon
has brought in a team of computer whiz you know,
(06:15):
superminds essentially. I mean you see what they're not talking
about the kid who who just deciphered the scroll using
AI like the first person in the world to do it.
If Elon has picked you to do this, you're impressive. Okay,
we all under you have like the c plus students
who run you know, homecoming committee, whining about the quarterback
(06:37):
of the football team and the smartest kid in the class,
who are working together Trump and Elon to fix everything.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
This is also just an impossible conversation to have for
anyone who has a scentilla of understanding of online culture.
Video gameplay, your kids and your grandkids. Your teenage boys
probably have ridiculous uh names call signs that they have
(07:07):
created for themselves in their online alter egos to make
people laugh when they see them.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
This is of course young like teenagers may or may
not play some I might play some call of duty.
I know, when the baby comes, I'm gonna have to
stop and I'm gonna be swaddling and staying up super
late and all that stuff. But I might play some
call of duty. The names that people have on on
whether it's FIFA soccer, call of duty, these games that
like the more sort of creative and and you know,
(07:33):
raunchy slash hilarious, the better. That's very standard in the
online online culture world. But even more than that, Clay,
we're seeing such a disparity. It's a little bit like
at some levels when you know Trump and Vance we're
up against old man Biden and Kamala. You're seeing the
skill gap. You're seeing journals who are liars and who
(07:56):
have had their credibility destroyed attacking I mean, Eli Musk
is an entrepreneurial genius. If he is not an entrepreneurial genius,
who is in the modern world okay, And for these
journals who are lucky to be making, you know, half
a million bucks a year or something to read off
a prompter, to be attacking, and at CNN some'ing to
(08:18):
make a lot more than that, which is insane. It
just shows you how disconnected from reality the Democrat Party
has become clay. They've got Chuck Schumer and it was
I think it was like Maxine Watson Water. They got
a bunch of they got a bunch of Democrats getting together.
It looks like someone left the door open at the
old folks home that nobody's paying attention to. And they're
(08:41):
the ones opposing Doge.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
It is not only that the Democrats are wrong on policy.
I think I sent this tweet. They've also become huge
dorks and losers. And if you're watching this and you're
a teenager or you're a young person and you're watching
Chuck Schumer talking about the Super Bowl with an avocado
in one hand and a corona in the other, nobody
(09:06):
is like, you know what.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I want to be on that guy's team.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
You know, what we're seeing is also a disassembling of
the apparatus. You know, we talk a lot about the
apparatus here in the show, which is just everything the
left has infiltrated, controls, leverages, uses, and what you see
with a lot of this federal government auditing, which is
really what's going on here, whether it's FBI agents assigned
(09:33):
in obscene numbers to January six cases and the FBI
a just being five thousand of them for overwhelmingly non
violent crimes with no destruction and no actual victim other
than sad faces on MSNBC. It's an absolute outrage. And
as honestly the FBI I thought was bad, it's far
(09:55):
worse than even I anticipated. I've been focused more on
how the CIA needs to be reformed Elon Trump. The
whole system has come in now, this whole new government
has come in and looking at it and saying, we
can't have the forever government of the left anymore. You
don't get to win even when you lose. You don't
get to govern even when the elections show the people
(10:16):
want something else. And that is where the panic is
coming in. This is bigger to the Democrats than one election.
This is the next fifty years that they see slipping
away from them.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
And this is I think what you just said is
so important. Four years can't change everything, but if we
through ELON, can remake what baseline expenditures are appropriate and allowed.
Democrats were super strategic with COVID. They knew they could
expand the size of the federal government by a massive amount.
(10:52):
They were able to do it, and they gambled that
they would be able to embed the cost of government
whatever COVID was into future budgets, and to a large extent,
they've been correct, which is why I think it's so
important for everybody to remember and understand. If you go
back to twenty nineteen's budget, it's balanced right now. The
(11:12):
insane growth that we've seen of federal government expenditures over
the last roughly five years, much of it dovetailing with
COVID at the end of Trump and then the early
years of Biden. They were able to establish a new normal,
and if we don't counter their establishment of new normal,
all we're trying to do buck is slow the rate
of now inflated growth that we never can address. When's
(11:36):
the last time we went back in government expenditures. It's
been a quarter century, probably No.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
The truth is we've been having knockdown, drag out fights
about whether we could negotiate a slight decrease in the
expected and planned increase in government spending, which is completely insane.
