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Nov. 6, 2023 - Triggered - Donald Trump Jr
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Growing the Patriot Economy: Exclusive PublicSquare Town Hall w/ Indiana Congressman Jim Banks Along with CEO Michael Seifert | TRIGGERED Ep. 83
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Appreciate you all being here.
Excited to do this.
We've been working with Public Square for a while now, and this is the first of many small business town halls, a Public Square town hall to hear from the people.
We have politicians involved.
Obviously, your great Congressman Jim Banks is here today.
Hopefully. Hopefully you're a great senator in the not-too-distant future, because we really got to work on the Senate.
Way too many rhinos there.
But Jim's relevant in this one primarily because he's also heading up the Congressional Anti-Woke Caucus.
So this is a big one.
Honestly, it was about...
Having a venue to hear from people, to hear from small business owners, people who are out there understanding what's going on right now.
We hear mostly from people in the media, no one that's actually run a business, about how Bidenomics is wonderful.
It's wonderful. It's so great for everyone.
No one can actually figure it out, right?
Because I understand who I am and where I'm from.
I'm the son of a billionaire from Manhattan.
And if I'm really upset when I go to the grocery store, like, you know, I'm not pretending it's going to change my habit, but if I get it, imagine what that's doing to the rest of the country.
If I get it, but the people who we've sent to Washington, D.C. don't, isn't something off?
You know, I took my kids, I took my boys, we were on a fishing trip in Alaska, a couple of weeks ago, I guess, end of summer, right before they started school.
And I came back, and in the Anchorage airport, I bought myself and two young boys McDonald's.
And it was $37 and change for a quick, you know, it was $10, right?
And I'm saying, man, that feels like a lot.
And it feels like everyone in America feels that about just about every transaction they do.
But again, we're led to believe and we're told we must believe that things are great.
We have Nobel Laureate Economist.
Someone who won a Nobel Prize in Economics from the New York Times, Paul Krugman, lecturing us last week, inflation is wonderful, but then there's a little asterisk.
You know, they put, things are going in the right direction, I'm like, wait, wait, wait, they put the chart there, and there's an asterisk in the chart.
You know what the asterisk included?
It said, specifically, does not include the cost of food, Energy, housing, and, wait for it, transportation.
And I'm sitting there as a, you know, I'm not a Nobel laureate economist, but I have a degree in economics, and I was like, What else is there to sustain basic life in America?
They've probably cut down on the cost of transgender surgeries.
That's something I'm sure they were able to get the cost of that down.
But basically anything that matters to American people is up significantly.
So it's a wonderful picture if you take out all of the basic necessities of life.
And they do that with a straight face.
And think about that. Imagine, like, honestly, I didn't know whether to be upset or impressed that someone with a Nobel laureate could go there and on a world stage tell you that, no, everything's great if you take out everything that you need to live.
These are not serious people.
This is what we're dealing with on a daily basis.
It's only going to get worse.
Rather than funding the things that matter to Americans, we're funding other people's walls.
We're funding other people's wars to the tunes of billions of dollars.
You know, I get to hear from Mitch McConnell that funding Ukraine...
I'll do it again here. And we're live in front of thousands of people as well.
I got the show Triggered rolling.
I figured we'll incorporate all of it.
And I've done this a little bit because I imagine I spend a lot more time in front of actual Americans than Mitch McConnell ever has.
But I've seen him on numerous occasions now when he doesn't...
I call it the Mitch Glitch...
When there's not a glitch, which is more often these days, I will watch him tell us with a straight face that funding yet another never-ending war with no actual objective goals in Ukraine is the number one priority for Republicans across America.
And so I have done this now in 15 to 20 venues, usually 200 to 5,000 people.
I'm a survey. Is it a top three issue for any of you guys?
Top three, not even top one.
Is it a top ten issue for any of you?
Not a single hand, right?
Am I wrong? I'm happy to do this.
Let's just say I've done this in front of probably 25,000 people by now.
I had one guy raise his hand once.
It was top ten, not top three.
So I asked him, why do you think about that?
And he said in a Russian accent, well, because I'm from Ukraine.
I go, okay, that's fair. So I want to be honest because there is news here and I don't want to get, you know, I will be fact-checked and therefore deplatformed, demonetized, thrown off of, you know, out of polite society for not telling you that one of 25,000 people once said it was a top ten issue.
But it's not. You see it yet again.
And yet, we're there negotiating for what?
Another $60 billion.
$60 billion. Remember that.
We're in for $150 now.
But we didn't have three to build our wall.
Which even some of the rhinos and even some of the Democrats, like the people in New York who all of a sudden don't want so much of the traffic That they were very happy telling us that, you know, everyone's a sanctuary city.
Until it actually shows up on your door and then all of a sudden the tune changes, right?
That's where we're living. And so, you know, I wanted to do part of this to hear from actual people, but I also wanted to do it on the show because I want to make sure that people understand just where their constituency is.
So much of this is holding our politicians to task because they seem to do very well about going to a nice little group like this, And they tell you what you want to hear.
Then they go to D.C. and they do the opposite.
Right? There's an easy existence in D.C. as a conservative, as a Republican, if you fold when it actually matters, if you give up.
You know, I think you see some of that perhaps playing out right now.
I hope the new speaker is as good as you see on paper.
I'm just worried that, you know, as the saying goes, the swamp always wins.
And so, you know, I have a feeling, you know, someone who's newer to that role, who doesn't perhaps have the political experience of that, is going to make decisions based on, you know, intelligence reports that are carefully crafted to tell him exactly what they need to hear to get the result that they want, as opposed to what's actually happening, right?
Because, and I get it.
I made that mistake before.
I lived through Russia, Russia, Russia, where I was apparently guilty of treason, a crime punishable by death.
Minor details. At this point, that's like an average Tuesday for me.
Death! That's it?
Like you'd make me sit on a panel on The View for the rest of my life, in which case, you know...
With the brilliant women of The View.
By the way, if you want to have some fun, go watch me when I did my book tour on The View.
That was kind of fun, actually. But...
That's what's going on right now, and we have to see it.
I once wanted to give places like the FBI and the DOJ the benefit of the doubt.
There must be some truth to some of this stuff.
Turns out, no, that doesn't have to be anything, right?
You saw the few pages of the trans shooters manifesto be leaked today.
Now, we don't know why it wasn't released, you know, six months ago.
Just kidding. We all know why.
Because it went against the narrative.
If the person who had done that was wearing a MAGA hat, it would have been out in three seconds.
They'll protect, what I would say per capita, must be at this point, the most radical, violent, growing faction of, you know, what's the term, 0.02% of the world, you know, doing all these things and they'll protect them at all costs.
But you know who's a domestic terrorist?
You probably are, ma'am.
Have you been to a PTA meeting?
Yeah, are you a concerned parent about the indoctrination of your children with woke bullshit?
Yeah, yeah. You're old enough, he can hear bullshit.
You've actually been labeled one.
I was at a room in India, just north of here I guess, last week.
There was a man who was concerned about what was going on and he actually got arrested by the FBI. But it's not just you domestic terrorist parents, it's practicing Catholics.
By the way, just so we're clear, if you're in this room right now, you're already on a list.
I just happen to be on every list!
I'm an over-performer.
So again, as we start to realize that these are not serious people, I think it's making people wake up.
When you look at the polling, when you look at what's going on across the country, when you see the disaster, they get it.
You know, the adults were supposed to be back in charge.
Turns out the adults are getting us into World War III and are tanking our economy.
The people who were going to do it right got up on a world stage after our disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, killing 13 innocent Americans, and told us with a straight face, Our Secretary of State, who was given the job because he signed off on documents that pretended that the Hunter Biden laptop wasn't real.
I take that one personally because I have a feeling I would not have been given the same benefit of the doubt.
What do you guys think? If that was the Don Jr.
laptop from hell... By the way, did you guys see the Hunter op-ed this week, by the way?
How dare they make fun of my addiction?
Like, listen, if you really cared about your addiction, give back all the money.
But I have a feeling that ain't happening.
I have a feeling it ain't happening, right?
Because it's all nonsense, right?
You know, addiction's a terrible thing.
We all know people who have been afflicted with it.
It doesn't allow you to sell out your country.
It doesn't allow you to, you know, outsell Picasso as a journeyman artist.
It doesn't give you the credibility to write an op-ed when everyone knows.
Like, it doesn't absolve you from being a POS in literally every other aspect of your life, right?
That's just not the case. Because I know that if it was me and I had written that op-ed, literally anyone In the left and most on the right would laugh it off for the joke that it is, right?
But Anthony Blinken, our Secretary of State, gets awarded that position because he got 52 people from the intelligence community to tell the American people with a straight face that there was Russian disinformation.
You know how he knew it wasn't Russian disinformation?
Because Hunter himself didn't deny it.
You know, if it was my laptop and I didn't do those things, I'd be like, I didn't do those things!
He just let them do the talking.
Because you knew it was right. But he got on a stage...
In front of the world, I think it was in front of Congress, and with a straight face said he is shocked and dismayed, and I quote, verbatim, there's press in the room, they'll fact check me for this one also, that the Taliban did not install a more diverse and inclusive government in Afghanistan.
These are the adults that are back, no, no, serious.
Like, hey, if you're dismayed, that's great.
If you're shocked, you're an imbecile.
No, no, no. Well, in all fairness, I mean, these were the people that would take a homosexual and throw him off of a building for the last 20 years.
I mean, we've been at war for them, and we're going to pretend that they're, what, they're going to have Leah Thomas come over and head up a trans coalition in the Taliban government, and all of a sudden they were going to have a seat at the table, the same people that would enslave women and girls into sexual slavery, and have for decades, and are continuing to do it now, they're going to give women a seat at the table?
Not serious people. So, you know, this is where we are, and it's why it's so important what we're doing right now.
The parallel economy is real.
People get it.
They understand that they're sick of using their hard-earned dollars only to have it thrown back in their face, weaponized by people that would literally put them in the gulags.
And at this point, that's not hyperbole.
I started saying this a while ago, and, you know, maybe some thought that was the case.
Look at what's going on.
You know, I've seen a lot of protests in the last two or three weeks.
I mean, the racism I've seen in the last week shouldn't be shocking to anyone who actually understands the left, right?
Because everything they do is projection.
