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Dec. 7, 2023 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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BREAKING: Melania PICKS Tucker For Vice President, Trump THRILLED! Vivek ENDS Christie & Nikki Haley
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benny johnson
43:15
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tucker carlson
05:42
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vivek ramaswamy
05:55
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alex alx lorusso
02:56
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alex lorusso
01:39
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james comer
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brooke singman
00:39
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chris christie
00:24
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donald j trump
00:32
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eric swalwell
00:09
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joe biden
00:42
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kristen welker
00:24
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mike pence
00:14
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ron desantis
00:38
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sean hannity
00:27
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steven nelson
00:26
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van jones
00:31
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brooke singman
It was an all-out brawl on the debate stage last night.
Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley facing multiple attacks from her opponents.
vivek ramaswamy
Nikki, you were bankrupt when you left the UN.
After you left the UN, you became a military contractor, and now you're a multimillionaire.
That math does not add up.
It adds up to the fact that you are corrupt.
unidentified
First of all, we weren't bankrupt when I left the UN.
We're people of service.
In terms of these donors that are supporting me, they're just jealous.
brooke singman
They wish that they were supporting them.
ron desantis
You have other candidates up here like Nikki Haley.
She caves any time the left comes after her, any time the media comes after her.
I did a bill in Florida to stop the gender mutilation of minors.
It's child abuse and it's wrong.
She opposes that bill.
unidentified
He continues to lie about...
vivek ramaswamy
The only person more fascist than the Biden regime now is Nikki Haley, who thinks the government should identify every one of those individuals with an ID.
That is not freedom.
That is fascism.
kristen welker
I love all the attention, fellas.
unidentified
Thank you for that.
kristen welker
I never said government should go and require anyone.
unidentified
That's false.
brooke singman
And Haley wasn't the only one who seemed offended last night.
Governor Ron DeSantis appeared stunned when asked if he had any plans to drop out of the race.
ron desantis
The voters actually make these decisions, not pundits or pollsters.
I'm sick of hearing about these polls.
They weren't predicting that I would win the way I did.
And I won the greatest Republican victory in the history of the state of Florida.
I'm looking forward to Iowa and New Hampshire.
The voters are going to be able to speak, and we're going to earn this nomination.
brooke singman
And the candidates were even taking shots at their biggest opponent, and he wasn't even on the debate stage.
chris christie
This is an angry, bitter man who now wants to be back as president because he wants to exact retribution on anyone who has disagreed with him.
His conduct is unacceptable.
He's unfit.
And be careful of what you're going to get.
If you ever got another Donald Trump term, he's letting you know, I am your retribution.
He doesn't care for the American people.
It's Donald Trump first.
brooke singman
But Iowa voters say they prefer former President Trump as their 2024 Republican nominee in a new Des Moines Register poll.
Trump's expected to make a campaign stop in the Hawkeye State on Wednesday, and the Iowa caucuses are on January 15th.
unidentified
Great shot, kid.
That was one in a million.
Remember, force will be with you.
Ha ha ha!
benny johnson
Straight shot, kid!
Today is Thursday, December 7th, 2023!
Holy smokes, man.
Listen to that.
Sparks fly at the GOP debate.
Vivek triggers media and tells Chris Christie to leave the stage and go eat a meal.
Melania Trump wants Tucker as Vice President, and Congressman Andy Biggs joins the show.
My name is Benny Johnson, and this is The Benny Show.
Let's begin with something really quickly, okay?
A clip.
We cover a lot of windbags on this program.
John Kerry's one of them.
Here's a clip from John Kerry earlier this week with John Kerry talking about the dangers of unlimited carbon emissions.
unidentified
Watch.
benny johnson
Okay, so that's John Kerry, okay, again, exposing the value of wind energy and exposing the value of carbon and gas renewables for all of us.
This is what it looked like when Eric Swalwell, five years ago, sat on national television and crapped his pants.
eric swalwell
The evidence is uncontradicted that the president used taxpayer dollars to ask the Ukrainians to help him cheat an election.
And the complaint that I've heard from...
benny johnson
So the reason I'm showing you this, because there's a lot of news to get through in the show, the reason I'm showing you clips like that is to explain to you that that's not what's happening in my studio.
I talk a lot about Eric Swalwell, John Kerry.
We say often that Joe Biden poops his pants.
But if you hear something in my studio, it's because the wonderful people who happen to actually own the building where we broadcast decided to book some construction.
On the roof of the building today during our show.
So you may hear some rumblings and some potential during the show.
That's not me pulling a swalwell, okay?
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I just want to get that up front because I know how the viral internet works.
I know, potentially, with the wrong clip and the wrong pause, that may be what you're thinking.
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An extremely uproarious, like someone is stomping on top of the studio right now as we're live.
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Okay, ladies and gentlemen, that explains the banging in the studio.
Hopefully it won't interfere with the show.
If they hit the internet lines...
Well, then who the hell knows?
Ladies and gentlemen, there is a line that was hit this morning that is causing people to go crazy, which is Melania Trump, apparently, is pushing for Tucker Carlson as VP.
Now, we're going to get to the last night's debate here in just a second, but really, the debate is sort of a VP competition, right?
And really, I don't think, I'm not sure, I don't think that Chris Christie is going to get that nod.
And I'm not sure that Ron DeSantis is going to get that nod.
And Donald Trump went hard against Nikki Haley in a recent interview on Wednesday night on Fox News.
And so, I don't know, man.
I don't know.
It looks like there is a VP competition that's heating up.
Now, some people are saying Ben Carson, but just breaking minutes before the show, and we try as hard as we can to be...
Newsworthy, right, on the program, this article from Axios.
Behind the curtain, how Trump will build his loyalty first cabinet.
Well, I mean, good.
They're trying to make, you'll recognize some of these faces, right?
I mean, Mike Davis is a dear friend of the show, along with Kash Patel.
Stephen Miller's been on the show, along with Senator Vance and Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, both of them friends of the program.
This looks awesome!
Is this supposed to scare me?
Also, what do you call it when Joe Biden...
Staffs his entire regime with Obama acolytes.
Joe Biden doesn't staff anything.
What do you call it when the entire Team Obama comes back to the White House?
Which is precisely what...
You never see headlines like this written about Barack Obama or the faux regime that he's running with Joe Biden at the helm.
You never see headlines like this.
But yes, it's actually really important that you have people that defend you and protect you in office.
Eric Holder famously said that he's the wingman of Barack Obama.
And so this article is really fascinating and very, very interesting, but you scroll on down and you'll check out this little note that is causing people to have a panic across the internet and across the talkosphere here.
There's an interesting twist.
Melania Trump is an advocate for picking Tucker Carlson, the booted Fox News star, for vice president.
She thinks Carlson would make a powerful onstage extension of her husband, a source close to Trump told us.
The former first lady has made a few, has made few campaign appearances this time around, but Trump Carlson ticket might encourage her to hit the trail.
Whoa!
