April 11, 2025 • 38 mins
Hour 1 of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show kicks off with a lively discussion on the latest stock market trends, highlighting minimal movement and slight increases in the S&P and Dow indices. The hosts delve into the ongoing trade wars between the United States and China, noting China's recent tariff hikes and the potential for further negotiations. Buck Sexton provides personal updates, sharing humorous anecdotes about his experience with his wife's labor induction process, including the use of Pitocin and the challenges of hospital amenities.
The conversation shifts to inflation trends, with Clay Travis reporting encouraging news about declining inflation rates and the potential for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates further. The hosts discuss the impact of inflation on everyday expenses like groceries and gas, emphasizing the positive signs for consumers.
The show also covers political commentary, focusing on the Democratic Party's messaging and the perceived disconnect between their leaders and constituents. Clay Travis critiques Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett's approach, contrasting her elite private school background with her current political rhetoric. The hosts explore the broader implications of this disconnect and the importance of authentic communication in politics.
Additionally, the program touches on historical analogies, with Clay Travis drawing comparisons between current political figures and historical events, particularly World War II. He emphasizes the importance of historical literacy and the dangers of oversimplified analogies.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome in Friday edition. Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate
all of you hanging out with us as we are
rolling into the weekend to give you the absolute latest
on everything. Since we now cover the stock market on
a daily basis, let me give you the latest. It's
not moving very much today, essentially unmoved in general, s
(00:28):
and p up a little bit. The Dow is up
a little bit. Not movement very much. If if you
listen to Jim Kramer and sold all your stocks, you
made an awful decision. Because of the week in stocks
has actually been good. China has raised tariffs a bit
more on American goods, but basically sends the notice that
(00:50):
they will not be raising goods anymore. There is talk
that there will be further discussion between China and the
United States going forward. That is the latest in trade wars.
In Clay and Buck news, Buck texted us, I'm trying
to not bother Buck and carry. Buck texted us yesterday
(01:11):
that things were going well, but that the process of
beginning the induction might take twelve to eighteen hours. That is,
I've been through this a little bit and I'm inevitably
gonna screw this up, but with my wife on the
three different deliveries that we have had my recollection, and
(01:32):
I know I'm going to get flooded with obgyn messages here.
My recollection is that there is a drug called pitussin
that is designed to gradually move a baby towards delivery.
This is my recollection in between complaining about the Wi Fi,
as my wife pointed out in the delivery room, and
(01:52):
in between not being happy with the television selections because
I couldn't find the games that I wanted to watch. Again,
my wife called in and gave her recollections of our
first baby being born, and that's two of the things
that she remembers. And honestly, the WiFi should work in
the hospital. Let's be honest in my defense, and why
would you not have basic sports television stations on cable?
(02:13):
But you know, it wasn't really about me. Babies are
happy and healthy. But I do remember my wife's water
broke two weeks early in the middle of the night,
and we went in early in the morning, and I
believe they put putussin on and that is what slowly
moves you towards the late labor process. I give you
that update, because we have been deluged with so many
(02:35):
of you saying, Hey, what's the latest, what's the latest,
what's the latest? That is the latest? That was yesterday evening.
We've not gotten an update today. I am solo with
you here. Probably gonna be solo with you quite a
bit next week, I would imagine, because the baby boy
has not yet arrived so far as we know. I've
got my phone on trying not to bother Buck and carry.
(02:57):
Buck did say that his very funny Buck did say
that his blow up mattress was working well, which is
one of the most ridiculous decisions that I've heard anybody.
He was not confident enough in the couch in the
delivery room, so Buck took in his own blow up
mattress and has been sitting off to the side blowing
up the mattress. I presume that he slept on it
(03:19):
last night. And we will continue to give you updates
on how all of that is going. But newest news
that is out there is we got more inflation reads
this morning, which suggests that inflation is continuing to come down,
not just come down from the nine percent that Joe
(03:41):
Biden took us to but actually come down, meaning the
goods out there in the United States are costing less.
That is a very very good sign because it means
that your dollars go further. It also means that the
Fed actually has some evidence that they could lower rates
(04:01):
even further after they had to skyrocket the rates to
try to deal with the nine percent nine percent inflation
rate that Joe Biden put in place, which necessitated one
of the most rapid rises in interest rates in the
modern history of the United States. So now what's interesting
(04:23):
is we kind of got a little bit of a pause.
The markets seem to have adjusted to the United States
versus China trade war. We have new talking points that
are now coming out. And by the way, China has
taken tariffs to one hundred and twenty five percent. United
States has tariffs of one hundred and forty five percent. Basically,
(04:45):
we have had a lot of economic experts on to
talk with you, Stephen Moore yesterday, the day before that,
we talked with Art Laugher. We are going to talk
with Larry Kudlow at about an hour from now at
the top of the second hour of the program. Many
of you watch his show Cudlow on Fox Business He
(05:07):
is a former high level Trump economic advisor, and he
will be on with us at one to talk about
the absolute latest there. There are reports that there may
be telephone calls between Trump and Chinese Premiere Zee, the
leader there. We will keep you updated on that. But
(05:28):
what's important to know is the pivot has really happened,
and the pivot has happened now where they are trying
to argue, despite all evidence to the contrary, that Trump's
trade war is already costing you more in terms of
the goods that you are buying. And I just think
it's important to understand what the talking points so that
(05:50):
you can push back against this again. Double inflation readings
early days of the Trump administration, the cost of goods, groceries, gas,
all of that is coming down. Eggs. Everybody wanted to
talk about eggs for a little while. Here is Jasmine Crockett,
who has become, unfortunately for Democrats, one of the chief
(06:11):
spokespeople of the Democrat Party right now saying cut twenty one.
