The Dan Bongino Show - President Trump Joins The Show | Episode 08 - 03/26/25

Episode Date: March 26, 2025

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Welcome to Vince. It's great to have you with us today. We've got a big exclusive interview coming up in mere moments with the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. We get his reaction to everything going on in the first 65 days of his administration, including the state of the economy,

the state of foreign policy, and also his reaction to the breaking news just this morning, the Atlantic sharing new messages from that signal chain that's getting all of the left's attention right now, the president reacting to that, again, just mere moments from now.

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slash Vince and get four extra months of ExpressVPN. That's vxpressvpn.com slash Vince. Very honored today to have joining us on this program, the President of the United States. Here's how this is working, as I'm looking at the rumble chat right now, over 30,000 people already piling in, the number's sure to grow in a big way as we have this conversation with the president.

I just spoke to him just a few minutes ago, the president's schedule, as you know, always a very tight one. We just captured that. And I wanna share with you now exclusively the conversation that we just had. And on the other side, I wanna get your reaction to everything that we discussed.

So send those messages, because we're gonna talk about them in just a couple of minutes. But first, here's the interview with the president. So my honor to welcome to the program, the 47th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. President Trump, great to have you with us, sir. Thank you very much.

It's an honor. It's an honor as always to speak with you. And now on the platforms that Rush Limbaugh and Dan Bongino built, if you can believe it, we're nationwide here and watching. I've been watching your eyes. I'm not surprised at all. Thank you for that. Let me ask you about Dan.

Well, while I'm on the subject, Dan is now working for you as the deputy director of the FBI. What was that conversation like when you asked Dan to come work at the FBI with you? Well, we wanted him and we thought he might do it. But he had to get somebody very, very good to take his place. That's very hard that I heard it was you. And I said, I think we're getting Dan, you know, that would be great. So we got two for one, because you're doing great. Thank you very much. Let's talk about your presidency, how things are going with you. We're now 65 days in, if you can believe it.

And although it doesn't receive a lot of coverage, we've had a lot of positive news. Violent illegals are being rounded up and deported by the thousands, border crossings down by 96 percent, manufacturing jobs up, inflation is going down, gas prices are way down, egg prices are down, orange juice prices are down. Is this, in your view, going better than your first term? It is, it really is. I mean, it's been very smooth. I would say probably as smooth as we've seen. They have polls that rate them. They rated me the best first and second month in the history of the presidency. George Washington was second, so you'd say

that's pretty good. I would say, yeah, I mean, I think it's very different. It seems to be more solid. First term, I was fighting everybody, Vince, everybody. You know that. And I was fighting when I was fighting them good, but it was very unnecessary. They were doing the Russia hoax. They were doing a lot of things that were very bad. And this time they're with me, people are with me at a level like, I think you have never seen nobody seen it. It's been very good. It is very, very good. Last week, I had Vice President Vance on the show and he was a

total star. He was great in that conversation. And I've noticed that the two of you seem to be working very well together as a team. Yeah. What is how is he different than Vice President Pence? What's it like working with now JD Vance? Well, they're very different personalities. JD is more outward going. That's not to knock the other, but he's certainly more outward going. He's a younger guy. He's got a lot of oomph and he's doing a great job. I was I was very happy with Mike, different type of person, but I was very happy with Mike Pence. Yeah, he just Vice President Vance I saw announced yesterday that he's joining that delegation to Greenland this week.

That was originally it was going to be his wife, Usha Vance, who was going. She was kind of the top line visitor to Greenland this week. That was originally it was gonna be his wife, Usha Vance, who was going, she was kind of the top line visitor to Greenland. And now the vice president himself is going, what's the mission there? What are they up to that delegation? Well, to let them know that we need Greenland for international safety and security.

We need it, we have to have it. And it's a island that from a defensive posture and even offensive posture is something we need, especially with the world the way it is. And we're going to have to have it. And so I hate to put it that way, but we're going to have to have it. Modern day weapons. When you look at ships going up their shore by the, you know, by the hundreds, it's a busy, it's a busy, it's a busy place. And it's really something we have to have. Do you think the people of Greenland are eager to become American citizens? I don't know. I don't think they're on the year, but I think that we have to do it and we have to convince them

and we have to have that land because it's not possible to properly defend a large section of this earth, not the not just the United States without it. So we have to have it. And I think we will have it. You know, yesterday, Mr. President, you announced another round of executive orders that included requiring states to secure their elections or they lose federal funding. That seems like a really big deal. Do you think places like California where they've got legalized ballot harvesting will actually

comply here? Well, I think they have to, otherwise we'll hold back funds. And we did a lot of things yesterday having to do with elections, and that's long overdue. And elections have been rigged at a level like you've never seen before. You know that, I think you're a believer in that. But anybody smart is a believer in that. But they've been rigged at levels that nobody has ever seen before and it's time to unrig them. You can't have that and you certainly can't have it in this country.