Okay, so let's break that down real quickly.
She's, I mean, this is correct.
This is correct.
Tucker Carlson would make a powerful onstage extension of her husband.
That's something you never got with Mike Pence.
And we'll play you in a second how Tucker Carlson just absolutely evaporated Mike Pence on stage with a flamethrower.
But it's true, right?
People want Trump.
And they want the kind of populism and the type of entertainment value.
I'm sorry, it's not a dirty word.
It's important, right?
Some of the reasons why Ron DeSantis isn't clicking in this is that he's just...
Doesn't have that human element.
That's really valuable.
Part of the reason why people don't like Joe Biden and you never see anyone, like, taking a selfie with him or, like, happy to see him is because he's a creep.
He's a creepy guy.
Nobody wants to hang out with Joe Biden.
Who would you have rather had at Thanksgiving?
Who would you rather have at your Christmas Eve dinner?
Donald Trump?
Tucker Carlson?
Or Kamala Harris?
Or Joe Biden?
These things matter.
I mean, it really does.
And so Melania obviously is correct in this, and Tucker Carlson would be a very powerful, very vibrant—I've seen Tucker Carlson in audiences before.
It's magnetic, right?
He is himself very much a celebrity.
Let's continue the read.
Trump asked last month about Carlson as a potential VP, said, I like Tucker a lot.
He's got great common sense.
What Tucker also has is, of course, a deeply rooted sense of populism.
Which is the brand of politics that puts your country first.
It's amazing that you have to even talk about this in our modern era, but what we fight is a communist globalist cabal of people that don't see nations, don't see national borders, and just want every powerful nation to collapse so that they can control everyone and we can all be slaves again.
That's what they're hoping for.
Populism stands athwart that.
Populism is on the rise, of course, in...
England and in Ireland and in Denmark and in Argentina and so forth, ladies and gentlemen.
Denmark, the Netherlands.
And so we're, like, seeing this across Italy, across Europe.
Obviously, populism is, I mean, you can argue, like, the way that places like China and Russia run, right?
Like, you have people that want to defend and protect their own people.
Varying degrees, right?
But ultimately, you want to say that your country, there's some value in your country, the people of your country.
You want to be proud of your country.
And so here we have, ladies and gentlemen, the great divide.
But what Tucker Carlson speaks for is populism, right?
And that is obviously the foundation of Trumpism.
And so Tucker Carlson, well, that might make a lot of sense.
Did you ever think that Mike Pence was really on board with MAGA?
Did you ever think that Mike Pence was really on board with the brand of governance that Donald Trump was pushing?
No, Mike Pence was along for the ride.
The idea of Tucker Carlson has been discounted by many people close to Trump because they assume he'd never pick somebody who could outshine him.
And Trump's staff is convinced, correctly, that Carlson can't be controlled.
But the two men talk a lot, and obviously they had one of the most viewed interviews in the history of American politics.
Tucker Carlson's interview with Donald Trump is 400 million views, something like that, on X. That was the night of the first GOP debate, and again, we're going to get to highlights of the GOP debate last night in just a second, because it was a wild one, man.
Others likely to wield power in the second Trump term share a lot in common with Carlson.
They're full, proud MAGA warriors, anti-GOP establishment zealots and eager and willing to test the boundaries of executive power to get Trump's weapons.
They include Stephen Miller, friend of the show, obviously, and the architect of ensuring that Donald Trump actually does get the policies that he wants.
See, this is what's amazing about the way that these kind of stories are written.
When Democrats win...
It's seen as a right to govern situation in America.
When Democrats win, that's the will of the people.
And we must enact as extreme and as radical and as cancerous policies as possible because, well, that's democracy.
The people chose that.
Elections have consequences, Barack Obama said.
Right?
This is an extension of the will of the people.
The right to govern.
The charge to govern.
Yet when Republicans win, it's like couched as, oh man, these people will help Trump get his way.
Yes, idiots!
That's what the election was about!
In 2016, we wanted a wall!
We wanted Hillary Clinton to be locked up.
Do you understand?
That's what we wanted.
And that's what we still want.
This is one final thing I'll read from this article, which is great.
Mike Davis, Donald Trump Jr. has floated Davis.
The former chief counsel for nominations for Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley to be Trump's interim attorney general, saying that it would be a shot across the bow for the swamp.
In public auditions for the job, Bombastic Davis has promised a three-week reign of terror.
That's our show.
In which he would put kids in cages and prosecutors and journalists that have gone after Trump.
Telling MSNBC's Mendy Hassan that he has his spot picked out in the D.C. Gulag, a source close to Trump campaign, told us the AG is the office where Trump is most likely to make a shocking pick.
With the defiant view, you want to weaponize the DOJ, mother effers?
unidentified
Oh boy.
benny johnson
Oh my goodness gracious.
Straight into my veins.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, what does Donald Trump think about Tucker Carlson as VP?
What does he think?
What have we heard about this?
Is this in the realm of possibility?
Well, Donald Trump asked directly about it.
Have a listen.
unidentified
Would you consider Tucker Carlson on your VP list?
benny johnson
I want to give you a hypothetical here.
You're a big sports fan.
You know, like, Nick Saban's going to retire at some point.
unidentified
And if you talk to the athletic director at Alabama, he would say he has a list.
So, would Tucker Carlson be on your list of potential VPs?
And how many names might be on that list as you sit and look and survey the political field?
donald j trump
Well, first of all, you know, I did my first, you could call it counter-programming, but I won't call it that.
But Tucker wanted to do an interview during the first debate.
And I think you know, because this is what your business is, we broke every record.
benny johnson
Monster audience.
donald j trump
In history, yeah.
I think it just hit over 300 million people.
Talk about it.
benny johnson
Would you consider Tucker, though, based on those numbers?
donald j trump
I like Tucker a lot.
I guess I would.
I think I'd say I would because he's got great common sense.
You know, when they say that you guys are conservative or I'm conservative, it's not that we're conservative.
We have common sense.
benny johnson
So what does common sense look like?
Common sense looks like putting your country first.
Which was on full display when Tucker Carlson disemboweled Mike Pence.
Watch.
mike pence
I promised them 33 Abrams tanks in January.
I heard again two weeks ago in Ukraine.
They still don't have them.
We've been telling them we'll train their F-16 pilots, but now they're saying maybe January we'll let somebody transfer some jets.
tucker carlson
I'm sorry, Mr. Vice President.
Have you...
I know you're running for president.
You are distressed that the Ukrainians don't have enough American tanks.
Every city in the United States has become much worse over the past three years.
Drive around.
There's not one city that's gotten better in the United States.
And it's visible.
Our economy has degraded.
The suicide rate has jumped.
Public filth and disorder and crime have exponentially increased.
And yet...
Your concern is that the Ukrainians, a country most people can't find on a map, who've received tens of billions of U.S. tax dollars, don't have enough tanks.
