The Dan Bongino Show - Trump Lights Up The Fake News Media In Historic 100 Days Interview | Episode 33

Episode Date: April 30, 2025

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Hey, welcome to Vince. Always so good to have you with us. And today we've got a very, very big show for you. We have so many important things to get to, but I have to start with, I just have to start with President Trump absolutely destroying ABC News last night. I was talking about it yesterday, this idea that President Trump sits down with these adversarial reporters and in one sense you think, okay, he's kind of rewarding them with time to spend with him in the Oval Office, these extended interviews.

But on the other hand, I just love the beat downs. I was just talking to the guys, what do we call this episode? What do we call this episode when ABC's Terry Moran has his butt handed to him over and over and over by the President of the United States? One of them was President Trump for his 100 day celebration beats ABC like a rented mule. Maybe that's it. Maybe president Trump for his 100 day celebration checks ABC reporter right through the boards.

I don't know if you've got great title ideas. I'm always taking them. Hello to the chat rumble.com slash Vince. If you're listening to the podcast, you of course can be a part of the chat. Great to have you with us. And holy cow, just a great I I'm loving it. I'm having a great time. This 100 day celebration. If we're going to mark 100 days, we got to do it in style. More of that in just a moment. Thanks as always for being with us. Hey, you gotta know about Jacked Up Fitness. I got the Jacked Up Fitness shirt on today, baby. You know, with the Make America Healthy Again movement

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Then I'm rewarded with with I just and I'm reminded, I just got to be a little more patient. Just wait for the video to come out. Just see what happens. Shall we? Shall we dive into this? Let's do it. Let's break down ABC's breakdown, which ended up being really great. So the president sits down with this guy,

his name's Terry Moran, Moran, which is of course, as last names go, it's an unfortunate last name to have, probably in grade school especially, you know, running around people going, hey, there's Moron. Last night though, he didn't do a lot to assist his family name. President Trump sits down with him in the Oval Office,

and then they have this exchange over MS-13 gangster Kilmar Abrego Garcia who is in El Salvador. He wasn't a member of a gang and then they looked and on his knuckles he had MS-13. There's a dispute over that. Wait a minute, wait a minute. He had MS-13 on his knuckles. He did, he had some tattoos that are interpreted that way but let's move on. Wait a minute. Hey had MS-13 on his knuckles tattoo. He had some tattoos that are interpreted that way. But let's move on. Wait a minute. Hey, Terry, Terry, Terry. He did not have the letter MS-13. It says MS-13.

That was Photoshopped. So let me do it. That was Photoshopped. Terry, you can't do that. Hey, they're giving you the big break of a lifetime. You know, you're doing the interview. I picked you because frankly, I never heard of you, but that's okay. I picked you, Terry, but you're not being very nice he had MS-13 tattoo agree to disagree I want to move on to something Terry do you want me to show you the picture I saw the picture well and you think it was Photoshop well here we go here we go Photoshop but go look at his hand he had MS-13 he did have

tattoos that can be interpreted that way I'm not not an expert on them. Oh, wow. That was quite a walk back. All of a sudden, now he's not an expert. He started with, hey, it's Photoshopped. And it ended up with, oh, I'm not an expert on this. Oh my gosh, I can't get enough of this clip. There's a million little things to break down about it. One of them is President Trump straight up saying,

hey, look, fella, this is the big break of your career. You're blowing it here. This is your big opportunity and you're blowing the whole thing. And frankly, I picked you because I didn't even know who you were. In other words, I wanted to give this kid a chance, this cub reporter, a real opportunity,

a big chance to join the big time. And here you are blowing it, man. This is your big opportunity. Shoot, you screwed it up. I had so much hope for you. I was really trying to give you a chance here. Damn it, you screwed it up, Terry Moran. Hilarious. And then, and then this MS 13 dispute, this, so the president shared a shared a photo the other day of the tattoo. And I asked Secretary

Kristi Noem about this. I said, where did that image come from? How did, you know, how the president get that, that image? and did it come from your people? And she was explaining, yeah, the government takes photos of these guys and the president shared an image of the picture. I wanna show it to you here just to remind people what this thing looks like. Look at this.

So this is the tattoo that's in dispute here in this clip. That's the tattoo. And it says MS-13 on it in the form of the tattoos, the symbols there marijuana, smiley face across its extended looks like a one and this skull that looks like a three. And so it's got labels above it. MS-13. So the media has turned this into some sort of distorted funhouse mirror scandal that, oh, Trump was trying to mislead you. He said that these letters specifically were on there and this is Photoshopped.

It's a scam. It's not a scam. These are labels. What do you think this portion is right at the top? It says Kilmar, Abrego Garcia, MS 13 tattoo. Where did that come from? Oh, that's a label. That's a label that they would have fixed to the top of the image to tell you

what we're looking at here. And so this is a ridiculous thing. And the president totally correct. Yeah, look, he's got these tattoos that indicate MS-13 right on his knuckles. And Terry Moran by the end of it says, well, I'm not an expert. I'm not an expert here.

I can't figure out what's going on. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I brought this up. Mercy. Let me bail out of this. Really amazing and totally shameless. And then they continued because this guy, Terry Moran wants to defend Kilmar, Brega Garcia, and all these other gangsters who are being deported. And he's going to the president. What about due process? What about due process for these guys? And the president says, I'll tell you what process we have. The process is we deport them. Take a look.

