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Trump SHOCKS World with MASSIVE Bronx Rally, Asks Rappers For A 'GRILL'| CNN PANICS as Crowd ROARS🔥
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unidentified
I guess it was a joint press conference with the president of Kenya at the White House.
Taking questions from pre-selected reporters, suffice to say, it did not go as well as he wanted it to.
Brooke Seymann here with all the details.
Brooke.
brooke singman
Hey, good morning, you guys.
Yeah, Trump's appearance was his first major campaign event in New York in eight years, drawing an estimated 25,000 supporters when only 3,500 were initially expected to attend.
The former president was met with cheers and excitement from supporters as he vows to cut taxes and turn New York City around.
Watch.
donald j trump
Thank you, everybody.
What a crowd!
I'm here tonight to declare that we are going to turn New York City around and we are going to turn it around very, very quickly.
We're going to bring safety back to our streets.
We're going to bring success back to our schools.
We're going to bring prosperity back to every neighborhood and every borough of the greatest city in our land.
brooke singman
In 2016, Trump won less than 10 percent of the vote in the Bronx, and in 2020, he did slightly better with 16 percent.
But a recent Fox News poll shows Trump's support among black voters has increased 9 percent compared to October 2020.
And while Trump was in New York trying to flip the Big Apple red for the first time in 40 years, President Biden was at the White House holding a press conference with the president of Kenya, taking questions from a group of preselected reporters and actually scolding one reporter for asking two questions.
Watch this.
unidentified
Two questions, if I may, or...
joe biden
No, one.
unidentified
Does the United States...
joe biden
One question.
I'll answer your question.
unidentified
Okay.
Could you tell me what the African Union is doing, as well as Kenya is doing, when it comes to the humanitarian crisis in the Congo?
maria salazar
Thank you.
joe biden
What was my question?
unidentified
Will you allow me to pray to the kids die?
Whoa!
brooke singman
President Biden is heading back to Delaware today.
Tomorrow, Donald Trump will speak at the Libertarian Convention where independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is speaking today.
guys.
unidentified
I have to say you have a great smile.
I have to say you have a great smile.
donald j trump
It's like in a state of shock.
unidentified
I'll rob the juice, don't tell them, make me a grip.
you you Thank you.
you Oh, that's a good one!
Oh, baby!
benny johnson
Get that one locked and loaded and ready to play in the show.
Let's play it like four or five more times.
unidentified
That's a good one.
benny johnson
That's a great one.
Very well done, Jerry.
What a work of art.
What an absolute work of art.
Today is...
A beautiful morning, ladies and gentlemen.
It is Friday, May 24th, 2024.
Donald Trump held a massive 25,000-person rally in the Bronx.
Don't let him lie to you, baby.
This train has no brakes.
CNN admits that the crowd is impressive as CBS cries on air, saying, this looks like America.
The corporate media now admitting defeat and in full retreat.
Donald Trump roaring through.
And ladies and gentlemen, we got some rappers on the show.
We got some people who were at the event yesterday.
We hope that you joined us on our record-breaking live.
New York resident Lou Valentino and Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar.
Join the program today.
You may remember Congresswoman Salazar for her viral flamethrower torching of the corporate press outside of the Trump courthouse in New York just a day ago.
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Okay, so I was gripped by a very interesting mini breakdown of the Trump event.
Yesterday.
And we're going to get to all the highlights.
But there was something that was profound.
It came across my feed.
And it was just a perfect dissection of what we saw yesterday.
The difference.
If you weren't watching live, you're going to see a ton of highlights on today's show.
We're going to talk to people who are at the rally themselves.
But there is something that is worth taking a moment to pin down.
And it's not what happened at the rally.
It's what didn't happen at the Trump rally.
And this is particularly important when it comes to political discourse in this nation.
And when it comes to our movement.
Because what yesterday was, wasn't Donald Trump reaching out to black people or Hispanics, Latinos, right?
They're going to try and do that.
They're going to try to bucket people, right?
No.
What yesterday was, was America first.
That's all.
It was Trump reaching out to people who live in America.
Doesn't really matter where they live.
There's a lot of places to live in this country.
We live in a massive, massive country.
No, it was just Donald Trump putting this country first.
That's it.
Saying that the Bronx, which is a place that has been beat down and destroyed by the policies of Joe Biden.
And the Marxist left, that those people are just as valuable of Americans as somebody living in Wisconsin, Phoenix, Arizona, Tampa, Florida.
You're an American too, which is what our movement actually says.
That's what this movement is about.
This movement is about America first, meaning you're also an American in the Bronx.
The Bronx, there's like no white people live in the Bronx, no Asian people live in the Bronx.
Bronx like, I mean, statistically, right?
Bronx is black Hispanic community.
Majority Hispanic.
Donald Trump's saying, you also are an American.
Your life matters in this country, and you deserve a country where the building blocks of a great life are possible and accessible to you.
You don't need another handout from the government.
You don't need to be a victim.
You don't need to be turned against another group.
You don't need some big what-if.
Victimhood, like, look at this.
Look at these people.
Look what they did to you.
Your life sucks because of these people.
They're the bad guys.
What you need is more government.
And you need more money from the government, from the taxpayer.
In fact, we should take their money, give them to you.
unidentified
None of that trash.
benny johnson
None of that divisive garbage.
There was no pantomiming.
What do I mean by that?
There's this fascinating thing that happens.
When elitist, white, and black liberals who are multi-millionaires, these pretentious Ivy League educated globalists, go and speak to a black church on Martin Luther King Boulevard, right?
And when they speak to these people, they...
Pantomime.
Like, what they think a poor black person sounds like.
There's no other way to put it.
They, like, they use an accent that is this, like, colloquial Forrest Gump Bubba accent.
And it's so insulting, actually.
Here's Hillary Clinton doing exactly what I'm talking about.
unidentified
I don't feel no ways tired.
I come too far from where I started from.
Nobody told me that the road would be easy.
I don't believe he brought me this far to leave me.
I come too far.
benny johnson
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Okay, so Hillary Clinton is particularly bad at this.
And she's particularly cringe, right?
Like, barren Chardonnay grandmother wandering in the woods by herself, miserable, mumbling the name Trump over and over again.
How about our first black president?
Does he do this as well?
I mean, you've all heard Barack Obama mule and carry on for hours and hours and hours.
Does Barack Obama...
Do this?
Oh, yes, he does.
Watch.
tucker carlson
He learned that Barack Obama is actually from the Deep South.
He grew up on a farm in the Mississippi Delta.
We learned that the other day when he was in Georgia campaigning for Raphael Warnock.
You could hear it in his voice.
Listen.
unidentified
If John Lewis, even in his 70s, wasn't tired, I got no excuses.
I can't be tired.
If the men and women were to endure the sting of discrimination.
The smack of belly clubs weren't tired.
The folks who had to fight those early fights, those were the tough fights for union rights and voting rights and gay rights and women's rights.
If they didn't get tired, you can't be tired.
tucker carlson
Oh, settle down, boomer.
unidentified
Settle down.
benny johnson
Is that the accent you learned in Hawaii?
unidentified
Huh?
benny johnson
Where's that accent from, Barack?
Is that how they talk in Martha's Vineyard?
unidentified
What is that?
Who are these?
benny johnson
How embarrassing.
Are you black?
Are you watching this?
Are you like...
unidentified
Is this cringe-level overload?
benny johnson
Oh man, it gets so much worse.
Listen to Kamala Harris.
So you have your first black president.
Here's your Kamala Harris historic vice president here doing her best to do outreach to black men.
Yeah, getting down on her knees and groveling.
No, not that style.
That's a Kamala Harris years gone by.
This is the new improved version of that.
Kamala Harris asking for black support.
Please, enjoy.
unidentified
First of all, let me say, Joe, it's so good to see you.
I haven't seen you since you were at my house a couple weeks ago for our hip-hop party.
This is getting weird.
Anthony, huge fan, mad respect for you.