Yeah, one of the ways that the elections have been rigged is clearly by the dishonest media and the big tech companies preventing voters from even having knowledge of what's going on in their lives. And we're looking at I want to ask. Yeah, they don't do as per the legislature. But they were they're also just ballot drops. Okay, you know, we get into lots of ways, but they ballot drop, they cheat like the

Democrats cheat, Republicans don't cheat. Sort of a very easy thing to say and they can't defend themselves. And we're having a lot of it when we go after law firms. The law firms are being gone after very much and they virtually admit they cheat. You know, we have them in a very strong position, but it's it's we have been a lot of cheating going on. One of the law firms have never people have never seen anything like it. And we have to stop it. One of the law firms that you've been going after, Perkins Cooey, which was responsible for contracting a guy called Christopher Steele

to drop a huge document of lies about you That led to all sorts of Trump Russia collusion allegations for years You announced yesterday that you also are Declassifying all of the documents from the Trump Russia collusion hoax from what they call crossfire hurricane in the FBI What do you think people are gonna learn from those documents? I Think they're gonna learn how corrupt the election was. It was a very corrupt election. That was, you're talking about the second election, I assume. That was an election that I won. I won by a lot. And you're going to find that out. The documents are there. The numbers

are there. We won that by a lot. We won three elections and we did very well in the second one. Now the third one, we blew it away. The third one we said too big to rig. And it was too big to rig. But the second election, you know, it was the COVID nightmare and a lot of that had to play. But that was a rigged election, totally rigged. It's wild. Are you concerned about all these terrorist attacks

that the left is employing against Tesla and against conservative commentators? We've seen these swatting incidents. And who do you think's behind all of this? Well, I think it's a shame. The ones on Elon, Elon's done a fantastic job here. And I think it's a shame. And yeah, I'm concerned about it, But I'm we're doing a lot about it. We

have we have law enforcement looking at levels like you wouldn't believe we're finding people. And if people are involved, they're going to go to jail for potentially 20 years. Everybody get they ready get smart. They're not going to be happy. Yes. These are dumb people, by the way, who are attacking these cars. Those cars are surrounded by security cameras. And you have people you've their faces are completely out, by the way, who are attacking these cars. Those cars are surrounded by security cameras and people you've their faces are completely out. Mr. President, their their license plate numbers as they pull away after the attack fully visible, not a smart crew that's attacking these cars. It's not smart.

And even smart people get caught because you probably have some. You probably have some smart ones, too. Yes, but it is not a smart crew. I would agree. Yeah, Elon Musk had said on on X that he believes that act blue and George Soros and Reid Hoffman are all the source of a lot of this going after Tesla. Do you think he's right? I think it's right. I've heard that. I don't know for a fact, but they sound like typical guys that do it.

They're bad people. And I would say, yeah, they're right. I would say if Elon says it, I would go along with it. Yeah. I was talking about all the positive news for your administration, and Democrats are very desperate to kick up some negative news against you right now. And one big item that we've seen in the last 24 hours is this

piece out of Jeffrey Goldberg at the Atlantic, where he claims that he was added to a signal chat between a bunch of your top officials. That's something that the White House has confirmed that somehow he ended up in there. There's an investigation going on as to how that occurred. But let me just start with that piece of it. Out of a country of over 300 million people, how is it that Jeffrey Goldberg, who hates you, ends up on this Signal Chat?

Isn't that bizarre? It is bizarre. And he's a sleazebag at the highest level. Yeah. His magazine is failing. It's gonna be out of business soon, in my opinion. It's too bad we give it a little boost like this. But somebody in my group either screwed up or it's a bad signal. It's a bad signal, happens to. But it seems to be maybe he came in with the staffer and it was by accident or what we can tell. We'll know

pretty much today, I think, but we have some pretty good guys checking out the phones. But it's something that is not a big deal, other than you want to find out who did it and how they did it because you don't want to happen in the future. You can't have that happen. But I've known him for a long time and he is truly a sleazeball. There's no question about it. The update we got this morning, the breaking news update this morning is yesterday, Jeffrey Goldberg was insisting

that there were secret war plans that were discussed. There were plans, he insisted. And then just a short while ago this morning, the Atlantic published some of these texts that they claim were war plans. And I noticed that in them, they refer to it. Secretary of Defense Hegseth is referring to known targets, but he doesn't say what the targets are.

He just generically refers to them. Those don't sound like detailed war plans. No, and there weren't details, and there was nothing in there that compromised and it had no impact on the attack which was very successful. It was a very, very successful attack. Then it's an attack that Biden should have done three years ago, but he didn't do it because it would have been a lot easier three years ago. But we're having very good luck on the attack. It's an attack that has continued. Yeah. But the thing like that, maybe Goldberg found a way, maybe there's a staffer, maybe there's a very innocent staffer. But we'll get, I think we'll get to the bottom of it very

quickly. And it's really not a big deal. Yeah. On the foreign policy front, you mentioned all these strikes on the Houthis. I know when you were elected, one of the key reasons is that you would bring about a peace in all of these big conflicts in particular in the Middle East and in Ukraine. Where are you most hopeful right now? Do you, do you, do you have, do you sense that one of these conflicts is more likely to end sooner than later? I think I'm hopeful everywhere, everywhere we're working. We're making tremendous progress in the Middle East.

