The Dan Bongino Show - Trump’s Most Important Fight To Date (Ep. 2415)

Episode Date: February 4, 2025

President Trump keeps picking fights, the left keeps hating him for it, and he keeps winning. It's a vicious cycle of Ws for the sitting President and the latest: Canada. In this episode, I'll discuss this win over Canada, the wins in the Senate hearings, as well as the upcoming fight that needs to be won. Canada's Justin Trudeau caves to Trump's tariff threat and strikes billion-dollar border agreement Trump Advisers Weigh Plan to Dismantle Education Department More money for schools doesn’t always mean better outcomes for kids Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host Dan Bongino. Folks, folks, I don't know, I can't, I'm having a hard time with all the winning. I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. I've got four hours with you every day. It's not enough time to cover the winning. It's just not.

As the dubs, as Guy calls them, the W's pile up. I don't know what to do. Donald Trump is actually hurting my show with all the winning. He's hurting my show. Because I'm missing out on some winning. Because I don't have enough show with all the winning. He's hurting my show, because I'm missing out on some winning,

because I don't have enough time for all the winning. It's a good problem to have, but I need some winning. He's about to say, did you get some sleep last night? I did. You know why? Took some Beam. Go to shopbeam.com slash Bongino,

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They says it twice right there nmls one eight two three three four nmls consumer access dot org case You missed it the first time all right fellas. Let's go. I don't know what to do Here's my personal message to President Trump do. Here's my personal message to President Trump. Mr. President, I've been there for you from the beginning. And I love you and you need to keep the winning going. Here we go again every day. We still can't break these freaking Rockham Sock. What the hell are these things made of freaking Wolverine like titanium President Trump screaming liberal President Trump we love the winning but it's just ruining my show that's right I can't even keep up with all the winning anymore I don't even know what to do this is just in the last few hours

breaking I told you about Susan Collins that I not ladies and gentlemen Susan Collins is a senator from Maine I am NOT telling you I agree with her on a lot of Breaking, I told you about Susan Collins that I not, ladies and gentlemen, Susan Collins is a Senator from Maine. I am not telling you I agree with her on a lot of these decisions. She's going to be a minus one a lot. She's going to be a plus one if she feels she can get reelected in Maine. She's the best you're going to do in Maine. Our problem is Murkowski.

Murkowski is in a red state. Collins has announced she will be a yes on confirming Tulsi. Excellent. This is a really good move because some other Republicans are giving us a bit of a hard time. She gives us some breathing room. Remember we have 53. If Tulsi gets out of committee, which I think is going to happen, we're now on a glide path there. But folks again, the winning is everywhere. This happened yesterday. This is another one you may not have heard about but it's huge. This is a man I know very well full disclosure again because it's the right thing to do. You know, I'm an investor in rumble

I know many Dan you've told us I know there were new listeners here I'm never gonna tell you anything where there's a potential conflict without disclosing Michael Ellis who was one of our lead attorneys at rumble folks is an amazing guy He was knee-deep in exposing the collusion hoax by gate scandal. This is the CEO of rumble Chris Did you see this winning yesterday? Michael Ellis was appointed deputy director of the CIA CIA under John Ratcliffe the director President Trump announced it yesterday.

Chris wanted to thank him for everything he's done for rumble. A lot of rumble people moving into the administration. So thank you, Michael Ellis. More winning. He wants some more winning. Here's some more winning for you. I'm throwing winning your way in the opening winning segment of the day. Daily Mail. Canada's Justin Trudeau caves the Trump's tariff threat and

strikes a billion dollar border agreement. I love how by the way, I got a text or a tweet this morning from a guy. He says Dan, you know, like be careful. You know, Canada listens to your show too. Well, be careful about what? Did you guys listen to the show? Was I not crystal clear yesterday in the show yesterday? Justin, here He was not he did not perform well at his flesh and blood thing. He did not folks. We are a meritocracy here It's a shame. He went to the tournament. It did not go well everybody Give a little somber note say gee, it'll be okay in the chat. Okay, he'll do better next time, but we are a meritocracy There's only winning here. There's not what did you get 12 places? I'm so such thing There's not that so you're the 11th loser or something? There's no such thing. There's no such thing.

So you're the 11th loser or something. There's no such thing as that. We're harsh here. I lose, I come in the next day. I'm like, we were not the number one live stream. We failed. We failed. But a number of people said, hey, Dan, we like you up here in Canada.

We love you too. I never said anything. Justin, did I not say that yesterday? We love our Canadian lives. This is not a war against Canadian citizens. This is a drug issue. It is also a free trade issue. There's a number of restrictions on American dairy in Canada,

financial institutions, tech, free speech. These are real fights with people in the Canadian government. They're not with the Canadian citizens. We love you guys. However, some people said, this wasn't a W for Donald Trump. No, it was. Donald Trump was very clear. This is about a drug issue across the border. He made it about the South and the North. And what happened? Canada's Trudeau caves to

Trump's tariff threat and strikes billion-dollar border agreement daily mail. Excellent. That's what he wanted. That's what he wanted. Our beef is not with the Canadian citizens, folks. I've said this a thousand times. You've got a liberal government up there that has been really destroying trade relationships and the Canadian economy too. This is for everybody's benefit. You're done with the winning. I'm not done with the winning. And either is President Trump. The judges rule. Let You're done with the winning. I'm not done with the winning. And either is President Trump. The judges ruled.