And Alexander, I can't wait to see you at the White House one day very soon.
benny johnson
You at my hip-hop party?
Give me the dancing Kamala, please.
Just real fast.
Give me cringy dancing Kamala.
What is this accent from Kamala Harris?
You learned that when you were growing up in Canada?
Where you grow up?
Did you go to the Hawaiian island and learn it with Barack?
For your hip-hop parties?
unidentified
Peace!
you Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
benny johnson
It's so degrading.
This tells you what they think about you, right?
If you're an urban American, if you're somebody in a demographic that Democrats wish to pander to, then they will reduce their IQ points to talk to you.
We'll start rolling and slurring their words.
They'll start dancing.
Like a PTA mom who's had one too many margaritas at the, uh, this is a play-beside.
Play-beside.
Always a play-beside with the Kamala dancing.
Ladies and gentlemen, just like dancing like this, PTA mom style.
There you go.
This is how Kamala Harris reaches out to black people.
This is it.
This dance is called I've Had Too Many Two-For-One Chili's Margaritas at Happy Hour, and I'm looking forward to my jalapeno popper appetizer coming to the table.
This is how Democrats reach out to black people and to urban minorities.
And this isn't even the worst of it.
Ladies and gentlemen, the worst of it is what Joe Biden did.
This weekend.
And then I'm done talking about Democrats.
And then we're going to move on to Trump.
But I want to show you the contrast between the way that these communities are outraged to by Donald Trump and the America First movement, by us, okay, who just says, you're an American too.
I don't need to change my accent when I speak to you and do some number.
I ain't no way he's tired.
unidentified
What the hell is that?
benny johnson
Do some dance, right?
I can just be an American.
We can just be Americans together, okay?
But that's the final thing.
I mean, honestly, I can live with the accents and the cringy dances.
It's fun to make fun of that kind of stuff.
This is something I can't live with.
Because when the accents don't, when you don't have an accent, you can't do an accent, or you don't know how to dance, or you can't move anymore, and you're a skeletal Dracula-like corpse.
Then you're Joe Biden.
And your only move when you're in front of a black audience is to stoke racial hatred, which is also something you didn't hear at all from Donald Trump last night.
Donald Trump didn't once tell those people that they were victims or that didn't once tell the people that they were victims or that there was a group that was out to get them.
That is literally the instinctual move of Joe Biden.
And this is the same guy, Joe Biden.
That said that Republicans in 2012 were going to put y 'all back in chains when he was talking to a black audience.
Remember that?
Remember when Mitt Romney was going to be the guy to put y 'all back in chains?
This is Joe Biden, deep, villainous, vile individual from this weekend at Moorhead State University, historically black college, literally stoking racial hatred and division with these young graduates.
Go.
joe biden
You missed your high school graduation.
You started college just as George Floyd was murdered.
And there was a reckoning on race.
It's natural to wonder if democracy you hear about actually works for you.
What is democracy?
If black men are being killed in the street, what is democracy?
The trail of broken promises still leave black communities behind.
What is democracy if you have to be ten times better than anyone else to get a fair shot?
Most of all, what does it mean, as we've heard before, to be a black man who loves his country, even if it doesn't love him back in equal measure?
unidentified
I guess he...
I don't know.
What would it mean to be a black?
I mean, you don't vote for a Republican.
benny johnson
You're not black.
unidentified
Well, you're not black.
You're not black.
You were black?
Delaware.
And Perk.
Clackety-clackety-clack.
benny johnson
What does it mean to be a black?
It means you're corn.
unidentified
You'd rather not be corn pop in the audience.
I'd rather not be any of corn pop's children out here.
I'll take you out back if you're black.
benny johnson
This is Joe Biden.
Okay?
unidentified
Clip it.
benny johnson
Put it up.
I don't care.
This is a story Joe Biden told about a young black man who had too much pomade in his hair who was on the diving board and Joe Biden threatened to kill him.
That's the story of Corn Pop straight from Joe Biden and backed up by all of Corn Pop's friends.
So that's what they're offering.
That's what they always offer to downtrodden communities.
Fake accents, pantomime, embarrassing pablum, the only option out is the government, and stoking racial hatred against groups.
In-group and out-group racial hatred.
That's it.
That's all Democrats have ever offered to Latinos or black people in this country for the last 55 years.
So it's amazing to see something change.
It's amazing to see outreach done in a different way, which is what we saw.
Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen.
So what we saw with Donald Trump heading into the Bronx, 25,000 people strong in the Bronx, baby.
This was an incredible, incredible event.
This was an event that was so good that CNN, MSNBC, and CBS are all totally and completely admitting defeat.
Here we go.
Here's a crowd shot from yesterday.
We have just an incredible army of support.
This is America First.
This is what America First looks like.
Amazing stuff.
Here's what the crowd looked like from up front.
This is Donald Trump on stage.
Here's what the crowd looked like from up front.
Everyone is rowdy.
We can have the audio on with this.
Come on.
Let's hear the people.
Okay.
It's a hard FJB.
Okay.
unidentified
All right.
There we go.
benny johnson
All right.
And we have the front pages of the Daily Mail, some of our favorite news publications.
Trump tells wild Bronx crowd he's going to win New York like Reagan in speech reminiscing of the Big Apple glory days, golf courses, ice rinks, and ripping into crime and migrants.
Donald Trump having a real one with this crowd and doing just something that only Trump can do.
Which is to uplift.
It's kind of like our final thesis and takeaway here.
The speech, there was not a drip of racial pandering or victimhood.
In fact, there was a time when Donald Trump said, I don't want to talk about politics.
I want to talk about something inspirational.
I want to talk about leadership.
I want to talk about what it means to have momentum and keep your momentum going.
And he tells a story from his old real estate days.
It was absolutely and totally.
Incredible, ladies and gentlemen.
I do want to show you the New York Post cover here.
Pretty beautiful from Don Jr.
Uptown Funk.
Trump storms deep blue Bronx with love fest.
It was a love fest.
It was just beautiful.
It was beautiful to watch and it was beautiful to see the reactions.
Ladies and gentlemen, some of Donald Trump's speech, which...
It's incredible.
I encourage you to go back and rewatch the full speech.
Donald Trump says he wants to make New York great again.
donald j trump
And we have mobs of migrants fighting our police officers and giving America the middle finger.
But we are not going to let this continue.
We are not going to abandon our hope and our pride.
This city has given us so much, and now it is time that we are going to give it back.
Together we are going to make New York City great again, and simultaneously we are going to make America great again.
benny johnson
It's an inspiring message.
It's something that you never hear from the left.
Donald Trump, it doesn't matter whether you're black, brown, white, whatever the hell you are.
It doesn't matter.
We're all Americans.
When was the last time you heard this?
You know the last time you heard this?
2008.
When Barack Obama was trying to cheat his way, and when I say cheat, what I mean by that is he lied to you.
Barack Obama was going to be this historic healer of all racial division.
We're never going to talk about race again in this country.
There's no red America, blue America, white or black America.
There's just America.
That's the last time you heard somebody talk like this.
And they lied to you because the second that Barack Obama ticked down a single point in the polls, immediately stoked racial hatred.
This is the America First message right here.
donald j trump
Look, we had the greatest economy in history.
Everybody here, where you have a small business, or if you had a job, you were getting more than you ever made.
And we had no inflation.
We had no 1.4%, considered none, considered better than none, because frankly, none in its own way is a bad thing also.
We had a perfect number, 1.4%.
It doesn't matter whether you're black.
Or brown, or white, or whatever the hell color you are, it doesn't matter.
unidentified
We are all Americans and we're going to pull together as Americans.
benny johnson
I mean, it gives you chills, actually.
It's like a time gone by.
Now, of course, there was the Donald Trump, the typical Donald Trump flares.
There was one accent that Donald Trump did use, but it was accent used correctly.
It was in terms of a negotiator that was sent to the White House from the Mexican administration in Mexico.
