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Jan. 4, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Lara Trump - January 3rd, Hour 2
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This is the second hour of the Sean Hannity Radio program.
And this is Leo Terrell filling in for Sean.
Let me just start off by telling you that my next guest is somebody who I consider very, very important in the Trump administration.
I'll tell you why, besides being the son, I call him the gatekeeper.
And when I call him the gatekeeper, he's making sure that the people in the Trump administration are committed to MAGA, committed to making this country great.
And I think that's a big difference than it was eight years ago.
I'm going to find out if this is true, but that's what I call him.
I consider him also a friend.
So without further ado, welcome Donald Trump Jr.
Thanks so much, Leo.
Good to be with you, man.
Everything well?
Everything is well.
And you know what?
On social media, I call you the gatekeeper because I honestly believe you are responsible for bringing in the best and the brightest to the Trump administration.
And I think lesson learned from 2016, these people are committed to America to MAGA.
Am I wrong about that, Don?
No, not at all.
I mean, in 2016, the reality is we didn't know.
We wouldn't have known any better.
You had to take a word of someone else, some other swamp creature and see what it is.
Now we actually know.
And it's not that we even learned in the four years of the prior administration, Leo.
We learned in the four years between the prior administration and today who are those people who are actually loyal to the movement, who are just part of the swamp, telling you what you want to hear and acting as sort of the unelected representatives of what's right, the people who are the arbiters of what the BAGA movement should be, not actually following the word of the president.
And so now it's just a great change.
As much hell as we went through in the last four years, I think that period of time was so critical to be able to make such a difference in this next administration.
So I'm incredibly excited about it.
When I say people were there on day one, day one doesn't just mean in 15, you know, when he announced or 16 when he won.
Day one is where were you on January 7th, 2020?
If you were still on the team there, if you still got it, if you understood the narrative that was being pushed and you saw through all of that nonsense and you were still on board, those are the people that are coming into this administration.
So I'm very excited about it.
My father's always going to make the final call on any of those decisions.
But I've been on the ground.
I've gone to all the places that he can't be.
I've spent a lot of time getting to know all these people.
So I'm glad he's listened to me on some of these.
And again, he's always going to make his own opinion.
But we have a lot of people that understand who those people were.
And I think we have a chance to have a truly America first administration this time around.
I think you're absolutely right.
Talking to Don Trump, Donald Trump Jr., host of the podcast, Trigger on Rumble.
And it's a privilege to have him on the Sean Hannity radio show.
I think the legacy media, Don, is just going bonkers in shock because I don't know why they're in shock.
The president won a supermajority of Electoral College, won the popular vote.
Do you think they'll ever come around or do you see them as the adversary for the next four years?
I haven't seen anything positive.
What's coming out of the legacy media regarding what Trump plans to do, secure the border, lower inflation.
How do you see that confrontation going in the next four years?
Yeah, they're going to continue with their same nonsense.
They haven't learned at all.
If you've been watching Leo over the last few weeks since the election, you see people today, seriously, on leftist media saying, who cares if you can't afford your groceries?
Children, three-year-olds should be able to have gender-affirming care without parental consent.
These are the social justice issues of our day.
I mean, they just don't get it.
They never will.
So they're going to act as the opposition.
The good news for us is the last, let's call it eight or nine years, they've really exposed themselves for who they really are.
They're not about news.
They're not about facts.
They're not about anything.
They're about pushing a liberal agenda.
They are the propagandists.
They are the marketing department of today's Democrat Party.
Everyone gets it.
It's why their ratings are down so much.
It's why so few people are tuning in.
We created an environment.
It got so extreme.
They were so ridiculous.
They were so out of their minds that other people were actually able to become the media, whether that's on Truth or X, or just the podcasters having much more influence about pushing out those facts because Americans realize they've been lied to, frankly, for generations, but especially over the last few years, and they're not going for it anymore.
So they're going to continue to function as that sort of controlled opposition, but I don't think it matters because no one's actually listening anymore.
I think you're absolutely correct.
