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May 27, 2025 - Triggered - Donald Trump Jr
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Macron Slapped by Tariffs (and his wife), Plus Harvard gets an "F" and Much More | TRIGGERED Ep.244
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Hey guys, and welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.
I hope you all had a great long weekend.
I'm still on my long weekend a little bit before I have to do some travel.
And this summer, with the schedule going on right now, we're going to be all over the place, so probably do a lot of random locations at my happy place, in my cabin, for the long weekend.
But I hope you all had a moment to pause and reflect on the meaning of Memorial Day.
The scenes at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday were profound and really captured the true meaning of sacrifice, of sorrow, but also captured the strength in a nation that is renewed and an America that is battle ready.
So we'll get into all of that just ahead.
And later, we'll also get into the latest on the Democrats' Biden cover-up.
The panic inside Harvard and what the heck happened between the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and his wife.
So, some crazy stuff going on here right now, guys.
So, again, a little long weekend show.
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On Monday, my father observed the Memorial Day holiday at Arlington National Cemetery, making it clear that this holiday is about those American heroes who gave everything, who gave their lives for our freedom, and it's our duty as Americans to delve into those stories of sacrifice and build a nation that honors their memory.
Here's the scene at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Present!
Present!
Art!
Present!
I love you.
I love you.
I love you.
And shortly after, guys, the White House released this video capturing the profound image and meaning of Arlington National Cemetery.
If you've never visited, I really encourage you to do so.
It's truly spectacular and incredible, and it's going to change you forever.
These are echoes and memories of valor across the entire cemetery, and it's an experience that totally sticks with you.
Check this out.
*Piano music*
*Piano music*
*Piano music* *Piano music* *Piano music*
More broadly, guys, we must also honor all of these sacrifices and ensure that our warfighters are battle-ready instead of battling the bureaucracy.
And that's exactly what we're doing under the leadership of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
Watch what he had to say about it.
No more distractions.
No more electric tanks.
No more gender confusion.
No more climate change worship.
We are laser-focused on our mission of warfighting.
We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.
It's called peace through strength.
You look into the eyes of these young Americans who are giving up the best years of their life in a uniform to serve their nation, they are incredible.
Through our power and might, we will lead the world to peace, our friends will respect us, our enemies will fear us, and the whole world will admire the unrivaled greatness of the United States military.
I'm sorry.
We will replenish the pride of our armed forces, end the recruitment crisis.
We don't fight because we hate what's in front of us.
We fight because we love what's behind us.
God bless you.
God bless our own forces.
God bless our men and women serving overseas.
And God bless the United States of America.
But of course, guys, my father also made it clear that the stakes could not be any higher for our country.
And on Monday morning...
He wrote on Truth Social, and I quote, hopefully the United States Supreme Court and other good, compassionate judges throughout the land will save us from the decisions of the monsters who want our country to go to hell.
But fear not.
We have made great progress over the last four months, and America will soon be safe and great again.
But Democrats?
Well, guys, they refuse to get the message, including Democrat senators like Chris Van Hollen, who was delivered a much-needed reality check by Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a recent hearing.
And as for Senator Van Hollen?
Well, let's just say he may have been a bit triggered.
Check this out.
In the case of El Salvador, absolutely.
Absolutely.
We deported gang members.
Gang members, including the one you had a margarita with.
And that guy is a human trafficker, and that guy is a gangbanger, and the evidence is going to be clear.
Mr. Chairman.
I'm sorry, Mr. Chairman.
Secretary Rubio has the floor.
Mr. Chairman, he can't make unsubstantiated comments like that.
Secretary Rubio has the floor.
You had your time.
Secretary Rubio should take that testimony to the federal court of the United States because he hasn't done it under oath.
Here's another point, okay?
There is a division in our government between the federal branch and the judicial branch.
No judge and the judicial branch cannot tell me or the president how to conduct foreign policy.
And in cities, guys, towns across the country, common sense Americans are seeing the results of this deportation agenda.
For example, a longtime Democrat, pro-migrant activist in Colorado says her neighborhood was littered.
