Jan. 20, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| Yeah. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| We'll take that. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| Right there. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| We're not going to take commercial breaks. | ||
| Bill and Hillary Clinton. | ||
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Oh, Bill. | |
| I thought I smelled something. | ||
| Stay classy. | ||
| I thought I smelled something. | ||
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Wow. | |
| Stay classy. | ||
| Stay classy. | ||
| We've got the whole world. | ||
| Oh, no. | ||
| It's just something out here. | ||
| It's just coffee. | ||
| It's just some coffee. | ||
| That's all it was. | ||
| So we're one hour away. | ||
| In 30 minutes, the official ceremony will start. | ||
| They're starting to see people now. | ||
| Dave, tell me about the size of it. | ||
| Could it fit a thousand people or could it not? | ||
| I guess if you go down the grand halls a bit toward the House and the Senate. | ||
| And what you just said, right? | ||
| We're being gaslit here today. | ||
| And so the MAGA, that's what you do all day, every day. | ||
| And Natalie's yelling at the country and waking, motivating, and Jack's doing his thing. | ||
| But we're starting to get some signals on trade and on one big, beautiful bill and not moving fast enough on immigration because we're going to have to wait until May or June. | ||
| And that's why the posse... | ||
| I don't want to take away from any of the great news that's coming up. | ||
| We've got a ton of... | ||
| You know, the days of thunder is kicking in today. | ||
| Well, the direction of this, folks will tell you, starting your news is going to be amazing. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| President Trump committed yesterday. | ||
| He said by sundown today, the course of the country will be Obama alone. | ||
| Trouble in paradise. | ||
| Trouble in paradise. | ||
| Solo-bama. | ||
| Solo-bama. | ||
| By the way, Brett, I love what you just said. | ||
| This is gaslighting. | ||
| That's exactly the right word for how I feel right now. | ||
| They are gaslighting you. | ||
| They're gaslighting you into thinking... | ||
| What do you mean by that? | ||
| Because they want you to think this is a real inauguration. | ||
| They say, okay, fine. | ||
| It's not outside, but we'll give them a little rinky-dink ceremony inside. | ||
| Nobody's going to dress up, but we'll do it. | ||
| We'll do that. | ||
| We'll go through the motions, and we'll deny you the optics, we'll deny you the rest of it, and instead, they're trying to... | ||
| Reagan's second term. | ||
| The gaslighting is that they will allow him to be president. | ||
| Tim Cook, Tim Cook coming in, Apple, Tim Cook. | ||
| Tim Apple, Tim Apple coming. | ||
| The oligarchs. | ||
| The oligarchs arrived. | ||
| By the way, I was going to say they're definitely surrendering until... | ||
| Until I saw Bezos' girlfriend show up, right? | ||
| I know that's unrelated to the $40 million documentary, but let's continue on. | ||
| The majesty of this is important because of where President Trump, the hero's journey in this process. | ||
| Remember, four years ago, and that's when we started the show, by going back to January 20th, 20 January of 2021. When President Trump went to Andrews Air Force, he did not come. | ||
| To the inauguration. | ||
| When he went to Andrews Air Force Base, none of the political class was there to see him off. | ||
| We had Boris Epstein reporting live for us. | ||
| A bit of a reprieve. | ||
| There's MTG. All right. | ||
| MTG. Okay, good. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| We got some MAGA. That's fantastic. | ||
| So we got MTG. I don't think all the members... | ||
| Rubio, Besant. | ||
| Well, that's the cabinet right there. | ||
| Scott Besant. | ||
| Is that Tulsi? | ||
| I think that's Tulsi. | ||
| Lauren Sanchez again. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| Maybe she's in the cabinet now. | ||
| You never know. | ||
| The Washington Post is everywhere, Steve. | ||
| Okay, guys, we need a power source for this. | ||
| The Washington Post is everywhere. | ||
| We need a power source for our monitor. | ||
| Thanks. | ||
| Okay, let's try to grab the Trump family. | ||
| The other part of gaslighting, by the way, is what comes after gaslighting, if they're really smart and really strategic, is they throw you a love bomb. | ||
| They'll tell you, hey, here's what we're going to do for you after you get elected. | ||
| We're going to be told the degrees of freedom we get to operate within. | ||
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Natalie, is that how you do with the love bomb? | |
| Natalie, when she leaves a monkish existence, all she does is work. | ||
| I do. | ||
| I guess she does. | ||
| I get that complaint. | ||
| Gaslight him, then I love him. | ||
| I get attempted honeypots from the Chinese Communist Party. | ||
| But, Brad, I shouldn't cut you off because what you're saying is important. | ||
| Walk through how they're going to love-bomb Trump. | ||
| Yeah, they're going to say, hey, you know, we're going to give you one big, beautiful bill. | ||
| And, you know, we're aiming for May or June. | ||
| And then if you'll notice, those bills, just like the CRG said, the spending bills, that immigration's attached to. | ||
| So they're not giving a separate bill on the mega stuff, right? | ||
| That's not going to happen in the first month or two. | ||
| So you get momentum and President Trump goes, boom, we're in control. | ||
| We got wins at our backs. | ||
| Instead, all of it's going to be shoved into one bill everybody's got to vote for. | ||
| Because the speaker and leadership is going to say, well, you know, I only got a majority of two or three. | ||
| But Murdoch, hang on. | ||
| The Wall Street Journal and Murdoch already gave us our guest list. | ||
| They had a poll that came out Friday that said people want MAGA light. | ||
| They like some of the headlines of President Trump. | ||
| Oh, here it comes. | ||
| MAGA light. | ||
| There it is. | ||
| That's the love box. | ||
| There it is. | ||
| No, we want MAGA. We want MAGA. Just MAGA light. | ||
| Just MAGA light. | ||
| Not the full stuff. | ||
| Well, that gets down to this. | ||
| There's nothing about deporting just criminal aliens. | ||
| To me, all 15 million are here are criminals because they broke the law to get here. | ||
| And they have to go. | ||
