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Feb. 24, 2025 - Uncensored - Piers Morgan
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Trump's Deal for Ukraine 00:07:16
Say that I had some role in persuading the Ukrainians to fight for their country.
Great means fat stealing life.
There is method in Donald Trump's madness.
The chainsaw for bureaucracy!
Chainsaw!
Big, huge cuts.
That's how you do it.
He's not cutting enough, frankly.
They're dripping with that.
Elon Musk has now got 13 kids by four different women.
I don't love Elon creating infinite babies with zero intention on being a father.
This shouldn't be litigated in public.
Elon is a dick boss.
Okay.
Five years ago, you ran into a fridge to avoid being interviewed by me.
I'm making amends by giving you the longest interview I've ever given you.
Anyway, take care.
Boris Johnson was British Prime Minister between 2019 and 2022, placing him at the very heart of the global response to two historic disasters, the COVID pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
President Putin says that Johnson personally talked Zelensky out of a peace deal in the very early months of the war, something that Johnson has emphatically denied.
That deal reportedly involved Russia withdrawing to its position before the full-scale invasion in exchange for Ukraine, giving up NATO membership and receiving security guarantees from its allies instead.
Now, many influential US Conservatives led by Tucky Carlson have accused Boris Johnson of therefore being culpable in the subsequent loss of tens of thousands of lives.
Well, to answer for himself, Boris Johnson joins me from Kyiv in Ukraine.
Boris, good to talk to you.
Hello, Piers.
How are you doing?
Yes, I think I caught your introduction just about.
And first of all, let me say how absolutely tragic it is to be here in Kyiv with this war still going on and how heroic the Ukrainians are.
They are going to win.
They will be successful.
But, you know, how ugly and unpleasant it is to hear some of the misrepresentations that have come out of Washington in the last 10 days or so, really peddling the Kremlin line, such as the one actually that you've just repeated.
Not that I'm suggesting you're endorsing it, but saying that Ukraine was responsible, started this war, saying that Zelensky is a dictator, saying the Ukrainians could have done some deal early on in this war, got the Russians out, that wouldn't have involved a complete humiliation for Ukrainians.
It's just lies.
It's just rubbish.
And it's very painful for people who care about Ukraine, actually know the facts, to listen to this stuff.
But, but, Piers, you know, and I've seen some of your commentary on this, I remain optimistic nonetheless that there is method in Donald Trump's madness and actually that by shaking things up in the way that he is, he can continue to drive the process of peace in Ukraine.
And I'll just give you one example, Piers.
Look at what's happening with this deal now on resources.
Actually, it contains some great stuff for Ukraine.
It's not yet agreed.
It's the one that the Americans proposed to the Ukrainians a few days ago.
But the Ukrainians have done very well in negotiating.
It now has stuff in it, important stuff, about American commitment to a free, sovereign, and secure Ukraine.
American commitment to keep investing in the security of Ukraine from the fund they set up.
American commitment to financial support for the long-term stability and development of Ukraine.
Now, that is good, good language.
And that is a great commitment.
Ukraine needs to be economically bound into the West, bound in to America, and this agreement, this resources agreement, would help to do it.
I think what's preventing the signing of this deal, sadly, is some of the polemics, some of the rhetoric that we've heard in the last 10 days.
But I'm sure that it will get done and it will get done, I think, very, very soon.
When it happens, what we in the UK need to do is come in with strong support for what Trump is trying to do to deliver peace and show how we are going to fulfill our obligations to Ukraine by setting up with the French that European deterrent force in Ukraine, boots on the ground, as Kierstama has rightly said, not in a fighting capacity, but there to provide logistics and training support, probably about 30,000 people.
And that will show, not from the UK, but 30,000 all in, that will show the Americans that we are actually serious in our concern, in our determination to ensure peace and security in Ukraine.
And that is actually what will, I think, encourage the Americans to remain committed.
So it's a grim situation.
It's terrible that the Ukrainians are still fighting.
But after three years of war, Vladimir Putin has not and will not conquer this country.
I can tell you, in the last year, all this nonsense, another lie is that Putin is making inexorable progress towards victory.
It's a great big, fat, steaming, stinking lie, Piers.
In the last year, he's, I think, taken 0.5% of Ukrainian territory at a cost of about 420,000 troops.
It is not going his way.
He is not going to win.
What we need is for Europeans to dial down some of their anxiety, some of the rhetoric, everybody to dial down the rhetoric, look at what Trump is actually proposing and do a deal that will guarantee Ukraine's security for the long term and reflect the reality, which is, I think, for Putin this war is basically unwinnable.
Okay, look, I concur with much of what you said there.
As I said on X Earl, I think you've been steadfast in your support for Ukraine from the very start, and that's very laudable.
I felt exactly the same way that you have about this.
But there is this weird disconnect by many in America, particularly on the conservative right, who do not share our view, who seem to think that Zelensky is the real villain here, and that Putin was provoked into doing this to safeguard his own security because of NATO encroachment and so on.
What do you say to that specific argument?
It's totally mad.
It's totally mad.
It's through the looking glass.
It's the complete opposite.
Putin was not provoked into this act of aggression.
His 115 battalion tactical groups that attacked from the north, from the east, from the south, they didn't have some fault in their sat-navs.
And the Ukrainians, frankly, were completely innocent and did nothing to provoke him.
Nor did NATO provoke him, by the way.
You know very well, Piers, that the reality of Ukrainian membership of NATO then was a cat's chance in hell.
It was going to be so many blackballs.
It would have looked like sheep droppings, frankly.
The French would have vetoed it, the Germans were going to veto it, the Hungarians, and the Americans certainly weren't going to pay.
It was never going to happen.
Investing in Gold and Silver 00:03:09
And now I think there's an overwhelming argument for it.
But before February 2022, it was absolutely never going to happen.
Not in a month of Sundays.
So that is complete nonsense.
And by the way, to say that I had some role in persuading the Ukrainians to fight for their country is a great, it's obviously totally implausible, but it's also a great big fat steaming lie.
It's true I went to Ukraine early on in the conflict after they'd kicked them out of the Kiev area.
And look, all I said then was we're lost in admiration for what you have done, for the heroism of the Ukrainian people.
But we can't be more Ukrainian than the Ukrainians.
If you have to do a deal in Istanbul or whatever, then obviously that's a matter for you.
What I said was, if, on the other hand, you fight on, I just want you to know that we in the UK are going to do our absolute level best to support you in any way that we can.
That's all I said.
And I think any UK Prime Minister, frankly, would have said the same in my position.
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Why do you think, Boris, I've been really confused that if you went back 30 years, the idea that anybody on the conservative right in America would not be all in favor of supporting a sovereign democratic European country in defending itself against a Russian dictator would be unthinkable.
