On this special edition of the show, we have a sit down with Public Square CEO Michael Seiffert and Congressman Matt Gaetz to talk all about the patriot economy. We re continuing to push back against the "Woke" Corporate Media and the leftist agenda that has taken over so many of our critical institutions, especially corporate America. As we watch that poison take over, as we've watched them take your hard-earned dollars and weaponize it against all things that you may like, we gotta push back. So we've done that, and you're gonna really enjoy this one. It's a major theme of this show, obviously, and we want to make sure that everyone's out there doing it, that they are aware, and that they can choose to have their hard earned dollars go to people like them. True patriots, small businesses, you don't have to simply support the woke corporate mob and its radical left-wing agenda. There are great options for you, and I think that's really important. Thanks to some of the major sponsors, including TWC Health, The Wellness Company, D-O-J-R-Gold, and The Gold Co. We see it everyday, we see it every day, and it's only leading to more economic anxiety! Also, go check out the great folks over at Goldco.co to learn more about what they do to help take care of your family s health and safety needs. and help secure and stabilize your portfolio! It's that you and your family are ready for a good day! . Share it with your friends! Tweet me and let me know what you thought of this episode! Timestamps: 3: 4:00 - What can we do? 5:30 - How can we help? 6:15 - What are you ready for solutions? 7:20 - What do you think of the town hall? 8:40 - What s your favorite part? 9:00 11:30 - How do you need to be prepared? 12: What can you do to protect your family in a time of crisis? 13: Are you ready to take control of your financial future? 14:40 15:00 + What can I do to be a patriot economy? 16:00 Is it possible? 17:00 Do you have a plan for a country that s ready for it?
00:06:35.000you Hey guys, thanks so much for tuning in on a special edition of the show.
00:06:40.000We don't normally do this, but we've been talking about this a lot.
00:06:43.000We're doing a Public Square Town Hall in Pensacola, Florida, with Michael Seifert, the CEO of Public Square, and Congressman Matt Gaetz, a great fighter for the America First movement.
00:06:56.000We'll talk all about the patriot economy.
00:06:59.000We're continuing to get the message out and connect like-minded businesses with like-minded consumers.
00:07:06.000This is a big tenant of pushing back against the woke mob that has taken over so many of our critical institutions, especially corporate America.
00:07:15.000As we watch that poison take over, as we've watched them take your hard-earned dollars and weaponize it against all things that you may like But even the basic tenets of American freedom, we gotta push back.
00:07:29.000So we've done that, and you're gonna really enjoy this one.
00:07:32.000It's a major theme of the show, obviously, and we want to make sure that everyone's out there doing it,
00:07:39.000that they are aware, that they can find and they can choose to have their hard-earned dollars go to people like them.
00:07:47.000True patriots, small businesses, you don't have to simply support the woke corporate mob and its radical left-wing
00:10:27.000Check it out. Share it with your friends.
00:10:29.000If you get your podcast in other ways, you can get this later on or you can share it later on with people on Spotify, on iTunes, podcasts, etc.
00:10:38.000It's you guys that help get this out there.
00:10:41.000Main Street again and the small businesses that make our nation so special, Public Square is the marketplace for that.
00:10:47.000We have 80,000 vendors on the platform now.
00:10:50.000We well past a million consumer members faster than Twitter, Airbnb, Spotify, which is again a sign that we the people are ready for solutions.
00:10:59.000We're ready for solutions politically and we're ready for solutions economically.
00:11:02.000we at Public Square, amen, are proud to be the demonstration of that.
00:11:07.000So without further ado, we wanted to come together and host this town hall series with
00:11:19.000We want to bring together leaders from our community, leaders from our country with incredible community members, small business owners or active participants in your local community.
00:11:30.000And we wanted to make sure that you know that your voices and your opinions and your concerns are valued.
00:11:35.000And we want to give you the opportunity to hear from them about how these leaders plan to pave a new way forward so that we may protect those things that we hold so dear.
00:11:44.000So that's the purpose of our Town Hall Series.
00:11:46.000We cannot wait to enjoy it with all of you tonight.
00:11:48.000One last piece. This time together tonight is being live-streamed on Don Jr.'s Triggered podcast on Rumble, which is really exciting.
00:11:55.000So everybody say hi to the Triggered crew!
00:11:57.000Yeah! So this podcast will go live tonight.
00:12:03.000If you'd like a replay, make sure you go check out Don Jr.'s channel on Rumble where you can watch this whole thing.
00:12:08.000If you have family or friends that wanted to be here tonight but couldn't make it, you can give them that podcast and say, hey, relive the moment with me.
00:13:15.000Can I just take a moment because it's so special for me to be able to show off all of you to my friends Michael and Don and there's a there's a very special person I want to recognize here Kimberly Guilfoyle Kimberly Kimberly Kimberly is like a member of our family as well.
00:13:37.000A lot of people don't know this, but I really don't think I would have gotten married to Ginger, my amazing wife, if it wasn't for Kimberly, because Kimberly saw us wandering around Mar-a-Lago, me trying to get the courage to talk to Ginger, Ginger talking to way more impressive people than me, and... Tough but fair.
00:13:57.000Yes. Tough but fair. And so Kimberly says, you know, it's my birthday party tonight, and you need to ask Ginger to be your date.
00:14:04.000And so I said, you know, Ginger, Kimberly's got her birthday.
00:14:08.000And Ginger said it was a pity yes, that she didn't want me to have to go without.
00:14:14.000And so she was sitting between me and Tucker Carlson at the dinner, and Tucker kept going on about his show, and Ginger turned to him and said, it's lovely you have a television show.
00:14:50.000And... You know, there are like 220-some-odd members of the Republican House Conference, and I think Don gets about 400 requests every year to go to People's District.
00:15:04.000And I think it's a combination of our dear friendship, of the patriotism that emerges of this place, and the exquisite hunting and fishing that we offer today.
00:15:41.000Don is an incredibly successful international businessman, and I have a very powerful father.
00:15:48.000So it's really exciting to come together tonight to not just talk about what's going on in the nation, but what's going on in our economy.
00:15:56.000Because while every few years you get to vote with a ballot...
00:16:00.000Every single day you get to vote with your dollars.
00:16:03.000You get to choose who you engage in commerce with.
