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July 25, 2024 - Triggered - Donald Trump Jr
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JD Vance Live from Mar-a-Lago | TRIGGERED Ep.159
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Okay.
to another huge, with a capital Y, episode of Triggered.
Tonight we have GOP vice presidential candidate J.D.
Vance live here from the Lago.
We are going to have a good time.
There's so much to discuss.
So much has changed in two weeks.
I'm even wearing a suit, which you don't get to see all that often, but it's pretty serious.
So we'll go to J.D.
in a second.
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Now that we got the niceties out of the way, normally I drag that out much, much longer, but this is a big one, so we're going to have some fun with it.
We have Vice Presidential Candidate J.D.
Vance, happens to also be my good friend.
What's going on, man?
Life has changed a lot.
How is life?
It's good, it's good.
You know, I have a plane now that I get to fly around in and go on campaign.
That's nice.
I never got a plane.
I always had to fly on my Big Bird, as we called it, before it became Trump Force One.
I mean, look, we're having a great time.
You know, unlike the Senate campaign, this has become a bit of a family affair.
So my wife's come around with me a lot.
We've been mostly doing fundraising.
We've done a couple rallies.
Everything's going well so far.
I think people are really excited.
We did a rally in Radford, Virginia with like 1,000 people inside and 700 people who couldn't get in.
So look, it's going really well so far.
Obviously, we now have this crazy switcheroo situation, which I'm sure we'll get to.
But it's just such an honor to be on the ticket, and we're having a good time with it.
Well, so Middletown, Ohio.
That was the first rally, right?
I mean, sold-out crowd.
VP doesn't usually do that.
I think there's something special, you know, hometown boy, but you know, you've actually stayed true to those roots.
I mean, I loved what you were talking about in your speech last week at the RNC.
Talk about how that felt, you know, going there as a kid from both Middletown and also Appalachia.
Now you're on, you know, On the ticket.
With a former president as a potential VP.
I mean, that doesn't happen that often.
That's pretty surreal.
No, it's just an incredible testament to the country.
So, you asked about the Middletown rally.
So, first of all, if I can't sell out a rally in Middletown, Ohio, we've got problems, right?
Maybe the president made a mistake here.
Please go vote on November, I guess.
I don't know.
It was great.
We had, again, like a thousand people inside, hundreds of people outside who couldn't get in.
I obviously hung out and said hello beforehand.
But look, I mean, this is my hometown, right?
This is the place that formed me more than any other place in the country.
And you know the story of Middletown, right?
So Middletown was a place where the Middletown works of Armco Steel Had 8,000 good middle-class jobs.
A bunch of our leaders screwed up.
Now that, and it's one of the lucky ones, right?
Because it's still in operation.
But that same facility now probably employs 2,500 people.
So it's been hit by globalization, but the people are still the same, right?
They're good people.
They're honest.
They're hard-working.
And they're fundamentally like the people who actually made me who I was.
So we just had a really good time.
And we joked with the crowd about donuts.
You know, everybody has their favorite donut place in Middletown.
Whether it's Central Pastry or Milton's Donuts.
It felt like a homecoming because that's exactly what it was.
I had one of my math teachers from high school who was in the crowd.
It was just a very emotional thing for me.
Very, very cool.
And then we went from there to Radford, Virginia, which, thanks to the plane, is now possible.
See, this is the crazy thing about a Senate race.
People ask, like, oh, is a Senate race so much easier than a national race?
And it's like, well, it takes five hours to get anywhere in a Senate race because you're driving everywhere, right?
You can actually do multiple things at once, which is really cool because you get to see
different parts of the country.
And it also felt, again, a little bit like traveling my family's story because in Middletown,
that's the town that really made me who I was, that's where I spent most of my time.
But then in Radford, Virginia, we're not far from the Kentucky border.
Yeah, you're right there.
We're deep in the Appalachian Mountains.
And again, to get that kind of crowd and that kind of enthusiasm,
obviously people love your dad.
I think they're excited about me as VP, which is very humbling,
but they're just excited about taking the country back.
Right?
That is the cool thing is people are pissed off about how we've been governed,
but it's not this like high level of rage.
It's, yeah, we're mad and we're hopeful about turning the page
and sending things in the right direction.
You know, I think that's what I got out of your speech that was sort of interesting.
It wasn't just, like, doom and gloom.
Like, it's still America.
There is a chance.
I mean, and I think perhaps that's why it resonated so well.
It's like, your story, and I mean, my dad's too, to an extent.
My family's been blessed with the American dream.
It's a thing that so many Americans face, whether it's the crisis of poverty, whether it's the exportation of your American dream abroad to the decimation of these small towns in middle America, to addiction.
You covered it all.
Not many people are able to break through that vicious cycle.
What do you think you can do to help that?
You hear about, Tucker talks about it, you know, we've lost more Americans to fentanyl than we did in World War II.
I always say, we lose two Vietnams a year and no one even talks about it.
It's not even your colleagues on our side.
It's like, eh.
It's like, wait, 100,000 people a year to fentanyl and it's like, eh.
I mean, it's insane.
What do you think we can do about that?
Because I think your message really resonates, because you are those people, but you understand how to get out of it.
You created businesses, you created success in everything that you did.
What can we do to help those people get out of it?
And how do we force Washington to actually pay attention?
Yeah, you're absolutely right.
Our leadership treats it almost as a statistical error, and that's 100,000 of our own citizens.
It's an unfold human disaster.
That's a lot of parents who have grown up in orphaned households, right?
Their parents have been taken from them.
That's a lot of grandparents raising grandkids they weren't expecting.
This is an unbelievable human tragedy.
You know, things worked out for me.
I mean, I think every person's story is obviously different, Don, but my story worked out because my grandma was tough as nails and she didn't take any bullshit, right?
And I talked about her at the RNC speech, and I had no idea how people would react to some of these stories.
I tell this story that my grandma, when she found out I was hanging out with a drug dealer in the neighborhood, she came up to me and said, J.D., if you keep hanging out with this kid, I'm going to run him over with my car.
And that was not hyperbole.
I actually believed that she would do it and so I was like alright for this kid's sake I'm never gonna talk to this kid ever again and there were all these weird little moments where she kept me on the straight and narrow.
Obviously I made a lot of mistakes like any other kid but She managed to sort of keep me rowing in the right direction, and life worked out for me, right?
I enlisted in the Marine Corps, and then I went to law school, I started businesses, and started a family.
We've got three little kids, and I just look back on my life, and it's like, wow!
Things really worked out for me, and you feel this sense of gratitude, but then you also feel this sense of anger, because it's not working out for a lot of people who are doing the right thing, and are just getting screwed over by people in Washington, D.C.
Let me give you an example.
Okay, so my mom.
I don't know.
As I talked about at the convention, in January of next year, she will celebrate 10 years clean and sober.
Like an amazing, amazing thing, right?
And my kids, I think about it from their perspective, they've only known her as like the best grandma in the world.
What an incredible blessing to get that second chance.
Okay, now go back 15 years when mom was really struggling.
What if the poison that Joe Biden is letting come across this country today was coming across 15 years ago?
I don't think I would have gotten a second chance with my mom.
We're talking about 100,000 dead Americans every single year.
It's that.
That's 100,000 second chances that families never get.
That's 100,000 kids who are mourning their parents.
Actually, more than 100,000 kids.
And this is the fruits of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden's policy failures.
And nobody seems to care about it.
I mean, we can sort of, you know, get pretty fired up here because all of a sudden, four days ago, Kamala Harris became the second coming of Abraham Lincoln.
She was the border czar.
the person who let this happen.
I literally have seen, I was fact checked the other day for saying, she owns the border
crisis.
I mean, I think it was USA Today.
I call the people, like, you know, I called Beto, I was like, well, you gotta, I was like,
here's the quote, you know, and then there was Axios.
She wasn't.
The reporter that said she was the border czar wrote the article.
It wasn't even like it was the same publication.
It was the same journalist.
I'm like, this you?
Like, because like, here it says like, she's the borders are like, it could.
How do they get away with that?
It's like something out of George Orwell.
Somebody sends me a screenshot of a reporter saying, Kamala Harris is the Borders are three years later, and the exact same person saying she's no longer the Borders are.
That was never the case.
What the hell are these people doing?
It's like they're going back, like, delete, delete, delete, delete.
I know.
It really is like something out of a science fiction novel.
What's sort of frustrating about it, and listen, I've dealt with fake news.
My father is the guy that coined the term.
It's been weaponized against him.
It's been weaponized against me personally, our family.
But what's really interesting is for the first time in arguably decades, the last three weeks prior to Joe dropping out, was the first time I've actually seen the media be like somewhat honest, like somewhat introspective to be like, you know what?
Maybe Joe's not the guy.
And then you realize, they give it to Kamala.
All of a sudden, her record scrubs.
She's no longer the most radical person in the Senate, even though she was literally dubbed that across the board by random agencies that check these things.
That's not me saying it.
That's their people.
That's government saying it.
That's whoever it may be.
She's no longer the Borders are.
That's been clear.
Every person in Congress has her as the Borders are.
She never visited the border.
You see the clips of the reporters calling them out.
And now they're like they're back to full regime propaganda.
They were honest for the first three weeks in modern history, and now they're back to doing the bidding of the Democrat Party.
And it's frustrating because it was like, you know what?
It'd be nice if everyone could actually make a decision based on news and truth rather than sort of narrative that they've been manipulated into believing.
Well, my attitude, Don, to put on my tinfoil hat here, is they were doing the bidding of the Democratic Party during the three weeks when they were honest.
Yeah.
But it was honesty in the service of getting Joe Biden out, right?
Correct.
We have to remember here that for three and a half years, the media and the Democratic Party lied about Joe Biden's fitness to serve.
And it's not even, I mean, yes, him falling down the airplane stairs is embarrassing.