America as Arsenal of Democracy 00:02:46
And yet now there is a significant number of people, conservatives, Republicans in America, who for some reason think that it's fine that Putin has done this and he was provoked and he should be able to take the land he's taken and that's it.
I don't really understand what has changed here in their country.
I think it's creepy.
It's creepy and it's bizarre.
But I think there's always been a strain in America of isolationism.
And there's always, and I think it's partly just a lack of enthusiasm for embroiling America in any European theater of conflict.
And, you know, we saw that in the Second World War.
It took two years before the Americans came in.
And as I pointed out many times before, one of the reasons why people are anxious about this deal, the resources deal, they think the Americans are being too rapacious.
But remember what they screwed out of us, Piers, in 1941, 1940, 1994.
We were on our knees.
Britain was fighting alone against Nazism.
And the Americans still demanded as a price for Lend Lease.
They demanded there was the Bases for Destroyers deal, you remember?
We had to give up a lot of our bases in the Caribbean.
We had to give them a base in Newfoundland.
They gave us a little rust bucket destroyers that didn't really work.
And then we had to pay billions of dollars to America during the Second World War when a billion dollars was really a lot of money.
In fact, we paid so much money to America that we stopped paying checks.
The UK taxpayer last wrote out a check to the United States for the support we had in the Second World War under Lend-Lease in 2006 when Ed Bulls was economic secretary to the Treasury and Tony Blair was Prime Minister.
So what I'm trying to tell you is America, in my opinion, will continue to be the arsenal of democracy.
I have no doubt that America is going to continue to support Ukraine.
But today, as always, American politicians, whether on the right or wherever, in Congress, they're setting a price on their support.
And just as they did with Franklin D. Roosevelt, they are constraining, as you rightly say, they're constraining what I think Donald Trump wants to do.
And I think, like you, I think his fundamental instincts are in favor of standing up to Putin and in favor of a sovereign Ukraine.
I hope that is the case.
I think that is the case.
I think a lot of this is Trump being the deal maker, which he's very skillful at, and in putting America first.
One Last Message to Starmer 00:03:13
Just spell out for me two messages.
One, for Donald Trump, what is your message to him?
You know him well.
You've worked alongside him when you were British Prime Minister.
And secondly, Kia Starmer, who's now your successor as Prime Minister in this country, is going to the White House on Thursday.
What's your message for Starmer when he's standing there next to Trump?
Yeah, so my message to Donald Trump would be what I've said to him repeatedly.
Look, his commitment, Pete Hegseth's commitment to a sovereign, free, secure Ukraine, that is the key thing.
Everything flows from that.
That's great.
Keep focusing on that.
Putin can't live with that.
Putin's eventually going to lose this thing.
Donald Trump is doing the right thing to focus on the sovereign Ukraine.
Starmer needs to go out and show how we, the UK, with the French, are going to provide that deterrent force to help the valiant, valiant, heroic Ukrainians to turn their country into a steel-quilled porcupine that is basically indigestible to any future attack by Vladimir Putin.
That's what we need to do.
And when it comes to dealing with you, thank you for that.
One last question, Boris.
When it comes to dealing with, I'm so sorry.
Can I say one last thing?
One last thing before you go, Boris.
This is five years ago, you ran into a fridge to avoid being interviewed by me.
It's a long time to spend in a fridge.
I'm now in a glorified fridge.
Did you get amendments?
Did you get hypothermia?
I'm making amends by giving you the longest interview I've ever given you in a place that is substantially colder than most domestic fridges.
Anyway, take care.
All the best, Boris.
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The Email Chain of Command 00:15:09
US government employees have until midnight tonight to reply to email asking them to list their achievements in the last week.
Elon Musk says that failing to reply will be considered a resignation.
Democrats are outraged.
The union called it cruel and disrespectful.
For his part, Musk has said it should take no longer than five minutes.
And that it's a basic test of whether millions of federal employees have a pulse and are even reading their emails at all.
Well, Doge continues to face legal and political challenges to its aim of stripping billions from the federal budget.
Elsewhere, President Trump has fired six top military officers in what has been dubbed a purge of the Pentagon.
And MSNBC has cancelled Joy Reid and what I'm dubbing a purge of the, well, let's just say, I thought she was utterly useless.
Plenty of debate with my panel.
Canadian businessman, investor, and shark tank star Kevin O'Leary.
Joanna Carducci, also known as Jojo from Jersey, publisher of the User Mag newsletter on Substack, Taylor Lorenz, and the co-host of Verdict with Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson.
Or welcome to all of you.
Ben, let me, let me start with you.
Just to kick things off.
I mean, I've got to say, there's so much stuff coming out of the White House.
It's almost impossible to keep up with it.
There's a kind of electric dynamic energy to it, which is very infectious, which I wish we had over in Britain, I have to say.
But at the same time, it's alarming people.
It's unsettling people.
We've never seen this kind of thing before.
And some of it I really agree with and some of it I don't.
We'll come to it later, but I really, I hate the way that both Trump and Elon have been going after Zelensky in such a personal manner.
We'll come to that.
But I love what they're doing with Doge.
So let's start with Doge.
You know, I think the whole principle of someone like Elon Musk, the most successful business guy in the world right now, taking his expert swathe right through federal spending and unearthing so many obviously egregious wastes of money.
I can't imagine most Americans, and by most I mean a significant majority, are not cheering from the rooftops.
Yeah, they are.
And part of this comes down to the accountability in the private sector.
And like the email is a great example of this.
The fact that there's so many on the left in the Democrats and the union that are triggered saying this is like an abusive email and that it's mean spirit and evil and it's going to trigger people, then clearly you need to leave your job.
Welcome to what Americans deal with in the private sector every day.
This wasn't a mean email.
If you've read it, and I've read the email, talked with Elon at CPAC.
And look, he's saying, it is time for accountability.
What the hell did you do in your job in the last five days?
Tell me what you're doing so that we know if you even read your emails or you even exist in this fear of no one coming to work in the federal government into office buildings.
And they come out and they say the left comes out and they're like, well, this is somehow just evil and mean spirit.
Act like an adult.
Grow up.
You don't wear a diaper anymore.
You're an adult.
In the private sector, I have to answer every day.
You do too with ratings for this show.
If your ratings go down, there's accountability for that.
You and I are judged in the harshest way.
I've never got in the corner and cried.
I've never called a lawyer or a union representative to protect me.
It's the real world.
And when you are a taxpayer, it is time for you to demand accountability for your tax dollars.
That's all Imam Musk is doing.
And anyone that's afraid of this, please don't respond to the email.
Do not show up for work.
We don't need you.
