American Thought Leaders - Inside ‘Trump 2.0’ and the Media’s Role in Political Violence | Sean Spicer
Episode Date: May 1, 2026In what was the third major attempt on President Donald Trump’s life in an era of escalating political violence, this year’s White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) dinner was abruptly cut s...hort when multiple shots were fired, and a man was apprehended for trying to breach security.The 31-year-old suspect, Cole Allen, could face up to life in prison.Joining us today is Sean Spicer, who previously served as White House press secretary and White House communications director during the first Trump administration. Now, he’s the host of the Sean Spicer Show and author of the newly released book, “Trump 2.0: The Revolution That Will Permanently Transform America.”Spicer is known for being a vocal critic of the WHCA for over a decade and has long refused invitations to attend its events. At the time of the shooting incident, he was on his way to the Renwick Museum Gallery to attend Substack’s annual alternative to the WHCA dinner called “The New Media.”In this episode, we get his reaction to what happened, his new book “Trump 2.0,” and why he argues the second Trump administration will be far more consequential for America than the first.Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
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You have the President of the United States having three assassination attempts.
And we don't know the motives is a lie.
We do know the motives.
The guy literally wrote them down.
In this episode, I sit down with former White House press secretary Sean Spicer.
We discussed the attempt on President Trump's life at the White House Correspondents Association dinner
and his new book, Trump 2.0, the revolution that will permanently transform America.
He had four years out of office.
And what happened in those four years?
They plot, they plan.
What will we do when we get back?
What we do differently?
Who do we need on our team?
Who do we need to keep away from our team?
What are the forces against us?
From his insider's perspective,
he breaks down how President Trump's second administration
is fundamentally different from the first.
There would be no Maha without Trump 2.0.
And there would be no Trump 2.0 without Maha.
A lot of the Maha people feel like they're not being listened to.
How do you talk?
talk to them.
This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kellick.
Sean Spicer, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.
Thanks for having me.
Well, we have to talk about the White House Correspondents dinner.
Do we?
Well, I think we do have to.
So where were you?
And what's your reaction to all this?
I was trapped on 17th Street right outside the White House, trying to
to get into another event when the yellow tape got thrown out,
and the Secret Service is like, you're not going anywhere.
Fascinating. So, yeah, so tell me about that experience.
I mean, so first of all, in the book, I write about my opposition to the White House
Correspondents Association. I believe that the organization is corrupt and sort of needs to be
broken up, et cetera. So I have chosen to attend the substack alternative.
event, which is to me actually what the First Amendment is all about, which is acknowledging people's
freedom to write whatever they want and acknowledge that.
And that party was at the Renwick Museum gallery, which is right across from the White House,
next to Blair House, 17th of Pennsylvania Avenue.
And so we get out of the car.
There were some of my co-hosts from our morning show called The Huddle.
We had all ridden in together.
We get out and we start seeing a lot of lights.
And Saturday's, okay, well, you see that often.
And one of my co-host gets a text and he says, my sister's watching on C-SPAN.
and she says something's going on.
Next thing you know, the Secret Service has got the yellow tape out.
They're like, stay where you are, don't go anywhere.
And we're like, what's going on?
And then literally watching live, this thing start to unfold.
That we're now sitting in the freezing cold.
It's like 40 degrees out at 17th and Penn hearing about the shots getting fired.
But the Secret Service, I think there was a lot of question about the President.
Is he coming back to the White House?
When's he coming back to the White House?
But they wanted all the routes cleared.
And it was like an act of crime scene.
I mean, yellow tape up and down 17th Street.
It was surreal.
I've seen a lot in 30 years.
That was one of the most interesting evenings in my life.
And now when you're looking back at this is actually my next question, right?
So you had this experience on the ground.
What about now knowing what you know now?
It's so fascinating that you ask it because I think of these things in like multiple things, right?
So there's a discussion about the security there.
I actually think the security worked.
I mean, like, you were there, right?
People were given the impression this guy was, like, running through the ballroom, firing off.
It wasn't.
He was a floor up.
He didn't even get down close to the – well, he got near the stairs that would have taken him to that level.
Security worked.
He rushed a magnetometer, and they took him down.
That's what's supposed to happen.
That's number one.
Number two, I think there are serious questions about the continuity of government, how we operate,
because, right, it would have been – in the room was the president.
the vice president, the Speaker of the House. I don't believe the Senate pro tem, Senator Grassley was there,
but that's who we would have been stuck with, had everything gone horrifically wrong.
