March 5, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| President's address to the nation to a joint session of Congress. | ||
| We've got this covered for the next couple of hours. | ||
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The American dream is on its way back. | |
| You can certainly feel the excitement in the Capitol. | ||
| President Trump is appealing to the American people. | ||
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If you like the last six weeks, you're gonna like the next four years of my presidency. | |
| We have real American voices on the ground here at the America First warehouse. | ||
| He's fighting for them. | ||
| He's getting rid of illegals. | ||
| I really believe midterms start tonight with some of these victories that Donald Trump's going to lay out for us. | ||
| A 27-point swing. | ||
| Americans think that the United States of America is actually on the right track. | ||
| Are the Democrats going to be able to sit there and just take that? | ||
| Are they going to be able to bear with that? | ||
| Or are we going to trigger some of these folks? | ||
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When they hear the reality of America, it doesn't sit well with them. | |
| Prepare for that. | ||
| President's motorcade is showing up. | ||
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Mr. Speaker, the President of the United States. | |
| To my fellow citizens, America is back. | ||
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The President of the United States is the United States. | |
| The chair now directs the sergeant-at-arms to restore order. | ||
| Members are directed to uphold and maintain the quorum in the House. | ||
| The people elected me to do the job and I'm doing it. | ||
| The golden age of America has only just begun. | ||
| God bless you and God bless America. | ||
| And to my fellow citizens, America is back. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Six weeks ago, I stood beneath the dome of this Capitol and proclaimed the dawn of the Golden Age of America. | ||
| From that moment on, it has been nothing but swift and unrelenting action to usher in the greatest and most successful era in the history of our country. | ||
| We have accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations accomplished in four years or eight years, and we are just getting started. | ||
| I return to this chamber tonight to report that America's momentum is back, our spirit is back, our pride is back, our confidence is back, and the American dream is surging bigger and better than ever before. | ||
| The American dream is unstoppable, and our country is on the verge of a comeback, the likes of which the world has never witnessed and perhaps will never witness again. | ||
| It's never been anything like it. | ||
| Among my very highest priorities is to rescue our economy and get dramatic and immediate relief to working families. | ||
| As you know, we inherited from the last administration an economic catastrophe and an inflation nightmare. | ||
| Their policies drove up energy prices, pushed up grocery costs, and drove the necessities of life out of reach for millions and millions of Americans. | ||
| They've never had anything like it. | ||
| We suffered the worst inflation in 48 years, but perhaps even in the history of our country. | ||
| They're not sure. | ||
| As president, I'm fighting every day to reverse this damage and make America affordable again. | ||
| And we've ended weaponized government where, as an example, a sitting president is allowed as an example, a sitting president is allowed to viciously prosecute his political opponent, like me. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| How did that work out? | ||
| Not too good. | ||
| Not too good. | ||
| And I have stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America. | ||
| It's back. | ||
| And two days ago, I signed an order making English the official language of the United States of America. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Our new trade policy will also be great for the American farmer. | ||
| I love the farmer. | ||
| Who will now be selling into our home market, the USA, because nobody is going to be able to compete with you. | ||
| Because those goods that come in from other countries and companies, they're really, really in a bad position in so many different ways there. | ||
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Uninspected. | |
| They may be very dirty and disgusting. | ||
| And they come in and they pour in. | ||
| And they hurt our American farmers. | ||
| The tariffs will go on agricultural product coming into America. | ||
| And our farmers starting on April 2nd. | ||
| It may be a little bit of an adjustment period. | ||
| We had that before when I made the deal with China. | ||
| $50 billion of purchases. | ||
| And I said, just bear with me. | ||
| And they did. | ||
| They did. | ||
| probably have to bear with me again, and this will be even better. | ||
| That was great. | ||
| The problem with it was that Biden didn't enforce it. | ||
| He didn't enforce it. | ||
| $50 billion of purchases, and we were doing great, but Biden did not enforce it, and it hurt our farmers. | ||
| But our farmers are going to have a field day right now. | ||
| So to our farmers, have a lot of fun. | ||
| I love I love you, too. | ||
| It's all going to happen. | ||
| And I have also imposed a 25% tariff on foreign aluminum, copper, lumber, and steel, because if we don't have, as an example, steel, and lots of other things, because if we don't have, as an example, steel, and lots of other things, we don't have any military and, frankly, we just won't have He is once again standing strong against the forces of radical Islamic terrorism. | ||
| Three and a half years ago, ISIS terrorists killed 13 American service members. | ||
| And countless others in the Abbey Gate bombing during the disastrous and incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan. | ||