But the people who were really concerned about racism for the last seven or eight years seem to be awfully racist, awfully anti-Semitic.
The people coming from the great thought institutions, including my formerly esteemed alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, seem to be awfully anti-Semitic.
That was running pretty rampant.
They're not just supporting the existence of Palestinian people, they're literally supporting the terrorist regime that thought it'd be fun to fly paragliders and fully automatic weapons into a concert, killing women, children, raping them in the streets and babies.
That's totally fine.
I'm watching the other Bastions of Freedom, and I say that in very big air quotes, around the world.
The United Kingdom, others, allow these protests and these chants, putting people to death, et cetera, to be aired in open market.
Those same places would put you in jail for two years if you misgendered someone, even by accident.
So there's a lot at stake.
And if you think that corporate America is going to help you out in this, it's not.
That's why promoting the nature of small business is such a big part of the show.
Obviously triggered the whole, you know, half the thesis is about that.
What we're doing with Michael and other people like Jim Banks who are able to do this and who are funding this and creating an avenue, right?
Because that's what it is. Remember? Build your own.
You can build your own, but then they'll do everything they can to sabotage that, right?
Amazon Web Services will throw you off their servers.
So between Rumble and Between public square, between these things, people are actually now growing and understanding that there's probably more than half the country That is sick of everything that we once held near and dear and all of our values being thrown in our face, being literally spit on in many cases, both figuratively and actually literally, and they're willing to fight back.
And I think that's what this is all about.
So we want to actually make sure we hear from the people that are doing that.
You'll hear from Michael Seifert again, the CEO of Public Square, a guy that I met that basically saw what was going on during the COVID lockdowns.
When he was forced to go to his local coffee shop and certain places made him do things that he wouldn't want to do to buy a cup of coffee.
And he found others that were actually for choice.
Self-sufficiency. Again, the basics.
And he said, you know what? We've got to start a list.
And that's what we've done. Now that list is over 70,000 businesses.
One of the fastest growing businesses.
They hit a million customers on the platform before companies like Twitter ever did in terms of time frame.
So, you know, there's something very real going on in this movement, and I'm just happy to, you know, be a leader in that and just excited to see people like yourselves actually get that.
Because you've got to understand what's at stake.
You know, again, none of what we've said has been hyperbole.
Just like, you know, everyone owes their conspiracy theorist uncle a serious apology over the last few years.
Like, because they've been batting 1,000, right?
We saw that the other day.
The FBI will no longer allow the videos to be released because all of the agents involved that were actually there on the ground, why didn't they do something to stop?
January, you know, the first unarmed insurrection in the history of insurrections.
It was spectacular.
What a tactical error for the most heavily armed group of people in the world, right?
I mean, if it was really an insurrection, but of course it wasn't.
It was bullshit, right?
We saw a lot of insurrections over the last week or two, and no one's going to jail, and certainly they're not going to jail for 17 to 25 years, you know, for peacefully protesting.
I mean, But that's what's at stake.
That's where we are. And again, we have the opportunity to change it, but we must be unafraid.
We must actually stand up.
We must not just let it happen.
We have to be involved. And I understand better than most that there's a consequence to being vocal on our side.
There's no consequence. You can say whatever you want on the other side.
That's fine. On our side, you know, I get it.
You saw, again, they tried me for treason.
They wanted to try to...
I think we're trying to throw my father in jail for, what is it now, a thousand years?
Plus possibly the death penalty.
If a thousand years isn't enough because he's a young and vibrant man, we'll throw in the death penalty, just a little cherry on top.
That's what we're up against. And if you think it ends with him, you haven't been watching.
So with that, I'd love to bring up Jim Banks' incredible...
Oh, wait, wait, wait. Before that, I've got to say I'd be remiss not to...
How do you not mention Bobby Knight?
In Indiana, right? We are in Indiana.
I had a pretty awesome experience.
Obviously, you know, you grow up watching someone who's just a winner and a leader and, you know, had a temper, but, you know, sort of like the attitude when they're like, Trump's attitude's gonna get us into World War III. No, no, Trump's attitude stopped us from getting into World War III. Like, there's a big difference.
These guys can't make that distinction, but, you know, Bobby Knight was an incredible guy.
I carried umbrellas for Bobby Knight in this very city one time, right?
And so I was with a friend, and it's 2015, and we know nothing about politics.
We're figuring this out, right? That's why the whole problem with Russia collusion was I'm sitting there being like, how could we collude with, like, we can't collude to order a cheeseburger.
We don't, like, we don't even, like, we're figuring it out as we go.
So I'm in Indiana with a friend, and I'm doing some stuff with, you know, outdoorsmen in the country and all that stuff, and he goes...
This was, you know, when it was going to be the firewall, right?
That Ted Cruz was going to come, the word Kasich was, you know, he was going to come in and win in Indiana, and that was going to change the momentum of the whole race.
And my buddy who's from Indiana, rural Indiana, and he says, oh, it's over.
I go, well, no, primary's not for like, what was it, like four or five days before, whatever it is.
He goes, no, no, no, it doesn't matter.
He goes, Bobby Knight just endorsed.
I go, you'd be like, Coach Knight?
Like, that's great. Like, well, what does that mean?
He goes, give me a couple minutes.
So we're driving in, like, rural, you know, like, you know, sort of one-stop sign towns.
And he goes, we get to the next one, and he stops.
He goes, let's go into this diner here.
The diner, let's call it, was about the size of this room.
It was a fairly big place. I guess it was also the nightclub at night, because there's not a lot in the town.
It was a great place. About the size of this room.
And let's just say about three-quarters of the room was a shrine to Bobby Knight.
And at that point I was like, oh wow, that's, yeah, it is over.
And I also knew then, we did the rally, it was funny, we did the rally with Bobby Knight right here in town.
And he gets up and, you know, he said some stuff that was very tough in perfect Bobby Knight fashion, right?
I think it was, I love Trump because when he needs to, if he needs to nuke someone, just do it, it doesn't matter.
And I was like, you know, I'm sitting there being like, you know, Maybe fair, probably a little aggressive.
But me figuring out politics, I'm like, we're going to get killed for this.
They're going to try to kill us.
Crickets. Meaning the media.
Even the media. Local media.
Let's just say not fans.
They were like, no way we're taking on Bobby Knight because no one would ever buy another newspaper again in Indiana.
And that's when I realized the power of that.
So I would be 100% remiss not to mention that.
I got to spend some time with him. He used to call me a lot afterwards.
What an awesome human being.
Just a great winner.
I think we need more like him.
So, but with that, we also need more like this man, your great Congressman, Jim Banks.
Give it up one more time for my good friend Don Trump Jr.
Welcome to Indiana. You wouldn't be surprised to know, like his dad, that's a guy who never backs down.
He doesn't back down, and that's what I like the most about him.
I think it's entirely appropriate that the very first public square town hall is in Indiana, right?
The Great Hoosier State.
And like Don said, when I think of Hoosiers, I think of Bobby Knight.
One of the reasons I went to Indiana University was to go to IU basketball games and watch him on the sidelines.
And you know, Don, I remember the first time I was in the Oval Office with the greatest
president of my lifetime, Donald Trump.
It was early in the administration, and he invited a group of us to come and talk about
the big — I think it was the big health care bill, maybe it was the tax cuts bill,
one of the big bills that was moving its way through Congress at that time.
And I'll never forget, it was one of those pinch me moments of my political life to go into the White House, into the Oval Office, And the president knew I was from Indiana, so he brought me up next to the big resolute desk.
And not far away was the vice president, Mike Pence, who happens to be from Indiana.
And President Trump looked at me and he said, I want to know, before he took the obligatory photo with me next to the flags and the desk, President Trump looks at me and says, I want to know one thing.
Was it Bobby Knight or Mike Pence who won Indiana for me?
And I saw the Vice President sort of grimace a little bit, or kind of gave me a funny look, and I said, there's no question about it, Bobby Knight is the reason that Donald Trump won Indiana.
And President Trump said, I knew it, I knew it.
Bobby Knight, a great man, great American.
And we honor him and remember him as we lay him to rest this week.
I think it's great that the first public square town hall is in the state of Indiana because how many of you knew that public square businesses representing the state of Indiana, there are almost 900 of them on the app.
If you have the app, you know this.
Almost 50,000 Hoosier users have downloaded the app and regularly use the Public Square app.
And I think that's a great thing because Public Square is the ground zero of supporting pro-American businesses and where better to find pro-American businesses and employers than right here in the Hoosier State, right?
That's why we're here today to talk about a movement that's very important to me.
We are in a location that is represented on the app here at Nevermore.
But I want to talk about Throughout the state of Indiana, those hundreds of businesses don't just make up bars and restaurants, they make up photographers or hardware stores.
Or, in my hometown, Columbia City, EB Bikes, a bicycle repair store.
Or in Fort Wayne, my friend Chris Parker, a local realtor, is on the app.
I could go on and on.
Freedom Firearms, a great company in the Fort Wayne area that you might choose to use.
You see, the reason that we are drawn to the app It's because wokeism is anti-Americanism.
And I don't know about you, but I'm sick and tired of giving my money to businesses who support causes that want to destroy America and that support woke, anti-American political causes.
That's why I really like this app, like all of you, right?
And that's why I'm excited.
That Public Square chose Indiana to be the first location of this town hall series.
I've been in Congress for going on eight years.
I was elected in 2016 when President Trump was elected as well.
And I've had a lot of wake-up calls in my public life and serving in Congress.
I was the first member of Congress to be kicked off Twitter for calling a biological man a man.
Thank you. A big wake-up call, though, after January 6th, when I was boycotted by many so-called American corporations because I objected to how the election in 2020 was carried out.
I stood with President Trump, and I stood up for election integrity, and I was boycotted for it.
I'll never forget some of these companies, companies like Amazon.
MasterCard, Nike, Walt Disney, and Zillow all said that they would never support me again because I stood up for election integrity.
So after that, I chaired something called the Republican Study Committee, the largest conservative caucus in Congress.
I was term limited.
I could only do it for one term.
And at the beginning of this Congress, at the beginning of this year, I was thinking about, what else can I do with my time?
So I started, what did I do?
I started the first ever anti-woke caucus in Congress.
Wokeism isn't just anti-Americanism.
Wokeism is weakness, okay?
And it doesn't belong anywhere near our schools, near our kids.
It definitely doesn't belong anywhere near our military.