I think that the idea that so many Republicans and conservatives were there is part of my problem.
Like, why are we supporting this organization? Why are we complicit in adding legitimacy to this
dinner and to this group of people that hate conservatives? So there's a lot of different ways that I've looked at
what's going on in the night. And then obviously even just some of the reporting about,
you know, people talking about the security there, the, the shooter himself, no one wanted to
admit. We had a manifesto. We know what his motivations were. He wrote him down. And yet most of the
media just showed their true colors by saying, we don't know the motivations. Barack Obama said,
well, we don't know much. We did. And I think what unfolded Saturday night showed a lot of
things to be true, right? Who they really are, what's gone on in the left. I mean, this guy was
a radicalized shooter who believes the rhetoric of the left. He said, Trump is Hitler, Trump is a
tyrant, Trump is authoritarian, Trump is a threat to democracy. What did you think was going to
happen? And I think the lack of accountability from the left came really through Saturday night
into Sunday and Monday. So yeah, I think on the floor, you know, as we were still,
figuring out whether this was going to continue or not. I saw Senator Deb Fisher from Nebraska
on the floor and she had said this is a, she believed it was a product of the rhetoric that had
been happened. Of course it is. But look, I'm going to ask you quite, I mean, in its simplest terms,
if somebody says, we want to get out of this room and you say, well, that person is blocking us from
getting out of the room. At some point, the only way to get out of the room is to take them and get
them out of the way, right? I mean, and so when somebody says over and over again, whether it's Chuck
Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Kamala Harris, Tim Walts, Senator Alyssa Lacken, you name it, Trump is a threat
to democracy. He's a threat to our way of life. What do you think is going to happen? At some point,
somebody says, well, I love democracy. I love this country. If he's a threat, I need to do something.
They have radicalized these people. Chuck Schumer said that we need to get Kavanaugh.
Maxine Waters said that we should surround Trump officials and make them feel it.
I don't know why any of this is a shock.
I played a clip of Alyssa's Lockin on my show that airs on YouTube.
And it shows her saying to a crowd,
we can either sit back and weather this storm, meaning Trump 2.0,
or we can recognize the threat that he is.
Well, think about it.
If you're in that crowd right now, she just, and she goes,
and I hope we don't choose the first.
So she's telling people, don't weather the storm, don't sit there.
This guy's an actual threat.
If you're in the audience, I don't see how you don't take that as I'm being called to do something.
And you look at what happened to the CEO of United Healthcare.
Not only did they applaud it, they set up a legal defense fund.
They are encouraging violence, and the media is complicit in this as well.
I mean, to be fair, though, I think most people that are saying the threat thing are not calling
people to violence or saying no this has to be done peacefully. I mean, I remember I was reading
something from former President Obama about this specifically like today, I think a post that he
had. I mean, I'm not, you know, I'm not trying to take away from your point, but a lot of these people
would say this should be nonviolent. They should, but then they don't say it. And here's my point.
When you tell me that something's a threat, and that's why I went through this little
exercise at the beginning, again, this is why I'm trying to say, what do you think will
happen and then say, but oh, but don't be violent. There's a threat. It put, you know, our country's
existence is at stake, but oh, don't do anything. I mean, wink, nod. I'm sorry. That's, and the reason
it's so personal for me is I've had people come up to me and my family in person. I've had people
show up to my house. I've had the threats online. I know what it's like. Do you realize that almost
every senior staffer who works in the White House now needs a security detail? Staff. Just for
for serving their country, they need a security detail. We have at least close to 10 officials.
Again, staffers, the White House Press Secretary lives on a military base. So many of the, I won't go
through the list because I want to preserve their privacy. Think about that. They have to live
in a protected place. I've had people show up my house. I've had my house put up for sale.
This isn't a real, real threat. And I think sometimes there's a difference. If you haven't
live through it. Maybe it's not as personal. But for me, it's a very personal thing. And you have
the president of the United States having three assassination attempts. And to have President Obama say,
we don't know the motives is a lie. It's a lot. We do know the motives. The guy literally
wrote them down. At the press event, after ultimately it was decided that this event would be
postponed. The president held a press event very quickly and I don't know the the atmosphere in the
room was different. Yes. Then I frankly regularly see and your impressions. I give the president a lot
of credit because if I had had my life and again he's sitting next to the first lady the butler
thing and the golf course thing he was on his own right so but to have your wife sitting next to you
and thought she could have been a target to the vice president, your press secretary.
