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| If you want to be a part of the uh program, uh interesting stuff. | |
| We have a lot of information to get out to you today. | |
| Caroline Levitt will get our Sean Hannity show White House briefing from her. | |
| We have I mean, like every day, it's news at the speed of light, and keeping up with it is is quite a bit uh quite a bit of work. | |
| Uh but it is uh transformational, and it is it is a time that America really needs to understand that this is our opportunity and consequential and hard. | |
| There's another part of it. | |
| Uh so we'll get to all of that. | |
| The left is losing their minds. | |
| They are as unhinged as they've ever been. | |
| We saw that with Governor Josh Sapiro this weekend. | |
| We'll get to that in a second. | |
| Uh El Salvador's president Buchele says he's not going to return the deported MS 13. | |
| Buchley? | |
| Is it Cayley or Kelly? | |
| I thought it was B. Kelly. | |
| El Salvador's president's name is Bukeley. | |
| Thank you, Linda. | |
| I appreciate it. | |
| I don't want to butcher the King's English. | |
| Thank you so much. | |
| Uh anyway, the Trump Bucheley, whatever his name is. | |
| I don't, not that I care. | |
| Anyway, I am I am happy that he says he's not going to return the deported MS 13 gang member. | |
| There was a beatdown against Caitlin Collins. | |
| We'll get to that later in the program today. | |
| Uh and the the White House is just, they are not taking crap from anybody. | |
| And we'll get into this with Caroline Levitt. | |
| One of the things that the they put in the spotlight last week is, you know, they just they won't answer questions from reporters that display their pronouns. | |
| And saying that they deny their biological reality and can't be trusted to report with integrity. | |
| I mean, could you imagine any other White House doing something like this? | |
| What's interesting, too, other presidents, by the way, have changed the White House, the Rose Garden over the years. | |
| And you can go back to August of 1814. | |
| British troops occupied DC, burned the White House down during the War of 1812. | |
| Uh, then you had an Oval Office edition in 1909, and then you had a wet renovation of s indoor swimming pool installed in 1933 under FDR, who used it for swim therapy. | |
| Uh he had polio, as you know, and Donald Trump is about to enter into the golden error at the White House, which I actually think is a good idea, having been there a number of times. | |
| There's certain things that do need a little bit of updating. | |
| And anyway, the he's gonna add a new ballroom to uh and paving over the rose garden to create a you know a Mar-a Lago style terrace. | |
| Uh, and I think it'll be a lot more beautiful than it is. | |
| And the president did make a point when people uh when they're in the Rose Garden. | |
| The water's often wet and muddy, and you have people standing on it, and women in high heels are sinking. | |
| And it's not great for men's shoes that are pretty expensive, too. | |
| We have a lot of doge information we'll pass on in the course of the program today. | |
| We know about 6,300 undocumented immigrants with criminal records or those on the FBI's terror watch list. | |
| And Elon Musk reportedly leading a special immigration task force within the DHS to develop infrastructure for actions like revoking parole and terminating visas. | |
| That's good news for everybody. | |
| And the effort involves coordinating with the Social Security Administration to effectively cancel their Social Security numbers. | |
| And remember, I told you last week that was institutionalized. | |
| That became, oh, you get in the country, great. | |
| You get your Social Security card, great. | |
| You get your driver's license, great. | |
| And then some people we found out even went as far as to then vote. | |
| We now are at a whopping $150 billion that they've identified in waste fraud, corruption, and abuse. | |
| And three Democratic-led states accounted for the vast majority of unemployment fraud since 2020. | |
| An initial review of claims by Doge found $382 million in fraudulent payments. | |
| Every American should be angry about this. | |
| The Doge audit found 24 and a half thousand people over 115 years old claimed $59 million in benefits. | |
| 28,000 people between one and five years old claimed $254 million in benefits. | |
| 9.7,000 people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claim $69 million in benefits. | |
| I mean, how does how does the system go that awry? | |
| Now this audit of federal jobless benefits conducted by Doge, discovered California tops the list of states that are issuing these fraudulent unemployment checks. | |
| And and this is money we could be spending on your children, on law and order, on better schools, on the next generation of weaponry, on building out our infrastructure in this country, or maybe paying down the debt. | |
