The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, Trump is already off and running as President of the United States

00:00:03.420 will review the battery of executive orders and actions from just his first day in office.

00:00:07.900 And we'll talk about what I think was the most important part of his inaugural address on Monday.

00:00:11.600 Also, I want to talk about three hours, but we now have the first big media hoax of the

00:00:15.460 second administration. This time they're claiming that Elon did a Nazi salute at Trump's rally,

00:00:20.300 which is nonsense, of course. And speaking of executive orders, Trump's order banishing

00:00:23.540 gender ideology from the federal government is spectacular and may be the final nail in the

00:00:28.620 coffin for this hideous and evil ideology. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:44.140 spice. That's balanceofnature.com. Promo code Walsh. Manifest destiny is a concept that has not been

00:01:50.920 explicitly invoked by an American president in a very long time. It's the idea that Americans have a

00:01:56.700 divine mandate to conquer, to expand, to reach out across vast expanses. If James Polk hadn't embraced

00:02:06.100 manifest destiny in the middle of the 19th century, there's a very good chance that America wouldn't

00:02:10.580 look anything like what it does today. We wouldn't have states like California and Utah and Oregon,

00:02:17.840 Washington, and many more. I mean, if we didn't have the spirit of manifest destiny really from the

00:02:23.520 beginning of our nation's history, our country never would have gained access to the Pacific.

00:02:28.580 We would have established no foothold west of the Mississippi at all. Foreign powers would have

00:02:32.640 retained control over wide swaths of the North American continent. We would be a much smaller,

00:02:39.540 much weaker nation today. So small and weak that by now, we may not even exist at all. We wouldn't

00:02:46.900 have experienced the unprecedented economic and technological growth that we did in the 19th and

00:02:51.980 20th century. It's growth that ensured America would become the world's greatest superpower.

00:02:56.380 As part of our journey to the West, we developed everything from new farming techniques to the

00:03:00.680 telegraph system to the transcontinental railroad and countless other things. This was a period of

00:03:05.220 extraordinary expansion in every sense, made possible by Americans' belief in God and his will and

00:03:13.620 his calling on our lives. And yet, until yesterday, no modern American president wanted to talk about this,

00:03:20.920 manifest destiny had become somehow a point of embarrassment. The pioneer spirit was extinguished

00:03:27.980 in favor of a spirit of weakness and shame. But one thing we know from the inauguration

00:03:34.840 yesterday is that Donald Trump wants to change that. It was one of the major themes of his inaugural

00:03:40.060 address. But what made his address so brilliant is that he talked about all of the practical things

00:03:46.400 that we need to do as a country to get to a point where we can thrive and succeed again.

00:03:51.300 But he also, at the same time, took a larger, kind of grander view. He talked about the sweeping

00:03:57.020 vision of things along with the practical. And as far as sweeping visions, that's what manifest

00:04:02.580 destiny is all about. The Trump was not paralyzed or guilt ridden by the idea of manifest destiny. He

00:04:09.480 wasn't focused on the plight of so-called indigenous people, quote unquote. He didn't make any

00:04:14.500 apologies for this country or the people living here or our history, our ancestors. Instead,

00:04:19.360 he affirmed that God wants this country to succeed and grow and flourish. He also affirmed that America

00:04:26.600 was a great country when it had the will and desire to explore and expand and conquer, and that we need

00:04:33.860 to return to those principles. And then Trump explained what exactly that will look like in a modern

00:04:40.300 context. Watch. The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases

00:04:48.320 our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations, and carries our flag

00:04:55.260 into new and beautiful horizons. And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching

00:05:02.200 American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars.

00:05:13.480 Now, in the past century, American presidents just simply have not talked like this. Barack Obama,

00:05:18.700 for example, claimed that we had duties to the world, including what he called the Muslim world.

00:05:23.380 Joe Biden fear-mongered about democracy and COVID, which he claimed falsely had taken more lives

00:05:29.300 than World War II. In fact, even if you go back and watch Trump's first inaugural address back in

00:05:34.500 2017, you're not going to find rhetoric about America's divine mandate to grow, expand, and flourish.

00:05:41.860 Instead, the theme of Trump's first address was more about the immediate concerns, specifically

00:05:46.020 restoring American manufacturing, ending wasteful commitments to foreign governments,

00:05:50.660 securing the border. This is what is, of course, the America first platform.

00:05:55.780 And the plan at the time was to shore up America's failing infrastructure and restore the government

00:06:00.800 to the people. And it was a necessity to do this. It was a necessary plan that was intended

00:06:05.720 to stop what Trump called the ongoing American carnage. But it was also a plan that signaled that

00:06:13.680 after eight years of rule by Barack Obama, America needed basically emergency repairs. We were not in a

00:06:20.600 position to conquer and explore. And there are still many repairs that need to be made, but

00:06:25.140 now we can go beyond that as well. In 2025, for his second administration,

00:06:31.120 Trump has made it clear that this time around, you know, the goal is bigger. Now his administration

00:06:36.240 intends to expand American influence and usher in what he's calling a new golden age, an era of historic

00:06:43.360 economic and technological progress. As Trump went on to explain, there's never been a better time in

00:06:49.920 modern history for a president to call for something like this. Trump now has the full backing of some

00:06:55.660 of the smartest people in the country, including actual innovators like Elon Musk. And perhaps more

00:07:00.680 to the point, Trump himself just achieved what many considered impossible. He became president for a

00:07:06.180 second time, despite the efforts of every power center in the country and on the planet to stop him.

00:07:13.380 At one point in his speech, Trump made it clear that he believes he's only alive today because of divine

00:07:17.680 intervention and inspired by this near death experience. He's now committed to reviving

00:07:24.140 manifest destiny, a desire to explore and conquer that has defined Americans since our country was

00:07:30.560 founded. Watch. Ambition is the lifeblood of a great nation. And right now our nation is more

00:07:38.780 ambitious than any other. There's no nation like our nation. Americans are explorers, builders,

00:07:47.240 innovators, entrepreneurs, and pioneers. The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts.