Yeah, I mean, Taylor, I mean, what's wrong with anything Ben just said?
Yeah, I mean, listen, I am all for more accountability and more limited government, you know, in many ways.
I just don't know that creating more red tape and this email system is the most efficient way to restrict the government.
I mean, it just doesn't make any sense.
Who's going to read these emails?
Like, you're just creating more work.
And also, what if people are out of their office?
It's not a problem.
Pardon?
This is not red tape.
It's a simple question.
If you're important.
Who's going to read the emails?
I'm assuming you're going to have to go to the bathroom and evaluate all of them.
If he's going to interrupt, can I interrupt him?
Because I mean, I would like to make a point because this, I mean, if we're going to interrupt each other, let's just go there.
Because what you said was hectic and frenetic, Piers.
And by the way, I just want to take a moment and acknowledge that you and I agree on what's going on with Donald Trump and Elon Musk painting Zelensky as a dictator.
And I cannot believe it's a cold day in hell that we agree.
But I just wanted to acknowledge that because I appreciate you saying something that is factual in that regard.
This is not hectic or frenetic.
This is chaotic.
And that email came through on a Saturday night and Senator Tina Smith said, Elon is a dick boss.
Okay.
Half of the people that it was sent to were not even checking email on a Saturday night.
Some of them are park workers who don't check their email on a regular basis.
Some of those people had information that was sensitive that they shouldn't be sharing over an open server like that.
And Elon sent that email out without the agency heads even knowing it was going out, didn't consult with them at all.
And now most of them have said to those employees, please do not respond to this email.
It's not red tape.
It's not true.
It's not even Tulsi Gabbard.
That is 100%.
So I can explain to you the email.
Cash Pattelle and Tulsi Gabber made it very clear.
Literally.
Again, again, I was just at CPAC.
I actually know these people.
I know Cash well.
And what they said in the email is that was, hey, do not respond.
Let me finish.
Do not respond back to this email.
You're going to go to your direct superior and respond to them.
So there's a chain of command here because some of these people deal with national security.
But the idea that you're treating adults like coddled little children saying they don't check their email.
Everybody's got a damn phone.
I check my email all the time.
If you're such a little wuss that you can't check a phone at all.
Oh, I'm a brainer.
Do you work for me?
On a Monday night?
You don't fail to have the job.
You can hire them.
If this is who you guys want to hire, it's people that are like, oh, I can't check my email till Monday.
Then you hire them and you'll have a failure of a business.
But in the real world, you check your damn email.
I don't know how to change command.
We'll stop shouting at me.
In the real world, we have chains of command.
Hang on.
I'll come to Kevin now.
We do in the government.
Okay, here's my point.
I would make.
I've got not a massive team of people here, but if one of them complained about getting an email over a weekend, for example, I would know instinctively, and they're all probably listening to me, but I would know instinctively, they're not right to work on this show.
You know, we're not a nine to five Monday to Friday show where you clock off and that's it.
We're an old consultant.
Piers, they didn't complain.
They didn't know what they were doing.
They had a YouTube channel, which has no union and their lawyers.
Yeah, but I had to say this idea of it.
They didn't know what happened.
This idea you'd be traumatized by an email.
Because there was no chain of command.
Well, let me bring in Kevin.
Let me bring in Kevin.
Piers, if one of your producers were to do that without consulting with you, if they were to send you employees an email on a Saturday night without consulting with you, and if your employees then said to you, I don't know what I'm supposed to do here.
I'd probably promote them.
That sounds kind of chaotic.
I mean, a chain of command seems like a big problem.
One of my employees was working on a Saturday night, very often do, by the way.
We met the weekends.
If one of them did that for an initiative, great.
Kevin, you've employed a lot of people.
What do you make of this whole debate around Elon's email, first of all?
For the average American voter, and we know that they, on a majority basis, put Donald Trump in power.
They don't give a damn about this.
They actually don't care about anything other than making sure that a lot of these claims are verified.
And so if Elon runs around and says, look, there's 500 million wasted here and 200 million wasted here, it's very disconcerting.
Trump has a 24-month mandate now before midterms.
He's doing all this very quickly because he knows come the midterms he may not hold a majority anymore.
But frankly, nine out of 10 Americans think this is a very good idea.
And there's something to be considered here from the real world, as we've been talking about the real world.
When you are in a turnaround situation, and I invest in these and have for 30 years, you go into a bankrupt organization and you cut as much as you have on the spreadsheet at the beginning plus 20%.
And why do you do that?
Because you don't know what you don't know.
And you want to do the cut all at once.
Big, huge cuts so that you don't have a situation where every two weeks you're letting more people go.
You want the impact to occur all at once.
Then you hire back to fill in the holes of the mistakes you made.
That's how you do it.
And that's what I wish Elon was doing because he's not.
He's not cutting enough, frankly.
These organizations have been growing for a long time, decades, without ever being trimmed.
They're dripping with fat.
And I think there's a lot more work to be done here.
But this email chain thing, nobody cares.
It doesn't matter.
And if these employees actually aren't reading their emails, whether it's Saturday night or Monday morning, they should be fired because maybe they haven't been reading them for months or years.
Nobody knows.
And do they read them?
I'm going to an office.
Nobody knows.
Well, there's even a theory that some of them might not be alive, but are still receiving paychecks.
And Kevin, you said this.
You said, keep slashing, keep hacking while you have this 24-month mandate you just alluded to.
Cut, More, more cutting.
Believe me, it's going to work out great.
What's interesting about what we said about Elon Musk, when he bought X for $40 odd billion dollars, the very first thing he did on day one was I think he fired half the workforce, 7,000 or so people.
And guess what?
X carried on coming out and was fine.
And now it looks like, according to the report.
The company's worth half of what it was when he bought it.
I'm about to come to that, Taylor.
Taylor, just on that very...
I was about to finish my sentence to say that the reports in the last few days are that the valuation of X is now believed to be as big as what he paid for it, if not more, because so many blue chip companies are coming back to advertise.
X is the example.
Hang on, Taylor.
Hang on.
I'll come to you guys on Twitter.
Let Kevin respond and I'll come to you.
I promise.
Listen, the measure of what X is worth is what the debt, that's the proprietary stack on the balance sheet.
It's trading at parity again.
It was down as low as 40 cents after he slashed 7,200 employees.
Now it's back.
That's an example of how it works.
And it's back in less than three years.
And so at the end of the day, the same thing should happen in the government.
And the big agencies he hasn't even started with yet, the military, the Pentagon.
Now, what they get to say in past decades is always, well, you can't touch our budgets.
We're defending the country.
We are opaque.
We're not transparent.
They're pushing all that aside.
