The Michael Knowles Show - DW Live from D.C.

00:00:00.000 Welcome back to Daily Wire's special inaugural coverage.

00:00:02.540 We're approximately 30 minutes away from the beginning of the inauguration ceremony.

00:00:06.040 And right behind us, President Trump's motorcade is arriving here at the Capitol building

00:00:10.840 where he'll be taking the oath of office.

00:00:12.960 It's been a really chaotic last couple of days of trying to understand exactly what was happening

00:00:16.820 with all of the location changes based on weather and perhaps rumors are security threats to the inauguration.

00:00:23.020 But at this very moment, President Trump and I am turning around to look.

00:00:27.900 Oh, wow.

00:00:28.820 Yeah.

00:00:29.000 Hey, there he is.

00:00:29.860 There he is.

00:00:30.560 President Trump rolling up right behind us to the U.S. Capitol where he'll be sworn in

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00:00:54.860 And here we are on a very cold 22-degree day in Washington, D.C., celebrating Donald Trump's historic inauguration as the 47th President of the United States.

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00:01:18.360 Guys, what a day.

00:01:21.080 Oh, yeah.

00:01:21.320 Truly the end, I think, of the Obama era.

00:01:25.880 You know, there was the possibility that that could have been true in 2016.

00:01:29.380 It ended up not being true.

00:01:30.800 Obama was able to really surge back and in many ways be the most influential figure in Washington, D.C. these last four years.

00:01:36.500 Today, I feel that his era is completely vanquished.

00:01:39.120 Donald Trump coming in in a unique position for a second term where he actually has a popular mandate, where he's had four years in sort of the political wilderness to learn from both the successes and failures of his first administration, and to face this unrelenting lawfare from the left, which really, I think, exposed what the left's true intentions are not only for him but for the country.

00:01:58.800 And he comes in an energized second-term president.

00:02:01.220 I actually would go even further.

00:02:03.300 I agree with all of that.

00:02:04.320 I think Obama is cooked.

00:02:05.840 But furthermore, I think the libs are more over right now than they have been in my entire life.

00:02:12.740 Oscar de la Renta bragging about making a dress for the second lady, Usha Vance.

00:02:17.820 That's right.

00:02:18.220 You've got Snoop Dogg playing an inauguration party for Donald Trump.

00:02:22.080 You've got Bill Gates sucking up to Trump, calling him an intriguing, fascinating man.

00:02:26.900 All of the corporate executives, the big tech, of course, Mark Zuckerberg, and then, of course, the foreign dignitaries coming into the imperial capital for a shift not just in a political party but also, I think, a global shift toward the right.

00:02:43.840 That's what we're seeing.

00:02:44.840 There's also what we're not seeing that I think is really interesting, to your point about the libs being over, is, you know, we've been here in D.C. for a few days now.

00:02:52.520 I'm told there was another Women's March protest.

00:02:54.880 I saw no indication of it.

00:02:59.180 So what we're not seeing is what I think a lot of us expected, which was this, like, explosive nuclear outrage from the left, this huge meltdown.

00:03:06.860 And instead, you get, you know, maybe a few thousand people walking around.

00:03:11.280 And so it seems like on the left there's this kind of resignation to the fact that Trump is here.

00:03:16.480 And I think he's just he's he's a normal part of the political landscape now.

00:03:20.120 So that so leftists are having a problem casting him as this sort of abnormal aberration, this dangerous figure.

00:03:26.720 And so even on the left, there seems to be kind of this resignation, this shrug of, well, this is this is how it is now.

00:03:32.060 Well, I want to give a big I want to give a big thank you to Joe Biden, really thank you to Joe Biden, because this last four years has been total.

00:03:37.460 But, you know, aside from that, there would be no Trump, too, except for Joe Biden.

00:03:42.460 Joe Biden was a historically bad president.

00:03:44.040 He's going to go down in history as one of the worst presidents in the history of the United States.

00:03:47.480 In the modern history of the United States, it's a running gun battle between him and Jimmy Carter.

00:03:51.400 So we can easily say that he's now the worst living president of the United States.

00:03:55.240 And I think that without him, none of this would have been possible.

00:03:58.220 So we owe a big thank you to to President Biden with that.

00:04:02.100 And I'm glad that we'll never have to say that again because he's not going to be president again.

00:04:04.880 So that's going to be great. But I think that there's really three things that I've been thinking about today.

