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July 18, 2024 - Triggered - Donald Trump Jr
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HULK HOGAN LIVE FROM THE RNC
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What's going on guys?
Welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.
I want to start with unfortunately some very sad news.
The great Lou Dobbs, journalist, friend, one of the sort of original guys that understood MAGA in the media.
Tonight is the final night of the Republican National Convention.
America First values and a great man. I've been on the show, I've been on his show many
times. I literally just heard that today and it's terribly, terribly sad. But tonight is
the final night of the Republican National Convention. My father will accept the Republican
nomination for President of the United States for the third time. It's going to be a historic
You will not want to miss any of that.
Tonight, we're gonna have some fun guests a little bit different.
I'm joined by my daughter, Kai, who gave her first speech ever last night at the convention.
She absolutely crushed it.
This is a 17-year-old girl who's with me.
When we got the news about my father being shot, she's the one that's the golfer, so she's with him every weekend, and they talk all the time, and they have a special relationship.
And this little girl, she's not so little anymore maybe, but quite little girl, called me up and said, I want to speak at the RNC.
I was like, that's a big one.
To jump onto the RNC at that stage, you know, 30,000 people live, tens of millions on TV, and she absolutely crushed it, so I'm going to talk with her.
We also have Hulk Hogan coming on.
Hulk's going to be speaking at the conference tonight, along with some other great speakers.
Dana White, I know Kid Rock's playing, but Hulk Hogan's going to be here.
We were supposed to have JD Vance, but he got sucked into a fundraiser stupidly, and now I got to get... So, you know, they forget really quickly.
I'm going to give them a hard time about that one later on, but...
But we're going to get J.D.
on the show very soon, but obviously it's the RNC.
He's got to work.
We got to win.
That's the most important.
I want to begin, before we get to Hulk Hogan, I want to begin with a clip from my daughter's CHI speech last night.
It was absolutely incredible.
I could not have been more proud.
So here's the clip, and then we'll be back with CHI live in studio.
But I got a call on Monday morning.
from a young lady who said, Dad, I want to speak at the RNC.
I want to speak at the RNC because I want America to know what my grandpa is actually like.
Applause you
So for the first time ever on a stage, first time ever giving a speech, I want to bring out my eldest daughter and the eldest
granddaughter of the President of the United States, your favorite president, Kai Madison
Trump.
Hi everyone, my name is Kai Madison Trump.
I am the granddaughter of Donald Trump.
I'm speaking today to share the side of my grandpa that people don't often see.
To me, he's just a normal grandpa.
He gives us candy and soda when our parents aren't looking.
He always wants to know how we're doing in school.
When I made the high honor roll, he printed it out to show his friends how proud he was of me.
I know.
He calls me during the middle of the school day to ask how my golf game is going and tells me all about his.
But then I have to remind him that I'm in school and I'll have to call him back later.
When we play golf together, if I'm not on his team, he'll try to get inside of my head.
I know.
And he's always surprised that I don't let him get to me.
But I have to remind him, I'm a Trump too.
Okay.
So this is going to be a hard-hitting interview.
I now have Kai live on camera.
And as a dad, this is a great opportunity for dad jokes.
Uh, like I may start off with tough questions like, how cute are you?
And the answer is, the answer is quite, quite cute.
Am I embarrassing you yet?
And I just get you a little blushy.
No, I'm just kidding.
First of all, I just want to tell you how incredibly proud I was at that moment.
You did incredible.
I was standing on the back, and I was like, I don't know what's going to happen.
I mean, your first speech ever was to, like, 30,000 people live, tens of millions on TV.
That could be hard.
Were you at all nervous before that speech?
Just a tad bit.
Just a tad?
Just a little.
But you nailed it.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, it was from the heart, so it's not...
It's like it was easy if it was from the heart.
Yeah, that's the thing. So I saw, honestly, the, I think Kai's speech was by far the best of the
night. Certainly that's what I'm seeing on social. People loved it. And then you have
the usual stuff like, well, that was a great political strategy to put her up there. And I
was like, that wasn't a political strategy. Like I would never put you in that position. I've never
asked you to do any of those things. Right. So it was, it was funny. You know, Kai was with me.
I I got the unusual phone call this weekend of, hey dad, will you take me fishing?
That's like a once a year phone call that I get where, like, she actually chooses to spend time with dad.
Once a year we'll go fishing or play shooting.
Usually once a year we go fishing, once a year we'll go shooting and then it's like, you know.
That's about all I can get.
And then for the whole year, just nothing else?
Then it's basically like, yeah, maybe I'll get lucky for a dinner, but like, you know.
So when you get that chance as a dad, you know, you go.
So we took Kai and a couple of our friends, we went out on the boat, we were doing great, we were catching.
And she was like, we're good.
And then we got the call, you know, that, you know, you would call grandpa, I'd call dad.
