April 2, 2025 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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| How you doing, people? | ||
| I'm Dave Rubin. | ||
| This is The Rubin Report. | ||
| It is April 2nd, 2025. | ||
| We are live-streaming on Rumble, on YouTube, on Locals. | ||
| We have a post-game show, rubinreport.locals.com. | ||
| And we got a jam-packed show with a little bit of everything. | ||
| Big election in Wisconsin and in Florida last night. | ||
| Florida fully went our way, Wisconsin did not. | ||
| That man who's half fat Albert, half Albert Einstein, Elie Mystal, he made it on The View. | ||
| Cory Booker spoke for 24 hours non-stop. | ||
| There's a big Maryland deportation hoax involving a Venezuelan who actually is a gang member. | ||
| Trump tariffs. | ||
| And Bill Maher and Kid Rock visited the White House because we live in a simulation. | ||
| Let's just dive right in, guys. | ||
| Yes, the big election yesterday. | ||
| There were two elections, basically. | ||
| Congressional seat elections. | ||
| Florida had two. | ||
| They both went to Republicans, so Florida's gonna be just fine. | ||
| Surprise, surprise. | ||
| Unfortunately, Wisconsin did not work out the way we wanted. | ||
| First, we'll show you a bit of good news out of, oh, well, here's no. | ||
| We're first gonna show you the bad news. | ||
| We're leading with the bad news. | ||
| That's what we just decided at the last second. | ||
| So yes, Susan Crawford won the seat to be the next Supreme Court judge in the state of Wisconsin. | ||
| As we talked about yesterday, you might not particularly care about this. | ||
| I was actually shocked. | ||
| I did look in the comments yesterday, the amount of people that live in Wisconsin that watch this show. | ||
| So hello, everybody. | ||
| But if you don't live in Wisconsin, you might be thinking about this going, why do I care about a Supreme Court judge in Wisconsin? | ||
| The issue is that the Democrats have basically already said that the reason that they want her on board is she will redraw the districts so the Democrats will gain two seats. | ||
| I'll have more on that in just a second. | ||
| The good thing that did come out of Wisconsin yesterday was this, which is, wow, welcome to civilized world Wisconsin. | ||
| Wisconsin issue one to require photo ID. | ||
| Maybe that did actually pass, so how radical. | ||
| They're going to have to show an ID to vote in Wisconsin. | ||
| But back to the more important thing, because by this woman getting on the Supreme Court, she has basically already said it, and the donors already said it, and the powers that be in the Democrat Party have already said it, and here's Timu Obama. | ||
| We showed you this yesterday, but this is just, I think this is an important moment, because if the Republicans lose the House, In Wisconsin, that's a 50-50 race because we know Wisconsin's a 50-50 state. | ||
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And we have a strong Democratic candidate. | |
| Whoever wins is going to determine who has the majority in the Wisconsin Supreme Court. | ||
| Why is that important? | ||
| Because there are gerrymandered congressional right now in Wisconsin. | ||
| Wisconsin's a 50-50 state, as I mentioned, but there are six Republicans and two Democrats out of an eight-person delegation because the lines are broken. | ||
| All right, so that's it. | ||
| That was what this thing was all about. | ||
| It did not go our way. | ||
| And as I said yesterday, the reason, it's not just about the midterms that this matters, the reason that this matters is as right now, the courts are desperately trying to stop Trump from doing things, right? | ||
| They're trying to stop Doge from firing people and finding out where your money went. | ||
| They're trying to stop planes from sending people to El Salvador, illegal criminals, we'll have more on that. | ||
| So as the courts just try to grind Trump to a halt, The midterms, believe it or not, not that far away, especially the ramp up to the midterms. | ||
| And if it turns out that the Republicans lose the House, it could change things pretty quickly. | ||
| So I'm not like, you know, banging the alarms here. | ||
| But it was not a great day yesterday, if you care about freedom and if you care about the MAGA movement and everything that Trump is doing. | ||
| It was also not a great day yesterday because Elie Mystal, this rather portly looking fella from, uh, from MSNBC, went on The View. | ||
| That is a combination made in hell. | ||
| He said a lot of dumb things. | ||
| It was hard to categorize the amount of dumb things. | ||
| We put it into Grok. | ||
| We said, Grok, could you give us the dumbest things that this fat, weird-looking man said? | ||
| And it couldn't. | ||
| We actually broke Grok. | ||
| Grok was down for about two hours. | ||
| Could not figure out, actually just could not order the level of stupidity of the things this man said. | ||
| But here he is talking about how he wants to get rid of every law Prior to 1965. | ||
| And you're not going to believe My premises for the book is that every law passed before the 1965 Voting Rights Act should be presumptively unconstitutional, right? | ||
| Because before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, we were functionally an apartheid country. | ||
| Not everybody who lived here could vote here. | ||
| So why should I give about some law that some old white man passed in the 1920s, like the Immigration and Nationality Act, when they passed our fundamental... | ||
| Okay, okay, yes, it's always about the old white man, yes. | ||
| And that is racism, by the way, and he is a racist. | ||
| Other things, there are a bunch of things that were passed before 1965. | ||
| The Constitution was ratified before then. | ||
| We had the Declaration of Independence. | ||
| We became a country. | ||
| That was pretty good. | ||
| So the 250 years later, I was going to say the retard word, but people like you could go on television shows and make a living spouting this nonsense. | ||
| Let's say, right? | ||
| Um, do you want to reverse the Equality Act of 1964, right? | ||
| Is that what you're going for? | ||
| Like, so that actually businesses can discriminate in hiring practices when it pertains to color of skin? | ||
| As I said yesterday, you could make a libertarian argument for that, that you should just let private businesses hire whoever they want, discriminate if they want, not let people come in and get food if they want or anything else. | ||
| You can make that libertarian argument, but I'm pretty sure that's not what you're making there. | ||
| But more importantly, there's something about this guy that just irks me. | ||
| This, this, this The way he looks, the shape, the marshmallow-like situation. | ||
| And I've been saying he's half Albert Einstein, half Fat Albert. | ||
| We did two things with Grok yesterday. | ||
| We tried first to figure out what the dumbest thing he said was, and then Joey put this together. | ||
| This really shows you how AI is just transforming the world as you see it. | ||
| Watch this. | ||
| you. | ||
| One more time. | ||
| One more time. | ||
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Come on. | |
| That's good stuff. | ||
| That is AI, people! | ||
| You see how the robots are going to take over? | ||
| Harrison Crank, who's an ex-commentator, he pointed to this, which another, again, he guessed that old white men did some stuff. | ||
