Bannon's War Room - WarRoom Battleground EP 1005： Matt Boyle Hosts America’s Ambassador Monica Crowley

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00:00:47.960 it's thursday 7 may in the year of our lord 2026 we have a special uh to um commemorate the 250th

00:00:58.200 anniversary of our nation's founding matt bowl at breitbart monica crowley the ambassador for

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00:01:21.080 metals in the age of Trump. Get to Philip Patrick and the team you want to talk to. Now, Matt Boyle

00:01:26.660 and Monica Crowley. Let's start really big picture here. How important is this as a moment for us as

00:01:33.200 a nation? What are some of the things that you think are some of the big thematic things that

00:01:40.360 we need to take away from this? Well, first of all, thank you so much for having me here today.

00:01:44.320 Thanks for everybody for coming out on a rainy morning.

00:01:48.460 Really appreciate it.

00:01:50.380 You know, thank you also for saying that I have the coolest jobs, because I remember

00:01:54.680 when President Trump nominated me for the chief of protocol position, everybody came

00:02:00.340 up to me and said, you're going to have the best job in all of Washington, D.C.

00:02:05.660 And I thought, well, there's some really cool jobs out there, right?

00:02:09.380 Secretary of War, Secretary of Homeland Security, so many great jobs. And they said, no, no, no,

00:02:15.600 you don't understand, but you will when you become Chief of Protocol of the United States.

00:02:20.320 And now that I've been in this position for just about a year, I can honestly tell you,

00:02:25.420 I do have the best job in all of Washington, D.C. Extremely grateful to President Trump for

00:02:32.000 thinking of me for this position, for his confidence in me to do it, and to serve him

00:02:38.040 his administration, his agenda, and of course, the American people in this position. It really

00:02:44.340 is a blessing. God is very good. So 250, yes. So when the president did call me and nominate me

00:02:51.620 for this, he said, Monica, I really want you to be chief of protocol of the United States. And I

00:02:56.120 said, thank you so much, sir. This is the greatest honor of my life, of course. And then he said,

00:03:00.700 but wait, there's more. And I said, yes, sir. What else would you like me to do? And he said,

00:03:06.580 I would like for you to be my administration's representative for all of the major U.S. hosted

00:03:12.100 events in the second term. That includes America's 250th birthday. It also includes the FIFA World

00:03:19.740 Cup coming to the United States in just a few short weeks. And it also includes the 2028 Olympic

00:03:26.140 Games in Los Angeles. And I have to tell you, both portfolios are absolutely fantastic,

00:03:34.460 extraordinary. Every day is the greatest adventure because I am Senate confirmed. I have ambassador

00:03:40.280 rank and I'd like to call myself America's ambassador. And what an incredible blessing

00:03:45.860 that is. So on 250, which is the first big major event that is coming upon us here very shortly,

00:03:53.080 we have an entire array of extraordinary events for the American people. We don't just want to

00:04:01.200 make this a national celebration of our 250th birthday. We want to make this a truly global

00:04:08.240 celebration. And one of the things I always talk about when I talk about 250 is that there may be

00:04:16.100 some of us in this room, and I will not ask for hands, but there may be some in this room who

00:04:21.940 remember 50 years ago, America's bicentennial. You don't have to raise your hand.

00:04:27.640 Um, but there may be some, yeah, I'm not going to ask you to timestamp yourself. Um, but there

00:04:35.240 may be some in this room and, and watching who do remember America's bicentennial celebration in

00:04:41.220 1976. And while you may not remember the specifics about that day, I certainly don't because I was

00:04:49.840 very, very, very young. I don't remember the specifics like where President Ford was that day

00:04:57.860 or what he said to the nation in his big speech to the country that night. I don't remember those

00:05:04.180 specifics, but I do remember how I felt. And I was a little girl, and I remember being at the

00:05:11.720 Jersey seashore with my parents and my sister, Matt, and I remember being at the beach on July

00:05:17.900 forth that year, holding a sparkler in one hand and a small American flag in the other.

00:05:24.900 Waving that flag so proudly, it was this indelible sense of American patriotism and love for my

00:05:34.740 country, even though I was too young to fully understand what that meant. I remember being

00:05:41.020 surrounded, of course, by my family, but also by the community on Long Beach Island in New Jersey,

00:05:46.280 And also that feeling of being enveloped by this overwhelming, warm, common love of our exceptional country.

00:05:56.320 What a gift that was to me and to my generation and the generations that do remember that bicentennial.

00:06:04.620 And that is exactly what we're trying to recreate for our semi-quincentennial this year.

00:06:10.380 It is that feeling of American patriotism around our shared values, around this shared sense of renewed civic pride.

00:06:21.080 And so we have built our programming going forth to July 4th and then beyond July 4th, which we'll talk about as well, to really bring this country together.

00:06:31.080 because a lot of people, especially if you were born after 1976,

00:06:36.340 you may not understand how divided this country was during the bicentennial year.

00:06:42.200 We had just come out of Watergate and the resignation of President Nixon.

00:06:47.280 We had come out of the Vietnam War. 0.84

00:06:50.380 Both episodes really tore this country apart.

00:06:53.420 There were serious, serious divisions.

00:06:56.200 And this time around, too, we are a very divided country.

00:07:00.120 And so what happened in 1976 was it created a unifying event, a unifying purpose that healed the nation and brought this country together.

00:07:12.420 And so we are hoping that our programming, Freedom 250, the website is freedom250.org.

