The Daily Signal - Tony Kinnett & Rob Carson: 100 Crucial Days for America

Episode Date: May 1, 2025

Rob Carson of Newsmax Radio sits down with The Daily Signal's Tony Kinnett to discuss the crucial difference the first 100 days of the Trump administration has made to the American people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We'd love to talk. Business. Welcome back to the Tony Kinnettcast here on the Daily Signal, nationally syndicated first on 93 WIBC. Normally things are flipped around here, and that means that it's Rob Carson putting up with me on his show. So today we've decided that it's my turn to suffer. Rob, nationally syndicated phenomenon. Thanks for joining us. Oh, brother, it's great to be on the show.

I just want to say, I've only had you on my show a few months, but there's just, you are my brother from another mother. I mean, we are right on the same page, maybe. Hey, there's something about people who focus on things outside of the Beltway that I think make them better broadcasters. And that's something that the Trump administration has actually done a pretty decent job in the first hundred days of focusing on. I was at a press conference this morning with Brooke Rollins, Kristine O'am, we were talking about this family in South Dakota. Biden's family, or excuse me, Biden's administration, so his family, went after the mods because they had a farm up against a plot of the forestry service. Did he have to prosecute this family? No, it was disgusting.

It was political. Trump has said it right. No coverage on this story. That's what his first 100 days is littered with. And I know you've seen the same kind of stuff. Well, exactly. And, you know, when you look at some of the other nonsense that Barack Obama did, basically telling every landowner in America that any source of water on their property

was under government supervision, it's that kind of Marxist nonsense that it's always been. It's about control. Everything's about control. It's about, you know, taking your gas dough away from you. doesn't make a difference at all in the environment. It's all about control. And the media isn't going to cover this. That is a great thing.

See, I traveled the country over the last few years, kind of actually by accident. I went to Florida, drove down there with my family a couple years ago. I had to go through all the small towns because of all the traffic diverted. Went to little towns like LeVern, Mississippi, you know, went up to my hometown near Persia, Iowa, and Underwood and Niola and Minden and all those and saw the suffering that is there. And it is great, greater than it has ever been. You've got main streets where they don't even put out the American flags anymore because nothing is open, not even the bars. So this is the kind of ignorance that exists in Washington, D.C.

And Donald Trump has gotten us away from the coastal elites and focused on the people who really make the country work. And then I try to see some of the coverage of the small town, some of the national side of things. And what I end up reading are a lot of really poorly written thousand word articles by some untalented intern. and trying to make the case that there are all these farmers, these small town workers, and they deeply regret their vote for Donald Trump. Oh, dear God, no. Republican leadership already. Who are these people?

Well, they're not from the flyover country. They're not from the heartland. I saw a bit last Sunday. Martha Raditz, they decided to go outside the Beltway. Oh, Martha. I know, I know. Go outside the Beltway to see how the tariffs have impacted. Oh, it's the first time for everything.

You know where they went? Annapolis, Maryland. And they talked to a guy who has a pet store, and he ordered a bunch of stuff in case the tariffs kicked in. So he hasn't been affected at all by the tariffs. The man just got like 47-2 cans screeching in the back room. Apparently he does a big business in the dog harnesses. And I'm not thinking it's just for dogs because they're very close to

DC. There's a lot of Democrat Senate staffers who use that kind of stuff. Park collars, you know, that kind of stuff. Yeah, they're just out of touch, bro. They're just out of touch. They don't know Indianapolis. They don't know Kansas City. They don't know Poughkeepsie. They don't know Springfield, Ohio. They don't care about it either. So I was talking to, and kind of a national correspondent over at Town Hall, Rebecca Downs, a great editor over there. And we were talking about a lot of the Midwestern towns that exist by name in several states. So Vance is middle town i ohio i'm from middle town indiana there are middle towns all over the country there are green fields new castles all of that and strangely though all of these towns that have the same

kind of names do in fact have a lot of similarities and even though you could do in every town usa kind of example you never hear that used on national tv like walter kronkite used to do no you never hear some of the the age old broadcasters obviously i know you used to do a lot of writing for rush rest of soul and he never lost sight of what it meant for regular Americans to be given a perspective from those of us who spend time talking. And I think we're coming back to it finally after all this time. Oh, absolutely. 100 percent. I couldn't agree more. The coastal elites have been in charge for a very long time. And what we're witnessing, and I started writing for Rush right out of college in