The president of Mexico sent a negotiator to the White House to negotiate with Donald Trump about the wall.
And this is where we get our newest meme, Donald, Donald, Donald.
Let's listen.
donald j trump
We had Mexico, and we went to Mexico, and I said to the President of Mexico, good man, by the way, very good guy, happens to be a socialist, but these are minor details.
I said to him, Mr. President, we need you to give us 28,000 soldiers to guard the wall.
He said, well, how much would you pay for that?
I said, nothing.
I'm not paying anything.
You're sending them in.
They're coming in in caravans.
You have to do it.
And he smiled and he laughed.
He thought it was funny.
He thought it was like, you know, I was kidding.
I said, no.
They're coming in through Mexico.
We need 28,000 soldiers, free of charge.
unidentified
And he said, Donald, I cannot do that.
donald j trump
I said, here's what you do.
I don't want to embarrass you, so I'm not going to negotiate with you.
Send me a negotiator.
Give me a top negotiator.
I want to see him.
And he came, and he came to the White House.
A very handsome man, dressed in one of the most beautiful suits I've ever seen.
In fact...
I was going to ask him, I wish I'd like to buy one of those suits, but I didn't think it was appropriate to start the negotiation that way.
He said, you know that you're going to give us 28,000 soldiers, don't you?
No, no, we are not going to.
We will never do that.
I said, of course you're going to.
100%.
He said, we're not going to.
He said, no way.
I said, way.
You're going to give it.
unidentified
Donald.
benny johnson
Donald.
This is very good.
We're going to work on Donald Trump's Mexican accent, something we didn't know that we would get last night.
We also didn't know that we'd get two of the hottest rappers in New York, rappers named Chef G and Sleepy Hollow up on stage, and Donald Trump saying, I want a iced-out grill?
Oh yeah, baby.
Here we go.
donald j trump
Here as well is rapper Chef G. Does everybody know Chef G?
Where is Chef G?
Where is he?
Come on up, fellas.
Rapper Sleepy Hollow.
Come on up here, fellas.
unidentified
How are you, man?
donald j trump
Oh, I like that.
I want to get that done.
unidentified
That was a good choice.
Oh, man.
Hey!
One thing I want to say.
One thing I want to say, they always going to whisper your accomplishments and shout your failures.
Trump going to shout the wins for all of us.
Make America great again.
donald j trump
Thank you.
unidentified
Thank you very much.
benny johnson
That's great, Donald Trump says.
I gotta get me one of those.
donald j trump
I gotta get me a grill.
benny johnson
I think we have, actually, artist renderings of Donald Trump with grills.
Klein will get them up.
But here, check this out from WorldStarHipHop.
WorldStarHipHop put up Donald Trump and the two rappers on stage.
And this is, like, the most liked post they've had in a decade.
Probably not a decade.
But really, really, 140,000 likes on WorldStarHipHop's page, Donald Trump, and the rappers.
A thing of beauty.
Now we got, do we have the cold?
This is what the cold's based on, actually.
Yeah, so Donald Trump in the Bronx.
That's what it looks like to actually treat people like human beings.
Donald Trump's had a long history, by the way, with rappers.
Donald Trump was in the studio with rappers before he ever became president or ran for politics.
Like, he's an actual authentic person who authentically cares about this culture, urban culture.
I mean, he lives in urban culture, grew up in the Bronx, right?
So it's going to be deeply authentic and far better than Kamala Harris tackling with Fat Joe.
And Fat Joe, like, being made super awkward.
We do have an artist rendering of Donald Trump with a grill.
I don't know if Donald Trump should get a grill.
Let's put a post up in the chat.
Make sure that we get a post up in the chat.
No, no, do the other one.
That's the one that looks like the James Bond villain.
Do the other one from last night.
What do we think about Donald Trump versus AOC?
AOC was having an apoplectic meltdown yesterday.
She was saying that it was an act of God, that it rained.
There was no rain during the Trump rally itself.
And AOC was, of course, having meltdowns and has been having a meltdown because the Bronx is apparently where she's from, even though she lies about that.
She's from the rich, leafy suburbs of upstate New York.
She's not from this area at all.
AOC is fake.
Her following is fake.
Her supporters are fake.
We proved that yesterday.
You can go see how many people show up to AOC's campaign rallies.
It looks like there's more people in the line at Chick-fil-A.
At your local Chick-fil-A, there's more people standing in the drive-thru.
In their cars.
Chick-fil-A.
Than go to the AOC rally.
So AOC having a real one.
What do the Bronx say about AOC?
What do the people in the Bronx have to say?
Message to AOC.
We like this because she's having a freakout right now.
So we're doing our very best to rub a little salt in the wound.
Here we go.
unidentified
Where are you from?
The Bronx, actually.
I'm originally from the Bronx and from New York.
I'm from the Bronx.
Right here in the Bronx, New York.
This is home, right here.
AOC says if you're not a Democrat, you don't belong here in the Bronx.
What do you say?
I disagree with that.
I don't think she should be here in the Bronx.
brooke singman
I actually don't know any Democrats living in the Bronx.
unidentified
Look, AOC, look at the tremendous support from Mr. Donald J. Trump.
You need to tell her that she needs to stay out of the Bronx because look at all the people around.
Everybody's here for Trump.
I am a Democrat and I belong here.
And who are you voting for?
Donald J. Trump.
What has AOC done for the Bronx?
She's done nothing for the Bronx.
Nothing.
brooke singman
Nothing's changed.
unidentified
Nothing's gotten any better.
Nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
Let her come to the Bronx and let her come among us people that struggle.
She doesn't even know what struggle is.
benny johnson
you Ladies and gentlemen, this is the good one.
This is the good girl.
Let's go.
This is the memes of Trump with with a grill are very right here.
The memes of Trump with a grill are extremely sharp.
I don't know if you would be in support of something like this, but I think it'd be fun maybe for the next Bronx rally.
The media has no choice but to accept the fact that this was an absolute and total win for Donald Trump.
CNN was holding back tears on camera.
Anderson Cooper sobbing, effectively, into his microphone as a reporter says, nope, this was a massive crowd.
This was a huge crowd.
And it was a crowd that should scare the life out of any Democrat that thinks that it's not a real thing that Donald Trump could win New York.
Watch.
unidentified
What was the crowd like and what kind of response did he get?
Well, certainly a bigger crowd than I think Democrats would like to see, particularly given this is one of the bluest counties in the entire country.
Now, one of the things that was interesting to me is that the Trump campaign said that they were going to micro-target to get people from the community to come to this rally.
I wasn't sure what to expect.
I've gone to a lot of these rallies across the country, and there are often people who travel hundreds of miles to see Donald Trump, and they're not necessarily part of the community.
However, one of the things that I found was that there were a lot of people here that were actually from the Bronx.
benny johnson
Okay, so what CNN is admitting is that the people who said that Donald Trump's going to bus his supporters in, Kathy Hulkel calling them clowns, that those people are liars.
That everybody there was from the Bronx.
And you can see that in the preponderance of man-on-the-street interviews.
They're too many for us to play on the show.
CBS is the exact same thing.
CBS reporters are saying, This should be a shocking warning sign to Democrats.
Watch.
unidentified
What other stood out to you about the rally?
I will say this rally did look a lot like America.
There was a lot of Asian voters there.
There were a lot of Hispanic voters, a lot of black voters there, which is not typical for a Trump rally that I go to when I'm in Wisconsin or Michigan.
But it is a cross-section of New York.
Exactly, exactly.
And that's specifically why Trump was there yesterday.
Those are key Democrats that he sees are starting to break for him just a little bit.
That door is opening for Hispanic voters to start voting for Trump in record numbers.
They want to capitalize on that in this election.
They think if they do, it'll spell a success for them.
benny johnson
So there is CBS and CNN saying this was a massive success, not being able to hide it, that Donald Trump is doing something remarkable.
He's the first Republican in 40 years to visit the Bronx.