October 7th was a bad day, to put it mildly, and a lot of people were killed. Yeah. And they shouldn't have been killed. But we're making great strides in the Middle East, and we're making great strides with Russia, Ukraine. Yeah, it sure seems like it. This, you're working with Democrats to some extent, although you don't need to at like this. You're working with Democrats to some extent, although you don't need to at the moment, you've got the House and the Senate. But if one of

the things I've noticed about these Democrats is that they don't have a leader, it's not clear who's even leading their party. So if you, Mr. President, were to try and negotiate with the Democrats today, who are you calling? Who would you even call to negotiate with that party right now? Well, nobody knows, you know, they don't have a leader. They have a girl named Rocket, who is something wrong with her. She can't speak.

No, she can't speak. She can't get the words out of her mouth. She's a I can't see her going very far in politics. That would be a shocker. That would be a shock to the system. You have some young ones, you have AOC plus three, I guess they're hanging around. And you know, people are waiting to make their moves, I would imagine like in the Democrat Party, but we have a party where we do have a leader. So strong leader, very strong.

That's right. And Jasmine Krakow, you just referenced yesterday video going around of her calling Governor Greg Abbott, who's in a wheelchair, Governor Hot Wheels. She's been called out for that. She later came out on Twitter on X and she claimed that she was actually just talking about when he was busing illegals around the country, which seems to me like a pretty brazen lie on on the congresswoman's Well, it's a lie and she she lies but she's a lowlife and

She's a very low IQ person and a lowlife and I don't imagine the Democrats are gonna have a their low life and I don't imagine the Democrats are gonna have a person like that running their party if they do and they'll never win an election again. It would be very hard but I can't imagine she's gonna last long. And what do you think of Governor Gavin Newsom's, sorry? Be smart, you do need a brain, you know, you can't get around with little quips and She's I watched you. I've only I've only heard of it for the last couple of days and I watched her make a speech and she can't speak and she's a she truly is a Low level person on the very important chart of intelligence

Yeah, and really it's nice to have intelligent people running your operation Yeah, somebody somebody you can talk to you have a good conversation with you as a comedian I couldn't believe she was a congressman or whatever she is And no, I thought she was a comedian. That's so believable and she was a little bit little bit funny but crude. And now I find out she's actually a politician. Which the Democrats are gonna suffer with this one. Yeah, in some ways, finally,

I kind of think that she's helping you in a way because Democrats are just all cartoon characters right now and people are looking at you. Yeah. She's a dream. Yeah, she really is. The President of the United States, Donald Trump, sir, it is such an honor to talk to you again. Can't wait to do it again sometime.

Well, good. We're gonna do it and good luck in your replacing a man. Maybe he'll be back there someday. But when I heard you got the job, I said they cannot have done better because you are terrific. And you're gonna have a great career anyway. So whether you'll be there or someplace else, then she could have a great career anyway. So whether you'll be there or someplace else, that's you're gonna have a great career. President Donald Trump, the absolute best. Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. Thank you. What an honor. What a complete honor to talk to the president of the United States. Great conversation today. Boy, I think he made a lot of news, don't you think? Give us your reaction here from this interview with the president of the United States,

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Or visit tnusa.com slash Vince. All right, lots of nice messages coming in. Sophia with an F, that's a great way to spell Sophia. 62 says, happy for you, Vince. All right, lots of nice messages coming in. Sophia with an F, that's a great way to spell Sophia. 62 says, happy for you Vince, thrilled to hear your conversation with our courageous president. It's wonderful to have an honest leader in the White House. 95 Shot America says,

sounds like POTUS may have a touch of a cold. Yeah, I noticed that too. One of the first things you get in that interview is like, whoa, it sounds like he might be a little sick or something. I hope he's doing all right. But he was good. His mind was as good as ever as we were chatting with him. We've got Himerchik saying,

Crockett will have to be primaried. Every constituent should be ashamed. Yeah, isn't that wild? President Trump, you may have heard me at the end of that interview, I kind of wanted to ask him about Gavin Newsom and his ridiculous podcast and his efforts to try and become the Democrat nominee, obviously,

in a couple of years time. But President Trump just barreled forward, he just kept going off about how ridiculous of a human being Jasmine Crockett is. He's right to do that because she is ridiculous. She's totally ridiculous. Really, really very funny. Let's see here. Freedom Productions writing, to all of you patriots that have fought online for years to spread this movement, this is your day. You deserve credit for all you have done to

save this country. You are all heroes. It's a sweet message and true. So many great Americans have fought us, fought to put us in this great position. Again, really good to have the president with us. I do think that if you're going to look ahead to sort of the media clips that might come out of this today, a couple of things. One, I'm interested in what the media in Greenland do with his remarks that JD Vance, the vice president is on the way this week and we have to acquire Greenland. We just have to do it. And I did ask the president, do you think that the people who live there are eager to become American citizens? You heard him say, well, I don't think they're uneager.

