The Trish Regan Show - BREAKING: Jasmine Crockett Officially FORCED OUT of Congress--REFUSES to LEAVE!

Episode Date: August 29, 2025

🚨 Jasmine Crockett is OUT! Gov. Abbott’s new district map leaves her without a seat — and now she’s scrambling to hold onto power. 🔥 President Trump strips Kamala Harris of her Secret Service protection just days before her big book tour launch. 🚨 Cracker Barrel’s co-founder SLAMS new CEO Julie Masino: “This is NOT Taco Bell.” 🔥 Vanity Fair staffers MELT DOWN at the idea of Melania Trump landing on their cover — but Melania may have the last laugh. 🚨 Could Taylor Swift really be leaning conservative? And why is James Comey so obsessed with her? Join Trish Regan LIVE for all the details.Subscribe ➡️ https://Youtube.com/TrishReganChannelSupport independent journalism ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBlMo25WDUKJNQ7G8sAk4Zw/joinGet Trish’s financial insights ➡️ https://76research.com (CODE: DOLLAR) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We've got a lot going on, wouldn't you say? Today is a very busy day. Kind of an interesting day from a news perspective. So much happening. I'm so happy to welcome you here to the Trish Regan show. It is great to have everyone on this Friday as we look at a bunch of things, including the fact that Jasmine Crocka is effectively going to be out of a job momentarily. Actually, like happening in the here and now. This is because, guess what, Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, just signed into law the new redistricting map. So guess what? She's out.

She's getting kind of desperate, too. She's calling in all kinds of friends and favors, and we're going to tell you about her plan to try and stay in power. I don't think it's going to work. Jasmine Crockett is out. Biden-Fed appointing Lisa Cook. Now, this is an interesting one. She's actually got something else against her right now.

Bill Pulte coming forward with a third allegation about her mortgage situation. She's been in court all day. She's, by the way, suing the president, but the judge is trying to figure out whether or not the president has the authority to get rid of one Lisa Cook. She's a Biden appointee on the Federal Reserve, and we'll tell you all about that. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris, right before the big book tour, is losing her security detail. What's that about? Cracker Barrel's co-founder just came out, what is he, 93 years old, and he is slamming Julie Mazino, the new CEO's Taco Bell, Like, makeover a crackle barrel.

This is no Taco Bell, he said. We've got some news on Vanity Fair and their staffers all upset about the potential Malania cover and some talk that Taylor Swift is going conservative. I don't know. I'll believe it when I see it. Welcome to the program, everyone. Good to have you here. Make sure you subscribe, share, like, make a comment, all that good stuff.

I got to tell you, Jasmine Crockett. She is done. Finito. It is over for one, Jasmine Crockett in terms of her political career. And you know what Democrats? You can say thank you later on. because I think you're going to dodge a big bullet on this one. Jasmine Crockett out of Texas.

Well, you know, she's not going to have a district anymore because there's a new map that has been signed in by none other than one Greg Abbott. You know, the guy that she called Hot Wheels, he happens to be in a wheelchair. This is Governor Greg Abbott. I'm about to sign the law that creates the one big, beautiful map that ensures fair representation in the United States Congress for Texans.

I want to thank Lieutenant Governor Patrick, Speaker Burrell. Senator King, Representative Todd Hunter, Representative Cody Vasute, and all of the legislature who stayed in the Capitol and got this law to my desk. Texas is now more red in the United States Congress. Okay. Did you hear that, Jasmine? All right. So if you're blue and Texas is really red, I think it's going to be a little bit of a

problem, just a teeny tiny bit of a problem. You know, Jasmine Crockett, who rose to fame and superstardom on the, internet because she had a couple of cute little phrases. You know, she could turn a phrase. Apparently she used to stay in her luxury apartment thinking about what phrases she was going to turn all the time. That's according to a New York Post report from members of her staff who were kind of over Ms. Jasmine Crockett.

Ms. Green for four minutes and 21 seconds. Mr. Chair, point of order. Who's, who's? It's me. Ms. Crockett. I'm just curious, just to better understand your ruling, if someone on this, committee then starts talking about somebody's bleached blind bad built butch body that would not be engaging in personalities correct a what now

chairman I make a I make a motion to strike those words I don't think that's a on what kind of fine to find clarification on what quality I didn't I have no idea what you just said we're not gonna we're not gonna do this look you guys earlier literally you just voted to do it order order order I'm trying to get clarification. Look at calm down. Calm down. No, no, no, no, because this is what you're all do.

I'm trying to get clarification. You're not recognized. Ms. Crocker. I can't hear you with your yelling. Calm down. No, don't tell me to calm down. Calm down. Because y'all talk noise and then you can take you.

Because if I come and talk shit about her, you'll have a problem. Mr. Chairman. All right. Chair. Okay. Order. Chair now recognizing. You know, I might actually miss her.

I mean, you don't get to see that kind of entertainment every day, right? Wow. You know what? Again, Democrats will dodge a bullet because not only was she inappropriate on the congressional floor, but she had a bad tendency to go in really bad directions as we saw in this one podcast interview. Watch. Because when you think about it, Kamala Harris, light years ahead of Donald Trump as

relates to qualifications, as relates to her overall resume. and as it relates to the fact that she was a lot younger. Everybody said that they wanted to get rid of Joe Biden because he was too old. Then you had a younger, qualified, non-felon candidate and somehow the people still chose the old white man. So like for me, I don't think it was ever about that. Really? You think it was all about how greatly qualified one Kamala Harris was?

Kamala Harris, who couldn't actually speak in complete sentences. that CBS had to pay a bundle to Donald Trump, right, in damages. That was a lawsuit that got settled. CBS actually had to edit her stuff so much because she was incoherent. Okay, she just couldn't actually speak. I don't think there was a lug going on upstairs. Just saying. But no, Jasmine's going to bring it right back to where nobody wants to go right now

because you know what? Those days are over. Donald Trump won. He won in Atlanta. He got the electoral college. He got the popular vote. And you know what? People are sick of being divided, male, female, gay, trans, black, white. No, no, no. We're just Americans, okay?