00:07:54.660 The call of the next great adventure resounds from within our souls. Our American ancestors turned a

00:08:04.700 small group of colonies on the edge of a vast continent into a mighty republic of the most

00:08:11.160 ordinary citizens on earth. No one comes close. Americans pushed thousands of miles through a rugged land

00:08:19.240 of untamed wilderness. They crossed deserts, scaled mountains, braved untold dangers, won the wild west,

00:08:28.620 ended slavery, rescued millions from tyranny, lifted billions from poverty, harnessed electricity, split the

00:08:36.400 atom, launched mankind into the heavens and put the universe of human knowledge into the palm of the

00:08:44.740 human hand. If we work together, there is nothing we cannot do and no dream we cannot achieve. Many people

00:08:53.360 thought it was impossible for me to stage such a historic political comeback. But as you see today, here I am,

00:09:01.960 the American people have spoken. Now within hours of this speech, Trump took nearly 200 executive

00:09:14.640 actions to put all these principles into action and to restore America's sovereignty. And in between each

00:09:21.500 one, he talked to reporters at length, which is something that Joe Biden obviously would be incapable of

00:09:26.320 doing. Trump opened up oil and gas exploration in Alaska, which the Biden administration had shut

00:09:31.880 down. In fact, he permitted drilling across much of the coastal United States. This is a whole frontier

00:09:36.940 that was closed to the American economy solely for superstitious ideological reasons. And now it's open

00:09:43.520 more symbolically, but also very important. Trump also Trump also reinstated the name Mount McKinley

00:09:50.040 and also changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

00:09:55.220 Mount McKinley in Alaska had been named Mount McKinley for over a century until you may remember,

00:10:02.740 may not, that the Obama administration back in 2015, I believe, changed it to Denali, which is

00:10:11.220 supposedly the, quote, indigenous name for it. And Trump is changing it back. And obviously this is

00:10:16.380 upset, as you would expect, a lot of liberals and even Republicans are calling him out. Some are calling

00:10:23.360 him out for it. But we can change the name of the mountain back because it's our mountain. It belongs

00:10:32.660 to us. It is an American mountain in America. So we have the right to name it. The so-called indigenous

00:10:38.860 people don't have the right to name it. I mean, they can call it whatever they want in their private

00:10:44.240 lives, but they don't have the right to put the name on the mountain. We earned that right. They did

00:10:47.580 not. I mean, the indigenous people, they never even developed a written language. So whatever they

00:10:54.040 called the mountain a thousand years ago is unknown to us and them. They don't even know what they

00:10:59.840 called it. We are far more advanced. We conquered this country. It's our mountain. We name it. And that

00:11:06.700 is Trump's attitude. And it is the right one. Trump also pardoned roughly 1,500 January 6th defendants who

00:11:13.500 were persecuted and prosecuted and persecuted for political reasons, which is a major step towards

00:11:19.480 restoring Americans' First Amendment rights. He signed an order to make federal architecture

00:11:24.100 more aesthetically appealing, which also matters because this is what inspires future generations.

00:11:30.440 That's what great architecture is made to do. It matters. It matters what kind of buildings we live

00:11:35.720 in and what those buildings look like because we live in them and we have to look at them.

00:11:39.240 And that really doesn't matter because we're human beings and beauty matters. Additionally,

00:11:44.580 Trump withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization,

00:11:47.700 which worked with China to cover up the origins of COVID, a decision that, of course, led to years

00:11:52.900 of suffering and lockdowns in this country. Crucially, Trump also ended birthright citizenship for

00:11:58.080 illegal aliens, which is maybe the single most important step he could take when it comes to

00:12:03.400 fulfilling this country's manifest destiny. After all, we can't explore and conquer anything.

00:12:09.240 If we are being conquered ourselves, watch.

00:12:12.580 This next order relates to the definition of birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment

00:12:19.020 of the United States. That's a good one. Birthright. That's a big one.

00:12:24.080 What about that one in the course? That one is likely to be counted.

00:12:27.440 Could be. We think we have good grounds, but you could be right. I mean, you'll find out.

00:12:33.280 It's ridiculous. We're the only country in the world that does this with birthright, as you know.

00:12:41.360 And it's just absolutely ridiculous. But, you know, we'll see. We think we have very good grounds.

00:12:48.400 People have wanted to do this for decades.

00:12:51.520 Now, this is a move that, like many other moves that Trump makes, obviously is going to be challenged

00:12:58.060 in the courts. As Trump went on to acknowledge, Democrats believe, whether correctly or not,

00:13:03.940 that the key to their political power is importing illegal aliens. Because most of those illegal aliens

00:13:09.720 will eventually have children. And then those children become American citizens and can vote

00:13:14.360 in future elections. And they're just assuming that those children will vote for them. Although it turns out

00:13:18.480 that even that assumption looks like is not exactly correct. But on that assumption, Democrats are

00:13:24.600 going to fight very hard to make sure that this executive order is overturned. It's not clear at

00:13:30.320 the moment if they'll win. There's no Supreme Court case that's ever directly addressed this particular

00:13:35.740 issue. But it's clear that birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens is one of the most

00:13:40.700 destructive policies that's ever been implemented in this country. It gives a massive incentive for

00:13:46.360 foreign nationals to flood across the border and fundamentally reshape this country.

00:13:51.600 But Trump isn't just relying on this one executive order. He's also already fired the people who are

00:13:56.180 responsible for the fraudulent asylum process in this country, which is a major loophole that illegal

00:14:02.240 aliens have been exploiting forever. Asylum, as you may know, is intended for people who are facing

00:14:08.140 extreme and very specific cases of political persecution. But in recent years, the government has been

00:14:15.260 allowing anyone with a fake asylum claim to stay in the country. Asylum went from something meant for

00:14:20.920 people facing political persecution to something for people who just happen to want to come into

00:14:26.500 the country. Just to give you some perspective on the numbers, according to DHS, quote, affirmative

00:14:33.360 asylum case filings nearly doubled from 241,280 applications in 2022 to over 456,000 in 2023,

00:14:41.880 the highest number on record. So this is a massive increase in a short amount of time.

00:14:47.040 And almost every single one of those claims is fraudulent. But these people are being allowed

00:14:51.820 into the country while their fake claim is adjudicated, a process that could take years.

00:14:57.540 And then when it's found out to be, you know, fake, it doesn't matter because they're gone.

00:15:02.380 They're off into the interior of the country. They don't show up for the hearings.

00:15:05.580 So they're essentially given a free pass into the country. And that's all about to change.

00:15:10.820 New York Times reported with shock and horror on the changes that have already been made to the

00:15:15.500 asylum system on day one of the second Trump administration, quote, the acting head of the

00:15:20.380 U.S. immigration court system and three other top officials were fired on Monday, soon after

00:15:24.400 President Trump took office. The abrupt removal signaled the Trump administration wants to remake

00:15:28.920 the immigration court system, which is housed under the Justice Department as part of a broader

00:15:33.560 immigration crackdown that Mr. Trump began within minutes of being sworn in for a second term.

00:15:37.720 Immigration judges oversee an essential part of the system, granting asylums to migrants whose

00:15:42.800 claims pass muster and ordering the deportation of those whose cases do not.

00:15:49.300 These are people who obviously should have been fired a long time ago. And now that's finally

00:15:53.160 happening. And again, Trump's not stopping there. He also declared that foreign drug cartels are

00:15:59.720 terrorist organizations. And he didn't foreclose the possibility of going into Mexico and taking them

00:16:05.100 out. Watch. This is actually an executive order designating the cartels and other organizations

00:16:10.880 to be foreign terrorist organizations. That's a big one. Yes, sir. People have wanted to do this for years.

