The Dan Bongino Show - Bongino Weekend Report - Week of 09/21/26

Episode Date: September 26, 2026

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All the time. On the side of freedom and liberty, your voice of hope and truth is here. The Bonino Report PM with Dan Bonino. It's a big day today. It's a huge day. Well, why? Tell us what.

Of course, of course. The whole point of a talk show. Jim, why is it a big day today? What happened this morning? We launched the Bonino Report AM. Yes, we did. Yes. we did on hundreds of stations nationwide.

Thank you to all the program directors who picked up the show. We're now on in the morning and the afternoon where you're listening to us now. So we are, you know, people say, oh, we're excited. No, no, we're stoked. Radio was always my home.

I love my podcast, obviously, but I got my start in radio. And I really appreciate all the program directors taking a chance with us again. We've been in the 12th to 3 spot, the 3 to 6 spot, the morning spot. We're all over the place. on radio, but I love it. I really do. I enjoy it. So thank you to everyone who listened this morning

to our first show. We're really proud. We're really proud and happy to be doing that. So I've got a good amount of stuff to talk to you about today. When I say good, I mean a lot. So I'm not sure what I'm going to be able to get to, but obviously the big ticket items, the big ticket items are going to be Greenland and what happened with the media this weekend. Now, Greenland, of course, I'm going to get into it from this specific angle. you just got to read the book. I'll talk about this a little bit when we get into it in a little bit more depth.

But Jim and I have been on the air together for, I don't know, five, close to six years now. Donald Trump is a book. It's called The Art of the Deal. Just read it. Just for now, for now. We've got a little bit to we get to it. So even folks, get an Amazon speedy drone delivery.

Just pick up the book if you're a left winger who's crying about this. And just read the book. And I promise the segment, will make a world the sense. I'm also going to get into the media, again, playing victim, loading up their diapers. It's not even like number one. It's great.

Why am I such a victim? Donald Trump, who does about 4,000 press conferences a year, maybe more. Like, I can't believe we've been banned. You're not banned. You just didn't get a seat in the White House. Jim, do you have a seat in the White House press room? I do not. Why not?

Are you banned? I don't believe so. Okay. So it's a privilege, correct? Correct. Do we have that privilege right now? No, we don't. We don't because it's limited seating.

I don't want to hear your stories. You can take them. Jim says on the air, we're not allowed to talk about where to put things, but just roll it up and figure it out, okay? Also, I got a weekend update coming up for you later as well about, also I'll give you like the chucklehead story too, which is really funny. Did you hear the story on a podcast, Jim?

I did. Poor guy almost died. I hope he's okay. There's always like one chucklehead everywhere we go. He must have been the only liberal in all of Auburn. I love my friends and family in the South. I was back at University of Auburn. A game didn't work out as playing.

Hey, UF played great. I like the Gators too. Remember the warning we gave Jim about that certain player? Were we not right? Yes, yes, we were absolutely right. Do you know someone brought, you know, I was at Bruce Pearl's tailgate, and someone came up to me,

who shall remain and nameless and brought that up and said, you would have saved them $200 million. I said, I know, I know, we told you. You should have listened to us. All right, I want to get to this though first. You know what? When I was running for office back in the day in Maryland, Maryland's obviously a deep blue state,

but I decided what the hell, give it a shot. You know, do or do not, right? Like, Yoda, don't try. You got to go do stuff. So I said, enough talking about this politics, stuff. I'm going to go run for office. So I ran for U.S. Senate and Maryland,

for those of you who were new to the show. This was a while back a decade ago or so. I beat nine other guys in the primary, which surprised even me on primary night. I was like, look at that. We won. Everybody was kind of surprised. We lost in the general. We got pretty much smoked.

But whatever, we had a good time doing it. But while I was running in that race, at the time, now Senator Chris Van Hollen, who is a diehard communist, right? Senator Chris Van Hollen was a congressman back then. So I run into one of his staffers at the Montgomery County Fair. And in case you haven't heard the story before, the staffer is telling me how great, higher taxes are and it's so awesome and you know I said to him a really simple question I said oh okay whatever you name it like you know liberal Karen guy whatever your name is I'm like do you pay higher

taxes voluntarily and he looks at me and he goes well who's dumb enough to do that I go what you just you just said it was a good thing I mean I mean you just said it was a good thing like it was a benevolent force in society giving the government your money and then when I asked you why you don't give more of the government your money to do more good things. You said to me, well, who's dumb enough to do that? I'm confused. Like, what is it? Because you don't have to force me to give to charity. I give to charity, not because I'll be arrested if I don't.

I will be arrested if I don't pay my taxes. But I give to charity because I do believe it does a lot of good, the charities I pick. I don't have to be forced to do it. So why don't you give to the greatest charity of all in your mind, liberal media people, the government? The answer is because you're fakes and phonies and frauds. I'm sorry that hurt. delicate sensibilities or whatever.

I get the diapers full again. That's not my problem. I'm mommy change you. Like, that's not my business. I'm here to coddle you. You know, this radio show, we don't do the boot-licking, butt-kissing thing.

Let's pretend to be like non-partisan. We're not. I am partisan because one size right and you guys suck on the other side. You're just wrong. And you're just hypocrites and frauds. Jim's like, dang, go easy. He only been on the air one day with somebody's day.

I know. It's fine. I don't want to. Listen, if you got to cancel, I understand. I know you have. I don't care. Like, this is the show, and we kicked butt last time and took names and our last lot on the radio. And it's because people don't want this milk toast, pastels crap, okay?

These guys are phonies. I bring up Van Hollen, not to get into my time running for office again, but because Van Hollen was on the news shows this weekend. And he brings up this talking point about socialism that you have a choice coming up in the midterms. Oh my gosh, I just realized we didn't even get to that in the podcast. I had that whole say. Oh, man, how did I visit that? We have a choice coming up in the midterms. And it is a clear choice.