Let the best man or woman win, okay? This is a meritocracy. This is what we were founded on. And Jasmine Croc can't seem to figure that one out. Not to mention that, my goodness, this woman can't speak any better than Kamala Harris. Thank you very much. Watch. This is who the left is putting up is their next big star. They try to act like, oh, political violence. It's the Democrats and it's the liberals. And it's like, actually. Actually, actually, I mean, I'm not going to say that like a left-leaning person cannot be violent because that would be like crazy to say that somebody can't be. But baby, baby.

So, like, I mean, this is this is who aligns with that. So, like, inherently in like who you are, y'all are violent. Well, I don't think she'll be bringing the nation together. That was on my shorts feed. Thank you very much. But anyway, I think she's really actually kind of a dangerous influence on the party. And at a time when the party is really struggling and trying to get back to maybe its roots, it once represented working class America. But the Democrats have gotten so far from that. And look, you know, Jasmine wants to take them in that very, very far direction, that very extremist left direction. And so, hey, hey, you can thank us later. This is a new map coming out of Texas going really, really, really red. Okay, really red. And that means no more Jasmine. So Jasmine now is scrambling. She's like, what do I do? How do I stay in power? What can I possibly, she's actually talking about running for the Senate, believe it or not, in the great state of Texas. Well, I can tell you, that's going to go nowhere. It's really and truly going to go nowhere because she doesn't have the appeal on a statewide level.

She might have been able to work in that one little district she had. And by the way, don't forget, She was kind of putting on an act. In fact, if you look at her background, she had kind of an upper middle class background from Missouri. She went to special private schools that cost plenty of money. She's actually pretty well educated. She grew up in a stable home with two working parents. I mean, I'm sorry.

I'm not buying the whole from the hood thing. But she put that personality on, in part maybe to resonate within her district. And then on the congressional floor, like the, you know, butch body nonsense that she came out with. Look, she's scrambling. She's trying to find some way, some path to the future. Meanwhile, her buddy's a Obama and Holder are out there trying to do their part,

scaring everybody, they get a new commercial. Oh, a commercial, but it's a funny-looking commercial. It's actually not that well-produced. They're trying to tell you that the Republicans are taking over all of these districts, and so you need to move and you need to move fast. Watch. Hey, everybody.

It's Barack. and I am here with my good friend, Attorney General, Eric Holder, because we're facing an existential threat to our democracy, and we need your help. Right now in states across the country, like Texas and Florida, these extreme conservative politicians are announcing and acting on plans to slice and dice house districts with the goal of preserving their own power while diluting the voting power of communities of color. They're doing the same thing in Ohio, trying to give one party control over almost 90% of congressional seats. Rather than facing their voters at the polls next year,

they're trying to silence them instead. Eric and I started the NBRC to win fights like this. So if you want your voice to be heard in next year's midterm elections and beyond, help us meet this moment and preserve our democracy. Hmm. I just want to show you this, okay? Like, don't think that this is one-sided here. Democrats have already been generous.

remandering, all kinds of states. You look at Massachusetts, 36 Republicans there. They get zero seats. Connecticut, 42 percent. Zero seats and Maine, 46 percent. I mean, you go down the list. There's plenty of states here, right, that have pretty decent representation in terms of who's actually Republican in the state. And guess what? Oh, Barack Obama. He made sure during his tenure that he did his part to gerrymandered those states so that, you know, no Republicans could get in. So I realize this feels like tit for tat, and that is yet the environment we are in. Okay? So unless the Texas voters say, we don't want this, and they haven't said that, they're all for it,

this is how it's going to be, which means I'm sorry, you know what? Jasmine Crockett, bye-bye. You might actually have to get a real job. Maybe you can go be a social media star. Maybe MSMBC. Oh, I was going to say they'd give you a job, but no, they're now MS now, and they're trying to get away from, you see, people. people like you.

People that are willing to be so divisive and so angry and so dangerous in the rhetoric. You're going bye-bye. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris, you may as well go bye-bye. She's got this book out, right? So this is kind of funny because she's about to go on this giant book tour, but she just got hit with a whammy. Donald Trump took away her security detail. You're only supposed to get it six months.

as a vice president. Presidents get it for life, but a vice president gets it for six months after office. And she was gearing up for this big book tour going to lots of cities and it was going to be very expensive. Somehow, Joe Biden had snuck it in last minute. He decided to extend her secret service detail, which is really kind of abnormal. We don't know if it was him, frankly, right? Because we don't know what Joe did. It was the auto pen. The auto pen decided to extend Kamla Harris's secret service detail, perhaps knowing that she'd be going on this book tour. Oh, she's all excited about it. I don't know if she's going to be able to do it now, right?

Here she is. How can't you get these? It makes some room. Actually, I think I have everything I need. You know, guys, part of her problem is that she just, look at all those cities, right? Birmingham. Oh, she was going all the way to London. They would have had to have secret service in London.

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Yeah, so quite some interesting timing on that. When some people are going to say, oh, you know what, this is just a vendetta, this, that, and the other. You know, he's taking away secret service from a lot of people. Don't forget Biden did this to him, right? He was out there trying to campaign, and he clearly needed it. And Biden was like, nope, nope, nope, they were scaling back. They were giving it all to Jill, Dr. Jill Biden, so she could go to a luncheon in some places.

while scaling back on Donald Trump, who was actually the Republican nominee for the president of the United States. So he actually had a really legitimate, in addition to the fact that he's a former president. But Kamala Harris is now facing reality. I hope she makes a lot of money on that book because she's going to have to pay for the darn security, right?