Last one was Ronald Reagan in 1980.
He had a 25,000
-person strong So what does the governor...
I mean, this is like a...
At the outside, you just step back and say, this is a remarkable moment in American political history, something that we should study and that we should appreciate and that we should maybe consider, like, how is this guy doing this with these working class people?
Like, this is magic.
This is realigning the political landscape forever, potentially, the American First movement and Donald Trump.
Instead, The cretinous, unelected, witch-like, Nancy Pelosi-style governor of New York decided to call everybody who attended that rally a clown.
Watch.
unidentified
Well, I'll tell you it won't make a difference at all, Jake, and that is for Donald Trump to be the ringleader and invite all his clowns to a place like the Bronx.
New York will never, ever support Donald Trump for president.
We know him better than anyone, and that means we understand what he's all about.
It's just for himself.
So this state will go solidly behind Joe Biden for...
benny johnson
Hmm, okay.
Got it.
Clowns, huh?
Clowns!
Says Kathy Huckle.
She calls the rappers clowns.
She calls all the people standing there for hours.
Some people waited for days to get into this rally.
They're all clowns.
The 25,000 residents of New York, they're clowns.
And saying that it was a fake rally.
That looked fake to me.
This is a clip that went thermonuclear during the rally.
A man named Lou Valentino talking about what's actually happening.
This is somebody that Kathy Hawkel calls a clown.
Have a listen.
unidentified
You know, the line to get in here right now, it's like an hour plus long.
And there's a lot of people coming out here.
And it looks like it just looks so diverse.
It looks amazing.
It looks beautiful.
It's just defeating every narrative there is.
And Democrats are about to have a hard time in November because now New Yorkers are probably going to wake up and start asking, who are the politicians representing me?
And I think this is not about Trump.
This is about the strategy of Trump coming here, putting pressure on them.
And Democrats, they've been getting our vote for so long, man, for so long, for years, decades.
What has changed?
Poverty, not that many jobs out here.
It's a struggle.
You know, so I'd like to see Republicans step it up, you know, invest in the RNC here, start reaching out, making a difference.
There is many ways and many, many organizations that do not get the recognition out here to stop gang violence, you know, to support those.
But I just don't see, I just don't see Republicans here, but I definitely don't see Democrats doing anything.
So I think Trump here, that's why he's an anomaly.
benny johnson
Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, that man, Lou Valentino, resident of New York and a patriot, joins the program now.
unidentified
Thank you.
benny johnson
Lou, what's up, man?
I saw that clip viral more than any other interview.
Everyone was like, that's the guy right there.
And then everybody in our chat was like, gotta bring Lou on the program.
So, well.
unidentified
This is a turn of events.
I've been watching you for a while.
I used to do reactions to your commentary.
So, this is a full circle moment.
So, what a time be alive.
I just want to say I played that clip.
I didn't get to see that till after.
I didn't get to see everything till after I got home.
And I saw Kathy Hoku say that, man, I can't lie.
My blood was boiling, man.
I was like, did she just call all the residents of New York?
Because there was, you know, residents from Jersey, New York, maybe out of state.
But there was a lot of Bronx, you know, residents that came out there that really wanted to see Trump.
And she just called us clowns.
So another L, another loss.
Last time she said black kids don't know what a computer is.
Oh boy, Kathy Hoku is taking L's.
And I think that we should really bring light to that because that is insane to call a New Yorker's clown like that.
It's crazy.
benny johnson
That's exactly right.
Perhaps you can give us some commentary about what you saw yesterday.
Again, that clip is...
Possibly our favorite interview.
And again, everybody in our chat was like, you've got to bring Lou on.
He does know what a computer is, so he can join him.
Which is really, according to Kathy Hochul, very special for a New Yorker to know what a computer is.
unidentified
Yeah, it's funny.
These progressives, they always turn back the clock when it comes time for the election, right?
They're all about aggression.
They're all about, oh, we made it this far.
We're progressives.
We want to move farther.
But every time the election comes around, they just want to go.
We want to turn the clock back to slavery and civil rights just to make people fear.
So it's hilarious.
Progressives are always turning back the clock.
But yeah, yesterday was amazing, man.
I got there and I ran into so many different people from the Bronx, man.
And so many people I grew up with.
A lot of people were calling me.
They was like, Lou, how can we get in?
We're interested in this.
We're hearing that the streets are closed.
What is happening?
And yeah, as you could see, the hood was really outside.
I thought it was dope.
You know, first of all, I just want to say Trump coming to the Bronx is insane.
And I lived in this area my whole life.
Really?
Baseball.
benny johnson
You're from there?
unidentified
You're from the Bronx?
From the area, yes.
And I've been doing YouTube for about two years.
And one of my biggest things is like, yo, when are Republicans going to make an effort to get us?
And here is Trump doing something that, in my opinion, is so historic.
People, there was kids there.
They're never going to forget this.
Like, they're never going to forget that Donald Trump, during everything that he went through, he went to the Bronx, New York.
That's what it's all about.
So people were excited.
And, Benny, if I tell you the honest truth, people couldn't believe.
So I went the day before, and there was people walking around.
I was like, dude, what's going on?
What's going on out here in these streets?
Why is the streets being closed?
On my block.
And I was like, yo, Trump is going to be here.
Trump is going to be in Cortona?
Trump is going to be in the Bronx?
You know, people were just surprised.
They just couldn't believe that Trump actually was coming out here.
And then seeing Chef G, Sleepy Hollow, come on stage.
I mean, yeah, you saw the Shade Room.
You saw Bowler Alert.
You saw World Star Hip Hop, all these urban pages that are mostly Democratic.
A lot of people had to hold the L. A lot of people held the L yesterday, especially CNN.
And a lot of narratives went to die yesterday.
So I just hope that, once again, Republicans take advantage of this.
And there's a lot of things going on in the Bronx that I'm fighting for.
Drug prevention, gang prevention, and I think that conservatives really have a shot.
They have a shot.
I hope they don't drop the ball on this to go to these nonprofits and really get themselves invested in the community and making the community better because that's something that AOC, Richie Torres, I'm pretty sure are not doing.
Boys and Girls Clubs and all these different things that I just believe that it's an opportunity to do it now.
Do it now because I'm pretty sure by November they'll remember that conservatives and Republicans began working in the community.
It's a good moment, man.
It's unbelievable.
I'm still speechless.
benny johnson
We could feel the energy even though we're a thousand miles away.
We could feel the energy through the live and it really was electric.
I would like to give you an opportunity considering the fact that I don't know if you live in AOC's district, but she's a member of Congress from your state.
Kathy Huckle is your governor.
She called you a clown and AOC said you're fake yesterday.
AOC said this was a fake rally.
And it wasn't real.
And she's been subtweeting this morning about how, you know, the live viewer concurrence and everything.
So I want to give you an opportunity to address both your governor and Congresswoman AOC on those comments.
Was it fake?
And are you a clown?
unidentified
Oh, God.
It was not fake.
It's funny because she started off the morning saying that, thank God for the rain.
Thank God it's raining on residents of New York City.
Once again, it's like Jamal Bauman, all these representatives, all these politicians act like we don't exist.
And by we, independents.
People that have been voting Democrat their whole lives are now wanting to give a...
You know what I think this is?
This is the bullying tactic.
That a lot of Democrats use.
They try to bully people to think their way and their way only.
And yeah, I think it's hilarious that, you know, I've lived in the Bronx my whole life.
I've never been one politician.
I've never seen one politician come out to my neighborhood.
I mean, there have been people shot within that same block for like the last few weeks.
And I've never seen these people come out, do a podium, do a press conference.
Let's stop the violence.
Let's do something about these neighborhoods.
Are these people from here?
I keep hearing that she's...
First of all, I'm from the Bronx.
She can't say the same thing.
We're not the same.
We are two different people.
And you know what's crazy is that everybody that was out there, I don't think she'll do great with that crowd.