Cut six. Well, the law requires that every single person who is going to be deported gets a hearing first. Well, I'll have to ask the lawyers about that. All I can say is this. If you're going to have 21 million people and we have to get a lot of them out because they're criminals, we're going to have to act fast. Do you think we can give 21 million trials? Right.

Let's say each trial takes two weeks. Is that what you want us to do? The law is the law, sir. The law is the law. The law doesn't say anything about trials. No, not trials, hearings. These people came in, they're not citizens. They came in illegally. They came into our country

illegally, we have to get them out. There's a legal process for that. I can't, sure, and we follow the legal process. I can't have a trial, a major trial for every person that came in illegally. We have thousands of murderers that

came in. They're gonna murder people. They already have murdered people in our country. Right, so. We have to get them out. They're bad guys. And we have to get them out fast. Really bad guys, but in our country, even bad guys get due process, right?

If people come into our country illegally, there's a different standard. These are illegal. They came in illegally. But they get due process. Well, they get a process where we have to get them out. Yeah, the process is we get rid of them. That's the process that they get due process. Well, they get a process where we have to get them out. Yeah, the process is we get rid of them. That's the process that they're due. So yes, due process is being exercised here. And these guys, there's so much fear mongering.

I told you earlier this week, there's this claim that American citizens, children are being deported. It's a lie. And as you see each successive Democrat and member of the media keep lying about it. Just remember as you're sitting there with family members who may not be as dialed in as you are on this subject, just knock them a little bit and be like, yeah, they're lying

again. They're lying. Why are we even watching this? They're just lying to us here. They're lying. And and Terry Moran also lying. Oh, these guys aren't being afforded due process. The Trump administration has given all of these illegals a window of time to try and file

a rapid appeal if they'd like to, to try and say that there's some reason, some mitigating circumstance that should keep them here in the United States. They've got that. That's at their disposal and they better act quickly if they want to take advantage of it. But right now, the due process is don't let us catch you. Get out of the country right now. If you're here illegally, file on the CBP home map that you're here. If you need help getting out of the country, we can help you with that. But the due process is leave. As the president just said, the process that we're doing right now,

we're getting rid of these people. said, the process that we're doing right now, we're getting rid of these people. That's the process. And Terry Moran, have you noticed how feverishly they're working to protect the rights of illegal alien gangsters and not of the families like Rachel Moran or Lakin Riley or Jocelyn Nungare or any of the victims here or the would be victims of the United States that are being victimized here by these killers? So it's like they don't even, they don't even try. Where's the, where's the, you know, they pay barely any lip service to that subject. I think you heard Terry Moran

say that. Oh yeah, look, oh, I agree. There's some very bad people here. Okay. But why are you mounting this absurd defense of them? Disgusting. Totally disgusting. More for you from this crazy interview. At one point, Terry Moran outright declares that Doge is not sending criminal referrals to the FBI, to the Justice Department. He says, yeah, that's not happening. And the president stops for a moment goes, wait a second, how the hell would you even know that? What are you talking about? Watch this exchange, this amazing, another amazing exchange between President

Trump and Terry Moran. A legal note fraud is a crime. There have been no referrals to the Justice Department at any of these. Well, you don't know that do you? How do you know that? Have there been referrals to the, are there criminal referrals? How would you know that, that there were referrals to the... Why would you know that? That there were no referrals. I think there were referrals. There's been no investigation from the Justice Department.

I'm asking you, sir. You're not asking me. You made a statement. Now I'm asking you. That was a statement that you made. There had been. Have there been? Yes, there have been. So there have been referrals for fraud from the work of the judge. Of course there have been. Take a look at some of these things that took place. Billions of dollars were given to people for no reason whatsoever. Of course there have been.

Isn't that amazing? So this is this is the way the media operates. He invented fake news before your very eyes. He just insisted. He voice of God at it. There's been no criminal referrals whatsoever from Doge to the Justice Department. So, you know, so why not? Why haven't you had any criminal referrals?

You keep saying fraud, where are all the criminal referrals? The president says, how do you even know that? Let me break down what this means just for a moment, because I think the facts really matter here. A criminal referral, anybody can make a criminal referral. Anybody can reach out to the Justice Department and say, hey, I think I've seen a crime committed here.

And so there are non-governmental organizations who will do this, there are private citizens who will do this. Perhaps there are people in our audience who've done that very thing. You reach out to the Justice Department and I say, hey, I think I see some evidence of a crime here. Perhaps you wanna look into it,

but it would be good for the American people. The same is true of federal agencies. Federal agencies can make criminal referrals. They detect something that they think is criminal. They hand it off to the Justice Department so they can render a judgment on that subject. That's a criminal referral. That's all that is. It's a tip from these various agencies to the Justice Department. And so Terry Moran is sitting there going, no federal agency has tipped off the Justice Department to fraud that's going on. No, none of them have sent these tips in. The president rightly asked, well, how would you even be in a position to know that? That's a, that's quite a statement. Not a single federal agency has sent a tip about fraud to the

Justice Department. And also it's belied by the fact that we already have heard from the attorney general that she is taking heard from the attorney general that she is taking tips from these agencies. So not only is Terry Moran talking out of his ass, he doesn't have, he's not even reflecting on the actual record on this subject. Pam Bondi announced during a cabinet meeting last month that they have stood up a taskforce specifically to work inside of the agencies to take these criminal referrals every day of the week. Take a look, cut nine. Here's Pam Bondi at a cabinet meeting just last month.