Or maybe she just won't do as big or as grand a tour. Joyce, thank you. It is good to see you guys all here. wonderful to have so many people. You know, we are getting near a million, near a million right now on this channel, and it's just terrific. Yeah, Texas is taking out the trash. You can say that again, Joyce. I get it. I get it. No more, no more Jasmine Crockett in Texas, totally redistricted there. And as for Kamala Harris, I realize she has political aspirations. She's decided she's not going to run for governor of California. Why? Because she has her sights set on the big stuff.

on the Oval Office again. Has she, it's like sometimes I really wonder, I wonder about these people like, you know, I think I have a fairly healthy dose of sort of my own, you know, ability and this, that, and the other, right? And I think that's important in life. We know what we're good at. We know what we're strong at.

And we know what we're not so good at, right? Kamala Harris is not so good as a politician. And I mean that. I just look at her. and I'm like, I can't talk for goodness sakes. Do you know what you think? Do you? Really? And if you do know what you think, if you do know what your position is on something,

then Kamala Harris, why can't you actually spit it out? I mean, isn't that kind of one of the prerequisites? Aren't you supposed to be a good communicator? She's not. She's a terrible communicator. She's bad politician. And so she has aspirations of going all the way back to the White House again in the number one slot.

It's not going to happen. So again, you know, Donald Trump's doing him a favor again. Texas doing the Dems of favor getting rid of Jasmine and perhaps Donald Trump is helping them by getting rid of Kamala Harris because, you know, he'd wipe the floor with her, as he already did for goodness sakes. I mean, as he already did. Take a look at the article here in CNN saying former presidents received secret service protection for life Harris as a former vice president.

Receive six months, what I tell you, a protection after leaving office according to federal law. That period ended on July 21st. However, her protection had been extended for an additional year via a directive not made public until now, ladies and gentlemen, they tried to slip this one by you, like they do everything. Good old Joey boy and his auto pen. Yeah, they tried to slip this by. He actually signed on for, what was it, an extra year he gave her?

According to multiple people familiar with the undisclosed arrangement, this order was canceled by Donald Trump in a letter memorandum for the Secretary of Homeland Security. It was dated Thursday. Bye, bye, Kamala. You know what? It was up on July 21st. So you're going to have to do that book tour all on your own. You're going to actually have to hire some secret.

Or maybe you just don't do as big a book tour. I mean, you know, there is this little thing called Zoom. Maybe you can just do some like Zoom meetings. Maybe you can get on YouTube. Oh, no, that didn't go that well last time, right? Didn't you even have Oprah helping you out and it's still? like flopped massively. We get more people watching the Jewish Rican show live than Kamala Harris had watching her Oprah Wimprey shindig. I mean, they even brought in Merrill Street. Nothing helped. Nothing helped.

Because you know what? Kamala Harris is not a good politician. I go back to the days, you guys. Do you remember when she was first in the running and she was running against Joe Biden? And she got up on stage at the debate and she started going for the jugular and she tried to corner him and she started saying, you know, I was one of those little girls. I don't think she really was because she grew up in Canada, but she's talking about busing in California during the 70s or whatever and she's like, I was one of those girls, this, that, and the other and basically called him a racist right on stage. Well, that didn't go over well with a lot of hardcore Dems. And the next thing you knew, she was pulling out because, you know, in New Hampshire, I don't even know if she had a showing.

she might have come in last. Did nobody think, not for two seconds, that maybe you should have read the tea leaves way back then when you saw the numbers in New Hampshire and how disastrous they were, that people really didn't like her, and that there was no amount of money and celebrity factor that was going to change that.

She does not have any of the Geneseecois that I talk about that Donald Trump has in spades. Love him, hate him, I mean, he's kind of funny. I mean, what kind of guy is going to get up there and say, you know, I'm sick of the light bulbs because I don't really like the lighting that they give off. I've been told they make me look orange. It's just like one after another, right?

It can be a stand-up comedian. So, Kamelot does not have any of the comedic ability. She takes herself way too seriously. And then she doesn't have any original thoughts. I mean, I won't bore you with the word salad, but you've seen it over and over and over again. It's kind of funny until you realize that this woman could have been the actual president of the United States of America. and then you're like, wait a second, maybe it's not so funny.

So she's losing her security detail at a very important time. I don't know as she can swing it. You guys are like, hey, you know, maybe she's got some money. I've actually looked into her financial records. She doesn't have as much money as you'd think for somebody who's married to a guy who's like been a partner at a big tech law firm for this many years. Like, I don't know what they're doing. Maybe they get it in trust or something so they hide it.

Who knows? But she ought to like be doing a little bit. better. And I don't know is anybody's really hiring her for a speaking gig right now. Do you really want Kamala Harris for God knows what she's charging? I mean, let's just figure it out. Probably somewhere between 100 and 500K a speech. No, because by the way, don't forget she can't speak. You know, there is that little problem. I mean, maybe if you got a teleprompter, can she even read a teleprompter? I'm not so certain about that one either, guys. So Kamala Harris is Deadville.

You know what? You can thank Donald Trump later, Democrats, because it's high time you come up with a better candidate, a better candidate that might actually succeed. Thank you so much, Giovanna de la Rosa. Yes, I saw Gavin Newsom trying to say that California is not, he couldn't answer that question. Giovanna, you know what he did?

