The Dan Bongino Show - The Rock-'Em-Sock-'Em Presidency (Ep. 2409)

Episode Date: January 27, 2025

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Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host Dan Bongino. You know, let me tell you kind of a funny story. So I'll do a weekend update, but this is just kind of out of left field. I get a call from a media reporter last week and he wants to talk about how stories bubble up in the home magGA ecosystem of which obviously we're the biggest portion of it. We are, we're just the biggest show.

So that's just a fact. So he calls me. It was an Axios guy. And we'll see what they write. It's, you know, it's probably gonna be the same piece, but whatever. We'll see. But, you know, I started to talk to some of these people more. And the logic behind it is this.

Excuse me, my voice is still struggling from the inaugural crud that went around last week, everybody got. But the gist of every piece, of course, is gonna be these right-wing crazy conspiracy theorists, whatever, they write the same piece every time. But I figure I might as well get my shots in too, you know? So we'll see what they write.

But he wanted to see how these stories percolate up from the MAGA ecosystem up into bureaucrats, politicians, maybe even Donald Trump, right? So it's fascinating to watch our... Hold on. I should have had this close. You know our a rock-a-sock-a-robots theory of Donald Trump? It is fascinating. We found the red guy, by the way, and he's not broken. The blue guy he's just been getting decimated lately of course. The red guy keeps winning. Red rocker, he put Donald Trump on the back of that. We know when you put a Donald Trump face on that somebody get on that. People in the mainstream media are now picking up our rock-em-sock-em robots narrative. I'm gonna show you that in the beginning. Got a weekend update.

It's good to be back with you. I was struggling a little bit on Friday, but felt good enough to do the show. That crud at the inauguration was vicious. Mike Benz is sick now, too. I don't know what was going around. The day, like, did the Biden team on the way out, like, spray the sky with some deadly pathogen or something?

But I feel great. Saturday morning I woke up, felt better, and it's just, you know, the recovery things always takes a little bit to get your voice fully back. Hey, the ultimate sleep refresh for the new year is Beams Dream Powder. Try to get up to 45% off for a limited time at shopbeam.com slash Bon Gino.

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It was so nice to see you. I keep that picture up for a minute. It was nice to see what you see. The lovely Paula. You see my daughter, Amelia, who looks exactly like Paula. See my brother, Joe, who, yes, is a cloning experiment gone awry. He's not my twin. He's actually five years younger than me. The fact that we look alike, I think is a cloning experiment gone awry. He's not my twin. He's actually five years younger than me. The fact that we look alike, I think is a compliment to me. You better have a talk with Joe about that because he's actually younger than me.

That is obviously me to love. And in the middle is a great Auburn coach, Bruce Pearl. He let us watch the shoot around at the beginning of the game. I ran into so many awesome Tennessee folks because the volunteers were playing in Auburn. In Hamilton's restaurant, I went to Hamilton's and Lucy's, two of my favorite restaurants, Lucy's always great. Hamilton's, I met the owner there, one of the owners and managers over there. What a great guy, super nice.

And while in Hamilton's, I met some Tennessee fans, and they were super nice to me, so I love you guys. Big, huge win by Auburn. It wasn't the prettiest game, defensive game. Myles Kelly hit a three pointer to win the game with about 27 seconds left. It was one of the most amazing sports games I've been to in a long time. And to watch my brother and my daughter, Amelia, my wife so happy and my daughter, Amelia jumping on me. It's why I love sports. You get to enjoy something with a bunch of people and forget about the

world for a minute. It was a lot of fun. You get to enjoy something with a bunch of people and forget about the world for a minute. It was a lot of fun. So there's my weekend update. Folks, a lot happened this weekend. When the Bongino Army marshals, like we did for Pete Hegseth, I can't tell you how proud I am when we do it and getting Pete Hegseth through

and the Bongino Army being a big part of that, I gotta tell you all out there, sincerely, candidly, from the bottom of, as I always say, my sometimes broken heart, look at me. I love you guys, and I deeply appreciate what you did. And I'm gonna tell you something. I know Pete Hegseth, Secretary Hegseth.

Gosh, that sounds good. Secretary Hegseth feels the exact same way. And I know his lovely wife Jen feels the same way too. Thank you. But ladies and gentlemen, our mission isn't done. Thank you, Bon Gino Army, for Pete. But now we have to move on to cash. Pete's got his own mission now.

Secretary Hag Seth is going to clean up our broken military leadership and make it the most lethal killing machine in the world from now till perpetuity. But now it's time to move on to Cash Patel. We can't just sit here and celebrate and crack the bubbly. But this reporter reached out and asked me, he's starting to figure out this guy who reached out from Axios, that the Bongino Army is a little more powerful than people think. We're kind of like, I don't know guys,

tell me in the chat if I'm crazy. I'm watching you guys over here. What do we got? We're about to break 100,000, we're only eight minutes in, okay, which is just pretty freaking amazing for a live stream at 11 o'clock in the morning, so thank you. We're like the ninja army. Okay.