00:07:18.280 I'm going to say that many times over the course of our conversation.

00:07:21.200 Freedom250.org, all of the things that we are going to put forth here, all of our programming is really centered on this, a couple of ideas, bringing the country together, but also celebrating our exceptional history in our exceptional nation, our extraordinary present under President Donald J. Trump, and our extraordinary future of our next 250 years.

00:07:48.800 Okay. So, Madam Ambassador, I want to get into a lot of the things that are programmed. But before we do, I think it's important to note that something you just said there about how, you know, again, the bicentennial, we were pretty divided as a nation. And again, we're very much so now. But I think we have a president right now and President Trump who really deeply loves this country. Say what you will about him, love him, hate him.

00:08:14.980 I get it. There's a lot of people out there that don't like him. Trump derangement syndrome runs

00:08:18.640 very, very deep in our political class. But the fact is he loves this country and you see it

00:08:24.400 every day with what he's doing and just how hard he works. So can you talk to us about how important

00:08:29.880 it is that President Trump is the president here on the 250th year? Well, you know, President Trump

00:08:34.560 often jokes. He said, well, my first term, I brought the FIFA World Cup to America and I

00:08:40.500 brought the 2028 Olympic Games to America. And I thought, you know, I'm not going to be around

00:08:45.660 to actually see it because I'll serve two consecutive terms. And we all know what

00:08:50.760 happened in 2020, where he did win in a landslide. And we will soon be able to get evidence about

00:08:57.080 that. But now, I mean, this is absolutely the hand of God here, because what a gift it is

00:09:04.060 to have President Trump as president right now in this moment to celebrate America's 250th.

00:09:11.220 And the president jokes, yeah, I tried to take credit for America's 250th birthday also,

00:09:17.060 but that wasn't quite working out that way. But yeah, what a gift to have him as president in

00:09:22.420 this moment. Can you imagine if the other side had been in office, you'd probably get a press

00:09:28.100 release on the morning of July 4th and you'd see her out on the beach the rest of the day. 1.00

00:09:33.700 Yeah, sleeping on the beach. We are going to have the most momentous and exciting celebration in

00:09:40.220 American history because President Trump has promised the American people that that is what

00:09:45.920 our exceptional nation deserves. Okay, so now upcoming in just a couple of weeks, I think it's

00:09:50.600 May 17th, you have the first of these big major events planned here in Washington, D.C. It's called

00:09:55.940 Rededicate 250, and it's all about faith and prayer and God. I think I saw some pastors out

00:10:02.700 they're saying this might be the biggest faith event in the history of our nation's capital.

00:10:06.660 Can you talk to us about Rededicate 250? What's going to happen here? What's going to

00:10:11.140 go down? Who's going to be here? Lay out what's going to happen at this event.

00:10:17.260 Well, it's absolutely perfect, Matt, that this event is really the first major event this year

00:10:23.320 to kick off America's 250th birthday. Because our big project here, I know at Breitbart,

00:10:30.060 certainly in the White House, President Trump's big project is to restore America back to her

00:10:36.180 foundational principles of individual liberty, economic freedom, and self-governance, and restore

00:10:42.420 power back to the people. That's what Make America Great Again is really all about. So in order to

00:10:49.380 restore our nation back to those core pillars, you have to have God. Our founding fathers in so many

00:10:56.840 of their documents and their letters refer to God and how they couldn't do what they did in

00:11:02.940 establishing our exceptional country without the hand of God on them. And they recognized that at

00:11:08.700 the time. So now here we are 250 years later, restoring the Republic, and we certainly cannot

00:11:16.680 do it without him. So this is why we decided that we were going to have the national prayer event

00:11:22.960 on the National Mall as really the first big event to kick off a whole series of events of

00:11:28.320 celebration. It is called Rededicate 250 on the National Mall, beginning at, the park opens at

00:11:36.180 about 8 a.m. and the programming will begin mid-morning. And it is really a national jubilee

00:11:42.980 of prayer, faith, repentance, redemption, and thanksgiving for all of the blessings that we

00:11:51.640 have had in this country for the last 250 years. It's about renewing our personal faith in God.

00:11:59.180 It's about coming together as a national community to restore this nation as one nation

00:12:05.620 under God. There have been times in the life of this nation where we've lost our way a little bit

00:12:11.340 with regard to our collective faith. And what we wanted to do with this event is really bring the

00:12:17.840 American people, bring the country back in one big celebration of faith and restoration,

00:12:24.880 a return, if you will, to God.

00:12:27.460 You know, it's amazing because if you listen to some people on the left, I was just in

00:12:31.680 Europe, I was doing a bunch of panels and there were some lefty, you know, really not

00:12:35.960 so pro-America people on these panels with me.

00:12:38.160 And we did an America 250 thing at this big Delphi Economic Forum in Greece.

00:12:42.020 And one of the guys there was trying to, it was paraphrasing our Declaration of Independence.

00:12:48.140 And he goes, all men born equal, right?

00:12:50.320 Like the left wants to remove the word created.

00:12:53.180 They don't like the fact that our founders were very focused on faith.

00:12:57.140 Can you talk to us a little bit about that and how we see, you know, we've maybe moved

00:13:01.340 away from the faith a little bit here in the United States and around the world.

00:13:05.220 I think we got to return to it. 0.99

00:13:06.480 So I think this is awesome.