I actually think that crowd would boo her and probably throw stuff at her, if I'm being honest.
benny johnson
AOC?
unidentified
Yeah, because that crowd is like feisty.
That crowd is like a Trump crowd.
And I think a lot of New Yorkers are very Trump crowd-like.
Very...
In-game-like, we don't deal with mediocrity well.
Mediocrity, however you say the word.
But what I'm saying is that I don't know these people.
And a lot of people don't know these people.
And I think that Trump coming here, now they're going to start questioning, you know, who are the people representing me?
Who are they?
I don't know who they are.
Who the hell is Richie Torres?
Who is AOC?
Why is she saying she's from the Bronx?
I've never seen her here.
We don't know this girl.
So that's what's going on, and I think it's about to be a revolution.
It's about to be fun.
benny johnson
So, in summary, can you talk about that revolution?
Like, yesterday, what will this mean?
Trump going to the Bronx, as you've now sat back, you've had overnight to process it, what did it mean to the community that you are from and that you live in today?
unidentified
I think it meant the world, right?
So, afterward, like...
You know, there were no fights.
There was nothing.
I mean, there were some kind of protesters that showed up, but it was great to see the energy afterward from the people.
A lot of people came up to me and they were like, you know, this was amazing.
This was dope.
And I think that you highlighted something that was the most important thing.
I don't know if any other Republican or Democrat could know what Trump did.
I really don't.
That was insane.
He didn't talk much about what he's going through.
He spoke about what I really wanted him to talk about was empowering I want to help better our situations.
Small businesses, which there's a lot of people in the Bronx that want to build their own business.
They want to get out of poverty.
They want to get off food stamps.
And I think that he highlighted that.
He gave the people that hope.
And like, okay, that's the Trump I remember from 2016 and 2020.
And throughout those years, you know, in between, those people...
He gave them that faith and hope and that reassurance that, okay, this is the guy.
We want to get off poverty.
We want to get off food stamps.
We want a better life.
And he spoke that message into existence during his presidency.
And I think he could do it again.
But that's the message, though.
Benny, we don't want you to come to the hood and tell us, well...
You know, you guys are broke and you guys got the police after you and you guys are like no good.
Nah, this guy really came to the Bronx, man.
It is insane.
I can't believe it.
85% voted for Joe Biden.
85%.
That means that you're not supposed to be welcome.
That means this crowd is actually not supposed to come out because 85% of the people in 2020 voted for Joe Biden.
So, historic moment.
I've never forget it in my lifetime because I grew up here, because I know how much this means to the community, but, you know, the work starts now.
And I think that Trump did what he did because he can't do everything.
So now it's up to Republicans to really, you know, take advantage of this opportunity and people are starving for change in these streets.
So, yeah, call us stupid.
Call us whatever.
Say we can't use computers, but one thing we can do is that when the time comes in November...
Okay, Republican, Democrat.
I remember Trump came.
Okay, okay, let's go with Trump.
Let's try something new.
And yeah, they're going to be fearing that.
That's their biggest fear, buddy.
It's over.
The reign is over.
benny johnson
Ooh, Lou, I think that's going to be a new viral clip for you.
Our team's already looking at their chance.
We're going to clip this, get it up on the president's page.
The president who didn't use a single fake accent.
To talk down to you.
Isn't that amazing?
Didn't once slur his words or like roll his R's or mumble to talk to an urban audience.
It was refreshing actually.
Just treating you as an American.
Treating you as American first.
No pandering.
No victimhood complex.
No saying the government is here.
The government's the only thing that can help you out.
You just need more government.
You need more welfare.
It was uplifting.
unidentified
It was really something that once again it was the message of a winner.
It was the winning message.
That's the winning recipe.
You have to fight.
You have to legitimately work for what you want.
And, you know, you have to do what you can.
And I think that there's no better message than that, in my opinion, to give to people that are struggling and people that are looking for a change.
And I think that, you know, that's the winning mentality.
And I think that, you know, a lot of people in the Bronx are literally that's in their genetics because they're from the Bronx.
They know how hard it's been throughout time.
But how can you activate that?
How can you make people say and look at life that way without, you know, the Joe Biden effect of, well, you guys are broke.
There's nothing we can do.
We're going to get the government in here and we're going to, like, you know, like, you know, just, you know, but, you know, you know, we don't know, actually.
We want to know.
benny johnson
And every one of your problems is because of the white devil.
Except for me.
Except for me and my kid.
And you ate black.
Yeah, it's a great message.
Bold strategy, Cotton.
Let's see if it plays off.
Lou, shout out your channels, please.
We got your X profile to put up here, but also your YouTube.
unidentified
Yeah, I post on X, but I think I'm like, I have to talk to Elon.
But, you know, ALX, dude, I saw your picture with Elon.
You're the man.
Unshadowban me.
Every post I make, it's like they get censored for some reason.
But yeah, Lou Valentino on YouTube.
You know, I've been demonetized for six months, but the support of the people is why I keep doing this.
And one of my dreams has come true.
We got Trump in the Bronx.
And I just, you know, that was amazing.
And I'm not saying that it had anything to do with that.
I'm just saying that that was one of my visions.
I wanted to see Trump actually do something in the Bronx.
And he did.
And that was a dream come true, in my opinion, because now the attention and he shined a huge light on the Bronx that we needed that.
We needed that wake up call to say.
Wow, this guy.
Because it makes you question, well, who else is doing this?
Are politicians trying this hard?
Trump didn't have to do that.
He didn't have to do that at all.
At all.
He was in Texas the night before.
All this ankle braces stuff that AOC was talking about.
Bro, what are you chatting about?
Trump was in Wildwood with 100,000 people.
He doesn't have to do this in New York, but he did.
And yeah, y 'all can panic.
Oh yeah, I want now.
It's time for Democrats and Republicans to step it up because they do work for us.
That's another thing that people forget.
You do work for us.
At the end of the day, we don't work for you, buddy.
Benny, thank you so much for having me, man.
benny johnson
Thank you.
Thank you, Lou.
We're going to send you off with a meme from yesterday.
Our Donald Trump grills meme.
unidentified
I have to say you have a great smile.
*music*
benny johnson
Oh, man.
Donald Trump, get a drill.
unidentified
That's too good.
That is too good.
benny johnson
Jerry, hold your head up high.
Our meme maker, Jerry, worked all night on that one.
unidentified
Thank you, Lou.
Godspeed, man.
benny johnson
Come back soon.
unidentified
Come back soon.
benny johnson
Ladies and gentlemen, we are seeing just a shocking number of Moments across the political landscape that are defining and that are realigning for our country and for our movement.
Now, the America First movement is a movement for every American.
It doesn't matter if you disagree with me.
Unlike some on the left and unlike the Marxists, we actually don't care if you disagree with us.
That's actually what makes the country strong.
We can just agree on our rights.
And on wanting to live in a peaceful, safe place where we don't imprison our political enemies, where we don't try somebody or try and lock up their supporters or lock up a presidential candidate.
It seems simple enough.
But that's what's happening right now in this country.
Those who have experienced that in communist Cuba, let's say, for instance, there's a large population of individuals in my home state of Florida who fled Marxist and communist Cuba.
And they know.
They know what happens next when you start locking up your political opponents.
Maybe some of the people in the Bronx know what happens next.
The Bronx is a majority Hispanic borough in New York.
Something remarkable happened out front of the courthouse in New York City this week when a member of Congress from the state of Florida, a member of Congress named Maria Salazar, decided to In Spanish, pistol whip the press in front of the court.
In fact, we translated the Spanish and Donald Trump posted it on his Truth Social.
unidentified
Here's part of that clip.
maria salazar
I'm the only member of this group that can speak in both languages, so I'm going to do that in Spanish when we finish.
And I have few remarks that I think are going to be very interesting to all of you.
I represent district number 27 in Florida, a bastion of the ultimate melting pot in the United States.
And I just want to make very clear that I am here of my own volition.
