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Feb. 20, 2025 - Triggered - Donald Trump Jr
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Bye Mitch, plus Kash confirmed, Interview with AJ Rice | Triggered Ep.218
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It's another day with another round of left-wing meltdowns over anything and everything the Trump administration is doing to make this country better.
And today we'll have author A.J. Rice, who is doing a demolition job on the Democrat agenda with his new book series, The Woking Dead and The White Privilege Album.
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Joining us now, president and CEO of Publius PR, author of the number one political humor book in America, The White Privilege Album, and also the author of the bestseller, The Woking...
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AJ Rice.
AJ, good to have you here, man.
How you doing?
Don, great to be here, brother.
You're a patriot.
It's really a pleasure.
Well, you too, man.
It takes some guts to get in that game.
It takes some guts to fight back.
Although it's interesting.
I mean, you're able to do so much of that with humor.
And I noticed that when I became a general in the meme wars seven or eight years ago.
You can do a lot when you get people to laugh at the absurdity of what's going on, even if it is absurd, even if it's really scary.
Sometimes that helps drive the point even better.
What are your thoughts on that, and what have you done with it?
Well, bro, you're one of our five-star anti-woke generals.
I mean, you know, with liberal privilege and Triggered, I mean, you were out there, you know, first one through the door takes all the bullets.
I mean, you've been a bullet sponge for these people, but they've all just sort of, it's like spitballs on a battleship, just like your father, it just bounces off.
Yeah, slightly more effective than General Milley, right?
That's right.
And also in slightly better shape, minor details.
General White Rage, you mean.
I want to know about it.
By the way, you know what was interesting?
When he said that, I'm like, I've never even heard of that.
Like, I don't know.
I feel like I'm pretty politically versed.
Like, what is that?
And it's just like, let's just read off a talking point.
I wish they were more focused on winning wars than they were about woke PC bullshit.
Absolutely.
He pulled that garbage right out of the humanities department somewhere at some lesbian underwater basket weaving conference or something.
I mean, I never heard of it either, but I put it in the book so I could dunk on him without a doubt.
You know, it's funny.
I grew up with Limbaugh and Andrew Breitbart and, you know, some politically incorrect humor, whether it was coming from...
You know, old school Howard, not new school Howard, that's, you know, hanging out in the basement, giving himself 50,000 jabs.
I think it's trans Howard, because it ain't the same Howard that I, I mean, I grew up watching, I've been on the show, like, you know, it was like, you know, as a New Yorker especially, like, it's definitely trans Howard.
I don't know what happened there, but he cut something off.
Bro, my first sort of introduction to your dad was in the mid-90s, when I'm like working summer jobs.
Blue-collar stuff outside of Philly.
And, you know, the boys, they had it on from 6 a.m.
to whenever Howard went off the air.
So, you know, 45-47 was on all the time.
And, you know, it's a shame because that Howard is gone.
He's now playing mahjong in the basement with Billy Joel going to Diddy White parties on Long Island.
I mean, that's what he does now to entertain himself.
But no, look, Limbaugh used to say his job was to use irreverent humor to illustrate truth.
And I mean, that's what you do when you're on social media with the memes.
You do it with the show.
You do it with the books.
Use absurdity to illustrate truth.
And quite frankly, that's how you check power.
Unfortunately, many leftists, you know, the late night hosts and Saturday Night Live, the Jimmies and the Stevens and the Stevens and the Jimmies, they've all vacated that position, which is why, you know, you and some others, Gutfeld, you know, that are out there, you got Babylon B. You've been able to sort of fill that vacuum, and it's huge.
This is a target-rich environment.
Yeah, they make it so easy, and I mean, Jimmy's another great example.
I mean, Jimmy, last time he was funny was The Man Show, and he was awesome, and Corolla sort of went this way, Jimmy went the other.
I guess Jimmy wanted to be loved by Hollywood, and Corolla just sort of was able to speak the truth, or I guess they're both doing fine for themselves, but it's...
It's sad to see what happened.
The Howard example, I remember when Howard went off the regular airwaves and went over to Sirius or wherever he went, they did the best of Howard Stern, and it was the top ten things ever.
Trump was like three of them.
Oh, yeah, he could be the majority.
So here's the thing, whether it's rock stars or comedians, now there are some sort of free speech absolutists, let's call them that, Chappelle and Ricky Gervais and a few of these guys.
If you tell them what they're not allowed to joke about, that's what they're gonna go after.
So there are a few of these people that know, Don, that when the Woking Dead shows up, when the cultural Marxists show up, they'll be in front of the firing squad the same as you and I. Some of them know that, but that's what comedy and art and rock and roll and gangster rap, even journalism, that's what it's supposed to be about.
It's about checking the man, checking the powers that be, and instead...
They have been wrapping their arms around Zelensky's bombs, wrapping their arms around the pharmaceutical companies, wrapping their arms around the FBI and the Pentagon, and that's what kind of, you know, the American people said enough to in this last election.
Yeah, no, without question.
I mean, you know, Chappelle, yeah, imagine some of his great skits.
I'm not even sure if I'm allowed to talk about them in direct, you know, whether it's, you know, Clayton Bixby as the black-white supremacist.
I mean, I think it's one of the greatest sketch comedy things of all time.
Like, you'd have a hard time doing that.
Ricky Gervais at, like, the Oscars.
You know, that was actually speaking truth to power, and it's sort of amazing to me because, like, when you see...
Like, how viral that went.
I mean, that's sort of what comedy is about, right?