There are other shows out there. This is, I don't want to say it sounds like a dick move. There are great shows out there with people who really love the president, who do a wonderful job, they get a lot of attention from the media. The Bon Gino show is a strange cat because the media hates us so much, it kind of avoid us. So we get to creep up. We're like the ninjas.

We get to creep up on, you know what I'm saying? Like you've got the Samurais on the battlefield and everybody notices them with their battle, battle armor, beautiful battle armor, their gleaming swords, and they look scary. Paint the faces, everything, you know. You see the samurai and you're like, my gosh, and the samurai were impressive, right? We're kinda like the ninjas.

We creep up on you, you never see us coming. But I gotta warn you, the media's starting to notice. So the good side is, the Bonjino army, everybody's starting to notice, hey, we're the real deal. The bad side is we're not going to be able to creep up on anyone anymore. So congratulations. Can we get a ninja emoji? Oh, someone did it already. Who did it? Oh my gosh, I just missed you. I'm sorry. I was scrolling down and oh, Lin2456 with the ninja emoji. That is you guys. That is you guys and ladies out there. We're like ninjas.

And I'm just kind of proud of that. But I'm not sure it's gonna last long. You know what, let's go to the ninja emojis all over the place. You guys don't make me laugh today. My voice is still covered. Hey, I'm gonna reverse this a little bit. Hold that Caroline Levitt thing for a second.

Can you go to the Peggy Noonan article? Here's what I'm talking about by the Bonjino Army and how powerful you guys are. Peggy Noonan is no fan of Donald Trump, okay? She writes for the Wall Street Journal. I'm gonna tell you something. I like her work, I read it. You don't need to be an acolyte of me or Bannon or Trump

for me to like your work. I enjoy reading her stuff, even if I don't agree with her, okay? Peggy Noonan has this piece called The White House Wonder Horse talking about how Trump is now at the top of his powers. She doesn't like the guy but it's a good piece and it's worth your time. She notes Trump's at the top of his power, the top of his game. He used to be testy and aggrieved with reporters because he yearned for their admiration. Maybe, maybe not. But the second part is definitely true. Now he treats these

reporters with patience and calm because he doesn't care about them. She notes Trump has his own thing going. If they don't like them, it's their problem with their puny little numbers and shrinking networks. Keep in mind, this lady does not like Donald Trump. But man, whether he yearned for their admiration, I'm not sure that's true. It's her opinion, whatever. The second part is undoubtedly true. Did you notice he's different with the media now? He's not in the tussle anymore.

He basically just ignores their stupidity, makes fun of them, and moves on to the next question. Because he's like, no one's watching you idiots anyway. Here's the part I was talking about though. Where do you think this came from? She notes for four years it's going to be a nonstop 24-7 rockum sockum. God bless our beloved country. History ahead. Everybody hold on tight. Folks, who fixed the Rockum Sockum? Did you guys just creep over here? Was that like a ghost who did? Oh you did? Oh you don't it's gonna say like wow that is weird oh so there's another Rockum Sockum? Oh, hold on. Folks, I didn't even

know we had a backup Rockumem Sock'em robots. I was like, how did they just do that? So the red guy right here, this is Donald Trump. Here's the media. Ah! Every single time. Here, wait, body slam. Ah!

Remember when Hogan body, what was it, WrestleMania 3 or something, when he body slammed Andre the Giant? When he said the silver, ah! Andre actually jumped onto to Hogan but whatever This is gonna be every single time The blue dude just bounced up in here

Folks we're in charge now All right. Did she take the rockin sockin robots from I don't know who cares doesn't even matter. I'm just telling you You guys are way ahead of the news cycle. And so is the damn Bon Jovi No Show. A couple things happened. And by the way, I told you, a lot of people challenged me in the primary, Donald Trump's going to be a lame duck. I said, you're missing the point. There we are, Rockum Sockums in the chat room.

Populate that chat room, folks. I told you during the primary, you're reading this all wrong. Donald Trump will never be a lame duck until Donald Trump, on the unfortunate day we lose him from this earth like we'll lose everyone else, okay? He will never be a lame duck. His political power will outlast his presidency. He started a revolution no different than the founding of the Republican Party. And if you don't see it, that's your problem. That's not on us. We're ahead of the new cycle. You guys are always trailing on us. He's not a lame duck. He's a guy who learned from four years and now has two

years plus another two after the midterms to change this country for the better. You saw it this weekend. There are still world leaders, notably the president of Colombia, who is a socialist, and this is very personal to me. My wife was a Colombian citizen up until 10 years ago. She's now a U.S. citizen. I've been to Colombia many times.

It is a beautiful country. I highly, highly recommend if you wanna go down and travel, it's a beautiful place. Casca Viejo is incredible to visit. Colombia is an amazing, by the way, it's spelled with C-O-L-O. A lot of people are spelling it C-O-L-U. It's C-O-L-O. A lot of people are spelling it C-O-L-U. It's C-O-L-O. So you don't want the people doing the spell check thing on Twitter for you. Columbia is a beautiful place.