| He wrote, wasn't the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 Yeah, that freed the slaves, by the way. | ||
| And yes, as I said, the 1964 Civil Rights Act. | ||
| It's like, dude, our history is not perfect, but there are no laws discriminating against you. | ||
| The Constitution, which was an aspirational document, that we talk about it all the time, that these white men, that you've whittled them down to their skin color because you're a neo-racist. | ||
| These white men were dealing with the incredible ... problems of their time. | ||
| And we didn't start slavery in America, we actually ended it faster than any nation, right? | ||
| Because we only existed for basically a hundred years before we ended slavery, right? | ||
| There were countries in Africa and Europe and everywhere else that had slavery for hundreds and thousands of years. | ||
| But you want to whittle everything down to skin color and to slavery because you are a neo-racist here put on corporate television to spout Nonsense, because it's the upending of America, and for some reason the corporate layer seems to want that. | ||
| Here he is with more stupid nonsense. | ||
| Again, we could not get Grok to order this properly, so I don't know that this is any particular order that you're seeing it in. | ||
| So what do you see as sort of the marginal changes that are actually really tangible and realistic that could be put in place in the next few years? | ||
| I argue that we should eliminate all voter registration laws. | ||
| Now that might not sound realistic to you, but I promise you that it is, because we already have voter eligibility requirements, right? | ||
| An eligibility requirement would be like an age limit, right? | ||
| 18 to vote. | ||
| I might say you should be 16, but I'm not going to say 8. I've got an 8-year-old who does knock, but I've got an 8-year-old. | ||
| Right? We don't want them voting. | ||
| But once you meet the eligibility requirement, why can't you automatically be registered to vote? | ||
| Having the second step of voter registration needlessly suppresses the votes. | ||
| For no real benefit. | ||
| Some people might say, like, oh, it prevents voter fraud. | ||
| First of all, no, it doesn't. | ||
| Second of all, voter fraud doesn't exist. | ||
| Right? If I say I want to go fishing somewhere, you say, you can't go fishing there. | ||
| I said, why? | ||
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Because the Loch Ness monster might get you. | |
| That's that's shut up. | ||
| That's not a good reason to have a law. | ||
| Now, I personally do not think that I can convince people To open their hearts and minds to immigration. | ||
| I understand that in our failing country, treating people with respect and decency and humanity is a controversial position. | ||
| And I cannot change their minds. | ||
| But we can dang sure make sure that we're not putting people in jail for the crime of existing. | ||
| That we're not putting people in jail for the crime of not filling out the form in the right time and submitting it to the right agent. | ||
| Immigration status offenses should not be criminal offenses. | ||
| They should be civil offenses. | ||
| We shouldn't be ripping people away from their family. | ||
| What an absolutely bloated, bloviating buff. | ||
| There's some alliteration for ya. | ||
| Right? Suicidal empathy. | ||
| Illegals here! | ||
| We have to really care about them! | ||
| No, we don't. | ||
| We have a country. | ||
| It has a border. | ||
| If you're here illegally, you should have the rights as everybody else. | ||
| And he's, I'm so empathetic and sympathetic, and that's really controversial, in our failing country, and I just want people to be nice. | ||
| Does he strike you as a particularly nice person? | ||
| Do you think that guy ever picks up the bill when you go out to dinner with him? | ||
| No, he's a bitter, angry, nothing, but of course, thus rude. | ||
| It feels great. | ||
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It makes them feel like human beings. | |
| But they shouldn't get to feel that way because they're not. | ||
| You know, it's a funny thing. | ||
| Free speech. | ||
| Amber, you've been invited. | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
| They're all just so disgusting. | ||
| You can feel the audience knows it's wrong. | ||
| Then there's someone there, the warm-up guy tells them to laugh, so they laugh. | ||
| The blonde chick whose name I always forget that my mom... | ||
| What's her name again that my mom always wants me to know? | ||
| Sarah Haines, who's just nothing there. | ||
| She sits there in shame at the line because they're not human. | ||
| Sonny, of course, is smiling because she's a devil worshiper. | ||
| Like, these people are unbelievably horrible. | ||
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| So I think the reason that I can laugh at a lot of this stuff, when they put this fat Albert Einstein guy up, or when they say that Republicans aren't human, or just all the stuff they say about us, the reason you can laugh about it is because they don't know what they're saying, and they're hysterical, and they lead with their emotions, and they don't have facts, right? We shouldn't have voter registration laws, and if you don't like it, shut up! | ||
| Great argument. | ||
| Okay, so these people are just, they're overly emotive clowns, and that is the perfect way to describe this next segment. | ||
| You probably heard about this yesterday. | ||
| But Cory Booker from New Jersey, Senator from New Jersey, Cory Booker, Philibustered yesterday for 25 hours. | ||
| Yes, he spoke non-stop. | ||
| We googled it. | ||
| Apparently without bathroom breaks for 25 hours. | ||
| That cannot be good for you. | ||
| A bit more from the Daily Wire. | ||
| Senator Cory Booker, a failed presidential candidate famous for his Spartacus moment, made history Wednesday when his remarks on the Senate floor criticizing President Donald Trump's policies. | ||
| The speech began at 7 p.m. Eastern on Monday and kept going through the night and into Tuesday. | ||
| At times, I don't know. | ||
| Booker said he rose with the intention of getting in some good trouble and disrupting normal Senate business for as long as he was physically able because he feared the country was in crisis. | ||
| The stunt comes as Democrats face low approval ratings and Schumer grapples with a crisis of confidence after he refused to vote in favor of blocking a GOP-backed bill to avert a partial government shutdown. | ||
| Booker said he rose with the intention of getting in some good trouble and disrupting normal Senate business for as long as he was physically able because he feared the country was in crisis. | ||
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The stunt comes as Democrats face low approval ratings and Schumer grapples with a crisis of confidence after he refused to vote in favor of blocking a GOP-backed bill to avert a partial government shutdown. | |
| Booker said he rose with the intention of getting in some good trouble and disrupting normal Senate business for as long as he was physically able because he feared the country was in crisis. | ||
| The stunt comes as Democrats face low approval ratings and Schumer grapples with a crisis of confidence after he refused to vote in favor of Wait, we did this. | ||