I think it's a fair question to ask, like, where's the concern for the United States in that?
mike pence
Well, it's not my concern.
benny johnson
In the perfect explanation of the neocon worldview, we should be thankful for Mike Pence, for, like, I don't know.
Life of a housefly that landed on Mike Pence's hair.
Time that he spent inside of the presidential arena.
Mike Pence ran for president for like seven seconds.
When did he drop out?
Last month?
Last month?
When did Mike Pence drop out?
Yeah.
Again, life of the housefly.
The fly that lands on Mike Pence's head.
But for that time, he really did unbelievable and irreparable damage to the neocon worldview.
By saying things like that, he said true things.
So thanks, Mike!
America's not my concern, Mike Pence says.
More tanks for Ukraine!
Do you have potholes in your street?
Are there fentanyl addicts on your block?
Do you know somebody who lost a child to fentanyl?
Have you seen what the inner cities in America look like?
This place is decaying at, like, an exponential rate.
Have you checked on the national debt?
Have you seen the state of our military?
How about just the state of our cities?
Mike Pence, not my concern.
Ukraine needs a border wall.
Have you seen our border jackets?
Yeah.
So, Tucker Carlson, of course, evaporating Mike Pence on the debate stage and doing it with a flamethrower would make an excellent actual purveyor of Donald Trump's worldview.
How about Tucker Carlson talking about Donald Trump?
What does Tucker Carlson think of Trump?
unidentified
Go.
tucker carlson
Where am I on Trump now?
I love Trump.
Personally, I think we're going to see Trump's emergence as the most significant thing to happen in American politics in 100 years, because he reoriented the Republican Party against the wishes of Republican leaders.
But when I think about Trump right now, so it's July of 2023, you know, I'm struck by his foreign policy views.
You know, Trump is the only person.
With stature in the Republican Party, really, who's saying, wait a second, you know, why are we supporting an endless war in Ukraine?
And that, you know, leaving aside whether Trump's going to get the nomination or get elected president or would be a good president, you know, I can't even assess that.
All I can say at this point is I'm so grateful that he has that position.
He's right.
And everyone in Washington is wrong.
Everyone.
And Trump is right on that question.
unidentified
Yeah.
benny johnson
That's such a perfect distillation of popular, such a perfect distillation of what Trump stands for.
Why do people hate Trump?
If Tucker Carlson were to run on this ticket, and I don't know, I know Tucker Carlson, and I know Trump world pretty well, and I see no indications that this couldn't happen, right?
Tucker has regularly said, I don't want to be in politics.
I never, I'm not doing this for power.
He spent most of his life in Washington, D.C. He never tried to run for office then.
But it's amazing what happens when you start to actually feel the pressures around you and take a look, survey the nation that you love.
And there's a lot of people that do a lot of crazy stuff to save the places that they love.
Their nations, their countries.
The globalist doesn't want borders.
They want to flood our border.
The globalist doesn't want there to be nations.
They want there to be one blob.
One Borg that they control in its entirety.
That's the goal.
To reduce all people to numbers.
No religion, no nationality, no borders, no nations, no traditions, nothing.
Tucker's saying that's wrong.
And the reason why people hate Trump is that he stands against that.
Watch.
tucker carlson
They're trying to control what you say because they know that if you say it, nothing will ever be the same.
And this is exactly why they hate Trump.
I'm watching Trump.
I'm thinking to myself, the core question which no one ever asks, which is why do they hate him so much?
Honestly, why do they hate Trump so much?
It's the talking.
It's the talking.
It's not because Trump's program is so radical.
Are you joking?
If this were 1985, he'd be like a center-left liberal.
It's not radical at all.
That's fascism?
Are you joking?
No.
No, it has nothing to do.
With what he does.
It has everything to do with the fact that for whatever reason, his brain is not entirely controlled by the people in charge.
And because he's not entirely controlled, well, first of all, it tells you that everybody else is entirely controlled.
If, like, Trump is the one they hate the most, like, what did Trump do wrong?
I mean, you could say, oh, well, he's orange or whatever.
Okay, fine.
But like, has he really committed a crime so severe that we should send him to prison for the rest of his life?
That's insane!
They hate Trump because they fear Trump.
And they fear Trump not because of what he might do, but because what he might say.
benny johnson
You're never punished for telling lies.
You're only punished for telling the truth.
When Donald Trump says they're destroying our nation.
When Donald Trump says he wants to be a dictator on day one just to close the border and to drill in this country and to make America strong, they hate him because he tells the truth.
And he's not controlled.
And this is what you saw, and we'll play you an entire series of clips of how Nikki Haley last night is proven to be the controlled muppet of the donor class, of the industry class, of the corporate class.
Nikki Haley doesn't care about what Republican voters think.
She is literally a walking borg, a blob that can't stand on her own two feet and is truly nonsensical when she comes face to face with realistic talking points for what people care about in life.
There's a pothole in front of my house.
Why has nobody fixed that in years?
Nobody thought to fix that in years.
Why do I pay taxes?
Why aren't you considering us and our lives beautifying and making our lives easier, better?
Isn't that the point?
That the only purpose of government is to serve the people who fund it, who create it.
But they don't make those connections.
Donald Trump does.
And that is why last week, Tucker Carlson said something he'd never said before, which is that he is full-on MAGA, that he's full-on supporting Trump.
Tucker Carlson has never thrown in for a specific presidential candidate.
Tucker Carlson did so in speaking with Roseanne and said it very elegantly.
Why does he support Trump?
Watch.
tucker carlson
I certainly support Trump, I'll tell you that.
And I can tell you, I mean, I've always agreed with Trump's policies, always.
And I lost friends over it.
And I've never really actively supported anybody because it's not my job to actively support people.
I watch, you know?
I like to watch.
But I'm a voyeur.
unidentified
Yeah.
tucker carlson
But I became an active Trump supporter when they raided Mar-a-Lago last summer, the summer of 2022.
That can't stand.
unidentified
No, that can't.
tucker carlson
And I agree with Trump on a lot.
But even if I disagreed with Trump on a lot, I'd still be a Trump supporter because you cannot allow that.
You cannot allow the...
You know, the regime, the President of the United States, to use the Justice Department to knock the frontrunner out of the race.
You can't do that.
unidentified
No, you can't do that.
tucker carlson
So it's bigger than Trump.
It's bigger than Biden.
It's a question of, you know, do you want to live in a free country with a functioning justice system, you know?
unidentified
That's exactly right.
tucker carlson
And so I'm voting for Trump, and if they convict him, I will send him the max donations, and I will lead protests.
That's how I feel.
unidentified
That's how I feel, too.
tucker carlson
And by the way, if I thought that he had committed some real crime, I wouldn't feel that way, but he didn't.
He and Biden are both found with classified documents at home, along with every other former high-level federal official in history, but only Trump is indicted?
Like, tell me how that works.
unidentified
Oh, shut up!
benny johnson
Tucker Carlson, you've never heard him say something like this.