00:16:22.580 So they are now designated as terrorist organizations foreign. And Mexico probably doesn't want that.

00:16:31.760 But we have to do what's right. They're killing our people. They're killing 250,000, 300,000 American people a year. Not 100, like has been reported for 15 years. It's probably 300,000.

00:16:48.920 The President Trump, the cartels are now going to be seen as foreign terror organizations. Would you think about ordering U.S. Special Forces into Mexico to take them out?

00:16:59.360 Could happen. Stranger things have happened.

00:17:04.040 So we can very easily and honestly say that Trump was more productive in his first 12 hours in office

00:17:10.620 than Biden was in four years, by far. I mean, by far anyway. And really, all of this stuff is what

00:17:18.220 Manifest Destiny looks like in practice. If people are going to cause problems for us, if they're going to

00:17:23.360 hurt us, hurt America, hurt Americans, we can go out and take care of them. If there's territory that's valuable to us, like the Panama Canal, that we built, well, it's ours.

00:17:35.340 We could take it. If there's a planet that could ensure the survival of the human race one day, potentially, like Mars, then we'll colonize it.

00:17:42.960 And that, by the way, was maybe my personal favorite part of his speech when he declared that America will plant a flag on Mars.

00:17:50.600 And that really matters. Not just to ensure humanity's survival, because I have no idea whether Mars will ever be actually colonized.

00:17:58.860 Elon Musk seems to think so, and he knows a lot more about this stuff than you or I do.

00:18:02.800 But regardless of that, planting our flag on another planet would be the greatest achievement in the entire history of mankind.

00:18:11.960 And we should strive for that achievement simply for its own sake, because great countries do great things.

00:18:18.740 And because we as a people, as a nation, need a moment of collective triumph like that.

00:18:24.160 We haven't had one in many, many years.

00:18:26.780 In other words, it's clear from his first day in office that Trump is focused both on the practical issues and on the big picture.

00:18:35.040 It's difficult for a leader to do both of those things at once.

00:18:38.580 Joe Biden, of course, did neither.

00:18:40.700 Wasn't even clear who was running the country for the last four years.

00:18:44.080 But that's all changed now.

00:18:46.280 And if Trump could keep up this level of focus and momentum through all four years, which isn't going to be easy.

00:18:51.200 But if he can, then this has the chance to be one of the great presidential terms in American history.

00:18:58.420 Trump has embraced an ideology that's rooted in confidence, one that all successful and high-functioning countries embrace.

00:19:05.420 He's openly promoting the promise of manifest destiny, which no president has done since James Polk.

00:19:10.560 And now, armed with the lessons he learned from his previous four years in office, the chances seem pretty high that Trump will make good on that promise.

00:19:22.100 Now let's get to our five headlines.

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00:20:25.440 Okay, well, we made it about three hours into Trump's first day in office before the first big media hoax came along.

00:20:36.080 And so you've seen the headlines probably all over the place, declaring, screeching from the heavens that Elon Musk did a Nazi salute at Trump's rally yesterday.

00:20:47.040 Politico, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, all the mainstream outlets have been reporting this.

00:20:51.920 AOC, AOC, lots of other Democrats, all claiming that Elon got up on stage at Trump's rally and did a Nazi salute intentionally.

00:21:02.480 So let's just let's go to the video.

00:21:06.560 We'll just play the full the full video in context of Elon Musk on stage.

00:21:10.900 And we'll see this gesture that's being called a Nazi salute.

00:21:15.280 Here it is.

00:21:16.180 This is what victory feels like.

00:21:29.540 Yeah.

00:21:32.720 And this was no ordinary victory.

00:21:35.100 This was a fork in the road of human civilization.

00:21:39.400 Okay.

00:21:40.100 This, this.

00:21:40.600 You know, there are, there are elections that elections that come and go.

00:21:45.560 Some, some elections are, you know, important, some are not.

00:21:49.420 But, but this one, this one, this one really matters.

00:21:55.840 And I just want to say thank you for making it happen.

00:21:59.740 Thank you.

00:22:06.960 My heart goes out to you.

00:22:08.500 It is thanks to you that the future of civilization is assured.

00:22:16.580 Thanks to you.

00:22:18.740 Okay.

00:22:19.240 So the so-called Nazi salutes was actually Elon saying, my heart goes out to you.

00:22:27.580 And you can hear him say that.

00:22:28.620 So that what they're doing is that they're showing the gesture and then they're cutting

00:22:31.640 it off before he says, my heart goes out to you.

00:22:34.460 So he's pouring out his heart to the, to the crowd.

00:22:36.920 And it's very clear in context that that that's what he means.

00:22:41.700 And, you know, this is also anyone who's seen Elon Musk up on stage during the, you know,

00:22:47.520 the last few months of the campaign.

00:22:49.320 And now this is just his style.

00:22:51.960 He's got kind of this wild freewheeling style and lots of gesturing and that sort of thing.

00:22:57.160 Um, and so it's, it's obvious that that's what happened there.

00:23:03.440 Although, I mean, even to address this sort of thing feels rather silly because we all

00:23:11.880 know that obviously Elon Musk was not doing a Nazi salute.

00:23:15.560 Um, if you are not a mentally defective person, then even before you see the video, as soon

00:23:23.320 as you see the headline saying Elon Musk did a Nazi salute, you already know that that's

00:23:28.100 false.

00:23:29.620 Um, cause that's just, that's not a thing that any functioning human being would do.

00:23:34.120 Why would Elon Musk get up on stage and do a Nazi salute?

00:23:38.120 What would be the reason for that?

00:23:39.200 What would be the motive for that?

00:23:41.700 So the moment you see the headline, you already know that it's a lie, obviously.

00:23:46.280 Uh, and then, and then you see the video and it's clear what was meant by it.

00:23:49.260 Now is the gesture kind of like awkward?

00:23:52.700 Yeah, but so what?

00:23:53.960 It's okay to have a sense of humor about it.

00:23:56.060 If you, you know, if we just be people with a sense of humor, then, then you could look at

00:24:01.660 it like Elon making that gesture as a way to signal my heart goes out to you is legitimately

00:24:08.080 funny.

00:24:08.660 It's just funny.

00:24:09.600 And you laugh about it and, uh, you move on and that's it.

00:24:13.180 It doesn't have to be, it's not a headline.

00:24:14.780 It's not anything.

00:24:16.140 You just move on with your life because every, again, every single person knows that obviously

00:24:22.280 Elon Musk was not doing a Nazi salute.

00:24:27.040 There's, there's no reason for that.

00:24:29.300 There'd be no motive for it.

00:24:30.760 No, you don't stand to benefit at all from it.

