Loomer Unleashed - October 03, 2018


Laura Loomer Interviews MyPillow Inventor Mike Lindell


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In this episode, I sit down with my good friend and business partner, Mike Smith, to talk about how he came out publicly as a pro-Trump supporter and how it has impacted his business and his life.

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00:00:17.000 You explained what it was like meeting President Trump and then coming out.
00:00:21.000 How has it affected your business since you came out as a pro-Trump business?
00:00:26.000 Well, you have to go back when I first met him.
00:00:29.000 I mean, I was never political.
00:00:30.000 I didn't know I know what I am.
00:00:32.000 But I met him in August 15th, 2016, after a series of divine appointments.
00:00:39.000 I was never, I met Ben Carson.
00:00:42.000 I got invited to the National Prayer Breakfast.
00:00:44.000 I was randomly picked out of 12 people to pray with him.
00:00:48.000 And he was still running for president then.
00:00:50.000 And then I ended up at the Republican Convention.
00:00:54.000 I had no idea what it is, what goes on there.
00:00:58.000 And that was another divine appointment.
00:01:00.000 I ended up in Donald Trump's section.
00:01:01.000 All the people were amazing.
00:01:02.000 I go, wow, I've been to a lot of places.
00:01:04.000 Even the Secret Service in this section is that.
00:01:07.000 It was an amazing feeling.
00:01:09.000 And then when I ended up having a meeting with him, he invited me to meet Trump Hotel.
00:01:15.000 This was our Trump Tower in 2016, August 15th.
00:01:19.000 And I met him.
00:01:20.000 And when I met him, it was just him and I.
00:01:23.000 I walked in.
00:01:23.000 He says, Mike, you always wear your cross.
00:01:25.000 Are you a Christian?
00:01:26.000 I said, yes, this is a divine appointment.
00:01:28.000 And we're talking, and we talked about the inner city, what I was going to do with my foundation, and what his plans were and his agenda to help the country.
00:01:37.000 And when I walked out of that room, I suppose it was a half hour, and all the amazing things he's talking about, I go, wow, this is going to be the best president in history.
00:01:49.000 Yeah, absolutely.
00:01:49.000 Well, that's at the time.
00:01:50.000 He is for sure.
00:01:51.000 Well, here, I walked out, and I didn't stop there.
00:01:54.000 I did my due diligence, and I went and checked out his employees, and all of his employees that I talked to, to this day, every one of them is like talking to one of my own employees.
00:02:05.000 They love him.
00:02:06.000 They've been with him for years.
00:02:07.000 He's the most amazing, fair, greatest boss ever.
00:02:10.000 So I'm going all in.
00:02:12.000 Well, I went all in, and I end up at the second, third debate.
00:02:16.000 I put my pillow, you know, myself on the line.
00:02:19.000 Of course, what happened then, and everybody, I told it, you know, I done a press release that I met with him.
00:02:25.000 Nobody, it was a complete shutout.
00:02:27.000 Nobody wanted it.
00:02:28.000 And then after he won, of course, then they all wanted to know, how do you know he was going to win?
00:02:33.000 So then, of course, all the press was after me.
00:02:35.000 Well, then, as you know, I was attacked, Better Business Bureau, A plus to an F rating over, you know, wanting me to take down my two-for-one ads.
00:02:43.000 The two-for-one special.
00:02:44.000 Yeah, the two-for-one special.
00:02:45.000 And whether that was political, it was very suspicious.
00:02:47.000 It goes from an A-plus to an F.
00:02:49.000 Well, it sounds political.
00:02:50.000 It was very, very political.
00:02:52.000 I met with them all.
00:02:53.000 I'm going, are you kidding me?
00:02:55.000 I said, you just, well, nobody's going to believe this.
00:02:57.000 I said, you just, well, give me that up.
00:02:59.000 And what it did, it raised my platform up because the whole public got behind it and go, this is crazy, you know.
00:03:06.000 And lawyers in California, Almeda County suing us for other things.
00:03:13.000 Back in 2012, in one ad, I called myself a sleep expert.
00:03:17.000 And all these people, all my testimonials were so powerful at my pillow that they said, send us.
00:03:23.000 And we sent them like 200,000 testimonials of people.
00:03:26.000 And then they sue us, and they all get like, the lawyers get all the money, and these people are going to get like $5 bill.
00:03:32.000 They sent in thousands of testimonials saying, these are our testimonials.