You can't afford your home groceries. What is she saying,
because there's deportations that are happening again, this is cut
twenty two. This is absolutely unintelligible.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Listen, We've got to do better to connect the dots
and let people know the reason you can't afford a
home is because of these filled immigration policies. The reason
you're not going to be able to afford your food
is because of these filled immigration policies. And the same
can goal for the hospitality industries, where we have so
many of those in the hospitality industry that are saying
(06:49):
they do not have the workers that they need right now.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
All right, So the talking point now is not only
the trade issues, right, it is that Trump being focused
on illegal immigration is actually creating the cost increase which
doesn't actually exist at all, because the data reflects that
the cost of goods is actually declining. Okay, So this
(07:16):
is interesting, Jasmine Crockett, to me, is a great example
of how the Democrat Party has become broken in the
way that they talked to so many Americans out there.
And we discussed this yesterday when we had the Anderson
Cooper town hall with Bernie Sanders and they had that attorney,
(07:37):
the woman stand up and Anderson Cooper referred to her
as she, and she said, actually, it's they them, and
then she led into her next question which is why
do men not support the Democrat Party which was too perfect?
That was like they were trying to give us in
one talk back moment why they have collapsed. This is
(07:57):
also interesting. We've talked about this sum Jasmine Crockett is
a Houston, Texas area congresswoman. I believe maybe it was Dallas.
She's from Texas. She actually went to super elite private schools.
Her private school cost over thirty thousand dollars a year.
Right now, this is someone that went to a school
(08:18):
that you, most of you could never afford to send
your kids to. I'm a K through twelve public school kid.
I couldn't have gone to a school like this when
I was growing up. Here she is saying, Hey, I
really appreciate the sacrifices my parents made and how they
pushed me as a kid, and how they put me
in how they put me in great schools. Imagine if
(08:40):
this was the message instead of hey all of the
lies Trump is hitler. It's just interesting to hear what
Democrats said back before they went insane. And I wanted
to play this for you because I think it's emblematic
of the era that we're in where Jasmine Crockett has
to appear dumber, were least, or less articulate than she
(09:03):
actually is in her mind to appeal to the Democrat base.
Listen to Cut twenty three.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
My parents worked multiple jobs, and I went to public
school until the sixth grade, and then there were some
problems with like the junior high, and they were very concerned,
so they got additional jobs and they worked to put
me into private school. So I was in private school
until I graduated at high school. And it's interesting that
(09:29):
my mom says that because she was one of those
people that I didn't get to rest right Like. It
wasn't a matter of go to school and maybe play
some video games and maybe go outside. It was you know,
you've got to do Dell teens. You've got to be
active in inroads, you've got to do upward bound, you've
got to do maa Like the list goes on and
(09:51):
on and on. Junior achievement of all the things that
she had me doing. And I'm so appreciative to her now.
I was very hired when I was young.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I like this Jasmine Crocket. I like Jasmine Crockett's parents.
Imagine if that was Jasmine Crockett's message, and that was
the Democrat party's message. Imagine if she went out and
she said, Hey, the reason I'm successful is because my
mom and dad busted their asses to put me in
the best possible school that I could go to, because
(10:25):
the local public school that I was going to was
not taking me to the best place where I could go.
Imagine if that was her message. Imagine if her message
was we got to buckle down. People have to work.
Sometimes two jobs, three jobs, jump around from one place
to another. Mom and dad may both have to work
(10:46):
in order to give the best opportunity to their kids.
That's something that connects with all of you out there.
And even with that said, a lot of you couldn't
afford the private school that Jasmine Crockett got the privilege
of going to to get the education that she did.
But the aspirational nature of her parents, the fact that
(11:08):
they made her work her ass off and made her
into someone who could be elected a congresswoman one day,
that's something that has appeal. Why isn't that the Democrat message?
Think about how lost they are that Jasmine Crockett, who
went to private school, in an elite private school from
(11:30):
six to twelfth grade and then went off to college
because of it. Now Phel's compelled to talk to her
Texas constituents like she doesn't have an education at all.
What does that say about the Democrat Party? What does
it say when you have to appear dumber than you
are in public and you rarely shared the real story
(11:54):
of your life because you're convinced it doesn't connect with
the constituency you're trying to speak to. That's not good
whatever position you have. If you ever have to appear
dumber than you are in order to get somewhere, that's
not something you should aspire to do. And by the way,
(12:14):
getting on my soapbox, if you're ever in a relationship
with someone where you feel compelled, whether it's a friend,
whether it's a boyfriend girlfriend, where you feel compelled to
act like a dumber version of yourself to fit in,
you don't need to be there, and it's not very
good for you. That's the Democrat Party writ large. How
(12:38):
many of you knew that about Jasmine Crockett? How many
of you are aware of her background in any way?
I'd like to get Jasmine Crockett's parents on the show.
Are they proud of the language that she has adopted.
Maybe just because she's their daughter, But I don't know,
(13:01):
based on the way that they raised her, it doesn't
sound like she's living by the values that they created
in her. It doesn't sound like she's espousing the same
American dream that they had for her. I just think
it's so interesting what democrats choose to focus on when
(13:24):
they actually tell their stories, and sometimes how incredibly dishonest
it actually is. Take some of your calls eight hundred
two A two two aaa two during the course of
it today's program. Like I said, Larry kud Loow going
to join us also at one point thirty Rachel Compost Duffy.
I'm up here in New York for the weekend, and
(13:45):
I am going to be guest hosting Fox and Friends
Weekend with Rachel Compost Duffy and with Charlie Hurt. Never
done this before. I'm excited to do it. I think
it'll be fun. I'm not excited to wake up at
four point thirty in the in the am tomorrow. So
all of that coming this way. If you're out there
right now, you get eight more hours of me. If
(14:05):
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I'll be working every day this week. We'll keep you
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Speaker 1 (15:47):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. I talked
about the news of the day so far being essentially
that inflation continues to decline, which is a very very
good sign. I want to play a couple of those
cuts for you because I think it's important. There's gonna
be a lot of talk out there, Oh Trump's tariffs,
They're going to increase costs overall. Actually, I'm not sure
(16:11):
that's true at all. And I've told you for some
time that the average person, and I would put myself
in this category, drives and notices the price of gas
more than almost anything. And we are rapidly moving towards
under three dollars a gallon gas, which for many of
you out there driving around across your country. That is
the average cost of a gallon of unleaded gas that
(16:34):
we are headed to all over the country. And that
is because there's major deflationary pressure as it pertains to
the overall cost of gas. Also, groceries are actually declining
below the rate of inflation. That is, for most people
out there, the things that you notice the most, and
I put myself in this category is what does gas
(16:56):
cost and what does your food cost? After going up
massive amounts under Joe Biden, the numbers are now turning
negative under Trump. That is, you are paying less for
gas and you are paying less for your groceries relative
to the overall inflation rate. And here is evidence of
that for the second time this week from both CNN
(17:18):
and CNBC. Let's start with CNN. This is their report
on inflation continuing to decline. This is the second report
we've gotten this week.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Cut for this is the second day in a row
we're getting some encouraging news on the cost of living.