1989. And I said, and I began to coin an expression soon thereafter of conservative apartheid. That's what we've experienced. And they focused on. on the coastal elites. They've focused on the liberal population centers and give very little notice to the people in fly over country. It became very obvious in that Springfield, Ohio, East Palestine, Ohio, all of that. And I became very aware that they don't give a flying crap about those towns. They don't give a crap about the county seeds that exist everywhere with a courthouse right in the middle and the square, Ozark, Missouri or, you know, wherever that exists. but they do exist all over the country.

And finally, they do have a voice. And they're proud Americans, bro. They are so proud. Did you watch our rally last night? They are proud. It is so glorious. We've been told not to be proud. We've told to focus on the guy who kneels rather than 65,000 fans who stand.

And for so long, and these people, all of the manufacturing have gone, all of the, you know, if the Kawasaki plant went out of business in Maryville, Missouri, the town would be dead. Well, that happened 50,000 times in the last 50 years. You and I've talked about this last time I was on your show. I mentioned that my dad in Richmond, Indiana, when Dana packed its bags and moved to Mexico, that was something we experienced. No one in the coastal lead has any idea with the company, Dana or Perfect Circle or any of those even are. But it's really interesting you talk about towns and how they're laid out and the people that are in favor of this.

Trump goes back to Macomb County in Michigan, just 20 miles north of Detroit. During the election cycle, I drove up in my little corolla from Indiana to Detroit. and watch during the UAW strikes. Yes. Yeah, right. And Trump goes and speaks at that transmission plant. And no one could figure out in the media why all of these union laboring Democrats were in favor of the change that Trump was bringing instead of Biden, who was supposedly union boy. And that hasn't slowed down since Trump's been office.

They're still trying to claim union on the left and they're gone. Well, the union leaders have been able to be rich despite all of the factories moving. Great distinction. Great distinction. The union leaders have gotten. The unions themselves have been enriched by the government. And then they, of course, expect their membership to vote a slavishly Democrat. But as you close down these plans, why would any of the members want to vote Democrat?

Line workers ain't stupid. And you know what else? Here's another thing about the coastal elites. They don't think. They think that menial labor or manual labor or working an assembly line or standing on a roof of putting shingles or whatever. they think the jobs that Americans won't do because they wouldn't do them. These are the jobs that we love. America loves jobs where they feel like they built something and they come home and they get in the shower.

And I remember growing up, shelling corn all day or, you know, pitching bails all day and almost clogging the shower drain with dust off of me. And you know what? There's a satisfaction in that. And the elites don't understand it because they've never done it before. And they try to satirize. You've seen Parks and Rec. Oh, yeah. I love the show. Right, right, right. So, you know, you've got Ron. And again, they actually built that entire series around the inverse of Muncie, Indiana, which is right where Nehry grew up.

Oh, okay. That makes sense. They made this libertarian, this right-leaning character, Ron. And they have them talking, he becomes so beloved that he starts teaching the other characters how to live. And after showing one of them how to fix the sink, he sits back and he goes, ah, yes, the feeling of the pride of labor. of getting something done. And they pass that off as a joke, but there really is that sense of creating something that is inherent in every American.

There is no job beneath Americans. That's been a myth forever when George W. Bush said it. American jobs that Americans won't do. You know, you Jackweed, there is no job Americans won't do. We get dirty every damn day. We shovel crap. There's jobs that maybe you won't do, but the people that I worked with,

take it down and they do them and they do them right. I grew up in Neola, Iowa. You know what the prize job growing up in Neola, Iowa was? The prize job working at the slaughterhouse. The dirtiest, filthy, worst thing you could possibly imagine, Reed Upton, Sinclair's the Jungle, for God's sake. I reference that on the show all the time. That job paid $20 an hour.

Yeah. You know, that job be $20 an hour. It's a job that you have to do if you want to enjoy that McDonald's Cheeseburger. Thank you very much. And they have no problem doing it. And there's this enamorant. There was this enammerment that we had very briefly with the millennials growing up, where they were watching the shows like dirty jobs or the crab fishing or the oil rig worker kind of reality shows where you would see it up close.