00:03:36.000 This is what it is.
00:03:37.000 And now we have an amazing sleep study that just came out.
00:03:40.000 This guy's dead that proved all these things now.
00:03:43.000 So this is all going to be coming out publicly.
00:03:45.000 You're hearing it here first.
00:03:47.000 I mean, it's just absolutely amazing.
00:03:49.000 But to answer your question, does it hurt us?
00:03:53.000 Our best day is always yesterday.
00:03:56.000 My pillow just keeps going up and up and up.
00:04:00.000 I think where I've been able to navigate is I want, you know, like Donald Trump, our president, he has common sense.
00:04:10.000 He's pragmatic.
00:04:11.000 He's common sense.
00:04:13.000 And that's the way I am.
00:04:14.000 I didn't just go and go Republican.
00:04:16.000 I bet whoever I'm behind, they better match my Christian beliefs.
00:04:20.000 They better match my values.
00:04:21.000 They better match, you know, be right for the job.
00:04:24.000 And just like I went all in for the president, I'm going all in for a few other people in this midterm that I've met, and they're amazing people.
00:04:33.000 That's great.
00:04:34.000 That's my next question.
00:04:35.000 So you like Donald Trump and you love Donald Trump.
00:04:38.000 He's the best president.
00:04:39.000 Have you always been a Republican?
00:04:41.000 Because you were saying that you haven't really been politically.
00:04:43.000 I've never been, I said this before.
00:04:45.000 They interviewed me on a radio station the other day and they said, are you, they said, yeah, Mike Lindell founded my pillow and he was used to be a Democrat.
00:04:53.000 And I got on there.
00:04:53.000 I said, no, I want to correct that.
00:04:54.000 I didn't find my pillow.
00:04:56.000 I invented my pillow and I was never a Democrat.
00:04:58.000 I was a crack cocaine addict.
00:05:00.000 I had no political whatsoever.
00:05:04.000 I actually like George W. Bush, the stuff I read his book.
00:05:07.000 I mean, that was as far as, you know, I didn't go vote.
00:05:09.000 I voted for Jesse Ventru when he was in Minnesota.
00:05:12.000 A lot of people voted for the first time there.
00:05:15.000 It was something different, but I never, I just wasn't political.
00:05:19.000 Like I say, I didn't know a liberal from a conservative from a Democrat to a Republican.
00:05:22.000 I didn't know that.
00:05:23.000 I was very naive to that.
00:05:25.000 Yeah, and I was reading your story.
00:05:26.000 It's very inspirational and very just empowering because, like you said, you started out and you had drug addiction issues, and then now you have this huge business that's worth, well, you sell over $300 million worth of pillows and just an incredible business.
00:05:44.000 And, you know, it's very inspirational.
00:05:46.000 It really represents the American dream.
00:05:48.000 And so I was going to ask you, is that something that you see in President Donald Trump as really this embodiment of the American dream?
00:05:56.000 Yeah, absolutely.
00:05:57.000 And that's why he can relate to people, you know, the common people.
00:06:01.000 It's like, and that's why my story of hope, I was sure I had my own adversity, but I also started, I had no money.
00:06:06.000 I had the pillow as an idea.
00:06:08.000 I got the idea in a dream from God.
00:06:10.000 And I went out and I was turned down everywhere.
00:06:14.000 I was turned down everywhere.
00:06:15.000 And someone said, well, Mike, why don't you do a kiosk?
00:06:17.000 I said, how do you spell that?
00:06:19.000 And I did this kiosk, and then, and that failed.
00:06:22.000 And I have this, with my addictions, my own addictions, I couldn't talk to people.
00:06:27.000 I would very much, I was either would show off or I would be very shy.
00:06:32.000 If I wouldn't have my drugs, I'd be, I lived in Las Vegas once for a month and a half for talk to people.
00:06:37.000 But what I did then, with my pillow, the guy had bought one from that kiosk, and he said, and this guy called me out.
00:06:47.000 He said, you guys invented this pillow here from Minnesota.
00:06:50.000 And I said, yeah.
00:06:51.000 He said, well, this pillow changed my life.
00:06:53.000 I run the Minneapolis Home and Garden Show.
00:06:55.000 Well, when I did that show, I was able to talk to people then because I had a table in front of me and they're coming out to me and I didn't need drugs behind that to do that.
