Jan. 20, 2025 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| We'll be right back. | ||
| We are live in DC. | ||
| It is inauguration day. | ||
| That is right. | ||
| 45 is 47. Donald Trump is president again, whether you like it or not. | ||
| Although if you're watching this, I'm guessing you probably like it. | ||
| And I am joined, more importantly than Donald Trump even becoming president, I am joined by the spectacular, the lovely, the fabulous... | ||
| What would be your adjective of choice, Sage Seale? | ||
| I like those. | ||
| Keep going, Dave. | ||
| Easier said than done. | ||
| Checks in the mail. | ||
| So good to see you. | ||
| Magnificent, elegant. | ||
| All the things they say about Melania. | ||
| How about happy? | ||
| Happy. | ||
| I'm so happy. | ||
| You are happy. | ||
| Yes, we are back. | ||
| Well, you should. | ||
| Before we get into this stuff, I mean, everyone here is happy. | ||
| You walked in. | ||
| I was like, Sage, you have the biggest smile on your face. | ||
| You're glowing. | ||
| And that's what everyone in this city, and this city is not a real Republican stronghold. | ||
| Obviously, a lot of different people are here right now. | ||
| But there is just a feeling, at least here right now, but I think across the country, of, like, America is actually back. | ||
| They took us to the precipice of hell. | ||
| We looked in the abyss, and we decided not to go in. | ||
| I believe we were on the brink of destruction. | ||
| Disaster. | ||
| That's really what it was. | ||
| They basically spelled it out for us. | ||
| So I just saw Jillian Michaels, our friend, with a tweet saying, does anybody feel like they can breathe again? | ||
| And the answer is yes, thank goodness. | ||
| By the way, yes. | ||
| And that's a girl who's a lifelong Democrat, did not even announce she was voting to Trump until she was on my show about three months ago. | ||
| Exactly. | ||
| I don't even think it was that long ago. | ||
| Maybe it was even less, yeah. | ||
| Listen, we've been working on Jillian for a while here, not with feelings, but with facts. | ||
| And Jillian is a brilliant woman like millions of others who saw the light. | ||
| By the way, a lot of happy people, yes, hundreds of thousands in this city. | ||
| On the way here, five minutes away, in my Uber, I look to my right. | ||
| I see John Fetterman walking down the street in his shorts. | ||
| In the shorts, even in this weather. | ||
| Yes, that he was basically witnessing the inauguration in. | ||
| And even John Fetterman. | ||
| I think he knew that he was smiling. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| He's kind of, he's now kind of more common sense, isn't he? | ||
| He's come around. | ||
| So if Fetterman's smiling about this, then life is good. | ||
| What does it tell you that the sanest Democrat is the one that's showing up in the shorts and the hoodie? | ||
| And he's walking around in like 10 degree weather with the shorts. | ||
| And he literally is still the sanest Democrat. | ||
| We got that. | ||
| Talk about a realignment. | ||
| Yes, yes. | ||
| But I'll take it. | ||
| And I think that's the main message. | ||
| If people... | ||
| How many times have we said this? | ||
| Put the feelings aside. | ||
| What are the facts? | ||
| What are the numbers? | ||
| Common sense. | ||
| And John Fetterman, somebody that we crushed just a couple of years ago, he took his time and read the tea leaves and now look. | ||
| So I'm grateful for so many of these people who really, it takes courage for people like them. | ||
| Them. | ||
| Those people. | ||
| What are you, the shorts wearing people? | ||
| To admit some things. | ||
| I'm grateful. | ||
| Happy. | ||
| Well, I'm always happy to have you on, but I think particularly today because a couple years ago you were not that political. | ||
| No. | ||
| And then you went through your stuff with COVID and you went through your stuff with BLM and you went through the corporate fight with ESPN over all of those issues and everything else. | ||
| And then you end up... | ||
| Literally campaigning with Trump, interviewing Trump during the campaign and everything, and going to these events with him. | ||
| And I think that perfectly represents the realignment right now, that Donald Trump's coalition, it's not just that it's conservatives or Republicans and blah, blah, blah, but it's like Sage Steele magically appears, and Jillian Michaels, and Joe Rogan, etc., etc. | ||
| So many of us. | ||
| I mean, you're a former Democrat, California liberal, and now look at you. | ||
| I'm old school at this point. | ||
| It doesn't matter anymore. | ||
| Actually, at this point, true. | ||
| I've said several times over this weekend, I can't even believe I'm here. | ||
| I laugh a lot because this is the exact thing I was trying to avoid. | ||
| But then you get to a point where you have to draw a line. | ||
| And I drew my line a couple of years ago when choosing to stand up against Disney and ESPN. I was sitting next to a cool moment. | ||
| I was sitting next to Megyn Kelly at the rally the day before Election Day. | ||
| So that Monday. | ||
| She crushed that speech. | ||
| I crushed that speech, and when she sat back down, we kind of, you know, we've gotten to be friends, and I kind of just grabbed hands, and I got choked up thinking about what must have been going through her mind to say yes to going on that stage. | ||
| And then again yesterday, here in Washington, D.C., to speak at that last rally, somebody who did not have a great relationship with Donald Trump had every reason in the world to say, no, I'm good. | ||
| I'm good. | ||
| And to see so many of us Look at the big picture. | ||
| And then, to me, and Dave, you know this, I feel like if we don't use our platforms, no matter how big and small they are, in this moment, then what a waste. | ||
| And that's why I chose to not stay silent, because it was a lot easier, smarter maybe to stay silent, cheaper, all of the things, right? | ||
| But it's just bigger than us. | ||
| The paycheck's a little less these days, isn't it? | ||
| It is, it is, but I have faith. | ||
| But I know that I can sleep at night. | ||
| And look at my kids in the eye. | ||
| Because if we're telling our children to stand up for others and to do the right thing even when it's hard and then we choose not to, that's when I'm really a sellout. | ||
| Not when the libs say I'm a sellout. | ||
| That's when I'm really a sellout. | ||
| So you can see, obviously, exactly why I wanted to have Sage on. | ||
| Because I think that represents what so many of us are going through. | ||
| So many of you who I'm sure are first-time Trump voters that were just like, something pushed you. | ||
| To the ends. | ||
| Was it COVID? Was it the BLM stuff? | ||
| Was it the woke stuff with the kids? | ||
| That's what really woke up Megan, what they were doing to her kids in school, etc., etc. | ||
| So, we have a normal show for you today, live from D.C. We're just going to dive right into it. | ||
| Some of the clips, obviously, are things that happened today, and then we'll sort of juxtapose a little bit of the good stuff with some of the outgoing administration, which is, let's say, less than stellar. | ||
| Why don't we start? | ||
| Which, it's all so funny. | ||
| You watch the drama unfold live. | ||
| This is Donald Trump and Joe Biden going from the White House to the Capitol in the car together. | ||
| Apparently, Amy Klobuchar was in there, and it's like, man, to be a fly on that wall. | ||
| But take a look in the Secret Service limo. | ||
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Oh, here we go. | |
| Here we go. | ||
| And we're seeing, looks like the two presidents coming out together. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, the president-elect of the United States, the Honorable Donald John Trump. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Here you have it, the return of Donald Trump to Washington as president. | ||
| He said eight years ago he would be back in some form. | ||
| Trying to get in underneath that hat that you spoke of, Mary Jordan, to give the First Lady a peck on the chair. | ||
| Evens about that. | ||
| We'll address the air kiss in just a moment. | ||
| But first, the limo ride itself, it's like in a normal time, like if we were in normal times, and obviously normal times are long gone, but if you were to say like, okay, this was, I don't know, George H.W. Bush handing over to Bill Clinton, you could see them in a limo together and it would make sense. | ||
| It would be like, ah, you're a little more conservative, you're a little more liberal, let's get in the car, have the transfer of power. | ||
| But with these guys, it was literally like, I mean, in essence, it was like you are a geriatric patient who doesn't really know what's going on here, who has ushered in Marxism and almost destroyed the country and opened the border and all of those things. | ||
