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Jan. 27, 2025 - The Dan Bongino Show
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The Rock-'Em-Sock-'Em Presidency (Ep. 2409) - 01/27/2025
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Thank you.
You know, let me tell you kind of a funny story.
So, I'll do a weekend update, but this is just kind of out of left field.
I get a call from a media reporter last week, and he wants to talk about how stories bubble up in the whole MAGA ecosystem, of which, obviously, we're the biggest portion of it.
We are.
We're just the biggest show, so that's just a fact.
So he calls me.
It was an Axios guy.
And we'll see what they write.
You know, it's probably going to be the same piece.
But whatever.
We'll see.
But, you know, I've started to talk to some of these people more.
And the logic behind it is this.
Excuse me.
My voice is still struggling from the inaugural crud that went around last week that everybody got.
But the gist of every piece, of course, is going to be these right-wing crazy conspiracy theorists, whatever.
They write the same piece every time.
But I figure I might as well get my shots in, too, you know?
So we'll see what they write.
But he wanted to see how these stories percolate up from the MAGA ecosystem up into bureaucrats, politicians, maybe even Donald Trump, right?
So it's fascinating to watch our...
You know our Rock'em Sock'em Robots theory of Donald Trump?
It is fascinating.
We found the red guy, by the way, and he's not broken.
The blue guy, he's just been getting decimated lately, of course.
The red guy keeps winning.
Red Rocker?
You mean we put Donald Trump on the back of that?
We know.
We need to put a Donald Trump face on that.
Somebody get on that.
People in the mainstream media are now picking up our Rock'em Sock'em Robots narrative.
I'm going to show you that in the beginning.
Got a weekend update.
It's good to be back with you.
I was struggling a little bit on Friday, but I felt good enough to do the show.
That crud at the inauguration was vicious.
Mike Benz is sick now, too.
I don't know what was going around.
The day, like, did the Biden team on the way out, like, spray the sky with some deadly pathogen or something?
But I feel great.
Saturday morning, I woke up, felt better, and it's just, you know, the recovery thing always takes a little bit to get your voice fully back.
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All right, fellas.
Monday show.
Let's go.
First bell of the week.
So it is good to be back with you all.
Had a really busy weekend.
A quick weekend update.
I don't do it often.
Only on Mondays.
Don't want to bore you with my stories.
But sometimes they're interesting.
So it took my brother Joe and my daughter Amelia and my wife, obviously Paula.
We went down to the Auburn-Tennessee basketball game.
I love you all in Tennessee.
It was so nice to see you.
Keep that picture up for a minute.
It was nice to see you all.
You see the lovely Paula.
You see my daughter Amelia, who looks exactly like Paula.
You see my brother Joe, who, yes, is a cloning experiment gone awry.
He's not my twin.
He's actually five years younger than me.
The fact that we look alike, I think, is a compliment to me.
You better have a talk with Joe about that because he's actually younger than me.
That is obviously me to the left.
And in the middle is a great Auburn coach.
Bruce Pearl, he let us watch the shoot-around at the beginning of the game.
I ran into so many awesome Tennessee folks because the volunteers were playing in Auburn.
In Hamilton's restaurant, I went to Hamilton's and Lucy's, two of my favorite restaurants.
Lucy's always great.
Hamilton's, I met the owner there, one of the owners and managers over there.
What a great guy.
Super nice.
And while in Hamilton's, I met some Tennessee fans, and they were super nice to me, so I love you guys.
Big, huge win by Auburn.
It wasn't the prettiest game, defensive game.
Miles Kelly hit a three-pointer to win the game with about 27 seconds left.
It was one of the most amazing sports games I've been to in a long time.
And to watch my brother and my daughter Amelia and my wife so happy and my daughter Amelia jumping on me.
It's why I love sports.
You get to enjoy something with a bunch of people and forget about the world for a minute.
It was a lot of fun.
So there's my weekend update.
Folks, a lot happened this weekend.
When the Bongino Army marshals, like we did for Pete Hegseth, I can't tell you how proud I am when we do it, and getting Pete Hegseth through, and the Bongino Army being a big part of that, I gotta tell you all out there, sincerely, candidly, from the bottom of, as I always say, my sometimes broken heart, look at me.
I love you guys.
And I deeply appreciate what you did.
And I'm gonna tell you something.
I know Pete Hegseth, Secretary Hegseth.
Gosh, that sounds good.
Secretary Hegseth feels the exact same way.
And I know his lovely wife Jen feels the same way too.
Thank you.
But ladies and gentlemen, our mission isn't done.
Thank you Bongino Army for Pete.
But now we have to move on to cash.
Pete's got his own mission now.
Secretary Hegseth is going to clean up.
Our broken military leadership and make it the most lethal killing machine in the world from now to perpetuity.
But now it's time to move on to Kash Patel.
We can't just sit here and celebrate and crack the bubbly.
But this reporter reached out and asked me, he's starting to figure out, this guy who reached out from Axios, that the Bongino army is a little more powerful than people think.
We're kind of like, I don't know guys, tell me in the chat if I'm crazy.
I'm watching you guys over here.
What do we got?
We're about to break $100,000.
We're only eight minutes in, okay?
Which is just pretty freaking amazing for a live stream at 11 o'clock in the morning, so thank you.
