The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Trump Defends Racist Obama Meme & MAGA Rages Over Bad Bunny’s Spanish Halftime Show | Gov. Andy Beshear

Episode Date: February 10, 2026

Jon Stewart digs into MAGA's hair-trigger outrage at anything that doesn't align with their narrow set of values, from boycotting Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show with TPUSA's own "English"-langua...ge mediocrity fest, to the president setting a new racism high score with a social media post dehumanizing the Obamas, to dressing down a U.S. Olympic skier for expressing less than a fraction of the disdain for America that Trump himself has doled out. Democratic Governor of Kentucky and host of Sirius XM's "Andy Beshear Podcast," Andy Beshear, sits down with Jon Stewart to discuss the consequences of Trump’s presidency on Kentuckians, including how tariffs have halted jobs while raising costs and the Big Beautiful Bills' part in ruining rural healthcare. They discuss watching the MAGA fever break in the chronically red state, encouraging Democrats to colloquialize their speech to better connect with constituents, testing the Supreme Court’s strength in the administration by suing the President, and focusing on the “why” Democrats fight, versus what they stand for. To get simple, online access to personalized, affordable care for ED, Hair Loss, Weight Loss, and more, visit https://Hims.com/dailyshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:56 Great Show. Andy Bashir will be here. We'll be talking about season two. of his podcast, and we'll also talk about his side hustle as the governor of Kentucky. First, I gotta tell you, what a weekend. Super Bowl, Cindy! And what a game? What a game it was?
Starting point is 00:01:19 Man, if you like high-scoring contests where the outcome is in doubt till the final, suspenseful, climactic seconds, this was not the game for you. Slow, grinding. It nearly, took all the fun out of watching
Starting point is 00:01:42 the Patriots lose. I was saluting the Patriots. And their one year rebuild. But you know what? At least we had our snacks. That's what's the important part. I'll be honest with it. I went with the whole shabank. Six foot hoagie. Wings, nachos,
Starting point is 00:02:11 casso, hot and cold running budwash. Am I missing any of the classics? What would you have as a Super Bowl snack? I, you know, I am on a carnivore diet. So, I I just eat meat and ferment. Did this say his diet is meat and fermints?
Starting point is 00:02:55 Have to be so pluribus. Why? Carol, would you like some fermints? Non-alien species to another. It is a Super Bowl party. I don't care if your diet is meat and ferments. It's a Super Bowl party. So I'm going to probably have yogurt.
Starting point is 00:03:48 Super Bowl. For the Super Bowl, you're having yogurt. You eat meat and ferments, and for the Super Bowl, you went. It's one thing to bring measles and polio back. I think I speak for the entire nation when I say, if you ever show up at my Super Bowl party with a tub of yogurt, You couldn't just
Starting point is 00:04:30 muster up a little trunk bear jerky? Like what? Even though the game was a grind, your weird friend brought you a six-pack yogurt. A halftime show? This year, sponsored this year
Starting point is 00:05:02 by Firmance, ferments. It puts the fart in RFC. This year's Super Bowl halftime show starts Benito, Antonio, Martinez, bad. Delivered a performance that was, as they say, in Puerto Rico. quite good. Mr. Bunny killed it,
Starting point is 00:05:28 despite being trapped in an escapable sugar cane hedge maze. He had Lady Gaga. He had the Mandalorian. He threw away. And he even had the time to make a conhead service stop. Mid-concert.
Starting point is 00:05:51 It's okay. He did it all. Reboot the box and enjoy. De Nata. It was joyful and infectious and... The single worst halftime show in NFL history. Oh, oh, right, right, right. I forgot, I forgot.
Starting point is 00:06:15 For a significant portion of Americans, everything that happens must uniformly be filtered through a particular magacentric worldview and judged on how well it conforms to that traditional vision, which doesn't include knowing where the bibliotheque is. To get up there and perform the whole show in Spanish
Starting point is 00:06:40 is a middle finger to the rest of America. The majority of people in the audience had no idea what was being said. Is it too much to ask to put it in English? Not one word of English? Not one word of English? One word! Here's some English for you. Who put Thanos over here in the air flyer?