That was a very different.
And this guy in the manifesto says he was going to take out everybody, as many people.
According to him, everyone was complicit in that room.
I thought the president rose to the occasion.
The level of, I don't know that I could have done it.
How's that as putting it?
Like somebody threatens your life.
They want to come in and kill you.
And then to sit there and say, you know, be complimentary.
As I said, I'm sorry.
So many of these people in the press corps have encouraged this, have failed to call it out.
Even in the wake of this on Sunday morning, countless Democrats, Jamie Raskin is on CNN saying he can't recall a situation or an example where he or his party has used heated rhetoric.
Not one.
Not one time that he recalls anyone in his party calling Trump Hitler a threat to democracy, a Nazi,
authoritarian, you name it. He couldn't think of one example on CNN, not one. And again, unchecked.
The idea what would upset me so much is that here we are in this event with a bunch of liberal
media that's supposed to be celebrating the First Amendment and a free press and they didn't even
do their job covering it. They lied. Abby Philip from CNN got put a big thing out there that this is
one of the most secure places. It's not. They can't even tell the most, I mean, that's just simply
a false and patently false statement. It was all about them. It was all about their evening.
I mean, as I said, you and I have talked about this prior to this. I was opposed to the president
going. I wish he hadn't gone. I hope he doesn't go. I hope, you know, it's, it is not a good thing.
They are free. The First Amendment gives them not just the freedom of press, the freedom of speech,
but the freedom of assembly. They want to gather and give themselves, pass.
on the back and awards for coming after conservatives. God bless him, go for it. But I don't think
we should be complicit in it. So it's interesting because the president said something,
if I may paraphrase here, okay, that the president said, you know, he was going to be,
is going to be a really, really tough speech or something like this. And he said maybe when it,
when it actually happens, it won't be as tough. I mean, just this is a very rough paraphrase.
And then later he actually, he kind of called for unity, actually.
He did. And within, what, 24 hours, the same network that, you know,
Weiz Yang, who was the president of the Correspondent Association, the president did one step further.
He went on 60 minutes, 24 hours later, and, you know, they came at him.
They have a right to do that.
This is a, and again, I don't, they have, but to pretend that they are nothing more
than an appendage of the liberal ideology and Democratic Party is, I think,
just we shouldn't be part of it.
So just because he was magnanimous in the moment
doesn't mean that we should be complicit
in a prop, I think, in their attempt
to make themselves look like they're fair, unbiased,
or what have you.
Okay.
Let's talk about Trump 2.0.
Yes.
You're saying this is a revolution that will transform America.
Is it transforming America?
I mean, we're a year and a bit in now.
Oh, I think absolutely. And part of the question that I try to answer in the book is the why.
Anybody could just look at Trump 2.0 and say, okay, here's what his administration is doing.
And I'm not trying to be a stenographer of history. Part of what I'm trying to answer is the why.
Like, why is Trump 1.0 different than Trump 2.0? I had this conversation with the president in the Oval Office when I was talking to him about the book.
You have to understand that, like, when we came into office, this is a guy who was a business.
a reality star, real estate mogul. He'd never been in government. And he was being told,
you know, this guy's good for Secretary of Defense. This person's good to lead health and human
services. And he took people at their word. I joke with people, Yon. In the, like, he met Jim
Mattis, General Jim Mattis at Bedminster for about an hour to talk about being Secretary of Defense.
On December 5th, we flew down with him to North Carolina and announced him at a Trump rally.
He had known the man that would lead the Department of Defense in his administration for one hour.
He's known Pete Higseth for 15 years.
He knows Susie Wiles for 11.
He's known Caroline Levitt for 7 or 8.
He's in the first administration, worked on the campaign.
Steven Chung, the Coms Director, he was on the campaign with me in 2015, worked in 2016.
You go down the list.
These are people that he's known and is familiar with.
way that he wasn't in Trump 1.0. So they're on board. I mean, we had people coming in the administration
to, with the stated goal of like opposing him. You remember the New York Times op-ed anonymous?
It was like, I'm serving to protect you from him. So let me get the straight. The guy gets duly
elected by the American people and you feel so opposed to his agenda that you're serving
and writing op-eds about how you're trying to undermine the agenda. That's ridiculous. And so,
So this is such a different and unique thing.
But getting back to the why, and this is the important thing, he had four years out of office.