I am not on the list of the favorites.
I am not looking for a job, and I paid for my own way to make sure.
And the only reason why I'm here...
It's because thousands of my constituents back in Miami are terrified, terrified when the courts in this country are used as weapons to crush our political enemies.
benny johnson
Ladies and gentlemen, we wanted the Spanish clip.
Just a moment.
That was the beginning.
That was the beginnings of her speech.
But then she went and took the press to task in Espanol.
And just a moment, ladies and gentlemen, we're getting that one loaded up.
And in just a moment also, the congresswoman will join us.
Here we go.
Maria Salazar in Spanish.
maria salazar
En español, dime.
En español, yes.
unidentified
Lo que acabo de decir es que esto es un circo político.
maria salazar
Nosotros...
We are the largest minority in the country, the Hispanics.
The Hispanics are the most important minority in the United States.
This is a political circle that is only seen in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
It's a shame that we, regardless of what you think about Trump...
I don't know.
wake up despierta si en la que está pasando máximo y nosotros vinimos a este país para no tener esto sino para que el futuro de nuestros hijos Wake up to Marxism in this country.
benny johnson
Donald Trump actually took—we were the only people to translate that.
Donald Trump took it, put it on Truth Social, and it nuked, ladies and gentlemen.
And we love that energy.
We said that won the day.
We said this won the day.
And we are excited, honored, to have the congresswoman on the program live now.
I don't know if she's going to do the interview in Spanish.
I don't speak Spanish, all right?
My Spanish is limited to the Taco Bell menu.
But the congresswoman joins us either way.
unidentified
Thank you.
Thank you.
benny johnson
you you you Congresswoman Salazar, you won that press conference.
You did.
You just, you won it.
Our chat went nuts.
And we said we got to translate it.
And Donald Trump apparently appreciated it as well.
maria salazar
You want to do it in English or in Spanish?
benny johnson
We wouldn't go too far in Spanish, unfortunately.
maria salazar
I did it because we wanted to send the message, the same thing that you're doing right now.
Thank you very much for having me.
And I congratulate you because your producer was telling me that you're the fastest growing social media in Gen Z, in millennials.
You know, I'm an old lady.
My kids are the ones that are the Gen Z's and all that.
But, you know, the message needs to go to that audience that you're catering to.
Don't drink the Kool-Aid.
benny johnson
Yes.
So the red Marxist Kool-Aid that you talked about in your speech there that some may remember from two days ago in front of the courthouse in New York was really your comments directed at people warning them that Marxism can happen here in this country.
Can you expound on that?
maria salazar
Sure, and I wrote the speech, and every word I mean.
And since I was a journalist for so many years, I'm one of the founders of Spanish television, founder of Univision.
I know the power of the words.
And all we're saying is that we watched it, we lived it, we suffered it, we escaped it.
I represent those people in Miami.
They vote for me because now they have the voting card.
They are Cuban-Americans, they're Venezuelan-Americans, they're Colombian-Americans, they're Honduran-Americans, and they all have lived it.
And we know what it looks like.
And that is the penetration of the social, of civil society, media, academia, and now the courts.
But the problem is that, and I'm not sure if you know this because you're a young American handsome boy, is that the rest of Latin America adores the United States.
Why?
Because we're a bunch of banana republics and here there's the rule of law.
So if you have money, you come and you put it in the United States because you know that the courts are defending you and no one is going to take away that piece of property.
And if you have a medical issue, you come to the United States because you know that the United States, you know the Americans, they know how to do things well.
So how come now all of a sudden we have this political circus in a New York courtroom?
That is very worrisome because, you know, the court system, the court system in the United States works.
And so how come federal prosecutors six years ago?
Said there's no marriage to this case.
But then now the New York State persecutors, oh yeah, yeah, there is.
So you see, how come there are no audio recordings and no cameras inside the courtroom?
Why?
Because the judge doesn't want to see, doesn't want the rest of the world to see, meaning other attorneys or other intellectuals that know how the court system works, how badly he is ruling against Trump.
And I repeat, it has nothing to do with Donald Trump.
You may like him.
You may not.
You may vote for him.
It doesn't matter.
It's all of us in trial.
Everyone is on trial right now because the country, the institutions that sustain that American exceptionality that I stood on, because look at my accent.
I'm first generation Cuban American.
I was born right when my parents escaped.
Full of wounds with five bucks because democratic socialism took everything away from the Cubans because they believed it.
They drank the Kool-Aid.
And here I am enjoying the beautiful system that the founding fathers put together.
And now these people are trying to just undermine it.
Not if I can't say something.
benny johnson
I would love for you to say something to somebody else that claims somewhat Similar heritage, AOC, who said that the rally in the Bronx yesterday attended by 25,000 people, many of them of Hispanic origin, because the Bronx is primarily Hispanic in population, that those people, that they're fake.
She said they're fake.
And the New York governor called them clowns, she said.
Can you comment on that?
maria salazar
You cannot do that in the American political system because you have the right to think whatever you want to and go to the ballot box and then speak your conscience.
That's the problem.
AOC, I mean, I serve with her.
I see her on the hallways.
I think that she means well.
She has noble intentions.
It's just that she drank the Kool-Aid of the Democratic Socialist Organization of America.
They're Marxists.
I always say that we need to put AOC on a plane to Cuba.
Leave her there for two weeks with no dollars.
And I would love to go with her and go through the sacrifice of no water, no electricity, no medicine, no food, nothing.
And then for her to see what democratic socialism means.
But that's the problem.
That your audience...
Your audience, the Gen Z's and the millennials, all these millions of young people that live in this abundant, beautiful country, they do not understand that there's nothing to be guilty about the abundance.
It's that the Founding Fathers created the foundation.
So your parents, the parents of the Gen Zs, worked hard, and then now they have abundance.
So if you want to share it, well, give it to charity.
And then just give it, you know, just give it away.
But don't try to change the system.
unidentified
And don't feel guilty because look, we have, and they don't.
maria salazar
That's why we are the United States of America.
So AOC has not understood that that philosophy, that ideology with socialism behind it, it's dark.
That's our issue, and that's our problem, that people don't have a point of reference like my constituents do, the Cubans and the Venezuelans.
Look, let me just give you a little anecdote.
You don't need to know.
Forget about Cuba.
Let's talk about Venezuela.
Venezuela, you know, Venezuela, 20 years ago, it's a whiff in history, 20 years ago, had oil.
Venezuela is like south of us, right down there in South America, and it's a big country, and it has oil.
Oh, oil, right?
Venezuela has the largest reserves of oil in the world, more than Saudi Arabia.
Did you know that?
I mean, a lot of oil under their soil, okay?
So oil, all right?
Not coconuts or beaches.
No, no, no.
Oil, that's a big commodity.
So Venezuela had a very strong economy.
And they had a fantastic democracy.
And you had a lot of Venezuelans buying buildings in my district, you know, Brickle Avenue, for those that know Miami, going to Miami Beach and spending money because they had oil.
They were part of the OPEP.
Big, big guys.
unidentified
Okay?
maria salazar
Comes Hugo Chavez in 2000.
2000 is like, maybe you were born around that.
unidentified
All right?
maria salazar
So he comes and says, you know what?
There's too much.
There's not enough.
unidentified
Equality.
maria salazar
Not enough diversity in this society, right?
So he wins the first election and he grabs power.
And then, I'm not going to bore you or fatigue you with the story, 25 years after, 7 million Venezuelans have fled, their oil production is in shambles, and the average Venezuelan weighs Fifteen pounds less because of lack of food.
And they have oil.
And why?
Because they have democratic socialism.
benny johnson
Do you have a fund or somewhere that I can donate to send AOC and a one-way ticket to Venezuela, Caracas, Havana, anything like that?
maria salazar
Just going to Havana.
Listen, fortunately for her, she lives and she's a member of Congress and we have to respect that.
Only her constituents can take her out or leave her in.