It's not a pastel choice. This like the words of Reagan. Do you want government control over the economy, over politics, over the regulatory ecosystem, full government control? That's what the DSA and socialism is. Or do you believe in market freedoms and liberty? It's a simple question. So the Democrats, because they,

They know they're boxed in a corner by these lunatic socialists out there are now framing it as a, oh, we're just debating ideas. Like, oh, okay. Well, there were some ideas worth debating and some not.

Jim, let's debate ideas. I think we should, um, throw people in their 60s who are claiming social security and a woodshipper because we'd say, that doesn't sound like a good idea. That's a,

speaking is that someone in their 60s. No, it does not sound like a good idea. When you're six, yeah, no, that's, that's not an idea worth debating. This is a straw man argument. Socialism involves the complete destruction of the political and economic system we have in the United States in favor of government tyrants. It's not worth debating. It's not about debating ideas.

It's about the quality of the idea you're debating. We're not throwing people in woodchippers. It's a bad idea. Well, it's worth debating. No, it isn't, bro. It's not worth debating. As a guy who's only nine years away from 60s, I don't want,

because pretty soon will be down to the 50s too. But even if it wasn't, I don't want anybody woodshipper. It's really bad. This isn't Fargo. Some of you get that. Do you get that, Jim? This isn't Francis McDormand.

What are you doing there? What are you doing there? Johnny? Is that a leg? No. Here's Van Hollen. This is how media people. Media people.

I'm trying to help you. I know you don't want my help. But whenever they bring up this, thing like it's a big tent we're debating ideas your first response should be um are there really ideas worth debating like destroying the constitutional republic in favor of a soviet style dsa model it doesn't sound like an idea worth debating to me it's kind of like the woodchipper idea i'm not down here's van holland with the straw man check this out are you concerned about the rise of socialism and dsa candidates i'm not concerned about dsa candidates my view is the democratic party should be a big tent party

and that we should welcome debate. And people who want to shut down debate, they're afraid of ideas. I think we should be a big tent party. We should welcome different ideas. You know, we ask Democrats as we should to say, let's elect Joe Manchin in West Virginia because he's the guy who can get elected in West Virginia. That's great.

I don't agree with Joe Manchin on everything. And we should elect other candidates, like Zora and Mamdani or others. I don't agree with them on everything either. But they are bringing young people and others into the Democratic Party. And so I was very critical of some of the Democratic leadership in the House and the Senate. When after Zoran Mamdani became the Democratic nominee for mayor, they still wouldn't endorse them.

Now, if we're going to be a big tent party, we need to embrace all Democrats and all people who are going to put, who are going to be part of the Democratic. party. So no, I'm not scared of ideas. I welcome ideas. And I don't think the Democratic Party should try to shun anybody. Oh, oh, okay. I'm scared of ideas, folks. What are you a was? No, no, there are some ideas I'm scared of the Holocaust, Jim Crow, communism. Those are scary idea. I'm scared. Jim, I'm scared. Jim, you scared of those ideas? Jim scared. Yes. Jim, bad idea? Yeah? Bad idea. Should we be

scared of those ideas. Yes, very much. Yes, we should. Because they're freaking bad ideas. They've only led to things like mass starvation, torture, deprivation, destruction, mass poverty, the Holodomor, millions of people dying, people having to eat dogs and pigeons. Like, those are bad ideas. We shouldn't be eating the dogs and the pigeons. I choose beef. It's what's for dinner. Listen, I'm not like the chick-fil-a-eget, eat more cheese, whatever. They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats. We don't want to do that.

The greatest song of all time, by the way. This is Up Where It's Their Way to Heaven. If you've never heard that cat, that's a real song. Pun intended. That's a real song that guy did. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Those are bad ideas. Don't eat the dogs and the cats.

Stop framing this as we're debating ideas. It's the quality of the idea on the margin or lack thereof that matters. Then they throw out this other stupid line. Well, it's a big. tent. I'm not in favor of keeping people out of the tent. And I love how he says, did you catch the part Jim Van Allen? He's like, they attract young people to the party. Well, listen, you know, there's a new movie coming out, real movies. This isn't one of Jim's fake dark web movies. There's a real movie coming out like Camp Crystal Lake like Friday at 13th the beginning where they tell like the Jason

Vohy's hockey mask serial killer precursor story. Like Jason Vohy's brings kids into the movie theaters too. But if he was real life showing up on a hockey mask with a bloody machete, I'm not going to invite him in a Hey, bro, you bring kids in the movie theater. Come on in the tent and hack everybody up and throw them into woodchipper Fargo style. Like, I'm not for that. I'm not for that. It's generally a bad idea.

That's a bad idea. Serial killers are no good. And the greatest serial killers of all time have been communists. Oh, you dispute that? Go to your most, I'll do your favor, Libs. Go to the most liberal, AI chat bot you can find.

I'm serious. Just so you know, I'm aware, go, I don't care what it is, whatever. You know, liberal Joey Bagadona's GPT, whatever the hell it's called. Go in there and say, give me a rough guesstimate of how many people communism has killed through starvation,

torture, death, destruction, imprisonment. It's probably going to come back even on the low end. Like, yeah, plus or minus like a hundred million or so. Oh, that's it? That's 100 million. Wow. There you go. I promise you.

Like I've seen just about every Friday the 13th movie. Some of them are pretty awful. Even Vorhees is not even at like the 10,000 mark. Don't fall for this straw man. Don't fall for it. I got one more. I want to play for you on this topic here. Here is Cory Booker, another just complete clown out of New Jersey.