And what happened in those four years?
They plot, they plan.
What will we do when we get back?
What we do differently?
Who do we need on our team?
Who do we need to keep away from our team?
How will we do this?
What are the forces against us?
The way I try to liken this is imagine you're playing on a team.
or, you know, it could be even an individual sport, like you're playing tennis.
You play somebody and then you play them months later.
When you play them again, you think to them, okay, I know how they come at this, you know,
and I know what to do differently.
And I know maybe if it's a team sport, who to put in the game, who to keep out of the game,
what players we need, what positions we need.
And that's exactly what Trump 2.0 did.
America First Policy Institute went around and interviewed a lot of people like me
and said, if we ever get back in office, what do you think needs to be done differently?
So they wrote up an entire whole dossier on how to run the press and communications office.
So when Caroline was named, Press Secretary and Stephen Chuck, they got that information.
Now, how much of it they look at that or implemented is up to them.
But they had a starting point, a roadmap, Project 2025.
It's this thick.
It was two pages full of conservative groups that sat.
down and said on immigration, on health care, on national defense, on trade, what will we do
if we get back into power? They had a roadmap that we didn't have in Trump 1.0. Now, that's not
to disparage any of the great work that the president did in Trump 1.0. It's just different.
It's you have a leg up. You're not starting at square one. They know exactly where to start,
where to go. Tom Homan didn't just randomly pick cities to go into.
He knew how to do this.
And then we look at things like Maha.
There would be no Maha without Trump 2.0.
And there would be no Trump 2.0 without Maha.
What these guys have done to transform how we look at our food, our wellness, the medical industry, big pharma, big food, has been revolutionary.
I'm the perfect example, and I love the chapter on Maha.
I always thought like you go to the doctor and they say, you know, eat this many calories.
Okay, so I would put a plan together, eat this many calories.
And the nutritionist would say, look at this.
It says heart healthy.
Oh, awesome.
100 calories, heart healthy.
Bobby Kennedy comes along as like, look at the wrapper.
Can you pronounce any of this crap that's in your food?
I mean, there's an entire thing in there about this thing called grass.
You know what this is?
I'm sure you do.
generally recognized is safe.
Generally recognized it is safe.
I mean, that sounds like some kind of waiver you sign
when you go to the amusement park.
We're pretty certain you're not going to get in trouble.
Like, you're putting stuff in your body
that we're not sure is okay from you,
but it's generally recognized.
None of this would happen
without the sort of the Trump 2.0 dynamic
of coming back and looking at how we do things.
Let's talk about Mahal level,
because I mean I have a let's say I have my ear to the ground okay on maha from
actually and it's really quite a range of people's opinions right about what's
happening here right everything from the food pyramid being flipped is the
best thing ever and it's going to transform things to you know we felt like
we've had some promises which are just aren't being fulfilled around some
serious issues right and so and there's even you know there's there's
even discussion about polling that suggested that the Maha aren't as important to the president
as was thought before, but then there was counter-polling created to show no, in fact, it's very
important. But generally, a lot of the Maha people feel like they're not being listened to.
How do you talk to them? That would be like a general sense I have.
So let's start with a couple things. One, what I love about the way that Bobby Kennedy,
is approaching Maha is not to be your daddy.
What do I mean by that?
The government's not going to tell you what to do or not to do.
You want to eat ultra-processed food and chug red dye?
Go for it.
He's giving you transparency for the first time so that you know what you're putting in your body
and you know what options are available.
That's to me what's so the approach to this, which is so great, is that it's not the
nanny state.
It's not saying we're going to ban it.
We're not going to do this stuff.
We're going to actually just give you the citizen better information, more transparent information as to what's out there.
That's what I love first and foremost about this.
Secondly, I think that, and I lay this out in the book, like you can't, the winds, the ultra-processed food, the red dyes, all the stuff that they have brought to the forefront is huge.
I've worked in politics for 30 years
during my first campaign in 1994.
The progress that has been made on MAHA
is second to none when it comes to issues.
Tax policy, foreign policy, defense procurement,
you name it.
The amount of progress that has been made
in this one area alone is monumental.
And so I get for a lot of the MAHA folks,
they see stuff like the glyphosate ruling
and say, oh, you've got to be kidding me.
And I agree with them on it.
I mean, that's okay.
But you have to say, look at the, in one year, the amount of progress that you have made.
Now, that's, you know, sometimes it's like calibrating.