Let. Judges ruled again. Let the winning continue. Let the winning continue, RFK. Did you miss it? Just happened. If you're listening on demand later in the day, it just happened a little while ago. Senate Finance Committee advances RFK Jr. nomination for HHS Secretary. That's

going to happen now. He's not going to lose a floor vote now. Knock on wood. Don't want to get ahead of myself. But absent something crazy. Looks like we're on a glide path. We could be good with Tulsi. Fingers crossed. Looks like RFK. We're good. Are we done with the winning? Are we done with the winning? We're not done with the winning, folks! Dan, why are you yelling? Because I am in a freaking mood. Folks, every morning I wake up,

you know how long the show takes me to put together now? Seriously, I'm not kidding. You just take two hours, sometimes three. I'd start at three, sometimes I'd end at six. The show takes like 45 minutes now. Because I'm already done with the show by the time I get home because so much freaking winning happens even during the show. During the freaking show. Eric Daughtry tweet 20,000, no 20,000, 2-0-0-0-0. 20,000 federal workers have taken Donald Trump's buyout to resign offer so far court axios ladies and gentlemen

You got to do the flex at the end Bruce Lee stop watch Remember Bruce Lee the flex at the end For those of you wondering what this is he bought me this for Christmas karate man What is this? Gee you here show it for the audience zoom in on that Yu-Gi-Oh karate man. Gotta give Justin some love too. He got me people. So, 20,000 federal workers. Ladies and gentlemen, the winning is just endless these days. The show is almost just like the winning show.

Every morning is like freaking Christmas now, is it not? You know what's crazy about that? What do I always tell you, right, about contrast? Contrast work in politics. When you say X is going to do this, we're Y and we're going to do this. And the contrast is so totally different. Contrast work in your actual life though, your political life, IRL, what they call it in real life too. When you go from a situation we were all in of absolute misery under the Biden tyranny,

to every day for the last two weeks feeling like Christmas, am I crazy chatsters? Yes or no, am I nuts? No, I'm not nuts. Please tell me no, I'm not nuts here. It feels that much better because we were so, it's like we were, here's normal levels of happiness, right? Here's us in the Biden years, right?

So if you were at normal levels of happiness and now we're here in the Trump exceptional levels of happiness, it feels like this amount. But because we were here, it feels like this amount. Do you get what I'm saying? So it feels like the happiness and the elation is that much better. I know I'm not crazy. This has just been an amazing couple of weeks. And I got to tell you, I am really honored to be a part of it on the content creation side

and motivating the Bonjino Army to get big things done. However, there is a really big fight out there. And ladies and gentlemen, if you follow the Twitter traffic, the true social traffic, the social traffic out there, you are probably starting to understand the Democrats are in, I don't know, the words meltdown, a meltdown are probably overused, melting down, meltdown.

The Democrats are absolutely freaking out in a total panic over USAID. And please don't call it USAID. It is not an aid agency. The Democrats call it US aid for a reason. All right, damn, you're picking nits. I'm not picking nits. They call it that because they want you to believe

it's about aid. It is not about aid. It's about deep state pockets of money used to infiltrate governments, NGOs and other places for an anti-American censorship agenda. It's Agency for International Development. You call it USAID. Do not call it USAID.

Don't fall in the trap. Even Rubio did and then caught himself right away. You'll see what I mean coming up. Folks, I can't explain. Listen to me, okay? Let me calm down a second because I'm very excited about today's show USAID is Probably the single greatest slush fund for the deep state you've ever seen

What do I always tell you measure the effectiveness of something you're doing by the level of panic on the left if they they're panicking about something it's for a freaking reason. If the level of panic was one through a hundred right I would gauge the level of the freak out at about a 95 right now. They are losing their minds because their slush fund for censorship, for anti-democratic movement, socialist governments, transgender ideology around the world is going to dry up if Donald Trump does what he's doing with Elon and gets rid of USAID. It is ground zero for the fight against the deep state. Listen to me, very simply stated, soundbites and snapshots, USAID is the deep state slush fund.

You empty it out, the deep state, you'd have to volunteer your services, and none of these people are going to do that. Folks, this is important to me. Seriously for a moment here. I've been fighting this fight for too long. What started with Parler, which believe me, nobody knows the real, I love when people, I can't say this enough, I love when people comment online about it who have no idea what happened there.

What happened there, what started there, what I saw behind the scenes, the left-wing NGOs, the government pressure to stop you from speaking online, what later turned into parallel economy dot com and then turned into investments in rumble and elsewhere, what I have seen behind the scenes, the war against free speech by these deep state NGOs funded by places like USAID. Folks, I could I could fill a book with it. Oh, look, I did. So I wrote books on this.