As far as the, we are hearing a lot about fraud, waste and abuse, a lot of waste and abuse, but there is a tremendous amount of fraud. And Elon, thank you for your partnership. Thank you for your team. You have uncovered so much fraud in our government and for your partnership thank you for your team you have uncovered so much fraud in our government and we will prosecute you we have an internal task force now working with every agency sitting here at this table and if you've committed fraud we're coming after you thank you Elon for that there you go on the violent crime level thanks to president trump's directive we are seeking to that's the key element there, that she says, look, Elon Musk has been providing us all this evidence that doge, of fraud,

and as a result, the Justice Department is looking at it. Now, what would that be? What would that be exactly? That, it's a criminal referral. It's a criminal referral. So Terry Moran, not only is just making it up, he's outright lying about the public record. And she says, not only do we have all this evidence, all these, all these tips that are

coming into us from Doge, we've set up a task force to work directly with the agencies to ingest all this information. So again, just making it up. And I'm telling you right now, if just as someone I have interviewed the president of the United States, and I will tell you the preparation for those interviews goes beyond preparation that I do for any other interview. And it's for one very obvious reason. You are talking to someone and the stakes are very high.

You want to create news out of it. You want to find out interesting information. You want to be able to carry that information forward to the American people. It's such an important thing to do and it's such a privilege to be able to do it. And so you sincerely prepare for it. You make sure that you're not delivering mistakes in the form of your questions. That you don't screw up known information. That you don't step on a rake and hit yourself directly in the face with

it. And Terry Moran was stomping on rakes in this interview. And the president had to keep calling him out. You have no idea what you're talking about. You silly reporter. I've never even heard of you. I'm giving you a massive break and all you're doing is screwing it up. All you're doing is screwing it up. There's been no criminal referrals. The attorney general just a month ago said they're overflowing with criminal referrals right now. Amazing, amazing. Now let's go to cut seven here.

The president of the United States was asked whether or not he has 100% confidence in Pete Hegsett. Do you have, now, let's just think about the structure of this question. This is the way the media actually prepares for these interviews. They prepare these questions that are designed to force President Trump into an uncomfortable position

no matter the way he answers it. And the president's got this unique ability to navigate straight out of these uncomfortable questions, these impossible questions, with ease. Take a watch here. It's all about Pete Hegseth, the question. A very good defense, hopefully a great defense secretary, but it would be a very good defense secretary. You have 100% confidence in Pete Hegseth. I don't have 100% confidence in anything, okay? Anything, do I have 100%?

It's a stupid question. Look, it's a pretty important position. No, no, no. You don't have 100%. Only a liar would say I have 100% confidence. I don't have 100% confidence that we're gonna finish this interview. Ha ha ha!

Only a liar, only a stupid person would say you have 100% confidence in anything. I don't have 100% confidence we're going to end this interview. We're going to finish this interview. Hilarious. I love that so much. There's an old adage in journalism. If your mother says she loves you, check it out. It's like, you know, doubt everything.

Be skeptical of everything. In other words, like if you're, if you're Terry Moran, the job calls on you to kick the tires on everything. Does Terry Moran have a hundred percent confidence in everything? Well, yeah, anything that comes out of the mouths of Democrats, he's got a hundred percent confidence in. That's why he's confused by Trump's answer. Well, what was possible here?

And the president saying, no, I don't have a hundred percent confidence in anything. I don't have a hundred percent confidence that we're going to get to the end of this interview, just to be clear, which is funny. I'm telling you this morning, I was watching all these clips. I'm laughing out loud in my kitchen. I'm drinking my blackout coffee and I'm just cracking up. I'm practically spitting it out watching these clips of Trump talking to Terry Moran. Unbelievable. Unbelievable how that all went down. I can't believe ABC screwed this up this badly. Let's see.

We also have this question. President Trump asked by Terry Moran, ABC, whether America is respected again, whether like basically what's happening to America standing in the world, cut 10, take a look, another great exchange to close out the United States. The reputation of the United States has gone down under your presidency. No, I think it's gone way up and I think we're a respected country again.

We were left at all over the world. We had a president that couldn't walk up a flight of stairs couldn't walk down a flight of stairs couldn't walk across the stage without falling we had a president that was grossly incompetent you know it I know it and everybody knew it but you guys didn't want to write it because you're fake news all right thank you by the way ABC is one of the worst I have to be honest with you thank you ABC is one of the worst. I have to be honest with you.

Okay. Thank you. The president says, yeah, nobody, you didn't want to report it because you guys are fake news. And he goes, all right, thank you. That's the response. You just got accused of your entire career being fraudulent and your response is, okay, thank you.

And he goes, by the way, just to be super clear about what I'm talking about, ABC News, you in particular are among the worst. All right, thank you, he says. Thank you, sir, may I have another, is the response from Terry Moran. Really fantastic stuff. So there you go.