00:16:07.000And what's so positive and exciting about this movement we have is we really are one family.
00:16:13.000We're one country. We want to be there for one another.
00:16:16.000And that's what's so exciting about the mission of Public Square.
00:16:19.000It's there to make sure that when we vote with our dollars, we're engaging in commerce with people who actually love America and don't seek her demise.
00:16:27.000Michael, it's the biggest sadness I have about Congress.
00:16:31.000When I was in the state legislature, sure we had Republicans and Democrats and we disagreed about stuff, but I really felt like most of the time both sides wanted Florida to win.
00:16:41.000We just had different ideas about how to get there and more and more these Democrats I serve with today, they actually believe that their mission, that the world would be a better place if America were weaker.
00:16:53.000If we were diminished. And that is something Northwest Florida will never abide.
00:16:58.000We are all here to make America stronger.
00:17:01.000So, Michael, thank you for bringing us together.
00:17:04.000And I'm excited about, you know, us not just leaving here encouraged and inspired, but all of us leaving here more capable To engage not only in our politics, but in our economy in a meaningful way.
00:17:16.000Well, thank you, Congressman. Couldn't think of a better way to kickstart our conversation tonight.
00:17:58.000And the real classic Americana heart of Main Street seems to be alive and well here.
00:18:03.000But what are some of the biggest threats you see to that way of life that you're trying to cherish?
00:18:07.000Well, when we look at the cost of money right now, it's out of control.
00:18:12.000I mean, when you look at the fact that people's starter homes are now becoming their forever homes, when you look at the cost of a car loan, 61% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
00:18:24.000And more and more folks are having to rely on credit cards to get you from that paycheck to the next one.
00:18:30.000And the reason we are in default on loans more than at any time in the last decade is because of the federal government spending.
00:18:39.000You see, I think for many, many years there was never a cost to the debt that we were accruing.
00:18:44.000People saw it, but they didn't really feel it.
00:18:49.000We're gonna be 50 trillion in debt on the path that we're currently on and that is causing major credit ratings to devalue the United States of America and that means everything you've worked for your whole life is becoming worth less and less.
00:19:05.000Now, that is all too acceptable to the people I work with.
00:19:09.000They don't mind not taking the tough votes and making the tough decisions and making you pay the price for it every time you go to the grocery store or the gas station.
00:19:19.000And so I think a lot of what we've got to do is get a little more courage among my colleagues in Washington, D.C. And one thing I know is...
00:19:33.000Because I saw a lot of these weak folks in Congress, when Donald Trump was in the White House, when he was laying out that clear vision of productivity and progress and unapologetic success for the American people, a bunch of them got in line.
00:19:48.000But as President Trump has not been there these last four years, we've reverted.
00:20:44.000When Michael came to me a little over a year ago talking about Public Square and just trying to get this off the ground, it literally started at home during the lockdowns.
00:20:54.000He was like, hey, I'm going to a coffee shop.
00:21:25.000That beast goes with the woke talking points because it's easy.
00:21:29.000While sacrificing your guys' jobs, your guys' well-being, making you pay more, destroying every shop on Main Street, they don't care.
00:21:39.000Those interests are very much aligned because those are also the people, the corporations that are willing to write the big checks that perpetuate the process.
00:21:47.000So this is something that's different.
00:21:50.000One of the things I was just most startled by in a recent revelation on an investigation the House Judiciary Committee was doing, you had the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and entities that they fund telling banks that they had to report back to the government suspicious activities.
00:22:08.000And guess what those suspicious activities included?
00:22:13.000How about a Bible? The purchase of a Bible.
00:22:16.000Wow. The donation to any cause where you put America First or MAGA in the memo line, and it was compounding.
00:22:24.000So if on the same day you bought a gun and a Bible and made a MAGA-oriented donation, they are trying to remove you from the American economy.
00:22:53.000And I heard when you said it about the Bible, someone just, in the back, I can't really see because the lights are bright, but someone said, what?
00:23:03.000And the banks, many of whom you work with, willingly just gave over that information.
00:23:07.000They're not required to do that, but they just, it's easier to bend the knee.
00:23:11.000That's the same FBI and the same DOJ that labeled concerned mothers and parents going to PTA meetings Who did not want the indoctrination of their children into DEI and other nonsense?
00:23:23.000Domestic terrorists. That's the same organization that also labeled practicing Catholics domestic terrorists.
00:23:28.000Now, if you're a trans shooter and you shoot up a children's school, they will protect your identity?
00:23:33.000They will hide your manifesto for months.
00:23:35.000It was definitely something other than, you know, jacking up someone on all sorts of ridiculous drugs since they were, you know, a teenager or even much younger, which they'd love to do.
00:24:09.000We see what they try to do to the squeaky wheels who will actually be willing to talk about these things, whether it's what social media does, trying to censor me and others like us, whether it's what they did to my father, where they canceled, quite literally, the most powerful man in the world, at least on paper.
00:24:25.000If we all band together, they can't do that.
00:24:27.000Didn't they try to kill you yesterday?
00:24:49.000I mean, every time you come here, you were on The View the day before the last time you came to Pensacola.
00:24:58.000That was fun. By the way, if you haven't seen that one, Google it.
00:25:01.000Yeah, if you had to get killed by anthrax or go on The View again, which would you take?
00:25:07.000Well, that one was, going on The View was sort of like shooting fish in the barrel because they're used to, no, but go watch the episode, right?
00:25:13.000It was their 5,000th episode, so that's a lot of episodes.
00:25:16.000And they had me on to talk about a book.
00:25:18.000I was doing a book tour and, you know, I didn't get a single question about my book.
00:25:21.000Now, you know, you're supposed to, you figure they're at least honorable, but I said, you know what, in case this goes really wrong, why don't I just Google the dumbest things ever said on The View?
00:25:31.000And that list was actually long and not very distinguished.
00:25:34.000So I just had a couple pointers going in, and, you know, we went there, and Kimberly was there with me.
00:25:38.000She was sort of, you know, I call her Kimberly Voice of Reason, because, you know, I go aggressive hard, and, you know, you had to sort of, even if it was five on one, basically, with them against me, right, you have to sort of let them get their stuff out.
00:25:51.000And once the audience started realizing, like, this wasn't me talking about my book, then I could start hitting back.