We're like the Ninja Army, okay?
There are other shows out there.
This is...
I don't want to say...
It sounds like a dick move.
There are great shows out there with people who really love the president, who do a wonderful job.
They get a lot of attention from the media.
The Bongino show is...
A strange cat, because the media hates us so much, they kind of avoid us.
So we get to creep up.
We're like the ninjas.
We get to creep up on them.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, you've got the samurais on the battlefield, and everybody notices them with their battle armor, beautiful battle armor, their gleaming swords, and they look scary.
Paint their faces, everything.
You see the samurai, and you're like, my gosh.
And the samurai were impressive, right?
We're kind of like the ninjas.
We creep up on you.
You never see us coming.
But I gotta warn you, the media's starting to notice.
So the good side is, the Bongino army, everybody's starting to notice, hey, we're the real deal.
The bad side is, we're not gonna be able to creep up on anyone anymore.
So congratulations.
Can we get a ninja?
Oh, someone did it already!
Who did it?
Oh my gosh, I just missed you.
I'm sorry, I was scrolling down.
Oh, Lynn2456.
With the ninja emoji.
That is you guys.
That is you guys and ladies out there.
We're like ninjas.
And I'm just kind of proud of that.
But I'm not sure it's going to last long.
You know what?
Let's go to the ninja emojis all over the place.
Don't make me laugh today.
My voice is still recovering.
Hey, I'm going to reverse this a little bit.
Hold that Caroline Levitt thing for a second.
Can you go to the Peggy Noonan article?
Here's what I'm talking about by the Bongino Army and how powerful you guys are.
Peggy Noonan is no fan of Donald Trump, okay?
She writes for the Wall Street Journal.
I'm going to tell you something.
I like her work.
I read it.
You don't need to be an acolyte of me or Bannon or Trump for me to like your work.
I enjoy reading her stuff, even if I don't agree with her, okay?
Peggy Noonan has this piece called The White House Wonder Horse, talking about how Trump is now at the top of his powers.
She doesn't like the guy, but in a good piece, and it's worth your time.
She notes Trump's at the top of his power, the top of his game.
He used to be testy and aggrieved with reporters.
Because he yearned for their admiration.
Maybe, maybe not.
But the second part is definitely true.
Now he treats these reporters with patience and calm because he doesn't care about them.
She notes Trump has his own thing going.
If they don't like him, it's their problem with their puny little numbers and shrinking networks.
Keep in mind, this lady does not like Donald Trump.
But man, whether he yearned for their admiration, I'm not sure that's true.
It's their opinion, whatever.
The second part is undoubtedly true.
Do you notice he's different with the media now?
He's not in the tussle anymore.
He basically just ignores their stupidity, makes fun of them, and moves on to the next question because he's like, no one's watching, you idiots.
Anyway, here's the part I was talking about, though.
Where do you think this came from?
She notes for four years it's going to be a non-stop, 24-7 Rock'em Sock'em.
God bless our beloved country.
History ahead.
Everybody hold on tight.
Folks, who fixed the Rock'em Sock'em?
Did you guys just creep over here?
Or is that like a ghost who did?
Oh, you did?
Oh, I was going to say like, wow, that is weird.
Oh, so there's another Rock'em Sock'em?
Oh, hold on.
Folks, I didn't even know we had a backup Rock'em Sock'em robots.
I was like, how did they just do that?
So, the red guy right here, this is Donald Trump.
Here's the media.
Every single time.
Here, wait, body slam.
Remember when Hogan, what was it, WrestleMania 3 or something, when he body slammed Andre the Giant?
Was it the silver door?
Andre actually jumped onto Hogan, but whatever.
This is going to be every single time.
The blue dude just bounced up in here.
Folks, we're in charge now.
All right, did she take the Rock'em Sock'em robots from her?
I don't know.
Who cares?
It doesn't even matter.
I'm just telling you, you guys are way ahead of the news cycle, and so is the damn bunch of, you know, show.
A couple things happened, and by the way, I told you, a lot of people challenged me in the primary.
Donald Trump's going to be a lame duck.
I said, you're missing the point.
There we are.
Rock'em Sock'em's in the chat room.
Populate that chat room, folks.
I told you during the primary, you're reading this all wrong.
Donald Trump will never be a lame duck until Donald Trump, on the unfortunate day we lose him from this earth, like we'll lose everyone else, okay?
He will never be a lame duck.
His political power will outlast his presidency.
He started a revolution no different than the founding of the Republican Party.
And if you don't see it, That's your problem.
That's not on us.
We're ahead of the news cycle.
You guys are always trailing on us.
He's not a lame duck.
He's a guy who learned from four years and now has two years, plus another two after the midterms, to change his country for the better.
You saw it this weekend.
There are still world leaders, notably the president of Colombia, who is a socialist, and this is very personal to me.
My wife...
Was a Colombian citizen up until 10 years ago.
She's now a U.S. citizen.
I've been to Colombia many times.
It is a beautiful country.
I highly, highly recommend if you want to go down and travel.
It's a beautiful place.
Casca Viejo is incredible to visit.
Colombia is an amazing...
