March 12, 2025 • 61 mins
Department of Education cutting nearly half the workforce. Secretary of State Marco Rubio making progress on ending war. Egg prices, bird flu and the Biden administration. The worst inflation in 40 years occurred on Biden's watch and began when he took office. Transgender identity meltdowns. NGO's in name only. Inflation Reduction Act did not reduce inflation, it made it worse. Buck wishes he had a yard so he could have chickens. President Trump looks at the government like a fixer-upper. It’s going to take work, but he’ll get it done and our country will look better in the end. Don’t listen to the noise in the media. EDS (Elon Derangement Syndrome) is fast spreading and variant of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Stephen Colbert "jokes" are really just attacks. Lunatic left celebrates Tesla stock drop. CNN's Scott Jennings defends Elon. Speaker Mike Johnson on the government shutdown. Democrats on the continuing resolution. Elon Musk: if the federal government were a private sector corporation, they would go bankrupt. PA Senator John Fetterman. Rep. Jasmine Crockett says she's not going to be Speaker Johnson's doormat. DOGE. CNBC host Steve Liesman loses it over trade war with Canada. President Trump is trolling the Canadians. Peter Navarro reacts to Canada. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi was all about DOGE over a decade ago. Claire McCaskill freaks out and asks if Trump is going to do to Canada what Putin has done to Ukraine. President Trump hosts Ireland Prime Minister Micheal Martin and talks tariffs, department of education, eggs and oil. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi was all about DOGE oversight back in 2010. Democrats have zero accountability.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome everybody to the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
Excited to have you all with us. Clay on vacation
this week, as you know, having a great time out west.
He'll be back with us on Monday. He sends his
warmest regards to all of you, and I know he
will be fired up to get back to the mic.
He's with his boys, he's having a great time towards
(00:21):
some colleges. We have a lot of news going on here,
my friends. I want I'm going to start with this one,
although I think we're going to dive into the economy
first today, but just for headlines sake. Department of Education
has fired more than thirteen hundred employees, closed offices for
(00:41):
security reason reasons yesterday. So that's actually happening, my friends.
The Department of Education is getting cut down substantially, so
they had what are being called sweeping layoffs. We shall
discuss because this raises so many interesting what does the
Department of Education do? Again? Right, the moment you get
(01:05):
into that, you start to think, do we want it
doing that? Has it done a good job of doing that?
Is it worth what we're paying for it to try
to do the job? That it may not be doing
so well. Of that, we will discuss all of it.
We've got some progress to speak of on the Russia
Ukraine war cease fire negotiations underway. We've got Secretary Rubio
(01:28):
with some quotes on that one coming up in a
little bit, which is a very good thing. We want
that war to stop, we want the bloodshed to stop.
We want stability to slowly but surely return to that region.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Also.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
It's interesting, isn't it. Yesterday I told you about the
whole courtesy thing with trends identifying individuals and how you
are to be kind to them. You are to be,
you know, Christian or whatever your faith tradition is a
good person to all people, of course, including trans people.
But you don't have to lie, right, You don't have
(02:07):
You don't have to pretend somebody who's fifty is actually
ten because they say so. And you don't have to
pretend that somebody who's a man is actually a woman
because they say so. This came up in Congress yesterday.
We have the clip and you will want to hear it.
Turns out I'm not the only one who feels this way.
There are some members of Congress who no longer wish
to refer to trans colleagues by their preferred pronoun or
(02:31):
their preferred gender. But I want to start with the
back and forth already on the economy today, because well,
look at effects all of us, and I get it.
You know, my wife's family has chickens in the backyard.
It's funny. Who would have thought that chickens now by
laying eggs. It's like they're laying golden eggs. Because eggs
(02:53):
are very expensive. They've gone up substantially. But you know
who do well. Part of this is that they had
to kill so many I'm sorry, I shouldn't say had to.
They chose to kill so many chickens because of bird flu.
That's part one of why there's been a run up
in prices. We've seen a run up in prices for staples,
for food goods going back for years in the Biden administration. Remember,
(03:16):
just by way of context, the worst inflation in forty
years occurred on Joe Biden's watch and began when he
took office. I think we can often forget about this,
right because Trump's come in and it's like, oh, look
at the look at the price of eggs. Trump's been
in office thirty days, and yes, the price of eggs
(03:39):
is coming down. I'm going to get to some of
the good economic news today because you'll notice they're going
to find something else to freak out about because things
I'm not saying we're out of the woods. You know,
you could have a big stock market drop next week.
But there are plenty of data points to look at
here to suggest that everything is going to be just fine.
But Biden had the worst inflation in forty years, and
(03:59):
it's art right when he came into office because he
spent trillions of dollars completely unnecessarily, and as we've seen
now in part because of the work of Doge, some
of this money just gets handed out to left wing
interest groups that are NGOs really in name only because
their government funded non government organizations. And there's all this money,
(04:24):
the green energy slush fund that has been part of
the Biden spending spree, and including these so called Inflation
Reduction Act which did not at all reduce inflation, It
didn't even really address inflation, and if it did, it
made it worse, or rather, in the ways that it did,
it made it worse. Now we are starting to see
(04:49):
that the Trump plan is going to require fixing some things.
And you know, when you go into an old house
and you know you're kicking at the wooden boards and
you're checking out, you know you got to fix it
up upper and some aspects certainly of our government but
also of our spending. You're in a unique fixer upper
opportunity when you start to look at the different pieces.
(05:10):
Sometimes you're going to pull a board off the wall
and maybe a piece of the ceiling comes down. Stuff
is gonna happen a little bit, But the fundamental structure
is sound, and the fundamental approach of Trump and his
team is the right one. And here, first of all,
Trump is talking. Since I talked, I spoke about the
price of eggs, and now you know, I don't have
(05:32):
a yard here in Miami, and I do wish that
I had a yard, because well, one I would convince
my wife that a pet fox, which you can legally
have in Florida if you get a certain license, would
be really cool. But put that aside. Maybe that's just
a weird thing with me having chickens and even ducks.
I hear ducks are great for the laying of eggs.
Save yourself a bunch of money. Eggs at my local. Uh.
(05:54):
First of all, I've gone in there. There's been basically
no eggs some days. So that's a thing. But that's
that's a supply show sordage, in large part caused by
the killing of all the euthanizing of chickens to prevent
the bird flu thing, which I think was excessive. But anyway,
here's Trump, this has cut five talking about how look, everybody,
the things are happening. You gotta just be patient. Don't
(06:17):
let the don't let the anti Trump Trump Derange media
get you all worked up. Play five. But we didn't
have these problems.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I had no inflation. I had a great economy. He
gave you high prices. You couldn't buy bacon, you couldn't
buy anything. And also I inherited a situation with eggs.
The price of eggs was through the roof. Well, now
the price of eggs has come down a lot. Interest
rates have come down, gasoline prices have come down. It's
all coming down. It's all a beautiful thing. I can
(06:44):
do it the right way or the wrong way. We're
doing it the right way. And I have tremendous confidence
in this country and the people of this country tremendous
com much more so than if I sat back for
four years and had a good time in the ovelope.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Just remember this. There are some fundamental and obvious truths
about our situation right now. And Trump was getting to
some of this in that sound bite. Yes, price of
eggs coming down a little bit, still needs to come
down more. But we know that there's an artificial specifically
with eggs, there's an artificial reason for why the price
has been so high. You can't kill all the chickens
(07:18):
and wonder where the eggs are. Pretty straightforward. But the
fundamental recognition that we should all remember is that Donald
Trump is better at this than the people who used
to be in charge until a minute ago. And then
the people who are criticizing him, what do they know
about any of this? What do these journals know about
(07:41):
supply and demand and how to actually get the American
economy up and running. Trump has done it. He has
done this successfully. He has a track record. He has
been in the big chair before. So all this stuff
and I see, I don't. I wouldn't say conservatives or
peaceeople on the right are They're not panicking about it.
(08:02):
The Libs panic because it's trumped arrangement, so that they
look for opportunities to panic. You know, everything is, oh,
did I leave the gas on? Is the house going
to explode? They're constantly freaking out because that's who they are.
But on our side, yeah, the market drops a little bit. Yeah,
there's some stuff back and forth on the tariffs, but
the conversation about tariffs, you have to keep in mind
(08:23):
it changes within a twenty four hour news cycle. Okay,
well we're gonna we're gonna delay that one. Okay, we're
gonna drop this one down a little bit. You know,
there's plenty of stuff that needs to happen that Trump
is doing that we need to let play out a
little bit. So the double tariff on Canadian medals, for example,
has been called off by Trump, and people say, oh,
(08:44):
this is so abrupt that how can markets react? He
is trying to negotiate with sovereign governments over trade agreements.
There's going to be some stop and start this. You know,
we've seen Trump before, right, and we've seen him before
on the economy when he's doing this stuff. And I
keep reminding everybody who will listen to me, you know,
I knew a couple of people who were true trade
(09:08):
nerds in the best sense in DC. I used to
have them on my old radio show back.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
In the day.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I I knew a couple of people who were really
good on trade. They're the only ones early on in
Trump twenty seventeen who were saying to me, yack, yeah, actually,
we need to do something about China's trade barriers. We
shouldn't just sit here and take it. Yeah, we need
to do something to update the US Mexico Canada agreement.
We shouldn't sit here and take it. And then there's
the same thing, Oh my gosh, what's Trump doing. It's crazy,
(09:36):
you know, it's no, it's all all within his skill set,
his strategy, and the people he has in charge. Now, look,
I don't want to be fatalistic about this, but when
you look at Trump, you look at Elon Musk. If
they can't fix this, nobody can. I hate to you know,
(09:56):
in those jobs, in these roles. If Trump can't fix this,
if Elon can't give Trump the advice necessary to have
him take the actions to pair things back with the
spending and all the mission that DOJE has, we're throwing
our best at it right now. Okay, the electorate sent
us their best this time, and everyone needs to just
(10:17):
either let the things happen here that are happening. Everything
that is being done is one stuff that Trump talked
about doing, whether it's the border or it's ending the
Ukraine War with a ceasefire, and he's taking all of
these actions. But it's just so funny to me to
see that. It's like all contacts with the media is gone.
Oh my gosh, you know things were what things were
(10:39):
so good before under Biden the puppet dementia patient. You
got to be kidding me, right, what is it? The
only job Joe Biden knows how to create was a
corrupt pay to play for hunter. All right. He has
no idea what's going on, truly had no idea what's
going on. Look at the auto pen stuff that's being
talked about now. And now we have a team that
(11:00):
understands capitalism, understands markets, understands business. So don't don't let
them start to get into your head because you know,
now they start to look at the numbers. Now they
start to pretend that they're objective reporters again in the media. Oh,
it's not that I hate Trump, It's that I'm I'm
worried about the stock market suddenly. Okay, well here you go,
here's CNN. This has cut four saying that, you know what,
(11:24):
there's actually some good news in the economy this week
on some things that really matter. Play it.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Finally we have some good news on the economy and
really the number one issue for many Americans the cost
of living. So we just learned that consumer prices in
February increased by two point eight percent year over year,
zero point two percent.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Month of a month.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Both of these figures were a step in the right direction,
and both were better than expected. So this is definitely
very encouraging to see because it's going to I think,
relieve some fears that inflation was perhaps reaccelerating, because this
actually breaks a streak four straight months where I think
you could see it on the chart all the way
(12:02):
to the right, where the inflation rate was going in
the wrong direction, right, it was going higher and higher.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Finally we're seeing it dip. Finally. Trump hasn't even been
an office two months. Keep that in mind. Now, I
know they're going back even before, but this is the
data now that we're seeing and remember the Biden data
was suspiciously manipulated so that the job's numbers were always
(12:28):
higher than they actually were. That the recession that happened
under Biden two quarters of negative GDP growth. Oh, but
is that really a recession. Let's change the definition of recession.
