July 19, 2024 - The Tucker Carlson Show
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Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome journalist, author, and American citizen, Tucker Carlson. | |
| So fun! | ||
| Thank you! | ||
| Oh, this is wild! | ||
| Thank you! | ||
| I've been... | ||
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Good to see you! | |
| Thank you! | ||
| I feel like I know about half the people in the room. | ||
| This is wild. | ||
| What are you doing? | ||
| Justin Wells. | ||
| Thank you guys. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Can I just say, Peter Navarro is back. | ||
| Welcome to Peter Navarro. | ||
| Suffering the fate that has happened to so many who are friends with Donald Trump. | ||
| Thank you for having me. | ||
| I have been to many conventions. | ||
| I have never been to a more fun convention or a convention with better vibes. | ||
| They literally let Navarro out of prison. | ||
| First of all, thank you. | ||
| This feels a lot different from what I thought it was going to feel like. | ||
| I can't hear you, but I know it's something good. | ||
| So, I watched the video of what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania about 15, 50 times. | ||
| I think I was one of about 8 billion people around the world who watched it. | ||
| And the more I watched it, the more it struck me that everything was different after that moment. | ||
| Everything. | ||
| This convention is different. | ||
| The nation is different. | ||
| The world is different. | ||
| Donald Trump is different. | ||
| When he stood up... | ||
| After being shot in the face, bloodied, and put his hand up, I thought at that moment, that was a transformation. | ||
| This was no longer a man. | ||
| Well, I think that. | ||
| I think it was divine intervention. | ||
| But the effect that it had on Donald Trump, he was no longer just a political party's nominee or a former president or a future president. | ||
| This was the leader of a nation. | ||
| And I think there's a difference. | ||
| I've spent most of my life in Washington where the president is at the top of the pyramid. | ||
| Everyone wants to be the president. | ||
| But if you think about it, the presidency comes with great power, obviously. | ||
| But if you think about it, that is a title that is bestowed by a process of some sort that can be subverted. | ||
| And in the end, it does not confer by itself, as no title does, legitimacy. | ||
| Just because you call yourself the president doesn't mean that much inherently. | ||
| I can call my dog the CEO of Hewlett-Packard. | ||
| It doesn't mean she is. | ||
| It's true. | ||
| And you hate to say it, but it is also true as a fact that you could take, I don't know, a mannequin, a dead person, and make him president. | ||
| No, you could. | ||
| You could. | ||
| I'm just saying theoretically possible. | ||
| With enough cheating, that could happen. | ||
| But being a leader is very different. | ||
| It's not a title. | ||
| It's organic. | ||
| You can't name someone a leader. | ||
| A leader is the bravest man. | ||
| That's who the leader is. | ||
| That is true in all human organizations. | ||
| This is a law of nature. | ||
| And in that moment, Donald Trump, months before the presidential election, became the leader of this nation. | ||
| That was the most obvious to me. | ||
| And I have to say, you know, I think it changed him. | ||
| I, you know, reached out to Trump within hours of it that night. | ||
| And what he said to me that night, having just been shot in the face, he said not a single word about himself. | ||
| He said only how amazed he was and how proud he was of the crowd, which didn't run. | ||
| And I thought two things. | ||
| The first thing I thought was, well, of course they didn't run. | ||
| His courage gave them heart. | ||
| A leader's courage gives courage to his people. | ||
| And the second thing I thought was, this is the selfish guy I've been hearing about for nine years, really? | ||
| Not a word about himself? | ||
| About his people. | ||
| Period. | ||
| And the second thing I noticed, which I don't think anyone has remarked upon in public, but I'm just going to since I don't have a script, like, why not? | ||
| Is that he turned down the most obvious opportunity in politics to inflame the nation after being shot. | ||
| To inflame the nation. | ||
| Which is an opportunity that almost every other politician I've ever met, and certainly his opponents, would have taken instantly. | ||
| And they would have said, well, what is this? | ||
| How did he get shot? | ||
| Like, how did this happen? | ||
| And those are real questions that we have to get to the bottom of. | ||
| But in the moments, the days, the week after the shooting, he did not say that. | ||
| He did his best to bring the country together. | ||
| And I thought, this is the divisive figure? | ||
| This is the irresponsible person? | ||
| No. | ||
| This is the most responsible, unifying behavior of a leader I think I've ever seen. | ||
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So the question is, where is he leading us? | |
| And I could go on for hours, but let me just sum it up. | ||
| I do think the entire point from the famous escalator ride nine years ago until today of Donald Trump's public life has been to remind us of one fact, which is a leader's duty is to his people, to his country, and to no other. | ||
| That's the point. | ||
| That's the only point. | ||
| And another word for this is democracy. | ||
| Democracy, in case you're... | ||