| Not that they were withdrawing. | ||
| It was the way they withdrew. | ||
| Perhaps the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country. | ||
| Tonight I am pleased to announce that we have just apprehended the top terrorist responsible for that atrocity. | ||
| And he is right now on his way here to face the swift... | ||
| sword of American justice. | ||
| And I want to thank especially the government of Pakistan for helping arrest this monster. - Okay. | ||
| This was a very momentous day for those 13 families who I actually got to know very well, most of them, whose children were murdered and the many people that were so badly, over 42 people, so badly injured on that fateful day in Afghanistan. | ||
| What a horrible day. | ||
| Such incompetence was shown. | ||
| That when Putin saw what happened, I guess he said, wow, maybe this is my chance. | ||
| That's how bad it was. | ||
| Should have never happened. | ||
| Grossly incompetent people. | ||
| I spoke to many of the parents and loved ones, and they're all in our hearts tonight. | ||
| To further enhance our national security, my administration will be reclaiming the Panama Canal. | ||
| And we've already started doing it. | ||
| Just today, a large American company announced they are buying both ports around the Panama Canal and lots of other things having to do with a large American company announced they are buying both ports around the Panama Canal and lots of other things The Panama Canal was built by Americans for Americans, not for others. | ||
| But others could use it. | ||
| But it was built at tremendous cost of American blood and treasure. | ||
| 38,000 workers died building the Panama Canal. | ||
| They died of malaria. | ||
| They died of snake bites and mosquitoes. | ||
| Not a nice place to work. | ||
| They paid them very highly to go there, knowing there was a 25% chance that they would die. | ||
| The most expensive project also that was ever built in our country's history, if you bring it up to modern-day costs. | ||
| It was given away by the Carter administration for $1, but that agreement has been violated very severely. | ||
| We didn't give it to China. | ||
| We gave it to Panama, and we're taking it back. | ||
| Within hours of taking the oath of office, I declared a national emergency on our southern border, and I deployed the U.S. military and border patrol to repel the invasion of our country. | ||
| And what a job they've done. | ||
| As a result, illegal border crossings last month were by far... | ||
| The lowest ever recorded. | ||
| ever. | ||
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They heard my words and they chose not to come. | |
| Much easier that way. | ||
| In comparison under Joe Biden. | ||
| The worst president in American history. | ||
| There were hundreds of thousands of illegal crossings a month. | ||
| And virtually all of them, including murderers, drug dealers, gang members and people from mental institutions and insane asylums, were released into our country. | ||
| This is the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Pray for our enemies. | ||
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Because we're going medieval on these people. | |
| I got a free shot at all these networks lying about the people. | ||
| The people have had a belly full of it. | ||
| I know you don't like hearing that. | ||
| I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. | ||
| It's going to happen. | ||
| And where do people like that go to share the big lie? | ||
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Mega media. | |
| I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience. | ||
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Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? | |
| If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved. | ||
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War Room. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Mann. | ||
| We still have so much more to play from it. | ||
| I've got Dave Bratt, Mark Mitchell from... | ||
| From Rasmussen to play. | ||
| I do want to get to the finish. | ||
| Let me just say, the swift and unrelenting action that leads to a new American golden age, you folks have been here from the beginning to fight for this and to power through and understand we have so many battles to fight. | ||
| But last night, just really incredibly, just so epic, President Trump's throwdown. | ||
| To me, the most important thing of it was not just President Trump's revolution of common sense, which he's accomplished. | ||
| You know, all of the policy initiatives, all the verticals we've talked about that are important for President Trump, but it was also then bringing in the human element, the human element being so absolutely important in these stories. | ||
| Normally, I think, most of the time at these State of the Union, it was started with President Reagan right after the crash of the Air Florida plane, right before his first Address to the Nation joint session. | ||
| It wasn't State of the Union because he'd just been elected. | ||
| I was at the Pentagon. | ||
| It was right outside of the plane crash, and they decided to have some of the heroes there. | ||
| That started the tradition. | ||
| So in 1981, and many times it's kind of, I think, spun off just to be kind of grafted on. | ||
| Last night was to the heart of it. | ||
| The human stories interwove right into the speech, what President Trump's trying to accomplish. | ||
| But most importantly, it showed the Democrats as almost, you know, Jack Posobiec's book on human. | ||
| It showed them almost as anti-human. | ||
| I've never, and I think I've watched and or participated in every State of the Union address, I've never seen, even in the depths of the Iraq war, it may have happened, but I don't remember it, with President Bush, I've never seen a situation where they didn't even reach out. | ||