So President Trump, every time he's about to do one of these interviews, I think, why is he doing that? Why is he sitting with ABC? And then every time they conclude, I'm like, I'm really glad he sat with ABC. That was, that was fantastic. Really, really good stuff. The president had some rallies yesterday in Michigan. Loved that. We'll get to that coming up. We've also got, we've got some economic data today. The media going wild for it because they think it's bad news for President Trump. I'm here to tell you, we've looked through the data already this morning, the top economists on the planet staring at it. I'm talking to our in-house economist, E.J. Antony.

This economic data is a very good sign of how these first hundred days are already going. I'm going to get into it. It's all ahead on Vince, of course, and of course, your many amazing comments, poor man. is a very good sign of how these first 100 days are already going. I'm going to get into it. It's all ahead on Vince, of course, and of course, your many amazing comments pouring in on rumble.com slash Vince. Thank you for that. Before we get to that stuff, though, I want to thank the sponsors because without them, we can't do this. And so I'm very grateful to Patriot Mobile, Patriot Mobile. You know, while we may have won that 2024 election, the fight to restore our great nation, you know this, it's only just beginning.

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and defend freedom with every call and text that you make. Visit patriotmobile.com slash Vince or call 972 Patriot. 972 Patriot. Okay. How do we feel chat? Let me ask. This is the core question. I'll put this to the live chat. Do we want president Trump to do more adversarial interviews or have we had enough interviews with places like ABC? So more or no more? That's what I want to know. More interviews or no more interviews with the left wing adversarial press that's constantly

attacking Trump? Oh, hell yes. Oh, people want more. More. Okay well let's see. So the results are coming in. The results of the most important straw poll in the country coming in. It is, I think the mores might have it. I do seem to see some enoughs and some no's. In classic Vince show fashion, we have an overwhelming array of responses

that move so quickly that you have to have incredible vision and perception to be able to detect the answer here. But seeing as I have that, I have incredible vision and perception, I'm seeing overwhelming mores. So I think the president is gonna do that. So thank you to the live chat for this.

Yeah, I look, I, again, I just am thrilled by it every time it happens. So yeah, if I'm being honest, which I am, I'm always honest, sure, just keep doing them. That's fine. But in the meantime, I hope the president comes back to this audience too. I wanna talk to the president again.

We always have a good chat with him and I know he should come back here. So thank you very much, everybody. Thank you to the president again. We always have a good chat with him and I know he should come back here. So thank you very much everybody. Thank you to the president for that. Okay, let's talk about what the president is doing. He had a Michigan rally yesterday, last night to mark 100 days. And there were some funny moments.

There was one moment where there was a woman who was disrupting the rally and the president sees this woman who apparently is very unfortunate looking. And he thinks that she's a man, actually. He becomes convinced that she's a man and then realizes halfway through, oh, that's a woman who's causing all this chaos.

Cut 11, here's President Trump at that Michigan rally last night. What's the problem over there? What's the problem? Is that a radical left lunatic? He's just a child. All right, get him out. Yeah.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry, ma'am. I thought it was a guy. Thank you. I thought it was a guy. Thank you. And she now has to go home to a mother who's a big Trump fan. Her mother's watching. I'm sorry.

I thought I thought that was a guy. It turns out it's an unfortunate looking woman who's causing all that chaos and now she has to go home to her mother who's a Trump fan. Really funny. Love the interactions. Yeah, that's the really the first big rally the president has had as president of the United States out the country, 100 days in, a chance to get back to the good old days, talking to a bunch of Trump supporters right there in Michigan.

Very cool. Also, President Trump was laughing off the impeachment announcement that was made yesterday by that ridiculous Indian American congressman, Sri Tandar, which that guy came out, you remember earlier this week, and says, is it time to impeach President Trump? Well, President Trump said, is that guy a real congressman? He laughed at this. Here he is, Cut 12, responding.

He said, ladies and gentlemen, I am going to start the impeachment of Donald Trump. What the hell did I do? Here we go again. They want to impeach me. This lunatic. This lunatic. This lunatic used up. Actually, I had the television way down,

and I said to our great First Lady, listen, did I just hear I was being impeached again? We're getting good at this, though. No, they've gone totally crazy. These people, and you know what? They've totally lost their confidence too. They can't even tell a lunatic like this dumb guy that said it. And then you have the other one that's always with the cane.

He's always impeaching it. Outrageous. He raises his cane. He always impeaches. But they have no control over those people. They have no control. And the reason is they've lost their confidence. Yeah, no, they have no control over the lunatics in their own party.

The president pointing out as Congressman Shri Tenedar announced yesterday, it's time to impeach Trump. It's time to impeach Trump. Of course, he's got a he's got a real problem on his hands. Apparently, Democrats are looking to unseat him. So he's trying to come up with theatrical ways to stay in office, including I've got to impeach Trump. Okay, great. And it's hilarious. The reason he wants to impeach Trump is Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the MS-13 gangster, because he desperately wants him back in the

country. That's how crazy these people are getting. Absolutely crazy. And on this MS-13 thing, let me tell you something. Every passing passing day we get more bad news for Kilmar, more news that declares outright that he should not be back in our country. Have you seen what the New York Post is reporting today on this subject? Jenny Tarr, a great New York Post reporter, she used to work with me at the Daily Caller.