I'm proud. I served in uniform.
I served in Afghanistan. I'm proud of my service in the military of the greatest country in the history of the world.
I never apologized for it.
But I'm sick and tired of some of the generals, like General Milley, who...
Pushed a woke movement on our men and women in uniform.
At the same time, we have kids being taught in school that America is inherently evil and racist and is not worth fighting and dying for.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is not sustainable for a great country like ours to teach our kids that.
And then expect them to raise their right hand and take an oath of office, knowing that when they do so, like so many of you, that they might be paying the ultimate sacrifice when they wear that uniform.
That's not sustainable. We can't expect our country to survive if we're pushing wokeism in schools, pushing it on our troops, and allowing some businesses to continue to support causes that will ultimately Undo our country, meaning that this country won't survive any longer.
So to me, that's what Public Square stands for.
They're the ground zero. There are other apps as well.
There are others who are a part of this anti-woke movement to create a parallel economy and show us, give us options to choose companies that are pro-America, Companies that won't discriminate against you and me because of our conservative political beliefs.
I don't know about all of you.
I want to know who those companies are so I can support them, right?
And that's why we're here today.
I'm so proud to take part in this town hall.
And once again, please join me in thanking Public Square for choosing Indiana as the
first location of this series that's going to go all over the country.
And really, the brains behind it all, Michael Seifert, is with us today, the CEO of Public
I believe he's up next, so I'm happy to turn the microphone over to him.
Thank you. God bless. How's it going?
It's great to see you all. You look wonderful this evening.
Congressman, thank you so much.
Can we hear it up one more time?
Congressman, thank you.
So we have an exciting rest of the evening together.
You're actually going to get to hear from Congressman Jim Banks again, as well as Donald Trump Jr.
You're also going to hear from a dear friend of mine, Alex Brucewitz, here in a moment.
But before we do that, I just want to thank you so much for coming and being a part of this.
This is, as Congressman mentioned, the first of many Public Square Town Hall series.
So, we are talking to incredible government leaders who are standing up for the principles core to Public Square.
A love for country, constitution, the values that that wonderful document protects.
We're bringing the economy back to the basics.
Excellence, meritocracy, a value for your community, a departure from equity, and an embrace of actual equality.
That's what we're doing at Public Square.
And it only works because of millions of patriots, like yourselves, around this great country That are recognizing that your vote is not limited to every two or four years.
Your vote is every single day.
Anytime you pull out your wallet to purchase a cup of coffee, or transact with a certain apparel entity, or house your finance with a certain financial institution, you are empowering something with those dollars.
And I don't know about you, but I want to actively be a part of empowering the type of future that I can be really proud of.
Actually, I was about to say I gave birth to my daughter.
That didn't happen. Although it is 2023, so you can infer from that what you like.
My wife and I, my beautiful wife, Sarah Gable, she gave birth to our first daughter a year ago.
And the whole game changed for me.
It was like I had this newfound perspective of why we're doing what we're doing.
If you would have asked me, over a year ago, why'd you start Public Square?
I would have said, to save the country, and to bring the power back to the hands of the people, and to shift the power structures of society back toward patriots, because small businesses are being eroded, and they need protection, and the consumers that value them are the ones that I want to continue empowering.
I would have given you all of these reasons, and all of those are true, but at the end of the day, since the birth of my daughter, the reason I'm doing what I'm doing is so that my daughter can have a better future.
That's it. That's the reason.
It so far eclipses the rest of the reasons.
That's the one. And I'm learning over this past year that our legacy and the future that we create will actually far extend beyond when I'm here any longer.
One day, when I'm dead and gone, I want to be able to know with blessed assurance that
I actively contributed to the type of country that will actually lead to the prospering
and success of my sweet girl, of your children, of your grandchildren.
So I could keep talking for a little while, but I want you to hear from one more voice.
I want you to hear it from a dear friend of mine, Alex Bruce Witts, who actually, credit where credit is due, had the original idea for the Public Square Town Hall series.
This was his brainchild.
I'm incredibly grateful for it.
After he speaks, we're going to come back together.
We are going to have a great session of questions and answers.
We're going to get to hear from Congressman Jim Banks and Donald Trump Jr.
one more time. And then we'll wrap up the evening.
We have a special surprise for you as well, so stay tuned.
We're looking forward to that, and we'll be able to take some of your questions from the audience as well.
So, thank you all for being with us this evening.
We've got one more speaker for us before we get into Q&A and I'd like to introduce my dear friend and brainchild of
the Public Square Town Hall series, Alex Brucewitz.
It's honestly cruel that they're having me go last when they're the professional speakers.
you later, guys.
All right, so let's start off with a quick poll.
I need you guys to make some noise.
Do you guys miss the Trump economy?
Yeah, me too.
I miss having a president that cut taxes, that unleashed American energy, that brought jobs back to America and put America first every single day.
And now, under geriatric Joe, we have an administration that does the exact opposite.
We have an administration that has created record high inflation, that has skyrocketed our gas prices, that has offshored our jobs, and, quite frankly, is destroying our country.
But fortunately, a year from today, Donald J. Trump will be president-elect once again.
Anyway, for those who don't know me, which is probably most of you, my name is Alex Bruzowitz
and I am the CEO of a political consulting company called X-Strategies.
And I have the luxury, well, I don't know if it's a luxury, you guys can decide, but I know all of the Republican lawmakers, okay?
And I can promise you that you have a fantastic one right here in Indiana in Representative Jim Banks.
And you guys should be very grateful for that.
And it's fitting that the very first public square town hall is here in Indiana because Jim Banks has been a leader against wokeism since the very beginning, and he's been a strong ally to President Trump since day one.
Wokeism is a cancer that destroys everything it touches, including Rachel Maddow, by the way.
No, seriously, look up Rachel Maddow in college and look at her today.
And the Cause of that?
It's called wokeism. Alright?
So if you think wokeism is bad, you're going to think it's really bad when you look at the side-by-side pictures.
But wokeism needs to be rooted out of our government, and Jim Banks is leading the fight.
It also needs to be rooted out of the private sector and Michael Seifert and Public Square and every single person in this room is leading that fight.
So thank you and God bless you all.
It's great to be here.
Let's save our country.
We all have a part to do.
Thank you, God bless.
Applause Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage, CEO and
founder of Public Square, Michael Seifert.
Applause All right, crew. I've got an exciting surprise for you.
If you've followed along with the email chains that we sent out to Public Square members heading up into this event, you might have caught an email last week where we announced that we would be giving a $1,000 business grant to one participant in the audience this evening.
And I kind of made an offhanded joke that, gosh, wouldn't it be great to have one of those big checks?
And I didn't realize how seriously my team took me.
So we've got a big check.
It's very exciting. And I'll say this.
We'll make a few more remarks at the end, but I just want to highlight each and every one of you that are business owners that have worked so hard and valiantly, especially over the past few years in a very tough economy, to continue your business prospering for the betterment of your community.
We're excited to initiate this grant program at each of these town halls.
Anytime we go to a new region, we actually want to pick a lucky audience member who we could actually back and say that we want to help you with capital to grow your business.
Because we know, we know, from our interactions with each and every one of you, that an investment in your business, that capital in your hands, will be put to good use.
It won't be put to ESG and DEI and all these ideologies that lead to the detriment of our society and our marketplace, but instead, it will lead to the prospering of your community because we have the right priorities in the proper alignment.
We're really proud tonight to give $1,000 of a business grant to one of your Indiana businesses.
You want to hear who it is? Yeah, awesome.
All right, I'm going to introduce this gentleman.
He's here in the audience with us tonight, dressed to the nines, okay?
This man is a name named Matthew Mollman.
Matthew, how you doing?
Let's hear it, man. Look at this big check.
All right, you get to carry that.
My arms are tired. Thank you.
Yeah, hang up here for a second.
Hey team, Matthew Molman leads a company called Monument Ventures.
Okay, so if you are interested in the world of finance, financial stewardship, excellence at the forefront of your business or your personal financial goals, this is your guy.
Okay, so he's not paying us for this.
In fact, we're paying him for this.
And we're really proud to back you because you're a business on Public Square.
You stand for the principles that have made this great flag behind you so special.
And we hope and pray that That this small but hopefully impactful gift will continue to lead your business prospering for the years and decades to come.
Sound good, Matthew? Great.
Thank you so much. I don't know if you can take that to a bank, but our team has the details, so you should try. It would be pretty funny.
You ever seen The Office? You ever seen that show?
Yeah. I told our team, I was like, I love that scene where Michael Scott walks out with the big check.
That'd be kind of funny. And there you go.
So Matthew, thank you. We really appreciate your business.
And we're excited that you are the first recipient of the Public Square Town Hall grant.
We're about to jump into Q&A. Sound good?
You got questions?
We have, hopefully, answers.
We're going to do our best to give you some answers that we hope provides value to you in your own journey as a business owner or a conscious consumer.
And we're going to kick start.
We've got a line over here on this side.
And I'm going to take a seat behind us as well.
We've got some handheld mics.
Beautiful. I'm going to take this one off of here.
And we'll be good to go. So, without further ado, we've got our question line on the side.
Thank you, sir. Appreciate it.
I'm going to moderate this time, so as you ask your question, I'll be able to provide some context, kick it to one of the gentlemen on my right or left, and we'll go from there.
So, without further ado, we'd love for you to introduce yourself, your name, if you're a business owner, if you could share your business as well, and then we'd love to hear your question.
Okay, hi. I'm Vanessa Battaglia.
I'm in the process of forming a business that I plan to put on Public Square very soon.
It's going to be ladies apparel.
And my question is, does Public Square plan to ultimately function as a digital marketplace like Amazon or Etsy?
Great question. Congratulations on the new business endeavor.
That's very exciting. Can we hear it for?
And you're in luck.
Yeah, you are. Yeah, you're definitely in luck.
We would love to help you sell your products directly on our platform.
Are you aware of the update that went out last week?
Did you see that? You know that we own publicsquare.com now instead of just publicsq.com?
If you're not aware of the update, last Wednesday we launched a massive release.
This release had a lot included in it in terms of extra functionality.
You can go to publicsquare.com and check it out.
It's a pretty amazing story, by the way, of how we got publicsquare.com.
For a little bit of context, to answer your question.
Originally, PublicSquare.com was a domain owned by a town in New York.