| This is where the fight's going to be. | ||
| It's going to start at noon. | ||
| The days of thunder start in less than an hour. | ||
| And by the way, this is all Jordan Peterson lingo in a way, right? | ||
| This language is associated with psychopaths, right? | ||
| This is the language you expect by people who are total control freaks, narcissists. | ||
| Explain that to the audience. | ||
| And who's your man? | ||
| Who's our man in Rome? | ||
| I'm blanking on this. | ||
| Harnwell. | ||
| Harnwell, this sociopathic overlord. | ||
| He hit it. | ||
| That's what's coming. | ||
| And so we're told what we're allowed to do. | ||
| They want us to be the Supreme Court. | ||
| They're entering right now. | ||
| I see on the split screen right there. | ||
| Supreme Court entering. | ||
| There we go. | ||
| By the way, you always see that. | ||
| Can somebody give Amy Coney Barrett's hander a job offer somewhere? | ||
| I don't mean to be cruel on today, but we will. | ||
| President Notre Dame, President Emeritus Notre Dame. | ||
| Do it. | ||
| Is she Presbyterian? | ||
| No. | ||
| Who does she hang out with, though? | ||
| Who does she hang out with? | ||
| I hope she's a good Catholic. | ||
| Who does she hang out with? | ||
| She's an ecumenical. | ||
| What is it? | ||
| Ecumenical Catholic. | ||
| Charismatic. | ||
| These are all the dignitaries. | ||
| Never trust a charismatic Catholic. | ||
| The ceremony is supposed to commence at 1130, and it'll be a fairly straightforward ceremony. | ||
| There'll be some singing, some patriotic hymns. | ||
| There'll be, I think, a religious hymn, and then we'll get into it. | ||
| The oath is always administered as close to noon, I think, as possible. | ||
| And then the president will then turn and give an address. | ||
| I think the address will be... | ||
| I think they're playing on 10 to 15 minutes. | ||
| President Trump's been known to go off script. | ||
| You never know. | ||
| Without this massive 1 million people here to greet him, of his followers, in Uniting the Country, maybe he'll keep it just to stay on script. | ||
| Well, Brad, I was going to throw out another tactic that we talk about this in Unhumans, by the way. | ||
| This is something you see the regime do all the time. | ||
| You see the media do it all the time. | ||
| The other narcissistic tactic is DARVO. D-A-R-V-O. You remember that one? | ||
| So, deny Attack, reverse, victim, and offender. | ||
| What does it mean? | ||
| So you deny what's going on, you attack the person, and then you reverse the victimality. | ||
| So you say, you're attacking me as you attack them. | ||
| And then they say, how dare Trump lash out like this? | ||
| How dare he do this? | ||
| When they never talk about the fact that they're the ones who did this thing to our country. | ||
| They're the ones who made our country like this. | ||
| The Washington Post nuked him before he was sworn in, the day of. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Washington Post Newsom, Russiagate. | ||
| The FISA was already in place. | ||
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Right. | |
| And then they say we're the, I hate using the word, but the fascists and the demagogues and whatever. | ||
| I know. | ||
| It's unbelievable. | ||
| Do we have, is John Solomon, is that audio working? | ||
| Can we try that again? | ||
| Can we go to John Solomon? | ||
| Harry, Cameron, can we go to John Solomon in studio? | ||
| Okay, John, talk to us about what you're hearing in the pardons. | ||
| Before we get into the ceremony in a few minutes, I'd like to talk about these preemptive pardons, how they came about, and other issues related to personnel. | ||
| Yeah, so listen, we expected James Biden and some other family members potentially to be pardoned. | ||
| That hasn't happened at least. | ||
| We have still a half hour left, so let's keep our eyes out for that. | ||
| But the January 6th committee, Liz Cheney, Benny Thompson, those who cast upon the American public a very false narrative during those televised 2022 hearings, they all got preemptive pardons, as did some of the Capitol Police officers who were testifying and trying to... | ||
| To help the Democrats create that fake narrative. | ||
| They all got pardoned today. | ||
| And then there was a surprise. | ||
| A lot of people didn't expect General Milley to get a pardon. | ||
| But when you look back at the moment of summer 2020 through summer 2021, General Milley is one of the most critical players in so much of what happened in America. | ||
| He's the guy at charge at the helm when Afghanistan goes sideways in America. | ||
| He's the guy that makes the two secret phone calls to China that his own boss, President Trump, didn't know about saying, hey, Trump's not going to attack you. | ||
| Stand down. | ||
| Be fine. | ||
| He's the guy that is involved in all the discussions about having the National Guard up in Washington before January 6th. | ||
| Obviously, Nancy Pelosi didn't take him up on that offer. | ||
| But through and through again, Milley plays this sort of resistance role, and he's sort of the Democrats' quote-unquote mole in the Trump administration. | ||
| And he gets a pardon. | ||
| A lot of people I talked to today were floored that that happened. | ||
| That was an unexpected thing. | ||
| Maybe he asked for it. | ||
| We're trying to find out a little bit more detail. | ||
| Now, I want to pivot to where the next front of the resistance is going to be. | ||
| The most read chapter in Washington, D.C. right now is chapter 31 of the Office of Personnel Management Guide, because that's the chapter that deals with separation other than retirement. | ||
| All these bureaucrats and their union bosses are reading that day in and day out. | ||
| All their lawyers, all of their Soros backgroups. | ||
| This is where the fight's going to be as Donald Trump starts to reassign, fire, remove the resistance. | ||
| Those federal workers, those federal managers who won't carry out his agenda, the American people's agenda, they're going to rely on this chapter and go to court. | ||
| Chapter 31 of the Office of Personnel Management. | ||
| The most boring reading you'll ever have, but most bureaucrats are reading it because they're looking for any loophole to try to keep themselves in power. | ||
| I think Donald Trump will prevail. | ||
| But it's funny when you talk to bureaucrats, I've been talking a lot of them. | ||
| They're all reading that document today. | ||
