Lionel Nation - It’s Official: Elon & Trump Are DONE—And It’s UGLY
Aired: 2025-06-08
Duration: 17:57


=== Let It Go (05:56) ===

[00:00:00]  36. 12:36 in the morning.
[00:00:04]  Friday morning.
[00:00:06]  This is my TGIF, ladies and gentlemen.
[00:00:10]  And I'm going to tell you right now, the story is Elon and Donald and a couple of things I want to bring to your attention.
[00:00:21]  Bullshit!
[00:00:24]  It doesn't matter.
[00:00:27]  Elon's in a huff.
[00:00:29]  He might be on the ketamine again.
[00:00:32]  His brain chemistry may be different.
[00:00:35]  He may be weird.
[00:00:37]  I don't know.
[00:00:40]  It's a work.
[00:00:41]  Let it go.
[00:00:44]  Oh, my God.
[00:00:45]  Let it go.
[00:00:47]  Let it go.
[00:00:49]  It is a work.
[00:00:51]  And I'm supposed to, like everybody else, tell you about how this is so important.
[00:00:57]  It's nothing.
[00:00:59]  I know that seems to be contraindicated when it comes to this because everybody's supposed to make a big deal on it.
[00:01:06]  Oh, this is the end of the world because people feel this obligatory sense of, I must be talking about this.
[00:01:11]  I must talk about this.
[00:01:13]  I have to talk about this.
[00:01:16]  It doesn't matter.
[00:01:18]  Trump loves this stuff.
[00:01:22]  It'll be forgotten before you know it.
[00:01:25]  Nobody cares.
[00:01:26]  Let it go.
[00:01:28]  Who?
[00:01:31]  Nobody cares.
[00:01:35]  Nobody.
[00:01:36]  I know that's contraindicated.
[00:01:44]  I know that is not what you want to hear.
[00:01:47]  I know that's not what you're told.
[00:01:49]  You're told this is the end of the world.
[00:01:51]  It doesn't matter.
[00:01:53]  For the love of God, take it easy.
[00:01:56]  What are we talking about?
[00:01:57]  Let me explain something to you.
[00:02:00]  I don't want to keep bringing up professional wrestling, but I'm going to do it over and over and over and over again.
[00:02:05]  This is something which is so critical.
[00:02:07]  This is something which does not have any relevance in the real world unless you understand something.
[00:02:16]  And that is simply this.
[00:02:19]  Everything that we do, everything in the world of this is for money and getting your attention.
[00:02:27]  It doesn't matter.
[00:02:30]  Whether it was because of the EV thing, whether it's the big ugly bill, for him to bring up Trump was on the Epstein files.
[00:02:40]  What are you talking about?
[00:02:42]  What are you talking about?
[00:02:44]  Bringing up the Epstein thing?
[00:02:45]  The Epstein thing?
[00:02:46]  Nobody cares about the Epstein thing.
[00:02:59]  Oh, absolutely.
[00:03:01]  Oh, I trust him 100%.
[00:03:03]  Do you really trust him 100%?
[00:03:05]  Oh, yes, because people, we have children who are into fan clubs.
[00:03:12]  And they love to think of Elon as their boyfriend or who's your favorite Beatle.
[00:03:18]  It's fodder for the Dems.
[00:03:20]  Let me read some of your interesting things.
[00:03:22]  It's fodder for the Dems.
[00:03:23]  No, it's not.
[00:03:24]  The Dems are irrelevant.
[00:03:26]  It doesn't matter.
[00:03:26]  Thank you, Beijing Yankee 5x5.
[00:03:29]  Elon wants to make up already.
[00:03:31]  Of course he does.
[00:03:32]  I think he might be on a binge.
[00:03:33]  He might be.
[00:03:34]  Remember how he acted with his baby mama?
[00:03:37]  It doesn't matter.
[00:03:38]  Trump's playing it so cool.
[00:03:40]  Like, well, you know, it's that EV thing.
[00:03:42]  And I told you, it's wrestling.