Democrat, another commie here. Not willing to call out bad ideas. And pretending that this is all a distraction. A distraction, like I'm kind of, I'm kind of concerned about, you know, like serial killers in the tent. I don't know. And I'd like to debate real ideas, not like communism, a failed idea. Here's Cory Booker with the distraction, which is a distraction in and of itself.

Check this out. You see there in our poll, socialism is viewed even more negatively, as I said, than the MAGA movement. President Trump is trying to paint progressives. And frankly, all Democrats as socialists. And we're seeing one of the big battles. play out for progressivism in Michigan right now with Abdul al-Said, the candidate there, who did tell me he was a capitalist, by the way. But do you think Democrats are drawing a firm enough line between themselves and socialism?

Again, this is really what the Republicans want to do, focus on a few fringe people. I serve in the United States Senate, and I can go through my colleagues left and right. What we want right now is to end these reckless tariffs. and drive down prices to end this war to drive down prices and give a tax plan for this country that puts more money in working people's pockets and ends the giveaways to the wealthiest of Americans. This is a distraction. The party, in my opinion, is being represented right now by the key battleground states. And those folks and those purple states are right in line with the people they're trying to represent.

So just to be clear, Corey Booker Logic, Democrat Senator from New Jersey, complete clown goofball. You know, you invite a guy in your tent who's a mass murderer killed hundreds of millions of people, call him communism for today. He's hacking up the whole tent, Jason Voorhe style with the hockey mask and everything like that. That pay no attention to the man in the hockey mask. This is just a distraction, folks. Just a distraction. I got more in this coming up in a break.

We'll be right after the break. We'll be right back. But was it? President Trump again speaking about 15 minutes into the podcast. at the UN in what was a, I think, one of one of his best foreign policy speeches. So I say that because we didn't lose that many people. We typically do between, I don't know, 45,000 to 55,000 live streamers any given morning. We had about 42 today.

So it was down a little bit. But you know what? I get it. You can watch on demand later. I'm really glad, and most folks wouldn't tell you, I'm really glad that some people watch the president's speech because it really matter. However, it is now later in the day,

3 p.m. Eastern for some of you, later for some, depending on when you're listening. And we get to now cover the speech it was happening live on the podcast. And there were three clips from this speech I thought you really should hear. And the first one I want to play, just getting right into it,

because it really was a very well done and well-crafted speech by President Trump. Very presidential, very authoritative. And there was no, not that President Trump's ever known for, you know, I hate clichés, but you know, beating around a Bush, whatever. Not that he's ever known for that. But even by Trumpian standards, it was a very direct speech on everything from AI to China to Iran to with a choice coming up, basically in this next election.

And you say, well, why was he election? He really wasn't. He was just trying to do something. I've been trying to do repeatedly and you'll hear throughout the show today. Folks, what you're seeing on X and social media platforms, TikTok and others, I promise you is not an accurate reflection of the real world. Now, stop. What I'm not telling you is I'm not telling you Twitter, X, Snapchat, TikTok are not the real

world. There are real people on. They're in the real world. and there are people out there who don't like President Trump, even people summon the Republican Party. What I'm telling you, to be clear, now you know what I'm not telling you, what I'm telling you is,

and what President Trump addresses in this first clip I want to play, is the United States is on a trajectory upward like no other country in the world. I'm not telling you we don't have problems. I'll address it coming up in the show. Cost of living's a big issue. Inflation's a big issue. Crime's an issue, even though with the lower.

lowest numbers ever. There's still people. There's still crime happening. We get it. Believe me, I was directly involved in that. I get it. I'm just telling you, compared to everyone else in the world, nobody's even close to doing what the United States is doing. And we do not want to go back to the pre-Trump, Joe Biden, Barack Obama stuff, where the economy sucked, inflation was out of control, the border was open. You have a choice. And it is not an abdication of presidential leadership for President Trump to bring up the fact that he did inherit a lot of problems. That is not, that's just a fact. Some he fixed the border.

Some he did dramatically better on violent crime, the homicide rate, all dramatically down from Biden and Obama era stuff. GDP growth moving up. All of this stuff, he inherited it did better. However, inflation costs a living still. an issue. Biden was, and again, we'll get to this a little later in the show with actual numbers. We'll play a clip from the Will Kane show showing you the numbers. Biden gave you about 82%, maybe 80% plus 80, 82% of the inflation you're seeing now. However, I get it.

When you're in charge, you take the blame. However, do you want to go back to 9% inflation under Biden? It's President Trump's job to remind you that there is an alternative. And the alternative, ladies and gentlemen, is not going back to the Sleepy Joe era. I'm sorry, I'm not doing that. you have a choice I'm going to be the theme of today's show so I want to play this first this is the first clip here is President Trump what did these kids say

spitting facts with no G at the end spitting some facts here folks yes I acknowledge we still have outstanding issues any country group of people who are fallible by nature will have issues they need to fix in a scarce resource environment I get it

but when you look at the job numbers, the lowest in American history. Fact. The poverty rate. The lowest in modern American history. Fact. Predictions of 5% plus economic growth. A huge number we haven't seen since Reagan outside of the COVID disruptions. When you look at the violent crime numbers down, the murder rate down, the border being essentially sealed, the massive deregulatory effort, Everything from like hunters and fishermen with, you know, red tape being being blown out of the word, the Second Amendment advocates, the things that have been done on all kinds of things and all kinds of friends. It has been an amazing time.

Here's President Trump at the UN saying like, hey, man, it's no place in the world I'd rather be than in this rising U.S. Remember that as two words. Rising U.S. Check this out. The entire world is being lifted. by the wealth, strength, spirit, and momentum of a newly energized and a very powerful United States of America. And just as we moved quickly to address problems we inherited at home, we have acted with decisiveness and speed to reshape the world stage and solve problems that have plagued us for far too long.