00:24:36.180 Um, this is something that the media and the left, they pretend not to understand, you

00:24:41.620 know, they pretend not to understand that people like people don't just do things randomly,

00:24:47.260 spontaneously.

00:24:48.380 There have to be, there's motives behind any action that a person takes.

00:24:52.180 There's a reason for it.

00:24:53.120 And if you're a very, very high functioning and successful person like Elon Musk, one of

00:24:58.320 the most successful people on the planet, if not the most successful person on the planet

00:25:01.900 period, um, you don't

00:25:03.980 get to that point by just doing things spontaneously and randomly, even if they're self-destructive

00:25:09.700 and dumb.

00:25:10.680 Uh, no, there's a reason for why you do things and there would be no reason.

00:25:15.480 There would be no motive.

00:25:16.580 There'd be nothing to be gained clearly from getting on stage and doing a, a Nazi salute.

00:25:21.840 So, um, so the whole thing is now, now the great, the, the positive that comes from this,

00:25:29.960 I think from the media's first attempt at a hoax.

00:25:34.760 And we know there's going to be 50 more before the year's over, but I think the encouraging

00:25:41.080 thing is just that I don't think it, it just doesn't get any traction beyond left-wing

00:25:50.000 circles.

00:25:51.100 No one takes these people seriously anymore.

00:25:54.180 No one believes them.

00:25:56.280 Uh, so there, the, the narrative has no chance of breaking out beyond the circle of people

00:26:04.720 who already think that Elon Musk is a Nazi regardless.

00:26:07.940 Um, anyone who didn't think that previous to this moment is not going to be convinced

00:26:14.340 because these people have no credibility and no one pays attention to them.

00:26:20.500 All right.

00:26:21.660 Uh, so right before he left office, Biden, and I, and I'm loathe to talk about Joe Biden

00:26:26.400 again, but we do have to mention this, that, um, right before he left office, Biden issued

00:26:32.460 last minute pardons to a whole slew of people, including Fauci, Mark Milley, a bunch of political

00:26:38.260 allies.

00:26:38.700 Liz Cheney was on the list, uh, and his entire family.

00:26:43.360 We know Hunter Biden got the preemptive pardon and now Biden's whole immediate family also

00:26:49.720 got one.

00:26:50.560 Trump addressed this last night.

00:26:52.740 Listen, I was surprised that president Biden would go and pardon his whole family because

00:27:03.640 that makes him look very guilty.

00:27:05.040 You know, I could have pardoned my family.

00:27:07.020 I could have pardoned myself, my family.

00:27:09.260 I said, if I do that, it's going to make me look very guilty.

00:27:12.080 I don't think I'd be sitting here.

00:27:13.160 Frankly, if I did that, I don't think I'd be sitting here right now because I would have,

00:27:17.620 um, would have shown that you're guilty.

00:27:20.720 Now, the thing to understand about these pardons is that, you know, they are truly unprecedented.

00:27:28.140 I mean, obviously we know that it's, it's an American tradition now, unfortunately, for

00:27:33.260 presidents to issue a bunch of questionable pardons on the way out the door.

00:27:37.080 Uh, Trump did that, let's be honest.

00:27:38.980 I mean, he, he, he passed out some pardons that, um, many of which I, I did not agree with

00:27:43.400 when he was, you know, in his last couple of days in office.

00:27:47.780 Uh, and so that, that happens.

00:27:49.340 Every president does it.

00:27:50.720 And then we all complain about it and we move on.

00:27:52.360 And that's basically been the tradition, but what Biden has done, his pardons are significantly

00:27:56.940 worse than merely questionable because he doled out preemptive pardons to dozens of people,

00:28:02.880 which has never been done before.

00:28:05.620 There's never been this mass of preemptive pardons given to people.

00:28:10.320 It's never been done.

00:28:11.880 Preemptive pardons that cover any and all hypothetical crimes that those people may have committed.

00:28:17.480 Again, nothing like this has been done.

00:28:19.080 We have seen on rare occasions, blanket pardons, but blanket pardons are for specific crimes that

00:28:25.100 have been committed.

00:28:26.800 These are for any crimes, any theoretical crime, uh, even those that have not been investigated

00:28:33.560 or charged, much less, you know, convicted.

00:28:37.120 So, the Biden regime has set this as precedent now.

00:28:41.860 They've set as precedent that the president, before he leaves, can just wave his magical

00:28:47.320 sorcerer wand and declare that all of his friends and relatives are off the hook for any crimes

00:28:53.140 that they may have potentially committed.

00:28:56.140 Doesn't matter what.

00:28:56.780 And now, every president's going to do this.

00:29:01.740 Um, and we know that because, you know, Trump, when he, before he leaves office, now he's going

00:29:05.120 to do it.

00:29:05.740 And you can't even blame him because, first of all, well, Biden did it, so why should I?

00:29:09.360 And second, in his case, there's actually a reason for it, potential, because he has the

00:29:15.300 experience of having been in office before, and then he watched as, uh, the next administration

00:29:21.100 spent the following four years trying to throw all of his allies, including, and, and, and

00:29:27.220 Trump himself, in prison.

00:29:28.740 So, uh, Trump would actually have a reason to do it.

00:29:32.460 And so then, so Trump, Trump would probably do something similar.

00:29:35.860 And then the next president's gonna say, well, the last two presidents have done this.

00:29:39.460 So now this, this is officially precedent.

00:29:41.300 This is what everyone does.

00:29:42.140 I'd be a sucker if I didn't.

00:29:43.440 I mean, we're gonna get to a point where it'd be controversial to not do it, because

00:29:47.860 then all of your friends and allies are like, what, you know, you don't care about us?

00:29:52.460 You're just gonna hang us out to dry?

00:29:54.180 So, um, that is the precedent that's been set.

00:29:58.580 And, um, uh, remember, Biden was supposed to be the great, the great norms respecter,

00:30:05.120 you know, the great defender of political norms, the great preserver of our institutions

00:30:09.380 and our traditions.

00:30:10.520 He was obviously always the opposite of that.

00:30:13.440 Democrats always are, you know, Democrats, the Democrats, anytime they put themselves

00:30:20.800 in the position of defending institutions and traditions, you know, that something is,

00:30:25.200 something's amiss because these people don't care about traditions and institutions.

00:30:28.980 Least of all, do they give a damn about norms?

00:30:31.860 Uh, they care about those things only in the sense that they want to rip them to shreds.

00:30:35.420 And, you know, here's the thing about this that really gets me is that this is what makes

00:30:40.840 it all the more grotesque, uh, is that it was not even practically necessary.