Like, you know, I get it.
It was controversial to a few powerful people at the top, but, like, the American public loved it and thanked him for it.
You would think, you know, there'd be few people that would still be afraid of that because if you give the people what they want...
It seems to be much more important, especially if you're in comedy and you're selling tickets and you're selling specials or whatever, than just catering to those who are actually just in charge or in power, which is such a small portion of the population.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
And look, I've been calling this last election a woke Waterloo moment, and it was a big one.
We've had others, Elon getting red-pilled and buying Twitter.
He did the biggest digital jailbreak in history, turning all you guys loose again on Twitter, right?
It was a jailbreak.
It was an intellectual, comedic, you know, substantive jailbreak of, you know, anti-censorship.
You know, you're right.
Gervais at the Golden Globes with the Epstein-Weinstein, Epstein-Weinstein.
I mean, he was like Kobe dunking all those perverts in the audience, right?
He didn't even get a chance to weigh in on the Diddy stuff.
And then, you know, Kid Rock, when he took the AR-15 out to the Bud Lights.
I mean, look, Bud Light put a tranny in the bathtub with two Bud Light pounders.
And all it took was Kid Rock with a case of him.
That was a woke Waterloo moment, too.
So we have these situations where we start to push back on them.
Now, I find it interesting that some of the left may learn their lessons, but one that does not appear to be is who I call the trans mafia.
The trans mafia is out to whack people.
They're out to make cement shoes for people.
And it appears the Democrats are willing...
To die on the hill with them.
That is more important than any of the stuff Trump is doing.
It's more important than talking to the Plumbers Union of Philadelphia or the Teamsters or the UAW that they're willing to follow AOC into the women's room with a dude with Nancy Mace waiting for him.
That's what they're willing to die on.
And I say, look...
Keep it up.
You're going to continue to lose election.
I'm fine with it.
Yeah, I've never understood that one.
How, you know, 0.1% of the population is just totally beyond reproach when, you know, again, a couple of years ago, clinically, it would have been a medical disorder.
It was a medical disorder.
Now, all of a sudden, it's like it makes you immune from persecution or prosecution.
You look at the statistics across crime, and I can't think of a more violent populist per capita than the radical trans agenda, whether it's the school shootings or the Christian schools or this, that, and the other, the manifestos.
I mean, it's wild.
As a percentage of population, I can't imagine anyone in the world actually being more violent.
I mean, how many are there in America that commit these sort of heinous crimes or are stopped before doing them?
I mean, it's sort of wild that they've been able to be...
Or amass that much power?
If there were a bunch of Catholic Irish nuns from Michigan acting the way that the trans shooters are acting, there would be breathless coverage on CNN. We'd have to have a national conversation about Catholic Irish nuns.
But instead, I sent my team to actually create a list of these trans shooters.
It's an amazing thing, Don.
You have to dig around.
in places like bloodhounds to find any type of mention because the second it's revealed that it is one of these people that were on puberty blockers or hormones whatever It gets memory hold immediately.
Yeah, I mean, you saw the Christian school shooting, what was it, last year, year before?
Well, there's a manifesto.
I mean, you see where they are.
You see the social media, but the social media is scrubbed faster than anything.
Now, if it was a white guy in a MAGA hat, it would not be scrubbed.
It would be there, and it would be promoted, and it would be news.
The manifesto.
The motive is unknown.
It's like, really?
Do you think it has something to do with jacking someone up with obscure hormones for 15, 20 years of their lives, whatever it may be?
Do you think it could be that?
No, it can't be that.
It's got to be something far less plausible than literally the most obvious thing in the world.
And so it's hard watching them go in on that, but they've done that across the board.
I saw the weeks after the election, it was like...
Who cares if you can't afford your groceries?
Three-year-olds are being denied gender-affirming care without parental consent.
And I'm like, what the hell is going on here?
I'm glad they're not learning, but it's hard to believe these are even still conversations we're having, let alone watching them go all in on them.
Yeah, well, it's amazing.
They were able to find Juicy Smollett's MAGA hat wearers in the south side of Chicago.
They were able to find that real quick.
I remember Bubba Watson said, That there was a noose in his garage at a NASCAR race.
It was basically the garage pulled down, right?
The FBI was scrambled.
They're able to find all these things, but Don, if you try to have them connect what's right in front of their face, no way.
No way they're like Ray Charles flying an airplane.
Yeah, I mean, AJ, it was an interesting one because I was, I think I was maybe one of the, if not the first sort of like verified account on Twitter at the time that called out the Jesse Smollett thing being like, wait a minute, you're telling me that there's a bunch of MAGA hat wearing dudes walking around the south side of Chicago at two o'clock in the morning on the coldest night of the year.
Like, I'm like, I don't know, man, this is a risk.
But, like, I'm, like, all in that this is bullshit.
Like, I'm all in.
And I got all, like, Don Jr.'s a white supremacist.
I'm like, I'm not a white supremacist.
It has nothing to do with it.
It's just, like, I'm not an idiot.
Like, this is clearly and demonstrably, like, a made-up thing.
And then, of course, I was right.
I don't get a correction or apology.
I'm just a bad guy for calling out the obvious when, you know, when there was a, you know, there's always a risk doing that.
She's, you know, the VP was, you know, talking to her the next day or Kamala Harris was.
And then they're on Gayle King.
And they're, oh, my God, I can't believe this happened.
Like, I don't know about Jesse Smollett as an actor.
Maybe he's a decent actor, but he ain't a good writer because that was insane.