Every leader in this room and your great leaders, many great leaders, I know all of you very well, But they know that given only a short time to make this world better, safer, and more prosperous for our children, for the people on earth, we have to take advantage of it. As president of the most extraordinary nation in history, I have no interest in leaving dangers to grow for another day. I do not believe in letting problems fester. They only become harder to solve. So while others have talked, I have acted.

While others have spoken of peace, I have made peace. While others have ignored threats, I have confronted them. While others have talked of courage, America has shown it. While others have promised strength, I have used it to make America the most powerful country in the world. Folks, listen, man, I get it. I get it. I get that we're Americans, American account. exceptionalism is a thing.

We are an exceptional people. And we do. We crave the perfect. No matter how good things are, it's actually, I think, a positive trait of the American citizen and the American voter. They're like, well, we can do better. Yeah, that's what you want. I'm a college football fan, right?

That's what you want your college coach. Jim's a hookum horns guy. He likes a University of Texas. You want your coach to say, hey, we won by 21. I think we could have won by 28. We could have scored another touchdown. That's what you were. But what you don't want, what you don't want is also a coach who craps on his team the whole time.

You don't. Believe me, I'm a huge college football fan. My team hadn't been doing great for, well, I think we've had that problem in the past. What do they say when the team wins, your players get the credit? When the team loses, the coach takes the credit. The thing is the team, the American team is winning. We're winning. I'm not telling you the other team isn't scoring some touchdowns here and there.

The Democrats are always going to try to get cheap political points under the bar. Defunding the police, tolerance, coexist, trust the science. Put a face diaper on your face. It'll cure code, whatever the hell they tell you. President Trump said inject bleach, whatever crap they put out there. They are going to get some points on the board because people will fall for it. But folks, don't you want a guy in the White House who's a cheerleader for the United States in front of the international community? Why would you not?

Is that even a partisan statement? I want to bring up one more thing because it's going to come up in these next couple of clips I play from President Trump's speech earlier today earlier today at the UN. He brings up this point about how he's not going to kick this can down the road anymore and that he's going to make tough political decisions

regardless of the political consequences. Ladies, gentlemen, I cannot emphasize this enough. This is a president who is not running for election again. When I endorsed him for the second time, obviously, in his run for 47, I said to you, a lot of people were complaining, well, we shouldn't elect him, we should pick one of these other guys because he can only be one-termer. I said at the time, and I know Jim remembers this well, I think that's the best thing going

because he's not worried about re-election. He's going to make tough decisions, and he has. I'll give you two examples. Put meat on the bone. Okay, I will. Iran, what he's had to do over there. I support the decision. I read the Intel too. I think we had to do it. I don't think we had a choice. You don't have to agree with me. It's just not a dictatorship. It's not a monarchy. I respect that people are very hesitant to put our troops in harm's way. Matter of fact, I love that about the country. I'm telling you, given what I saw, and I know President Trump saw, and he sees more than I do, or did. I think he made the right. call. There is zero doubt this has not been a political winner for him. Why does he keep doing it? Because he knows that the risk of doing nothing is a mushroom cloud over Washington, D.C., or New York,

an EMP attack, or a mass cyber attack by Iranian hackers that shuts down our grid. He's not letting that happen. I'll give you another one. The crackdown on violent crime across America, historic, historic. I was a part of that. I don't mean to check myself in the story, but folks, the crackdowns happened largely in blue cities. You've got red towns across America that have negligible crime rates. It wasn't, we weren't going up and locking up Ted Bundy in those places. It was largely blue cities. D.C., Philadelphia, Chicago. The president didn't do this because he was concerned about Chicago voting for him in the next election.

He did it because he actually cared. To anyone listening to this show right now, radio stations across the country, I encourage you to dispute that. Dispute that. What did he do it for? I'm glad he brought that up because you do have a choice

between people who make stupid, politically expedient decisions like Biden. Remember the fake whipping incident at the border? He knew nothing happened. It was a whipping incident. He made the whole thing up. But someone told him, well, you can get some cheap political points on the board.

Okay, let's just say. they whip some people. Clowns. Clowns. Here he is, this next clip here, addressing the tough decisions in Iran that he had to make, that again, it's a republic, you're free to dispute them,

disagree with them, do your thing. I'm telling you again, I've seen the portfolio of intel. I don't think we had a choice. I wish it had wrapped up sooner. War is unpredictable, however. But I think he made the right call. Here he is telling them, hey fellas, Iranian

Iranian Mullahocracy, the death to America crowd. It ain't going to get any easier for you, I promise. Check this out. But I have a big decision to make. Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before? Maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East or even the world. Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly? giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again. Do I drive them into hell

with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations? But I believe we'll make a deal right after the election because it doesn't make sense for them not to. They're waiting to see how I do in the midterm election. What they don't realize is that I'm not running. I did. that already, and won in a landslide, we won in a giant landslide, and I'll be here for two and a half years. The Republican Party is running, and I'll be helping them. But I am not running. I gave absolutely no credence and will not give credence to the election

when it comes to Iran. It doesn't even enter my mind. The only thing that does is that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. and the cowards and traders. Thank you. Folks, I gotta tell you. Sorry, it's not like some pregnant pause at all. I absolutely love, love, love that soundbite from President Trump at the UN.