00:07:04.000 So for seven years, I did shows, made them, you know, but I had a lot of adversity at 20, lost a 20-year marriage.
00:07:10.000 Everything went down.
00:07:11.000 I had drug dealers doing intervention on me.
00:07:13.000 I mean, I had all kinds of stuff happen.
00:07:15.000 And then I said, well, let's, and then I quit everything January 16, 2009, and overnight.
00:07:23.000 And then things started happening then, good things, but I still, my company was taken.
00:07:28.000 My copies have people copied out there and all these different things that happened.
00:07:33.000 But I said, let's do an infomercial.
00:07:35.000 If no one will take my pillow, let's do an infomercial.
00:07:38.000 And we ended up doing, you talk about the American Dream.
00:07:40.000 I said, I told my friends and family go, Come in, pull your money.
00:07:43.000 I said, we'll just bring it right to the public.
00:07:45.000 And well, the night before during the read, you know, we're doing our reads when this producer goes, he goes, this guy's the worst guy I've ever seen.
00:07:53.000 He'll never make it on TV.
00:07:55.000 Go ahead.
00:07:56.000 But he didn't tell me that.
00:07:58.000 And he's right the next day I had like nine takes on one line.
00:08:01.000 And so we took away the teleprompter and did it naturally with an audience and just did it.
00:08:05.000 And I just did like I did at the shows.
00:08:07.000 And it exploded.
00:08:08.000 It went from five employees to 540 days.
00:08:12.000 Now I have 1,600 employees now.
00:08:15.000 And we're making about 90 to 100,000 pillows a day, but I have my own call center where your customer service goes back to your customer service.
00:08:23.000 It all starts with me.
00:08:24.000 It's like, like with our president.
00:08:26.000 He's so, you know, his American dream.
00:08:29.000 When I met him, I go, you know, he said, Mike, you're one of the best brander marketers I've ever seen at brandering.
00:08:34.000 I say, no, you are, sir.
00:08:37.000 Trump is great.
00:08:38.000 And it's inspirational on Twitter.
00:08:39.000 Very inspirational.
00:08:41.000 I mean, your story and President Trump's story, it really shows people no matter where you are in your life, how old you are, how rich or poor you are, you can become a success story.
00:08:48.000 And all it takes is hard work.
00:08:51.000 And, you know, even for me myself, I've experienced some of those struggles because people are always telling me, you know, you're not going to make it.
00:08:57.000 Right, right.
00:08:57.000 All the naysayers.
00:08:58.000 You can't be pro-Trump and then have your own news company or you're not this, you're not that.
00:09:03.000 But I really do believe in the American dream.
00:09:05.000 And I think that, you know, it's good to support President Trump.
00:09:08.000 And good things happen to those who support President Trump.
00:09:11.000 Absolutely.
00:09:11.000 My company, since, you know, this got brought up the other day, I was actually on, I won't say the news station, but it was one of the big three.
00:09:19.000 And it was on there.
00:09:20.000 They said, they go, you know, don't you, aren't you afraid you're going to alienate half your supporters?
00:09:25.000 And I said, no.
00:09:27.000 I said, our biggest day is always yesterday.
00:09:30.000 I said, I'm going with, I've met him.
00:09:32.000 I've met the president.
00:09:33.000 I know what I'm, you know, you can't take that from me.
00:09:37.000 You know, it's not like I'm saying, oh, he's doing this, this, this.
00:09:39.000 I'm very proud of what he's done.
00:09:41.000 I'm proud of him as a person.
00:09:43.000 I've met him.
00:09:44.000 I wouldn't put everything out there if I had never met him and never, you know what I mean?
00:09:48.000 And know where his heart is.
00:09:50.000 He has a heart.
00:09:52.000 One of the most strongest guys I've ever seen as far as being able to just take it and keep going.
00:09:56.000 You're talking about a guy, a divine appointment by God.
00:10:00.000 Just amazing strength.
00:10:02.000 That is really incredible.
00:10:03.000 And that's one thing I was going to ask you: you see these boycotts.
00:10:06.000 So people come out and they say, I love this.
00:10:08.000 Oh, well, Mike Lindell supports President Trump, so don't buy his pillows anymore.
00:10:13.000 But I always find that when people do boycotts on pro-Trump business owners, it actually increases their sales.
00:10:18.000 So for every person who boycotts, you end up selling four or five times the product because Trump supporters always come out and buy.
00:10:25.000 And that's true.
00:10:26.000 And it always happens to me.