I also think Clay, that this is tying in to COVID,
did believe it or not in a lot of ways
(12:03):
that people didn't anticipate because what we saw, because remember
Trump was in office when COVID first hit, was the
apparatus completely unleashed when it had the opportunity. I mean,
you turn around, what area of government would you assume
just assume you don't know anything about how they actually
you know, assume you didn't know what Fauci did about
HIV and all the things that he did that were
(12:24):
horrific on public health policy before. But I think people
will turn around and say, you know who we can
trust Clay, maybe even more than anybody else, you know,
because the military industrial complex and all the contractors and
the money in the wars, So maybe even more than
the Defense Department. To be truly bipartisan, you might say
the health authorities. And what we found out during COVID
(12:46):
because of Fauci was that nationally and in a lot
of states, the health authorities were some of the most
virulent left wing partisans imaginable, and they were able to
subvert the Trump administration and the Constitution because they had
burrowed so deeply into these mechanisms of the forever government.
(13:06):
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a beautiful thing. And you know how we both know
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you can see it. They are in And why do
they care so much? Why does USAID matter so much
to them? We're seeing why.
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Speaker 3 (14:57):
I will be signing an executive order rights next week
ending the ridiculous Biden push for paper straws which don't
work back to plastic. I'm just gonna throw this out
there because maybe somebody could get this into Trump's here.
Can we also stop the farce, the absolute farce that
is paper bags and grocery stores instead of plastic bags.
(15:20):
It's one of these things that are in stores in general,
you know, one of these things that has been mandated
from above. It is it is idiocy. It is not
better for the environment. That is a live People actually
use plastic bags more. I take plastic bags from the
Free State of Florida grocery store where I live, and
then we use them for little trash cans. I use
them to you know, I'll throw them my gym bag
(15:41):
if I'm gonna have like, you know, swim trunks or
something wet. Point being it's an idiotic idea. But you know, Clay, see,
you've never you've never really dealt with the sting of
the plastic bag band. But in New York, for example,
you have all these weird rules now and you end
up walking out of places with paper bag and it breaks,
(16:02):
and it's just a total nightmare. Why Because the environmentalists
are a bunch of crybabies who don't live in reality.
They're not really environmentalists, they're green communists.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I haven't spent much time.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
First of all, Trump just banning paper straws is really hysterical.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I don't even know if you can do it. I
just trying.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Well, yeah, exactly. And also there's a meme out there
where it's like you struggling to drink through a paper
straw to save the world. And you know, the celebrity
flying on their you know, cross country jet that's going
to take up more more you know, emissions than anything
that you'll do in your entire life, basically than one
(16:43):
private jet flight. So I do think that there is
a recognition about how absurd all of.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
This has become.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
And this is why, I mean, I was talking about
this last night with some some people down here around
the Super Bowl. I know that reflexively, Democrats have just
gotten so used to being opposed to everything Trump. But
Trump has moved so far into the common sense realm
(17:10):
that he's now got Democrats painted into a complete corner
opposing things that huge majorities of the American public are
in favor or opposed to. Right, Like, I mean, it
just it's staggering. They reflexively hate everything that he says.
A part of me is like Trump's going to come
out and say, hey, everybody should have a hamburger for
you know, the Super Bowl and kick back and enjoy football.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
And you know, like Chuck Schumer is going to come
out and be like.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
No one can eat Hamburgers and enjoy football. You know,
it's like they have painted themselves into the party of
being anti everything that people enjoy now and or anti
common sense. And it doesn't even really register on the
Republican Democrat to me political scale as much as it
does sanity and insanity.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
And this is what they're fighting on with the weakest
Democrat political army I've ever seen. They have nobody, there's
no one who see what they generally have been able
to rely on the past, is someone who can with
some degree of credibility, yeah, speak to the middle of
(18:17):
the country, but also just speak to normal dudes, you know,
just speak to dudes who are not deeply ideologically left wing.