Starting point is 00:07:13 Did they... The Fox decided that. needed an actual buffalo wing to comment on the game. Dude, seriously, we all like to get sun, but I mean, I'm no dermatologist, but be there tomorrow morning as early as you can be there. It's like the guy's couch is one of those chicken rotisseries. He's watching the game like, tell me seriously. How many glizzies do you gobble?
Starting point is 00:08:01 Is it too much to ask for a halftime show that this great nation can enjoy in its mother tongue. It's why the good people at T.P. USA went through the trouble of putting on an alternative All-American halftime show that celebrated this beautiful country in the King's English
Starting point is 00:08:38 we all share. The up-jumping of said boogie in so far as the diggy, diggy, diggy. Dibang a debang. Miss Bad Bunny, just to watch an old man in acid-washed jorts. Badly lip-sink his waist.
Starting point is 00:09:37 through a pre-taped Baw-D-Baw performance? Surely the TPP USA halftime show was a broader spectacle of Americana to rival this most malevolent of bunnies. Looks like somebody dipped into the ferments. I've never seen a cello player who looks like the porn version of a cello player.
Starting point is 00:10:22 Chica-Bum. Chica-Bomb. I'm sorry, let me skip forward a little bit. There's got to be something else worth missing out on Bad Bunny for. Wait, um, wait. It, it isn't? What exactly is, it's so hard about being country nowadays?
Starting point is 00:10:54 I just want to catch my fish, drive my truck, drink my beer. So far it sounds relatively easy. Am I missing a heavier lift? Sir, again, I must insist. All of these seem like achievable goals. I mean, you're wearing boots right now. What exactly is it about being country that is so difficult? People throw the word hero around, but this is a bold opinion to hold in your genre, sir.
Starting point is 00:12:34 Really risking it all going up against country music's trans cartel. By the way, also, if you did get canceled, really more time for the fishing and the mowing and truck beer drinking. and if I could just remind you, really just the important thing, feeding the dog. Again, I can't stress this enough. In the song, between the beer and the boots and the fishing, really just feed your fucking dog every day, Sam.
Starting point is 00:13:04 I know it's hard. But you know what? There was a bigger reason why TPUSA had to do their own halftime show because the NFL's halftime show failed its one true mandate. Doing a halftime show in all Spanish is not, unifying. The Super Bowl halftime show divided in a time that's supposed to be a unifying moment.
Starting point is 00:13:28 They could have found somebody more uniting. Why is it the Super Bowl halftime entertainer's job to unify the country their job? Isn't there another person whose job description
Starting point is 00:13:53 is much more along those lines? Let me ask you a question. What did that person do to unify the country? In a social media post, President Trump mocked Bad Bunny's performance, calling it, quote, absolutely terrible, one of the worst ever. Then adding, quote, nobody understands a word this guy is saying. Nobody? I love that he thinks Bad Bunny is the one guy in the world.
Starting point is 00:14:44 That's fluent in Spanish. Nobody understands it's a dead language. You know, the right has a lot of balls complaining that bad bunny didn't do enough to unify this country when you only found out a few days ago that Puerto Rico is a part of it. And before you get... And before you get your panties in a torsion,
Starting point is 00:15:21 another unifying pro tip might be to tell your guy to stop tweeting out racist slop during, I don't know, Black History Month. The White House facing backlash over a racist depiction of the Obama's contained in a video post on the president's truth social account. At the end, the video suddenly flashed to a clip of the Obama's faces superimposed on the heads of cartoon apes.
Starting point is 00:15:48 Oh, ladies and gentlemen, no, before you get upset, just know the racist video in question was not in Spanish Rest easy We're starting to heal I mean if 20 minutes A Bad Bunny's halftime show destroyed the country's unity I think even MAGA
Starting point is 00:16:10 would be terribly upset that the Unifier and Chief would be sharing a video this fucking racist or would I mean this is probably crazy but would they try and justify it? It wasn't a video that was
Starting point is 00:16:26 racist. It was a video that ended with a racist thing. Which doesn't make, that doesn't matter. If you say the end word at the end of the sentence, it still ruins the whole sentence. There are certain things in this world where there are certain things in this world where placement is less important than presents. Oh, I don't have gonorrhea. The tip of my penis has gonorrhea. You're going to, you're going to, you're going to
Starting point is 00:17:01 Judge my entire by the gonorrhic tip. Who's the racist now? I'll agree that the last part where he compared the Obamas to apes was definitely racist. At the end of the day, human beings often point to other human beings and notice that they kind of look like this animal or that animal. But there are, you know, certain anthropomorphic comparisons that historically have been used to justify, oh, I don't know, slavery.