Don't forget what they have done to try to do
this perception management operation information operation psyop on the economy
because they know that more than anything else, that drives votes,
(12:51):
that drives power come election time, so they'll say whatever
they have to say about it. Trump is in charge,
his team is awesome, They're doing good things. They know
what they're doing. If I feel like things are going
off the rails, or I'll tell you, and the people
that are around Trump who listen to this show, maybe
they'll pass that along. I've seen none of that. I've
(13:12):
seen none of that. All I see is Trump doing
what Trump does. And this week, I think is a
reminder to all of us that the same media that
told you that Trump should go to prison for the
rest of his life for whatever the nonsense case was,
there are four different ones, is now the media saying, oh,
can he really bring down inflation? What they don't want
you to think about us, how all of this is connected.
(13:35):
What causes inflation? Monetary supply, government spending, what causes that
government doing dumb things? Biden the Democrats by addressing that,
by having those do what it does, guess what, it
addresses the inflation problem. Democrats think you can mandate lower
(13:57):
prices because I say so, because they fund mentally want
to pretend we live in a different world than we do,
and that they can artificially suspend the laws of supply
and demand. They can't. Trump knows that you want to
address inflation. That's what Trump is doing, That's what Elon
is doing. That's what's going on right now. So just
(14:18):
but you know, tell them to just stuff it. You've
had enough of the noise from oh my gosh, the recession,
depression Trump please, Okay, Biden didn't even know what year
it was, and he was a commander in chief and
the economy didn't collapse. I think we're gonna be okay.
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eight hundred two eight two two eight a two. Something
interesting is going on here, Uh, troubling and interesting. They
are really ramping up the hatred of Elon Musk. You're
(16:03):
noticing this, right, they've decided and when I say them,
the media, sure, but the left also it seems these
days maybe some of them have exhausted themselves with anti
Trump derangement. Because I do think we're entering a phase
where we're going to have to coin the phrase Elon
(16:25):
derangement syndrome. I think we're there. It's already, it's already
happening now. It's not as widespread as Trump. It does
not have quite the same Trump arrangement, doesn't have quite
the same virality. Long Standing studies on Trump arrangement have
been done, and as we saw in this last election,
people have learned a lot. But Elon derangement syndrome is
(16:49):
growing rapidly, and it is concerning.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
If only doctor Fauci was here to tell you to
mask up to avoid Elon derangement syndrome, to droplets carrying
Elon syndrome all over the place with his silly T
shirt saying tech support and his electric vehicles.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Elon, let's remember, was something of a I don't know
if darling of the Left is quite the right way
to put it, but he has done more as an
entrepreneur for climate change, whether you believe that's a problem
or not. I believe climate change is really do not
believe it's a problem. So that's a whole other thing.
(17:33):
Or rather I'm quite certain it's not a problem. But
put that aside. But Elon with not just the cars
that the electric cars, you see, he's made electric cars cool.
I saw our friend Sean Hannity just bought a Tesla
plaid and Elon gave him a high five on X
over that. Yeah, that car will smoke in a what
(17:55):
do you call it a drag race like any hot
rod you can find. Those cars are crazy fast. Electric
cars that that Tesla makes are way faster than a
lot of people realize because they don't use pistons. The
electric motor goes right away. I mean it kind of
creates like a g force like you're in a jet
fighter if you hit the accelerator too hard or you know,
(18:16):
a fighter jet. So what Elon has done though with
the technologies as well of electric cars batteries and he's
still going right. Eon is, Elon's got decades left to
do the things that he is doing. We're just seeing, really,
you know, maybe the middle phase of Elon's professional contributions.
(18:40):
But this hatred of Elon Moss is nuts. It is nuts.
And the stuff that he is doing, remember this is
a former He goes into this fascinating category of red
pilled former Democrats. They created this politically minded Elon. It's
(19:02):
their fault. That's what the Left needs to understand. They
did this. He just wanted to He just wanted to
build his rockets and and his uh you know, his cars,
and the boring tunnels under the ground and uh you
know you got SpaceX you got Starlink. I mean it's
incredible x AI, all these different things. He wanted to
do that, and the Democrats were like, no, we're insane,
(19:24):
and we're going to uh push the indoctrination stuff so
hard on the trans issue that one of Elon's kids
he said this, I'm not I'm not establishing this motive
for him. He said that he became red pilled when
they transed his kid. When one of his sons was
was transd by you know, all the all the therapists
(19:44):
and the doctors in the whole system, and he just realized,
Oh my gosh, what is the what does the left become?
What does the Democrat Party become? And now they they
despise him. And I mentioned this yesterday. They're lighting Tesla's
on fire, which is so crazy. That is, this is
the richest guy in the world. So you're gonna You're
(20:04):
gonna burn someone else's car because it was made by
a company that Elon Musk owns. And you think that
that's going what is that going to do? Like, how
is this? It's as as crazy as during the BLM
riots when they would go in and destroy some local
convenience store and loot it. So yeah, this is this
is for Black Lives Matter, Like, no, it's not. It's
(20:25):
just you being a bad person. You know a lot
of people during the BLM riots were just being bad humans,
bad human beings. And anybody who is fire bombing a
Tesla or Tesla dealership or all these things you've seen
going on, they're being bad humans. But this is coming
from the top. The hatred of Elon is coming from
the top. Remember his mission. Elon isn't going around in
(20:48):
a border patrol jacket, rounding up illegals and you know,
putting them on a little spacecraft to send them somewhere else. No, No,
that would be interesting. Elon is focused on on something
that should be bipartisan. It should be a truly bipartisan
thing to get rid of waste, fraud and abuse in
(21:09):
government spending. We if you ask a Democrat, is the
debt of problem and you have them in a in
a forum where they can't just evade or escape, they'll say, oh, yeah,
I know, we the debt's a problem. They'll generally not
all of them. Some of them can't do basic math.
They have no idea. I'm not gonna name names. You
can name the names. But there are some Democrats who, honestly,
you want to talk to numbers. They have IQs in
(21:30):
like the seventy five range, and they're still elected office. Okay, fine,
But everybody who's a serious person knows the debt is
a problem. Elon is trying to find a way to
start to deal with that, to truly finally begin to
chip away at it. And it's a huge challenge for us,
(21:51):
and it's something that everybody should be saying. Thank you
for what, thank you for what you're doing. But instead
you've got you know, Colbert, And now I know they're
gonna say, oh, it's just jokes. No, Colbert is a
Democrat propagandist, and he learned this. He learned this craft
well from the much better version of it, which was
the John Stewart The Daily Show back in its heyday,
(22:12):
not anymore. Trevor Noah ruined that show even for Democrats.
He's just not funny, you know. Yeah, let's just bring
in this like not funny guy from South Africa to
take over the Daily Show and lecture us about American politics.
Like that's a great idea. Wherever the executives were in
charge of that should all have been fired a long
time ago. But here you have Stephen Colbert on his
(22:34):
supposed comedy show, making a joke. But it's really more
of a it's really meant to be more of an attack,
and it's meant to be telling the masses of idiots
who still watch this thing you are to hate elon
Play twenty.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
This downturn didn't start just yesterday, because Tesla stock has
plummeted fifty percent since December.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
And there's a good reason for that.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
It's a funmenon Economists call.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Everybody hates that guy. Can I just point out you
have a room full of people like trained seals, all
clapping and all laughing at the decline. Now, by the way,
I mean, I'm I'm very you know, I don't give
(23:23):
like stock tips on the show. I'm just telling you,
like people who bet against Elon, I think they're they're nuts.
But anyway, they're cheering on the decline of a stock
of a company that has done more for the issue
of climate change than any other human being alive. Again,
(23:44):
I don't think climate change is a Elon does though,
So I just you know, he's a very smart guy,
but he worries about it. I think in one hundred
or five hundred year increments and yeah, I don't know,
maybe in five hundred years it will be a big problem.
That's why he wants us to be interplanetary in our lifetime.
Climate change is not a problem. It's just not right.
You look at all the data. People are crazy. I
don't want to get into it all now. But he
(24:05):
has done more for that problem. So if you're somebody
who thinks, as all Democrats who want to be in
good standing with the party. It's an existential threat to
our species, to our planting. You're going to cheer that
a company that is doing more than any than any
Al gore Bs documentary, than any of these NGOs that
(24:26):
are just slush funds for lazy libs to be self
aggrandizing and do nothing in the name of the green
energy movement. Elon has done more than all of them,
and they're cheering for his company having a fifty percent
decline in the stock over a period of time. Think
about that, right, Think about the way that they're being trained. Yeah,
(24:48):
he's bad. Hold On, I thought he was saving the planet.
Libs five years ago would have said, Wow, Elon are
the ones who are paying attention. Elon is saving the planet.
He's a good guy. He called out Bill Gates publicly
for for being you know, Bill Gates, which I'm just
you know, I'm not I'll just say that I'm not
a fan, all right, at all, not a fan at
(25:09):
all in any in any respect. I won't get into it.
But you know, and I know a lot of you
you're shouting all this. I know, but I'm I don't
want to weave too much. I'm weaving back to the
center here to the Elon conversation, because if you get
me talking about Bill Gates and you know, yeah, everybody
should eat bugs. And look who I'm friends with, and
you know, don't even don't even get me there. Bill
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Gates was shorting massively at one point the Tesla stock,
so betting on it going down, which can drive the
stock price down. And Elon called him out. He's like,
how how can you be running this huge global philanthropy
about climate change and you're worth hundreds of, you know,
one hundred billion plus dollars. I don't know what Bill Gates'
net worth is now hundreds of billions, and and you're
(25:52):
trying to make more money by hurting the stock that's
doing more to you know. Elon called him out for
this publicly and he had him. I mean, it's just
he's just Bill Gate is just a greedy little fraud
on that issue. And the whole Gates found, I know,
Gates found to see I touch these issues and you
all know, and I so many ways. This is the thing.
People say, oh, how do you do three hours of
radio day? Three hours? Clay and I could do three
(26:14):
days at once. I mean our voices would probably start
to give out, but I'm not sure by day three
the show would be quite as good as the first day,
I mean continuously twenty four hours. But yeah, there's so
much to talk about. So the turning of the audience though,
into an anti that Colbert is doing into an anti
Elon chorus just shows you how disingenuous and gross these
(26:36):
people are. Scott Jennings doing Freedom and the Lord's work
over at CNN. All all credit for Scott doing what
he does, and you look, it's been great for his career.
He's doing a fantastic job.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Love.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
I love seeing good conservatives do well wherever they are. Right.
Another important mantra, you know, are in the media business.
You can always look at people and say, you know,
I think I think I should be doing that, or
I think I'm a you know, people get very vain
and very jealous and whatever. I love seeing our people succeed.
And that's why I love having it. We had Scott
All and I love talking about, Oh, this guy's doing
(27:12):
great stuff here, that guy or Gal's doing great stuff there,
Scott's doing great stuff over at CNN, and here he
is just pointing out this whole oh can we trust
Elon thing, which is another media narrative that is as
if what Elon's like a trade? Oh is he a
Putin puppet? Remember he said Putin can't afford me? True?
Is he a Putin puppet as well? Is he a
(27:33):
stooge of the Rush? Are we gonna try that game?
They did? And now they've tried to insinuate you know, ooh,
he's he can't be trusted. He only cares about his checkbook.
And you can't have your Social Security number in front
of doge Because here's Jennings dealing with that one play nineteen.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
Elon must currently holds a position of trust in our government.
He is a top advisor of the President of the
United States, and there's clearly a bunch of people out
there who were targeting him and his products specifically. If
that's not terrorism, I'm not sure what is. They are
terrorizing people AVO.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
It is politically motivated destruction and violence. So by definition,
you're starting to get really close. Right if someone is
an eco terrorist and they burn down a whole you know,
a whole car lot of SUVs which they used to
do stuff like this, and now like everybody's got an SUV.