So we're talking about the producer price index. This is
whole cell inflation before it gets to all of us
as consumers, and we were expecting an increase in prices
month over month. We did not get that. We got
a drop in prices. Look at this point four percent.
That is much better than anticipating the annual rate. We
(17:49):
were anticipating around three point three percent. We did not
get that. We got a much lower number two point
seven percent. This is a deceleration. And when we look
at the trend, we can see that things have certainly
improved from a few years ago. When it comes to inflation.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Okay, things have improved. That is CNN. Okay, that's what
CNN telling in their audience. Here is CNBC. These are
not super pro Trump networks discussing what I'm telling you,
which are cost or going down? Cut five.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
These are our March read on producer price Index, the
more Whosts sales side of the inflation equation, and they're
big numbers. Down four tenths on headline, down four tenths.
That would be equal to where we were in October
of twenty three. And if we find the lower number,
you're going all the way back to April of twenty
twenty and the COVID affected era, and that was down
(18:39):
one point two percent.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
So good numbers, great numbers, even when it comes to
what things are costing. Coming directly out of your pocketbook
to a large extent, gas and groceries. I just want
you to have the actual data. We'll break that down
for you and more when we come back. Eight hundred
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Welcome back in play Travis buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you hanging out with us as we are rolling
into the weekend. Stock market calm today, nothing crazy going on,
(20:15):
It's up a little bit. It seems again that we
have gotten a little bit of the universe out there
used to what is going on, and I wanted to
make sure that you also understand that they still have
the exact same playbook that they've been trying for a
(20:35):
decade now, and that decade worth of playbook is that
they are going to try to still tell you that
Donald Trump is hitler. You know, yesterday we had a
really good conversation, I thought, and I encourage you to
go check it out with Douglas Murray, and he was
talking about on democracies and death cults and the overall
(20:56):
impact of the lies that have been told to so
many of our school kids, and the historical illiteracy that
that breeds such that really there's only one historical analogy
that most people can even make, and it is everything
relates to World War Two, and Trump is Hitler. Whoever
(21:19):
you don't like in politics is Hitler, And you sit
back and you recognize. For somebody like me who's a
history nerd and loves studying American history. We're about to
have the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the country
next year, a party, by the way, that Trump is
going to throw and should be amazing. But we've got
(21:40):
two hundred and fifty years worth of American history to
go draw historical analogies from. Yet, by and large, the
only historical analogy that anybody can connect to is World
War Two. Everything that happens is seen through the prism
of World War Two. If you think about Ukraine, what
did they say of Vladimir Putin? Is Hitler really? Is
(22:03):
he going to really invade multiple European countries and move
beyond Ukraine and start a World war? That feels very
unlikely to me, particularly because he can't even take over Ukraine.
Just from a historical and in knowledge, the Blitzgreek was
pretty effective, right. Hitler swept right through Europe very rapidly,
(22:25):
and the only reason that he didn't take over Great
Britain was because of the English Channel and because of
the incredible bravery of the average British person to go
rescue the British Army at Dunkirk, which I would argue
is maybe the coolest, maybe the most impressive moment almost
in Western history if you think about saving Western civilization
(22:49):
from the nazis the fact that they got on the
radio go study this. Nobody ever talks about it, by
and large, the fact that they got on the radio
and they said to everybody in England, hey, if you
have a boat, can you go rescue the British Army
and they did it. The museum I've had the good
(23:11):
fortune as a history nerd to be able to go
the Royal Museum in London focused on World War Two,
and I'm not sure exactly what the name of that
museum is. See if the team in there can let
me know what the name of that museum is, because
it is pretty incredible. There's the Churchill War Rooms, which
is one of the coolest history tours that I think
(23:32):
you can do. It looks the exact same It's where
Winston Churchill was in London underground, where they managed the
war and they still have all the maps on the walls.
It looks the exact same they basically left there when
they had the victory celebration and they have recreated it.
You can see the cots that Winston Churchill was sleeping in.
It's incredible, one of the coolest history things you can do.
(23:54):
I've talked about this before. I've gotten to go to
the battle fields all over France where you can see
and walk those beaches and see still so many of
the German pillboxes. It looks almost identical to eighty years ago.
But when you go to that British Museum, they have
some of the boats that went out to go rescue
(24:17):
British soldiers. Some of them are basically rowboats. Everybody who
had a boat just went to Dunkirk and rescued the
entirety of the British Army to allow them to even
continue that war. The expectation was from Hitler's team, we're
(24:37):
basically defeating not only the French, but we are eliminating
the entire British Army. They were saved, and then some
of those same soldiers ended up coming back across on
the shore on D Day to come back and liberate France.
And so when you get to see some of those boats,
that's maybe the most incredible thing that is out there.
(25:00):
And it is just it's an incredible experience to be
able to go see that. Well, they don't take any
of the super positive lessons by and large of Hey,
this is what a country can do when everybody comes
together and everybody puts their actual lives on the line
to go get in their private ships and frankly rowboats
(25:22):
almost and go and get some of these guys. And
again you can see the boats and you're like, man,
I can't even believe they were picking up soldiers in
these guys were coming in. That's how fearless they were
to stand up. That's everybody pulling together. That story doesn't
get told very often. Instead, what they try to say is, okay,
anybody who I disagree with is Hitler. And we were
talking with Douglas Murray about this, and again, this is
(25:43):
why historical literacy matters and why I was glad to
get to go to Israel in December. Trump is more
popular in Israel than he is in Wyoming than he
is in West Virginia, which I believe were the two
states that we're the most supportive of Trump in the
most recent election. I don't think Hitler would be super
(26:06):
popular today in Israel, right, So this is so historically
illiterate on the analogy, but also even in the modern day,
Trump is probably the most popular American president in our lives,
in the actual country of Israel, which is filled with
tons of Jewish people whose lives are on the line
(26:26):
every single day because of what happened on October seventh.