Watertown, New York owned this domain.
They had for like 20 years.
And when they originally heard from us that we were interested in purchasing this domain so we could kind of own the rights to Public Square fully on the internet, They gave us an exorbitantly high price.
They said that this domain is one of our most valuable commodities.
We're not giving it up. Well, over the course of the last year, there's been enough folks that thought that they were actually us, so they went to their site, they put in support requests or inquiries in their web form and said things like, we love what you're doing, down with Biden.
There may have been a few FJBs in there, just so we're clear.
So this town in New York is like, we did not sign up for this.
Do you want the domain? So it was a pretty wild set of circumstances.
Let's just say it went from usury to very reasonable.
Is that a fair assessment?
It is. We got a steep discount on publicsquare.com.
If you sent in an inquiry into Watertown, New York's business portal, thank you.
Appreciate it. To answer your question, another piece of this release is we actually introduced e-commerce functionality into the platform, where you can actually sell your products directly through the platform, which hopefully, more than anything else, will increase conversions to your business.
The reality is for the first year and a half of forming this company, because remember, Public Square, I didn't even have the idea for the platform three years ago.
This is a very nascent business, but because of God's grace and because of incredible consumers and businesses like each and every one of you, this thing has escalated and elevated far faster than we ever could have imagined.
In the early days, we started as a directory.
You could see businesses or products, services in your area that aligned with your values, and you could purchase, but the purchase took place on the business's site, which is an extra step for consumers.
None of us love the extra step, but we functioned kind of like a Yelp.
This release, though, that went out Wednesday, you can find it at publicsquare.com or on your app, actually allows you to purchase directly from the app experience itself without ever having to leave the site, which is a massive development.
One click, one shopping cart.
In fact, we had a guy last week put in a $14,000 order on the thing for, like, 30 different vendors all in one shopping cart.
So they got, like, trigger happy with the buy button.
And it was really, really exciting.
So to see the new level of functionality to the platform gets us ready for a business like yours to launch, link your products to the platform, and we're going to help you sell some apparel.
Sound good? Love it.
Sounds great. Thank you. Congratulations.
By the way, for the small businesses out there, why don't you give a quick update, Michael, just how easy it is to actually do that linking, right?
I'm on tech platforms.
I'm pretty good on social.
I don't confuse being able to talk smack well online with being a tech guy, but it's actually really simple to sort of just upload your whole sort of set of SKUs.
Yeah, in fact, if you're linked with another portal, for example, let's say you host your business on Shopify or Wix or WooCommerce or wherever it might be, we can actually integrate your existing storefront into our user interface.
So it's not like you have to go to the hurdle of creating a whole new hosted site.
If you just want to try it out, you want to take 10 minutes, you want to link your products, you want to see how it converts, you can do that.
We're starting there so we can make it super simple for you to link your business and your products.
That way, you can test the public square experience, see some sales start rolling in.
And what's also neat about this experience is not only is it easy and quick to do, but the businesses that are linking their products right now, we're really trying to elevate and put into collections.
And these are especially prominent businesses heading into the Christmas shopping season.
People are loving that ability to transact very simply.
So if you have not linked your products yet, please come talk to us after.
We'd love to teach you how to do that.
It's real quick and easy. And for you and your business that's launching soon, we hope that you'll take a few minutes and join us.
Thank you. Thank you.
Appreciate it. Can we hear for her? Thank you.
All right. Good evening.
My name is Jonathan McPike.
I'm the founder and the president of Agathos Law, which is a non-woke law firm here in Indiana.
And we specialize in representing parallel economy companies.
So my question for you, since everyone in the room knows how hard it is to start a new business even in the best of times, what plans does Public Square have to help entrepreneurs launch new businesses to help grow the parallel economy?
Love that. Thank you.
By the way, if you're a parallel economy business, you have to have a high level of intentionality on law.
Because we, as Don mentioned earlier, we have a target on our back.
And we know that there are folks that are looking for this to fail.
They're looking for Public Square to fail.
They're looking for your business to fail because they want to invalidate the idea that the parallel economy would ever need to exist.
They want the anti-woke caucus to fail because it would invalidate the hopes and dreams of millions of Americans that actually are believing for A future that is not captured by woke ideology.
Law is incredibly important.
Thank you for what you're doing first and foremost.
You're on the front lines defending the cause and I really appreciate that.
To answer your question, we have some exciting things in the works as we head into 2024, helping small business owners actually get their feet on the ground and begin really running as a new entrepreneur.
Some of them, these are tools we've already released.
For example, we launched a business tool that we are using as a company, so we thought, well, we might as well open it up for our community to use as well, called PSQLink, which is a compilation of a few different white-labeled tools with a few custom tools of our own included that helps small businesses increase their sales, because if you learned like we did, Salesforce has no regard for your business.
They don't care about you. In fact, Mark Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, called himself The most anti-conservative CEO in the country.
He called himself that.
Funded a lawsuit against your father.
This man owns Time Magazine, so he's got his mouthpiece through media, and this is Salesforce that's supposed to be the engine helping you and your business grow?
I don't think so. So we've got tools that we're launching over the course of the coming 12 months especially, but we've also got some cool content in the mix from famous entrepreneurs that have been in our movement that are going to help small business owners learn kind of the Rules of the road, tips of the trade.
You know, it's a famous saying that I shouldn't have to eat dirt to know it doesn't taste good.
You guys ever heard that before? One of the challenges that we face as a business owner, golly, I know I have, is that I've made so many errors that I hope the entrepreneurs after me won't have to make.
And so our goal is getting good content, good tools, and good solutions in front of business owners in packages that are condensed so that folks don't have to make the same mistakes that many of us did as hiccups along the way, and instead, Can propel and expedite their journey?
Because the country needs your entrepreneurship right now.
One of the things, actually, and one of the companies we work with, because a big part of that is your hiring process, right?
It's that sort of the job board.
You know, if you go work for a company that doesn't share your values, your work experience is miserable, you're not going to be a productive employee.
If you're a small business owner, okay, and I use the example of, you know, these days, you're a small business owner and you say Merry Christmas to someone with, you know, rainbow hair, you know, you're going to be Sued.
We work with a company called Red Balloon.
You can find them at redballoon.work.
And they do a lot of that sort of HR vetting as well so that you can find people who are working in your company that have aligned values with you.
When you show up and you feel welcomed at work, you're going to be more productive and vice versa from a business perspective.
So much of that and so many of the biggest mistakes that I see as a business guy is actually in that bad hire.
That bad hire for a small business can be debilitating.
They find a class action loft.
They just keep going.
Lawfare probably more than any human being in the world.
If you've been watching TV, you've probably seen some of that.
But for a small business, it's no different.
And the other side has shown that they'd be 100% willing to weaponize that against a small business.
And a small business doesn't have the wherewithal to spend, in our case, hundreds of millions of dollars fighting on that onslaught of nonsense.
And so it's a big part of it.
So there are more and more of these resources.
A law firm like yours, I love that.
Because you need it.
Perils that we face that perhaps we don't throw back at the other side the same way.
Yeah, I'm really glad he brought up Red Balloon.
Highly recommend you check it out if you're hiring or if you're looking for a job.
We've heard incredible success stories of people coming out of that platform.
That's kind of our preferred vendor in the world of jobs.
One quick story. There was a physical therapist clinic that was looking for a new nurse slash kind of aid on site.
And they had been looking for a while because their values were really important to them and they felt like it was a hard time finding talent.
Well, Simultaneously, there was a nurse that was getting fired from her hospital system because she refused the vaccine.
For 10 years, this hospital trusted her with her patient's health, but then when it came time to trust her with her own health, they denied her future employment.
So she was fired, but...
Rest assured, she found this physical therapist clinic in the first interview, was hired on the spot, and the clinic actually prayed for her and said, our values align.
We're so grateful you're here.
We're loving being in business.
It's only the first day. And we've touched base.
That was about a year ago. And their employment is going swimmingly because of that sort of values alignment that you're not going to find anywhere else.
So it's a long answer, but it's a really important question.
Thank you very much. Thank you.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
Let's hear it for him.
Thank you.
Hi, I'm Ananya Manny, a legal immigrant in this country and trying to live the American
dream.
Wow.
Thank you.
So the question I have is, how do we deal with multiple generations that have been taught through education and culture to hate America?
So my friend Jeff Cardwell, owner of Cardwell Do It Best and I were just talking about this earlier today.
Wall Street Journal published a poll A couple of months ago, in 1998, 70% of Americans said that they were very patriotic.
Today, 38%, only 38% of Americans say that they are very patriotic, that they love their country, that they believe, like you and I do, that this is the greatest country in the history of the world.
So somewhere along the way, we stopped teaching our kids that America is great, right?
But I think there's also another layer to this.
I believe that it is Bidenomics.
We have never seen a period of time like we have over the last three years with a There's a greater growing divide between the haves and the have-nots in this country because of the radical left-wing policies of this administration.
First-time homebuyers can't buy a house because interest rates are so high.
It's inflation and everything that you buy costs more to buy it.
But it's also the drug epidemic.
Fentanyl is now the leading cause of death of working age Americans, Americans my age, also of military eligible age.
Flowing over a wide-open border because of the policies of one president of this administration that's opened the border wide open.
Fentanyl floods into communities.
I'm traveling the whole state.
There is not a community that I've been to over the last year in Indiana that hasn't been impacted by the drug crisis or a family that hasn't been impacted by it, too.
So all of that Has led to, I believe, a disastrous point where far less than 50% of Americans say that they are very patriotic.
That's a dangerous place for any great country to get to.
And the values being pushed on us by Wall Street and woke corporations that don't believe that America is great, they don't see themselves or view themselves as American corporations, They're selling us out to our biggest adversary, China. By the way, Donald Trump was the first president of my lifetime, of either party, to say that China is a threat to America.
And he did something about it.
Now we have a president who's literally in bed with the Chinese Communist Party.
Maybe not him, but with Hunter, you never know.
Right? When I think about the China threat, I think about the nearly 100,000 manufacturing jobs that have been killed in our state, in Indiana alone, when Republicans and Democrats granted China most favored nation status.
Wall Street, corporate America, political values that sold out our country to our biggest enemy and killed our jobs in the process.
So we're at a dangerous point.
The only solution is the people in this room.