I think the alternative media, the podcast, your program, X alternative truth social has basically surplanted the legacy media, basically made them almost non-existent.
They're fighting just for a few crumbs.
Don, I always say sometimes, however, rhinos sometimes become more dangerous than Democrats.
Congratulations for your father.
Mike Johnson is now the speaker.
The legislation, what MAGA has in plan on January 20th, do you anticipate problems with some of the Republicans when it comes to confirmation of Trump's cabinet members?
Listen, I think they're going to try.
I think the only good news that has perhaps come out of the tragedies of the beginning of this year, the multiple terrorist attack, the shootings in New York, Las Vegas, bombings, when a car magically drives through, it's a car.
It's not a radicalized Islamic terrorist with an ISIS flag.
It's a car that managed to magically kill people in New Orleans.
I think that in and of itself, the fact that our border has been so open and porous for so long that there's these cells that have been radicalized in our country.
I mean, I think if anything, the one good thing that can come out of that is it shows that Donald Trump needs to be able to have his cabinet.
There's been a mandate by the people.
He won every swing state.
He won the popular vote.
The rhinos, you're 100% right.
They're oftentimes more dangerous because you think they're on your team, but they have an easy existence in D.C. if they fold to the Democrats when it actually matters.
But the events of the last few days, in my mind, are really what says Trump needs to be able to have his cabinet.
He needs the people who are going to be the loyalists delivering on his agenda.
It's the opposite agenda of what the Democrats have done that has created an environment for these things to happen in the United States.
We look like a third world war-torn country right now, and that has to stop.
That's not going to stop overnight, unfortunately.
I'd love to say that it would, but it's going to take time to do these things.
But we need our cabinet.
My father needs the guys he knows that can deliver on that agenda on the promises that he made to the American people.
And again, the events of the last few days are proof that he needs that and he needs it now.
I think it's going to be a lot harder for the rhinos to play their games.
The Democrats will do their thing because they have no shame.
They have no moral compass.
It doesn't actually matter.
They're going to do what they're going to do.
But it's going to be a lot harder for the rhinos.
And if they do it, and if they do try to mess around with those confirmations, they're going to get primaried and they're going to get thrown out really fast.
Talking to Donald Trump Jr., host of the podcast, Trigger.
Without revealing any secrets, are you planning to have a role in the Trump administration or are you taking a role of just being a great son and a great advisor from an informal standpoint?
Yeah, no, I'm going to be on the outside, Leo.
I did my thing for the campaign.
I've done my thing for the transition.
I've been about as involved as you could possibly be on all of those things.
But right now, government isn't for me.
I think there's a component.
America, we've seen it even in the public sector where conservatives are getting debanked and the FBI is looking into people who bought MAGA swag or Bibles.
Parents that go to PTA meetings are the greatest domestic terror threat to America, according to the FBI.
All of this nonsense.
So I'm going to focus on the stuff that I've been doing, building up that parallel economy, making sure that people are able to exercise their rights.
And so I think there's an important component of that that doesn't just have to come from government, but has to happen in the private sector as well.
So that's what I've been focused on on the last few years.
Obviously, the campaign for the last 18 months has taken up a lot of my bandwidth, but I'm going to be back to work fighting for the same values, the same beliefs, the same concepts, but in the private sector.
And I think that's important because they've gone, frankly, as woke in that world as they have in politics, as they have in the, let's call it the leadership, not necessarily the door kickers, but the leadership of the military, the leadership of all the institutions within government.
So, you know, we're going to try to effectuate real change across the board, not just in government.
Talking to Donald Trump Jr., host of the podcast, Trigger, on Rumble.
Don, I honestly believe that after November 5th, there's been more of a sense of relief that Trump is now the next president.
I think people are happy anticipating great things from the president.
And on the other hand, I feel that right now, as of January 3rd, this country does not have a working president in the White House right now.
And when you look at what's going on in New Orleans, Las Vegas, we're without leadership and 17 days cannot come fast enough.
Your perspective.
We've now leadership for four years, just so we're clear, Leo.
Leadership in four years.
You see a guy that doesn't know what he's doing.