| They looked the other way when the president came down, was announced and came down the aisle. | ||
| From the very beginning, it was absolutely... | ||
| Not just a cold shoulder, but an actual revulsion against Trump and against MAGA. And this goes back to one of my central theses. | ||
| There's no area of compromise here. | ||
| There's just not. | ||
| One side's going to win and one side's going to lose. | ||
| And it's far, far, far from over of what side's going to win. | ||
| We have momentum. | ||
| We've had victories. | ||
| We're driving to this new golden age. | ||
| But President Trump outlined just an incredible, incredible A journey that we are still to take. | ||
| And overnight, you know, reports coming in or decisions from the Supreme Court, we're going to get all that. | ||
| What I want to do now is go back and finish the last three to five minutes of the clips our team put together, which are quite magnificent. | ||
| Let's go back and play this. | ||
| And then I'll bring in Mark Mitchell from Rasmussen and my co-host Dave Bratt from West Palm Beach. | ||
| Let's go and play it. | ||
| And I also have a message tonight for the incredible people of Greenland. | ||
| We strongly support your right to determine your own future. | ||
| And if you choose, we welcome you into the United States of America. | ||
| We need Greenland for national security and even international security. | ||
| And we're working with everybody involved to try and get it. | ||
| But we need it really for international world security. | ||
| And I think we're going to get it. | ||
| One way or the other, we're going to get it. | ||
| We will keep you safe. | ||
| We will make you rich and together. | ||
| We will take Greenland to heights like you have never thought possible before. | ||
| It's a very small population, but very, very large piece of land and very, very important for military security. | ||
| A major focus of our fight to defeat inflation is rapidly reducing the cost of energy. | ||
| The previous administration cut the number of new oil and gas leases by 95 percent. | ||
| Slowed pipeline construction to a halt and closed more than 100 power plants. | ||
| We are opening up many of those power plants right now. | ||
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And frankly, we have never seen anything like it. | |
| That's why on my first day in office, I declared a national energy emergency. | ||
| As you've heard me say many times, we have more liquid gold under our feet than any nation on Earth and by far... | ||
| And now I fully authorize the most talented team ever assembled to go and get it. | ||
| It's called Drill Baby Drill. | ||
| My administration is also working on a gigantic natural gas pipeline in Alaska, among the largest in the world, where Japan, South Korea, and other nations want to be our partner with investments of trillions of dollars each. | ||
| There's never been anything like that one. | ||
| It will be truly spectacular. | ||
| It's all set to go. | ||
| The permitting has gotten. | ||
| And later this week, I will also take historic action to dramatically expand production. | ||
| of critical minerals and rare earths here in the USA. I believe that my life was saved that day in Butler for a very good reason. | ||
| I was saved by God to make America great again. | ||
| again. | ||
| I believe that. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Okay. | ||
| We're going to cut also the powerful ending of the The last two minutes was just incredible, so we're going to pull that here in a moment. | ||
| But I would like if the crack team in Denver and my own production team can play that last clip. | ||
| I want to play it one more time before we commence discussion. | ||
| I believe that my life was saved that day in Butler for a very good reason. | ||
| I was saved by God to make America great again. | ||
| I believe that. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| That's kind of the whole thing, right? | ||
| You either, I think, believe that this is a providential moment and that divine providence is working through President Trump, and that's absolutely correct, the assassination attempt. | ||
| Which, in all logical, rational, what, 125 yards away, getting off eight shots, right, clear shots, and the nick on the ear with one millionth of a millimeter could have blown his head off, that he's divinely inspired to lead this nation to a new golden age. | ||
| And if you don't believe that, you don't believe it, that's fine. | ||
| But then you've got the demonic response. | ||
| And you can't just look rationally at what the Democrats did last night. | ||
| And I had not appreciated it until, because doing the broadcast last night, I want to thank Real America's Voice, just the team at RAV, is absolutely incredible. | ||
| Not just the production team to be able to put it together, but also all the contributors from the White House with Natalie to... | ||
| Brian Glenn up at the Capitol, John Solomon anchoring the news desk, Grant and Eric just coming in, David Zier doing live coverage at the watch party. | ||
| It was just incredible. | ||
| But it wasn't because we're in the middle of it. | ||
| You're going bang, bang, bang, just trying to pull it together. | ||
| It was only later in watching the MSNBC post-game coverage and then watching the speech again. | ||
| And then seeing clips of some of the response of the Democrats that you realize this is an unbridgeable gap. | ||
| It's just unbridgeable. | ||
| There's no policy. | ||
| It's unbridgeable. | ||
| One side's going to win and one side's going to lose. | ||
| It reminds me in the early days of President Trump's presidency in 17, we were able to arrange a meeting with Rush Limbaugh. | ||
| And, you know, Rush and the president had not always been that close. | ||
| Rush in the 16 was kind of late to the party because he was just a more of a traditional limited government conservative, right, that had a lot of problems with President Trump. | ||