Starting point is 00:17:41 But go ahead. I apologize for interrupting you. I did know a girl that looked like a guy that looked like a monkey, but he was white. He was my friend Joey and he was white. So in terms of racist justifications, he's blown right past the, I have a black friend
Starting point is 00:18:07 and moved right into the, I like a monkey. And poor Joey, poor white friend Joey. What a way to find out you've got, find out you've got, Find out you've got resting primate face.
Starting point is 00:18:33 Watching his friend on television. Picking nits out of his wife's hair. What that poop and jerk off? Not even the cameramen have heard all this shit. The video was so bad. There were actual Republicans who criticized it. Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, the Senate's only black Republican
Starting point is 00:19:46 calling the president's post the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House. Wow. By the way, Tim Scott's face, that is the face almost all Republican. make in private when they've been told what Trump said. But seriously, though, Senator,
Starting point is 00:20:06 is it the most racist thing that's come out of this White House? Well, survey says, congratulations. You've won the opportunity to probably have to say this shit again next week. But Tim Scott's criticism forced the president to delete the video, which puts the president in an
Starting point is 00:20:26 uncomfortable position, the Sophie's choice. He deleted the video. Does he admit that he's racist? Or does he admit that he just made a simple mistake? Let's see. how he threads the needle. Mr. President, a number of Republicans are calling on you to apologize for that post. Is that something you're going to do? No, I didn't make a mistake.
Starting point is 00:20:44 So we're going with racist. In the example of a performer you don't particularly care for, the upset is justified. But in the example of the President of the United States, sharing a racist meme, well, get over yourselves. Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt said, and I quote, Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters the American public. Which is fucking crazy. Because at this point, in the MAGA movement, all they have is fake outrage.
Starting point is 00:21:20 Olympic outrage. American freestyle skiers are facing backlash following controversial comments made about representing the U.S. What many call anti-American rhetoric. I'm disgusted by it. It's so upsetting. It's so inappropriate. This guy hates his country. He's clearly ashamed to be wearing the flag. Go back home to Oregon in this case and march with Antifa.
Starting point is 00:21:41 What? Do you want our nation's greatest athletes joining Antifa? Not the solution you think. Sir, you have abs of steel and powerful glutes. Grab a black bandana and get in the fight. But oh my God, I just, first time here, what did this Olympians say? It must be way more upsetting and outrageous than what the president of the United States
Starting point is 00:22:11 racist memes are. It brings up mixed emotions to represent the U.S. right now, I think. It's a little hard. There's obviously a lot going on that I'm not the biggest fan of. That's the hate mongering. That's the most laid-back
Starting point is 00:22:39 mongering. That was like the hacky-sack of political condemnation. It's like, bruh. I feel like right now, the country should be swag, it should be diggedy-dick.
Starting point is 00:23:01 And by the way, Maga, you want to hear the good straight up? Anti-American shit? Talk to your boss. Our country is now a cesspool. We are a nation in decline. We're in a failing country. We're in a country that's being laughed at. We're a dumping ground.
Starting point is 00:23:17 We're like a garbage can. Our country is going to hell. We have blood, death, and suffering on a scale once unthinkable. A third world, hell-haul, ruled by censors, perverts, criminals, and thugs. I mean, after reading the Epstein files, it's hard to argue with the last part. Bothered by the, I don't know, man, things feel pretty bad there and kind of conflicted
Starting point is 00:23:58 and not bothered by the straight up anti-American vitriol from Dear Leader. How about you're wearing the flag? You were representing your country. Yes. And you can save your other comments for when you're not wearing the flag. That's it. It's a flag. I didn't think it's a flag.