The head of the President of Columbia now, Gustavo Petro, is a socialist. So Donald Trump said, we are sending back Colombian citizens, by the way, who entered the United States illegally. And we are sending back Colombian citizens, by the way, who entered the United States illegally. We do a lot for Colombia. The simple answer and the correct answer and the right answer for Gustavo Petra was, okay, we will take care of our citizens. No different than if an American had done something wrong in Colombia and was in the country illegally, they sent him back.

We would take care of it here. But that's not what Gustavo Petro decided to do. He said, no, no, you're not gonna land that plane of our citizens here. He doesn't understand this is the around and find out presidency and Gustavo Petro is in a stage one of effing around. And he just found out Caroline Levitt notes on her tweet,

the Colombian president who decided they would not basically let the flights land has now agreed to all of President Trump's terms. Ladies and gentlemen, President Trump, what's the word I tell you all to remember about President Trump every single time? He is transactional. You understand? Transactional.

He does not get emotional. He gets passionate. That's not the same thing He does not get overly emotional about things. I should say he doesn't let me describe better. He doesn't let his passion dictate And his emotions and passion override his transactional nature these guys are criminals from Columbia invaded our country illegally Well, why are we keeping him send him back to Columbia. He doesn't want to take them. Okay, tariffs on the country. Okay, now he wants to take them. Okay, thanks. Move on.

Telling you media people, others. We said it a couple of weeks Language alert man. This is the fuck around and find out presidency I'm not that we're gonna win another four years. We all I'm telling you is your the media and Commies and socialists out there you are stuck with us for four years And you better get used to the find out portion because you're not even you're barely in stage one You're getting ready for the find out portion if you're a military leader too obsessed with DEI and not obsessed with lethality. Our military is one job.

There's the bad guy, kill them before they kill us. That's their job. That's why they're freaking out about Pete Hicks. Thank you to the Bongino Army again, Secretary Hicks, Seth in charge now moving on to cash we got to get that done but I want you to listen to this. Secretary Hicks Seth at a swearing-in ceremony spoke briefly about his three principles for the military. Sure it's about a minute but it's worth your time. This is a clarion call moment.

I want you to listen to all three of these things and if if you're not a crazy, sick, liberal lunatic, tell me which one of these three you disagree with. Check this out. We will put America first. We will bring peace through strength. And the three principles I talked about are what we will bring to that Pentagon. Restore the warrior ethos in everything that we do.

Rebuild our military and reestablish deterrence. We don't want to fight wars. We want to deter them, as you said. And we want to end them responsibly. But if we need to fight them, we're going to bring overwhelming and decisive force to close with and destroy the enemy and bring our boys home. We are not going to prolong wars. We are not going to prolong wars by running politically correct.

We are going to do everything we can to stay out of wars. And we should. Pete Hagseth is not what we would call an interventionist in the traditional, I hate the term, neocon way. Pete Hagseth, however, is not stupid and realizes the United States does have to secure sea lanes, open trade, open travel. The world requires it. And if you're going to f around with us, you are gonna find out.

But what Pete is saying is you're gonna find out quick, shock and awe, you're gonna find out quick, and it is gonna be decisive. There's not gonna be any more dicking around, it's not gonna be more PC wars, there's gonna be overwhelming force, and the enemy is going to die quickly. That's it. Pete's three principles there. Secretary Hegseth, sorry, it's gonna take a little getting used to, no, I promise you, zero disrespect intended, and it's not one of these humble brags, no, Pete, a lot of people don't be, it's Secretary Hegseth, it's proper. It reminds me of Fox-Connor's rules of war. Fox-Connor's rules of war, very simple.

And I encourage the secretary and others, they know about them, they don't need to hear them from me, but digest all of them. Never go to war alone, never go to war for long, and never go to war unless we absolutely have to. You apply those to Secretary Hegseth's now, three principles here of lethality, and how we're going to build our military,

and we're going to not only build up our military, but if we get involved, we are going to get involved to win and win decisively. And ladies and gentlemen, you got an unbeatable formula in the world's greatest military for the established American dominance again. Here was President Trump on the confirmation of now Secretary Haggiseth. Quick 20 seconds on it. President Trump gets it. he knows he picked the right guy. And thank you again, Bongino Army, for getting this done.

You guys and ladies are the best out there. Listen to this, check this out. I'm honored to have Pete. I think Pete's gonna be a great Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, and we're honored to have him. I called and I couldn't hear you. Did you say you were speaking to him on the phone? No, I didn't speak to Pete, yeah, in the plane, in the helicopter.

I think Pete is going to be a great secretary of the Senate. Are you disappointed that McConnell voted no? I didn't even know that. No, I don't know that. I just heard that we won. Winning is what matters, right? Catch up in the chat. Mitch McConnell will always be a sellout, trader of the US and snake in the grass.