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Democrat presidential candadate Kamala Harris, who every single day I
am thankful is not the President of the United States,
as virtually every single one of you listening as well
has that same feeling. She has begun to re emerge
on the national stage. And I saw last night Buck
she went to a Lakers game with her beloved husband,
(20:22):
Doug ima Hooff. No one seemed to care about them
being there at all. And if you compare it, I
was with Trump. I did an interview of him at
the Alabama Georgia game Georgia was hosting. Alabama was hosting
Georgia back in September. Everywhere Trump went it was like
Elvis was walking through the building. Based on everything I've
(20:46):
ever read, I mean, it was pure bedlam, pure chaos
everywhere in the vicinity of Trump. Kamala walked in and
walked to her seat with Doug Imhoff and virtually no
one in the entire arena in Los Angeles cared at all.
I think it's emblematic that there was never really a
Kamala or Biden fan base. And finally, when we got
(21:10):
a little bit of a taste of what Joe Biden
and Kamala Harris would be capable of, the anti Trump
element of their success has faded, and Kamala just kind
of seems like she's fading into obsolescence in many ways.
She doesn't have a political office to hold, she doesn't
have a job. It's I don't even know what she's gonna.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Do at this point.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
You know, I've been saying the whole time, if she lost,
she's going to end up the provost or chancellor of
some UC school. I still think that's probably going to happen,
because she has, you know, residents and name recognition in California.
So she'll get a job that pays her, you know,
a million and a half dollars a year to live
in a mansion that somebody else pays for and you know,
(21:54):
just has to like exist and show up to cocktail parties.
I think husband has gotten a big law firm job,
that is a bicoastal law firm job. They'll pay him
several million dollars a year basically to glad hand and
not really work very hard. But I think you're right.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
If she is going to try, she'll either stay out
of a job buck and decide to run for governor,
or she'll take a job like you're talking about, make
several million dollars.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
I don't think Kamala Harris really well. She wants to
be the governor of California. That she wants to be
important and famous and have power, but I don't think
she actually wants to do that job. And for somebody
who's already been the Senator from California, I think that
there's a lot of headache to being the governor unless
you think you're going to use that to run for president. Right.
So to me, if the governorship at California for her
(22:44):
is not a stepping stone, why is she going to
put herself to do that? Because she doesn't really want
to fix California because she can't. I mean, this is
the other thing. She is just not very capable. I
you know, she's We try to be very honest here
about the deficiencies but also the skills of various Democrats.
You know, some democrats are devious but smart. Some democrats
(23:06):
are just really dumb. And so we tell you the
truth about this because it's important to be able to
say this stuff out loud. With that in mind, we
have Kamala Harrisy. This was when she showed up to
talk about the wildfires, right, she toured the wildfires. This
is part of Kamala emerging back onto the national scene
and I believe she was asked about what her future
(23:26):
plans are.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
We have this, I believe Cut twenty two.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
As we think about the future, we must as a society,
as a country, invest in adaptation and resilience, and we
have to understand these extreme weather occurrences are extreme, but
they are increasingly less rare.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
She knows nothing, She really knows nothing. She is an
absolute ignoramus. And Democrats try so they made a dementia
pati president, and they tried to make some buddy who
knows nothing president.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
That is her talking about the wildfires. We also have
cut nineteen where she talks buck about what her future
plans are, also not particularly well said.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
But listen, I have been.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Home for two weeks and three days.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
My plans are to be in touch with my community,
to be in touch with the leaders and figure out
what I can do to support them, and most importantly,
to lift up the folks who are surviving this extraordinary
crisis and do what I can do to offer any assistance,
even if it is a kind word along the way.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
So there is Kamala.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
What do you think? So do you think she's done?
Like if we were let's flag this. It's February seventh,
twenty twenty four. And let me just put this out there,
because I do think it's significant. February seventh, of roughly
twenty twenty one would have been about a month after
January sixth. I think if you or I had been
on the air on that day and we had said, hey,
(25:00):
Trump is going to win the popular vote in twenty
twenty four. He's going to win all seven of the
so called battleground states. He's going to get over three
hundred electoral votes, over seventy five million votes cast, I
think a lot of people would have said, you're crazy, right,
because Trump was at his absolute lowest point, probably around
this time four years ago. Having said that, do you
(25:23):
think that Kamala will run buck in twenty twenty eight
or do you think she's basically done with the political
universe at this point in time.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
I think she's done because think about how Hillary Clinton
made it a lot closer than Kamala did. Right, Kamala
is the worst performing Democrat to run as their candidate.