| We're putting this in here twice. | ||
| Sorry guys. | ||
| I'm reading this thing twice. | ||
| It's in there twice. | ||
| You got that? | ||
| Okay, so you get what he did here. | ||
| Sorry about the little error there. | ||
| Somehow that got copied and pasted twice. | ||
| So he spoke for 25 hours. | ||
| He did not say much of anything. | ||
| He ranted and raved and said over-the-top sort of hysterical crazy things. | ||
| Sort of like this. | ||
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To call to the conscience of this nation To say I will not stand for another American to lose their health care for a billionaire. | |
| I will not stand for another veteran who's dedicated to stopping the suicide of other veterans to lose their job. | ||
| I won't stand for the air quality in my community to be worse because we're letting polluters pollute more. | ||
| I won't stand for the collective assaults on the Constitution by a man who even the highest judge in our land, a Republican-appointed judge, Again, | ||
| overly emotive nothing. | ||
| He spoke for 25 hours and I guess that is a certain skill and not peeing for 25 hours. | ||
| I can't do that. | ||
| I've been peeing once a night. | ||
| Uh, about 3 a.m. | ||
| I have to pee. | ||
| It's just, it's just happened and I'm at that age. | ||
| That's where we're at. | ||
| Sorry, guys. | ||
| Uh, so that's impressive. | ||
| That is impressive, not peeing for 25 hours. | ||
| I will give you that. | ||
| What I won't give you, you bug-eyed freak, is that you said anything that had any value. | ||
| Nothing you said mattered. | ||
| What has Donald Trump in the two months of the Donald Trump presidency done to the air? | ||
| If you're watching this, I'm gonna venture that you're breathing right now. | ||
| And it's the same air quality that you were breathing under Joe Biden who had dementia. | ||
| Uh, I'm gonna guess That you probably like that Elon Musk is uncovering some of the fraud. | ||
| And nobody is cutting social security. | ||
| And tax breaks for the rich, or for anybody, are good because it's your money. | ||
| It's not Cory Booker's money. | ||
| He really wants that money. | ||
| As they say, then it wrapped up. | ||
| And Chuck Schumer, who's on his way out with the Dems because he did vote with Trump in essence, he voted with the Republicans to allow the government to continue, and now everybody hates him and, you know, he has a special place in hell for all the things he's done. | ||
| Good old Chuck. | ||
| Here's Chuck, he's very proud of Cory, for talking for 25 hours, but again, accomplishing literally nothing. | ||
| No vote got changed. | ||
| No policy got changed. | ||
| Nothing happened other than Cory Booker did not pee for 25 hours. | ||
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No. | |
| John? Would the senator yield for a question? | ||
| Chuck Schumer, it's the only time in my life I can tell you no. | ||
| I just want to tell you a question. | ||
| Do you know you have just broken the record? | ||
| Do you know how proud this caucus is of you? | ||
| Do you know how proud America is of you? | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | ||
| Again, overly emotive, so I get it. | ||
| He's on the verge of tears, the sweats dripping, and Chuck, we're so proud of you! | ||
| You broke the record! | ||
| You talked for a long time! | ||
| Sure, there's homeless people in New York City and Times Square who talk all day and nobody gives them a standing ovation. | ||
| He accomplished literally nothing. | ||
| It's actually the perfect Democrat policy. | ||
| Can you overly emote? | ||
| Can you basically lie about everything and just do it hysterically for 25 hours? | ||
| Can you do that? | ||
| You're a Democrat. | ||
| Here's Scott Jennings kind of laying it. | ||
| Oh, wait, are we doing the Scott Jennings? | ||
| Do we have the special? | ||
| We do have the, we have a, yeah. | ||
| Do we have it for this clip? | ||
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Yeah. Or can we do it for another clip? | |
| We'll do it for this clip. | ||
| Wait, hold on. | ||
| Work with us, guys. | ||
| Trust me, it's worth the wait here. | ||
| We're going to do it here? | ||
| Yeah. Okay. | ||
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We're pushing Conor's limits today. | |
| We play a lot of these clips of Scott Jennings, as you know. | ||
| And Scott is put on that program over there on CNN, where he sits there with usually five people who have no idea what they're talking about. | ||
| But what are they good at? | ||
| Over emotion, right? | ||
| They call everybody racist and white supremacist and whatever. | ||
| And we always play these clips. | ||
| And I was thinking, could we have some sort of intro for these clips so that I don't have to explain too much? | ||
| Because Scott is quite good at calmly laying things. | ||
| We've created a graphic and musical intro for every time we now show you a Scott Jennings clip. | ||
| Enjoy. I definitely think it's representative of anger in the Democratic base. | ||
| There's no question about that. | ||
| And I think Booker's moves tonight are representative of the fact that there's a vacuum at the top of the Democratic Party. | ||
| There's no leader. | ||
| Uh, you know, the only leader that really exists is Jasmine Crockett. | ||
| She's the one you see on TV most often. | ||
| Booker's trying to, you know, uh, fill some of that vacuum. | ||
| I'm puzzled by his language, though. | ||
| What is the crisis? | ||
| You have a president of the United States that won the national popular vote and a landslide in the Electoral College. | ||
| He is sitting, according to CBS News as of yesterday, At a 50% approval rating. | ||
| What is the crisis? | ||
| I mean, he's effectively executing on the policy agenda that he ran on, and he's sitting at about 50%, which is far higher than the last president. | ||
| If this is a crisis, what was the Joe Biden term? | ||
| Mega crisis? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
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I think the crisis is that we're seeing people deported without due process. | |
| We're seeing the very fundamental aspects of our democracy at question. | ||
| That's what people are scared of. | ||
| What fundamental aspects of our democracy that we're finding out that you people have been wasting our money, that NGOs have secretly been working against America, that nothing actually works and everything has been a giant gravy train for awful people? | ||
| I don't think that's what you're talking about, but you get it. | ||
| What he just laid out there was simple. | ||
| There is no crisis. | ||
| There is no hysteria other than what you people are manufacturing. | ||
| We're actually doing a nice job. | ||
| I don't think I've ever, certainly in my adult life, I've never been more proud of what the American government's doing. | ||
| We're finding out that there's fraud and we're getting rid of it. | ||
| We are scaling back the scope of government to give more power to the people. | ||
| And once again, Scott just calmly, calmly lays it out there. | ||
| Also, it was interesting. | ||
| Was I wrong or was he talking to the Predator? | ||
| Was that the Predator that he was talking to? | ||
| Look at that. | ||
| Well, there's Scott Jennings. | ||
| Well, he's freaking out right now because he realized he's not just talking to some random CNN DEI hire. | ||