Here's what she's saying. The New York Post has obtained court documents. She just reported this. Obtain court documents from 2018 showing that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was accused of gang membership by his wife's ex, follow along here, his wife's ex who is the father of two of her children. So Kilmar's wife has a baby daddy, father of two of her kids. And his name is Edwin Trejo Ramos. And in 2018, he filed an emergency petition

to the circuit court in Prince George's County, Maryland, declaring that she is dating, his ex, is dating a gang member. And she was seeking an emergency, he was seeking an emergency court hearing for the custody of his two children to keep them away from the gang member. Right here, you see his name at the top of this document,

Edwin Trejo Ramos versus the defendants. Jennifer is her first name, Vasquez Sora. And here it says the child or children are in serious danger at this time because she tried to kill herself and she left the kids with an 11 year old to take care of them. And I'm afraid of my kids lives are in danger

because she is dating a gang member Look at this document So in addition, what what is the evidence against this guy? Well the nature of the where they picked him up He's standing with ms-13 gangsters. He's wearing ms-13 paraphernalia. He has ms-13 tattoos all over his knuckles There's evidence filed by his wife that he's an abusive husband. He's been beating her. She feared for her life and limb in that household. And now we have this additional, and of course the government, the government rendered the judgment over and over and over again that this guy's MS-13. And now we have a brand new document,

at least for the public, that was filed in 2018 by a man who was very concerned about the well-being of his children, saying that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is, quote, a gang member. This is right here in these documents obtained by the New York Post, Jenny Terrigred reporter. So again, Terry Moran asking earlier, what about due process? How much more due process do you need? How much more sworn evidence do you need? This is an affidavit being filed to a court. This is sworn testimony under penalty of perjury. Let me just accentuate that detail.

Look at the bottom of this. I hereby swear and affirm under the penalties of perjury and upon personal knowledge that the facts in the matter set forth in the foregoing motion attached are true and correct under penalty of perjury. So these are these pages are once again, yes, the chat is saying it right. Receipts, these are the receipts of this guy being an MS-13 gangster. You sure you want to keep doing this, Chris Van Hollen? You sure you want to keep doing this? You lunatic Democrats? And these Democrats, they're doing it for a combo of reasons. One of them has to be that they just hate you. They just, they're, they're

just against, against Americans. Let's just bring back illegal aliens who do so much damage to the country here. It is so abundantly clear what's going on. The other piece of this is that these guys wanted a luxury vacation. Chris Van Hollen, these four Democrat congressmen who went down to El Salvador. Remember what happened to El Salvador. That's a country that was the most dangerous country on the planet and has now become the safest country in the Western hemisphere has now become the safest country in the Western hemisphere. Thanks to president Bukele and law and order. It's as simple as

that. And so El Salvador is a beautiful country. You know, it's a beautiful country. It's a tropical country. It's the kind of place if it's safe that you want to visit. And sure enough, these Democrats at your expense had a luxury vacation in El Salvador. And speaking of receipts, I have those in just a moment. We'll get to the receipts on that story because that's a big one. Talk about a scandal.

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Fast growing trees. Hey, let's see here. No, it's not a bottle of fatty 15 on the table behind me. E Griff 130. That is a, uh, that's a bottle of Booker's bourbon. Good old Booker's today. I've been, yes. And for those eagle-eyed bourbon junkies among you, yes, I've been rotating the bottles each day. I try to anyway. I know at some point I'm going to get caught leaving the same bottle there or I'll just run out of bottles and we'll get duplicates when I start recycling them back through. But working my way through, I got the bookers today. Hey, let me see here. I've got, like I said, I've got the receipts for these lunatic congressmen who have been

vacationing in El Salvador. Here you go. You're ready for this? These guys have been living in the lap of five star luxury in El Salvador. That's where this is. Take a look at this. Here you go. Receipts, exclusive reporting from the Daily Caller just out. Democrats enjoyed luxury resorts comforts while protesting deportation of an alleged MS-13 gangbanger. Yeah, four house Democrats who raced to El Salvador to stand up for a deported illegal with alleged criminal ties stayed in a luxury hotel with panoramic views of the country's greenery.

The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. Democrat representatives, Maxwell Frost of Florida Robert Garcia of California Maxine Dexter of Oregon and Yassamine Ansari of Arizona. They all traveled to San Salvador. That's the capital of El Salvador. And the claim was that they were there for their conjugal visits with Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Let us see him. We want margaritas with him.

Just like Chris Van Hollen. They stayed at the Hilton San Salvador. The Hilton San Salvador, this is a luxury five-star resort against the picturesque backdrop of the capital city's volcano. The San Salvador hotel has rooms that include scenic views of the capital city's landscape, The San Salvador Hotel has rooms that include scenic views of the capital city's landscape, and outdoor terrace where guests can enjoy margaritas, we've seen that and dine on local culinary treats. And they have made to order pupusas. I would love a made to order pupusa. The hotel is

described as providing a tranquil retreat for those seeking comfort and convenience. And Google of course rates the property is five stars. Let's take a look at this. Let's take a look at this hotel. What do we got? So there's a one goofy looking Congresswoman that's a Congresswoman Maxine Dexter filming.