00:04:08.400 One is the uniqueness of President Trump as a human and as a figure.

00:04:11.520 It's just unbelievable. Like you get used to this stuff, covering it every day.

00:04:15.480 We cover it every day. Trump, as you say, has become part of the normal political landscape.

00:04:18.440 And then you see the image of President Trump coming out of the White House and getting into the motorcade to go to take the inaugural oath at the Capitol building behind us.

00:04:25.680 And you think to yourself, man, this is unbelievable.

00:04:28.140 Like the writing, the writing here is just insane.

00:04:30.780 You have a person who came from literally nowhere in politics, like had never held office to become president of the United States.

00:04:36.920 He loses an election to Joe Biden in the most contentious election of our lifetime, without a doubt, between BLM riots and COVID and changing the rules and the insanity that followed.

00:04:46.180 And then he comes all the way back to the presidency of the United States as a singular figure.

00:04:50.480 There's nothing remotely like it in our lifetime.

00:04:52.360 And then you think about the American people and what the American people have said here is that they are tired of the fake normality provided by the Democratic Party.

00:05:01.260 We kept hearing all those. The pitch was always Donald Trump is not normal.

00:05:04.520 He's not a normal guy. He's super not. This is not normal.

00:05:07.240 You kept hearing that during term one. And then you got Joe Biden, who's supposedly the most normal guy.

00:05:11.300 He's so normal. He's got a normal politician who's super normal.

00:05:14.000 And it turns out everything he did was not normal. Everything.

00:05:17.320 His presidency was a sham because he wasn't even alive.

00:05:20.180 His executive orders vastly exceeded the scope of his office.

00:05:23.820 The policies that he pursued were disastrous for the United States, both at home and abroad.

00:05:27.780 In his waning hours, he pardoned a bunch of people with blanket pardons that he couldn't.

00:05:33.160 It's nothing like nothing we've ever seen.

00:05:34.700 For crimes they are not accused of.

00:05:35.720 He tried to add a constitutional amendment 72 hours ago by presidential fiat.

00:05:40.800 And then they say that he's captain normalcy.

00:05:42.880 The American people say, you know what? We're tired of the illusion of normal.

00:05:45.840 We just want normal.

00:05:47.040 So President Trump is supposed to, in his speech today, talk about the power of common sense.

00:05:50.920 This is supposed to be the theme of his speech.

00:05:52.360 It's going to be a common sense.

00:05:53.720 That's all we're asking for. That's all we're asking for.

00:05:56.620 Even like I'm a conservative. I wish you were more conservative.

00:05:59.040 He isn't. He's commonsensical and utilitarian.

00:06:01.640 And guess what? That's what the American people want.

00:06:03.740 They want common sense, utilitarian, pragmatist, winning first president.

00:06:07.740 The one thing we haven't mentioned here is us, the media.

00:06:11.380 The fact that the left-wing media that enforced all these illusions on the American people

00:06:16.420 threatened them essentially with any violation of their beliefs, they've been particleized.

00:06:22.980 They're going through the seven stages of grief, which are whining, anger, denial, denial, denial, denial.

00:06:28.220 They just absolutely cannot get around the fact that they don't matter anymore.

00:06:32.040 And we do. And we do for a reason.

00:06:34.100 Not because we have the reporting power they have.

00:06:36.680 We don't. Not yet. But we do have the power to debunk the lies that they tell.

00:06:40.960 And we've done it bit by bit, piece by piece, skirmish by skirmish.

00:06:44.140 And we beat them. We beat them down to the ground.

00:06:46.540 Yeah. I wish you guys could see immediately behind us the angles a bit steep.

00:06:50.480 But the presidential motorcade only just ending, a motorcade which began before we even went live.

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00:07:05.340 But I believe we also saw President Biden leaving the White House to make his journey over to the United States Capitol for the 40 for the inauguration of Donald Trump.

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00:08:22.120 Michael, you're in many ways the most Trumpy of the Daily Wire hosts.

00:08:25.280 You're often accused of being sycophantish by me.

00:08:30.460 I do have to say, you've been the most bullish on President Trump's chances all the way back to 2020 that he would come back, that he would be president, elected president again.

00:08:41.920 It's a vindicating moment for you, I'm sorry to say.

00:08:43.920 But happy for the country.

00:08:44.760 You make a great point.

00:08:45.900 I do seem very right and handsome and lively and exuberant.

00:08:51.000 I think there's a lot to what Ben just said.