If you read my I'm not trying to sell you my book. I'm just, period, I'm just saying in advance, get it from the library, I don't care, borrow it from your friend. There are 100,000 plus copies out there. My book, Follow the Money, it's right there behind me. My book, Follow the Money. I want you to please read the chapter

called Insane in Ukraine. The whole book is about following the money trail, NGOs and stuff like that, how it played into collusion and everything else. But the Insane in Ukraine chapter, my book Follow the Money, you wanna see how USAID operations like that work with NGOs and Soros and how it fit into Ukraine,

Ukraine funding, the impeachment hoax, it's all in the chapters, not even that long, it's about 15 pages. Your eyes will be wide open, it'll blow you away. Follow the money, just read that, one chapter, that's all I'm asking, Insane in Ukraine. And you'll see why USAID and these other places, why this has been on my mind for a long time.

Let me get to some video here. The great Mike Benz, who we love, deep state specialist Mike Benz, a PhD level deep state analyst, Benz posted this video online. This is about a minute of a much longer video. I want you to notice if you're listening on audio on Apple and Spotify,

at the bottom is a little watermark of this video and it says USAID right after you see it. What the hell was USAID funding operations like this where the first minute of their video is all about censorship disguised as you guessed it, disinformation. Your tax dollars were funding this. Check this out. Disinformation has invaded online conversations on social media platforms, posing challenges to healthy information environments and threats to democracy.

It bolsters authoritarians, weakens democratic voices and participation, exploits and exacerbates existing social cleavages, and silences opposition. Countering disinformation and promoting information integrity are necessary priorities for ensuring democracy can thrive. The SEP's Countering Disinformation Guide is a resource including nine thematic sections and a comprehensive database of interventions highlighting various approaches for advancing information integrity and strengthening societal resilience to disinformation and other harmful

online campaigns. Thank you for screenshot that. Thank you right there. Countering disinfo. What's on the bottom left for audio listeners? USAID. What the hell are your tax dollars doing financing a censorship operation what have I been telling you as someone who has lived this for now five to six maybe seven years now the censorship

battle if the left doesn't have censorship and USAID to fund it they have nothing you understand the less ideas are so crazy? Let me just give you one tangible example of what I mean. Of the craziness of the left. Think about the COVID crisis, right? When they told you to put a freaking face diaper on your face that was going to stop COVID. Even though every person who wore a mask got COVID, it's like wearing a condom and every time you have sex,

getting someone pregnant and getting an STD the condom doesn't work if you do you I don't know if it's a bad company they're all broken whatever this did not work everyone who wore a mask got COVID yet if you posted like I did on YouTube masks do not stop the transmission of COVID. I was banned, but completely banned from YouTube for saying that. If the left doesn't have censorship, common sense filters through. The left can't exist in an ecosystem of common sense. That's it. So they have to censor it.

They wanted you to put the diaper on your face so they can tell you they were in charge, even though it didn't work and censored anyone. Folks, the golden Bongino rule. Watch your political opponents reaction. When they are freaking out over something that means target, you're over it. Let's go through what I'm talking about. Receipts incoming. You ready?

Here is insane Ilhan Omar, who really seems to dislike this country and the Constitution, all of a sudden freaking out over USAID and claiming it's an affront to the Constitution? The president is at the pinnacle and peak of his power when he is enacting things like foreign policy and as the executive protecting the Constitution against censorship. What the hell is Ilhan Omar talking about? The answer is Ilhan Omar and a lot of other politicians have a very deep vested interest in keeping USAID and the slush fund up and running. Watch this. It is really, really a sad day in America.

We are witnessing a constitutional crisis. We talked about Trump wanting to be a dictator on day one, and here we are. This is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like. When you got the Constitution, and you install yourself as the sole power, that is how dictators are made. What Trump and Elon and all of their cronies are trying to do is take away the constitutional power of Congress.

Always, always, always take it all in. Always measure the effectiveness of what you're doing by your opponent's response. Folks, when they're not saying anything, what we're doing probably has no impact on moral. That's why they're not saying anything, what we're doing probably has no impact on them all. That's why they're not saying anything. They are freaking out for a reason. Do you notice they have two seemingly contradictory positions?

You see Margaret Brennan in that clip I'm going to play coming up in a minute with Congresswoman Brian Maass. Well, what are we worried about? Foreign aid is only 1% of the federal budget. Okay. So then why are you worried about defund aid is only 1% of the federal budget. Okay, if that's so, then why are you worried about defunding USAID? I don't understand.

You're fighting for it like it's the most pivotal thing in our federal government. On the other hand, you're like, yeah, but you shouldn't be worried about it. It's only 1% of federal funding foreign aid. You understand how both arguments don't make sense? It doesn't matter that it's 1% or less of foreign aid. What matters is what they're doing with the damn money

Quick break and I'm going to show you another freak out on the left proving my point Listen to me. This is that's why I titled the show this the single most important fight going on right now Is this fight against USAID? Quick break you've seen the headline, cyber attacks on the grid, drones in the sky, violent attacks on Americans. The ugly truth is no leader, no system can protect you from every emergency.