| A little sick of being beaten in the face with democracy on television? | ||
| Actual democracy is the proposition that the citizens of a country own that country. | ||
| They're not renters, they're not serfs, they're not slaves, they are the owners of the country. | ||
| And for that to be true, their leaders have to represent them, which is another way of saying they have to do what the people want them to do. | ||
| Or a close approximation thereof. | ||
| But if they completely ignore what people want, not just one year, but generationally, say for 50 years, then it may be, I don't know what, it's not a democracy. | ||
| And so I think the entire Trump project, paradoxically, is attacked as an enemy of democracy, is to return democracy to the United States. | ||
| Hey, let's pay attention to what people actually want. | ||
| And the lack of interest in that question in Washington is something that ultimately drove me out of the city after 35 years. | ||
| Lawmakers stepping over the prostrate bodies of their fellow citizens ODing on drugs to go cast votes to send money to some foreign country. | ||
| Yeah, actually, we've lost more Americans from drugs in the past four years than we lost in World War II. Yeah. | ||
| Our bloodiest war. | ||
| More than we lost in World War II. Does anybody care? | ||
| It is pathetic. | ||
| It is pathetic. | ||
| And do you hear a single word from Washington about doing anything about it? | ||
| We know where the drugs are coming from. | ||
| We know the supply routes. | ||
| The U.S. military spent billions bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail. | ||
| You don't see our commander-in-chief suggesting that we use our military to protect our country or the lives of its citizens. | ||
| No! | ||
| That's for Ukraine. | ||
| And it's too much, actually. | ||
| It's too insulting. | ||
| It's too insulting. | ||
| It's a middle finger in the face of every American. | ||
| It's a very clear statement, which is unmistakable. | ||
| And that is, we don't care about you. | ||
| And Donald Trump, whatever you say about him, and I think he's a wonderful person. | ||
| I know him well. | ||
| By the way, the funniest person I've ever met in my life, actually. | ||
| You can't be funny without perspective. | ||
| Or without empathy, which is true. | ||
| But everything else about Trump aside, he actually cares. | ||
| Because he's interested in the people who live here because that's his job. | ||
| A father's job, his duty is to his family. | ||
| An officer's duty is to his men. | ||
| A president's duty is to his citizens. | ||
| And he seems to be the only one who thinks that. | ||
| And in his choice for vice president, J.D. Vance, he's made that really clear. | ||
| J.D. Vance, I'll say this about him, is a thoroughly decent man, and I'll just admit it, a friend of mine, one of the very few politicians in Washington who actually is very close to his own wife, which is wonderful to see. | ||
| And she's wonderful, actually. | ||
| But J.D. Vance has views that are closer to Trump's voters than anyone else in Washington in office. | ||
| Therefore, he's the vice president. | ||
| That's called democracy. | ||
| So I will stop on just one point. | ||
| And that is, what's happened over the past month? | ||
| Since the debate? | ||
| And particularly on Saturday in Butler? | ||
| I think a lot of people are wondering, what is this? | ||
| This doesn't look like politics. | ||
| Something bigger is going on here. | ||
| I think even people who don't believe in God are beginning to think, well, maybe there's something to this. | ||
| Actually. | ||
| And I'm starting to think, I'm starting to think, It's going to be okay, actually. | ||
| I do think that. | ||
| The day after the midterm elections in 2018, Antifa came to my house. | ||
| The Democratic Party's militia, okay? | ||
| I was at work. | ||
| It was obvious when I was at work because it was public. | ||
| My wife was home alone. | ||
| They tried to come in through the front door. | ||
| They terrorized her. | ||
| She hid in our pantry. | ||
| It was on television. | ||
| It was horrible, actually. | ||
| It was, I mean, I'm not whining about it. | ||
| It wasn't getting shot in the face, but it wrecked our day. | ||
| And the next morning, we're lying in bed, and the phone rings for my wife, and it's Donald Trump, who's not like a regular text buddy of Donald Trump's. | ||
| She picks it up. | ||
| Hello? | ||
| Susie, it's Donald Trump! | ||
| And it's coming through. | ||
| I can hear it. | ||
| You know, I'm lying in bed. | ||
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Whoa! | |
| And the first thing he says is, I'm going to stand guard outside your house. | ||
| And she goes, oh, that's so nice. | ||
| And he says, I'll never forget this as long as I live. | ||
| He says, you know, there's a lot of hate out there. | ||
| And she said, no, there is, Mr. President. | ||
| And then he says, but there's a lot of love. | ||
| There's a lot of love. | ||
| And we are seeing that love. | ||
| I don't think it's human love. | ||
| And I'll just stop with this. | ||
| I'm not always convinced that I'm on the right side. | ||
| I've been on the wrong side many times. | ||
| You'll never hear me say, I'm on God's side, or God's with me, or even I'm with God. | ||
| I want to be. | ||
| I'm not sure I am. | ||
| But I will say this unequivocally and conclusively. | ||
| God is among us right now. | ||
| And I think that's enough. |
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