[00:03:46]  It's a work.
[00:03:48]  They're talking about him.
[00:03:50]  He's a weird guy.
[00:03:55]  I'll tell you who's even weirder is this Dan Bongino.
[00:03:58]  I'll tell you who was another...
[00:04:03]  Loved your Colonel McGregor interview.
[00:04:06]  Wasn't he fantastic?
[00:04:09]  Absolutely fantastic.
[00:04:13]  He's on the spectrum.
[00:04:15]  Get my juice from Lionel playing violin on the poop deck of the Titanic.
[00:04:21]  Only Bannon wants him deported.
[00:04:23]  Bannon's full of shit.
[00:04:25]  Everybody's full of shit.
[00:04:26]  I'll tell you who makes the most.
[00:04:28]  Even, even, look.
[00:04:31]  Laura Loomer, who I think is terrific, she loves him.
[00:04:35]  This is what I'm promising you.
[00:04:37]  This is what I'm promising you.
[00:04:39]  You ready for this?
[00:04:40]  I will tell you the truth, and what I will do is, I will tell you, for example, you know, you're my friend.
[00:04:49]  You're my friend.
[00:04:50]  But recently, you acted like an asshole.
[00:04:53]  I don't recognize you.
[00:04:56]  What are you doing?
[00:04:57]  You're not my friend anymore?
[00:04:59]  Of course I'm your friend.
[00:05:01]  It's like I'm everybody's parent.
[00:05:03]  It's like, what are you acting like?
[00:05:04]  President Trump does something.
[00:05:05]  Sometimes he does something.
[00:05:06]  He's done some weird things in the world.
[00:05:08]  I'm not going to lose them.
[00:05:09]  Hey, look what his freedom says.
[00:05:10]  Honestly, Lionel, what the heck happened?
[00:05:13]  Is Trump going to fire Elon?
[00:05:15]  I'm watching my Dodger baseball and riding my minibikes.
[00:05:19]  Retired, 70 years old, I'm sure Elon will be fine.
[00:05:22]  He is filthy rich.
[00:05:23]  What does that mean, being fine?
[00:05:26]  Thank you, Freedom.
[00:05:28]  What does it mean, being fine?
[00:05:30]  He's not going to die because of this.
[00:05:33]  Do you understand, Freedom, that this isn't about money?
[00:05:37]  It's about this.
[00:05:39]  Not money.
[00:05:40]  This.
[00:05:40]  It's my favorite joke.

=== What's Going On Is Beyond Anything (10:44) ===

[00:05:43]  Elon Musk is an egomaniac.
[00:05:45]  Elon Musk is somebody who was...
[00:05:50]  Do you know what his infrastructure is?
[00:05:52]  He hires, he may have 50 kids.
[00:05:58]  Who knows how many kids?
[00:06:01]  Women, he's everything.
[00:06:04]  They say he's on the spectrum.
[00:06:05]  What does that mean?
[00:06:09]  What do you think normal is?
[00:06:11]  Einstein was out of his mind.
[00:06:13]  Everybody was out of their mind.
[00:06:14]  Relax, take it easy.
[00:06:16]  This isn't a story.
[00:06:20]  The story is what's going on in Ukraine.
[00:06:23]  The story is what we're learning about Palantir.
[00:06:25]  Have you heard about that one?
[00:06:27]  About the Lavender project?
[00:06:28]  Using AI to target?
[00:06:32]  What's going on is beyond anything.
[00:06:38]  Anything that you can imagine.
[00:06:41]  Listen to what is happening regarding Ukraine.
[00:06:45]  Putin is going to unleash a ration of shit, the likes of which they are saying it.
[00:06:54]  And in Russia, you've got to watch different people.
[00:06:57]  You've got to watch Pepe Escobar.
[00:06:59]  Watch my good friend Judge Napolitano.
[00:07:02]  Scott Ritter.
[00:07:05]  Just go down the list.
[00:07:07]  Larry Johnson, Douglas McGregor.