| And Biden, for whatever's left of Biden, probably look at him going, oh, well, everyone was calling you a white supremacist and everything else. | ||
| So to just be in the car. | ||
| But doesn't that show you the strength of America, actually, that it all worked today? | ||
| Like the system actually worked. | ||
| And we shouldn't forget that. | ||
| Trump made a point of saying that, too. | ||
| And I appreciate that. | ||
| And we'll talk more about his speech, which I loved every moment of it. | ||
| But I have said so many times, I want to be a fly on the wall. | ||
| And even then, the ride with Kamala Harris and J.D. Vance. | ||
| I mean, all elections can be nasty, right? | ||
| This was another level down to the very end, the bitter end. | ||
| And so to me, I don't know. | ||
| I guess I'm petty. | ||
| I'd be like, listen, this is what I need to say to you after you made up this, this, and this. | ||
| But it's just like, was Trump looking at him like, boy, you're just this elderly, infirmed man who can't really comprehend what's even happening? | ||
| I mean, did he even see him for the last six months of his presidency? | ||
| He was gone. | ||
| Well, we'll have more on that. | ||
| Mike Johnson has just dropped a bomb in the last couple of days on some of that kind of stuff. | ||
| I mean, but that's the strength of the system, right? | ||
| That they do it and they show up and the procedure goes on accordingly and everyone plays by the rules. | ||
| And thank goodness, I mean, the traditions do matter to every single person that was involved today, which is why they complied, so to speak, because I'm sure that they... | ||
| And I have, honestly, I think we should, from the human aspect, put ourselves in their shoes. | ||
| Most importantly for me, Kamala Harris, putting myself in her shoes that, you know... | ||
| When he was giving that speech today, right? | ||
| And watching the reactions. | ||
| I wanted the cameras just to focus on all of that. | ||
| We'll get more on that. | ||
| But to be in that limousine. | ||
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I don't know. | |
| Does J.D. Vance say what he's really feeling? | ||
| There's no microphones in there, right? | ||
| I mean, do you just say, gosh, it's really freaking cold out here. | ||
| You talk about the weather? | ||
| I mean, no. | ||
| I love your suit. | ||
| Do you look great? | ||
| No. | ||
| I think there needs to be... | ||
| If it's me, I'm going to have a few words. | ||
| Like, listen, campaigns are campaigns. | ||
| You probably have, what, five, ten minutes in there? | ||
| Didn't appreciate it. | ||
| What were you thinking? | ||
| What the hell were you thinking when you said this? | ||
| I would be petty! | ||
| You think J.D.'s like, so look, did you coo the guy or not? | ||
| Like, what really happened? | ||
| Come on! | ||
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Come on! | |
| Do you and Jill really hate each other as much as it looks? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I'm petty. | ||
| Now we should talk about the air kiss for a moment because the internet was going to crack in half because Trump goes in to kiss Melania. | ||
| We showed it in the video there. | ||
| And she's got the big brim hat. | ||
| Stunning hat. | ||
| And he's got the big hair with the hairspray. | ||
| And they couldn't quite touch. | ||
| And people are already saying, hate each other. | ||
| And it's like, no. | ||
| I can't. | ||
| They were able to kiss later and embrace everything else. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| It's kind of perfect, actually. | ||
| And it's the... | ||
| And listen, I am somebody who has empathy for people with hair issues where you're always having to work around it. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| Sometimes even hugging you, I get all that hair in my face. | ||
| You're welcome. | ||
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I get stuck in there with the spikes and the whole thing. | |
| That's way too much. | ||
| You're welcome for that. | ||
| First of all, she looks so stunning. | ||
| She looked like royalty because basically she is. | ||
| And I'm fascinated to see how she is in her second term as the First Lady. | ||
| She is a strong woman. | ||
| She has been vilified as well. | ||
| So let them talk. | ||
| Let them talk about that moment. | ||
| But I thought it was perfect and they handled it great. | ||
| All right, so I want to show you a couple pictures here because obviously the cast of characters, you know, having been here in D.C. now for 48 hours or so. | ||
| I've realized that, like, there's everyone kind of, you see all these people on TV, and I'm one of those people, or online, and it's like, everyone's like Muppets. | ||
| Like, everyone is here, and you're like, oh, there's another guy from The Muppet Show, and another guy from The Muppet Show, and I block that guy, and that guy hates me, and I don't like her, and yet you're all there together. | ||
| It's quite weird, but the cast of characters behind Trump, I think we have two pictures here. | ||
| So first, obviously there's the usual suspects from the Trump family, and then obviously there's Melania and Junior. | ||
| And, well, it's literally everybody. | ||
| There's Ivanka, there's Eric. | ||
| The spouses. | ||
| But then I think the other picture is the one that I really wanted to focus on for a minute because this is the super interesting one. | ||
| So this is Jeff Bezos, who obviously owns Amazon, has largely been a lefty his entire life, owns the Washington Post, which in no way has been kind to Donald Trump, to say the least. | ||
| There's Elon, of course, and we don't even have to expand on him. | ||
| But then there's the other one, Mark Zuckerberg, and that picture sort of perfectly exemplifies the confusion that I think he's in right now, which is... | ||
| Am I really part of this thing or what? | ||
| I mean, what do you make of this? | ||
| Because I was just on Piers Morgan Little Air this afternoon, and they were talking about, Cornel West was on, and he's, I guess, a socialist. | ||
| And he was just, the oligarchy is here, and they're going to take over, and all of these things. | ||
| And it's like, boy. | ||
| You guys didn't say much about Soros, did you? | ||
| And I'm pretty proud and happy that we have leaders that innovate and want to take us to Mars and do incredible things and build industries and jobs. | ||
| I think that's pretty good for America for the most part. | ||
| I do too. | ||
| I completely agree. | ||
| Is this the petty coming out of me again? | ||
| There's a little bit when I see that picture, I'm like... | ||
| Again, it's easy now. | ||
| Now you're here, right? | ||
| Give me a break. | ||
| We got to get all the petty out today because we're going to have like four great years now, so there's no point in holding it past today. | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| Let's just exercise it. | ||
| How much of this side of me have you seen? | ||
| With a glass of wine, you may have seen some in the past, but where's my wine? | ||
| Basically, you know, when Zuckerberg came out... | ||
| Last week, was it 10 days ago, and gave that statement. | ||
| I sat there. | ||
| I watched the whole thing. | ||
| I got a great workout in on the treadmill because of him. | ||
| Because I was like, really, you little SOB? Where have you been? | ||
| Where's the apology? | ||
| Have some accountability and an apology. | ||
| Because the people in that picture are the ones who silenced us, who brought on threats because of what they pushed and what they allowed. | ||
| And then the silencing that he admitted months ago to what they did during the entire campaign during 2020. So welcome, I guess. | ||
| We'll take it. | ||
| I trust this leadership to make sure that that is done the right way. | ||
| And they're smart businessmen. | ||
| They know better now. | ||
| It's just, is it ironic? | ||
| Is it weird? | ||
| Is it comical that they are now standing? | ||
| We deserve those seats more than they did. | ||
| And I'm kidding. | ||
| I'm totally kidding, but it's just the hypocrisy is thick. | ||
| Going forward, yes. | ||
| They are saying that they're going to do the right things, and just by standing there. | ||
| Is an acknowledgement. | ||
| Don't you think it's a little bit with Trump, it's like, it's a kind of trust but verify with Zuckerberg. | ||
| It's like, I don't think he trusts him. | ||
| I don't think he's dumb enough to trust him. | ||
| I think Trump has learned a lot, but it's like, I'll bring him in. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| He seems like he's more malleable than he used to be and sees the way the culture has changed. | ||
| So I'll bring him in, but I want to verify. | ||
| And then it's a little bit of keep your enemies close, right? | ||
| Which is brilliant. | ||
| He's so good at that. | ||
| But you know, this goes back months ago when I saw Zuck sitting next to Dana White at one of the UFC matches. | ||