Those of you who understand that this country is worth fighting and dying for, we have to stand up for a great country if we want to pass it on to our kids.
I have three daughters, 14, 12, and 10, so please pray for us.
But I want them to know that every day I want them to wake up and know that this country is great and it's worth fighting for.
And we've got to build movements like this one to continue to push that sentiment onto the next generation and we're going to lose this great country in the process.
Jim, I mean, expand on it a little bit further because, you know, we're talking obviously about corporate, but it's not just corporate, right?
I mean, you served our country in the military.
You see the recruitment numbers right now, and it seems reflective, I mean, that they can't make basic recruitment numbers because, you know, what patriotic American is going to go fight for Plenty of things that don't seem all that patriotic, certainly within the military.
Talk about that, because as someone who has served that way, continues to serve, is going further in terms of now going, in my opinion, you'll be the next senator from the great state of Indiana.
But it's not just corporate.
It goes so much further beyond.
In places that you couldn't imagine there'd be an astonishing lack of patriotism.
Yeah. This is a...
Alex Brucewitz said it well earlier.
Wokeism is a cancer, and it will eat America inside out if we allow it to.
But we don't have to allow it to.
I mean, this movement that we're talking about today...
It's pushing back against it.
But it's really dangerous, Don, when we're talking about the military.
You're right. This year is the 50th anniversary of an all-volunteer force in our military, and yet is the biggest recruitment crisis in American history.
I mean, the Army is, I think, 15,000 soldiers off of their recruitment goals this year.
And you wonder why, with generals like General Milley, This guy is the most political general that we've ever had in American history.
Jim, are you saying the drag queen influencers?
They haven't moved the needle to get other good red-blooded patriotic Americans.
You had Bud Light and the whole Dylan Mulvaney situation happen, and then you had the Navy say, hey, Bud Light, hold my beer.
Watch this. The Navy hires a transgender, the same thing, a trans social media influencer to try to recruit for the Navy, and now my beloved United States Navy is 10,000 sailors short of their recruitment goals.
So here's what we did, Don. We created the Anti-Woke Caucus.
And the whole point of the Anti-Woke Caucus was to get members of Congress together in the same room and strategize.
How can we use our power, especially in this new Republican majority?
It's a small majority, but we have a majority.
How can we cut the head off the snake of wokeism?
When Biden came to office on his very first day, one of the very first things that he did was he instructed every federal agency to create chief diversity officers.
Why does the VA need a chief diversity officer?
Why does the EPA need that?
Because they want to do away with the very American principles of merit.
Right? And they want to choose political values to hire people in the federal government instead of America being built on a meritocracy.
So here's what we did with the Anti-Woke Caucus, and I'll finish with this.
We got in a room, we strategized, and we passed the most anti-woke defense bill in history.
We banned drag shows on military bases first.
We killed the job for this drag show Navy recruiter.
We said the Navy shouldn't be investing money in somebody that does social media influencing to try to recruit if that's how they're going to recruit.
But we also made it very clear in the defense bill that no one can be promoted, assigned, or even accepted into the military Because of the color of their skin, their political views, their sexuality, they should be chosen because of their merit, that they are the best person to serve our country.
Right now, for the first time in a lifetime, the Congress, with our new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, we're working through the regular appropriations process, and we're axing line items in every appropriation bill that funds DEI in the federal government.
Taxpayers shouldn't be paying for that.
Your hard-earned tax dollars shouldn't go to that.
So that's what we're up to.
Hey, I want to give one more piece of feedback in answer to your question.
What I really think is important for the next generation to embrace, especially in this age of kind of competing information, it's truly an information war for the lives of the next generation.
They've got to embrace content Material online that is actually encouraging patriotism, encouraging their development as a young American, rather than detracting away from it.
So what I would recommend doing, and we've tried to push this at Public Square heavily, is find educational resources, content through media that is actually standing against the Disney's of the world that are trying to teach you that Cinderella's now a man and And Snow White should be all about race.
I mean, all this nonsense is taking place, but there are alternatives on the Public Square platform.
Daily Wire is doing a great job of building educational alternatives.
Yeah, they're doing an awesome job in content.
There's something out there, and you can find it.
I mean, again, because it's such a key tenant of the show that we're streaming live as part of it.
Patriot Mobile. Right? You're going to have a cell phone in your pocket anyway.
But you saw, you know, AT&T, literally the parent company of which tried to cancel OAN and Newsmax.
Like literally just cancel conservative programming.
You can use your hard earned money to fund that.
Or you can take two seconds and go to like a Patriot Mobile.
I always say go to patriotmobile.com slash triggered like the show.
You can flip it over.
It takes like that. But we've just got to take the effort.
I've got my phone.
I'm just comfortable. We can't sit back and hope that the other side is going to act decently.
We can't pretend this is an arm's length transaction.
There are people out there.
You can find the vast majority of them on Public Square.
Like I said, it's growing like you can't believe it's going to get better.
It's going to get easier. But we also have to get used to actually just taking Soon you won't even have to take the extra step because it'll all be right there.
But to actually like bother to look, to actually change, to actually do that because they would do it to us in a second.
With the other side, we're playing two different games.
We've been playing t-ball for 50 years while the other side's been playing fast pitch hardball.
It's allowed them to take over every institution in America.
We can't do that anymore if we want to actually leave our country, you know, to our children and our grandchildren in a way that they could actually recognize.
You know, so there are things like that.
Like I said, the sponsor of the show, Patriot Mobile.
You know, there are guys out there doing this.
You just have to take the time to actually find them.
Public Square is a great place to do that.
Love it. Thank you.
God bless America. Hey, thank you.
Appreciate you. All right.
Matthew Mollman, Monument Ventures.
Today, it's an investment fund for those who would agree what was said on this stage this evening.
Tomorrow, we're going to be a large business, not a small business.
We have a vision to build the Berkshire Hathaway for our side.
My question, how do we overcome the giant obstacle of complacency?
Specifically, How do we get like-minded people to move their investments in banking away from the woke companies and toward better aligned solutions?
I'll take a stab at this first.
Your cause is noble because just like we talk a lot about a desire for consumers to shift their dollars to businesses that share their values and employees to match with employers that share their values, there's also a desire for investors to invest their capital with businesses that share their values.
I'll never forget the day, it was probably about eight years ago, that my father, who had I've been building up a Disney investment for his son, me, for years, finally said, hey, I sold it all.
We moved it because we're done.
We're not going to fund your future with a company who actually aggressively wants to pervert your future.
We're not going to do it. As for this family and this house, not a chance.
So what's so important for us to recognize as conscious consumers but also conscious investors is there are other options out there.
We just have to look and actually unsubscribe from the corrupt system and embrace these other companies that have an ESG score of zero because they don't even pay attention to it.
We need to actually reinvest in the industries that have been long forgotten or criticized by the woke tyrants in our society.
What do I mean? Oil and gas.
We need these commodities.
They're valuable to our society.
Invest in local businesses when you have the chance.
I really encourage folks often to pay attention to entities like Strive Asset Management.
What you're doing in this space sounds really exciting and I'd encourage folks to reach out to you.
Find a financial advisor who's willing to partner with you and your family's values.
My father was a financial advisor for 30 years and what he would do with clients is he'd sit down and the first question he'd ask, he'd say, what are your goals as a family?
Who do you trust with your money?
And do they know your goals as a family?
Do they genuinely know that it hurts inside to be funding your opposition?
If they don't know, you should call them tomorrow.
You should say, hey, I want to make sure that for our family and our portfolio, we're not funding companies that are acting aggressively toward our family's values.
And then, over time, as you build positions in these companies and you're aware of what's happening in society, you'll notice it has a massive impact.
What do I mean? Y'all, in the spring we saw Anheuser-Busch, Disney, and Target see a $50 billion dollar decrease.
$50 billion dollars and here's the reality.
That money doesn't just eviscerate, it changes hands.
That money's got to go somewhere because it's reflective of consumer spending.
So look at the power in your investments.
J.P. Morgan had to downgrade Target's stock twice.
They had their first quarterly earnings miss in six years.
Do you know the last time they missed their quarterly earnings?
Do you remember what was happening six years ago?
It was the bathroom debacle.
Target came out and they stood for transgender bathrooms.
They clearly did not learn their lesson.
And so, we have power with our investment dollars, with our consumer spending.
It starts with awareness, then it moves to action.
Finally, you gotta be an evangelist for this type of stuff.
If you found a solution, if you found a financial advisor, if you found a wealth solution that's helping you achieve Your family's goals.
Tell your communities.
The reality is for businesses like yours, the thing that will matter more than anything else is word of mouth referrals.
When people say, I trust Matthew because he has my family's goals in mind, that will mean more than any amount of SEO. That will matter more than any amount of digital ads that you could run.
So it really happens through the grassroots.
That's my encouragement. Spread the word and all of a sudden, You're going to witness companies like Vanguard, say what they said three months ago.
BlackRock, say what they said two months ago.
ESG is failing. Now, watch carefully.
Don't take your off the ball. BlackRock's just renaming it.
They're still doing ESG. They're just renaming it.
But the point is, you've got them into a corner.
Why would they ever say it's not working and we have to backtrack if the pressure was not on them?
So my encouragement, keep it up because they're learning that we the people are not buying
what they're selling.
I'm very proud of our state legislature in Indiana that banned ESG investments in our
state pension program this year.
Thank you.
That's a really big deal, guys, because it's literally just an experiment.
We're going to promote someone because they check a box, not because they know anything about investing.
And when that goes wrong, that's your retirement.
That person won't be penalized because they were put in a position they should have never been in.
That's not how it works.
You will be. Your children and your grandchildren will be.
You see that so much.
It's a crisis in our country.
The unfunded pension liability is going to be a disaster.
It's going to be made worse with some of the decisions that are being made by corporate America because in their little circles, In New York City, or in D.C., or wherever they vacation where most can't afford to vacation, it's seen as wonderful.
They're incredibly progressive.
What actually happens to the people matters.
I mean, honestly, it's a big part of sort of like the Trump movement, right?
You see, well, the billionaire class doesn't like Trump anymore because they want a president that they can call, and he jumps to them.
They're really America first, unless you can get your widget from China for half a cent cheaper, in which case we'll make an exception.
You know, there's a reason they're going after him.
It's because he understands what he's doing can be for the people.
He's not bought and paid for.