00:25:57.000We had about, we got ten tickets in the room of about 150 people.
00:26:03.000But... They started losing the audience when I started heading back because the audience themselves didn't know, you know, Whoopi Goldberg, you know, being an apologist for Robin Polanski, and they didn't know that, you know, Joy Behar had done the blackface thing, and all these, you just call them out on all of the hypocrisy each and every day.
00:26:22.000And what was the best that you did not see, Matt, but I wish we could get the outtakes real.
00:26:27.000Like, when we were in commercial break, Whoopi was there, MFing, quite literally, using the full words, the people in the audience.
00:26:38.000I was like, no, no, these are people from New York.
00:26:39.000I have less than 10% of this audience.
00:26:42.000We're friends. But when you actually...
00:26:45.000When you talk about the truth, when you bring the reality where they're just not the people that are in charge, someone else needs to go there.
00:26:52.000I was there to sell a book, but they weren't going to do that, so I figured I'd just go scorched earth and have some fun.
00:26:57.000But when you don't need them to come back again and you don't care, they got nothing.
00:27:07.000So when we all band together and do what we're trying to do with public square, link patriotic people, link like-minded individuals, take the extra effort.
00:27:15.000Don't just go on Amazon and, well, it's easy.
00:27:18.000I can click one button. I click two buttons.
00:27:22.000To take that next step, you take away that money that they've been using to fund against you, to weaponize against you each and every day the causes that you can't stand, that they're gladly donating to.
00:27:34.000You know, they'd put all of us in the gulags if they had their choice at this point.
00:27:38.000Well, I appreciated the comfort of it.
00:27:41.000When we were in Washington last, and we wanted to know where to go to dinner, you pulled up Public Square, and we knew we were going to go somewhere where we weren't going to be harassed, that we could have a nice experience.
00:27:51.000And really, it's a community you guys are creating.
00:27:54.000Yeah, we had wild – it was Matt, myself, Kimberly, Carrie Lake, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Nigel Farage, like really like leaders of the movement.
00:28:02.000And we went to a restaurant in Washington, D.C., the heart of liberal insanity in America, where conservatives are harassed.
00:28:11.000And we were brought into a restaurant.
00:28:22.000It's so much more common than people know.
00:28:26.000Again, once you become unafraid and you're willing to explore and just sort of break out of the easiness that's been sort of put before us right now.
00:28:46.000Donald Trump Jr. ventures into the lifestyle space and brings the culture war with him.
00:28:51.000And in this piece, they mention a quote, and they meant this negative, okay?
00:28:55.000So everything I'm about to tell you, they were trying to make this some dig on Don that he feels this way.
00:29:00.000And you tell me if you resonate with this quote.
00:29:02.000I know that I do. Having your dollars go to a small business that shares your values instead of some woke conglomerate that's donating to whatever leftist cause is and literally weaponizing people's hard-earned money against them, I'm all for that.
00:29:24.000It's how I feel. It's how all of us in this room feel.
00:29:27.000If you have a dollar and you can choose to spend it for you, the family that you have, and the community you want to build, or you can give that dollar to somebody who's going to use it and put it into a pool of $400 million to fund elections against you, what are you going to choose?
00:29:43.000$90 million. The choice is pretty simple.
00:29:47.000So, Don, you've really been a leader in this sort of parallel economy movement.
00:29:52.000One piece I want to highlight, one thing I love about the men on this stage and all of you here tonight, is that you're more known for what you're for rather than just what you're against.
00:30:02.000The left has no vision for the future.
00:30:29.000What's your history with the parallel economy?
00:30:31.000When did you start realizing that we had a need for a new American renaissance in the world of economics?
00:30:38.000Honestly, it really started with politics, right?
00:30:40.000Because I was a business guy from New York.
00:30:42.000We built buildings. It's a very liberal city.
00:30:44.000I was always a conservative. But my first political fundraiser ever was for Andrew Cuomo.
00:30:50.000I know, but that's the reality of the world.
00:30:54.000I'm not saying I agree with it, but when you build buildings in New York, the Attorney General is the guy that signs off on all of your offering plans.
00:31:01.000You literally couldn't do it. So you start learning the political game.
00:31:55.000We took that. Now, they say it sort of sarcastically, like you're never going to be able to do it, but we did it with True Social, and we're doing it with Public Square, and we're doing it with other things.
00:32:02.000I started a publishing company, because as you know, Matt, they would literally, whether it's other colleagues of Matt, congressmen, senators, conservatives.
00:32:09.000I got canceled by a French publishing company.
00:32:12.000It was the first time the French stood up for anything.
00:32:41.000You know, Rumble now and working and talking with Chris Pawlowski, you know, they're bringing out literally cloud services.
00:32:47.000So they're going to compete with Amazon so that you're not actually concerned about those guys allowing you to build a business to a certain point, committing the blood, sweat, tears, toil, you know, capital that it takes to get something going only to find now you're cut off.
00:33:04.000I mean, how many businesses do you see?
00:33:06.000Oh, and now you're canceled. Or now you're cut off.
00:33:08.000They did it to other conservatives' things on social media, so you have to separate those things.
00:33:13.000That's why that whole concept of the parallel economy, it has to be everything.
00:33:17.000You know, there's great banks on Public Square that aren't going to do what those other banks did.
00:33:22.000I started a media business, news, literally just aggregation, because, you know, you go on Google, and we've seen Google in the last week with Gemini.
00:33:30.000It's like, Apparently, the Founding Fathers are African-American.
00:33:36.000But they've been doing that with Search.
00:33:40.000For two decades now, manipulating the scales of truth, influencing people's mindsets and decisions with lies and nonsense, and that's the way the algorithm works.
00:34:09.000Like, you know, is that true or did you see it on CNN? Because it's one or the other.
00:34:13.000And so I did this, and it was right around the time of CPAC, right?
00:34:16.000Actually, there was the day before this dinner that we were talking about in Washington, D.C. And my partner in the deal, literally, we're not creating news.
00:34:24.000We're just literally showing you everything so you can read all of it and make up your own minds.
00:35:23.000You literally got on the phone and told us that it wasn't a mistake.
00:35:27.000You said you didn't want to do business with us.
00:35:29.000You just, now it's a mistake because you got caught, just like what happened.
00:35:33.000So again, this is about that unity message of getting together.