Well, he was a good enough actor to, you know, to convince, you know, Gayle King and, you know, Robin Roberts and Michelle Obama and Oprah.
They all bought it.
I mean, they did not need to check anything.
But did they buy it or was it just convenient to run with?
Meaning it was just, it was the right narrative at the right time to be able to go all in.
This is going to further our political goals.
That's right.
That's right.
And look, they're experts in that.
They don't just do that with that.
They do it with all of it.
They did it with Kyle Rittenhouse.
I mean, the guy on the subway, Daniel Penny.
They rush in and they'll figure out the facts later.
But that's what provides such a unique opportunity to write books like Liberal Privilege and the White Privilege album because they are exposing themselves to mockery where, you know, look.
I think it was W.C. Fields.
Look, you can make all the Aristotelian arguments you want, and there's plenty of brilliant people out there, Victor Davis Hanson, Socrates Jr., and so on.
But if you can hang a joke on someone, it will last forever.
And that is your unique ability that apparently is genetic, because the OG from the Golden Escalator, that is what has been driving these people crazy for 10 years.
That's why they're trying to ban those kinds of jokes in Germany right now, because they understand that it's effective.
They understand that would allow others who don't have the same political soapbox, they don't have the same megaphone, to actually get that stuff out there.
So rather than actually address the problem, they'd rather ban the people who are pointing out the obvious.
But we're seeing my father demolish everything the left has held sacred for decades, like DEI. It's basically, that's their religion.
And the more we learn, the more we realize that our own tax dollars were funding it.
We thought we were doing good things around the world.
Turns out it was all just a big kickback to woke leftists.
The left doesn't really exist without being artificially propped up.
Wokeism is just a complete fraud, really, isn't it?
Yeah, no, it's an intersectionality of fraud, right?
And money laundering.
I mean, you know, if you would have told me this list, This list I've got here from USAID, this looks like a list of stuff you and I would make up.
I'm not done.
I'm Irish Cavaliers.
I am not that creative, AJ. I'd like to believe that I am that good, but I promise you, I'm not.
I take ridiculous stuff, I point it out to others, sort of explain just how ridiculous it is, maybe come up with a good analogy or two, but it's literally like South Park could not come up with a better list than these guys were actually funding, and they don't miss often.
Look, I'm Irish Catholic from Philadelphia.
I'm really upset that we lost out on the $70,000 for DEI the musical in Ireland.
That's like the sequel to Riverdance, I guess.
I mean, some of this stuff, you know, transgender opera in Columbia, transgender comic book in Peru.
I mean, this is the drift of the ages, and this is just 1% of what they were doing.
This isn't even the big dogs, the big battleships that, look, I'm here in the swamp.
I'm kind of like those dogs that live in Chernobyl where, you know, they're immune to radiation.
Because I've been here for 20 years fighting these people.
And it wasn't really till, you know, MAGA showed up that I had any reinforcements.
I mean, you know, I was Laura Ingram's executive producer for years.
And Laura and I were fighting these people then when all the fancy people in the establishment were telling us, no, free trade's wonderful.
No, you can't close the border.
You know, all these things.
You know, China's our friend.
And, you know, other than, like, Pat Buchanan and Lou Dobbs, Ron Paul a little bit, until Trump showed up.
And what's funny is, when he comes down to the golden escalator in 15, and it's 16, you know, he's saying the same stuff he was saying to Larry King in, like, the early 80s.
So this isn't some new idea that he just, like, picked up off the floor.
He has seen that...
The Democrat Party, big government, China, and many other things have been eating our lunch for 40 years.
And it's nice to see everyone come along now.
Now it's a lot easier to do it.
Right now, again, for regular people, I get it.
There was a social consequence to doing that.
You wouldn't be able to be welcomed at your PTA meeting.
You'd be frowned in the line at Starbucks if you're sort of a woke suburban housewife.
It's going to be really easy.
I don't know.
I'm going to donate to BLM and post my black square and I'm absolved from all of my crimes.
I mean, it's...
It's sort of wild, but it took a guy like Trump to take all of those slings, all of those arrows to open the door.
Elon sort of did it for the guys in big tech.
David Sachs sort of came out and be like, I don't know, these things haven't been working.
Why don't we try something new?
Elon's like, okay, this is kind of nonsense.
All of a sudden, everyone else rushes through that door.
I mean, half of the big VC guys, not the woke guys that work at these companies, but the leaders, the actual entrepreneurs, the people that are putting their money on the line are like, Yeah, these things have failed us.
And these were some of the biggest donors to the Democrat Party for years.
But the second they had power and weren't ceding entire control to the Democrat Party, they were persona non grata and they tried to take them out.
And I mean, you see this sort of play out over and over again.
So you need a Trump-like character who's just willing to go all in, zero Fs left to give.
And again, I think even more so this time around than the first term, you needed...
Him to see just how bad they'd be to them.
They try to take away your business.
They try to impeach you twice.
If that doesn't work, we'll try to jail you.
And if that doesn't work, we'll just create enough havoc and enough chaos because you're the greatest threat to democracy literally like ever that some moron tries to kill you twice.
That's right.
Now it's like, you know what?
I don't know.
Let's just go fight.
What more can they throw at him?
Two phony impeachments, four phony indictments, two assassins on the field.
They've thrown everything at him.
They're going in his house.
They're arresting Roger Stone.
I mean, there's stuff, Don, I know, there's stuff you have not even told this audience that they've done to you.
Maybe someday you will.