It was shot.
And we didn't know when we're rushing back and trying to figure it out.
And you were actually very calm, very curious, but like, just, you know, it was a tense, tense thing.
And then we got done with that.
We finally spoke to him and we broke the ice and I asked him how his hair was doing.
And he said, the hair is fine.
Don, the hair is fine.
A little bit bloody.
But, uh, so it was a good moment of levity for the family.
But, you know, I could see it, you know, it hit all the kids a little differently.
Chloe's was a little harder to explain to a 10 year old.
You're 17.
You got it.
But you called me on Monday morning and were like, I want to speak this week.
I mean, what, what, what made, what made you want to do that?
Cause that's, I mean, that's, I was like, man, I don't know.
That's, that's ballsy.
I was impressed.
I was like, but what, what made, what were you thinking before that?
Cause we've never even had that conversation.
I mean really like after what happened I thought I should just because I mean what happened was horrible and I thought I can maybe make a change in that and not just not like political change just tell everyone about my grandpa.
So uh that's why really afterwards.
Yeah you actually you know what people most people don't know you know my dad doesn't hang around with a lot of teenagers but uh you guys have a really unique relationship because of golf and uh you know you're the little rock star golfer in our family and that's what that's his sort of passion and so You guys probably spend more time together than anyone.
So I think this one probably... You ticked this one pretty personal, because you do have that, like you spoke about in the speech.
You have, you know... We have that relationship.
You joke, you compete with each other when you're on the same team.
It's good when you're not on the same team.
He's playing the same games he is with, like, you know, a real business guy that he really wants to beat.
He does not... He doesn't care.
It doesn't matter.
Has he ever given you a putt?
No, never.
He can make you put it out of order.
Even if it's an inch, never.
You never know.
Have you ever outdriven him?
I don't think I can discuss that right now.
You're not going to talk about that?
I can't say that.
You can tell she's a Trump, not only that she has the guts to get up on a stage like that and to do that, but she also knows what not to say sometimes, which isn't our strongest suit, but that was probably a very smart tactical decision to not talk about possibly outdriving Grandpa on occasion, right?
Yeah, he wouldn't really like if I discussed that today.
So, so what was that like?
Like, listen, we helped you, you know, try to prep and you did such a good job, but what was it like?
You know, it sounds like a great idea at the time.
And then was there ever a moment where it was like, you walk out into that arena, even when during the prep times, you're like, Oh my god, like this isn't just like speaking in front of a classroom.
Like, I was really excited to do it.
I wasn't nervous at all.
Honestly, I wasn't nervous at all the first two days because like everything I always think, oh it's gonna be easy, right?
Yeah.
And then I land in Milwaukee and we go to the stadium and there's a lot of people.
I'm like, oh no.
I'm like, what did I get myself into?
Yeah, we're prepping.
We're about to go on and I'm like watching Kygo.
Oh yeah, I started doing my breathing techniques.
I was like, this could be a disaster.
At first, my only concern was like, hey, don't cry, because I don't want to ruin and destroy my long-held reputation of being a total jerk.
If they saw me crying, they'd say I'm human.
I don't want that.
I couldn't ruin that.
And so I had, yeah, it was good.
And it was funny, because I couldn't tell actually how Well, she was doing because I stood about five feet behind you and off to the side.
It sounds different.
And the sound is different.
Yeah.
And so I was like, oh my God, is she just mumbling through it?
Which, which can happen, right?
People get scared, their tongues fit really fast in it.
When you, uh, introduced me, I couldn't even really honestly hear what you were saying.
Like, I didn't know it was like my time to go.
Yeah.
I just like, know you were talking and then...
And then the lady goes, okay, it's your turn to go.
I'm like, wait, what?
He didn't even say anything.
He's like, no, he said it.
I'm like, oh, okay, here I go.
So by the way, we're breaking some new ground, right?
That was your first speech.
That was a big one.
Yeah.
You also did your first TV hit today with Martha McCallum and me on Fox News.
And now is this your first podcast?
I've joined once at your house.
Oh, you did?
That's right, you came on.
Okay, well, you did a quick cameo peek.
Yeah, I kind of showed up way later than I left.
S-Man, how you doing, buddy?
S-Man's been on the show.
You want to pop in and sit down for a second?
Look at how well you're dressed, little buddy.
So, S-Man, this is Spencer.
Spencer has popped in on the show before.
Are you going to give a speech next time?
Maybe.
He's a man of many words, folks.
I'm just messing around with you, buddy.
You did really good this whole weekend.
So now you've done it all.
Donnie was on with the Nug Boys earlier, so he beat you to the podcast today, but you're right.
You've popped on the show before, so it's good.
I just wanted to say I was so proud of you last night.
I thought you did incredible.
It was such an important message because you're right.
You've seen the grandpa that is a grandpa.