By the way, it's spelled with C-O-L-O. A lot of people are spelling it C-O-L-U. It's C-O-L-O. So you don't want the people doing the spellcheck thing on Twitter for you.
Colombia is a beautiful place.
The president of Colombia now, Gustavo Petro, is a socialist.
So Donald Trump said, we are sending back Colombian citizens, by the way, who entered the United States illegally.
We do a lot for Colombia.
The simple answer and the correct answer and the right answer for Gustavo Petro was, okay, we will take care of our citizens.
No different than if an American...
I'd done something wrong in Colombia and was in the country illegally.
They sent him back.
We would take care of it here.
But that's not what Gustavo Petro decided to do.
He said, no, no, you're not going to land that plane of our citizens here.
He doesn't understand.
This is the around and find out presidency.
And Gustavo Petro is in a stage one of effing around.
And he just found out.
Caroline Levitt notes on her tweet, the Colombian president who decided they would not.
Basically, let the flights land, has now agreed to all of President Trump's terms.
Ladies and gentlemen, President Trump, what's the word I tell you all to remember about President Trump every single time?
He is transactional.
You understand?
Transactional.
He does not get emotional.
He gets passionate.
That's not the same thing.
He does not get overly emotional about things.
I should say, he doesn't, let me describe better, he doesn't let his passion dictate And his emotions and passion override his transactional nature.
These guys are criminals from Colombia, invaded our country illegally?
Well, why are we keeping them?
Send them back to Colombia.
He doesn't want to take them.
Okay, tariffs on the country.
Okay, now he wants to take them.
Okay, thanks.
Move on.
I'm telling you, media people, others, we said it a couple weeks ago.
Language alert, man.
This is the fuck around and find out presidency.
Are we going to win another four years?
All I'm telling you is the media and commies and socialists out there, you were stuck with us for four years.
And you better get used to the find out portion because you're barely in stage one.
You're getting ready for the find out portion if you're a...
Military leader, too, obsessed with DEI and not obsessed with lethality.
Our military is one job.
There's the bad guy.
Kill them before they kill us.
That's their job.
That's why they're freaking out about Pete Hegseth.
Thank you to the Bongino Army again.
Secretary Hegseth in charge now.
Moving on to cash.
We've got to get that done.
But I want you to listen to this.
Secretary Hegseth at a swearing-in ceremony spoke briefly about his three principles for the military.
Short, it's about a minute, but it's worth your time.
This is a clarion call moment.
I want you to listen to all three of these things.
And if you're not a crazy, sick, liberal lunatic, tell me which one of these three you disagree with.
Check this out.
We will put America first.
We will bring peace through strength.
And the three principles I talked about are what we will bring to that Pentagon.
Restore the warrior ethos in everything that we do.
Rebuild our military.
And reestablish deterrence.
We don't want to fight wars.
We want to deter them, as you said.
And we want to end them responsibly.
But if we need to fight them, we're going to bring overwhelming and decisive force to close with and destroy the enemy and bring our voice.
We are not going to prolong wars.
We are not going to prolong wars by running politically correct houses.
We are going to do everything we can to stay out of wars.
And we should.
Pete Hegseth is not what we would call an interventionist in the traditional, I hate the term, neocon way.
Pete Hegseth, however, is not stupid and realizes the United States does have to secure sea lanes, open trade, open travel.
The world requires it, and if you're going to F around with us, you are going to find out.
But what Pete is saying is you're going to find out quick, shock and awe, you're going to find out quick, and it is going to be decisive.
There's not going to be any more dicking around.
It's not going to be any more PC wars.
There's going to be overwhelming force, and the enemy is going to die quickly.
That's it.
Pete's three principles there.
Secretary Hegg said.
Sorry, it's going to take a little getting used to.
I promise you, zero disrespect intended.
And it's not one of these humble brags.
No, Pete.
A lot of people know Pete.
Secretary Hegg said.
It's proper.
It reminds me of Fox Connors' Rules of War.
Fox Connors' Rules of War, very simple.
And I encourage the secretary and others, they know about them, they don't need to hear them from me, but digest all of them.
Never go to war alone.
Never go to war for long and never go to war unless we absolutely have to.
You apply those to Secretary Hegses.
Now, three principles here of lethality and how we're going to build our military and we're going to not only build up our military, but if we get involved, we are going to get involved to win and win decisively.
And ladies and gentlemen, you've got an unbeatable formula in the world's greatest military for to establish American dominance again.
Here was President Trump.
On the confirmation of now Secretary Hegseth.
Quick 20 seconds on it.
President Trump gets it.
He knows he picked the right guy.
And thank you again, Bongino Army, for getting this done.
You guys and ladies are the best out there.
Listen to this.
Check this out.
I think Pete's going to be a great Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth.
And we're honored to have him.
Did you say you were speaking to him on the phone?
No, I did speak to Pete, yeah, in the plane, in the helicopter.
I think Pete is going to be a great secretary.
Are you disappointed that McConnell voted no?
I didn't even know that.
No, I don't know that.
I just heard that we won.
Winning is what matters, right?
Catch up in the chat.
Mitch McConnell will always be a sellout, traitor to the U.S., and snake in the grass.
Of course, McConnell voting no on now's Secretary Hague said.
McConnell's all about party unity until it's about McConnell, and he can make a fake statement.