He walked off the stage. He literally, he shut the whole press conference down because he's like, I can't believe, he can't answer the question. They've got a real problem on there. hands because when you say things like defund the police and the police are bad over and over and over again and you don't invest in basic things like law and order, you're going to have the problem that you have in California. And she's part of that. The entire Democrat party is part of it, whether you go to

Chicago, whether you go to D.C., what do you know? Oh, we get the mayor of D.C. that's actually thanking Donald Trump right now, thanking him because he's helped to bring carjackings down 87% in the last 20 days. Like, they didn't even think this was possible. Well, guess what? You know what? With a little effort. It actually is, which has you saying, you know what, to heck with the Democrats. No wonder, no one supports them right now. No wonder. No wonder their brand is in the garbage as our friend at CNN. Harry Anton, I kind of like this guy likes to say. No wonder, no wonder, the Democrats are struggling so badly. I mean, they're looking at numbers that I don't think they've ever really seen quite recently because you're seeing so much success. I'm trying to. I'm trying to

to see if I have the sound bite for you, I could play it because it's just so funny to watch. You've seen it before if you watch the Trish Rigan show. By the way, I hope you watch the Trish Regan show. I hope you watch it. And I hope that you are making sure that you subscribe to it and that you share it and that you hit the bell so you know exactly when I am live here every single day. Monday through Friday, sometimes on the weekend too. All right.

So Kamala Harris. Bye-bye. No book tour. Too bad. I don't care. You're out of luck. So be it. Lisa Cook, meanwhile. Have you guys been following this one? Lisa Cook is the first black woman who

was ever nominated to the Federal Reserve. Now, that's neither here nor there unless you're Hakeem Jeffries, in which case you say the president can't fire her because she's the first black woman nominated to the Board of the Federal Reserve governors. I'm sorry. Again, we're getting away from this. Please, can we finally, Lisa Cook in all kinds of trouble? Today, she and her lawyer were there in court and what was being discussed was whether or not the president could indeed fire her over these mortgage fraud allegations. What she is accused of is now actually a third thing. So there were two issues. Apparently, she declared two homes as her primary residence. You can't do that. You understand if you have a vacation home and you have a regular home,

well, your vacation home, you're going to pay a higher mortgage rate on. You can't have two primary residences. But according to Lisa Cook, allegedly, she did. And so she hasn't really offered any kind of explanation as to whether or not she did this or not. I mean, I kind of appreciate, did you? Did you not? No, no, no, she went out and hired Abby Lull, who is Letitia James's lawyer, who was Hunter Biden's lawyer, and by the way, is about to be John Bolton's lawyer. Abby's having the best year of his life, right? He's making, like, legacy money for himself because all these people keep hiring him. So Lisa Cook is being accused of a third thing, which is having yet another place,

I believe this one was in Massachusetts, that she was using as a rental income property, but she was calling it a secondary residence. And so, again, there's a discrepancy there between secondary residents versus the income property. So all kinds of messy stuff, the Bill Pulte over at the FH F8, he keeps finding all this stuff. Okay, so this is the federal housing finance authority. Bill Pulte is out for blood here, and he's got some goods on her, allegedly. So there was this court hearing that happened in Washington, D.C. today. The judge actually punted.

they're not yet going to rule on this. Trump has said, look, you know, I believe that this woman committed mortgage fraud. And thus, because she did that, I am within my right as president of the United States in terms of upholding the law to make sure that she's removed from the position. Now, what does the left tell you? Oh, the left tells you, oh, this is no big deal. This is no big deal. I mean, I believe that Paul Krugman tried to equate it with cheating on a third grade exam.

I mean, I'm sort of blown away by these people how they're willing so consistently to dismiss things. Oh, it's no big deal because it's their side. I mean, if it was the other side, you better believe it. You better believe that they would be all over it. But for some reason, oh, if it is a Democrat that does anything wrong, alone the first black woman to ever serve on the board of the Federal Reserve governors, suddenly it's the equivalent of just screwing up on your third grade test. I don't think so. I actually think it's a really bad thing.

And I'm actually with the point of view and Howard, our Commerce Secretary, Lutnik, would say this. He actually said this the other day on CNBC. Like, I'm sorry, like, you really shouldn't be on the board of the Federal Reserve Governor setting interest rates when you're out there. If this is true, again, allegation at this point, you know, getting a sweetheart deal yourself. I mean, for goodness sakes, everybody else in America is. to pay these higher rates and you're the one who keeps rates going up, bup, so I'm sorry. Like, I realize that you got your work around, but what about everybody else? So again, this is what was being discussed in court today, and the judge declined to actually

come forward with a full ruling right now. I will also point out that after the hearing, basically, they had two hours of arguments without a ruling, without a ruling. Cook's request for a temporary restraining order on the president has been basically punted. They did not rule on that. So she wants the president to not be able to remove her from the job. She hasn't been removed from the job just yet. And this is what's kind of interesting.

I want to show you what Bill Pulte over at FHFA put out moments ago. He said CNBC reports that Jerome Powell has continued to let Lisa Cook have access to her office and her electronics, despite the president of the United States of America ordering her firing. All right. Now we're getting into a serious game of chess because if these three allegations are true and if the president of the United States has ordered that this woman be fired from her position, there's only seven spots there on the board of Federal Reserve governors, including Jerome Powell. And Jerome chooses not to do it, then can you ask if the judge eventually says, yeah, Donald Trump was right? Can Trump fire Jerome Powell for cause? Because that's the whole issue. Does he have cause to fire him?

And would the cause be insubordination? Because somebody who should not have been sitting on the board, if again, the allegations are proven out, continue to sit on the board because Jerome allowed it. That's an interesting question. That's why I say, you know, we're really getting into some very interesting territory. And I'll also say this, wow, I mean, Bill Pulte is at it, right? Because you don't only have Lisa Cook. You can see her on the list. primary residence in Georgia and Michigan, and then, of course, the secondary residence, which was really an income property, I guess, in Massachusetts. Then you have Leticia James, okay, and all that's going on with Letitia in New York and Virginia, and then you get Adam Schiff, whoo, in California and in Maryland. So he's finding a lot, and it just makes you think, one, why do we have such corrupt people in such prominent positions? Again, if these allegations

are proven out. And two, who's next? Right? Is this what everybody in DC is doing? I mean, of Grugman thinks it's the equivalent of just cheating on your third grade exam. Maybe this is really, really, really widespread. And if so, there's going to be some problems. Big, big, big problems. I want to go to another big story right now. Cracker barrel. Oh my goodness. You know, we thought the problems were over for this company. And yet, what do you know? the co-founder of Cracker Bell came up with some choice words. Let me just give you a preview. I heard she was a Taco Bell, but what's Taco Bell know about Cracker Barrel?