You're going to wait me out? You're going to wait me out for the election? Good luck. More coming up on this after the break. Why are some people out there upset with this midterm election? People on our side. For the purposes of this segment, I'm not talking about liberal media folks, commies,

Democrat Socialists of America, the build large mansions, rioters. They just, they hate freedom and liberty. Forget them for a second. I'm talking about, understandably, why are some people who are registered, kind of four by four Republican voters? You know, that's kind of electoral language

for people who voted in the last four primaries in elections. In other words, your diehards. Why are some of them saying, hey, listen, we're going into the midterms and, you know, I think I may stay home. I don't think I'm going to vote Democrat, but I think I'm going to stay home.

Why would they, why would they feel that way? Well, a little bit later in the show, I'm going to play an audio clip from you that I think sums it up beautifully. It was actually from CNBC. It's Ken Langone. But I think he kind of nails it. But the angle I want to take here is,

Folks, the worst thing you can do if you were a political candidate or activist, and I'm not saying that a lot of candidates on the Republican side are doing this. Some are. And some activists, some, unlimited, but, you know, a limited pool of them, but some of them are, are doing this whole thing where they're almost trying to, like, shut people up on it. Like, stop. Don't, don't do that. It's a really bad idea.

Because there are pockets of the economy where people are getting roughed up. up a little bit. Some of them are getting roughed up a lot. Yes, the poverty rates the lowest it's been. That's just a fact. You can look it up. The jobless rates, the lowest it's ever been. That's a good thing. We want people with jobs. Yes, you know, the Atlanta feds predicting an insane five and a half percent GDP growth the next quarter. Yes, the stock market in the NASDAQ are at the all-time eyes. But if that's not affecting you and your household, then you have every right to voice your opinion. And we shouldn't say, ah, be quiet. No. But to those folks out I want to say first and most importantly, I get you. I hear you. I'm not trying to be your

psychotherapist. This isn't the Sigmund Freud hour, Carl Jung. We're not, I'm not doing that. Yes, I was a psychology major. The joke back in the day was, you know, it was great because if you didn't get a job, you could explain to your parents why. No one's laughing now. These psychology majors are making a ton of money because of neural networks and AI. But I do. I do get you. I understand. But allow me to ask you a question here. Elections are binary choices. Primaries are generally not. Primaries, there can be 10, 20. I mean, I ran in a primary and we'll get to that later. I ran in primaries in Maryland, Florida. There were six to 10 people on the ballot. General elections, yeah, you always get a, you know, a communist on the ballot, a green party member, but they're generally Republicans versus Democrats. Generally

speaking, general elections are typically binary. So I need to ask you a question. Are you comfortable with the alternative if the Republican Party loses. It's a serious question. I'm not trying to manipulate anybody or anything like that. Because you'll see during today's show, as I discuss this, that for all the disagreements you may have with President Trump and the MAGA agenda, I don't think anybody's going to dispute he at least tells you what he's going to do. At least you know what you're disagreeing with.

There are diehard Republicans who are. working class Americans who've knocked on the doors, they don't need a lecture from anywhere. They just don't like the Iran where they're uncomfortable where we are. That's, listen, good for you for having an opinion on it. I get it. I totally hear you. I'm only asking you, at least you can have an opinion because Donald Trump's been fairly candid.

I'll play some clips from the UN later in the show today where Donald Trump is like, hey, don't toy with me. I'm not going to let you. Don't mess around with us. I'm not going to let you build a nuclear weapon and threaten us. I'm not going to do that. At least you have something if you don't like to voice an opinion against. The Democrats just lie about everything.

The Democrats talk tough and Iran. Oh, we're going to get them to the day. Well, this other stuff. And then screwed up the whole thing. The Democrats entirely screwed up the Middle East. I'm not telling you Republicans nailed it either. But the entire Middle East is always a mess because of Democrat appeasement. Folks, there are no perfect choices in politics.

None. You know, in economics, they have this concept. I bring up often called Pareto Maximization. You can look it up if you want the economic details. Pareto maximization is the idea that a good public policy will help at least one person without hurting anyone. You're probably thinking like I did when I first heard of this concept. Well, that's easy.

There's thousands of policies. No, they're not. They are not. It is actually extremely hard to do anything in a country of 330 million people where at least one person benefits and no one gets her. It's almost impossible. There are no perfect choices. There are very few Pareto-optimized choices.

The only question in this upcoming election I have for you is, are you comfortable with the alternative? Because I'm not going back to the Biden-O-Bama era or what was potentially the Kamala Harris era. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. And I strongly, passionately encourage you to not allow it to happen to you either. Jim, cue up.

Cut one here. Folks, this is who they are. Remember, Denny Green, they are who you think they are? When I say they, I mean the Democrats. They are who you think they are because they tell you who they are all the time. Are you comfortable with this? I'm not downplaying your problems.

If you're a farmer in Iowa and there's some issues with your input prices on fertilizer, I completely understand you're extremely valid. concerns. I am in no way downplaying that. But I'm just asking you a question here. Are you comfortable with this? Here was Kamala Harris. This is not from the campaign for president. This is like, I think yesterday with that dreadful Abdul al-Sayed joker running in Michigan, this guy who hangs around with Hassan Piker, October 7th, Rapes Don't Change My Mind guy. Here she is. And I got to say, it's not funny, but I, you know me with Kamala. Like I can't, it's like, it's like,

talking about masks. I go off on a tangent because I can't believe people still think this thing works. Kamala, Kamala is genuinely one of the dumbest people in politics. I know people who know she's just really not bright. There are some people who pretend to be not bright. Corey Booker, Chuck Schumer. They're actually smart. They just pretend to be stupid for votes. Kamala is actually dumb. Like she just says, so here she is yesterday campaigning for Abdul al-Sayyad. Folks, do you want DEI back? No. Deii, everybody's been, America's largely happy

now that we're getting rid of political correctness. We're ripping out wokeness and DEI, you know, root and branch. Not Kamala. She is openly campaigning in Michigan to bring this stuff back. To bring diversity, equity, and inclusion, which is actually non-diversity, non-equity, and exclusion.