They want to see where the billions go, how they're used, and how it's measured in terms of success.
I think there's a lot of money wasted there, and we're going to find that out too.
But remember, it's all going to happen in two years.
So you talk about breakneck speed.
There is a reason.
And everybody should just chill out.
Don't worry about it because this is the only way to do it.
Cut deep, cut hard, and then hire back to fill the holes.
That's what he said.
And by the way, they were compassionate when they sent out the best.
He's talking about FBI that need years of training.
Piers, they were compassionate on the front end of this by sending an email out offering a massive severance if you wanted to leave the government and not come back to work in an office.
Something that the private sector would never offer to millions of employees.
So for all of these people that are crying in the corners, you should have changed the payout.
You should have walked away when you had a stupid good deal in front of you if you knew you were a lazy person and you didn't want to check an email.
All right.
Well, most of our money goes to military employees getting those.
Don't talk over each other.
Let's go to Taylor first, then Jojo.
I was just going to say, most of our money goes to the military and defense contract, and I totally agree.
Well, okay.
But I'm saying, like, we have more debt services.
I didn't even remember her.
Let her talk.
Stop being so rude.
I don't think anyone is going to talk about that.
It's bad information to say that our, that the military is not going to be a lot of people.
I'm going to run timeouts.
Time out.
Go to what Kevin was saying.
If you all talk at the same time, nobody can hear you.
Why do you need to be heard?
If you all talk at the same time, no one can hear you.
Taylor, finish what you wanted to say.
Taylor's turn.
Jojo, I'll come to you and then I'll let members.
Taylor first.
I don't think, look, I don't think anyone here would dispute that we spend quite a bit of money on the military, okay?
No matter what you think of that.
Now, I would love to see Elon Musk come in with his chainsaw and do similar cuts on that bloat.
I think we all have parts of the federal government that we would like to see cut quite indiscriminately.
I just think this is an inefficient way to go about it.
I don't know who's reading these emails that seems inefficient.
I think Park Rangers are not going to be checking their email.
Like, sure, you want a 24-7 note.
In a more strategic way.
I think performance reviews are great.
I genuinely want to know.
I really want to.
I think I, okay.
I think performance reviews are great.
I think allowing people who are managing some of these people that actually have knowledge of what they're doing, saying, hey, look, you have to cut X amount and doing it more strategically.
I think this is kind of messy and honestly inefficient.
But look, I would love to see similar reviews.
It should also go through the chain of command.
Okay, JoJo.
The way you're describing it, it's what we've been doing.
It's a disaster.
I want to let JoJo go.
We do have systems in place.
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I'm sorry, Taylor, that you did not get to finish most of your answers.
I guess the guy who's on the podcast with Ted Cruz doesn't get enough time to talk.
But I just wanted to say, back to the idea of nine out of 10 Americans being in support of these Doge cuts.
I don't know where Kevin got those numbers, but maybe somebody on Shark Tank manufactured them in front of you.
They're not real.
Because actually, polling has revealed that Donald Trump is underwater.
And if you've seen the news lately, you've also noticed that in red districts all over the country at town hall meetings, Americans in very ruby red districts are voicing their displeasure and dissatisfaction with the state of things as they are right now.
And they're wondering why Elon Musk has been given this sort of tyrannical reign that they didn't vote for.
This is not wildly popular.
I'm still waiting for anybody on this panel to tell me when the winning starts because I'm thus far looking around going, we don't seem to have any winning.
You're just looking at coaches.
Plus, okay.
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I mean, I would say hang on, JoJo.
I don't have a horse in the race, but only this morning, Apple have apparently guaranteed Trump, and it's all been announced, that they're going to put half a trillion dollars, I think it was, into the.
Is that right?
I can't remember the exact figure.
Kevin, you probably know.
How much is Apple putting in?
Just under half a trillion.
Right.
That's a staggering.
That's a staggering investment in America, which wouldn't have happened probably if Trump hadn't had the meeting with Tim Clook from Apple.
So you're saying there's no winning going on.
There is a lot of money.
Hang on, JoJo, hang on.
There is a lot of money pouring into America, which was being outsourced, which is coming as a result of all these Mur-a-Lago meetings that Trump was having with all the tech guys.
And they're all doing what he wanted.
They're bringing jobs back to America.
But in the opening factories in America, that's a big win, isn't it?
Are they?
Yes, literally.
But in the meantime, you should enjoy that.
You should explain.
But in the meantime, if I make Americans, it doesn't stop.
In the meantime, you're so rude.
I'm not being as rude as lying.
All right, don't talk over each other.
Jojo.
You need a powerful.
Jojo, just answer my question, Jojo.
Jojo, you asked what winning.
Yes, I am, Pierre.
Jojo, you asked what winning.
Jojo, you said what you said, you're waiting for the winning.
I would say that Apple committing half a trillion dollars to American investment is a big win, right?
And that happened today.
I was going to respond.
I was going to respond to you.
In the meantime, Piers, eggs are 53% more expensive than they were a year ago.
Consumer confidence is down.
Inflation is higher than it was in the last year.
Who do you blame for Joe Biden's term?
Prices?
Yes.
I'm going to blame Donald Trump.
I mean, you're going to blame the guy who's been in charge for the terms of the terms.
You're not going to blame the president who's at the helm?
Hang on.
You're going to blame the guy who's been in charge for one month.
Hang on.
Hang on.
The guy who's been in charge for one month is responsible for the last year.
Is that your position?
What is remarkable to me is that every time Donald Trump gets into office, your steadfast inability to hold him accountable for anything when he's at the helm is remarkable.
He wasn't responsible for COVID.
Let me ask you.
So at what point does the buck stop with the president of the United States?
You know what?
I'm a realist.
If you understood Donald Trump's economy, it's not his fault in 30 days.
Joe Biden didn't inherit Donald Trump's.
Why don't we go to the financials?
Donald Trump inherited Joe Biden's.
All right, let me go to the financial expert on the panel, which is Kevin.
Kevin, just explain to Jojo the reality, perhaps, of an economy and how long it takes to do stuff which actually kicks in.
Yeah, the facts about eggs and protein inflation, gas and rental, housing inflation have nothing to do with Trump.
He's only been there for six weeks.
The reason we still have inflation over 3%, which is 33% higher than the Fed's target of 2%, and why they won't be cutting rates again this year, is because we did four massive multi-trillion dollar packages during Biden's administration, including the Inflation Act, the CHIPS Act, the Infrastructure Act, and much of that money is still sloshing around the economy.
This was printing money and pouring it out of a helicopter onto the economy.
We probably spent a lot of time.
Kevin, inflation was lowering.
It was lowering at the end of Biden's term.
It was not increasing.
It is going up now.