00:13:07.440 Yeah, I would say in the last hundred years, Woodrow Wilson and kind of the birth of progressivism, there has been really a move towards secularism in our society and not just in America, but really across the West.

00:13:20.580 And I think what we are trying to do is restore the nation back to its moorings of faith.

00:13:27.720 The founding fathers, and certainly George Washington if you go to Mount Vernon, but if you look at all of their letters to each other, to their spouses, Abigail Adams, they all invoke God.

00:13:40.300 And they knew that their mission was blessed.

00:13:43.620 I mean, if you think about it, and even now, 250 years later, with President Trump, there is no logical explanation for Donald Trump and his path over the last 11 years except the hand of God.

00:13:59.180 I mean, that is just, as a person of faith, I believe that.

00:14:02.780 I see it.

00:14:03.320 I think it's quite obvious.

00:14:04.340 And then when you zoom out and you look at the life of this country, because it was founded on Judeo-Christian principles, because our founders so deeply believed in God, they realized that when God is for you, who can be against you?

00:14:20.980 No weapon against us shall prosper. And that's why they felt so emboldened and empowered to take

00:14:28.320 on the world's greatest empire that showed up in the Revolutionary War in crisp red coats. 0.71

00:14:35.620 And here we came at them, a bunch of, you know, a ragtag group of country farmers, country lawyers, 0.55

00:14:43.180 country merchants, all in their basic clothes and some muskets took on the world's greatest 0.98

00:14:49.760 empire at the time and won and created the greatest experiment in human freedom that to 0.98

00:14:56.420 this day we seek to preserve. So after we get through with the Rededicate 250, you guys have

00:15:02.560 a number of other major events planned. Another big thing that I think you guys just announced

00:15:06.540 is going to be a great American state fair on the National Mall. Can you talk to us about the

00:15:10.680 state fair? Oh, but Matt, you're skipping a huge event in between the prayer event,

00:15:17.240 which is critically important

00:15:19.140 and something else that's also very

00:15:21.240 important to the president. It's all important to the president

00:15:23.260 but this one in particular

00:15:24.580 lights him up like no other and that

00:15:27.340 is the UFC fight on the

00:15:29.180 South Lawn.

00:15:31.480 So the UFC

00:15:33.020 fight. UFC 250.

00:15:34.860 By the way, it's on my list of things to ask about here.

00:15:37.100 Well, I thought we were going in

00:15:39.080 chronological order and I didn't want to miss

00:15:41.020 this one. Okay. Tell us about the UFC fight

00:15:43.180 and then we'll get to the same thing.

00:15:45.760 UFC 250 is coming to the White House.

00:15:50.160 They're going to begin building the octagon at the end of this month, right on the South Lawn.

00:15:55.260 The president has talked about how there's going to be a 5,000-person theater all around the octagon,

00:16:02.540 right out of the back door of the White House on the South Lawn.

00:16:05.680 June 14th, these fights are going to take place.

00:16:09.120 It's going to be the most extraordinary thing, quite a spectacle.

00:16:13.280 June 14th happens to be Flag Day.

00:16:15.760 And it also happens to be the president's birthday.

00:16:19.480 This is a big birthday for the president, which I know he doesn't want to talk about.

00:16:23.420 But we are going to celebrate that birthday with this massive UFC fight, which is going to be just beyond belief.

00:16:32.400 Okay, so after the UFC fight, the Great American State Fair.

00:16:35.860 Yes.

00:16:36.180 So tell us about that.

00:16:37.760 What's going to happen at the Great American State Fair on the National Mall?

00:16:40.180 This is going to be so much fun.

00:16:42.640 So the Great American State Fair launches on June 25th, and it runs through July 10th.

00:16:48.480 So you'll have 16 days to come out with your family, your friends, get everybody here to Washington, D.C.

00:16:54.440 It's going to line the National Mall, Matt, and all 50 states and six territories will be represented, each with their own pavilions.

00:17:03.640 And in every state pavilion, each state is going to showcase what makes them special.

00:17:09.840 So I'm sure for Wisconsin, you'll have a lot of cheese curd and other things.

00:17:15.060 But each state, it's up to them to decide what they want to showcase in terms of their agriculture, their scientific innovations.

00:17:25.920 Anything that makes their state really stand out among the 50 and the 6 territories, they will highlight in those pavilions.

00:17:32.980 So this is going to be a massive nationwide fair all set on the National Mall.

00:17:38.440 We're going to have rodeo.

00:17:40.800 We're going to have traditional games and competitions.

00:17:43.520 And the big highlight, for the first time ever on the National Mall, we are going to have a 110-foot Ferris wheel.

00:17:53.540 So you'll be able to ride that Ferris wheel and see a perspective of your nation's capital, which is now incredibly safe and clean and increasingly beautiful.

00:18:05.020 all thanks to President Trump, who when he came in in this term said, our capital city should be an

00:18:11.920 absolute gem. It should sparkle for the people who live and work here, but also for all of the

00:18:18.500 visitors that come from around the country and around the world. So when you go up in that

00:18:22.700 Ferris wheel, you will see a newly sparkling Washington, D.C. And then this state fair goes

00:18:30.140 all the way through to July 4th, which then we're going to have the big...

00:18:33.460 July 10th.

00:18:34.480 July 10th, so even after.

00:18:35.940 Yes.

00:18:36.380 But on July 4th, we're going to have the huge fireworks show.

00:18:39.220 Yes.