So that's interesting. And my sense, just like every other country, if the president starts talking about your region or your country, typically the local media will really pick it up. your region or your country. Typically the local media will really pick it up. Also asking him about the latest out of this Atlantic piece today. Here's the way the Atlantic piece has changed over the last 24 hours, really 48. Two days ago, we got the original piece

from Jeffrey Goldberg about, I was included on this signal chat with all these Trump officials. That should have never happened. And he insisted in that original piece that he doesn't want to share it for national security reasons because he's so patriotic. He doesn't obviously want you to see this because he wouldn't want to give up any secrets. And so he said, but these officials were discussing war plans.

Just trust me, bro. That's the source. Trust me, bro. They were talking war plans. And I'm just, I'm so smart and amazing and caring about the country. I'm not going to publish those at all. And so rightfully so, people were asking, really? They were war plans, right? You heard all these Trump officials testify before Congress yesterday. There wasn't even anything classified in these messages. So the Atlantic today, this morning, just ahead of our conversation with the president, published these messages. So the Atlantic today, this morning, just ahead of our conversation with the

president, published these messages. And in the messages, they described these now they've backed off of war plans, the headline now describes them as attack plans. So you can hear them, they're already hedging that war anymore. Now it's attack. Well, by tomorrow, it'll be skirmish plans. And then by the next day, it'll be disagreement plans. We're gonna keep working our way backwards In the so-called war plans of the attack plans the secretary of defense pete hexeth Refers to striking a terrorist at his quote known location What known location the messages don't say why don't they say because it's classified The messages don't say. Why don't they say?

Because it's classified. In other words, Pete Hegseth is communicating with top government officials, the chief of staff of the White House, the, you know, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, the vice president of the United States. Everybody's on this thing. And then Jeffrey Goldberg, apparently. And Hegseth shares that we're going to hit him at his known location. They don't say what known location. So in other words, once

again, as I said yesterday, we're talking about something that would definitely we would consider sensitive information. It's sensitive. And of course, Jeffrey Goldberg should not have been included. But oh, these are the war plans. Oh, man, the Houthis are really going to have an advantage here with those war plans being expressed on signal. It's insanity. So that's worth paying attention to. Also, I don't know about you, have you been sitting back and thinking a lot about

how the heck of all people, Jeffrey Goldberg gets on this thing? So just reading the president's reaction to my question here, my question was out of over 300 million people in the United States, how does Jeffrey Goldberg, who is a top tier Trump hater hoax artist, end up on that chat thread?

How many people in the whole country have the initials JG? And somehow Jeffrey Goldberg of all people ends up there? You do wonder how that happens. Obviously, the reigning storyline on this subject is that it was just a big mistake and a misunderstanding. President Trump indicated both in our interview today and yesterday, he was saying that it looks like this was a lower level staffer for Mike Waltz, the national security advisor, who made an accident when they were compiling the group and somehow accidentally included Jeffrey Goldberg. But the president saying today in my interview that it looks like they're going to get to the bottom of this today. That's the plan. They've got people looking into this. But the president sounds open-minded about how this

could have possibly happened. Whether it was an innocent mistake, or possibly something worse. He definitely sounded open minded on the answer to that question. And rightfully so if you're if you're President Trump at this point, wouldn't you be suspicious of everything? Right? President Trump, I know the media loves to go after him for for everything he says, but wouldn't you be the most cynical person on the planet if the left had thrown everything they had at you,

if every institution has tried to destroy you, if they've relentlessly tried to imprison you, if they've taken you off of ballots to prevent voters from choosing you, if one of their people took a shot at you and hit you in the ear while you were on a campaign stage, and then another one of their people tried to kill you again at a golf course in Florida, you might be a little cynical.

You might pause a little bit and say, you know what, I'm not going to believe this story at first blush right away. And then lastly, just a note of gratitude about this conversation with President Trump. I really appreciate his compliments and his support for me in this role, both on the Rumble podcast, on the podcast broadly, and on this nationwide radio show from 12 to 3. President Trump, like us, is a man who appreciates the legacy of conservative media. He adored Rush Limbaugh. It's absolutely adored him. And every day, I know Dan Bongino always felt like this too.

We look back and we were so sorry that we've lost Rush. We wish Rush was here to talk about all of this. Just what an impressive, amazing talent. And so President Trump, like me, we have such reverence for what Rush built. And it is a total honor for me to be on live hundreds of stations across this great country at 12 to three each day. In that position that rush built. I I'm over the moon about it. And President Trump so nice to be

supportive of me there and supportive of me on this podcast on rumble this great thing that Dan built Dan built this incredible audience and this incredible vehicle who were spreading the truth about what's actually going on in this country. And isn't it kind of nice that President Trump is on our wavelength, that he's with us here, that he's embraced this, that he loves it, and he thinks it's valuable and important,

it's because it is. And it was nice to hear him say that when he called on Dan and said, Hey, would you consider coming in? And then when Dan told them that he was putting me in this position to be with you on this this great platform, the president said, what did he say? That was a two for one deal. He felt very good about it. He felt very confident bringing deputy director Dan Bongino into the FBI. So that's a total totally fantastic. And God, what a blessing to be able to do all of this. Let's see. I've got some great comments coming in now on the chat.