I mean, obviously Obama won twice, Biden won once. Biden
goes out one for one sort of, she is the
(25:54):
worst performing Democrat since John Kerry in two thousand and four.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
I think it has even make it worse the Candida
that I think you could make an argument it's worse
since ducaucas I was gonna say, you probably could stretch
it even more so. But at least in the twenty
first century, she's the worst performing Democrat candidate for the
presidency that you've seen. So to me, of course it
can't be her.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Again. The only reason why I wouldn't bet the farm,
so to speak, on that is their benches absolutely so weak,
and it's their own it's their own doing because they
had people who their understanding of the system and their
longevity in the system, their longevity in the apparatus was
really their currency. People like Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden.
(26:42):
These people have been around this game forever. Their donor
lists are enormous, the political favors they can call upon,
and the way that they understand how to wield power
is But Clay, they did not build up another generation
feed Buddha. Judge isn't going to get it done for them.
I mean, you look at who else they've and we
(27:03):
could talk about that another time, but you know, there's
no way that they can look at who they have
on the bench. I mean, keep in mind all of
the people that you would really have a conversation. I've
talked Wes Moore, Maryland. I think they're going to really
make up a big push to build up Wes Moore.
And you know, he actually does have things going for him,
a bunch of things that I think would be appealing.
(27:24):
But they swatted down all of the next generation to
make Biden the nominee in twenty twenty, and that was
the time they had to be real. But they couldn't
admit how left wing the party was, so they went
with Biden because that made it seem like they weren't
as insane as they are.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
I think Democrats are going to find a version of
Trump as their nominee in twenty twenty eight. I don't
mean someone of similar political skills necessarily or political opinions
as Trump.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
A global celebrity, like a global brand.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yes, I think they will go and they will find
somebody who is not a traditional politician. I think there'll
be two or three of those people potentially who run.
Because of what you're just laying out, there is no
sort of pre eminent favorite who's out there soaking up
so much of the dollars and the attention to make
it difficult for someone to think they could have a
(28:18):
run there. I think they're going to have a situation
where they are desperate and they're trying to find somebody
who is not particularly political because the overall Democrat brand
is in the tank to such an extent that it's
going to be hard. I think for somebody to get
elevated in a way that gives themselves a lot of opportunity.
(28:38):
So I think they will have a Trumpian like candidate.
Who that is, I don't know. By the way, Trump
right now live in the Oval Office. We are going
to monitor that he's with Japan's Prime minister taking questions.
As we have got to learn with it was very
rare back in the day for the last four years
buck that we were like, oh, Biden suddenly live taking questions, like,
(28:59):
let's see what he does. It just didn't happen very often.
Happens all the time now with Trump.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
I bet Trump doesn't eat Bet Trump doesn't sushi at all,
you know how. I know that he orders his red
meat well done, and I just feel like, if you're
a red meat well done. Guy, You don't eat sushi.
That's my guess. He's a big bad guy.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Trump's worst flaw from a food perspective because a lot
of people come after him for the fast food. You guys,
most of you out there like fast food. Getting a
great steak well done is just absolutely indefensible.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I hold I would hold back tears at home if
I was taking out one of my dry age steaks
from perhaps good ranchers, and and then I was to
say someone was to tell me cook it well done.
It's like, why don't Why don't I just take one
of those hockey puck burgers they used to give you
in summer camp that had like the little craters on them.
Do you remember those that came? Just throw one of
(29:50):
those on your plate. Taste just the same.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
It's his worst flaw, and maybe his worst flaw overall
is the well done steak and ketchup? Doesn't he eat ketchup?
And I tell you I've given in his stance on straws.
I forgive him for the snake thing entirely. This is
a This is amazing.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
I wasn't expecting to wake up on a Friday and
have the most powerful person on Earth say, the paper
straw thing is stupid. I mean, have you ever been
I've actually experienced this in a kind of casual but
a business meeting setting when you're you know, you're drinking
a coffee or something and and your straw just just
sort of disintegrates in real time, just falls apart. You
look like some little kid. You've got, like, you know,
(30:25):
your lattee all over your hand now because the straw
was just disintegrating it. What is this? They think this
is saving the Amazon? When did libs become insane? They
really clay that Trump should do an executive order that
all communists have to listen to the Clay and Buck show.
We need to deprogram them. It would be very helpful.
My wife is texting me about the straw thing. She says,
(30:45):
our boys are going to be so excited about this.