Grandpa doesn't like showing that side of him, right?
He likes being tough.
He likes, you know, he doesn't want Putin to see that he he's soft and he cares about anything or whatever it may be.
So I thought it was the best speech of the night and As a Trump, I'm a little disappointed that you gave that speech because it overshadowed my incredibly brilliant and perfectly delivered speech of the evening, which really pisses me off, but I thought it was amazing.
And if I'm gonna lose to someone, especially a 17-year-old girl, I am glad that it is you, Kai.
So, you're the best, and I love you so, so much.
Yeah, thank you.
You too.
All right, guys.
We're waiting.
Hulk Hogan's going to be on his way over here.
We're going to get to Rick Grinnell in a couple moments.
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I saw you speak the other day, buddy.
You did well.
You did well.
How are you, man?
Everything good?
You're crushing it.
Thank you.
We're having some fun.
We're having some fun.
So, Rick, you're a longtime sort of politico.
Involved before... My ninth convention, Don.
Ninth?
Wow.
That's a really long time.
I figured, like, okay.
You were there.
In 16.
Right?
Trump is this new rabble rouser in the party.
I mean, I think you may have been there when I almost got in a fight with Mike Lee, like a senator on the floor because they were trying to do this deal.
Now he's literally one of my closest friends in politics.
Such a different vibe this time.
I mean, can you talk about the difference?
Yeah, look, you know, it makes sense when you just kind of look at the evolution of politics, how, you know, it was, I think the Republican Party, like the Democratic Party, was controlled by a bunch of elites.
Yeah.
And what the Democrats are going through right now is, is it's going to be unbelievable.
If they try to replace Joe Biden, ignore 50 states that voted for him, and suddenly a group of elites at the convention decide to dump him and replace him with
who they want, to me that's where we were in 16. It was, we had an
outsider, we had an insurgent coming in and saying, you know, what I love in looking back is Donald
Trump critiqued the Bushes, the McCains, and the Romneys.
And everybody said, if you do that, you will never win a primary.
And not only did he win the primary, but he won the general.
Yeah.
And that, to me, is remarkable.
And it goes to show you that people are sick and tired of kind of the elites controlling politics.
You look across Europe right now, there's no theme of whether the conservatives are winning or the progressives are winning.
The theme is everybody who's been there is getting thrown out.
Yeah.
They're sick and tired.
They're not sure what kind of change they want.
They just don't want those people doing it anymore.
Exactly.
And to me, I love that because that's kind of what our founding fathers were all about.
They were insurgents.
Yeah.
They were like, get rid of this.
And, you know, they were called terrorists and all sorts of names.
And so I just feel like we have a leader in Donald Trump.
Wow.
That has just empowered us to think about the people.
Yeah.
To reject the elites.
And yet it's coming from a billionaire.
Like, it's so cool.
You're seeing all the news about, you know, Pelosi, Schumer, Obama calling for Joe Biden to drop out.
Do you think he can make it to be the nominee?
Do you think he wants to let go?
It seems like Jill desperately wants, like, another cover of Vogue and loves traveling on,
you know, Air Force One.
What do you think happens there?
I mean, can they replace him with anyone other than Kamala?
And do you think it's much of a different race if it is Kamala versus Joe?
There's much change.
Yeah, I'm not too worried about whether or not they change him out, because if they do, they have to go with Kamala.
I mean, I know Gavin Newsom, Democrat staffers, and they say he's not going to try to raise a billion dollars in five weeks.
Well, I think he's also smart enough to probably not want to run against Trump.
You know, it's a, you know, it's a, That's much more of an unknown than others.
You have one shot.
You don't want to ruin it.
And so I think they've got to stick with either Joe or Kamala, which means the policies are the same.
She's not going to be able to run from the policies of open border.
And they're going to have to spend a lot of money to tell people that gas prices are low because they're not.
Yeah.
No, well, and that's right.
I mean, I said, it doesn't matter if it's Joe Kamala, frankly, any other Democrat at this point, because their policies are what have caused the chaos around the world.
They're causing the wars, they're doing this, so it's interesting.
I mean, and I would imagine, there's, I've been saying for a while, like, there is a part of me that says, like, I almost rather run against Kamala Harris, especially, like, I don't think she's gonna resonate well in the Rust Belt.
Right.
And I don't think they can bring in a VP that helps them there, because the message is too different.
Just look at what they've done.
You can try to find a Rust Belt Democrat to help, and like, Would that person even want to hitch his wagon too?
Kamala Harris.
Right.
Look, they're going to come up with some sort of scheme because these elites love to try to control it.
But I think we just have to stick to the, you know, undermining democracy, blah, blah, blah.
Yeah.
I mean, this is what they now are doing is undermining democracy after like hitting us so hard on it.
I think you're right, though.
Kamala Harris would be amazing.
She's never been vetted.
She's never, ever been vetted in California.