Janet 804, Dan was Rush Jr. Dan did such a good job. He never stopped talking about what an honor it was to be in that position. Sigma, Oostone, Vince, you're positive. You do good work. Mr. Positive, you do good work. Mama Katafi saying, Bongino rule hold here. I totally agree. Every time you have one of these dramatic scandals going on where people tell you that you have to be exercised.

And normally what they mean is they want you to get really angry at Trump and they want you to stop the forward momentum of the Trump agenda. The recommendation to hold and wait for more information, baby, that's such good advice. You should definitely follow that. And that's a good life principle for what it's worth.

Don't become hysterical, figure out what the hell is going on. That's a great piece of life advice. You'll go far with that. So hold for sure on all of this. Let me move now into some of what's going on with the president of the United States and his agenda. And one of my favorite segments to cover this

as the Trump agenda barrels forward, we're 65 days in, is that there are networks who are fully dedicated to trying to arrest his forward progress, arrest your forward progress. They wanna stop you. MSNBC and CNN are fully committed to that goal. And it's pretty sad to watch. There are some notable exceptions from time to time on CNN. There's Scott Jennings or Sher Michael Singleton will get up there. David Urban will have a chance to express some rational point of view and then be screeched at

by a panel of 40 lefties. But there's also just the reality of the data that confronts that CNN audience from time to time. And the guy who delivers these data reports, well, he's a little fellow we like to call Harry Enton. Take a look. Here's cut one CNN's data dude saying, actually, Trump's doing pretty well in the eyes of the American people. Let's start with this. Historically, you know, you talk about Trump being sort of unpopular. What are they ever showing us? Yeah, I think sometimes it's important to do a little bit of reality check and take a little different spin at the numbers.

I'm going to do that right here because all we talk about is how unpopular Donald Trump is. But in reality, he's basically more popular than he was at any point in term number one and more popular than he was when he won Election back in November of 2024. What are we talking about? Isn't that favorable rating right now comes in at minus four points Compare that to where he was when he won in November of 2024 when he was at minus seven points or March of 2017 when he was at minus ten points So when you compare Trump against himself, he's actually closer to the apex than he is to the bottom of the trough.

And of course that's so- Let's pause this for a moment. So here's what I love about this. I love these Harry Hinton segments because they're always like just a bowl of cold, ice cold water in the face of the left. Because every time when you finally go back to the data, no matter what you might be hearing

in the A block of every CNN show, Trump is awful, look at this awful thing he did. He's destroying democracy. You actually go to the data and you get Harry Hinton on there. It's the funniest routine. I think it's hilarious because what he does is he'll just point, he'll have a big screen in front of him and he'll just be pointing, he goes, you see over here, you've got this different number. You got a number that's not good for Trump. If you look back a couple of years ago. And then if you move over to this side and you look at this different number, this number is a massive improvement for Trump.

So if you go from that number to this number, holy shamoli, it's an amazing change. And then his ceiling is now up here as opposed to his floor, which was down here. And he's doing like interpretive dancing for poll numbers. Have you ever seen anything like this? It's hilarious. It's really funny.

And all of these segments end up sounding the same. And then the CNN person is always completely stunned by it. The host is always just reacting with just utter shock. I can't believe Americans like this. I cannot believe that the American people are for this. What is wrong with them? Oh my goodness. They become shocked.

They have to cover their mouth because they're so shocked that the American people are on board. Not really that hard to see why. You know, I went over it with our, in our interview with the president of the United States, but, and he's lamented this before, you know, it's funny, his view, including in the first term is a if we do good things, if we actually achieve wins, nobody cares.

Nobody cares. And what he means by that is the media don't care. They don't talk about it. There's no focus on it whatsoever. But let's talk about receipts, shall we? What's actually occurred? 96% drop in border crossings. 96% drop in border crossings. That is massive. You are watching as violent illegals are being deported from the country by the thousands, including to some pretty high profile places like maximum security prisons in El Salvador

and Guantanamo Bay. So if you're the kind of person who thought to yourself before, maybe I should illegally migrate to the United States, what are you thinking to yourself now? Well, don't do that. I might end up in Gitmo or I might end up in a maximum security prison

in El Salvador. My chances of success are now non-existent. I better not do that. And so that has been a massive victory that I just, you know, just think about how much time you and I spent talking about in these last few years, how awful the immigration border illegal situation was all of the drugs, the violence, the death. It was awful. Lake and Riley, you can go down the list. We're in a world now where everything is changing into a positive indicator on that subject. It's all headed

in the right direction. And so the media are not going to dwell on it. You're not going to see a bunch of headlines about this because in a lot of ways, it's not chaotic. It's not dramatic. It's not, it's, if it bleeds, it leads. It's success. And the press has a natural inclination to not report on success, but also it's Trump. And Trump's success in particular is where their natural inclination prevents them

from talking about it at length. So this has been a big deal. It's such a big deal that you had Bernie Sanders earlier this week asked on one of the weekend shows, I think it was by Jonathan Karl, is there anything, is there literally anything Trump has done that you support? He said, well, securing the border, the border, yeah, getting, stopping illegals from coming across the border and the fentanyl going off to the fentanyl.