They lose it when we get paper straws and they
have to they have to try to drink out of
the paper straws.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Trump saved TikTok for my fourteen year old. Now he's
doing away with paper straws. He's the greatest.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
You know, you're not in a sane and free state
in this country when they force you to drink out
of paper straws. I mean, California is obviously well.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Especially when you're getting lectured by all the celebrities flying
around their private jets telling you that you need to
go drink a paper straw. We'll come back. We'll take
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Speaker 3 (32:26):
President Trump putting on a show in the Oval Office
once again, talking about how he is running up the scoreboard.
It is fantastic, and he's covering a whole bunch of
topics right now. We're gonna bring them all to you
in just a few minutes. It's talking about Doge, says
Oh strap In. You're just seeing the early stages of Doge,
(32:49):
which has already exceeded my expectations. I have to say,
I mean, I think Elon's a genius, but I thought
the federal government, the Leviathan, was just too too much
of a bulbous blob for anyone. Oh, Elon is identifying
the weak seems he is finding the cracks, the fissures
in the facade of the federal government. We've also got
(33:11):
to the gaza idea, which I want to discuss. Clay,
we shouldn't have a conversation about that because the fact
that there was so much outrage for a moment I
think overshadowed, well, hold on a second, what really is
the plan here? And I think Trump opened up that
discussion Ai Ukraine. Trump is meeting it with Zelenski next week,
says he wants to meet with Putin. So we've got
a lot of things to dive into here coming up
(33:33):
in a moment. But I love Clay that there's just
a very clear mandate from this White House to just
keep just keep going. You know we were talking before.
We know a lot of these people, we've known them
over the years for media and stuff, and I don't
want to bother anybody right now. You know, I feel
like they're they're in the matrix and I want to
(33:54):
let them do their thing. You know, they're they're running around.
Neo's in the matrix and he's fighting Agent Smith, and
I'm back in the ship, you know, watching this on
the screen because I think, Clay, what they're doing is
honestly just the beginning of so much critical work for
all of us, and we can see it. It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
It is what Elon is doing. I thought he would
get totally burned out. I also questioned whether there was
any way to get real optics on what the government
is spending. Buck, I was just reading, we are spending
more at US eight than they are spending for the
Department of Justice. I mean, when we start talking about
(34:36):
the side, more than we spend.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
You pointed this out.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
I think last week that USAID was spending more than
we spend on border security. The degree to which this
was a Democrat a lot more, just to be clear,
many times more, this was just such a Democrat slush
fund that they were effectively using to distribute as much
money around to people as they could to try and
(35:00):
take advantage of using your mind tax dollars to give
to all of these left wing ideologues as well as media,
and then using it as an opportunity to be able
to influence the overall existing narratives. It's really amazing that
Elon has gotten in here and figured this out. And
you know what Elon does, Buck is he said, his
(35:23):
management straw style. And I think it's kind of fascinating.
Probably a good lesson for anybody out there is figure
out what the biggest obstacle is and go work hard
to fix that big obstacle because then that basically, for
lack of a better way to kind of discuss the metaphor,
cleans up the rest of the company to move more smoothly.
(35:45):
So find the bottleneck, which is a very kind of
engineering way of thinking. And really what he's done with
the government is figure out, Okay, where is the money
going and what do the ledgers look like to distribute
that money, And they're just going and with granular detail
examining how all those payments work. And the fit that
(36:07):
Democrats are throwing right now kind of gives you a
sense that he has uncovered their honeypot where they were
using as much of their money as possible to try
to use our tax dollars to implement their government agenda
without anybody really noticing was going on.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Even the Politico thing.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
They're charging twenty thousand dollars a year for this stuff
and they're like, well, this is just what our product costs.
Can you imagine if Fox News had a twenty thousand
dollars a month subscription service and the Trump White House
was paid for with tax dollars, yes, tens of millions of.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Dollars on it. I mean, people would lose their minds justifiably.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
It's the whole thing is outraged. It's obviously a scam.
I mean it's a scam. The same way that you know,
Hillary Clinton raising hundreds of millions of dollars for the
Clinton Foundation. Where did that money actually? I mean they
were spending over fifty million dollars on prime jet flights
for Bill and Hillary and their cronies. I mean, the
whole thing was just graft. It was just corruption. They
(37:05):
found a legal loophole for it. But the same thing
when you're talking about media entities that clearly align with
the Democrats, with the left, with the regime getting all
those millions of dollars, you know, be capitalists. And with
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