| And I understood that at the time. | ||
| Hell, I was running Breitbart. | ||
| You know, there was a huge audience at Breitbart, kind of limited government, right? | ||
| It was, you know, there was split. | ||
| Including the financiers in back of Breitbart, had put $35 million into the, approximately, I think, into Ted Cruz's campaign. | ||
| They were Ted Cruz guys, right? | ||
| That traditional, limited-government, constitutional Republican. | ||
| And, you know, I have a lot of respect for those folks, many of whom are now the strongest MAGA supporters, like Rush became. | ||
| But Rush came to the president and we set up a meeting and it went a couple hours because the president, he and Rush had real chemistry when they got together. | ||
| And I remember, I did the introduction and let them just be alone so they could share some time. | ||
| And President Trump is, you know, when you're with him, he not just has a big heart, but he's a listener. | ||
| He's not there to talk a lot. | ||
| He's there to listen. | ||
| And Rush had a lot to say. | ||
| One thing when they came out, You know, Rush turned to me as we're getting his driving car up. | ||
| The president was still there and he said, you know, I told the president no matter what he does to try to accommodate the left, no matter what he does on policy or anything, he could get on his knees and grovel and they'll never forgive him for defeating them. | ||
| And they'll never forgive him for what he stands for. | ||
| It had a big impact on President Trump. | ||
| Didn't totally sink in at the time, right? | ||
| Because President Trump tried to accommodate. | ||
| But I think over the years, and given what they did, it did sink in. | ||
| And if you look at last night, and how many times did he turn to them and say, you wouldn't applaud for that. | ||
| You had Bobby Kennedy, royalty in the Democrat, probably won't applaud for that. | ||
| They didn't applaud. | ||
| They didn't stand and applaud when he talked about peace, bringing peace to the world. | ||
| They wouldn't applaud. | ||
| When they had the young man that had brain cancer, that wanted to be a police officer, they cut back, you know, NBC or the networks cut back, the camera, the feed cut back to, I think it was Dingle of Michigan, and the people sitting around there, and they rolled their eyes. | ||
| They kind of smirked at every one of the human stories. | ||
| It's unbridgeable. | ||
| What Rush Limbaugh said is correct. | ||
| Rush Limbaugh was a very wise man. | ||
| Very wise man. | ||
| That's why people loved him. | ||
| That's why his show was so big. | ||
| And that's why people listened year after year after year. | ||
| He had a lot of wisdom. | ||
| And what he told President Trump that day in the early days, it was in, I think, February 2017, has resonated now down through the years. | ||
| And that struck me last night when I was thinking, I go, wow. | ||
| In all the kind of to and fro and fighting and we're here and this, you know, they got the verticals or anything like that. | ||
| It's very easy to miss. | ||
| The bigger picture here. | ||
| They are a shattered party. | ||
| It's kind of like a freak show. | ||
| Slotkin afterwards came up, and I couldn't watch it at first because Real America's voice. | ||
| We did make a decision to finish the analysis, and later, I think, Rav played it, and I got a chance to catch. | ||
| Slotkin gave the counter. | ||
| And it was mainly forgettable, as most of those things are, although MSNBC tried to make a big deal of it. | ||
| But I thought, She reminded me when I watched it of that, and I think it was the Addams family. | ||
| They have the little girl that's kind of normal in a sea of oddballs. | ||
| And that's what struck me. | ||
| She was trying to make a rational case. | ||
| I don't believe in her case, but she's trying to make a rational case on policy and other things around economics and kitchen table. | ||
| And you see the hatred. | ||
| You see Rachel or Nicole Wallace, who used to be kind of normal. | ||
| When she was a Republican, she's turned into just a freak. | ||
| What she said last night, we'll play it later, I can't describe how bizarre it was. | ||
| They're just, they're bizarre people. | ||
| President Trump has shattered them. | ||
| MAGA has shattered this. | ||
| This is deeper than, you know, Sherrod Brown came out the other day and said, hey, they've left populism in the working class and, you know, he was in the Senate for so long, but now he's going to work to bring it back. | ||
| It's not... | ||
| I keep saying Sherrod Brown and Fetterman and Rocahanna, these kind of economic populists. | ||
| The problem with the Democrats is it's so deep. | ||
| They've governed and they got so weird and they were led by people who were just weirdos. | ||
| And you could see it last night. | ||
| Jack Posobiec nailed it. | ||
| It's unhuman. | ||
| It's anti-human. | ||
| President Trump in so many magnanimous moments. | ||
| So much kind of reaching out to them. | ||
| And you could tell, and I know President Trump pretty well, when there was no response, and in fact there was just this sullen glare, and they held up their ridiculous bingo cards. | ||
| I mean, is that resistance? | ||
| They are so shattered. | ||
| So shattered. | ||
| That there's no way to regroup. | ||
| I keep talking about, like us, when the election was stolen in 2020 and 2021, you have to get a, you know, if you read military history, you have to get a rally point. | ||
| Otherwise, you're just going to run and just flee. | ||
| It's not a surrender, you just flee. | ||
| Like at Manassas, at the beginning, first battle in the Civil War, when the Union Army broke and they just ran, they just fled back to D.C. It's not an organized retreat, a tactical retreat that you can get a rally point. | ||
| Around that rally point, you can dig the guide on in and have everybody come and say, hey, look, We're beaten here. | ||
| But we can win. | ||