00:35:37.000Once we all go out there, you know, 175 million Americans, and it's more, because the independents see what's going on right now also.
00:35:43.000I also think it's about trying to get us to self-censor.
00:35:46.000I think there are a lot of Americans, there are a lot of Northwest Floridians, there are a lot of people who wear the uniform in our community who worry that if they fly their patriotic flag at full mast, that there is some damage that will come to them.
00:36:01.000And so we have to figure out ways not just to, oh well, maybe I'll self-censor a little less.
00:36:06.000No, we have to say we're going to make our values and the things we believe an advantage.
00:36:11.000We're going to use that to grow our networks, to strengthen our relationships, to improve our commerce, to make it make us feel better.
00:36:19.000That's how we flip the script on them, not just by saying, oh my gosh, you know, if we put something online, are we going to get kicked out of the PTA? If someone sees me in a MAGA hat, am I going to get thrown out of my church group?
00:36:30.000In Northwest Florida, you know, I think that we've got a good way of things because we've got so many veterans who live here, so We got a good way of thinking about stuff.
00:36:42.000But maybe that's the obligation we have to lead.
00:36:45.000Maybe because we're a little less worried about those consequences in the neighborhood or around the block, maybe we need to be the first ones out there saying, no, we're going to be a central part of that resilience.
00:36:57.000And I'm so glad you were able to highlight the zenith of Kevin McCarthy's speakership.
00:37:02.000That I can now never say he never did anything good.
00:37:41.000And guess what? They're not getting canceled anymore because people understand that the people are actually there, but so many of the people were the silent majority because they were pushed into a corner.
00:37:50.000They were afraid. But it's gotten so ridiculous.
00:37:53.000The other side has failed so badly across the board in every conceivable metric.
00:39:23.000But point is, one area that you really led that I admired.
00:39:27.000You famously said in 2020, honest capitalism is under attack, not just from Bernie Sanders, Antifa, and the radical left, but by special interests and political action committees in the swamp of D.C. D.C. has been bought and paid for.
00:39:41.000And it makes it really difficult as a small business to advance against what seems to be a Goliath.
00:39:47.000You've put your money where your mouth is.
00:39:48.000You've also said that you're not actually accepting federal PAC money, which I found really admirable in this quote here.
00:39:54.000It's amazing. But, Congressman, speak to us for a second about this issue of D.C. being infected by corporate dark money that acts more like political actors.
00:40:08.000No, thank you. And I want you all to know I'm the only Republican in the entire United States Congress who takes no donations from federal lobbyists or political action committees.
00:41:21.000And because I'm fighting for them, they fight against me.
00:41:24.000But you know what? Any politician who stands before you and tells you that the millions of dollars that they get from lobbyists who are paid to buy their votes or the millions of dollars they get representing foreign countries when they're out of office doesn't affect them.
00:41:40.000And I think that something that This moment in our politics has awakened is a consciousness where you all know, you know the real deal from the fakes and the posers and the sellouts.
00:41:55.000I wish so much I could be home every single day.
00:41:58.000But in Northwest Florida, look, we got Navy towns, Air Force towns, Army towns, and we know that...
00:42:05.000Sometimes you've got to be an expeditionary force.
00:42:07.000Sometimes you've got to leave home and you've got to go to where the fight is.
00:42:11.000And on March 5th, we've got the beginning of primaries in Ohio and Texas and other states, and they run all the way through September.
00:42:20.000And my goal right now in life is to ensure that the United States Congress is better prepared for the second term of Donald Trump than we were the first term.
00:43:18.000By the way guys, he actually loves you more than you love him.
00:43:23.000You should have heard me say the people of the – when he was talking up there.
00:43:26.000I mean, it's genuine, and that's why that's amazing.
00:43:29.000I am a little shocked, though, Matt, to hear that the people don't genuinely believe that Nancy Pelosi is better at trading stocks than every person on Wall Street ever.
00:43:39.000I'm shocked that that is not the case.
00:43:46.000I mean, one of the reasons why platforms that we believe in are important to be a part of and invest in is because so much of big tech has turned against us.
00:43:55.000And Nancy Pelosi's husband was betting on the big tech stocks.
00:44:00.000Well, I was working to try to break up big tech.
00:44:02.000Now, how do you think that made me feel?
00:44:03.000I didn't have too much of a chance, but we don't deserve that.
00:44:07.000This is, I work every day and I walk under the statues of people like John Adams and
00:45:00.000You know, it's – honestly, it's moments like that that make all of it worth it.
00:45:05.000You know, we got a half-a-billion-dollar judgment against us last week, and they want to put my father in jail for 700 years-plus, maybe the death penalty.
00:45:16.000I mean, minor details. That's like an average – that's like an average Tuesday for us at this point.
00:45:20.000But I understand that I am not the upstanding citizen that Hunter Biden is.
00:45:26.000But I feel like maybe I've been treated a little bit disproportionately bad.
00:45:32.000If it was my laptop, I think it'd be a problem.
00:45:35.000You'd hear about it. The intelligence people and agencies wouldn't be coming and pretending it's Russian disinformation.
00:45:40.000You know, minor things like that. But it's why we fight, and that honestly means the world to us.
00:45:45.000I can assure you it was a lot easier just being a businessman, even in New York City, even as a Republican.
00:45:58.000You know, having five young kids and wanting to make sure they grow up in an America that we all know and recognize that is disappearing before our very eyes is super, super important.
00:48:31.000I didn't see Putin invading any other countries when Donald Trump was president.
00:48:36.000And, you know, Biden and them, they all go play foreign policy like it's paid by numbers.
00:48:40.000And Donald Trump understood that sometimes you talk softly and carry the big stick.
00:48:45.000I remember when your dad saw those pictures of those kids from Syria who had been bombed with chemical weapons.
00:48:51.000And he didn't go out there And run his mouth, and he didn't give a bunch of speeches, and he didn't write a bunch of strongly worded letters.
00:48:57.000He dropped 68 Tomahawk missiles on the airbase that launched those attacks, and there were no more of them.
00:49:05.000By the way, he gave that order while he was shitting with Xi of China at Mar-a-Lago.
00:49:09.000It was like, oh, by the way, once they were about 30 seconds out, he told them.
00:49:13.000Somewhere between his first and second milkshake is...