Of course, McConnell voting no on now Secretary Hegson. McConnell's all about party unity until it's about McConnell and he can make a fake statement. McConnell's a fraud, he's always been a fraud. Sick of McConnell. Couple of good things he did to fill a buster fight. That's it. But it doesn't, it doesn't compensate for his attacks

on people like Mike Lee, Ted Cruz and elsewhere. I'm tired of him. Rikowski, of course, a total joke. I'll keep telling. By the way, whoever is the guy on Twitter, because I follow a lot of your traffic guys. This is like an interactive type of show. I want to make sure you guys and I have,

who said Dan Bogito said Collins is great or Collins shouldn't be primary or something. Do you guys remember that on the show? Can you pull that segment for me? He's like, no, we can't because that segment never happened. That's not what I said. Because then a thousand people respond, I never trusted that guy.

Well, that's great because I'm not that guy. So you can trust the other guy. My take on Collins is this. Nothing to do a pretty you want a primary or go right ahead. My take on Collins is we have enough. We have a limited amount of political capital to get things done. Wasting a lot of time on Collins in a blue state is not the best way to move the ball forward when we can spend a lot of time and effort getting rid of Murkowski and McConnell

in freaking red states. That's what I'm saying. Nobody ever said don't ever primary, where did you hear that on the show? If you can pull that, I'd be quite impressed because it never happened. I'm not defending Collins, she's always gonna screw us over. But you're not gonna do any better in Maine. You want to go up

there and spend a billion dollars on a seat we're likely gonna lose rather than getting rid of McConnell-Mercowski and getting real Republicans in there. That's your call. Do you not trust the plan? The plan I told you in the last election. Did it work? Everybody we had on the show, Bernie Moreno, John Tester, these guys won. Dave McCormick. Trust your boy. By the way, I got a little piece of Americana coming up for you. America is so back. You have no idea. Did you hear this thing over the weekend? Standby. I'm going to get to that for you. Hey, yeah. Do you know there's a victim of identity theft every three seconds? What has two thumbs and how does identity stole to this guy?

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I actually enjoy Monday because I've got bottled up energy from the weekend, as you can always see, and I enjoy the weekend update. But did you see that, does anyone know who this young man is? I wanna say kid, but this young man is, he's playing the national anthem, like Jimi Hendrix style,

at a school auditorium. And man, can this, it reminds me of like Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix. You guys see this? Take a little quick listen to this thing. ["Jimmie Page, Jimi Hendrix"] Oh, sorry, one second., can that kid play? I saw there was a thing, a banner up there that said Union and the Cot Tigers. So young patriot, I don't know your name.

Does anyone in the chat know his name? We usually get someone. Anyone see, because we got 145,000 people here, so surely somebody knows this. Wait, wait, wait. Stevie Agri? Is that his? Is that right? I don't know. If you guys know this guy, just send them our love. That is just an amazing piece of Americana. Right. It goes on. You should see it. I think I retweeted it on my ex feed. So America's back. Want to get you in the mood on Monday.

We got a lot more to talk about, not just Pete, not just what happened in Columbia, not just the Rock Them Sock Them Robots, Peggy Noonan article, but it was some big interviews this weekend. Vice President JD Vance did his first vice presidential interview. Listen, I saw a couple people commenting on Twitter that, friends of mine too, that he should have done a conservative outlet first. You know, this is one of those things where it pains me to say it, but I actually disagree. Why does it pain me to say it pain me to say this? Because number one, the people who are saying it, I really love. But second, I feel like we should have gotten first interview because we really went hard for JD Vance. But I've got to be straight with you folks.

I can't get emotional about this stuff. I'm an outcomes based guy. JD Vance doesn't need to convince our audience. He's the guy. He needs to convince a squishy five, six percent of the population to get behind this legislative agenda and truth be told, he's so good at just politically destroying left-wing media narratives that he's far better off on these shows. He just is. It pains me to say I would have loved to get the first interview, but that's not the way

that, you know, as Miss Guilfrether used to say, my fifth grade teacher, the cookie crumbles. Here he is in his interview on CBS with Margaret Brennan. And again, just absolutely destroying this ridiculous narrative that because immigrants partook in the creation of the United States and its wealth, which happens in every country on earth, that we have to, that we're then obligated to continue a destructive and dangerous immigration policy. These two things are non sequiturs. Margaret Brennan, I think she got it, she gets them on this one. Watch JD just blow this thing out. Check this out. This is a very unique country and it was founded by some immigrants and some settlers

But just because we were founded by immigrants doesn't mean that 240 years later that we have to have the dumbest immigration policy in the world Thank you JD. And you know what I find fascinating about this question. This is how you're gonna address this. Okay Well, that sounded very yeah, it sounded like a kind of a dick there. This is how you should address this, which your liberal friends, if you have any left. We're not a country built by immigrants. Well, no kidding. My, you know, they did take a play,

a role in creating this country. As JD accurately said, there were some settlers that were Native Americans, there were other people here. Every country on earth has had people cross the border and were naturally, you know, travelers. And a lot of people can be very nomadic. Americans, there were other people here. Every country on earth has had people cross the border and we're naturally travelers and a lot of people can be very nomadic. Okay, this is nothing to do with anything.