That's a good thing. That's a good thing. Everyone, no one's for illegals, he said. Meanwhile, he was for illegals when he was running for the Democrat primary over and over these last couple of years, now pretending he's not for illegals. I'm not for illegals. Also the data on what's happening economically

is really good. You ready for this? This comes to us from our in-house economist, E.J. Antony, from the basis of one of my questions to the president this morning. The federal government's payrolls have shrunk now by 10,000 people at least, while the number of people that are reporting that they were employed by the government

fell to a six month low. It's a huge deal. You do not want an economy that's dependent on government workers. Here's another piece of data you have to know about government workers. For every one government worker on average, in order to cover their salary, their benefits, that includes their retirement, it takes 80 American taxpayers to cover one government

employee, 80 private sector workers to cover one government employee. Now you tell me, is that a sustainable relationship? Is that, is that, let me ask, tell me chat, is that something that we can do forever? Can we do 80 different private sector workers and one government employee? WTF? Nope, that's a lousy ratio. It is not sustainable. Wow. 81. No, nope. Hell no. F no. That math does not math. Nope, that's a lousy ratio. It is not sustainable. Wow, 81, no, nope, hell no, F no, that math does not math. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. Yeah, the chat is all over this because it's impossible.

You can't sustain that. The country collapses on that basis. And by the way, that's another great piece of data from I think America's leading economist, E.J. Antony, who's run the numbers on this. And one of Dan's favorite, literally, not one of, literally Dan's favorite economist. He loves economist, E.J. Antony, who's run the numbers on this. And one of Dan's favorite, literally, not one of, literally Dan's favorite economist. He loves talking to E.J.

I love talking to E.J., he's great. What else do we have here? So government jobs going down by the tens of thousands. Manufacturing jobs have risen by 10,000 under President Trump. That was only, by the way, just to be super clear about the data here, that's in the first month he was in office.

So by February 20th, you saw a 10,000 person uptick in manufacturing jobs. These are private sector jobs. These are productive jobs. They are creative jobs. They are jobs that actually make something. The government doesn't make, it takes. The private sector economy creates, it makes, it builds,

and it leads to a flourishing economy downstream. So you want more manufacturing jobs, more productive, more industry in the United States means more thriving communities. And that brings us back on the track to success, which is what President Trump wants to do. When he says, make America great again, well, that's squarely in the wheelhouse.

10,000 increase in just a single month's time in manufacturing jobs in America, I'll take it. What else? The monthly inflation rate has been cut now by more than half. That is from previously an annualized 5.7% to now 2.6%. So yes, prices continue to go up. Don't believe the left's lies.

When inflation comes down, prices are coming down. That's not true. So long as inflation is in positive territory, meaning headed up, prices are going to continue to creep up. But they're creeping up at a much slower rate now than the explosion that they were under President Biden. So a dramatic increase there. Also, inflation adjusted wages have gone up in the United States of America.

That is another huge data point. And so the president has a lot to be proud of in just one month's time. In two months time, in his first two months in office, he was able to secure an additional three, ready, with a T, trillion dollars in investment and brought countries back to the bargaining table to open their markets to our exporters. So if you get $3 trillion in just two months time of investment in the United States of America, well, that's a massive, massive deal. And in fact, every time I forget what the monetary threshold is, but when major industries

all around the planet want to bring investment into the United States, if it's gonna be a massive amount of money, I have a recommendation for you major industry, contact the White House. Contact them because President Trump is going to wanna do a press conference, stand next to you at a lectern and say, Mr. Bob has brought or whatever his name is,

has brought in a trillion dollars, $50 billion, whatever the number is of huge investment into the United States of America. He's proud of that and he should be as that will result in more American jobs right here. So bring that capital in. Mortgage interest rates have fallen in the first two months about 40 basis points, 40 basis points down,

that's 0.4% down. So that's another big deal as mortgage rates are going down and the left always crows about housing affordability. How are we gonna afford houses? How would Americans afford houses? Easy, stop importing millions of foreign nationals into our country and creating an inflated value to the housing market because everybody's competing for fewer places to live

because of all of that. Vice President JD Vance talked about that on the campaign trail. And also bring down those mortgage interest rates, stabilize our monetary supply, stop all of this excessive government spending so that we can bring the rates back down. President Trump targeting on that. Also, the cost of breakfast has gone down. That's right. Remember when we started that the left was trying to blame Trump for the increase

in egg prices? Well, egg prices are up. What about egg prices, they said as President Trump racked up victory after victory. They were like, well, what can we throw at him? That's going to hurt him. Egg prices, they claim. Never mind, what can we throw at him? That's going to hurt him. Egg prices, they claimed. Never mind the fact that the reason egg prices were going up was because the Biden administration ordered the slaughter of bajillion chickens in the midst of avian bird flu. It was a precautionary move. Killing a lot of chickens means fewer eggs to be produced.

Once again, a basic market principle. But it's the end product of something that happened under the Biden administration. They didn't stop the spread of the bird flu and then they tried to kill off the flocks. Well, egg prices went up as a result. They're down now. Egg prices have dropped over 60%, 60%. Stay tuned for that headline wherever you can find it.