She's at the actual hotel filming with tropical scenery all around her. Here's the terrace that she filmed it on. That's the Hilton San Salvador Terrace area, a beautiful place to look to eat a papoosa or have a nice cup of coffee. They enjoyed it there. Again, this is all a taxpayer expense. There's Congressman Robert Garcia. He was warning of a constitutional crisis while he was in El Salvador. He was in a luxury hotel room right there, a five-star hotel, the Hilton and San Salvador. Look at the views you can get in this hotel.

How about that? There's a volcano in the window, beautiful tropical scenery. That's amazing. And not the kind of thing you and I should be wasting money on for congressmen. There's the child congressman, that's Congressmanman Maxwell Frost, and he posted

Instagram reels from the Hilton San Salvador. There he is standing in the courtyard. He's got tropical scenery behind him. Look at that. That's where he was. This beautiful little venue which can be converted. Would you like to have your wedding in a five-star hotel in El Salvador? That's what it could look like. That's the backdrop. That's where Maxwell Frost was hanging out. Here he is doing a news conference at the luxury location alongside the other three congressmen who've been stealing from you.

And so yeah, there you go. So this is a, these are the guys, they stole your money for a luxury vacation. And then they pretended there was a business purpose here. Oh, we have to free Kilmar. What? That's what you were up to? Can you imagine if you took money from your business, if you expensed something that you really knew you shouldn't

and then you told your boss, your boss was like, hey, what was that about? You're like, oh, I had to go on this trip because I was advocating for the release of an MS-13 terrorist. What would happen? What would happen in that environment? Well, in a functioning business, you'd be fired.

You'd be fired, perhaps you'd be referred to the, to the government for some sort of criminal referral for trying to aid and abet terrorists. Yeah, the Hilton San Salvador. What a beautiful place. Looks like they've got some good rates right now. But my guess is it's not for the volcano view if you're going there. But even so, you know, that's a lot of money. A lot of money to cough up. You stay there four nights it's a thousand bucks uh they say 250 a night at the Hilton San Salvador um you know Justin just said I'm not paying 250 a night for a hotel room and I respect you for that Justin but I I hate to tell you you already did you already paid for this you already

paid for this hotel room this is yeah um because uh these guys stole it from Justin and from the rest of us. They stole our money to stay at a $250. That's the best available, right? $250 a night to stay at the Hilton San Salvador. So yeah, that's the update there. I wanted to make sure you know how these guys are earning through your cash and stealing from you. Any pretext whatsoever to steal from you, they're going to jump all over it. Okay. So we have those idiots doing that. And then, and then I want to go back to the president's remarks in Michigan because he

was there and he brought up something really important. I know a lot of you have been asking, what's the progress on the big, beautiful bill? On that big, beautiful bill. And the president offered an update on that subject last night. And I wanna get into it here. And I promise in the days and weeks ahead, we're gonna talk about this a lot more.

But let me just start with the president here for you. Here we go. Here's the president of the United States last night talking about that big, beautiful bill. In the coming weeks and months, we will pass the largest tax cuts in American history, and that will include no tax on tips, no tax on social security, no tax on overtime.

It's called the one big, beautiful bill, and it will be the biggest bill ever passed in our country's history. It will include the biggest tax cuts, regulation cuts, military supremacy and just about everything else. We will cut more than one trillion dollars in wasteful and unnecessary spending. And in the next fiscal year, it'll all be done. We're going to have something that you won't even believe. We will end inflation slash prices. We've already ended inflation, raise wages and give you the greatest economy in the history of the world.

That's already happening with our tax bill. The average families take home pay will be at least $5,000 more than it was just a couple of months ago. All right. So the president is saying, Hey, this big, beautiful bill's being worked on right now. Who did I see? Oh, Coogan Jr. in the chat called it the hot, sexy, beautiful bill, so beautiful, so sexy.

Which I think is great. The president should add that to the rotation. And so he's promising, you look, this thing's on the way and this is a massive deal. This is a massive deal because if it doesn't get done, what Democrats have in store for you and for me and for the whole country is a massive tax increase. Democrats want to raise your taxes dramatically, dramatically. So the president's tax reform is tax cuts dating back to December of 2017.

That's when it was finally signed into law. That has led to a massive tax cuts and it led to an explosion in the economy. The economy skyrocketed after the tax reform. In fact, the government took in more revenue in 2018 than it had the year prior with tax cuts in place. Now the left will tell you this is a statistical impossibility because they're lying to you.

And the reality is as an effect of the tax reform with all these tax cuts, people were able to use their money. The economy was supercharged. There was much more productivity going on. GDP skyrocketed and the government took in more tax revenue as a result of all of that activity. It's a simple economic principle. You've heard it before, it's been described

as the Laffer curve, popularized by a guy called Art Laffer who drew on a napkin a really basic formula, which is, I don't have a napkin around me, I was gonna show you, which is essentially that, okay, here you go, I'll show you. Essentially, let's do a little sketch here. So we get taxes. I'm writing it down, taxes and revenues.

That's the thing you're looking for, right? And when taxes are at 100%, I'm writing all this down, then I'm gonna show you. You get zero revenues. And when taxes are at 0%, you get zero revenues. And the reason for that, here you go, ready? Let's see if I can show you this. That's the Laffer curve.