The question is, what's the most effective immigration policy for the United States? But that's not the point. When they bring up the countries built by immigrants, you know what you should say to them? You ready? Write this down. You know, it's fascinating how you

guys only seem to like history when it fits your narrative. Crazy, right? Chad, tell me I'm wrong. Every other bit of our history, positive and negative, they want to wipe out. Everything. Statues, the Civil War, even though we fought for people's independence, they think, well other people fought against it. Right, but the good side won. The good side won. They don't care about our history at all. They want to wipe all of our history clean until it comes to a narrative that we should have open borders. They're like, oh no, no, no, the place was built by immigrants. And here's the interesting, here's another one, I didn't even think of this.

You know, they're always talking about white rage and white privilege. You know, it's fascinating because a lot of the settlers who built this place that you call immigrants were actually people you claimed to hate who had so-called white privilege. Fascinating how you guys change the argument all the time. JD is right, excuse me, Vice President Vance. 100% right. Dumbest freaking policy

ever. Here's another big LOL moment. Margaret Brennan from CBS who they just these are just stupid gotcha questions. Here's the problem with gotcha questions with Vice President Vance. He's smarter than these idiots. It's really it's like your 12 year old playing tic tac toe with you and thinking they caught you. It's not good. It's like fetch. It's not going to happen. Here she is ridiculously trying to claim that immigrants from some of these terror prone countries are somehow vetted as if the Taliban has like a DMV crime system where they can go into full terror databases and vet people before they come here.

This is really stupid. Check this out. When you talked to us in August, you said, I don't think we should abandon anybody who's been properly vetted and helped us. Do you stand by that? Well, Margaret, I don't agree that all these immigrants or all these refugees have been properly vetted and helped us. Do you stand by that? Well, Margaret, I don't agree that all these immigrants or all these refugees have been properly vetted. In fact, we know that there are cases of people

who allegedly were properly vetted, and then were literally planning terrorist attacks in our country. That happened during the campaign, if you may remember. So clearly, not all of these foreign nationals have been properly vetted. No, but there are 30,000 people in the pipeline, Afghan refugees.

But my primary concern as the vice president, President Margaret is to look after the American people. And now that we know that we have vetting problems with a lot of these refugee programs, we absolutely cannot unleash thousands of unvetted people into our country. These people are vetted. Just like the guy who played a terrorist attack in Oklahoma a few months ago, he was allegedly properly vetted. And many people in the media and the Democratic Party said that he was properly vetted. Clearly he wasn't.

I don't want my children to share a neighborhood with people who are not properly vetted and because I don't want it for my kids, I'm not going to force any other American citizens' kids to do that either. No, and that was a very particular case. It wasn't clear if he was radicalized when he got here or while he was living here. I don't really care Margaret I don't want that person in my country and I think most Americans agree with me. Where is it? Justin bought me this this is my birthday present from Justin. Here it is. You know what that is? It's a people's elbow. It's a people's elbow. Get it up in the chat. People's elbow right now.

It could be. You know what this is? He got me this one. This karate man. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's both. Maybe it's the people's elbow, then she gets up all day and karate man strikes after that. It's the greatest of all combos.

It's like, it's the equivalent of like a seven monthly thing. Like it's never happened, but it could have been the first time so much so that a rallying cry a rallying cry For Republicans has now become today if you've seen the give you guys seen the Giffey's the Giffey's are out. Are you fixed them? Oh This they put the liberal carry guy and the Trump face on This is freaking crazy. We got the rockum. Oh my gosh, we like really smashed up the rockum sockum guy. Wait, we gotta keep Trump here.

Trump rockum sockum. Here, you stay here. I wish you guys, you like this guy? Check him out. Ah! Trump rockum. This is like people's elbow rockum sockum. I've never seen anything like this. There

is there anyone better at this than JD? Folks, this is the rallying cry on X is now. I don't care Margaret. Margaret's the new Karen. I get it. There. My name is Margaret. My name is Dan. Did you ever look at like the top names of dicks? It's always Dan number one. I'm sorry. I like my name, Dan, but people say most people with Dan are dicks or assholes. So I get it. I totally get it. But I'm sorry. Margaret's may be the new Karen. Karen is getting a reprieve. I don't care Margaret has become the new rallying cry for Republicans. What do we care if he was radicalized when he was here over there?

He shouldn't have been here. Is that a hint? You should have said something. Weren't you, where not, where not? You know what you should have said, Guy? You should, you should have been like, how did you feel this weekend? Why didn't you, didn't you have a problem on the trip?

Now you're stretching on that one. All family farmer folks. I'm reading my own spot. I don't really care what they say. I'm sorry. They saved me again this weekend. I kid you not. So I call my doctor, right? Like Wednesday or so. I got the inauguration crud. We do a little telethon, get some tests.

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Dude, how did you get the Trump face on here so quick? Did you cut that out over there or something? That is, look at that. Can you guys see that? You can see that, right? That is pretty awesome. We have our own rockum sockum robot guy with the Trump face.

This is dedicated to, Mr. President, I know people give you a lot of stuff, but if you wanna sign this, we will auction this off again and raise more money for charity. I'm still gonna auction off my inauguration day show. I got to set that up with Guy. We're all going to charity.