00:10:28.000 I love it on my Twitter.
00:10:29.000 Especially if Sean Hannity is a friend of mine, Lori, they do something, and then they'll say, the boycotts will come up again, boycott my pillow.
00:10:36.000 And then the bots and trolls on Twitter will say this.
00:10:39.000 Well, then someone else over here will say, don't boycott him.
00:10:42.000 He just doubles down.
00:10:43.000 So I just double the ads.
00:10:44.000 And I'll just go, because everyone else is leaving spots that's leaving spots.
00:10:49.000 I'll go in there and I'm the only one there.
00:10:51.000 I'm not going to change what I do.
00:10:53.000 I advertise across the board on other channels too.
00:10:57.000 When you talk about on all the channels, so I'm not going to, other ones will badmouth me and I still advertise.
00:11:02.000 I put my pillow separate from my beliefs.
00:11:05.000 This is me.
00:11:07.000 This is my, where I'm at, and I'm not going to change.
00:11:10.000 Because someone says, you know, oh, we're going to boycott you, really?
00:11:14.000 I love the ones.
00:11:15.000 I like the ones that will send me a thing.
00:11:17.000 You know, I was going to, we get them in emails too.
00:11:19.000 They'll send me an email.
00:11:20.000 You know, I was going to buy 10 pillows, but I canceled my order.
00:11:24.000 Really?
00:11:25.000 Okay, you weren't even buying one.
00:11:27.000 And then I'm throwing my pillow away now.
00:11:30.000 And I'm, you know, really, go ahead.
00:11:32.000 This isn't like rock music where you break records back in the day.
00:11:35.000 Yeah.
00:11:36.000 Does President Trump use my pillow?
00:11:39.000 Yes, yes.
00:11:40.000 And in fact, I was just with him at dinner the other night and he said, Mike, I put him in the White House too.
00:11:44.000 Oh, so he just told me that.
00:11:46.000 So then now everybody watching this interview, and I have over 200,000 followers on Twitter.
00:11:51.000 He loves it.
00:11:52.000 Sleeping good.
00:11:52.000 Everyone needs to buy my pillow because president Trump uses my pillow absolutely and you can see on that.
00:11:57.000 I was invited to the White House in the summer of it was last summer 17 for the manufacturers summit for the Made In America and I walked in there and it was so surreal here's about 15 people around this thing and and I said you all got your names.
00:12:12.000 I said who's sitting here?
00:12:13.000 And they said the president is.
00:12:14.000 He wanted to sit by you and i'm going.
00:12:15.000 What you know?
00:12:16.000 It was surreal for me.
00:12:18.000 And they walked in and he, he did a whole like one-minute talk about, you know, my pillow and him having it.
00:12:25.000 He had bought some and he tried them and he said he loves them, he's getting great sleep and it was that's quite a quite a compliment.
00:12:30.000 And because i'll tell you what that guy I don't know when he does sleep, but it needs to be quality, I know because he's always he's like me he goes to bed uh, really late.
00:12:41.000 I see him tweeting at three in the morning and then he's tweeting at five in the morning, at six in the morning, and I love president Trump, that's hard worker, he's hard worker, his work ethic.
00:12:50.000 He just doesn't stop.
00:12:51.000 You know it's just like I. Uh, you know it's amazing.
00:12:54.000 Yeah, my dad uses my pillow.
00:12:56.000 I actually bought my dad my pillows for his birthday two years ago and he was telling me because he saw that study in the news about how people were coming after you and because you called yourself a sleep expert and how they said, oh well, you can't say that the pillows are therapeutic and they help people, right?
00:13:13.000 But my dad's a doctor and he said that he used it and he has pain issues and he feels a lot better now and he recommends it to all his patients and they feel better when they use your pillow.
00:13:23.000 So he told me to tell you, to tell you that he signs off that it is medically approved, he recommends it to his patients.
00:13:30.000 Well, we just we just finished our sleep study there that this company did for us and they proved all these things, that you get sleep faster, stay asleep longer um, or you get these great sleep cycles um, snoring.
00:13:43.000 I mean 95 percent, this positional sleep apnea.
00:13:46.000 95 percent of the people had improved.
00:13:48.000 It was just an amazing study that i'll be all over the news now in the magazines that they uh, there's getting published right now, but i'm very proud of that because it validates what you know 40 million people know now.
00:13:59.000 You know that have been saying it going.