You're telling me that those things that were in place before inflation was not.
Jojo, you seem very, I don't need to be an economic actor.
Jojo, for somebody who hates interrupting, you interrupt a lot.
Buddy, let Kevin finish.
Listen, you can't.
I do apologize.
I just want to correct you.
Okay, you're still interrupting.
Let Kevin finish.
Look, Jojo, but you didn't stop the other guy.
Okay, I'm stopping you.
Kevin.
You can't reduce inflation in six weeks.
Maybe two years from now, eggs will be where they were at the beginning of whenever you want to count the pricing.
It's a long haul.
The economy is flush with cash, free money, including billions to student loan forgiveness.
All of that stuff is inflationary.
And look, I'm not blaming or saying good or bad.
That's what Biden did.
He is responsible for the inflation.
It's his.
He owns it.
Now, six weeks in, we're seeing a lot of programs.
And the best way to reduce inflation, frankly, and help the country would be to take all of these savings, not send them out to checks.
If these doge savings are true, don't send out $5,000 checks.
We don't need that.
We need to pay down debt.
That's the number one issue right now.
And that's the pressure Congress is going to put on Trump.
Use these savings to pay down debt.
Okay, Jojo, your response.
Pierce, did I ask this question?
Yeah, I just don't understand why Kevin is not dealing in the reality of the fact that inflation was going down.
At the end of Joe Biden's term, it was lower and consistently lowering than it is now.
It has gone up to, I think, June of 2024 levels.
So how is it that you're going to attribute this inflation to Joe Biden while Donald Trump is in office and discount tariffs?
Some of them are government discount.
All of those inflationary programs.
I don't understand how you're associating this increase in inflation to Joe Biden when it was going down at the end of his life.
I don't understand.
Let me say this.
Okay, number one, if you look at the numbers that they changed, the employment numbers in November, December, they have changes to them.
That's number one.
Whose fault is that?
That would be Joe Biden's economy then.
If you go and look at it, I don't know why that's confusing or you have that weird face right now.
They change numbers all the time.
And they say, hey, we thought we added X number of dollars, but we actually didn't.
They also change inflationary numbers as well.
I don't understand how that's so hard for you to understand.
But again, this goes back to what Doge is doing.
And if you look at Doge, we have more spending per month on servicing the debt of the money we borrowed in this country than DOD spending.
And so I'm not sure what you're fighting against.
If we have a bankrupt company, and that is the United States of America right now, there's no one that would invest in it.
If it was a private company, it would have gone under.
We're trillions of dollars in debt.
There should be slashes and cuts everywhere.
The president inherited a terrible economy with insane inflation because of all the free money we see.
Let me ask you again.
Let me ask you.
Hang on, Ben.
Let me ask you a question then.
When should we be judging Trump on the status of the American economy?
When should we judge him on the inflation rate, for example?
In other words, at what point does the Biden effect come sweeping through and actually it's all on Trump?
When you talk to economists, most of them say it's 12 to 16 months before you get a real window of what is taking place now and how it's affecting the economy.
But there's many out there that they just want to win.
So they go to the egg prices, for example, which was a problem with flu and everything else that we know about.
The killing of many of the chickens and the hens.
That's part of the problem.
We saw prices go up.
Now, what has the president done?
He said, we got to lower the price of grain.
We got to lower the price of gas.
We got to lower the price of production.
And we got to do what we can to help the prices come down.
But you got to understand, there are some people, it's not really about helping Americans.
It's about scoring political points.
And you've seen that today.
They want there to be bad news in American sufferings.
They can point and say it's Donald Trump's fault in six weeks, which is insane.
And I think they know it, but it's pushing political agenda.
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Okay, but all I would say is hang on.
All I would say is that they're actually doing exactly what you guys would do if it was the other way around.
Just for the rest of the day.
No, I wouldn't.
No, no, you would.
It's not true.
You would.
Ben Ferguson.
Ben Ferguson, I've known you.
God, how long have I known you?
I've known you 15 years.
I know you.
We're both getting old, my friend.
We're getting old.
Let me bring in Taylor.
Taylor, I want to show you a clip.
This is from the seatbelt.
This is where Elon Musk goes mad with a chainsaw.
This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy.
Turnsaw.
Game likes game, right?
Game knows game.
Right?
I'll tell you his game.
The gentleman sitting in the White House, Donald J. Trump, it's a glorious day.
Days of thunder.
Days of thunder and years of lightning.
Every day is Christmas Day.
Every day you get more executive orders, more executive actions.
It's not going to stop.
And we're not going to retreat.
We're not going to surrender.
We're not going to quit.
Fight, fight, fight.
So there were two things there, Taylor, which might have concerned people.
One is Elon Musk going berserk with a chainsaw, which was given to him by President Millé of Argentina.
And obviously, we all got the point.
He's taking a chainsaw to federal overspend.
But it was a weird scenario on stage there.
Someone loved flying around with that chainsaw, looking slightly bonkers.
And I would argue that Elon may not even realize this, but he may be sucking up a little too much attention for Donald Trump's liking.
But we'll come to that particular ego issue later.
The second point was the arm signal which Steve Bannon made at the end, which he would argue is a deliberate attempt to wind up the libs.
Many people think was a fascist salute and wasn't even an accident.
And that following on from what Elon did, which I do not believe was a Nazi salute for a moment, that actually there's a fine line between winding up the libs and actually embracing or encouraging genuine fascists.
So what are your thoughts on these two things?
First of all, chainsaw Elon.
I think it's bizarre.
I mean, I think Elon just wants, he's dressed in like the Doge father outfit.
I feel like he just, I mean, he just wants to perform for the cameras and drive headlines.
I don't even think he knows how to turn on the chainsaw.
I think he's kind of inept and just seeking attention.
And I think ultimately that might be his downfall.
Billionaire.
Got it.
Yeah.
I mean, he is.
Richest man in the world.
Totally about the music.
Inept in terms of his ability to communicate.
He's just out.
Like, what is he even saying?
I'd actually prefer to hear him talk about Doge in any sort of coherent way rather than waving a chainsaw.
I think he's seeking headlines.
I don't think, whatever.
Anyway, I don't really care about that or have a huge, you know, he goes off and performs and wants headlines.
That's what he's doing.
And by the way, that's what Bannon's doing too with his like, you know, salute gesture or whatever you want to call it.
It's just, it's just an attempt to garner attention.
And like you said, troll lives.
I think it's quite concerning because actual neo-Nazis interpret those hand gestures in a certain way.
And you're seeing those people celebrating this hand gesture becoming normalized.
I think that whatever it is a Nazi, like it is reminiscent of a Nazi salute.
If you don't consider it a Nazi salute, we can all, we all know what a Nazi salute looks like.