00:30:47.500 Okay. And everyone knows that everybody knows, even Biden knows to the extent that he can know

00:30:54.160 anything at this point, knows that the Trump was not going to go on a revenge tour and start

00:31:00.600 throwing the Biden family in prison. That was not going to happen. He wasn't going to go after

00:31:05.840 Fauci or Mark Milley or Liz Cheney. Um, I would have liked to see him do some of that. Fauci in

00:31:12.720 particular deserves to be investigated and then thrown in prison. He deserves, he's one of the

00:31:16.220 most corrupt and evil bureaucrats in American history, but, uh, so he would deserve it, but

00:31:21.160 it wasn't going to happen. Trump wasn't going to do that. He never promised that he would do it.

00:31:24.480 We just know based on our previous experience with the Trump administration, this is not what

00:31:29.000 he's going to do. It's not his style. It's not his focus. Um, he certainly wasn't going to

00:31:35.180 prosecute anyone in Biden's family, even Hunter. He wasn't going to go after Hunter. He probably

00:31:41.140 would have pardoned Hunter himself, if anything. Um, which means he definitely wasn't going to go

00:31:47.780 after other random Biden relatives. That was not going to happen. So why didn't Biden,

00:31:53.300 why did Biden do this? What was the point? I mean, this, this is arguably harmful even to the people

00:32:03.460 that he's giving the pardons to. If I had committed no federal crimes and was not suspected of committing

00:32:10.860 any and was not under investigation for any federal crimes, I would not want the president

00:32:16.180 to come along and issue me a preemptive pardon for any federal crimes I may have committed.

00:32:23.840 Now I would say to that, uh, yeah, but I didn't commit any. So no, it's okay. In case you committed

00:32:30.360 any federal crimes, wink, wink, you know, sure. Oh, sure. You didn't. But just in case you did. No,

00:32:35.720 no, but I really haven't. I've really committed. I haven't committed any federal crime. I don't

00:32:38.840 need no thanks. I don't need the pardon. Um, so all you're doing is make it, you know,

00:32:42.740 you do that for somebody, just making them look guilty. You're casting an air of suspicion over

00:32:46.400 them. And, uh, so now that's forever a person who was pardoned for federal crimes, even though

00:32:51.820 they never committed any, you know, they would say, um, or was ever suspected of committing any.

00:32:56.700 So, so even for the, from the perspective of the person who gets the totally pointless, uh, the,

00:33:04.440 the effectively pointless preemptive federal pardon, uh, you know, you could argue that even

00:33:11.680 for them, it's, it's, especially if they are not in fact guilty of doing anything, it's not even a

00:33:16.120 benefit benefit. So what was the point? Why did he do it? Well, he did it for one reason. I think

00:33:20.500 he did it for one single reason, um, which is that he did it in order to make it look like,

00:33:26.220 uh, to make it look like he had to protect these people from political persecution by Trump.

00:33:33.900 He did it as one last little jab, one last attempt to make Trump look like a fascist dictator

00:33:41.500 who would seek revenge on his enemies. Uh, so that's all it was. This was purely about building

00:33:48.360 the narrative, the narrative that Trump is a Nazi, that Trump is Hitler, that he's a dictator.

00:33:53.120 And that is a narrative that already lost a narrative that the American people already

00:33:58.060 rejected in, uh, in, in huge numbers, but that's what it was. And that's what makes it

00:34:04.820 even worse, worse than it already would be. The fact that, that Biden was willing to set this truly,

00:34:12.560 truly heinous precedent that will be abused in so many unjust ways for decades to come.

00:34:19.480 Um, and he did it all for no reason other than trying to just land a little political jab

00:34:25.300 for the sake of that, for the pettiest of reasons, he was willing to burn every political norm to the

00:34:32.840 ground. I mean, that that's, that's how petty and vindictive, um, this guy is and all the,

00:34:39.900 all these people who are now out of power. Uh, it really is just, um, evil speaking of evil. I also

00:34:51.260 wanted to mention this, um, yesterday, Cecile Richards, and you know, you might not have heard

00:34:58.720 about this cause it was, uh, you know, there's a lot going on yesterday, but even if there wasn't a

00:35:03.600 lot going on, you still may not have heard about this cause this is not someone who's been in the

00:35:06.640 public eye for a while, but still Cecile Richards, who is the former president or was, I should say

00:35:12.760 the former president of Planned Parenthood died of brain cancer, uh, yesterday. And I think,

00:35:19.140 I think she was 67 years old and she was president of Planned Parenthood for 12 years.

00:35:24.720 And, uh, so of course the, the, the tributes, the admiring obituaries came rolling in, uh, Biden

00:35:31.400 and Obama and many other high profile Democrats put out statements mourning the loss of Cecile

00:35:36.620 Richards. Here's the CNN writeup. I'll read a little bit of it. It says Cecile Richards,

00:35:41.640 a women's rights crusader who served as president of Planned Parenthood as the nation approached a

00:35:45.900 critical, critical inflection point over reproductive freedom has died. Her family said

00:35:50.220 mundane statement. She was 67. This morning, our beloved Cecile passed away at home, surrounded by

00:35:55.640 her family and her ever loyal dog, Ollie. Our hearts are broken today, but no words could do justice to

00:36:00.900 the joy she brought to our lives. Uh, Richards died just hours before president Donald Trump was

00:36:05.320 sworn into a second term as president. Richards family was grateful to the doctors and healthcare

00:36:10.040 workers who provided her excellent care and, uh, the friends, family, and well-wishers who have been

00:36:14.560 by her side, so on and so forth. Uh, she served as president of Planned Parenthood for 2006 to 2018,

00:36:21.340 helping boost the profile of an organization long criticized by conservatives and anti-abortion

00:36:25.900 activists who've called on the government to strip its funding. Yes, we have. And then we have the

00:36:32.140 statements from various abortion groups that are very upset about this. Um, I just think it should

00:36:39.160 be said that Cecile Richards was, yeah, she was probably the most influential leader of Planned

00:36:46.380 Parenthood since Margaret Sanger. And, and that is to say that Richards was one of the most prolific mass

00:36:52.980 murderers in history. She helped to kill millions of human beings. Um, she was truly an evil, monstrous

00:37:02.860 person and mourning her death is like mourning the death of Osama bin Laden. I mean, imagine Osama bin

00:37:09.200 Laden at Osama bin Laden's untimely demise. If there were a tearful obituaries in the media about it,

00:37:17.780 which even then there probably were, but, um, um, it's actually worse than that because bin Laden

00:37:23.760 killed far fewer people, far fewer. So Cecile Richards was much worse in pretty much every way

00:37:30.100 than Osama bin Laden. Um, the only thing that's tragic about this woman's death is that it did not

00:37:36.660 happen inside a prison or that it didn't happen much sooner before she was able to kill, you know,

00:37:43.100 some 4 million babies. And I know it sounds really harsh and terrible to say that about someone who

00:37:48.280 just died of brain cancer. And in almost every case, I would never say that, but again, she killed

00:37:53.160 millions, millions of people. So this is by any measure, a mass killer whose slaughter and destruction

00:38:03.560 puts her in the same category as like Pol Pot, Genghis Khan. But again, in many ways worse,

00:38:11.420 um, many ways worse. And besides all that, you know, why should we be sad? She was just a clump of

00:38:21.280 cells, just a clump of cells. Why did her life have any meaning at all? Who cares about her life?