What they've done to you guys and the family, anyone that was associated around Trump, all the moons of Saturn, all the moons of Jupiter, if you were anywhere near any of you, I mean, but isn't it interesting?
I always like to think of 47 as like the white blood cells.
That are flying towards an infection in the body because the body is rotting.
And he's flying towards an infection.
And, you know, as a counterculture icon, yes.
But as someone who is trying to heal this rot from the globalists, from wokeism, and, you know, they're not going to go.
I mean, obviously, you can see that out there now.
They're not going to go quietly at all.
I think that's what we misread.
I think we thought it'd be really aggressive.
It'd be really bad, but like common sense could prevail.
But you realize that.
You know, everyone in the swamp, I mean, including a lot of Republicans, are sort of in on the grift, right?
Like, it's how they've made their wealth, or their buddies, or if you're in the military, you know, the General Millies that we talked about, like, you know, well, their exit ramp is a board seat at Raytheon, so of course you're going to push endless war.
You don't get that board seat if you're not selling more missiles.
You don't sell more missiles if you're not using them to kill people in, you know, in wars that no one can articulate what victory even looks like, and so...
It's this perpetual vicious cycle of death and money because there's no money in peace.
That's right.
And look, if Lincoln was the great emancipator and Reagan was the great communicator, Donald Trump is the great disruptor.
And unlike last time where we got fed, look, you were there, we got fed a bunch of characters like Tillerson and Milley and McMaster and some of these characters at the RNC said we had to make cabinet secretaries.
He is rolling in here with disruptors for each department, from Bondi to Cash to Tulsi to RFK Jr. And it's not just that, you know, yeah, the fish rots from the head, but you can't just take the tops of these agencies and departments and put our people in.
You have to drop a bunker buster 10 layers down on these departments.
Because, like you just said, whether it's at the VCs, whether it's at Netflix protesting Dave Chappelle...
The middle management has been the problem.
Entrenched bureaucrats like a metastasism, right?
The people that were listening in on the Fiona Hales and the Vennmans, they're listening in on those freaking phone calls that run the Politico, right?
Those are the ones we've got to go in and we've got to bring some 47 chemotherapy in there and get them out.
We've got to get them out of there.
And I think that's what Cash and Bondi...
Are going to do.
And Hegseth, then Elon.
And that's why the attack is so visceral back, right?
They understand that is a threat.
Some bureaucrat that's, you know, going to slow roll Trump or kick the can down the road will wait him out.
It's only four more years.
You know, those people are in a panic and you're seeing that.
I mean...
You know, the stuff that Doge has uncovered, I mean, you know, people that are 300 years old still getting Social Security.
I mean, it's pretty impressive.
You'd think that would be in the Guinness Book of World Records.
You'd think they would highlight these people's incredible lives that were born at the founding of our country, and they're still around getting Social Security.
It's like...
Yeah, that's right.
You know, I had a cousin in Philly call me, told me Ben Franklin's still getting Social Security.
And I was like, Ben Franklin?
He was like 90 when we started this thing.
You know, him and George Washington were the oldest two founders.
You know, it's funny.
We're upgrading, right?
We're upgrading the cabinets.
One of the other things I know you want to talk about that we've upgraded is what I like to call the hillbilly ninja, J.D. Vance.
Oh, yeah.
The hillbilly ninja just gave a Churchillian speech, like the speech Churchill gave in 1946, almost 80 years ago, in Fulton, Missouri, the Iron Curtain speech.
J.D. Vance, wearing his Michael Jordan jersey.
Just went to the faces of these goofy European leaders and dunked in their faces and basically said that there is an iron curtain today.
There's an iron curtain coming across Europe today.
And it's an iron curtain of censorship.
It's a gag order.
It's arresting people that are putting out memes.
It's attacking Christians and Jews.
And they're okay with it.
They're okay with it.
And they're outraged that J.D. Vance and Donald Trump are not willing to do what Obama did, which was...
Lead from behind.
Yeah, I'm watching, you know, the guy from the European Union that cried.
I mean, yeah, he's a grown-ass man leading, you know, millions of people, like, crying.
Like, I'm like, I don't know, man.
Like, it takes a lot more to get me to cry, but because he was called out to his face.
But this is the same guy, AJ, that literally laughed, you know, five or six years ago when my father at the very, you know, at the UN... Called out Europe for being like, you know, you're just enriching Russia like you're making them like that's your big threat.
Like you want us to spend trillions of dollars on NATO while not doing anything about you guys trying to enrich yourselves from your greatest enemy while enriching them.
It doesn't make sense.
And this guy laughed off the Russia threat.
Oh, he's such a clown.
I mean.
These morons are always proven to be wrong in the end.
But in the meantime, they sort of get what they want.
They're able to do that.
At the time, they had the full weight and force of the mainstream media.
They had the full weight and force of big tech.
We've gotten some of that back.
At least there's free speech on Truth Social, on X, on these kinds of places.
And you realize once they lose, and they still have a massive advantage when you think of the trillion dollars that those enterprises really are, but you claw back a couple of those places.
People are able to see what's really going on, and all of a sudden, without that head start, without that artificial boost, these guys, their ideas, their ineptitude, they're exposed, and they can't handle it, and they're freaking out on a world stage.
That's right.
And what's going on in Europe is by design.
Angela Merkel, who's a real looker, by the way, Angela Merkel, look, your father sized her up and knew that she was bad news.
When he was 45, now he's 47. The plan was to flood Europe.