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I just don't see that. | |
| And even deeper, they're just wrong for America. | ||
| President Trump reiterates this and hammers it and hammers it. | ||
| A revolution of common sense. | ||
| But it's also a revolution of common decency. | ||
| There's something deeply wrong with the Democratic Party. | ||
| It's not the righteousness of MAGA fighting on the side of the angels in this spiritual war. | ||
| There's something deeply, deeply dysfunctional about those people. | ||
| There's no compromise. | ||
| Remember that. | ||
| Remember last night. | ||
| Remember the response. | ||
| They turned their back on the man. | ||
| A man who avoided an assassination attempt by the slightest of measurements. | ||
| To come back and win. | ||
| And then to have these days of just incredible, incredible, incredible, swift and unrelenting action, as he says. | ||
| They wouldn't even look at him. | ||
| They turned their back as he walked in, not knowing what he was going to say. | ||
| This is an unbridgeable gap. | ||
| Always remember that. | ||
| Always and everywhere. | ||
| It's not bridgeable. | ||
| There's no compromise. | ||
| We either win or they win. | ||
| If you don't believe that, you're wasting your time watching the show. | ||
| You really are. | ||
| Just go do something else. | ||
| Victory or death. | ||
| Victory or death. | ||
| Short break. | ||
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The Americans really just want the prices. | |
| That's what they all voted for. | ||
| Nobody voted for some of the other stuff. | ||
| They didn't think the other stuff was going to be this bad, is my estimation. | ||
| And now, the chickens... | ||
| For lack of a better term, because they're not laying no eggs right now, Claire. | ||
| I'm coming home to roost. | ||
| But, I mean, am I right? | ||
| Am I wrong? | ||
| Well, I think some of the people who voted for Trump were all in on his MAGA rally speeches. | ||
| There was about 15% of the people that voted for him, some of them, that don't like him. | ||
| They actually thought he was going to be better for them in terms of the personal things they were worried about in their lives. | ||
| They're not Trumpers. | ||
| They're not really... | ||
| Many of them probably voted for Joe Biden. | ||
| And what we know is that is the swing vote in this country that actually decides who has power. | ||
| And he thinks everybody who voted for him loves him. | ||
| And he is wrong about that. | ||
| And he is not addressing those people and the reason they voted for him. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| We can snatch him back. | ||
| We can snatch them back. | ||
| How are they going to snatch them back, Michael, when they're holding up bingo or auction signs? | ||
| I was going to say, well, thank you, Simone. | ||
| Can we talk about it? | ||
| The bingo signs were killing me. | ||
| I don't know who thought up the bingo signs, but they should be fired. | ||
| Michael, this is an indictment, in my opinion, on the Democratic leadership. | ||
| I talked to a lot of members during the, they were texting. | ||
| The staff were on my phones and they were calling. | ||
| And I think the best way to describe it is the Democratic leadership said they didn't want disruptions and they wanted people to attend and bring a guest and they wanted, you know, little business as usual and we're fighting back in other ways. | ||
| There is a palpable disgust, as Claire said, from not just the members but their constituents. | ||
| And it's like a pot, as someone described it to me, that's boiling. | ||
| I saw it. | ||
| And it's about to bubble over. | ||
| If you do not allow the members a space to release valve, it's going to bubble over. | ||
| And this was a... | ||
| The members didn't... | ||
| The visuals are not taken back to house in 2026. Not these visuals. | ||
| Where's the signs? | ||
| Put the signs up, folks, please. | ||
| The dry erase board with different messages. | ||
| Oh, my God, it was crazy. | ||
| Put the paddles up, y'all. | ||
| Do we have something of the paddles? | ||
| The paddles didn't land. | ||
| It's about to bowl over. | ||
| Dave Bratt from our West Palm Beach studio. | ||
| Sir, your assessment? | ||
| Yeah, first of all, epic introduction by you today. | ||
| And President Trump, the opening line said it all to me. | ||
| America is back. | ||
| And why is America back? | ||
| Because of his last line. | ||
| Because God is back. | ||
| It appears this country... | ||
| We got that chance. | ||
| So he gave a systematic account. | ||
| It's very rare where our side gets to put things into context. | ||
| So he went sector by sector by sector, by secretary by secretary, across the board, wove it all together into a coherent whole. | ||
| It was a systematic unity and vision for America. | ||
| And I saw, myself, I saw A God-inspired ethic there versus no ethics on the other side. | ||
| And it's not just in the politics. | ||
| It's spread into all the institutions in our country. | ||
| K-12, there are no ethics studied. | ||
| There's no God studied whatsoever. | ||
| Harvard, Yale, Princeton, if you ask them what ethics do they teach, the answer is none. | ||
| And even worse than not teaching any, they don't believe in any. | ||
| And so this was an indictment on the left. | ||
| And then as those clips you just showed, the Democrat leadership. | ||
| I think Mark Rasmussen has said earlier, you know, now it's time to contextualize this stuff and get it out to the American people. | ||
| That's what our leadership in the House needs to do and the leadership in the Senate. | ||
| We were shown the way last night by President Trump. | ||
| You couldn't have gotten a more positive, life-affirming speech than what President Trump just delivered. | ||
| It's just outstanding. | ||
| And it made me proud to be an American. | ||
| It made all Americans proud. | ||
| We're patriotic again. | ||
| We can feel the blood pumping again. | ||