If they indict Trump, I'll donate to the Max, and then I'll lead the marches.
Now, Tucker, I and Trump have marched together before.
Check this out.
This is at UFC in Madison Square Garden.
At a fight.
There's Tucker.
Kid Rock.
Donald Trump.
Dana White.
Don Jr.
Walking in to the hero's welcome.
Look at that.
30,000 people on their feet cheering.
Tucker Carlson laughing maniacally as they walk in.
Is that the ticket you want?
Is that the next administration?
What position will Kid Rock have in the next administration?
unidentified
Hmm.
Hmm.
benny johnson
Department of Education?
Department of Energy.
Ladies and gentlemen, that's the energy.
That is the energy.
Have you ever seen an arena cheer for Joe Biden?
Have you ever seen a phone booth worth of people cheer for Joe Biden?
Would Joe Biden never avail himself to walking into an arena like that?
Of course not.
The entire place would rain down booze upon him because it's fake.
What Joe Biden's doing is fake.
It's not real.
There's no real support for Joe Biden.
It's utterly manufactured, propped up, manufactured, created.
It's not real.
Fugazi.
Fugazi.
That's why it's not hitting.
It's why they're in a very dangerous spot right now.
Joe Biden's SIOP isn't working.
You could argue it didn't work the first time.
It's not working now.
It's only decayed.
It's only deteriorated, much like Joe Biden.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump, in every single interview, seems to be aging in reverse, getting younger, more fit, and more importantly, the energy of the movement seems to be coalescing, seems to be bringing people in.
We have the polling that shows, can we grab that real clear politics one more time?
This is just fascinating.
It's something to know, right?
Because presumably, if you're watching this, you're either part of the MAGA movement, full-on ultra MAGA, right?
Or you're MAGA-lite.
Or you're MAGA-curious.
But I gotta tell you, there's something magical that's happening here, and you can see it belied in the data.
Look at this.
Joe Biden, the median for Joe Biden, Joe Biden obviously the blue line, the median for Joe Biden is kind of the same.
Joe Biden isn't gaining support.
He's losing support.
You see it decay and you see it bounce up around here.
The median for Joe Biden is like low 40s for his election.
This is the election polling average, right?
And again, these polls are rigged.
But look at what Trump's done.
What Donald Trump has done.
Has been to consistently, month over month, I believe this is for the entire year of 2023.
This entire chart is for 2023.
For this year, Donald Trump has steadily, triumphantly, and monstrously grown his lead, brought people in, created a larger movement, gained momentum, whereas Joe Biden has flatlined or decayed.
Uh, he's not, he, like, it's, it's not like he's pulling from Biden necessarily.
Again, Joe Biden just kind of like flatline.
There's a ceiling for Joe Biden.
Donald Trump is now skyrocketing, meaning he's pulling in, he's bringing in new people.
And why?
There's one ad, this was something that was created by the internet, this is not an official Donald Trump ad, but it could be, that has Tucker's voiceover.
That so crystallizes why this phenomenon is happening.
Have a listen.
This is what you could and should get if Tucker Carlson is vice president for Donald Trump.
This is the style of ad that could be cut.
Not only is this the most powerful ad I've ever seen, even though it's not an official Trump ad, but this also perfectly crystallizes the moment that we're in right now.
The ad is called Why?
Why Trump?
Tucker, take it away.
tucker carlson
Millions of Americans sincerely love Donald Trump.
They love him in spite of everything they've heard.
They love him often in spite of himself.
They love Donald Trump because no one else loves them.
The country they built, the country their ancestors fought for over hundreds of years, has left them to die in their unfashionable little towns, mocked and despised by the sneering halfwits with finance degrees, but no actual skills, Who seem to run everything all of a sudden.
Whatever Donald Trump's fault, he is better than the rest of the people in charge.
At least he doesn't hate them for their weakness.
Donald Trump, in other words, is and has always been a living indictment of the people who run this country.
That was true four years ago when Trump came out of nowhere to win the presidency.
And it's every bit as true right now.
Trump rose because they failed.
It's as simple as that.
If the people in charge had done a halfway decent job with the country they inherited, if they'd cared about anything other than themselves, even for just a moment, Donald Trump would still be hosting Celebrity Apprentice.
But they didn't.
Instead, they were incompetent and narcissistic and cruel and relentlessly dishonest.
They wrecked what they didn't build.
They lied about it.
They hurt anyone who told the truth about what they were doing.
That's true.
We watched.
America is still a great country, the best in the world, but our ruling class is disgusting.
A vote for Trump is a vote against them.
That's what's going on in this country.
benny johnson
That was a less than 90 second poetic distillation of what is happening right now in the political landscape.
unidentified
It was it's pitch perfect.
benny johnson
They hate a ruling class who inherited a nation and forgot about them.
In fact, wants them to die in their own fashionable little towns.
While idiots with finance degrees but no skills run everything all of a sudden.
Donald Trump remembered the forgotten man and woman and gave them pride again in the nation that their ancestors fought for, died for.
Buried in the ground of, the soil of.
It plucks at the very strings of your heart.
It's emotional watching it.
And it's why I fully endorse Tucker Carlson as VP.
What's the point of a vice president?
To be a messenger for the president.
The president's job is obviously to present the vision for the country The vice president's job is to be the messenger for that man or woman.
And there you are.
The perfect messenger is Tucker.
So on that note alone, you have to say, this guy would make an awesome vice president.
And again, Melania Trump, according to reporting, breaking at time of show, is now endorsing Tucker Carlson as VP.
Melania Trump wants it.
Why?
And I'm reiterating here, but it's really important.
She wants it.
The former First Lady wants Tucker Carlson because he would be a powerful onstage extension of her husband.
The former First Lady has made a few campaign appearances at the time, but a Trump-Carlson ticket might encourage her to hit the trail.
I would call it Trump-Tucker 2024.
What do you think, ladies and gentlemen?
I think that that would be absolute gold.
Now, what happened last night was what many are calling the VP debate, right?
People jockeying to be VP because Donald Trump is 60 points up in the polling.
And so all of the Republican candidates who are left gathered on stage last night and...
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Somebody was speaking free last night.
Hot damn!
Vivek went hard in the paint against Nikki Haley, against Chris Christie.
Ended their careers.
I mean, there's just no other way to say it.
Ended the careers of these two.
You can't continue after what happened yesterday.
You can't go on.
There is no coming back.
Vivek said Chris Christie needs to drop out and then go get himself a nice big meal.
Now, why did he say that?
Vivek said to Nikki Haley...
Hey, you want to send all of our young men and women to go die in Ukraine?
Why don't you name some regions of Ukraine you wish to liberate?
Can you name them?
Can you name them?
Now, can you speak the language?
Do you even know the names of the regions that have been conquered by Russia in the invasion?