Democrats don't get vetted.
It's a DEI rotation.
It's like, who's next?
You know, we're gonna have a gay guy next, then we're gonna have an Asian, then we're gonna have a... But the straight white guy's picking everybody the whole time.
It's true.
Yeah, well, Kimberly has some interesting stories.
That's a different show.
That's a different show.
Yeah, that's... That's the X version.
That may be too X-rated even for Rumble, but I want to get your take, Rick, obviously.
You know, a lot's changed in a couple of days.
You saw, you know, a literal assassination attempt on my father.
But someone who's not just a guy with a Secret Service detail, but also the presumptive nominee, so a pretty built-up Secret Service detail.
Kimberly Cheadle.
She's in Milwaukee.
And Republican Senators Marshall Blackburn, John Barrasso.
You know, Marshall was on my show yesterday, because she was like, do you believe the timing of this?
Like, they knew before they ever put your father on the stage that there was a guy on a roof.
Like, what?
You know.
I don't want to be the guy to get conspiratorial, but how do you not?
How is there that kind of breakdown for a presumptive nominee?
It seems like lunacy, and that the Secret Service Director is running away from active senators who want to ask real questions of them, and she doesn't feel obligated to respond or speak to them?
Kevin Cramer was there as well.
I mean, three senators and she's like, I'm not talking to you.
I'm like, really?
You're not talking to... It's really unbelievable.
It seems crazy.
What do you make of all of this stuff?
Well, first of all, you and I are friends.
So, you know, I know you're strong.
And yet I feel really compelled to say this is that I'm sorry that your family has to go through this because it's not fair.
It's not right.
And when I saw on Saturday a man that I love, that is changing America,
for a moment I didn't know if he was dead.
Oh, I didn't know for 90 minutes.
We haven't even spoken about it, really.
Like, we've been running around doing it.
I didn't know for 90 minutes.
No, it's outrageous.
I got a call from Kim, like, your dad's been shot.
I'm like, oh.
No, it's- And?
Like, what does that mean?
Like, are you serious?
Right, it's so outrageous, but, you know, not to get too spiritual,
But I actually believe that God showed us on Saturday that he has a plan.
By the way, a hundred. Now, that doesn't mean we don't just, we, we, everyone still has to be invective.
Yeah, I'm coming to that. I'm coming to that. I'm coming to that.
God gave us a brain. God gave us a brain.
I'm just saying, I'm not overly spiritual. I believe in this, but I'm not, and I was like, no way.
It was divine intervention.
As a shooter, that's like a six-inch putt, you know, 130-yard shot with a rested rifle on a roof.
It doesn't get easier than that.
Yeah.
For him to... By the way, and also, the other crazy part of it is he's pointing to an immigration chart, ironically, but I've been to dozens, maybe a hundred rallies.
I don't know.
I've literally never seen him go to a chart.
Me neither.
He goes to a chart, he goes like this, and that's when it's like... I mean, imagine...
The one time he ever does something and that's the thing that has to be the hand of God.
It's truly unbelievable.
It is the hand of God, but here's the other thing is that I don't want... I mean, a congressional investigation is dumb.
I also don't want the FBI to give me the pre-written report that they wrote on Friday, the day before it happened.
Everything was fine, there was a breakdown, they'll blame it on some local cop who's the fall guy and nothing will actually happen.
I don't believe a radicalized 20-year-old, radicalized enough to try to shoot my father in the face It's the only 20-year-old in the world that doesn't have a social media footprint at all.
I don't believe that.
I don't believe it either.
That's probably how they got radicalized.
It didn't just happen magically, right?
That can't be.
We know this to all be true.
This is starting to be a cover-up.
Because they're scrambling every day that goes by that we don't know a basic answer.
Why was the roof not covered with Secret Service agents?
That's a basic question.
That doesn't take a congressional investigation.
That takes someone saying, we messed up, we didn't think about it, we got confused, local cops were supposed to do it, we thought, whatever.
I want to know the answer.
And to me, Congress is useless unless they go and say, what is the answer?
I don't want a report.
I don't want 18 months.
I don't want $50 million later.
What's the answer?
There was a breakdown.
They knew for 10, 15, 20 minutes, almost, that the guy's on the roof.
He was suspicious from 5 o'clock.
My father went on approximately 6 o'clock.
But at 5.51, Marsha told us, like, the guy with a rangefinder and a weird pack.
Yeah.
At 5.53, He's on a roof with a rifle.
A total breakdown.
At 6 o'clock he, like, no one in, like, no law enforcement communicated it.
It's like, well, hey, there's a shooter on the rooftop, I'm just gonna, okay, I'll move on and let it go.
There's no follow-up, they're not like, what the fu- Anybody know him?
Anybody know why there's a shooter?
You know, they're like asking.
It's beyond ridiculous.