| That's the Predator right there. | ||
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| Alright, so really what this all whittles down to, putting aside like the emotional ridiculousness, and again, he did nothing for 25 hours. | ||
| Chuck is very, very proud of him. | ||
| They go on CNN and tell you how great he is and he's saving democracy, but he literally accomplished nothing. | ||
| In the old days when you would filibuster, the hope of the filibuster was that you would delay things long enough so that one of your colleagues or someone on the other side of the aisle might hear something and then change their vote. | ||
| Nothing happened here. | ||
| Literally nothing except For Cory Booker crying at the end, then probably having one of the world's longest urination sessions ever. | ||
| But when they have nothing, they lie about everything. | ||
| That is what they do. | ||
| And that brings us to the scandal of yesterday, which you're not going to believe. | ||
| It turns out not to be a scandal. | ||
| Here's the scandal part, as presented by The Atlantic. | ||
| And yes, none of it didn't turn out to be right. | ||
| The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that the U.S. | ||
| courts lacked jurisdiction in order to return him to the mega prison where he's now locked up. | ||
| The case appears to be the first time the Trump administration has admitted to errors when it sent three plane loads of Salvadorian and Venezuelan deportees to El Salvador's grim terrorism confinement center on March 15th. | ||
| Attorneys for several Venezuelan deportees have said that the Trump administration falsely labeled their clients as gang members because of their tattoos. | ||
| Trump officials have disputed those claims. | ||
| Okay, so this sounds very serious. | ||
| Scary. Was a man caught up in this? | ||
| A man who wasn't a gang member? | ||
| Was he caught up in this? | ||
| Now, no one's debating whether he was legal or not or anything else, but was somebody caught up in this? | ||
| Here's Caroline Levitt. | ||
| Sure. Thanks, Caroline. | ||
| A few questions about this deportation case. | ||
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First, I wanted to clarify something that you said to Jeff a few minutes ago. | |
| You said you'd seen evidence that this man was a convicted gang member. | ||
| In what court was he convicted and for what? | ||
| This individual was an MS-13 ringleader. | ||
| This individual was also engaged in human trafficking. | ||
| And I'm glad you brought up this point again because I would like to point out that if you just saw the headline from the | ||
| Foreign terrorists have no legal protections in the United States of America. | ||
| Okay, interesting. | ||
| You might have also picked up on the fact that this was the Atlantic. | ||
| We were talking about the Atlantic last week because the Atlantic is where Jeffrey Goldberg works. | ||
| Jeffrey Goldberg, who somehow magically got added to that signal group. | ||
| So it does seem like something interesting's happening with the Atlantic. | ||
| But yeah, this guy's not a great guy. | ||
| Here's Stephen Miller with more on that. | ||
| Jesse, you and I have never received in our lives as much positive press as this MS-13 gang member has received. | ||
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We couldn't get headlines like that if our lives depended on it. | |
| Yeah. So let's just go over the facts here. | ||
| He is an illegal alien. | ||
| Fact one. | ||
| What do you do with illegal aliens? | ||
| You deport them. | ||
| Fact two. | ||
| He's an MS-13. | ||
| What do you do with illegal aliens who are also in a transnational terrorist organization? | ||
| You deport them more quickly. | ||
| Oh, and on top of that, He's implicated in human trafficking. | ||
| Deport, deport, deport. | ||
| This is who they're going to bat for. | ||
| What are we supposed to do? | ||
| Buy the guy a house? | ||
| Get him some free health care? | ||
| Yeah. Maybe let him run for Congress? | ||
| Yeah. Yeah. | ||
| You're supposed to do all of those things. | ||
| I mean, this is who the Dem- this is the Democrat Party. | ||
| This is who- this is who they stand for. | ||
| This is who Cory Booker stands for in 2025. | ||
| They stand for illegal alien predators that are in transnational cartels. | ||
| That's the Democrat Party of today. | ||
| We will win this fight all day, every day. | ||
| Yeah, he's right. | ||
| He's just right. | ||
| First off, if you're here illegally in the first place, that is a criminal act. | ||
| I know the Democrats keep saying it is not illegal to be here illegally, but the word illegal is in it. | ||
| So it's probably illegal. | ||
| Then you throw in the gang member stuff, and you throw in the child exploitation stuff. | ||
| There's a bunch of stuff here. | ||
| But why is it, again, that the Democrats are so deeply, always, on every single issue, why do they care about everyone but Americans? | ||
| Or, or what the, they always, I can even say it better than that, why do they always care about everyone except the actual victims? | ||
| So if a boy beats a girl in sports, they're concerned about the boy, not the girl. | ||
| If a girl gets killed because of an illegal alien, they're more concerned about the illegal alien. | ||
| We can do 20 different versions of this, right? | ||
| Why is that? | ||
| And then they have the balls or temerity to go up there and filibuster for 25 hours, claiming that democracy is ending and everyone is in trouble, even though the only thing that is happening right now is we're looking under the hood of our very broken Broken democracy, seeing a broken engine, and we're trying to fix it. | ||
| That's exactly what's happening right now. | ||
| I should have been crying when I said that, and then I could get an award like Cory Booker. | ||
| This Axios graph, I think, lays it out nicely, what's going on here at the border. | ||
| So look at this. | ||
| So if you look at the border crossings and apprehensions, apprehensions, I should say, not crossings. | ||
| So these are people that were stopped at the US-Mexico border since 2000. | ||
| You can see it was sort of up and down and up and down and up and down and up and down. | ||
| Then around 2010, It kind of started getting a little bit lower, and then lo and behold, what happened in 2020 when a man with dementia and his crazy band of progressive lunatics were in charge for four years? | ||
| It went crazy high. | ||
| And what is happening right now? | ||
| It has completely plummeted. | ||
| And it's completely plummeted not just because we're protecting the border better, right? | ||
| If you're apprehended at the border, it means someone caught you there. | ||
| But it's also because we have sent a message to the world. | ||
| You can't come here right now. | ||
| We're trying to figure out what's going on in our own house. | ||
| Jordan Peterson, clean your room before you clean the world. | ||
| That's what we're trying to do, right? | ||
| Here we have another clip of Scott Jennings. | ||
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| Isn't this exactly what we denounce other countries for doing? | ||
| Not giving our own citizens, when they get wrongfully detained around the world, our own citizens the due process that they deserve? | ||
| Well, I think multiple things could be true. | ||
| Number one, I delineate between American citizens and everyone else. | ||