It's why she voted for Trump, okay?
This is like a radical leftist dem who's voting for Trump because even though she supported all these policies, even though she fought for them, even though she clearly believed him, once it came to her backyard, all of a sudden she realized, like everything else, Donald Trump was right.
It's why she voted for Trump, and now the gang members are out of the area.
It's amazing, guys.
If you have the resolve, if you have the will, if you're unafraid, you can actually effectuate real change.
You can turn your towns into good again.
You can make them safe again.
So you were a Democrat.
I was my whole life.
I first voted for Bill Clinton and voted Democrat every single year until, yeah, November.
And what do you think of Trump now?
What do you think of his policies on deportation?
You know what?
I can't tell you specifics about his policies, but what I will tell you, if that it was not for Donald Trump, we might still be living next to gang members because everything changed after he was elected.
So you feel a lot safer now that he's in the White House again?
I do, because he's taking it seriously.
The Democrats simply ignored it.
They said it was lies.
They won't talk to people who have been victimized by this.
This is what America first looked like, guys.
Making real, tangible, meaningful impacts to the lives of everyday Americans.
Under Biden and the auto pen enablers, it was a crime and it was about chaos.
But now, our streets are safer and they're secure.
And speaking of the auto pen enablers, guys, we're learning even more just how extensive the Biden cover-up really was, with key Biden officials, including former Chief of Staff Ron Klain and others, reportedly referring to their operation as the Politburo, okay?
And it's clearer now than ever that Biden had no idea what was going on.
But guys, He had no idea.
How could they pull this off?
I mean, the guy was clear as day, I guess.
Maybe some of the time.
I never saw it, but maybe Jake did.
I don't think any of us ever saw it.
He was just bamboozled, guys, as opposed to being a willing participant.
He's out there acting like he's some sort of truth teller when he was one of the enablers.
Here's Jake now taking a few shots at Kamala Harris.
It's weird.
They take these shots.
Months later, when it no longer matters, they're more than happy to be honest.
But when the Democrat radical left agenda is on the line, they never seem to come up with these things.
They never notice what's clear as day.
They never notice what's right before our very eyes and what everyone else sees.
When it no longer matters, now they're as honest as day.
Check this out.
They could have made her a Supreme Court justice, right?
They could have said at some point when that position came open, we're going to make you a Supreme Court justice.
And, you know, if you want to resign from the court and run for president in the future, that's on you.
You know, we got to put somebody who we think can actually be vice president and actually be president if need be.
And she probably, let's be honest, I mean, she's certainly not the legal mind that Ketanji Brown-Jackson is, but she would have been confirmed.
And as one senior Biden White House official is quoted as saying, five people were running the country and Joe Biden was at best a senior member of the board.
And remember, this is coming from the same people, guys, the same people who were lecturing about the need to preserve democracy.
Who were those five people?
Were any of them elected?
Were they just put in there by the Democrat Party?
Because I don't think that has anything to do with preserving democracy.
In fact, I think unelected officials arbitrarily put in there running the country.
I think that's a slight on democracy.
But again, rules for Democrats, different rules for everyone else.
Guys, there is some good news here, and that is the Trump administration is moving full speed ahead to get this country back on track because Democrats are now caught in yet another lie.
Remember that you've been hearing, oh my God, they're cutting Medicaid.
Oh my God, they're going to get rid of it.
They're fear-mongering so they can get people to vote based on false assumptions, false pretenses.
They're trying to fear-monger their way that people think they're going to lose their health care because of the Medicaid cuts.
But as Speaker Johnson explains, the cuts they are referring to are new measures to take illegal immigrants.
Off Medicaid rolls.
Not American citizens.
Not people who've paid into these programs.
Not people who are the intended recipients of it.
They're designed to take illegal immigrants, people who've never contributed a cent, off these Medicaid rolls.
Strange.
Strange, man.
I watch a lot of this news.
I see it every day.
No one ever talks about it.
Watch.
We are not cutting Medicaid in this package.
There's a lot of misinformation out there about this, Jake.
The numbers of Americans who are affected are those that are entwined in our work to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse.