| So, John, getting back to that pardon question real quick, I just want to want to be very clear about something. | ||
| Can Joe Biden pardon someone for state-level crimes? | ||
| Can he preemptively pardon someone from state action? | ||
| Oh, that's right. | ||
| He can't. | ||
| So Dr. Fauci is not pardoned from state action. | ||
| Ken Paxson. | ||
| The state of Texas. | ||
| The state of Texas. | ||
| Florida is in the building right now, by the way. | ||
| To pick a random... | ||
| Here's another key point. | ||
| Just saying, folks. | ||
| Just saying. | ||
| Here's a key point. | ||
| O.J. Simpson. | ||
| O.J. Simpson escaped criminal liability when he was acquitted by the jury. | ||
| But the civil case became the single most damaging thing to him. | ||
| None of these pardons will prevent any of these players from being sued civilly. | ||
| Suppose the U.S. government want to sue the January 6th committee for fraud upon the American people. | ||
| That is still an option for Donald Trump and his administration. | ||
| So federal civil liability, state prosecution is still on the table. | ||
| And I know of some people inside the Trump world that are looking at some of those fraud statutes, whether that can be applied to January 6th or to some of the other false narratives that were imposed on the American people during the Biden administration. | ||
| Natalie Winters, you have and we're getting a special request from the audience. | ||
| Let Natalie talk more. | ||
| We are. | ||
| She's freezing. | ||
| I'm so cold. | ||
| We're going to let Natalie take a break here. | ||
| Right after the speech, Natalie's going to take a break. | ||
| Talk to me about Fauci particularly. | ||
| I'm having so many war room parties. | ||
| I'm not used to going out, but then I have to go. | ||
| Talk about Fauci. | ||
| You've done more than anyone on the individual investigation into Tony Fauci. | ||
| When you woke up this morning and were coming over here and you saw that Fauci had been pardoned, what were your first thoughts? | ||
| Honestly, I was shocked. | ||
| I truly didn't think that they were going to give the pardons because, like you said, it destroys the Democratic Party or they were all going to jail. | ||
| But two, I think what you guys were just talking about, the gaslighting and the DARVO, I think you have to start this whole sort of pardon discourse from day one. | ||
| And the way that they always framed it was like... | ||
| Benny Thompson and Anthony Fauci would accept pardons if they were given to them, right? | ||
| So passive. | ||
| But in reality, you know these people were lobbying so hard. | ||
| And you know why they were lobbying for the pardon so hard? | ||
| Because they know that they're... | ||
| And obviously, in the case of Anthony Fauci, I think our show was really the tip of the spear, the tip of the tip of the spear, right? | ||
| And exposing all the ways that he not just lied, knowingly lied, but intentionally funded risky gain-of-function research over at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. | ||
| But I think it affirms this show. | ||
| I know I said this. | ||
| I know RealClearPolitics wrote it up. | ||
| But our conspiracy theories, our misinformation, our lies... | ||
| They were so good that they necessitated not just pardons, not just preemptive pardons, but blanket preemptive pardons. | ||
| It was called misinformation. | ||
| All of us were banned on every platform. | ||
| And it turned out that it was such misinformation that the perpetrators... | ||
| All spent the last four weeks at the White House with their representatives and lawyers groveling to get pardons. | ||
| Well, look, I think it's what we were talking about, the whole love-bombing, narcissistic trope, but it's victim-blaming of shows like ours, of the American people, who have been the victims of people like Anthony Fauci. | ||
| And then when you say that you want accountability, that you want retribution, or that you don't want H-1Bs coming and flooding your country, that you're then a nativist xenophobe, the framing of it is always blaming MAGA, right? | ||
| And I think that... | ||
| You see the ultimate blame, the ultimate sort of victim blaming going on when you see what's allowed inside. | ||
| But these pardons prove that we were right. | ||
| They do. | ||
| And I don't think that you can argue with that. | ||
| And I think you have to remember too, right, when you're talking about... | ||
| How they're coming for us with the gaslighting. | ||
| I think that's almost an understatement. | ||
| Because gaslighting to me is more an emotional manipulation, right? | ||
| This is a whole of society manipulation, a whole of government manipulation, right? | ||
| It's tenfold. | ||
| It compounds time and time again. | ||
| I agree with Natalie. | ||
| I'm a very good gaslighter. | ||
| Quite an expert level of knowledge there, Natalie. | ||
| I'm with Natalie. | ||
| When I saw the pardons come up on the Associated Press... | ||
| I was actually shocked. | ||
| I said they couldn't possibly have walked into that trap, your guys, when you first heard it. | ||
| No, what they've done is, number one, they've solidified the legacy of all of these people. | ||
| When you're talking optics and we're talking solemnity, they've denied it now. | ||
| Now Anthony Fauci, who, by the way, will never answer for what he did on... | ||
| AIDS, who will never answer for what he, which has really been coming back around again. | ||
| Gibson was talking about it with Rogan and all that. | ||
| He'll never answer for what he did on COVID. He'll never answer for what he allowed to happen to our children. | ||
| The fact that that... | ||
| Pardon on him. | ||
| It is an indictment, in a sense. | ||
| In the public mind, it's an indictment on his legacy, and not just that, but the legacy of the expert class of control at the NIH and the FDA. Now, the reversion of that will only occur by the way... | ||
| If the Maha movement is allowed to achieve their policy objectives, and I'll tell you the next thing, that's why Mike Pence came out against RFK, because this town is gearing up to fight off the Maha movement the same way they fought off the Tea Party. | ||
| I do think it is also interesting, because what was the refrain, the strapline that you always heard from MSNBC, and they were even hitting it this morning, the idea that Anthony Fauci was never political, right? | ||
| Anything they were doing was never politicized. | ||
| I'm like, really? | ||
| Well, then why do you need a pardon for something that was explicitly and purely political, right? | ||