But they are still trying to make the argument, Hey,
can we just have a president who's not Hitler? I
think it's important for you to understand. They have one
note and they keep hitting it again and again. This
is supposed to be comedy. This is The Daily Show
yesterday saying cut twenty seven. Is it too much to
(26:46):
ask for a president who's not Hitler?
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Ninety five of these executive orders are about punishing people
who are just disagree with him. So I'm fine with
side quest Trump. Okay, would you go up to Hitler
and be like, why are you painting? You've got work
to do. Is it too much to ask for a
president who's not Hitler? Yes, apparently it is, So just
(27:11):
focus on the winds yes, he's putting Dora the Exploor
on a flight to El Salvador. Okay, but he's declared
that anyone on the flight who asks for a soda has.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
To get a whole can. Okay. So Trump is hitler haa, look,
how funny it is. The whole crowd roars. But he's
actually the most popular president in the history of Israel,
and the Jewish people there would vote for him by
margins that are similar to West Virginia and Wyoming. Isn't
that kind of a significant factor. And if we're going
(27:44):
to use only World War Two as the entire historical
record to try to analogize to everything, it reminds me
of when I was in school. Do you ever have
one friend or maybe multiple friends, or maybe it was
you who didn't do the actual school readings. You'd get
the old cliff notes, the spark notes, whatever is called.
(28:07):
Most of the time, I loved I'm a nerd. I
read all the books, you know, cover to cover. I
think i'd never skipped assigned reading because I love to
read nerd and I love history. I know nerd. But
I had a buddy who never read. He read one
book that we were assigned like the whole time we
were in school, and it was Lord of the Flies,
(28:29):
Remember the Lord of the Flies. And as a result,
because he had only read one book in his life,
he would analogize everything that happened to Lord of the Flies.
He had one pop culture book that he'd ever read.
Everything reminded him of what happened to Lord of the
Flies because he was so poorly read that he had
(28:50):
no other analogies to draw. That's Democrats with Trump. They're
so historically illiterate that they have such a lack of
foundational knowledge that no matter what happens, it draws them
back to Trump is Hitler. It is the black hole
from which they cannot escape. And yet that analogy is
(29:13):
completely broken, And the fact that has been going on
for a decade is maybe the most dishonest example of
how Trump has been covered, the fact that that is
where unceasingly, no matter what's going on, they eventually get
drawn back to the black hole of Trump is Hitler,
(29:33):
because they're like my buddy who only read one book,
and therefore everything that he saw was something that happened
in Lord of the Flies. By the way, not a
bad book, but you should read more than one book,
and you should study more than one time in history.
There's two hundred and fifty years of America. But by
the way, you could make a historical analogy. I know
(29:54):
this is crazy to something that happened outside of the
United State of America, because the great great thing about
our country is, thankfully our founders were not historically illiterate.
The reason we have the government that we have today
is because they studied all of recorded history, saw the pratfalls,
(30:16):
the errors that different countries had that were when they
were founded, and tried to build a framework that would
withstand the past challenges of time. They built up on
prior history to try to create something new. So thankfully
our founding fathers actually read more than one book and
(30:40):
actually were well versed on something other than one particular
aspect of history. But I do think it's important when
you hear that note getting hit again and again, it's
not only that it's untrue and unsound, it's that also
it is indicative of profound historical illiteracy, because the actual
study of that point in time is not the lesson
(31:03):
that's even being applied accurately. It's like my buddy in
school who read one book and everything reminded him of
Lord of the Flies. That's Democrats today. Look, if you
own a firearm, by the way, we're going to take
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Welcome back in Clay, Travis Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate all
of you. It's Friday. I'm going to take some of
your calls. Larry Kudlow going to be with us top
of the next hour Economic Expert to make sure that
we have the best possible knowledge for all of you
as well as me as it comes to tariffs, as
it comes to economic battles. But Dennis at Annapolis, Maryland
(34:57):
remembered the name of the museum that I'm giving an
incredible endorsement too. In London, Dennis, I spent the day there.
I should have remembered the name, but you got it
for us. What am I talking about? I think it's Clay.
I think you're talking about the Imperial War Museum. That's
exactly right. And then you've got Churchill's Cabinet War Rooms.
That's right, that's separate. Those are two different places. Have
(35:19):
you been to both as well? Dennis? Yes, I have
you agree with me that those are incredible places to
visit for history nerds exactly could spend hours there. Thank
you for the call and thank you for correcting me. There.
Imperial War Museum, I it is. I spent a ton
of time there. I think seeing those ships that they
(35:40):
put the British soldiers in at Dunkirk in person, it's
life changing. I mean, it's just ennobling to know how
brave people have been in the past to stand for
their country and be willing to put their lives on
the line as civilians to ensure that tyranny doesn't win.
I mean, you don't have to be British to be
inspired by bravery from the Brits. And they were incredibly
(36:04):
brave in the way that they responded to that, and
frankly in the way that they responded to the bombings
that went on in London. If you want to read
great stories about just incredible civilian bravery what they withstood
to avoid agreeing to a peace deal with Hitler. Hitler
didn't think that they could handle the British blitzkrieg of
bombing that they put up on them, and they did.
(36:27):
And I think it's the Churchill's right there, one of
the greatest moments in the history of Western civilization. Ellen
and martin Burg, Martinsburg, West Virginia.
Speaker 6 (36:36):
What you got, Hike Clay love your show?
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Martinsburg, West Virginia.
Speaker 6 (36:41):
Hey, what were you.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
You were saying for Wyoming and West Virginia are trouble
spots for Trump?
Speaker 1 (36:47):
No, no, no, I appreciate you calling and listening. I
don't I don't think I said that. What I said
was no states in America loved Trump more than West
Virginia and Wyoming. They voted for Trump roughly seventy thirty.