00:08:53.460 This is a point I have been hammering since before the election and I'm glad to see after the election,

00:08:58.540 which is, to me, the phrase of 2024 and the phrase of this administration has to be common sense.

00:09:06.440 Ben, when you say you wish Trump were more conservative, you're speaking in a political, ideological way.

00:09:12.060 Now, there is a kind of deep conservatism even to the notion of common sense, but there are a lot of people who voted for Trump, who did not ever vote before or who had voted for Democrats, who've never read Russell Kirk or Edmund Burke or Hayek or anybody, who just kind of have a gut sense that something was wrong and Trump was kind of going to make it right and paradoxically was going to be a normal president.

00:09:34.200 And I think that's good, actually.

00:09:36.220 I think it's to be encouraged.

00:09:37.920 We also want to apply reason to our political intuitions.

00:09:41.000 But I'm all for that.

00:09:42.500 You know, I think back to the worst leftist revolutionaries ever.

00:09:46.860 One guy in particular, Antonio Gramsci, who observed that a revolution can only succeed if it holds the common sense.

00:09:53.760 And the left totally kissed that away.

00:09:56.560 And if Trump can make his remarks today and the theme of his admin, that we're going to be normal.

00:10:01.720 It's OK to be normal, guys.

00:10:03.220 We're going to use common sense.

00:10:04.920 We're going to we're going to defer to the wisdom of our ancestors and the things that have just kind of worked out before.

00:10:09.480 If he can do that, he is going to hold not only the center right.

00:10:13.180 He's going to hold the center, the center left.

00:10:14.940 I think he could even expand that new coalition.

00:10:16.880 You saw the executive orders.

00:10:18.100 I mean, he's supposed to issue some 200 executive orders today.

00:10:20.640 Now, listen, as a fan of constitutional government, not a fan of that many executive orders.

00:10:23.880 But that is a perfect response to what the Democrats have done in centralizing executive power since the Obama days.

00:10:29.100 It was Barack Obama, who after he lost Congress, said he would rule by pen and phone.

00:10:32.400 And then it was Donald Trump who tried to reverse many of those things.

00:10:34.500 And then it was Joe Biden who expanded it radically.

00:10:36.880 Joe Biden issued more executive orders while he was president than any president of our lifetime for his four years.

00:10:41.360 And now Donald Trump has to reverse all that stuff.

00:10:43.660 And so his executive orders right now are very commonsensical things.

00:10:46.480 It's put Remain in Mexico back in place.

00:10:48.200 It's from now on, men pretending to be women are not going to be treated as women.

00:10:52.900 They're going to be treated as men.

00:10:53.640 This is literally one of the –

00:10:54.460 It's amazing that that has to be an executive order.

00:10:56.360 That phraseology is the exact phraseology of the executive order.

00:10:58.940 It says men pretending to be women.

00:11:00.460 That's his exact phraseology.

00:11:01.700 That is a wild difference from the kind of pseudo-respect that's been granted to this stupid proposition for the last several years that Matt, of course, has been fighting against so prominently.

00:11:09.480 You know, the fact that these sorts of things were up for debate and the fact that these are quick and easy wins for Trump.

00:11:15.400 Now, the thing – if I want to speak pragmatically about Trump for a second, the thing that – the big risk, I think, for Trump is that President Trump wants wins, right?

00:11:23.160 He likes headlines and he likes wins.

00:11:24.440 The one cautionary note is don't go for the quick and easy win over the long-lasting systemic change because I think that there are going to be a lot of shiny objects where you can grab the win right in the moment.

00:11:36.900 But the big thing that he was elected to do was, for example, clean out the deadwood of government.

00:11:40.680 It's not just to issue an executive order and declare the thing over.

00:11:42.940 I think that President Trump knows that.

00:11:44.300 I think his cabinet knows that.

00:11:45.620 But I think that's also going to require the support of the American people who understand things take time.

00:11:49.360 He also has a majority in both houses of Congress and ostensibly a majority on the Supreme Court.

00:11:55.240 They should be able to come back behind these executive orders and codify a lot of them in actual law.

00:12:00.520 And if they don't do that, I'm worried that Congress has actually become a vestigial organ that is incapable of passing legislation.

00:12:07.320 He's also shown that he's learned something.

00:12:09.080 I mean, he staffed his administration this time.

00:12:11.480 He didn't staff it at all last time and essentially allowed the Republican Party to staff it with people who hated him.