00:49:20.000Hey, I will take mean tweets and world peace.
00:49:23.000I mean, like, seems like a fair trade-off.
00:49:28.000And by the way, I think the mean tweets often got too much criticism because, like, you can have a mean tweet, but it can be true.
00:49:33.000Meaning, we all probably had maybe, you know, it was probably actually in my life, it was probably more my mom, you know, Eastern European tough woman, like, you know, we all had, like, the disciplinarian parent that you needed at some stage in your life that kind of, you know, Maybe we all as Americans actually needed to hear some of these things.
00:49:48.000We've become so scared of telling people that maybe, well, that's just not good.
00:49:53.000Everyone wins in the participation medal society in which we live in today, except for Republicans, but minor details.
00:49:59.000But I think the mean tweets may have been mean at times, but they were...
00:50:04.000True. They were right, and we all needed to hear it, and that's why we were prosperous, and that's why we had peace.
00:50:25.000You've watched these CEOs of these mega-corporate entities cower away the minute they have a diversity officer on their board say, sir or ma'am, you need to do this, or else the investors will think that you're not meeting your ESG or DEI goals, and they'll cower into a corner.
00:50:40.000And our planes will fall out of the sky.
00:50:43.000Yeah, I was going to say. Minor details.
00:50:44.000Yeah, yeah. If you've never read Atlas Shrugged, it's a good book that demonstrates where this all goes when you have this just general apathy move through society.
00:50:52.000So I think that, you know, sometimes the DEI ESG-driven world is really funny, like Google's Gemini, which I want to ask about in a second.
00:51:00.000But other times it gets really disastrous.
00:51:02.000If you are prioritizing in your customer service or in your safety these woke expectations instead of excellence and meritocracy, what other expectation can you have other than disaster?
00:51:16.000I want to lighten the mood, though, a little bit, and I do want to talk about Google.
00:51:18.000They lost $90 billion in market value in two days this week.
00:51:26.000Don, you first. I would love to hear your take.
00:51:29.000We talked about social media and Twitter.
00:51:31.000One of the most things that went the most viral this week is Gemini, the release of this AI that they had spent billions on that was unwilling to show a single white face in their demonstrations of anything.
00:51:49.000The fact that the pendulum has overcorrected so far, they're so desperate now to push the stuff that they did that they're saying the quiet parts out loud.
00:51:57.000You know, when it was just search, it was like, wow, that's weird.
00:51:59.000I'm only seeing CNN, but, you know, at the time, maybe if you're not like – if you're here, you're into this stuff, so you're paying attention.
00:52:05.000You've been watching. You're sort of awake to what's going on, but there's – Tens of millions, probably 100 million Americans that, hey man, they're busy trying to live what's left of their American dream, what hasn't been exported to China or elsewhere.
00:52:19.000We've got to use the proper vernacular.
00:52:22.000So, you know, they hear this stuff in the background, and they assume it's true, whether that's media, whether that's tech.
00:52:29.000But in the desperation to try to claim that stuff, to try to make, no, no, DEI, it's great corporate governance.
00:52:36.000It's good. It's like, no, no, how about just having the best person for the role?
00:52:41.000In the UK, where, you know, that is controversial.
00:52:45.000Hiring the most qualified person for the job is controversial because, for some reason, that is considered to be racist in the UK. And that's – we're not far behind.
00:52:54.000So watching them spend that kind of money to do this insanity, watching Disney spend billions in a movie to remake it with, like, woke characters that no one understands and then no one shows up, and they're like – Well, it's racist if you don't show up.
00:53:07.000It's like, no, like, if you make good content, people will show up.
00:53:11.000It's that simple. And so they've overcorrected so badly, but it's good because people understand it now.
00:53:16.000They know that even if they fix it, the problem will still be there.
00:53:20.000They'll just figure out a way to do it more subtly.
00:53:56.000People get it, though. You know, we're combating multi-trillion dollar enterprises that are actively out to destroy our country and our way of life.
00:54:06.000But, like, we're actually doing pretty good despite that because people finally get it.
00:54:12.000Again, once you get over that hurdle, once you become unafraid, once you stop caring about what they're going to do, we actually win this battle hands down.
00:54:20.000Yes. But we have to be hyper-aware, and we also have to, like I've said, the point of this is take the time to go find the people, the businesses that actually share those values and support them.
00:54:32.000If you just take the easy way out and say, well, okay, I won't like them, but I'll still use it.
00:54:38.000I'll still bank there instead of switching to go across the street or whatever it may be.
00:54:42.000I'll still go to Starbucks instead of, you know, the coffee shop across the street that actually shares our values.
00:54:47.000We won't win because the funding is what has enabled them to do this.
00:54:51.000It's why Google is a trillion-dollar business.
00:56:02.000To be honest, Congress doesn't need to do anything to shut this border down.
00:56:06.000President Trump got the border closed with executive action, and Joe Biden on his first day repealed all the Trump policies, and that's why we are the way we are.
00:56:18.000We all remember watching that Democrat debate, and when they asked the question, who wants to give free health care to illegal aliens?
00:56:24.000Every one of their hands went up, including Joe Biden.
00:56:27.000So that's why we have these challenges.
00:56:30.000And so I don't believe that we ought to be baited into the notion that we have to give $60 billion to Ukraine to close our border.
00:56:38.000Or we have to give, like, Joe Biden's woke and weaponized government everything they want, or raise spending over Nancy Pelosi's levels.
00:56:46.000I believe that it's the three things that Trump did.
00:56:49.000You stop in the first safe country you get to, you don't travel all the way to the United States.
00:56:53.000If you have an asylum claim, remain in Mexico.
00:56:56.000And third, according to Title 42, we have a public health emergency to stop the flow of fentanyl and illegal immigration into this country.
00:57:04.000You do those three things, you solve the problem.
00:57:12.000I worry about the lack of courage among so many of my colleagues, because while we have a two-vote Republican majority in the House, there is not a majority to really stand and fight on these issues.
00:57:23.000And you know why? Because there's no special interest in Washington that actually wants to reduce the flow of illegal immigrants.
00:57:30.000Just like Michael was saying, these big businesses, they want to increase the flow.
00:57:35.000And their big white hat entities, they're all there to push for open borders policies.