Him flubbing an answer to a debate, that is embarrassing.
What's scary is when he's in a room with world leaders and the cameras aren't on, and who the hell knows what's been going on for the past three and a half years.
One person who knows is Kamala Harris, and she lied about it.
And a lot of reporters knew about it, and they lied about it because they knew that if the American people knew the truth about Joe Biden, then President Trump would glide to re-election.
Okay, so now we have this debate.
They can't hide from it anymore, and they come up with a new plan, which is to effectively boot this guy off the ballot after lying about him for three and a half years, tell the truth for just long enough to get him off the ballot so they can replace him with somebody else, and that's exactly what we're seeing happening.
And look, I think all evidence is that Kamala Harris is going to be the nominee, and so we have to run our race and actually articulate for the American people why her record is so broken.
I'm sure you and I will get into that.
But Don, it would not shock me If this is just another trial balloon.
Joe Biden was trial balloon number one.
Even the New York Times polling had him down by six points to your dad.
Okay, we're done with that one.
Now Kamala Harris is the new trial balloon.
Let's see how her poll numbers are for the next few weeks and see what happens there.
It's fundamentally undemocratic.
Well, the whole process, I mean, talk about that because you've been hearing, you've been in the Senate for a few years now.
You've been in politics now involved for a while.
They talk about democracy every... Everything's a threat to democracy, except when they run roughshod on, like, a democratic process.
But it's like, well, they're going to destroy democracy to save democracy.
They're going to make sure Americans can't vote for their chosen candidate to literally save democracy, because it's literally at risk, J.D.
That's why I keep hearing it.
Yeah, 14 million people voted for Joe Biden in the Democratic primary.
Look, it's not my party.
He's not my president.
Obviously, I don't like his policies, but he was the person that Democratic primary voters selected during their legitimate election.
Okay, so now Joe Biden is a deadweight politically, and Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, and a few billionaires literally get together and decide they're going to completely take this guy out politically so that they have a chance at winning the 2024 election.
That is a real threat to democracy.
And look, I mean, my attitude on it is it happened.
There's no use in whining about it.
But I think it's important for us to point this out to especially Democratic primary voters that we actually try to persuade you.
You may not vote for us, but we respect you enough that we want you to hear our viewpoint and try to hear why we think we deserve your vote.
Their attitude is, we're going to take 14 million of your votes and completely throw them in the garbage pit because we want a chance at winning in 2024, and we think your choice wasn't good enough.
Yeah, well, I mean, I've sort of said this a little bit tongue-in-cheek.
Not really, though, because, you know, their party does not quite stand for what the old Democrat party used to stand for, but it was like, hey guys, You want to show your party that your vote actually matters?
Vote for Trump.
Like, we will fix the economy.
We'll end all the endless wars.
We can get back to peace and prosperity.
And then, like, in four years, you know, you can try again for, like, drive-through abortions and whatever, you know, whatever you want.
Like, you can go back to being insane.
But like, as long as they keep pushing this Notion that, you know, democracy is all things, but if the elite, meaning, you know, Barack Obama, the Clintons, a couple billionaire donors, be like, okay, this isn't working, we're gonna take everything we gave you, we didn't give you any other options, we threw, you know, RFK off the ticket, we basically tried to push anyone else from happening, so we gave you your only choice, you actually then chose that person, and now, eh, we don't like it anymore, so we're just gonna subvert democracy to install our puppet candidate.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
And I've been making this pitch to Democratic primary voters.
Look, this was fundamentally illegitimate, and Republicans, we do actually respect this process, and we think we should have to earn your vote, not, like, throw off one candidate, replace him with somebody else that has no real Democratic legitimacy.
And we have to remember, Kamala Harris has no Democratic legitimacy.
Yes, she's, you know, has political problems.
Like, I'll let the pundits analyze that.
But look at her record, Don.
It is the worst record imaginable.
Talk about that because people don't understand it because they're trying to literally whitewash that right now to pretend that she was not the most radical leftist person to sit in the United States Senate.
I wrote about this in my book in 2020.
It was always there.
The people who wrote that, the people who even published it at the time thinking that was a great thing and maybe that's where America is.
America is not there.
Now they're pretending, no, no, she's a moderate.
They did the same thing with Joe Biden.
He's going to be so moderate.
He's so moderate.
Look, he's moderate.
The policies were not moderate.
Not moderate.
But Kamala Harris, I have to say, is like far worse.
If you look, you're talking about some of these nonprofit groups that rank who's the most liberal senator.
Kamala Harris, consistently the most liberal senator in the entire United States Senate.
And now they're going to rebrand her as like, you know, a right-wing Democrat, basically.
Because that's the theory of the case for how they can make her most politically palatable to the general electorate.
But look on issue after issue.
Okay, she supported an end to fracking, which drives up energy costs, put a lot of energy workers out of business.
She has supported giving Medicare and Social Security to illegal aliens, which would bankrupt those programs and throw a lot of hardworking Americans into poverty for the rest of their lives.
Congratulations, you can pay for your own health care and Medicare over the course of your entire life and career.
It's going to be insolvent anyway, and we're going to accelerate that process so you too can have the privilege of paying for an illegal who's never going to contribute.
Exactly.
Who came to this country illegally, violated our country's laws to be here, and now we're going to give them free health care in a way that makes your life more impoverished and worse.
That is exactly what the Kamala Harris agenda is.
Okay, talk about manufacturing jobs.
I care a lot about this.
You know it's one of the reasons why I became so supportive of your dad.
Bringing back American manufacturing jobs.
Making things in the United States of America again.
Kamala Harris, even though she wasn't around when NAFTA was first approved, she continued to support it.
And then she blocked the renegotiation of NAFTA that created a lot of good manufacturing jobs.
And you know why she opposed it?
Because it wasn't green enough.
So this is a person who wants to throw energy workers and manufacturing workers out of a job in service of the Green New Scam, which just creates a lot of jobs in China.
So she's just a nightmare on public policy.
In the border, she wants to decriminalize illegal entry, basically give people not even a slap on the wrist
for coming into our country illegally.
That's gonna exacerbate the border crisis that she has already set in motion.
It's just top to bottom, the worst possible policy agenda for the American people.
And by the way, the media is totally uninterested in talking about it.
Like what are her actual views?
What did she actually vote for?
What is, you can go through any number of ways where she's been pro-criminal and anti-cop,
pro-illegal alien, anti-American citizen.
The media seems totally uninterested in it, which is why we just have to remind the American people, this is a crazy person.
Her policies are bad for America.
Yeah guys, like, share, subscribe.
Get this message out there.
I hate to say it, but like literally, but it's like me, a couple other people that we're friends with that are like, hey guys, here are the facts, but you're not gonna get that.
Honestly, you may not get that on Conservative programming in America.
They're sort of, you know, globalist in and of themselves.
But like, you know, you're certainly not going to get it from CNN or CNBC or MSDNC.
They're going to go and they're going to try to pretend her record, years, years in the Senate, does not exist.
And they're going to try to magically remake that.
So make sure you guys are sharing this, that other people can actually see it.
Because that is, it is absurd.
But that's what we're going to be dealing with.
And there's no amount of money that we'll be able to raise to compete with the Democrat machine.
I want to ask you about that, because, I mean, did you see the statistics?
I mean, one person donated 7,000 times in a seven-hour period.
I'm like, I don't know!
Seems like it should be illegal to me.
I am reasonably fast.
If you see me on Twitter, like, I'll get out a mean tweet in seconds.
I don't think I'm going through a checkout process 7,000 times or whatever the statistic, and it's over and over again.
Hey, I get that they got Joe Biden out.
Maybe there's a little bit of enthusiasm.
I don't think, you know, Kamala Harris wasn't able to get 1% of a Democrat primary.
You know, she was going to be the winner, and then she drops out, not even being able to get 1% before even Iowa took place.
I don't think there's all that much enthusiasm for her.
Maybe relative to Joe Biden, at least they, like, Biden, we have a sentient being.
This is a win.
She can almost kind of complete a sentence, even if it's sort of rhymey and run-on-y and goes nowhere.
At least she's alive.
What's going on with the fundraising mechanism?
Because the whole WinRed thing, I mean, that looks like the greatest scam in the world.
But of course, because the FEC is going to be super left-leaning and all this stuff, I'm sure if there's ever a problem, it'll be discovered on about November 7th after it no longer matters.
Like all proper things that have been weaponized.
You mean actively.
You mean the Democratic Party.
I'm sorry, yeah.
WinRed is the good thing because it helps us.
That's the other one.
Here's the crazy thing.
They have figured out a way, I think, of funneling a lot of resources from mega billionaires.
And I don't know if it's legal or semi-legal or maybe it should be illegal, but it's actually totally fine.
It is something that we need to look into.
Because the whole purpose, whether you agree with it or disagree with it, the whole purpose of federal elections law is to ensure that normal people have a stake in this.
It's one of the great things about the Donald Trump fundraising machine is that it was really powered by people.
And if you look at what Kamala Harris has been depending on, it is the mega donors of the Democratic Party.
Those are the people who got Joe Biden out of the race to begin with.
They're the people who are trying to deliver her the nomination, and then they will try to deliver her the presidency.
I don't know exactly how it works on the back end, but we know that the big Wall Street donors, the people who've gotten rich from shipping American manufacturing jobs to China, the people who've gotten rich when you bring in 20 million illegal aliens because their housekeeper is a little bit cheaper, but normal Americans get their communities flooded with fentanyl, those people like the policies of Kamala Harris.
President Trump and I stand for normal Americans who want safe streets, no fentanyl in their schools, just common sense, right?
The President says this all the time and I think it's very powerful.
We just want common sense, right?
We're going to disagree about a whole host of issues, a whole host of social issues and things like that.