| I said, okay. | ||
| We know Dana, and not Dana's politics, because he really claims to not be, and I know what he believes, but his loyalty to Donald Trump. | ||
| And so when Zuckerberg was sitting front row with Dana at that UFC event, I'm like, okay, I know what's happening here. | ||
| To me, the most fascinating part is, look at, I mean, Elon Musk standing there tall. | ||
| I mean, he's a tall man anyway, but towering over everybody else, looking straight forward. | ||
| He won. | ||
| He won. | ||
| Remember the boxing match that was being planned between Elon and Mark Zuckerberg? | ||
| I mean, he did win. | ||
| He was the first one. | ||
| Remember, also at the last UFC match, actually the one at the Madison Square Garden where I was, we had the picture of Elon Musk, RFK, Tulsi Gabbard, and everybody standing there. | ||
| All former Democrats who have come over. | ||
| So I will be kinder starting tomorrow. | ||
| With all of these people who have just come around. | ||
| And my prayer is that everybody has learned. | ||
| And this is America. | ||
| And no one should be silenced, even if I don't like what you're saying. | ||
| There's a lot of things I don't like, but I absolutely believe that they should be heard. | ||
| And these men who are at the top of these companies should remember. | ||
| Remember what happened before. | ||
| Just be proud to be here. | ||
| Well, that's on us, right? | ||
| Keeping them honest. | ||
| It will literally be on we the people. | ||
| Yeah, but that picture, and Lauren's saying, are they married yet with their $600 million wedding? | ||
| Are they married yet? | ||
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I don't know. | |
| Are they married yet? | ||
| I'm not sure. | ||
| She's doing okay, though. | ||
| You definitely all saw this this morning, but I think it's a magical moment that will be etched in everyone's brain, so it's worth seeing again. | ||
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This is Donald Trump being sworn in as 47. I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will, | |
| to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. | ||
| So I have to say that for those of you that are not in D.C., it was an interesting moment because we all thought, obviously, for those of us that are here, and I'm not just talking about the public people, I'm talking about the we the people people, the thousands of people who are coming here, it normally would have been done at the mall, of course and then because it's freezing out right now they moved it to the capital so it was really only the elected officials and then this small set of other people there so we were the rest of us were basically left watching it either at capital one or hotels or whatever | ||
| so i'm literally sitting in the hotel lobby watching it with a bunch of strangers but i can tell you that the the moment that the swearing in was official i felt something lift off my chest and i don't know that i've felt that since the day i moved to florida and when we landed in the plane i felt something come off of me and that's what i felt with this it was like we can breathe again and we can be a serious good No, not good. | ||
| We can be a great country again. | ||
| We can be safer. | ||
| We can economically be better for ourselves, for our future, for our kids, etc. | ||
| We can speak freely. | ||
| We can disagree. | ||
| I did get a little choked up because for a year and a half, however long it's been since he said officially I'm running, even though we now know that the moment he quote-unquote lost in 2020... | ||
| He was going to run again. | ||
| And he's been working to get to this day for four years. | ||
| Literally, he has. | ||
| But I got choked up because I've had a lot of fear. | ||
| Mainly fear for his safety. | ||
| And we know why. | ||
| Even coming here this weekend, once on Friday, once everything changed and I knew I wasn't going to be able to, you know, I mean, selfishly in many ways, to be on the steps of the Capitol, which was the plan, and to witness it. | ||
| I've never been to one. | ||
| Don't know that I'll go to another. | ||
| I thought, okay, with the weather. | ||
| Most importantly, because I thought, yes, weather and safety. | ||
| That's why there's many changes here. | ||
| The drone issue. | ||
| Like, I've been so fearful for Donald J. Trump and for everybody in his family. | ||
| For a couple of years now. | ||
| And so for me, that's why there was emotion. | ||
| Because they had to have courage to push through this. | ||
| Donald Trump does not have to do this. | ||
| He didn't need to do this. | ||
| He could have been on one of his many golf courses, all of his properties around the world. | ||
| He's lost money by being president. | ||
| Look at all the threats that have happened. | ||
| I'm proud of him. | ||
| I hope that doesn't sound strange. | ||
| I think America's proud of him. | ||
| I think that's what people are feeling right now. | ||
| He represents something that's bigger than just that golden man. | ||
| And he didn't have to do it. | ||
| He literally did it because he loves this country. | ||
| So that's why I was emotional. | ||
| And the fact that he got here in one piece, that was my biggest concern. | ||
| It's also nice when the hero's journey actually works, right? | ||
| So had he lost, it would have been like, man, he went through all this. | ||
| It wouldn't have sort of existentially fit with the way we look at the world in some sense. | ||
| But because he won, and now I think we really will have this renewal, it's quite a beautiful thing. | ||
| But let's move on for just a second. | ||
| Let's get into some of the things that he said he was going to do. | ||
| So one of the first things he said he was going to do in the speech was declare an emergency at the southern border. | ||
| First, I will declare a national emergency at our southern border. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| And we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came. | ||
| We will reinstate my remain in Mexico policy. | ||
| I will end the practice of catch and release. | ||
| And I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country. | ||
| Under the orders I signed today, we will also be designating the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. | ||
| So I don't know if you can hear it coming through our mics right now, but there is a caravan outside blasting Queens. | ||
| We will, we will rock you. | ||
| Can you guys hear that at home? | ||
| Yeah, you think it's coming through a little bit? | ||
| I don't know what's going on out there. | ||
| But that kind of sums up what's going on in this city right now. | ||
| Before I get to the immigration stuff specifically, I just want to talk about the tone of the speech because there were two things that he did there that I thought were really interesting. | ||
| And I think it was very intentional. | ||
| He was really sticking it to the people behind his left-hand shoulder. | ||
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Yes, he was. | |
| It was a real sort of, you guys screwed this up big time. | ||
| And I think it was worth him doing. | ||
| I think it was an important moment to be like, it's your fault that we got here. | ||
| It was basically like, I'm back because of you. | ||
| And I think it was important to say that was one thing. | ||
| And then, of course, the more obvious one that was good and right was the vision. | ||
| Like, we are back. | ||
| We are going to be great again. | ||
| We're going to go to Mars. | ||
| We'll have more on that in just a second. | ||
| A bunch more. | ||
| But did you feel that that two-pronged approach was right? | ||
| I did. | ||
| I thought it might have been his best speech ever. | ||
| Also because of the brevity of it. | ||
| He didn't do any of the other stuff. | ||
| There was no stand-up in the middle. | ||
| He just did it. | ||
| I said that during our little watch party. | ||
| I said, this to me is the best one. | ||
| I love it when he goes off script and ad-libs because it is pure live comedy. | ||
| He needed to stick to the script today and he did just that. | ||
| It was very business-like. | ||
| It was, yeah. | ||
| Sticking it right to them. | ||
| I wondered if he'd do that, given the setting, etc. | ||
| But if he hadn't, then he's really not talking about all the things that he promised throughout the campaign. | ||
| And that's what he did. | ||
| He reiterated it. | ||
| But the cool thing is he said, starting today. | ||
| And then he was able to execute that, which I know we'll talk about in a minute. | ||
| I thought the tone was incredible and professional and business-like and succinct. | ||
| And then these standing ovations that he got at that moment in particular, several. | ||
| It said a lot. | ||
| In some ways, we could connect it to the Zuckerberg thing we were talking about before because with Zuckerberg, where there's no sort of apology and now you have to kind of figure out what that is, Trump wanted it to be very direct. | ||