00:12:16.340 And now he's got people who love him, and I think that that's an important thing.

00:12:19.380 They keep saying he appoints loyalists.

00:12:21.620 I think, what are you going to do, appoint enemies of course?

00:12:24.040 You want guys in your administration who are going to do what you tell them to do.

00:12:27.320 And he sent a lot of sticks of dynamite into these departments, which is exactly what they need, especially in the legal departments, especially the FBI, the DOJ.

00:12:35.040 It has to be cleaned out.

00:12:36.060 This reign of terror, and it has been a reign of terror.

00:12:38.960 I mean, let's face it.

00:12:39.700 You know, it's one thing for the media that is protected by the First Amendment.

00:12:42.560 But people were being raided in their homes for protesting abortion, punished for going to the Latin mass.

00:12:47.580 I mean, if it were only Knowles, I would say fine.

00:12:49.700 But, you know, other people—

00:12:50.740 You would enforce it yourself, actually.

00:12:51.920 I would endorse it.

00:12:52.240 I would actually go in and investigate you myself.

00:12:54.220 But, no, this is an amazing—has been an amazingly oppressive regime.

00:12:58.800 And the idea that Trump is abnormal for opposing it, and the people who support Trump are abnormal for opposing it, is anti-American support.

00:13:04.980 This is the most interesting thing about these—about the last 20 years of American government, is that Barack Obama and Joe Biden both present as moderate, which obscures their radicalism.

00:13:16.280 Yeah.

00:13:16.420 They're two of the most radical men ever to hold the office of the president of the United States.

00:13:20.240 Donald Trump, on the other hand, presents as a radical.

00:13:22.940 Yeah.

00:13:23.460 But he's pretty moderate.

00:13:24.160 And yet he's pretty moderate.

00:13:25.360 Because it takes a crazy—and this is the thing I've been saying about him from the beginning—it took a crazy man to break this glass, to break this incredible shield of dreams that's been put over the American public where they couldn't see what was happening.

00:13:37.780 And there's also the—we're talking about the political side of it.

00:13:40.020 I mean, in the culture, there's a real massive shift that's happening right now.

00:13:43.900 And it feels—it's probably not as sudden as it feels, but it feels very sudden.

00:13:47.400 And so, for example, that executive voter with that language on the trans issue is really significant.

00:13:52.760 There's also—I mean, the Daily Wire just reported today the latest poll—I think it was the New York Times—on the trans issue.

00:13:58.200 It's something like 80 percent now, majority of both Democrats and Republicans, saying things like, we don't want men and women sports and that sort of thing.

00:14:05.320 A majority against, you know, transing the kids.

00:14:08.740 And if you go back and look at the polls five years ago, it wasn't like that.

00:14:11.960 I will say our company should take credit for this.

00:14:13.600 Okay, like really, Donald Trump in 2016, when he was running, said Caitlyn Jenner could use the women's restrooms.

00:14:20.900 He did.

00:14:21.460 I mean, and the reality is that it was the outside voices in the conservative movement that held the line on this.

00:14:26.320 And we were leading the charge on this, everything from Matt doing his unbelievable work on this issue to the rest of us covering this stuff.

00:14:32.140 I mean, I remember being threatened on national TV by Zoe Torrin in 2014, right?

00:14:36.120 I mean, so we've been fighting this battle for a very, very long time.

00:14:38.880 It creates a problem for the—here's the problem the left has right now.

00:14:41.420 I think they have a few problems.

00:14:42.280 One is that they run on emotions, and emotions can't be sustained forever.

00:14:46.060 And so there's—I think people are just sort of exhausted.

00:14:48.860 But then the other thing, too, is what are they about?

00:14:51.420 Like, what is the Democrat Party about right now?

00:14:53.420 What's their agenda?

00:14:54.520 What's their project?

00:14:55.820 The good thing about Trump is he's always been able to speak very clearly and simply about what he wants to do, build the wall, you know, secure the border.

00:15:01.280 These are simple things.

00:15:02.500 Right now, I think you look at the Democrat Party.

00:15:04.240 You were to get 100 Democrats in a room and say, what is your party about?

00:15:07.820 What do you guys stand for?

00:15:08.940 I think you'd get 90 different answers.

00:15:10.700 Well, that's why I think they're freaking out right now, because what they were about was being against Trump.

00:15:15.460 Yeah.

00:15:15.720 Okay?

