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May 6, 2021 - Triggered - Donald Trump Jr

06:28

My Thoughts on Facebook's Decision on My Father's Ban

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	And just this morning, obviously the big tech decision just came in.
	Let me ask, what are your thoughts on that?
	That's, to me, one of the most scary stories that I think we've had to cover in a long time.
	Yeah, I mean, it certainly says a lot about what our actual rights are.
	I think it says a lot about the powers of companies like Facebook.
	I mean, we have sort of antitrust legislation to do that.
	And also, I imagine if you look at the actual, you know, let's call it the...
	Quote-unquote Facebook oversight board.
	I imagine there's not a lot of people that share our views, Stephen.
	I imagine there's probably zero people.
	There may be a token in there that, you know, once voted for, like, a Mitt Romney type, you know, but, you know, it's not really an objective oversight board.
	It's sort of, you know, like everything else these days.
	It's an echo chamber of, you know, Silicon Valley.
	Yeah, no, you're...
	I'm sorry. We just put that in the soundboard today just for you.
	I said, I bet you Donald Trump Jr.
	is going to mention Mitt Romney.
	That was the Obama phone lady.
	Is that a ladder with Crowder bingo?
	I just got like... That was the Obama phone lady.
	I remember when that thing came out, everyone was covering when she was like, Obama got us a phone!
	Everyone thought that was funny. I said, no, no, the funniest part is what she says about Romney.
	Romney, he sucks!
	And I was like, because that's common ground.
	We could all get behind it.
	We all agree. We all understand that she is right on that issue.
	Yeah. She is right. And then I think she appeared with Alex Jones later on, became more conservative.
	May have become a supporter of your dad.
	I don't want to speak out of turn, but I know said that she was disappointed with Barack Obama, as many were.
	So let me ask you this. I don't know if you have any necessarily inside information on this, because the good thing is you're still on social media.
	I follow you. You play sand in all the right places to irritate people.
	What's the game plan here?
	What do you think? What's the Trump family going to be doing?
	Well, 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?
	You know, 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, no, I mean, you gotta want that too, right?
	You know, 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 that, 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. But, you know, there's that law, obviously, I think, a friend of your family's DeSantis and a friend of conservatives, the law in Florida, where they, these big tech companies, will incur penalties if they punish someone in political office.
	And so I know maybe you don't want the day job, but I know we've talked about this, and I just can't keep my mouth shut when I feel like I have a good idea, since you are— I'm running for dog catcher, Stephen.
	Yes, yes. I'm running for dog catcher.
	I'm running for dog catcher in Florida.
	I know where you're going with this.
	I know where you're going with this.
	Yeah. We'll 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 out 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 boom!
	It hits that ceiling, and it's going nowhere from that moment on because they're shutting it down.
	Again, these things are quite apparent to me, and we've got to keep combating it.
	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.

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