The Chris Cuomo Project - Top 5 Ways Trump Broke MAGA’s Biggest Promises

Episode Date: May 7, 2026

Chris Cuomo lays out the top five ways Donald Trump is screwing the MAGA movement that put him in office — the fundamental failures that will define the midterms, not the daily noise. Chris walks t...hrough the death of America First, a war in Iran Trump promised he'd never start, the spending and debt that has betrayed every conservative principle, a healthcare crisis Trump is ignoring, and the way he has actively coarsened American politics itself. Cuomo argues that MAGA voters are being abandoned in real time by the man they trusted most — and that the populist demand that fueled MAGA in the first place is going to be looking for someone honest enough to meet it. Plus the bonuses Cuomo couldn't fit in the five: why Tucker Carlson is already distancing himself from Trump, what the Epstein files actually say about broken promises, and why the next iteration of the Republican Party may pretend Trump was never their guy. Join The Chris Cuomo Project on YouTube for ad-free episodes, early releases, exclusive access to Chris, and more: https://www.youtube.com/@chriscuomo/join Follow and subscribe to The Chris Cuomo Project on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube for new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday: https://linktr.ee/cuomoproject Refresh your everyday with luxury you'll actually use—head to https://quince.com/cuomo for free shipping and 365-day returns. Don’t sleep on [@ultrapouches]. New customers get 15% Off with code CUOMO at https://takeultra.com ! #UltraPouches #ad Head to https://Superpower.com and use code CUOMO at checkout for $20 off your membership. Unlock your new health intelligence. 100+ biomarkers. Every year. Detect early signs of 1,000+ conditions. #superpowerpod #news #trump #politics #cuomo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:40 I'm not talking about the ballroom. I'm not talking about how he's destroyed decency, how he's made politics so poisonous. I'm not talking about any of that. These are the five big fundamentals that he will not escape from, and they will make all the difference come midterms if,
Starting point is 00:01:00 The Democrats know how to make the case and have the right people making it. I'm Chris Cuomo. Welcome to the Chris Cuomo Project. I'm going to give you the top five reasons that President Trump has screwed MAGA over. And I'm not picking on any of the little penny any things. These are the big structural things that broke the fundamental promises that he needed to. and that has doomed MAGA. I will start with number one,
Starting point is 00:01:39 not because it's the biggest, but it's because it's what works the most, is that he has failed to focus on domestic priorities. The whole America First agenda has been blown out the ass of this administration. And everyone knows it, okay? He did his tax cuts, which have not done for the economy
Starting point is 00:02:02 what was promised and for obvious reasons. He can say you've gotten $43 billion more back than you would have otherwise, but you have to spend more money than ever before. Again, because of him, not only do I believe that tax cuts do not stimulate the economy for the people who are supposed to matter to this administration. They help the top, no question about that. But for the many, I don't think they get the benefit that the few does. And even if he hadn't done all these other things to hurt it,
Starting point is 00:02:32 But the key pledges, repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, he can't even pass the subsidies. He can't even hold a meeting with the health care bigs, which was a great idea, by the way, second only to his, I'm going to call the banks and get them to lower their credit card interest rates. That was a great idea, too. Lasted two days. Why? Because he caves to big, powerful interests. because his party is very sensitive to them.
Starting point is 00:03:03 He never even had the meeting with the health care bigs. Don't you remember? I'm going to call them all in. I'm going to read him the riot act, and we're going to tell them you make too much money, and we're going to change that with or without you. You're in or not? It's a great idea.
Starting point is 00:03:14 Great idea. Never happened. So repealing and replacing with something better, the Affordable Care Act, nothing. Can't even pass the subsidies. Health care's crushing people. He knows it. He ignores it.
Starting point is 00:03:27 He distracts you from it. This is huge. Okay. This was a huge fundamental promise. Affordability. His thing was, there's no such thing as affordability. It's a made-up word. That landed like a fart in church. So now he'll talk about affordability. He just says the Democrats did it. Biden did it. Nobody believes it anymore. Why? Takes us to number two. The tariffs and the war in Iran. I mean, you got to separate them because they mean different things on different levels. but just terrible, terrible failures of the MAGA priorities in America first. The tariffs were a wild notion that they would bring back manufacturing anytime soon and that they would balance anything in ways that are good for the American consumer in the ever, let alone in the short term. But the tariffs have absolutely helped drive inflation,
Starting point is 00:04:24 raise prices on things that matter, like gas, but other things as well, and they have crushed small businesses. You know, we just had, we're in the middle of as I shoot this, National Small Business Week. He's done nothing for them. They're getting crushed.