We just want good middle class jobs for people who work hard, schools that make sense and educate kids, and basic border security and community safety.
That's it.
That's what the Republican Party is all about.
It's not rocket science, right?
It really isn't.
It's not all that complicated.
And some of this stuff is hard, right?
Like public policy sometimes is really hard.
It's complicated.
Safe streets.
Closing down the border.
Bringing middle class manufacturing jobs back.
This is not rocket science.
You just need a leader like President Trump who puts the interests of his citizens first.
What would Meemaw say about everything that's going on in the last couple of weeks?
A lot of F-words, man.
It's a bit like my grandmother that way.
This sweet old lady, and then you hear her, and you're like, whoa!
It hits so much harder when you're not expecting it.
If Trump drops one, you're like, OK, it happens.
Well, obviously she's in the news so much lately, so we've had all of these moments where somebody will reach out to me and be like, oh, do you remember this story about Mammal?
Do you remember that story about Mammal?
One of my favorites, which I was there for, but I forgot because I was six years old, my aunt calls me a couple days ago.
And she's like, do you remember that time we were driving to Kentucky?
and there was this motorcyclist and he got really aggressive
and he was swerving in and out and he was kind of like scaring all of us.
And I was like, yeah, I kind of do remember that.
I was probably five or six years old.
And she was like, you remember what happened the next night?
I was like, yeah.
Mamaw reached under her seat, pulled out a 44 Magnum, tapped it on the window,
and this dude nearly crashed his car, right?
Like you ask, how did things work out for me?
That's a big part of the answer.
But what's so cool about it is that is both incredible but also just normal American spirit, right?
There are these personalities all across our country.
It's actually Trump-like.
Yes, you know what I mean?
When you said it, the first thing I could think of is literally two weeks ago when my father got shot
We're still going!
That is a one-in-a-million kind of personality, but that is the embodiment of the American spirit.
That is what allowed us to do all of the things we've done as a civilization, as a country.
And I think what is so sick about our current leadership class is they look down on people like my grandmother and they say, Oh, they're backwards.
Oh, they don't understand how the economy really works.
Oh, they want to border, they must be racist.
This is like the best of America, right?
These are the people, my grandma had six grandkids, three of us enlisted in the United States Marine Corps
at a time of war.
Like this is actually what powers America and makes America great.
And I just want, you know, people, like if people get anything out of this campaign,
I know President Trump feels like that.
I want them to know that I feel like that too.
Like we actually love the citizens of this country.
We respect who built this country and what makes it great.
And this campaign, if it's about anything, it's about making people like that feel heard.
Yeah, I said it in my speech at the RNC, which is like, what are the odds?
A kid that grew up on the 70th floor of Trump Tower overlooking Central Park in a tall, gilded glass building?
Become buddies with me, right?
But for the same cause.
Yes.
And I saw that in 16.
There was a true disdain for those hardworking Americans that do that.
Yes, there is.
It was like, they've cancelled a pipeline.
Learn to code.
It's like now all those writers that were complaining about learn to code, now they're saying, those are the guys being replaced by AI.
The pipeman, the plumber, those guys, they still have jobs.
So it was sort of interesting because it was like, the people who thought of themselves as the elites Even if they're very average at what they're doing, they thought of themselves as the elites, and yet they're the first people to get traded in by AI and everything like that.
There's this thing you hear, Don, which is very common in Silicon Valley, where people are talking about the new economy and the old economy, right?
The new economy is software.
It's digital innovation.
It's people working on computers.
The old economy is people working with their hands.
I actually think we should turn that on its head.
It's the real economy and the fake economy, right?
The people who are growing our food, transporting our food, getting energy out of the ground, that is what's necessary to run a real economy and to have real prosperity.
The people who are selling targeted advertisements on Google, Come on, right?
There's an algorithm for that, yeah.
And you're exactly right.
Those are the jobs that are being automated away because those are the jobs where AI can replace them.
You cannot AI yourself out of, we need farmers to grow food, right?
You can make people more productive, but you still need farmers, and you still need truck drivers, and you still need people who are actually going to do the jobs that are necessary to power the economy.
It's one of the, actually, one of my really To get a little in the weeds here, people say that AI is going to replace truck drivers.
I actually don't believe that.
I think it'll make truck drivers able to drive longer distances.
It'll replace journalists.
The AI can already write a better story than 99% of journalists.
None of these guys are exactly...
They all copy everyone else's thing.
The AI can already write a better story than 99% of journalists.
Exactly.
No, I mean, you and I have been on text chains where we've joked like, oh, this is a New
York Times story.
Let's actually have ChatGBT write this exact same story.
And it's like, oh, ChatGPT did a better job.
And this is, I think, why journalists do this without the bias.
And it's like, point two seconds and for two cents.
Rather than having some like, you know, rainbow haired freak reporter that, you know.
Yes.
hasn't left the bubble of their sphere, they've never left New York City or DC,
Yes.
they can't relate to the truck driver who does real work.
They think that every little gripe and grievance, they're all of a sudden a victim,
rather than actually having to deal with real world problems.
And it's sort of amazing.
They're the ones that are fastest for place.
And you actually have real world experience in tech.
I mean, you go to the Marine Corps, you go to law school.
I love that you did that first, not like the obligatory,
I'll go do the Marines thing, I'll sit behind a desk for a year or two.
after I do all these other things because I want to get into politics.
You did it first.
But then you went into tech.
Explain, there's sort of an interesting revolution going on right now in the tech world.
The guys that are, you know, whether it was David Saxon, you know, the Winklevoss twins, like, all these guys, like, jumping on, being like, okay, we're done with this Democrat, you know, just blind following thing.
Explain that change, because it's interesting, because people like on our side, and by the way, I'm the first guy, big tech's been screwed, and you know, they have.
But there is a change, and it's not from like, you know, the programmer at Facebook.
It's from the people at really high levels that are on the cutting edge of this technology.
They see a difference.
It's going to take a while to disseminate down to sort of, let's call it the programmed, no pun intended, masses.
But there is a real shift going on there.
Yeah, so there are a few different things, and I've been thinking about this for a while,
but I think there are a few different things going on.
So, number one, you have a lot of people in tech who recognize the difference between the old versus new,
and I think are more leaning into the real versus fake.
So for example, right, Winklevoss twins, very successful in the crypto world.
Okay, to do cryptocurrency, that has to sit on top of a layer of really high-quality access to power.
Crypto doesn't work unless you have cheap energy.
So these are guys who recognize that unless you have the cheap energy, all of the cool innovation they're doing doesn't make sense.
So they want an American president who cares about the energy sector.
I've never actually heard that argument for crypto, because I know the crypto bros all love us, but I never thought about the massive amount of energy that it requires, and you're not going to get that using fake subsidized wind farms and solar panels on people's roofs.
It just doesn't make enough energy, and they recognize that.
You take a guy like Marc Andreessen or David Sachs, These are guys who are investing a lot and creating businesses a lot in the real economy, right?
They're interested in bringing American manufacturing back and they're figuring out how AI is going to play a role in making manufacturing workers more productive, which is great, right?
Higher wages, more technology, more innovation.
And they recognize that the regulatory burden of the Biden administration, the Kamala Harris administration, is destroying our capacity to innovate.
Like there's the old way of putting it, which is that America innovates, China steals and Europe regulates, right?
You hear that formulation a lot.
Well, America isn't going to innovate if we regulate the productive sectors of our economy into oblivion.
So there's a real overlap.
It's always the small business that gets the bad end of the regulation stick, right?
Exactly.
It's not the big tech.
They'll be fine.
They have friends in DC that they pay $100,000 a month to make sure that it never becomes a regulatory problem for them.
Just a little guy that doesn't have the advantage of having high-powered lobbyists You know, doing their bidding for them.
Well, that's a good point.
That's another division is big tech versus little tech, right?
Facebook, Google, these companies, I think, are still pretty hostile to President Trump, pretty hostile to the Republican Party.
But little tech, guys who are innovating, guys who are trying to take on the big incumbents, they just want reasonable regulation.
They want low-cost power.
They want to be able to hire who they want to hire.
And this is the final point, man.
People are sick of being told, you have to hire somebody who checks the box instead of you can hire for merit.
And I think that merit focus on hiring is bringing a lot of guys to Silicon Valley, or a lot of guys in Silicon Valley to our side.
Yeah, that's an interesting one.
Because for a long time, and I've seen this, we have a share of friend in common who has, you know, a person in their family that does a lot of sort of high net worth, you know, Fortune 500 company job placements.
And like, there are Fortune 500 companies out there, like, no white guys.
Yes.
Some of them are like, we don't even want white women.
We need to check three or four boxes so you can end up with, if you're a trans communist, this, that, and the other, you too can be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company with no experience whatsoever.
Which is illegal.
By the way, which is illegal.
Of course it is.
But it doesn't matter because the virtue signaling overrides.
They would rather be busted literally breaking the law to put in a checkbox type figure.
You'd see the nonsense going on with I mean, you know, planes are falling out of the sky.
I'm like, can't we pick something that's a little less dangerous?
If we're going to play this game, let's not try it with a plane going 700 miles an hour at 36,000 feet, because it's probably not a recipe for success.
There are two things where I really, really care about merit.
The guy operating on me and the guy repairing my airplanes, right?
I'm not a big fan of the DEI stuff, but I really want the highest quality person working on airplanes, operating on people.
You've got to hire for merit.
By the way, the people pitching the DEI framework and stuff like that, the powerful ones, they too are going to the best doctor and not the DEI hire.
It's a great idea for you, not so much for me.
It's all a scam.
And we know, of course, Kamala Harris's Department of Justice is not going to go after these illegal hiring practices, even though they are explicitly illegal.
One of the most profoundly evil things the Harris administration has done over the last
few years is they did a farm aid program where they said literally only non-whites can apply.
Okay?