And it's just such an unbelievable destruction to see Nikki Haley sit there and go, Watch the clip.
vivek ramaswamy
foreign policy experience is not the same as foreign policy wisdom i want everybody at home to note that i was the first person to say we need a reasonable peace deal in ukraine now a lot of the neocons are quietly coming along to that position with the exceptions of nikki haley and joe biden who still support this what i believe is pointless war in ukraine and i think those with foreign policy experience one thing that joe biden and nikki haley have in common is that neither of
Three provinces in eastern Ukraine that they want to send our troops to actually fight for.
Look at that!
This is what I want people to understand.
These people have, I mean, she has no idea what the hell the names of those provinces are, but she wants to send our sons and daughters and our troops and our military equipment to go fight it.
So reject this myth that they've been selling you, that somebody had a cup of coffee stint at the UN and then makes eight million bucks after, has real foreign policy experience.
It takes an outsider to see this through, look at the blank expression.
unidentified
She doesn't know the names of the provinces that she wants to actually fight for.
And there's a puppet managers right there, the donors.
vivek ramaswamy
The donors right there that are playing her like the puppet man.
unidentified
Enough.
Enough.
Hold on.
Do you hear the debate, moderators?
benny johnson
Enough!
Enough!
So great!
This is the energy, baby.
This is the energy.
You all know I love Trump.
I have his mugshot hanging in our studio.
It's giant.
By the way, that's like a four-feet-tall mugshot back there.
unidentified
Okay?
benny johnson
Like, I'm just saying, that's the energy.
That's the energy.
Van Jones was literally shaking.
Watching Vivek last night.
We'll play you the clip.
unidentified
It's great.
benny johnson
He says, I'm literally shaking.
We like to use flowery, colorful, and entertaining language on this show, so you might catch a headline from us being like, Lib is literally shaking because a bass thing happened on TV.
The Libs were literally shaking.
That's a great endorsement.
Also, this, I mean...
Does look exactly like Donald Trump trained Vivek, okay?
So here's what I know from my background.
That Donald Trump and Vivek are friends.
That they, like, speak together.
I don't have any insight into who's going to be picked for what or whatever, but I do know that Vivek is not anti-Trump, and I do know that Donald Trump and Vivek talk, okay?
And that they have a cordial relationship.
That's the best I can give you.
Did Donald Trump train up Vivek for the debate?
Hell, I don't know, actually.
I'm not sure, but it sure sounds like it.
Watch this.
Vivek saying to Chris Christie, you need to drop out and go get yourself a nice hot meal.
vivek ramaswamy
First of all, Chris Christie also doesn't know what provinces in eastern Ukraine he actually want us to fight for.
Chris, your version of foreign policy experience was closing a bridge from New Jersey to New York.
So do everybody a favor, just walk yourself off that stage, enjoy a nice meal, and get the hell out of this race.
When it comes to Nikki...
unidentified
Alright, we did an...
benny johnson
Our designer Jamie did an AI of Chris Christie, potentially enjoying a nice meal.
Rolls-Royce is telling me we should put it up.
Here it is, ladies and gentlemen.
This is AI, okay?
So, get upset with the computers, right?
At mid-journey.
This is what AI, when you type into AI, design Chris Christie enjoying a meal, this is what comes up.
This is the first result, okay?
Ain't me.
Get upset with the computers, okay?
Vivek was upsetting a lot of people last night.
Again, like, again.
I'm not...
We're not here to be the hype, man.
We're just here to absorb the energy.
That's what this show does.
We absorb the energy.
And tell ya, man, this...
The vague went in.
Last night, in like...
I'm gonna play you a 90-second clip here.
In this 90 seconds, January 6th was an inside job.
The 2020 election was stolen.
Government lied about 9-11, the Saudi connection, which is true.
And the Great Replacement Theory.
And I'll...
Of course, you...
All you have to do is the words of Joe Biden.
This is all in 90 seconds?
Boy was cooking!
Watch.
vivek ramaswamy
With all three of my other colleagues on this debate stage.
With all three of my other colleagues on this debate stage.
Is all three of them have been licking Donald Trump's boots for years for money and endorsements.
Ron DeSantis, you've been a great governor, but you would have never been one without actually begging Donald Trump for that endorsement.
ron desantis
And you attacked him in your bunk a year ago.
vivek ramaswamy
Same thing with Chris Christie as a lobbyist, begging them for COVID money for his special interests in New Jersey, prepping him for the debates last time around.
These people are now Monday morning quarterbacking some decision he made.
I think the real enemy is not Donald Trump.
It's not even Joe Biden.
It is the deep state that at least Donald Trump attempted to take on.
And if you want somebody who's going to speak truth to power, then vote for somebody who's going to speak the truth to you.
Why am I the only person on the stage, at least, who can say that January 6th now does look like it was an inside job?
That the government lied to us for 20 years about Saudi Arabia's involvement in 9 /11.
That the Great Replacement Theory is not some grand right-wing conspiracy theory.
But a basic statement of the Democratic Party's platform.
That the 2020 election was indeed stolen by big tech.
That the 2016 election, the one that Trump won for sure, was also one that was stolen from him by the national security establishment that actually put up the Trump-Russia collusion hoax that they knew was false.
There's a reason why I'm the only person on the stage who can say these things.
That's what it's gonna take, not people who were licking his boots one time and now Monday morning quarterbacking and criticizing when it's convenient.
unidentified
Governor Christie.
benny johnson
So, I gotta tell ya, man, that's the energy.
There it is.
That's the energy.
I mean, hot damn.
Boys cooking.
Now, there is an extremely viral tweet that Vivek sent within the last 24 hours talking about the Great Replacement.
The Great Replacement theory, of course, is what's going to cause libs to have the freakouts, right?
Van Jones has a literal meltdown.
Says he's literally shaking on CNN.
Okay?
Here's the Van Jones literal meltdown on CNN.
I want everyone to get their salt out and get ready to salt this lid.
Okay?
Van Jones, salty, salty, salt.
I want to see salt shakers pouring through the comment section.
Let's go, baby.
Here's the liberal reaction.
Salt that lid.
van jones
That puts at risk people of color.
It is wrong in the smug, condescending way that he just spews this poison out.
It is very, very dangerous because he won't stop Trump, but he's going to outlive Trump by about 50 years.
And you're watching the rise of an American demagogue that is a very, very despicable person.
And literally, I was shaking listening to him talk because a lot of people don't know that is one step away from Nazi propaganda coming out of his mouth.
unidentified
But the good thing, Van, you can take respite in is the more people hear him, the less they like him, right?
Alright.
benny johnson
Okay.
We're supposed to do the Salt That Lib stinger.
And everyone expected it.
And Rolls Royce let everyone down.
But you're not going to do it again.
We're going to play the stinger.
We're going to play the stinger.
Because I love the Salt That Lib stinger.
unidentified
Go.
you Thank you.
benny johnson
Maybe we'll find other salty libs in the show.
Actually, there's some interesting CNN clips afterwards that maybe we can do more salt that libs.
I love salting the libs.
They're freaking out.