I am saying something that I don't think gets talked
about enough. If Israel, the country of Israel, could vote
(37:09):
for President of the United States, Israel would have voted
for Trump by a margin like West Virginia and Wyoming did.
In other words, Israel as a country would be diehard
Trump country, just like West Virginia is and just like
Wyoming is. It would be among the Trumpiest of all
(37:32):
the states, which nobody talks about. By the way, I
don't think Hitler would get seventy percent of the vote
in Israel. Just tossing it out there. When we come back,
Larry Kudlow for the absolute latest on the tariff wors,
their impact, and what you need to know. Third straight
day elite economic tutelage. Coming to you next. Thanks for
(37:54):
hanging with us on Clay and Bob
Welcome in Friday edition. Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show. Appreciate
all of you hanging out with us as we are
rolling into the weekend to give you the absolute latest
on everything. Since we now cover the stock market on
a daily basis, let me give you the latest. It's
not moving very much today, essentially unmoved in general, s
(00:28):
and p up a little bit. The Dow is up
a little bit. Not movement very much. If if you
listen to Jim Kramer and sold all your stocks, you
made an awful decision. Because of the week in stocks
has actually been good. China has raised tariffs a bit
more on American goods, but basically sends the notice that
(00:50):
they will not be raising goods anymore. There is talk
that there will be further discussion between China and the
United States going forward. That is the latest in trade wars.
In Clay and Buck news, Buck texted us, I'm trying
to not bother Buck and carry. Buck texted us yesterday
(01:11):
that things were going well, but that the process of
beginning the induction might take twelve to eighteen hours. That is,
I've been through this a little bit and I'm inevitably
gonna screw this up, but with my wife on the
three different deliveries that we have had my recollection, and
(01:32):
I know I'm going to get flooded with obgyn messages here.
My recollection is that there is a drug called pitussin
that is designed to gradually move a baby towards delivery.
This is my recollection in between complaining about the Wi Fi,
as my wife pointed out in the delivery room, and
(01:52):
in between not being happy with the television selections because
I couldn't find the games that I wanted to watch. Again,
my wife called in and gave her recollections of our
first baby being born, and that's two of the things
that she remembers. And honestly, the WiFi should work in
the hospital. Let's be honest in my defense, and why
would you not have basic sports television stations on cable?
(02:13):
But you know, it wasn't really about me. Babies are
happy and healthy. But I do remember my wife's water
broke two weeks early in the middle of the night,
and we went in early in the morning, and I
believe they put putussin on and that is what slowly
moves you towards the late labor process. I give you
that update, because we have been deluged with so many
(02:35):
of you saying, Hey, what's the latest, what's the latest,
what's the latest? That is the latest? That was yesterday evening.
We've not gotten an update today. I am solo with
you here. Probably gonna be solo with you quite a
bit next week, I would imagine, because the baby boy
has not yet arrived so far as we know. I've
got my phone on trying not to bother Buck and carry.
(02:57):
Buck did say that his very funny Buck did say
that his blow up mattress was working well, which is
one of the most ridiculous decisions that I've heard anybody.
He was not confident enough in the couch in the
delivery room, so Buck took in his own blow up
mattress and has been sitting off to the side blowing
up the mattress. I presume that he slept on it
(03:19):
last night. And we will continue to give you updates
on how all of that is going. But newest news
that is out there is we got more inflation reads
this morning, which suggests that inflation is continuing to come down,
not just come down from the nine percent that Joe
(03:41):
Biden took us to but actually come down, meaning the
goods out there in the United States are costing less.
That is a very very good sign because it means
that your dollars go further. It also means that the
Fed actually has some evidence that they could lower rates
(04:01):
even further after they had to skyrocket the rates to
try to deal with the nine percent nine percent inflation
rate that Joe Biden put in place, which necessitated one
of the most rapid rises in interest rates in the
modern history of the United States. So now what's interesting
(04:23):
is we kind of got a little bit of a pause.
The markets seem to have adjusted to the United States
versus China trade war. We have new talking points that
are now coming out. And by the way, China has
taken tariffs to one hundred and twenty five percent. United
States has tariffs of one hundred and forty five percent. Basically,
(04:45):
we have had a lot of economic experts on to
talk with you, Stephen Moore yesterday, the day before that,
we talked with Art Laugher. We are going to talk
with Larry Kudlow at about an hour from now at
the top of the second hour of the program. Many
of you watch his show Cudlow on Fox Business He
(05:07):
is a former high level Trump economic advisor, and he
will be on with us at one to talk about
the absolute latest there. There are reports that there may
be telephone calls between Trump and Chinese Premiere Zee, the
leader there. We will keep you updated on that. But
(05:28):
what's important to know is the pivot has really happened,
and the pivot has happened now where they are trying
to argue, despite all evidence to the contrary, that Trump's
trade war is already costing you more in terms of
the goods that you are buying. And I just think
it's important to understand what the talking points so that
(05:50):
you can push back against this again. Double inflation readings
early days of the Trump administration, the cost of goods, groceries, gas,
all of that is coming down. Eggs. Everybody wanted to
talk about eggs for a little while. Here is Jasmine Crockett,
who has become, unfortunately for Democrats, one of the chief
(06:11):
spokespeople of the Democrat Party right now saying cut twenty one.
You can't afford your home groceries. What is she saying,
because there's deportations that are happening again, this is cut
twenty two. This is absolutely unintelligible.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Listen, We've got to do better to connect the dots
and let people know the reason you can't afford a
home is because of these filled immigration policies. The reason
you're not going to be able to afford your food
is because of these filled immigration policies. And the same
can goal for the hospitality industries, where we have so
many of those in the hospitality industry that are saying
(06:49):
they do not have the workers that they need right now.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
All right, So the talking point now is not only
the trade issues, right, it is that Trump being focused
on illegal immigration is actually creating the cost increase which
doesn't actually exist at all, because the data reflects that
the cost of goods is actually declining. Okay, So this
(07:16):
is interesting, Jasmine Crockett, to me, is a great example
of how the Democrat Party has become broken in the
way that they talked to so many Americans out there.