| By the way, we got coffee, coffee, coffee. | ||
| Hot chocolate. | ||
| I don't drink coffee. | ||
| I don't drink either. | ||
| Natalie, go over Fauci's. | ||
| What did he do in the affirmative? | ||
| The guys will start sending their pounds of hot chocolate to Natalie now. | ||
| Natalie's hot chocolate. | ||
| That's the new thing. | ||
| Natalie's cold. | ||
| Talk to Tage. | ||
| You have to talk to Tage about that. | ||
| Put back in our head. | ||
| What did Fauci do? | ||
| What are his most egregious sins? | ||
| Because I think half the country's blocked it out to stay mentally sane. | ||
| On the sartorial note real quick, You know what the treaty we have with Canada over the geese? | ||
| You know, we have a treaty with them over the treatment of the geese. | ||
| It's ridiculous. | ||
| Because American hunters are going to be shooting. | ||
| Yeah, because of the hunters when they come down. | ||
| It's completely insane. | ||
| Well, I'll answer your question more broadly because I do think that the signal, not noise, is right who they decided to pardon. | ||
| People like Michael Cohen were groveling on MSNBC for their pardons. | ||
| That was probably the most embarrassing clip I've ever seen. | ||
| Even Simone Sanders is telling him, like, dude, get it together. | ||
| So I think it's very interesting who they decided to pardon and who they didn't. | ||
| And I think that there is sort of a common through line. | ||
| First, I think, buried lead is that it wasn't just the January 6th committee members, but it was the staff, too. | ||
| That compounded with Anthony Fauci, who I think... | ||
| Just understand that. | ||
| The January 6th staff. | ||
| Right? | ||
| Staff. | ||
| Not that they lied or gun-decked information or buried information and gotten people off. | ||
| That's a shocker. | ||
| That also means, by the way, that they didn't have time to clean it up. | ||
| So that means that when we get in there, when we flip over, we need to start pulling records immediately. | ||
| Between Milley, the January 6th committee, and Fauci, I think that's sort of the three-part assault that led to the steal of the 2020 election, right? | ||
| It started with the pandemic and Anthony Fauci. | ||
| And then you got January 6th and the committee that lied. | ||
| That was sort of the propaganda element of it. | ||
| And then, of course, Milley with what he did, refusing to deploy the National Guard. | ||
| So I think that that is the common through line, right? | ||
| It's not three isolated cases. | ||
| Do you think Milley's was more than the National Guard or do you think it was the treason, calling back for a military tribunal on the treason part of communicating with the Chinese Communist Party and the PLA senior members directly and not keeping the commander-in-chief in the loop on that? | ||
| Well, I think it's all. | ||
| I mean, it's all of it. | ||
| I just think that it all sort of goes to the idea of just the undermining, the subversion of President Trump, but together I think it culminates with the stolen election. | ||
| Sorry you didn't make the cut, Chris Wray. | ||
| Sorry you didn't make the cut, Francis Collins. | ||
| Hold it. | ||
| We still have 45 minutes. | ||
| What I'm surprised about is Wray, Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, Jack Smith. | ||
| Graves. | ||
| There's a lot of brothers hanging out there. | ||
| Julie Kelly's going to join us after the ceremony. | ||
| We're going to go through that in detail. | ||
| But I think that shocked me. | ||
| There's a couple of three people that didn't make the cut here because they wanted all of that. | ||
| They wanted all of those people. | ||
| They wanted Kinzinger. | ||
| Well, I guess he got it from the committee work. | ||
| But that doesn't pardon you for everything, buddy. | ||
| That doesn't pardon you from the Ukraine stuff. | ||
| That doesn't pardon you from the Syria stuff, Adam Kinzinger. | ||
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Oh, yeah. | |
| Oh, yeah. | ||
| We're going to go through all of it. | ||
| It doesn't wait. | ||
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It doesn't wait. | |
| I was surprised, though, to see no pardons for people involved with the law affair and all the Trump indictments. | ||
| That's the vast criminal concern. | ||
| The night's still young. | ||
| The pandemic and doing the other things they've done. | ||
| Doesn't that reinforce the fact that we've got to go back to the beginning, you've got to go back to the Comey situation, cross our hurricane, and you have to, on a linear basis, do it all. | ||
| It has to be an investigation. | ||
| Well, I would raise you this, too. | ||
| I think all the million-dollar sums that have been donated by, I guess, all the people who are inside the rotunda right now, that that's sort of the corporate equivalent of pardons, right? | ||
| They're trying to buy their way in. | ||
| I would humbly suggest that those are the people you investigate first, and you use the money that they donated to bankroll the investigation. | ||
| Would Zuckerberg be the top of the list? | ||
| Because they're all in on it. | ||
| And by the way, it's all a limited hangout too, right? | ||
| The issue is not the fact-checking. | ||
| It's not even just that the issue is just the fact-checking or the algorithms or the blacklisting. | ||
| It's that you stole the election and lied about it to the tune of a billion dollars. | ||
| So this is probably one of the most limited hangouts that I've ever seen. | ||
| Yeah, go back to Fauci though, Natalie. | ||
| Half the country that watches CNN think he's a charming, grandfatherly figure and China was maybe the bad guy. | ||
| Fauci's this nice... | ||
| However, they haven't had Fauci on for almost two years, right? | ||
| What did he do, though? | ||
| You're welcome. | ||
| What did he do? | ||
| What would be the number one most serious indictment? | ||
| Well, I think you would very easily get him on perjury with every time he testified with Senator Rand Paul, how they kept moving the goalposts. | ||
| But I'm sure there's biological warfare conventions, biological war crimes. | ||
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The gain of function and knowing the gain of function. | |
| And sending funds over to the Chinese Communist Party's military. | ||
| Selena Zito just posted up. | ||
| You know what the photo she's posted up? | ||