00:14:01.000 Now I can get on tv and really say what my pillow does before.
00:14:04.000 It's just the passion and and all the people it's helped and and um well, that's great.
00:14:08.000 It's going to be pretty amazing.
00:14:10.000 Well, focusing now on Minnesota, there's some Republican candidates who you've endorsed.
00:14:14.000 You have Doug Wardlow, who's running for attorney general against Keith Ellison, who's a really bad guy.
00:14:18.000 He's the deputy chair of the DMC and uh, you know, what would you say to Minnesota voters who are well looking to vote in the election on november 6th?
00:14:27.000 Well, I met Doug Wardlow.
00:14:29.000 I um, I met him.
00:14:30.000 We become friends.
00:14:31.000 I don't just get behind someone because, like I say, I do my due diligence.
00:14:36.000 I put my name and my platform of trust out there, which is a big platform, and I uh, Doug's an amazing guy smart, the guy is so smart.
00:14:45.000 He um, he worked for this Christian organization that backs my Christian beliefs.
00:14:49.000 I mean, he's just, he's an amazing guy and he's the best one i've ever could ever see for Minnesota.
00:14:55.000 He's going to really be an amazing and I believe that um, from what i've heard from Ellerson to political, political politicize the position of Attorney General, and say you're going to go after the president.
00:15:06.000 Aren't you supposed to be helping us here in Minnesota?
00:15:09.000 I mean, I mean, I was just blown away by that.
00:15:11.000 And I kind of have a little fear about that because I've been very, you know, Doug's an amazing guy.
00:15:17.000 Vote for Doug.
00:15:18.000 Get out and vote.
00:15:19.000 And my big concern, too, as a woman, is all these domestic abuse allegations against Keith Ellison and how you see the Democrats right now trying to weaponize the party against Brett Kavanaugh.
00:15:30.000 But they're completely ignoring the fact that Keith Ellison has multiple allegations of domestic abuse.
00:15:34.000 He supports Antifa, which our government has recognized as a domestic terrorist organization.
00:15:40.000 Antifa is always terrorizing Trump supporters and beating them up.
00:15:43.000 And you see Trump at rallies speaking out about Antifa.
00:15:46.000 So I don't want an attorney general.
00:15:48.000 And I don't know about you, but I don't think the people in Minnesota want an Attorney General.
00:15:52.000 And they need to know Doug Wardlow.
00:15:55.000 They need to know the name.
00:15:56.000 Everybody knows they don't want Keith.
00:15:58.000 We need to get the name.
00:15:59.000 And that's what I've told Doug.
00:16:00.000 I'm getting the name out there.
00:16:01.000 Doug Wardlow.
00:16:02.000 Doug Warlow.
00:16:03.000 Everybody write it down.
00:16:04.000 Don't tell your neighbors.
00:16:06.000 Everybody wants to vote against him, but they just need to know that name.
00:16:10.000 Doug's amazing.
00:16:11.000 I'm just telling you.
00:16:12.000 I've been doing my best to promote his campaign.
00:16:12.000 He's a good guy.
00:16:14.000 And then what about Jeff Johnson?
00:16:16.000 Jeff, I know personally, he's a friend of mine, and he's worked as the commissioner, I think it was 13 years, Minneapolis.
00:16:24.000 My thing that I'm going to be doing with addiction and the inner cities, it lines up perfect for me.
00:16:30.000 And the stuff we're doing, Minnesota first, Jeff's been right there.
00:16:34.000 He's perfect.
00:16:35.000 He'll be the best governor we ever ever.
00:16:37.000 Ever.
00:16:38.000 Take that one home.
00:16:39.000 Yeah, and then we have the Trump rally coming up as well on October 4th.
00:16:44.000 Yeah, I'm going to be, I get to speak at that.
00:16:48.000 I'll be speaking.
00:16:49.000 And they told me today I'll be introducing or greeting the president.
00:16:53.000 And I had dinner with him about eight, nine days ago in Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C.
00:17:00.000 So I'm looking forward to that.
00:17:01.000 And there's a lot of people that we need to get into Minnesota.
00:17:09.000 And then you can just tell me a little bit about your Lindell Foundation and what you do with your foundation.
00:17:09.000 Yeah.
00:17:15.000 Yeah, well, what I'm doing, we're not completely launched.
00:17:18.000 And then I have a book coming out called What Are the Odds from Crack Addict to CEO?