You got a child that's getting an F in a class, and they come back to you a few weeks later and say,
I got my grade up to a C.
A good parent doesn't say, well, you're not at an A.
You applaud the progress and say, look, you made great strides.
Let's keep doing that.
Maha has to recognize.
Again, it's not an excuse.
Just say, hey, we're still, we're moving the ball along.
Keep it going.
Keep the voices out there talking about things.
But I think that I give Bobby Kennedy and Dr. Oz, Jay Bottacaria,
tremendous credit.
And the Maha movement, by the way, Maha Action, Maha Institute,
what they've been able to do to get people into this movement and aware.
And then on the political front, let's just be honest.
Like politics is additive.
You win when you add more people to a cause to get them involved and motivate, activate, and vote.
What Bobby Kennedy and the Mahab movement have done to Trump 2.0 to the MAGA movement is expanded.
They brought especially moms into the political arena to understand that by being involved in this process in a way that many of them weren't has been hugely additive to the party and to the movement.
And I hope nobody dismisses that regardless of whatever poll you look at.
I know just personally and anecdotally how many people are involved now
that were never involved in politics.
Because the exposure to what government had been doing to cover up
some of the dangers that we face as a society in terms of our wellness and our health,
I don't think it couldn't have, didn't happen if it wasn't for the Maha movement.
One of the narratives I'm hearing is that, you know, basically the administration is less interested in MAHA at this point than it was before for political reasons.
And just that's a narrative which has been rising. Do you agree with that? Do you think what is your?
So there's, first of all, it's true. There are some in the administration that don't fully appreciate the benefits.
I think that's short-sighted.
I think within the Maha movement, there are certain aspects of it that some people don't like.
They get them queasy.
Let's be honest, mostly and almost entirely revolves around vaccines.
But I look at the movement as a whole, and there's no question that it's additive.
I mean, none.
It's impossible to deny that this has been a huge.
huge help to the MAGA movement, to the conservative movement writ large.
It's, I mean, I don't think anybody, I get to your point, it is true.
I mean, there are some people that question it, and I think they are very short-sighted.
Mm.
Isn't like, I'm trying to, you are this political junkie.
I am not a political junkie, right?
I come from a very, very different vantage point, and you're saying that these shifts,
so you think you would say that HHS is the area where the most action has happened out
of everything?
So like foreign policy, NATO trade, there are some policy things, shifts that have been, but Maha, what it has done to us as a society is monumental.
You can, I mean, look, President Trump instituted tariffs to rebalance our trade inadequacies.
And he was right to do that, by the way.
We've been getting screwed for decades.
But someone can undo that really quickly, right?
What the Maha movement has done is created a level of awareness that can't be undone.
I look at a label now in a way that I've never looked because of what Maha has done.
I ask questions of my doctor in a way that I've never done because of this movement.
That's not going to get undone.
We have started to rethink.
You mentioned the food period a minute a minute a minute and ago.
Again, for most people, you know, I went in and I saw the doctor and they'd say, do this, do that.
Okay, you're the expert I do that.
The FDA would issue guidance.
They'd say, well, government says so, that makes sense.
What we've learned in the last year is that not all of that is 100% accurate or right.
We were eating stuff and putting stuff in our body that wasn't making us healthy.
In fact, it was probably making us sicker and leading to chronic diseases.
And when you think about lasting effects, I do think that probably what Maha has done to us as a society will be.
be probably the greatest, or will have the greatest impact on us. There's, you know, conflict in the
Middle East, unclear exactly how it's going to resolve. I'll say that the information
of war around this and everything is thick and it's kind of hard to see through it. But the gas
prices, the price at the pump is higher. Food is costing more. People are, this is the stuff that
people tend to vote on. I'm asking you now as a as someone who really is
relatively new to this whole sphere right not the political self-professed
political junkie that you are. What does that mean? I mean to be honest it means
what you just preface the question with but I'll go back to the why I think what
the White House needs to do is greater and consistently more message this. This
is about our safety and security. I mean
Iran posed an existential threat to us. Full stop, no question about it. You think about Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton. I mean, leaders in both parties have been talking about this for decades. And President Trump was the first one who took action. There was never going to be a political upside of doing this. Not going to happen. And he did it not because he was going to benefit politically, but because it was the right thing to do for our safety and security. Now, when you connect that, in the
to the fact that, yes, this is a midterm election, and you're absolutely right. You better,
you have to double down on the messaging on what you're doing and why so that voters expect that.