| That record debt that we're going to put on our kids and grandkids. | |
| Anyway, three Democratic-led states accounted for the vast majority of this. | |
| California accounted for whopping 68% of the unemployment benefits paid to parolees identified by CBP on the terror watch list or people with criminal records. | |
| Gavin Newsom, congratulations. | |
| Great job in California. | |
| How about this is a proposal thinking out of the box? | |
| It is the Trump error. | |
| How about Gavin and California? | |
| They have to pay back that amount of money to the Treasury of the United States, considering it's their policies under their stewardship that allowed this to happen. | |
| But $150 billion in waste fraud and abuse is an awful lot of money. | |
| By the way, the president was at UFC Miami over the weekend. | |
| My son was there, but of course I'm too busy, Linda. | |
| I didn't get to go. | |
| But anyway, he got a huge ovation at the UFC. | |
| Let's play it. | |
| And making the entrance right now to a standing ovation. | |
| The 47th president of the United States of America, like my FC CEO Dana White and others, Donald J. Is there anybody else that has a walk in? | |
| No, other than a tiger in the end. | |
| He has some music and Rockstar clan. | |
| He had one at the NCAA. | |
| He always gets a walkout. | |
| It's like it's like a prerequisite that he's coming. | |
| Give him the walk-off. | |
| I mean, you got to admit that's very cool. | |
| And now we have some update on the issue of free and fair tariffs, reciprocal tariffs, depending on what countries choose. | |
| One Trump advisor this weekend saying now over 130 countries now seek a deal. | |
| There are 15 deals for free and fair trade on the table that they can sign right now. | |
| And I would expect in the days to come that there's going to be probably great fanfare, and there should be after all of you know after all of the instances of America getting ripped off by friend and foe alike, uh, that these countries now will be signing deals because they want access to the American markets, and that's great. | |
| Uh we had a major win for the president, a major win for the country today when Nvidia announced their plans to manufacture their artificial intelligence supercomputers entirely in the U.S. for the first time. | |
| This is massive for the American people. | |
| Absolutely massive. | |
| This is great news for everybody. | |
| Um by the way, Linda, have you been using AI at all? | |
| I've been using Grok. | |
| That's Elon Musk's version. | |
| By the way, when are we going to announce our Tesla winner? | |
| Oh, we have to wait for another week for that because we need to give them time to be notified. | |
| There are certain legal uh parameters around that. | |
| Oh my God. | |
| I the thank goodness I don't have to deal with these people at our parent company. | |
| I would I I'd go crazy. | |
| That's not their fault. | |
| That's just giving people a fair shot to get notified. | |
| I mean, you know, sometimes you can't. | |
| Well, what if the person notifies them back right away and gets right back to them? | |
| Then we'll let you know, boss. | |
| I appreciate the uh update. | |
| You're welcome. | |
| Anyway, the AI chip making giant said they worked with this is Nvidia manufacturing partners to commission over a million square feet of manufacturing space to build and test NVIDIA's advanced blackwell chips in Arizona as well as AI supercomputers in Texas, and they said their AI chips and supercomputers at AI factories are expected to create hundreds of thousands of jobs and drive trillions of dollars in economic security over the coming decades. | |
| If there's two things off the top of my head that I want to see happen, is I want our pharmaceuticals made here in the United States, not in China, and these semiconductors they're too important to to the future generation of everything. | |
| It is the now. | |
| Understand artificial intelligence is now. | |
| And if you've not gotten familiar with it, I urge everybody get on early. | |
| And and by the way, it's not even really early at this point. | |
| Um Great Britain announced that they are reducing their tariffs on U.S. imports. | |
| Prime Minister Starmer uh suspended uh tariffs on eighty-nine British products and a bid to ease the strain and and businesses in the middle of President Trump and these the uh tariff battle. | |
| Now, of course, they had Brexit, so they can make that decision independent of the European Union. | |
| It was also the prime minister that said get over it. | |
| Globalization is officially over. | |
| Anyway, the top economic council director Kevin Hassett announced more than ten countries. | |
| Now I believe it's up to fifteen since in the interim, have made good, amazing trade deal offers to the U.S. Uh and the president. | |
| And he said that uh this in a Fox Business interview. | |