Starting point is 00:04:42 You know, there was a time when he used to promise that he would treat them equally to big businesses in the tax code. Remember, what percentage of businesses in America is small business? 99.9%. percent. Point one percent are mid and large-sized corporations. Oh, yeah, but they do all the hiring. What percentage of the employed work at a small business? Fifty percent of us. Oh, yeah, I don't,
Starting point is 00:05:15 no, no, no. But the big businesses are the ones that make all the money. That's why they get the preference. What percentage of the GDP is made by small business? 50 percent. You see what I'm saying? The priority is because of preference. It's a choice. It's not because of the economic realities. So they have their own tax code. Small businesses don't. There's no small business tax rate.
Starting point is 00:05:40 I had this trumper on my show the other day saying about, hey, look, we really helped them with the small business tax rate. What's small business tax rate? They're all flow-through entities. You get taxes an individual. They don't even have a special rate for small businesses. Why not? One time they said they would.
Starting point is 00:05:54 Now they're just assuming there's one, but they never did it. you know so you have to look at the number one thing that it was supposed to be america first and that was supposed to be economic and he's made affordability worse they don't even know how to argue it anymore they just distract you from it okay what do you think this war was about takes us to number two the war okay now the war is bad on several levels okay uh and the extra is the ratio is the regime sucks is true? The fact that we would be better off without them in Iran, the Iranian people, the Persians, and others, and us here at home in America, true.
Starting point is 00:06:41 But that is not enough to justify what clearly was not well thought through, not well designed, and not well executed. Oh, you're saying the U.S. military sucks. Miss me with that, okay? nobody believes that. No real people believe that criticizing what's going on over there means I want the regime to win. All right, save that for the idiots on the college campuses
Starting point is 00:07:05 that were saying, Hamas isn't that bad. Okay, that's not me. All right? Hamas sucks. They're an extension of this regime, and the regime sucks, and the regime should be gone. It was the president.
Starting point is 00:07:18 Not my irrelevant ass who said, as soon as this started, we're not going to remove the regime. That was him. This was over for me. in terms of a transcendent good, then. Of course the U.S. military has pounded a lot of sites and reduced this and diminished that and killed them.
Starting point is 00:07:36 Okay, but for how long and to what degree if you're still going to leave these scumbags in there? Same thing with the negotiation. How good a deal can you make with a bunch of terrorists? Okay. However, the number one reason within the number two reason, the main reason that this is such a big deal, the war in Iran, is because he puts.
Starting point is 00:07:56 promised he wouldn't do this anymore. And his basis of, oh yeah, but the regime was weeks away. That's a lie. His own intelligence agencies are saying it's not true. So he betrayed that promise. Now you get to the second order of effects. Cost. Cost, straight up, asking for money for the defense and department in a middle of an
Starting point is 00:08:19 affordability crisis. What? Big, big betrayal to MAGA. big, big. Most of them are not hawks. So you're crushing us to earn affordability crisis, gas prices, food prices, all of these things getting scarce
Starting point is 00:08:41 because you went to war. And we don't know for how long these effects will last. That then takes you to the third one, which is by focusing over there, he may see it as a distraction, but it is also the reason for, action on the domestic agenda. And that's a big, big problem.
Starting point is 00:09:04 So the war is a biggie on three levels. And why didn't you put it first? Because the tariffs and the America first economic domestic agenda is the main reason that Donald Trump is president. Well, the main reason he's president is because the Democrats fucked it up and handed it to him with their process and their candidate choice structure. and the immigration issue and how they misplated it and how they saddled Kamala Harris with it
Starting point is 00:09:32 by making her the border czar, which was supposed to be a fake title. Who knew it was going to be such a defining issue? They should have. He's who. Trump and his team. That's who knew. So, now why is an immigration in here?
Starting point is 00:09:48 Well, he's focused on immigration. I think the way he's doing it is screwing up a good thing for him. I think he should have done rule changes. But that's a big part of my analysis, is because all of the stuff he promised he needs Congress for, and he doesn't have the numbers, and he does not have the dealmaking capabilities. I'm telling you, the art of the deal is bullshit, okay? He is not known as a dealmaker. He may like deals.