And we've got to get to the bottom of it.
People need to be fired.
People need to be held account.
This cannot be... I'm sorry, but we're going to keep doing outdoor rallies.
And I want to know that there is a plan in place to keep the president, the former president, the future president, safe.
Imagine if he had been killed and we were at a funeral.
This country would be torn apart.
Yeah, I mean, honestly, what's sort of interesting about it, and again, I'm pretty damn conservative.
I consider myself a reasonable, intelligent person.
I know other, like, reasonable, intelligent people.
People who are successful and have good families and businesses that were like, oh yeah, we just averted, like, a civil war.
We really did.
Like, they were like, this would have been The downfall of America.
It's almost hard to think of it in those terms, but...
That really is.
I mean, the way I look at it, it's like, hey, if reasonable, successful people that are doing this, if they're at the point where they're getting radicalized against our government because of the constant failures, what's like the Florida man?
What's going through that guy's head right now?
You know what I mean?
I want to say this, Don, because I really mean it, is that Avril Haines, who's the Director of National Intelligence, she's had so many failures where she's been silent.
Think of, um, what happened...
Well, you actually, by the way, to be clear, Rick had that role in my father's administration.
He was the DNI, so Director of National Intelligence.
You know how all of this worked.
I mean, you did this.
Like...
Whether it's Afghanistan, October 7th, or now this, we have information that the public needs to know.
Yeah.
You will never convince me that the American Intelligence Service didn't know
that some sort of October 7th was about to happen.
Maybe it was another 9-11 failure where we had the raw intelligence and they didn't communicate or whatever.
She's never come clean.
She's never talked about this.
Now we have a former president shot in public.
A member of the public has died at a public event.
And she wants to just brief members of Congress?
No, no, no.
The public has a right to know what did Avril Haines and the intelligence community know?
When did they know it?
Why isn't she coming clean?
Why isn't she talking about these issues?
She's getting away with so much.
I couldn't do anything without them being all over me.
Well, and that's precisely... Why is there a different standard for a Director of National Intelligence just because they happen to be, you know, a Democrat?
I mean, and why does the people who hold them account?
When do the strongly worded letters from members of Congress, like, when does that get old even for our guys?
It's so old for me.
I wrote the letter, so it's like, we're fine.
I guess we, no follow up.
I mean.
Right.
That's exactly what happens.
Well, the problem is, is that in theory, the people holding these politicians to account are supposed to be the fourth estate, the media.
And yet the media are completely playing games.
Imagine a world where the New York Times and the Washington Post were holding Avril Haines to account.
Say, what did you know about October 7th?
What did you know about this?
They should be hounding her.
Yeah, the October 7th one is another one like that, which is like, you mean like between us and the Israelis, like, you know, the IDF and or Mossad, like a guarded fence, like they got mobilized like air scooters, like, right.
And we didn't know about it.
I don't know, man.
There was no chatter.
There's no way.
We absolutely had intelligence.
It wasn't shared.
I am convinced of that.
There's too many people that know too many things and we are too good to be able to say we didn't know anything about it.
I think it's an intelligence failure.
I think that there were little bits and pieces that we had and somebody didn't put them together.
Again, just like 9-11.
And they've never been held to account.
Because look, all the intel reporters that cover her, I know them.
They're not intel people.
They're political hacks.
Half of them are like scribes for the deep state, it feels like.
You know what I mean?
You see the Pentagon leaks and it's like, that guy's the leaker for this branch of the military-industrial complex.
The same anonymous sources.
The same anonymous, the diversionary texts.
And you read it, it's like, That's bullshit.
It has to be bullshit.
Like, who's going to believe it?
And these morons will write... They're so like... They use each other as sources.
They'll just debase themselves.
They'll just, yeah, they'll... No, Politico will say, according to a Washington Post reporter, and then they all just repeat.
It's repeat, recycle, repeat, recycle.
It's unbelievable.
It has to change.
We have to start sending people to Washington.
How do you do that, though?
It's not just the, you know...
You were a DNI, but this stuff would still go on, because they'd keep information even from you, I'm sure.
Or, you know, just... It's sort of like when people would deal with my father, when they want an answer.
It may not be the best answer for my father, but they want the answer that they're on someone's payroll to get, or whatever it is.
So they show up and they're like, Here's what you need to know.
And they conveniently leave out all of this information, which was the other stuff you'd need to know that would negate the answer that they want.
So it's sort of a lie by omission.
Yes.
How do you get rid of that?
Because it's not just the guy at the top.
It's the entire pyramid down below where this stuff gets going on, where they slow roll it.
You saw the generals.
Well, we just disagree with Trump.
I don't give a shit.
It's not your job to agree with that.
You get it done, but they can get away with that because they think they're somehow elected officials or they don't care.
Look, the solution is sending people to Washington that don't have their church, their family life, their social life in Washington.