This month alone, egg prices are down. Look at that. Well, look, even CNBC is admitting that these egg prices are coming back down. That's, that's the Midwest large white egg benchmark. People love their white eggs. You go to the store, you get the white eggs. You go to your neighbor who has chickens, you don't get white eggs, you get multicolored eggs. They're just as good great source of protein, Get your eggs, especially while they're going down in price. Additionally, orange juice is on track

for its largest quarterly price decline ever. OJ, we produce a lot of oranges in the US of A. President Trump has reason to be proud of that as well. And then gasoline prices, remember this is one that I'm looking forward to and if I get another chance to talk to the president soon, I wanna ask him about gas prices specifically. But gas prices, when he came into office,

he said, I wanna cut those in half by the end of my first year in office. So presumably that would be January 20th of next year. By that point, his target is to get to half the price. Right now, the price is dropping. The gasoline has experienced four straight weeks of decline in terms of price, and it's dropped about $1.30 per gallon less than where it was a year ago. So we are headed in the right direction there. And once again, is this what you voted for?

Is it? That's what I voted for. I voted for an improving picture on the economy. I voted for a secure border. That's what I wanted. And I got a lot more than that, didn't I? I got a lot more than that out of it. So that's in case you were wondering,

that's kind of the underlying data that was animating my questions today to the President of the United States. And I'm very grateful for that. The President has also been very busy, as you could tell, not only is he doing well, according to the data and Harry Antin over at CNN, he also made a special point of targeting election fraud yesterday with a big executive order that you could tell he was very proud of.

He told us that today right here on Vince. Take a listen to the president yesterday in the cabinet room at the White House, signing an executive order designed to end election fraud. Election fraud, you heard the term, it ended hopefully. At least this will go a long way toward ending it. There are other steps that we will be taking in the coming weeks and we think we'll be able to end up getting fair elections. Perhaps some people think I shouldn't be complaining because we're one in a landslide,

but we got to straighten out our election. This country is so sick because of the election, the fake elections and the bad elections. And we're going to straighten it out one way or the other. This is great. He's signing the executive order. It's an honor to sign this one. Sign all of them, but to sign this one is a great honor.

To sign that one is a great honor. By the way, I noticed in that clip, I just put two and two together. Didn't he sound a little under the weather in that clip too? So whatever bug he might be fighting off this morning, probably the same one that he had in the cabinet meeting yesterday, but it's not deterring him. He's getting everybody together. He's still working. He's very busy as president of the United States. And there was saying, look, I'm signing this executive order to forbid election

interference, election fraud, we're going to stop that we want to have secure elections. Now, for those of you who've been following elections for some time, you may be wondering, well, how exactly does this work? Because every state, as we unfortunately know, in many cases, runs its own elections. Some of them run them well, like Florida. Others run them into the ground, like places like Arizona or Pennsylvania. California is one of the most cartoonish places in the country to have an election because in California, they have legalized ballot harvesting. Are you familiar with that?

It's when a political operative can go door to door, collect ballots, and then you have to trust the political operative is actually going to drop your ballot off. And they do this, the left is specialized in this. This is why they want to make it legal because there's a lot of corruption in the way they handle ballots. There have been many cases of lefties who would go, for instance, into nursing homes and take advantage of very elderly people and then have them fill out ballots, help them with the process. Oh, just fill out this one. You want to vote for this guy, vote for that guy.

And then take their ballot from them. And then they only turn in the Democrat votes. Yeah, that's not a secure system in any meaningful sense. So the president laid out in his executive order a number of ways to secure the system, including proving as you register to vote that you're an American citizen and making it so that election day is only election day, not election month, that each of these states isn't allowed to keep taking ballots into eternity after election day is already over. Common sense stuff to not only make our elections more secure, but also to make them more believable. It's the kind of thing that Jimmy Carter once supported

back when he was assessing the state of our elections. The late Jimmy Carter thought paper ballots, that's a terrible idea. Sorry, not paper ballots, mail-in ballots. Mail-in ballots is a terrible idea. We should have paper ballots, mail-in ballots. Mail-in ballots is a terrible idea. We should have paper ballots to have a paper record of every vote. You should show voter ID to prove you are who you say you

are so you're not stealing somebody else's vote. It's about preventing voter disenfranchisement, not causing it. Even Jimmy Carter knew that in the early 2000s, did a big report on the subject. And of course the left since then has abandoned all of that and said, no, our elections have to be complete chaos. Our elections have to be complete chaos

because it's only in chaos that the left thrives. And President Trump says, nope, no more of that. And so the way that he can do this at a federal level, you heard the president talk about it today, is remove the funding. The federal do this at a federal level, you heard the president talk about it today, is remove the funding. The federal government provides a lot of funding, a lot of funding, your tax dollars, to support election systems around the country. Well, fine, condition the funding.