Van Jones is saying, I can't believe that he said exactly what Joe Biden said.
What do I mean by that?
Well, we have the proof.
What do you want from me?
Am I allowed to believe the words that Joe Biden says?
Here they are.
Take from them what you will.
But at the very least, listen when Joe Biden, with a grinning Mayorkas standing right next to them, like looking at it approvingly, like Gollum, like believe them when they tell you what they want.
When somebody shows you who they are, believe them.
Here you go.
This is from Joe Biden.
I think it's 2015.
Go.
joe biden
An unrelenting stream of immigration.
Non-stop.
Non-stop.
Folks like me, who are Caucasian of European descent, for the first time in 2017, will be in an absolute minority in the United States of America.
Absolute minority.
Fewer than 50% of the people in America, from then and on, will be white European stock.
That's not a bad thing.
That's a source of our strength.
benny johnson
An unrelenting flow of migration.
A never-ending, unrelenting flow of migration.
That's not a bad thing!
That's the source of our strength, says Joe Biden.
Like, again, it's 1984.
You're not allowed to believe your eyes.
You're not allowed to believe your ears.
The guy's saying it on camera.
So what do you want from me?
What am I supposed to...
Am I supposed to believe what Joe Biden's saying?
Am I taking it out of context when I just play you the clip?
Why is everyone losing their minds over this?
Van Jones is literally shaking, he says.
Literally shaking.
One other time that a Democrat was literally shaking based on the debate performance was Nikki Haley.
I do not like Nikki Haley.
I think Nikki Haley is very much, very much a Democrat and is only a Republican in name.
And is a massive psyop.
And is there to probably have fake polls written about her and to boost her potentially into becoming Donald Trump's VP so you can get another backstabbing VP.
That's the goal.
Nikki Haley is the op.
Nikki Haley supports every position that Joe Biden does on everything.
Radical gender theory, identity politics.
When Vivek nuked her in the last debate, she said it was because he was anti-woman.
Can't play the race card on that one against Vivek, so okay, here we go.
He's anti-woman.
The gender card.
I mean, it's despicable.
It's something that we shouldn't allow in our party, and it's nice to have her called out to her face.
This is the moment that her career was destroyed forever.
Nikki Haley's done.
Nikki Haley's buried.
And here's The Undertaker.
Watch.
vivek ramaswamy
We're marching towards fascism under Biden.
Jack Smith has subpoenaed every last retweet that someone has issued from Donald Trump in the year 2020.
The only person more fascist than the Biden regime now is Nikki Haley, who thinks the government should identify every one of those individuals with an ID.
That is not freedom.
That is fascism.
And she should come nowhere near the levers of power, let alone the White House.
benny johnson
Yes, baby.
That's fascism.
Do we not have him holding up the sign?
Nikki Haley equals fascist?
Do we have that image?
Grab that one.
Because he actually holds it up.
There you go.
Perfect.
Nikki equals corrupt.
Has created quite the meme, actually.
Has created quite the meme.
So, yeah.
I mean, listen.
This is, again, the energy.
It's the anti-establishment, anti-corporate media.
Not going to play nice.
We know what time it is.
Energy.
Like the country is being stolen before our very eyes and we're going to call it out.
And when there are lies, the only way to absolve ourselves of the poison of those lies is to speak truth.
The truth shall set you free.
On CNN, as soon as the debate was over, Vivek continued, especially on January 6th.
Man, this one's so good.
So on January 6th, we have the entrapment answer.
Vivek's been watching our show, I guess.
Actually, he does.
Watch.
Watch.
vivek ramaswamy
So, let me, you know, I appreciate the opportunity to address it.
I was an anti-woke crusader leaving the business world, and if you had asked me three years ago, is there some chance January 6th is an inside job, I would have said that was crazy talk.
I would say looking at the facts of the video footage that have come out, Dana, it is...
Shocking that you still haven't gotten a clear answer of how many federal agents were in the field that day.
Look at now the video footage of actually throwing explosives and rubber bullets into what was a peaceful crowd, then releasing to the public what came in response to that.
But now look at the video footage that was released, and I'm glad we're talking about it because viewers deserve to look at that footage.
Capitol Police literally letting people in, who were then now prosecuted, some of whom have gone on to commit suicide because of what the government's doing.
That is a case of entrapment.
And I think the government has not been transparent about this, which is why I then brought up another case where the government, now 20 years later, with declassified documents, tells us that they lied to us at the time.
benny johnson
So you have, for the first time ever on CNN, who has been the foremost promoter of January 6th and the lies therein, in face of the actual exculpatory evidence to the contrary.
You have on CNN's airwaves them getting wrecked with the facts.
The cops opening the doors.
The peaceful protesters.
The protesters taking selfies.
And staying within the velvet ropes.
The protesters, the peaceful protesters, doing what the cops ordered them to do and leaving the building.
Oh, man.
Oh, they were salty.
They were salty, salty, salty when they began to hear that.
And so they began to argue about the facts.
On CNN.
It was delicious.
It was amazing.
Get out your salt shakers.
Go.
vivek ramaswamy
I think it is startling how much the government has systematically lied.
And I think it's both parties over the course of the last 25 years.
The left used to be better pointing this out and being skeptical of the government, but now it's the right.
unidentified
Which is the most aggressive, offensive attack on the U.S. Capitol and on democracy itself that we have seen in our lifetime and in many, many lifetimes.
To say without evidence that it was an inside trap is dangerous.
I'm not saying it without evidence.
vivek ramaswamy
I think that what we're seeing now is the video footage that's come out.
I was in a different place before a lot of that evidence came out.
But you have to respond to the evidence.
What is your response or what is anybody else in CNN's response?
What we know is that 850 people have been convicted.
unidentified
They were convicted of crimes.
vivek ramaswamy
But the reality is many of them were convicted before that information was released.
unidentified
And do you think that former President Trump has anything to do with this?
vivek ramaswamy
Because you're bringing up a really good point in your audience, and everybody deserves to know the truth about this.
Normally there's a rule in constitutional law.
It's called the Brady Rule.
You have to turn over exculpatory evidence to the other side.
In this case, it wasn't turned over because the DOJ said Congress was sitting on it.
Now Congress has released it.
That's why I said I would pardon many of those peaceful protesters because of constitutional violations.
unidentified
I want to go to something else that you said, which I think...
Hmm.
benny johnson
Uh, uh, uh, quick!
Change the subject fast!
They asked, who won the debate on NBC News?
And the responses, I believe these responses are from Georgia, um, again, didn't disappoint.
Check this out.
kristen welker
NBC News 2024 campaign embed.
Nnamdi Edwanwu is with Republican voters at a watch party in Atlanta, Georgia.
Nnamdi, it's so good to see you.
You do fantastic work, and I know you've been there with the voters in Georgia.
What are they telling you?
What did they think of tonight's debate?
unidentified
Well, Kristen, getting reaction from voters here in Atlanta was quite easy.