| Now you add Nvidia to the and the and their commitment today to produce $500 billion in AI infrastructure to the seven trillion we've been spending a lot of time talking about. | |
| And now you really understand that the president standing strong for America with pro-America, America First policies is great, especially considering these countries have have been ripping us off. | |
| It's been institutionalized ripoff, frankly, and the establishment have allowed it, both parties to continue. | |
| Nobody's ever challenged it. | |
| I give a lot of props to Walmart, a big box store. | |
| I'm sure that probably they get some of their some of their products from China. | |
| Maybe a lot of them might have no idea, but uh their shares went up ten percent during Wednesday's trading session after the company maintained their sales outlook and pledged to keep prices low for customers and in its investment community meeting the Arkansas-based retail giant reaffirmed their previous guidance of three to four four percent sales growth for the first quarter of twenty twenty-five and keeping their annual sales and operating income growth targets unchanged. | |
| And they reminded investors that more than two-thirds of what the company sells in the United States is made, grown, or assembled domestically. | |
| So they expect, they say they don't expect the Trump tariff issue to be a factor for them. | |
| Now you have to ask yourself if you're still on the fence about this, what is wrong with challenging, especially allied countries, especially European Union countries that rely on America for their national security, which is what NATO is all about, or expecting Canada. | |
| You know, look, I'll give you an example. | |
| We talked about Germany a lot. | |
| Let's let's let's look at the U EU as a whole. | |
| Car sales in the U.S. in 2024 totaled 43.9 billion, and versus American car sales in Europe only $8.9 billion. | |
| Why? | |
| Because they have a 10% tariff versus our 2.5% tariff, and then they have their value-added tax, their national sales tax. | |
| That adds a whopping 30% to the sticker price of an American car, which makes selling American cars to our quote friends and allies with friends and allies like this who needs them that depend on us for security. | |
| That makes that that that gives them an advantage. | |
| Why have we allowed this to go on for 50 years? | |
| This is insane. | |
| It's absolutely insane. | |
| And people predicting, you know, there was one guy, I won't mention his name yet, but I'm going to go after him hard. | |
| And he's the head of one of these big investment companies. | |
| And this I'm going to find out exactly how much business his company does in China. | |
| Because I know for a fact that it's a lot. | |
| And how much money they're making out of because of their relationship with China. | |
| So we'll see what happens. | |
| Reconciliation House and Senate now are facing the gritty work of spelling out that big, beautiful bill. | |
| It's going to be a heavy lift. | |
| Nobody's going to get everything they want. | |
| It's very important if we'll get to get out of the Trump, I'm sorry, the Biden Harris economy and get the Trump policies in place, at least the beginning of them. | |
| That will help, you know, facilitate, I think, a quicker recovery from the disaster of the last four years. | |
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| What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi. | |
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| Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies. | |
| It's almost a dirty word. | |
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| Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre? | |
| Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit. | |
| We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. | |
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| Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy? | |
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| We have a lot of news that we have to get to regarding how crazy, radical, insane the left in America is, and a lot of examples of it this weekend. | |
| Uh wanted to update you. | |
| The Senate has voted to repeal Joe Biden's ban on gas-fired heaters. | |
| Remember, they wanted to tell you what car to put in your driveway. | |
| They wanted to take away your gas stove. | |
| They wanted to tell you, you know, the type of Air conditioner you have and replace the one you have. | |
| They wanted a your refrigerator, washers, your dryers. | |
| It's unreal. | |
| And had Senate Republicans not reverse this ban, uh, every American household would have been forced to pay an additional four hundred and fifty bucks for alternative water heaters. | |
| They didn't want gas-fired heaters. | |
| Gas is a clean burning energy. | |
| And it's gonna be what makes this country rich, especially maybe as part of these trade deals, maybe separate and apart from these these trade deals that we're gonna be making. | |