I know that's really, that's a poorly delivered Laffer curve, taxes and revenues. But when taxes are at 100%, there's no revenues because there's no productivity. Nobody's gonna make a product and then sell it in the United States if they're being taxed at 100%. That's insanity. Why would you do any work if you get to keep none of your income? And then if taxes are at zero, the government gets no revenues. So in other words, there's a sweet spot. There's a sweet

spot. There's a spot where you can tax people and get maximum productivity. That's the Laffer Curve. Yes, I am an artist. Thank you. That's what that is. And so here you have the president saying, I've got to sustain these tax cuts. I've got to sustain these tax cuts because I need productivity to skyrocket in the United States, and not just sustain the tax cuts, I have to add tax cuts. I have to add them. And so what kind of tax cuts does he wanna do? No tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on social security.

By the way, for those of you who've been watching the president closely, remember during the campaign, he said no federal income taxes at all. Remember that? That was something that he talked about, floated it out there. I hope he goes back to that.

He was, his view was, we don't, we shouldn't even have an internal revenue service. It should just be an external revenue service. Let's go back to the 1800s where we're taking in and the early 1900s, where we're taking in money via tariffs and external fees, not taxing American citizens here in the United States. So yeah, Obellos has it right, no tax at all,

let the tariffs fly. Exactly right. So I just, just reminding people of the external revenue service, dog gear that, you know, keep that in mind, because that would be a big deal. But the president now working on this big, beautiful bill. So what's the progress here? What's actually happening? Well, let's start with some of the basics. The House is working on it. The House is working on it. Steve Scalise out with this statement yesterday indicating that something is being done here. Take a listen. The budget reconciliation process formally starts today with the reconciliation bill. Seven committees go to work this week. Next week, another four committees will continue

doing that important work. And this has been about a year in the making. This is not something that happened overnight. All of our committees have been meeting both individually. We've been meeting with the president for about a year to get to this moment and start delivering on those things that we all ran on. These are not just campaign promises that Donald Trump talked about on a campaign trail. This is also something that House Republicans said we would do.

We said we would prevent a massive tax increase on American families. If Congress takes no action, there would be a four and a half trillion dollar tax hike on Yeah, four and a half trillion dollar tax hike is in route unless these guys can get control of it. Okay, which they have to do and with haste, I'm telling you they've got to do this fast. And here's why I'm telling you they have to do it fast. I want to take you back in time.

Remember when Trump's tax reform was passed originally, it didn't get passed and signed into law until the end of 2017. Republicans controlled both houses in 2017. Going into 2018, they controlled the House and the Senate. And so the president was able to get something through, but Republicans dragged their feet before they finally got that tax reform passed. By the time it did get passed, the effects that could be felt in the economy were slow to be delivered. It would be delivered later in the year 2018.

And yes, we did see revenues increase. It was good to have that, but we didn't have certainty about tax reforms in place. So businesses couldn't make business decisions on the basis of something that wasn't yet passed into law. And so the effects of it were delayed in other words. And so by the 2018 midterms, does anybody remember what happened to the control of the United States House of Representatives?

Republicans lost it. Republicans by 2018 midterms, they lost control of the house. So right now we are in a situation where Republicans, if they move quickly, they can make sure the American people feel the long lasting ramifications and effects of actually delivering the Trump agenda, the agenda you voted for to them with haste.

And businesses can have certainty about what the world looks like going forward so they can make capital investments right here in the United States. It's a very simple thing. And so the slower they go, the crappier it is for the rest of us. So they have to move. Now, I'm not going to sugarcoat this. They're moving a little slow. You heard Steve Scalise a moment ago say they're working. Okay, you're working. But what else is happening?

Well, our friend Sean Farish noted this yesterday. He spotted this thing from Speaker Mike Johnson. Take a look at this. Sean Farish saying, Mike Johnson now says they don't plan on having the big, beautiful bill until July 4th. Remember, this was supposed to be Memorial Day, a full month earlier. Now it's been kicked, beautiful bill until July 4th. Remember, this was supposed to be Memorial Day a full month earlier. Now it's been kicked back a month, July 4th. Congress is made up of some of the least productive people on the planet, says Sean Farish.

Not wrong. Take a look. Here's Speaker Johnson. A few weeks is going to be critical. We're working on the big, beautiful bill, the reconciliation bill. A lot of work's gone into this already. You know, we've been working on it for over a year, and now is game time.

It's the big developments are becoming together. We're excited about that. I think it's gonna be a great piece of legislation. It's gonna solve a lot of problems. It's gonna be turbo fuel, a turbo boost for the economy, and we're looking forward to getting that done. Florida, come in. Yeah, all right, so there you go.

So we're now gonna do it by July. Well, as of yesterday morning, it was supposed to be Memorial Day. Now it's, well, bo're, we're now going to do it by July. Well, as of yesterday morning, it was supposed to be Memorial day. Now it's a, well, we're going right to July. Now it'll be July 4th, Independence Day, uh, before we see any action on this. Uh, and so, um, here's a, here's a today's homework, I think here's today's effort to help our country become great. Browbeat your lawmaker. Call them, just tell him you need to move faster than that. It can't be Independence Day. I'm supposed to be celebrating by Independence Day. I'm not supposed to be sweating whether or not the government's actually going to deliver what I voted for.