So oh almost like fuel efficiency increases, and there's more
(28:30):
and more technological improvements that are decarbonizing the already existing
carbon based infrastructure of our energy economy that's already been happening.
I like to point this out to people. Okay, things
have gotten far more efficient and far cleaner on their
own through technology, and it will continue to do so
because of the efficiency that you get from that and
(28:51):
because of the competitive markets that we have. It's not handing.
You're not going to fight climate change by giving Stacy
Abrams two billion dollars. That's not going to do it,
or whatever it is that hurt NGO was supposed to
be doing. But the stuff, the anti elon stuff, just
really shows you that no matter what the problem is,
(29:11):
if someone, if Trump or somebody on behalf of Trump
is trying to fix it, Democrats don't want that problem solved.
They would rather take their ball and go home with it,
not let anyone else play. They don't want no wins,
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Speaker 1 (30:47):
I just realized as we were sitting here having a
little chat about Rosie O'Donnell getting citizenship in Ireland or Ireland,
what did they do to deserve Rosie O'donnald Trump has
been giving remarks at the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon
up on Capitol Hill. I didn't know look at that
(31:09):
block at the Irish, look at that up on Capitol Hill.
So we might have some soundbites from that for you
here momentarily. But the President has been speaking to everybody
and doing what he does. Friends of Ireland Luncheon. All right,
we've got that. We've also got it just to update
us all with the in the world of politics. Here
(31:31):
the Senate Democrats having to figure out what they're going
to do about this looming shutdown situation. Here's a speaker,
Mike Johnson, this is fourteen, who is just laying it
out there. The House Republicans have done their thing. The
Senate's got to do their thing, and if they won't,
it's on the Democrats. Play fourteen.
Speaker 8 (31:52):
This was a big night in Congress last night to
get that done. We passed a clean simple bill to
keep the government funded for the rest of the year.
Every Democrat except for one, in spite of all their
previous sayings about how disastrous it would be to shut
the government down, they all voted to do exactly that.
So now the ball is sent over to the Senate
and Chuck Schumer has a big decision to make. Is
he going to cast a vote to keep the government
(32:13):
open or is he going to be blamed for shutting
it down? And that's clearly, very simply what they have
to decide, and I hope they do the right thing,
because government shutdowns, as they all said their own video
and have said a thousand times, is harmful for everybody.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
We don't need that. So you're going to see there'll
be videos that circle that. I'm sure of this Democrats
who in the past have said shutdown is horrible, it's reckless.
Look at all the oh my gosh, are going to
be saying, well, we can't just we can't just go
along with this. This is cutting the government. We can't
(32:48):
go along with this continuing resolution. It's a spending patch essentially,
a stopgap measure. Which brings me to this is how
far we are from really being able to tackle the
spending problem. We've got most of the spending I think
something like seventy percent close to that, sixty five seventy
percent is on most of the spending is on autopilot.
(33:13):
So there's that, and then the spending that we do
try to cut. They tell us it's the most essential
stuff ever, and we don't do an an actual budget
and look at what are we spending on this? What
are we spending on that? We just say, Okay, we're
going to throw more money into it. We don't do
zero based budgeting. We assume all this spending and then
(33:34):
we just pile more spending on top of it. Crazy stuff, right,
It is true. Elon has made this point that if
the federal government were a corporation, like truly a private
sector corporation with the practices that it has, there would
be the company would go bankrupt and they would have
(33:55):
the board of directors or you know, the CEO would
go to prison, right, I mean, it would. It's a mess,
is a mess. So now we have this continued resolution
we got. I'll dig in tomorrow bit more into what's
in there, because here's the thing, the stuff that the
Democrats hate in it they don't hate spending, so there
are other things that are in this r that they
don't like. So we can dive into a bit of that,
(34:17):
because whatever it is that they hate is probably awesome, right,
that's the easy test on these things. Whatever it is
that bothers them the most is a thing, or the
things that bother them the most, those are what we
want to make sure are in there. So you've got
fifty two Republicans who are going to pass the House
version of this already. They need to get it to
(34:38):
sixty with me with meaning eight Democrats are going to
have to join in the only one who has said
he would is John Fetterman of Pennsylvania. There you go
on this one. Oh he's a moderate, right, but we've
seen recently on other things. Oh no, very much a Democrat.
But remember this is a spending bill, so it shouldn't
(34:59):
be some really hard thing for Democrats to say, yeah, spend.
They're obsessed with spending. They're obsessed with taking money in
your name, or rather printing money in your name, debasing
the money in your bank account and that you are
paid in your paycheck, but taking money in your name
and putting it to whatever pet issue they have, So
(35:21):
there's gonna be some amendments of wrangling over this. It's
a seven month funding bill that the House has passed.
So this is this is part of the whole, the
whole process. I mean, if you're going to have the
Trump agenda really humming, really hitting on all cylinders, you
need Congress to get in on the act here and
(35:44):
and do the right thing. So I think that that's uh,
that's interesting. Oh the uh erudite stateswoman, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett,
has something to say about this. This is fifteen that
the new hero of the Democrat left play it.
Speaker 9 (36:03):
He can't blame me for not wanting to be his doormat,
or for the Democrats not wanting to be their doormat.
I mean, all we consistently hear from them is they
have this mandate that the American people gave them. Well,
I am saying that I have a mandate from my
district and it does not involve cutting Medicaid, cutting Medicare. No,
I'm not going to vote for the continuing Resolution. The
Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House.
(36:25):
If they want to get their draconian stuff past, it's
going to hurt my constituents. They're going to do it
by themselves.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
M Here we are seeing that the Democrats are going
to be Of course, if this was if you go
back to the Obama era, it's obstructionist, right, this is
what you're not doing. We're in the majority party, you're
not doing what we say. It's obstructionists. But no, they
don't want the dismantling of the administrative state, and they
(36:53):
refuse to take any accountability for the disastrous spending trajectory
that we're on. So we're gonna get no help from
Democrats on this. Really, the Democrats are they are the
party of spend us into oblivion because they're the party
of emotions and feelings and feelings right now, and feelings
right now are let's just keep spending what we're spending
(37:16):
and then add some more to it and keep doing
that forever until the whole thing collapses. It's it's the
we are running in this country a version of the
old joke, how do you go bankrupt slowly then suddenly?
That is the Democrats strategy for this, which is the
way to tackle the debt is don't it's keep adding
to it, keep making it worse, and if you keep
(37:38):
making it worse, you'll be able to turn around to
your constituents and say, oh, but I kept the money
flowing to you in the meantime. And if the whole
thing collapses, well then you know who cares. Right, that's
their attitude. Just run this thing off the run this
car off the cliff, and figure it out later. It's
it's astonishingly irresponsible. But that that is where the Democrat
(38:04):
Party is on this notice. They used to talk about
you can go, you play. You know, Obama Pelosi, there
are polit guys if you can help me find there's
there's a Pelosi Pelosi clips flying around from when she
was speaker, I think under the Obama years where she's
talking about how much how we have to eliminate we
have to get the debt under control, and we have
(38:24):
to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse. Is Nancy Pelosi. So
then then Elon comes along and he's saying, hey, I've
got an idea. Let's get this debt under control and
let's find the waste fraud, abuse and stop it. And
Democrats are saying that everyone hates him, and people are
lighting Tesla's on fire because they're out of their minds.
Not a lot of people, but you know people that
are disturbed, Biden voters or Kamala voters, but disturbed nonetheless.
(38:50):
So yeah, I think that Democrats aren't going to take
this to a shutdown. I think that this is going
to get I think this is cr is going to
get through, but we'll see. If not, then Trump gets
to decide what is essential and what is not essential.
And the government they also always created this. They create panic.
(39:13):
You know, Democrats, their party runs so much off of
the manipulation of public emotion, so they create this sense of, oh,
the government shut down and all these terrible things are
going to happen. It's fine, it'll be fine. It's not
the end of the world, not the least bit. And
the same thing I think is true with the way
they're talking about the tariffs, which I want to come
(39:34):
back to here. Over at CNBC there's a host, Steve Lesman,
who I think he makes it pretty clear he is
not a fan of Trump's tariff talk. This is eighteen
play it.
Speaker 10 (39:46):
I'm going to say this at risk of my job, Kelly,
but what President Trump is doing is insane. It is
absolutely insane. It is about the eighth reason we've had
for the tariffs. And now he's saying he's putting fifty
percent tariffs on Canada unless they agree you to become
the fifty first state.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
That is insane.
Speaker 10 (40:03):
There is no other way of describing it.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
He's trolling the Canadians. He's not going to make it
the fifty first state. It's not going to happen. But
he's also putting pressure on their leadership through a little
bit of shall we say, gentle mockery, by showing that, look,
you know, we got to get some changes here in
some aspects of the economic relationship, and that requires pressure.
(40:33):
That requires the willingness to do things that the Canadian
government the Canadian people aren't going to like very much.
That is at the heart of the negotiation. The version
of negotiation that the DC swamp engages in is the
people don't matter. We're going to spend all your money.
We're going to spend your money into oblivion, and we're
(40:54):
not going to do any The international community gets to
dictate to us. We don't get to dictate to them
whatever the international community means. And that's not America first,
that's not what Trump stands for that's not what he
wants to do. Peter Navarro, who remember went to prison,
went to prison because he refused to violate executive privilege
when the Democrats were having their whole all the insurrection
(41:16):
freak out. Here he is explaining a little bit of
a different perspective on the Canada situation. This is seventeen
Play It.
Speaker 11 (41:23):
Frankly, the premiere he's been I mean, look, just tamp
it down please over there, Okay, just throwing down the
hockey gloves and stop that rhetoric, and let's just look.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
At what we're trying to do.
Speaker 11 (41:35):
We love Canada, but look there's some big issues there
and we're not going to tolerate anything but them stopping
killing Americans and doing what's right with respected things like
stealing a Luman which they've been dumping into our country,
and that's stopping.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
He's just said, look, we got some things we want
to work out. We're going to figure it out. Okay,
no one's there's going to be no invasion. Everything's fine,
Everything is fine. There's no need to freak out. Uh,
there's no need to take this into some level of
hysteria unless you're a Democrat like Claire mccaskell cut sixteen.
Here she's saying that what Trump is doing with Canada
(42:13):
it's like what Putin has done to Ukraine.
Speaker 12 (42:17):
And think about the whole thing. Is saying he's gonna
make Canada fifty first six? What is he gonna go
to war with Canada?
Speaker 1 (42:23):
Does he think the.
Speaker 12 (42:24):
American people are gonna put up with us losing lives
to try to take Canada?
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Because Canada is.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Not gonna do it ever, ever, ever, willingly.
Speaker 12 (42:32):
So the only way you do it is by force.
Is he gonna do to Canada what Putin has done
to Ukraine? I mean, that's the logical consequence of what
he's saying.
Speaker 5 (42:41):
And is that crazy?
Speaker 1 (42:45):
She really needs to do like some yoga, maybe some
some breathing exercises, prayer, meditation, something. Calm down, Claire, It's
gonna be fine. Trump's not gonna invade Canada. Okay. We
love Canada, great country, great people. He's just doing a
little negotiating, all right. He's trying to get some things
accomplished here. And just you know, we don't need the hysteria.
(43:09):
We don't need the hysteria. But you know the problem
is they've trained themselves over many years now to just
become hysterical about all things Trump related. So now they're
a point where even the tariff's discussion has got to
get them hysterical. Now that the Trump's arrangement syndrome as
it's looking for the next place to manifest itself. It's
look what he's doing on tariffs. Yeah, he's saying, he's
(43:31):
in Canada. You do some things that annoy us, that
don't benefit our economy, that aren't really aren't really free trade.
Get rid of those things, or we're gonna do some
things that annoy you that aren't really free trade, that
are in tariffs, and we need you to help us
on some border issues.