| You know the stage over at Capital One right now? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| So on the stage at Capital One Arena right now is not a podium. | ||
| You know what's there? | ||
| A desk. | ||
| A desk and a chair are set up right at Capital One Arena. | ||
| Selena Zito just posted it. | ||
| The great Selena Zito. | ||
| The amount of people in the energy sector who have sent me this photo in the past four minutes doesn't surprise me. | ||
| The energy community in Pennsylvania is in a state of relief. | ||
| They expect to see big things today from President Trump when he signs an executive order. | ||
| I can't tell if there's any pens on it, but yes, it's the desk. | ||
| So President Trump will not be going... | ||
| Maybe go to the White House first, but then go back to the Capital One Center, do it live. | ||
| Dave Brat on full-spectrum energy dominance. | ||
| And guys, maybe we'll get Dave Walsh for later in the show. | ||
| But full-spectrum energy dominance, how big a deal is that going to be? | ||
| Well, everybody asks you what's going to happen on day one. | ||
| What can President Trump do for the economy? | ||
| And a lot of that's heavy lifts. | ||
| It's going to take a long time. | ||
| But full-spectrum energy dominance is the announcement effect. | ||
| Of the deregulation, setting fossil fuels free. | ||
| What's the new show out? | ||
| The Oil Men? | ||
| What's it called? | ||
| It's not Oil Men. | ||
| It's Land Men, but it's Taylor Sheridan, so I don't trust him. | ||
| I don't trust him. | ||
| Oil's in everything, but that's the bottom line, right? | ||
| It's starting good. | ||
| It's starting good, but so did Yellowstone. | ||
| I know, I know. | ||
| But anyway, in a nutshell... | ||
| That show shows you oil. | ||
| It's in the tires. | ||
| It's in the transportation. | ||
| It's in the plastics. | ||
| It's in the makeup. | ||
| The guy went over the list on the show, right? | ||
| And so the announcement of what he's going to do there and then getting rid of the subsidies, and I think Elon even said, go ahead, get rid of them. | ||
| We'll see how that comes true. | ||
| And then the green piece, the green energy piece, I don't even think is substantive. | ||
| I think it's more code words. | ||
| That stand for what team are you on? | ||
| It's like DEI. And if you're not on the right team, you're going to get punished by the administrative state. | ||
| And so it all fits together, and we're breaking it all up and getting back to meritocracy in energy and across the board. | ||
| I can't see the monitor. | ||
| We're inside the Capitol now. | ||
| Mike Pence, the Judas Pence has arrived. | ||
| By the way, Tanya's over here at the Gaylord. | ||
| She just sent me an image. | ||
| All the people at the watch party at Gaylord, when they saw Pence, boo! | ||
| We'll have to get that video up in a sec here. | ||
| But yeah, Tanya's over there with the boys. | ||
| I said, don't worry about braving the cold, sweetheart. | ||
| Just go over to the Gaylord. | ||
| They're there with Gavin. | ||
| By the way, Gavin Wax, Chelsea, and the baby are there over at the Gaylord as well. | ||
| So we've got a lot. | ||
| By the way, congratulations to Benny Johnson, who I hear just had number four born on January 20th, 2025. So the first new Patriots. | ||
| So congrats to Benny, to Nurse Kate, to the whole family. | ||
| I want to add one more thing on that full-spectrum energy dominance piece. | ||
| Today in the paper, trade, right? | ||
| You're going to have the slow-walking crowd start slow-walking. | ||
| Oh, this pressure. | ||
| People should know this pressure on trade already. | ||
| Trade, tariffs, whatever. | ||
| These secretaries need to do analyses across the secretaries because that full-spectrum energy piece will fully offset, I think, on the math. | ||
| We'll get Dave Walsh to confirm that, that any tariff piece that he puts in there. | ||
| So the uplift to the economy and then the tariff is just set in a level playing field for fair competition against the Chinese and whoever doesn't want to cooperate. | ||
| And I can't wait to see what Trump's got coming in terms of negotiations with these countries, including Mexico. | ||
| People don't know that, but we have 1.5 million illegal immigrants that have already been cleared to deport. | ||
| We can't do that until the home countries agree. | ||
| And so President Trump is the one person who can make that happen. | ||
| What are we all staring at, team? | ||
| It just feels good. | ||
| The sun feels great. | ||
| When the ceremony starts or when the president comes in with Biden and you have the illegitimate regime turfed out. | ||
| We're going to let Natalie go warm up, because she's going to be back and doing some of the afternoon shows. | ||
| I'll take the female privilege. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Why don't you go bounce right now? | ||
| We're going to start the thing in a second. | ||
| Natalie doesn't have the kind of beef that we have to keep us warm up. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Is that love fun? | ||
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | ||
| Yes, it is. | ||
| We're going to send Natalie over to warm up. | ||
| You want to take your hot chocolate? | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| Okay, I got it. | ||
| It's like when we used to take Moe skating when she was eight. | ||
| You want to take your hot shot, got your mittens? | ||
| Natalie, thank you very much. | ||
| It is cold up here. | ||
| It's in the 20s, right? | ||
| When the sun's out, it's actually obviously much nicer. | ||
| It's a little cloudy. | ||
| It's been beautiful all day. | ||
| A little cloudy. | ||
| And we're up here. | ||
| We're 10 stories up, by the way. | ||
| And when the wind hits up here, there's no wind down there. | ||
| You could have had a million people here easily with President Trump. | ||
| You have the sun hitting it right now? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| No, it'd be fine. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| President Trump has been walking out right now to this beautiful, magnificent God's beautiful day. | ||
| By the way, we know how to get hand warmers. | ||
| We know how to get... | ||
| Maggie knows how to do this. | ||
| Go talk to... | ||
| Go talk to the Battle Creek MAGA up in Michigan, by the way, waiting out at nine-degree temperatures, waiting out with nothing. | ||
| They'll sit there. | ||
| Gruber's here. | ||
| He knows. | ||
| Yeah, he'll tell you about Michigan, right? | ||
| I'm just Pennsylvania, but we do it enough. | ||