I mean, does this sound familiar, ladies and gentlemen, what's going on?
There's no Tom Holman or Donald Trump to save Europe.
You know, to flood Europe with basically third world, Middle Eastern people.
I mean, to change the demographics of Europe, to balkanize Europe, to make it more like Yugoslavia.
Which descended into a civil war of insanity, especially with Bosnian Muslim terror groups and different factions trying to kill each other.
That is what you're starting to see here.
He should cry.
He should cry because the pinnacle of Western civilization, the beginning of it, rests in the capitals of Europe.
Churchill warned about the Soviet Union, but in reality, it looks like...
With all these leftists in charge, that East Germany won.
It looks like the Soviet Union won because they are capitulating to Russia, they're pretending to fight them with no money and spitballs, and yet their behavior, the censorship, the crackdown on free speech, is reminiscent of all the totalitarian regimes that they claim they're trying to prevent come there.
Yeah, the grooming gangs are running wild.
And rather than dealing with, you know, pedophile raping gangs, if you report them and say, you know, I really don't think they belong in our country, you go to jail for reporting them.
They don't get thrown in jail for doing the raping.
It's like something out of Monty Python or Mel Brooks.
I mean, it feels like a modern day blazing saddles could be written about this insanity, but it's actually going on.
So, yeah.
And look, JD going there, doing what he did.
Fantastic speech.
And what an upgrade from Mike Pence, right?
And, you know, I'm not going to be too hard on Mike Pence, but, you know, Mike Pence and his crew, the Linguini Spine Mafia there, I mean, you know, he could never have delivered a speech like that.
It's amazing.
As an old millennial, as a geriatric millennial, which is what I am, Gandalf, the millennial over here, it's amazing.
To see this dynamic duo of your father and J.D. Vance just taking it to these people.
Just taking it.
They all have glass jaws, and they're just shattering them from one side of the globe to the other.
So, AJ, your books are satire combined with actual journalism.
I mean, how do you combine comedy with journalism to expose just how insane that woke agenda really is?
Well, yeah.
I mean, look, it's a target-rich environment.
The White Privilege album...
And Don, the subtitle, which was Trollmaster Flash in Action, is something you would have come up with, is bringing racial harmony to very fine people on both sides.
So I just know, watching this show right now, I know the very fine people are out there watching this show right now.
Big shout out to the very fine people out there.
Look, I took basically 12 chapters, and each chapter is a month of the year.
So chapter one is January privilege.
And Chapter 12 is December privilege.
And I go through an entire calendar year dunking on these fools and defending Western civilization, defending the middle class, defending the nuclear family, and defending our holidays and our traditions.
So, you know, we defend Columbus Day in Chapter 10, October, and having some fun along the way because, you know, it dawned on me that, you know, they use race, you know, more than almost anything to try to divide us.
And they told us, I mean, they just ran an entire presidential campaign on, like, abortion and Hitler.
Hitler, right?
This is what they did.
They thought they were going to win.
They spent a billion-plus dollars on Hitler and abortion.
I mean, it's unbelievable.
You talk about money laundering.
They raised that money, Don, in 100 days.
That wasn't pocket change.
Where the hell did that money come from?
1.2?
Billion in 100 days?
They'll talk about Trump and the oligarchy.
Oh, the oligarchs are in charge.
I mean, come on.
That's fast and dark money if I've ever seen it.
So, you know, for me, it's easy to do.
You do it every day.
You've got to have some fun with these people.
You've got to attack the things that they think are their, you know, woke holy grails.
And look, I try to do that.
I have some fun with it.
You know, one of the definitions of comedy...
It's the ability to transform horror into humor.
So, you know, nothing's...
I mean, all comedy has truth in it.
And all the greats know that, you know?
Joan Rivers and Lenny Bruce and Johnny Carson and Rodney Dangerfield and Dice and Roseanne, whoever.
And that's what we have to do here.
And it is their kryptonite.
And now that big tech is not protecting them from our jokes, and the media has kind of backed down and...
I even see goofballs like Seth Rogen saying, well, you know, I kind of know why Trump won.
You know, eventually when you have a bunch of homeless, you know, trans midgets in your front yard doing crack, the people, you know, the people decide to vote the other way.
So, you know, for all the racist stuff they've called your dad, it's an amazing thing because he just put together the greatest multi-ethnic, diverse coalition seen by a Republican in a generation.
And they don't know how to explain it.
From The View to CNN, they're befuddled, Don.
Yeah, so, I mean, you talk about those guys, whether it's Rogan or whether it's, you know, Bill Maher.
You know, Bill Maher, these days, he comes up with some fairly reasonable stuff.
At the same time, I'm sort of like, I don't want to give too much credit because it's like, that's the arsonist calling the fire department, right?
The people that complained about all these things for so long are like, oh, maybe we took it a little too far, but like...
Do they deserve that credit for coming around now when, you know, they're the biggest catalysts for the insanity to begin with?
Yeah, I mean, look, Marty used to be more of a libertarian.
And, you know, he's in Hollywood.
He's a boomer.
You know, he's a certain age bracket where, you know, he is doing a little tap dance and he is putting, you know, I'd like to see you go in there.
He is putting some people, you know, on the show that, you know, he might not agree with 100%.
So there is a rationality there.
I tell people this all the time.
And, you know, for some of our folks, Don, that are attacking Elon for certain things or any of this coalition we've put together, like RFK Jr. doesn't pass the purity test.
Tulsi Gabbard doesn't pass the purity test.
Purity tests throughout history have not been great.