Speaker 10 (43:46):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
You know, he's not saying that the you know, the
whole country has to learn it learn a different language,
which you know obviously we speak they speak English. You
have to learn a different language, and you know, do
something impossible, do something crazy, or else it's gonna be fine.
It's not gonna be the fifty first state. And look, Republicans,
we don't want it to be the fifty first state.
(44:08):
Not because it's not a lovely place with lovely people,
but way too many Libs way too many. It would
be like adding another Well, I gotta check and see
what the registrations are. The population is similar to the
state of California.
Speaker 6 (44:22):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
I don't know what their breakdown is for liberal versus conservative.
I know they've had Trudeau, one of the most clownish
world leaders of all in the last decade or so
that he's been their representative. So that's not a good
But we had Biden. You know a lot of Americans
here who are like, don't blame mus So I'm sure
there are a lot of Canadians who are saying, hey,
(44:44):
don't blame mus for Trudeau. There's a bunch of Libs
who live in Ottawa and Montreal wasn't our fault. So
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Speaker 1 (46:14):
All right, I mentioned that Trump was just speaking to
the press, and he was just in the Oval office,
So I want to bring the latest here from the president.
He is as always moving and setting news cycles with
every utterance, pretty much, so let's dive into it. On
on the tariff's situation, which we know we've talked about
(46:36):
a fair amount today on the show. It is still
in flux. It's all going to be fine. It is
still in flux, and he is negotiating. But he spoke
about that, and he keeps on trying to get everyone
understand who is particularly critical of this? But critical I
think the people who are critical of it because they
hate Trump and that's they're gonna He could cure cancer
(46:58):
and they would say, why cancer, You know, it doesn't matter.
But there are the people who I think are a
little hey, hold on, is this going to be good
for the Trump economy? We want the best. I'm a
little worried about this. Trump is telling them, you got
to remember, this is about reciprocal tariffs first and foremost,
meaning places that have it against us. They should remove that,
And that's why worth saying, we'll put them on you
(47:19):
if you don't take You know, this is a do
one to others as they do unto you. Tariff strategy
play twenty two.
Speaker 4 (47:26):
As you know, we're going to be doing reciprocal tariffs.
So whatever they charge us, we're charging them. Nobody can
complain about that. Whatever it is, It doesn't even matter
what it is if they charge us, if they charge
us twenty five or twenty percent to ten percent or
two percent or two hundred percent, then that's what we're
charging them. And so I don't know why people get
(47:46):
upset about that, because there's nothing more fair than that.
And we we had a problem with Ontario and they
dropped that. When I let them know what we were
going to be doing, they dropped it immediately. So I'm
glad because electricity shouldn't be playing with electricity. It affects people.
Those lives there actually their life. I mean, it can
effect depending on whether it can affect their life, So
we can't do that.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
Why is it bad to use the threat of tariffs,
I mean threat might be a little strong, but to
use the implementation of tariffs, the possibility of tariffs as
a negotiation tool to get another country to remove its
pre existing tariff against US. I'd like to know what
(48:31):
the really honest and straightforward response to that is. Instead,
I get tariffs raise prices and they lower aggregate demand,
and I hear all this, Oh, okay, I know that
there's a lot of in economics, there's a lot of
cost benefit analysis on a whole range of things. And
this is something that we've had to deal with on
(48:51):
the immigration side of things too, where they say, oh,
the more legals, the bigger our GDP is. Yeah, but
that doesn't What we want is a country that is
actually a country that has sovereignty and that has households,
individuals doing well. We don't just want the more, the merrier,
the bigger the economy, the bigger the overall GDP the better.
(49:13):
That's actually it's GDP per capital that matters to us
a lot more than just overall GP because you have
to look at the long term expanse of individuals. We're
going to be government dependent, and that's already reflected in
our immigration laws, but it's ignored anyway. So Trump is saying, yeah, look,
we're gonna tear if people that are teffing us, and
so that seems I just feel like that's very straightforward.
(49:36):
I don't know why this is. And he said he
was going to do this, He's always talked about this.
I don't know why this is a shock to anybody. Okay,
now let's move to what he just said. Now a
few moments ago about the price of talked about eggs
in the first hour, price of eggs and oil. This
is twenty three hit it.
Speaker 4 (49:52):
We did a lot of things that got the cust
of eggs down very substantially, and so many other things.
A very big thing that I'm very happy with is
oil is down to sixty five dollars a barrow, and
that's faster than I would have We put on the gas.
We stepped into the gas in order to get oil.
And with what's happening, so we're getting that down. And
when energy comes down, prices are going to be coming
(50:13):
down with it. So in a very short period of time,
we've done a very good job.
Speaker 1 (50:19):
Yeah, and it's a very short period of time. Nobody
can really argue with that. And things are starting to
move in the right direction on some key things. You know,
stock market goes up, stock market goes down. That's what
markets do. There's a lot of reasons for that, but
I think that it should be clear to everybody that
the team that's in charge, they understand this stuff. They
(50:40):
know what's going on. And Trump's been here before. We
have a record to judge this on. This is not
oh gosh, does this guy have any idea what he's doing?
Do you remember what the economy was like twenty eighteen,
twenty nineteen, It was like, oh my gosh. You know, look,
you know the you know, real unemployment number is going
down so much, probably wages going up, you know, the
(51:02):
stock markets booming, industry merger, you know, it's all and yeah,
good stuff, right, it's all going to be It's all
going to be just fine. That's what I keep trying
to remind everybody who's willing to listen about. And I
think that the changes that they're making are necessary. Oh
(51:23):
wait wait, speaking of the changes, a little bit of
a throwback here. Speaking of the changes, I mentioned a
moment ago in the last segment that there was a
time not long ago when Natzi Pelosius opposed to waste,
fraud and abuse. Nancy Pelosi is here in twenty ten
(51:45):
calling out how bad the waste, fraud and abuse in
Medicare is. This is twenty five play it.
Speaker 12 (51:52):
We cannot keep our promises on Medicare.
Speaker 3 (51:54):
We simply must make the cuts and waste fraud and
abuse in medicare so that the benefits and the premiums
are untouched.
Speaker 11 (52:05):
We owe it to our seniors, We owe it to
our country.
Speaker 1 (52:09):
Okay, you hear that. That's the really the most powerful
Democrat of the last twenty years. I know I say that,
and you're like, oh, and it grows. It's true, It's true.
I mean Obama while in office in his time for
eight years. Been looking at how long Pelosi's been in
the game. And look at how Pelosi. I mean, she
shepherded through Obamacare. She's ruthless, she's not good, but she
(52:33):
knows what she's doing. She knows how to wield power.
She ran circles around the Republicans on some things, just
just calling it like it is right, got to be
honest about it. But here she is, fifteen years ago
talking about how if we don't deal with the waste,
fraud and abuse in Medicare, we won't be able to
keep Medicare as it is now think about this. That
(52:57):
was fifteen years ago. The problem has only gotten worse
since then, the problem of the waste fraught and abuse
and the debt, and all of this together has only
increased all of these pressure points. And yet Democrats hate
Elen Musk and mock him and want to try to
stop him in every in every possible way. They can
see what I mean that whatever Trump is for, they
(53:19):
are against, and whatever Trump is against they are for.
This is the way that they are operating because ultimately
the future of the country matters less to them that
they are in charge and they have power. It's the truth.
They want to be in charge is that is point
number one. Everything else comes after that. They have to
have power, power over you, power over me, power over
(53:41):
the country. If that means they slam the country into
a brick wall at one hundred miles an hour, well
at least they were at the driver. At least they're
at the at the wheel. You know, they were in
the driver's seat. And then they'll blame us too, as
you know, there's no account that's one thing Democrats are
great at. No accountability. Look how they've ruined so many
cities with crime and decay and disorder and drugs, and
(54:03):
oh who could have ever known that undermining cops and
refusing to enforce the law would have had these outcomes.
I don't know everybody who's not an idiot, pretty straightforward,
but look what they did. Oh yeah, blm, that's gonna
help us. So Pelosi used to be a post to waste,
fraud and abuse, and I just think it's fascinating that
she has completely abandoned ship on this because when there's
(54:27):
finally somebody who's trying to do some real stuff about it,
that's not Remember that's not even spending cuts per se,
that's just money that shouldn't be spent, stops getting spent.
Democrats have a problem with that. No, you're allowed. You're
not allowed to do that. You're not allowed to do
the good thing because you, the Republicans. Showing an ability
(54:50):
to follow through on promises, to govern with sanity, to
do math, and to take your job in government seriously
makes people trust you more, makes voters like you more,
and that is unacceptable. That is the Democrat mentality in
all of us. Everything else is noise. Can't give us,
(55:10):
can't give us a win. You want to know a
perfect encapsulation of this mentality. It is the Biden administration
not accepting Elon Musk's offer to use SpaceX to get
the astronauts back home when they're you know, when they
want to be home. Instead they get to linger up
(55:31):
there for months and months and months. Why And Elon's
made this very clear, He's talked about this because Biden
didn't want somebody associated with Trump to do an amazing
thing that is a service that everybody could just sit
there and clap and say great, Elon Trump's buddy got
or asked our American astronauts home. Yeah, that's this is
(55:58):
what we are up against. It is so important that
you remember that as we go through, the criticisms of
what Trump is doing are going to continue to be
irrational and not in good faith because anything that Trump
does that's good they think must be bad because good
Trump is bad for them. That's It's as simple as
(56:20):
it's as straightforward as that. For a vast majority of
these issues. So you know, there are times when I've
even said I hope this, I hope this Democrat pulls
this off, or I hope this Democrat president makes the
right decision for the future of the country and and
deserves the credit if he or she Well, he does.
And you know there are those occasionally I brought up.
(56:42):
I mean the bin Laden raid for example, which was
a big part of Obama, which was really our Navy
seal operators who did it, but in CIA who found him.
But the point is Obama got the credit for it.
He was the commander in chief, he ordered the raid.
There's no part in that goes Oh I wish he
hadn't ordered the Osama Bin Laden raid. No, it was
the right move he pulled, he made and he got
four more years in office to do a lot more
damage to the country because of it. But there are
(57:04):
things that we should be able to recognize as good
irrespective of who's in charge, irrespective of who the pre
you know which party the president belongs to. Democrats. They've
abandoned that in the Trump era. Nothing anything Trump does
is bad. He even made reference to this explicitly in
the joint addressed to Congress, where I think he even
said if I cured cancer, they would be like, oh
(57:25):
my gosh, what will we do without cancer?
Speaker 10 (57:28):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (57:28):
And that's that's their attitude on this. And then there's
one more thing here on the this is Trump just
now last on our last hour. He says about the
Department of Education cuts, he's owning it. He wanted to
do it, he said, he's doing it half the not half.
I think it's more like a third. I got to
(57:48):
check the numbers of the DOE workforce has been told
see you later. But Trump says, look, this is not
about stopping kids from learning. This is about letting states
run education within the state. Like twenty four we have
a dream, and you know what the dream is.
Speaker 4 (58:05):
We're going to move the Department of Education. We're going
to move education into the states so that the states
instead of bureaucrats working in Washington, so that the states
can run education. And you have Norway, you have Denmark
of Sweden, you have various Finland, you have various countries
that do very well.
Speaker 1 (58:22):
You also have China that does.
Speaker 4 (58:24):
Very well in education, which is a pretty big tribute
to China. I must say, at one point four billion,
and they're in the top ten and it's pretty amazing.
So we can't blame size anymore. You know, normally you
blame size, it's too big, how can you do it?
But China does it. So we think when you move
it back to Iowa and Indiana and all the states
(58:44):
that run so well. There's so many I could name thirty,
maybe almost forty. Those will be as good as Denmark,
those will be as good as Norway.