Starting point is 00:10:13 That doesn't make you a good dealmaker. Okay? And you haven't seen him make a good deal yet. Ten years. What good deal? Seriously. So, number one is the 10. Harris because it was the complete betrayal of doing better and more domestically, economically,
Starting point is 00:10:32 for the many. And he can sell it any way he wants. I think it was always a simple thing. Because remember what they did. We're going to lower prices. We're going to lower prices. We're going to lower prices. We're going to help you buy a house. We're going to help you buy a car. We're going to help you with this. We're going to help you with that. Economic, economic, economic, economic. Now, easy to say, hard to do. He then gets in. Bill O'Reilly and others starts saying what. You know, lowering prices is hard. It takes time. It's hard. Yeah, no shit. That's why it's really effective when you're out of power and really hard when you're in power. So what did he need? Well, he does the tax cuts. Tax cuts weren't enough. Everybody knew that. So he needs something. He needs a deliverable. That's where the tariffs came from. And they sold them as something that they were never going to be. Why? They took a flyer on it. And then it didn't work. And then all said we're at war, which is number two. So number two, is going to be that war and for several reasons. All right?
Starting point is 00:11:30 And this is a big deal. And I'll tell you another part of how the economic failure is manifested by the war and exacerbated by the war. The retaliation from other countries hitting back on tariffs, targeting U.S. agriculture, have been effective enough that the government has had to once again bail out farms. Okay? And they have sent billions to farmers to offset losses that he created with his policy. All right? So there's another reason. All right. Now, the, and really, you know, look, I could have done five that are all war-related, but there are other ones. He cut the taxes, which means what? Less revenue, okay? He then spent like a drunken sailor.
Starting point is 00:12:25 Did you know that if you include the pandemic, Trump and Biden have larded on more spending than anyone else is not even close since the New Deal. Okay? And let me tell you, their spending did not help us the way the New Deal did. They want to blame Biden for all that shit, but they always want to pretend like Trump wasn't there in the beginning. Trump wasn't the one who made Tony Fauci the voice of America. Now, I don't believe Tony Fauci did anything prosecutable. Okay, I don't. And I know others disagree and we'll see if they can make the case.
Starting point is 00:13:00 I think the DOJ is going to get more egg on its face. Hey, you may not like his answers on gain of function. Okay? But we didn't develop COVID-19. Okay? It didn't come from our research. It probably came from that lab and then they leaked it. But whatever.
Starting point is 00:13:19 You want to prosecute him try. But Trump brought you Tony Fauci. Okay, he put him in that position. Biden kept him there. All right, don't forget. Don't forget. He was the one who made Tony Fauci the man, so I don't know how he doesn't own that shit.
Starting point is 00:13:32 And he definitely owns the spending. Okay? Then and now. He has been spending like a drunken sailor after cutting how much money comes in. Don't you see? You can't cut it out of federal jobs. You screwed up our soft power with Doge,
Starting point is 00:13:50 which was a complete catastrophe. I was going to put that on the list, by the way. Doge. but I think there are things that matter more. So the deficits have created a situation where the United States under Trump's watch and because of Trump's choices, not Biden's, Trump's, Trump's spending,
Starting point is 00:14:10 we now owe more money than we make in a year. For the first time since the 40s, the U.S. debt exceeds the U.S. GDP. That's on Trump. That's huge. It has huge implications in terms of borrowing and the structural strength of our economy. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, okay, that he then extended again when he got in again, did not lead to reduced spending.
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Starting point is 00:17:39 But it does feed this idea that everything we do is corrupt. Everything the government does is bad and wrong. And now it's owned by this president. And now he has gotten us to a place where the American people, the mag of folks specifically, no longer believe that government can do anything. And Trump empowered that with his rhetoric and his actions. Okay? He has made it very clear by gutting different agencies and how money is spent. Our economic data comes out more slowly than ever and is wrong more often than ever because he cut down the people who are doing it. So his disruption of the institutions have made a huge difference.
Starting point is 00:18:29 Okay? Now, it may seem like, it's a little in the weeds. I'm telling you, this was a big deal that government's going to work for people again. It's going to be effective. It's going to be efficient. He's made it all worse. All of it. You know, he's made it more corrupt who gets in, right?
