00:01:50.380You know, thank you also for saying that I have the coolest jobs, because I remember
00:01:54.680when President Trump nominated me for the chief of protocol position, everybody came
00:02:00.340up to me and said, you're going to have the best job in all of Washington, D.C.
00:02:05.660And I thought, well, there's some really cool jobs out there, right?
00:02:09.380Secretary of War, Secretary of Homeland Security, so many great jobs. And they said, no, no, no,
00:02:15.600you don't understand, but you will when you become Chief of Protocol of the United States.
00:02:20.320And now that I've been in this position for just about a year, I can honestly tell you,
00:02:25.420I do have the best job in all of Washington, D.C. Extremely grateful to President Trump for
00:02:32.000thinking of me for this position, for his confidence in me to do it, and to serve him
00:02:38.040his administration, his agenda, and of course, the American people in this position. It really
00:02:44.340is a blessing. God is very good. So 250, yes. So when the president did call me and nominate me
00:02:51.620for this, he said, Monica, I really want you to be chief of protocol of the United States. And I
00:02:56.120said, thank you so much, sir. This is the greatest honor of my life, of course. And then he said,
00:03:00.700but wait, there's more. And I said, yes, sir. What else would you like me to do? And he said,
00:03:06.580I would like for you to be my administration's representative for all of the major U.S. hosted
00:03:12.100events in the second term. That includes America's 250th birthday. It also includes the FIFA World
00:03:19.740Cup coming to the United States in just a few short weeks. And it also includes the 2028 Olympic
00:03:26.140Games in Los Angeles. And I have to tell you, both portfolios are absolutely fantastic,
00:03:34.460extraordinary. Every day is the greatest adventure because I am Senate confirmed. I have ambassador
00:03:40.280rank and I'd like to call myself America's ambassador. And what an incredible blessing
00:03:45.860that is. So on 250, which is the first big major event that is coming upon us here very shortly,
00:03:53.080we have an entire array of extraordinary events for the American people. We don't just want to
00:04:01.200make this a national celebration of our 250th birthday. We want to make this a truly global
00:04:08.240celebration. And one of the things I always talk about when I talk about 250 is that there may be
00:04:16.100some of us in this room, and I will not ask for hands, but there may be some in this room who
00:04:21.940remember 50 years ago, America's bicentennial. You don't have to raise your hand.
00:04:27.640Um, but there may be some, yeah, I'm not going to ask you to timestamp yourself. Um, but there
00:04:35.240may be some in this room and, and watching who do remember America's bicentennial celebration in
00:04:41.2201976. And while you may not remember the specifics about that day, I certainly don't because I was
00:04:49.840very, very, very young. I don't remember the specifics like where President Ford was that day
00:04:57.860or what he said to the nation in his big speech to the country that night. I don't remember those
00:05:04.180specifics, but I do remember how I felt. And I was a little girl, and I remember being at the
00:05:11.720Jersey seashore with my parents and my sister, Matt, and I remember being at the beach on July
00:05:17.900forth that year, holding a sparkler in one hand and a small American flag in the other.
00:05:24.900Waving that flag so proudly, it was this indelible sense of American patriotism and love for my
00:05:34.740country, even though I was too young to fully understand what that meant. I remember being
00:05:41.020surrounded, of course, by my family, but also by the community on Long Beach Island in New Jersey,
00:05:46.280And also that feeling of being enveloped by this overwhelming, warm, common love of our exceptional country.
00:05:56.320What a gift that was to me and to my generation and the generations that do remember that bicentennial.
00:06:04.620And that is exactly what we're trying to recreate for our semi-quincentennial this year.
00:06:10.380It is that feeling of American patriotism around our shared values, around this shared sense of renewed civic pride.
00:06:21.080And 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.
00:06:31.080because a lot of people, especially if you were born after 1976,
00:06:36.340you may not understand how divided this country was during the bicentennial year.
00:06:42.200We had just come out of Watergate and the resignation of President Nixon.