| Look, these guys, they would have been able to do this, and they would have done it gladly. | ||
| They would have done it gladly because this is something that we've all been fighting hard for, not just for the past four years, which felt like 400 years, by the way, but all the way back to the very first day. | ||
| Almost ten years ago now, when President Trump came down that escalator. | ||
| Because, look, we're growing from... | ||
| And, look, I know we're a little down in the dumps in terms of the inauguration here, but this is... | ||
| Well, we're excited about the days of thunder, but we want to let... | ||
| The reason on the inauguration is that this is a predicate for what they're going to do to fight him on everything he's doing. | ||
| President Trump has promised by sundown today, which will be at the beginning of the 5 o'clock show, that the course of the nation is going to be changed. | ||
| What we're trying to warn people about is that every step of the way they're going to fight him. | ||
| And you can say it right now in this ceremony. | ||
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I want to be clear about that. | |
| We want the golden age, too. | ||
| From the golden escalator to the golden age. | ||
| We want that. | ||
| But I want to be very clear. | ||
| That's not going to change just because he puts his hand on the Bible. | ||
| That's not going to change just because he signs executive orders. | ||
| That's not going to change just because he signs executive orders. | ||
| Not even in the first hundred days. | ||
| It's going to be a fight. | ||
| Every step of the way. | ||
| So I see people running around town and I saw people at the parties and everything. | ||
| Oh, we won. | ||
| We saved the country. | ||
| We won. | ||
| It's all done. | ||
| It's not done. | ||
| It's not done. | ||
| Go look. | ||
| Go look. | ||
| These people are still here. | ||
| They're still waiting. | ||
| And they think every single night, they go to sleep every night, and they dream about it, and they wake up in the morning thinking about how they can screw the American people, how they can screw President Trump, how they can deny him victory. | ||
| And they think they can wait him out. | ||
| out and the best part and the next part steve which of course steve bannon has been the financial times of london's got the piece up which we need to talk about here that steve bannon is also fighting the infiltration of mag maga light remember maga light maga light from the from the uh from the tech bros low calorie do we have keto maga monitor right now because of the glare of the sun are they as president or it's coming in yet well this the screen in front of us is frozen yeah if they can if they can restart this one we can | ||
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i can get that better okay fine yeah i've told the story on We tried to... | |
| We tried to save $40 billion, a teaspoon of money up here. | ||
| We're paying to dead people. | ||
| No, but $40 billion is $40 billion. | ||
| It's $40 billion. | ||
| But the real insurrection that we're going to see unfold here. | ||
| Tell that story quickly about what you went to. | ||
| You guys said we found $40 billion a year. | ||
| Yeah, $40 billion a year we're paying to dead people, Social Security or whatever it was. | ||
| We wanted to put it back to American people, give it to the deficit relief or whatever. | ||
| Paul Ryan said, I've got to go check. | ||
| I'm like, who are you checking with? | ||
| He's the Speaker of the House. | ||
| He's the Speaker, who dictates everything that happens in that dome, by the way. | ||
| You think the guys in the House and the Senate dictate anything? | ||
| Nothing. | ||
| Just so you know. | ||
| Right? | ||
| So he goes and checks, no, can't do it. | ||
| And what that means is, you're talking about the flow of funds, incoming and outgoing. | ||
| The funds are in, right? | ||
| And so, I call this... | ||
| If they got it, they're going to spend it. | ||
| If they got it, it's going to a donor. | ||
| It's going to the... | ||
| That's a $40 billion example, and what the folks at home, what I want them to appreciate is the real insurrection is the insurrection of the trillionaire oligarch class. | ||
| That's the insurrection that's been ongoing. | ||
| You're going to see trillions of dollars that's taken to budget. | ||
| There's supposedly three trillion worth of rare earth minerals in Ukraine that Lindsey Graham comes on and says, well, it's a good thing their boys are dying and not ours over those several trillion. | ||
| There's several trillion at stake in the full spectrum energy dominance. | ||
| That whole sector is going to shift 180 degrees overnight. | ||
| And so you're going to see all the forces in the world and all the money in the world, and I mean literally in the world. | ||
| China is embedded in every Fortune 500 firm in the country. | ||
| All of those forces are going to come to play and say, nope, we want the status quo. | ||
| We want the globalist regime to stay in power. | ||
| And that's the fight. | ||
| It's 1130, guys. | ||
| Where are we going on the screen? | ||
| What's happening in the Capitol? | ||
| We can't. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Is the president walked in yet? | ||
| Because I can't. | ||
| Right here. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| The first family's there, it looks like. | ||
| First family. | ||
| I see Barron. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| His grandfather. | ||
| The 30... | ||
| They're singing, right? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So let's go ahead and go to that. | ||
| Let's go ahead. | ||
| We're going to pick up the ceremony live. | ||
| We're going to be here and jump in at the top of it. | ||
| Let's go ahead and go. | ||
| Let's cut to the ceremony. | ||
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America, you're calling. | |
| I can hear you calling me. | ||
| You are calling me to pay true to thee, true to thee I will be. | ||
| Oh, America, no weeping, let there be no more delight. | ||
| I will keep you in my caping 'til there'll be a true start. | ||
| So, your hands and lay to the sky. | ||
| Oh, America, I hear you. | ||
| Oh, your prayers to the sea. | ||
| From your mountains grand and all through this land, you are beautiful to me. | ||
| Oh, America, you're calling. | ||
| Oh, I can hear you calling me. | ||
| You are calling me to pay true to thee, true to thee. | ||