Speaker 1 (58:54):
And let's see when states can really control their education
and not have the meddling of the Department of Education
federally which has just made things worse. And when there's
the adequate resources that are just given to the state
that would have gone to the part of education. I
assume that'll be part of this. We'll see. Let's see
(59:15):
which states are able to figure out how to do
this better. You know, the whole laboratory of democracy thing,
that the federalism that we have, that whole situation, Why
can't that work for education? It works for it works
for businesses, or works for a whole range of things
where we get to see, you know, people are fleeing
the blue communist states moving to red communist states, and
(59:36):
this is the way the system is supposed to operate.
So there should be again a willingness to approach this
in good faith. But that's never going to happen with
the Democrats, because the most important thing, always and forever
for these Democrats now is to oppose Trump because they
hate him so much like a bunch of little babies.
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The Team forty seven podcast Sundays at noon Eastern, and
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Welcome everybody to the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
Excited to have you all with us. Clay on vacation
this week, as you know, having a great time out west.
He'll be back with us on Monday. He sends his
warmest regards to all of you, and I know he
will be fired up to get back to the mic.
He's with his boys, he's having a great time towards
(00:21):
some colleges. We have a lot of news going on here,
my friends. I want I'm going to start with this one,
although I think we're going to dive into the economy
first today, but just for headlines sake. Department of Education
has fired more than thirteen hundred employees, closed offices for
(00:41):
security reason reasons yesterday. So that's actually happening, my friends.
The Department of Education is getting cut down substantially, so
they had what are being called sweeping layoffs. We shall
discuss because this raises so many interesting what does the
Department of Education do? Again? Right, the moment you get
(01:05):
into that, you start to think, do we want it
doing that? Has it done a good job of doing that?
Is it worth what we're paying for it to try
to do the job? That it may not be doing
so well. Of that, we will discuss all of it.
We've got some progress to speak of on the Russia
Ukraine war cease fire negotiations underway. We've got Secretary Rubio
(01:28):
with some quotes on that one coming up in a
little bit, which is a very good thing. We want
that war to stop, we want the bloodshed to stop.
We want stability to slowly but surely return to that region.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Also.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
It's interesting, isn't it. Yesterday I told you about the
whole courtesy thing with trends identifying individuals and how you
are to be kind to them. You are to be,
you know, Christian or whatever your faith tradition is a
good person to all people, of course, including trans people.
But you don't have to lie, right, You don't have
(02:07):
You don't have to pretend somebody who's fifty is actually
ten because they say so. And you don't have to
pretend that somebody who's a man is actually a woman
because they say so. This came up in Congress yesterday.
We have the clip and you will want to hear it.
Turns out I'm not the only one who feels this way.
There are some members of Congress who no longer wish
to refer to trans colleagues by their preferred pronoun or
(02:31):
their preferred gender. But I want to start with the
back and forth already on the economy today, because well,
look at effects all of us, and I get it.
You know, my wife's family has chickens in the backyard.
It's funny. Who would have thought that chickens now by
laying eggs. It's like they're laying golden eggs. Because eggs
(02:53):
are very expensive. They've gone up substantially. But you know
who do well. Part of this is that they had
to kill so many I'm sorry, I shouldn't say had to.
They chose to kill so many chickens because of bird flu.
That's part one of why there's been a run up
in prices. We've seen a run up in prices for staples,
for food goods going back for years in the Biden administration. Remember,
(03:16):
just by way of context, the worst inflation in forty
years occurred on Joe Biden's watch and began when he
took office. I think we can often forget about this,
right because Trump's come in and it's like, oh, look
at the look at the price of eggs. Trump's been
in office thirty days, and yes, the price of eggs
(03:39):
is coming down. I'm going to get to some of
the good economic news today because you'll notice they're going
to find something else to freak out about because things
I'm not saying we're out of the woods. You know,
you could have a big stock market drop next week.
But there are plenty of data points to look at
here to suggest that everything is going to be just fine.
But Biden had the worst inflation in forty years, and
(03:59):
it's art right when he came into office because he
spent trillions of dollars completely unnecessarily, and as we've seen
now in part because of the work of Doge, some
of this money just gets handed out to left wing
interest groups that are NGOs really in name only because
their government funded non government organizations. And there's all this money,
(04:24):
the green energy slush fund that has been part of
the Biden spending spree, and including these so called Inflation
Reduction Act which did not at all reduce inflation, It
didn't even really address inflation, and if it did, it
made it worse, or rather, in the ways that it did,
it made it worse. Now we are starting to see
(04:49):
that the Trump plan is going to require fixing some things.
And you know, when you go into an old house
and you know you're kicking at the wooden boards and
you're checking out, you know you got to fix it
up upper and some aspects certainly of our government but
also of our spending. You're in a unique fixer upper
opportunity when you start to look at the different pieces.
(05:10):
Sometimes you're going to pull a board off the wall
and maybe a piece of the ceiling comes down. Stuff
is gonna happen a little bit, But the fundamental structure
is sound, and the fundamental approach of Trump and his
team is the right one. And here, first of all,
Trump is talking. Since I talked, I spoke about the
price of eggs, and now you know, I don't have
(05:32):
a yard here in Miami, and I do wish that
I had a yard, because well, one I would convince
my wife that a pet fox, which you can legally
have in Florida if you get a certain license, would
be really cool. But put that aside. Maybe that's just
a weird thing with me having chickens and even ducks.
I hear ducks are great for the laying of eggs.
Save yourself a bunch of money. Eggs at my local. Uh.
(05:54):
First of all, I've gone in there. There's been basically
no eggs some days. So that's a thing. But that's
that's a supply show sordage, in large part caused by
the killing of all the euthanizing of chickens to prevent
the bird flu thing, which I think was excessive. But anyway,
here's Trump, this has cut five talking about how look, everybody,
the things are happening. You gotta just be patient. Don't
(06:17):
let the don't let the anti Trump Trump Derange media
get you all worked up. Play five. But we didn't
have these problems.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I had no inflation. I had a great economy. He
gave you high prices. You couldn't buy bacon, you couldn't
buy anything. And also I inherited a situation with eggs.
The price of eggs was through the roof. Well, now
the price of eggs has come down a lot. Interest
rates have come down, gasoline prices have come down. It's
all coming down. It's all a beautiful thing. I can
(06:44):
do it the right way or the wrong way. We're
doing it the right way. And I have tremendous confidence
in this country and the people of this country tremendous
com much more so than if I sat back for
four years and had a good time in the ovelope.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Just remember this. There are some fundamental and obvious truths
about our situation right now. And Trump was getting to
some of this in that sound bite. Yes, price of
eggs coming down a little bit, still needs to come
down more. But we know that there's an artificial specifically
with eggs, there's an artificial reason for why the price
has been so high. You can't kill all the chickens
(07:18):
and wonder where the eggs are. Pretty straightforward. But the
fundamental recognition that we should all remember is that Donald
Trump is better at this than the people who used
to be in charge until a minute ago. And then
the people who are criticizing him, what do they know
about any of this? What do these journals know about
(07:41):
supply and demand and how to actually get the American
economy up and running. Trump has done it. He has
done this successfully. He has a track record. He has
been in the big chair before. So all this stuff
and I see, I don't. I wouldn't say conservatives or
peaceeople on the right are They're not panicking about it.
(08:02):
The Libs panic because it's trumped arrangement, so that they
look for opportunities to panic. You know, everything is, oh,
did I leave the gas on? Is the house going
to explode? They're constantly freaking out because that's who they are.
But on our side, yeah, the market drops a little bit. Yeah,
there's some stuff back and forth on the tariffs, but
the conversation about tariffs, you have to keep in mind
(08:23):
it changes within a twenty four hour news cycle. Okay,
well we're gonna we're gonna delay that one. Okay, we're
gonna drop this one down a little bit. You know,
there's plenty of stuff that needs to happen that Trump
is doing that we need to let play out a
little bit. So the double tariff on Canadian medals, for example,
has been called off by Trump, and people say, oh,
(08:44):
this is so abrupt that how can markets react? He
is trying to negotiate with sovereign governments over trade agreements.
There's going to be some stop and start this. You know,
we've seen Trump before, right, and we've seen him before
on the economy when he's doing this stuff. And I
keep reminding everybody who will listen to me, you know,
I knew a couple of people who were true trade
(09:08):
nerds in the best sense in DC. I used to
have them on my old radio show back.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
In the day.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I I knew a couple of people who were really
good on trade. They're the only ones early on in
Trump twenty seventeen who were saying to me, yack, yeah, actually,
we need to do something about China's trade barriers. We
shouldn't just sit here and take it. Yeah, we need
to do something to update the US Mexico Canada agreement.
We shouldn't sit here and take it. And then there's
the same thing, Oh my gosh, what's Trump doing. It's crazy,
(09:36):
you know, it's no, it's all all within his skill set,
his strategy, and the people he has in charge. Now, look,
I don't want to be fatalistic about this, but when
you look at Trump, you look at Elon Musk. If
they can't fix this, nobody can. I hate to you know,
(09:56):
in those jobs, in these roles. If Trump can't fix this,
if Elon can't give Trump the advice necessary to have
him take the actions to pair things back with the
spending and all the mission that DOJE has, we're throwing
our best at it right now. Okay, the electorate sent
us their best this time, and everyone needs to just
(10:17):
either let the things happen here that are happening. Everything
that is being done is one stuff that Trump talked
about doing, whether it's the border or it's ending the
Ukraine War with a ceasefire, and he's taking all of
these actions. But it's just so funny to me to
see that. It's like all contacts with the media is gone.
Oh my gosh, you know things were what things were
(10:39):
so good before under Biden the puppet dementia patient. You
got to be kidding me, right, what is it? The
only job Joe Biden knows how to create was a
corrupt pay to play for hunter. All right. He has
no idea what's going on, truly had no idea what's
going on. Look at the auto pen stuff that's being
talked about now. And now we have a team that
(11:00):
understands capitalism, understands markets, understands business. So don't don't let
them start to get into your head because you know,
now they start to look at the numbers. Now they
start to pretend that they're objective reporters again in the media. Oh,
it's not that I hate Trump, It's that I'm I'm
worried about the stock market suddenly. Okay, well here you go,
here's CNN. This has cut four saying that, you know what,
(11:24):
there's actually some good news in the economy this week
on some things that really matter. Play it.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Finally we have some good news on the economy and
really the number one issue for many Americans the cost
of living. So we just learned that consumer prices in
February increased by two point eight percent year over year,
zero point two percent.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Month of a month.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Both of these figures were a step in the right direction,
and both were better than expected. So this is definitely
very encouraging to see because it's going to I think,
relieve some fears that inflation was perhaps reaccelerating, because this
actually breaks a streak four straight months where I think
you could see it on the chart all the way
(12:02):
to the right, where the inflation rate was going in
the wrong direction, right, it was going higher and higher.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Finally we're seeing it dip. Finally. Trump hasn't even been
an office two months. Keep that in mind. Now, I
know they're going back even before, but this is the
data now that we're seeing and remember the Biden data
was suspiciously manipulated so that the job's numbers were always
(12:28):
higher than they actually were. That the recession that happened
under Biden two quarters of negative GDP growth. Oh, but
is that really a recession. Let's change the definition of recession.
Don't forget what they have done to try to do
this perception management operation information operation psyop on the economy
because they know that more than anything else, that drives votes,
(12:51):
that drives power come election time, so they'll say whatever
they have to say about it. Trump is in charge,
his team is awesome, They're doing good things. They know
what they're doing. If I feel like things are going
off the rails, or I'll tell you, and the people
that are around Trump who listen to this show, maybe
they'll pass that along. I've seen none of that. I've
(13:12):
seen none of that. All I see is Trump doing
what Trump does. And this week, I think is a
reminder to all of us that the same media that
told you that Trump should go to prison for the
rest of his life for whatever the nonsense case was,
there are four different ones, is now the media saying, oh,
can he really bring down inflation? What they don't want
you to think about us, how all of this is connected.