You can't walk up a flight of stairs.
He can't go down a flight of stairs.
He can't remember where he is.
But he's pardoning 8,000 people.
He's pardoning pedophiles.
He's pardoning Chinese nationals with 47,000 images of kiddie porn on their computers.
He's more pardons than any president in history by major multiples, frankly.
That's not Joe Biden.
He's not making these decisions on his own.
That's the Democrat Party and it shows you everything that they stand for these days.
So we've been without leadership for quite some time.
You see that insanity.
That was caused by Democrat policies.
Again, not Joe Biden.
I'd love to make him the scapegoat, but the reality is the Democratic Party, they believe all of this nonsense.
This is the stuff that they push.
He's just simply a scribe that's happy to sign on to whatever bill they put in front of him.
So we've been without leadership for far too long.
That changes immediately.
And again, the events of the last few days shows that there is a reason for this.
There is a mandate.
The optimism I see from people.
And you know me, I'm not the guy that goes to the big parties.
I'm not usually with my father.
He's in the room.
That's enough.
Trump's in one room.
I go to the other places where he can't be in real America.
The optimism I see from those people, the people at the small restaurant, whatever it may be.
Hey, we're building and we're expanding.
We're doing this.
They were sitting on the sidelines waiting because they weren't sure.
They couldn't live in the regulatory environment that the Democrats want.
The optimism that they have now that they're going to invest, they're going to expand.
They're going to take the chances.
They're going to be entrepreneurs again.
Rather than simply trying to buckle down and survive, we're creating the environment for those people to be able to thrive.
They get it.
They see it.
They know it.
They're telling me.
The optimism is just great.
It feels like those people really think that a country that they thought was perhaps pretty close to the precipice of being lost is now back and they have a chance.
And that's what it's all about.
I'm just super excited about that.
And literally, I hear it every day.
It's amazing.
I agree with you 100%.
I hear it every day as well.
And I just want to honestly thank you, Don.
I'm going to call you the gatekeeper because I honestly believe you played a major, major role in the composition of the people who are surrounding the president.
He needs loyalty.
I think you have made sure that there are loyal MAGA Republicans who are going to have that same interest of making this country great.
And on behalf of the people who follow me and this country, thank you for your service in helping President Trump get the right people on the team.
Thanks so much, Leo.
I really appreciate that.
That's an honor.
And look forward to talking to you soon.
I'm sure I'll see you in a couple.
January 20th can't come fast enough, but I'm sure I'll see you in D.C. then.
Thank you very much.
God bless you, Don Jr.
Thank you very, very much.
That's Don Jr.
I'm telling you right now, I call him the gatekeeper because he made sure.
I hope the people in Mar-a-Lago are listening.
Don Jr., in my opinion, has been the key ingredient, the key figure in making sure the right people are around President Trump.
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I want to thank Don Jr.
to me, who is a great American.
And I call him the gatekeeper because this guy, this son of the president, in my opinion, is responsible for keeping loyal people around President Trump.
And, you know, I'll tell you right now, everybody knows when I made the change in June of 2020.
And I'm proud of the fact that I'm loyal to the president.
I don't hide that fact.
I'm a Trump supporter.
And I've been very, very consistent since June of 2020 when on the Sean Hannity television program, I said, adios, Democrats, I'm gone.
And you know what?
I made the right decision.
Look at the Democrat Party now.
Look where it was in 2020 and look where it is now.
And look at the Republican Party at 2020 and look at where the Republican Party is now.
I made a smart move.
This country is better off with Trump as president.
Everyone knows it.
The problem with the Democrats, they don't care about making this country great.
They're obsessed with power and control.
I think President Trump wants to go down as the greatest president ever.
In order to do that, he has to make America great.
He has to have the right people around him.
And he's accomplishing that.
So, Rhino, step aside and let Trump do his job.
When we come back after our little break, we've got Laura Trump coming in on the Sean Hannity Radio program at 1-800-941-Sean.
That's 1-800-941-7326.
Leo Terrell in for Sean Hannity.
We'll be right back.
Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Radio Program.