Starting point is 00:24:14 Freedom of speech very clearly states, you cannot shout fire in a crowded theater or smack talk America while sporting any national symbols. That's, it's right. So if I were to show you, let's say a video of President Donald Jesus Trump, shitting on America and Americans while sporting the very insignia that you deem so sacred. What if I showed you a video like that? I'm sure you'd just show them. This country has gotten bloated and fat and disgusting. Americans. Oh, but that's a pin. It's got to be cloth and sewn on. And don't say, Oh yeah, but Donald Trump wasn't overseas, because we have video of Donald Trump insulting America while standing next to Putin in Finland.
Starting point is 00:25:03 And don't say, well, the skier was dry humping our beautiful flag. No, that was your guy. So the point is this. When did the right become such f***ing pussies? When? Remember 2017? Remember what you hated about liberals? Oh, perpetually offended.
Starting point is 00:25:33 Safe spaces. censoring free speech, culture of victimhood. Remind you of anyone? I can't go 15 minutes without listening to country music. I need a separate show. Oh, that skier triggered me. I can't sleep. Not the best imitation, but you know what I'm going for.
Starting point is 00:25:59 This whole culture war, this weekend, has really demonstrated one thing. It's that for all of MAGA's triumphalism, it's not a movement that seems confident in its position. These people who control every branch of government are so triggered by someone singing in Spanish for 20 minutes, they need to create their own safe space alternative halftime show where Trad Bunny over here is singing songs about how he can't even enjoy sitting in a truck and drinking beer because he knows that somewhere out there, there's a trans.
Starting point is 00:26:36 It's actually fucking pathetic. The gap between the power you all wields. I'm not done. The gap between the power you all wield and the victimhood you all claim is the real offense. If you didn't actually have the power to do so much damage in our country, I think we all dismiss it as a weak and pathetic pity party. That's what you're throwing. What kind of snacks would you have at a weak and pathetic pity party?
Starting point is 00:27:12 He's not going to probably have yogurt. That's right. When we come back, Governor Andy Beshear will be joining me in this three-day podcast. Please welcome to the program, Governor Andy Beshear. So, now you're up in the northeast. What are we dealing with weather-wise in your beautiful home state of Kentucky? Is it similar to the tundra that we have? We got hit hard, and we've gotten hit hard over and over.
Starting point is 00:28:11 This was our 15th federally declared weather disaster since I became governor. So we had about 0.8 inches of ice in part of our state. We had about a foot of snow in the rest. But we've worked really hard. Make sure. To get it done. That's right. So you've had 15 weather-related.
Starting point is 00:28:28 And a pandemic. Right. And an airplane crash and a couple of helicopter crashes. So we've been through the ring. What's the common thread throughout all this? You know, who was the governor before you? The common thread is that we band together and we push through. Son of a gun.
Starting point is 00:28:44 Look at you. Now, that's the thing. So, you know, you are an anomaly in the world of the world of, the left. You are someone who has a crude power. What did Trump win Kentucky by? 31, the second time. 31. That's like Putin number. Like that's in a democratic society, winning by 31, like that's insane. And were you elected on that same cycle? I was elected a year earlier by five points. So not bad for a Democrat in Kentucky. A 36. And if I may, and this is just, I'm just going from some videos I saw. How did you cheat?
Starting point is 00:29:25 apparently very effectively. Nicely done. No, but what is explain that? Because there is certainly a percentage of prognosticators that would look at that and think, what's the secret sauce? So I think it's three things. First, I stand up for all my convictions,
Starting point is 00:29:43 and we push back against discrimination in any form, but I spend 80% of my time on issues that matter to 100% of the people of Kentucky. That starts with your job and whether you make enough to raise your family. It's your next thing. doctor's appointment for yourself, your parents, or your kids. It's the roads and bridges you drive, the school you drop your kids off at, and whether you feel safe in your community.
Starting point is 00:30:03 Are you reading this? I've said it once or twice. I think a couple of times. So you're basically saying, like, you've found a way to connect your leadership to their actual lives. Is that something that you think Democrats at the national level have not been able to do? Is that the disconnect? Well, we either haven't done it effectively or we haven't communicated it about it
Starting point is 00:30:31 effectively. You know, in addition, I'd say the thing that Democrats have to do better is talk like normal human beings. Thank you. Chuck Schumer has started cursing. If you could tell him to stop there is
Starting point is 00:30:51 nothing I want to see less than that. But you think about how this advocacy speak has pushed into our lingo, and it had a right meaning of trying to change stigma, but you don't change stigma by changing words. You change it by changing hearts. And so a tough example in Kentucky is we lost a lot of our friends to overdoses. I don't know one family that says they lost a family member from substance use disorder. They all say they lost from addiction because that word is that mean, tough thing that takes people from us.