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Back to the show. I want you to watch January 6 tyrant and all around communist loser Jamie Raskin here. Again going after Elon Musk for sensing that there's a problem with USAID when he got into the payment systems with the Doge and seeing where all the money was going. Watch Raskin freak out. This is because they need censorship that left to exist because their ideas are crazy and this was their slush fund. Watch this. Elon Musk. Elon Musk, you didn't create US aid. The United States Congress did for the American people.

And just like Elon Musk did not create US aid, he doesn't have the power to destroy it. And who's going to stop him? We are. We're going to stop him. Notice how the Democrats call it USAID. I'm not picking nits. They want you to believe because a lot of the liberals, and again, not all Democrats,

I don't want to stigmatize people, but a lot of liberals are just stupid followers. So what do they do? They go, USAID, we're giving a bunch of aid. Aid is a great thing, right? We need, sure, aid could be wonderful. Aid, I don't know, aid. It's not aid. That's not what happened. This is a slush fund for the deep state. USAID. Do not make that mistake. They are doing it for a reason. Do you guys remember this, Jim? I love Senator Rand Paul. I know a lot of you do as well. I'm a conservatarian.

This guy's the best conservatarian with Mike Lee in Congress, in the Senate side of the Congress. Here is an exchange. This is an absolutely critical exchange you guys spread around. This is from a while ago. This is Senator Rand Paul versus Obama deep state hack, Samantha Power. And I want you to watch her start to kind of freak out a little bit when Senator Rand Paul starts asking questions about USAID, slush fund money and the creation of the COVID bio weapon. Watch what she does as she starts to play with the words here and Rand Paul catches her right away.

And maybe you'll start to understand why USAID is the fight right now. Watch this. Ms. Powers, did USAID fund coronavirus research in Wuhan, China? We did not fund gain of function research, as you know. That's not the question. The question is, did you fund coronavirus research in Wuhan, China?

Before my time, there was the Predict program with which you're familiar, which ended in China in 2019. This is a $200 million program, and the GAO has also identified that some of these grants went directly to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where there is a suspicion that the lab leak began that began the pandemic. Has USAID awarded funds to the Academy

of Military Medical Sciences in China? Not to my knowledge, but I'd have to give you... I think the answer is once again yes. GAO has found that there have been sub awards of NIH money, as probably as well as USAID money, that went to the Academy of not just medical research, military medical research in China. That's a double. Folks, serious time, okay? I'm telling you as your friend, I'm not patting myself on the back.

I don't give a shit enough to do that. I have been involved in this fight for a really long time with the COVID thing when I got kicked off YouTube for telling you the truth, parlor with rumble, trying desperately to fight back against this deep state slush fund and everything they were doing to censor people. This is a huge fight.

You name a global problem and I can probably tie it back either directly or by proxy to entities like USAID. They were operating like a little deep state slush fund cartel banking operation. You name something, it's somehow tied back to illicit government funding.

Here's Secretary of State Rubio on this matter. He's clearly going to be at this point a plus one on this. It's all I care about. I want you to notice too in this clip as he talks about USAID and how they're basically more operating on their own, doing their own own thing But notice how he catches himself and he says USAID because he knows what's going on and then he calls it USAID It's not aid watch this this clip and I'm gonna ask the crazy liberals who watch my show because I know you're out there Tell me please what your issue is with his take on this you can't because it's a pretty common-sense take watch this Well, look, I mean my frustration with USAID goes back to my time in Congress, it's a completely unresponsive agency

it's supposed to respond to Policy directives of the State Department and it refuses to do so So the functions of USAID, there are a lot of functions of USAID that are going to continue, that are gonna be part of American foreign policy, but it has to be aligned with American foreign policy. I said very clearly, during my confirmation hearing, that every dollar we spend and every program we fund,

that will be aligned with the national interest of the United States. And USAID has a history of sort of ignoring that and deciding that there's somehow a global charity separate from the national interest to the United States. And, um, USAID has a history of sort of ignoring that and deciding that there's somehow a global charity separate from the national interest. These are taxpayer dollars. For the crazy liberals who listen to my show and I know you're out there, welcome. It's good to have you here. I love telling you to your face, how freaking crazy you are.

Please tell me what you object to. The United States voted. They voted for President Trump in every single swing state. President Trump selected a bunch of cabinet officials to run these enormous government entities who were then confirmed by a Senate you also picked to be Republican. Correct? What did I just say that was wrong? Nothing, thank you. They have said these are our goals this is what you voted for USAID saying double-barreled those are in our goals we don't care what your

goals are go work in the private sector if you want to do your own private goals these are public funds thank you very much there's the door folks Stephen Miller who is deputy chief of staff to the president, was on Laura Ingraham last night. Don't worry, it's not a clippage. But he said exactly what I'm telling you before. For those of you saying, oh my gosh, this is going to lose in court, it may, it may not. You get an activist judge.

I think on appeal, if this were to go to the appeals court or even the Supreme Court, the president's going to win, President Trump. He is at the pinnacle of his power, acting in the foreign policy space. If USAID is doing things with taxpayer money in direct contradiction to President Trump's foreign policy goals, you are going to have zero case in court on this, zero.