Which, by the way, I want everybody who needs farm assistance to get started.
I want to help all farmers.
I want to help all farmers, right?
And that's what an America First perspective would say is, whatever the color of your skin,
we want to help Americans grow their own food.
The Biden-Harris administration is saying, no need to apply if you're a white guy.
That is just evil, evil stuff.
And yes, it's illegal, but if they hold the strings of power, they're never going to get
penalized for it.
It's why we've got to elect Donald J. Trump.
Sort of like, I always use the example, you know, me versus Hunter.
You know, we're not exactly the same, and yet, you know, he skates, and I do 50 hours of testimony, and it's just like, you know, insane.
But I think, you know, my audience is going to want to know, what's it like now with, let's call it, significant interaction with my father?
Because it is, that one's always fun, and it's interesting, and he can put you on the spot at an uncomfortable, any good stories yet?
Oh, man.
So many good stories.
My favorite story, though, is I get a text from somebody on the campaign staff.
This is Monday around noon, saying, you missed a really important phone call.
Right?
And this is when he is about to make a selection for VP.
So I'm like, oh, shit.
Either this is a bad phone call or a good phone call.
I'm like, honestly, I don't know.
I'm going to read about it on social when you do.
That's how I'm going to know.
And you know we're texting back and forth.
I'm staring at my phone.
So it just went straight to voicemail.
Some wires got crossed, whatever.
So I call the President back and President Trump's like, hey, J.D., you missed a very important phone call.
Maybe I'm going to have to go with somebody else.
And of course, I clench really hard.
I'm like, oh, OK, fine.
He's just screwing with me.
The best part of that phone call, though, is I'm talking to him, and he starts
walking through what he wants to say publicly for why he endorsed me.
And my son, my seven-year-old son, is in the background talking about Pokemon cards.
And I'm just like, I'm putting the president on mute and saying, son, shut the hell up about Pikachu.
For 30 seconds, don't talk about Pikachu!
I'm trying to take this phone call.
Eventually, your dad hears him, and he's like, hey, who is that?
I'm like, that's my seven-year-old son, sir, I'm sorry, he's just in the hotel room.
He's like, no, no, no, put him on the phone.
So then your dad starts asking my seven-year-old son what he thinks about the truth statement
that he's about to put out about the endorsement.
And my son's just like, yeah, that sounds good.
And then he goes back to his Pokemon cards.
He goes back to Pokemon.
That's good.
One of the most surreal moments of my life, Donald Trump talking to my son, who just wants to get back
to his Pokemon cards.
And I'm about to be nominated as vice president.
Like, I've seen that a lot, actually.
And it's actually been an interesting one for my father in business, which is like, he will ask,
the guy that's working on the job site, And it's amazing how... And I think it's why he also, unlike the Democrats, actually has so much respect for the working man and woman of America.
Absolutely.
Because he spent his time on those job sites.
He's been there on the ground.
He'll ask them their opinion, and all the guys behind their computer screens, in their corner offices, they totally miss it, because they're not on the ground.
Perhaps he's the guy that shouldn't, based on the usual metrics of it, but he has more respect for those guys, and he's able to talk to those people so much more effectively than anyone else in politics, because he's actually spent real time with them.
I would say he's the blue-collar millionaire, and 15 years ago when I said it, people used to shit all over me, like, what are you talking about?
You don't understand!
And now they understand, maybe.
But people know when somebody's interested in what you have to say, and he's actually interested in what they have to say, and people pick up on that, right?
So, you know, the media always asks me, have you ever talked to the president about being VP?
And this is before, of course, he named me.
And the answer was no.
Like, I actually didn't talk about him until the Saturday morning that he got shot, actually.
And of course, none of us knew what was going on.
I was here in Mar-a-Lago.
He's about to fly to Pennsylvania to do this rally, and we finally have a conversation about VP.
And at one point he's like, you know, I ask everybody.
I think it's important to get input from people.
He's like, you know, I'll ask the gardener at Mar-a-Lago what he thinks.
And it's like, well, what did the gardener at Morolago say, right?
I'm very interested in the answer to this question.
I knew you were going to shut up.
It's kind of a big one for me.
So what the hell did he say?
He talked to the gardener at Mar-a-Lago?
So many stories like that.
As you know, the thing the media really gets wrong about your dad is that he's just a fun human being to be around.
He's funny, he's charismatic, he asks people what they think, and he's very interested in other human beings.
We did this fundraiser for him in Cincinnati.
This is April, May.
The time slows down, so I have no idea.
By the way, the last two weeks must feel like a millennia at this point.
It's been a long one.
But he's talking to my wife and gives her a hug.
He's like, oh, you look great.
What do you think about politics now that your husband's brought you into politics?
What do you think about this?
She gives this very diplomatic answer, like, oh, sir, you know.
Definitely fair.
appreciate his love of service and I want to support him however I can. It's
just like a totally, it's a very Usha answer right, because she's a very
diplomatic person and he looks at her and says, yeah my wife hates it too.
But it's funny like actually this, this process of running, my wife is
And that's one of the cool things is, I don't know if it's just because it's a different stage or because... Yeah, talk about that, because that's a big change, right?
I mean, she's a lawyer, she's this, she's a mom of three.
You know, even as a senator, I mean, it's just...
You see it.
Now it's next level.
You saw that reaction on the people, on the floor of the convention.
This one was particularly warm.
I mean, you know, grown men coming.
You're literally in tears.
It was amazing.
How has she taken to that?
Because that can be a big change, especially on our side, right?
Where we're not going to get the benefit of the media, you know, giving us a modicum of the benefit of the doubt, right?
Everything is wrong all the time.
Everything's terrible.
She's a brown woman that will be called a white supremacist almost without question.
I'm sure she has.
You know, it's funny, Don.
I didn't know how she would react to it.
She's really loved it.
I think she's loved it in part because people are so nice, and she's gotten to meet a lot of cool people.
To your point, people come up to her and cry and tell her their life story, and she likes people just like I like people, so she's gotten into that.
I think one really interesting thing about the Senate race that is just different this time is Terrible mistake in family planning.
We had a baby like four months before the Senate primary, and so she was just exhausted.
I remember.
I was out there, and I was like... Love our baby, so glad we had her, but maybe we could have timed it a little bit better, right?
But this, it's just, you know, our kids, our youngest is now two and a half, and the kids are easy to travel with, and I just, we've tried to make it a family thing, and the kids, you know, they got to see Milwaukee, and my son, my four-year-old's still talking about, like, You know seeing Lake Michigan and it just the thing about campaigning for vice president is you see the country in a totally different perspective and to get like a little sentimental you really appreciate what makes the country great and you get to see it up close and you know I want us to win I think we're gonna win I will always be grateful for this experience and just the I'm trying to enjoy the ride just as the ride.
And you should, because it is amazing for me.
I need this like a hole in the head as well, and we were real estate guys, and that's how we made a living, and it was a lot easier.
And yet, when I do see that, mother, these policies allowed me to build a business.
You guys did it.
Can you please come back?
It was going so good for so long, and now I'm getting crushed.
It's like, oh crap, when I'm like, it's really inconvenient that I got another hit piece from the New York Times, I don't even care anymore.
That means nothing, because that story, and it's day in and day out, or worse, the person who lost a child to fentanyl.
Every day.
And you're like, hey Don, stop being a bitch.
Whatever they throw at you, you can handle it.
Because that person's life was destroyed by these policies, and that's why we're fighting.
I think my father said it best.
He said, listen, if we don't win this election, and there's radical leftist policies, and we would be told that they are moderate policies, but the radical policies, we do get to a point where the pendulum can't Get back to normal.
It can't correct enough.
Talk about that and where we are and just how bad that can be, because once you lose that, there is no coming back.
We live in a draconian world.
These guys are literally pushing socialism and communism.
It's not a joke.
It's not hyperbole.
They're basically saying it out loud.
They won't say it in the media, but behind closed doors, this is how they're acting.
Yeah, well, I mean, look, 20 million illegal aliens, the Democrats, Kamala Harris has been explicit.
She wants to give every single one of those people amnesty, wants to leave them in the country, and then give them the right to vote, okay?
So who are they going to vote for?
The person who gives them free healthcare, or the people who are paying for the free healthcare, right?
We know they're going to vote for the Democrats.
Electorally, I don't know if the country ever comes back from that.
And I think even a lot of Democrats, right, who maybe they're going to vote for Kamala Harris or maybe they're undecided.
My pitch is, you should want to vote for a president who puts your interests first.
Even if you don't always agree with the specific policy, somebody who wants to give 20 million people who broke our country's laws legal status so that they can vote.
And your money.
And your money, so that they can then vote.
more of your money to themselves, like that is not the way this country should be governed.
It's insulting to American citizens.
It's insulting to the people who came before us.
So I really do think the border issue in particular, if we don't get this under control, if we don't make it clear that you're not allowed to come here illegally and send at least the violent criminals back to where they came from, we are never going to have a border and fundamentally we'll never have a country again.
So we've got to vote against Kamala Harris for President Trump.
Or, look, the consequences are going to be so dire, it's going to be really hard for us to come back.
Well, J.D., I know you have to get going.
Guys, I'm going to stick around.
I'm actually going to go to the live feed in two seconds.
I'm going to take some of your questions.
J.D., great to see you.
I'll see you in the other room in a little bit.
We're live from the Lago.
Really appreciate it, man.
Thank you.
Thanks, man.
Alright guys, I'm going to pull this up.
We'll get to some of the questions.
Let me catch up because I'm probably going to be a little bit behind here.
I look like a boomer trying to figure out my phone right now.
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So let's see.
J.D., congratulations on VP.
This is from Stefanog.
We couldn't ask for a better person.
Thank you helping save the U.S.
and the world.
True social loves it when you post.
That's a good one.
I appreciate it.
