May 6, 2021 - Triggered - Donald Trump Jr
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| What's the game plan here? | |
| What do you think? What's the Trump family going to be doing? | |
| Listen, we're going to stay involved. | |
| Hey, we're obviously going back into business and doing the things that we do that way. | |
| I mean, I know for me, I'm going to stay involved in the politics because, frankly, you have to. | |
| There's too much at stake. I'm the father of five young kids. | |
| I want them to grow up in an America that I recognize. | |
| I want them to enjoy the freedoms that we've, until recently, held so dearly. | |
| I mean, that's what's sort of scary, especially in the last year. | |
| The willingness of people to sort of just say, you know what? | |
| I'm going to let a bureaucrat decide what's best for me. | |
| Who cares? Don't worry about it. | |
| Maybe one day we'll get it back if we want it. | |
| That sort of, you know, the American public becoming sheep is really scary to me. | |
| And so, you know, if I can be a voice to help slow that spread, I'm going to do it. | |
| And, you know, I guess for better or worse, I mean, I guess I've been able to build up a decent name for myself within conservatism, mostly not because I'm so good at anything. | |
| But mostly because our bench is so weak. | |
| There's just not willing, you know, people willing to actually engage, to take on the fight, to be called names by, you know, the lovely people at CNN. I just don't care. | |
| And it makes, you know, that sort of freedom, it's sort of nice, because you can just go after and say the things that need to be said. | |
| You know, we need more people on our side doing that. | |
| Yeah, well, let me ask, is that a hint? | |
| Do you think that there is potentially a Donald Trump Jr., maybe actual political office run in the future? | |
| I don't know. Listen, like I said, I'm sort of a junkie about it. | |
| I'm into it. I'm into the fight. | |
| I don't know that I want the day job right now. | |
| And candidly, you gotta want that too, right? | |
| You should run for Senate. | |
| But then you gotta be a Senator. | |
| You know, I'm like, you gotta want that. | |
| And by the way, there may be a time, I mean, at this stage of my life, you know, candidly, I think I can probably do a lot more for sort of the movement, not having the restrictions, you know, not having to deal with the nonsense, being able to, you know, actually say what I want without sort of Well, the decorum of being part of, you know, it's a little different. | |
| So, you know, candidly, I think I'm probably more effective right now outside. | |
| But again, you know, I've got the bug, so you never know what happens down the road. | |
| Well, yes, you are. And hopefully, you know, I hope and pray that they don't ban you or even what they've done with us. | |
| You know, we've been demonetized on YouTube, throttled on Facebook, removed from Shopify. | |
| Yeah. I know where you're going with this. | |
| I will create a national campaign, billboards, attack ads on the previous dog catcher, just so that you can use the Florida law to force them. | |
| I can say whatever I want. | |
| Yeah, because I mean, listen, the reality, I'm still on a lot of those platforms. | |
| I haven't been thrown off permanently of any of them, but I see what they still do. | |
| I mean, I know just sort of a, you know... | |
| A fairly common anomaly. | |
| And I was, you know, on Instagram last week, I had, it was last week, I had, I think it was 28.4 million impressions. | |
| An average post like of close to 250,000 likes per post. | |
| And I had 304 new followers. | |
| Right. Yeah. You know. | |
| Yes. You know. | |
| Yeah, this happens. | |
| I mean, I don't know. | |
| I hit almost 30 million people that week. | |
| But, you know, so they're showing sort of my stuff to the people who want to see it, who may be following me, but basically making sure that no one outside of that bubble ever sees anything. | |
| And, you know, at least that's what it seems to be with me. | |
| I think, honestly, actually Facebook has been better with me than, you know, than Instagram. | |
| I think Twitter has become the worst of all of them. | |
| I mean, I just look at my analytics, the engagement of what I'm doing now, you know, and you and I both sort of know when I hit send or post, I know what something's going to do before. | |
| We're sort of good at this at this point. | |
| It's not like, okay, that one's filler. | |
| That one's going to be gold. | |
| That one's going big. And you can see it. | |
| It's going, going, going. And then boom! | |
| It hits that ceiling and it's going nowhere from that moment on because they're shutting it down. | |
| And again, these things are quite apparent to me and we got to keep combating it. | |
| I mean, I'm still going to use the platforms because it's hard to walk away from. | |
| Sure. Nine million people and six million people and five million people, wherever it may be on each of the platforms. | |
| I mean, it's still important to get it out there. | |
| We just have to understand that we're not in a fair fight with the other side where, you know, some liberals get, you know, with three followers and two posts, you know, can get 50,000 likes because they're promoting it and pushing it and everyone's going to see it. | |
| And I mean, it's absolutely insane. |
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