You look at somebody like Ron Johnson.
who his entire life is back in Wisconsin.
He doesn't want to be there.
He doesn't have friends and a life there.
It's back in Wisconsin.
We need that.
We need to send people who go back home for everything.
Their dry cleaning is home.
Their shoe repair is home.
Yeah.
And that's how you're going to change Washington, because otherwise people go, they start loving it.
And then suddenly they're captured by the deep state.
So that's why in 2016, to bring this back around, when President Donald Trump
decided that he wanted to be the outsider, and he talked like the outsider,
changing Washington.
I was like, sign me up.
That's exactly the solution that we need.
He has revolutionized the power of putting regular people into Washington.
We got to keep finding those regular people, keep promoting them, and get Washington changed.
It's going to take a little while, but once they're there, then you can start cutting the bureaucracy.
Every time we have a new technology, The government should reflect that by getting rid of people.
Right?
The bank has always done that.
Yeah.
When you get new technology at the bank, you get rid of, you know, there are fewer tellers.
But that takes away government power and they're not dependent on that government paycheck and therefore... They'll never do it.
They'll never do it.
Yeah.
So we can't expect them to do it.
We can't ask Washington to reform itself.
They love big budgets.
They love big lobbyists and big war.
Yeah.
We have to send the people there that will do it.
Don't expect Washington to do it.
We have to do it.
Where would you start?
Congress.
Sending the right people in Congress.
Growing people that are truly outsiders.
Sending new people into the Senate.
And, you know, when President Trump wins, he's got to send people.
I once jokingly said to President Trump, it's going to be really easy to hire for the new administration.
Anyone who has a Washington, D.C.
address on their resume, throw it in the garbage.
Well, that's what I said.
They're like, what role would you want, Don?
I was like, I don't want a role.
Like, not even a little bit.
Like, well, what about transition?
You said that.
I was like, yeah.
So you want to put in people?
I go, no, no, no.
I don't want to put in a single person.
I just want to block the motherfuckers.
I just, I want to stop the guys that are going to be counterproductive to all of the things you're talking about.
That's all.
I just want to go veto power.
That's it.
Because I think stopping a bad guy from getting in, it's more important than even putting a good guy in, right?
Because the bad guys are the ones, you know, you think you're a grassroots guy, you know, you know, who's a BS artist.
Yeah.
So what do you expect from the speech tonight?
You know, if you look at Melania's letter, which I think is very similar to Nancy Reagan's letter and moment and her conversations and her actions after Ronald Reagan was shot, I think it's, I think everybody's a changed member of the family.
Everything's different.
Yeah.
Everything is different now. Yeah, well people are oh, well, we will your father never attack again. I was like, no, he's
gonna He'll attack back when it's night. I mean, that's not you
have to that's I mean these people would eat you alive if you didn't do those things, but
But you could still It doesn't always have to be engaged
You know, I saw it.
I don't know if you saw that clip.
I think we were texting it around one of our group threads or whatever.
You know, when the MSNBC guy attacks me.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, like five seconds before we're throwing my father over the line at the convention.
A big moment for my family.
Your dad put people in cages!
I'm like, you mean the Obama cages?
That Jacob guy, he's crazy.
They're insane.
I mean, he's either insane or too stupid to know the truth.
Why does Comcast allow these people on this?
It's Comcast.
I mean, it almost doesn't matter.
It's strange.
I'll get more views on a show like this than they do at this point.
So, I mean, they're sort of making themselves irrelevant and extinct, but that's fine.
It just can't happen soon enough, because it's nuts.
It's totally nuts.
They're advocates.
I think if you take the Nancy Reagan example, She became more protective of Ronald Reagan, but she also became more hostile to the political process.
She knew phonies.
She didn't want any phonies around.
She became more aggressive about saying, that's a political phony, get him out of here.
And people really were in awe of how much she started flexing.
So I think the family, the Trump family, the people who are loyalists to President Trump, are the ones now that are going to be a little louder about protecting President Trump and saying, These people are just too political and fake.
They're not equipped to run departments or agencies or the Secret Service.
We've got to be careful as to who we're putting in because they're just simply political types that aren't interested in reform, aren't interested in making Washington better.
They just want a job.
Yeah, no, I think that's right.
The next paycheck and whoever's going to get them the next paycheck or to what they'll sell you down the river in two seconds to get that next appointment or whatever it may be.
Talk a little bit about some of your efforts sort of on the side.
You're out there sort of doing some, you know, get out the vote type of stuff.
You're mobilizing people in places that they wouldn't otherwise be mobilized.
You know, by the first things like the text message I just got after the hey, I hope your dad's OK.
It was like, well, now that the election's in the bag, what are you going to do for the next four months?
I'm like, no, no, no.
Nothing's in the bag, nothing is won, nothing has changed.