And what do I mean by that?
You've got more than 1.4 million illegal aliens on Medicaid.
Medicaid is not intended for non-U.S.
citizens.
It's intended for the most vulnerable populations of Americans, which is pregnant women and young single mothers, the disabled, the elderly.
We're protected in what we're doing because we're preserving the resources for those who need it most.
You're talking about 4.8 million able-bodied workers, young men for example, who are on Medicaid and not working.
They are choosing not to work when they can.
That is called fraud.
They are cheating the system.
When you root out those kinds of abuses, you save the resources that are so desperately needed by the people who deserve it and need it most.
That's what we're doing.
So Democrats want illegals to stay on Medicaid.
Okay, just so we're clear, they clearly want them.
They're fighting tooth and nail to keep them on those rolls.
They don't want them deported.
They want endless monies for USAID slash funds.
And apparently, they want the Ukraine-Russia war to go on forever.
Well, guys, that's quite a sales pitch for the midterms.
You know, again, you're not going to hear about this anywhere.
That's why I ask you always to like, to share, to subscribe, so people see what's actually going on.
The narrative you'll get on the mainstream channels will never be the truth.
Understand what they're doing and then understand the difference between that and the marketing pitch they're going to utilize to try to take the House, the Senate, control of the country.
The means to impeach my father, to investigate us indefinitely, you know, Russia, Russia, Russia times 15, whatever it may be.
Remember that.
And by the way, for all the hysterical Russia, Russia, Russia nonsense we hear from the left and from the media, my father is stating clearly that he wants to end the bloodshed.
He's not going to put up with the continued defiance and the attacks.
And that, of course, includes Vladimir Putin, too.
I'll give you an update.
I'm not happy with what Putin's doing.
He's killing a lot of people.
And I don't know what the hell happened to Putin.
I've known him a long time, always gotten along with him.
But he's sending rockets into cities and killing people.
And I don't like it at all.
OK, we're in the middle of talking and he's shooting rockets into Kiev and other cities.
I don't like it at all.
Guys, it's not just Russia and Ukraine.
The entire European Union also is facing the consequences of failing to come to the table to renegotiate on trade.
So what's that mean?
Well, guys, it means 50% tariffs, right?
They're trying to kick can down the road.
So my father took some more aggressive measures.
But apparently now the EU is begging for an extension for those tariffs to kick in.
Watch.
President von der Leyen, did you discuss the 50% tariffs and did you agree to...
And she said she wants to get down to serious negotiation because I've told you specifically, haven't I told anybody that would listen?
They have to do that.
And we had a very nice call, and I agreed to move it, I believe, June 9th would be, July 9th would be the date.
That was the date she requested.
Could we move it from June 1st to July 9th?
And I agreed to do that.
And that she said we will rapidly get together and see if we can work something.
Huh.
They're begging for an extension.
It's almost like, gosh, I know they tell us all the time that these things don't work.
The tariffs can't.
They don't work.
Sounds like they're trying to come to the table to actually negotiate in good faith, to actually It's almost like everything else where Trump was right about everything.
And speaking of Europe, guys, what the heck is going on with French President Emmanuel Macron?
New footage of him over the weekend getting off a plane shows his wife apparently hitting him in the face.
I guess that's what we call a French press.
Watch this.
Now, think about this.
I mean, this is nuts.
You know, there's been a lot of questions about him, the wife, the situation, the age difference, the fact that she was a teacher.
There's a lot of other questions out there.
We don't even need to get into it.
I'm sure they've been covered at the museum all over the Internet for years at this point.
But now the French president's office called it couples teasing.
But it doesn't really seem like that to anyone.
And no one is buying the story.
So from getting slapped with tariffs to getting slapped by his wife, Macron appears to be taking hits from all angles.
So whether it's the globalists, the warmongers, or the open-border zealots, we're exposing their scam one by one.
And that includes another one of the Democrats'sacred cows, Ivy League University.
You know, I guess...
It's not Harvard, but what I've seen going on there in the last few years is almost equally disgraced.