00:18:39.920 So all of this will culminate on July 4th.

00:18:42.660 And I should mention that the Ferris wheel and the National State Fair,

00:18:50.520 the doors will open every day at 10 a.m.

00:18:52.760 They will go into the evening hours.

00:18:54.700 So whether you work, you want to spend part of your lunch break there, whatever,

00:18:58.160 but bring all of your family and friends.

00:19:00.140 10 a.m. till the evening hours, and on the weekends later. Yes, July 4th, our big salute

00:19:06.420 to America. And I should say, before I get to Washington, D.C., on July 4th, again, if you

00:19:13.240 remember 1976, there was an international naval review in New York City, in New York Harbor.

00:19:21.000 And it was a procession of tall ships, as well as modern naval ships that started around the

00:19:27.580 Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor, and then went up the Hudson River.

00:19:32.160 Absolutely gorgeous.

00:19:34.280 And at that time, Matt, we had about 20 countries represented with tall ships.

00:19:39.080 This year, we're looking at over 30 countries sending a gorgeous tall ship from the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th centuries.

00:19:49.940 Absolutely beautiful.

00:19:50.600 I will say, being chief of protocol, Matt, I'm around world leaders all the time, and they're ambassadors, and I have hustled every single one to send a tall ship or a modern naval vessel.

00:20:05.820 So we are looking at over 30 countries represented in New York City that morning of July 4th, 10 a.m., international procession of tall ships and modern naval vessels.

00:20:16.860 It is going to be absolutely gorgeous.

00:20:18.740 That's amazing. So I'm glad they're all sending ships. So they're not sending ships to other

00:20:24.060 things right now. So I don't think Iran will be represented in the international naval reviews.

00:20:30.960 The president sent their entire Navy to the bottom of the sea. Yeah, they're not left anymore. So

00:20:36.360 there's no Iranian Navy to send anything from. So okay, so Ambassador, then later in the summer,

00:20:43.660 In August, you guys have a big race happening here in Washington, D.C., right?

00:20:48.340 Like an IndyCar race.

00:20:49.360 So before we get to the race, July 4th here, we have so much that we have planned.

00:20:54.940 We have a lot of events we've got to go through.

00:20:57.660 So that's the New York piece.

00:20:59.360 And then, of course, every community is going to have their own programming.

00:21:03.440 Freedom250.org, you can go on that website, find out more information about all of these

00:21:08.020 events, as well as what's happening in your state and your neck of the woods.

00:21:12.120 later that day on July 4th will be the huge salute to America. And the president, again,

00:21:18.860 has asked for the most momentous, biggest, greatest celebration in the history of the country,

00:21:26.860 being Donald Trump. Of course, he wants the biggest and the best. And we are going to deliver

00:21:31.320 that for him, but also for the American people, really for the entire world to see. We have a lot

00:21:37.740 of countries who want to participate in our celebration as well. So we've got embassies

00:21:43.600 around the world. We'll have embassies all up and down Washington, D.C. celebrating in red,

00:21:49.920 white, and blue, a global illumination. Every time zone on July 4th, we'll have countries around

00:21:55.720 the world lit up in red, white, and blue. It's going to be a breathtaking scene. July 4th here

00:22:01.460 in D.C., the salute to America will, of course, include the president's participation. We will

00:22:07.380 have headline performances. We will have the biggest fireworks display in the history of the

00:22:14.260 world. And I've been told the magnitude of this fireworks display. I'm not allowed to tell you

00:22:19.900 exactly how many fireworks, but suffice it to say, you are not going to want to miss this.

00:22:25.920 It is going to be unbelievable. So many talented people coming out to perform for the American

00:22:32.360 people celebrate our country, all again on the National Mall. Incredible stuff. Okay, so now,

00:22:39.000 later in the summer, IndyCar race. Yes, I know you were trying to get to the IndyCar race. I want to

00:22:43.320 talk about the IndyCar race. This is exciting because, by the way, it gives a reason to actually

00:22:47.700 come to D.C. in August because usually D.C., there's nothing going on here in August. Everybody

00:22:52.460 leaves, right? Congress is on recess, etc. This is actually going to be fun. So tell us what's

00:22:57.600 going to happen here with the IndyCar race? This is going to be the coolest thing ever. So this is

00:23:02.760 IndyCar race. They're calling it Freedom 250 IndyCar, celebration of America's 250th. Roger

00:23:09.740 Penske is very close to President Trump. So there was a conversation there. And the president said,

00:23:15.760 let's make it happen. Let's make it happen as soon as possible. When can we get this done? How cool

00:23:20.780 as this. Well, originally, the original track was going to go around the Capitol building, which

00:23:27.220 of course would have been amazing. Congress could not get their act together. They would have to

00:23:32.820 sign a waiver because there will be advertising around the track, and you're not allowed to

00:23:37.700 advertise around the Capitol building for obvious reasons. So we were trying to get a waiver and

00:23:43.040 work that through, and Congress couldn't get it done in time. So the president picked up the phone,

00:23:48.120 made one phone call, and Penske, they just turned it around and one day redesigned the entire track

00:23:57.100 to go close to the Capitol, but not physically around the Capitol. And this track is so cool.