| Europe's gonna have to come to the table. | |
| I argue that eventually China will have to come to the table. | |
| We'll ask Gordon Cheng later, but Senate Republicans continued their campaign to roll back these stringent energy regulations issued during the final months of Joe Biden's administration. | |
| 5242, they repealed the Biden Department of Energy regulation banning natural gas water heaters by 2029. | |
| This is nuts. | |
| Now I own an electric vehicle. | |
| I own my Tesla, the greatest car I ever drove, most technologically advanced, best engineered car ever. | |
| I'm shocked to say it because I never investigated it. | |
| Friends told me it was, and I didn't listen. | |
| But you get it if you want it. | |
| I'm pro, you know, buy whatever the hell car you want. | |
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| Look, if you and your family, and wait to where do you hear some of the headlines of what has been going on this just this past weekend and the rise of domestic terrorism around the entire country? | |
| You saw what happened to Governor Josh Shapiro. | |
| We've been wanting which witnessing what's been happening with Tesla dealerships and people that own Teslas, domestic terrorism. | |
| Uh you see the praise of Luigi Mangioni, and we have an update on that story in a minute. | |
| I mean, this world, this country is in a dangerous spot. | |
| We've got to improve safety and security. | |
| That's part of the Trump plan. | |
| We'll get there. | |
| But you always have to understand that by the time you call 911, whatever was going to happen. | |
| If somebody breaks into your house, it probably has happened. | |
| And you never you're not gonna have police there at all times. | |
| You've got to have a personal safety security plan. | |
| Now, the first plan would be to get out of the situation if you can. | |
| And I have a personal safety security strategies in place every day of my life. | |
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| I have a number of them strategically placed around my house, and it has powerful deterrence like tear gas, kinetic rounds. | |
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| I'll tell you about Jason. | |
| He's an avid hiker, packed his burner, went on a hike with his family, had a very close encounter with the mountain lion. | |
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| Um things are getting really off the hook dangerous. | |
| I mean, you have a Wisconsin teen arrested for killing his parents and plotting to assassinate Donald Trump. | |
| That's not the only assassination attempt that was uncovered this week, and I'll get to that in a second. | |
| His 17-year-old was Constantine, accused of killing his mother and stepfather, also plotted to assassinate President Donald Trump to start a political revolution. | |
| Anyway, he had images and messages on his phone that referenced a self-described manifesto regarding assassinating the president, According to Fox 6 Milwaukee, you know, citing a search warrant with the U.S. uh district court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, images of the three-page document entitled Accelerate the Collapse, Call for the Assassination of Trump. | |
| This is pretty scary. | |
| I don't know how many of you saw what happened to Governor Josh Shapiro over the weekend, but it was he's the governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. | |
| And it is it is repulsive that this keeps happening in this country, but it's coming to an end. | |
| And the president spoke out about this, and he spoke out about he said the man that attacked Shapiro was probably a whack job. | |
| That's obvious, I think. | |
| But we we can't allow this to happen. | |
| And now with the incidences of domestic terrorism against Tesla dealerships and Tesla owners and doxing of them and doxing of Supreme Court um justices. | |
| It's this this all has to stop. | |
| And this is now a top priority of Cash Patel, the FBI director, and Pam Bondi, the AG. | |
| Anyway, a man was arrested after allegedly setting fire to the Pennsylvania governor's mansion. | |
| Josh Shapiro and his family, they were sleeping inside. | |
| It was early Sunday morning, and at a press conference on Sunday evening, authorities named a 38-year-old as the suspect. | |
| He's going to be charged with attempted murder, terrorism, aggravated arson, aggravated assault. | |
| But this has been happening. | |
| The fire broke out overnight. | |
| And at a press conference, Shapiro denounced the arson and it set off a lot of emotional remarks. | |
| And here's part of what he said. | |
| We do know that this attack was targeted. | |
| We don't know the person's specific motive yet, but we do know a few truths. | |
| First, this type of violence is not okay, are too common in our society. | |
| And I don't give a damn if it's coming from one particular side or the other. | |