But at Harvard, after they refused to return over information on their foreign students and foreign funding, the Trump administration is now threatening to withhold billions in federal funding and redistribute those to trade schools across America.
Here's my father laying it all out.
Look, part of the problem with Harvard is that there are about 31%, almost 31% of foreigners coming to Harvard.
We give them billions of dollars, which is ridiculous.
We do grants, which we're probably not going to be doing much grants anymore to Harvard.
But there are 31%, but they refuse to tell us who the people are.
We want to know who the people.
Now, a lot of the foreign students we wouldn't have a problem with.
I'm not going to have a problem with foreign students.
But it shouldn't be 31%.
It's too much because we have Americans that want to go there and to other places, and they can't go there because you have 31% foreign.
Now, no foreign government contributes money to Harvard.
We do.
So why are they doing so money, number one?
Number two, we want a list of those foreign students, and we'll find out whether or not they're okay.
Many will be okay, I assume.
And I assume with Harvard, many will be bad.
And then the other thing is they're very anti-Semitic.
Everybody knows they're anti-Semitic, and that's got to stop immediately.
Guys, doesn't that make a lot of sense?
Doesn't making sure that people working good paying blue collar jobs that aren't taking on hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt to get underwater basket weaving degrees.
Doesn't that all make sense?
For decades, these universities have lived off of federal funding to fuel their research.
But now, guys, with a new sheriff in town, my father is doing what no other president had the courage to do, to take on the institutional corruption head-on and not make any apologies for it.
Here's how HHS Secretary Bobby Kennedy summed it all up this weekend.
And I've been following, I've met every president since my uncle was president.
And I've never seen a president, Democrat or Republican, that is willing to stand up to industry when it's the right thing to do.
And willing to talk about really difficult issues and to hold his stand on those issues.
I've never seen anything like it, and I'm very, very grateful to you.
I've sat with industry again and again.
In a room with him and heard him say, we can't do that.
We're going to do something different, deliver news that they didn't want to hear.
So I'm grateful to this.
This is a milestone.
There's never in American history has the federal government taken a position on public health like this.
And because of President Trump's leadership, it's not just one cabinet secretary, it's the entire government that is behind this report.
The status quo is no longer the status quo.
We're ending the permanent bureaucracy, guys.
We're securing the border and growing the economy by actually encouraging investment here in America, into America, into American companies, productivity, production, jobs, our own well-being.
Crazy, right?
I mean, it's wild.
It's a wild concept.
Who could have thought of this?
I mean, it's sort of shocking that we haven't been doing this all along.
But now, finally, we are.
Because the White House continues to roll out new investment announcements every single day to bring jobs, to bring new construction, new manufacturing, innovation into our own shores instead of relying on the rest of the world.
For example, Kraft Heinz announced a $3 billion investment, $3 billion, to upgrade its U.S. factories, its largest investment in American plant in decades.
Harrier, air conditioning mechanical company, they announced an additional $1 billion in investment in manufacturing, innovation, and workforce expansion, which will create 4,000 new jobs.
Anheuser-Busch, they announced a $300 million investment in its manufacturing facilities across the country.
Instant Pot announced they're moving production out of China and building their supply chain here in the U.S. Lenox Glassware announced plans to open a new West Coast hub, citing President Trump's agenda to restore domestic manufacturing.
Soho Apparel Group announced plans to boost U.S. manufacturing by 300% by 2026.
Toyota Motors announced an $88 million investment into production in West Virginia.
And guys, this is just a small sample because the list goes on and on and it's just starting.
It's just beginning.
We're like 120, 130 days into this thing.
We can change things.
Permanently.
Companies, big and small, old and new, are ready to invest in the Trump agenda and into America itself for a change.
So you may be asking, guys, what exactly is the left's response to all of this?
Well, this one was a funny one.
You actually can't make it up, okay?
Apparently, the left wants to dump $20 million.
into a bizarre outreach program to men, young men especially, called SAM, which stands for Speaking with American Men, where left-wing groups will reportedly study the, quote, syntax and language of young male voters.
You know, they don't actually relate to them.
They actually don't have any idea what's going on.