| You know who screwed this thing up, guys, and they're right here. | ||
| So that's why I thought it was so important, because it just kind of puts a stamp on it. | ||
| He doesn't have to really focus on it anymore. | ||
| He can focus on building and laying out new roads to the future. | ||
| So I thought that was quite good. | ||
| We'll get into the immigration and more, but let me read this tweet from Visegrad24 just about some of the executive orders, because there are a whole bunch coming through today. | ||
| I mean, they are rolling out this stuff fast. | ||
| Trump announces he's signing a large number of executive orders today, including closing the border to illegal immigrants via a proclamation. | ||
| Declaring an emergency at the southern border, designating drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, reinstating the Remain in Mexico policy, ending the catch and release policy, declaring a national energy emergency, establishing a new Department of Government efficiency, DOGE, ending diversity, equity, and inclusion programs to create a society that is colorblind and merit-based, recognize only two sexes, male and female, reinstate everyone in the military fired for not taking the vaccine and issuing them back pay. | ||
| Before I let you chime in, look, I'm not a huge fan of executive actions. | ||
| I want things to be done the proper way, which is that the legislature should write the laws and then the president should sign them. | ||
| But we do live in a time where a lot is done via executive action. | ||
| Most of this is reversing bad policy. | ||
| So I'm completely fine with all of that. | ||
| And I was also thinking, when it comes to the two-gender thing, can you imagine if the founders... | ||
| If you would have been like, and 250 plus, about 248 years later, the president of the United States incoming is going to have to tell you how many sexes there are. | ||
| They would have flipped their wigs, literally. | ||
| And rightfully so. | ||
| That's the embarrassing part, that he even had to use his energy, his breath, his executive actions to talk about that. | ||
| But every other thing, I sat there and I knew it was going to happen. | ||
| I was like, yes! | ||
| Yes, I felt like I was at a sporting event. | ||
| And that last one gave me chills. | ||
| Because as a... | ||
| I'm not a young girl anymore, that's for damn sure. | ||
| But I mean, I'm a proud Army brat. | ||
| My dad served 23 years in the United States Army. | ||
| And I was so angered that so many of our military servicemen and women were fired. | ||
| And to say, we're going to bring you back with back pay. | ||
| That's massive. | ||
| And first responders as well. | ||
| That is the right thing. | ||
| And so I'm with you. | ||
| I don't like having to, you know, sign all those executive actions and executive orders, but we needed it. | ||
| And he got it done on the first day. | ||
| I also think he made a real point of talking about immigration and saying we are doing this now because I think he only has a limited window on it. | ||
| Because the deportation thing was so central to him, right? | ||
| Like they told everyone 10 years ago in 2015 that he was Hitler because of the wall. | ||
| Now many people have come around to his position. | ||
| So it was like, they have a window to do something, and it sounds like they're going to be sending troops already into Chicago to make some things happen. | ||
| Let's just, I want to play one other piece, because there's a spiritual element to all of this, I think for everybody right now, because I think so many of us are feeling this thing, like we almost gave away the most precious experiment in human history, and Trump, who obviously is not a particularly religious person, does seem like something has changed him, and I... Well, he acknowledged it right here. | ||
| Just a few months ago in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin's bullet ripped through my ear. | ||
| But I felt then and believe even more so now that my life was saved for a reason. | ||
| I was saved by God to make America great again. | ||
| I know that Kamala and Joe don't like the make America great again thing, but they might have applauded by saved by God. | ||
| Like, you might have had a little grace there. | ||
| But I really believe Trump when he says that. | ||
| Like, I do think that whatever you think of his personal beliefs or his religious beliefs or whatever that might be, that I actually think he, in his heart... | ||
| Something has shifted. | ||
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| And now he is absolutely dedicating his life to the betterment of the country. | ||
| Maybe that sounds naive or Pollyannish, but I believe it. | ||
| I know it. | ||
| I can feel it as well. | ||
| Just by watching him, I feel like he's changed. | ||
| I remember two days after he got shot and watching his granddaughter, Kai, on the stage at the RNC in Milwaukee, and I felt at that moment the real human part of him that we don't get to see much of, and part of that is intentional by him. | ||
| But to be watching his granddaughter do that, he looked like he was about to cry. | ||
| His life was millimeters from being taken just 48 hours prior. | ||
| And I do know people, of course, within the administration and parts of his people that are part of the family who say, yeah, he knows that it was divine intervention. | ||
| He has spoken of it. | ||
| And I love how it was a real overarching theme throughout for him and really throughout this campaign. | ||
| To talk about God, and then to have a rabbi, a pastor, Cardinal Dolan, he made sure that everyone felt represented, as many people as possible, and to make sure that whoever you choose to worship your God. | ||
| You're allowed to, and you can say it. | ||
| And that has had a trickle-down effect throughout the country. | ||
| Look at how many more athletes and coaches on national platforms, on live TV, are talking about their relationship with God and Jesus Christ, or whoever it is. | ||
| I just love the freedom. | ||
| And that, to me, it told me everything I needed to know, already knew, about Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. | ||
| To sit on their hands at that moment. | ||
| Don't stand up, fine. | ||
| But just clap for that. | ||
| Because you might hate them, but did you want them dead? | ||
| Right. | ||
| No, like, it's very telling. | ||
| Right, and the irony of all that, of course, is if you actually believed any of the things they had said about him for a decade, then in some ways you could make the argument that they would have wanted him dead, right? | ||
| If you actually thought he was Hitler, that's like the argument about would you go back in time and kill baby Hitler if you could, baby Hitler being innocent at the time. | ||
| If you believed he was any of these things, you would do extraordinarily horrible things to stop him. | ||
| That was why seeing Obama up there, it's like, dude, two days before, The election. | ||
| You went up there and pushed out the very fine people hoax, basically said Donald Trump's a white supremacist, and there you are, smiling and shaking hands once again. | ||
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| Because none of them actually ever believed it. | ||
| No, you're so right, because they're too smart. | ||
| I mean, they know better. | ||
| But at the end of the day, after he got shot, remember they said, all that nasty rhetoric, we're going to stop, because there's a line no one ever deserves. | ||
| It took, what, a week? | ||
| Oh, barely. | ||
| A week, right. | ||
| And so all the hate speech that does drive people who aren't all there to do crazy things, which we have continued to see. | ||
| So I do point the finger. | ||
| And again, I'm not saying I always loved what Donald Trump said or how he said it. | ||
| But that rhetoric did lead to some disastrous circumstances. | ||
| And I just love that even if our friend Bill Maher, who is proud of being an atheist, fine. | ||
| You have that right to say it, and hopefully you'll be more respectful of me as well. | ||
| Yeah, that's a good point, because guess what? | ||
| Donald Trump, and we can tell this to Bill privately next time, but he's not coming for your atheism. | ||
| It's fine. | ||
| He does not care. | ||
| He does not care. | ||
| Let's focus on a guy who doesn't care anymore, because I don't think we're going to see him much more, which is Joe Biden, for just a moment, because he did a few outgoing things. | ||
| And again, when you say he did it, nobody knows who really is in charge. | ||
| So we'll talk about some of the pardons that he did in just a moment. | ||
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| All right, so we'll have more on Trump and this revival of America in just a second. | ||
| But Biden or the Biden administration or whoever was still in charge at the end, they went out with a bang. | ||