They actually organized a straw poll on their own during the debate and were keeping track of their opinions.
And by the end of the night, you have Vivek Ramaswamy out of this watch party of about 30 people getting five votes.
You had Ron DeSantis getting two, both Nikki Haley and Chris Christie having a sole one vote.
And get this, former President Donald Trump, despite not being on the stage, got 18. So that's really reflective of the vibe of the night here in Atlanta.
benny johnson
So there you go.
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You want to see Vivek as VP?
I don't know, man.
I'm telling you this.
I can't rule anything out.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Joe Biden potentially paid off in gold.
You know, gold bar Bob in the Senate.
He got gold bars.
Joe Biden taught him everything he knows, Bob Menendez.
Joe Biden yesterday was asked directly, hey, yo, there's all this evidence, all these photographs, all these bank records, all these emails, all these pseudonyms.
There is a preponderance now stack of evidence to the ceiling that you directly interacted with your son's corrupt business dealings of which your son is being criminally charged with.
So got anything on us for that?
Anything?
Anything?
And Joe Biden did his best version of look fat.
Watch.
steven nelson
President Biden, on Ukraine and also China, there is polling by the Associated Press that shows that almost 70 percent of Americans, including 40 percent of Democrats, believe that you acted either illegally or unethically in regards to your family's business interests.
Can you explain to the Americans-- to Americans amid this impeachment inquiry why you interacted with so many of your son and brother's foreign business associates?
joe biden
I'm not going to comment on that.
I did not.
That's just a bunch of lies.
steven nelson
You didn't interact with many of their business associates?
joe biden
I did not.
They're lies.
unidentified
Mr. President, do you think there is any Democrat who could defeat Donald Trump other than you?
joe biden
Probably 50 of them.
unidentified
You do believe that there are?
joe biden
I'm not the only one to read it, but I will defeat it.
unidentified
Who else do you think could defeat Donald Trump, Mr. President?
benny johnson
Do you think that other, do you think that there are Democrats who can beat Donald Trump?
There are 50 of them.
Here's the polling, you old jack wagon.
There are 50 of them.
Look at the poll.
unidentified
No, there are 50 Democrats who can beat Donald Trump.
benny johnson
Joe Biden says it's a bunch of lies to the evidence.
Now, this isn't, the reporter is very wise in how they ask the question.
I believe that's the New York Post or the Newsmax reporter there.
I think it's the reporter for the New York Post.
It's very wise in the way he asks the question.
Because he goes, why did you interact with his business partners so much?
Where you get into the territory of, like, you must prove the wrongdoing, right?
That's what James Comer is up to right now.
And he's stacking evidence on it.
What isn't up for debate is that Joe Biden had enormous interactions with all of the goons and all of the orcs that Hunter Biden would bring to him.
No matter where they're from, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Russia, Ukraine, these guys were getting, like, red carpet treatment at the White House.
It is captured on footage.
It's in the tapes.
There are photographs, videos, records, logs of this.
It is beyond dispute.
So Joe Biden having that answer is obviously another lie.
Jesse Waters did an incredible takedown last night on this evidence watch.
unidentified
Why would Joe Biden lie when our producers just found four photos of Biden with his son's shady business partners?
sean hannity
I mean, we just Googled it five minutes ago.
There's four pictures right there.
unidentified
Golfing at the White House, and he's at the VP's house, and he's at dinner.
sean hannity
You know the one, the last dinner?
unidentified
That's the one where Hunter drove home in a Porsche.
Hunter's business associates visited the Obama-Biden White House over 80 times.
Biden used an alias email to talk to Hunter's business associate 327 times.
benny johnson
That guy.
unidentified
And is Biden saying he never met Tony Bobulinski?
sean hannity
Biden's own lawyer admitted he met these people.
unidentified
The Democrats admitted Biden talked to him on the phone.
And they never once spoke about any business dealings.
As he described it, it was all casual conversation, niceties, the weather.
sean hannity
Oh, the weather, yes.
unidentified
If everything is legal, then why is Biden lying about it?
benny johnson
He's lying.
He's lying.
You don't lie about things that you're not ashamed of.
You don't lie for no reason.
Even the most pathological liars tend to, like, lie for reasons.
James Comer says that if Hunter Biden doesn't come in and testify next week, today is December 7th.
God bless those who fought Pearl Harbor, those who died Pearl Harbor.
Today is, of course, Pearl Harbor Day.
Joe Biden was alive during Pearl Harbor.
Just to show you kind of the...
I mean, it's shocking, right?
Isn't that just alarming?
So he's just not with it.
He's just not there.
And he has nothing else to do.
I mean, how is that guy going to stand up to Donald Trump on a debate stage?
They're not going to have the debates.
They've got to have something cooked up.
Jamie Comer's cooking over in Congress, saying that he will hold Hunter Biden in contempt if Hunter Biden does not show up for a testimony.
For a deposition, Hunter Biden will be held in contempt if he doesn't appear behind a closed-door deposition on December 13th.
unidentified
That's next week.
benny johnson
Jamie Comer, not messing around.
Watch.
sean hannity
All right, let me ask you, James Comer, both you and Jim Jordan on Judiciary have now threatened to hold Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress, and I believe that includes Joe's brother, James Biden.
If they fail to show up after the subpoena that you sent them, what actions will you take?
james comer
Well, we'll hold them in contempt.
I mean, we've issued lawful subpoenas.
I'm hopeful they'll both show up.
I have more confidence that Jim Biden's going to show up than I do Hunter.
You're seeing today rhetoric from the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee openly encouraging Hunter Biden not to show up.
I mean, the Democrats on the Oversight Committee have obstructed this credible...
We're going to hold Hunter Biden accountable if he doesn't show up for the subpoena.
Sean, we looked and Donald Trump's immediate family testified in depositions on the January 6th committee for 18 hours.
18 hours.
Donald Trump's family showed up for depositions when they were subpoenaed by the January 6th committee, but the Bidens think they're, you know, the law doesn't apply to them, that they're special and they aren't going to show up.
I mean, there's more evidence now about Hunter Biden than most criminals that have to show up for depositions in big time legal cases.
unidentified
This is the first time.
benny johnson
Big time cases.
People that are showing up.
Hunter Biden will be showing up.
We hope.
Otherwise, hold him in contempt.
A reminder, Steve Bannon got hit, caught a case for contempt of Congress for not showing up when he was subpoenaed.
And Steve Bannon got, I mean, I think that they're still figuring it out, but they said that Steve Bannon is going to do six months in jail?
Well, that would be a way to put Hunter Biden behind bars.
Goodness.
So we'll see.
We'll see what happens.
This is going to happen next week.
Someone who is showing up this weekend, and a reason why we will not be having a show tomorrow, is the great ALX will be joining me at Mar-a-Lago.
And he joins the show right now to talk about it.
unidentified
Thank you.
benny johnson
You have a much better intro than I do.
alex alx lorusso
We got the stinger this time.
