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March 16, 2025 23 mins
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.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Team forty seven podcast is sponsored by Good Ranchers
Making the American Farm Strong Again. Team forty seven with
Clay and Buck starts now 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

(00:22):
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 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

(00:42):
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,
just by way of context, the worst inflation in fourteen
key years occurred on Joe Biden's watch and began when

(01:05):
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 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,

(01:26):
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
it started 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

(01:49):
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,
the green energy slush fund that has been part of
the Biden spending spree, and including these so called Inflation

(02:11):
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
that the Trump plan is going to require fixing some things.
And you know, when you go into an old house

(02:33):
and you know you're kicking at the wooden boards and
you're checking out, you know you got to fix a
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. Sometimes
you're going to pull a board off the wall and
maybe a piece of the ceiling comes down. Stuff is
going to happen a little bit, But the fundamental structure

(02:56):
is sound, and the fundamental approach of Trump and his
team is the right one. And here here first of all,
Trump is talking of since I talked, I spoke about
the price of eggs, and now you know, I don't
have 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

(03:17):
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,
first of all, I've gone in there. There's been basically
no eggs some days. So that's a thing. But that's
a that's a supply shortage, in large part caused by

(03:40):
the killing of all the the you know, euthanizing of
chickens to prevent the bird flu thing, which I think
was excessive. But anyway, here's Trump, this is cut five
talking about how look everybody, the things are happening. You
gotta just be patient. Don't let the don't let the
anti Trump Trump Derange media get you all play five.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
But we didn't have these problems. 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.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Well, now the price of eggs has come down a lot.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Interest rates have come down, gasoline prices.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Have come down.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
It's all coming down. It's all a beautiful thing.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
I can do it the right way of the wrong way.
We're doing it the right way.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
And I have tremendous confidence in this country and the
people of this country tremendous coup, much more so than
if I sat back for four years and had a
good time in the Ovlope.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
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

(04:56):
and wonder where the eggs are. Pretty straightforward. But the
fundament men 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

(05:18):
about 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 know, I wouldn't say conservatives
or people on the right are they're not panicking about

(05:40):
the Libs panic because it's Trump 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

(06:01):
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,

(06:22):
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

(06:46):
nerds in the best sense in DC. I used to
have them on my old radio show back in the day.
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.

(07:08):
We shouldn't just sit here and take it. And then
there's the same thing, Oh my gosh, what's Trump doing
is crazy? 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.

(07:33):
I hate to you know, 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 Doge has, we're throwing our best at it right now. Okay,
the electorate sent us their best this time, and everyone

(07:53):
needs to just 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 contexts with
the media has gone, Oh my gosh, you know things

(08:16):
were what things were 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

(08:36):
have a team that 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

(09:00):
has cut four saying that, you know what, there's actually
some good news in the economy this week on some
things that really matter. Play it.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
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 month over month. Both of these
figures were a step in the right direction, and both
were better than expected. So this is definitely very encouraging

(09:29):
to see because it's going to I think relieve some
fears that inflation was perhaps reaccelerating, because this actually breaks
a streak of four straight months where I think you
could see it on the chart all the way to
the right, where the inflation rate was going in the
wrong direction. Rate it was going higher and higher. Finally
we're seeing it dip.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
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, this is the data now that we're seeing.
And remember the Bide data was suspiciously manipulated so that
the jobs numbers were always higher than they actually were.
That the recession that happened under Biden two quarters of

(10:11):
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, that drives power
come election time, so they'll say whatever they have to

(10:34):
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 seen none of that.
All I see is Trump doing what Trump does. And

(10:55):
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 is saying, oh, can he really
bring down inflation? What they don't want you to think
about us how all of this is connected. What causes inflation?
Monetary supply, government spending, what causes that government doing dumb things?

(11:22):
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 prices because I say so,
because they fundamentally want to pretend we live in a
different world than we do, and that they can artificially

(11:43):
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 you know, tell them to
just stuff it. You've had enough of the noise. Oh
my gosh, the recession, depression Trump please Okay, Biden didn't

(12:05):
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. You're listening to Team forty seven
with Clay and Buck. We're joined by White House Deputy
Press Secretary Anna Kelly.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
Anna.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
Welcome to the program. Thanks for being here with us.

Speaker 4 (12:24):
Thanks so much. Fuck, I'm so excited to be here.
And that's a great song you had on in the break,
by the way, I really enjoyed that.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
Well, thank you very much. We try to have the
good tunes, the good tunes flowing. So a lot going
on this week and a lot of back and forth. Already,
Let's start with the economy tariff situation. What should everybody know?
Because if you you know, when I go to the gym,
for example, they have these different channels on. They do

(12:50):
have Fox on in the gym down here because I'm
in South Florida, but a lot of like the financial channels,
and it almost feels like they want everybody to panic
every time the president and speaks the word tariff. What
should everyone know about the plan here and where we're
trying to go?