[00:07:11]  You're not going to hear these people on Fox News.
[00:07:14]  You're not going to hear them on Fox News because they bring a perspective that you cannot believe.
[00:07:18]  I want to hear the truth.
[00:07:22]  They're going to whack Zelensky.
[00:07:24]  They're going to whack him.
[00:07:25]  And the guy who needs to be reeled in, if not sat down and scared the hell out of him, is...
[00:07:32]  Is...
[00:07:33]  Is...
[00:07:35]  Lindsey Graham.
[00:07:36]  Lindsey Graham.
[00:07:37]  Lindsey Graham.
[00:07:41]  Lindsey Graham.
[00:07:43]  Remember something, too.
[00:07:45]  Whenever somebody wears a lapel pin, whenever somebody wears a lapel pin, it means, I do not understand this.
[00:07:54]  I've picked a side.
[00:07:56]  The American flag lapel pin means, I don't know what I'm talking about.
[00:08:02]  I've got to wear a lapel pin.
[00:08:04]  I don't understand wearing religious symbols.
[00:08:09]  I will never understand, unless you're a priest, wearing a crucifix.
[00:08:13]  But it's a free country.
[00:08:17]  Why are you doing that?
[00:08:19]  It's a symbol.
[00:08:20]  You're not wearing it for yourself.
[00:08:22]  You wear lapel pins for a symbol.
[00:08:24]  It tells somebody.
[00:08:25]  It tells somebody who you are.
[00:08:26]  Not you.
[00:08:29]  Now, I like when people wear a medallion in their shirt.
[00:08:33]  Anytime you wear something outside, it's like that time, who was it?
[00:08:38]  Hannity had like the CIA, a CIA lapel pit.
[00:08:42]  What are you doing, the CIA?
[00:08:44]  Do you not know anything about American history?
[00:08:46]  So what I'm going to tell you is this.
[00:08:48]  This doesn't matter.
[00:08:49]  Pay attention to this one.
[00:08:50]  They're going to unleash holy shit on on on And Fox News and these others are complicit in this.
[00:09:03]  You don't know how I get it.
[00:09:06]  He said something about Fox News.
[00:09:09]  Fox News is a joke.
[00:09:11]  It is an absolute joke.
[00:09:15]  It's for little kids.
[00:09:18]  Fox News is to news.
[00:09:21]  What...
[00:09:23]  Um...
[00:09:33]  It's for people who don't have time to really follow the news.
[00:09:41]  Tell me what I want to hear.
[00:09:44]  It is called narrow casting.
[00:09:47]  It is not about the news.
[00:09:50]  The news is like a Mandelbrot fractal.
[00:09:53]  It means diving deep into it, going to the interconnectivity.
[00:09:57]  The people who said, let's go beyond this, beyond this.
[00:10:00]  Beyond the electrodes.
[00:10:02]  Is it quarks?
[00:10:02]  Is it this?
[00:10:03]  Is it that?
[00:10:03]  What is it?
[00:10:04]  What is this about?
[00:10:05]  Keep going.
[00:10:06]  There's no depth.
[00:10:07]  When they bring out typhoid, you know things are bad.
[00:10:12]  Those you don't know their name, Larry Fink, DJT, everyone else, we can't know the real players.
[00:10:20]  All I'm absolutely certain of is money is everything.
[00:10:24]  They should have learned by now.
[00:10:25]  It's not money, it's power.
[00:10:28]  Ryan says, why is Musk picking this fight?
[00:10:31]  Doesn't he know how awful this looks to the opposition?
[00:10:33]  How does this end?
[00:10:34]  There is no opposition.
[00:10:36]  What difference does it make?
[00:10:37]  The worst thing to do is to be ignored.
[00:10:39]  This is not about money, it's about power.
[00:10:43]  It's about power.
[00:10:45]  Do you know what this, what Palantir is, Lavender program?
[00:10:49]  It is the most important issue there is, and I'm wasting my time.
[00:10:53]  I have to always put it this way.