If the president can't run the executive branch of the government, then what's the point of a president or a constitution? Let me play this one more for you. Caroline Levitt, who it's only been two weeks, but is knocking it out of the park as the press secretary. Caroline Levitt uses this microphone perfectly here. She gets out in front of the media knowing they're going to be forced to broadcast this and it's going to go all over social media and she says hey listen it's interesting how you guys keep saying oh this DEI

stuff overseas it's not a big deal and then when we point out the examples you don't want to defend any one of them. It's the old Michael Anton well that's not happening but it's great that it is. DEI funding's no big deal. Okay, here's what we're funding. Well, this is excellent. Watch this, check this out. Here's the reason why Elon Musk and others have been taking a look.

Because if you look at the waste and abuse that has run through USAID over the past several years these are some of the insane priorities that that organization has been spending money on. 1.5 million dollars to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces, 70,000 for a production of a DEI musical in Ireland, 47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, 32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru. I don't know about you, but as an American taxpayer, I don't want my dollars going towards this crap, and I know the American people don't either, and that's exactly what Elon Musk has been tasked

by President Trump to do, to get the fraud, waste, and abuse out of our federal government. Thank you guys. They can't defend it. They cannot defend it. I've got a clip coming up. If you listen to my radio show, Congressman Brian Mast from Florida knocked it out of the park yesterday.

He came on to discuss the clip I'm going to play next. I want you to watch Margaret Brennan from CBS get absolutely destroyed again. Well, there's no evidence that we're funding DEI crap overseas, directly contradicting our constitution. There's no, oh well here are the examples. This is transactional Trump. It is still a mystery that lives in the media. They're getting all emotional while Donald Trump sees this as a spreadsheet.

That's no good. Get rid of it. But you were supposed to cry about it. People are gonna lose their jobs. They shouldn't have had those jobs if they wanted to fight the US government and the American citizen and the voters policy goals, period. The media is still getting emotional

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and where the congressional money is allocated. He goes on CBS on the weekend with Margaret Brennan, who just got wrecked by JD Vance last week looking like a buffoon. Here she is making two seemingly contradictory arguments. First she makes the case that well DEI, she's implying that it's so wonderful but there were really no examples of DEI in government. I thought it was wonderful and then when Brian Maest cites a bunch of examples she then says okay well example seemed right, but it's a small percentage of funding. Is it wonderful or not?

Make a coherent argument, media imbeciles. Watch this. Purging of people throughout the State Department, other agencies, where we're freezing aid, these are all very important and necessary steps to make sure that we secure America and we're going to support that. I'm sorry. Can I follow up on what you just said there? You want to authorize purging of State Department personnel?

What does that mean exactly? Well, if you wanna take a look at the State Department where DEI has been a priority over, let's say diplomacy in many accounts, I can give you hundreds of examples of where they were authorized. What proof do you have of that? Sure, let's list them off.

Half a million dollars to expand atheism in Nepal, $50,000 to do, let's see, a transgender opera in Colombia. $47,000 to do an LGBTQ trans comic book in Peru. $20,000 a pop to do drag shows in Ecuador. Shall I continue with more examples of where DEI was the priority? It certainly seems like there could be a review of things. Foreign aid, as you know, is less than 1%

of the entire federal budget. So we're talking small amounts of money by comparison. We're still talking. But. Whoosh. Ha ha ha. I'm too sad. I'm too sad.

I'm too sad. A big decision was just made here. I mean, the mics are muted during these clips. First thing you say is like, dear Margaret, our show's probably bigger than yours when you consider social, live, everything, audio on demand. So let me tell you from someone who actually dominates you guys in the ratings and stuff overall.

Let me give you a little instruction here. Make a coherent argument. Your argument appears to be as a media communist, DEI is great, but DEI is not great. Show me examples of DEI. Okay, here are the examples. Okay, I just told you it was great, but maybe it's not great.

But even though I gave you the examples, it's only a small example. I'm not sure what Margaret Brennan is even arguing. If DEI is such a great thing then defend it if margaret thinks dei is a bad thing then she should be asking brian mass what they're doing to get rid of it margaret brennan is the last two weeks she has humiliated herself she is really genuinely bad at informing herself here's a lesson for you pro tip mark mags here. Mags don't ask a freaking question you don't know the answer to. Do your homework.

Don't be a dumbass because that's what happens. You face plant on TV. Show me examples. Okay now here's the big decision. I'm not making... Anita if you could throw up the dopey media talking head Olympics medal winners, please. I would appreciate it. Pin it to the top so everybody knows. We're not making any changes today. This is a big deal, folks. You know, this is not like a small thing here, okay? However, we're gonna start... If Margaret continues this streak of face planting, she's given us great content by the way, so mags keep it up. If this continues, we will consider her for maybe a runner up, maybe even a bronze spot.

It depends. It's still early in the game. You still got your Joy Reads and your others. But this is a big moment, folks. Even Justin was like, yeah, I don't know. It's two weeks in a row. So Anita has Joy Reed, Joe Scarborough, John Carl, Stelter, honorary mention. John Carl hasn't, you know, guys, I don't know.

John Carl has kind of been quiet. So I'm going to say folks, I mean, folks in the chat, yes, we should strongly consider Mags or no, let it go, leave Carl in the brine. Definitely not taking out Scarborough, not a chance taking out Joy Reid. Joy Reid's been in that position forever, but I don't know about you.