Speaker 4 (13:06):
Yeah, so I will share there are three goals for
these cariffs right. Number one is restrictions, so we are
helping our domestic industries by pushing these exports, making sure
that American companies can send made in America goods all
around the world, making sure we're getting revenue from the
things we import. And then most importantly is reciprocity. So
President Trump, finally after decades, not just the past four years,

(13:28):
especially the past four years, but really decades of unfair
trading practices that have long took advantage of American farmers
and workers. President Trump is finally saying, look, American farmers, workers,
manufacturers deserve a level playing field. So these tariffs are
finally making sure that we are leveling the playing field,
enacting the same tariffs that these countries around the world

(13:50):
have imposts on us for years. This makes common sense
and it makes sure that American farmers and workers are
able to send their goods around the world. And by
the way, those revenues are paying dividends. We had ten
thousand new manufacturing jobs last month. We have positive job
growth in the private sector. That's what the American people want.
That's what we want in this building is a strong

(14:11):
economy in the private sector that is benefiting from a
level playing field.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Finally, what also is is your what is the feeling
of the President and this White House on how to
handle the slew of these judicial universal injunctions that have
come down. I told everybody before you came on and
that the Biden administration had fewer of these against and

(14:37):
it did some very unconstitutional and just aggressive, and I
would offer unlawful things in the executive branch, but more
in one month for Trump than three years of Biden.
Is the strategy here just to take it to the
Supreme Court? Does the White House say that there may
be other options down down the road? What should we

(14:58):
know about this?

Speaker 4 (14:59):
Well, yeah, yeah, here's what we know. You're exactly right.
There were fifteen efforts in February alone by these activist
judges to seize the president's power of specifically hiring and
firing from the executive branch. We in this building believe,
and I think the American people understand, that the president
has the authority to exercise the power of the executive branch.

(15:19):
That means hiring people, that means firing people, and ultimately
that means delivering on the American people's mandates to eliminate
wastefill spending, to shrink our federal workers, and ultimately make
our federal workforce more efficient. That is to the benefit
of Americans across the country who benefit from federal services. So, yes,
we have these activist judges enacting these fifteen efforts to

(15:40):
crample down on the president's authority. We believe that is unjust.
We believe it is unconstitutional, and we will continue to
fight back against their efforts to seize the power of
the President of the United States to run his own
executive branch.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
We're speaking to a deputy White House Press Secretary, Anna Kelly,
and CBS News reported this a day ago. Trump to
invoke Wartime Allien Enemies Act of seventeen ninety eight to
carry out deportations to Guantanamo. What can you tell us
about this?

Speaker 4 (16:13):
Well, I won't get ahead of the president's buck, but
here is what I will say. I know there is
a lot of talk in the mainstream media about suddenly
they are concerned about mass deportations and the pace of that.
Guess what, we actually just found out recently that Biden
was fudging his numbers on these deportations. They were arresting
aliens and then letting them back into our country. That
is a universally unpopular policy. That is part of what

(16:35):
helps propel President Jumps to victory in November, because American
people do not want these migrant criminals invading our country.
Here's what we do, no buck, We made thirty two thousand,
over thirty two thousand enforcement arrest in the first fifty
days of the Trump administration. To put that in perspective,
we made thirty three thousand I did at large arrests

(16:55):
in the fiscal year twenty twenty four alone. So I
won't get ahead of presidents any Pacific policies that he
plans to impose. But we know that the President is
delivering on his promise to annask the largest mass deportation
of migrant criminals in American history to stop the invasion. Because,
by the way, fourteen thousand of those we've arrested so
far convicted criminals, almost ten thousand have pending criminal charges.

(17:17):
So President Trump is doing what he promised. He is
getting justice for innocent Americans like Lake and Riley, who
like Jocelyn Nunger, whose lives were brutally taken and unjustly
taken by migrant criminals who should have never been in
this country in the first place.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
And I've seen some early data on this, and it's
actually it actually comes from the Mexican government side of
the border. But we know that official numbers already for
illegal migrant crossings are way down. I think ninety five
percent plus is where they are. But you know, in
a way that shows that the President is keeping his

(17:53):
promise to secure the border, and also that the previous
administration intentionally allowed the border to be open for anybody
to cross over, and that thankfully has come to an end.
Do we have data yet or can you tell us
when we will?