00:57:41.000And because that's where the money is, and that's where the interest groups are, that's where your politicians go.
00:57:46.000And the one man who put the working women and men of this country first was Donald Trump.
00:57:53.000And that's why we have to get him back in the position to do it again.
00:58:01.000You mentioned the bureaucracy out of D.C. or these larger corporate entities that have celebrated illegal immigration
00:58:10.000One of the most shocking institutions that is leading that charge to welcome illegal immigration into our country, disrespecting your sovereign America, is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
00:58:21.000They stand for everything except the U.S. and her commerce.
00:58:26.000They're the Chamber of Chinese Commerce.
00:58:29.000So, Don, talk to us a little bit about this, and then I want to ask you both one more question.
00:58:33.000The U.S. Chamber of Commerce was supposed to be the institution that was celebrating American small business.
00:58:38.000They were supposed to be the one bureaucracy out of D.C. that would help small business America, Main Street, know that their values were protected.
00:58:45.000And unfortunately, they have sold us out every chance they get.
00:58:48.000So, if you're sitting here tonight, you're giving advice to a business owner, what is
00:59:33.000Congratulations. Your policies now reflect that of big corporate America, not the little people.
00:59:38.000And so as people have figured that out, as they understand, as they go, you saw what's going on with some of the auto workers supporting Trump right now.
00:59:46.000You know, they're coming out and be like, yeah, wait a minute.
01:00:03.000That union is then going to basically encourage policies that will literally be the demise of your job, our company, and push EV mandates for batteries made in China with rare earth minerals controlled entirely by that dictatorial regime, and you're still going to pay union dues?
01:01:00.000They've seen it. So perhaps we needed that level of insanity.
01:01:03.000It's sort of like anything else. Are you going to hit rock bottom?
01:01:05.000I think we have, and the hardworking men and women of this country who have been abandoned and sold out by the corporate interests in Washington, D.C., and otherwise, they've had enough, and they're willing to finally say it.
01:01:19.000Love it. And Congressman, I want to make this Pensacola specific.
01:01:28.000Or we'll broaden it to Northwest Florida specific.
01:02:02.000And also the people who come to visit here often are from, you know, the SEC states, the Bible Belt, and they want to come here to have a good time and relax.
01:02:13.000And oftentimes they've worked all year for that one week that they get on Navarre Beach or Pensacola Beach or Okaloosa Island.
01:02:21.000They get what? They get seven days to spend like we get to spend the whole rest of our year.
01:02:26.000And so you know what? Let's kill it for them.
01:02:29.000Let's make sure that we've got great businesses and great opportunities and great experiences.
01:02:33.000One thing I know, the whole secret of this place, we've got all these great military folks, and they're here to do their naval aviation or their equipment training or their research and development work, and if we can get that white sand in between their toes a little bit...
01:02:46.000And we can get them dipped in that emerald green water, get a red snapper tugging on the end of the line.
01:02:51.000It's real addictive. And then they want to come back and have their families here and make their forever home here and have their roots here.
01:02:58.000And we are the ecosystem that can be a shining example to the rest of this country.
01:03:03.000When I brag about you all so much, when I go around this country, I say, listen, my folks know what a great nation this can be, but we have to fight for her.
01:03:12.000You know, Madison said the greatest role in this government wouldn't be congressman or senator or even president.
01:04:17.000Well, by the way, we love that you're here.
01:04:20.000Don't go back, but I'm kind of worried all the Republicans are coming here.
01:04:25.000You're allowed to come here, but you have to send 1.2 Republicans back to Michigan to take your place.
01:04:31.000You have to find them, and they have to go.
01:04:35.000You know, we tell our fellow Californians all the time, there are over 5 million registered Republicans in the state of California.
01:04:40.000It has the second largest conservative representation in the entire country, and yet, California is a supermajority in both chambers of Congress at the state level in the state House and legislature.
01:04:51.000So imagine if you took the five million conservatives from California and just moved them to all the purple states.
01:04:56.000We would have a cemented red majority as long until the cows come home.
01:05:01.000It would be amazing. Oh, could you just imagine how...
01:07:25.000You know? Yeah, I think that the good thing about Florida, I've noticed, is it gets in the blood pretty quick.
01:07:35.000You know, folks can come here from just about anywhere, and, you know, you can tell them the new arrivals, they're like, they're trying to get that cup of coffee a little bit faster, and, you know, they're in a little bit of a hurry.
01:07:49.000We get them squared away here in the panhandle especially.
01:07:53.000And here's the good news. You know, when Don and I were campaigning for Ron DeSantis in 2018, this state had 300,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans.
01:08:02.000And like today, we have half a million more registered Republicans than Democrats.
01:08:10.000It's not just that everyone who wants their third grade teacher to pick their kid's gender moved out.
01:08:17.000It's that a lot of great, patriotic, freedom-loving Americans moved here.
01:08:22.000And so I think the best way to ensure that our influence really permeates is to be the very best version of ourselves.
01:08:29.000And we do a pretty good job of that here in Florida One.
01:08:32.000I also think, honestly, that all of the things that we're talking about have sort of appealed to a lot of demographics that would have been traditionally Democrat voters.
01:08:40.000I mean, I think if you look at where it's going in Miami-Dade even, very left area, the Latino community over there, I mean, they are...
01:08:49.000Republicans. By the way, they've always been Republicans, they just didn't know it, and they didn't vote accordingly.
01:08:53.000But they believed in family and education and hard work and all of the things that we all believe in, and so they're now getting it.
01:09:01.000And the Republican Party is the outlet that they realize the Democrat Party is no longer anything about.
01:09:53.000You know, the panhandle always brings the people home because South Florida is like an hour ahead of us, but we, even with Rick Scott, with DeSantis, like just that tenth of a tenth of a percent, the panhandle hits a home run every time and brings you guys in.
01:10:13.000So, I want to know, how can we, in the panhandle, now that things have changed a little bit, how can we better support President Donald Trump in the upcoming election?
01:10:29.000Listen, I think Florida, honestly, I think it's going to be more red than it's ever been this time around.
01:10:34.000And I remember back in the 16th election, I did ungodly amounts of radio and TV the
01:11:01.000I'm like, no, you just get back on the radio.
01:11:03.000We've got to make sure that the people here turn out.