| They really did because they issued a whole bunch of pardons to a lot of the bad guys, let's say, and to Biden's family members and everything else. | ||
| First, let's show you the presidential pardon of Anthony Fauci. | ||
| I'm not going to read the entire thing there, but Anthony Fauci has been pardoned retroactively. | ||
| To 2014. And there's something specifically interesting about that date. | ||
| I want to read you this tweet by Hans Mankel on Twitter. | ||
| The fact that Fauci's pardon specifically and explicitly addresses his COVID-related offenses. | ||
| While being backdated to 2014, the year gain-of-function ban took effect, which Fauci circumvented by outsourcing experiments to China, speaks volumes as to what this is really about. | ||
| So everyone knows already that this is what Fauci did. | ||
| He took NIH funds through EcoHealth. | ||
| They did it in China because it was banned here. | ||
| And Biden, and again, I'm going to stop saying it because otherwise we'll just talk ourselves into circles. | ||
| No one knows who's in charge of any of this. | ||
| But this administration decided to say, Fauci... | ||
| Even though you lied about masks, you made up social distancing, the school closures, not letting people see grandma die, all of those things. | ||
| On the way out, here's another gift on top of your $400,000 a year lifetime pension. | ||
| Roll your neck a little bit as you talk. | ||
| Crack the neck. | ||
| Let me hear something good there. | ||
| It's very rare that I have to really bite my tongue. | ||
| My mom and dad are probably watching. | ||
| Hi, mom and dad. | ||
| Ground me if I said what I want to say, that they love you, about Anthony Fauci, number one, and what he has done, what he has done to this country and this world. | ||
| But I guess in this moment, no. | ||
| Okay, we don't know who's running the country who has been, Barack Obama, whatever. | ||
| Joe Biden, he signed his name. | ||
| He chose to do this. | ||
| It is incomprehensible. | ||
| Maybe I'm an idiot for thinking that, oh, he wouldn't go to that level. | ||
| It's obvious why he went back to 2014. That's when the gain-of-function research began. | ||
| He's a criminal. | ||
| I hope, and I'm not smart enough to understand the process, I hope there's another way to hold him accountable. | ||
| And by the way, you don't have to accept a pardon. | ||
| I mean, if you're Hunter Biden, you better, right? | ||
| And if you're Anthony Fauci, if you've done nothing wrong, as you've claimed for all these years, why would you sign that? | ||
| Why do you need to be protected? | ||
| Are you just afraid of what Donald Trump's going to do? | ||
| Is to put you on the stand and say, let's talk about this under oath and what you chose to do and why? | ||
| The lies, the constant changing of it. | ||
| I mean, he's come out, like you said, and talked about the masks and the lack of efficacy since then. | ||
| I am disgusted what he did to our children. | ||
| Moments and times that they'll never get back and with loved ones. | ||
| And showing virtually no contrition. | ||
| Zero. | ||
| If there is somebody that will find a way to hold them accountable, get around the pardon, are they constitutional? | ||
| To me, there's a lot more to learn about these. | ||
| But he must. | ||
| Pause there for one second, because it's a perfect segue to this next piece, and then I'll let you pick it up right after. | ||
| Because Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, went on Barry Weiss's podcast on Free Press, and they were talking about how Biden literally, I often say the word literally, literally did not know what legislation and what actions he was signing. | ||
| Take a look at this. | ||
| And I said, Mr. President, thanks for the moments. | ||
| This is very important. | ||
| I've got some big national security things I need to talk to you about that I've heard, and I think you know, and what do we do? | ||
| But first, real quickly, Mr. President, can I ask you a question? | ||
| I cannot answer this from my constituents in Louisiana. | ||
| Sir, why did you pause LNG exports to Europe? | ||
| Like, I don't understand, you know, liquefied natural gas is in great demand by our allies. | ||
| Why would you do that? | ||
| Because you understand, we just talked about Ukraine. | ||
| You understand you're fueling Vladimir Putin's war machine because they've got to get their gas from him, you know. | ||
| And he looks at me, stunned, and he said, I didn't do that. | ||
| And I said, Mr. President, Yes, you did. | ||
| It was an executive order, like, you know, three weeks ago. | ||
| And he goes, no, I didn't do that. | ||
| And he's arguing with me. | ||
| I said, Mr. President, respectfully, could I go out here and ask your secretary to print it out? | ||
| We'll read it together. | ||
| You definitely did that. | ||
| And he goes, oh, you talk about natural gas. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| He said, no, no, you misunderstand. | ||
| He said, what I did is I signed this thing to, we're going to conduct a study on the effects of LNG. I said, no, you're not, sir. | ||
| You paused it. | ||
| I know. | ||
| I have the terminal, the export terminals in my state. | ||
| I talked to those people this morning. | ||
| This is doing massive damage to our economy, national security. | ||
| It occurred to me, Barry, he was not lying to me. | ||
| He genuinely did not know what he had signed. | ||
| And I walked out of that meeting with fear and loathing because I thought, we're in serious trouble. | ||
| Who is running the country? | ||
| Like, I don't know who put the paper in front of him, but he didn't know. | ||
| Okay, so Johnson is getting some criticism right now because of that, because people are saying, well, why didn't you say that more? | ||
| Forcefully or vocally or publicly over the last couple of months. | ||
| But put that aside for a moment. | ||
| The other thing that he did say in that was that he was trying to get a meeting with Joe Biden for six months. | ||
| And they would not let the Speaker of the House get a meeting with Joe Biden. | ||
| And that when he walked into the room, when he finally got the meeting, when he walked into the room, Kamala Harris, and I think it was Chuck Schumer, basically blocked him from the president because they knew if he was able to ask the president anything. | ||
| That that was gonna happen. | ||
| So that exactly gets to your point. | ||
| Who the hell was doing all of this? | ||
| And actually, is there a legal issue here when it comes to these pardons or executive actions? | ||
| Does this man know what he just did? | ||
| Probably not. | ||
| I think that's what we have to assume. | ||
| Let's go back to June 27th. | ||
| Where were we? | ||
| At your house, in Miami, and the debate. | ||
| And that was when everything was confirmed, what we had been talking about for all this time. | ||
| He's not all there. | ||
| I said, then, the human element is heartbreaking. | ||
| We're beyond that. | ||
| Jill Biden, shame on you. | ||
| We're beyond that. | ||
| I don't obviously believe that he knew what he was doing. | ||
| Who put these pardons in front of him? | ||
| You know? | ||
| I mean, I assume he knew that he was signing hunters and executing all that. | ||
| The timing of this must be discussed as well. | ||
| 15 minutes? | ||
| Before all of this began? | ||
| Before they entered the rotunda? | ||
| 15 minutes. | ||
| So the timing of this, I mean, he waited to the very last second, probably to make sure that the Trump administration didn't fully know, couldn't put it in his speech to comment on it. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Oh, that's interesting. | ||
| But all this happened at the very last second. | ||
| Right. | ||
| The last moment he could possibly do any pardons and any damage. | ||
| You know what it proves to me? | ||
| It proves what I have believed, unfortunately. | ||
| I didn't want to believe this for a very long time. | ||
| This man and Kamala Harris, They do not love America. | ||
| They do not believe in democracy. | ||
| They don't, or else they would not have done this. | ||
| So the 46th president of the United States leaves in shambles and in a cloud of darkness, not because of anybody else, but because of what he did and did not choose to do. | ||
| You know, it's funny, because I don't want to dwell on it today, because I think there's so many good things here, but you're so right. | ||
| It's like, if what Mike Johnson said is true, that he walks into this room after they delay him from getting a meeting with the president for six months. | ||
| And we can only take him at his word, right? | ||
| So he walks into a room, then he gets basically ambushed because they don't want him to see the president. | ||
| So now Kamala and Chuck Schumer are doing that. | ||
| They are in an absolute violation of their oath of office. | ||
| If they knew, and they damn well did, that Joe Biden was mentally compromised and they were doing things that... | ||