00:15:15.980 That's really what they were about.

00:15:16.920 I mean, since Trump won, every single waking moment for the Democrats has been, we oppose Donald Trump and everything he stands for, and we're going to blame his victory on the Russians or on Facebook or on some sort of corruption.

00:15:26.240 And then it turns out the American people threw up a giant orange middle finger a second time and said no to that.

00:15:31.960 So what exactly do you do when your entire case is we just don't like the guy the American people selected?

00:15:36.720 And who is their leader?

00:15:37.820 Who is their leader?

00:15:38.600 You know, I like that Trump has changed the Republican Party.

00:15:42.140 But even if Republicans hate Trump, at least it's clear who runs the Republican Party.

00:15:46.600 It's Donald Trump.

00:15:47.360 But previously, three months ago, you would say, well, probably Barack Obama runs the Democrat Party.

00:15:53.280 I think he's basically out.

00:15:54.920 Joe Biden certainly isn't running anything.

00:15:56.620 He's probably not running his toothbrush in his mouth.

00:15:58.740 Kamala Harris isn't.

00:16:00.000 So who is the figure?

00:16:01.140 Who's the figure in media?

00:16:02.480 Who's the figure?

00:16:03.160 They just don't have one.

00:16:04.620 So they're obviously confused, which is why I'm so excited about the executive actions today.

00:16:09.960 Fifty expected executive orders and then additional executive actions once he's sworn in.

00:16:15.420 The thing I love most about it is not just what it's going to do to the border, not just he's inviting certain legal challenges, potentially on birthright citizenship, not just the gender stuff.

00:16:24.680 It's that he is going in guns a-blazing.

00:16:28.380 He is organized.

00:16:29.300 To your point, Drew, he just outsourced hiring to the GOP in 2016.

00:16:35.400 But one of the big problems was he couldn't get people to work for him because the brand had been made so toxic by the dishonest media.

00:16:43.240 That's a huge shift now, too.

00:16:45.120 The fact that Bill Gates is saying, wow, what a fascinating guy.

00:16:48.400 Oh, how intriguing.

00:16:49.300 We're going to work together.

00:16:50.500 If Bill Gates is going to work, if Mark Zuckerberg is going to work for Trump, then everybody is going to work with him.

00:16:55.800 And so he's going to be able to staff really, really good people.

00:16:57.980 We're approximately 12 and a half minutes out from the beginning of the inaugural ceremony inside the Capitol Rotunda.

00:17:03.320 You're starting to see a lot of familiar faces.

00:17:04.900 I see Charlie Kirk in the room right now, several prominent lawmakers.

00:17:11.000 Vivek, Elon Musk already have walked through.

00:17:14.540 A pretty remarkable moment in that this is taking place inside the Rotunda of the Capitol.

00:17:19.540 Normally, you would see it happening directly behind us on the National Mall on the steps of the Capitol.

00:17:24.420 That's where these events are typically held.

00:17:26.100 It's obviously why we selected this location.

00:17:28.820 But there have been enormous changes and frequent changes and rumors of even more changes over the last 48 hours as the government has responded both to the incredibly cold weather here in Washington, D.C.

00:17:38.980 And we are told security threats against the president.

00:17:42.580 I've given some thought to it.

00:17:44.560 My guess is that the kind of drone warfare that we've seen taking place, like the individualized drone warfare we've seen taking place in Eastern Europe probably presents challenges that we just don't know how to keep an event like this safe in the way that historically we've been able to.

00:17:57.080 Whatever the case, it's only the second time in our lifetimes that a president has been sworn in in the Rotunda of the Capitol, the last being the re-election of Ronald Reagan in 84.

00:18:07.460 Yep.

00:18:07.860 You know, going back to sort of the topic of the opening of culture to President Trump, I think that the most seminal moment in modern political history was that debate with Joe Biden.

00:18:17.380 And the reason I think that is because for the first time, a bunch of Americans actually said the thing out loud, which was maybe it's okay to support the Republican.

00:18:28.620 You started to see people say, you know, maybe it's actually okay.

00:18:31.420 Like, he's so bad that maybe we should actually consider this.

00:18:34.120 And then the attempt at assassination of Trump, when you saw people suddenly come out of the woodwork, Mark Zuckerberg saying, that was pretty awesome how Trump responded to that.

00:18:40.520 Suddenly there was a cultural pane of glass that had been broken, and you can't unbreak the glass.