McConnell's a fraud.
He's always been a fraud.
Sick of McConnell.
A couple of good things he did, the filibuster fight, that's it.
But it doesn't compensate for his attacks on people like Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, and elsewhere.
I'm tired of him.
Rakowski, of course, a total joke.
I'll keep telling.
By the way, whoever is the guy on Twitter, because I follow a lot of your traffic, guys.
This is like an interactive type of show.
I want to make sure you guys and I are vibing.
Who said Dan Bongino said Collins is great or Collins shouldn't be primary or something.
Do you guys remember that on the show?
Can you pull that segment for me?
He's like, no, we can't because that segment never happened.
That's not what I said.
Because then a thousand people responded, I never trusted that guy.
Well, that's great, because I'm not that guy, so you can trust the other guy.
My take on Collins is this.
Nothing to do with, you want a primary, you'll go right ahead.
My take on Collins is we have enough, we have a limited amount of political capital to get things done.
Wasting a lot of time on Collins in a blue state.
Is not the best way to move the ball forward when we can spend a lot of time and effort getting rid of Murkowski and McConnell in freaking red states.
That's what I'm saying.
Nobody ever said don't ever primary.
Where did you hear that on the show?
If you can pull that, I'd be quite impressed because it never happened.
I'm not defending Collins.
She's always going to screw us over.
But you're not going to do any better in Maine.
You want to go up there and spend a billion dollars on a seat we're likely going to lose rather than getting rid of McConnell and Murkowski and getting real Republicans in there?
That's your call.
Do you not trust the plan?
The plan I told you in the last election, did it work?
Everybody we had on the show, Bernie Moreno, John Tester, these guys won.
Dave McCormick.
Trust your boy.
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Folks, just quickly, America is so back, and it is a Monday.
I actually enjoy Monday because I've got bottled up energy from the weekend, as you can always see, and I enjoy the weekend update.
But did you see that?
Does anyone know who this young man is?
I was a kid, but this young man is.
He's playing the national anthem like Jimi Hendrix style at a school auditorium.
And man, this reminds me of Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix.
You guys see this?
Just take a little quick listen to this thing.
*music* Oh, sorry.
Man, can that kid play.
I saw there was a thing, a banner up there that said Union and the Cot Tigers.
So, Young Patriot, I don't know your name.
Does anyone in the chat know his name?
We usually get someone.
Anyone?
Because we got 145,000 people here, so surely somebody knows his name.
Wait, wait, wait.
Stevie, is that his name?
Is that right?
I don't know.
If you guys know this guy, just send him our love.
That is just an amazing...
It goes on.
You should see it.
I think I retweeted it on my X feed.
So, America's back.
Want to get you in the mood on Monday.
We got a lot more to talk about.
Not just Pete.
Not just what happened in Columbia.
Not just the Rock'em Sock'em Robots Peggy Noonan article.
But there were some big interviews this weekend.
Vice President J.D. Vance did his first vice presidential interview.
Listen, I saw a couple people commenting on Twitter that, friends of mine too, that he should have done a conservative outlet first.
You know, This is one of those things where it pains me to say it, but I actually disagree.
Why does it pain me to say this?
Because, number one, the people who are saying it, I really love.
But second, I feel like we should have gotten the first interview because we really went hard for J.D. Vance.
But I've got to be straight with you, folks.
I can't get emotional about this stuff.
I'm an outcomes-based guy.
J.D. Vance doesn't need to convince our audience he's the guy.
He needs to convince a squishy 5-6% of the population to get behind this legislative agenda.
And truth be told, he's so good at just politically destroying left-wing media narratives that he's far better off on these shows.
He just is.
It pains me to say I would have loved to get the first interview, but that's not the way that, you know, as Miss Guilfeather used to say, my fifth grade teacher, the cookie crumbles.
Here he is in his interview on CBS with Margaret Brennan.
And again, just absolutely destroying this ridiculous narrative that because immigrants partook in the creation of the United States and its wealth, which happens in every country on earth, that we have to, that we're then obligated to continue a destructive and dangerous immigration policy.
These two things are non-sequiturs.
Margaret Bennett thinks she gets him on this one.
Watch J.D. just blow this thing out.
Check this out.
This is a very unique country, and it was founded by some immigrants and some settlers, but just because we were founded by immigrants doesn't mean that 240 years later that we have to have the dumbest immigration policy in the world.
Thank you, J.D. And you know what I find fascinating about this question?
This is how you're going to address this, okay?
Well, that sounded very, uh, sounded like a kind of a dick there.
This is how you should address this with your liberal friends if you have any left.
We're in a country built by immigrants.
Well, no kidding.
They did play a role in creating this country.
As J.D. accurately said, there were some settlers, there were Native Americans, there were other people here.
Every country on earth has had people cross the border and we're naturally travelers and a lot of people can be very nomadic.
Okay, this has nothing to do with anything.
The question is, what's the most effective immigration policy for the United States?
But that's not the point.
When they bring up the country who's built by immigrants, you know what you should say to them?
You ready?
Write this down.
You know, it's fascinating how you guys only seem to like history when it fits your narrative.
Crazy, right?
Chad, tell me I'm wrong.
Every other bit of our history, positive and negative, they want to wipe out.