| True to thee, the way we'll be. | ||
| And we will be. | ||
| And we will be. | ||
| Oh, America, you're calling me to pay true to thee. | ||
| You are beautiful to me. | ||
| Oh, America, you're calling me to pay true to thee. | ||
| You are beautiful to me. | ||
| You are beautiful to me. | ||
| Oh, America, you're calling me to pay true to thee. | ||
| You are beautiful to me. | ||
| Oh, America, you're calling me to pay true to me. | ||
| I will ever answer the pay true to me. | ||
| I will answer the pay true to me. | ||
| The Honorable Jackie Barber. | ||
| The Clerk of the House of Representatives. | ||
| The Honorable Kevin F. McCumber. | ||
| Mr. John Bessler. | ||
| Mrs. Kelly Johnson. | ||
| Mrs. Iris Weinshaw Schumer. | ||
| And Mrs. Jennifer Scalise. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, escorting the President of the United States and the Vice President of the United States, ranking member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, the Honorable Deb Fisher, House Democratic Leader, the Honorable Hakeem Jeffries, and Senate Majority Secretary, the Honorable Robert Duncan. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, the Honorable Joseph R. Biden, Jr., and Vice President of the United States, the Honorable Kamala Davy Harris. | ||
| The Honorable Kamala Davy Harris. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, escorting the Vice President-elect, the Executive Director for the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, Mr. Michael Wagner, Senate Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms and Doorkeeper, Jason Bell, and House Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms, Mr. Sean Keating. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, the Vice President-elect of the United States, the Honorable J.D. Vance. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, escorting the President-elect, the Staff Director for the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, Elizabeth Farah, House Sergeant-at-Arms, the Honorable William P. McFarland, Senate Sergeant-at-Arms and Doorkeeper, the Honorable Jennifer A. Hemingway, Senate Majority Leader, the Honorable John Thune, and the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, House Democratic Leader, the Honorable Hakeem Jeffries, House Majority Leader. | ||
| The Honorable Steve Scalise. | ||
| Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Honorable Mike Johnson. | ||
| Senate Democratic Leader, the Honorable Charles E. Schumer. | ||
| Ranking Member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, the Honorable Deb Fischer. | ||
| and Chairwoman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, the Honorable Amy Klobuchar. | ||
| The Honorable Amy Klobuchar | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, the President-elect of the United States, the Honorable Donald John Trump. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Please welcome the chairwoman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, the Honorable Amy Klobuchar. the Honorable Amy Klobuchar. | ||
| Good morning, everyone. | ||
| Welcome to the 60th presidential inauguration. | ||
| Today, President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect Vance will take their oaths of office. | ||
| and we will witness the peaceful transfer of power at the heart of our democracy. | ||
| Applause For the past year, I've chaired the inaugural ceremony committee, which includes the leadership of Congress from both parties. | ||
| We thank the committee and capital staff and law enforcement who worked so hard over the last year, and especially the last three days. | ||
| You've done a beautiful job and you have shown grace under pressure. | ||
| Our theme this year is our Enduring Democracy. | ||
| The presence of so many presidents and vice presidents here today is truly a testament to that endurance. | ||
| We welcome President Biden and Dr. Biden. | ||
| We welcome Vice President Harris and Doug Emhoff, President Obama, President Clinton and Secretary Clinton, President Bush and Laura Bush, Vice President Pence, Vice President Quayle and Marilyn Quayle. | ||
| The justices of the United States Supreme Court are with us. | ||
| All nine of them, I counted. | ||
| And of course, the Trump and Vance families. | ||
| This ceremony marks what will soon be 250 years of our democracy. | ||
| It is the moment when leaders, elevated by the will of the people, promise to be faithful to our Constitution, to cherish and defend it. | ||
| It is the moment... | ||
| When they become, as we all should be, the guardians of our country. | ||
| Through war and peace, through adversity and prosperity, we hold this inauguration every four years, and today it falls on Martin Luther King Day, a further reminder that we must strive to uphold the values enshrined in our Constitution, the freedoms, the liberties. | ||
| and, as is inscribed on the entrance of the United States Supreme Court, equal justice under law. | ||
| But what makes this moment more than a passing ceremony is all who are watching it across the country, the people of this nation, the ordinary people doing the people of this nation, the ordinary people doing extraordinary things. | ||
| President Kennedy, who at one point worked as a senator in this building and would often walk through this very rotunda, once said, in a democracy, every citizen, regardless of interest in politics, holds office. | ||
| Every one of us is in a position of responsibility. | ||
| With that responsibility of citizenship comes an obligation not to seek out malice, as President Lincoln once reminded us, but to view others with a generosity of spirit despite our differences. | ||
| With that responsibility of leadership comes an obligation to stand our ground when we must and find common ground when we can. | ||
| With everything swirling around us, the hot mess of division, it is on all of us to quote an incredible songwriter who just happened to be born in my state to ensure that our nation's democracy is our shelter from the storm. | ||
| There's a reason this ceremony takes place at the Capitol. | ||
| In other countries, it might be in a presidential palace or a gilded executive office building. | ||
| Here, it is traditionally held at the Capitol, the People's House. | ||
| It is a fitting reminder of the system of checks and balances that is the very foundation of our government, three equal branches of government. | ||
| That is how, for nearly 250 years, our great American experiment Grounded in the rule of law has endured. | ||