Starting point is 00:31:22 But you see it in other areas. You see people saying food insecurity. So when people are hungry, they're hungry. Right. Or the newest one is called justice-involved population. Say that again? Justice-involved population. I don't think I've heard that.
Starting point is 00:31:38 Well, listen, we believe in second chances. We've got a low recidivism rate, but those are inmates. Right, right, right. And you know what they call themselves? Inmates. Right, right. But do you think, is that, you know, I certainly understand, like, there is a frustration with language and those other situations.
Starting point is 00:31:53 But I would imagine if they felt like government was responsive in other areas, they might not, if they feel like that's all they're doing, does that speak to, and I don't say this in a bad way, but the consultant class of politicians. Because don't they say, you know, like you say, talk normally, that's the thing they say about Trump that they like so much that he talks. You know, this is how regular people talk, and you're like, are regular people terrible?
Starting point is 00:32:21 I don't think they are. Well, he talks to you instead of at you, right? But that's different than colloquial language or calling something intellectual language. It's connecting. That's right. However you do it. And so I think the last piece is Democrats are really good at the what. You know, we talk about policy point three, bullet point four, sub III, I, I underneath.
Starting point is 00:32:45 Consultant class. Yes. Right. But we don't talk about are why enough, not just what you're for, but why you're for, but why you're for it, what drives you, what gets you up out of bed every day, willing to deal with the mess that is politics right now. Right. Because you believe so
Starting point is 00:32:59 strongly you're willing to do it. Is it that you've done those things or that there's been effective that the things you've done they've seen tangible results on? Oh, it's definitely both. I mean, we've broken every record for private sector investment, new jobs, wages, exports,
Starting point is 00:33:16 tourism, and so people see their lives getting better. And I think even if you go back to 2020, that last group of move of voters that were undecided. Right. Believe that the vice president was distracted and that the president was talking about making things cost less. Right.
Starting point is 00:33:32 And so we have to make sure that the American people know that Donald Trump is making everything cost more. He's decimating rural health care. He's posting blatantly racist memes. That he is not... But if that doesn't connect through, like convincing the population that he's posted... I mean, the guy came down an elevator, I don't know,
Starting point is 00:33:51 15 years ago and was like, Mexicans are rapists. And once you cross that barrier. So he wouldn't hide it. Right. It's not like he's been playing coy and we have to convince them. What I found is it feels like
Starting point is 00:34:05 Democrats have maybe lost a more accessible, coherent leadership platform, if that makes sense. A coherent governance. Well, I think it does. But the goal there is how are we working to better people's lives. I mean, right now, look at the polling on the American
Starting point is 00:34:26 dream. People believe that if you work hard and follow the rules, you still don't get ahead. Are they moved by the things you do? When you build those jobs, do you see a difference in the opinion polls? So there's a town called Henderson in Kentucky. It's a former coal mining town. Hard times, and it was moving to the right. I want it by about 500 votes in 2019. I thought it'd be the last time ever. Right before the 2023 election, we landed the cleanest, greenest, recycled paper mill in the country. 350 new jobs paying $40 an hour. Solid. And I will never forget, the owner of that facility zoomed in for the groundbreaking. And he said, we're creating 350, and then he used the term in coal country, green jobs. And you know what everybody did?