| And so I'm just very happy this morning. | ||
| It's a great day in America. | ||
| No, I think for the combat veterans here, the hardened political veterans that have been on this since the beginning, but particularly those that joined us after the steal. | ||
| In 2020 that were there in those darkest days of 2021. Last night was a massive payoff. | ||
| Let me bring in, just stick right there with me, Dave. | ||
| And by the way, Dave, he's not Tim Apple. | ||
| It's not Mark Rasmussen. | ||
| It's Mark Mitchell from Rasmussen. | ||
| Dave Brack gives me a Tim Apple moment. | ||
| He's Rasmussen. | ||
| He gives me a Tim Apple moment. | ||
| He's so awesome. | ||
| I gave him a pay raise. | ||
| Mark Mitchell, you spend your time in kind of the weeds a lot of times asking very specific questions. | ||
| But I want to pull the camera back because you've got a very unique perspective. | ||
| Put last night in context of where we are as a country. | ||
| Where are we in this historic moment, sir? | ||
| Well, I'll tell you, the Democrats absolutely don't get why they're losing right now. | ||
| And I think they're going to keep losing because what happened is that they lost America. | ||
| The virtue signaling, the lies, the psychological operations, that stuff works in good times. | ||
| But let me just rattle off a couple of numbers here about what this election was really about. | ||
| This is from September. | ||
| Are you better off than you were four years ago? | ||
| Only 37% say yes. | ||
| Will today's children be better off than their parents? | ||
| Only 22% say yes. | ||
| 34% of 18- to 29-year-olds. | ||
| Is America safer than it was four years ago? | ||
| Only 27% say yes. | ||
| And so they can talk all they want to about Trump approval, which, by the way, is 51% today. | ||
| It's probably going to stay there the rest of his term because people know who Trump is. | ||
| They talk about Trump approval because they're trying to drag it down with yet another psychological operation. | ||
| But the fact is, what they haven't mentioned is that right direction of the country just hit a record last week, 48%, the highest in our entire polling history. | ||
| And every single component of Trump's platform is more popular than he is. | ||
| Massive deportations, way more popular than Trump is, right? | ||
| Holding government accountable, way more popular than Trump is. | ||
| So they can sit there, and I'll tell you, the optics are horrible. | ||
| Trump did a really great job just literally rubbing their nose in their own crap, the crap that they forced on America. | ||
| And they appear powerless. | ||
| They're like literally mandarins, like sitting there. | ||
| Completely disconnected from public opinion on this. | ||
| And we asked the question, how angry are you at the level of waste, fraud, and abuse in the government? | ||
| The number is 7 in 10 U.S. likely voters. | ||
| 45% very angry, 25% somewhat angry, and only 25% aren't. | ||
| So that's where this is. | ||
| And if you don't have a platform now, all of a sudden they have to compete on merit. | ||
| If they can't figure out a platform that can compete with America First MAGA on how to fix this failing republic, that's it. | ||
| They are literally the core of the parasite that is strangling the American economy, destroying our freedoms, and they almost killed the host. | ||
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| You said, I'm going to go back to the point you made, they lost America. | ||
| And you went through a bunch of policy prescriptions. | ||
| And folks, we're going to continue to track that right track, wrong track number. | ||
| Really since the 9-11, the Iraq war, the financial collapse, that horrific eight years, right? | ||
| Eight to ten years. | ||
| And then the bailouts and what happened and doing it for the wealthy. | ||
| The wrong track number has been solid. | ||
| The country understands something deeply wrong. | ||
| Many times they can't articulate it. | ||
| That's one of the reasons here at the War Room we spend so much time on capital markets, so much time on how this thing's financed, and what's the reality in back of money and power, and what's the reality in back of things like inflation. | ||
| But when you say they lost America, Mark, it's just not, and you went through some great policy prescriptions, and Trump's policies are popular with the American people. | ||
| That's kind of the revolution in common sense. | ||
| Last night struck me as something even deeper, though. | ||
| They've lost America because America, remember, it's our courage, it's our grit, it's our determination, it's everything that's made the America. | ||
| America's dream is not just dreamers. | ||
| People dream all over the world. | ||
| American dream is that it was actualized because the little guy had an opportunity and had a platform here being kicked out of every country in the world to actually not have the boot of a tyrannical government on his neck. | ||
| But actually could achieve something. | ||
| His little plot that he could achieve. | ||
| And kind of that was the American dream. | ||
| You know, picket fence, the house, a wife and a couple of kids, right? | ||
| Or a husband and a couple of kids and the ability to actually live your life without somebody telling you what to do. | ||
| The Democrats last night, we say lost America. | ||
| You have this central common decency. | ||
| Remember, America's gone and freed the world. | ||
| Right? | ||
| And lost so many people. | ||
| You don't have any other nation in the history of the earth that has cemeteries with their battlefield dead all over the planet. | ||
| We've created more prosperity, freed more people. | ||
| It's that underlying... | ||
| And that's not for territory or for treasure. | ||
| It was for common decency. | ||
| That's last night when you see the Democrats. | ||
| It's a freak show. | ||
| I don't know what it's so demented and twisted. | ||