Everything.
Statues.
The Civil War, even though we fought for people's independence, well, other people fought against it.
Right, but the good side won.
The good side won.
They don't care about our history at all.
They want to wipe all of our history clean.
Until it comes to a narrative that we should have open borders, they're like, oh, no, no, no, the place was built by immigrants.
And here's the interesting, here's another one, I didn't even think of this.
You know, they're always talking about white rage and white privilege.
You know, it's fascinating because a lot of the settlers who built this place that you call immigrants were actually people you claimed to hate who had so-called white privilege.
Fascinating how you guys change the argument all the time.
JD is right.
Excuse me, Vice President Vance.
100% right.
Dumbest freaking policy ever.
Here's another big LOL moment.
Margaret Brennan from CBS. These are just stupid gotcha questions.
Here's the problem with gotcha questions with Vice President Vance.
He's smarter than these idiots.
It's really, it's like your 12-year-old playing tic-tac-toe with you and thinking they caught you.
It's not gonna, it's like fetch.
It's not gonna happen.
Here she is ridiculously trying to claim that immigrants from some of these terror-prone countries are somehow vetted as if the Taliban has like a DMV. Crime system where they can go into full terror databases and vet people before they come here.
This is really stupid.
Check this out.
In August, you said, I don't think we should abandon anybody who's been properly vetted and helped us.
Do you stand by that?
Well, Margaret, I don't agree that all these immigrants or all these refugees have been properly vetted.
In fact, we know that there are cases of people who allegedly were properly vetted and then were literally planning terrorist attacks on our country.
That happened during the campaign, if you may remember.
So clearly not all of these foreign nationals have been properly vetted.
No, but there are 30,000 people in the pipeline.
Afghan refugees.
But my primary concern as the Vice President, Margaret, is to look after the American people.
And now that we know that we have vetting problems with a lot of these refugee programs, we absolutely cannot unleash thousands of unvetted people into our country.
It's not good.
These people are vetted.
Just like the guy who planned a terrorist attack in Oklahoma a few months ago, he was allegedly properly vetted.
And many people in the media and the Democratic Party said that he was properly vetted.
Clearly he wasn't.
I don't want my children to share a neighborhood with people who are not properly vetted.
And because I don't want it for my kids, I'm not going to force any other American citizens' kids to do that either.
No, and that was a very particular case.
It wasn't clear if he was radicalized when he got here or while he was living here.
I don't really care, Margaret.
I don't want that person in my country.
And I think most Americans agree with me.
Where is Justin Bobby?
This is my birthday present from Justin.
Here it is.
There it is.
You know what that is?
It's a people's elbow.
That's a people's elbow.
Get it up in the chat.
People's elbow right now.
It could be.
You know what this is?
He got me this one.
It's Karate Man!
I don't know what it is.
Maybe it's both.
Maybe it's the people's elbow, then she gets up all day, and Karate Man strikes after that.
That's a, that's a, it's the greatest of all combos.
It's like, it's the equivalent of like a seven-monthly thing.
Like, it's never happened.
But it could have been the first time.
So much so, that a rallying cry, a rallying cry for Republicans has now become today, if you've seen the, have you guys seen the giffies?
The giffies are out there.
Oh, you fixed them?
Look at this.
They put the liberal carrot guy and the Trump face on him.
This is freaking crazy.
We got the Rock'em.
Oh my gosh, we like really smashed up the Rock'em Sock'em guy.
Wait, we gotta keep Trump.
Here.
Trump Rock'em Sock'em.
Here, you stay here.
I wish the guy said, you like this guy?
Check him out.
This is like people's elbow.
Rock'em Sock'em.
I've never seen anything like this.
Is there anyone better at this than J.D.? Folks, the rallying cry on X is now, I don't care, Margaret.
Margaret's the new Karen.
I get it.
My name's Margaret.
My name's Dan.
Did you ever look at, like, the top names of dicks?
It's always Dan.
I'm sorry.
I like my name, Dan.
But people say most people with Dan are dicks or assholes.
So I get it.
I totally get it.
But I'm sorry.
Margaret's maybe the new Karen.
Karen is getting a reprieve.
I don't care, Margaret.
It's become the new rallying cry for Republicans.
What do we care if he was radicalized when he was here over there?
He shouldn't have been here.
Is that a hint?
You should have said something.
You know what you should have said, Guy?
You should.
You should have been like, how did you feel this weekend?
Didn't you have a problem on the trip?
Now you're stretching on that one.
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I'm not going to tell you what I can say.
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Dude, how did you get the Trump face on here so quick?
Did you cut that out over there?
That is, look at it.
Can you guys see that?
You can see that, right?
That is pretty awesome.
We have our own Rock'em Sock'em robot guy with the Trump face.
This is dedicated to Mr. President.
I know people give you a lot of stuff, but if you want to sign this, we will auction this off again and raise more money for charity.
I'm still going to auction off my Inauguration Day show.
I got to set that up with Guy.
We're all going to share.
We cut that check to Samaritan's Purse, by the way, for the baseball.
$55,000.
Samaritan's Purse sent us a lovely thank you letter, but it's not me.
The gentleman who bought the baseball, that was their money.
We're just the conduit.
But if we can raise money for charity, you ever want to sign this, Mr. President?