And we discussed this yesterday when we had the Anderson
Cooper town hall with Bernie Sanders and they had that attorney,
(07:37):
the woman stand up and Anderson Cooper referred to her
as she, and she said, actually, it's they them, and
then she led into her next question which is why
do men not support the Democrat Party which was too perfect?
That was like they were trying to give us in
one talk back moment why they have collapsed. This is
(07:57):
also interesting. We've talked about this sum Jasmine Crockett is
a Houston, Texas area congresswoman. I believe maybe it was Dallas.
She's from Texas. She actually went to super elite private schools.
Her private school cost over thirty thousand dollars a year.
Right now, this is someone that went to a school
(08:18):
that you, most of you could never afford to send
your kids to. I'm a K through twelve public school kid.
I couldn't have gone to a school like this when
I was growing up. Here she is saying, Hey, I
really appreciate the sacrifices my parents made and how they
pushed me as a kid, and how they put me
in how they put me in great schools. Imagine if
(08:40):
this was the message instead of hey all of the
lies Trump is hitler. It's just interesting to hear what
Democrats said back before they went insane. And I wanted
to play this for you because I think it's emblematic
of the era that we're in where Jasmine Crockett has
to appear dumber, were least, or less articulate than she
(09:03):
actually is in her mind to appeal to the Democrat base.
Listen to Cut twenty three.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
My parents worked multiple jobs, and I went to public
school until the sixth grade, and then there were some
problems with like the junior high, and they were very concerned,
so they got additional jobs and they worked to put
me into private school. So I was in private school
until I graduated at high school. And it's interesting that
(09:29):
my mom says that because she was one of those
people that I didn't get to rest right Like. It
wasn't a matter of go to school and maybe play
some video games and maybe go outside. It was you know,
you've got to do Dell teens. You've got to be
active in inroads, you've got to do upward bound, you've
got to do maa Like the list goes on and
(09:51):
on and on. Junior achievement of all the things that
she had me doing. And I'm so appreciative to her now.
I was very hired when I was young.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I like this Jasmine Crocket. I like Jasmine Crockett's parents.
Imagine if that was Jasmine Crockett's message, and that was
the Democrat party's message. Imagine if she went out and
she said, Hey, the reason I'm successful is because my
mom and dad busted their asses to put me in
the best possible school that I could go to, because
(10:25):
the local public school that I was going to was
not taking me to the best place where I could go.
Imagine if that was her message. Imagine if her message
was we got to buckle down. People have to work.
Sometimes two jobs, three jobs, jump around from one place
to another. Mom and dad may both have to work
(10:46):
in order to give the best opportunity to their kids.
That's something that connects with all of you out there.
And even with that said, a lot of you couldn't
afford the private school that Jasmine Crockett got the privilege
of going to to get the education that she did.
But the aspirational nature of her parents, the fact that
(11:08):
they made her work her ass off and made her
into someone who could be elected a congresswoman one day,
that's something that has appeal. Why isn't that the Democrat message?
Think about how lost they are that Jasmine Crockett, who
went to private school, in an elite private school from
(11:30):
six to twelfth grade and then went off to college
because of it. Now Phel's compelled to talk to her
Texas constituents like she doesn't have an education at all.
What does that say about the Democrat Party? What does
it say when you have to appear dumber than you
are in public and you rarely shared the real story
(11:54):
of your life because you're convinced it doesn't connect with
the constituency you're trying to speak to. That's not good
whatever position you have. If you ever have to appear
dumber than you are in order to get somewhere, that's
not something you should aspire to do. And by the way,
(12:14):
getting on my soapbox, if you're ever in a relationship
with someone where you feel compelled, whether it's a friend,
whether it's a boyfriend girlfriend, where you feel compelled to
act like a dumber version of yourself to fit in,
you don't need to be there, and it's not very
good for you. That's the Democrat Party writ large. How
(12:38):
many of you knew that about Jasmine Crockett? How many
of you are aware of her background in any way?
I'd like to get Jasmine Crockett's parents on the show.
Are they proud of the language that she has adopted.
Maybe just because she's their daughter, But I don't know,
(13:01):
based on the way that they raised her, it doesn't
sound like she's living by the values that they created
in her. It doesn't sound like she's espousing the same
American dream that they had for her. I just think
it's so interesting what democrats choose to focus on when
(13:24):
they actually tell their stories, and sometimes how incredibly dishonest
it actually is. Take some of your calls eight hundred
two A two two aaa two during the course of
it today's program. Like I said, Larry kud Loow going
to join us also at one point thirty Rachel Compost Duffy.
I'm up here in New York for the weekend, and
(13:45):
I am going to be guest hosting Fox and Friends
Weekend with Rachel Compost Duffy and with Charlie Hurt. Never
done this before. I'm excited to do it. I think
it'll be fun. I'm not excited to wake up at
four point thirty in the in the am tomorrow. So
all of that coming this way. If you're out there
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Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. I talked
about the news of the day so far being essentially
that inflation continues to decline, which is a very very
good sign. I want to play a couple of those
cuts for you because I think it's important. There's gonna
be a lot of talk out there, Oh Trump's tariffs,
They're going to increase costs overall. Actually, I'm not sure
(16:11):
that's true at all. And I've told you for some
time that the average person, and I would put myself
in this category, drives and notices the price of gas
more than almost anything. And we are rapidly moving towards
under three dollars a gallon gas, which for many of
you out there driving around across your country. That is
the average cost of a gallon of unleaded gas that
(16:34):
we are headed to all over the country. And that
is because there's major deflationary pressure as it pertains to
the overall cost of gas. Also, groceries are actually declining
below the rate of inflation. That is, for most people
out there, the things that you notice the most, and
I put myself in this category is what does gas
(16:56):
cost and what does your food cost? After going up
massive amounts under Joe Biden, the numbers are now turning
negative under Trump. That is, you are paying less for
gas and you are paying less for your groceries relative
to the overall inflation rate. And here is evidence of
that for the second time this week from both CNN
(17:18):
and CNBC. Let's start with CNN. This is their report
on inflation continuing to decline. This is the second report
we've gotten this week.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Cut for this is the second day in a row
we're getting some encouraging news on the cost of living.