Because if I'm paying $4, it's gas, and let's be honest, Jan, I'm like a New England frugal guy.
So I always, my barometer as to how the economy is doing is gas prices. I got two gas stations
at the end of my street. And I will keep an eye on both of them and then drive to the cheapest one
pretty regularly. My mom will probably drive halfway across the state.
just to get cheaper gas.
So I understand that that's somewhat of a barometer
when it comes to how people judge the economy.
But, one, we hope that it comes down.
I mean, politically speaking, you know, July, August,
they got to really think about how they're doing that
or they have to double down on their messaging.
But there's no question.
I think when people vote largely on economic reasons,
how do I feel the economy's doing for me?
Am I putting money away?
Do I feel safe and secure in my job
and my ability to pay my bills.
So they have to do this.
Now, the upside is they at least have a series of positive things that they're doing.
No tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime,
and the American people felt that at tax season time.
So I do think that they need to double down on messaging.
They did this stunt with DoorDash 10 days ago.
I said it was smart.
They need to do more of that.
They need to remind people why the policies of Trump 2.0 are making their lives better.
Who is this book for as we kind of come to a...
I would love to have you for another two hours, frankly, to talk about this.
I mean that sincerely, because I find what you're saying very interesting.
Thank you.
Who is this book for?
Well, I mean, at its core, I think if you are a voter,
because I don't think, I mean, just if you're a citizen and you're not voting, then maybe not.
But anybody who's interested in the politics, like, as I said at the outset,
Trump 2.0 isn't just about being a supporter of President Trump. It's about understanding why.
So I always tell people, I read everything. I'll read books and studies from both parties because I want to understand the process.
What is somebody doing right? You know when a team goes in and watches film with the other team?
It's not because they're fans. They want to know how to play that game.
If you really want to understand what's going on in a country, whether or not you love President Trump or absolutely detest him, you want to read Trump to understand the why.
is it happening so that, you know, if you love them, you can continue those policies and you know
what we need to lock in. If you don't like them, you might want to know the game, the plays that
we're running, right? So I think anyone who's got an interest in politics, who is active,
who wants to understand how our country operates and why things are happening and again.
So we just talked about Maha. Do you realize that 10 of the last 11 FDA commissioners have all
gone on to Big Pharma, except one? David Kessler, he went into academia.
that seems to me a bit nuts.
I mean, and I learned this.
I'm like, no wonder you suddenly have an FDA that size with big pharma all the time.
I talk about how much money is spent advocating for big food and big pharma.
If you want to understand the why, even I mentioned the trade policy, I mean, think about this.
Our farmers, rancher service providers face enormous barriers, financial and
and what we call non-tariff barriers,
going into other countries.
When those same countries ship their services
and products to America,
almost entirely tariff-free, non-tariff, barrier-free.
Until recently, yeah.
Right.
But my point is that, or you look at NATO.
And all of this in the book explains the thing.
Why does Trump care about NATO?
Well, because we created NATO to make a hedge
against the Soviet Union technically.
And yet none of these people are living up
to their obligations.
The obligations that will all protect
each other if something happens and we'll all agree to spend up to 2% of our own GDP on our national
defense all these other countries got a free date they realized hey the united states will spend plenty
of money why don't we spend our money on social projects welfare roads and bridges let them they'll
cover for us and we did why were we spending our tax dollars when they wouldn't spend theirs
that was their obligation so once you understand the
government better and the process better. I think you come away as a better and more informed
citizen. So part of the book is, and even we talked about the media, there's a whole chapter
on the White House Correspondent Association. When you realize that that organization determines
who gets into the Oval Office, you realize that ABC, the New York Times, their goal is to ensure
that you only read what they see and hear. So they have decided what you will read seeing here
every day. The White House Correspondent Association, they determine who flies on the Air Force
One with the president, who goes into the Oval Office with the president until this administration.
Why does that matter? That's all in the book. And so just if you want to be a more informed
citizen to understand the process, and that's what I love, hopefully I bring to the fight, right?
So after 27 years in the military, 10 different members of Congress, two administrations in the executive
of the president to be able to say, this is how your government works. You want, I mean,
you want to be more informed. You want to help make change. Here's how to do it. Well, Sean Spicer,
it's such a pleasure to have had you on. Appreciate you having me. Thank you all for joining
Sean Spicer and me on this episode of American Thought Leaders. I'm your host, Yanya Kellogg.