That's why I never vote for anybody to be expelled from Congress because when you earn this, it's up to your constituents.
Those who went to Trump's rally and like Lou was saying, you know, you look at the ballot and you say, well, I'm going to go this way or that way.
It's the only way because that's the American electoral system that we got to respect and that we want for Cuba and for Venezuela.
It's just illustrating.
And opening the eyes of those people that she represents, specifically the Hispanics and the African-Americans and the whites that feel guilty for what they have.
No guilt.
Pride of who we are as a country.
And we, the first generations, because you are, what are you, second generation, third generation?
I don't know what you are, but you know, you speak great English and you look pretty white.
All right, I don't know what generation you are, but the first generation, meaning me, and the people that I represent, we are very grateful.
And we go like, what a country.
And who is, and what are you trying to do, change it?
No, no, no, no, no.
Because I have two kids that are 24 and 25. And I want the same experience, the same platform that I had economically and politically to shine if they work hard.
benny johnson
So, we were looking up your district, and I was shocked to see your downtown Miami, right?
Your south downtown Miami.
Your district is what would be like the middle of Manhattan, right?
I mean, Miami's becoming the new Manhattan.
It is the center of the center.
maria salazar
I am the only Republican member of Congress that holds a 100% metropolitan or urban center in Congress.
benny johnson
It's remarkable.
It's amazing.
And congratulations.
So there's nobody better to speak about these new polls that we see.
Because we see these new polls where Latinos are breaking for Trump.
For the first time ever, Latinos may vote majority Republican in this country.
As somebody who has clearly hacked that system, can you elucidate for us what's happening in this community?
maria salazar
Well, Lou said it.
It's the first time that the Republican Party, who has done a miserable job, we, the Republicans, miserable job when it comes to the minorities, specifically the Hispanics, the largest minority in the country, 20% of the population, 60 + million votes.
They haven't spoken to us, meaning us.
We haven't spoken to the Hispanics since Ronald Reagan.
That's the fact.
Just like the fact that I was telling on that speech, because I am a journalist, so I tell you what the empirical evidence is.
This is the first time that Ronald Reagan, that Donald Trump understands, since he doesn't care what people are thinking, which he does very well, he cares about the country.
This is the first time he says, let me go talk to them, which is the same thing I did in District No. 27. Hispanics are God-fearing, law-abiding, tax-paying, family-oriented, and small governments.
But the thing is that the Democrats, the Democrats for the last 30 years, they have said to the Hispanics, hey, bing, bing, and we, the GOP, we haven't been there.
But like I always tell everybody, unfortunately, the Democrats have played political football with my community.
And I'm going to give you two examples.
In 2008, I interviewed with Jorge Ramos and other people in Spanish television.
I interviewed a guy by the name of Barack Obama, and he wanted to be president.
And Obama said in that interview that, you know, within the first 100 days of my presidency, I am going to do an immigration reform law.
Immigration is very important.
And if you want me and you have time, I'm going to explain to you, I wrote a bill because immigration is an important, dear topic for the Hispanics.
unidentified
All right?
maria salazar
Because you have a lot of people who are illegal and they're your families or your friends.
unidentified
All right?
maria salazar
So let's put that aside if you want to talk about it.
So Obama.
Says, hey, 100 days, I'm going to be there.
What did he do?
He lied because in the first 100 days, he dedicated his political capital to Obamacare.
Fine.
If that was your priority, Obamacare.
But then don't lie.
And there was no immigration reform law in Obama.
Fast forward.
Biden, 2020, 2020.
Hey, within the first 100 days of my presidency, if the Hispanics vote for me, Hey, I'm gonna give you immigration reform law.
I was there, though, and I come in into Congress in 2020.
And then I see Nancy Pelosi, who is at the time the Speaker of the House, and she has the power to bring the votes.
You know, you bring the bills.
They brought infrastructure, and they brought the BBB, and they brought what else?
Oh, inflation reduction, whatever.
And they brought $1.9 trillion because of COVID, but they never brought immigration reform law.
unidentified
Why?
maria salazar
They lied.
So I'm tired of them lying to us.
And I'm glad that Donald Trump is going to the Bronx and saying, hey, which is the same thing that Lou said.
Hey, stop lying.
It's been 30 years.
Don't take us for granted.
Hispanics, like you said, may not know much, but they're not dumb.
And you know what?
They have the voting card in their hands.
So let's use them well.
And that's why I'm here, to tell them, hey, de pita, wake up.
benny johnson
Just really quick.
Quickly, because it's something we've talked about a lot on this program, the potential of Marco Rubio, who I assume you know.
unidentified
Very well.
maria salazar
He's my constituent.
He lives in my district.
benny johnson
That's what I've been told.
And so, the thoughts on potentially having a vice president from your district.
maria salazar
An attorney who's been in the Senate for many years, who knows the community, who understands socialism, We do need Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States because what we see right now in the United States government is not what we deserve as Americans and the rest of the world.
We are still, whether we like it or not, the beacon of hope.
We are still the best system in the world that humanity has been able to put together.
We may not be perfect, but it's the best we've got.
Still around.
And that's the one that everyone reveres.
And what we're seeing is like, people are like, "Oh my God!
I mean, what happens here?
Where am I gonna go?" What do you mean?
There's no way to go to the ocean with a fish.
That's where we're going.
unidentified
That's right.
So let's stay here and fight for it.
benny johnson
I'm not that great.
I'm not that great of a swimmer.
unidentified
Me neither.
So let's fight it.
maria salazar
Let's stay here and you tell your audience.
That not to drink the Kool-Aid.
Oh, that the system could be improved?
Of course.
That the African Americans could have better schooling?
Of course.
That the Hispanics could have better opportunities?
unidentified
Of course.
maria salazar
That we can improve the system, not destroy it.
That's where I'm at.
Let's improve it.
Let's bring ideas.
Let's work for it.
benny johnson
I think that we'd have a very different country if members of Congress had your energy.
If members of the Republican caucus in Congress...
Had this energy and also had this insight in how bad things can get and this appreciation for our founding.
We'd have a very, very different country.
I have a feeling the government would be about the 10th of its size right now, along with our budgets, and we'd have no national debt.
So we thank you for your fight.
If you wish for more, just pure flames.
From Congresswoman Salazar, please follow her on social media.
200,000 Americans can't be wrong.
Follow her on X and on all of her platforms.
And somebody who has obviously caught the eye of the President of the United States and who's brave enough to stand there and defend him in downtown New York.
maria salazar
And I'm not one of the favorites, I said.
I mean, no one called me.
I'm not on the list of the people that go to Mar-a-Lago often and he's friends with.
I'm not any of that, but I don't have to.
I know what he stands for, and that's what I paid for my own ticket.
I had my staff call them, said I'm going to be there, prepare my speech, because I think that is what I need to do as an American.
This is not my career.
I had 35 years of journalism and a fantastic run that I had because of the American exceptionality.
Now I think it's time for us, the Cuban Americans, that this country has given so much.
Look at Miami.
And we have worked so hard and we love the system so much.
I can be their voice and give back to the country that gave us so much.
That's why I'm doing it for no other reason.
benny johnson
Congresswoman, it's an honor for your program.
Yes, it's something that is probably the rarest thing in this country is gratitude for this place.
maria salazar
Well, I'm an evangelical Christian, and I think that gratitude and doing the Lord's work is the only thing we're here for.
benny johnson
Preach.
Yes.
Praise God.
Godspeed to you, Congresswoman.
And thank you.
Please come back soon.
maria salazar
Whenever you invite me, I'll be back here.
benny johnson
All right.
Done.
maria salazar
Thank you.
unidentified
Thank you.
benny johnson
What an energetic and inspirational group of guests for our program today.
unidentified
Wow.
benny johnson
I'm inspired.
I like inspirational shows heading off into the weekend.
Of course, this is a long weekend for us.
Our show will be offline on Monday to celebrate, not to celebrate, but to honor and recognize Memorial Day and to give it its solemn recognition.