00:06:47.280We had come out of the Vietnam War.0.84
00:06:50.380Both episodes really tore this country apart.
00:06:53.420There were serious, serious divisions.
00:06:56.200And this time around, too, we are a very divided country.
00:07:00.120And so what happened in 1976 was it created a unifying event, a unifying purpose that healed the nation and brought this country together.
00:07:12.420And so we are hoping that our programming, Freedom 250, the website is freedom250.org.
00:07:18.280I'm going to say that many times over the course of our conversation.
00:07:21.200Freedom250.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.
00:07:48.800Okay. 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.
00:08:14.980I get it. There's a lot of people out there that don't like him. Trump derangement syndrome runs
00:08:18.640very, very deep in our political class. But the fact is he loves this country and you see it
00:08:24.400every day with what he's doing and just how hard he works. So can you talk to us about how important
00:08:29.880it is that President Trump is the president here on the 250th year? Well, you know, President Trump
00:08:34.560often jokes. He said, well, my first term, I brought the FIFA World Cup to America and I
00:08:40.500brought the 2028 Olympic Games to America. And I thought, you know, I'm not going to be around
00:08:45.660to actually see it because I'll serve two consecutive terms. And we all know what
00:08:50.760happened in 2020, where he did win in a landslide. And we will soon be able to get evidence about
00:08:57.080that. But now, I mean, this is absolutely the hand of God here, because what a gift it is
00:09:04.060to have President Trump as president right now in this moment to celebrate America's 250th.
00:09:11.220And the president jokes, yeah, I tried to take credit for America's 250th birthday also,
00:09:17.060but that wasn't quite working out that way. But yeah, what a gift to have him as president in
00:09:22.420this moment. Can you imagine if the other side had been in office, you'd probably get a press
00:09:28.100release on the morning of July 4th and you'd see her out on the beach the rest of the day.1.00
00:09:33.700Yeah, sleeping on the beach. We are going to have the most momentous and exciting celebration in
00:09:40.220American history because President Trump has promised the American people that that is what
00:09:45.920our exceptional nation deserves. Okay, so now upcoming in just a couple of weeks, I think it's
00:09:50.600May 17th, you have the first of these big major events planned here in Washington, D.C. It's called
00:09:55.940Rededicate 250, and it's all about faith and prayer and God. I think I saw some pastors out
00:10:02.700they're saying this might be the biggest faith event in the history of our nation's capital.
00:10:06.660Can you talk to us about Rededicate 250? What's going to happen here? What's going to
00:10:11.140go down? Who's going to be here? Lay out what's going to happen at this event.
00:10:17.260Well, it's absolutely perfect, Matt, that this event is really the first major event this year
00:10:23.320to kick off America's 250th birthday. Because our big project here, I know at Breitbart,
00:10:30.060certainly in the White House, President Trump's big project is to restore America back to her
00:10:36.180foundational principles of individual liberty, economic freedom, and self-governance, and restore
00:10:42.420power back to the people. That's what Make America Great Again is really all about. So in order to
00:10:49.380restore our nation back to those core pillars, you have to have God. Our founding fathers in so many
00:10:56.840of their documents and their letters refer to God and how they couldn't do what they did in
00:11:02.940establishing our exceptional country without the hand of God on them. And they recognized that at
00:11:08.700the time. So now here we are 250 years later, restoring the Republic, and we certainly cannot
00:11:16.680do it without him. So this is why we decided that we were going to have the national prayer event
00:11:22.960on the National Mall as really the first big event to kick off a whole series of events of
00:11:28.320celebration. It is called Rededicate 250 on the National Mall, beginning at, the park opens at
00:11:36.180about 8 a.m. and the programming will begin mid-morning. And it is really a national jubilee
00:11:42.980of prayer, faith, repentance, redemption, and thanksgiving for all of the blessings that we
00:11:51.640have had in this country for the last 250 years. It's about renewing our personal faith in God.