He's the only guy that assumed that office that actually came out We have less money.
You know, I'm still trying to figure out how some of these people, you know, Dianne Feinstein, you know, $100 million fortune, I'm saying, that's pretty impressive.
Pretty impressive on a, you know, $200,000 a year salary.
You know, Joe Biden can't form a complete sentence, but he's worth millions.
You know, I don't think China, when they invested in Hunter Biden, had ESG in mind, where they said, they are underrepresented in crackhead money managers.
We need more. We need to be diversified.
You know, they don't make that decision.
They do that if they're trying to buy someone.
Still trying to figure out how the grandchildren and the ex-girlfriend also were getting checks from these...
You know, it seems sort of odd. I don't think the grandchildren are...
They're not even business people, let alone international business people.
But, you know, that doesn't seem to matter.
You know, but trust me, if you listen to the mainstream media, we're still waiting for all of the evidence.
I'm like, I mean, the wire transfers, the admissions, the phone calls, the photos, the...
I mean, you know...
87,000 emails under an alias name from Joe Biden.
You know, I don't know.
It's a lot of emails.
I've been in business for 25 years.
I don't think I've sent 87,000 emails in my own name, let alone in an alias name.
And if you're sending that many, you know, We're laughing because it sounds funny because I'm waiting for the cameras to fall out of the sky like I'm a star of the Truman Show.
It's got to be a joke, but it's actually happening.
No one's asking the question.
No one's asking in our media, hey, do you think maybe, I don't know, Ukraine has a couple more laptops or videos or wire transfers that they're saying, you know what, Joe Biden's going to make these decisions that could get our children, won't be Joe or his children, your children, To send them to die off in a war against an enemy that they're losing too badly, but you know, it doesn't matter.
Because maybe they have some more information.
I know if it was Trump in office, they'd be asking these questions because of course it could be possible, right?
Of course it's likely the most plausible answer for why we're putting America last on everything as it relates to China, on Ukraine, basically all of our enemies.
Of course it's the most plausible answer, just like, you know, The Wuhan lab leak theory was always the most...
Of course it came from the Wuhan lab that studies the exact virus in question.
No, no, no. No, no, no, folks.
It came from, like, right there, like three feet outside of the lab, magically.
It's magic, right? It came from there.
But if you were a scientist, you were defunded.
You lost your research grant because Fauci was signing off on them.
He knew exactly where it was coming, and you knew that because that's what he was telling his colleagues in his email, which was the exact opposite of what he was telling the people on a world stage.
That's where we are. That's why, you know, I guess we sort of alluded to the apathy of, well, I've just sort of left it alone.
You know, I'm not going to switch my phone carrier.
I don't want to switch my banker.
You know, it's just easy. You know, I saw it with me.
You know, I had a little just new startup That I started just to literally aggregate news from everywhere, right?
So that people could actually see, not just the Google algorithm, which shows you, you know, the first 400 pages of a search topic is, you know, the CNN take, you know, and I will say, you know, is that true or did you see it on CNN? Because they're two very different things.
And so I did this, I think you were there, Jim, because it was at CPAC, and we spoke about it the day it happened.
I'm literally about to go on the stage at CPAC. And my partner in this app, it's called MXM News, like minute by minute.
It was just like, we take the New York Times and we'll show you Breitbart.
We'll show you both and you make your own decision.
Articles from across the spectrum.
My partner calls me like, we lost, I think we were hacked.
I go, what do you mean we were hacked? Well, we had, you know, three quarters of a million dollars.
That was our operating budget for this business in our account.
And I just checked the balance. It's at zero.
I go, that's not ideal.
I'm about to give a speech in front of a few thousand people.
I'm like, it's a bad swing thought.
You know, you're sitting there like, ah!
And so, you know, I'm speaking to all the...
We call the bank.
Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, PNC Bank, like a major, you know, pretty major bank.
Okay, yeah, well, no, we just don't want to do business with you.
Well, did we do something wrong?
No, we just don't, you know, oh, there's a cashier's check in the mail.
They didn't even let us know.
They just sent a check in the mail.
We were, again, we'll show you the New York Times.
We're not creating news.
We're just taking everything and showing you what it is because everyone else is hiding it.
So we did that in app form.
And that in and of itself, being able to show you perhaps both sides of a story, not just the narrative given to you by the regime propagandists, that was enough.
We just don't want to do business with you.
Now, of course, so I'm sitting there at CPAC, you know, Mentioned it to Kevin McCarthy, who was the Speaker of the House at the time.
I mean, he put out a tweet about it, actually.
Sort of like, this is ridiculous, but this is what's happening every day.
You know, you saw what they did in the UK to Nigel Farage.
I mean, you know, he was in the European Parliament.
They debanked him.
Similar. These are not guys that are fringe radicals.
It's not like, oh, it's not going to happen to me.
No, no, it's exactly going to happen to you.
If they can do it to me, I have a big platform.
I had dinner that night with Carrie Lake and Matt Gaetz and Nigel, and they're all hitting it on their socials, so all of a sudden we get a call from the bank the next day.
Yes, it seems to have been an error.
Bullshit. It's a magic error.
You told us you don't want to do business with you.
There's a check in the mail.
That's not an error.
It was just you got caught.
And you got called out on a very large platform, but that's the point, right?
When we talk about the apathy, I don't want to go through the effort.
Hey guys, if they can do it to me, yeah, I got some means, I got a pretty solid platform, I have a lot of people that follow me, and I can call you out.
And I will, because I'm not afraid of that shit.
And if they're still like, doesn't matter, send it.
You don't think you're next?
You don't think they'll do it to you because you're nice?
No, they'll do it to you because they think of you as weak and incapable of actually fighting back.
In many cases, they're right. That's what's going on on a daily basis.
So that's why, I mean, we need that call to action.
It's not just enough to sort of, well, we'll leave well enough alone and maybe they'll, you know, Rename, just like the statistics, right?
The unemployment statistics. Well, we've done it this way for 50 years, but to make it seem really good to the people, we're going to break all of the norms of 50 years and tell you it's great by changing the methodology.
That's what they're doing on a daily basis.
Whether it's the job numbers or the this, they're creating artificial confidence.
We can't fall for that anymore.
We have to understand. And Michael said it best.
You've got to talk to your friends.
The word of mouth is number one.
Like, if you get people to do it, that's what I saw with this.
Even now, you know, flew here, commercial going through the airports, and I think, you know, you see it.
Like, the people are like, you know, now, even in places like New York, they're like, They don't want to get hit in the head with a brick by BLM or Hamas.
And I understand that.
But we have to stop being afraid.
I work with Michael all the time, and we speak often times daily.
When he's like, wow, I'm actually sort of shocked at the level of support that you get walking through even Atlanta Airport.
Not just Indianapolis, but it's there.
Okay, it's real. We just have to sort of take that first step, right?
My father did it starting this whole thing.
But, like, the one guy going out by himself, guess what?
They throw all the slings and arrows.
They can take out the most powerful guy in the world.
You get 150, 175 million Americans following suit, they ain't gonna do it.
Because they'll go out of business so fast, your head will spin.
And that's what this is really all about.
And, you know, creating that platform.
So... Just make sure you're getting involved.
Check out the people on the app.
Take that time. Figure it out.
Do the diligence. If we do that, this could be one of the greatest sort of economic movements, beyond political, because it's both.
But this has been weaponized against us for half a century.
We've foolishly gone along and we've turned the other cheek pretending again that these are honest dealers.
They would never do everything that they're doing, but we've seen it.
They're saying the quiet parts out loud.
So, you know, we need to get involved in that.
And if we do, again, I think we win.
Great.
Do you agree?
Do we want to take some questions?
I do.
Anyone else for the crowd?
Yeah.
I'm going to take a question.
Yeah, I would love to hear. We're going to take three or four more quick questions here.
Yeah, here we go.
I'm going to give her my mic.
Do you want to come over here? Or do you want to give her the mic?
You want to go to the mic there? Yeah, do you mind walking over here to the mic?
Thank you.
God bless you for everything that you do.
Sorry. I'm Ali Madden, founder of the Front Porch Patriots here in Indianapolis.
I've done all the things, switched the cell phone, closed the bank account.
I am not afraid, right?
We have to stand up against the regime.
So I've been shopping with a parallel economy for about two years.
This evening was a catalyst for me to pick up the app and start using that, so thank you.
My question is, I'm very concerned about our food source with the mRNA in our food, so will you be working with farmers and beef producers and the like so we can have a clean food supply chain?
Great question. First of all, yeah, let's hear it for her.
I'd actually love for you to address this here in a moment, given that Indiana is obviously heavy into agriculture, but I would encourage you to check out some of the amazing food producers on Public Square.
In fact, many of them have taken very adamant stances against injections into the meat and some of the tampering with the food sources and some of the Chemical ingenuity taking place that's spawned by a lot of folks like Bill Gates and the like.
I would encourage you to check out some of those.
I think of brands like Simpsons Meats or I think of companies like Good Ranchers that are really vocal about this issue.
The other piece that's really neat, especially with the local functionality on the platform, so if you go to the local or to the near me on the platform, whether you're on the website or the app, You'll see a lot of, depending on where you're located, food resources in your local community.
We actually heard that there was a pretty neat farmer's market, one of the largest in the country, I believe it was in Georgia, that just signed up last week and is driving people there because they're embracing this natural, free humanity in a way that's obviously exemplified through their politics and through their interactions with each other and their consumer spending habits.
But also what they're eating and what they're intaking into their body.
So I think over the last few years, a lot of people have awakened to start to ask the question of like, what am I eating?
And what am I drinking? And what are really in those things that I'm hearing so much about?
I think that's wonderful anytime we're asking questions of things that we've sort of taken carte blanche.
What I will say is that the more that you can produce and partake in resources from your local community, more often than not, those things are going to be far better for you.
That's what we've found, that as you engage in your local community with your local farmers, your local producers.
My grandparents are all corn and soybean farmers, and so if you go and you talk to them about corn production and how they're selling corn, They'll tell you all about it.
They nerd out on it. They love it.
And so that's really important.
Go to your farmer's markets, talk to these people, find them on Public Square, reach out to these owners.
You're going to get a response that you would never get when you're trying to reach out to just one of the big multinational conglomerates.
And so much of it is also the naming.
I'd love you to address this because it feels like Congress could probably actually simplify some of this stuff because you hear free range.