| If you're a U.S. citizen, I put you in a different category. | ||
| On due process, that's not a distinction that the law makes. | ||
| Then if you've come here and broken our laws and committed violent acts or murdered and raped and whatever, I put you in a different category. | ||
| When it comes to the law and due process, That is not a distinction. | ||
| Well, if you'd like to argue that Trinidad and Tobago should have the same rights that you get as an American citizen, go ahead. | ||
| You're saying that a terrorist can walk across the border and become effectively a U.S. citizen? | ||
| That's not what I'm saying. | ||
| Scott, look at me, okay? | ||
| You and I are talking back. | ||
| Oh, that man. | ||
| Have we sent him a cake yet? | ||
| Or just something? | ||
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I don't know. | |
| What, a hanging plant? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| Look, technically, Abbie Phillips is right. | ||
| These people, in like the most strict sense, they have due process, but they've broke the law already. | ||
| And what would a mature society do? | ||
| Would you, especially after the years and years where our whole system has been so abused and degraded and the amount of crime and the fentanyl and everything, Why is she so focused on the Venezuelan gang member getting kicked out? | ||
| Make sure we treat him okay. | ||
| They're never concerned about how we treat our own citizens. | ||
| So he does make a point. | ||
| There's a fundamental difference between being a citizen and a non-citizen. | ||
| I don't have all of the legal rights that the people in Sweden have. | ||
| People in Sweden. | ||
| I think if you move to Sweden, you get a Malm IKEA bed. | ||
| Everyone, if you move to Sweden and you're a legal citizen, you get the Malm bed, you get two nightstands, and you get, uh, what else do they have? | ||
| And you get a, um, you get the Swedish meatballs. | ||
| Which, by the way, the stuff in the Swedish meatballs, it's made of the exact same stuff that they put in the couches over there. | ||
| People don't know that. | ||
| But I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere. | ||
| If you're a legal citizen of Sweden, you get that stuff. | ||
| But I'm not, so I don't. | ||
| So I pay for my IKEA stuff. | ||
| You know, with all my success, I still have a mom Ikea bed after all these years. | ||
| That's what I'm still rocking in the bedroom. | ||
| Crazy. You get it. | ||
| Like, stop caring about the wrong people. | ||
| What's wrong with all of you people? | ||
| Will it take you guys to get beheaded or raped or shot or have your child die of fentanyl or something else to suddenly realize that maybe your eye was off the ball? | ||
| Sadly, with Democrats these days, that probably is what it takes, as they say. | ||
| A conservative is just a liberal mugged by reality. | ||
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| Okay? That's a little extra bonus for you people. | ||
| And the coffee's good, I'm telling you, it's good. | ||
| Okay, the other thing that's going on is the tariff situation. | ||
| We can, as I've said from the beginning of this thing, we can all debate tariffs. | ||
| And is Trump using tariffs just as a leverage point? | ||
| Because you threaten people with tariffs and then suddenly they're like, okay, okay, maybe we will actually have a little bit of more fair trade deals. | ||
| We can have every argument all around tariffs that we want. | ||
| But the fact is for sure, and it is undebatable, that for decades now the United States Which we are the number one consumer of everything, right? | ||
| We used to produce a lot of things here and consume a lot of things. | ||
| Then we offshored all of the production to China and Taiwan and all in Canada and all these other places. | ||
| And then we got these really bad trade deals so that if you wanted to buy American, it would often cost you more money, right? | ||
| And other places could do it much cheaper. | ||
| And in many cases, other countries were laying tariffs on our products, so we couldn't sell cars in other places. | ||
| Or, like we talked about a week ago, to sell cheese in Canada, they put something like a 100% tariff on it. | ||
| So finally, we are reversing some of this stuff. | ||
| Here's Caroline Leavitt again, who's just been incredible, showing a chart of how crazy this tariff situation has been. | ||
| Look at the unfair trade practices that we have. | ||
| 50% from the European Union on American dairy. | ||
| You have a 700% tariff from Japan on American rice. | ||
| You have a 100% tariff from India on American agricultural products. | ||
| You have nearly a 300% tariff from Canada on American butter and American cheese. | ||
| This makes it virtually impossible for American products to be imported into these markets. | ||
| And it has put a lot of Americans out of business and out of work over the past several decades. | ||
| So it's time for reciprocity. | ||
| And it's time for a president to take historic change to do what's right for the American people. | ||
| The key word there, of course, is reciprocity. | ||
| By the way, I said 100%. | ||
| I was just doing it off the top of my head. | ||
| 100% on our dairy products in Canada. | ||
| It's 300% on butter and cheese. | ||
| So that means they charge a 300% tax, in essence. | ||
| So thus, the average Canadian is just going to say, I don't need Wisconsin cheese. | ||
| I'm just going to get Canadian cheese. | ||
| But why doesn't it go the other way? | ||
| So reciprocity would be okay. | ||
| We're going to have either the same tariffs each way or no tariffs, and thus there's more of a free trade system. | ||
| But you could see why other countries have loved what's going on here. | ||
| If you're in Japan and you're a rice maker, and they eat an awful lot of rice in Japan, you might want a 700% tariff on American rice because it's good for your in-house on the islands of Japan. | ||
| rice guy to make the rice. | ||
| But if we don't do it back here, then we are just screwing ourselves. | ||
| Trump realizes that. | ||
| That's absolutely why this stuff is going to change. | ||
| Here he is talking about U.S.-made cars and how we'll make interest payments deductible if you buy a U.S.-made car on top of the tariff situation. | ||
| Sometimes a simple idea, they say, how'd you think of that one? | ||
| It's so simple, it was never done. | ||
| If you buy a car in the United States that's made in the United States, if it's manufactured here, when you borrow money, if you borrow money, you have interest payments, we're going to let you deduct the interest payment for income tax reasons. | ||
| And I think that's going to more than pay for itself. | ||
| I think people are going to be, they've never had a deduction. | ||
| You know, deductions are supposed to be for like rich people. | ||
| And it's unfair to have that. | ||
| But rich people are I think I know more about deductions than any human being on earth. | ||
| But, you know, the truth is that people that are middle-income people that buy a car and actually have to borrow money, they're going to now get an interest deduction on their car if it's made in the United States. | ||
| If it's made someplace else, that won't take place. | ||
| Dealing is a 25% tariff on all cars that are not made in the United States. | ||