However, Leo 2.0 in for Mr. Hannity.
And by the way, our phone number, if you want to call in, is 1-800-941-Sean, 1-800-941-7326.
Sean's great executive producer, Linda, always asks me if I, whenever I appear, fill in for Sean, who are my guests, who do I want?
I always pick this person all the time.
Her name is Laura Trump, and she hosts her own podcast, The Right View.
And the reason why I pick Laura all the time, because A, she's knowledgeable.
B, I think just like having Don Jr.
on, I sent out tweets to President Trump.
I said, Mr. President, you can always trust your family members.
They're always going to be loyal.
And what Laura did for President Trump and for the Republican National Committee, outstanding.
And she just, she's a great mom, great wife, great daughter-in-law, great American.
It's a privilege to have my friend, Laura Trump, on the Sean Hannity Radio Program.
Hi, Laura.
Well, I'm so flattered that it was a personal request.
Now I'm even happier.
It is.
I'm not going to lie.
Put your name down.
Whenever Linda asks, who do you want?
I put your name down.
Always.
Well, I'm honored and I'm flattered in all different ways.
So thank you so much, my friend.
It's so nice to be with you.
My pleasure.
And, you know, I'll tell you right now, the Republican Party owes you and Michael Watley a tremendous amount of gratitude and thanks.
The way you approach the goals and the objectives of the RNC during this election, I think, played a major pivotal role in the election of President Trump, primarily getting into those courtrooms, taking action before the election to make sure the election was fair and conducted properly.
How do you see it, Laura?
Oh, well, that's so nice.
Thank you.
You know, we had a felt like a huge hill to climb when we took things over back in March as chair and coacher of the RNC.
And we said, listen, we have three goals.
One is to put on a world-class convention.
Two is to get out the vote.
And three is to protect the ballot.
And one of the ways we had to go about protecting the ballot was to make sure that the rules of the road were set up properly before voting started.
So making sure that there was no funny business, that there was no nefarious activity in certain states and really keeping an eye on things.
I'll give you a great example, Leo.
You know, you're supposed to have an equal number of Republican and Democrat poll watchers in locations around the country.
Well, you had certain areas of the country where they would play games and they would take maybe, you know, 50 of the 800 people the Republicans would give to the local polling locations.
And of course, they would take like 2,000 of the Democrat poll watchers.
And, you know, we would catch these things and we would have to deal with them in the moment and make sure that they were set up so that when voting started, we weren't trying to play catch up.
We weren't dealing with those sorts of things.
We could actually keep our eye on real-time election integrity, making sure that everything was conducted freely and fairly.
And obviously, we're incredibly proud of the results.
We had a great team at the RNC.
And I'm just humbled to have had a front row seat to history, to have played a small role in all of this.
And obviously, the country and the world, I think, is very excited because now we know Donald Trump will be the 47th president in 17 days.
I can't wait.
I can't wait either.
And I'll tell you right now, and just from where you stand right now, it seems like there's been a feeling of a change in the attitude, the temperament of the American people.
The people around me are happy that President Trump is going to be our 47th president.
What say you?
Do you feel a change or people more relieved that there's going to be something, there's going to be an American first agenda?
Oh my gosh, a weight has been lifted off of the entire world.
I'll tell you, it's not just the country, Leo.
I've had an opportunity since November 5th to travel to several different countries.
And what I can tell you is that, yes, I think we all feel it here in the United States.
We have finally exhaled for the first time in four years.
You finally feel hopeful and optimistic and positive about the future for the first time in years.
But it's not just us here.
It's the rest of the world because what we know to be true is that whenever America is strong and whenever we lead from a place of strength, then the rest of the world is stabilized.
And you don't have wars breaking out in the Middle East.
You don't have wars breaking out between Ukraine and Russia.
You actually have stabilization when the leader of the free world operates from a place of strength.
And the people of this country and the people of the world understand that Donald Trump is going to be back and that is exactly how he's going to operate.
People everywhere are excited.
And it just feels like we can finally breathe again.
And I think, look, this holiday season, there was so much to celebrate.