(13:35):
What causes inflation? Monetary supply, government spending, what causes that
government doing dumb things? Biden the Democrats by addressing that,
by having those do what it does, guess what, it
addresses the inflation problem. Democrats think you can mandate lower
(13:57):
prices because I say so, because they fund mentally want
to pretend we live in a different world than we do,
and that they can artificially suspend the laws of supply
and demand. They can't. Trump knows that you want to
address inflation. That's what Trump is doing, That's what Elon
is doing. That's what's going on right now. So just
(14:18):
but you know, tell them to just stuff it. You've
had enough of the noise from oh my gosh, the recession,
depression Trump please, Okay, Biden didn't even know what year
it was, and he was a commander in chief and
the economy didn't collapse. I think we're gonna be okay.
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eight hundred two eight two two eight a two. Something
interesting is going on here, Uh, troubling and interesting. They
are really ramping up the hatred of Elon Musk. You're
(16:03):
noticing this, right, they've decided and when I say them,
the media, sure, but the left also it seems these
days maybe some of them have exhausted themselves with anti
Trump derangement. Because I do think we're entering a phase
where we're going to have to coin the phrase Elon
(16:25):
derangement syndrome. I think we're there. It's already, it's already
happening now. It's not as widespread as Trump. It does
not have quite the same Trump arrangement, doesn't have quite
the same virality. Long Standing studies on Trump arrangement have
been done, and as we saw in this last election,
people have learned a lot. But Elon derangement syndrome is
(16:49):
growing rapidly, and it is concerning.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
If only doctor Fauci was here to tell you to
mask up to avoid Elon derangement syndrome, to droplets carrying
Elon syndrome all over the place with his silly T
shirt saying tech support and his electric vehicles.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Elon, let's remember, was something of a I don't know
if darling of the Left is quite the right way
to put it, but he has done more as an
entrepreneur for climate change, whether you believe that's a problem
or not. I believe climate change is really do not
believe it's a problem. So that's a whole other thing.
(17:33):
Or rather I'm quite certain it's not a problem. But
put that aside. But Elon with not just the cars
that the electric cars, you see, he's made electric cars cool.
I saw our friend Sean Hannity just bought a Tesla
plaid and Elon gave him a high five on X
over that. Yeah, that car will smoke in a what
(17:55):
do you call it a drag race like any hot
rod you can find. Those cars are crazy fast. Electric
cars that that Tesla makes are way faster than a
lot of people realize because they don't use pistons. The
electric motor goes right away. I mean it kind of
creates like a g force like you're in a jet
fighter if you hit the accelerator too hard or you know,
(18:16):
a fighter jet. So what Elon has done though with
the technologies as well of electric cars batteries and he's
still going right. Eon is, Elon's got decades left to
do the things that he is doing. We're just seeing, really,
you know, maybe the middle phase of Elon's professional contributions.
(18:40):
But this hatred of Elon Moss is nuts. It is nuts.
And the stuff that he is doing, remember this is
a former He goes into this fascinating category of red
pilled former Democrats. They created this politically minded Elon. It's
(19:02):
their fault. That's what the Left needs to understand. They
did this. He just wanted to He just wanted to
build his rockets and and his uh you know, his cars,
and the boring tunnels under the ground and uh you
know you got SpaceX you got Starlink. I mean it's
incredible x AI, all these different things. He wanted to
do that, and the Democrats were like, no, we're insane,
(19:24):
and we're going to uh push the indoctrination stuff so
hard on the trans issue that one of Elon's kids
he said this, I'm not I'm not establishing this motive
for him. He said that he became red pilled when
they transed his kid. When one of his sons was
was transd by you know, all the all the therapists
(19:44):
and the doctors in the whole system, and he just realized,
Oh my gosh, what is the what does the left become?
What does the Democrat Party become? And now they they
despise him. And I mentioned this yesterday. They're lighting Tesla's
on fire, which is so crazy. That is, this is
the richest guy in the world. So you're gonna You're
(20:04):
gonna burn someone else's car because it was made by
a company that Elon Musk owns. And you think that
that's going what is that going to do? Like, how
is this? It's as as crazy as during the BLM
riots when they would go in and destroy some local
convenience store and loot it. So yeah, this is this
is for Black Lives Matter, Like, no, it's not. It's
(20:25):
just you being a bad person. You know a lot
of people during the BLM riots were just being bad humans,
bad human beings. And anybody who is fire bombing a
Tesla or Tesla dealership or all these things you've seen
going on, they're being bad humans. But this is coming
from the top. The hatred of Elon is coming from
the top. Remember his mission. Elon isn't going around in
(20:48):
a border patrol jacket, rounding up illegals and you know,
putting them on a little spacecraft to send them somewhere else. No, No,
that would be interesting. Elon is focused on on something
that should be bipartisan. It should be a truly bipartisan
thing to get rid of waste, fraud and abuse in
(21:09):
government spending. We if you ask a Democrat, is the
debt of problem and you have them in a in
a forum where they can't just evade or escape, they'll say, oh, yeah,
I know, we the debt's a problem. They'll generally not
all of them. Some of them can't do basic math.
They have no idea. I'm not gonna name names. You
can name the names. But there are some Democrats who, honestly,
you want to talk to numbers. They have IQs in
(21:30):
like the seventy five range, and they're still elected office. Okay, fine,
But everybody who's a serious person knows the debt is
a problem. Elon is trying to find a way to
start to deal with that, to truly finally begin to
chip away at it. And it's a huge challenge for us,
(21:51):
and it's something that everybody should be saying. Thank you
for what, thank you for what you're doing. But instead
you've got you know, Colbert, And now I know they're
gonna say, oh, it's just jokes. No, Colbert is a
Democrat propagandist, and he learned this. He learned this craft
well from the much better version of it, which was
the John Stewart The Daily Show back in its heyday,
(22:12):
not anymore. Trevor Noah ruined that show even for Democrats.
He's just not funny, you know. Yeah, let's just bring
in this like not funny guy from South Africa to
take over the Daily Show and lecture us about American politics.
Like that's a great idea. Wherever the executives were in
charge of that should all have been fired a long
time ago. But here you have Stephen Colbert on his
(22:34):
supposed comedy show, making a joke. But it's really more
of a it's really meant to be more of an attack,
and it's meant to be telling the masses of idiots
who still watch this thing you are to hate elon
Play twenty.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
This downturn didn't start just yesterday, because Tesla stock has
plummeted fifty percent since December.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
And there's a good reason for that.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
It's a funmenon Economists call.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Everybody hates that guy. Can I just point out you
have a room full of people like trained seals, all
clapping and all laughing at the decline. Now, by the way,
I mean, I'm I'm very you know, I don't give
(23:23):
like stock tips on the show. I'm just telling you,
like people who bet against Elon, I think they're they're nuts.
But anyway, they're cheering on the decline of a stock
of a company that has done more for the issue
of climate change than any other human being alive. Again,
(23:44):
I don't think climate change is a Elon does though,
So I just you know, he's a very smart guy,
but he worries about it. I think in one hundred
or five hundred year increments and yeah, I don't know,
maybe in five hundred years it will be a big problem.
That's why he wants us to be interplanetary in our lifetime.
Climate change is not a problem. It's just not right.
You look at all the data. People are crazy. I
don't want to get into it all now. But he
(24:05):
has done more for that problem. So if you're somebody
who thinks, as all Democrats who want to be in
good standing with the party. It's an existential threat to
our species, to our planting. You're going to cheer that
a company that is doing more than any than any
Al gore Bs documentary, than any of these NGOs that
(24:26):
are just slush funds for lazy libs to be self
aggrandizing and do nothing in the name of the green
energy movement. Elon has done more than all of them,
and they're cheering for his company having a fifty percent
decline in the stock over a period of time. Think
about that, right, Think about the way that they're being trained. Yeah,
(24:48):
he's bad. Hold On, I thought he was saving the planet.
Libs five years ago would have said, Wow, Elon are
the ones who are paying attention. Elon is saving the planet.
He's a good guy. He called out Bill Gates publicly
for for being you know, Bill Gates, which I'm just
you know, I'm not I'll just say that I'm not
a fan, all right, at all, not a fan at
(25:09):
all in any in any respect. I won't get into it.
But you know, and I know a lot of you
you're shouting all this. I know, but I'm I don't
want to weave too much. I'm weaving back to the
center here to the Elon conversation, because if you get
me talking about Bill Gates and you know, yeah, everybody
should eat bugs. And look who I'm friends with, and
you know, don't even don't even get me there. Bill
(25:32):
Gates was shorting massively at one point the Tesla stock,
so betting on it going down, which can drive the
stock price down. And Elon called him out. He's like,
how how can you be running this huge global philanthropy
about climate change and you're worth hundreds of, you know,
one hundred billion plus dollars. I don't know what Bill Gates'
net worth is now hundreds of billions, and and you're
(25:52):
trying to make more money by hurting the stock that's
doing more to you know. Elon called him out for
this publicly and he had him. I mean, it's just
he's just Bill Gate is just a greedy little fraud
on that issue. And the whole Gates found, I know,
Gates found to see I touch these issues and you
all know, and I so many ways. This is the thing.
People say, oh, how do you do three hours of
radio day? Three hours? Clay and I could do three
(26:14):
days at once. I mean our voices would probably start
to give out, but I'm not sure by day three
the show would be quite as good as the first day,
I mean continuously twenty four hours. But yeah, there's so
much to talk about. So the turning of the audience though,
into an anti that Colbert is doing into an anti
Elon chorus just shows you how disingenuous and gross these
(26:36):
people are. Scott Jennings doing Freedom and the Lord's work
over at CNN. All all credit for Scott doing what
he does, and you look, it's been great for his career.
He's doing a fantastic job.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Love.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
I love seeing good conservatives do well wherever they are. Right.
Another important mantra, you know, are in the media business.
You can always look at people and say, you know,
I think I think I should be doing that, or
I think I'm a you know, people get very vain
and very jealous and whatever. I love seeing our people succeed.
And that's why I love having it. We had Scott
All and I love talking about, Oh, this guy's doing
(27:12):
great stuff here, that guy or Gal's doing great stuff there,
Scott's doing great stuff over at CNN, and here he
is just pointing out this whole oh can we trust
Elon thing, which is another media narrative that is as
if what Elon's like a trade? Oh is he a
Putin puppet? Remember he said Putin can't afford me? True?
Is he a Putin puppet as well? Is he a
(27:33):
stooge of the Rush? Are we gonna try that game?
They did? And now they've tried to insinuate you know, ooh,
he's he can't be trusted. He only cares about his checkbook.
And you can't have your Social Security number in front
of doge Because here's Jennings dealing with that one play nineteen.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
Elon must currently holds a position of trust in our government.
He is a top advisor of the President of the
United States, and there's clearly a bunch of people out
there who were targeting him and his products specifically. If
that's not terrorism, I'm not sure what is. They are
terrorizing people AVO.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
It is politically motivated destruction and violence. So by definition,
you're starting to get really close. Right if someone is
an eco terrorist and they burn down a whole you know,
a whole car lot of SUVs which they used to
do stuff like this, and now like everybody's got an SUV.
So oh almost like fuel efficiency increases, and there's more
(28:30):
and more technological improvements that are decarbonizing the already existing
carbon based infrastructure of our energy economy that's already been happening.
I like to point this out to people. Okay, things
have gotten far more efficient and far cleaner on their
own through technology, and it will continue to do so
because of the efficiency that you get from that and
(28:51):
because of the competitive markets that we have. It's not handing.
You're not going to fight climate change by giving Stacy
Abrams two billion dollars. That's not going to do it,
or whatever it is that hurt NGO was supposed to
be doing. But the stuff, the anti elon stuff, just
really shows you that no matter what the problem is,
(29:11):
if someone, if Trump or somebody on behalf of Trump
is trying to fix it, Democrats don't want that problem solved.