| Directed at one particular party or another or one particular person or another. | |
| It is not okay. | |
| And it has to stop. | |
| We have to be better than this. | |
| We have a responsibility to all be better. | |
| Second, if this individual was trying to deter me from doing my job as your governor, rest assured I will find a way to work even harder than I was just yesterday for the good people of Pennsylvania. | |
| Let me continue. | |
| Because it's the problem is in the Democratic Party and their rise in radicalism is you know, this I do I think it might be related to the fact that he's a Jewish American. | |
| I do. | |
| And we'll find out after Seder on on Saturday. | |
| I the odds I would argue are pretty high. | |
| We'll learn more. | |
| But, you know, off the top of your head, you got to imagine that this might have been a factor. | |
| Here's what's been happening, though, and and Governor Shapiro is speaking out, but I will tell you the silence on the left has been deafening when it comes to the left and accepting the pro-Hamas wing of their party, the virulently anti-Semitic comments that have been made by squad members and others. | |
| Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, they so desperately want their power. | |
| They've been unwilling to stand up to them. | |
| The silence by the left in terms of the domestic terrorism of Elon Musk, that silence has been deafening as well. | |
| You know, uh I I it's just by the way, the fire was set on the first night of Passover. | |
| And apparently this guy, the suspect, admitted to authorities he hated Shapiro and said he would have beaten him to death with a hammer if he'd found him. | |
| I mean, why why do you hate anybody? | |
| Now that's not the only case. | |
| Now, the governor did cite anti-Semitism after this happened. | |
| He said that while authorities have yet to determine, he said we do know a few truths. | |
| First, the type of violence is not okay, et cetera, et cetera. | |
| And then he raised the possibility that it, you know, trying to terrorize our family, our friends, the Jewish community who joined us for Passover Seder in the in the room Last night, and he said, Hear me on this. | |
| We celebrated our faith last night proudly, and in a few hours we will celebrate the second Seder of Passover again proudly. | |
| Good for him. | |
| But Pennsylvania's governor mansion is not the only threat that we got out of Pennsylvania this weekend. | |
| It's it's pr and and by the way, if you look at the images, I saw Selena Zito posted some of them online. | |
| I couldn't believe the amount of damage that was done to the governor's mansion. | |
| And you know, it's where are other Democrats speaking out against the rise of domestic terrorism and virulent anti-Semitism in their own party? | |
| Where are they? | |
| You know, you got this deranged what former Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz swooning over this this would-be assass uh, I'm sorry, this over this assassin of the United Healthcare CEO, Luigi Mancioni, and let me play her comments about the assassin or would-be assassin, alleged assassin. | |
| To see these millionaire media pundits on TV clutching their pearls uh about someone standing a murderer when this is this is the United States of America, as if we don't lionize criminals, as if we don't have, you know, we don't stand the women who that are outside court in New York. | |
| So you're gonna see women especially that feel like, oh my god, right? | |
| Like here's this man who's revolutionary, who's famous, who's handsome, who's young, who's smart, he's a person that seems this like this morally good man, which is hard to find. | |
| Oh, he's handsome. | |
| He seems morally good, which is hard to find. | |
| It doesn't get any sicker than that. | |
| Now we have a butler resident, yeah, the Butler PA, accused of making threats against Donald Trump, Elon Musk, ICE agents on YouTube. | |
| He's been arrested and charged with making online death threats uh against all of these people. | |
| And again, the the left has been silent on the domestic terrorism, the Tesla takedown movement. | |
| You know, it's it is organized crime, it is domestic terrorism, and praising assassins, you know, former New York Times and Washington Post reporter is a pretty much about as sick as it gets. | |
| And that's this is your modern left-wing radicalized democratic party. | |
| You know, Wisconsin telling parents killing his parents so he could use their money to assassinate Trump, a would-be assassin of Trump and Butler PA once again. | |
| The governor, the governor of Pennsylvania's mansion is set ablaze, you know, after a Seder feast with his family and friends. | |
| And and yet we have the rise of virulent anti-Semitism on the left. | |
| We have this sick cult worship of Luigi Manion, uh an alleged assassin of a United Healthcare worker because they don't like, I guess, the healthcare system in America. | |