JKJD4T.
Trump fans, make America great again.
Fight and win.
I agree with that.
It's J.O.
Hellos from Georgia.
This country is really a blessing.
I'm for America first, for sure.
Trump got my vote.
But don't stop molding people into Americans.
Don't deport everyone.
No, listen, guys.
We're for legal immigration.
Don't kid yourself.
My mom's literally a legal immigrant.
She went through the process.
She did this legally.
There's a way to do that.
But don't forget, even the Biden open border policies, they don't want...
A genius computer programmer from Latin America or Eastern Europe.
They want dependents.
Look at the people who actually would create jobs and add value and create tax revenue and all these things that they want.
Those people go to the back of the line and they have to wait years.
It's only those who come that need something from the government that the Democrats think they can control.
So that's a really, really big one.
Let's see if I can... Whoa, there's a lot of comments on this one.
Legal but not illegal?
Yeah.
Let's see.
What's with J.D.' 's Trump accent?
Okay, listen guys, he's learning.
Okay, it takes a little bit of time to get the Trump accent down, but one day, he will have it perfect.
It will be huge.
Okay, we'll get that figured out soon.
How will you stop the steal in November?
Listen, that's going to be all of the stuff we're doing with WinRed.
I confused it with AgBlue earlier.
AgBlue's starting to do the process of stealing, it seems, but we'll let that get settled with the FEC, the Federal Election Commission, where we filed a complaint because we find it unlikely that individual people donated hundreds of times in a 24-hour period, meaning one individual donated all these times over.
That sounds like a money laundering scheme to me.
I don't think the FEC is all that conservative or all that neutral, but we got to do whatever we can.
But we need you guys to be involved.
We need people to volunteer as poll watchers.
Get involved.
Make sure all your friends vote.
Register people.
Do everything you can.
I say, to win by two, we got to win by six.
That's the reality, right?
Make it too big to rig.
There's no amount of level that they won't go to.
We just have to get whatever that level is and overwhelm it aggressively.
So that will be good.
Well, I'd be at the meeting tomorrow with BB.
I don't think so.
No, I gotta go speak at Tennessee.
I'm going to speak at the Bitcoin conference in Tennessee.
You know, the crypto guys.
That was an interesting point JD made actually about crypto.
It's like so many of the guys that are on the cutting edge.
It does require energy.
So this notion that we're going to somehow do this with wind power and nothing logical doesn't make so much sense.
I never thought of it before.
So, you know, that's a big one.
But I'm going to be in Tennessee.
BB is going to be here at Mar-a-Lago.
Meeting with my father, and so that that should be interesting, so we'll see.
Are you aware the White House is getting news from citizen journalists on X, aka the ballistic reports, etc.?
I'm not aware of that, embody.
I don't know where they're getting their news.
The reality is this, if they're getting it from citizen journalists, you know, That's probably more real than most of the actual, you know, professional journalists that we see out there.
I think, you know, the stuff that we've seen from citizen journalists over the last few years has been sort of groundbreaking and has done some amazing things.
And so I think that's really important to keep nurturing that reality.
Make sure that people are doing that.
Make sure you get that stuff to other people who are not just The White House.
If there was good stuff there, I'd imagine they'd sweep it under the rug like they did Joe Biden's health, like they did, you know, his dementia-riddled brain, like all the things they've been lying to us about for a while.
But, you know, that's a bit of a problem.
Bobby1966, question on, can anyone go to Mar-a-Lago for a dinner at some point?
I'd like to take my wife.
Not really, you know, it's a big house, but it's a private thing, so it's set up as like a private club.
I know, you know, for politics, through a bunch of the things that we do, we, you know, we'll raise money and they'll do raffles where winners can, you know, get that ability.
I've run into people, you know, at some of the rallies where they just, they go so far out of their way in their work, I just say, hey, Go to dinner on me.
It's not the kind of thing you can just drive up, especially with Secret Service.
And, I mean, they gave me the, uh, hey Don, we're gonna have to sweep your car to get into Mar-a-Lago tonight.
I'm like, with what?
They're like, well, the bomb dogs and the this.
I was like, hey guys, I'm going in because, uh, Let's just say there's always a couple weapons in my car, and I probably just don't want to get swept at that point.
So I think I'll get my father to overrule that one for me.
It's one of the few times I probably can make something happen, because I come here a lot, and that would be really kind of annoying.
But because of that, they keep a pretty tight ship as to who can get in and when.
But you never know.
Like I said, there's a lot of opportunities.
They do these things on campaign things, at some of the rallies where they give away, you know, a table.
My father will sit down with 10 people who are lucky enough to win that opportunity.
It is a spectacular place.
I wish we could, and maybe one day we will.
But it's not the kind of thing you can just drive up to right now.
Don Jr., will you all have a rally in Hawaii?
Maga Pound Cake.
That's a good question.
Honestly, obviously, that's a Democrat stronghold.
Obviously, that's a place that is quite left.
And yet, when you look at what happened to Maui, when you look at the response to that, the disastrous response, not just from the local Democrats, but then the Bidens, it's like, here's 200 bucks, and we'll give 100 billion to Ukraine.
We'll pay their pensions.
We'll pay their this.
We'll do everything like that.
No one will get to do anything.
You start to wonder.
You know, is there a window to switch that out and to flip the narrative?
So, I don't know.
Probably not likely, but it doesn't mean you can't do something eventually because that matters.
Drill, baby, drill.
Yeah, that would do a lot for so many Americans, for the energy we're talking about.
That would do a lot for the crypto folks, especially when you're talking about LNG, liquid natural gas, when you can literally run power plants off stuff that's in the ground.
You can burn it clean, like much cleaner than so many other things.
Like, you know, not all fossil fuels are or the same or even environmentally close.
I mean, there's so many things we could do.
That's just stuff you'll never hear about.
So I agree with it and we got to do it.
But don't forget Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, these are the things they wanted to eliminate.
Kamala Harris owns that record too.
Look at the things she said about drilling and clean energy and all these things.
This would be a disaster for our energy.
Our energy is not just sort of security at home, but it's also security abroad.
If we're not beholden to our enemies, Don't forget, we still need oil, we still need these things.
We can do it ourselves, create incredible jobs for hardworking Americans, or we can just export it to Iran and Venezuela and regimes that we hate, which we're doing.
And that's sad, sick, and disgusting.
So let's see.
Okay.
Don, thank you and JD for sticking up for the little guy, packing cheese.
Listen guys, it's my pleasure.
Like I said, I understand totally the irony of me being that guy and being willing to do that.
I understand how odd that sounds, but I get it.
My parents were brought up, my grandparents really did a lot bringing me up.
I spent my summers in communist Czechoslovakia.
They didn't have two pennies to rub together.
My grandfather was an engineer.
It didn't matter.
He still didn't have anything, and it was an amazing experience.
But I also see what socialism, what communism has done to our country, and I see what they're trying to import here.
There's a reason there's just no one from, you know, behind the old Eastern Bloc, you know, Soviet Europe, behind the Iron Curtain.
It's a reason no one here that lived under that rule ever wants it coming to America.
There's a reason they don't want it.
They're here.
Those are the biggest vocal opponents of socialism and communism.
It's only like some teacher who goes, you know, it's Bernie Sanders.
They went there on vacation once.
It's wonderful.
Everything's great.
Everyone's equal.
It's such bullshit.
No one from any of these places ever advocates it for it here.
It's only the people who have no understanding, who's never actually been there, who've never actually lived it.
Those are the people doing it.
So we got to keep fighting.
Canadian here, fingers crossed for you guys.
M4NYAway, thank you.
We need you up here too.
Yeah, Canada, you've got your own problems as well.
I think you guys got problems.
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Smash that like button, folks.
Thank you!
M-B-O-M-R.
Thank you.
That's a lot of people watching, not a lot of likes, okay?
You guys gotta take two seconds.
Like JD was saying, hey, we are literally, this is gonna be something that's gonna change over the course of the coming weeks.
Like, we are gonna be the people getting you actual information, right?
Whatever you see when you turn on regular cable, You know, it's going to be so muted and or so flipped on its head, so biased, so ridiculous, it won't be even like levels of truth, it'll just be outright lies.
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Like you guys participating in this you guys commenting that although live feeds going pretty nuts But you know the likes all of that stuff matters that changes the algorithm that means more people see it the more people that see this message Maybe we get a couple even a couple percent You change the minds of someone else who's been brainwashed, who's busy trying to survive in Kamala Harris, Joe Biden's America, under these ridiculous policies.
Maybe they're too busy.
I think it's hard to be too busy to be paying attention at this point, given all that's at stake, but maybe they are.
And I get that.
It's hard.
But you win over a couple percent of those people.
That can be everything.
Remember, the last election was lost essentially by 45,000 votes in a couple of areas, right?
Think of how little that is.
I mean, that's less than twice the amount of people that are watching this right now.
We get this in front of a few more people.
We do that for the next 104 days.
We do whatever it takes.
You went over those amount of people, and we can actually get our country back on the right track.
So you guys are right.
Smash that like button.
It's not that hard, folks.
It's not asking too much.
I can sit here and react to you guys for hours.
You guys can do that.
So let's see.
Let's see.
That was great.
I like that.
That's always good.
Your mama's still legit with me.
I don't know if that's me or if that's talking about JD's mom, but...
Junior mocking the accent, I love it.
Well, listen, we gotta have some fun with it.
The problem with politics, I think my father probably figured this out, whether intentionally or not.
So many of these guys are so stiff.
You gotta be able to relate to people.
You gotta be able to have a personality.
I mean, I thought my father, the clip of my father last weekend when he was doing, and he sees his hair from the side shot of the teleprompter, he's like, whoa!
Whoa!
That thing, that's like a work of art!
I haven't seen this thing!