[00:10:59]  Not with you, mind you, but I feel like I'm walking into a classroom, and I'm trying to conduct a fire drill.
[00:11:04]  And I have these little children, and I don't want to scare them, but I want to tell them the truth.
[00:11:09]  I want to say, listen, this is what we have to understand.
[00:11:11]  This is what it's about.
[00:11:12]  It's not about money.
[00:11:14]  It's at a level.
[00:11:16]  Whatever you do, I will not be ignored.
[00:11:20]  Lionel, did you think the same way about media back in your IATA days as you do now?
[00:11:25]  Oh, no, no, no.
[00:11:27]  That was a different time then.
[00:11:29]  This is when the internet, that was when the internet was just It was aborning.
[00:11:38]  Oh, absolutely not.
[00:11:41]  I'm changing constantly.
[00:11:44]  I am changing constantly.
[00:11:46]  Let me ask you something.
[00:11:47]  What is my goal here?
[00:11:48]  One word.
[00:11:49]  What is my goal of this?
[00:11:50]  What is my goal here?
[00:11:51]  Somebody writes, nationalized gambling.
[00:11:54]  What does that have to do with me?
[00:11:56]  What does that mean?
[00:11:58]  Fox News is red dye number three.
[00:12:01]  Fox News is processed food.
[00:12:04]  But what is my goal?
[00:12:07]  Warm-ups, 86, I change myself.
[00:12:11]  I work with Palantir in the Department of Defense.
[00:12:14]  That contract has been there since 2018.
[00:12:17]  Not the contract, what Palantir's doing.
[00:12:20]  Microsoft has been there for a long time, but what Microsoft is doing now is a different story.
[00:12:25]  Doesn't matter.
[00:12:27]  What is it?
[00:12:28]  There was a time when Napolitano was never off Fox News.
[00:12:31]  Yes.
[00:12:32]  Until something happened.
[00:12:33]  And I don't know what it is.
[00:12:35]  I don't know how it happened, but I think he's one of the best minds there is.
[00:12:42]  Rescind the Smith-Munt Act.
[00:12:44]  The Smith-Munt Act is the most overrated, misunderstood...
[00:12:52]  Please subscribe to my newsletter.
[00:12:54]  I did a piece on the Smith-Munt Act.
[00:12:56]  It's not what you think.
[00:12:58]  You've never read the Smith-Munt Act and Obama didn't do what you think it was.
[00:13:03]  It's not it.
[00:13:04]  But we love to say this.
[00:13:06]  Chinese weapons system sales booming since the tariffs.
[00:13:09]  Maybe.
[00:13:10]  This is an online college classroom.
[00:13:13]  Thank you!
[00:13:14]  Is this the real lineup or the AI lineup?
[00:13:16]  I do not know that.
[00:13:18]  But my job is simply this.
[00:13:21]  First and foremost, my job is, number one, to get numbers.
[00:13:27]  Number one.
[00:13:29]  That's it.
[00:13:30]  Number one is to get numbers.
[00:13:34]  That's the only metric that counts.
[00:13:38]  Without numbers, What you're saying is the truth.
[00:13:41]  Yeah, but you've got to speak the truth.
[00:13:42]  No, get the numbers first, then speak the truth.
[00:13:47]  If you don't get the numbers, you're wasting your time.
[00:13:49]  If you don't win the election, if you don't get the numbers, that's it.
[00:13:53]  Period.
[00:13:55]  Now the question is, well, how do you do it?
[00:13:56]  You've got to figure out what you're good at.
[00:13:58]  You've got to figure out what are you trying to sell.
[00:14:00]  What are you trying to sell?
[00:14:02]  What's the competition?
[00:14:03]  Lately, I've been looking at overnights It's a different mindset.
[00:14:16]  And I'm hearkening back to, say, what do I want to be?
[00:14:19]  I think I'd rather be one of a kind, sui generis, an Art Bell than the next, you know, I don't know who.
[00:14:35]  I'm trying to get somebody out there.
[00:14:37]  Charlie Kirk.