00:18:44.360 Once you say the guy might be cool, he might be doing something important and useful and amazing, once you say that, you can't unsay it, right?

00:18:51.280 If you put somebody in the untouchable box, once they're out of the untouchable box, you can't stuff them back in.

00:18:56.820 And I think that that was one of the big problems that Kamala had.

00:18:58.900 She kept trying to stuff Trump back in the box that had already been destroyed by the debate with Biden.

00:19:04.540 And so Joe Biden did more damage to the Democratic brand in the last year.

00:19:08.680 Like, listen, I think Kamala Harris would have lost him anyway because she's a uniquely terrible candidate.

00:19:12.220 And that goes back to, you know, the sort of modern media sensibility that you're talking about, Drew, which is without the podcast, without the videos, without the ability to expose people in long form, the media would have been able to cram her down our throats.

00:19:24.520 Twenty years ago, she's the president of the United States because the media is able to hide her behind glass and then just pretend away all of her problems.

00:19:31.340 In this election cycle, you've got long form interviews with her that don't exist.

00:19:35.200 And then you have long form interviews with Trump or J.D. who are acting like normal humans.

00:19:38.780 And that's a completely different thing.

00:19:40.120 So the cultural willingness to now say the thing, Joe Biden is responsible for that.

00:19:44.660 So once again, I want to thank the outgoing president of the United States, who's awful, who's awful and deserves all the ignominy we can ladle upon him for the rest of his life.

00:19:54.820 You know, we should talk a little bit more about that assassination attempt because I keep going back to this moment when Trump had COVID and he came back and he said, don't be afraid of it.

00:20:03.420 Don't let it dominate your life.

00:20:04.560 And Jake Tapper went on and said, no, you know, it's right to be afraid.

00:20:07.520 It does dominate your life.

00:20:08.680 You should be afraid.

00:20:09.680 And I thought, that's what they're selling us.

00:20:11.360 And when you saw Trump stand up after being shot and say, fight, fight, fight, I think a lot of Americans may have said, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, that's who we're supposed to be.

00:20:19.200 Well, I mean, also, I think just we're all religious people at the table.

00:20:22.360 If you saw that and you didn't see the hand of God almost literally come down and grab Donald Trump by the head and move his head this much.

00:20:31.380 To not have his head blown completely off on national TV.

00:20:35.540 Like, if that moment your confidence didn't skyrocket that this dude was going to be president of the United States again, I got to say, only secular people probably saw that and were like, well, he probably just has just as good a shot of not winning.

00:20:45.240 A priest friend of mine says, it's a wicked generation that seeks after signs and wonders, but it's a stupid generation that ignores signs and wonders.

00:20:52.320 When Mark Zuckerberg wakes up the next day and says, I think he's going to be president.

00:20:59.140 No, that was because he repealed Roe away.

00:21:01.480 That was, I'm absolutely convinced.

00:21:04.180 Okay, you're going all the way.

00:21:05.160 No, I think that was absolutely, all right, second chance.

00:21:07.400 I mean, speaking of second chances, I will say that it is rare.

00:21:12.000 And I think this is the rare moment.

00:21:13.720 And this is why, you know, I think that we should approach this with a lot of excitement and encouragement, but also some trepidation, because God doesn't give countries second chances very often.

00:21:21.240 Oh, that's right.

00:21:21.700 And this is a second chance for the country.

00:21:24.300 If you had told me four years ago that Donald Trump would reenter office with a Republican majority in the House, in the Senate, and with sometimes six votes on the Supreme Court, I would have said, you're out of your mind.

00:21:33.600 That's crazy what you're saying to me right now, given this sort of political situation in the United States four years ago.

00:21:39.280 And the fact that God has given this opportunity, the American people have taken the opportunity to do this.

00:21:43.400 It means that you can't blow the opportunity.

00:21:45.500 Yeah.

00:21:45.740 You cannot.

00:21:46.440 You cannot be distracted by the dumb kind of stuff that sometimes we get distracted by in political, like the meme coins or the TikToks.

00:21:54.700 Just do the thing.

00:21:56.440 Do the thing.

00:21:57.000 That's the opportunity.

00:21:58.240 Grab the thing.

00:21:59.340 Do the thing.

00:21:59.980 And the American people are going to be grateful for it.

00:22:01.480 All they want is some sense of solidity in an ever more chaotic world.

00:22:05.140 Yeah.