Isn't that what you need from, like, let's talk about socioeconomic policy that no one understands, no one knows the details of, the numbers and the inputs that they use are always designed to get the result that they want that's convenient for them from an election cycle standpoint.
It's all bullshit.
So, you know, I think it's important to be able to have those conversations and actually be real.
So I will do that.
Okay.
Just ask them, honestly.
If you're in Atlanta, are you better off now?
Or were you better off under Trump?
You've had four years under both, right?
It's not like you're selling a fictitious dream, okay?
You had four years under Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.
You had four years under Trump.
If you're an eligible voter at this time, you were alive during both.
When were you better off?
When did your dollar go further?
I always tell the story, you know, my son even brought it up to me the other day.
He was like, yeah, he couldn't, someone else was like, it was a compelling story.
He just said, hey man, I came back, I was on a trip with my boys.
We came back from a fishing trip.
We went by McDonald's.
I had my 11-year-old and my 14-year-old at the time.
This is last year.
They're now, you know, I guess it was 10 and 14.
Now they're 11 and 15.
But when this happened, It was an 11-year-old, and a 14-year-old, and me.
And we got McDonald's.
And it was $47!
And change.
And I was like, it's too much!
So, if Donald Trump Jr.
has sticker shock, if Donald Trump Jr.
realizes that is too expensive, it's insane, Everyone has to understand that.
Everyone has to realize that.
That's what's going on right now.
So, you know, don't forget that.
Talk to them about real-world examples.
Are they better off?
Because we can bring that back.
But you're not going to get it back giving Social Security benefits to all the illegals.
That will get one thing.
That will get them to vote for Democrats forever.
And you, as American citizens who've been paying into these systems forever, will never get the benefit of the money that you've spent, because they will have given it away to illegals to buy their vote.
It's that simple.
Do not let them get away with that.
They're gonna run all this advertising of all the free stuff they're gonna get.
Remember, guys, the problem with socialism, as Margaret Thatcher once said, is eventually you run out of other people's money.
Do not let them get away with this insanity, because it doesn't work.
Trump is right.
Many will self-deport.
You're right.
You take away the freebies and they'll do that.
But the biggest thing, we've got to get rid of the violent criminals.
I mean, Venezuela crime stats are going down because they're releasing all the bad guys into America.
They're like, hey, you can go to jail or you can go to America.
You bring those guys here, your neighborhoods won't be safe, your stores, your small businesses won't be safe.
The big guys, they'll be fine.
They'll insure for that.
That'll crush working-class America.
That will crush small business.
And you guys know, here at Triggered, at Rumble, we support small businesses.
Whether it's our sponsors, whether it's the guys at Public Square, all the stuff we do with that, supporting the lifeblood of America by supporting small businesses.
If our neighborhoods go to hell, those small businesses go with them.
And that's a disaster.
We don't want to be ruled by the oligarch class of big, woke, corporate America.
That would be a disaster.
Can you answer my DM on Instagram, lugrace23?
I don't know.
Maybe.
I'll try to find it, but, you know, I have like 7 million followers on Instagram.
I basically only get, you know, DMs from people I follow or allow.
I get probably thousands otherwise, so I don't know.
It's just not that easy to find.
If you get a good picture or something like that, my man, you can tag me.
Maybe I'll see it in the comments.
But the problem is, I literally wouldn't be able to see any of my DMs if I just let everyone that did that.
It's sort of the way it's set up.
Are you the Trump future?
I don't know.
That's up for you guys to decide.
Who knows if I ever even run, but what I'll tell you this, I may not ever run.
Maybe I will.
I do have the bug.
I like the fight.
I like doing the things that most of the Republicans are not all that comfortable with, like engaging and getting aggressive about these things.
You got to want that day job.
But what I can assure you is I'm going to be out here fighting daily.
To make sure we save America, that we save small business, that we fight for the hard-working men and women of this country.
And, you know, hopefully you guys think I do a good job of that.
Let's see.
We got to fight.
We do have to fight.
And again, we fight with our vote.
We fight with our words.
We fight with our energy to get it out there, to make sure people are out there, to make sure that people are voting, to make sure that we're getting people registered, to make sure that people aren't buying into the fake news.
We gotta fight like the third monkey getting on the ark and it's starting to rain because that's what we're up against.
You saw that, the donations this week, you know, act blue, like it's literally insanity.
And they're gonna get hundreds of millions of dollars to spread the lies that will literally elect someone who's gonna be the most, by far the most radical person to ever sit in the White House, someone who is literally ranked, and the fact checkers will try to make this go away because even they said it, The most radical person in the United States Senate ever, Kamala Harris.
Like, that is insanity, but that's what we're up against.
CCW Maggie, Don Jr., 2028, I'd vote for you.
Thank you, Maggie.
I appreciate that.
Thanks, I guess.
I don't know if that's a compliment or a, you know, that could be like capital punishment at this point.
USA, USA, I know. Will there be outdoor rallies? I hope so.
I think if my father had his way, he would do it.
I think what they'll do is they'll come up with a way to stop it.
By the way, I think part of the The reality is this.
setting down of the outdoor rallies is really designed to prevent him from getting out there,
to try to hide him like they do, you know, Joe Biden, like they'll ultimately do with
Kamala Harris, to hide him in the basement and do that, where, you know, you just can't
not every little small town has a big stadium that you can do rallies like they were able
to do over the last couple of days.
The reality is this.
They can keep someone safe outdoors.
I know they can do that.
I know the capabilities of the Secret Service, and the teams they work with, and the counter-sniper guys, and the cat teams.
I've trained with them.
I know them.
Many of them are very good friends of mine.
I won't give you those names, because they'd probably lose their jobs in about two seconds for being friendly with me.
But they can do this easily, if there's a will.
It does not seem like there was a will.
It seems like...
A level of coincidence that is not even close to believable was going on during all of this insanity.
If they want to protect him, they can protect him.
He can do an outdoor rally and they can put him behind glass like they do the president or all these things like they used to do for him and stuff like that.
You don't have to leave him out there.
You can maybe cover roofs within a few hundred yards, you know, the little things like that.
But, you know, that was an act of divine intervention that saved my father's life.
Like, you know, I'm not, you don't hear me talking spiritual all that often.
And If I ever believed it was at that moment when he came up defiant, because that should not have been the case.
That should not have been the end result.
A very lackluster shooter in that situation with that much time and that kind of armament, almost impossible to believe.
Can you sue Newsweek?
I think it was USA Today that did the fact check on the other thing.
I think Newsweek, though, wrote the article.
Newsweek this week.
And this is when you know they're in full propaganda.
Newsweek wrote the article.
Well, we're not really sure Trump was shot.
Are you sure?
I'm like...
Are you shitting me?
There's doctors and people... They're literally doing anything.
They have no scruples.
They have no morals.
They have no decency.
However much you hate the media, however much you despise them, it is not enough.
Let's be clear, okay?
Because they will lie to you at this.
They will gaslight you.
They will whitewash the record of Kamala Harris.
They'll lie to you about my father being shot.
They did it within hours of him being shot.
You saw what I did to that MSDNC clown two days later.
They couldn't even wait 48 hours to go back to their narrative.
And you think it was bad then?
Now that they have someone who's like a... I mean...
I guess kind of a non-vegetable.
Kind of, sort of.
Not much better.
I mean, you hear the sentence that she puts together, and you're saying it's not much better, but it's a little bit better than Joe Biden.
Not much, but a little bit.
They're going to go to a level that we've never seen before.
It's going to make Russia collusion seem like A minor thing.
They're going to go so hard, so fast.
Now, the long-term benefit of that is probably good.
The long-term benefit will be that no one will ever trust the mainstream media.
You'll come to places like this.
You'll listen to guys like me and some of our other friends here at Rumble and elsewhere, citizen journalists.
Great.
The institution of our media Doesn't deserve to have any credibility, because they're no longer journalists.
They're not reporting news.
They are pushing propaganda.
They are literally actors for the regime.
If this happened to conservatives, the Federal Election Commission, the same FEC we're talking about with this, would literally sue them for in-kind contributions, for the free boost that they give to the Democrats, you know, and the lies that they give about Republicans.
It's not right, but it's never going to stop.
Is Elon Musk donating $45 million a month?
No.
I thought that was real too, but it turns out the original story was never real.
He's donating to, I guess, a PAC called America PAC.
I think they support, generally speaking, probably people who support freedom.
I think that leans far more Republican than Democrat.
I think, you know, I think he sort of endorsed Trump, but people are like, well, he's pulling back.
It's like, no, no, it was never actually true, but he is supporting a PAC that is supporting,
I believe, a bunch of Trump stuff, a bunch of conservatives, perhaps in the Senate.
So he's doing stuff that way, but people are like, well, he's changed his mind now.
And it's not because of Kamala Harris.
It was like, it was that the original story that was the premise for a lot of tweets and all this stuff actually turns out to never have been true in the first place.
So, uh, I guess fake news is gonna fake.
Let's see.
Don, I asked you... Abby H3048 asked you this last time, but I was wondering if J.D.
would consider running for president in the future.
You know what?
I missed him.
We sort of had a good chat.
I know we only had about, you know, 50 minutes to do that.
I imagine he certainly would.
I think he could be someone, you know, that would be great at that.
I mean, people were like...
Don Junior's trying to put someone in there that he can run with or run against or something.
If I wanted to do that, I wouldn't put that guy in there.
That guy's a charismatic guy with an incredible story, incredible background, incredible career, who came out of incredible poverty and a family that suffered from addiction.
I want that guy to help fix that.
I don't want to compete against that guy.
If I wanted to actually definitively run in 2028 or whatever the story is that they were trying to plant out there, I'd be like, I'll pick one of the old stooges that has zero chance, even if they had... even if they were my father's VP, and even if they had his endorsement that, like, you know, guys like me would destroy in a primary in about three seconds.