00:38:28.560 What, what, what meaning does it possibly have? If all those millions of babies that she killed,

00:38:33.320 if their lives had no meaning, no meaning, no moral value, no meaning, then why does her life have any

00:38:38.340 meaning? It doesn't. It's just, you know, the babies, right? That we treat them, these, her

00:38:43.840 organization treated the babies like, like medical waste, like garbage that you literally throw into

00:38:48.740 a dumpster. And so by that logic, she is also just garbage that belongs in a dumpster by her own

00:38:56.020 logic, by the logic that she lived by. Um, so I guess no matter how you look at it, either you see

00:39:03.900 Cecile Richards as a mass murderer, in which case her death is not a tragedy, uh, or you like her

00:39:12.820 because you agree with abortion. But in that case, her life had no fundamental intrinsic value at all.

00:39:20.100 So either way, you're back at the, at the starting point, which is that there is absolutely no reason

00:39:25.660 to be mourning this evil, despicable person's death whatsoever. And that is my obituary for her.

00:39:30.920 So let's get to the comment section.

00:39:33.340 If you're a man, it's required that you grow a bit. Hey, we're the sweet baby gang.

00:39:43.280 Matt, I'm a Lions fan. No one understands the trauma of rooting for a team that loses in the

00:39:47.500 playoffs. I hear you and I see you. It's a suffering. It's an unseen suffering that nobody

00:39:51.900 can understand, you know, unless they've experienced it. And no one has any sympathy either. That's the

00:39:57.780 other tough thing about it. When you try to talk to someone about your, about your pain. They just,

00:40:02.780 they're very patronizing. I found that makes it all the worse. Um, Matt talking about how he's an

00:40:08.080 introvert and snuck in watching the football game at a ball is so real. This is why I like him. Well,

00:40:12.660 I can only be real with you. You know that. Um, and, uh, and the, the, I will say that the, uh,

00:40:20.280 this rat, the, the balls have come, come to an end. So we had, uh, we did a bunch of them over the

00:40:26.940 weekend. And, uh, the other thing too, is that, and this, this is it, you know, I told you we were

00:40:35.500 going to all these balls and I'd never been to one before my last experience with anything that is,

00:40:40.640 that is, that is, that would be sort of like that. I would be like prom in high school, you know?

00:40:46.320 Um, and so I was very wrong about what a ball entails because in my head, I had imagined that

00:40:56.420 a ball was an event where dancing was kind of the main activity. Uh, it was what you did there.

00:41:04.000 I thought it'd be 95% of what you did. I thought that's what a ball was. And it turns out,

00:41:11.900 and I'm relieved by this, that it, it balls are not even 1% dancing. Nobody dances.

00:41:18.560 There's like no dancing that happens at all. Uh, what happens is that the band plays music really

00:41:23.480 loud while everyone stands around drinking and shouting over it. And that's, and that's it.

00:41:29.060 That's the whole thing. There's just no, no one dances at any point. And I guess in my head,

00:41:35.600 somewhat subconsciously, I had an image of a ball that was stuck in the 19th century because I

00:41:41.780 thought that, you know, all the women would be in a big poofy dresses and the men would be wearing

00:41:46.920 top hats and monocles and, uh, carrying canes and there'd be classical music gently playing and

00:41:53.160 people dancing very elegantly, you know? Uh, and then the men would approach the women and say,

00:41:58.400 excuse me, my lady, man, may I have this dance, but would you bequeath me the honor of this dance?

00:42:05.040 And, uh, and they would dance and, and, uh, and then they'd get back in their carriages and

00:42:08.900 ride across a snowy pasture to their estates and, uh, die of typhoid fever because I thought,

00:42:16.940 you know, it's a very 19th century vision that I had. So it turns out none of that happened. Well,

00:42:21.340 we may have gotten typhoid fever. I don't know, but, uh, that remains to be seen, but the rest of it

00:42:25.120 was very different from that. Um, it's really just a marketing event. It's a, it's a rather a

00:42:31.140 networking event is what it is. And, and I guess, I guess I should have known better that, that,

00:42:36.020 that everything in DC is just a networking event. Anything at all that you do that's supposed to be

00:42:41.140 for fun is always just a networking event. And, uh, so it's that except with loud music that you have

00:42:46.660 to shout over. So a lot of fun. Uh, Matt looked freezing today. Uh, yeah, I was, we, we did our live

00:42:57.640 coverage of the inauguration. We were outside as, as you saw, if you watch the Daily Wire's live

00:43:01.720 coverage of the inauguration yesterday. And it's kind of funny because we got that spot, uh, outside

00:43:08.380 back when we thought the inauguration would be outside. And so the spot was set up so that you

00:43:15.140 could see the big crowd in the background, right at the inauguration, but then everybody moved inside

00:43:20.820 and there was a couple of days of chaos behind the scenes because we were all saying, well, we got to

00:43:27.180 move inside too. Why are we going to be randomly outside for three hours when everyone else is

00:43:32.400 inside? And there's behind us a lot, just an empty lot now. And so I think we tried to move inside,

00:43:39.560 but we couldn't get a permit to broadcast anywhere else. So we had to just stay outside. So we were

00:43:44.520 stuck out there, uh, freezing our asses off for no real reason. And, uh, you know, I'll say in the end,

00:43:50.380 I, I, I like to think it was worth it. It was certainly, it was, it was worth it to

00:43:55.560 be here and cover the event and all that the being outside part. I'm not totally sold on whether that

00:44:03.820 was worth it. Uh, hopefully the background and the atmosphere improve the viewing experience to some

00:44:11.840 extent, at least tell me that it did so that I know I got frostbite for a reason.

00:44:18.760 Um, and it was also funny too, because we, we, uh, we're planning on covering the, the inaugural,

00:44:26.300 you know, the, the, the speech, the inaugural address. And we were out outside the whole time.

00:44:31.800 And if you watch the coverage, you know, that Trump was speaking and the, we, you know, all,

00:44:36.580 all of us, we were, we were watching it, but we were on screen too, in a little box. So we were on

00:44:42.000 camera the whole time. And, um, and you know, there, there was part of me that was hoping

00:44:49.100 that it'd be a speech on the shorter side, just cause I had to be outside the whole time

00:44:54.180 listening to it. And it was like 12 degrees. And then Trump gives a speech. It's like it's 29 minutes

00:44:58.740 the shortest speech he's ever given. And I also legitimately think it was probably my favorite

00:45:02.840 Trump speech of all time, not just because it was short, but the shortness helps because, uh,

00:45:07.300 it's just punchy and to the point. And he just ran through all these things he's going to do.