| You know, most Americans support a cra the left has accepted the pro-Hamas wing at the universities. | |
| The story just broke, by the way. | |
| I just sent it to my team here. | |
| And I will tell you, it's Harvard announced that they're gonna defy Trump's order to cut DEI programs and expel pro-Palestinian protesters. | |
| Good, they're not gonna get a penny. | |
| Because Hamas is a designated terrorist organization. | |
| Why would you ever support them? | |
| Why should one U.S. tax dollars with the 40 billion dollars in endowments that that cut that that colleges like Havid and others have? | |
| Why are we giving them a penny? | |
| If we're gonna give any money for college, if we're going to, why don't you give it to people that want to go to trade school or community colleges? | |
| We don't have to be paying 150 grand a year for for some elitist to go to an Ivy League institution. | |
| American taxpayers shouldn't have shouldn't have to foot the bill for that. | |
| Bill Maher, you know, it's so interesting his comments over the weekend. | |
| And we knew what had happened because we interviewed Kid Rock on Hannity the night after the dinner, and he said Bill was nervous when he first went in there. | |
| And Bill said, Well, I didn't smoke wheat, but which was funny at the end of his monologue, but apparently needed a drink. | |
| Can I have a drink? | |
| Can I have a margarita? | |
| Extra salt. | |
| Um, and it was so interesting to hear him say he wouldn't feel comfortable talking to Obama and Clinton like he did Trump because he could criticize him and disagree with them, and he was fine with it. | |
| And they were things that he found agreement on, like wokeism and open borders. | |
| And then this is what he said on his show on Friday night. | |
| So MAGA fans, don't worry. | |
| Your boy gave me nothing. | |
| Just hacks. | |
| Hats and a very generous amount of time and a willingness to listen and accept me as a possible friend, even though I'm not MAGA, which was the point of the dinner. | |
| And he said, you know, I've heard from a lot of people who really who really liked that we're having this dinner. | |
| Not all, but a lot. | |
| And I said, same. | |
| A lot of people told me they loved it, but not all. | |
| And we agreed. | |
| The people who don't even want us to talk, we don't like you. | |
| Don't talk as opposed to what? | |
| Writing the same editorial for the millionth time and making 25-hour speeches into the wind. | |
| Really? | |
| That's what liberals have. | |
| He takes the piss out of everybody else, and we can hold ours. | |
| Okay. | |
| That's my report. | |
| You can hate me for it, but I'm not a liar. | |
| Trump was gracious and measured, and why he isn't that in other settings, I don't know, and I can't answer, and it's not my place to answer. | |
| I'm just telling you what I saw, and I wasn't high. | |
| That's pretty funny, but then immediately you get lunatics like Keith Oberman, who has no influence, but you know, he's prostituting himself to Trump, and Marr works for the same fascist at Warner that that took over and corrupted CNN. | |
| I've known him since 1978. | |
| He was a shameless opportunist with no principles then, and he remains so. | |
| He's a comedian, Keith. | |
| A comedian and a commentator that's showing a lot more common sense and rationality than you have ever shown. | |
| You know, Washington Post idiot Josh Rogan. | |
| I couldn't even watch the show after that. | |
| He was such a ridiculous idiot. | |
| Gretchen Whitmer knows that her state of Michigan has been decimated by these tariffs and the and America being ripped off as Michigan is watched for decades, one plant shut down after another. | |
| The population of Detroit literally went in half. | |
| So she goes to the Oval Office to see Trump on behalf of the people of her state. | |
| And then she's like hiding like a kid in a corner. | |
| She should be proudly standing up for the people in her state and saying, Yeah, we want manufacturing and auto manufacturing and auto plans built in this state, which Trump is getting done. | |
| Over at MSDNC, Nicole Wallace, you know, saying Trump's tariffs are emasculating. | |
| What is wrong with these people? | |
| The head of the UAW goes on MS DNC, defending the right of American workers. | |
| Now, this is the conclusion that you can come to here. | |
| And it's really simple. | |
| It's that Republicans, conservatives, the MAGA movement is about working men and women, and the Democratic Party is now the party of coastal elites and wokeism. | |
| That's what they've evolved into. | |
| Mark Hamill sharing a meme, hoping that Trump will just die in Blue Sky's fever swamp. | |
| You know, comedian cancels U.S. trip fearing she could be denied entry over Trump jokes. | |
| That's not gonna happen. | |
| You know, it's just anyway. | |
| It is um these are very interesting times that we're living in. | |
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