I mean, they complain about- By the way, Trump wouldn't pass that test, except he's the only guy willing to do it.
Like, I mean, it's- Correct.
So in 2015, Trump didn't pass the purity test.
I mean, Reagan showed up, and they were mad that he had been divorced once, and he had two wives.
I mean, so the purity test people are losing, and I think, you know, at least with someone like Maher or Ricky Gervais, they at least are rational enough to know that, you know, we can agree on some things without, like, lighting ourselves on fire like suicide bombers, which is what the left, really, that's where they get their power from.
The unhinged battalions of pink pussyhat women.
Remember, Ashley Judd outside the White House screaming about your father.
Madonna threatening to detonate the White House.
You know, look, we've taken a little bit of wind out of their sails.
I don't see many of them out there doing that, which I consider a victory.
I agree.
I mean, so, you know, AJ, we're also getting more cabinet picks confirmed, and it's putting the swamp, you know, obviously in a panic.
Again, that's both sides, because I'm happy to call out weak Republicans just as much, because frankly, with weak Republicans, who needs Democrats?
With someone like Kash Patel at the FBI, what sort of impact in having...
Do you think that has on the FBI actually investigating crimes instead of just kneeling down, bowing to BLM, going along with the woke talking points, investigating mothers at PTA meetings who are simply concerned that their children are being indoctrinated, which of course they were, rather than going after actual terrorists?
That's right.
And I will tell you, this is the reason Cash has been stalled more than anyone else.
Because he alone, more than anyone else, Scares the hell out of these knuckleheads.
He, I mean, and I will tell you, yes, he's going to make the FBI cops again, but if he goes into a mode of absolute disclosure, that's the silver tuna.
That, if he goes line by line, the way Doge is, you know, going line by line, if he goes into absolute disclosure, who were the journalists that were paid off to write about the...
The urine dossier and Crossfire Hurricane.
They have that list.
That has not been disclosed.
We talked about Politico last week with USAID. There was a bunch of journalists paid money.
The FBI knows their names.
Who were they?
Why are they still working?
They got like $8 million or $9 million in subscriptions for the government from USAID.
I'm not sure what Politico would be getting that money for unless it's basically a payoff to be like, hey, you're going to do this.
We're going to basically artificially support you.
And then you're going to be our freaking scribe.
You're going to write whatever we want to perpetuate whatever narrative is in vogue at the moment.
And, you know, as long as you keep doing that, we'll keep subsidizing your existence.
That's right.
And look, other than Louis Free, who was actually a field agent.
Did not get along with Bill Clinton much.
Most of these FBI directors have all been cut from...
They're all lawyers.
They're all former federal prosecutors.
They're all from the same club.
Most of them have never carried a gun or wouldn't know how to use one.
That's right.
Most people don't join the FBI to go to Washington and go to parties with Andy McCabe and his wife.
They don't do that.
You talk to real field agents, they don't want that job.
So Cash is going to be up against that.
But if he goes into it, I mean, look, we don't even know any real data about the assassination attempts.
The, you know, the level of corruption here, the, you know, and I see the left writing about, well, will Kash Patel, you know, be the next Hoover?
I mean, there is stuff going back to Hoover.
There is so much corruption there.
We're talking about Watergate every day of the week, every second of the day, whether it's the Epstein list, the Diddy list.
The assassination attempts, you know, things that Janet Reno was doing, you know, I guess wiretapping Catholics, investigating parents at PTA meetings.
I mean, there's little items, and then there's big, you know, RFK, JFK, MLK items.
And if he can just do that disclosure, it'll be the greatest form of community service for the Constitution.
Yeah, they don't actually even have to cut anything.
They just have to expose it.
Because once it's exposed and everyone, you know, the voting populace understands where their money has gone as they've watched their roads crumble, their infrastructure go to crap, their kids not be able to get educated, only indoctrinated, their medical systems in shambles.
Once they realize that you spent billions that could have been going to that.
Rather than to, again, you know, Trans Elmo, you know, Sesame Street in Guatemala, you realize, like, I don't know.
I mean, that seems to be the revolutionary shift that we all need as a country.
But, you know, AJ, you also, you know, you worked with Laura Ingraham, you worked in cable news, you were a producer there.
Like, you understand the inside baseball of all things cable news.
When you look at the ratings for networks like CNN, MSNBC, They're hitting one low after another.
They don't just have bad politics.
It's just bad business.
What does the future of cable news look like to you?
Yeah, well, look, and here's the thing.
The rubric has changed because of shows like this and many others.
And talk radio is still solid.
Terrestrial radio, you've got Sirius XM, obviously, and that sort of gave birth to the commercial-free podcast.
People are not getting their news the same way they used to.
I can tell when I do interviews for this book, if I go on one type of show, people will see me.
It's interesting the people that text me, where if I go on with Ingram on Fox, they're a totally different group of people that will text me.
So there are different demos out there.
But what I find interesting about where the undecided voters were hiding...
And I just want to thank you and your brother Barron for this, because I know it was the two of you, and Eric too, because it took Trump, your father, into a time machine.
Because as we talked about earlier, I grew up listening to your father on Howard.
So you said to yourself, where were the undecided voters?
Well, they were hiding, but they weren't hiding at the Chamber of Commerce, and they weren't hiding at the Wall Street Journal editorial page, and they weren't hiding at all the normal places Republicans would go to get their hair cut.
He went into some of these podcasts where the true undecided voters were.