I think normalizing that hand gesture right now in this climate is incredibly irresponsible and stupid.
Yeah, I mean, Ben, you know, I think that when Musk did it, he probably, it was done innocently is my honest view about that.
He meant it from the heart to them.
I got that.
But when people start doing it afterwards, very deliberately, you know that that's not an accident.
They're making a deliberate point.
Now, they might be being funny as they would put it, but you can if there's often if there are too many people on the MA right who start doing this, it will encourage people who are attracted to political groups who may be genuine fascists to say, hey, these guys are my guys.
That's not a good thing, is it?
Look, I had dinner Friday night sitting next to Bannon, and if you're a guy like Bannon who was attacked by the government and found in contempt and dragged off to prison the way he was, and then you see a media which goes after Elon Musk because he waves at a crowd and says it's a Nazi salute, which everyone, including you, Piers, knew was not.
Would I want to troll them because I have a different perspective because of what happened to me?
Yeah.
Is he mad?
Sure, he is.
Is he ready to fight back?
Yes.
Was he willing to go to jail over it?
Absolutely.
Should he be doing it?
I wouldn't do it.
I can say that.
So that's the point.
Bannon has a different perspective, which is it is absurd that they attacked Elon Musk because they're so afraid of the guy who actually saving money.
They say, oh, he did a Nazi salute.
So is he trolling them?
I am sure he is.
And I don't blame him for being that angry, honestly.
No, but it's interesting.
It's interesting.
Hang on, but...
It's interesting that you admitted you wouldn't do it yourself, though.
And I'm glad to hear.
Jojo, I mean, I think there is an issue.
If people keep doing this from stages representing Trump and the MAGA movement, I think it is going to backfire.
I think you're going to start seeing some ugly stuff go on with genuine fascists coming out saying these are our people.
I agree.
And Taylor's exactly right.
You know, those neo-Nazis and the fascists, they're perceiving it as a message to them.
So it is worth noting that.
But also think about trolling.
Like you're trolling somebody by making a reference to Nazis who, you know, these are the people who were in the middle of the morning.
You made the first reference to Nazis with Elon Musk.
I'm sorry.
Once again, I was in the middle of a sentence.
I think your argument about interrupting JoJo.
Jojo, with respect, your argument about it hang on.
Your argument about interrupting Jojo was slightly diminished by the way you interrupted Kevin, just for the record.
Oh, Piers, are we going to move past that now and continue to let this happen?
You've now corrected me in the midst of being interrupted instead of correcting the men who are not.
I'm kind of bored of people who make a big deal of being interrupted, then interrupting people, then playing the victim.
But I wasn't playing the victim about being interrupted.
It's going to be interrupting.
From the interrupting.
You corrected me instead of being able to.
All right, Kevin.
I want to finish.
I want to finish and referencing Nazis.
Because as you know, Piers, what we're looking at with Putin on the march right now, in what is happening in potentially happening in Europe, to then that, the correlation between that and trolling people by using that symbol, make no mistake, we know what's happening right now, and it cannot be normalized.
You yourself would know that and agree.
You said you wouldn't do it.
And I forget the gentleman's name on the right.
He said he wouldn't do it, but he never said why.
He never said why he wouldn't do it.
And we all know why he wouldn't do it.
Why nobody on this issue?
I just wanted to say that.
It's self-explanatory because I don't want to be connected with Nazis.
But no, like saying I wouldn't do it.
And the fact that you need some sort of explanation, and I'm happy.
But Steve McClure.
Let me apologize to Matt.
Let me finish.
He should be able to.
If you ask a question, I'll answer it.
I already explained why I think Steve Bannon did what he did.
And for everyone else watching, I apologize.
You guys are going to have to tune out for 30 seconds while I explain this very simply to one human being.
And I apologize because you guys understand.
Well, no, Hang on, Ben.
Ben, it's a legitimate question.
Just explain very quickly why you wouldn't do it.
Because I don't ever want to be connected to anything that would look like aiding, abetting people that are Nazis that want to take out Jews who I stand with and the people of Israel who are under attack right now.
That's just not my idea.
I agree with you.
To go in that area.
I agree with you, but that's not my style.
Right, I agree.
But that is something that I think that memo is not getting received.
Let me bring in Kevin on this.
I mean, Kevin, from a leadership point of view, if you were Donald Trump, how comfortable are you about the constant attention-seeking stuff by Elon Musk?
Does it matter?
Would you care?
Is he stealing oxygen that maybe you would want to limit to the president?
I mean, how do you feel about that, first of all?
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They've already addressed that.
Elon Musk does not have any executional mandate.
He can only make recommendations as a special government employee.
That's the designation he has.
There's others in the White House that have that designation.
It gets around the lobby laws that exist.
They don't have to abide by them because they're doing direct work for the government through the executive.
That's technically what's going on.
But he's addressed it in multiple interviews, as recent as last week.
There's a lot of criticism about this, and I understand it.
And when you look at social media combined with traditional linear and cable media, you've always got to assume 2.5% lunatic fringe.
And we have that here for sure.
Now, the issue is more or less, you've got someone with an incredible track record.
Elon Musk has an incredible track record.
He's probably the most successful entrepreneur in modern times.
And he has 24 months to do what he's doing.
You either think it's a good idea or you don't.
You're not going to change your mind.
I submit that the majority of the population is intrigued to get the information about how much waste there potentially is.
How it gets implemented and how you execute on it is that the purview, that only can be done by Congress.
So while everybody's going crazy talking about this, the actual processing of these cuts, including the big prize, which would be the Pentagon, has to be implemented with surgical precision through Congress.
And that's what will happen.
Having said that, the big stick that Elon has, and he said this too, and this too is extraordinary.
If you're in Congress and you vote against these cuts when the majority wants them done, I will invest in making sure you lose your next election contest.
That's a serious threat, and it's completely legal.
He can invest in any writing he wants, any jurisdiction, any county, in any state, against an incumbent who is not supporting the Doge mandate.
An incredible situation.
Frankly, I see no problem with it.
Okay.
You see no problem with a billionaire.
Hang on, Taylor.
I want to bring Taylor.
I'm actually going to switch gears.
Well, I'm going to bring Taylor actually on something else, which is to do with the Elon Musk baby mama drama, because you actually have been responsible for the latest development on this because a friend of the show, Ashley Sinclair, who came on only a week ago, actually, but didn't reveal the little secret she was keeping, has had Elon Musk baby, or says she has.
And you revealed a series of new revelations about this.
For those who haven't been following this as assiduously as me, but just summarize exactly what you were doing with Ashley.
Yeah, so I didn't do anything with Ashley.