Good point. I think Taco Bell and Cracker Barrel are two very, very different kinds of companies. But you see, the woman who came over to run Cracker Barrel, Julie Mazina, she used to work at Taco Bell. What did I tell you guys? Remember when I was looking at the pictures of the redo and I said, my gosh, like it's lost all its charm. It's lost all its character. It looks like some kind of, you know, sort of higher end Burger King. I guess I meant Taco Bell. Like, who knew? I think she's getting aesthetic. I'm like, who came up with this? Well, none other than Julie, who was on ABC, Good Morning in the America trying to tout it and say it was greatest things had sliced bread. Well,

customers disagree and wait to you hear the rest of what the co-founder had to say. honestly, the feedback's been overwhelmingly positive that people like what we're doing. I'll give you another soundbite. I actually happened to be in Orlando last week with all of our managers. We bring them together and once every other year. And the number one question that I got asked, Michael, was, how can I get a remodel? When can I get a remodel? How do I get on the list?

Oh, really? So because the feedback and the buzz is so good, not only from our customers, but from our team members. They want to work in a wonderful restaurant. So we're doing everything for our guests and our team members. When Julie McChina was- I don't know who's telling you that, Julie, but I guess they're just telling you what you want to hear because when this really got rolled out,

what did you see? But Fury, I mean, people are like, we're going to boycott this thing. They can't stand the remake. Well, you know who else really can't stand the remake? This is Tommy Loll. So he is one of the co-founders. They co-founded this thing.

He and a guy named Dave Evans back in 1969 in Lebanon, Tennessee. And it was made to be like a country. store, right? Like, that's the whole aesthetic when you go in and it's really charming and kind of neat. And you get to stop there on the highway or maybe after church on a Sunday. And boy, oh boy, they like gotted that. They gotted the very essence in the heart of Cracker Barrow. And that's why people were so mad. Listen to what the co-founder had to say he's 93 years old and he gave this woman a real peace of his mind. Logo rolled out the other day. Oh, that's crazy. That's not, It's a bland, nothing.

It's pitiful. Do you think she knows the story of Cracker Barrel? I don't think so. I heard she was a Taco Bell, but what's Taco Bell know about Cracker Barrel? And country food. And food is something that needs to work on. Spending $700 million to do that is all I've been doing.

I'd just throwing money out the street. because Cracker Barrel is no Taco Bell. Or Taco Bell, I should say, is no Cracker Barrel, right? I mean, completely different genres, totally different food types. And it goes with exactly what I said. I thought that the redo looked like a spiffed up Burger King. What I really meant, I guess, was Taco Bell. I didn't realize she used to work at Taco Bell.

Here, a few things along the way, they have decided to change the logo back to the original. So Uncle Herschel, he remains. They also got rid of their LGBTQ plus alliance. They're now actually deciding to get rid of that pride page. And on their website, they have a whole page devoted to food insecurity. So they're taking the message, but you know, the message has been coming through loud and clear because people are furious. Even the apology is getting backlash. Cracker Barrel spending $700 million on a rebranding plan that they say will turn the product from old rustic to perhaps more modern streamlined. Customers say that's just a giant helping of biscuits and bologna.

They don't like it. So after a week's worth of backlash, the Tennessee-based company did put out an apology statement of sorts, which said, in part, quote, we know we won't always get everything right the first time, but we'll keep testing, learning, and listening to our guests and employees. But the Mayor Culper, well, I didn't go down that well. Critics called it lame and social media. lit up with comments like these.

Quote, you kicked Uncle Herschel to the curb. Now you are paying the price. Own it and stop making excuses. Another wrote, eating Sunday supper in a place that looks like a car dealership does not say vintage Americana. But the company's new logo, let's begin. Look, the stock went way down,

and then it recovered a little bit. Donald Trump weighed in. He gave them some advice. He said, just apologize. Recognize the fact that you got a billion dollars worth of free publicity. tell everybody that you screwed up and move on. And that's what they're trying to do. But you see, again, this is getting in the way.

I heard she was a Taco Bell, but what's Taco Bell know about a Cracker Barrow? Nothing. Okay, clearly, nothing. So they're going to have some more work to do. They're certainly going to have some more work to do. You know, let me see if I can tell you what the stock price is doing today, because initially it was just getting hammered. I mean, unbelievable stuff. And, you know,

people were encouraged, I should say encouraged that they were willing to listen to the customers, that they were willing to act quickly because, you know, so many times, if you look back on other situations like this, think Bud Light. What happened in Bud Light? With Bud Light, they just tried to like, you know, Grin and Barrett. And they tried to stand by Dylan Mulvaney and this, that and the other. It's down four-tenths of a percent today. the Crackle Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. You know, it's just, it's had a very, very rough ride, very, very rough ride. And I imagine it's going to continue to be a little bit bumpy for this company for the foreseeable future

until they figure out a way to really win back customers. And it's hard, right? Because once you do this, once you go woke, you go broke, as we like to say. Taking a look at the markets right now, very good news on the economy, U.S. second quarter GDP coming in. What do you know? 3.3% it got revised up. It had been at 3%. Now it's revised up to 3.3%. That is above what analyst thought, which was about 3.1%. So that's some very good news. And why is it happening? AI. AI boom that I keep telling you about. I mean, this is another reason you've got to go to my company,