00:24:04.340 Independence Avenue, Constitution Avenue. I've seen the entire layout of the areas of the pit stops

00:24:11.100 and where the media is going to be in the different boxes. This city is going to be

00:24:16.420 transformed into an IndyCar track that is not going to be believed. The president will drop

00:24:22.920 the flag and kick off the race. And then Secretary Duffy, Secretary of Transportation,

00:24:29.720 will drop the flag for the winning car. And we're expecting upwards of 75 to 100,000 people coming

00:24:36.340 to DC for that. Free of charge. All of these events are free of charge. Some, I think you do

00:24:42.480 have to register for Secret Service security and so on, but it costs you absolutely nothing.

00:24:48.180 Freedom250.org is the website. Yeah. And so, and then in addition to all of these events too,

00:24:53.720 you guys have on the website too, because I was doing my homework before we did this,

00:24:58.080 also several opportunities for students around the country to do things and, you know, use their

00:25:03.240 creative juices to help here. There's an art contest, a poetry contest for young folks across

00:25:10.360 the country. Tell us about those. Yeah, so that is called American Heroes Student Art Contest.

00:25:15.760 You have until July 1st to register and submit the work that you would like to submit for this

00:25:21.660 contest. Again, freedom250.org for all of the details there. It's all about celebrating American

00:25:28.080 patriotism, and that's why we called it American Heroes, because we really want to involve these

00:25:34.520 younger generations in a love for their country, because you guys at Breitbart talk about this all

00:25:39.400 the time, there has been serious indoctrination of our kids for generations, maybe 100 years

00:25:47.460 or so, through public education, but also through private education as well, to really

00:25:52.340 tear kids away from America, what it means to be an American, and tear at the love, the

00:25:59.220 innate love that I certainly had when I was a little girl in 1976, that all of us in this

00:26:05.040 room grew up with, they've been indoctrinated away from that. So what we're trying to do is

00:26:10.420 counterbalance that with a real message of love for America, appreciation, and get them to have

00:26:16.760 some skin in the game by giving them great incentives with contests like that one. We're

00:26:22.040 also in the fall mat going to have the Patriot Games, which is also something that's very special

00:26:27.960 to the president. Yesterday, he announced the renewal of the presidential fitness,

00:26:33.520 physical fitness test for kids in school

00:26:36.700 so that they're not just sitting looking at their phones.

00:26:39.860 We're all guilty of that,

00:26:41.520 but kids really need to get out in the fresh air and move.

00:26:44.840 So he has resurrected that to his great credit.

00:26:48.000 And then in the fall, we're going to have these Patriot Games

00:26:50.660 for high school-aged kids to really showcase

00:26:54.720 what it means to have the American competitive spirit.

00:27:00.520 The American health care system is broken.

00:27:03.520 And for most Americans, nothing changes.

00:27:06.400 There's still delays, denials, high-cost insurance roadblocks.

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00:31:04.440 War Room, here's your host, Stephen K. Mann.

00:31:12.360 Okay, so now I want to talk about your other cool job,

00:31:15.420 which is the Chief Protocol.

00:31:17.940 So a lot of, and I think they interconnect, by the way,

00:31:23.600 so I really do, in that, you know, look,

00:31:26.760 we're talking about our 250th here right now,

00:31:28.800 But the big question, I think, you know, when we're talking about all these other civilizations around the world, whether it's Iranians, the Chinese, et cetera, there's a big question.

00:31:37.920 They've been around thousands of years.

00:31:39.220 We've been around 200.

00:31:40.120 We're the new kids on the block.

00:31:41.860 But how do we make sure we're around for another 250 and another 250 beyond that and another 250 beyond that?

00:31:47.260 And I think that's something that President Trump is very much focused on.

00:31:50.960 So one of the big things that's going to happen next week is President Trump is scheduled to go to China.

00:31:55.740 And I know both sides are very excited about this meeting, and there's been a lot of maneuvering between the two sides, et cetera.

00:32:03.240 Tell us about what to expect next week when President Trump goes there, because I know you'll go with him.

00:32:08.940 So talk to us about what we'll see there in China when President Trump is.

00:32:14.940 Well, we're all very much looking forward to this trip to China.

00:32:18.440 And the president obviously has a long list of issues to talk to Xi Jinping about, including Iran, of course.

00:32:25.020 And the entire rebalancing of global trade, thanks to President Trump, he came in in the first term and began instituting tariffs, primarily directed toward China, but also the European Union, so many other countries around the world, because he saw that the United States, the American worker, the American people were getting ripped off by globalization, and he wanted to rectify that.

00:32:51.280 He saw entire communities being hollowed out and gutted by globalization in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, but really all across the country.

00:33:01.720 And he said what was happening to the American worker, the American industrial base, American agriculture was grossly unfair.

00:33:11.100 So he began this process in the first term.

00:33:13.040 Second term, he's taken it on steroids.

00:33:15.860 It really has rebalanced the global trade balance in a way that nobody expected and nobody thought could be done, and he has done it.

00:33:26.200 So obviously trade is at the top of the list.

00:33:29.480 Iran, the world's oil supply, and the world's energy roots,

00:33:35.300 which this president is also realigning to dramatic effect for the benefit of the United

00:33:41.080 States of America and the American people, taking out Maduro, freeing up the Venezuelan oil supply,

00:33:48.020 then going after Iran. Now we see the blockade in place. A lot of this is designed to isolate

00:33:54.740 China, which has no real natural oil or energy supplies of its own. It imports a great percentage

00:34:02.240 of its energy supplies, so the president going into this meeting with Xi Jinping holds all of

00:34:07.860 the cards. He actually posted something on True Social the other day with the cards,

00:34:12.920 and I retweeted and put, accurate, he does hold all of the cards going into this meeting.