00:22:05.280 And God giving us the second chance, like if it's not seized, I don't think God takes kindly to people who don't take their second chances.

00:22:10.220 I think also on the right we have this responsibility to keep our fringes out of the center, the Jew haters and the women haters and the black haters.

00:22:18.980 I think we've just got to say no.

00:22:20.180 I know there's going to be moments when they get the clicks, when they get the attention.

00:22:24.000 We've got to just turn our backs on them.

00:22:25.380 Because our party has always been the party of liberty and justice for all.

00:22:30.140 It should remain that way.

00:22:31.060 We don't need to hate anybody.

00:22:32.320 We can actually do everything we need to do without letting those people in.

00:22:35.220 And something that's very encouraging is for every, you know, if people spend too much time on Twitter, one will think that the country is in a rather bad place.

00:22:43.520 Good point.

00:22:43.920 But, you know, you look at Trump himself.

00:22:47.060 He does not really entertain fringes, hateful people, anything like that.

00:22:51.360 Trump, as we've been saying now for 20 minutes, Trump really has grabbed the normal.

00:22:57.860 He's kind of like the normie president.

00:22:59.840 I actually think this is a terrible, the ascension of Donald Trump is a terrible defeat for the sort of,

00:23:05.220 pseudo-fascist voices on the far right, the anti-Semitic and racist voices on the far right.

00:23:10.560 They've had a lot of prominence online in the last four years because opposition fuels things like that.

00:23:15.660 And in fairness, they've seen, when you see the left ascendant, it creates this reaction and it creates support for a reaction.

00:23:21.340 Especially when they're silencing people.

00:23:22.840 That's right.

00:23:23.200 But it's very hard to have a far right extremist protest against an ascendant and productive and effective right-wing government.

00:23:32.040 Back in the rotunda right now, it looks like people are starting to take their seats.

00:23:35.140 We see Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy.

00:23:36.780 I saw Apple CEO Tim Cook, it looks like, has taken a seat as we're about six minutes away from the beginning of the inauguration of Donald Trump.

00:23:45.760 They'll run late.

00:23:47.020 My prediction.

00:23:47.900 This thing ain't starting in six minutes.

00:23:49.520 No way.

00:23:49.960 They don't even have people sitting down.

00:23:50.540 Listen, I spent good money on this countdown clock that's playing.

00:23:54.560 It's like a timely inauguration.

00:23:56.280 And I have to say, this green screen of the Capitol looks really realistic.

00:23:58.840 It's beautiful.

00:23:59.200 It's amazing.

00:23:59.600 And this green screen is also freezing cold.

00:24:01.420 It's amazing.

00:24:02.120 Wow.

00:24:02.720 One of the things that is amazing is, like, we are literally counting down the moments until Joe Biden leaves.

00:24:07.040 I can't get over how bad a president he was.

00:24:08.980 Yes.

00:24:09.500 Did you like Joe Biden?

00:24:10.620 But really, it's an amazing thing to have lived through a historically bad president, like a truly historically bad presidency.

00:24:16.740 Two of them.

00:24:17.320 Barack Obama was truly historically bad, but in a different and more insidious way.

00:24:21.040 On purpose.

00:24:21.620 On purpose, right.

00:24:22.440 Joe Biden.

00:24:23.660 I mean, there were rumors yesterday that leading up to this inauguration, Joe Biden was at the very last minute going to cram through a series of U.N. resolutions targeting Israel.

00:24:33.080 This was literal.

00:24:33.600 This was the rumor.

00:24:34.220 There was a security council meeting that was happening this morning, and that was the going rumor.

00:24:37.520 And it was like, that might happen.

00:24:39.280 That's plausible.

00:24:39.740 Right, I mean, that's plot.

00:24:40.720 He tried to actually add a constitutional amendment by fiat.

00:24:46.500 I love that.

00:24:47.100 On Twitter in a statement he clearly did not write.

00:24:49.980 I love that, though.

00:24:51.080 Do you know why I love that?

00:24:52.080 The reason I loved him trying to ram through the ERA, which had a deadline of, what, 1977?

00:24:58.700 Then it was, like, 1982.

00:25:00.000 I mean, they blew past it 40 years ago.

00:25:02.320 And so the national...

00:25:02.960 It was 1979.

00:25:03.640 It was more recent than that.

00:25:04.480 It was more recent.

00:25:05.180 Yeah, yeah.