Oh, that must be great. No, no, no. It means a chicken can have six square inches, you know, and it's like free range because it can almost...
Almost spin in its cage.
There's so many misnomers.
As a fisherman and sort of outdoorsman myself, I see that, you know, wild salmon is not necessarily wild-caught salmon.
And you would think wild is wild, but it's not.
And there does seem to be sort of a deliberate amount of confusion out there that, I mean, we'd love to figure out how to simplify.
My wife isn't here, but she did go through one of these organic milk stages.
It's over, thank God.
You know, like $8 for a gallon.
You go down the rabbit hole of a...
I had to prove to her it's not really...it's not any different...
It doesn't even mean anything. It's like nothing's changed.
It's just... There probably is a role done for Congress or state legislatures to play in making sure that made in America means made in America.
Grown in Indiana means raised and grown in Indiana.
And our state legislature in Indiana has done that.
Indiana Grown initiative is something that you can find more about.
You know what, and I love, by the way, Ali's, I love Ali's Hoosier accent.
I don't know if you picked up on that.
Very Hoosier. But Ali in Northeast Indiana, we have a number of niche farms.
I think Gunthrop up in LaGrange, or Seven Sons in Huntington, Roanoke, or Joseph Ducuy, and we have big farmers markets in my small town, Columbia City, and all over Northeast Indiana.
But what I want to know, every now and then some of the proprietors are very left-wing and they beat up on me.
I noticed one in particular, I won't say who he is, but he's an avowed socialist and he beats up on me on Twitter, but he also has one of these farms.
So what I'm going to encourage a lot of these, because I know most of them are conservative, I want them to get on the app because this is what I love about Public Square is they make a pro-America commitment, as I said earlier, and also that they will never discriminate against any of their customers for being conservative.
And that's all I'm asking for.
So these local niche farms that do incredible unique things, Indiana grown in our state, we want to promote them because it's supporting local families and local employers.
With our rich agriculture heritage in this great state.
But I want to know a little bit about them oftentimes before I support them too.
And when you guys find them, and I'm sure you will, let them know that there's a resource for them to find other people.
Again, it's all part of that sort of organic nature of things.
It's the conversation.
Hey, you're a great forum. By the way, there's people that are looking for your product.
They're probably leaning on one side.
Why don't you go check it out over here?
I think it makes a lot of sense, and then people can figure it out, and then you're helping other people find the same things that you're looking for.
It's about that growth, and it's going to be very organic because people are underserved in all of those things.
That's great. Thank you for your question.
We got another one here? Then we'll come up here.
I'm L.K. Shinneman.
I'm a retired entrepreneur businessman.
I started a nonprofit called Unite for Life, Beginning to End, Supporting Mothers to Be.
I have a question really for both Donald and Michael.
There's a question for Donald.
Do you think the abortion issue and stance of the Democrats will be a pivotal issue for the 2024 election?
And how does your father plan to win that debate because we lost it in 2022?
The question for Michael is this.
Will Public Square be willing to stand up for life on the issue of abortion?
Or will you be too worried about the cancel culture and stay neutral?
Would you be willing to endorse a non-profit like Unite for Life and be our free t-shirt sponsor?
That's a plug for me.
Because I really believe that we have two problems in this country, apathy and relativity.
There aren't a thousand truths.
There's only one truth. And we can't leave it to someone else to do it because they won't.
Thank you. Well, listen, I think my father's been pretty clear on that issue.
I think he's done more than any conservative probably in the history of politics.
You know... Everyone talks, but results are different, right?
Just like everyone has been saying they're gonna generate peace deals in the Middle East for how long?
My entire lifetime. I'm 45.
I'm getting, let's call it old as dirt, but I'm sure it was happening before that, and no one actually did it.
Trump did it. People made their promises they're gonna stand up to China.
One of these days, they're gonna do it.
You see that a lot in the Republican primary.
A lot of promises being made based on the things that Trump actually did, but I don't know that any of those people actually have the ability to deliver on those things.
Like Trump did, because he's actually done it.
You know, talk is cheap, as we've said.
But I'll let Michael...
I mean, they literally created the first sub-brand of Public Square, a company called Every Life, a diaper company, because it's the first diaper company that isn't an active donor.
I mean, think about this. There are diaper companies...
That are active donors to Planned Parenthood.
And it's almost all of them that I can think of.
So we saw that as an inherent conflict and a problem Michael has run with that.
And I mean literally one of just the offshoot businesses that we were allowed to sort of focus on once we took it public and had the capital to actually be able to grow and do these things is literally a diaper brand that is avowedly pro-life.
Yeah, it's actually, we heard from our manufacturers this past week, it's the fastest growing diaper brand in modern history.
It's amazing to witness.
Because we don't actually, you know, choose to kill our consumer.
Novel concept. Seems crazy, I know.
In the world of ESG, DEI, or D-I-E, as I call it, which should not be ironic anymore.
Well, it's something we learned last year.
We saw a lot of moms.
Mama bears are very avid on our platform.
And we saw a lot of moms searching on the platform for diapers and wipes, baby care.
What we were finding is that they were void of solutions.
We were not hosting any diaper brands, so we start researching as to why.
That feels odd. We're a marketplace that's very pro-life, pro-family.
Why would there not be a diaper company, a baby care?
That feels like ground zero.
Well, what we learned is that every single one of the major nine diaper brands in the United States today, every single one of them, are either vocally or financially pro-abortion.
Everyone. Huggies, Pampers, funding abortion for their employees.
Hello Bello, who actually just went bankrupt last week.
They're funding $4,500 for every one of their employees that wants an abortion.
Coterie, which is one of the nicest diapers money can buy.
It's sort of a luxury brand. In fact, they call themselves the Rolls Royce of diapers.
Coterie came out this past year and I quote said, our team feels lost without abortion access.
This is a diaper company. This would be like me saying, hey Don, you're a great business partner, I got this idea.
We're gonna build a men's shoe line and we're gonna utilize a portion of the profits to fund the termination of men.
It makes zero sense.
Regardless of your feelings on the issue morally, you have to be able to acknowledge that that makes zero economic sense also.
So we saw a need from a moral and an economic perspective to create a family brand that was pro-life and pro-family because there was this massive underserved market out there of which my wife and I are a part.
So we started EveryLife.
I told you we have a one-year-old, so we're like, hey, you know what?
Even if it doesn't sell, at least we'll have babies for our own little girl.
And thankfully, this brand has absolutely taken off.
You can find it at everylife.com.
My point in saying this to answer your question is that we as a company have had many times where people have asked us to back down on our commitment to protecting the freedoms and liberties, like Congressman Banks described, for all people.
We do not discriminate. We don't limit those freedoms and liberties to certain types of people.
That means born and unborn.
Every single one of us as human beings are entitled to the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness at
Public Square.
On the non-profit thing, I'm excited to look more into it.
And then I would love a t-shirt. That sounds great.
You got a t-shirt.
That's wonderful. I admire what you're doing.
Thank you. Thank you.
Appreciate it. Anything you'd like to say?
Michael, I'm proud that Indiana is the first state that passed a pro-life law after the
Dobbs decision.
Successfully defended by our great Attorney General Todd Rikita, by the way, who did a
great job defending the law.
Thank you all.
Thank you.
Thank you.
But the question that you ask is really interesting as we head into the big election cycle of 2024.
At the beginning of this Congress, in the new Republican majority, one of the very first bills that we passed out of the House was the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
The Senate hasn't done anything with it.
But here's something to note, sir.
Every single Democrat in the House voted against it.
Okay, now, the Born Alive Infant Protection Act saves babies who are born after a botched abortion, meaning that they have breathed their first breath.
Now, they want to call me radical for my pro-life views, but every single Democrat has voted in favor of abortion and the killing of babies who are born after a botched abortion.
You tell me who's radical.
If we continue to tell that to the American people, the Democrats are the radicals on abortion, they believe in abortion all the way up to the moment of birth, and then compare that to our pro-life views supporting life, I think we're going to win big in 2024 on that issue and a lot more.
And by the way, Don is right.
Donald Trump is the most pro-life president in American history, and I'll praise him each and every day for what he did to strike down Roe v.
Wade and give us the Dobbs decision and a lot of other pro-life wins.
Hi, so my name is Jacob, and I'm a freshman at Purdue University, so boiler up.
I love Coach Knight, though.
And a big thing, being a conservative on a college campus, even though I've only been in college for about 10 weeks now, is I had to put pronouns with my emails during registration, not because I wanted to, but because they forced it.
And we get emails every single week advertising us to go out to the LGBTQ plus call-out meetings.
There's a gay library, actually.
At Purdue University, despite how conservative they say it is, so my question to you three is, what would be your advice?
Because the Republican clubs and things like that, there's not a lot of people, so it's hard to make friends.
What would be your advice, being a conservative on a college campus, to be able to make friends and stand strong with your values?
Because it does get brought up in a lot of conversations.
Are you pro-life? Are you this or that?
So what would your advice be?
Listen, I think the first and natural...
You're right. That's a tough place to be a young conservative.
I see that. But I also see that changing.
Because, again, as the other side has gotten so ridiculous, so extreme, you know, normal people...
I see it with my kids, especially since we moved down to Florida.
Like, you know, they're talking about some of the issues that we would talk about.
And they, too, are rolling their eyes, whether it's pronouns and this.
And I see, you know, even, you know...
Young and teenage girls that are there.
They're friends of my daughter's or whatever.
And they're literally laughing about how ridiculous it is.
And these are the people that I would think would be sort of the key people that the other side's pushing that indoctrination on.
They're getting it. If you're young and new on college campus, you know, go find, like, honestly, your nearest Turning Point chapter.
You know, Charlie Kirk at Turning Point USA. They do a great job.
You know, you'll find people that align with you.
And again, for me, with college, I mean, you know, I went to one of the places that has sort of been out there in the last two weeks with the insanity of, you know, pushing Hamas.
I discussed it a little bit, I guess, in my opener earlier at the University of Pennsylvania.
You know, Ivy League University, home of whatever.
There's, you know, the elite, yada, yada, yada.
I mean, they're pushing insane stuff.
I don't know that... Some of this elite even means anything anymore because of the way and the methodology, the insanity that's coming out of them.
But what I've seen is, and what was very cathartic to me in life, I learned it a lot during politics, right?