| You know, basically putting paper in front of him to sign without a million. | ||
| It's like, I mean, that is a criminal act. | ||
| I don't know what we do with that at this point, and maybe today's not the day to fully unpack it. | ||
| I don't think we're done with it, though. | ||
| Because, again... | ||
| I said, I'm petty. | ||
| Donald Trump's petty. | ||
| In a good way. | ||
| In a way that I think we just deserve to know the facts because of the cost that has been inflicted on all of us since. | ||
| So we've got a little bit more on just sort of the shambles of the end of the administration. | ||
| And it was such a farce and we're almost out of it. | ||
| And again, I promise you we'll end on all of the positive stuff. | ||
| But I want to show you this clip. | ||
| Alejandro Mayorkas, who was supposed to be in charge of immigration and the border and everything else, who's been an utter embarrassment. | ||
| As he's going out now, basically he's pretending he had nothing to do with any of this either. | ||
| Secretary, do you not, I mean, put the politics of the election aside if you want. | ||
| Do you not look at the immigration issue in this country and what has transpired over the last four years, given the number of people coming into this country illegally, given the firestorm that this has created, the national dialogue about it, given some of the efforts, frankly, by the administration, especially early on, to be more lenient than they have. | ||
| Do you think none of those things? | ||
| If you could go back, you would do differently? | ||
| Look, yes. | ||
| And you have to understand something. | ||
| And this is not specific to government, but to any large organization, including a government administration. | ||
| People have different views on what the correct policies... | ||
| What the correct operational measures should be, those disagreements, those different views are voiced, decisions are made, and then everyone marches in unity together. | ||
| That is the nature of a large organization, and the government is no different. | ||
| All right. | ||
| As you know, the one thing I'm going to miss about the guy is the eyebrows. | ||
| But basically what he is saying there, you can see it's the subtext of what he's saying. | ||
| He was sort of saying, I guess I wanted to close the border a little bit more, but it's a big organization and I got to work with people, so don't look at me. | ||
| And that's kind of a perfect ending to this administration. | ||
| It was an endless shell game. | ||
| Nobody was to be blamed for anything. | ||
| And at some point they'll all turn on each other. | ||
| And I suppose. | ||
| A book will be written. | ||
| Oh, a couple of books. | ||
| The A word, accountability. | ||
| It matters. | ||
| He's not taking any there. | ||
| And why should he? | ||
| People have opinions. | ||
| Yes, it starts at the top. | ||
| Yes, it was my job, but people have opinions about things. | ||
| But it starts at the top. | ||
| And if the commander-in-chief is not willing, it's a choice, willing to do that, then why should anybody else? | ||
| As we focus on the present and going forward and the positivity, I do hope that... | ||
| You know, we can move on, but we can't forget. | ||
| And we can never allow this country to get to this point. | ||
| And we've said forever, in a cliche, your vote matters, obviously, because look at what happened. | ||
| But I am going to enjoy, Petty Sage is going to enjoy watching people continue to turn. | ||
| Because I do, I am curious about the truth. | ||
| Because for all these years, the last four years, I've had so many questions. | ||
| And sometimes it's just... | ||
| Why? | ||
| Right, why? | ||
| Why? | ||
| Why would you allow this to happen in the Windy City, in the city of Chicago, when you know what it's going to do to its residents? | ||
| Why, why, why at the border? | ||
| So I look forward to the truth coming out. | ||
| Maybe it's going to happen, probably, with people getting booked deals and making millions from it. | ||
| And so they're going to continue to benefit and thrive, right? | ||
| Great. | ||
| I want the answers. | ||
| Can we do a segment with Petty Sage? | ||
| So we have effervescent, smiley, happy Sage Steele. | ||
| But then can we have, maybe you just put on a wig or something and it's Petty Sage. | ||
| There's no wigs that fit on top of this current thing. | ||
| Well, I don't know. | ||
| You do something. | ||
| Whatever it is you do. | ||
| Well, it's simple. | ||
| No, but Petty Sage still smiles while I'm being petty. | ||
| Oh, it's like a Southern kind of insult. | ||
| It's while I'm being petty. | ||
| Yes, yes, yes. | ||
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| As promised, back to the golden age. | ||
| Let's talk about the future. | ||
| Donald Trump is going to do an awful lot. | ||
| And as I said earlier, I think the runway to do an awful lot is going to be somewhat short because there will be all sorts of people waiting to put the potholes in front of the plane. | ||
| So he's going to do a lot. | ||
| It's going to be quick. | ||
| And hopefully that sets the tone for everything. | ||
| Here's a bit more on some of the things he's going to do. | ||
| I will end the war in Ukraine. | ||
| I will stop the chaos in the Middle East. | ||
| And I will prevent World War III from happening. | ||
| And you have no idea how close we are. | ||
| That sounds pretty good. | ||
| And I actually think he can do it. | ||
| I think we're going to have a resolution. | ||
| Here, I'll make some predictions right now. | ||
| I think we're going to have a resolution to Ukraine. | ||
| Within three months. | ||
| It's going to be a little messy, but I think there's enough pressure he can apply on Zelensky. | ||
| Like, hey, dude, you're not getting any more weapons. | ||
| There has to be some sort of concession with Putin. | ||
| He's got nukes. | ||
| That will be resolved. | ||
| The Middle East, it's still more complex because there's hostages, but I think we will unleash hell on you. | ||
| I sense that there's going to be some change there pretty quickly. | ||
| And then his reference to, I don't know if that was like a wider World War III thing, or he was just sort of mentioning that within the paradigm of both of those. | ||
| But it just seems like a strong America will be back and lead the world, and that's kind of what every good person wants. | ||
| And it already started long before today, right? | ||
| When you saw, look what happened in Canada. | ||
| Look at Justin Trudeau. | ||
| And before he stepped down, what did he do? | ||
| He came down to Mar-a-Lago and, hi, how are we? | ||
| I love you, Donna. | ||
| Yes, and the Mexican president as well. | ||
| I mean, all of those things were happening before he took office because they knew they need to get on his good side, even if it's just financial for the tariff reason, etc. | ||
| With Ukraine. | ||
| Yeah, that needs to happen quickly. | ||
| I hope it is that fast. | ||
| And it's more complicated than I can even begin to comprehend, for sure. | ||
| But I think everybody now knows that that was dirty as well. | ||
| And then as they continue to send funds over in the last week or so, and then, you know, at the same time that California is burning down, and we've talked so much about that, some of that money to go help them. | ||
| Let's not forget about North Carolina, etc. | ||
| The thing that gives me chills is the end of that clip. | ||
| When he said, you know, basically we're a lot closer to World War III than we know. | ||
| What does that actually mean? | ||
| What does that mean? | ||
| Do I want to know what that means? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| But I believe him. | ||
| He has no reason to make any of this up. | ||
| And I have never trusted anyone in this kind of position as the commander-in-chief more than I trust him. | ||
| Because look at the reaction he gets from around the world, from the top leaders. | ||
| They know better. | ||
| They know he means business. | ||
| He does not care. | ||
| He will take you out because it's in the best interest of this country. | ||
| And no one else has had the balls to do it. | ||
| Ever. | ||
| It is time. | ||
| And he knows he only has four years. | ||
| Really. | ||
| But the best part is that he's got the deepest, best bench. | ||
| That we have ever seen with J.D. Vance and everybody else that was standing behind him today. | ||
| It's a beautiful thing. | ||
| I gotta say, quickly on the J.D. front, you know, I interviewed him. | ||
| I think I was the first interview that he did when he announced he was running for senator. | ||
| It wasn't that long ago. | ||
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| You know, it's only, what, that's about four years ago, something like that, around 2020? | ||
| And to see his rise like this, and then I saw him at a party the other night, and I had a moment with him. | ||