| If they're made in the United States, there's absolutely no tariff. | ||
| We started off with a 2.5% base, which is what we were at. | ||
| And we go to 25%. | ||
| And basically, as you know, and as you've been saying, not reporting as accurately as it should be reported, because it's a massive story. | ||
| Business is coming back to the United States so that they don't have to pay tariffs. | ||
| Cory Booker spent 25 hours bloviating and babbling about hysterical nonsense because Donald Trump is trying to make sure That American car manufacturers will be on an even playing field with German car manufacturers and Japanese car manufacturers, etc, etc. | ||
| The idea of the interest deduction is fantastic. | ||
| Buy a car in America, you put down some money, and now you have a loan. | ||
| If you can deduct the interest, you're going to pay less in taxes. | ||
| That's an extra incentive to buy American. | ||
| Buying American is great. | ||
| It doesn't mean you never want to buy anything from overseas. | ||
| There are places that make certain better things, especially if it comes to foods. | ||
| There might be a certain food that you want, or if you want actual champagne, it has to come from Champagne, France, right? | ||
| That's fine, but this idea that somehow we can't do this, we can't have an even playing field, is completely crazy. | ||
| So having a 25% tariff on cars that are not made here is good because there are tariffs when we export our cars. | ||
| It's literally, this is like sixth grade, like playing a board game with your friends. | ||
| Everyone should have the same rules. | ||
| It's not much more complex. | ||
| It would be like playing a video game and you're playing the regular game and your friend has all the cheat codes and you wonder, why does this guy keep beating me? | ||
| And it turns out he's got all the cheat codes. | ||
| Is that what they call them still? | ||
| They're cheat codes? | ||
| Cheat codes, yeah, cheat codes. | ||
| There's other good stuff happening now. | ||
| Check this out from Derek Evans. | ||
| He's a West Virginia Senate candidate. | ||
| Breaking! Vietnam is now cutting tariffs on American cars and liquefied natural gas. | ||
| I'm shocked! | ||
| They're also approving Starlink services to improve relationship with the U.S. under Trump. | ||
| That's from Reuters. | ||
| Yeah. And then, because Trump is doing this, well, more. | ||
| Israel dropping all tariffs as of yesterday. | ||
| Right there you see it from Ari Hoffman. | ||
| Canada is considering dropping all the tariffs as well. | ||
| And now, because some of this is starting to change, we're just getting on an even playing field with other countries, well, the fruits of that are starting to present themselves. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
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| The president's extra 25% tariffs on autos alone expected to generate $100 billion on top of the reciprocal tariffs. | ||
| So those tariffs on just about all countries is meant to level the trade playing field. | ||
| The extra 25% tariffs on autos and others meant to protect seven industries the president has deemed critical. | ||
| You see those industries there, autos on the list, along with semiconductors, labor, steel, aluminum, and the others. | ||
| So there's evidence already, even though this stuff is just being laid out, that we're getting better trade deals, we're getting more investment from all sorts of companies all over the world, which we've repeatedly covered over the last couple weeks, and other countries are doing things more fair, and it's going to help our economy over time. | ||
| Now, I wanted to read this. | ||
| We almost didn't put this in the show, but I think this is worth reading. | ||
| This is a Truth Social post from Trump. | ||
| Uh, because not every Republican has been on board this, this tariff idea. | ||
| And listen to some of the names here. | ||
| And these are wildly different people. | ||
| Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Rand Paul also of Kentucky. | ||
| So you have McConnell of Kentucky, pause for one sec, we have McConnell of Kentucky who's just like a sw- You know, basically a swamp creature. | ||
| And then Rand Paul, who I have nothing but respect for, who's the libertarian. | ||
| But they were both against this tariff idea. | ||
| So Trump said that they will hopefully get on the Republican bandwagon for a change and fight the Democrats' wild and flagrant push to not penalize Canada for the sale into our country of large amounts of fentanyl by tariffing the value of this horrible and deadly drug in order to make it more costly to distribute and buy. | ||
| They are playing with the lives of American people and right into the hands of the radical left Democrats and drug cartels. | ||
| You gotta love the guy, Who can want this to happen to our beautiful families and why? | ||
| To the people of the great states of Kentucky, Alaska and Maine, please contact us Can't Again, who I like. | ||
| I hold him basically pretty much at the top of the Senate list. | ||
| Ted Cruz is in there. | ||
| A couple other guys are in there, who I've had on the show a million times and gotten into what his thought process is around this. | ||
| As a libertarian, he does not like tariffs. | ||
| That's just his policy, and he's trying to hold to that. | ||
| Mitch McConnell and the other two, it's a little different. | ||
| They're just kind of swamp creatures. | ||
| And what is a swamp creature? | ||
| You just keep the grift going. | ||
| So you have to make a distinction between Rand Paul and the others. | ||
| That's number one. | ||
| But I do think Trump is right. | ||
| We can leverage tariffs. | ||
| All we're doing is Putting a little pressure on the system so we can make things more fair. | ||
| And actually, free trade is a very libertarian principle. | ||
| So I do hope that Rand Paul will get on board this. | ||
| I'm happy to have him on the show. | ||
| Actually, why don't we reach out? | ||
| Maybe we can get him on next week to discuss this. | ||
| And we have a bit more because there's other good things happening. | ||
| This is from the New York Post. | ||
| Trump administration anti-Semitism task force launches probe of $8.7 billion in grants to Harvard. | ||
| Why are we giving $8.7 billion All right. | ||
| $53.7 billion in grants. | ||
| That's your money. | ||
| And by the way, we checked right before the show, do you know how much the Harvard Endowment is? | ||
| The Harvard Endowment, that's how much they've just got invested. | ||
| It's Harvard's money that all the donors and the ex-Harvard students and everybody who's been there, that they've just got sitting in different funds across their endowment. | ||
| It's worth $53.2 billion. | ||
| With a B. That's a lot of money. | ||
| So why do you, the taxpayer, give Harvard? | ||
| Putting aside the craziness and the Hamas stuff and locking kids out of school and teaching that jihad is good and all, putting aside all of that, why does Harvard get a dime of your money? | ||
| Well, the Trump administration is stopping that. | ||
| Then I saw this yesterday. | ||
| This is just great. | ||
| So there's a kid over at Brown University. | ||
| I've never heard of him before until yesterday. | ||
| His name is Alex Shi. | ||
| And he sent, using AI, he sent 3,805 emails to Brown University staff to ask about tuition increases and where the money is going. | ||