The Democrats would show up with 10 billion ballots on November 6th and be like, it was the freest and fairest election ever.
It was an overwhelming victory.
We got 10 billion votes in a country of 330 million and they'd sell it and the media would go along with it and big tech would be like, how dare you?
And anyone who says, seems like I don't know, like 30 times the population of the country.
No, no, no, that's totally legit.
They would do that.
So what are some of those efforts?
How do people check that out?
Because again, I think the number one message we have to have for the next, what is it, 114 days, something like that?
Get to work.
Get to work.
Just be out there.
Absolutely.
So I always say that my Democratic friends are smart people.
They know they're losing.
So they're going to get more desperate.
They're not going to just go into the night and let us win.
Yeah.
They're going to do something.
So I'm doing a lot of work in the swing states.
Where's the primary focus for you there?
So we're doing Arab Americans in Detroit and Phoenix, two swing states of Michigan and Arizona.
We're trying to get the vote out with Serbs, which are a big part in Wisconsin.
We did a big Serbs for Trump event here this week.
We're working really hard to get the Albanians out.
Albanians are huge numbers in Detroit, so in that swing state,
and in Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania area.
We're really trying to register conservatives who are sitting on the sidelines.
I'm doing a lot of this in California, but we're moving into the swing states now to target people who are sitting on the sidelines digitally.
It's a digital operation.
It's the same operation that worked in Florida to move Florida from purple to hardcore red.
Same team.
And they're helping us now really get focused on finding these conservatives.
Doing a lot with the crypto community, getting them focused in terms of money and people.
The Libertarians have been a huge focus.
I led the team that helped get President Trump to the Libertarian Convention and thinking about those issues, talking to the Libertarians.
So we've got a lot of work to do.
I think we're going to continue doing that and the focus is on the six swing states.
Very nice.
How do you rank those six swing states?
What is the, what do you think, what's the lowest hanging fruit that you can, you can pull it off?
And you know, where does it get tougher?
I'm feeling pretty good about Nevada and Arizona, but we got to keep, we got to keep going.
I feel pretty good about Georgia.
So I'd say we really got to get one of the Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin.
And I feel like Wisconsin and Michigan are kind of, kind of go together.
One goes, the other goes.
They're, they're very similar.
And Pennsylvania is the big enchilada out of the swing states.
We gotta win Pennsylvania.
We have to have people understand that working class families are struggling when they go to the grocery store.
That's a simple message.
They look at filling up their gas tank.
It's dramatically different under Joe Biden.
These are simple issues that I think we win on when we remind people But the reason why things are costing a lot more is because Joe Biden doesn't have us drilling for energy, oil.
We're not doing liquid natural gas, LNG, like we should.
There's not a single terminal on the West Coast of America to be able to take our LNG supply and go into Asia to sell that.
We're missing huge opportunities.
Every single governor on the West Coast says no to an LNG terminal.
And so you know who did put an LNG terminal in?
Baja Mexico.
Because they said, look, if these Yankees up here won't do it, we're going to do it.
How many decisions are made like that where it's just abject stupidity?
Too many.
There's a lot.
We've got too many people who are all politics.
And that's why, you know, the Democrats, when I look at how they're going to just toss Joe Biden off after a primary, it's because they're political.
They're reading a poll, Don, and they're like, oh, you know what?
Let's dump this.
What's to say in the future when they have a primary again and the people pick that the elites don't come in and say, no, you didn't perform that well.
We're going to replace you.
It's like a veto power that they have over the people.
And yet they turn the whole thing around and say, you are undermining democracy.
They're doing to us, literally, the thing.
They're such hypocrites.
The things they're accusing us, they're doing.
We're just getting a live update from the New York Times that people close to Biden say he appears to accept he may have to leave the race.
Look how many, though, qualifiers are in there.
Appears.
He may have to.
Like, come on.
It appears that he may have to.
Yeah, so how much of this is like, are they just creating?
Go up a little.
I don't know who wrote that.
If Jill Biden doesn't want it.
Who wrote that?
Let's see who they... Oh, come on.
Peter Baker?
Peter Baker?
Whenever you see Peter Baker's name on anything, he's a hardcore left activist Democrat whose wife is also a phony journalist and pretending to be unbiased.
She's another complete left wing.
We've got to start labeling these people.
Yeah.
They don't know.
Katie Rogers, too, is like, she's been wrong more times than she's been right.
Newsmax is saying he's dropping out?
Like, today?
Alright, well, yeah.
Mark Halperin is pretty juiced, but I do have to say, you know, a lot of people are chasing this story, and I think that among political types, Yeah, top Dems say Biden will drop out maybe by the weekend.
I saw that story earlier.
I sort of felt like I saw that story three weeks ago.
And then I was like, no, I won't.
So, I mean, can they kind of will it into existence?
Yeah, that was a very good point.
You know, if they stop working on them and the fundraising stops, you know.