| We posted the picture on Locals and on Twitter, if you haven't seen it. | ||
| And the guy is just so ready to do this. | ||
| And he's just a decent human being. | ||
| That's what he is. | ||
| I think he kind of can't believe it. | ||
| I think there's a little bit of shell shock there. | ||
| But he's just a good guy and he's ready. | ||
| And that's what we need. | ||
| Did you see the video when Donald Trump was signing the executive orders today and J.D. was standing over his shoulder kind of like... | ||
| Oh, I don't think I saw that one. | ||
| But that's the feeling. | ||
| And I got to do a town hall with JD. I think it was in Lancaster, PA, or Reading. | ||
| I don't remember. | ||
| We were in Pennsylvania so much with the campaign. | ||
| Thank you to the Keystone State. | ||
| And, oh, he's such a pleasure to be around. | ||
| Good Midwestern boy. | ||
| He is brilliant. | ||
| He is so sharp and personable. | ||
| I mean, he has that quality that some people complain that Donald Trump does not have. | ||
| J.D. and his wife Usha, I mean, they have brought in a very different energy, a different vibe to Washington and one that I think is needed. | ||
| Speaking of different energy and different vibe, well, we're going to actually do some things that the government promised. | ||
| Take a look at this tweet right here from Leading Report. | ||
| Trump administration is reportedly planning a large-scale immigration raid in Chicago next week per Wall Street Journal. | ||
| It sounds like about 200 officers, a little unclear which departments they're going to come from, are going to go in and clean up what's going on in Chicago. | ||
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The gangs? | |
| All the gangs that have come up? | ||
| Well, it's unclear to me. | ||
| Is that going to be like a gang thing, an illegal immigrant thing? | ||
| There's obviously a connection between those two things. | ||
| Now we're going to have some of these... | ||
| Groups crossing the border that will be officially designated terrorist groups. | ||
| That's what I mean about the short runway. | ||
| He's going to do a lot fast, and I think that's what we need. | ||
| To me, when people asked me what are the reasons why you support Donald Trump, to me, number one, first and foremost, was his stance on the border. | ||
| And what he did and began doing in his first term, because that equals overall safety for our country. | ||
| And so he knows. | ||
| Listen, if anybody's going to follow through on their campaign promises more than done, he knows we'll all hold him accountable. | ||
| The people will. | ||
| And I think watching him throughout the last month and a half or so since he was elected, he knows that we are depending on him to do just that. | ||
| I believe that was pretty much the top issue for everybody. | ||
| Wasn't it one, maybe number two? | ||
| Look at what happened with Bobby. | ||
| I mean, Bobby's wake-up when he was still running as a Democrat, RFK, was going to the border. | ||
| And you remember that video? | ||
| He's doing the selfie video and he sees this stream of people go by and he's saying, what country are you from? | ||
| And it was like 20 different countries. | ||
| And he was like, finally, he was like, what is going on here? | ||
| Didn't he go to the border before the border czar went to the border? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Pretty much. | ||
| That was a true question, wasn't it? | ||
| You were going to see. | ||
| Here's Donald's or Mr. President's other sidekick besides J.D. laying out a little bit of the vision. | ||
| Did you see his rocket yesterday? | ||
| It was captured. | ||
| Ah, and X is with him. | ||
| X. Come on, you know, say a couple of words. | ||
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| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. President. | ||
| Sorry, little X just followed me on the stage here. | ||
| He's a very enthusiastic supporter, as you can see. | ||
| Woo! | ||
| Yeah! | ||
| So, we're looking forward to making a lot of changes, and, you know, the This victory is the start, really. | ||
| What matters going forward is to actually make significant changes, cement those changes, and set the foundation for America to be strong for a century, for centuries, forever. | ||
| And make America great again. | ||
| I just have to say, Sage, how cool and how great. | ||
| One thing I always say on the show is when people are telling the truth, it's easy. | ||
| The way he's laughing there, not in the fake Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris cackle laugh, but with his child there who apparently is named X, actually, or XC429 or something like that. | ||
| But he really has plans to not only get us to Mars, but to make this country better, to make things work again, to reduce traffic. | ||
| And to get electric cars out there and to literally have paraplegics use their minds so that they can speak and play chess and all of these things. | ||
| And he's doing these things. | ||
| And this is the guy that they hate so much because he supported Batman right there. | ||
| It is so incredible. | ||
| As someone who's not from this country and he sees the beauty of this country. | ||
| He's an African-American, actually. | ||
| You know that. | ||
| Oh, yes. | ||
| Because he's from South Africa. | ||
| So he's more of an African-American than I am? | ||
| Because you were born here. | ||
| I was born here. | ||
| Wait, guess where I was born? | ||
| Did you know this? | ||
| I was born in the Panama Canal zone. | ||
| Oh, wow. | ||
| So what are you? | ||
| So what am I right now? | ||
| I don't even know. | ||
| I have no idea. | ||
| I mean, it's the Gulf of America, not the Gulf of Mexico, Panama Canal. | ||
| It's all very confusing. | ||
| I don't know what I am. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| And I love the... | ||
| Organic nature of that speech yesterday. | ||
| And I've heard from so many people about how DJT, he's like, hey, get up there and say something. | ||
| I think it's kind of obvious that that's what he did with Elon yesterday. | ||
| And he gets up there and he kind of fumbles his way through, just like most of us do when we're put into a high-pressure situation. | ||
| And his kid is now becoming the most popular kid in the world. | ||
| How about today when Elon Musk was there for the swearing-in? | ||
| And when Trump mentioned Mars, Elon did it again. | ||
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He's like, yay! | |
| He's like, I like that place. | ||
| That's a place I'd like to go to. | ||
| It's just so raw and unbridled. | ||
| I absolutely love it. | ||
| I wish I had like a tiny, just one little piece of his brain. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You know, I mean, he is so, so brilliant. | ||
| And the influence he... | ||
| He knows as well. | ||
| He knows his own power and that his power can help so many. | ||
| Is he perfect? | ||
| Hell no. | ||
| Is he going to make more mistakes? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| But you know what? | ||
| I'll take my chances with him. | ||
| I was at Mar-a-Lago 10 days ago for dinner and didn't know if the president was there. | ||
| And all of a sudden, you're eating dinner and the music, because Donald Trump DJs. | ||
| He has his iPad with him no matter where he goes, on the plane, wherever. | ||
| And the music got really, really loud. | ||
| And you look around and it's... | ||
| Mr. Trump walking in with Elon Musk in his bomber jacket. | ||
| And he just, you know, he looks around and, you know, he's just so himself. | ||
| And I love it. | ||
| And I also think that's really good for President Trump, you know? | ||
| The people with whom he's surrounding himself right now, it's, think back, you know, eight years ago. | ||
| It feels so much tighter. | ||
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It's so different. | |
| And again, and I can have a full mea culpa about it. | ||
| One of the reasons I was not supporting him at the beginning and I was in the DeSantis camp for the primary was I was concerned that he would not be able to get good people around him. | ||
| That has been completely airtight closed. | ||
| So it's like, freaking great! | ||
| I don't mind being wrong about something. | ||
| I'm glad I'm wrong about it. | ||
| Yeah, but you're a man and you can acknowledge it. | ||
| Most of us who are normal human beings can acknowledge that. | ||
| But what he said on Joe Rogan, when he acknowledged his mistakes, what a concept, from his first presidency and how He was quick to bring on people and not quick enough to get rid of some people. | ||
| He trusted too much. | ||
| And so personnel is something he's been working on since the day that he lost. | ||
| And I'll always use their quote, sorry. | ||
| The day that he lost in 2020 is he knew he needed to do that part better. | ||
| It is crucial. | ||