Starting point is 00:18:51 He's put more pressure on the Supreme Court. He's made the DOJ more about lawfare than ever, than ever. They're making bad cases like we've never seen the DOJ make before. And I don't even think we've seen the worst of it yet. So that was a big deal for MAGA folks. All right. Now, number four, health care. It is now a top three expense for every American.
Starting point is 00:19:21 family. It was never supposed to be that way. Okay? And the idea of privatizing it more? No, you got to break up the privatization. They couldn't even get a handful of drugs cheaper. Have you looked at that Trump RX bullshit platform? The prices you can get better on other sites. How? How? How can the United States government not beat these other commercial sites in discount. drug game. And they picked a handful of drugs, like GLP-1s. Like, that's what we need in America, really, to reinforce the idea that you don't have to do the right things to lose weight. Fine. But the price is, the price discounts sunset after like three months and start going up again. It was just a bullshit deal. I'm telling you, this guy doesn't know how to make deals.
Starting point is 00:20:15 It's all hype. He didn't even write the book, The Art of the Deal. Health care. healthcare is number four because you had to deliver on this. You couldn't even repeal the ACA. And I don't think you should, by the way, but if that's what you want to do, fine. But you couldn't even do that. You couldn't even pass the subsidies. You couldn't even break up and get a conversation going.
Starting point is 00:20:44 It's a big deal. It affects MAGA disproportionately. Okay? Healthcare is killing them. More and more of them are going to rely on Medicaid, which is given them less and less. This is a big deal. Big deal. His choices that he made action and inaction are failing these people, failing them where it counts.
Starting point is 00:21:12 All right? Now, that takes us to number five. And number five is going to be a little. little controversial, okay? But I think it has to be said. And it feeds into number three, which is the institutions. Donald Trump has made it okay to be mean. He has made it okay to excuse your own actions by saying someone or something else is
Starting point is 00:21:55 worse. He has made it okay to be. course. Yes, we're seeing people on the left be violent in a way in pursuit of their politics. That is very bad. And this president has had attempts on his life at least three times. That is very bad. But what are the people on the left responding to? Messaging from their side and their people and how much they hate Trump? Yes. But you don't think they're responding to Trump as well? look at the manifestos. Of course what he's putting out there is being received.
Starting point is 00:22:33 Now, I don't blame him for his own assassination attempt. That seems too much to me. But you got to blame the person who makes the attempt, you know? We all make choices. But the choices that he has made have been consistently to make us worse. He doesn't even try to unify. He literally doesn't even attempt it. He sees it as weakness.
Starting point is 00:22:55 He now, more than ever, more brazenly than ever, only praises people who praise him. And it doesn't matter who they are or what they are. He doesn't care if you're a despot. He'll be great with Muhammad bin Salman. You'd give him money to my kids. You give him money to my family. You give him money to me.
Starting point is 00:23:15 That's good. You say nice things about me. It's okay. It's all right. It's okay. It's a murderous jihadi. It's okay. He's made that okay.
Starting point is 00:23:26 Our politics has gotten worse on his watch. They do nothing. They shut down the government on a regular basis. In fact, we're in a partial shutdown right now. Nothing has gotten better. And the best that he can do is say, well, it's because they hate me. Why wouldn't they? You give them every reason to hate you.
Starting point is 00:23:50 Now, does that work for me? No. Why? One, I'm afraid to hate. I don't do it. I don't allow it. I've allowed it in to my life, and it almost took me down, almost consumed me. So I don't do that.
Starting point is 00:24:05 I do not give people that kind of power to make me feel that kind of way. I don't do it. But as a collective, I think it's a mistake. I think it's a mistake for the Democrats, the campaign so heavily on Trump sucks. I think they should leave that to the next manifestation of the Republicans. They're the ones who are going to try to convince everybody that Trump was the problem. the Democrats have to prove to people that they have the solutions. The problems are obvious.
Starting point is 00:24:30 What's wrong is obvious in a point of consensus. Now, I would say you should campaign on defeating this fifth point and by being better and being decent. Problem is, Trump was very effective in exaggerating what was already taking place, which is the cheapening of our politics. In pursuit of this binary battle to the bottom, that isn't just alliterative, but is demonstrative of what's wrong with our democracy. So he didn't start the fire, he just blew on it like a turbocharger and made it into something more than it has ever been before.