They would rather take their ball and go home with it,
not let anyone else play. They don't want no wins,
that's all that matters. Can't have any wins for Trump
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Speaker 1 (30:47):
I just realized as we were sitting here having a
little chat about Rosie O'Donnell getting citizenship in Ireland or Ireland,
what did they do to deserve Rosie O'donnald Trump has
been giving remarks at the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon
up on Capitol Hill. I didn't know look at that
(31:09):
block at the Irish, look at that up on Capitol Hill.
So we might have some soundbites from that for you
here momentarily. But the President has been speaking to everybody
and doing what he does. Friends of Ireland Luncheon. All right,
we've got that. We've also got it just to update
us all with the in the world of politics. Here
(31:31):
the Senate Democrats having to figure out what they're going
to do about this looming shutdown situation. Here's a speaker,
Mike Johnson, this is fourteen, who is just laying it
out there. The House Republicans have done their thing. The
Senate's got to do their thing, and if they won't,
it's on the Democrats. Play fourteen.
Speaker 8 (31:52):
This was a big night in Congress last night to
get that done. We passed a clean simple bill to
keep the government funded for the rest of the year.
Every Democrat except for one, in spite of all their
previous sayings about how disastrous it would be to shut
the government down, they all voted to do exactly that.
So now the ball is sent over to the Senate
and Chuck Schumer has a big decision to make. Is
he going to cast a vote to keep the government
(32:13):
open or is he going to be blamed for shutting
it down? And that's clearly, very simply what they have
to decide, and I hope they do the right thing,
because government shutdowns, as they all said their own video
and have said a thousand times, is harmful for everybody.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
We don't need that. So you're going to see there'll
be videos that circle that. I'm sure of this Democrats
who in the past have said shutdown is horrible, it's reckless.
Look at all the oh my gosh, are going to
be saying, well, we can't just we can't just go
along with this. This is cutting the government. We can't
(32:48):
go along with this continuing resolution. It's a spending patch essentially,
a stopgap measure. Which brings me to this is how
far we are from really being able to tackle the
spending problem. We've got most of the spending I think
something like seventy percent close to that, sixty five seventy
percent is on most of the spending is on autopilot.
(33:13):
So there's that, and then the spending that we do
try to cut. They tell us it's the most essential
stuff ever, and we don't do an an actual budget
and look at what are we spending on this? What
are we spending on that? We just say, Okay, we're
going to throw more money into it. We don't do
zero based budgeting. We assume all this spending and then
(33:34):
we just pile more spending on top of it. Crazy stuff, right,
It is true. Elon has made this point that if
the federal government were a corporation, like truly a private
sector corporation with the practices that it has, there would
be the company would go bankrupt and they would have
(33:55):
the board of directors or you know, the CEO would
go to prison, right, I mean, it would. It's a mess,
is a mess. So now we have this continued resolution
we got. I'll dig in tomorrow bit more into what's
in there, because here's the thing, the stuff that the
Democrats hate in it they don't hate spending, so there
are other things that are in this r that they
don't like. So we can dive into a bit of that,
(34:17):
because whatever it is that they hate is probably awesome, right,
that's the easy test on these things. Whatever it is
that bothers them the most is a thing, or the
things that bother them the most, those are what we
want to make sure are in there. So you've got
fifty two Republicans who are going to pass the House
version of this already. They need to get it to
(34:38):
sixty with me with meaning eight Democrats are going to
have to join in the only one who has said
he would is John Fetterman of Pennsylvania. There you go
on this one. Oh he's a moderate, right, but we've
seen recently on other things. Oh no, very much a Democrat.
But remember this is a spending bill, so it shouldn't
(34:59):
be some really hard thing for Democrats to say, yeah, spend.
They're obsessed with spending. They're obsessed with taking money in
your name, or rather printing money in your name, debasing
the money in your bank account and that you are
paid in your paycheck, but taking money in your name
and putting it to whatever pet issue they have, So
(35:21):
there's gonna be some amendments of wrangling over this. It's
a seven month funding bill that the House has passed.
So this is this is part of the whole, the
whole process. I mean, if you're going to have the
Trump agenda really humming, really hitting on all cylinders, you
need Congress to get in on the act here and
(35:44):
and do the right thing. So I think that that's uh,
that's interesting. Oh the uh erudite stateswoman, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett,
has something to say about this. This is fifteen that
the new hero of the Democrat left play it.
Speaker 9 (36:03):
He can't blame me for not wanting to be his doormat,
or for the Democrats not wanting to be their doormat.
I mean, all we consistently hear from them is they
have this mandate that the American people gave them. Well,
I am saying that I have a mandate from my
district and it does not involve cutting Medicaid, cutting Medicare. No,
I'm not going to vote for the continuing Resolution. The
Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House.
(36:25):
If they want to get their draconian stuff past, it's
going to hurt my constituents. They're going to do it
by themselves.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
M Here we are seeing that the Democrats are going
to be Of course, if this was if you go
back to the Obama era, it's obstructionist, right, this is
what you're not doing. We're in the majority party, you're
not doing what we say. It's obstructionists. But no, they
don't want the dismantling of the administrative state, and they
(36:53):
refuse to take any accountability for the disastrous spending trajectory
that we're on. So we're gonna get no help from
Democrats on this. Really, the Democrats are they are the
party of spend us into oblivion because they're the party
of emotions and feelings and feelings right now, and feelings
right now are let's just keep spending what we're spending
(37:16):
and then add some more to it and keep doing
that forever until the whole thing collapses. It's it's the
we are running in this country a version of the
old joke, how do you go bankrupt slowly then suddenly?
That is the Democrats strategy for this, which is the
way to tackle the debt is don't it's keep adding
to it, keep making it worse, and if you keep
(37:38):
making it worse, you'll be able to turn around to
your constituents and say, oh, but I kept the money
flowing to you in the meantime. And if the whole
thing collapses, well then you know who cares. Right, that's
their attitude. Just run this thing off the run this
car off the cliff, and figure it out later. It's
it's astonishingly irresponsible. But that that is where the Democrat
(38:04):
Party is on this notice. They used to talk about
you can go, you play. You know, Obama Pelosi, there
are polit guys if you can help me find there's
there's a Pelosi Pelosi clips flying around from when she
was speaker, I think under the Obama years where she's
talking about how much how we have to eliminate we
have to get the debt under control, and we have
(38:24):
to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse. Is Nancy Pelosi. So
then then Elon comes along and he's saying, hey, I've
got an idea. Let's get this debt under control and
let's find the waste fraud, abuse and stop it. And
Democrats are saying that everyone hates him, and people are
lighting Tesla's on fire because they're out of their minds.
Not a lot of people, but you know people that
are disturbed, Biden voters or Kamala voters, but disturbed nonetheless.
(38:50):
So yeah, I think that Democrats aren't going to take
this to a shutdown. I think that this is going
to get I think this is cr is going to
get through, but we'll see. If not, then Trump gets
to decide what is essential and what is not essential.
And the government they also always created this. They create panic.
(39:13):
You know, Democrats, their party runs so much off of
the manipulation of public emotion, so they create this sense of, oh,
the government shut down and all these terrible things are
going to happen. It's fine, it'll be fine. It's not
the end of the world, not the least bit. And
the same thing I think is true with the way
they're talking about the tariffs, which I want to come
(39:34):
back to here. Over at CNBC there's a host, Steve Lesman,
who I think he makes it pretty clear he is
not a fan of Trump's tariff talk. This is eighteen
play it.
Speaker 10 (39:46):
I'm going to say this at risk of my job, Kelly,
but what President Trump is doing is insane. It is
absolutely insane. It is about the eighth reason we've had
for the tariffs. And now he's saying he's putting fifty
percent tariffs on Canada unless they agree you to become
the fifty first state.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
That is insane.
Speaker 10 (40:03):
There is no other way of describing it.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
He's trolling the Canadians. He's not going to make it
the fifty first state. It's not going to happen. But
he's also putting pressure on their leadership through a little
bit of shall we say, gentle mockery, by showing that, look,
you know, we got to get some changes here in
some aspects of the economic relationship, and that requires pressure.
(40:33):
That requires the willingness to do things that the Canadian
government the Canadian people aren't going to like very much.
That is at the heart of the negotiation. The version
of negotiation that the DC swamp engages in is the
people don't matter. We're going to spend all your money.
We're going to spend your money into oblivion, and we're
(40:54):
not going to do any The international community gets to
dictate to us. We don't get to dictate to them
whatever the international community means. And that's not America first,
that's not what Trump stands for that's not what he
wants to do. Peter Navarro, who remember went to prison,
went to prison because he refused to violate executive privilege
when the Democrats were having their whole all the insurrection
(41:16):
freak out. Here he is explaining a little bit of
a different perspective on the Canada situation. This is seventeen
Play It.
Speaker 11 (41:23):
Frankly, the premiere he's been I mean, look, just tamp
it down please over there, Okay, just throwing down the
hockey gloves and stop that rhetoric, and let's just look.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
At what we're trying to do.
Speaker 11 (41:35):
We love Canada, but look there's some big issues there
and we're not going to tolerate anything but them stopping
killing Americans and doing what's right with respected things like
stealing a Luman which they've been dumping into our country,
and that's stopping.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
He's just said, look, we got some things we want
to work out. We're going to figure it out. Okay,
no one's there's going to be no invasion. Everything's fine,
Everything is fine. There's no need to freak out. Uh,
there's no need to take this into some level of
hysteria unless you're a Democrat like Claire mccaskell cut sixteen.
Here she's saying that what Trump is doing with Canada
(42:13):
it's like what Putin has done to Ukraine.
Speaker 12 (42:17):
And think about the whole thing. Is saying he's gonna
make Canada fifty first six? What is he gonna go
to war with Canada?
Speaker 1 (42:23):
Does he think the.
Speaker 12 (42:24):
American people are gonna put up with us losing lives
to try to take Canada?
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Because Canada is.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Not gonna do it ever, ever, ever, willingly.
Speaker 12 (42:32):
So the only way you do it is by force.
Is he gonna do to Canada what Putin has done
to Ukraine? I mean, that's the logical consequence of what
he's saying.
Speaker 5 (42:41):
And is that crazy?
Speaker 1 (42:45):
She really needs to do like some yoga, maybe some
some breathing exercises, prayer, meditation, something. Calm down, Claire, It's
gonna be fine. Trump's not gonna invade Canada. Okay. We
love Canada, great country, great people. He's just doing a
little negotiating, all right. He's trying to get some things
accomplished here. And just you know, we don't need the hysteria.
(43:09):
We don't need the hysteria. But you know the problem
is they've trained themselves over many years now to just
become hysterical about all things Trump related. So now they're
a point where even the tariff's discussion has got to
get them hysterical. Now that the Trump's arrangement syndrome as
it's looking for the next place to manifest itself. It's
look what he's doing on tariffs. Yeah, he's saying, he's
(43:31):
in Canada. You do some things that annoy us, that
don't benefit our economy, that aren't really aren't really free trade.
Get rid of those things, or we're gonna do some
things that annoy you that aren't really free trade, that
are in tariffs, and we need you to help us
on some border issues.
Speaker 10 (43:46):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
You know, he's not saying that the you know, the
whole country has to learn it learn a different language,
which you know obviously we speak they speak English. You
have to learn a different language, and you know, do
something impossible, do something crazy, or else it's gonna be fine.
It's not gonna be the fifty first state. And look, Republicans,
we don't want it to be the fifty first state.
(44:08):
Not because it's not a lovely place with lovely people,
but way too many Libs way too many. It would
be like adding another Well, I gotta check and see
what the registrations are. The population is similar to the
state of California.