I'm going to let Bot Gino take care of it. Yes, we should consider this. No, John Carl, who we haven't heard from in a while, stays in the three spot. I'm gonna let bot Gino take care of it. Yes, we should consider this no John Karl who we haven't heard from in a while stays in the three spot Michael says it's a new year. He is correct It is a new year, but you guys in the chat the shows for you. So let me know yes consider it No, we don't love while we really fry in this. Yes. Wow, but Gino don't lot. Wow, we really fry in this. Yes Wow, but you know on the kids there a single no in there. All right mags good news for you You are definitely in the running a couple more see she's the weekend one So guys a couple more of these and we're gonna have to slide her right into that spot

She's declared declared eligibility. Just like college like declared for the art and the pros declared for the draft Okay, she's declared for the draft folks. You know, yesterday I brought this up at the beginning of the show. I'm so proud of the fact that you, me and the Bonjino army, we are always ahead of the argument Azure that people need to make. People start making the arguments. I'm not calling out people by name because it doesn't matter. And let's be let's be honest, everybody steals everybody's content in the space.

They just do. Here's someone say something and someone else takes credit. They just do. But one of the great honors of my life is hearing arguments that started on this show filter into, you know, cable news and elsewhere. And one of the things you're starting to hear now is about transactional Trump. Where'd you hear that first? This guy and this show, the guy is a human spreadsheet and people can't take it.

They keep getting emotional. We're crying. We're deporting people. People are being fired. We're crying. Nobody cares. Nobody cares. You don't want to get fired in the government. Don't weaponize the government in your position. You don't want to get deported. Don't come here illegally. Nobody cares about your emotion. We see it as a spreadsheet. It is happening left and right. So when I bring up transactional Trump, people go, prove it. He's not transactional. Okay, I'll prove it to you. Here, put up the Wall Street

Journal thing first. I got to Yasha in a minute here. Wall Street Journal. Trump advisors now You ever see Street Fighter, the game? Oh, are you kidding? Oh, I throw some fireballs. Flexible. I told you, man. I told you. Listen to your boy Dan. You guys I love when you tear up the chat with Karate Man. This show man.

The Department of Education is probably as big of a fight as USAID. Not bigger, but as big as a fight. The Department of Education, let me tell you something I heard a long time ago. So I'm running for office in Maryland, right? It's my first time, I'm running for Senate. I went in the primary, the Republican primary,

which believe me, no one was more surprised than me. I was like, wow, that's crazy. So I'm the Republican nominee for I was, I was like, we were in a primary, like 10 people, and nobody knew who we were. And we just went out there and just destroyed this thing and just knocked on every door we could and we won. But I meet this guy in Prince George's County,

which is a largely democratic stronghold. And he said to me, Dan, the whole education bureaucracy is not about education. And I looked at him and I said, it isn't? And I said, what's it about? He said, it's a jobs program. He said, most of the jobs in these big bureaucracies have nothing to do with education

and everything to do with administration of education. It's a freaking jobs program. That's why people will fight this. Now, how can I prove it to you that the Department of Education is not about education? Here's the hill. The hill is not some right-wing outlet. If anything, it's center left.

More money for schools doesn't always mean better outcomes. Notice this. Spending's been on the rise. A new report from Michigan State, this from 2019, but the numbers still apply, analyzed long-term education spending records. They found that every state but two, Michigan and West Virginia,

education revenue increased from 1995 to 2015. And you know what's weird? The nation's report card scores are flatter going down in most places. Oh, weird. Spending more money, worse results. More money, worse results. But COVID had a lot to, folks, it'd been flat forever.

And it's funny after COVID, well, it's actually horrible, but that the liberals keep making this stupid argument is freaking hilarious to me because dumb people fall for it. Give us all this money after COVID, we're gonna fix all this and make everything, and we actually got worse. Transactional Trump is back.

And this DEI thing is a perfect example, along with the Department of Education and USAID, of the left being emotional and Trump being a spreadsheet. DEI is awesome. Why? Because it is. That sounds emotional not spreadsheet based. The same thing about education. More money for education. Why? Because it's the right thing to do. Actually it's the wrong thing to do. More money has no effect on these education scores at all. I don't care. I know you don't care because you're emotional. Trump doesn't care either. He's a spreadsheet. Get used

to it. Get used to it. I'm telling you to get used to it because we're not done. Put that tweet by Yashir up there. Here's Yashir Ali, another one. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is now referring to Elon Musk as an unelected oligarch, encouraging people to call their representatives and ask them what they plan on doing about it. Elon is a spreadsheet too. That is why he's become the perfect target for the left because they're gonna continue to go, you can't cut funding, funding is taxation.

We can cut funding, we can absolutely cut funding and we will, and we will. Again, folks, transactional Trump. I can't give you these examples enough. He is not making this personal. I'm going to prove it to you with these next two clips. Here's Donald Trump yesterday. Donald Trump thinks like this.