| Even President Trump and some of these human stories that were so engaging, right? | ||
| They couldn't even clap. | ||
| In fact, they rolled their eyes or sneered. | ||
| And if you look at them on the camera, they look like freaks. | ||
| The self-hatred and self-loathing is so out there. | ||
| How did that happen, Mark Mitchell? | ||
| How did they get so twisted and just demented? | ||
| That party, what that represents, will never be back in power, and we must ensure they're never back in power because it is literally some twisted demonic force. | ||
| Sir? | ||
| Yeah, you know what's demonic? | ||
| My children's future being stolen by them by a uniparty kleptocracy that worked in coordination with unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. to steal potentially tens of trillions of dollars and ruin... | ||
| The future of our First Amendment rights, our God-given rights that we have constitutionally enshrined. | ||
| That's what's evil. | ||
| And then they sit there and they try and lie to you to maintain power. | ||
| And the problem is, at a certain point, it doesn't work anymore. | ||
| So yeah, you made things bad enough that there's a popular uprising. | ||
| And it's a good thing there is because these types of republics... | ||
| We have a habit of falling apart. | ||
| But because, like you said, the divine intervention in Butler, it looks like we're, looking back, going to have a really big historical turning point if Trump and his administration are able to bring this through to the end. | ||
| But the major political upheaval I'm seeing, and this is new, this is just in the last month, is the young people, 18 to 39-year-olds. | ||
| And this is what the Democrats, this is going to screw them over. | ||
| They're going to be unable to compete with this. | ||
| Just back in October, MSNBC was actually pretty good at driving the news cycle and their ilk. | ||
| The USAID-funded legacy media. | ||
| You'd have the Puerto Rican joke last in the news cycle like two or three days. | ||
| Now they just can't break through, and that's because literally on November 5th, I think Twitter... | ||
| Took over as the core discussion, the core place that people go to work through a discourse about what is happening. | ||
| It's reality-focused. | ||
| If you put a hot take on Twitter that is not based in reality, you will get savaged and ratioed like Chuck Schumer does now routinely. | ||
| And so I think a lot of them are... | ||
| Unable to compete. | ||
| They have no idea how to get this message out. | ||
| Meanwhile, their phone is melting down from MSNBC cat ladies. | ||
| But the 18 to 39-year-olds right now, Trump approval is at 51%. | ||
| Among 18 to 39-year-olds, it's 60. Net plus 22, that's like a 25 to 30-point swing from where it was just months ago. | ||
| Right track for 18 to 39-year-olds is 54%. | ||
| It's 42% for everybody else. | ||
| This is crazy. | ||
| Young adults are looking around and they're seeing the course change in America and they love what they're seeing. | ||
| And so you can argue about whether 51% Trump approval is high or low, but they're losing their core groups. | ||
| Trump approval is like 60% among Hispanic voters right now. | ||
| It's absolutely incredible. | ||
| And the race signal is breaking down. | ||
| We actually had black and white Trump approval only about 10 to 15 points apart. | ||
| So they're just completely unequipped to deal with this. | ||
| And I'll tell you, I think what they're probably doing is they're probably losing voters left and right now. | ||
| I haven't changed any of my weightings right now. | ||
| They're still tuned into 2024. But I think they're going to have a lot of problems because their mouthpieces don't work anymore. | ||
| They don't have a platform that works anymore. | ||
| And this kind, like you told me to read the book. | ||
| I think this is the leading edge of the fourth turning crisis. | ||
| Because what it's about, we talked about ethics. | ||
| I think it's about order and integrity. | ||
| Hang on, Mark. | ||
| Hang on one second. | ||
| I want to get into the fourth turning. | ||
| Dave Brat, Mark Mitchell from Rasmussen. | ||
| Short break. | ||
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| Roe Kahana, and man, what an uphill fight he's got, tweets out, my heart broke for how divided our nation is last night. | ||
| Yes, more Democrats should have stood to honor the courage of DJ Daniels. | ||
| DJ is the young man with brain cancer who wants to be a police officer and was basically taken into the Secret Service last night on live TV. I wrote, when you say more Democrats, I don't remember seeing any Democrats. | ||
| And the ones I did see were rolling their eyes and smirking. | ||
| So you've got to deal with that. | ||
| That's on your side of the football, sir. | ||
| Mark Mitchell, you talk about, we believe in the cyclical theory of history, and particularly this concept of turnings, and that we're in a fourth turning. | ||
| And it turns out it's the fourth one. | ||
| American Revolution, the Civil War. | ||
| Great Depression, World War II, it happens about every 80 to 100 years. | ||
| Our theory of the case has been for over a decade that we're in the middle of one. | ||
| Your thoughts, sir? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| It's the undulating wave of integrity that goes back through all of Western civilization. | ||
| And the idea is that there's a major crisis. | ||
| And because of that, society has to come together to solve it. | ||
| The demand for order is high, and so the supply of order must be high. | ||
| After you get through the crisis, everything's great. | ||
| The supply of order is high. | ||
| Everybody's happy. | ||
| There's social cohesion and aligned values and strong institutions. | ||
| But as the demand for order collapses, you have a period of fragmenting individuality. | ||
| You have our 60s and 70s, and then the institutions start to fray. | ||
| And things get bad. | ||