[00:14:47]  We don't need another Charlie Kirk.
[00:14:49]  But who's different?
[00:14:50]  Alex Jones, Steve Bannon.
[00:14:54]  You have to always triangulate the news.
[00:14:56]  You're never going to be able to understand.
[00:14:58]  I know people who are adamant, adamant.
[00:15:03]  How do I say this?
[00:15:08]  How do I say this?
[00:15:09]  They love these things of...
[00:15:19]  They love this sense of pretending to speak the truth, but what they're doing is they're getting numbers.
[00:15:28]  And like I said before, by the way, I think it's more fun I love throwing in a gratuitous French word.
[00:15:41]  I love to tell people, first of all, don't worry.
[00:15:43]  It's not what you think.
[00:15:44]  It's about psychology.
[00:15:46]  Everybody who's ever done this sounds exactly alike.
[00:15:50]  I want to be completely different.
[00:15:52]  And if you want to understand something, you have to triangulate.
[00:15:54]  You have to understand what the other people feel.
[00:15:57]  I guarantee you.
[00:15:59]  The worst thing, if you want to read about Israel, you want to read Jerusalem Post, great.
[00:16:03]  Read Haaretz, too.
[00:16:07]  Read the ICJ or ICC indictment if you don't know what's going on.

=== Great Glorious Friday (01:45) ===

[00:16:12]  Read the enemies.
[00:16:13]  Triangulate.
[00:16:14]  Know what's going here, know what's going there.
[00:16:16]  Listen to what the enemy is saying.
[00:16:17]  That's all.
[00:16:18]  So anyway, dear friends, this is terrific.
[00:16:21]  I want to thank you for being a part of this.
[00:16:23]  Thank you for being so great and sweet and wonderful.
[00:16:26]  This is my Friday.
[00:16:28]  This is it.
[00:16:30]  It is my Friday.
[00:16:31]  It's Friday, but I'm saying this is it.
[00:16:32]  This is it for me.
[00:16:34]  So I'm kind of in a weird mood.
[00:16:36]  I love leaving here.
[00:16:37]  I love the idea of Friday, kind of the end of the week, but my week doesn't end.
[00:16:40]  Please watch my piece with Colonel McGregor.
[00:16:45]  It is one of the best ever.
[00:16:47]  He is fantastic.
[00:16:49]  Two great minds meeting together.
[00:16:51]  It's wonderful.
[00:16:52]  And also, listen to the great words of...
[00:16:56]  I listened to...
[00:17:01]  I know.
[00:17:05]  Oliver Stone, Trumpy.
[00:17:07]  Laura Loomer, Trumpy, Trumper.
[00:17:10]  Find out who's who and understand where their allegiance is and why.
[00:17:13]  In any event, thank you so much.
[00:17:14]  So follow this.
[00:17:15]  Don't forget later, make sure you subscribe to Lionel Nation.
[00:17:19]  July 19, July 19 at the Cutting Room.
[00:17:22]  Pay attention.
[00:17:22]  Get your tickets now.
[00:17:23]  Can't wait for this.
[00:17:24]  In any event, dear friends, we're going to have a great and glorious day.
[00:17:26]  Don't ever change.
[00:17:27]  I mean that sincerely.
[00:17:28]  And until later on, not today maybe.
[00:17:31]  By the way, I've been waiting.
[00:17:33]  I've been letting those numbers move regarding the McGregor video.
[00:17:39]  If you interrupt, if the numbers are going up and you jump in with something else, it stops it.
[00:17:45]  Don't ask me why I have noticed these things.
[00:17:47]  All right, dear friends.
[00:17:48]  Have a great and glorious day.
[00:17:49]  We love you.
[00:17:50]  We honestly love you.
[00:17:52]  See you later.
[00:17:52]  Don't forget.
[00:17:53]  Lionel Nation, make sure you're subscribed now.
[00:17:55]  Don't forget, the monkey's dead.
[00:17:56]  The show's over.
[00:17:57]  Sue ya.