What do I need from you in Ukraine? I need this war to end. I need you to stop this war. And I need you at least to put on a good enough effort that the Russians are incentivized to stop the war too. The irony here is some amount of support Donald Trump sees for Ukraine will actually help end the thing. Because if he senses some weakness,

there's not gonna be an incentive for either side to get to a deal. I'm just telling you what is. Or you argue your position all you weakness, there's not going to be an incentive for either side to get to a deal. I'm just telling you what is. Or you argue your position all you want. That's fine. I'm just telling you how I think the Trump team sees it. They can't just pull out of the place altogether because then there's no incentive at all for Putin to come to the table.

Donald Trump needs this thing to end. However, Donald Trump has also said on Ukraine, you better produce something fast and we're giving you a shit ton of money. We need something from you too and and you're gonna give it to us. You know what we need rare earth minerals now You may not hear this anywhere else But why do we need rare earth minerals because Donald Trump in this case is playing a little bit of four-dimensional chess I'm not gonna tell you it's with everything but it certainly is here anyone in the chat know why we need rare earth minerals everything, but it certainly is here. Anyone in the chat know why we need rare earth minerals? Because Donald Trump is currently engaged with an appropriate and timely trade war with China who's been ripping us off forever, stealing our

IP, government procurement, screwing us over, threatening Taiwan, threatening World War Three. China has been effing us over forever. Donald Trump just levy tariffs on China. You know what China said? Look it up. We're not gonna give you rare earth minerals you need for your military equipment. What does Donald Trump say? Double barrel middle finger,

we'll go get them from Ukraine. And if you don't give them to us, no more money for Ukraine. Spreadsheets, kids. That's how you seize the world. Get on the train or get run over by it. Here, listen for yourself. We're telling Ukraine,

they have very valuable, rare earth. We want what we put up to go in terms of a guarantee. We want a guarantee. We want, we're handing them money hand over fist. We're giving them equipment. European is not keeping up with us. They should equalize. Look, we have an ocean in between. They don't. It's more important for them than keeping up with us. They should equalize. And look, we have an ocean in between.

They don't. It's more important for them than it is for us. But they're way below us in terms of money. And they should be paying at least equal. They should really be paying much more than us. But let's say equal to us. And they're billions and billions of dollars below. So we're looking to do a deal with Ukraine

where they're going to secure what we're giving them with their rare earth and other things. One of these guys who's gonna tell you every single thing that happens is for DHS, okay? I'm not. This is. This is genius. Donald Trump sees a problem. Follow me. China is effing us over, stealing our intellectual property, screwing us over, and they're communists. They're a problem.

How do we fight back? Well, we're not going to nuke China, obviously. So what do we have that they need? They need to sell their made in China products here. Donald Trump says, okay, I'm gonna make your products more expensive with a tariff, causing your businesses some problems because you're not helping us out. China says, okay, well, screw you guys. We're not gonna give you these rare earth minerals. Trump goes, okay, who are we giving money to

around the world? Ukraine. They need our money and the weapons that use rare earth minerals. Hey Ukraine, you guys have rare earths give them over You see boo, let me can't do that man. It's the right thing if you can't demand that he doesn't care He doesn't care he is a spreadsheet I can't explain this to you enough. No, surely this is personal and emotional. It isn't. Here's another one.

For all the people who are out there going, oh, he's just mad at Mexico. He's mad at Mexico because they're Hispanic. Really? Last time I checked Canada is a largely white country. He went after Trudeau up there too. He's not emotional about that either. There's nothing to do with anything. The liberals are getting emotional.

Here he is saying very specifically, talking about Claudia Scheinbaum, the president of Mexico, who is a socialist, by the way, when she caved yesterday and agreed to 10,000 troops on the border and stop in the fentanyl traffic Here's Donald Trump very clearly saying this isn't personal. I like her But I need X and you better produce it. It's not personal bro Listen yourself check this out had a great talk with Mexico and

Check this out. I think we've lost 200,000 people on average a year for many years, much higher than the 100,000. It could be even closer to 300,000. And they've agreed to put in 10,000 soldiers permanently, like forever, 10,000 soldiers at their side of the border and stop fentanyl and illegal aliens from coming into our country. They have a big incentive to do. I don't know how many times I have to say this to Axios, Playbook, the New York Times, the Washington Post. If you would just listen to the most popular MAGA based show anywhere, you would already understand the Donald Trump that keeps kicking you in the Jimmy. You just don't want to understand him. He doesn't dislike Mexico or Canada. He needs something.

Stop drug trafficking and illegals. Mexico needs something. We need to trade into the US. Okay, I'm not going to let you do that if you don't do this. That's it. Here's a tweet by NWokeNes, great follow on X. Two weeks in, Mexico cave, Panama cave, Columbia cave, Venezuela cave, Canada cave. Thank you for the update.

Mass deportations, hostages home, DEI programs ended, bureaucracy slashed, FBI purges underway, USAID funding canceled, gender ideology eliminated, Doge saving billions, 51 intelligence loss clearance, border crossings dropped by 93%. Reservoirs filled in California, just to name a few. I got another one for you right here.