And now with Generation Z, it's back again. You're starting to see what is going to be the most conservative generation. Yes. This country has seen in over a century. Yes. Who is enamored again with hard work that is done correctly. That isn't a bunch of soy boys running around interning an office buildings. And thank God.

Well, you know, I, uh, a guy was on a moment. my house the other day and we did a we wrapped a beam on our ceiling and I would have done it but I don't like being on ladders and I was talking to him about this and he's a he's a woodworker he's very good at him he's probably 28 29 years old and I said how long he'd be doing this is well you know I went to school for accounting and he says I don't like it he said I my father was a woodworker and I this is I get satisfaction from doing that's been dude he could be making 150,000 doing accounting maybe 200,000 but he's a woodworker and he's an expert man and it is such if you can be something good at something like that

And the other thing is you can leave it at work when you leave work, you know, unlike a lot of the other working in a cubicle and whatnot. But there is a satisfaction. And thankfully, we're watching higher education begin to die the desire and the need to have a degree that's worthless. Now you're just graduating people who have no skills who are just pissed off of the world and Marxist with no ability to get a job with $200,000 worth of debt. It finally there is a people are getting to realize I can make $120,000. dollars is an artisan welder or I can make a $150,000 as a whatever, maybe a master plummy, maybe a master electrician, you can make 150 grand, easy as a master electrician. And there's also, well, there's actually a bit of adventure to that as well.

And I think that's also has been missing from the American spirit. There's no adventure really anymore in going to university and then getting out and having your resume rejected by a bunch of angry Karens in HR offices. We've talked about that at a ton. But to actually go on the adventure of starting out. as the apprentice and, you know, being teased by the other guys and then brought along as a fellow craft and then eventually reaching mastery. Yes.

That is a facet of American industry. And I'm ready. That's one of the reasons I like Vance so much. He understands the value that that brings to a community. Oh, absolutely. And I'm just so, I'm just so, I said when Donald Trump was elected, I said, I didn't believe and I still don't believe. We will not be able to recognize the profundity of that moment.

and what is coming and what has come for decades. And we still don't, we can't even recognize it now. If I put down a list of all the things that had accomplished the first 100 days, if you would have just stopped at the border. Right, right. That would have been enough. That's more than Joe Biden did in four years for God's sake.

And look at how momentous. And that's why when I see, you know, when I see Trump going and doing a little bit of a rally, the media says, oh, that's grand stating, political campaigning. How could he, you know, oh, they're grumble, mumble, rumble. Trump goes and celebrates a couple of things that people in the Midwest, that people in the industrial towns are thrilled about him doing. Yeah, I'm not going to complain about that at all. I say that's fair game. And you know what? Suck it, Dems, because just because you can't do it,

just because you have to pay people to show up to see AOC, you know, and Bernie, Bunny Sanders at a rally in Denver where everybody's paid, where 20 some thousand phones had been at eight other Kamala rallies for God's sake. They're rent-a-mobbs, not paid for USAID anymore, but certainly paid for Soros money on that. Donald Trump is a rock star. He shows up, 50,000, 80,000. And my God in heaven, how many of those rallies did he have?

Over 120, 24. And it is something they cannot, they will never be able to reproduce. The Republican Party will never be able to reproduce. You will never have a phenomenon like this. Again, last night was the M.MA meets P.T. Barnum meets a Metallica concert. That was a Trump rally. Oh,

meets a stand-up comedy gig. Oh, yeah. Every day is historical. Right now, every day is historical. We need to stay positive and patriotic. And every time the left tries to throw a wrench in the works, make fun of them. Because they cannot win.

They will not win. And that's why you need Rob Carson and Tony Kennett. That's why you need us to get out there and make fun of these goobers and find the weakest cracks in these goofball stories. So you can, you know, throw them at the relative. you have on Facebook who vote the other way. They have no, I take mockery, ridicule, and satire back from the left. And when you have those in your corner, they cannot fight back.

They can't. No, not even a little. Rob Carson, Newsmax Radio. Thank you very much for stopping by and joining this man. Always a blast. You're the best, buddy. Talk to you soon.