We will, I'm telling you, this thing will raise $75,000.
We'll give it again to Samaritan's Purse.
That's up to you.
But no one's going to pay $75,000.
Maybe if Justin signed it, we'll get $5,000.
What do you think?
If he doesn't sign, we'll have Justin sign.
We'll see how people want him.
It'll be a slight discount.
Slight discount.
Mexico is refusing to accept the U.S. deportation flight as Trump's immigration overhaul gets into full swing.
We saw this story in the New York Post.
Listen, guys, I'm just going to repeat over and over again.
This is the Rock'em Sock'em presidency, and it is also the FAFO presidency.
I get it.
It's sarcastic.
It's kind of meant to be, in some ways, humorous and entertaining as part of the educational portion of the show.
But I am dead serious at the premise of it.
That Donald Trump is not kidding around.
And if you know Donald Trump, even casually, the way a lot of people do, including some of the people here, he was never coming to office to mess around for four years.
He was coming into office to change this country.
And if you're not ready for the FO portion, he's going to make you ready real quick.
Here's what I love about this combo.
And when I say this combo, I'm talking about Vice President Vance and President Trump.
They have these contrasting styles, and it's absolute political gold to watch.
You've got, you know, J.D., who's kind of just this methodical, I really don't care, Margaret guy.
And then you've got President Trump, who is the necessary bulldozer, that kind of bull in the China shop we really, really needed.
And the contrast in styles is absolute gold.
Having said that, though, I think the Trump bulldozer style, one of the things that's lost about President Trump, and again, I don't want to over-exaggerate my relationship with him.
I hate that.
That drives me freaking nuts.
I told the Axios guy that.
I know him enough to see what he's like behind the scenes.
And you know Scott Adams, Dilbert, the famous comic Dilbert, he tweeted this out, and man, did this ring my bell because he's so right.
It's one of the Trump attributes that's frequently overlooked.
And he notes that Trump's least appreciated superpowers is listening skill.
Everyone who experiences it comes away impressed.
He never interrupts.
He's always focused and genuinely caring.
I don't want to spend a ton of time on this, but it's an important point, and I want to spend enough that you don't miss this.
If you were ever with him, I'm alone.
And when I say alone, I mean there's not a thousand staffers around.
I mean like you and him.
Because he's never really alone.
Secret Service and everything.
But you get my point.
If you're ever with him on a one-on-one, which I've only been a couple times, you know this is true.
He will sit there at a dinner table with you, like we did in Bedminster, and he will intently listen to everything you're saying.
And he is so eager to let you know he's listening to you that he'll ask questions that...
I don't even know if he really wants...
He just wants to make sure you know he's listening.
I don't know if that makes sense.
But, like, that's the kind of guy he is.
Why am I bringing this up?
Because you saw it this weekend in North Carolina in California.
You don't see him and Melania go into the devastated areas of North Carolina, Hurricane Helene, right?
And you don't see him making the event about him.
He makes the event about other people.
How can I prove it?
He's got a microphone in the entire world listening and he goes, hey, you want to come over and tell your story?
He does it all the time.
Folks, that's who Donald Trump is.
You know, his candid, frank, non-emotional kind of transactional nature, the actual sympathetic side of him gets lost often.
But I want to get back to the transactional bulldozer side, too, because that's important.
Because this government is way too broken to be fixed with niceties and cutesy time, and cutesy time is over.
There are California Democrats out there who created the conditions for this devastating wildfire with a bunch of policy initiatives, whether it's on water, bureaucratic management of the water supply, the lack of burn control.
It will only lead to another disaster.
For the United States government, and granted, by the way, California taxpayers are taxpayers too.
That's the way it goes.
However, for the federal government to give federal money to a California government that is only going to create more danger for California citizens is not helping California.
So Donald Trump wants California to clean up its election system so they can vote for people who will change things, but he wants them to fix the water, or we're going to pay them to create conditions for more fires.
Here's transactional Trump like, you know what, we'll consider some of this disaster money, of course, but you guys are going to have to fix some of these problems first.
And I say, good for transactional Trump.
Check this out.
Funding to Los Angeles because of its sanctuary city policy.
I want to see two things in Los Angeles.
Voter ID. So that the people have a chance to vote.
And I want to see the water be released and come down into Los Angeles and throughout the state.
Those are the two things.
After that, I will be the greatest president that California has ever seen.
I mean, look, he's got Newsom right next to him.
Dan, he hates Newsom.
Newsom hates him.
Guys, I'm going to sound like an asshole, but I can't tell you this enough.
Donald Trump is passionate, but he does not get emotional.
You know what a passionate but overly emotional person does?
I want that guy out of here.
And he makes a big deal about it.
You know what Donald Trump says?
This guy wants money from us.
He wants my ear for a few minutes.
All right, he's going to listen to this press conference in front of the world.
And he's going to make sure he hears all this stuff.
Newsom came greeting him at the plane.
That was actually before he went out there.
But you get the point.
This is his conditions.
That was before he left in North Carolina.
So excuse me.
But Newsom came out there.
He is a totally passionate, non-emotional guy.
Newsom wants to come out there and visit him?
Unexpectedly?
Whatever.
Fine.
Cool.