Starting point is 00:35:13 Boo. No, they gave them standing ovation because they pay 40 bucks an hour. Right. I thought when you said green, they'd be all like, we're leaving. Not if it's helping them in their lives. What is this environment that you're operating as a, because I imagine it's a really difficult balance that you have to balance those types of jobs with an administration that is clearly penalizing blue states. Now, it might be different for you because you're in a red state,
Starting point is 00:35:38 but you're a blue governor. Have you felt any of that personal animus directed towards Kentucky? Has he withheld things from Kentucky in the way that he's done it from other states? Well, he's withheld. things from everybody. I've taken him to court to get money for for building resiliently after all of the tornadoes and the floods that we've had. He tried to cancel a grant for a warning system for eastern Kentucky when it floods. I've gone to court with other governors to prevent him
Starting point is 00:36:06 from sending the National Guard from one state to another without the permission of that governor. That's your background, right? Your background is in you were the Attorney General of Kentucky. But we also took him to court over things like AmeriCorps. What a great program that's helping out. And he just cut us. But Democrats, Democratic AGs and governors took him to court. One, we're receiving that money. Red states aren't.
Starting point is 00:36:33 Oh, because they did. Oh, so here's something. I didn't even think of this. The Supreme Court had a decision where you can't grant universal injunctions. That's right. And so they thought they'd won that case, but they haven't. So Democrats that have the courage to stand up to them to say that Congress appropriated this money and you don't have a choice. Yes, yes.
Starting point is 00:36:55 That money is flowing to our states and not those red states. That's bold, dude. Let me ask you this. Do you think that the legal system, because, you know, how many Democratic governors are, 23? We are, yeah, just under half. Just under half. You know, what is it that they can do? You know, you see what he's doing in Oregon.
Starting point is 00:37:15 You see what he's doing in Chicago. you see what he was doing in Minnesota. What can the cavalry of Democratic governors do other than lawsuits to kind of form a coalition of people? I don't want to say confederation. The connotations are not great. But how can they force amplify to fight some of these really petty things that are being done? Well, we do. We communicate a lot.
Starting point is 00:37:47 And we all know each other well. And what you see is us banding together to go to court, but also to move the court of public opinion. You see right now what's going on in Minnesota. Right. The videos, the fact that we have an American body count for Donald Trump's deportation plans. You see his other actions in other states.
Starting point is 00:38:09 You see the picture of that five-year-old child. Listen, that is a child of God just like any other one. Right. Is there any fiduciary? Is there a way that blue states can withhold something from the federal government to force his hand? Tougher because they have a lot more money than we do. Right, right. But what we can do is push back in the ways you're seeing, and some of them have been really effective.
Starting point is 00:38:32 That went in the Supreme Court on the National Guard was critically important. Right, right. I think that plus the tariff case are the questions of will our Supreme Court hold up? Will our judicial branch be an effective third branch of government? Is it hard, you know, the Democratic governors, you all know each other, but clearly there's a, now we're moving more towards, you know, the presidential election. Do you guys talk about that? Do you talk about that with like Shapiro and Newsom and all those guys? Like, oh, you're running?
Starting point is 00:39:00 I was thinking about running. Do you guys talk about that? I haven't had that conversation. We're really focused on 26. And we're focused not just on. You guys have not discussed with one another whether you'll run. for president? No. You're not sitting you don't go out to coffee
Starting point is 00:39:14 in the governor thing. You mean to say, you're doing it? Hey, man, you're not going to Iowa. Are you going to Iowa? Well, John, we're here. Are you doing it? Me? Yeah. Who would be, like, which one of you do you think would be the best president? And
Starting point is 00:39:34 on the, on the reasonable question, all right, we'll take the other, we'll take the converse. Who's the worst one? The governor. Who's the one where, like, You guys are at the governor's conference, and, like, the elevator opens, and he's about to walk in and you just go, or she, and you just go, oh, fuck. Ron DeSantis.
Starting point is 00:39:57 So smooth, so smooth. Does he, by the way, I know how that would go. You would go, Ron DeSantis, there you go. Ron? Short joke. All right. The tariffs and all. So the best laid plans of mice and men, you know, man builds, God laughs.
Starting point is 00:40:22 what is it that you've done, you've got these plants, you've got these things. How has the tariffs and the chaos of Trump's economic policy affect the things that you put into place? Because I know you did a lot of, if I remember we talked on the podcast with EVs and batteries. You have big factories coming. What happened to that? Well, it's hit us and it's hit us hard. Now, we are a state whose economy is still expanding, but that's through hustle. Both states have fallen into recession, and tariffs are a big reason.
Starting point is 00:40:52 why. It's a single worst economic policy of my lifetime. It makes everything cost more for our families. Tell me how that affects on a state level. What are the downstream effects of those tariffs on Kentucky? Think about it this way. Donald Trump wants them to cause companies to build things in the U.S.