Don't forget what happened in North Carolina and elsewhere at Hurricane Helene. Those are our citizens too. Let's not relegate them to the last chapter in the book. They came first. They have an emergency right now. Oh look, here's Donald Trump and his administration getting right to work in Ashford, North Carolina too, just to name a few more developments. Let the winning continue. Watch this. For the next four months, this is what you'll be seeing.

On Saturday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers partnering with Ashford got the approval to begin the next phase of the recovery process. The next two missions we're going to start on, one of them which is right behind us here, which is a critical mission and tremendously challenging of getting the waterway debris out of the stream. Operation Waterway Debris Removal. This is what leadership looks like, folks. Let the winning continue.

Anita just put something up in the chat, I did not know. I knew we were closing in on 3.5 million followers. By the way, Rumble, Chris, if you're watching, you gotta get on this, bro. At Rumble statue, can we get this thing updated? It says the Dan Bongino show, 2.5 million followers the camera or the green i know it's like what the green because of the green screen thing we're 7500 7500 followers away which is a drop in a bucket from 3.5 million followers on Rumble. So Bongino Army, can you get us there?

3.5 million, I'd really appreciate it. What a slap in the face to the communists at YouTube who banned me when I had 800,000 followers. We're now looking at over four times as many on Rumble. So that 34, 300, oh, 3.49664. So we're almost there, folks. So please help us get there. 3.5 million, I really, really appreciate it. There's so many even, I got confused. I'm like, what is that?

3.5 million followers, I really appreciate that. Thank you, Anita, we are almost there. So please spread the word, rumble.com slash Bongino, and everybody go download the rumble app too. Please. It's super important. It's free.

The app's amazing. You did some great upgrades. I've got more for you though. I'm not done. Don't go anywhere. Folks again, Democrats can't seem to get their story straight on anything. Margaret Brennan, DEI is great, but there are no examples of it. Here are examples of it.

Well, that's not really a lot of money. What is it? Is D.E.I. great or not? If D.E.I. is great, just defend the money. I don't understand. They're doing the same thing on tariffs. So I'm watching this segment on Fox yesterday. Robert Wolf is on.

He's a Democrat. Nice guy, but never wanted to come on my show when I was on Fox. I don't know if he's afraid of losing an economics argument or whatever, but he's on Fox yesterday debating Steve Moore, and he's trying to make the point that tariffs are taxes Which he's correct about tariffs are taxes period But it's interesting how he's trying to make the case that tariffs are taxes and they're inflationary Because a tax on something makes it cost more correct If you have a pen for sale with no tax and then you put a 25% tax, it's more expensive,

25% more expensive. Taxes are inflationary. Really. That's a fascinating argument he makes because the very same Democrats, the Robert Wolves of the world, these liberal Democrats, are consistently arguing for a increase in the corporate tax, which is a tax on every single product made by every business in America. So you should be asking them if tariffs are taxes, you're correct, I concede your point, and those are inflationary.

Isn't a corporate tax the most inflationary tax of all? No, no, not that one, not that one. Really? I want you to listen to this. This is Jamie Dimon. Jamie Dimon is no right winger at all. Jamie Dimon from Chase. I'm not even sure if he likes Donald Trump.

But here he is talking about tariffs being inflationary? Really? You sure about that? There's always a substitution effect. Corporate taxes, no such thing. Watch this. Trump talked about tariffs just yesterday. Mary Mary Erdos your colleague was on stage talking about how your firm has created a quote-unquote war room That's looking at each of these executive orders as they come in trying to assess what they mean for the bank And I imagine for your clients. Yeah. Yeah, so we always I mean war may be a bad word

But we always this is a real-time Full thing analyzing for clients, for communities, for a bank. We get a million questions, stuff like that. Look, I look at tariffs, they are an economic tool. That's it. They're an economic weapon, depending on how you use it and why you use it and stuff like that.

And people argue, is it inflationary and non-inflationary? I would put in perspective, if it's a little inflationary, but it's good for national security. So be it I mean get over it national security trumps a little bit more inflation But I think it really the question is how they get used can they get be used to bring people to the table? Yes, is there some unfair trade? Yes. Is there some state-owned set subsidies? Yes, you know Is the president used that way in his team? Yeah, and we'll see This guy's not even a Trump supporter. He's not even close to a MAGA guy or a conservative.

And he's even saying, we have to tax at some point something. We have our military to pay for, court system, constitutional role of government. I prefer taxes to be as low as possible. Our tariffs inflationary, maybe a little bit, depending on in certain spaces, but the trade-off with national security and elsewhere, and if we can lower taxes elsewhere that are disinflationary, then you've got a winning argument every single time.

But your liberal friends cannot have it both ways. I'm going to end on this. Ask them, is DEI wonderful or not? If it is, then why are you arguing that there's no funding there? Margaret Brennan, no, there's no funding. Oh, there is funding. Is DEI great or not? Second, tariffs are inflationary. Why? Because they're taxes. Okay, a corporate tax is a tax on every single thing businesses produce. Is that inflationary? Of course you don't know, you're too stupid. Dumb liberals. Don't let them get away with it. Hey, thank you for tuning in today again Help us get to 3.5 million so we can update our statue Chris. We're gonna need a new one soon over a rumble Hope you're paying attention

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