I broke the news, which was available in public court documents, that Ashley Sinclair, who had Musk's latest child, has filed a paternity suit and a custody suit for the youngest child, her new son.
So she's seeking sole custody of the child and also seeking to establish legal paternity.
This comes right after, you know, more drama with Elon Musk's previous baby mother, Grimes, who tweeted just last week that the son, another child of them, was in the midst of a medical emergency.
They had a huge custody bottle, et cetera, et cetera.
So I think Ashley's hoping to avoid some of that and seeks sole custody.
Okay.
Well, the Ashley Sinclair story has led to some traditional conservatives questioning the morals of a new Republican establishment.
Jeremy Hamley from the Quartering Channel is one such voice and he joins the panel.
Now, Jeremy, great to have you on Uncensored.
First time we've had you.
Thank you for joining us.
You think there's, I mean, I've got to say, when I saw what you were saying here, that nearly every single conservative influencer is congratulating a twice single mom on another out of wedlock child with a man who has zero intention on marrying her.
Elon's a degenerate and shares criticism for his actions too.
When I saw that, I was surprised actually that more people were not pointing out there's a sort of weird double standard going on here, which is a kind of embracement, embracing and celebration of all this when actually a conservative Christian right perhaps perspective would normally be pretty censorious.
Yeah, I think it was pretty disappointing to see a lot of these people call themselves Christians or Catholics or religious and preach a lot of different morals about family, the core family, traditional values.
And it was pretty appalling to see everyone race into the replies.
And I do want to be clear.
I think both parties here are, you know, I think in many of these cases, the women take a lot of extra heat.
And I think Ashley St. Clair, that there's plenty to criticize.
But I also think I don't love Elon creating infinite babies with zero intention on being a father.
And I don't think that these women who are agreeing to do IVF, knowing that he's not going to be in their life, is a traditional conservative value.
And it's something that the conservatives aren't calling out because they don't want to wreck their connection to Elon Musk, at least in my opinion, even if it's tangentially.
You actually criticized Taylor directly.
You said Ashley Sinclair literally ran to Elon Duranged leftist Taylor Lorenz to smear Elon.
That's your base-based trans conservative queen, Con Inc.
Ha So you weren't impressed by Ashley running to Taylor.
Well, I love, I've got a lot of love for Taylor.
Happy birthday, Taylor.
But, you know, I think she's patient zero for Elon Derangement syndrome.
So I thought it was pretty funny that she was, you know, breaking the news.
Now, if Ashley didn't go to her directly, as she is now clarified, it's a little less interesting.
But I do think it was funny for somebody who was begging for privacy, was happy to be taking pictures of private signal conversations on a secondary phone for further lawsuits, run to a spread with the New York Post, and all this stuff set up weeks before the Valentine's Day meltdown.
This woman was never a conservative.
She has tweets going back to 2020, for example.
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Here's one of my all-time favorites, if you'll allow me to share it.
It says, if a woman, if women get the right to abortion, men should have the option to not pay child support.
I think that's pretty rich for somebody who's currently suing for full custody.
And I think we all know why she's suing for full custody.
Okay.
I mean, Taylor, you've also criticized Elon for using his son in the Oval Office.
You said Elon Musk, the dad fluencer, the billionaires leveraging his son to rebrand himself as a father figure.
Just to bring Taylor back in a moment.
I mean, Taylor, first of all, what do you say to Jeremy about the criticism about Ashley Sinclair running to you, given how you're such an unlikely bedfellow for this particular debate?
Again, these are public court documents on a website that every reporter in the country has been checking relentlessly.
And I, being on California Times, was up and got the scoop.
I don't really know what to tell people that.
I don't know what Elon derangement syndrome is.
I am a very nonpartisan critic of both sides of the aisle.
I think Elon has done some good things.
I think he's lost the plot on a lot of other things.
In this instance, look, I'm not one that subscribes to these conservative values of, you know, you can't have IVF or da, da, whatever, whatever.
So I think that, look, has Ashley made some contradictory statements in the past?
Sure, but at the end of the day, this is a mother.
Elon Musk, you know, is the father of the child.
I think Elon Musk, if you are a conservative, right, you should support fathers being, you know, supporting their children.
So I hope that he supports his children.
I hope he takes care of his children.
I think it's concerning how he's, you know, trying to leverage his children to boost his public profile.
I've written a lot about the danger of parent influence.
He's involved with the kids.
You don't want him to be involved with the kids.
That might be the dumbest statement I've ever heard.
He brings his kid around the White House.
Which is what everybody does if they go to the White House.
They want to show their kids amazing things.
If I can bring my son on the city, you don't have to do that on camera.
You don't have to do that on camera.
He wouldn't choose to do that anymore.
You can do it in Bush and Elon Musk.
Talk about this.
So much crap.
Piers, let me just say this.
Well, Ben, let me ask you, Ben.
Let me ask you, Ben.
Elon Musk has now got 13 kids by four different women, right?
And the latest mother is a single mom who's been married and divorced and so on.
I mean, how does that sit?
Does that sit comfortably, any of that, those series of facts with your conservative Christian right beliefs?
Would it be a life that I would lead?
No.
But all I care about is the kids.
And do they have a mom and a dad who are able to grow them and mature them and spend quality time with them without clickbait and people throwing stones and trying to tear down the mother or the father?
Like this shouldn't be litigated in public, number one.
Number two, the idea that Elon Musk needs to spend time with his kids, but not in public is just unrealistic.
When you are as famous as he is, any other celebrity out there and you have kids that are around you, they're going to be in the public eye.
You can try to protect them, but being able to go to the White House, being able to go to the Oval Office, spending quality time with your son there, getting to do that.
I have three sons.
I absolutely would take them to the Oval Office if I had the idea.
I think that's a meeting.
Being a good dad.
Yeah, yeah.
Let me bring it in.
Can we talk about conservative values?
Okay, JoJo.
Just to practice them from the media.
Let me ask JoJo for a reaction.
Well, I want to talk about the degradation of conservative values.
Between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, they have 17 children between six women.
Donald Trump, I was talking.
Donald Trump is a thrice-married serial philanderer who is also, by the way, an adjudicated rapist, a business fraud, and a convicted felon.
I was talking.
So I want to talk about the degradation of conservative values, Piers, to your original question, which is this is the slippery slope where we see where they were once, you know, beholden to Christian values more than they are now.
Now they have someone who worships at Our Lady of the Perpetual Mulligan every Sunday and doesn't so much as go to church other than to go shake a Bible upside down after tear gassing peaceful protesters.
This is not the party of family values like they hold themselves up to be or the profess themselves to be.
This is not the back the blue party.