You only receive the funding if you have a secure election system. That's what President Trump did yesterday, and it's a great step in the right direction. And he has not been shy about using these funding mechanisms to force compliance. So that's a huge, huge deal. Let's see. I also have a pardon to share with you. President Trump made a big pardon yesterday. He pardoned Hunter Biden's long suffering former business partner,

Devin Archer, who's been out telling the truth about the Biden family for a while as the Biden administration tried to destroy him. Here is the pardon yesterday. First, we have a pardon for Devin Archer. Devin Archer was a former business partner of the Biden family. He's was prosecuted relating to a fraud investigation, but notably the tone and tenor of that prosecution changed dramatically after he began to cooperate with congressional investigators and serve as a witness against Hunter Biden and the Biden family. We believe that was an injustice and therefore we're asking you to pardon him. And many people have asked me to do this. I think he was treated very unfairly

and I looked at the records, studied the records and he was a victim of a crime as far as I'm concerned. So we're gonna undo that. We're gonna undo that. Devin Archer thought that Biden would save him in the past, but then the Biden family turned on him, attacked him. He began telling the truth about what was going on. All right.

That's you. Devin Archer. There it is, holding up the signature. Congratulations, Devin. Congratulations, Devin, says President Trump. Now, the backstory on some of this is Devin Archer met with President Trump at the President's request on over the weekend at the NCAA championship

wrestling match, Devin Archer was in the crowd. I saw a picture of Miranda Devine, who I had on the radio show this week. She indicated she was, she took a picture of a selfie with Devin Archer standing there talking about how unfairly treated he had been. And apparently according to Devin Archer standing there talking about how unfairly treated he had been. And apparently, according to Devin Archer, who spoke to Fox News last night, that's precisely where President Trump gave him the good news.

Take a look at this. First of all, I didn't think I'd need this because I never did anything. I was a victim of financial fraud in which I invested a lot of money and was taken down on a whistleblower that was blowing the whistle on Hunter. So you were collateral damage. Absolutely. And you believe that the Biden, Obama, Justice people targeted you to keep Hunter out of trouble?

Well, I think that there's some heroic reporting from John Solomon that came out very, very recently, actually, in like the last two years, where originally they were telling, listen, we're going to take care of you. But that reporting goes into FOIAs and finds distinct emails from the Biden legal apparatus, lobbying Preet Bharat to essentially put me in as the target and remove Hunter. So yes, I think it's chronic of what that legal apparatus was, and I certainly was a

victim. Devin Archer saying, I was the fall guy. I was the patsy for the Biden family's crimes and I was targeted as a result of all of that. And President Trump coming through and saying, you know what, I don't like that. I don't like the abuse of power at the hands of the Biden family, the Biden administration. And so I'm gonna pardon this guy.

And why shouldn't he be pardoned? Think about it. Biden's entire family was pardoned by auto pen, presumably on the way out the door. Biden was sitting at Trump's inauguration, waiting for him to be sworn in as the pardons popped out of the White House from the auto pen of the entire Biden family being pardoned.

Great. So of course, Devin Archer should be pardoned as well. I would like to see, and I know you would too, justice to go beyond that though, not merely some relief for people like Devin Archer, but instead prosecutions for the people who were selling out our country.

How many years in a row have we discussed Tony Bobulinski, the old Biden family business partner, talking about all of the crimes the Biden family had been committing. And then saying that when he talked to Jim Biden, Joe's brother, that one of the reads from him was straight up that they didn't want, they did their best to keep Joe's name

away from the family business. And in so much so that they tried to limit his name being used in the communications that they had between each other. Now contrast that, of course, with Trump officials talking on signal, just being honest with one another, having a completely productive conversation that moved the ball forward. The Biden family's secret conversations consisted of even trying to conceal the fact that Joe was a part of the messages. And Tony Bobulinski asked, wait a second, what are you doing here? And Jim Biden responds, plausible deniability. Plausible deniability. The language of a criminal enterprise, plausible deniability.

So the Biden's, they deserve some scrutiny here. Boy, I wouldn't it be nice if we could untangle the auto pen garbage and say, no, the auto pen doesn't count. It doesn't count that the president Trump's been saying this. The pardons don't work if they're auto pen because Joe Biden didn't sign them. And even if we accepted that auto pen is a legitimate way for the president to do his job, it was just like, it's like an E signature

on like a PDF or something. Even if you were to accept that on its face, Joe Biden was non-compassmentus. The guy's brain doesn't operate. So you're saying that an invalid can have a machine sign documents for him and he has no idea what's going on? Is that going to work?

Does that actually count? Is that constitutionally sound? I don't know. I don't think so. I don't think that's what the founders intended. That some guy in a coma is get had somebody else doing robot signatures for him. And now it has the full force of law place. That seems pretty crazy to me.

Hey, look, oh, I got a lot of chat coming in. The auto penny isn't legal. The only person who gets indicted is President Trump. I know, isn't that crazy? Everybody tell your friends to watch Vince. KBK 200, my hero. Everybody tell your friends to watch Vince. Yeah, yeah, baby. Please do. We got 74,000

in the chat right now. Just well, I shouldn't overstate it 73,000 in the chat right now. Really appreciate that. Great conversation today with the President of the United States. Let me mention to you here about this program and all the programs we do during the day. We've got the podcast, the Rumble podcast, it starts live every morning at 10 a.m. If you wanna be a part of the festivities, join us at 10 a.m. You might be listening on the podcast right now,

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