Starting point is 00:25:06 But here's the problem. We are where we are. And people see harshness as strength. People see might as making right. People think if you're talking shit, you're being tough in the way that matters. Scott Jennings say, get your finger out of my fucking face. get your fucking figure out of my whatever he said. That's seen as him getting tough on this 20-something-year-old podcaster.
Starting point is 00:25:31 It isn't. I think that's horrible. I think that's juvenile. I think that's silly. I think that's stupid, frankly. But I'm wrong. And it is true. And that's what the Democrats want, especially.
Starting point is 00:25:47 They are desperate to fight back. And they want fight back. Look at how Gavin Newsom. So I don't think you can just campaign by being a positive opposite on number five. But it is destroyed. First of all, you've just corroded, you've toxified so many minds and hearts in this country. Especially within the MAGA population. They believe the worst things about our government, about each other.
Starting point is 00:26:14 And Trump has fed all of it. He has fed the inaction in Congress. He has fed opposition as a real position. He has fed that insulting someone, that insults or a proxy for insides. He's fed it all. And it has made everything worse. And he is ultimately now, because of it, betrayed his own movement. Because he guaranteed that things got worse.
Starting point is 00:26:38 He guaranteed that there would be congressional inaction. I mean, think about this. The guy triggers the war powers resolution with a war in Iran that he said wasn't a war. Now all they called is a war. now they're lying about ceasefire What is a ceasefire Or this is a ceasefire is not a ceasefire They're just full of shit
Starting point is 00:26:57 I mean literally Orwell would blush 1984 was like realistic compared to the shit that they're doing That's just so nuts It's a war 60 days triggers the war powers resolution
Starting point is 00:27:15 And then Congress goes on vacation I gotta tell you I think the Democrats played this wrong too By the way I know they're in the minority I know if Johnson does a war power want to be there, why would they be there? I think that it would have been a good show. They should have stayed. They should have refused a vacation. They just got went off, they just
Starting point is 00:27:32 came off break. They should have stayed and said, we want to vote on this the 60 days. We want to pass the windfall profit tax. How about that one? Why should these oil companies be able to make money right now? And then this guy said to me, oh, you know, it's not just such a bad thing because, you know, our energy sector is really important to our job base and every. and we should want them making as much money as possible. Off the backs of Americans during an affordability crisis in the middle of a war that is spiking gas prices, that's really good for the many? I don't think so.
Starting point is 00:28:08 I think Bernie Sanders is right. I think Trump should take his idea and say, yeah, let's pass the windfall profit tax. Oil companies shouldn't be doing this. I bet you Bernie would love him taking his idea, but the Democrats should have stayed and should have pushed for that. But it's still on the Republicans because they're in the majority and they literally ran away. That is the state of play of fealty to this one man
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Starting point is 00:31:23 I'm trying it. I suggest you try the same. And of course, I couldn't fit everything into five, because five is an inherent limitation, right? And there are a couple of other obvious dominant thematic things that I believe are related to what I discussed, but they could stand alone as their own major motivators for why MAGA will feel betrayed
Starting point is 00:31:46 and why there is an opportunity for a change of power. one of the biggies, obviously, that is an existing and annoying absence, is the Epstein transparency and lack thereof. I'd give it a top seven. Well, wait, why isn't it more? You know, Epstein has dominated the news cycle. Well, that's different. That's different. And as campaign promises, drain the swamp, deep state, transparency, all of that plays to what Epstein is.
Starting point is 00:32:15 Don't get me wrong about that. And there is no good reason. Look, the best reason the president has that Epstein hasn't been delivered on is because it was a bullshit promise in the first place. Right? It was a false premise, right? There was no. And now we know he was murdered. And here are all the guys that were part of the human trafficking thing that were hidden.
Starting point is 00:32:36 You know, all these things that ironically, Cash Patel and Dan Bongino and these other pod bros who were all maggots, M-A-G-A-T-S, were promising was bullshit. why Trump allowed that to get connected to him? I don't know. But here's why it matters. It matters for the survivors. And I got to tell you, Anna Paulina Luna, she can get away with this because she's a young woman. But she says she doesn't know about a lot of guys that we haven't heard about,
Starting point is 00:33:07 but there are some women she wants under stricter scrutiny. Now, I haven't really touched that, and I'm not touching it today because I don't really know what she's talking about. She says, oh, but members of Congress do who've gone to the skiff, you know, the protected information rooms, and the Democrats have seen it too. They know what I'm talking about. Okay, we'll see. We'll see. It certainly hasn't come out in a common way.