We cut that check to Samaritan's Purse, by the way, for the baseball, $55,000. Samaritan's Purse sent us a lovely thank you letter, but it's not me. The gentleman who bought the baseball, that was their money. We're just the conduit. But if we can raise money for charity,

you ever want to sign this, Mr. President? We will, I'm telling you, this thing will raise $75,000. We'll give it again to Samaritan's Purse, as up to you. But no one's gonna pay 75. Maybe if Justin signed it, we'll get five. What do you think? If he doesn't sign, we'll have Justin sign. We'll see how people are.

It'll be a slight discount, slight discount. Mexico's refusing to accept the US deportation flight as Trump's immigration overhaul gets into full swing. We saw this story in the New York Post. Listen, guys, I'm just going to repeat over and over again. This is the Rockham Sockham presidency, and it is also the FAFO presidency. I get it. It's sarcastic. It's kind of meant to be, in some ways, humorous and entertaining as part of the educational portion of the show, but I am dead serious at the premise of it, that Donald Trump is not kidding around.

And if you know Donald Trump, even casually, the way a lot of people do, including some of the people here, he was never coming to office to mess around for four years. He was coming into office to change this country. And if you're not ready for the FO portion, he's going to make you ready real quick.

Here's what I love about this combo. And when I say this combo, I'm talking about Vice President Vance and President Trump. They have these contrasting styles, and it's absolute political gold to watch. You've got JD, who's kind of just this methodical, I really don't care Margaret guy. And then you've got President Trump, who is the necessary bulldozer that kind of bull in the China shop. We really, really needed. And the contrast in styles is absolute gold.

Having said that though, I think the Trump bulldozer style, one of the things that's lost about President Trump, and again, I don't wanna over exaggerate my relationship with him. I'm very, I hate that. That drives me freaking nuts. I told the Axios guy that.

I know him enough to see what he's like behind the scenes. And you know Scott Adams, Dilbert, the famous comic Dilbert, he tweeted this out, and man did this ring my bell because he's so right. It's one of the Trump attributes that's frequently overlooked. And he notes that Trump's least appreciated superpowers is listening skill. Everyone who experiences it comes away impressed. He never interrupts. He's always focused and genuinely caring.

I don't want to spend a ton of time on this, but it's an important point and I want to spend enough that you don't miss this. If you were ever with him alone and that's only happened, when I say alone, I mean there's not a thousand staffers around, I mean like you and him, because he's with him alone, and that's only happened, and when I say alone, I mean, there's not a thousand staffers around, I mean, like you and him, because he's never really alone, secret service and everything, but you get my point. If you're ever with him on a one-on-one,

which have only been a couple of times, you know this is true. He will sit there at a dinner table with you, like we did in Bedminster, and he will intently listen to everything you're saying And he is so eager to let you know he's listening to you That he'll ask questions that what I don't even know if he really wants he just wants to make sure you know He's listening. I don't know if that makes sense But like that's the kind of guy he is why am I bringing this this up? Because you saw it this weekend in North Carolina and California.

You don't see him in Melania go into the devastated areas of North Carolina, Hurricane Helene, right? And you don't see him making the event about him. He makes the event about other people. How can I prove it? He's got a microphone in the entire world listening and he goes, hey, you want to come over and tell your story? He does it all the time.

Folks, that's who Donald Trump is. You know, his candid, frank, non-emotional kind of transactional nature, the actual sympathetic side of him gets lost often. But I want to get back to the transactional bulldozer side too, because that's important. Because this government is way too broken to be fixed with niceties and cutesy time, and cutesy time is over. There are California Democrats out there who created the conditions for this devastating wildfire with a bunch of policy initiatives. whether it's on water, bureaucratic management of the water supply, the lack of burn control, it will

only lead to another disaster. For the United States government and granted by the way California taxpayers or taxpayers too, that's the way it goes, however for the federal government to give federal money to a California government that is only going to create more danger for California citizens is not helping California So Donald Trump wants California to clean up its election system so they can vote for people who will change things But it also wants him to fit he wants them to fix the water or we're gonna pay them to create conditions for more fires Here's transactional Trump like you know what we'll consider some of this disaster money,

of course, but you guys are gonna have to fix some of these problems first. And I say, good for transactional Trump. Check this out. A little funding to Los Angeles because of its sanctuary city policy. I wanna see two things in Los Angeles. Voter ID so that the people have a chance to vote and I want to

see the water be released and come down into Los Angeles and throughout the state. Those are the two things after that I will be the greatest president that California has ever seen. I mean, look, he's got Newsom right next to him. Dan, he hates Newsom. Newsom hates him. Guys, I'm gonna sound like an asshole, but I can't tell you this enough. Donald Trump is passionate, but he does not get emotional. You know what a passionate but overly emotional person does? I want that guy out of here. And he makes a big deal about it. You know what Donald Trump says? This guy wants money

from us. He wants my ear for a few minutes. All right, he's going to listen to this press conference in front of the world and he's going to make sure he hears all this stuff. Newsome came greeting him at the plane. That was actually before he went out there. But you get the point. This is his conditions. That was before he left in North Carolina. But Newsome came out there.