| So, as we inaugurate a new president and vice president, let us remember that the power of those in this room comes from the people. | ||
| The construction workers who build our country. | ||
| The teachers and healthcare workers who nurture us. | ||
| The troops defending our freedoms. | ||
| and yes, the firefighters in Los Angeles putting themselves on the line for us. | ||
| Our democracy's strength and grit must match theirs. | ||
| May God bless our nation. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Applause Good afternoon. | ||
| Good afternoon. | ||
| Endurance through the years is the ultimate test. | ||
| To persevere through time is the truest measure of an idea, an institution, and a nation. | ||
| Our founders wrote the Constitution so that America could withstand all the twists and turns of time. | ||
| They wrote it to guide us. | ||
| And to preserve forever our right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. | ||
| But as much as the truths and principles enshrined in our Constitution remain the same, our democracy promises the American people the power to change, to chart their own destiny. | ||
| That's the beauty. | ||
| That is the importance. | ||
| of democracy. | ||
| It allows the endurance, the permanence of a nation through change. | ||
| It allows nations like our United States both to avoid the obstacles and to seize the opportunities God has placed before us, all while staying true to our founding principles. | ||
| Today is our country's 60th inauguration ceremony. | ||
| Like all the others before it, it is a celebration of our right to set our uniquely American course. | ||
| The past several years have been trying at times for many, many Americans, and also for the nations of the free world that we humbly strive to lead. | ||
| Americans chose again to steer this nation towards greatness, the secure, safe, and prosperous future that our founders envisioned for all of us. | ||
| And today, we celebrate not only their decision to do so, but also the simple right and wisdom of a free people to make their own choice. | ||
| So that their nation might endure. | ||
| And now, allow me to welcome Archbishop Timothy Dolan and Reverend Franklin Graham who will deliver our invocation. | ||
| Please rise. | ||
| Be still. | ||
| And know that I am God, supreme among the nations, supreme on the earth. | ||
| Let us pray. | ||
| Remembering General George Washington on his knees at Valley Forge, recalling Abraham Lincoln at his second inaugural, with malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. | ||
| Remembering General George Patton's instructions to his soldiers as they began the Battle of the Bulge eight decades ago, pray, pray when fighting, pray alone, pray with others, pray by night, pray by day. | ||
| Observing the birthday of the Reverend Martin Luther King who warned, without God our efforts turned to ashes. | ||
| We, blessed citizens of this one nation under God, Humbled by our claim that in God we trust. | ||
| Gather indeed this Inauguration Day to pray for our President Donald J. Trump, his family, his advisors, his cabinet, his aspirations, his vice president. | ||
| For the Lord's blessings upon Joseph Biden. | ||
| For our men and women in uniform. | ||
| For each other whose hopes are stoked this new year, this Inauguration Day. | ||
| We cannot err in relying upon that prayer from the Bible, upon which our president will soon place his hand in oath, as we make our own the supplications of King Solomon for wisdom, as he began his governance. | ||
| God of our fathers, in your wisdom you set man to govern your creatures, to govern in holiness and justice, to render justice with integrity. | ||
| Give our leader wisdom. | ||
| For he is your servant, aware of his own weakness and brevity of life. | ||
| If wisdom which comes not from you be not with him, he shall be held in no esteem. | ||
| Send wisdom from heavens that she may be with him, that he may know your designs. | ||
| Please, God bless America. | ||
| Please mend her every flaw. | ||
| You are the God in whom we trust, who lives and reigns forever and ever. | ||
| Amen. | ||
| Mr. President, the last four years, there are times I'm sure you thought it was pretty dark. | ||
| Amen. | ||
| But look what God has done. | ||
| We praise him and give him glory. | ||
| Let us pray. - Thank you. | ||
| Our Father and our God, Thou hast said, Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. | ||
| As the prophet Daniel prayed, Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are His. | ||
| He changes the times and the seasons. | ||
| He removes kings. | ||
| He raises up kings. | ||
| He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding. | ||
| Our Father, today, as President Donald J. Trump takes the oath of office once again, we come to say thank you, O Lord our God. | ||
| Father, when Donald Trump's enemies thought he was down and out, you and you alone saved his life and raised him up with strength and power by your mighty hand. | ||
| We pray for President Trump. | ||
| That you'll watch over, protect, guide, direct him. | ||
| Give him your wisdom from your throne on high. | ||
| We ask that you would bless him and that our nation would be blessed through him. | ||
| We also ask that you would bless and protect Melania as First Lady. | ||
| We thank you for the beauty, the warmth, and grace that she shows not only to this nation, but to the whole world. | ||
| We thank you for Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and his wife Usha and their young family. | ||
| May he be a strength to President Trump to stand beside him, to hold up his arms like Aaron held up the arms of Moses in the midst of battle. | ||
| The prophet Samuel reminded the people, it was you that brought them up from the land of Egypt. | ||
| And he said, now stand still that I may reason with you before the Lord. | ||
| So, Father, we take this moment to stand still, to remember the great things that you have done for this nation. | ||
| Thank you for the protection, the bounty, the freedoms that we so enjoy. | ||
| We remember to keep our eyes fixed on you, and may our hearts be inclined to your voice. | ||
| We know that America can never be great again if we turn our backs on you. | ||
| We ask for your help. | ||
| And we pray all of this in the name of the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, your Son, my Savior, and our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. | ||
| Amen. |
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