They don't know how to talk to them.
So they're going to invest $20 million to figure out how to talk to Young males.
Like, 50% of the young population in America.
They don't really reach out to them.
They don't have any idea.
They can't possibly understand why they're going more conservative or right-wing.
Maybe they don't want to live in mom's basement.
You know, basic stuff like that.
Maybe they don't want to be pushed with a trans agenda all day long, day in and day out.
Maybe they'd like jobs.
Maybe they'd like not to be at permanent war.
You know, I don't know.
I don't think you need to spend $20 million to do that.
But if you're a Democrat and you're insane, which they are.
Apparently, you do.
And guys, since I'm feeling generous, here's one piece of free advice.
Maybe don't explicitly talk about how much you hate them.
Maybe don't do that, guys.
Democrats, free advice.
I don't like to help you guys all that often because I think you're nuts, but free advice.
Don't tell people you want voting for you how much you hate them.
That won't cost you 20 million bucks.
I'm giving it to you for free.
And lastly, I'd like to say a few words about an incredible American patriot.
Phil Robertson.
You probably know him from Duck Dynasty, but Phil was even more than that.
Phil was a great guy.
I got to know Phil back in 2016.
Obviously, we're starting to do the politics thing, and I'm a big 2A and outdoorsman.
I met him at Duck Camp in Louisiana.
I was coming in.
They invited me to go duck hunting with them at the family compound.
And I remember it was weird.
We landed Dallas and I was flying to Monroe, Louisiana, where they live.
And I was getting in late at night, but there was a snowstorm in Dallas, which was sort of shocking.
And the roads were closed down.
You couldn't do anything.
Flights were canceled.
And I spoke to Jace.
You probably know him from the show as well.
One of the sons, an absolute fanatical hunter and a great guy.
And I said, hey, flight's canceled.
He goes, well, don't worry.
Catch one tomorrow morning, whatever it may be.
I said, no, man, I'm already in a rental car.
I drove like seven hours in some rather rough weather.
I said, I'll just meet you at 5 a.m. at your gates.
We'll go right to the duck blind.
So I get in there.
He's sort of shocked that I'm even making the effort because I guess a lot of the people in politics, you know, they talk a good game, but they don't necessarily care.
That much about doing these things.
They just want the endorsement, whatever it may be.
And I remember we got into the duck blind that morning.
I think he brought some friends probably to shoot my limit, you know.
And he's explaining, okay, so when the ducks come in, you know, I'm going to say take them and you go.
And if the first set of ducks come in, it was three mallards came in just dead on.
It was kind of perfect.
And you see him looking over at me and he's like, okay, take them.
And the friends are waiting for me to screw it all up.
I went, I shot a triple, three shots, three birds down, and he just goes, oh man, it's on, it's on.
We had a blast that morning, and I remember the next day I went to meet Phil.
We hunted all day until we limited out.
I went to meet Phil and greeted him at the door at his house, and the first words out of his mouth were, I hear you can shoot.
And so I think that to me was one of the great compliments I've ever received, right?
A guy like that, sort of clearly a legend.
If they were talking about my abilities with a shotgun, there were a couple other politicians they'd hunted with before, and I believe the words were, they shot a box of shells and never touched a feather.
I just remembered it.
It was an awesome time.
And I think one of the great compliments I've ever received.
Again, if they're talking about my shooting skills behind my back and it was noted, I took it as a serious compliment.
Phil was as hard a worker, as dedicated a family man, as true an American and an America First warrior as anyone.
And he definitely had a way with words.
Check this out.
I got it down to this.
If you're pro-God and pro-America and pro-gun and pro-dub cutting, that's all I want.
So I want to send my condolences to the entire Robertson family, to Phil's legend, his legacy, and impact, which we'll live on for the rest of our lives.
So guys, thank you.
I know we're on the road a lot right now, summer vacation, holiday weekends, all of this, but we're going to make sure that we're going to be out there for you.
We're going to be delivering you the news.
We'll be back in studio on Thursday.
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So I hope you guys enjoyed.
Thank you, guys.
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