00:11:59.180It's about coming together as a national community to restore this nation as one nation
00:12:05.620under God. There have been times in the life of this nation where we've lost our way a little bit
00:12:11.340with regard to our collective faith. And what we wanted to do with this event is really bring the
00:12:17.840American people, bring the country back in one big celebration of faith and restoration,
00:13:07.440Yeah, 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.
00:13:20.580And I think what we are trying to do is restore the nation back to its moorings of faith.
00:13:27.720The 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.
00:13:40.300And they knew that their mission was blessed.
00:13:43.620I 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.
00:13:59.180I mean, that is just, as a person of faith, I believe that.
00:14:04.340And 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?
00:14:20.980No weapon against us shall prosper. And that's why they felt so emboldened and empowered to take
00:14:28.320on the world's greatest empire that showed up in the Revolutionary War in crisp red coats.0.71
00:14:35.620And here we came at them, a bunch of, you know, a ragtag group of country farmers, country lawyers,0.55
00:14:43.180country merchants, all in their basic clothes and some muskets took on the world's greatest0.98
00:14:49.760empire at the time and won and created the greatest experiment in human freedom that to0.98
00:14:56.420this day we seek to preserve. So after we get through with the Rededicate 250, you guys have
00:15:02.560a number of other major events planned. Another big thing that I think you guys just announced
00:15:06.540is going to be a great American state fair on the National Mall. Can you talk to us about the
00:15:10.680state fair? Oh, but Matt, you're skipping a huge event in between the prayer event,
00:17:40.800We're going to have traditional games and competitions.
00:17:43.520And the big highlight, for the first time ever on the National Mall, we are going to have a 110-foot Ferris wheel.
00:17:53.540So 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.
00:18:05.020all thanks to President Trump, who when he came in in this term said, our capital city should be an
00:18:11.920absolute gem. It should sparkle for the people who live and work here, but also for all of the
00:18:18.500visitors that come from around the country and around the world. So when you go up in that
00:18:22.700Ferris wheel, you will see a newly sparkling Washington, D.C. And then this state fair goes
00:18:30.140all the way through to July 4th, which then we're going to have the big...
00:19:50.600I 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.
00:20:05.820So 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.
00:20:16.860It is going to be absolutely gorgeous.
00:20:18.740That's amazing. So I'm glad they're all sending ships. So they're not sending ships to other
00:20:24.060things right now. So I don't think Iran will be represented in the international naval reviews.
00:20:30.960The president sent their entire Navy to the bottom of the sea. Yeah, they're not left anymore. So
00:20:36.360there's no Iranian Navy to send anything from. So okay, so Ambassador, then later in the summer,
00:20:43.660In August, you guys have a big race happening here in Washington, D.C., right?
00:31:17.940So a lot of, and I think they interconnect, by the way,
00:31:23.600so I really do, in that, you know, look,
00:31:26.760we're talking about our 250th here right now,
00:31:28.800But 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.
00:31:37.920They've been around thousands of years.
00:31:41.860But how do we make sure we're around for another 250 and another 250 beyond that and another 250 beyond that?
00:31:47.260And I think that's something that President Trump is very much focused on.
00:31:50.960So one of the big things that's going to happen next week is President Trump is scheduled to go to China.
00:31:55.740And I know both sides are very excited about this meeting, and there's been a lot of maneuvering between the two sides, et cetera.
00:32:03.240Tell us about what to expect next week when President Trump goes there, because I know you'll go with him.
00:32:08.940So talk to us about what we'll see there in China when President Trump is.
00:32:14.940Well, we're all very much looking forward to this trip to China.
00:32:18.440And the president obviously has a long list of issues to talk to Xi Jinping about, including Iran, of course.
00:32:25.020And 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.
00:32:51.280He saw entire communities being hollowed out and gutted by globalization in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, but really all across the country.
00:33:01.720And he said what was happening to the American worker, the American industrial base, American agriculture was grossly unfair.
00:33:11.100So he began this process in the first term.
00:33:13.040Second term, he's taken it on steroids.
00:33:15.860It really has rebalanced the global trade balance in a way that nobody expected and nobody thought could be done, and he has done it.