Starting point is 00:41:08 that aren't built in the U.S. But if you're going to do that, you've got to import all the materials and all the equipment from a different country. In other words, doing what he wants to do costs that much more. We were reshoring as a country. The person who slowed it down if not halted it is Donald J. Trump.
Starting point is 00:41:25 Wow. So what is, are those plants still going forward? So we had two of the biggest battery plants in the world. One, it opened. We had 1,000 Kentuckians working at it. And listen, they didn't care, Democrat, Republican, or Independent. These were good jobs that they were going to be able to raise their family on. That big ugly bill, that's also going to devastate rural health care, cut EV credits and what happened. Ultimately, the partnership that was running, those plants broke up. Now, Ford's stepping in. It's taken both of them. And I think we're still going to hit all those jobs doing storage batteries that will help our grid, that will help us be more efficient. But it's going to take maybe two more years.
Starting point is 00:42:06 And that's 1,600 people that are being told for 12 to 24 months that they're not going to have that job they train for. And so it's one of my congressmen that helped push that bill through that is eliminating 1,600 jobs in his district. He called it a liberal pipe dream. I want him to tell that to every one of the 1,600 Kentuckians that has to find a new job. The person, see, that's unusual. A lot of times, even when somebody might have a sort of dogmatic party line,
Starting point is 00:42:38 when it's a colloquial issue, they'll bend on it. Who is the congressman? That's Brett Guthrie, but he's not the only one. Right, right. This blind allegiance to Trump has people. doing things that hurt their state. Have you seen it wane? Where do you think most windmills are in the United States?
Starting point is 00:42:55 They're in red states. Windmills? Oh, yes. I was going to say Holland. You mean in the United States? Yeah. And what happened? Are those now shutting down?
Starting point is 00:43:05 Are they're having to... Oh, they're pushing the projects to halt, making it that much harder? Right. And these are states that brag to companies that they have a diverse energy portfolio. So is this? This is a plus 31. Red State. They went for Trump Plus 31. Have you
Starting point is 00:43:22 seen anecdotally or otherwise an erosion of support or is it still just it's almost it's religious and it's fervor still? What are you seeing? I think we're seeing the fever break and I'd look at it as a
Starting point is 00:43:38 soybean farmer. A soybean farmer grows... You're also a soybean? No, I'm not. My first job was mucking horse stalls so I am prepared for politics. Been there, fella. It ain't, that ain't no fun. So when you look at our soybean farmers right now, probably 90 plus percent voted for Donald Trump. Yet his tariff policy, his cutting of U.S.Aid, his cutting of the farm-to-table programs for our schools have hit this group of
Starting point is 00:44:08 people to the point of bankruptcy. Their market may never come back. This person that they believed in that they thought was going to fight for them is about to ruin them. and you're seeing people speak out. That's so hard. That's the hardest part of all this. It's a hard life to begin with. That's such a difficult. Farm jobs are so difficult.
Starting point is 00:44:27 So the tough part right now being governor is, yes, you see the number starting to move. Yes, it's going to be a good midterm for Democrats, but at the cost of Donald Trump hurting the American people, making their lives that much harder, that's not something that I want to see happen. Wow. I really appreciate it. I give you great respect. I hope to come busy in the great state.
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Starting point is 00:47:24 We're going to check in with your oath for the rest of the week, Mr. Jordan. What's happening, man? Oh, John, first of all, how amazing was that halftime show, huh? I got to tell you. Benito delivered my friend there. Como sta? All right. Very very nice.
Starting point is 00:47:56 But not just bad buddy, huh? Forgetting someone? I mean, Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin were there, and that was... Me, John! Me! I was one of the stocks of sugar cane, you know? Well, I don't... I don't.
Starting point is 00:48:20 I'm right there, John, see, see? I was right there. You don't remember me? No, you know what? I don't remember. But, John, you don't remember this? You don't remember this?
Starting point is 00:48:31 Oh, this? Sugar King Guy. Sugar King Guy, everybody. Here it is your moment. Is that? Look, I understand culturally, it's considered offensive, but culturally, our country is very
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