76research.com. Use code word dollar. Look at these stocks. We've had a tremendous, tremendous run. This is for the 12 months ending 731, 25 in our three model portfolio. but you can get the very basic newsletter for a dollar a month for the first two months. It goes to $9.95 thereafter. You should do yourself that favor because I think there's still a lot of opportunities. I am a long-term believer in the American stock market and certainly in the MAGA movement. So as I look at these markets, I'm encouraged by the US GDP number. I'm also encouraged by some of the recent wage numbers that we saw coming out in Thursday's

jobs report, you know, we had a weekly jobs report. Here's a verdict on it from the economist guy over at CNBC. Here is private sector wages a 0.7 percent. That's pretty strong. Pretty strong. That's a strong number. Do you want to annualize that on national television? What should I do it for you? You heard about 5%. Those are strong numbers suggesting of a strong labor market. How is the labor market weak if wages are going up quite so strongly? Nice, right? Like, You want wages going up. You want wages going up. And again, when I look at this second quarter GDP number, I'm encouraged, I'm encouraged because, look, I really actually think this AI thing, and I know it's kind of scary for people, but I think it's going to be a big boom. Here's one of the

problems, though. Think of the amount of energy that it takes. You know, all those GPUs, you can kind of hear them crunching in real time whenever you're doing anything on chat GPT, right? They're working really hard. They're going to be working overtime. And you think about the energy consumption that that is going to take. I did a conference last fall, and it was actually a crypto conference and an energy conference together. They put both of these sort of spheres together because why they knew that these two things are going to go hand in hand in the future. You need a lot of energy to fire up all those, you know, all those AI issues. It's something I think is increasingly going to be an issue. I sat down earlier today. Just I want you to hear about 40 seconds of my interview with the CEO of Prairie Operating

because he had a very interesting take on this, the importance of basically us thinking about the need for energy in the future as we're thinking about the need for AI. Listen, if we don't do this, like what happens if we don't? Do we run a risk of rationing where tech companies are paying for it and they need the AI and they need the energy and everyday folks wind up on the short end of that? Well, scarcity always leads to rationing. And so in a future where we've got scarcity of energy, but increasing demand really driven by AI data centers, then in a supply demand, economic capitalist system, you're going to have data centers willing to pay more for that energy, and the rest of us are going to be stuck getting whatever the

government's willing to give us at much higher prices, because wherever the government's in control, prices rise. Look at California, you know, which has 96% higher inflationary prices for energy than the rest of the country, you know, we want to avoid that for the rest of the United States. Agreed, agreed. All right, well, people can learn more at oilfax.com. They can check out your company, Prairie Operating Group. Also, I'm going to have my full interview with him up over the weekend on the channel,

so be on the lookout for that. I think it's kind of interesting to think about what's coming in terms of both AI and what it's going to mean for energy. So we want to be ramped up and ready in both sectors. Oh, here's a great story. This is a really interesting story, you guys. Vanity Fair, you know that Hoity Toadie Magazine. Vanity Fair is freaking out because there's been a rumor going around.

Not just a rumor. Apparently, the editor of Vanity Fair, wanted Melania Trump for the cover, for the U.S. cover. If you're watching here on YouTube, you can see Vanity Fair. That's her on the Mexican cover. I guess they had like a Mexican cover back in 2017, but they want her for the U.S. cover now. And some of the employees went kind of nuts. I mean, she's laughing at the idea, right? I don't need you guys.

Like, why do I need to be on the cover of Vanity Fair? It's kind of been there, done that, right? At this point, and I think we all kind of know they need her more than she needs them. But you get these idiot staff members that are so locked into their liberal nonsense that they're deciding to say, oh, if Guaducci, this is the guy who is now the new editorial director, Mark Guaducci, if Mark puts Malania on. on the cover, half of the editorial staff will walk out. I guarantee it. This is a mid-level editor speaking to the Daily Mail. I will walk out the mother, you know what door and half my staff

will follow me. Oh, because you're so important. And, you know, Melania Trump is so toxic to you. I'm telling you, these people need to get over themselves. This is the entire problem. This is the media, ladies and gentlemen. This is the media. Vanity Fair's new global editorial director, Mark Turuji, apparently tried to convince Melania Trump over the summer. but his employees were like going to have a total mutiny. She apparently wasn't interested, and I don't blame her for not being interested, because again, Ben there, done that. She was snubbed over and over and over again the first time around.

Now they really need her. And she's like, I don't think so. Who needs you? I don't need that. And so here, take a look. This is the post, apparently the guy, Mark, the new editor is saying, we've got this new cultural swing post-COVID. And it's evident because of Trump's win in 2024.

It apparently is impressed upon the new editor. The Vanity Fair needs to change who appears in its pages. So, yes, his mandate to rethink the publication's relationship with power and celebrity is likely to mean a greater, quote, open-mindedness to seeking access to figures likely to repel magazine's liberal readers. He told people he's potentially interested in putting Melania Trump on the cover. Oh, heavens, no, my gosh. We're going to just have to quit our job, right?

We can't possibly work at Van de Fair if Melania Trump is on the cover. I mean, we'll give her Mexico, as they did, in 2017. Apparently, she was in vogue on the cover in 2005, but that was before, that was before everything, right? That was before her husband became the most powerful man in the world. So back in 2022, she said something interesting. She actually called this out for what it was. She said, you know, she never was on the cover of Vogue. I do believe that Jill Biden was on twice.

Michelle Obama, I mean, they couldn't get enough of her, right, Hillary Clinton, but Melania Trump, no. And she called them out in an interview, I believe, with the Washington Post, Newsweek, reporting on it here. I'm going to quote her, she said, they are biased and they have likes and dislikes. It is so obvious. And I think American people and everyone see it. and I have much more important things to do. And I did in the White House than being on the cover of Vogue. Uh-huh.

And I bet you should tell you the exact same thing now about Vanity Fair. I mean, they can have the little girl in her fishnet stockings, not little, she's quite old. Jill Biden, okay? I mean, that's part of the problem, right? Like, not age appropriate. By the way, not decade appropriate. Is this like a Madonna 1980s thing? Remember when she wore the fishnet stockings with those little teeny little anchors?