And I got to see your father sort of get in the Wayback Machine with Theo Vaughn and with Rogan and with Schultz and some of these guys because that's the Donald Trump I grew up with.
And they could call it the manosphere or whatever the hell they're calling it.
You know, the left always has to put labels on it.
But these are people that love this country.
They love sports.
They don't want their jokes censored, right?
So whether it's Barstool or Rogan, and it's interesting, Don, I see the left out there, and they're saying, and for years they used to say, we need to find our own Russ Limbaugh.
They never did.
Now they're saying, we need to find our own Joe Rogan.
You had him.
You had him.
Joe Rogan was basically at least left-leaning, maybe a little libertarian on some issues.
But you had him.
But you couldn't let him not go along with the narrative.
The second he broke from one thing of a thousand, that was it.
We're going to cancel him.
We're going to try to MeToo him.
We're going to try to get rid of him for literally asking a question.
I guess he used the N-word.
Asking a question about whether it's appropriate to use the N-word.
I don't know how else to articulate it.
Maybe he shouldn't have said the actual word.
But like...
Even he's sitting there like, wait a minute, these people turned on me so quickly.
And then you have that long-form notion where in a five-minute interview on Fox, my father can only say so much.
So they can then attack him and say, he's got the language skills of a fourth grader.
On Rogan, when he starts breaking down Civil War generals and how that led to where we are today, it's like, wait a minute.
Exactly.
That's not what I was told.
I was told he didn't know anything about anything.
And yet it was a fascinating conversation for three hours.
And when they can't...
Put their candidate on there or refuse to do it because they know Kamala Harris, in this case, could not possibly hang that there was just an empty vessel.
That was a problem and it destroyed everything they were willing to say about Trump.
And look, Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Rogan both endorsed Bernie Sanders years ago.
They did.
I mean, so the fact that the Democrats are against them and they're against the oldest male heir of the Kennedy family.
See, here's the thing.
They've seen these guys break, Elon too, and they need to teach them a lesson because I'm looking at you, John Fetterman.
They want to make it so painful to leave the Democrat Party intellectual plantation that they will come after you, they will destroy you, they will call you every name in the book, and they're winking at Fetterman and maybe some others saying, don't you dare do that too, or we will roast you the way we're roasting them.
Yeah, well, that was part of the reason they went after Trump so hard.
I think they wanted to send a message to anyone else who's not part of, you know, the uni party, anyone else who isn't part of permanent Washington, anyone else who's accomplished in their own right outside of that little world of the swamp and be like, it's just not worth it.
Don't get in the game.
You know, they tried doing it to Elon.
He just...
Didn't care.
I mean, it was less about actually even going after Trump than it was about making sure that there's never another Trump, that no one would be willing to go through that level of hell to fix their country.
There's just no upside to it.
That's exactly right.
And, you know, it's funny.
So here's the thing.
For almost 40 years, Republicans called themselves Reagan Republicans.
Some of those people have gone off and endorsed Obama and Biden and Kamala.
God knows who else.
But part of the reason you had all the indictments and the impeachments and they just send waves at him is because they're not—Trump is like—he's like our bodyguard.
Yes, to get to us, they've got to go through him.
But what they're most worried about is for the next 35 years, just like with Reagan, People are going to be identifying themselves as Trump Republicans, as MAGA Republicans.
Some kid bussing tables in Des Moines, right, who gets in his car, he's playing for his own school, puts on his red cap, you know, he goes and watches the Iowa, you know, football team play against Iowa State, whatever the hell it is, they're worried.
They're worried about the waves of Trumps that are coming.
The 30-year-olds, the 25-year-olds, the 18-year-olds, because they know they're going to have to deal with us.
Echoing for decades now, which is why they've tried everything, financial, personal, taking him to court, suing him, going after you guys, going into his house, arresting his friends.
This is why.
Look, if you put this stuff just as bullet points and handed it to someone and you didn't tell them what country this was, this is totalitarian stuff.
This is Castro, Venezuela, East Germany stuff.
And, you know...
It's all been bouncing off the man.
I mean, I don't know how he does it.
I saw you talking about it on the golf course with Kai online.
I mean, you know, I'm running around all day.
I manage a PR firm, get a book deal.
I got like 75 clients going.
This guy, last week, it's 1045 at night.
He's outside in a snowstorm waiting for a hostage that he just got released to come back to the United States to give him a beer.
I mean, this is amazing stuff.
You have never seen in your life, not even Reagan, work overtime for the American people like this man does.
Yeah, I mean, that was sort of funny.
I was with him at the Super Bowl, and it's just like, it costs us two pennies to make one penny.
We're getting rid of the penny.
He's not even watching the Super Bowl.
He's just figuring out how to save more money.
The guy is a machine.
I will give him that.
Well, it's unbelievable.
And it's funny.
The Super Bowl, and I'm a Philly guy, Eagles fan.
Look, Kansas City fans, maybe they're bored with their team.
They don't really travel.
If you've ever met a Philadelphia sports fan, we travel.
I was there.
That stadium was heavy Philly, like 80-20 heavy Philly, because you could hear it any time anything happened.
So when you heard that booing of Taylor Swift, who's from Philadelphia, by the way, and a traitor to us, she grew up in Philly, all right?
She used to wear Eagle stuff to her concerts and stuff.
So now she's dating Kelsey, the wrong Kelsey, over there on the Chiefs, and you hear them cheer Trump and boo her.
That is Southeast Pennsylvania.