00:33:26.200So obviously trade is at the top of the list.
00:33:29.480Iran, the world's oil supply, and the world's energy roots,
00:33:35.300which this president is also realigning to dramatic effect for the benefit of the United
00:33:41.080States of America and the American people, taking out Maduro, freeing up the Venezuelan oil supply,
00:33:48.020then going after Iran. Now we see the blockade in place. A lot of this is designed to isolate
00:33:54.740China, which has no real natural oil or energy supplies of its own. It imports a great percentage
00:34:02.240of its energy supplies, so the president going into this meeting with Xi Jinping holds all of
00:34:07.860the cards. He actually posted something on True Social the other day with the cards,
00:34:12.920and I retweeted and put, accurate, he does hold all of the cards going into this meeting.
00:34:18.600That's exactly where you want the American president to be, going into a serious conversation
00:34:24.140over the course of two days with Xi Jinping.
00:34:28.600Because he is realigning the entire global power structure,
00:42:12.340And I remember leaving in 2019, shortly before COVID exploded in Wuhan.
00:42:17.080We were there maybe two months before it exploded there.
00:42:20.420But 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
00:42:32.620You 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.
00:42:44.620President Trump understands it. He gets that the CCP is an existential threat to the United States.
00:42:51.600So while he tweets and true socials about how he's got a great relationship with Xi Jinping,
00:42:57.640Xi Jinping is highly respected, all of that is true. But the president understands the nature
00:43:03.600of this threat in every way, strategic, economic, trade-wise, in every aspect. And his priority is
00:43:12.400the United States and getting America into the premier position where we remain the world's
00:43:19.560superpower in every part of that superpower portfolio. And China does not get to that point.
00:43:26.560So that is what he is going into these meetings with. President Nixon understood that as well,
00:43:32.120and he set the table. And right now, President Nixon would 1,000% be behind President Trump and
00:43:39.860what he was doing. He would have understood 15 years ago, 20 years ago, that the orientation of
00:43:46.100China to the rest of the world had changed, and therefore American policy toward China had to
00:43:52.160change. And he would not have allowed this kind of exploitation of America's industrial base,
00:43:58.360the American people, American workers, to have occurred had he been president during that period
00:44:03.560of time, the 80s and the 90s and into the 2000s. It's almost like we're in a second Cold War,
00:44:09.600But 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.
00:44:19.120I've been to Italy, to a number of other places as well.
00:44:24.440I've had conversations with a number of different embassies around town.
00:44:28.700It'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.
00:44:36.320I 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.
00:44:43.840And 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.
00:44:54.540And, again, as we're talking about America's 250 here, you know, Ronald Reagan called us the shining city on a hill.
00:45:00.240Are 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?
00:46:12.360Listen, President Trump has been a public figure for 50 years.
00:46:18.100He's been a political figure for the last 11 or 12 since he decided to run for president back in 2015.
00:46:25.460I 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,
00:46:34.760I don't know what to tell you because, like I said, he is the most honest president we've ever had.
00:46:39.660He tells you point blank what his objectives are.
00:46:42.940I also think he understands we were talking about the spiritual aspect of America before.
00:46:49.100And 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.
00:46:59.140Revolutionary war, civil war, Great Depression, two world wars, deep state wars from within.
00:47:06.520This country has been in assault because there are some dark forces that really want to see this country collapse.
00:47:12.940I think President Trump understands that aspect to it.
00:50:27.140freedom250.org is the website, freedom250.org. You can find out all of the details of everything
00:50:34.420we've discussed here today, find out what's happening nationally, all of these big events,
00:50:39.720but also what's happening in your state, your community, and also how you can get involved.
00:50:45.080One thing we didn't mention were the Freedom Trucks, which are phenomenal. They're a fleet
00:50:49.460of 18-wheelers packed full of America's story, beautifully done. They're museums on wheels,
00:50:56.380And 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.
00:51:10.280All of it can be found at freedom250.org.