Like, I wouldn't be choosing a J.D.
Vance.
I chose a J.D.
Vance.
I pushed hard for that to happen, as hard as I've ever pushed for anything, other than perhaps J.D.
for Senate, which worked out great, and he was an incredible senator, and still is.
But, you know, that's the thing, guys.
I'm not doing what I do for me because I have some sort of ego or I'm hyper-aspirational that way.
That's like the Kamala Harrises.
They're just more ambition than sense, more ambition than brains.
They'll do anything to get there.
I'm not that guy.
I could care less.
Like, if I can go hunting and fishing, have a cabin in the woods and a drift boat and, you know, get to go hunting in deer season, like, I'm a happy guy.
I'm actually a pretty simple dude that way.
Like, I don't have the hubris, you know, perhaps, to ever even run.
But, you know, I'm not ever ruling it out.
If it needs to be done and I'm the guy that I think can get it done, maybe I would do it.
But, like, That's very different.
Like, I do what I do because I believe in our country, I believe in our Constitution, I believe in our values, I believe in everything we stand for, and I've seen the scourge of communism because my mother escaped it.
Legally.
Okay?
But I've...
I've spent my summers there.
I did that for until I was 18.
I did that before the wall, after the wall.
I saw the effects before.
I saw the disasters.
I've waited in those bread lines.
Like, I'm not doing this for me.
It was much easier, frankly, to not be involved in politics.
I didn't get, you know...
White powder envelopes at my house all the time.
My father wasn't being shot at.
I wasn't getting hit pieces.
They used to like me in the press.
Like, you know, you give them a little bit of attention, they'd give you a fluff piece.
It was wonderful.
That is so different now.
So I'm not doing this for me.
I'm doing it for our country, and I'll do whatever it takes, whatever I see fit, to make that work for America, because that's what actually matters to me.
Let's see.
You sound exactly like your dad did on Oprah.
No, no, no.
He was much more aggressive.
He said, eh, you know, many have said, many have said, if I run, I would win.
And turns out he was right.
That's not what I'm saying.
I'm saying, I will do what it takes to help whoever I think is best to do what's right for our country win.
So it's a little different.
Next generation, maybe not quite as much, but I appreciate that.
I'll take it.
Let's see.
Why was J.D.
a never-Trumper, and what changed him?
That's a good question.
I think, by the way, Vincente, it's a fair question.
I think J.D.
bought into a lot of that narrative.
Don't forget, you know, we just got done with the RNC.
You know, incredible.
It was so good.
In 2016, I literally almost got in a fistfight on the floor with Senator Mike Lee, who's now one of my closest friends in government.
We text every day.
But at that time, it was like, who is this guy from New York?
And what's going to happen?
And there's no way he's going to be a conservative.
And JD bought into that mindset.
There's no way this guy's going to fight for the common man.
How can the guy that lives in Trump Tower fight for the common man?
He got it.
What I respect about JD, don't forget, everyone was in there.
Trump already. You talk about the people who were, you know, the other people that were VP picked,
you know, Marco Rubio, that was a rough primary. You had Doug Burgum, he said he'd
never do business with Trump at the time. And like, you know, people can
change their minds.
And that's the reality of our process.
We're not like the Democrats, where it's like, just blindly follow, like a robot.
What is the narrative?
And we're going to go by that.
Like, he wasn't sure.
But what I really liked about J.D.
Earley, and where I kind of got friendly with him...
After that, I loved this book and when it was like sort of being anti-Trump, at least initially, I was like, oh crap, because this is a guy, like, this is a guy you could build a movement around.
This is an awesome guy, really.
It was actually one of the few times I felt let down by a politician because I was like, this guy could be great at this.
But then...
Unlike a lot of others who were like, okay, fine, we'll reluctantly accept Trump.
We'll, you know, it's, I guess we got to deal with it.
He's got charisma.
I guess we, you know, in a couple of years we'll get rid of him and we'll go back to the old ways of never ending wars and shipping your jobs abroad.
J.D.
was like, oh crap, I was wrong.
That's it.
Like, I was wrong.
I love these policies.
And, you know, he became one of the greatest fighters for our movement.
And it wasn't, again, it wasn't a reluctant acceptance.
He was like, I was wrong.
I bought into the bullshit.
I understand how that happens.
Again, it's why I tell you guys, like, share, subscribe, so other people can see the truth and not just buy into it.
But even guys who are incredibly intelligent, who start businesses, who are conservative, I get it.
And then Trump was more of an unknown.
So, you know, he didn't come around because he was forced to.
He came around because he understood that the policies actually worked, and I respect that.
And so we became friendly, and I was like, he's going to do it.
I helped, you know, worked hard to try to, you know, get him the endorsement for Senate.
I worked hard campaigning for him for Senate.
He gets to the Senate, and he kicked ass.
He didn't just go with the, oh, everyone wants never-ending war in Ukraine.
What could go wrong?
He questioned it.
He called it out.
He voted against the nonsense.
So, um, you know, there's a big part of that is being able to make that change.
Do it organically.
You know, maybe everyone needs a little bit of humble pie for a couple seconds, but like that's the American system.
That's the process.
That's how we do this.
And I think it was kind of awesome.
Let's see here.
Okay.
We are bigger in the polls now than in 2016, but we can't take any days off.
We must fight every single day.
This needs to be a landslide victory.
We need to make everyone know that everyone needs to vote.
Liberty or death on X?
100%, guys.
Everyone's like, oh, he gets shot.
It's over.
No, no, no.
Honestly.
Do you even hear about the assassination attempt?
That was like 10 days ago.
It's almost like gone.
Two weeks ago, it's gone from the press.
They don't even want to talk about it.
This would be one of the biggest moments in American history, theoretically, and it's gone.
Now, Kamala Harris is a moderate.
The narrative will change so quickly.
This thing's not over.
This thing's not won yet.
It's not even close.
There's nothing they won't do.
Part of the Kamala Harris switch, in my opinion, is when they do break out their games, If Joe Biden wins, like, no one's ever gonna believe that.
At least we'll come out and be like, no, they love her!
She's female!
Yeah!
Checks box!
Like, it's just... All hands on deck.
Pedal to the metal through November 5th.
Do not even think for one second that anything is even remotely done.
SharpieDon22, it was genuine.
I agree with that.
Let's see.
Do liberals not see that they have to cheat with illegals to win?
Well, they don't care.
That's the point, guys.
Of course they do.
The policies have failed so many groups, whether it's Hispanics, even African-Americans, that are hemorrhaging.
They're leaving the Democrat Party because the policies have failed them.
But they don't care, because it's not about the policies.
It's not about you.
It's not about your well-being, or your job, or your business, or your family, or your children, or their education.
If it was about that, they could have done so many things.
They wouldn't cater to the teachers' union.
They'd say, you know, maybe math is more important than gender theory.
They don't care about any of it.
For the Democrats, it's about power.
It's only about power.
Okay?
None of what they're taught, none of it makes any sense.
It's ridiculous.
But as long as they have power, they don't care.
They'll jam bad policy down your throats to hold that.
So, I think they get it.
I just don't think they give a damn.
Love the JD pick.
Fight, fight, fight.
Win, win, win.
I love you so much, Don Jr.
Trump Vance 2024.
Melissa Maga 2020.
Thank you.
Thoughts on Bitcoin?
Listen, I love where crypto is going, because I think right now, and you know, we're working on some stuff actually in it, you know, from the family business standpoint.
That's literally happening now, looking at so many of these technologies, but ultimately it's... I love something that's of finite capacity.
I love something that's, you know, they can't just print more of it.
I love that.
That's like...
A great hedge against the insanity of what we see in terms of government spending and the ability to just print money and inflation.
So I love pulling that kind of stuff away from our government.
The head of the banking committee is there because they were there for 97 years, not because they know anything about banking, folks.
Now, I think we've got to create some structure for all of the crypto guys.
I think there has to be a legal framework so that we can function in this.
But I think It's there.
It's the future.
And right now, maybe a little bit of the Wild West, but it shouldn't be.
And if you can take these central banks out and hold them accountable with something real, I mean, I couldn't be more, I couldn't be more along.
So let's see.
Trying to catch up with all this.
Three of my grandkids are first-time voters this year, and all are voting Trump, Vance.
I'm a proud nana.
That's TRGentry16.
Well, I'm glad to hear that.
That's great.
I'm a little upset.
My daughter, the one who spoke at the convention, she's a little too young for it.
So she's going to miss it by a couple months to vote.
But I'm glad that your kids are going to be making up for that.
And we'll make it happen.
So The Quartering, Don Jr., we met at the Rumble Studio at the RNC.
We'd love to have you on my show sometimes, remote.
I'm happy to come down to Mar-a-Lago, LOL.
Oh, would you?
You'll come down here?
I appreciate you doing me that solid.
Okay, but we'll have to see.
If you know the guys there, we'll have to talk.
Let's see.
Check out the campaign ad I made for amazing President Donald Trump.
Win, win, win with this in November.
I'll check it out.
I don't want to share it yet because you never know if it's the trolls or not, but I will check it out.
I'll come back later on.
Let's see.
Make groceries, gas, ammunition, hunting, and travel affordable again.
CCW Maggie.
Yes, that's a great message, by the way.
Uh, you know, and again, for the people who ask, hey, I'm door knocking in Atlanta.
Talk about those things.
Maybe not ammunition.
I don't know if they care that much there, but like, you know, in rural Georgia, the ammunition probably matters more.
Uh, we got to get our factories working again.
We got to get back to main in the USA.
Trump Vance 2024.
A hundred percent guys.
That's a, that's a winning message.
And it's a, it's a no brainer.
Uh, so we'll keep going.
Dapper day of 2021.
Trump, the unifier, Vance, the attack dog.