I mean, just a disaster. Oh, but she had the mask too, you know? It was a disaster. She is a fashion disaster. Yet they have a supermodel like Melania Trump and they don't want to put her on because of her husband. So the internet decide to fix that. How do you like this one? Mm-hmm. Conservative. So we can, we can put her on the cover of anything we want, right? It just takes a little AI and there you go. You're looking at the new cover of Vandy Fair AI style. Okay, the American queen they call her. and it's gone totally viral. This thing is going around everywhere. Let's get a closer picture.

She's a beautiful woman. They put a crown on her head, a modest one. They called her the American queen, and they made her on the cover of Vanity Fair. So now, can you imagine all the Vanity Fair editors? They're probably freaking out the little low-level mid-level editors. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. So it's kind of what you would call a troll.

In the meantime, Gavin Newsom, what do you think about this? He's deciding to troll back because he's trying to get his name thrown out there. You understand he wants his name thrown out there. He wants his name in the ring because he wants to run as the Democrat nominee for president. You better believe it. And, you know, I got to just tell you, I don't think he's going to get anywhere in part because, you know something? He's got a bad history.

He's got the California history behind him. So this is his little troll thing. He's calling himself, the American king. Oh, boy, buddy boy, buddy boy. Well, you know what else? He's freaking out because, um, turns out the staff, the Trump staff has been sending him some presents and he doesn't like them very much. What? It's a humor. You think for a second you want, I have two dozen Trump 2028 hats. His folks. keep sending me. We do a little trolling. It's called we do a little trolling. Just a little. Just a little, just a little teeny tiny bit. Anyway, Melania, she doesn't need this. She's kind of laughing the whole thing off as, you know, she would because don't forget, like, these magazines are not that relevant anymore. I mean, when was the last time you went and bought a magazine? I can't tell you the last time I bought a magazine. I don't even get magazines delivered to my house anymore. If I want to read a magazine,

it online. So you don't even see the cover when you're online in a magazine. So the whole genre has been obliterated, right? Just like the cable news business. Thanks to YouTube. Well, the internet has killed Vanity Fair. And then Vanity Fair has kind of killed itself because it decides it's going to do stupid things like, you know, throw a fit if Melania is on the cover and the entire staff is going to resign. And so they actually are making their bed and they're having to lie in it And I say, you know, fine, good riddance. Do we really need this company? They already had two rounds of layoffs in the last two years, including in 2024,

including in 2025 when the new guy came in. Condonast, meanwhile, Vogue, remember Vogue that wouldn't allow Melania on the cover, despite putting Hillary and Michelle and Jill, 270 people got laid off at Condonast. And they kept 5% of their workforce last year because these companies aren't much like the cable news companies, keeping up with the future. They don't know how to evolve. Guess what? Video matters. Magazine doesn't anymore. So if you guys were smart, right? You'd actually have a YouTube channel where you would be putting all your content or some kind of streaming service where you would be putting your content and it would be accessible for everybody in a different

format. But you're stuck in this old, oh, we got to have a photographer. We got to light everything specifically. We got to airbrush everything specifically. You know, they are arcane. They are dinosaurs. And their politics reflect it. Their editorial style reflects it on top of everything else. So, don't worry, be happy. Melania Trump has no interest in this, nor should she. She's a good scout. I don't know if Taylor Swift is such a good scout, though.

But there's a rumor going around that she's suddenly getting conservative. Hmm. I guess, like, as soon as you decide to get married somehow, If you're married, you're conservative. How do you like that? I want to get to some of these numbers in just a second, because if you look at, for example, the influence that she had on the election, it actually was not very significant.

But I do find it funny that somehow if you're suddenly going to get married, now you're possibly conservative, hey, I'd love it. Like, it'd be great if she could become conservative. You know, become conservative. You have husband and children and your conservative. but if you're a single woman, you're not, I don't know about that thinking. But I will say this. I think they're worried. So she doesn't have a tremendous effect on the election, but she has enough. If you look at some of the statistics that went into the makeup of who liked who, like to in terms of

artists, take a look at this. I found this kind of interesting. Okay, so Taylor Swift, you know, she actually wasn't able to completely obliterate Trump the way some in the Democrat Party had hoped. In fact, basically three in 10 Swifties all voted for Donald Trump. Isn't that funny? And then you go down the list. I mean, Morgan Wallin had 61%, which makes sense to me. You look at Kanye West, 51%, Nikki Minaj, 40%. That's pretty interesting.

So a lot of these artists, Ed Shearin, 44%, only 37% voted for Harris. It could be that, you know, in all this talk of maybe she's going conservative, Maybe she's just a really good business woman, and she's looking at the handwriting on the wall, and she's like, okay, I see which way the wind blows, and it's not the way I thought back when I did Miss Americana. Remember that little documentary she had? I'm going to show you an excerpt from it. First of all, she's like attacking Trump, but then there's this non-Seguador because she suddenly goes after Marshall Blackburn, who, by the way, won the position as Senator in Tennessee, despite Taylor Swift's attempt to try and take her down. and, you know, Taylor's all over the place. She's either all over the place or she's a really bad editor. She needed to call in those 60 minutes folks that managed to make Kamala sound smart. Watch. Just from a security.

So you think- Taylor Swift comes out against Trump. I don't care if they write that. I'm sad that I didn't two years ago, but I can't change that. I'm saying right now that this is something that I know is right, and you guys, I need to be on the right side of history. and if he doesn't win, that at least I tried. Here's the problem.

I just want to read you what I wrote, and I'm going to try to start. I just really want you to know that this is important to me. I totally agree with the issue. Have you heard of her? Yes, I've read the entire thing. And the bottom line right now, I'm terrified. I'm the guy that went out in bought armored cars. I worry for her safety as much as anybody does.