This New Year's, there was so much to celebrate that really is going to be so great for the future of America.
I think it feels like the United States got a second chance.
And man, am I grateful that the American people allowed that to happen with their votes on November 5th?
Thank you, America.
Talking to Laura Trump, who's host of the podcast, The Right View.
You know, the president has transformed the Republican Party into the working class party.
I mean, you look at the demographics and the different groups that were traditionally Democrats, who are now part of the Republican Party because of President Trump.
Catholics, blacks, Jewish Americans, union workers.
From your perspective, I mean, you saw people who were not traditionally Republicans are now Trump Republicans.
Why?
Why do you see that happening, Laura?
It's amazing.
And obviously, as the co-chair of the party, it's a trend we love to see, and we want to see more of that happen.
And I actually think that what happened here in this election really started, Leo, back when Donald Trump came down the golden escalator in Trump Tower.
I mean, he changed the game as it relates to politics.
Politics will never be the same after that moment.
And it's taken some people longer than others.
I know you were one of them, my friend.
You came over from the Democrat Party.
You said, I'm going to say that I'm a Republican now.
I'm going to officially announce that.
And we love to have that happen.
You've seen it time and time again because I think Donald Trump has opened so many people's eyes.
You know, he talks differently than most politicians.
He operates differently than most politicians.
And he was able to expose things like the mainstream media.
He was able to expose the deep state, the swamp that is Washington, D.C.
And I think the American people, once they wake up, don't go back to sleep.
Sadly, it did take the past four years for some people who really struggled, who really had a hard time due to the horrific economy, the high inflation, the open borders, the increase in crime around our country to start to see that the Democrats do not care about making your life better.
In fact, if you vote for Democrats in the areas where you live, you probably look around and see that things are going in the wrong direction for you.
And I think it's why you saw such a shift with so many of these demographics, people who were lifelong Democrats coming over and saying, you know what, I'm going to cast a vote for Donald Trump in this election.
I'm going to cast a vote for Republicans down ballot because you just have to compare, Leo, the two track records.
Look at the way the United States felt.
Look at your life and how it felt when Donald Trump was in the White House for the first four years and take a look at your life over the past four.
When you compare those two things, you can't make an argument to vote for Democrats anymore.
And I think people have finally seen the light in so many respects.
And I hope we see it continue.
This is a wide open tent, the Republican Party.
We want more people coming in.
I think Donald Trump started this trend in 2015.
And I think we're going to see it go even further after this election and into the future.
Talking to Laura Trump, she's the host of the podcast, The Right View.
I may ask you, look into your crystal ball.
Will we ever get the legacy media to come around and say, hey, you know what?
We've been wrong about this guy.
It seems like they're still fighting, Laura.
And I don't know why, if they're interested in making this country great, the legacy media just seems to just refuse to acknowledge what's going on.
Yeah, well, and they're hurting because of it.
You know, you look at so many of their numbers and they're in the tank.
There's a reason that you have outlets like Fox News who have seen spikes in their viewership.
It's because people want the truth.
They don't want to be spoon-fed these lies anymore and be told what to think.
They want to actually investigate themselves and come to their own conclusions.
And, you know, it's been interesting because I noticed the first press conference that my father-in-law did after winning, he did a 90-minute press conference, you might remember, from Mar-a-Lago.
It was after $100 billion of investment was announced into the United States after he takes office.
And it was amazing because I switched between a lot of different channels, Leo.
And one of the things I noticed is that in the past, it felt like those folks in the legacy media you just referenced were always trying to manipulate the words that Donald Trump said.
And the Chirons on the bottom of the screen would reflect that it really wasn't what he was talking about.
They would try to manipulate the way people received his press conferences.
I almost feel like in some ways they're finally like, okay, we'll at least give this guy a little bit of a shot.
With that press conference, I didn't see them play those games.
And you know what?
I love to see that.
I hope we see more of that continue.
The truth is, this is a man who has given up so much.
I mean, he's seen zeros off the back of his net worth leave that will never come back.
They have threatened him in every possible way.
His life has been on the line.