| And the supply of order collapses as well. | ||
| And it gets so bad that society demands new order. | ||
| And what's interesting about the fourth turning is that it usually is not supplied by the people who are in power. | ||
| It's about people who step up and fill the vacuum. | ||
| And so when we have this crisis, it doesn't have to be war. | ||
| Maybe it's war. | ||
| It seems like the world is begging for war right now. | ||
| Everybody but America. | ||
| But hang on. | ||
| But this is what Trump is. | ||
| In every time of the turnings in the United States and throughout kind of world history, look at the thing. | ||
| When you build up into the crisis phase, it always comes to because the system is not able to save itself, no matter how much people try, even the new people, that it ends up in some sort of catastrophic physical conflict that then you can then rebuild after that. | ||
| Is that what President Trump now, his raison d'etre, is to stop the kinetic part of the Third World War? | ||
| And this is not a, oh, we're going to stop. | ||
| The Third World War started. | ||
| The conflict in Ukraine and the Middle East is bloodier than from 1939, the invasion of Poland, until the Germans invaded Russia in 1941. In those two-year period, this is much bloodier. | ||
| It's much more conflict. | ||
| Trump's trying to stop that. | ||
| Can Trump stop and actually go through a turning without without spinning out of control the catastrophic consequences that history tells us is inevitable, sir? | ||
| I don't know if we're out of the woods yet, and I don't know if even Trump navigates this perfectly, if society or the world will still demand it. | ||
| But what the fourth turning tells us is that whatever this is over the next couple years, when we get on the other side of it, social cohesion will be high. | ||
| Institutional strength will be very high. | ||
| There will be a reordering of things. | ||
| And so we have to get to that point. | ||
| And what it says is that there's a massive swing in public opinion that allows that to happen, something even bigger than what happened in September of 2001. And I look for signs in that in all of my data, and I can tell you the collapsing trust in the government, which pretty much no other pollster wove into all of their polling, was the leading edge of this. | ||
| That's why the Democrats lost. | ||
| It wasn't because Kamala Harris was a bad candidate. | ||
| It's because she was the government candidate and the government was weaponized against the people. | ||
| And so this 18 to 39-year-old signal, this rapid, rapid flip, I think it's a response to Doge and what Doge is uncovering. | ||
| And I don't think it's completely been socialized yet. | ||
| And so what we have is this... | ||
| Huge turd. | ||
| This huge crap sandwich that America has to figure out how to deal with, to choke down. | ||
| I don't think the normies know that maybe there's a trillion dollars being stolen out of Social Security and Medicare every year. | ||
| That literally, a huge chunk of our own GDP is lining the pockets of criminals all over the world, including in Washington, D.C. And you're just starting to see signs that things are going south down there. | ||
| I've been monitoring search terms on Google Trends and the stuff you're seeing in Washington, D.C. Criminal defense attorney, the search volume in D.C. is 8 to 10 times higher than in all of Google's history and bigger than the next highest 11 states the last time I checked. | ||
| And then searches are through the roof on things like treason, statute of limitations, immunity, extradition. | ||
| And so I think it's way worse than anybody knows. | ||
| And I don't know how much of that gets socialized. | ||
| But if I were Trump, your average press conference isn't enough. | ||
| Last night, what I was looking for is signs about, is this information coming? | ||
| Because we're tapped in. | ||
| We're the politicos. | ||
| We know how bad it is. | ||
| Normies don't. | ||
| The normies are like, yeah, okay, there's chaos. | ||
| I'm getting my Axios push notifications. | ||
| Yeah, Doge uncovered some waste. | ||
| Yeah, I thought there was waste. | ||
| But no, this is way. | ||
| This is way, way, way worse. | ||
| Our own intel agencies were turned against the American people to enable fraud, to enable theft of generational wealth of the richest and most powerful nation in the history of the earth. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| It's crazy how demonic it is. | ||
| You're right. | ||
| It's demonic. | ||
| And these people will sit there. | ||
| And sleep well at night because of the hubris. | ||
| They think they deserve it. | ||
| They think they're better than you. | ||
| That's the entire culture of Washington, D.C. You can see it every place you look. | ||
| You go to Reddit. | ||
| You look at Reddit Fed News. | ||
| You look at all of these people being fired. | ||
| And okay, I feel bad for you. | ||
| But you're awfully entitled. | ||
| You thought you were going to get 100% job security your entire life. | ||
| You think you're better than all of the people in the private sector that have to deal with this every day? | ||
| It absolutely reeks. | ||
| It's perverse. | ||
| And I don't know what American public opinion is going to do with it, but we're going to be measuring it. | ||
| It could be crazy. | ||
| We're already starting to try and look at one of the questions we did. | ||
| We like to do R&D here. | ||
| And so we asked U.S. likely voters, how often do federal government workers act like government gangsters? | ||
| Hang on one second. | ||
| I want to hold the punchline. | ||
| Dave Bratt, Mark Mitchell with us here in the War Room. | ||
| We're going to leave you with the right stuff about America, about peak America. | ||
| A classic book by Tom Wolfe, a classic movie by Philip Kaufman, an Academy Award winning music by Conti. | ||
| Short break, 90 seconds. |
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