| So he basically did his own little doge operation at Brown University and you will not be surprised about the fallout. | ||
| Take a look. | ||
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| Last week, I sent about 3,805 emails to administrators all across Brown University to answer a simple question. | ||
| Why is our tuition rising to $93,000 a year next year? | ||
| And by the end of the decade, it's easily going to reach six figures. | ||
| And I'll tell you where that money's not going. | ||
| It's not going to the facilities, that's for sure. | ||
| I'm in the basement of my dorm right now at Brown University. | ||
| And this room, this floods whenever it rains. | ||
| This room floods. | ||
| And we've got a fan going in the background. | ||
| We've got these wet floor signs all around. | ||
| There's a plastic tarp on the floor that I'm sitting on right now because this room, they can't keep the basements from flooding. | ||
| And we all know that those professors are criminally underpaid. | ||
| So where does the money go? | ||
| It goes to about 3,805 administrators. | ||
| That's more than twice as many as the number of faculty that's on staff. | ||
| It's also about one for every two undergrads. | ||
| Brown's not a big state school. | ||
| We've only got about 7,200 undergrads. | ||
| And so I think it's ridiculous. | ||
| All right, that is a great kid. | ||
| I contacted him yesterday when I saw this story and I think we're going to get him on for an interview sometime next week. | ||
| Because, you know, we see all of these young people with keffiyehs and masks and with purple hair and they're burning things down and they want to destroy their institutions and they're ripping up their Columbia degrees and doing all of these horrible things. | ||
| And I think maybe we forget that there are good kids out there too, good young people. | ||
| A lot of them strike me as kids. | ||
| He doesn't strike me as a kid. | ||
| He's a young adult. | ||
| What's he saying? | ||
| He's saying, hey, why am I paying 93k a year to go to this school when I'm sitting in a room that floods when there are, I mean, that's absolutely insane. | ||
| There are 3,805 administrators That's We're good | ||
| and you go, what is going on here? | ||
| We got 7,200 students basically paying 100K a year, and I'm on Skype in a room that's flooding. | ||
| What is happening here? | ||
| A random person on Twitter responded to his post about this, and Sarosh Kumana, and wrote this. | ||
| Tuition is nearly 100K a year, and the school still at a deficit. | ||
| Educational institutions are subsidized by taxpayers due to their non-profit status. | ||
| Leadership at Brown has missed the mark. | ||
| Taxpayers care about the waste, fraud, and abuse at Brown. | ||
| So again, it's exactly the thing that's happening with Doge. | ||
| And you will see all of the people who want the grift to continue, all of the people at Harvard who are sitting on $53 billion with the endowment still want that $8 billion from you. | ||
| And somehow Brown can't operate at a profit despite charging $7,200 kids This is Breaking | ||
| Pam Bondi announces that the Department of Justice will be seeking the death penalty against UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione calling it an act of political violence. | ||
| Democrats will be in tears over this. | ||
| I have directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in this case as we carry out President Trump's agenda to stop violent crime and make America safe again. | ||
| So this is interesting. | ||
| Look, we can have an honest debate. | ||
| I haven't had it on this show for years. | ||
| I think I last did it maybe five years ago with Dennis Prager and Michael Shermer about The moral and legal and philosophical arguments behind the death penalty. | ||
| We should do that again. | ||
| We'll do some version of that. | ||
| We'll get some people on both sides to have that debate. | ||
| The death penalty is left to the states. | ||
| States decide whether they have the death penalty or not. | ||
| In this case, it appears he crossed state lines, Mangione, so it becomes a federal case, right? | ||
| Because he shot the guy in New York, but now Bondi is saying this is a federal case, or it is a federal case, because of the cross of state lines, so that she wants to offer the death penalty in a federal sense. | ||
| We could have some arguments about states' rights as it pertains to all of this. | ||
| But the point is, someone who the left is now treating as a hero, while they're burning down Tesla things we showed you yesterday, they have signs saying how great this guy is. | ||
| He shot a man who was the CEO of United Healthcare right on the street in New York City, and he's a hero to these guys. | ||
| So what do we do to these people? | ||
| What do you do? | ||
| Do you put him life in jail? | ||
| Is the death penalty right? | ||
| Again, all the states' rights and federal rights arguments aside. | ||
| But again, the point is things are changing. | ||
| And the other thing that is changing is that because Pam Bondi is a serious attorney general, in stark contrast to our previous attorney general, that if you fire bomb a Tesla station or etch a swastika in somebody's Cybertruck, unless it's me and I'm doing it for 70-75 coffee, unless you do that, you're going to be in trouble. | ||
| And guess what? | ||
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| I believe that that is exactly what will happen. | ||
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| We're coming for them. | ||
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Do you know who those generals are? | |
| We know. | ||
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We do. | |
| Yes. And hopefully... | ||
| It's a very pointed question. | ||
| Do you know who these people are? | ||
| Do you know... | ||
| In essence, do you know who's organizing this? | ||
| Do you know who's funding this? | ||
| We do. | ||
| So we will find out. | ||
| And I'm telling you guys, it's the exact same... | ||
| Same thing, if not same organizations. | ||
| It's the same structure and sister organizations with everything that we saw with BLM, with everything we saw with these Hamas rallies. | ||
| These are coordinated events via these NGOs and in some cases we are gonna find out through Doge that we were funding this nonsense ourselves. | ||
| When you get a hundred people to show up at a Tesla station and they all have tombstones with slogans and they're dressed exactly the same, chanting the exact same things, that is, let's say, inorganic. | ||
| So all of this leads to Cory Booker speaking for 25 hours notwithstanding. | ||
| All of this leads to a Democrat party that is in complete disarray. | ||
| People have been saying that they've been floating around an approval rating of 27 percent. | ||
| Well now CNN says it's even worse than that. | ||
| Holy Toledo voters views of the Democrats in Congress among all voters disapprove 68 percent And look at the approved number, just 21%, even lower than the Democratic Party at large. | ||
| This is the lowest on record for Democrats, according to Quinnipiac University polling. | ||
| You think these numbers are bad? | ||
| Let's go to this side of the screen. | ||
| We'll look at how Democratic voters feel. | ||
| Get this, the plurality of Democratic voters disapprove of Democrats in Congress at 49%, and just 40% approve. | ||