So we're talking about the producer price index. This is
whole cell inflation before it gets to all of us
as consumers, and we were expecting an increase in prices
month over month. We did not get that. We got
a drop in prices. Look at this point four percent.
That is much better than anticipating the annual rate. We
(17:49):
were anticipating around three point three percent. We did not
get that. We got a much lower number two point
seven percent. This is a deceleration. And when we look
at the trend, we can see that things have certainly
improved from a few years ago. When it comes to inflation.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Okay, things have improved. That is CNN. Okay, that's what
CNN telling in their audience. Here is CNBC. These are
not super pro Trump networks discussing what I'm telling you,
which are cost or going down? Cut five.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
These are our March read on producer price Index, the
more Whosts sales side of the inflation equation, and they're
big numbers. Down four tenths on headline, down four tenths.
That would be equal to where we were in October
of twenty three. And if we find the lower number,
you're going all the way back to April of twenty
twenty and the COVID affected era, and that was down
(18:39):
one point two percent.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
So good numbers, great numbers, even when it comes to
what things are costing. Coming directly out of your pocketbook
to a large extent, gas and groceries. I just want
you to have the actual data. We'll break that down
for you and more when we come back. Eight hundred
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of you hanging out with us as we are rolling
into the weekend. Stock market calm today, nothing crazy going on,
(20:15):
It's up a little bit. It seems again that we
have gotten a little bit of the universe out there
used to what is going on, and I wanted to
make sure that you also understand that they still have
the exact same playbook that they've been trying for a
(20:35):
decade now, and that decade worth of playbook is that
they are going to try to still tell you that
Donald Trump is hitler. You know, yesterday we had a
really good conversation, I thought, and I encourage you to
go check it out with Douglas Murray, and he was
talking about on democracies and death cults and the overall
(20:56):
impact of the lies that have been told to so
many of our school kids, and the historical illiteracy that
that breeds such that really there's only one historical analogy
that most people can even make, and it is everything
relates to World War Two, and Trump is Hitler. Whoever
(21:19):
you don't like in politics is Hitler, And you sit
back and you recognize. For somebody like me who's a
history nerd and loves studying American history. We're about to
have the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the country
next year, a party, by the way, that Trump is
going to throw and should be amazing. But we've got
(21:40):
two hundred and fifty years worth of American history to
go draw historical analogies from. Yet, by and large, the
only historical analogy that anybody can connect to is World
War Two. Everything that happens is seen through the prism
of World War Two. If you think about Ukraine, what
did they say of Vladimir Putin? Is Hitler really? Is
(22:03):
he going to really invade multiple European countries and move
beyond Ukraine and start a World war? That feels very
unlikely to me, particularly because he can't even take over Ukraine.
Just from a historical and in knowledge, the Blitzgreek was
pretty effective, right. Hitler swept right through Europe very rapidly,
(22:25):
and the only reason that he didn't take over Great
Britain was because of the English Channel and because of
the incredible bravery of the average British person to go
rescue the British Army at Dunkirk, which I would argue
is maybe the coolest, maybe the most impressive moment almost
in Western history if you think about saving Western civilization
(22:49):
from the nazis the fact that they got on the
radio go study this. Nobody ever talks about it, by
and large, the fact that they got on the radio
and they said to everybody in England, hey, if you
have a boat, can you go rescue the British Army
and they did it. The museum I've had the good
(23:11):
fortune as a history nerd to be able to go
the Royal Museum in London focused on World War Two,
and I'm not sure exactly what the name of that
museum is. See if the team in there can let
me know what the name of that museum is, because
it is pretty incredible. There's the Churchill War Rooms, which
is one of the coolest history tours that I think
(23:32):
you can do. It looks the exact same It's where
Winston Churchill was in London underground, where they managed the
war and they still have all the maps on the walls.
It looks the exact same they basically left there when
they had the victory celebration and they have recreated it.
You can see the cots that Winston Churchill was sleeping in.
It's incredible, one of the coolest history things you can do.
(23:54):
I've talked about this before. I've gotten to go to
the battle fields all over France where you can see
and walk those beaches and see still so many of
the German pillboxes. It looks almost identical to eighty years ago.
But when you go to that British Museum, they have
some of the boats that went out to go rescue
(24:17):
British soldiers. Some of them are basically rowboats. Everybody who
had a boat just went to Dunkirk and rescued the
entirety of the British Army to allow them to even
continue that war. The expectation was from Hitler's team, we're
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basically defeating not only the French, but we are eliminating
the entire British Army. They were saved, and then some
of those same soldiers ended up coming back across on
the shore on D Day to come back and liberate France.
And so when you get to see some of those boats,
that's maybe the most incredible thing that is out there.
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And it is just it's an incredible experience to be
able to go see that. Well, they don't take any
of the super positive lessons by and large of Hey,
this is what a country can do when everybody comes
together and everybody puts their actual lives on the line
to go get in their private ships and frankly rowboats
(25:22):
almost and go and get some of these guys. And
again you can see the boats and you're like, man,
I can't even believe they were picking up soldiers in
these guys were coming in. That's how fearless they were
to stand up. That's everybody pulling together. That story doesn't
get told very often. Instead, what they try to say is, okay,
anybody who I disagree with is Hitler. And we were
talking with Douglas Murray about this, and again, this is
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why historical literacy matters and why I was glad to
get to go to Israel in December. Trump is more
popular in Israel than he is in Wyoming than he
is in West Virginia, which I believe were the two
states that we're the most supportive of Trump in the
most recent election. I don't think Hitler would be super
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popular today in Israel, right, So this is so historically
illiterate on the analogy, but also even in the modern day,
Trump is probably the most popular American president in our lives,
in the actual country of Israel, which is filled with
tons of Jewish people whose lives are on the line
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every single day because of what happened on October seventh.
But they are still trying to make the argument, Hey,
can we just have a president who's not Hitler? I
think it's important for you to understand. They have one
note and they keep hitting it again and again. This
is supposed to be comedy. This is The Daily Show
yesterday saying cut twenty seven. Is it too much to
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ask for a president who's not Hitler?