01:11:05.000But, you know, again, I think you see it here, the patriotism that exudes from this part of the state.
01:11:12.000They're going to show up anyway, but I think we've actually backfilled a lot of what was lacking in other parts of the state that, you know, hopefully we don't need to depend on you guys.
01:11:20.000We want you to show up, obviously, but we just want it to be a landslide rather than something we're thinking is even close.
01:11:27.000We may have to travel a little to fight.
01:11:31.000You know, Georgia's not that far away.
01:11:33.000And we're going to be organizing some groups of folks to get into southern Georgia and to make sure that we've got good turnout for good patriotic Americans in that part of the country as well.
01:11:45.000But, Barbara, I want you to know, when I first saw President Trump in Washington, D.C., I made sure he knew who delivered that victory in the Sunshine State.
01:11:54.000And it was all of us in the Central Time Zone.
01:12:25.000I don't know what's going on in Michigan, but I'm not a betting man, but I bet your dad took Michigan tonight, sir.
01:12:31.000I'd say that's safe. I think the only state that Nikki Haley is going to win is the state of denial.
01:12:38.000But it hasn't stopped her yet, so, you know, participation medal, it's awesome.
01:12:44.000Yes, sir. All right, my question is, what can we as a community do to encourage the local businesses to participate and join Public Square?
01:12:53.000Well, that's for you, Michael. Gladly answered that one.
01:12:56.000But I do want to hear y'all's take because you've both been really instrumental in helping this platform grow.
01:13:01.000So I'll give you sort of a high-level answer and then I'll give you a practical one.
01:13:04.000The high-level answer is let us be, hopefully, if you think we're worthy of it, as a platform, let us be a part of your regular conversations with these small business owners.
01:13:16.000If you go into a coffee shop and you see a big American flag on the wall, I know this works because I've done it before, it's worthwhile saying, hey, do you love the country?
01:14:46.000They're just great businesses that are providing incredible quality products and services for you, and it just so happens that their values totally align with yours.
01:14:54.000So I'd say as a philosophical point, let Public Square be a regular part of your conversation.
01:14:58.000You'll be amazed at where that leads if you talk about the mission first.
01:15:02.000Practically, we have a table at the back, the back corner there, right before you leave at the door, where, yeah, we've got some great team members back there that would love to help sign you up for our ambassador program, where we'll literally, if you're like, hey, dude, I'm an evangelist for the platform.
01:15:16.000I love the idea. I'd love to invite businesses.
01:15:18.000We actually will give you a t-shirt, we'll give you stickers, we'll give you all the things that you need to go out into your local community and just spread the word.
01:15:24.000By the way, if you, most of you live in a very red area, but even if you don't, you'd be amazed at some of the success we've had in heavily blue regions.
01:15:34.000Would you believe that Chicago is our second most dense city in the entire country on Public Square?
01:15:45.000Would you believe Seattle's in the top five?
01:15:48.000So, of course, they're the evident ones like Dallas and like South Florida and like Tampa.
01:15:53.000Like, you've got these great cities represented, of course.
01:15:56.000But you never know who needs it, no matter how blue or how red of an area you live in.
01:16:00.000So, it really transcends politics, and we'd love your help growing the movement.
01:16:04.000Any other things you'd add there, guys?
01:16:05.000I would just say for all of us, we all shop at a ton of veteran-owned businesses, right?
01:16:09.000I mean, a lot of the breweries we go to, a lot of the small businesses here are veteran-owned.
01:16:16.000And the good thing is, a lot of them advertise that they're veteran-owned, right?
01:16:20.000And so when we see veteran-owned businesses, that seems like a way for all of us to help our veteran-owned businesses connect with customers who will want to patronize them.
01:16:29.000Yeah, we actually did some internal research recently and discovered we actually have the largest compilation of veteran-owned businesses of any marketplace in the entire country, which is super exciting.
01:16:44.000I love Pensacola. Heavily military-influenced cities.
01:16:47.000There's just a real sense of America that you feel when you're in places like this.
01:16:51.000See, we train the aviators that are flying over all those folks that are getting trained in San Diego.
01:16:55.000That is true. That's absolutely right.
01:16:58.000Hey, I want to kick it to a few more questions here.
01:17:02.000We talked a little bit about business ownership generally, but I want to talk a little bit about the folks that are actually starting businesses and taking their first steps.
01:17:13.000And Josh Patello had a really good question about this.
01:18:27.000And first of all, you're in good company because Don and I are both mama's boys.
01:18:31.000That was one of our first connections as friends, is nothing wrong with being a mama's boy.
01:18:38.000And no one's ever going to love you like your mother.
01:18:40.000And so it's great that you gave her a shout-out.
01:18:44.000But I really think around here, there's kind of a unique...
01:18:49.000It's a cachet about Pensacola, our history, our culture, our image.
01:18:54.000It's why American Magic wants to be here.
01:18:56.000We're getting more and more television and different things.
01:18:59.000And so being able to be a part of enhancing that Pensacola brand and telling that story.
01:19:04.000I mean, you go up and down Paula Fox Street here, we got so many businesses that are doing...
01:19:09.000like millions of dollars in e-commerce and they say having that downtown Pensacola historic address helps them market and so in a way we're all a part of that brand like it or not and so we're brand ambassadors and we have to elevate it for the community but but also like Michael's been saying shopping local We got so many options around here for Florida-based businesses, Northwest Florida-based businesses.
01:19:34.000You don't always have to surrender to the ease of the big box or the Amazon or the Walmart.
01:19:40.000And I think that if we make those small choices here, all of it stays among us.
01:19:49.000I want to add something to that to say that if you're young and starting a business, recognize the economic moment we're living in.
01:19:57.000When I was first pitching Public Square, I had this thesis.
01:20:01.000I was going to investors that were values aligned and said, I really believe there's going to come a day when you're going to see some of the major corporate entities in our country show their colors, like who they really are.
01:20:12.000Little did I know Bud Light would just be a year and a half later.
01:20:15.000But I said I really feel like there's this reckoning coming, and there's sort of this divide coming that we didn't start, but we have a responsibility to respond to.
01:20:24.000And so as these corporate entities reveal their cards for who they are, it's going to leave a market gap.
01:20:46.000No, they won't. But they exist, and they'll come and they'll support the types of businesses that we're describing.