Because if you happen to be a non-favored category, Asian young men trying to get in a college, a male white trying to get a promotion at your job. You actually get excluded. You want that back? Because here she is telling you, telling you, we're going to bring it back. Check this out. Here's another fact. The attack on DEI is an attack on maternal care.

An attack on DEI to recognize diversity, equity, and inclusion is an attack by definition on maternal care, including the need to protect black women in connection with their pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum care. Folks, I don't even know what that is. I like how she said it twice. I know. You stole my thunder. Yes.

If you say it the second time, it's even more powerful. No, I mean, I know what maternal care is. And I know what DEI is supposed to be. I don't even understand what she's trying to say. And then Jim's right. She says it twice. Like the dumb thing I said the first time, if I say it's slower the second time,

it'll make more sense. We really need to bring diversity, equity, inclusion back because by definition, it means maternal care. It doesn't mean it. That's like the Abram Kendi thing. And can you define racism? You know, the critical race theory guy?

It's like a racist, the racist thing. What do you mean by definition? By definition, DEI has nothing to do with maternal care. What are you even talking about? I love how she throws these little, you know, phrases and words out there because she thinks it makes her sound smart. By definition, diversity, equity, and inclusion means grimace, the purple thing for me. What are you, they're not connected?

What are you even talking about? What is maternal care have to do outside of your insane liberal communist worldview, have to do at all with diversity, equity, and inclusion? at all, and no less by definition, and saying it twice does not make it true. It just makes you sound dumber the slower second time. Folks, they want this stuff back. How do I know that? Because she just said it.

And Abdul Al-Sayat in Michigan sitting there like, yeah, man, that sounds great. I'm a medical doctor who never actually practice on patients. 100% by definition, by definition. I'm just asking you a question. I get your frustrations. I think the president and the Republican Party has an incredible portfolio of things to run on. The jobless rate low, the poverty rate low,

the manufacturing numbers back, the GDP numbers, the border close, crime rates low, murder rate low, the deregulatory deregaping of America. I think it's great. I'm not telling you it's everything to everyone, but you want to think about that record compared to this. And the boss goes round and raw, and it's in the cloud.

And AI is two letters. Oh, thank you. Let me say it twice. AI is two. letters. If I say it's slow, it sounds more impactful. There isn't a single human being on planet Earth, maybe outside of Pete Buttigieg, who says less by saying more than Kamala Harris. They are who we thought they were. Thank you, Danny. Man, we haven't used that one yet. That's one of my faves, man. Playoffs up there with playoffs. In our football list of sounders,

those are my favorites. Playoff playoffs? You know what? Can we get, I don't care. Would you be sued if we did a Jim or a voice at Kamala? Kamala? Kamala? I don't know. It may be worth it. Maybe worth it. You want this back? Playoffs. Don't talk about. Playoffs. You're kidding me? Playoffs? Call about Kamala. Kamala. Talk about Kamala? This is your choice, man. She's out there campaigning with this guy. Here's one that's even worse. Folks, we're on in a lot of stations in Texas, everywhere from Midland to Dallas. We love you, Texas. Jim's in Texas. Jim's a hookum horns guy. I love me some Texas. I'm a Florida resident. It ain't no pandering, man. We did a book signing in Texas. Remember that,

Jim? Something like 2,000 people showed up. They damn near shut the mall down. They couldn't even get into the stores. People were complaining. It was the greatest thing ever. So we love Texas. Texas loves us. We love our stations out there. How is this guy Talafrico? How is this guy even close, even in the worst polls. How is this guy even close to Paxton in Texas? I don't understand. Folks, they are who you think they are because they tell you,

do you really want a guy in office? This is your choice. Even if you hate Ken Paxton, your choice is a guy who can't even call a woman a woman. A person with a uterus. Yeah, that's called a woman, dude. I don't have a uterus.

Jim, do you have a uterus? I do not. Do you know any men who in fact have uteride? Not one. No, you don't. You don't know that. Nobody does because it's never happened. My success rate is 100%.

Your success rate is zero. Talafriko, however, chooses to refer to women in the most degrading way possible as people with a uterus. As if the uterus, it's not your brain, it's not anything else. It's just the uterus that defines you. Listen to this idiot.

If this guy wins, folks, it's all over. Check this out. Every one of our neighbors with a uterus became the property of the state one of our neighbors with the uterus to be able to control their own body. Ironically, the people who were denying choice to everyone with a uterus in our state. We had a vote where the majority ripped those rights away from every single one of my neighbors with the uterus in the state of Texas.

Jim, you know, I know I love your dark web. Stop. I'm sorry, but remember children of the corn, that horror movie from the 80s? You got to do people of the uterus. You just have, this is people of the, what the hell are people? And what was that kid's name and children of the corner, Ezekiel or something? Hello, Ezekiel. And he comes up.

I forget that movie scared the hell out of me when I was a kid. I don't know how old I was like 13 when it came out. Does people love the uterus? No, they're called women. They have a name, bro. It's only worked throughout the history of Homo sapiens, okay? They're not people of the uterus. Folks, you got a choice, man, coming up.

There are no perfect choices. But I can tell you, the most imperfect choice of all malachi thank you producer mike damn how did you know that your choices are malachi and people of the uterus or sane people who are going to cut your taxes and allow your business to grow and just get out of your damn life we'll be right back bunch you know trump total alpha move total total total total alpha move this guy doesn't have like any kind of beta gene in his whole body and president trump man i'm telling you this guy not only is there a fly-o yesterday when jinginging of course you know is running the chinese communist party and running the

country into the ground because that's what communism does every time visits the united states shows up at joint base andrews they do a flyover that's so loud even president trump looks up and looks surprised by it and jing ping's like well that was that was kind of an alpha move that was a total flex right there it's like when when president trump if you ever watch this folks when when he goes in for the handshake he does the alpha dog handshake where he comes up and over the top to let you know like he's the dominant wolf in the wolf pack. He does this all the time. I'm going to hit that right in the beginning of the show because he did.