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Ninety five of these executive orders are about punishing people
who are just disagree with him. So I'm fine with
side quest Trump. Okay, would you go up to Hitler
and be like, why are you painting? You've got work
to do. Is it too much to ask for a
president who's not Hitler? Yes, apparently it is, So just
(27:11):
focus on the winds yes, he's putting Dora the Exploor
on a flight to El Salvador. Okay, but he's declared
that anyone on the flight who asks for a soda has.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
To get a whole can. Okay. So Trump is hitler haa, look,
how funny it is. The whole crowd roars. But he's
actually the most popular president in the history of Israel,
and the Jewish people there would vote for him by
margins that are similar to West Virginia and Wyoming. Isn't
that kind of a significant factor. And if we're going
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to use only World War Two as the entire historical
record to try to analogize to everything, it reminds me
of when I was in school. Do you ever have
one friend or maybe multiple friends, or maybe it was
you who didn't do the actual school readings. You'd get
the old cliff notes, the spark notes, whatever is called.
(28:07):
Most of the time, I loved I'm a nerd. I
read all the books, you know, cover to cover. I
think i'd never skipped assigned reading because I love to
read nerd and I love history. I know nerd. But
I had a buddy who never read. He read one
book that we were assigned like the whole time we
were in school, and it was Lord of the Flies,
(28:29):
Remember the Lord of the Flies. And as a result,
because he had only read one book in his life,
he would analogize everything that happened to Lord of the Flies.
He had one pop culture book that he'd ever read.
Everything reminded him of what happened to Lord of the
Flies because he was so poorly read that he had
(28:50):
no other analogies to draw. That's Democrats with Trump. They're
so historically illiterate that they have such a lack of
foundational knowledge that no matter what happens, it draws them
back to Trump is Hitler. It is the black hole
from which they cannot escape. And yet that analogy is
(29:13):
completely broken, And the fact that has been going on
for a decade is maybe the most dishonest example of
how Trump has been covered, the fact that that is
where unceasingly, no matter what's going on, they eventually get
drawn back to the black hole of Trump is Hitler,
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because they're like my buddy who only read one book,
and therefore everything that he saw was something that happened
in Lord of the Flies. By the way, not a
bad book, but you should read more than one book,
and you should study more than one time in history.
There's two hundred and fifty years of America. But by
the way, you could make a historical analogy. I know
(29:54):
this is crazy to something that happened outside of the
United State of America, because the great great thing about
our country is, thankfully our founders were not historically illiterate.
The reason we have the government that we have today
is because they studied all of recorded history, saw the pratfalls,
(30:16):
the errors that different countries had that were when they
were founded, and tried to build a framework that would
withstand the past challenges of time. They built up on
prior history to try to create something new. So thankfully
our founding fathers actually read more than one book and
(30:40):
actually were well versed on something other than one particular
aspect of history. But I do think it's important when
you hear that note getting hit again and again, it's
not only that it's untrue and unsound, it's that also
it is indicative of profound historical illiteracy, because the actual
study of that point in time is not the lesson
(31:03):
that's even being applied accurately. It's like my buddy in
school who read one book and everything reminded him of
Lord of the Flies. That's Democrats today. Look, if you
own a firearm, by the way, we're going to take
some calls. They're all loaded rolling in eight hundred two
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and I've been trying to make sure that we get
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So Larry Kuvlow is going to join us. The top
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of the next hour Economic Expert to make sure that
we have the best possible knowledge for all of you
as well as me as it comes to tariffs, as
it comes to economic battles. But Dennis at Annapolis, Maryland
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remembered the name of the museum that I'm giving an
incredible endorsement too. In London, Dennis, I spent the day there.
I should have remembered the name, but you got it
for us. What am I talking about? I think it's Clay.
I think you're talking about the Imperial War Museum. That's
exactly right. And then you've got Churchill's Cabinet War Rooms.
That's right, that's separate. Those are two different places. Have
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you been to both as well? Dennis? Yes, I have
you agree with me that those are incredible places to
visit for history nerds exactly could spend hours there. Thank
you for the call and thank you for correcting me. There.
Imperial War Museum, I it is. I spent a ton
of time there. I think seeing those ships that they
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put the British soldiers in at Dunkirk in person, it's
life changing. I mean, it's just ennobling to know how
brave people have been in the past to stand for
their country and be willing to put their lives on
the line as civilians to ensure that tyranny doesn't win.
I mean, you don't have to be British to be
inspired by bravery from the Brits. And they were incredibly
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brave in the way that they responded to that, and
frankly in the way that they responded to the bombings
that went on in London. If you want to read
great stories about just incredible civilian bravery what they withstood
to avoid agreeing to a peace deal with Hitler. Hitler
didn't think that they could handle the British blitzkrieg of
bombing that they put up on them, and they did.
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And I think it's the Churchill's right there, one of
the greatest moments in the history of Western civilization. Ellen
and martin Burg, Martinsburg, West Virginia.
Speaker 6 (36:36):
What you got, Hike Clay love your show?
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Martinsburg, West Virginia.
Speaker 6 (36:41):
Hey, what were you.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
You were saying for Wyoming and West Virginia are trouble
spots for Trump?
Speaker 1 (36:47):
No, no, no, I appreciate you calling and listening. I
don't I don't think I said that. What I said
was no states in America loved Trump more than West
Virginia and Wyoming. They voted for Trump roughly seventy thirty.
I am saying something that I don't think gets talked
about enough. If Israel, the country of Israel, could vote
(37:09):
for President of the United States, Israel would have voted
for Trump by a margin like West Virginia and Wyoming did.
In other words, Israel as a country would be diehard
Trump country, just like West Virginia is and just like
Wyoming is. It would be among the Trumpiest of all
(37:32):
the states, which nobody talks about. By the way, I
don't think Hitler would get seventy percent of the vote
in Israel. Just tossing it out there. When we come back,
Larry Kudlow for the absolute latest on the tariff wors,
their impact, and what you need to know. Third straight
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