00:45:10.540 And we talked about it, the, you know, the grand vision of America, I thought it was fantastic.

00:45:14.620 Um, and, uh, and so it was, it was just a win-win. It was like a great speech. It was short.

00:45:20.440 We don't have to be outside for, for, for three or four hours and fantastic. Um,

00:45:25.960 but then he immediately goes and gives another speech that we, we threw to while we were still

00:45:31.720 outside. And that speech went for four and a half hours. So we still were outside freezing the whole

00:45:37.440 time. Anyway, it was a good, uh, good experience, uh, all around. I will say you watched our

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00:46:34.880 I began the show talking about some of Donald Trump's day one executive orders, uh, on everything

00:46:43.120 from architecture to drug cartels. But there's one executive order that I didn't talk about,

00:46:47.240 uh, because it deserves its own extended monologue. So saving it for, um, for here. And that's Trump's

00:46:53.060 executive order that officially ends gender ideology in the government and establishes a very clear

00:46:58.020 definition of male and female, namely the definition that's been recognized throughout all of human

00:47:02.980 history until 15 seconds ago. And in a second, I'm going to read extensively from this order because

00:47:07.140 this is a monumental moment in American history. It's also a very well-crafted document that sets

00:47:12.060 out in plain English, the truth about gender ideology, which is a fight that of course I've

00:47:16.740 been personally waging for many years through my film, what is a woman investigations into barbarism

00:47:21.980 in places like Vanderbilt, uh, testimony at Tennessee legislature to enact a ban on child

00:47:26.880 mutilation. That's now before the U S Supreme court and so on. There've been so many others

00:47:30.420 who are pivotal in this fight from Chaya Wright, chick of lives, a tick tock to Riley Gaines,

00:47:34.980 billboard, Chris, Colin, right, Chloe Cole, many others. Trans activists have done everything in their

00:47:39.660 power to prevent a moment like this from happening. And in my case, as you know, part of my story,

00:47:46.060 they forced my family from our home, attempted to destroy my life and my family over the course of

00:47:51.340 years. They've threatened us along with anyone else who attempted to speak the truth about such a

00:47:55.620 fundamental issue. And they knew all along that, that, uh, their position was incoherent and wrong.

00:48:00.560 So they had to resort to these kinds of tactics to have any hope of winning, but, um, they haven't

00:48:05.660 won. They have lost in spectacular fashion. They've lost everything. They are losers. And I want every

00:48:11.400 trans activist who hears this to know that you lost, you are losers. We won, we beat you. And I hope it

00:48:18.100 makes you sad to hear that. I hope it causes you great grief and misery because that will only be a

00:48:23.220 fraction of the misery that you brought into this world and inflicted on innocent people, especially

00:48:27.500 children, many of whom are going to have to live with the damage you did to them for the rest of their

00:48:32.140 lives. So you deserve all of this humiliation. And I'm glad that you're experiencing. I'm glad that I

00:48:37.240 could be a part, just a part in, uh, making you feel so miserable. I'm really happy about that. Uh,

00:48:43.500 everything that these thugs have been working to build, all the lies and propaganda nonsense they've

00:48:49.340 piled up has come crashing down like one big grotesque Jenga tower. And this executive order

00:48:56.480 is not achieving that victory on its own. Of course, this is a fight, as I said, that's been

00:49:00.040 waged for many years by many people, but this is, I think in a lot of ways, the final nail in the

00:49:05.360 coffin. The executive order that Donald Trump just signed is entitled defending women from gender

00:49:09.940 ideology, extremism, and restoring biological truth to the federal government. Yesterday, Trump alluded to

00:49:15.540 the order during his inaugural address. And then later in the day, uh, he signed it. Watch.

00:49:21.200 There are only two genders, male and female.

00:49:36.300 Protecting women from radical gender ideologies.

00:49:38.800 Now on one level, it's surreal that a president even has to issue an order like this or make a

00:49:47.260 proclamation that there are only two genders. 20 years ago, it would be like a president

00:49:50.920 declaring the sky is blue or water is wet. It's like an executive order clarifying that two plus

00:49:55.560 two equals four. But trans activists in the Democrat party have insisted on denying one of

00:49:59.920 the most basic fundamental truths of biology. And until recently, a lot of people, including a lot

00:50:04.440 of conservatives were too afraid to respond, uh, to this madness with the truth. But those days appear

00:50:11.720 to be very much over the executive order that Donald Trump just signed is one of the most well-written

00:50:17.320 well-reasoned takedowns of gender ideology that I've ever seen. And more importantly, it has the force

00:50:23.440 of law. It ends this madness in the government permanently. It is a death knell to federal funding

00:50:29.260 for this insanity. And it will help facilitate gender ideology's trip to the dustbin of history.

00:50:36.360 Here's how the order begins. Quote, across the country, ideologues who deny the biological reality

00:50:40.480 of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially coercive means to permit men to self-identify

00:50:45.200 as women and gain access to intimate single sex spaces and activities designed for women,

00:50:49.760 from women's domestic abuse shelters to women's workplace showers. This is wrong. Efforts to eradicate

00:50:54.880 biological reality of sex fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity, safety,

00:50:59.520 and well-being. The erasure of sex and language policy has a corrosive impact, not just on women,

00:51:04.920 but on the validity of the entire American system. Basing federal policy on truth is critical to

00:51:10.100 scientific inquiry, public safety, morale, and trust in government itself. Close quote.

00:51:15.280 So that's the preamble. And it's very good. It establishes the stakes very clearly and plainly.

00:51:23.580 A society that doesn't respect truth is incapable of functioning. There's that famous quote that those

00:51:29.660 who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. And it's true. Because once you

00:51:33.780 tell people that the truth is meaningless, then any kind of rational discourse is impossible.

00:51:38.060 Lived experience replaces actual truth in reality. And anything can be considered truth.

00:51:45.460 Anything can therefore be justified. But sanity seems to be prevailing now. The order very directly

00:51:53.480 states that men cannot self-identify as women under any circumstance. It doesn't matter how much they

00:51:59.700 whine on TikTok or try to get you fired from your job. The truth is the truth, and it doesn't change.

00:52:05.100 Then the order gets into specifics. Quote, it's the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes,

00:52:09.960 male and female. These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontroversial

00:52:14.860 reality. This order specifically dismisses the entire concept of gender identity. Quote,

00:52:20.620 gender identity reflects a fully internal and subjective sense of self disconnected from

00:52:25.060 biological reality and sex and existing on an infinite continuum that does not provide a

00:52:29.680 meaningful basis for identification and cannot be recognized as a replacement for sex.