00:34:18.600 That's exactly where you want the American president to be, going into a serious conversation

00:34:24.140 over the course of two days with Xi Jinping.

00:34:28.600 Because he is realigning the entire global power structure,

00:34:34.880 Xi Jinping understands that as well.

00:34:37.100 And that is why you have not seen a lot of agitation

00:34:40.820 or complication coming out of Beijing

00:34:42.820 with regard to what we are doing around the world,

00:34:45.760 not just in the Middle East with Iran,

00:34:48.040 but Venezuela, et cetera.

00:34:49.600 You have not seen Xi Jinping openly complain about it,

00:34:53.180 try to retaliate in any way. And I will tell you this, Matt, you know, you mentioned my position

00:34:58.140 as chief of protocol. I am extremely honored and blessed to be with these world leaders prior to,

00:35:04.540 during, and after they see President Trump. And I will tell you, to a person, these leaders,

00:35:10.800 even when there are serious policy, political, and ideological differences with him,

00:35:16.780 his administration, and with America, they all appreciate a strong American president

00:35:23.680 because they understand exactly where they stand with him and with this country.

00:35:30.500 President Trump does not leave a question mark over anything. He tells you exactly what he

00:35:35.740 believes, exactly where he stands, and he will tell you the truth. President Trump is, dare I say,

00:35:42.160 apart from George Washington, okay, and maybe Abraham Lincoln. He is the most honest president

00:35:49.760 we have ever had. Now, you may not like what he's telling you. The truth hurts sometimes.

00:35:54.620 Truth can be really brutal sometimes. We all know that to be true. You may not like what he's saying.

00:36:00.720 You may not like the way he's telling you the truth, but he will always tell you the truth.

00:36:05.560 And every leader around the world, whether it's President Putin, President Xi Jinping,

00:36:09.680 they all understand President Trump and they know exactly where they stand with regard to him.

00:36:17.040 Yeah. No, I couldn't agree more. So your history is actually very interesting. You got your start

00:36:23.380 right out of college working for President Nixon in the later years of his life.

00:36:28.740 President Nixon, of course, the famous, you know, Nixon went to China, right? And the reason why

00:36:33.720 that was important at the time was because we were trying to win the Cold War with the Soviet

00:36:37.580 Union. What do you think President Nixon would think about our China strategy today? And I think

00:36:46.640 that President Trump has, like, really changed this for the better for the United States. But

00:36:50.700 frankly, the last several presidents before both parties, maybe not so great. But what do you think

00:36:57.520 he would think about where we're at today? By the way, only the most controversial presidents

00:37:02.100 for Monica, okay? No Grover Clevelands, okay? No William Howard Tafts for me. Only the most

00:37:09.160 controversial. Nixon and Trump, man, do I know how to pick them or what? Hey, they're the best ones,

00:37:15.060 right? They are the best ones. Why? Because... They did bold things. Yes, and that made them,

00:37:21.540 and they were America first. President Nixon was America first really before there was an

00:37:25.540 America first. And really, we're champions of the American worker, of the American people,

00:37:32.480 really love this country, body and soul. There are many similarities. Maybe you and I will do

00:37:36.800 another conversation like this about that. It is quite extraordinary, and it both made them

00:37:41.960 top targets of the deep state because they were peacemakers and because they put America first,

00:37:49.000 and the deep state could not have that. So we can talk about Watergate as a deep state coup

00:37:53.360 another time. We'll do a whole other special event on that. But when it came to China, you're

00:37:58.580 exactly right. President Nixon opened the door to China. I wrote my whole PhD dissertation about 0.98

00:38:03.920 this, about Truman Acheson and then 20 years later Nixon-Kissinger and how they treated the

00:38:09.980 People's Republic of China in two very different eras. But Nixon saw that at the height of the

00:38:17.440 Vietnam War, the United States was really drained domestically, financially, militarily,

00:38:23.740 economically. In every possible way, culturally, we were being drained by this war. So his freedom

00:38:30.960 of movement, his latitude to carry out a very aggressive foreign policy toward the Soviet

00:38:38.460 Union, toward China, et cetera, was very, very restricted. His hands were tied. So what did

00:38:45.340 Nixon do? Well, he looked at the global chessboard and he understood that he couldn't aggressively

00:38:52.860 confront the Soviet Union at the time. And Soviet power in very real and relative terms was growing

00:38:59.720 in the late 60s, early 70s, particularly with regard to their nuclear arsenal, but also the

00:39:05.940 Soviet conventional arsenal was growing as well. So he realized he couldn't take them on in a full

00:39:12.260 frontal way. So the best way to counterbalance the Soviet Union at the time was to open the 0.91

00:39:18.660 door to China and use China as a counterweight against growing Soviet power. And it worked at 0.73

00:39:24.780 the time. You asked me what Nixon would think now. Nixon was absolutely brilliant and was a true

00:39:31.240 visionary in the sense that he was one of the very few leaders, and I would put Donald Trump in this

00:39:36.880 category as well, who could see what the world was going to look like 20, 30, 40 years down the road

00:39:43.600 and then make American policy in the moment as president to anticipate that world. That's what

00:39:50.920 he was trying to do with China, deal with them in the moment, counterbalance Soviet power, try to 0.58

00:39:57.660 use China as a way to end or facilitate the end of the war in Vietnam. And so it was a brilliant

00:40:05.120 strategic move at the time. What he saw happen over the next 30 years that he lived after that

00:40:12.380 was that China then was leveraging its growing power and its billion-plus people to open up

00:40:21.260 economically to the rest of the world and then use our money via trade and other ways to enrich

00:40:29.220 and empower itself in a very fast period of time.

