Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - Don Jr. & Kevin McCarthy: The GOP Should NOT Cut Social Security or Medicare!
Aired: 2023-01-27
Duration: 03:19


=== Let's Be Reasonable (03:06) ===

[00:00:00]  Let's talk about, I mean, the Pentagon loses, what was it, $220 billion?
[00:00:04]  Yeah. You know, and now we're getting into a budget time and we're talking about some of those things.
[00:00:08]  So I saw, you know, I think my father's right on this one.
[00:00:10]  I'd love to hear your thoughts on it, but sort of the Republicans now kind of, we must get rid of Medicare and Social Security.
[00:00:15]  I'm like, wait a minute. So the one entitlement that people actually pay into for their entire lives, A, you crush your own people.
[00:00:21]  I'm like, you know, the Democrats are really good at crushing our people to give free stuff to their people.
[00:00:25]  Like, we're crushing our own people who...
[00:00:28]  Actually funded these things for their entire lives.
[00:00:30]  Don't get me wrong. We won't touch Medicare or Social Security.
[00:00:34]  No, listen. They just crafted an omnibus that I opposed.
[00:00:40]  Two senators wrote who are no longer in office.
[00:00:42]  They jammed us at Christmas for $1.7 trillion and told us we had to vote for it.
[00:00:48]  The whole time Schumer's been leader has never written a budget.
[00:00:51]  And now the president sits back and says, well, you need to just lift the debt limit and just do it with nothing.
[00:00:56]  Well, no. If you have a child and they're charging up the credit card, you don't just keep raising the limit.
[00:01:03]  You look at where you're spending.
[00:01:04]  Every household has to do this.
[00:01:06]  So I'm simply saying, look, let's be responsible.
[00:01:09]  Let's be reasonable. Let's be sensible.
[00:01:11]  But let's sit down.
[00:01:12]  And you're going to tell me out of these trillions of dollars, because this is what has happened.
[00:01:16]  When the Democrats took over, just those four years, their discretionary spending has gone up 30%.
[00:01:21]  $400 billion.
[00:01:23]  You're going to tell me there's no waste out there?
[00:01:25]  There's no efficiency? They just print a trillion dollars.
[00:01:28]  I mean, do they have any concept of what that does?
[00:01:31]  That's how we got inflation.
[00:01:33]  Again, if I'm the guy that's a little upset when I'm filling up my tank or when I go to buy eggs, if it bothers me, it probably doesn't change much my day to day.
[00:01:40]  Imagine what it's doing to a real family and they don't understand that concept or don't even think about it, which is scary.
[00:01:47]  With the price of gas, who's it hurting?
[00:01:49]  The working class. It has to drive to get to their jobs.
[00:01:51]  The eggs. Eggs are unbelievable, the price today.
[00:01:55]  But it doesn't stop us from sending billions of dollars to countries that hate our guts.
[00:02:00]  They're sending millions to Tunisia for their ability for more tourism.
[00:02:05]  Really? We're borrowing this money from China to send it someplace else?
[00:02:11]  Well, that's the other... I mean, we actually give aid to China who we borrow from and owns and steals from us and costs us probably trillions in IP that they're stealing.
[00:02:19]  But see, this is what I loved when your father came into power.
[00:02:22]  They had never had somebody in the office of the president that had a business mind.
[00:02:27]  I remember they're sitting there and, you know, Korea saying, oh, we need these new missiles or Saudi Arabia to defend.
[00:02:33]  He goes, okay, but you've got to pay for them.
[00:02:35]  What? What? We gotta pay for them?
[00:02:37]  We thought the American taxpayer.
[00:02:39]  No, no, no, no. I remember having some of these conversations with him and he's like, well, have we ever asked for them to pay?
[00:02:44]  No one ever thought. And they're like, no, we never thought to do it, so ask.
[00:02:47]  And they're like, okay, we'll pay for it.
[00:02:48]  And I'm like, wait a minute, that just happened?

=== Boeing's Loss on Air Force One (00:27) ===

[00:02:51]  They didn't even think about it?
[00:02:53]  I remember we were up at Camp David.
[00:02:54]  We're having a meeting in the Situation Room.
[00:02:57]  Your father gets up to use the restroom.
[00:02:59]  And so one of the generals there, we're having a discussion, and he goes, he's not in the room, so I have to ask.
[00:03:05]  Why do we do it this way?
[00:03:07]  You know, no one had ever done that.
[00:03:08]  And the uniqueness, too, is I read this article, like, Boeing's really upset because they're losing all this money on the new Air Force One.
[00:03:15]  Why? Because they negotiated with President Trump.
[00:03:18]  You know who wins?