00:52:34.460 Close quote. Now, I mean, again, this is the kind of argument that people like myself and others

00:52:40.480 have been making for years now. And 10 years ago, it was not it was not something that that that it was

00:52:45.460 something that hardly any elected Republican was willing to say out loud. It certainly would not

00:52:49.900 have been written into an executive order. But times have changed. And the order does what trans

00:52:55.600 activists are incapable of doing, which is defying the terms. Quote, sex shall refer to an individual's

00:53:01.040 immutable biological classification as either male or female. Sex is not a synonym for and does not

00:53:07.180 include the concept of gender identity. Women or woman and girls or girls shall mean adult and

00:53:12.420 juvenile human females, respectively. Men or man and boys or boy shall mean adult and juvenile human

00:53:18.580 males, respectively. Female means a person belonging at conception to the sex that produces the large

00:53:23.300 reproductive cell. Male means a person belonging at conception to the sex that produces the small

00:53:27.300 reproductive cell. Close quote. Okay. So there's your terms defined very clearly. Now, if you watched

00:53:34.100 what is woman, you know how hard it is to get alleged experts in the field of gender ideology

00:53:38.920 to provide any kind of definition for man or woman. Instead, they'll give you circular explanations

00:53:44.380 that don't make any sense at all. They'll say a woman is someone who says she's a woman. And as the

00:53:49.060 executive order points out, that is completely incoherent. Again, you know, it makes the point as well

00:53:55.720 as you can make it to the point that and this has been very rare with like documents written by

00:54:01.700 elected Republicans. But, you know, I reading the executive order, I couldn't have written it any

00:54:10.620 better myself. I mean, there's I wouldn't add anything to it. It's exactly what I would say,

00:54:15.460 which is pretty remarkable. Quote, going back to the executive order, gender ideology includes the

00:54:21.120 idea that there is a vast spectrum of agendas that are disconnected from one sex. Gender ideology is

00:54:25.120 eternally inconsistent in that it diminishes sex as an identifiable or useful category, but nevertheless

00:54:29.780 maintains that it's possible for a person to be born in the wrong sexed body. Close quote. Now,

00:54:35.660 the order goes on to ban men from women's prisons. It blocks federal funds from being used to promote

00:54:40.220 gender ideology in any way, including by funding sex changes for prisoners. Federal contractors are

00:54:46.660 affected by the order as well. The order also ensures that a person's biological sex is on their

00:54:51.740 government ID, including their passports. It empowers the attorney general and other law enforcement

00:54:56.260 officials to go to court to enforce these measures. And all of this would have been unthinkable just a few

00:55:02.200 years ago. Already, the corporate press is predictably freaking out about this. CNN, for example, reported last

00:55:07.760 night, quote, Trump to gender edict could upend X identity on passports. Yes, you heard that correctly. People can

00:55:15.340 state that their gender is X on passports. It's one of the innovations of the Biden administration. And now a bunch of

00:55:22.280 leftists and federal agencies are upset that X isn't going to be valid anymore. I guess X genders will

00:55:27.800 have to go get new passports. And CNN is playing this up as a big civil rights issue. Now, not to be

00:55:33.980 outdone, gender activists at the so-called People's Rally this weekend were up in arms as well. The

00:55:39.180 journalist Savannah Hernandez spoke to one of these activists. And this is footage that belongs like in a

00:55:43.940 museum as a kind of monument to this insane and defeated ideology. Watch.

00:55:50.900 I can't pee in 4% of America right now. So you can't pee in 4% of America in 4% of America. It is

00:55:59.640 illegal for me to use the men's restroom in government buildings. So because of the biology

00:56:07.420 bill that they just passed. Yes, because I am biologically female, I cannot use the men's restroom

00:56:13.460 in Florida or Utah. What would you say to people who would say, well, just use the family restroom or a

00:56:19.860 gender neutral restroom if it's available? Like, what would your thoughts on that be? What am I supposed to do if

00:56:25.560 there isn't a gender neutral restroom available? Am I supposed to just hold it? Or am I supposed to just wet my

00:56:36.060 pants? Literally, there's no point to it other than to keep trans people out of the spaces they belong

00:56:46.320 in. Because, you know, they use the excuse of like, oh, how are you going to know if it's someone claiming

00:56:52.400 to be a woman just to get into the women's restroom? And it's like those people are going to be doing

00:56:58.320 things in the restroom that are going to set off red flags. You don't need an additional law on top of

00:57:03.660 that to keep trans women out. Now, you really can't watch that and come to any other conclusion

00:57:08.380 other than the trans activists are absolutely cooked, as the kids would say. They have no

00:57:14.360 response to the overwhelming rash of defeats that they've suffered, except to claim that whatever this

00:57:20.500 means, they now won't be able to pee in 4% of America. Which, you know, not to get into the

00:57:28.620 nitty gritty. But I'd argue that the average human being through the course of their life,

00:57:33.780 even if they have an overactive bladder, will probably pee in far less than 0.00001% of America.

00:57:42.920 So this woman has 96% of America left to pee on, you know, by her own math, which I don't know where

00:57:49.940 she's getting it from, but hardly a crisis. And more to the point, until yesterday, it was the official

00:57:56.660 position of the US government to take idiocy like this seriously. We were all supposed to respect

00:58:02.680 their so-called gender identity, whatever gender they say they are, wherever they say they have to

00:58:08.140 urinate. We were supposed to just submit to it, surrender our common sense, all because someone

00:58:14.340 like that will say, well, it makes me sad if I can't pee in the restroom that I want to.

00:58:19.520 It is an eternal embarrassment for the country that we ever allowed any of this to happen to begin with.

00:58:27.520 But there's no time like the president to turn back from it. And what's happened now is that

00:58:32.760 these people have been relegated back to the fringes of irrelevance, where they belong.

00:58:38.760 They are no longer driving US policy. They are no longer going to get people fired from their jobs.

00:58:44.560 They are no longer going to be able to demean and humiliate women in this country,

00:58:47.860 all in the pursuit of their confused and narcissistic desires.

00:58:51.220 Trans activists have lost. That doesn't mean they're going to go away. It doesn't mean that

00:58:57.360 we can rest on our laurels. It doesn't mean the culture war is over. It doesn't even mean that

00:59:01.940 gender ideology itself is necessarily over for good. But it does mean that they are very much

00:59:08.560 on the losing side and they have very little power anymore. Even the big tech companies are

00:59:12.940 claiming that they're going to stop enforcing speech codes meant to cater to these people.

00:59:17.180 truth and sanity, two prerequisites to a functioning, thriving society, have prevailed on this issue.

00:59:27.320 truth. And now it's time for our country to function and to thrive and to never let people

00:59:32.760 like this hold any power over our lives whatsoever or any purpose ever again.

00:59:40.880 That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

00:59:43.600 Have a great day. Talk to you tomorrow.

00:59:44.960 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - January 21, 2025

Ep. 1519 - The Dawn Of A New America

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