| He was rightfully criticized in many ways for some of those actions and the bringing in the wrong people and then not getting. | ||
| He's loyal and he values loyalty, maybe even sometimes to a fault. | ||
| He had four years to get the right people in there and learn from what did and did not go well the first time. | ||
| And I love, I love the cabinet. | ||
| I love the people he's surrounding himself. | ||
| It's like hot diggity damn, guys. | ||
| Was it the right people? | ||
| I mean, he's bringing in half of the Democrats and the tech bros. | ||
| And you may not love everybody on every single issue, but that goes to the strength of America because we are a big country geographically and philosophically. | ||
| And we have something very special at our hands right now. | ||
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| All right, Sage. | ||
| So to wrap this up, can we go personal for a moment? | ||
| I know you are the star of going personal. | ||
| Should we whip off our shoes? | ||
| Here, I'm going to take off my shoes for a moment. | ||
| It's going to be a little harder for you to do, but I know when you go personal, you like to have shoes off. | ||
| Yes, I do have fuzzy socks on. | ||
| Can you see? | ||
| Because it's cold. | ||
| I have them underneath. | ||
| So I want to go personal for a second because I've really been thinking about something for the last 48 hours since I've been here, which is that... | ||
| And this may sound corny or something, but the last two days have been such a confirmation that I did something right with my life. | ||
| And I know that's not what's really important here in the grand scheme of things for the moment, but being around all of this, going... | ||
| To these parties the last couple of days and joking with Bobby about how I predicted he was going to leave the Democratic Party and seeing so many of the people who I've entered and for the three years that I was working on Tulsi to leave the Democrats and guys like David Sachs who invested in my company years ago who I barely knew now is going to be the AI crypto and the laundry list goes on. | ||
| I don't mean this as a pat on the back. | ||
| I mean it as like I just feel like I somehow ended up doing something good in the world and I think that that's... | ||
| I think that that somehow is connected to what everyone that has been part of this should be feeling. | ||
| That is the we the people thing. | ||
| We say we the people, but it means if you do something that is good, that it will expand and it will reach out in ways you have no idea. | ||
| So I've just felt very validated or something. | ||
| And I guess maybe I never stop and think about it. | ||
| People say nice things to me a lot or whatever that might be, but something about the last 48 hours, I've been like, whoa, I am in this Thing that actually did something really important if I don't do anything else. | ||
| You're not supposed to be the one to make me get all sappy. | ||
| It's supposed to be reversed. | ||
| All right, so you do it now. | ||
| No, I love it, and I love that you're saying it. | ||
| And at the end of the day, when was that? | ||
| When was your big turn? | ||
| My big turn in terms of leaving the left fully was that PragerU video, which Phoenix can help me out here. | ||
| I think it came out in February of 2016. Okay. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| That's recent, relatively speaking, but then again, it also feels like a lifetime ago. | ||
| But it's also a long journey to get there and all that kind of stuff. | ||
| That took courage, took a lot, you know, especially because that was the toughest time to do it in 2016 when, I'll never forget where I was on election day that day because... | ||
| I was certainly, I was still in deep at ESPN, and we had had that political, the mandate saying, don't tweet, don't talk politics, and all of a sudden, I'm on Twitter, and I see the executives, the leadership at ESPN, like, freaking out that Donald Trump has just won, and saying the most negative things on Twitter as our leadership, and I thought, what the hell is going on? | ||
| We're not allowed to, and if the leaders are. | ||
| So that was the beginning of a big turn for me, too, but that was when it was its toughest. | ||
| To stand up and to speak out. | ||
| And I couldn't for many more years. | ||
| It took a lot more for me to get there in order to keep the job, whatever. | ||
| But I hope that it is a lesson to so many. | ||
| That when you feel something in your gut, in your heart, like we did, and whatever your turning point is, it really doesn't matter. | ||
| I said this to Megyn Kelly two days after my lawsuit settled and I left ESPN. I said, I didn't know what my line was until it was crossed. | ||
| And I didn't. | ||
| But you just keep taking the pounding and the pounding, and then you go, no, it's not okay, and here's why. | ||
| And COVID hit and everything else, and our children are affected, depending on where you lived. | ||
| It takes courage, and I just hope that everybody, for whatever it is in their life, even if it's not political, you've got to listen to yourself and your heart and your soul. | ||
| And why are you doing things? | ||
| Why are you not? | ||
| Why are you avoiding things? | ||
| Because it is scary. | ||
| The fear is... | ||
| Absolutely legit that you had and I had in millions of people. | ||
| I said that at one of the balls the other night that I was at, and I don't remember. | ||
| We don't sleep much when we're here. | ||
| It's like every single person in that room had to make a decision to come and to vote for Donald Trump. | ||
| Most of them, many of them, had not voted for him the first time around. | ||
| So they had to make a decision to lose friendships, relationships with family, jobs. | ||
| There's so many things that were sacrificed by the people, we the people. | ||
| And I just hope, this is what I say to my kids, and you know, all three of my kids are in college now, are very independent thinkers, certainly don't always agree with what their mom says or how she says it. | ||
| But, like, I just want them to not wait as long as I did to be true to myself and what I believe, because I didn't fit in the box that my industry wanted me to. | ||
| I shudder at the thought of what had happened if I had stayed quiet. | ||
| And you had stayed quiet. | ||
| Because what you're doing is you're helping America. | ||
| You're employing people. | ||
| You're bringing people together by just speaking the facts. | ||
| And I know now that obviously I'll never go back. | ||
| But I do get sick thinking of the what if, if you, if many people, Patrick Bette David, Joe Rogan. | ||
| Joe Rogan, I was sitting there the night. | ||
| Before the election, when President Trump is speaking there in Pittsburgh, when the news came that Joe Rogan said, you know, and everybody freaked out. | ||
| He didn't have... | ||
| Why does that benefit him? | ||
| But when you're doing the right thing, it actually helps others, too. | ||
| And that has to be the lesson here. | ||
| You know why you're the best? | ||
| Because I suddenly felt like I was like, we're ending the show with me making it about me, but that was the point. | ||
| It's not about you. | ||
| You just illustrated my point better than I was going to say. | ||
| It's about us, because you are helping others, and you could have stayed quiet and still made all your money, but you chose not to because it was the right thing. | ||
| Ladles and jelly spoons, the great Sage Steele. | ||
| Where's my wine? | ||
| Sage, I assure you there is plenty of wine in this town. | ||
| There's an awful lot of parties and balls. | ||
| Balls are types of gollies. | ||
| That was a weird ending. | ||
| There's a lot of stuff going on tonight, so we will be posting pictures and videos and all that good stuff. | ||
| And it really, guys, everyone will remember where you were today when you saw him take that oath again. | ||
| And it's a great day for America, and let's just run with that. | ||
| This is just the beginning once again, right? | ||
| It feels like the end of something, and what happens at the end? | ||
| It's the beginning of something else. | ||
| So thanks for watching, everybody. | ||
| Oh, and we will be back from D.C. We're staying for one more day, but we'll be back tomorrow at our normal time, 11 a.m. | ||
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Eastern. | |
| Thanks for watching. | ||
| God bless America. | ||
| God bless America. | ||
| Make America great again! | ||
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Am I going to worry about it? | |
| First of all, I'm not going to worry about it, Phil, because he's not going to win. | ||
| He's not going to win. | ||
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She's going to win easily. | |
| His hope and joy rising. | ||
| Victory is in sight in less than three weeks. | ||
| I think that he loses. | ||
| How do you like my garbage truck? |
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