00:40:32.040 My very first trip to China was in 1993 with President Nixon.

00:40:36.620 It was his last trip to China, my first.

00:40:39.740 And Matt, when I tell you it was just coming out of this agrarian kind of societal period,

00:40:48.100 there were four main lanes in the highway in Beijing.

00:40:52.100 So the middle lane had no cars on it in 1993.

00:40:56.460 And that lane was dedicated for the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.

00:41:01.880 So whenever the leader, the premier, wanted to go along with his entourage, that lane was always clear, no cars.

00:41:08.360 The second lane in was meant for personal vehicles.

00:41:13.360 That lane was also empty.

00:41:15.660 I think maybe I saw one or two personal cars going through Beijing in that lane in 1993.

00:41:23.140 The fourth lane over was bicycles, and that was packed.

00:41:28.160 Millions of people in those bike lanes.

00:41:30.820 And the fourth lane over was for donkeys and oxen and carts, and that lane was also jammed.

00:41:39.840 Fast forward to 2019, and I'm working for the first Trump administration at the Treasury Department with Secretary Mnuchin,

00:41:47.540 and we went in August of 2019, talk about phase one trade deal.

00:41:52.280 And I could not believe my eyes.

00:41:54.900 I had not been to China in the previous 20, 25 years.

00:41:58.920 I could not believe what I was saying.

00:42:00.620 In the space of one generation, China had become a nuclear and industrial superpower.

00:42:09.260 Okay?

00:42:10.620 In the space of one generation.

00:42:12.340 And I remember leaving in 2019, shortly before COVID exploded in Wuhan.

00:42:17.080 We were there maybe two months before it exploded there.

00:42:20.420 But I remember thinking, every American who has the resources to go to China must go and see with their own eyes what we are up against. 0.62

00:42:32.620 You can read about it, you can see it on TV, unless and until you go there and experience what they have done in 25 to 30 years, you will not understand it.

00:42:44.620 President Trump understands it. He gets that the CCP is an existential threat to the United States.

00:42:51.600 So while he tweets and true socials about how he's got a great relationship with Xi Jinping,

00:42:57.640 Xi Jinping is highly respected, all of that is true. But the president understands the nature

00:43:03.600 of this threat in every way, strategic, economic, trade-wise, in every aspect. And his priority is

00:43:12.400 the United States and getting America into the premier position where we remain the world's

00:43:19.560 superpower in every part of that superpower portfolio. And China does not get to that point.

00:43:26.560 So that is what he is going into these meetings with. President Nixon understood that as well,

00:43:32.120 and he set the table. And right now, President Nixon would 1,000% be behind President Trump and

00:43:39.860 what he was doing. He would have understood 15 years ago, 20 years ago, that the orientation of

00:43:46.100 China to the rest of the world had changed, and therefore American policy toward China had to

00:43:52.160 change. And he would not have allowed this kind of exploitation of America's industrial base,

00:43:58.360 the American people, American workers, to have occurred had he been president during that period

00:44:03.560 of time, the 80s and the 90s and into the 2000s. It's almost like we're in a second Cold War,

00:44:09.600 But the fact is, is that I feel like the and I say this whenever I go overseas, I mentioned I was just in Greece and, you know, it was my third trip there in the last year.

00:44:19.120 I've been to Italy, to a number of other places as well.

00:44:24.440 I've had conversations with a number of different embassies around town.

00:44:28.700 It's been a really fascinating experience here, especially in Trump's second term, because I think that I try to explain this to the folks.

00:44:36.320 I get it that they freak out about this thing or that thing or, you know, Greenland, oh, tariffs, oh, you know, whatever the latest thing is.

00:44:43.840 And the fact of the matter is that what President Trump, I think, is trying to do, and I think you see this on the front lines, he is trying to basically rally the entire free world to the United States' side.

00:44:54.540 And, again, as we're talking about America's 250 here, you know, Ronald Reagan called us the shining city on a hill.

00:45:00.240 Are we that shining city on a hill, and how do we make sure that we lead the entire world for another 250 and another 250 on that?

00:45:11.000 Let's go for 5,000, right?

00:45:13.260 But let's start with another 250.

00:45:15.840 So I think that's very much what the president is trying to do in all of these things, in everything that he's doing,

00:45:23.320 whether it's the trade policies, whether it's the peace deals, whether it's the military actions,

00:45:31.040 like what he's doing with Iran and what he did with Venezuela or what he's doing with our diplomatic power as well.

00:45:39.780 So it's pretty incredible to watch, I think.

00:45:43.160 So just in the last little bit we got left here, Madam Ambassador, kind of give us that bigger, broader vision here,

00:45:49.280 because I do think that what the president is doing is designed, and again, I get it,

00:45:54.700 sometimes they freak out, you know, this one or that one, this comment or that comment.

00:45:59.260 No, there's a bigger vision here from President Trump, and I think that you see it coming

00:46:03.900 together on a bigger stage, especially if you studied geopolitics at all.

00:46:07.860 Don't be a panicking.

00:46:09.580 That's my best advice.