Get it done. Get it done. Get the president's agenda passed. Get that big beautiful bill through and give the American economy the super fuel it needs in order to thrive. Because look, I'm just helping you out Republicans. That's all I'm doing. I'm giving, I'm, I'm, it's, it obviously, I'm, I wanted this for the country. I want this for all the American people, but I'm telling you right now, if you want to make a case in the in the two thousand and twenty six midterms that you deserve to hold power still, you want to make a good case to the American people, well, deliver to them, deliver to them and

do it quickly. Do you know how much it's going to mean to seniors across the country if they no longer have to pay taxes on Social Security? Do you know how much it's going to mean to service workers if they don't have to pay taxes on the tips that they're earning their tipped wages? Do you know what is going to mean for Americans who are busting their tail and working overtime that that overtime is no longer taxed? It's going to mean incredible things for the bottom lines of American families. And when they look at their paychecks and they see, Hey, I'm getting more money now. They're going to directly give you credit for having worked for them. It's as straightforward as that.

So do it, deliver and do it with haste. So that way that message has time to really set in and you get that credit in the form of American applause, in the form of American votes. It's as straightforward as that. Do it now. So when you see these members of Congress, when you see these lawmakers, when you talk to them, ask them, hey, what's the delay here? And the last thing I'll say about a delay in Congress that always that you know, you can, you can smell it, can't you? I can smell it too. The longer it takes something to do like this, like a big bill like this, the more corruption is going on.

You know that the delay is about the kind of haggling that won't in the end benefit you, but instead take advantage of you. So the longer this thing stretches out, the more time it allows people to tactically meddle with it out of your site. Enough of that. We've seen enough of that. No more, no more. Get this thing passed and do it quickly. And so the president can sign it

and that we can all celebrate Independence Day together. That's what I want. I don't wanna be sweating on Independence Day at all. Okay, economic data, real quick for you. I wanna share with you. We've got a new report this morning. Let me see if I can pull up just some random, you know, GDP survey today that talks about this.

Here we go. Here's an example. This is the New York Times today. It's a perfect example. New York Times goes, U.S. economy shrank in the first quarter in reading clouded by messy trade data. U.S. economy shrank in Q1. Cloudy and messy trade data. U.S. economy shrank in Q1, cloudy and messy trade data.

This is where it is going to be really important for us to tell you the truth, of course, as always about what's going on. The New York Times says that U.S. gross domestic product adjusted for inflation declined at a 0.3% annual rate in the first three months of the year. The Commerce department said Wednesday, it was on the surface a stunning reversal from the strong growth at the end of last year when the economy expanded at a 2.4% rate. Okay. So they're saying, look, the implication here is like under Biden, that final quarter was

like amazing. There was so much, there was so much good stuff going on. And under Trump now in this first quarter, to the extent that he's responsible for it, so it's like after January 20th, things went down. So Trump bad, Biden good. That's the vibe that New York Times is projecting here. Let me tell you what they're not telling you. What they're not telling you about this data

that's really important to know. E.J. Antony, our in-house economist, has already jumped into this this morning and has pointed out something really, really important. Yes, you saw a decline in GDP, but you understand how GDP is measured? If your imports dramatically explode, like they did in the first quarter of this year, that drags

the gross domestic product down. So why are imports exploding earlier this year? They exploded 41.3% for the quarter. It's because all of these companies were trying to get out ahead of President Trump's tariff announcement. So they made a tactical decision to import more product into the United States before the tariffs finally set in. So we saw a rise in imports. And that is the reason, this is very simple.

That is the reason that the GDP number looks like it went down. Now what is actually happening in the United States? That's the core question. And the answer to that is really good. Investment has exploded by nearly 22% this quarter in the United States, that's domestic investment. As EJ points out, despite the headline number, this is a surprisingly good report. Further, EJ Antony has more information on this, saying that

consumer spending has outpaced government purchases in order one by 3.2 percentage points. That is the best single number we've had since 2022, Q2, 2022, which was also the last time that government purchases declined. This is fantastic news, says E.J. Antony. So government purchases are going down.

You remember these jobs reports we've talked about, government hiring is going down, private sector hiring is going up, domestic investment is going up. We've seen somewhere between five to $7 trillion in new commitments while President Trump has been in office. Consumer spending doing well, government purchases going down.

This data is speaking really well of the Trump economic agenda. Really really well. What we want is domestic investment. It makes sense that companies who are relying on imports would rush to bring a bunch in and queue on. But what happens now? Well, we get on track to fixing all of this. And President Trump's tariffs are paying off. I'll continue to deliver more

information to you on this because I'm running up against the clock here, but just give you a sense of how well things are working at the moment. Trump's tariffs have already resulted in China's factory operations dropping to two-year lows. CNBC just had this report. China's factory operations activity has now dropped to a near two-year low in April as trade tariffs bite. In other words, China's manufacturing is now plummeting as President Trump takes it to them in order to restore the American economy. And that's just a piece of it. AstraZeneca, the drug manufacturer, just announced that they're

moving more drug production to the United States as a result of all of this, as President Trump is fighting back for us. So we've got good data, good data to close out the show today. A great report for you for the 100 day, now going into 101 days of Trump. And I'm looking forward to the next 100 baby. And also I'm looking forward to more interviews between President Trump and these crazy reporters who think they can get the best of him. It's not working. It's not working. But you are. God bless you. Always good to have you with us here on Vince, the best audience in media. You have a fantastic Wednesday. I'll be back with you tomorrow.