Here are my conditions.
Here he is again, confronting a number of Democrat congressmen.
It was Brad Sherman and then the L.A. mayor, the dreadful Karen Bass, who actually still has a job.
She should have resigned already.
It's just unbelievable.
She was in Ghana when the city was burning.
I mean, you're like Nero fiddling here.
Here's Donald Trump asking a question about FEMA. Folks, this is a real question that any transactional businessman would ask.
FEMA's screwed up the last four or five big disasters, okay?
They could have handled this thing a lot better.
It's overly bureaucratic.
The money flows in all the wrong directions.
Trump's asking a serious question.
You're like...
Why is the federal government managing local emergencies?
Why aren't the locals, maybe with federal support, managing local emergencies?
Why is the money flow?
I'm not saying the locals aren't.
I'm just saying, why is the money flow top-down when it should be coming from the bottom and staying at the bottom with the people who are hurting there?
Listen to this.
Check this out.
I'll also be signing an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally...
Reforming and overhauling FEMA or maybe getting rid of FEMA. I think, frankly, FEMA is not good.
I think when you have a problem like this, I think you want to go and whether it's a Democrat or Republican governor, you want to use your state to fix it and not waste time calling FEMA. And then FEMA gets here and they don't know the area.
They've never been to the area.
And they want to give you rules that you've never heard about.
They want to bring people that aren't as good as the people you already have.
And FEMA's turned out to be a disaster.
And you could go back a long way.
You could go back to Louisiana.
You could go back to some of the things that took place in Texas.
It turns out to be the state that ends up doing the work.
It just complicates it.
I think we're going to recommend that FEMA go away.
And we pay directly.
We pay a percentage to the state.
But the state should fix this.
If the state did this from the beginning, it would have been a lot better situation.
I think you guys agree with that, right?
I mean, I'll just change one thing.
We don't even need the money to go to the federal government where the government pays it to the states.
Just keep the money with the states.
How about we just lower the tax rates, let the state do their, most of them, as a matter of fact, all of them have some emergency management agencies, and just fortify them.
There's really no reason for it.
This is what a transactional president looks like.
FEMA's not working, so why do we have FEMA? Oh my gosh, you can't say that!
What is the government?
We need to be involved.
Why do you need to be involved?
I want to get to something that...
I got a ton of questions this weekend.
That's why I spent...
We're going to spend a little time on this topic.
That's why I left it for last.
I didn't tease at the beginning of the show.
But this is an important topic.
I got bombarded with media.
People this weekend asking me about this because of my time in the Secret Service there.
Donald Trump decided this weekend that they should pull security details from a number of people.
John Bolton, Anthony Fauci.
So, of course, given my security background, I didn't answer anyone.
Of course, on this thing.
Because I was going to handle it on my show.
Because you know I'm going to be misquoted on it anyway.
So in the case of that, I just left it.
But I want you to watch this first.
I'm going to explain to you what's really going on here.
And why this is not an easy decision.
But there's no good or bad here.
There's only bad and worse.
Okay?
And the worst decision was to give people security details for the rest of their lives.
Okay?
Especially here.
This is going to cost a lot of money.
First, listen to Trump on this.
Check this out.
You know, they all made a lot of money.
They can hire their own security, too.
All the people you're talking about, they can go out.
I can give them some good numbers of very good security people.
They can hire their own security.
They all made a lot of money.
Fauci made a lot of money.
They all did.
So if they felt that strongly, I think that certainly I would not take responsibility.
You see with the media narrative, they're already starting to seed kind of the field here to let the narrative grow and they're going to water it.
That if something happens, it's your fault.
Notice now that the Biden-aligned management of the Secret Service, when they cut funds from Donald Trump and he got shot in the head and almost shot again, that that wasn't the narrative at all in the left-wing media.
So media people can take the double-barrel middle finger and shit up, okay?
Forget their narratives.
Ignore it.
Move on.
They're going to say that no matter what.
It's Donald Trump's fault.
Nobody wants anything to happen.
I absolutely, resolutely condemn any violence directed at people with the purest of hearts.
Spent my entire life putting my safety on the line.
That'd be dramatic, but you get the point.
To protect people I didn't like politically.
So no one's going to lecture me on this.
However, folks, there are thousands of people in the United States government that because they take these positions understand there's going to be a security threat they're going to have to mitigate.
I wish it weren't the case, but it is.
The government does not have the time, the resources, the money to give perpetual security details.
For the rest of their lives to all of these people.
I'm going to give you an example of what I mean.
That no one in the media will address.
What's Dr. Fauci's security threat level?
The answer is I don't know.
I haven't seen the threat assessments.
I hope it's not high.
But it may be.
I don't know.
I hope it isn't.
But I can tell you for a fact that some assistant United States attorneys and United States attorneys I worked with FBI agents and agents who prosecuted the mob and terrorists, their threat levels threw the roof.
There's one particular guy, I'm not going to say his name, but he was involved deeply in the Gambino crime family thing, very deeply.
There were threats against his life for a long time.
Let me give you another guy who had some threats against him that were relayed by a United States Attorney's Office.
It's in Maryland.
I'm not sure if you can FOIA it or figure if it's on record, but it should be.
This guy.
I worked a big fraud case.