He is a totally passionate, non-emotional guy. Newsom wants to come out there and visit him unexpectedly, whatever, fine, cool. Here are my conditions. Here he is again confronting a number of Democrat congressmen. There's a Brad Sherman and then the LA mayor that's the dreadful Karen Bass, who actually still has a job. She should have resigned already. It's just unbelievable. She was in Ghana when this city was burning. I mean, you're like Nero fiddling here. Here's Donald Trump asking a question about FEMA. Folks, this is a real question

that any transactional businessman would ask. FEMA screwed up the last four or five big disasters, okay, they could have handled this thing a lot better There's over it's overly bureaucratic the money flows in all the wrong directions Trump's asking a serious question. You're like, why is the federal government managing local emergencies? Why aren't the locals maybe with federal support managing local emergencies. Why aren't the locals, maybe with federal support, managing local emergencies? Why is the money flow, I'm not saying the locals aren't, I'm just saying, why is the money flow top down when it should be

coming from the bottom and staying at the bottom with the people who are hurting there? Listen to this, check this out. I'll also be signing an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA or maybe getting rid of FEMA. I think, frankly, FEMA is not good. I think when you have a problem like this, I think you want to go and whether it's a

Democrat or Republican governor, you want to use your state to fix it and not waste time calling FEMA. And then FEMA gets here and they don't know the area. They've never been to the area. They want to give you rules that you've never heard about. They want to bring people that aren't as good as the people you already have. And FEMA's turned out to be a disaster. And you could go back a long way.

You could go back to Louisiana. You could go back to some of the things that took place in Texas. It turns out to be the state that ends up doing the work. It just complicates it. I think we're going to recommend that FEMA go away. And we pay directly, we pay a percentage to the state. But the state should fix this. If the state did this from the beginning, it would have been a lot better situation.

I think you guys agree with that, right? I mean, I'll just change one thing. We don't even need the money to go to the federal government where the government pays it to the states. Just keep the money with the states. How about we just lower the tax rates, let the state do their most of them. Matter of fact, all of them have some emergency management agencies and just fortify them. There's really no reason for it. This is what a transactional president looks like. FEMA's not working, so why do we have FEMA?

Oh my gosh, you can't say that. What does the government, we need to be involved. Why do you need to be involved? I want to get to something that I got a haunt of questions this weekend. That's why I spent them. We're going to spend a little time on this topic. It's why I left it for last.

I didn't tease the beginning of the show, but this is an important topic. I got bombarded with media people this weekend asking me about this because of my time in the Secret Service there. Donald Trump decided this weekend, and that they should pull security details from a number of people, John Bolton, Anthony Fauci. So of course, given my security background, I didn't answer anyone, of course, on this thing because I was gonna handle it on my show,

because you know, they're gonna be misquoted on it anyway. So in the case of that, I just left it. But I want you to watch this first. I'm going to explain to you what's really going on here and why this is, this is not an easy decision. But if it's, there's no good or bad here, there's only bad and worse, okay? And the worst decision was to give people security details for the rest of their lives. Okay, especially here

This is gonna cost a lot of money first. Listen to Trump on this check this out You know, they all made a lot of money they can hire their own security to All the people you're talking about they can go out I can give them some good numbers of very good security people They can hire their own security. They all made a lot of money. Fauci made a lot of money. They all did. So if they felt that strongly, I think that certainly I would not take responsibility.

You see with the media narrative, they're already starting to, they're starting to seed kind of the field here to let the narrative grow and they're gonna water it. That if something happens, it's your fault. Notice now that the Biden aligned management of the Secret Service, when they cut funds from Donald Trump

and he got shot in the head and almost shot again, that that wasn't the narrative at all in the left-wing media. So media people can take the double-barreled middle finger and up, okay? Forget their narratives. Ignore it, move on. They're going to say that no matter what. It's Donald Trump's fault.

Nobody wants anything to happen. I absolutely, resolutely condemn any violence directed at people with the purest of hearts. Spent my entire life, put my safety on the line. That'd be dramatic, but you get the point. To protect people I didn't like politically. So no one's going to lecture me on this. However, folks, there are thousands of people in the United States government that because they take these positions understand there's going to be a security threat they're going to have to mitigate. I wish it weren't the case, but it is. The government does not have the time, the resources, the money to give perpetual security

details for the rest of their lives to all of these people. I'm going to give you an example of what I mean that no one in the media will address. What's Dr. Fauci's security threat level? The answer is I don't know. I haven't seen the threat assessments. I hope it's not high, but it may be. I don't know. I hope it isn't. But I can tell you for a fact that some assistant United States attorneys and United States attorneys I worked with, FBI agents and agents who prosecuted the mob and terrorists, their threat levels threw the roof. There was one particular guy, I'm not going to say his name, but he was involved deeply in the Gambino crime family thing, very deeply. There were threats against his life for a long time.