00:46:11.040 Don't be a panicking.

00:46:12.360 Listen, President Trump has been a public figure for 50 years.

00:46:18.100 He's been a political figure for the last 11 or 12 since he decided to run for president back in 2015.

00:46:25.460 I think at this point, if you still don't know who this man is, what he believes, what he has done, and what he intends to do,

00:46:34.760 I don't know what to tell you because, like I said, he is the most honest president we've ever had.

00:46:39.660 He tells you point blank what his objectives are.

00:46:42.940 I also think he understands we were talking about the spiritual aspect of America before.

00:46:49.100 And because this country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles and under the hand of God, this country has been under spiritual assault literally from day one.

00:46:59.140 Revolutionary war, civil war, Great Depression, two world wars, deep state wars from within.

00:47:06.520 This country has been in assault because there are some dark forces that really want to see this country collapse.

00:47:12.940 I think President Trump understands that aspect to it.

00:47:16.920 I think he feels it.

00:47:18.020 I think he sees it.

00:47:19.480 And he understands, just as the founding fathers did,

00:47:22.280 that every day in America is a fight because we're under constant assault.

00:47:28.320 This man gets up every single day, puts on the armor of God,

00:47:32.660 and goes to battle for the United States.

00:47:36.000 And therefore, each one of us who believes in this country has to do the exact same.

00:47:40.380 I proudly do it every single day. I know you at Breitbart, you all do it too. Everybody in this

00:47:45.760 room, everybody watching does the same thing. So when you hear something that sounds a little off,

00:47:51.900 understand that President Trump understands the bigger picture. He gets it. And he is a master

00:47:59.040 of the game. So he'll troll somebody. He'll throw something out there that sounds completely

00:48:06.600 outrageous, right, to the natural ear. And just right on cue, the press, the left, everybody goes

00:48:14.960 absolutely crazy. They're all chasing that shiny object. He's laughing because he's over here

00:48:22.500 doing something else that's incredibly important for the country and for the West.

00:48:28.580 So understand that when you hear or see something that may not jive with what you think is right or

00:48:35.700 just understand there is always a plan. There's always a method to his madness. And after being

00:48:42.940 through everything he's been through, he didn't take us this far just to leave us behind or to

00:48:50.600 leave the agenda half done. Absolutely not. You know, in January of last year, January of 2025,

00:48:58.680 I think he had been in office this time for about 10 days, Matt, and somebody tweeted,

00:49:04.080 I think I bookmarked it, but I forget who tweeted it.

00:49:07.600 Somebody tweeted, and it went crazy viral because it was so good.

00:49:11.180 They wrote, President Trump is governing like a man who's been arrested, raided, impeached, indicted, and shot.

00:49:20.700 And it's so true because he literally has nothing left to lose.

00:49:25.540 He is absolutely fearless.

00:49:28.460 He does not waste a single moment in this administration.

00:49:32.780 We're all just trying to catch up with him and keep pace with him because he is understood in the second term.

00:49:38.180 By the way, the question I get most from people, does he sleep?

00:49:41.920 Never sleeps.

00:49:43.760 Superhuman.

00:49:44.500 The man is superhuman, especially on Air Force One.

00:49:47.680 He walks the plane.

00:49:49.060 So you never want to be caught by the President of the United States snoring, drooling on yourself.

00:49:54.420 So you rarely sleep on the plane.

00:49:57.360 But he does give you permission to sleep.

00:49:59.460 So he'll come in and talk, and then he'll say, okay, guys, why don't you get some rest?

00:50:04.720 So he knows the rest of us need sleep, even if he doesn't.

00:50:08.920 Incredible stuff.

00:50:09.760 All right, Ambassador Monica Crowley, Chief of Protocol of the United States,

00:50:13.200 Administration Representative to Freedom 250.

00:50:16.380 I really want to thank you for joining us.

00:50:17.840 Again, give up for where people who are watching this at home can make their plans

00:50:22.520 to come here for these various events, for the Freedom 250 events.

00:50:26.280 Sure, absolutely.

00:50:27.140 freedom250.org is the website, freedom250.org. You can find out all of the details of everything

00:50:34.420 we've discussed here today, find out what's happening nationally, all of these big events,

00:50:39.720 but also what's happening in your state, your community, and also how you can get involved.

00:50:45.080 One thing we didn't mention were the Freedom Trucks, which are phenomenal. They're a fleet

00:50:49.460 of 18-wheelers packed full of America's story, beautifully done. They're museums on wheels,

00:50:56.380 And if you've got like a trade conference or a corporate conference coming close to July 4th or even after, you can book one of these Freedom Trucks for any event, even a birthday party or something you want to do.

00:51:10.280 All of it can be found at freedom250.org.

00:51:13.780 So please get involved.

00:51:15.680 I do have such great memories of 1976.

00:51:18.980 And just, you know, corporations had everything was red, white, and blue.

00:51:23.080 If you go into Target now, you see some of that.

00:51:25.320 But we really want to create an overwhelming sense of American patriotism as we celebrate this birthday.

00:51:31.940 So I encourage everybody to get involved, come out to all of our events, freedom250.org.

00:51:38.160 All right. Thank you, Ambassador.

00:51:39.420 Thank you, Matt. Thank you so much.

00:51:41.960 Thank you.

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Bannon's War Room - May 08, 2026

WarRoom Battleground EP 1005： Matt Boyle Hosts America’s Ambassador Monica Crowley

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