And one of the people involved in the case, they overheard him on, I don't know if it was like a prison call or if it was a recorded phone call, talking about how I was trouble for them and basically need to get rid of me.
Folks, it's part of the job.
I wish it weren't, but...
You know, sometimes you...
What about police officers out there who lock up neighborhood bad guys?
They don't get a security detail.
We cannot afford a security detail for every single person who goes into government, law enforcement, or intelligence and has threats against them.
We just can't.
It's something you accept as part of the job.
By the way, me included.
I wish it weren't the case, but it is.
Second.
There's an opportunity cost to this.
You're going to give 1020 U.S. Marshals, 1020 Secret Service guys, 1020 Capitol Police guys to an expanding portfolio of protectees, as we call them, then what happens?
That's less people to protect the President, Speaker, and others.
This is not a freebie.
Folks, we don't have time.
We don't have money.
We don't have the ability to do this.
It's not an easy call.
But in a world of bad and worse choices, it was the only one.
They can't have security details the rest of their lives.
You're going to give them to all the United States attorneys too?
What about Supreme Court justices?
Forever, for the rest of their lives?
Everybody's going to have a security detail.
It's going to cost us $20-30 billion to secure the whole known universe of bureaucrats.
Speaking of which, on the security front, I'm going to give a little shout-out to the advance team and the people on the Trump transition team who managed to pull this off.
Having personal experience with doing this, what we would call OTRs, off-the-record movements, like last-minute changes to the schedule, I can't believe how they pulled this off.
There's a story in The Daily Caller, Henry Rogers, good guy, good reporter out there, talks about how they basically took about three or four days.
To transform the inauguration from an outdoor to this indoor event in a rotunda and how a group of young Trump staffers executed his inaugural vision.
It's a good piece to read, but ladies and gentlemen, when you're doing an advance like the inauguration to put you behind the scenes and you're an agent working with a White House staffer or a transition team staffer in the case of the Trump transition team, the inauguration is, I kid you not, a four to six month minimum endeavor.
It is a massive enterprise.
Credentialing, airspace, tactical mitigation, a medical plan, weather issues, motorcades, counter-sniper, counter-surveillance.
It is an enormous plan.
To move that thing last minute indoors, which sounds easier, with three days?
Can you imagine all the access control issues and all of the credentialing that had to be changed?
It is a nightmare.
So, pat on the back.
To the Secret Service guys, you know, Matt McCool, the Washington field office, and the advance guys from the detail who made that happen, and the Trump advance team who made it happen.
It's impressive, folks.
When you do kind of an off-the-record movement, nobody knows, and you switch it at the last minute.
Everybody in the world knew we were changing it to inside, and they still pulled it off anyway.
A couple more stories I want to get to in the remaining few minutes I have with you.
This is important.
I need you all to be very careful about This Vladimir Putin clip.
It's been making its way around the internet.
I would be very cautious about this, extremely cautious.
The Russians are known for playing us.
They are trying to create division here.
Folks, I don't care if they say something that sounds like it's targeted to you and you think it comports with something you want to hear.
They're playing us, always.
And you should disregard this stuff.
But it's making its way around the internet now.
Check this out.
If he had been the president, if the victory wasn't stolen from him in 2020, maybe the Ukrainian crisis that arose in 2022 should have never appeared.
I'm just telling you, yes, 2020 was absolutely stolen.
I believe that.
I mean, it's hard to prove it counterfactual.
However, We've talked about this extensively, but there's no question this guy is using buzzwords to try to get your attention because he knows he's in trouble right now.
Just be careful here and be cautious.
Don't let these people play you with this nonsense, and I know you won't.
All right, we got an update, folks.
Throw it up on the screen.
Remember our...
I know the white doesn't show well on camera.
Is that...
List...
List of media hoaxes.
We have, first of course, Elon is a Nazi.
Remember, Elon came out to basically say hello and thank people.
They called him a Nazi.
We have an update.
Throw it up on the screen if you would, guys.
I'm going to do this live.
Bill Malugian.
Chicago public schools falsely claim they blocked ICE officers from entering a school.
The narrative took off.
Turns out it wasn't ICE. It was Secret Service agents investigating a threat.
So, number two.
Writing this down.
Chicago, ICE, raids, and schools.
So, we are a week plus into the Trump team.
And ladies and gentlemen, we've got an update to the board already.
This is not good, and I'm going to tell you why.
Because we were going to try to keep all the hoaxes to one whiteboard.
But we are only a week plus in, and Justin says you're going to have to start writing a whole lot smaller, but then you can't see it on the camera.
So we're not erasing anything.
We may have to go with multiple boards.
But hoax two, and it's only been a couple of days.
We will keep track.
That is going to be the formal list going forward.
In the new studio?
That's a good idea.
You know what?
We'll get like a whiteboard chalkboard.
That's a good idea.
I love that idea.
Remember Glenn Beck used to do that?
That's a cool idea.
I like that.
Good idea, Justin.
New studio opening soon, by the way.
You guys want to come for a live show?
How do you feel about that?
We got a little mini golf thing on the side in case you want to challenge Justin.
Justin's like Arnold Palmer, man.
He's really good.
Did you know that?
He's like, really?
I'm like, no, not really.
Just made that up.
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