Cheering Donald Trump, Eagles fans, but also the people that helped deliver, you know, at 3 o'clock in the morning in 2016, and this time, two times, Pennsylvania.
You know, I'm not going to shake a stick at the Steelers fans.
They love him too.
But that's what that was.
That was the MAGA Bowl that was happening there.
Yeah, that's the blue-collar former Democrat that just wants common sense.
They want to stop.
Exporting their American dream, which has been our only export for the last half a century.
They'd like to actually start living that American dream again, which is apparently really shocking to the left.
They can't quite grasp it, but seems like it would be pretty much common sense.
That's right.
And we've come in 10 years.
We've come from kneeling with Kaepernick for the national anthem to the brothers doing the Trump dance at UFC, NCAA football, NFL games.
During the World Series, during the playoffs, the baseball at second base, dude steals second.
They're doing the dance, right?
So we've come.
Look at how we've come.
That's why he's a counterculture icon, because he has drugged these people, kicking and screaming, to doing the Trump dance.
So, I mean, I think, you know, that's a positive sign.
I mean, I'm loving that.
That's why, you know, look, that's why you saw that fight at that hockey game this weekend.
Oh, yeah.
Right?
That's why you saw that.
You know, I imagine...
Some alternate universe where Trump calls the locker room like Bobby Knight or something, right?
And he gets them all hyped up.
But they didn't need it.
They did not need it.
So, you know, they're up in Montreal, right?
And, you know, Montreal is not exactly Philadelphia or Pittsburgh or New York City, right?
So they're in Montreal.
They're playing, you know, what is supposed to be Canada's game.
And within nine seconds, the USA hockey team beats their asses on behalf of, you know...
Brewing the national anthem.
And like I said, if they're not careful, that's going to be their national anthem soon.
Right?
The 51st state, folks.
The 51st state.
AJ, where did you get the inspiration to write the White Privilege album?
This great book.
What will we learn?
How much will we laugh?
And where can we go to learn more?
And also, what's next for you?
Yeah, brother.
Well, look, I... I work, you know, full-time at Publius PR, and, you know, full disclosure, you know, some of these cabinet picks, we've worked on their books.
We've worked on your book, Don, you know, at least with Hachette, the first one.
We've worked with Hegseth, we've worked with Tulsi, we've worked with RFK Jr. in his Super PAC. So, you know, look, I like to consider myself the MAGA Kevin Bacon, right?
So one or two degrees separated from me, and you could get to a Trump cabinet person.
You know, our friend Sergio, many others.
Look, I believe that true totalitarianism has arrived when comedians and funny people in general, or meme makers, are scared.
They're scared.
You know, I always found it interesting that during COVID, the band Rage Against the Machine was making people, of all names, they were making people get vaccinated.
And some of the old school rockers like Eric Clapton and Van Morrison were not.
Right?
So I find that interesting, that the left has sort of become company men.
So look, I'm here to try to hit the younger audience for sure, because sometimes you can educate through humor in a way that just giving speeches or just doing nothing but fire and brimstone doesn't.
So that's what the books are about, both The Woking Dead, which was my first book, and The White Privilege album.
I am working on a third one.
We'll see how that goes.
It'll be probably out in a year, maybe next year.
But look, brother, you are on the front lines.
Your buddy Charlie Kirk is as well.
We have to just keep going at these people because we have them on the run.
And unfortunately, these leftists, these cultural Marxists, they're kind of like STDs.
They're kind of like a herpes flare-up.
You hit them with some medicine, and they go dormant, and then all of a sudden the fever blister comes up.
So they'll be back, and we'll be waiting for them.
But look, I really appreciate you, everything you do for this country.
I mean, people just really don't know the type of bullshit that you have been put through.
And Eric and even poor Barron, I mean, it's just insane.
But look, you guys are made out of something different.
I appreciate it, man.
That means a lot.
We all know where you get it from.
We're seeing that, right?
The Zoomers are the number one sort of generation that are going more conservative.
Who would have thought Gen Z, the youngest demographic, would actually be the ones that are becoming most America first?
I think that's in great part due to guys like you actually putting it out there and giving it to them in a way that they can consume it, that they understand, that they figure out.
You're right.
If you're aligned with big pharma, big education, corporate woke America, every geriatric politician, you're probably not the rebel you think you are.
But on our side, we'll let you have those thoughts.
We'll let you have that dialogue.
We'll let you have that discussion.
Not everything is absolute.
And with that, we can be successful.
We can actually make America the America we all thought it was.
That's right.
And look, for all that talk last summer about joy, right, we all know, you know this, the trickle-down wokeism is trickle-down misery.
They hate the fact that we're all having a good time doing this.
We're having a good time dunking on them, right, spiking the football in their face, and they don't know how to handle it.
They don't know how to handle Vance and Trump.
They don't know how to handle alternative media sources from you to Rogan, books like mine.
They can't deal with it.
And look, We're really the happy warriors here, right?
We are the inheritors of the American tradition, and they can't stand that, and they certainly can't stand it.
They're getting audited.
The thieves, the hucksters, the grifters are finally getting audited, and they don't know what to do.
Well, AJ, thank you very much.
Everyone, go check out the book, The White Privilege Album.
AJ, thanks for what you're doing.
We're going to definitely have to have you back on sometime soon to talk about it, because I imagine the insanity will continue, but...
That gives us a lot of material to work with.
So really appreciate it, man.
Thank you.
And I look forward to seeing you soon.
Thank you, brother.
Keep fighting out there.
You're a patriot.
Get after it.
Be good, bud.
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