Didn't see that on my bingo card, but you know, listen, I think that's true.
Getting shot in the face can change things.
Tucker for press secretary.
I think I'm going to be with Tucker in Tennessee tomorrow.
That'll be fun at the Bitcoin conference, so I'll actually be there.
Are you or Vance going to be on Crowder anytime soon?
Please and thank you.
Chell's on.
I'm on Crowder a lot.
When I can, we always just try to line it up and if we can make it happen, we make it happen.
So I will make a cognizant effort to Uh, to get back on Crowder.
Hey guys, I haven't told you, you know, smash that like button again.
Make sure you're sharing, make sure you're subscribing.
We started the show about 45 minutes early, so if you're just getting on to the normal time right now, I see there's still like, you know, 21,000 people watching.
You know, make sure to share it with your friends.
Go back and watch the first 45 minutes.
We went right into JD.
We had a short window that we could, well, wait almost an hour, but We had a window that just worked between all of the other craziness they have been doing, so I love that the guy's actually a worker, too.
Not like so many of these politicians, who's like, anoint me, and then, you know, hide me in a basement.
He's actually working, so that's great.
Terry OC, Tucker is great.
Thank you.
Crystal LaRosie, you're awesome.
Thank you.
Let's see.
And, uh...
Redman, 1889, has not talked much about nuclear power.
It's the most bang-for-your-buck against environmental impact, I think, without question.
I mean, he does talk about that, and I've heard him talk about it a lot.
It's sort of a no-brainer.
These days, it's somehow become the boogeyman.
But when you think about what you can do relative to the impact, et cetera, It doesn't have to be like Fukushima, where you build it on a tectonic plate, right?
There's a way to do it where it's safer, where it's secure, and the power is incredible.
That, to me, is almost a no-brainer.
It's very hard to get that through common sense or lack of common sense Democrats, but that's a real big one.
World Weather Authority, Don Jr., thanks for considering watching the campaign I'm at for the President 2044.
God bless.
It's my pleasure, guys.
I try to interact as best I can.
As you can see, if you follow the live feed, it's a lot.
I cannot get to everything.
Unfortunately, there's only 24 hours in the day.
But I'll be there.
And I'll check out as much as I possibly can.
Don Trump Jr.
for Governor of California.
You guys are out of your mind.
You think I'm moving to California?
California is, by the way, it's one of the most beautiful states ever, and the weather's incredible, the scenery's incredible.
I ain't dealing with the commies, okay?
The policies have failed so badly, so badly.
You couldn't even, as a business guy, as a family guy, as a father, as someone who pays taxes and pays a lot anyway, the Delta would literally It would be a disaster.
It'd crush my lifestyle.
I'd rather live in Florida.
Trust me.
I escaped New York, which was almost as bad as California, living in New York City, New York State.
I was paying, what, 51, 52% taxes a couple years ago when I got out.
And, like, literally, you know, I live in an incredible house on the water, have a really nice boat.
It's wonderful.
And people are like, how do you do that?
I was like, well, I know.
I live there for free.
They go, like, what are you talking about?
You get rid of the 12% New York State tax, you get rid of the 4% New York City tax, on top of the 38, 39% federal tax, that like 14% savings, whatever, you know, 16% savings, whatever it's going up to, like, that allows me to live in a badass house, have a badass boat, have a this, that, and the other.
Assets accumulate, like create future wealth, assets that will accumulate.
For nothing.
It's insane.
You gotta be stupid, rich, to live in New York anymore and have it be worthwhile.
You can live in a crime-ridden street.
Sure, the restaurants are great, but you get mugged and you worry about losing your life on the way to work.
Zero chance.
You couldn't pay me to go back to those commie shitholes.
Not gonna happen.
I will take the Delta.
I will take that savings that I'm not giving New York City and State.
And I'll live a really awesome life in Florida.
Anyone, like, and that's what really sucks is a lot of hard-working Americans would love to make that switch, would love to make those savings, and they can't.
They're stuck.
I was blessed to work in a family business, have my own businesses that I do, I can do from my phone, from wherever I am.
That's a huge, that's a huge thing.
Allowed me to do so, so much.
And, you know, it's a big deal.
I ain't going back.
Any rallies in Boca Raton?
I need to go.
Probably, actually.
There's probably something in the old Lauderdale area.
Certainly be like the boat rallies.
If there's a boat rally down in Lauderdale or whatever, I'll run my boat down there and maybe join up and lead that movement.
That's always been really fun.
Jed Holmes 999 New York sucks.
Yeah, listen, and you know what?
New York City sucks.
That's gone crazy.
Upstate New York, I kept my cabin up there.
I still love that.
It's still a happy place for me.
I can only spend so much time there because I don't want to get hit with the taxes.
But there's so many parts of the state that are spectacular.
They're great.
But it's the politicians, it's the policies that have destroyed all of that.
Who do you think would be a great AG?
Ooh, that's a great question.
We've always said Mike Davis.
We know he can't get a firm.
There's a couple other guys we'd be talking about.
That would be great.
And that's one of the number one roles, because that's the place where you're going to stop the insane weaponization and what's going on.
I'll go to Ireland.
Well, listen, I have a great property in Ireland.
Family, you know, over in Doonbeg.
Amazing golf property.
So, you know, it's definitely a place.
I love it over there.
Lori Hoban.
Don Jr.
for Florida governor.
If we're going to be talking about me as a governor of somewhere, that makes a lot more sense, I think.
I know there's a lot of people interested in this cycle.
We'll see how that goes.
But maybe, maybe one day.
You never know.
You never know.
20k watching, 4k likes.
Smash that like button.
Okay, well, HBO and Mr., I appreciate you keeping track.
At least we're getting up there with the likes.
So guys, hit it.
Hit it.
LOL.
Was the Trump accident a joke?
Of course it was.
Like, we're just messing around, folks.
Ask Bongino to be the head director of Secret Service.
That'd be a great thing.
Dan would go kick ass in that.
I mean, I was with him last week, obviously, at the RNC.
I think, you know, he joined my show at the end of my stream.
I jumped on his.
I think it turned into, I think, the biggest live stream in the world.
Almost 200,000 people watching live.
It was amazing.
And, you know, he'd be the guy to do that.
And he also, just like me, was like, Hey man, like, he's never had a detail, but he was on a couple details a lot.
As a living, I've had a detail.
I've seen my father's.
It's like, he goes, that doesn't happen.
That's not a coincidence.
That's not a little bit of negligence.
That was just bullshit.
So, um, let's see.
Are we sure the Democrats aren't keeping Biden prisoner in the White House?
They don't lose a Senate majority seat.
Yeah, I, I don't, I don't know.
Maybe that's an interesting theory.
Wouldn't surprise me.
Uh, let's see.
Do I have a relationship with Senator Grassley?
He's making some hardcore posts on ex-eviscerating Cheadle.
Well, Mike Davis, the guy I just said, would be, you know, he was his chief of staff.
He worked for him in the Senate for a long time.
So, you know, I know him a little bit, not that well.
You know, he's not one of the guys I talk to on a regular basis, but he's coming out pretty hot on this one, which is actually nice to see when you get the guys that are a little bit more, you know, old guard and they come out and they fight.
Like, that is a, that is a big deal.
Okay.
Casey C. Gates.
California is not LA or San Francisco SF.
Lots of conservatives here.
I didn't say that.
The problem is the ruling party is still that.
We still have to go fight.
We got to win as many congressional seats as we can.
There are vulnerable places that you can fight in California.
California, I think, is like the second or third most populous conservative state in the union because they have the largest population of any state in the union.
They have 40 million people.
You know, if 55% of them are conservative, it blows away almost every state out there.
So I'm not done fighting for it.
I just don't think I could live there under those policies, under those tax things, under Soros DAs and the weaponized nonsense, because I understand I would just be a target.
For a regular guy, it probably wouldn't be as bad.
For me, it just wouldn't work.
And so there is a difference between that.
It's not a knock on.
California.
It's a knock on the systems they've installed.
Okay, fine.
You'll run for governor of California if I run for Florida.
Thanks, guys.
Keep pushing me into government, guys.
Trump Vance 2024.
Would love you as governor of Florida.
Thank you.
Let's see.
Yes, Dan Bongino, Kazakuti.
That's yes for Dan Bongino for Secret Service.
You know, Dan's doing pretty well for himself.
He's crushing it on Rumble.
He's got incredible podcasts.
He's doing all that.
So I'm not sure he wants to go run the Secret Service, but Dan is a patriot.
So he could be Ken Paxton for AG.
That's interesting.
That could be good.
Guys, I think I'm getting ready.
Guys, we did this remote, so we're talking.
I think they're doing some battery changes and everything like that, but looks like we're going to probably have to start running into that fundraiser.
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95% of the time, I keep it totally clean.
The other 5% of the time is called real life.
So, you know, your kids can see it.
It's fine.
Won't kill them.
Probably need to get exposed to the real world sometime in the future, because I promise you, the real world's a rough place.
It's a mean place.
It's not what they've installed.
So we got to come to that realization at some point, too.
But 90...
95, 98% of the time.
Keep it totally clean.
We'll have some fun.
We'll have some real conversation.
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It's not just the Democrats.
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It's not the guy.
I've gotten to know him over the last few years.
This is a great, patriotic American.
He'll serve you well as VP.
He'll serve my father well.
He's going to be steadfast and loyal.
And most importantly, he's going to fight for his people, the hard-working men and women of this country who are forgotten.
I want a guy like that in power.
I want a guy like that at the table fighting for America.
That matters, guys.
There's a difference between the elitists and the people who, you know, honestly, even Kamala Harris, who comes from families of...
I want a blue collar guy in there.
I want someone who's had that experience.
I want someone who's lived through that.
I want someone who was able to live the American dream because that's what it's all about.
That's what we're doing it for.
Guys, be well.
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