Maybe more. It really is a big deal. She votes against fair pay for women. She votes against the reauthorization of the violence against women Act, which is just basically protecting us for domestic abuse. It's stalking, stalking. She votes, she thinks that if you're a gay couple, or even if you look like a gay couple,

you should be allowed to be kicked out of a restaurant. It's really basic human rights, and it's right and wrong at this point. And I can't see another. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. So she was all over the place. You know, first she's talking about Trump, and she's talking about Blackburn, and now suddenly she's getting.

married to Travis Kelsey who happens to be a Midwest football player and suddenly she may be going MAGA? No. James Comies is worried about it though. I mean, like, what kind of grown man like sits around and does a five minute and 30 second spiel for his substack newsletter? I'm just going to show you a teeny tiny portion because you got to get inside this guy's head. All right?

Former director of the FBI that tried to take Donald Trump, all he can talk about is. is Taylor Swift? Is he trying to keep her in the fold? Is that the idea? Don't go MAGA, Taylor, Dunk Omega, you might lose your best friend James Comey? He really likes her. It's weird. Of course, we need to stand up to jerks and defend what matters. But I think we have to try to do that without becoming like them, which is what makes me think about Taylor Swift. She's made clear that she sees Donald Trump for what he is, while our elderly makeup covered president is posting about whether Taylor Swift is still hot and declaring that he can't stand her, what's she doing? Living her best life. She said something about dealing with internet trolls that stuck with me.

Think of your energy as if it's expensive, she said, as if it's like a luxury item. Not everyone can afford it. We can't stop people from being jerks. What we can do is stop it from hurting us, from changing us. He's getting so poetic. I mean, he also volunteered that he listens to all of her songs. He knows all our songs. He knows all the lyrics to her songs. He's gone to multiple concerts.

He listens to her when he's mowing the lawn. I mean, this guy's a little obsessed. It's a little weird. I mean, I'm sorry. She's fine. I actually liked her early stuff. Like when she was almost a kid, she sang more acoustically and he didn't have all the production,

and she was more country. That's actually the Taylor Swift music I like the early days, but like James Gommel loves it all. He loves Taylor Swift. It's weird. We didn't need to hear that, James. We really didn't. But I'll also tell you this.

I think a lot of people don't care. You guys were like, Tish, what do you think of the marriage? Blah, blah, blah. I'm like, yeah, great, right? Whatever. Well, I am glad to report. I was not the only one. Take a look.

So, like, everybody's really into the Taylor Swift thing. And I'm like, who cares? I'm not the only one. Taylor Swift got engaged. Okay. That's it? Hey, Chats. Did you hear? What? Taylor Swift got engaged. With who? That, uh, okay? What you want me do about it?

What's up? Taylor Swift got engaged. Congratulations. What? Did you hear? I hear what? See what? I could give a f*** close.

In other words, okay. I loved that video. Again from my short speed. I really love that video. Anyway, I do have a little advice. for her. You know what? Congratulations. It's wonderful that you're getting married. I think you're 35, which means you're coming up on the, on the deadline, shall we say. And one of the things that I think in all seriousness, a lot of young women have been misled on is the idea that, you know, you can just pursue your career, pursue your career, and these deadlines, these biological deadlines don't matter, but the reality is they do. They do. And I would say my one biggest regret is it was really important

to me to find my spouse. And I remember like the clock ticking when I was like 23. I'm like, oh my gosh. And I was fortunate enough to meet my husband Young at 24. And he's just an incredible, incredible man. And he was then and he is now. And we've grown together. But I was so focused on that. And I was focused on career. And it didn't hit me until I was coming up into that 34 range that, oh gosh, I want kids. Of course, I knew I always wanted kids. Always wanted children. but you know, you get so focused on job that you're losing sight of the big picture. And at one point, you know, he sat me down. He's like, listen, we both want this, right?

Like, it's now or never. And I would, I just think that that's sort of in my parents. You know, I love my parents dearly. But, you know, my mom's a product of the 70s feminism stuff. And there's this idea that somehow, you know, this will be there forever. And it's not. And I have a lot of people I know, very dear friends and family, that you know what, they were not able to have kids. And it's actually as hard as it is.

Let me tell you what happened at the dinner table last night. As hard as it is, as tough as it is raising kids, it's the most extraordinary thing I can imagine. And you don't want to put it off because you don't want to put it off. you don't want to risk that, right? So Taylor Swift, you're doing the right thing. Have the kids as as you can. I mean, I would have loved, I should have had them at 25, right? But, you know, live and learn. I tell my kids, totally fine. You want to, hey, 18, I'm all in. I'm teasing, but you get what I'm saying. In other words, prioritize. And what is the biggest priority of all? it always needs to be family. It just does. So she can go on and have a big career, but the clock is

ticking. I wish her well. I hope it's the right guy. It better be the right guy. She's had a few misfires, shall we say, but I wish them very well. I don't care tremendously other than, you know what, I hope more and more women look at that. They do look at her as an example and say, you know, marriage is good. Family is good. This is where I need to prioritize myself because this, when it's all said and done, is all that matters in the world. I'm getting poetic myself. Gosh, James Comey, I guess she does bring out the poetry in all of us. Anyway, yeah, I know Don, she hasn't been, she left country so many years ago and wasn't she great when she was a country singer? That's when I liked her. That's when I liked her. There was something real. What are we getting back to? Authenticity. I hadn't thought of

it like that. But yeah, there was something very, very real about her when she sang those tunes with her guitar and just seemed like a little spitfire who was passionate about her music. And I respected that. And somewhere along the way, I think she got a bit lost. Leonard saying, can you say pre-nup? I said the other day, and it's going to be the longest book that Travis has ever read. Anyway, it is wonderful to have you here. I hope you guys have a terrific weekend. Please do your part. Spread the word.

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