01:20:51.000But even if you just said, you know what, let's just quantify the Trump economy.
01:20:56.000If you take the folks that voted for Trump that they're willing to admit in 2020, and you quantify those in terms of GDP representation, Trump voters in 2020 accounted for over $7 trillion in GDP. Seven trillion.
01:21:11.000That makes Trump voters in 2020 the third largest economy in the entire world by GDP. Only smaller than China and the United States more broadly.
01:21:22.000And can you name me even one major corporate entity that's even trying to talk to those people?
01:21:49.000A welcome and a God bless you and I'm glad you're here.
01:21:52.000If you can provide that experience, you will night and day differentiate yourselves over your competitors.
01:21:58.000It is that simple. People are starving for the things that used to be normal in our country and young entrepreneurs like you can bring us back to it.
01:22:05.000So that's the thing I'd add. Hey, we've covered a few of these questions tonight in our comments previously, but there's one here that I want to end on that I just think is fantastic, that I think would be a really wonderful way to sum up the evening.
01:23:13.000When I say they, I mean those conglomerates that are working as the marketing arm of the Democrat Party.
01:23:17.000It's groups like this, people who are able to show up, whether it's this, whether it's one of the countless other The primaries that we're talking about where people are showing up, they're getting engaged, they're involved, they're going to the places that a couple months ago, a couple years ago, you'd literally be afraid that you're going to be ostracized in society.
01:23:37.000People have had enough and they're showing it.
01:23:40.000To me, I mean, it just feels like an awesome place to be.
01:23:44.000It's a 1775 type of moment in our country where people, you know, they went along for a long time, they figured out, and now they've had enough, and they're making it very clear they've had enough.
01:23:55.000So I see this as I go around the country and I go around every – people, they're getting it.
01:24:00.000They're awake, they're pissed off, and rightfully so, and they're going to act accordingly.
01:24:09.000I get this question at all of our discussions.
01:24:11.000And before we roll, I've got to thank the McDavids, my good friends who are our hosts tonight, who've made this wonderful venue available to us.
01:24:19.000It means the world to us to be able to celebrate in this space together.
01:24:22.000Thank you for everything you've done for our community.
01:24:27.000I remember hearing this as a young man going out into the world when Barack Obama was president.
01:24:32.000They said the economic growth would never exceed 2%.
01:24:36.000America would always be reliant on other countries for our energy and our raw materials.
01:24:43.000That we just had to accept the fact that Obama would be bowing to the Chinese and going to baseball games with the Castros in Cuba.
01:24:51.000And I saw how one man put this economy and this country on his back.
01:24:57.000And he delivered a level of positivity and success and wealth.
01:25:05.000And we were richer and we were stronger and we were prouder and we were better.
01:25:09.000And he did all of that despite the fact that in the United States Congress he had Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell doing everything they could to stop him.
01:25:42.000And I see the Congress for what it really is.
01:25:44.000And that's why I will spend the coming months on the campaign trail throughout this country backing the candidates who will have the courage and the strength and the fortitude and the willpower to make the tough choices we have to make.
01:25:58.000I wish I could tell you that we were one renamed post office or blue ribbon commission away from saving the country, but we are not.
01:26:06.000The easy decisions, they're in the rearview mirror and we have tough Work ahead, but we are a tough people.
01:26:13.000This is a tough district and you have a tough congressman and I will never stop fighting for you.
01:26:18.000Applause Ladies and gentlemen, let's thank Donald Trump Jr.
01:26:48.000Don't forget to sign up on publicsquare.com.
01:26:51.000Remember, it's not just about the business, it's also the consumer.
01:26:55.000It's both sides. We're linking up both sides of these transactions, and you guys are a critical part of that.
01:27:01.000Love it. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a fun little surprise for you at the end of the evening here.
01:27:05.000So, at this Town Hall Series, we wanted to make sure that every time we stop off in another city full of glorious patriots like yourselves, we want to give back to the community in some way.
01:27:14.000We want to actually select a local business and give a grant, albeit small but hopefully mighty for the success of this business, of $1,000 to a different small business every single city we go to.
01:27:26.000I remember when we were just starting out and growing as a very small business, $1,000 was material.
01:27:31.000It matters. It's another payroll you get to pay.
01:27:34.000It's another bill you get to pay off so that you can sleep easier that night and get refreshed for the next day, excited to keep conquering.
01:27:42.000So tonight, we're really excited to give $1,000 to a small business from the panhandle here in northwest Florida.
01:27:48.000I want to introduce you to a man named John Blackrock who started a great company called John Candor.
01:28:10.000It just felt right for something like this.
01:28:12.000So, hey, John Kandor, I can speak from personal experience.
01:28:16.000He's an incredible clothing company maker, specifically in the world of accessories like shoes and leather goods.
01:28:22.000The world of footwear has become dominated by people who are either incredibly woke and want to lecture your kids about gender or by people that will actually lobby Congress to allow them to continue utilizing slave labor to make your shoes.
01:29:04.000Well, ladies and gentlemen, we're super grateful for businesses like John Kandor.
01:29:08.000We're grateful for folks like you that make our nation special.
01:29:11.000I'm hopeful to that last question from Lance.
01:29:14.000I'm hopeful because I remember the first time we had a small business reach out and say we only had 150 businesses on the platform at the time.
01:29:20.000A small business reached out, a hair salon in San Diego, California, and they said we were about to have to go under.
01:29:26.000And after three weeks of being on Public Square, we've had our most successful month we've ever had times five.
01:29:33.000And I remember, this thing has taken blood, sweat, and tears to build in three years, but I remember sitting with my wife and saying, if that's all that this ever is, if it was that story, if that's all that we ever do, all of this was worth it.
01:29:44.000And so I'm incredibly grateful that there's been thousands of stories like that now, and with the help of patriots like you, there will be thousands more.
01:29:51.000Pensacola, thank you for greeting us tonight.
01:30:03.000Ladies and gentlemen, we hope you have a fantastic night, and we'll see you next time.
01:30:11.000Okay guys, thanks so much for tuning in.
01:30:18.000I hope that was a masterclass in how to combat some of the woke mob that has taken over and owned the corporate media, just corporations in general, how to find those patriotic small businesses and to support them.
01:30:34.000If we band together, they can't cancel us all, folks.