Yeah, they're all talking to each other.
I don't see Joe wanting to do it because with the Hunter stuff still sort of unknown and out there, will they just sort of give him a handshake guarantee like, hey, well, we'll pardon Hunter.
No, we won't.
We won't.
But, you know, another Democrat that takes over between now and then?
Or will he just stay in office until... I like your point.
They're going to try to will it into existence.
If he's not fit to... But the question is this, though.
If they do this, and they say he's not fit to run, and he went through a Democratic process, can he be fit to be president?
Of course not.
Well, but that's the point.
If he's not fit to run, how does he stay in for the next...
uh... you know five months because that six months as i go to do
late january uh... before there's a transition
how can a guy that's not capable of actually running the kid just replace
the guy that won all the democrat primary votes because we don't think he
can win anymore they got a whole place because of there's a problem
no it's it's outrageous it's elites uh... literally trying to make it manipulate the process
and it's people like peter baker
who are literally cheerleading and rather than saying wait a minute we had
a primary you chose this guy why are they so
willing it into existence Yeah.
Because it's their party, Don.
Yeah.
It's Peter Baker's party.
Peter Baker is so outraged that his party has a guy who's gonna lose, so they're working to try to will it into existence, rather than Peter Baker writing to say, why is The elites trying to undermine our democracy.
Joe Biden ran the Joe Biden of December 2023.
Very similar to the Joe Biden of July of 2024.
No one's going to tell me that suddenly the media woke up in July of 2024 to dementia.
Yeah, that does not make sense.
I mean, will there ever be accountability for the fact that they all knew?
Like, I wrote a book in 2020 about Joe Biden and his health and mental, you know, acuity or lack thereof.
It's like, it's not like people didn't know.
I'm not even, I don't do this.
I didn't spend any time with Joe Biden, but I saw him speak.
I was like, this is like, something's off.
It's gotten a lot worse.
But like the entire Democrat apparatus in the media weren't unwilling to like, come on.
Of course they saw it.
They chose to go with them anyway.
And so, look, my attitude is you should live with it.
You should live with your choices.
Life is about choices.
And I think there has to be some accountability.
Consequences.
Even if I was a Democrat voter, it's never going to happen these days, but if I was, don't they have to answer the Democrat voters at this point?
Yeah, of course they should.
Look, I actually think the Democratic voters are quite upset for trying to dump him.
They see this.
This is a bunch of elites trying to put their will on the rest of the people or pretend like the rest of the people don't matter.
It's outrageous.
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So, Rick, speaking of that, you know, we're talking about that sort of inflation.
I was with a bunch of reporters this week and many of them from, you know, I have cordial relationships with clearly from sort of hostile reporting.
And, you know, one of them may have been, you know, the Washington Post or New York Times or whatever it may be.
I won't name names, but the economic numbers are really good for Joe Biden.
They're moving in the right direction.
Is this the time when you're talking about $4.50 gas, and it came down to $4.49 gas?
And it's like, look, it's going in the right direction.
Because I literally was like, I'd argue that with you right now.
And what are they talking about?
What are they talking about?
Because if they're saying that, they're already going to start.
That's the next messaging, right?
That's what they're going to sell to the American people.
Don't believe your lying eyes.
You know, everything's cheaper now.
Inflation's gone.
It's amazing.
I think it's baked in.
I think they're going to have to spend a whole bunch of money, way more than what they have.
And they're going to have to get different messengers if they're going to try to convince
the American people that what they're paying to put in their gas tank is fine.
People see it.
I see it constantly.
I mean, people in my life are not super wealthy.
They're normal people.
And they complain about the grocery bill.
I complain about it.
And again, it doesn't change my habits.
Someone brought it up.
Actually, this same person brought it up to me.
She was like, you know, I saw you speak somewhere in Ohio, I think it was for Bernie Moreno.
And she was like, you know, I saw the audience when you talked about that McDonald's store.
I was like, oh, you mean the one where I paid $47 for like my son Spencer and my son Donny
and me to get McDonald's?
And I was like, that's crazy.
Like $47 for two, $99.
An 11 year old, a 14 year old, and me?
Like, if I was pissed off, and if I felt there was sticker shock, who doesn't?
And so everyone's sort of collective heads were like, yes.
And, you know, so...
Well, their strategy is they have to convince the American people that
that the McDonald's meal is fine, gas prices are fine, and that it's somehow Donald Trump's fault.
They can't do that.
They can't do that.
I think it's too late.
I think Kamala Harris will be the worst possible messenger for this.
She doesn't even know how to talk about Any subject.
Yeah.
She's never been vetted, so I say if they dump him, there'll be a couple of weeks of pretending like she's amazing, and then as soon as she starts doing a few interviews, she'll collapse.
Yeah.
No, it'll be interesting.
I'm looking forward to tonight.
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