He's going to do this today. And it's just a fantastic idea with Xi Jinping. I'll get to that in a second. You know, I hate unnecessary teases. But we're going to cover a lot today. Is there an October surprise coming? I think there is. I'm going to give you three possible scenarios.

So stay tuned for the show today. I'm going to lay them all out. What is an October surprise? You know what it is. It's right before the November elections every year. Some, you know, liberal media or crazy Democrat hoax comes out. Russia, the Russia hoax, all this other crap. It happens all the time.

I think it could involve tariffs, regime collapse in Iran, or major AI breakthrough, good or bad. I'll give you both sides of that. Also, I want to talk about some polling. The polling does not look great for the Democrats either. Anyone telling you this election is a fate of complete, done, overstayed. done over stay home is lying to you not voting is a choice and it is a bad one folks there is a really really significant penalty on your lies if these democrats get back in charge this is not

the same party it was i'll get to that in a second too i'll show you they're not even even insane lefties on their own side are getting crushed because they're not left enough like schumer Chuck Schumer. You're not going to find a bigger sellout on the Democrat side to socialism and collectivism than this guy. And they're like, he's just not lefty enough. Not voting is a choice. And it's a bad one. I'm going to play this first though.

So President Trump, you know what, there's some people, and I get this. Let me just say again, I get in advance that there was some negative kind of spillover to some even Republican politicians who were, you know, leaking to Politico and elsewhere. they were, of course, anonymous. They were saying, do you see some of this, Jim? They were like, I can't believe he's greeting President G. You know, JBA, Joint Base Andrews. You know what? I get it.

I understand. However, folks, that's how President Trump is. I saw them cover this on Fox and Friends this morning. And I thought it was pretty fair. That's who President Trump is. If you're coming to this country and we're going to talk about significant world issues, like I don't know, like a nuclear annihilation of World War III, like it's probably a good idea, you know, to make the guy at least feel welcome.

I have no major beef with it, but I get it. I'm not going to like dispute, you know, people who get upset about this. That's how he always handles his business, okay? He feels like they've taken care of him in the United States on their visits, you know, shown whatever the pomp and circumstance. Like he's going to, you know, he's going to make him feel welcome here. Maybe he gives him negotiating leverage, maybe not, or the deal. Who knows?

But this is an alpha dog move. He's apparently taken home, taken, taken, over to see our founding documents. Now, is this going to change G? Is he going to come back and be like, you know what? We're going to be a republic now. Probably not. But it's a nice flex regardless to remind them what free markets and liberty really look like

and where it came from bold men who took leadership in one of the toughest times in early American history. Check this out. President Xi and Madam Pung arrive at an important moment for America, the 250th anniversary of our founding. Tomorrow we will visit the national. to see some of the greatest treasures of that proud history, including the Declaration

of Independence and the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. We will also see artifacts testifying to the long and cherished relationship of really something that's so incredible and cultural exchanges between China and the United States, just as our ancestors reached across the ocean centuries ago to trade,

to learn and to build a better world. Our two countries do really the same thing, and we're very proud of it, and the relationship. Jim, there's a point. You know, Jim and I do a pre-show meeting. We chat about stuff. There's a point. You missed this.

And I did too. Well, not now because I'm obviously talking about it, but I missed it before the show. There's a larger point here with AI, because I know you have an AI clip you wanted to chat about to, which I thought is funny, but there's a tie in here you and I do not see coming at all. This is a genius move by President Trump.

Because if you are a subject of the dreaded Chinese Communist Party in China, and you're using AI and say, tell me about Xi Jinping's trip to the United States. And the AI says, they went to the National Archives to discuss these documents. And you've been subjected to the Great Firewall of China on the Internet forever. You're like, what are these documents? what are these documents they speak of? I have never heard of said documents. Oh, there's this document called the Declaration of Independence or something like that.

And the Constitution, you know, we the people, all the inalienable, right? Maybe they get to read it for the first time. Be so weird, right? They've never heard of that. This is a genius move. Candidly, I don't know why Xi even agreed to it. If I'm Xi, I'm like, I ain't doing that. I don't want my people knowing what a prosperous constitutional republic with freedom

and liberty looks like is because that ain't me bro that ain't me and he's like yeah i'm bringing a wife too can i make a point of order you of course you always get a point of order you always talk about uh snapshots and soundbite can you imagine that snapshot of jy and trump looking at the constitution and again you've in china you've been subjected to the great internet firewall you're not even allowed to look up the american revolution or tianaman square any of that and you're like what are these pieces of parchment. What is this? What is this thing called the Constitution? What is this thing called inalienable rights? I've never heard of this idea. I was told our rights come from government. They do not. They do not. Small our rights come from government. Those are fake

rights. Big our rights come from God, capital G. God. I bring that up in terms of AI because there's a doom and gloom AI scenario. and a utopia scenario. I don't buy either one. I think like everything else, there are going to be transformational benefits to artificial intelligence, just like they were for electricity,

nuclear power, human flight. There will be for quantum computing. Yes, there's always a danger with these things too. But I told you earlier that the doom and gloom people are saying China is beating us in AI. Ladies and gentlemen, I don't believe it. Because of what we just discussed,

Trump's alpha move at the archives with the Declaration and other founding documents, There is no way the Chinese Communist Party can allow an AI system to give you an accurate telling of what happened today. Because if it goes into what these historical documents are, there are going to be people over there in China who are going to ask the obvious question, which is, why not here? They don't want that. Chinese AI is always going to be a byproduct of faulty inputs because they've got to censor what goes into it. crap inputs, crap outputs. I mean, I'll just tell you, I'll make it even simpler.