They do not stand with our troops because if they did, they wouldn't be gutting the VA and they wouldn't be pardoning those who attacked our police officers on January 6th.
This is just yet another slide down the slope from that.
All right, let me know.
Why Republicans abandon their morality?
Okay, let me bring in Kevin.
Let me ask Kevin.
Kevin, does any of this matter?
Or has the Donald Trump double success winning the presidency twice, despite everybody knowing all about his private life, which has been generous, has been lively.
But does any of it now matter?
I mean, if I think about Democrat presidents, there was probably no greater philanderer in the history of world leaders than John F. Kennedy, for example.
Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton has sex with an intern in the Oval Office while he was Democrat president of the United States.
So I don't think the Democrats are in any position to lecture anybody about family values or fidelity.
However, does it matter now?
I mean, I get the sense people think about Musk.
Well, he wants to increase the population and he's leading by his own example.
I don't think people really care anymore.
Now, does it matter?
It's my question.
No, it doesn't.
This isn't really what people worry about, you know, when they're trying to figure out how to make ends meet at their kitchen table for millions of Americans making $68,000 on average.
They couldn't care less.
The one thing I would say, though, that is occurring now, because of the, I would say, the mastery of social media that Trump has pulled off in this latest election is a lot of soul searching with the Democrats.
You know, one of the things I have to do, I don't have a choice, is I'm an investor, so I really have to be bipartisan because I also invest in states that are blue.
And I know the governor's there, and I speak at their conventions as much as I do at Republican ones because I have no choice.
Entrepreneurship's bipartisan.
So I've met a lot of the fundraisers in the last few weeks with the Democratic Party, and they are doing a complete reset in terms of their messaging to their base.
What they can't understand is how Trump, and he used social media to do this more than linear television.
He was very masterful at doing interviews with people like you, Pierce, and then taking 15, 38, 49-second, 59-second snippets of it and reposting it on every single social media program.
And what he did, and the one that they're most concerned about during that last four months of the election, was steal the working man from the Democratic Party.
How is it possible that Donald Trump became the champion of the working man and unions across the East Coast and West Coast?
How did he do that?
How did he reach them?
What about Michigan?
The Michigan example is being studied by the Democrats right now.
How did he do that?
Every swing state.
Well, I have a theory.
I'm going to bring in two final stories and put them together, actually.
Hang on a second.
I'm going to play two clips because I think that, yes, it was about the economy.
Yes, it was about immigration.
But I do think this war that Trump and Elon Musk waged using social media, like you say, on wokeism in all its guises, the woke mind virus, I think that played a massive part in this.
I think Trump was, to many people, common sense against insanity with this woke stuff.
And interestingly, two things happened yesterday.
One was that MSNBC's Joy Reid, who loves to say that she's woke, the woke queen of cable news, actually, in my estimation, one of the most vicious, unpleasant, race-baiting racists I've ever seen on cable news, frankly.
She got fired because actually, you know what?
People woke up and realized she's not woke in the way that the nice people like it to be.
She's woke in that awful, vicious, shaming, canceling sense.
And the second time we had, second thing last night was Jane Fonder then saying this at an award show.
Make no mistake, empathy is not weak or woke.
And by the way, woke just means you give a damn about other people.
Yeah, I mean, Ben Ferguson, on that, the two things are not disconnected.
You have one, Joy Reed finally getting her come up as thoroughly deserved, but also you have the complete delusion, and I believe deliberate delusion of Jane Fonda.
I've interviewed her.
She's a tough lady, brilliant actress, a lot of admiration for her.
But the idea that wokeism is this wonderfully warm, empathetic movement that shows you care is for the birds.
Yeah.
Look, I think the American people have realized that this is basically irrelevant to their lives.
We tried it.
We tried this everything go woke, cancel culture, fight back and try to destroy everyone's life, just like you've heard in these smut stories trying to attack Elon Musk and the women that have a relationship with him.
The American people care about, is it safe to go outside and play?
Is it safe to send your kids to school?
Are my kids in a failing school?
Can I give my kids a better life than I had?
And if you want to know why Donald Trump did so well in the closing argument with the American people is because while they were pushing, you know, dudes in sports with women and demanding that parents can't show up and have a voice at their conferences at their schools and referring to them as domestic terrorists, the Republican Party listened and said, we understand what you're going through.
We want to give change to that.
We want to help you succeed.
And we want you to have a better country for your kids than what you have right now.
And so as long as they go up there and they try to talk down to America and say, well, woke means you give a damn.
No, woke means you're out there probably trying to ruin someone's life and get them fired from their job and try to ruin them or put them in jail.
Taylor, I'm going to say that.
It's ruining someone's life.
Taylor, I'm not on the conservative right at all.
I'm pretty centrist.
I'm just a journalist.
I fell out with the liberal world completely over this woke stuff because it's just completely nuts.
I'm like Bill Maher in all this, right?
I just think it's beyond my comprehension that you could have people on the left who genuinely think it's fine that biological men wreck women's sport.
It's madness.
Anyway, but the idea that the Democratic Party, Kamala Harris, who like doesn't, with all due respect, like all she said about trans people is like, I'll leave it up to the states.
As if Kamala Harris was some champion.
No, no, she didn't, though.
That's not true.
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden endorsed the right of trans athletes to compete in women's sports.
But again, they believe directly to the White House.
You know what?
This is not something.
This is just simply not something that the majority of Americans voted on.
The idea that the majority of the people who are in the world are not available.
I think it is.
I think you were completely delusional.
All right, let me bring in Jeremy.
Hang on, don't all talk.
Jeremy, you're nodding away there.
I think it played a big part.
And I would cite the New York Times report about the they, Carmelis and they themselves.
Trump is for you.
They say moved the needle maybe three points.
I think it was massively significant underbelly of debate was about this woke crap and that Trump they saw along with Musk as basically the common sense antidote to all this stuff.
Look, nobody did more to get Donald Trump elected than Hollywood elites and the Democrat Party.
There is a reason that once the Trump started running the ads, you know, Trump's for you, commas for they, them.
There's a reason he ran that ad.
I live in a swing state.
That was basically the only ad he ran for the last three weeks running up to the election.
And that tells me that based on their data, it was resonating with people.
Regular people, you know, this all, you know, California liberalism.
I get it.
It's funny to make fun of, but people, when they go and vote, they don't want anything to do with it.
Let me tell you, Woke is dead.
Hang on.
Hang on.
That we can agree on here.
That we can agree on.
Woke is dead, which is coincidentally the title of my forthcoming book, which will be released by HarperCollins worldwide.
Welcome.
In the fall.
I'll expect enthusiastic support from all of you.
I've got to leave it there.
It's been a great debate.
You've all been terrific.
Thank you all very much.
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