00:17:23.000 And by the time you read the book, if you don't believe in Jesus, you didn't read the book.
00:17:27.000 I mean, it is amazing, the miracles of my life.
00:17:30.000 But as an addict, I have my foundation.
00:17:33.000 There's two things.
00:17:34.000 I have the Lindale Foundation, I have the Lindell Recovery Network.
00:17:36.000 The foundation first, I'm bringing trust back into giving.
00:17:41.000 I'm taking private sector money where you see it home and you'll be able to pick whatever that square is, know that 100% of your money goes to that need.
00:17:50.000 And then you get to hear back a difference you made.
00:17:53.000 Where, you know, before it's like, are those really my kids?
00:17:55.000 Or did everybody have the same ones?
00:17:57.000 And how much of the money really goes to it?
00:17:59.000 And how much do their CEOs make?
00:18:01.000 I mean, we kind of know who ruined foundations and stuff.
00:18:06.000 And we need to bring that trust back.
00:18:08.000 100% of the money goes to the need.
00:18:08.000 And this will do it.
00:18:10.000 And you're picking the need.
00:18:13.000 And there'll be vetted needs, and there could be, you know, maybe it's homeless, whatever it is, whatever that need is.
00:18:23.000 I kind of reverse engineered, like I did my pillow, what a foundation should be.
00:18:27.000 You know, starts with trust.
00:18:29.000 You know, I trust that it's, you know, the Lindale Foundation.
00:18:31.000 Well, boy, it'd be great if 100% of my money could go to the need.
00:18:34.000 Yeah, it does.
00:18:35.000 Well, it's because I'm paying all the overhead over here.
00:18:39.000 And then the Lindale Recovery Network, that's going to be amazing where we're gathering stories right now of hope.
00:18:45.000 Imagine if you're on a website and you put in your age and your addiction.
00:18:50.000 So you put in, you know, 22-year-old opiate addict.
00:18:54.000 They might not, or heroin addict, they might not be able to relate to a 55-year-old meth addict.
00:19:00.000 But the closer you get to a match, so you put that in, and all these stories of your agent and that drug come down, and they've made it through.
00:19:09.000 And how did they make it through?
00:19:10.000 And all this, the stuff they've been through, so they can relate.
00:19:14.000 Now I'm like their tour guide on the website.
00:19:15.000 I'll go, you guys, you know, it's just like selling a pillow.
00:19:19.000 So I'm selling help and hope.
00:19:22.000 And I'll say, you guys, here's where to go here.
00:19:25.000 All these sinners that are all faith-based, your teen challenge, Union Gospel, Salvation Army, these are the ones that work.
00:19:30.000 I'm going to say, go over here, get your help.
00:19:32.000 And when they come out of that, they're going to have an app, an app that's going to, with these mentors that I'm going to be paying that are going to be, you know, I'll say, hey, don't worry, when you get out, we're right here for you.
00:19:43.000 And we're going to bring them through.
00:19:44.000 They'll have mentors.
00:19:45.000 And we're going to have jobs.
00:19:46.000 It's going to be one of the biggest employers in the country.
00:19:48.000 You team up with Trump because he has this really big opiate program as well to counter the addiction issues in this country and the war on opiate crisis.
00:19:57.000 Have you talked to him about that?
00:19:58.000 I've talked to Kelly Ann.
00:20:00.000 I've talked to the group, different ones at the White House.
00:20:04.000 And the vice president, I told all about it, what I'm doing there.
00:20:07.000 So, yeah, I'm sure we will be combining.
00:20:09.000 Looks good.
00:20:10.000 He's been busy.
00:20:11.000 What message or what piece of information or inspiration could you give to business owners who are conservative, but they're nervous to come out in support of President Trump?
00:20:22.000 Don't even hesitate.
00:20:23.000 I mean, you get out there and you support them, and you will be, don't be afraid.
00:20:29.000 I mean, your business is going to increase.
00:20:32.000 I mean, everyone, let me tell you, even things that are over here on the left, you've got maybe, to me, it's 80 to 90 percent that are still supporting your business.
00:20:42.000 It's just that small voice that's loud and don't be afraid of those guys over there.
00:20:47.000 I did the Minnesota State Fair.
00:20:48.000 I was there this couple weeks ago, and I probably had, let's say, 500 to 700 people come up and personally pictures, talk to them.
00:20:59.000 Out of them, one person came up to me and said, all of them are going there.