Speaker 4 (18:07):
Though?

Speaker 1 (18:07):
On the plummeting fentanyl seizures at the border as well,
because I know that there's the government of Mexico has
been claiming that fentanyl seizures are also way down on
their end of things, right, So do we have some
data on the drug numbers coming down as well?

Speaker 4 (18:28):
Well? So CBT customers and Border Patrol regularly puts out
these numbers. Unfortunately I don't have them in front of me,
but I'm will be sure to follow up and make
sure that you can share those with our listeners. But
I will say, you know, the President has vastly different
messaging to your point about encounters at the southern border.
I remember, I'm sure you remember your listeners, remember when
migrants for coming into the border in early twenty twenty one,

(18:51):
saying thank you Joe Biden for this open border, for
with a stroke of his pen, ondoing all the border
security measures that President Trump took in his first term.
President Trump is finally sending the message to migrant criminals
around the world saying do not come here. He is
telling migrant criminals who already are in the country to
self support otherwise we will find you and we will
support you. The messaging is vastly different, and I think

(19:13):
that is why you see those vastly different numbers. And
we're also holding the countries like Mexico and Canada accountable
for the influx of sentinel that has come into our
country killing Americans. That's part of the terribles as well.
So all in all, President Trump is finally sending the message,
after four years of failure under Joe Biden, that enough
is enough. We will not accept these migrant criminals entering
our country killing Americans. We also won't accept this influx

(19:36):
of sentinel that is also destroying families across the country.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Can you tell us about this news story. I think
it was Politico that put it out initially about the
clearing out of classified by USAID and also the status
of the USAID building. I think you had to do
a little cleanup on Aisle fake news on that one
for Politico and others what actually happened there.

Speaker 4 (20:01):
Yeah, so there was a so as you know, I'm
sure your listeners know USCID that building is soon to
be occupied by Customs and Border Patrol thankfully, so the
USCID employees were naturally clearing out the building, vacating the building,
and undergoing a very normal process to dispose of classified documents.
And by the way, as I said in my expost,

(20:22):
which I'm sure is what you're pointing out, many of
these were courtesy copies, So that means these are documents
that originated from other agencies and were sent to USAID
by a courtesy And by the way, I'll add, I
want to shout out fake news NBC. They actually reached
out to me at three fifteen for their story on this,
published at three sixteen, and then we had to walk

(20:42):
or clean up all this fake news that was spreading
around and sewing chaos really across the country. But this
was a totally normal process meant to dispose of classic
copies of classified documents that already existed, by the way,
electronically as well in secure computer systems. Total fake news out.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
Do you feel like the media is trying to be
a little bit less rab it in their anti trumpsm
In terms of the media that's covering this White House
day in and day out. Have you have you started
to see perhaps just an attempt to be more, if
not even handed, at least more professional in how they

(21:23):
approach this or are things still pretty rough for those
who are clearly opposing the president with their coverage?

Speaker 4 (21:31):
You know, Buck, I don't think they know what to
do with themselves, because we are having fun. Truly, we
are winning every single day, and I think they do acknowledge,
you know, the fact that President Trump not only won
the election by a landslide, but he won the popular vote.
He is implementing policies that the American people soundly support,
and so they can try, they can push their fake
news narratives, they can try and poke hold and what

(21:53):
he's doing. But guess what the approval is on our side.
The American people overwhelmingly support his agenda. They see that
he has delivered on the promises he made on the
campaign trail, to restore our economy, to secure the southern border,
to restore our standing on the world stage. This is
what the American people want. He is delivering on his promises,
and I think that fake news don't know what to
do with it.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Remarkable. How is it to be right in the center
of center of all the action here for a presidency
that is already transformational one month and I know you're
super busy and you say you're having fun. Must be
exciting stuff.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
It is so exciting. And again, we're winning every single
day and we're having so much fun that fake news
don't know what they know. They don't know how to
cover it because they're not used to actually covering a
president who actually does think. Every single day, he is
signing more executive orders than any other president at this
point in his first or his tecond term. He is
delivering on the promises he made and it's really fun.

(22:49):
I'm not sure if you knew this that I was
involved in the campaign as well, and so I was
able to be part of all these promises being made,
watching the enthusiasm among all these Americans across the country
who are so excited to finally see change after four
years of failure, and it's extremely exciting to be part
of the process in really helping correct all the mistakes

(23:09):
over the past four years.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
White House deput Press Secretary Anna Kelly come back again soon.
Thank you so much for being here and keep up
the great work.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
Thanks so much, buss talk soon.

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