| Horrible, horrible, horrible. | ||
| Oh my goodness gracious, you just can't get worse. | ||
| Well, what happened to that guy's accent in the middle of that thing? | ||
| These numbers are terrible! | ||
| Like, he fully went, like, Long Island 1986. | ||
| I have a little of that. | ||
| I'm from Long Island. | ||
| You know what I say? | ||
| This thing here that I keep my pens in here that I'm opening and closing right now? | ||
| I call it a drawer. | ||
| But it's a drawer. | ||
| I know it's a drawer. | ||
| People say it's a drawer, but I do come from Long Island. | ||
| We call it a drawer. | ||
| That dropping of the... | ||
| The numbers are so low, I can't... | ||
| But yes, that's the point. | ||
| Nobody likes you people. | ||
| You like fentanyl dealers, and you like murderers and rapists, and you like illegals, and you like chopping off kids' genitals, and when you combine all of that, other people look at you and go, I think something's wrong with these people. | ||
| Here's Morgan, made it over to the United States, he was on Fox and Friends, and he laid out in a very, very simple fashion why everyone hates the Democrat. | ||
| The Democrats are toxic for one reason. | ||
| If you want to know why they're in the state they're in, just ask all of them two questions. | ||
| What is a woman? | ||
| And should biological men be in women's sport? | ||
| If they are unable to answer the first question, and if they say in the second one, yeah that's fine, that's the problem. | ||
| Right there, they have gone completely crazy. | ||
| Crackers and I say that as somebody who's more on the kind of Bill Maher side politically, I guess historically, but I agree with Bill That's why I'm pleased Bill's going to see President Trump They've got to get they've got to get with the program that common sense is where most Americans now want to be I want to be there don't you? | ||
| Kid Rock, Dana White, President Trump, Bill Maher Not Brian Killme, but I would love to be there. | ||
| I think it's great. | ||
| I'm actually doing Bill's show in a couple of weeks I think he is He's a refreshing voice of common sense in a party that's gone mad. | ||
| And I think he could have said no. | ||
| But actually, yes, as he said, and I really like this, there's something incredibly respectful about being invited to the White House. | ||
| And it's a great honor to be invited to the White House. | ||
| And that's the simple truth. | ||
| And we'll get to the Bill of Martins and the show actually in just a second. | ||
| But that's the right thing. | ||
| Like the Democrats, you didn't have to do this. | ||
| Look, I may disagree with you at this point on economic policy, and I may disagree with you on border policy and everything else, but you took the most basic stuff—boys and girls are different—and decided that you would run on the reverse of that. | ||
| You decided to run on hiding information from parents. | ||
| You decided to run on America's evil. | ||
| All of the stuff. | ||
| You did not have to do it, and now the numbers. | ||
| 21%! | ||
| That's the number we're looking at, according to that guy. | ||
| Like, that's where we're at, and it's all thanks to you. | ||
| And so where does that leave us? | ||
| Well, it's what Pierre said at the end. | ||
| So now the good libs have to figure out what to do, to whatever extent they still exist. | ||
| And as you know, Bill Maher went to the White House yesterday. | ||
| He tweeted this. | ||
| Hey everybody, thank you all for the interest in my dinner with the president last night. | ||
| I promise all will be revealed on the next Real Time on April 11th. | ||
| As it's April 1st today, no one would believe what I said anyway. | ||
| And Kid Rock, who is the one that basically fostered the meeting between Bill Maher and Donald Trump, who have been at each other's heads for years. | ||
| Don't forget, we've shown you the clip many times. | ||
| When I was on Club Random with Bill two years ago, He kept saying to me, Dave, you know, you make a lot of sense, but you just got to stop supporting Trump. | ||
| He said it with more gratuitous language, like just like you're making sense. | ||
| You're making sense. | ||
| I agree with you on all this stuff. | ||
| But Trump, Trump, Trump. | ||
| Well, now they met. | ||
| And here's Kid Rock talking about how it went. | ||
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| Tell us what happened from start to finish in 30 seconds. | ||
| Um, in 30 seconds, I went on Bill's show, I went on his podcast, and I said, man, you know, nothing happens if people don't break bread together and meet face-to-face. | ||
| He's been one of the president's hardest critics. | ||
| And we came to dinner, me, Bill, Dana White, and, um... | ||
| And it could not have been better. | ||
| Everyone was so surprised, so, so pleasant. | ||
| The most shocking thing to me was, you know, Bill's obviously a very big liberal, been very hard on the president, but he's donated a lot of money to other politicians. | ||
| You know, you've had Biden, Clinton, Obama, everybody. | ||
| He had never been to the White House. | ||
| And the president was so gracious. | ||
| He took us up to the private residence. | ||
| We saw the Gettysburg address in the Lincoln bedroom. | ||
| And I was like, you've never been here, Bill. | ||
| And I was like, how about this? | ||
| President Trump, you know, extending this olive branch and like, and we talked about things You know, it's interesting. | ||
| I obviously wasn't there, but hearing that does not blow my mind in any way. | ||
| It's actually surprising to me that Bill Maher has never been to the White House, right? | ||
| He's interviewed a lot of presidents before and he's been so influential for so long. | ||
| But that aside, The fact that they kind of like they're both kind of funny. | ||
| That Bill has come around on border stuff, that Bill has come around really on the, certainly on the anti-woke stuff, if nothing else. | ||
| Does he have his blind spots when it comes to Gavin Newsom or whatever? | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| But I'm not surprised by any of that. | ||
| And I'm definitely not surprised that Trump, then once they sat down and broke bread, and it was probably kind of funny and they made fun of the fact that, you know, like that they've been attacking each other forever. | ||
| And I think Trump, somebody said that Trump basically took all of the jokes that Bill has said about him over the years and stacked them up. | ||
| me that Trump would be like, let's walk around this place and see what's what. | ||
| So that's how you build alliances. | ||
| Will that change, Bill? | ||
| Is Bill a year from now voting Trump like I wanted him to do two years ago? | ||
| I have no idea. | ||
| But that's what a healthy America can do. | ||
| A healthy America has enough room, actually, between Donald Trump and Bill Maher. | ||
| Does a healthy America have enough room between Donald Trump and people that want to, I don't know, make sure that laws that were written by old white guys 40 years ago don't stand like Elie Mistel? | ||
| Probably not. | ||
| And that's the challenge that we're going to have to deal with as those guys go crazy. | ||
| But of course the silver lining is they've only got 21% of the numbers. | ||
| That's our show for today. | ||
| Thank you for watching. | ||
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