00:21:04.000 They were coming up to me.
00:21:05.000 Oh, your pillow's great.
00:21:06.000 They're coming up to me.
00:21:06.000 Wow, you have an amazing transformation.
00:21:08.000 You found Jesus Christ and all this.
00:21:11.000 Or they're saying the other thing, they're saying, wow, Mike, thank you for supporting our president.
00:21:15.000 This is in Minnesota.
00:21:17.000 And they're going, you are guiding, by being so voiceless, they're able to go ahead and speak their mind that they've been instead of having to hide and be afraid of somebody attacking them.
00:21:28.000 Well, one guy came up and he goes, you know, I love what you're doing, but you're aligning yourself with the worst person ever.
00:21:34.000 And I go, really?
00:21:36.000 I've met the guy.
00:21:36.000 Have you met him?
00:21:37.000 And I start in, and he kind of ducked his head and snuck out the door.
00:21:40.000 He goes, maybe you're right.
00:21:42.000 Because everyone around him, and this is right in the heart of the, you know, in the heart of Minnesota.
00:21:47.000 So I think people, it's just like my Facebook.
00:21:50.000 When I started out back in the day, I would put a picture of me and the president up there, and I'd get, you know, like 10 likes just before the election.
00:21:58.000 You know, I'd have Rudy Giuliani or someone that I'd met, I've had there up there.
00:22:01.000 300 likes, 400 likes.
00:22:02.000 But he would give me small likes.
00:22:04.000 Well, throughout that cycle, now they're going, wow, Mike says it's okay.
00:22:08.000 So I would get more and more to the point of, you know, 400 likes, 500 likes.
00:22:12.000 And I only had to deface two people the whole time where, you know, two people from that whole cycle.
00:22:18.000 And you had, now I can put them up there.
00:22:21.000 I don't know how many I have on my Facebook, but every one of them, you know, there's no, they're all pro-Trump.
00:22:27.000 And people, it's like that, that's why he won.
00:22:30.000 But now for this midterm, everyone's got to get out.
00:22:33.000 But people, after he did win, the first few months, it was 100 days of Trump.
00:22:37.000 I was going on this tour.
00:22:38.000 And people were talking.
00:22:40.000 And I said, well, what can we do now?
00:22:41.000 What can we do?
00:22:42.000 I said, just keep them in your prayers, whatever.
00:22:44.000 Well, now I can say, now you can do something.
00:22:47.000 Get out, not just vote.
00:22:48.000 You better put it right out there, whether you're in business or whatever, and say, hey, look what it's doing, and brag about what he's done.
00:22:56.000 You need to get out there and brag about it.
00:22:58.000 Look at everybody, the lowest unemployment for black, kind of pro and Hispanic in history.
00:23:02.000 Minnesota here is the lowest.
00:23:04.000 We were way ahead of the curve before they started announcing this.
00:23:07.000 This is why it goes back two, three months.
00:23:09.000 I mean, out where my factory's at here in Minnesota and Scott County, I mean, everyone's now is finally paying people what I was paying people because we have careers at my bill.
00:23:21.000 Everyone's getting better pay too.
00:23:22.000 And I think businesses need to get out there and say, you know, we owe this to the most amazing president ever.
00:23:29.000 Yeah, he really is.
00:23:30.000 And then get out and vote for the people that are going to support him.
00:23:33.000 We've got to have that, or we could lose something.
00:23:36.000 We're finally here.
00:23:37.000 Let's not lose it.
00:23:38.000 Yep, so get out and vote Republican.
00:23:40.000 And tell other people what, you know.
00:23:42.000 And if they, you know, if they've got, you get your facts.
00:23:44.000 I mean, it's very easy now to, before people didn't, it was very hard.
00:23:49.000 I had met him.
00:23:50.000 So I had that before.
00:23:51.000 Now everybody's got those tools.
00:23:53.000 We have proof.
00:23:54.000 Okay, hey, how's your 401k?
00:23:56.000 How's your stocks?
00:23:57.000 You know, you know, you've got stuff to be able to say.
00:23:59.000 Nobody can argue that.
00:24:01.000 You can't argue that.
00:24:02.000 There's nothing that you can't say now where it's not a positive for our president and for all the people that we need to get into office.
00:24:10.000 So before it was harder for people, didn't have anything to go on.
00:24:14.000 Now, get out, tell your neighbors.
00:24:17.000 You're sleeping well.