Starting point is 00:33:33 Even looked at J-mail. I don't see it. But I'm not including Epstein, not because it doesn't matter, but because the top five are fundamental things that matter to everyone. And Epstein matters to a lot of people, and a lot of people within Matt, have been made to care about it, but there are a lot of Americans that don't. I mean, their priorities are way more parochial. They're way more personal to them and their own families.
Starting point is 00:33:56 And that's understandable. In politics, that is almost always the case. They have to work really hard to make it about something else. Culture wars are not, look, they can be easy to spark, but it's really hard to sustain compared to other fundamental economic machinations and mechanisms in people's. lives. So that's why Epstein ain't in there. The ballroom isn't in there because it's just another lie. You know, it was bad enough when it was going to be all these hundreds of millions of dollars of
Starting point is 00:34:26 private money with people who know what they're getting promised. And that's not cynicism. That's pragmatism. This guy is doing more corrupt things right in your face. And you guys were worried about Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden looks like, you know, a patron saint of doing things the right way, to his kids and him, but you don't give a shit. That's the hypocrisy. Okay, okay. And I'll tell you something else that is an indication of trouble to come for betrayal to MAGA. Tucker Carlson, he is performative and he is kooky, but he is also clever, and he sees what's coming.
Starting point is 00:35:07 I think the future for what used to be the Republican Party and will want to once again be the Republican Party is going to be, Trump was the bad guy. the aberration. We had to work with him because the people wanted him, you know, and he won power, and he's our party's nominee, so he got to do it. But we were never about him. We were quiet because we didn't agree. You can't read our silence as acquiescence. It was just, you know, kind of we were forced into it, and that's the best we could do, but we echoed it as little as possible. We're back to Christian conservatism, and we're character counts, and that's us. Now, first of all, not only is that not where the country is.
Starting point is 00:35:46 It's not where the country is. The country is, I don't give a shit, what faith you have. I need to have faith in you that you'll get something done to make what most people agree is wrong better. That's what it's going to be about and that's what's going to win. So I think they're making a bad call. But secondly, I don't think they're going to get away with it. But that's why he's running away. And you're going to see other fringe operators run away because the populist outrage, the disaffection, the desperation,
Starting point is 00:36:16 the desire and the appetite and the demand for more is just as real. In fact, even more so than what Trump took advantage of and they started calling MAGA. It's more there. It's more now. That's why I call it mega. But it's not as angry. It's going to be more about the economic practicalities, not cultural war things. But it's going to dominate.
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Starting point is 00:40:34 maybe pinching their nose, but they were so disgusted by what they saw coming from the Democrats in that process, rightly or wrongly. And he's made everything less than he could have. and we're not even halfway through. So these are the top five things that Donald Trump has done that have screwed over, destroyed what MAGA was supposed to be about. And we have no idea what comes next, but the midterms are going to be about these. I guess they could be replaced.
Starting point is 00:41:08 I think he'd be hard-pressed to figure something out that was more disruptive than the things that I've given you already and the tentacles that each and all have. But we'll see. But you already know more than you need to know to design a campaign to have a legendary change of power in the midterms. I'm Chris Cuomo. Thank you very much for watching.
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Starting point is 00:42:17 I'm going to do it. All right. Now, you got me on. the mornings for two hours at SiriusXM Channel 124. Thank you for helping me grow that. Thank you for helping me grow the podcast, and thank you for helping me grow at News Nation from 8 to 9P Eastern every weekday night.
Starting point is 00:42:32 Thank you. I'm working harder than I ever have in my life. And I got less energy than I've ever had. And that's okay because I got more than enough to be here and to make something in this opportunity and a time that matters. And it does matter. We're living in very interesting times.
Starting point is 00:42:53 I don't know how they'll be remembered, but they will be remembered. And I want to be remembered. You know, I'll be a mixed bag like everybody else who signs up to be in the media. But I hope people get that I was trying to help. And I thank you for giving me an opportunity to do so. My brothers and sisters, the problems are real. But so is the potential. Let's get after it.

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