Let me give you another guy who had some threats against him that were relayed by a United States Attorney's office. It's in Maryland. I'm not sure if you can foy it or figure if it's on record, but it should be this guy. I worked a big fraud case and one of the people involved in the case, they overheard him on I don't know if it was like a prison call or if it was a recorded phone call talking about how I was trouble for them and basically need to get rid of me. Folks it's part of the job I wish it weren't but you know sometimes you what about police officers out there

who lock up neighborhood bad guys? They don't get a security detail. We cannot afford a security detail for every single person who goes into government, law enforcement or intelligence and has threats against them. We just can't. It's something you accept is part of the job,

by the way, me included. I wish it weren't the case, but it is. Second, there's an opportunity cost to this. You're going to give 10, 20 US marshals, 10, 20 secret service guys, 10, 20 capital police guys, to an expanding portfolio of protectees as we call them, then what happens? That's less people to protect the president, speaker and others. This is not a freebie. Folks, we don't have time, we don't have money, we don't have the ability to do this.

It's not an easy call, but in a world of bad and worse choices, it was the only one. They can't have security details the rest of their lives. You're going to give them to all the United States attorneys too? What about Supreme Court justices? Forever for the rest of their lives? Everybody's going to have a security detail.

It's going to cost us $20-30 billion to secure the whole known universe of bureaucrats. Speaking of which, on the security front, I'm going to give a little shout out to the advanced team and the people on the Trump transition team who managed to pull this off. Having personal experience with doing this, what we would call OTRs, off-the-record movements like last-minute changes to the schedule, I can't believe how they pulled this off. There's a story in The Daily Caller, Henry Rogers, good guy, good reporter out there, talks about how they basically took about three or four days to transform the inauguration from an outdoor to this indoor event in a rotunda,

and how a group of young Trump staffers executed his inaugural vision. It's a good piece to read, but ladies and gentlemen, when you're doing an advance like the inauguration to put you behind the scenes, and you're an agent working with a White House staffer or a transition team staffer, in the case of the Trump transition team. The inauguration is, I kid you not, a four to six month minimum endeavor.

It is a massive enterprise. Credentialing, airspace, tactical mitigation, a medical plan, weather issues, motorcades, counter sniper, counter surveillance. It is an enormous plan. To move that thing last minute indoors, which sounds easier, with three days. Can you imagine all the access control issues and all of the credentialing that had to be changed?

It is a nightmare. So pat on the back to the Secret Service guys, you know, Matt McCool in the Washington Field Office and the advance guys from the detail who made that happen and the Trump advanced team who made it happen. It's impressive folks. When you do an kind of an off the record movement, nobody knows and you switch it at the last minute, everybody in the world knew we were changing it to inside and they still pulled it off anyway.

A couple more stories I want to get to in the remaining few minutes I have with you. This is important. I need you all to be very careful about this Vladimir Putin clip. It's been making its way around the internet. I would be very cautious about this, extremely cautious. The Russians are known for playing us. They are trying to create the vision here.

Folks, I don't care if they say something that sounds like it's targeted to you and you think it comports with something you wanna hear. They're playing us always, and you should disregard this stuff. But it's making its way around the internet now. Check this out. Putin, yes sir.

If he had been the president, if the victory wasn't stolen from him in 2020. Maybe the Ukrainian crisis that arose in 2022 Appeared I'm just telling you yes The 2020 was absolutely stolen. I believe that I mean, it's hard to prove it counterfactual. However, we've talked about this extensively, but there's no question this guy is using buzzwords to try to get your attention

because he knows he's in trouble right now. Just be careful here and be cautious. Don't let these people play you with this nonsense, and I know you won't. All right, we got an update, folks. Show it up on the screen. Remember our, I know the white doesn't show well on camera. Is that, list.

List of media hoaxes. We have first, of course, Elon is a Nazi. Remember with the, Elon came out to basically say hello and thank people, they called him a Nazi. We have an update, throw it up on the screen if you would guys, gonna do this live. Bill Mollugian, Chicago public schools falsely claim they blocked ICE officers from entering a school.

The narrative took off, turns out it wasn't ICE, it was Secret Service agents investigating a threat. So number two, writing this down, Chicago ICE raids in schools. So we are a week plus into the Trump team. And ladies and gentlemen, we've got an update to the Trump team. And ladies and gentlemen, we've got an update to the board already. This is not good and I'm gonna tell you why.

Because we were gonna try to keep all the hoaxes to one whiteboard, but we are only a week plus in. And Justin says you're gonna have to start writing a whole lot smaller, but then you can't see it on the camera. So we're not erasing anything. We may have to go with multiple boards. But hoax two, and it's only been a couple of days.

We will keep track. That is gonna be the formal list going forward. In the new studio? That's a good idea. Can we, you know what? We'll get like a whiteboard chalkboard. That's a good idea. I love that idea.

Remember Glenn Beck? He said that's a cool idea. I like that. Good idea, Justin. No studio open at Zoom, by the way. You guys wanna come for a live show? How do you feel about that? We got a little mini golf thing on the side

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