You tell an AI system, lie about the America's founding, lie about Tiananmen Square, lie about the quadratic equation and math. I love the quadratic equation. It was like math one for us in Malloy High School, where I went, right? I was a math guy. I like math. If you lie about the inputs, you're going to get the wrong output. It doesn't matter.

Like, you screwed up the formula. I say that because you've got a group of people in AI in the AI space who want to use this for stupid stuff too. Jim pulled this cut. This is just, I mean, laughably stupid that AI is being used for things like this. I had not heard this story, but artificial intelligence is now being used by the LGBTIQIA 2 plus spirit, B-I-O-P-O-C. These are all real things, by the way. Identity politics crowd.

Because I guess pictures are taking aren't racially diverse enough. So they're changing people's race in a picture. This is going to be liberal AI, if it's allowed to persist. And Chinese Communist Party, CCP AI, producing crap outputs by faulty inputs. Check this out.

The Department in charge of food and housing at Stanford University has confirmed it used AI to dramatically change a student's race, gender, and weight in marketing materials. The picture, which has since been deleted, showed three students standing in what seems to be the Stanford Dining Hall. According to the school's newspaper, a student in the photo says that he remembers someone taking his picture, but says the pick was altered to change him into a black woman. In a statement to Crown Ford, the university wrote it has reviewed the matter and confirmed that AI was used to

alter the image in violation of university policy and that it is working to provide additional training for all staff and to ensure the proper review of all materials. Dude, I totally missed that. I totally missed the part where changed him into a black woman. I thought it was changed her into a black woman. He even, they even, what? He was a Hispanic guy that they changed into a black woman. Folks, okay, we're laughing.

Jim and I think this story is hilariously stupid. of course. But there's a bigger point here. It's serious time. Over serious time starts. We'll go back to fun time in a minute. Folks, people are policy. Okay, Dan, what do you mean? We have an election coming up, folks. We have an election coming up. And I get it. I am not downplaying the effects of gas prices in your life, the effects of pernicious inflation in your life. I'm not downplaying the fact that although the streets are much safer under President Trump, they're not completely

safe. There's, you know, Chicago residents who would beg to differ. There are liberal city residents who still have crime problems. I get it. I get it. I am not and will never be the show telling you, oh, shut up and vote. No, no, do not do any vote, but never shut up, ever, ever. That's not our job to shut up. Our voices to speak out as citizens. I'm just asking you respectfully, with the greatest of respect, to keep in perspective that although the laundry list of President Trump's accomplishments is long and distinguished. There are things he's done, nobody's managed to do. Lowest murder rate, lowest crime rate, border shutdown, manufacturing. You'll hear about the data later in the show. We've got actual numbers. Reinvestment, building things in the United States,

poverty rate lowest, jobless rate lowest. Those are very real things. You have to contrast and keep in perspective that you have a choice. And if you don't vote for the Republican Party and this agenda going forward, another agenda is going to take over. And it's not the agenda you think. If you you're voting for a group of moderates. Folks, I'm sorry, you're just inaccurate. The Democrat Party has been hijacked by lunatics. Here, receipts incoming. I'm going to play this clip for you.

Chuck Schumer is a tried and true progressive liberal. He has been, since he's been a congressman from Brooklyn and New York. I've known this guy forever. He used to try to jump in our motorcades when I was a young secret service agent, working with the Clinton detail. The guy's a joker. He is a tried and true, true blue liberal. folks he's not enough of a communist and socialist apparently for the democrat party so you think you're

voting for like far left chuck schumer you're not you're actually voting for people to the left of chuck schumer chuck schumer who don't even like chuck schumer that's how crazy this party is here you go hear it for yourself this is cnn by the way so you can't accuse me a bias here this is cnn covering the far left lurch of the democrat party check this out well take a look at chuck schumers numbers i mean hello okay Schumer's net favorability with Democrats. Back in 2018, right? It was plus 28 points. But, of course, Democrats did not win back the United States Senate

during the 2018 cycle. In 2020, when they did, it was plus 33 points. Look at where it is now, a Marquette University Law School poll out earlier this month. It's minus five points. Johnny B on the side shaking its head, these are no gueno, no good numbers. And this is among Democrats.

Democrats hate Chuck Schumer. They don't like Chuck Schumer. And this is why you're seeing a lot of Democratic Senate candidates on the trail when being asked about whether or not they want Chuck Schumer to be the next leader in the United States Senate for Democrats. They'll either try and push off the question or saying, no, this is a decline, Johnny B, of what? 58 points, 58 point difference from where we were back the last time that Democrats were trying to take back the United States Senate during the 2020s. Friends, please, and I do. I consider you friends. You've given me so much

in my life. This show is thanks to you. I can only listen once. The radio show. the AM show, the PM show, the podcast is thanks to you. This is fair warning here. If Chuck Schumer is now considered like a sellout moderate, can you imagine who's considered now the diehard, true blue, liberal progressive? I'll answer it for you. It's even worse than Bernie Sanders. It's only a matter of time before they come out and say Bernie Sanders isn't left enough too.

You have a choice in this election. Please, please, choose wisely. I'm not exaggerating. The country is in your hands. We've got to get through this election. 2032 and on, the redistricting is going to help us in the presidential and the house. We've got to get through these next couple election cycles. And there are really, really bright futures, a bright future ahead for all of it.

I promise that's not hyperbole. That's not me exaggerating. I covered it last week. Stay tuned for more. We'll be right back.