Speaker 6 (44:22):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
I don't know what their breakdown is for liberal versus conservative.
I know they've had Trudeau, one of the most clownish
world leaders of all in the last decade or so
that he's been their representative. So that's not a good
But we had Biden. You know a lot of Americans
here who are like, don't blame mus So I'm sure
there are a lot of Canadians who are saying, hey,
(44:44):
don't blame mus for Trudeau. There's a bunch of Libs
who live in Ottawa and Montreal wasn't our fault. So
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Speaker 1 (46:14):
All right, I mentioned that Trump was just speaking to
the press, and he was just in the Oval office,
So I want to bring the latest here from the president.
He is as always moving and setting news cycles with
every utterance, pretty much, so let's dive into it. On
on the tariff's situation, which we know we've talked about
(46:36):
a fair amount today on the show. It is still
in flux. It's all going to be fine. It is
still in flux, and he is negotiating. But he spoke
about that, and he keeps on trying to get everyone
understand who is particularly critical of this? But critical I
think the people who are critical of it because they
hate Trump and that's they're gonna He could cure cancer
(46:58):
and they would say, why cancer, You know, it doesn't matter.
But there are the people who I think are a
little hey, hold on, is this going to be good
for the Trump economy? We want the best. I'm a
little worried about this. Trump is telling them, you got
to remember, this is about reciprocal tariffs first and foremost,
meaning places that have it against us. They should remove that,
And that's why worth saying, we'll put them on you
(47:19):
if you don't take You know, this is a do
one to others as they do unto you. Tariff strategy
play twenty two.
Speaker 4 (47:26):
As you know, we're going to be doing reciprocal tariffs.
So whatever they charge us, we're charging them. Nobody can
complain about that. Whatever it is, It doesn't even matter
what it is if they charge us, if they charge
us twenty five or twenty percent to ten percent or
two percent or two hundred percent, then that's what we're
charging them. And so I don't know why people get
(47:46):
upset about that, because there's nothing more fair than that.
And we we had a problem with Ontario and they
dropped that. When I let them know what we were
going to be doing, they dropped it immediately. So I'm
glad because electricity shouldn't be playing with electricity. It affects people.
Those lives there actually their life. I mean, it can
effect depending on whether it can affect their life, So
we can't do that.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
Why is it bad to use the threat of tariffs,
I mean threat might be a little strong, but to
use the implementation of tariffs, the possibility of tariffs as
a negotiation tool to get another country to remove its
pre existing tariff against US. I'd like to know what
(48:31):
the really honest and straightforward response to that is. Instead,
I get tariffs raise prices and they lower aggregate demand,
and I hear all this, Oh, okay, I know that
there's a lot of in economics, there's a lot of
cost benefit analysis on a whole range of things. And
this is something that we've had to deal with on
(48:51):
the immigration side of things too, where they say, oh,
the more legals, the bigger our GDP is. Yeah, but
that doesn't What we want is a country that is
actually a country that has sovereignty and that has households,
individuals doing well. We don't just want the more, the merrier,
the bigger the economy, the bigger the overall GDP the better.
(49:13):
That's actually it's GDP per capital that matters to us
a lot more than just overall GP because you have
to look at the long term expanse of individuals. We're
going to be government dependent, and that's already reflected in
our immigration laws, but it's ignored anyway. So Trump is saying, yeah, look,
we're gonna tear if people that are teffing us, and
so that seems I just feel like that's very straightforward.
(49:36):
I don't know why this is. And he said he
was going to do this, He's always talked about this.
I don't know why this is a shock to anybody. Okay,
now let's move to what he just said. Now a
few moments ago about the price of talked about eggs
in the first hour, price of eggs and oil. This
is twenty three hit it.
Speaker 4 (49:52):
We did a lot of things that got the cust
of eggs down very substantially, and so many other things.
A very big thing that I'm very happy with is
oil is down to sixty five dollars a barrow, and
that's faster than I would have We put on the gas.
We stepped into the gas in order to get oil.
And with what's happening, so we're getting that down. And
when energy comes down, prices are going to be coming
(50:13):
down with it. So in a very short period of time,
we've done a very good job.
Speaker 1 (50:19):
Yeah, and it's a very short period of time. Nobody
can really argue with that. And things are starting to
move in the right direction on some key things. You know,
stock market goes up, stock market goes down. That's what
markets do. There's a lot of reasons for that, but
I think that it should be clear to everybody that
the team that's in charge, they understand this stuff. They
(50:40):
know what's going on. And Trump's been here before. We
have a record to judge this on. This is not
oh gosh, does this guy have any idea what he's doing?
Do you remember what the economy was like twenty eighteen,
twenty nineteen, It was like, oh my gosh. You know, look,
you know the you know, real unemployment number is going
down so much, probably wages going up, you know, the
(51:02):
stock markets booming, industry merger, you know, it's all and yeah,
good stuff, right, it's all going to be It's all
going to be just fine. That's what I keep trying
to remind everybody who's willing to listen about. And I
think that the changes that they're making are necessary. Oh
(51:23):
wait wait, speaking of the changes, a little bit of
a throwback here. Speaking of the changes, I mentioned a
moment ago in the last segment that there was a
time not long ago when Natzi Pelosius opposed to waste,
fraud and abuse. Nancy Pelosi is here in twenty ten
(51:45):
calling out how bad the waste, fraud and abuse in
Medicare is. This is twenty five play it.
Speaker 12 (51:52):
We cannot keep our promises on Medicare.
Speaker 3 (51:54):
We simply must make the cuts and waste fraud and
abuse in medicare so that the benefits and the premiums
are untouched.
Speaker 11 (52:05):
We owe it to our seniors, We owe it to
our country.
Speaker 1 (52:09):
Okay, you hear that. That's the really the most powerful
Democrat of the last twenty years. I know I say that,
and you're like, oh, and it grows. It's true, It's true.
I mean Obama while in office in his time for
eight years. Been looking at how long Pelosi's been in
the game. And look at how Pelosi. I mean, she
shepherded through Obamacare. She's ruthless, she's not good, but she
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knows what she's doing. She knows how to wield power.
She ran circles around the Republicans on some things, just
just calling it like it is right, got to be
honest about it. But here she is, fifteen years ago
talking about how if we don't deal with the waste,
fraud and abuse in Medicare, we won't be able to
keep Medicare as it is now think about this. That
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was fifteen years ago. The problem has only gotten worse
since then, the problem of the waste fraught and abuse
and the debt, and all of this together has only
increased all of these pressure points. And yet Democrats hate
Elen Musk and mock him and want to try to
stop him in every in every possible way. They can
see what I mean that whatever Trump is for, they
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are against, and whatever Trump is against they are for.
This is the way that they are operating because ultimately
the future of the country matters less to them that
they are in charge and they have power. It's the truth.
They want to be in charge is that is point
number one. Everything else comes after that. They have to
have power, power over you, power over me, power over
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the country. If that means they slam the country into
a brick wall at one hundred miles an hour, well
at least they were at the driver. At least they're
at the at the wheel. You know, they were in
the driver's seat. And then they'll blame us too, as
you know, there's no account that's one thing Democrats are
great at. No accountability. Look how they've ruined so many
cities with crime and decay and disorder and drugs, and
(54:03):
oh who could have ever known that undermining cops and
refusing to enforce the law would have had these outcomes.
I don't know everybody who's not an idiot, pretty straightforward,
but look what they did. Oh yeah, blm, that's gonna
help us. So Pelosi used to be a post to waste,
fraud and abuse, and I just think it's fascinating that
she has completely abandoned ship on this because when there's
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finally somebody who's trying to do some real stuff about it,
that's not Remember that's not even spending cuts per se,
that's just money that shouldn't be spent, stops getting spent.
Democrats have a problem with that. No, you're allowed. You're
not allowed to do that. You're not allowed to do
the good thing because you, the Republicans. Showing an ability
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to follow through on promises, to govern with sanity, to
do math, and to take your job in government seriously
makes people trust you more, makes voters like you more,
and that is unacceptable. That is the Democrat mentality in
all of us. Everything else is noise. Can't give us,
(55:10):
can't give us a win. You want to know a
perfect encapsulation of this mentality. It is the Biden administration
not accepting Elon Musk's offer to use SpaceX to get
the astronauts back home when they're you know, when they
want to be home. Instead they get to linger up
(55:31):
there for months and months and months. Why And Elon's
made this very clear, He's talked about this because Biden
didn't want somebody associated with Trump to do an amazing
thing that is a service that everybody could just sit
there and clap and say great, Elon Trump's buddy got
or asked our American astronauts home. Yeah, that's this is
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what we are up against. It is so important that
you remember that as we go through, the criticisms of
what Trump is doing are going to continue to be
irrational and not in good faith because anything that Trump
does that's good they think must be bad because good
Trump is bad for them. That's It's as simple as
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it's as straightforward as that. For a vast majority of
these issues. So you know, there are times when I've
even said I hope this, I hope this Democrat pulls
this off, or I hope this Democrat president makes the
right decision for the future of the country and and
deserves the credit if he or she Well, he does.
And you know there are those occasionally I brought up.
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I mean the bin Laden raid for example, which was
a big part of Obama, which was really our Navy
seal operators who did it, but in CIA who found him.
But the point is Obama got the credit for it.
He was the commander in chief, he ordered the raid.
There's no part in that goes Oh I wish he
hadn't ordered the Osama Bin Laden raid. No, it was
the right move he pulled, he made and he got
four more years in office to do a lot more
damage to the country because of it. But there are
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things that we should be able to recognize as good
irrespective of who's in charge, irrespective of who the pre
you know which party the president belongs to. Democrats. They've
abandoned that in the Trump era. Nothing anything Trump does
is bad. He even made reference to this explicitly in
the joint addressed to Congress, where I think he even
said if I cured cancer, they would be like, oh
(57:25):
my gosh, what will we do without cancer?
Speaker 10 (57:28):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (57:28):
And that's that's their attitude on this. And then there's
one more thing here on the this is Trump just
now last on our last hour. He says about the
Department of Education cuts, he's owning it. He wanted to
do it, he said, he's doing it half the not half.
I think it's more like a third. I got to
(57:48):
check the numbers of the DOE workforce has been told
see you later. But Trump says, look, this is not
about stopping kids from learning. This is about letting states
run education within the state. Like twenty four we have
a dream, and you know what the dream is.
Speaker 4 (58:05):
We're going to move the Department of Education. We're going
to move education into the states so that the states
instead of bureaucrats working in Washington, so that the states
can run education. And you have Norway, you have Denmark
of Sweden, you have various Finland, you have various countries
that do very well.
Speaker 1 (58:22):
You also have China that does.
Speaker 4 (58:24):
Very well in education, which is a pretty big tribute
to China. I must say, at one point four billion,
and they're in the top ten and it's pretty amazing.
So we can't blame size anymore. You know, normally you
blame size, it's too big, how can you do it?
But China does it. So we think when you move
it back to Iowa and Indiana and all the states
(58:44):
that run so well. There's so many I could name thirty,
maybe almost forty. Those will be as good as Denmark,
those will be as good as Norway.
Speaker 1 (58:54):
And let's see when states can really control their education
and not have the meddling of the Department of Education
federally which has just made things worse. And when there's
the adequate resources that are just given to the state
that would have gone to the part of education. I
assume that'll be part of this. We'll see. Let's see
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which states are able to figure out how to do
this better. You know, the whole laboratory of democracy thing,
that the federalism that we have, that whole situation, Why
can't that work for education? It works for it works
for businesses, or works for a whole range of things
where we get to see, you know, people are fleeing
the blue communist states moving to red communist states, and
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this is the way the system is supposed to operate.
So there should be again a willingness to approach this
in good faith. But that's never going to happen with
the Democrats, because the most important thing, always and forever
for these Democrats now is to oppose Trump because they
hate him so much like a bunch of little babies.
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