You know, they've threatened his own freedom as a citizen of this country.
And the reason he's continued on is because all he wants to do is make this country great again.
I believe we're going to see it happen.
And so I would love to see a lot of those people kind of say, okay, enough is enough.
Well, Joe and Mika showed up at Mar-a-Lago.
So maybe this is the start of something new.
I'll certainly hold out hope on that, although maybe I won't hold my breath on it, Leo.
Talking to Laura Trump, she's the host of the podcast, The Right View.
Now, Laura, I follow you, and this is what I recall, I believe you stating either in text or some type of tweet that you're going to have a big announcement in January.
Now, I know you're not going to tell me today, but should the American people look forward to a big announcement from you in the month of January?
Yes.
You're referencing, I think, my post when I said, I'm not going to seek the Senate seat, the appointment of the Senate seat that needs to be filled for Marco Rubio here in Florida.
But I will have a big announcement coming.
That's what I'm referring to.
Inauguration.
Yep.
And here's what I'll say.
I'll tease it out this way, Leo.
Okay.
You're going to be seeing more of me, not less of me.
So, to some people that folks on the left, I'm sorry, I don't know what to tell you.
You're just going to have to deal with it.
I'm looking forward to that.
And I want to, I saw you, you know, your more of you is good because I saw you do a radio interview, I think, with Charlemagne the God, and they were going after you left, right, left, right.
And your temperament, your ability to respond to their questions.
I think you won them over.
And you have great communication skills.
I'm just saying that just from watching you and when questions being forwarded to you back and forth, you responded.
You gave a solid, fact-based answer.
And I think more of Laura Trump in the upcoming future is going to be good for America because your communication skills and it resonates and it comes from an area of sincerity.
Oh, well, thank you.
That is so nice.
Yeah, I haven't been asked back on the Breakfast Club, but we'll see what they decide.
Lee, if they want to have me back, I was happy to go there.
Listen, I think when you have the truth on your side, you know what?
You can kind of go anywhere and you can talk to anybody.
And I've never been afraid to do it.
And I take notes directly from Donald Trump himself.
He's never been afraid.
I'll never be afraid.
And so, yes, more of me, not less of me.
So stay tuned for what's to come.
All right.
We got a little tease there on the Sean Hannity program.
Laura, I just want to thank you for taking time out.
Whenever I feel in for Sean, you can expect me to have you have a phone call from someone asking, can you appear?
And I thank you very much.
I hope you have a happy new year.
I'm sure it's going to be a great one.
And I look forward to that big announcement.
Thank you for joining us on the Sean Hannity program.
You got it.
It's my honor.
Thank you very much.
That's Laura Trump.
She's the host of the podcast, The Right View.
And she just gave us a little nugget around Inauguration Day.
Big, big announcement.
Looking forward to that.
But let me just simply say this, folks.
I think Trump has endured a lot, but he has a team around him called Family.
You know, I just had Donald Trump Jr.
on, and I didn't have Eric on, but Eric and Laura, Ivanka, the family, that's where loyalty is and commitment.
And I think he's in a very good place because he has a family that has supported him from day one.
And I'll tell you right now, it's finally resonating because Trump has a mandate from the American people.
And Trump wants, in my opinion, like I said again, over and over again, I think he wants to go down as the greatest president ever.
And to do that, he has to make America the greatest country ever.
And he's going to do that.
We'll be right back with your phone calls.
This is the Sean Hannity program.
You can call me at 1-800-941-Sean or 1-800-941-7326.
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Leo 2.0 in for Mr. Hannity.
Our phone number is 1-800-941-Sean, 1-800-941-7326.
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By the way, we have Byron Donald coming in in the final hour because as you may have heard, Speaker Johnson has been re-elected as Speaker.
We'll get the insight from Congressman Donald.
And there has been a ridiculous hearing set for Donald Trump on January 10th from this idiot, in my opinion, I call him idiot, judge.
And you're going to get the expertise of 35 years as a civil rights attorney as to why this hearing is ridiculous.
Much, much more on the Sean Hannity Radio Program.
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