Memorial Day, obviously, the day when the country should all stop and give a profound debt of thanks to those who have given their lives and service to this nation.
And we certainly will be doing that on this program.
And so we encourage you to obviously call a veteran if you know one.
If there's somebody in your family who serves, give them a ring.
Visit your local military cemetery.
unidentified
And lay wreaths and lay flowers.
benny johnson
And if you have families that you know are grieving that day, then grieve with them, as we will on this program.
So, ladies and gentlemen, that's our one programming note for the day.
And also, our Ask Benny Anything from the Benny Brigade.
Let's rock and roll from Casey Palmer.
Do you think it's possible the Democrats are planning to replace Joe Biden with Nikki Haley?
unidentified
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Yeah!
Totally!
I mean, okay.
benny johnson
So we play this clip all the time.
We play like 50 of these clips all the time.
We have so many videos.
It would take from now till Monday for us to play a number of videos of Democrats who secretly voted in the Republican primaries or caucuses for Nikki Haley.
Nikki Haley's entire base of support was Democrats.
I can't say that scientifically, but I can say that anecdotally.
Every one of the people that did an interview with Nikki Haley is like, I'm a Democrat.
I'm just doing this.
I'm just casting this vote to piss in Trump's punch bowl.
That's it.
So, does Nikki Haley have more Democrat support than Republican?
unidentified
Yes.
benny johnson
There's actually a clip.
There's actually an interesting clip.
We don't have time to get it, but there's an interesting clip of an MSNBC analyst.
Analyst.
Who is like on camera being like, no, no, no, you don't understand.
There's more Democrats supporting Nikki Haley given our polls than there are Republicans.
So that'll tell you everything.
Could Nikki Haley win as a Democrat?
She'd probably do better than Biden.
Thank you for the question, Casey.
If we ask that Trump manned not only a drug screen, but a DNA identification test, says Ted Cook.
That's a great question.
Yeah, so how many Bidens are there?
I don't know.
Is Joe Biden's blood reptile?
I'm not sure.
Is he cold-blooded?
Sure looks like it.
You know that Joe Biden with the eyes?
Oh, the brave men and women of America.
unidentified
You can't be a cop.
benny johnson
You've seen that one?
We played it a couple times, this show.
These guys, like, guys on something, right?
So you've got to have the drug test.
A totally before a DNA test.
Total.
Yeah.
Done.
Fantastic.
You know, there have been some interesting DNA tests in recent Biden history.
You might recall that Hunter Biden sired a daughter with somebody who was an adult dancer in Washington, D.C., and refused to claim or support that child, even though he spent millions on hookers, prostitutes, and drugs.
And until a DNA test was forced, thus conclusively proving that this is Hunter Biden's child, a beautiful girl named Navy Joan Roberts.
And the Bidens refused to actually acknowledge their grandchild until they were shamed by the New York Times.
They are despicable people.
So, yeah, I'd be totally down with the Biden drug test and DNA test.
Elaine Price asks, what is the status?
Of the effort to change the way Nebraska Electoral College votes are cast?
That's a great question.
I would love to actually get into that.
Here's a reference article.
Let's read it together.
Nebraska Republicans float special session to revive Trump-backed election rule change.
This would be from last month.
But to my knowledge...
It hasn't gone through.
Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen is floating a special legislative session to change how the state cast electoral votes benefit former President Donald Trump.
Pillen's announcement late Tuesday acknowledged that the effort to change the state's winner-take-all system won't pass immediately and may not happen at all, but it will keep it possibly alive.
Here's the problem, is that Republicans are cowards, and just like in Ohio, where the Republican Party is now going to do everything they can to bend over backwards and put Joe Biden on the ballot, and they shouldn't.
Do you think Democrats would do that for Trump?
Nebraska is going to effectively, the Nebraska Republicans are going to effectively cower and run away, which is, I think, what they did.
And so Nebraska obviously is a state that splits its votes.
From what I've heard, sort of the rumblings is you can go win in the Omaha.
District in Nebraska.
So they split their electoral votes.
They give one electoral vote to the Democrats, typically, right?
Because there's one, like, dark blue district around Omaha where there's a number of universities and so on.
And so we should change the rules, right?
To, like, give that single electoral vote to Donald Trump.
And given a split, there could be a 50-50 electoral college crisis on election night, and that could absolutely happen.
That would give Donald Trump the edge.
So Nebraska, this dark red state with supermajorities in the legislatures, could change it right now.
But they're cowards.
The Republican Party are cowards.
So that's what we're trying to change, actually, on this channel.
We're trying to change on this channel the fact that cowardice doesn't get you anywhere.
Nebraska could do it like that.
But they won't.
But we will.
A new generation of America First conservatives who actually...
Fight to conserve things in this country.
Why don't you ask yourself the question of the Republican Party over the last 50 years?
What exactly did you conserve?
Right?
Did you conserve anything?
Christianity?
The national debt?
Value of the currency?
Value of the housing market?
The ability to have the American dream?
Buy a house?
Live a life?
Start a family?
The family unit itself?
Did you conserve anything?
Nope.
Actually, you can serve nothing.
So you've failed.
As being conservatives, we actually want to conserve.
We actually know what we wish to conserve.
We are America first.
And so that's the movement that we're building here.
We had record live views last night with the Trump rally.
We were really excited about it.
We say thank you for joining us.
It's humbling every single week at this program because it just seems like milestone after milestone after milestone.
We want to be the very best at this show.
In delivering the news, but also in an entertaining way, bringing on guests who are going to challenge and be inspirational and exciting and doing our best to save the country.
Our priorities are pretty simple.
Save the country for our children, for the next generation.
That's it.
I got little kids and I just want to sink, dig my heels into this soil and defend it.
And that's it.
And I don't want to curse the next generation.
I want to bless the next generation.
That's what godly people do.
Our verse of the day, ladies and gentlemen, from Matthew 7. Watch out for false prophets.
They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
We talked a lot in this program about the fake accents and the pejoratives and the pandering and the cretin-like activities of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden.
The divisive, dividing.
Steal, kill, and destroy activities.
Okay, so is somebody on the good or the bad side?
Are they a good person or are they a bad person?
The nature of Satan is to steal, kill, and destroy.
Is this person stealing, killing, and destroying?
They're probably bad.
That's the nature of bad.
Okay?
And I'm not judging their eternal soul.
That's up to God.
But if this person is stealing, killing, and destroying...
Then they don't have the right priorities.
You should not support that person.
You should get away from that person.
Steal, kill, and destroy is literally the mantra of the corporate Democrat Party.
It's actually all that they do.
And so, yeah, like, beware.
There's also plenty of Republicans that are okay with that, and you should beware of them too, quite frankly.
Because we're all going to be judged individually, and God's not going to ask what party you're part of.
God's going to ask, what did you do?
What did you believe?
The talents you were giving, what was the return?
And so beware of the false prophets.
Beware of these people who virtue signal because that's the only virtue they have, right?
They're not actually virtuous.
They're not actually doing anything to help anybody.
You should be in favor of in your own personal life and the people you support and the people who bring peace.
And the people who bring harmony, healing, and the people who put this nation first, right?
To make sure our streets are safe, make sure you're safe, your children are safe, that they can go and play in a park, and that encourage greatness in this place.
There's something deeply, deeply honorable about that.
And that's what we're fighting for here on our program.
Ladies and gentlemen, we thank you for joining us this week.
Again, we will be off on Monday to respect Memorial Day.
And we will be seeing you back live again on Tuesday.
And to send you into the week with a bit of an inspiration, chuckle, laugh, and a kick in your step.
Here's our meme from the show.
I just loved it.
Ladies and gentlemen, we're changing the country!
It'll never be the same, and it's pretty exciting.
Don't miss it.
Don't miss it.
It's your boy, Benny.
Have a wonderful weekend, and this is The Greatest Nation on Earth.
unidentified
See ya.
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