I was the son of a billionaire from Manhattan.
I had plenty of friends that were Democrats.
There was a time I could have a conversation with many of them.
When I found the guys who were actual friends, even those who perhaps disagreed with me on politics, but were willing to have that conversation, it was a lot different than people who tell me what I wanted to hear perhaps from them, but then go do the opposite publicly or on Facebook, and then, why don't you pick up the phone anymore?
It's like, because you're lying. You're telling me what I'm doing is awesome.
You love it, you love it, you love it, but then on Facebook you'll say the opposite because...
You're getting points for being woke.
So for me, it was really cathartic to sweep those people out of our lives.
It was also really important in life, which you're not getting on university anymore,
to actually have a dialogue, to take a position, to back it up, to actually argue it, rather
than just regurgitate the sound bites that you're being told.
You know, the way to get ahead at one of these universities is they just give them what they
want.
I have a friend, his son wanted to get into one of these, let's call it, you know, Ivy
League, I don't even want to go close to it because there's probably not too many, you
know, Trump donors that have children that go to these schools anymore, but I won't get
to the specific one, but he had a very specific program for what he wanted to do.
They're very good at that, even if they're woke as hell and everything like that.
So I get the call, and I go, you know, he got in.
I go, how did he get in?
He's like, all right. Turns out, like, he wrote his college essay literally just assuming the opposite.
He just put, like, the, I'm going to be the most insane human being in the world on my college essay.
And he wrote this essay about, you know, his journey into the trans experiences, you know.
And, like, the dumbest, like, the dumbest of the dumb soundbites, he just owned it 100%, went all in, and was immediately accepted.
He would have never been able to get in there just doing anything other than that.
So, because these universes, it doesn't mean anything anymore.
So find the solid group of people that you're going to get along with.
You don't need to be friends with 2,000 people, I promise you.
You'll find a core group. I like hunting, fishing, and like three people.
You'll be fine. But find that guy.
Seek out that turning point chapter.
You'll find a lot of people that are like that.
And then you'll start, once you get in that group, other people will sort of get in there and You know, you can open them up to it a lot.
I think it'll be a more important learning curve, but stick to your guns.
You know what I mean? Like, you know, have those conversations.
You can have that uncomfortable conversation respectfully, but I promise you, like, being able to take that stand rather than just regurgitating someone else's sound bites will actually do so much more for you in life and your educational process than anything you will learn in any class at any university for the next however long you stay in academia.
Yeah, that's a great answer.
That was a little long, but, like, it's not so simple.
It was solid, and that last sentence was, I believe, the most crucial.
If you stand firm in your convictions, you're going to find ten other people that come to you after class and say, hey, dude, I'm with you.
Don wasn't kidding. Today, when we walk through the airport, every single flight attendant, pilot, desk worker, the person at the counter that honestly didn't really look like a Trump supporter, he walks in the room.
Yeah, there were a couple that I'm like...
Yeah, yeah.
You think you're going to get punched or like a drink thrown on you.
And they just want to shake his hand, but he's like thinking they're coming out.
Yeah. And so, you know, you'd be amazed at how many people are actually with us.
All they're waiting for is one person to stand up and say it.
Yeah. If you're the one man, you're going to find ten others, and you're going to have people flock.
Even if you just say, hey teacher, I'm not actually sure I agree with that.
Dude, you'll have five people that come to you after the class.
If you're willing to go to a turning point rally, and you meet with kids, and you meet a few friends, and you guys decide to set up a booth at campus, you're going to find that there are hundreds of students that flock to you and say, I've been waiting for you.
That's my encouragement. You have anything?
So we've got to call crazy crazy, right?
And not be afraid to do that.
In Indiana, we have a governor.
The governor appoints the board of trustees of Indiana University, Purdue, Ball State, University of Southern Indiana, all of the public universities.
As conservatives, we don't do this very well, but these are people who are appointed to be on the board of trustees who are very prominent people, and they care about their reputations.
So when you see crazy, call it crazy, And reach out to those board members, those trustees that have been appointed by the governor and say, let me tell you a story about a crazy thing that I'm dealing with on the campus that you're on the board of.
And then reach out to me, and I'll help highlight it too, right?
Yeah.
We're all a part of this movement.
There's no person that can't make a difference.
Again, I'm highlighting a lot of people that bring these.
I don't know them from Adam, but I see the issue.
I've got to vet it, because otherwise there's always the clown that's putting it.
Yeah, but you can do that, and that's what we've been saying from moment one.
It's all organic. There's no one that's too small to be a part of this.
There's no one that can't contribute in some way to move this needle forward.
I read a story this morning that the Board of Trustees of Indiana University I never thought this would happen.
I was having a discussion this week about separating the Kinsey Institute, a very left-wing entity at Indiana University.
A lot of people credit for being behind the radical transgender movement and a lot of other terrible things.
I give not just President Trump, but the America First movement behind him a lot of credit.
A lot of things are happening in America today that weren't happening before he shook it up.
And you are all a part of that, and I'm proud to stand with all of you.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, have you enjoyed this tonight?
I would love to open it up for any last words from Donald Trump Jr.
and Congressman Jim Banks, soon to be Senator Jim Banks, I believe.
Don, you want to kick us off?
Any closing thoughts? Sure. Well, listen, again, I just want to thank you guys for being here.
You know, it's you guys that are going to make the difference in this.
You know, I promise you for us, As we're experiencing, it would have been a lot easier just to shut up and be a real estate developer from New York.
I used to be invited to the cool person parties with open arms.
It was great. Much easier.
But, you know, I have five young kids and I wish we had every life diapers then because I've bought more diapers than probably any human being in the history of diapers.
Didn't have that as an option now, but we're all in this together.
I appreciate that, but take the time to find it out.
Again, the people...
Even this show that we're doing right now, our sponsors, if they have the guts to sponsor a show like this, Gold Co., Patriot Mobile, these guys...
That's a business you want to figure out how to support if that's part of what you're doing.
There's so many of them.
You find the other ones on Public Square.
We're just going to be doing more of this, but take that time.
Each one of you can make a difference.
Each time you're making one of the transactions with one of the companies who's willing to put themselves out there that way, you're putting that kid One of their kids, perhaps, through hockey or ballet or whatever it is, rather than funding woke corporate America who's literally giving your hard-earned dollars back to people who hate your guts.
We can't just sit there and do it.
We've seen the results of apathy.
It's not going to work.
I understand the biblical roots of turning the other cheek, but it's been a strategy that the left has loved that we have taken because it's allowed them to amass The power that they've weaponized against us for so long.
And it's time to say enough is enough.
So it's because of people like yourselves that we're able to do that.
It's not just us. It's not just us talking.
We actually have to live this lifestyle.
If we all do that, we're unstoppable.
Well, thank you very much.
It's an honor to be here.
It's an honor to have Public Square choose Indiana as your first Thank you.
Make sure to make him your next senator, by the way.
We have a shortage of senators with guts, a shortage of senators with conviction.
You know, we've got a couple, you know, a Tommy Tuberville right now, a J.D. Vance, then the list starts going pretty rapidly downhill.
Jim would be an incredible addition to that, and we need more people like it.
So make sure to do your part with that as well.
Speak to your neighbors, your friends, and do that because you know the left is going to probably spend 10 to 1, maybe more, with California, New York, Soros money to make sure that that doesn't happen and we've seen the results.
So be involved in the political process too, not just in the economic process.
With that, folks, it's been a blast to be here with you this evening.
We are very grateful.
There's nowhere else we would have rather had this first official Public Square Town Hall than the beautiful state of Indiana.
I was telling them on the way in here, I actually grew up coming to Carmel.
I called it Carmel all the time, but you all correct me.
It's Carmel, Indiana, correct?
Yes? Am I right? Yes?
It's a beautiful state, full of great people, and we're honored that you'd kickstart this journey for us.
Stay tuned, because we have many more of these coming.
We'd love to also hear from you.
We'd love to hear what you enjoyed, what you'd love to see more of, how you think we can continue to refine this experience.
I'll be honest with you. The idea for Public Square came out of a simple vision.
It's not super complex.
I'm not that smart of a guy.
I'm just really passionate about saving the country.
Here was the simple idea.
There's a list of businesses that hate us in our country.
We're gonna make a list that don't.
It's that easy. Right?
It's that simple. And the way now that we've been able to build this movement, this parallel economy, to be a true force to be reckoned with, is by hearing the feedback of our consumers and businesses day in and day out.
We've been honest with folks from the beginning.
We've said, we're building this plane in flight, and we need your help.
So, we're building this Public Square Town Hall series in flight, and we would love your help.
Let us know what you enjoyed and what you'd love to see more of.
We at Public Square are creating an alternative to Amazon.
A true one-stop shopping experience over the coming years so that you can actually know with blessed assurance you're not funding your opposition.
If you're tired of the fact that Starbucks is giving your money to match employee contributions to Planned Parenthood.
If you're tired of PayPal threatening to fine you for $2,500 for misinformation violations.
It happens to be correct. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Misinformation and correct is just six months.
So like PayPal's, you know, that's the story we always hear.
The difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth, give it six months.
They want to silence your voice.
If you're tired of banks threatening to cancel customers, like Don said, if they did it to him, they can do it to you.
If you're tired of the insurance companies using your money to fund progressive causes, there is a way you can push back.
Vote with your wallet.
And here's the beauty.
The businesses you find on the platform, these aren't ones that are going to require you to donate to conservative causes.
They're not ones that are going to Make sure your money is politically charged just the other direction.
Some of them do, and you have the choice to partake with those, but many of the businesses on this platform just want to go back to the basics.
They say, I love these conservative principles.
Among these are a value for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all people.
There's a love for the country and the Constitution, and they're not going to use my money against me.
I'd rather go here.
We're finding every day that there are numerous businesses from industries you couldn't even imagine that are joining the Public Square platform.
We're finding the niche products for all of life's daily needs.
And when we're missing a product, you know what we do?
We build it. We're missing diapers, we build it.
We're missing a sales platform, we build it.
We know some other products we're missing in the future.
We're going to build those too, so stay tuned.
We're grateful for each and every one of you.
Thank you for being active, engaged, not only voters, but consumers and business owners.
We pray you've enjoyed tonight as much as we have.
To the Triggered family on the podcast.
We'll see you on Thursday. Let's go.
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