Thanks, Royce.
benny johnson
So I want to go through a really quick people's history of what ALX has worn to Mar-a-Lago.
Really important.
Because ALX and I will be going to Mar-a-Lago this weekend.
It is part of the reason why we will not be having a show tomorrow.
ALX once wore a suit, a beautiful suit, to Mar-a-Lago.
Look, stood right, shoulder to shoulder with Donald Trump.
Looks like you're the exact same height as Donald Trump, actually, here.
Red tie.
Looks like the exact same height.
Slightly tighter cut of your jib for your suit.
Same tie.
And then once, ALX wore tube socks to Mar-a-Lago at one point.
And also this.
A photo of the potential VP on your shirt in Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump.
Were you trying to let us know something, ALX?
alex alx lorusso
I've been known to send some signals in photos like that.
But I will say, so that was actually like, I want to say, so that was the week after it was announced that Tucker was going to have his show on X. So everyone was talking about Tucker at that time.
And Trump saw my shirt and he said, oh, what do you think of Tucker Carlson?
alex lorusso
And we were all talking around the table about it.
It didn't come up for, like, an idea for his VP pick, but, I mean, like, that would be insane if he followed Melania's advice and picked him.
But, yeah, we were talking around the table just about him, and, you know, it was also the same week that the CNN town hall dropped, so we were also talking about that.
But, yeah, it was, like, just a perfect distillation of kind of, like, a middle finger to the system was, you know, Tucker announcing.
His own show on X and showing that he could be independently successful when the establishment kicked him out.
alex alx lorusso
Similar to like what Trump did in 2016 when the establishment kind of turned on him, but he became the Republican nomination against all odds.
alex lorusso
So, I mean, the two of them have kind of two similar stories in that respect that the odds are always stacked against them.
And they have popular support from the people.
benny johnson
Yeah, I mean, I love the idea of that ticket.
You got a ticket to Mar-a-Lago this weekend.
What are we up to?
What's going on at Mar-a-Lago?
alex alx lorusso
So we're going to be going to a Turning Point event.
alex lorusso
I'm not too sure about all of the details of it, but it's always a good time at Mar-a-Lago, so we'll have to keep our audience up to date of what's going on minute to minute while we're there.
benny johnson
Are you going to go with the tube sock route or are you going to go with the suit route?
alex alx lorusso
I actually have both outfits just hanging on a hanger, and I'm deciding.
I might hold a pole on X, whether we go to tube socks or to a black tie event.
That would be quite funny.
benny johnson
Black socks.
You can switch up the socks.
alex alx lorusso
Yes, exactly.
benny johnson
Oh, yeah, you already had black socks.
Never mind.
Yeah, you had black socks.
alex lorusso
Yeah, there we go.
alex alx lorusso
I think I'm going to go with the suit, but, I mean, undecided right now, I guess.
benny johnson
Vivek's performance last night in the debate.
What's the takeaway?
What's the takeaway on X?
alex lorusso
A+.
alex alx lorusso
I mean, there was like a hundred different moments.
It was like the Chris Christie moment, of course, was my favorite because I like picking on Chris Christie.
But then he also, by holding up that piece of paper, he created a meme template, which we're big fans of online.
So, I mean, that was...
He knows how to do this.
And Chris Christie was getting mad.
He's like, oh, this is what happened.
That's one of the memes.
He's like, this is what happens every debate.
There's a clip and it goes viral and blah, blah, blah.
alex lorusso
It's like, okay, so he knows how to, you know, he knows how to give a statement that's going to go viral and that the popular opinion of voters is going to, you know, be swayed by.
alex alx lorusso
And Vivek, he not only knows what he's talking about with, you know.
January 6th, the election, and everything else, but he knows how to do it in a way that's going to go viral multiple times.
Every single clip, basically, last night, and this image was from Vivek.
I mean, like, what?
Like, Chris Christie is, like, telling him to sit down and shut up, and then he simped for Nikki Haley for about 20 minutes, and I'm like, that's, like, slightly better than his Donald Duck moment, I guess, but, like, not really.
alex lorusso
But yeah, Vivek is just doing all the right things up there, and all of the viral moments that are coming out of the debate have been from him virtually.
So, yeah.
benny johnson
There are a couple people that we watch online to see if moments break through.
Terrence Williams is one of them.
Terrence Williams had a really funny clip.
He's a comedian, right?
He'll only respond to something if it really hits, right?
Unlike us, we're trying to cast a wide net and keep everyone informed.
Some things you might like, some things you might not.
Terrence Williams, he's only going to respond if it really smacks, right?
If it really slaps.
And here's what he put together last night.
vivek ramaswamy
Chris Christie also doesn't know what provinces in eastern Ukraine he actually wants to fight for.
Chris, your version of foreign policy experience was closing a bridge from New Jersey to New York.
do everybody a favor.
Just walk yourself off that stage.
Enjoy a nice meal.
And get the hell out of this race.
unidentified
When it comes to Nick...
Oh no!
Did he say Go get a milk Oh baby Have Trump been training you?
Trump must have trained you for this debate because that right there was straight up Trump.
benny johnson
Yeah, he's right.
Is this indicative of the rest of the internet's reaction to this moment?
alex alx lorusso
Yeah, 100%.
The thing is, it's like, Chris Christie kept saying throughout the entire debate about how unfit Donald Trump was, coming from a guy that clearly isn't fit.
So I don't know why he keeps using that language saying, oh, Donald Trump is unfit, unfit.
The next question is, Chris Christie, are you fit?
Physically.
Come on.
benny johnson
His announcement speech.
His announcement speech.
We gotta go big.
We gotta be big.
We gotta think big.
We gotta be big.
alex alx lorusso
I'm gonna be the bigger person.
I'm gonna be the bigger person, he kept saying.
Come on, man!
benny johnson
And then Trump posted a meme about it.
alex alx lorusso
Trump posted a meme about it.
Then CNN put the meme next to him.
unidentified
And then he posted the clip on his own social media of the meme.
alex alx lorusso
Of him reacting on CNN.
I'm like...
This dude is doing everything wrong that you could possibly do in a campaign.
And he's still on the stage somehow.
alex lorusso
I'm baffled.
alex alx lorusso
This is, what, his third failed campaign?
And I don't know.
He's getting destroyed now.
It looks like he's simping for Nikki Haley.
alex lorusso
So I don't know what he's trying to get out of that.
benny johnson
I don't understand it.
I do understand the energy, and the energy is clearly not on the side of Nikki Haley or Christie, who had their careers ended last night.
It's far more on the side of Vivek and Tucker Carlson being VP.
I don't know.
You have a choice there?
alex lorusso
I'd love to see Tucker as VP, 100%.
And Vivek somewhere in the administration, but Tucker 100% as VP.
benny johnson
Elon's razor, right?
alex lorusso
Yep.
Most entertaining outcome, most likely.
benny johnson
The great ALX.
I'll see you in Florida, buddy.
unidentified
See you soon.
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