00:25:05.440 And they did extend it until 82, but they didn't extend it until 2022.

00:25:09.740 So when the archivist of the United States said, hey, you can't just declare constitutional amendments into existence, Biden kept moving anyway.

00:25:18.740 But it wasn't just Biden.

00:25:19.600 It was Kamala Harris.

00:25:20.800 It was Tammy Duckworth.

00:25:21.960 You could tell it was an organized Democrat strategy to just...

00:25:25.220 Hillary Clinton.

00:25:25.880 Hillary Clinton.

00:25:26.480 Deny till you die.

00:25:27.600 You know, just say that this is the case.

00:25:29.500 Why were they doing it?

00:25:31.220 Because they had nothing else that actually happened to point to as an accomplishment.

00:25:35.740 And they still think the media exists to cover it up for him.

00:25:38.740 I think they also...

00:25:39.820 They have to reanimate.

00:25:41.120 Their going argument since 2012 has been the war on women, right?

00:25:43.820 I mean, that was the animating argument in 2012 against Romney.

00:25:46.580 And it was an idiotic argument in the first place.

00:25:48.620 But this has been their animating argument.

00:25:50.460 They tried it with the trans issue.

00:25:51.560 They tried to pretend that somehow the trans issue was a war on women when, in fact, it was a defense of women.

00:25:56.120 And then after the repeal of Roe versus Wade, they decided that the overturning, they decided that that was going to be like the big winner issue for them.

00:26:03.760 And it turns out the American people kind of normalized on that, meaning that if you're in California, you realize California made your abortion policy.

00:26:09.260 And if you're in Florida, then you realize Florida made your abortion policy.

00:26:12.220 And I think Trump, again, this is one of those areas where being a conservative is different than being a pragmatic politician.

00:26:17.320 I wish that he were more pro-life on a federal level.

00:26:19.380 And also, if you're a pragmatic politician, what he did by taking that off the table as an issue in the campaign was actually quite important.

00:26:24.620 So it's easy to forget to that point that it was, you know, eight months ago you had the kind of the idea, the popular wisdom was that because of Roe v. Wade, that in fact conservatives would be in the position that the left is in right now.

00:26:38.620 Total disarray, relegated to irrelevance.

00:26:41.320 And that was an argument not just among liberals, but there are many people on the right who were panicking over the fact that Roe v. Wade had been passed and saw it as a net negative.

00:26:51.580 And look how that turned out.

00:26:52.660 I agree. And so I think that because of that, because they blew through the trans issue, that's gone.

00:26:57.240 The abortion issue is normalizing.

00:26:58.920 So they have, but the only constituency that Democrats do really, really well with now is young single women.

00:27:04.440 That is the only constituency that they have.

00:27:05.960 But don't forget, Trump won.

00:27:06.720 Try the ERA. Why the hell not, right?

00:27:08.200 I mean, like.

00:27:08.740 Donald Trump won 40% of women under the age of 30, according to the Associated Press.

00:27:13.360 So even the most pro-Democrat group.

00:27:16.780 Ah, but I said young single women, right?

00:27:18.180 Okay, so the reality is a percentage of people under 30 are married.

00:27:21.520 That's true.

00:27:22.280 Even in our day and age, there are still a number of married people.

00:27:25.100 That's true.

00:27:25.600 That's a good point.

00:27:25.980 So, you know, I think that as Democrats double down on that, the big question for them is what's going to be the next consolidating issue?

00:27:31.560 And we haven't seen it yet.

00:27:32.760 This is why, again, one of my fears is, and I think the most important thing is continued economic boom.

00:27:39.160 That is the most important thing, because the only thing Democrats can consolidate around is some sort of economic downturn.

00:27:44.220 They can't consolidate around social policy, they lose.

00:27:46.340 They can't consolidate around foreign policy, because their foreign policy is a complete mess, and they don't even know what they believe.

00:27:50.760 So the only thing that they can consolidate around is if there were to be some sort of economic downturn.

00:27:55.740 We're seeing the arrival of vice presidents into the rotunda.

00:27:58.420 Vice President Pence walking in right now.

00:28:02.880 It may have been Dan Quill who walked in right now.

00:28:03.960 It was Dan Quill, yeah.

00:28:04.640 Vice President Dan Quill walked in right before him.

00:28:08.340 So Ben's prediction that this would not begin promptly.

00:28:13.380 So far, there's still a chance.

00:28:15.420 A minute 37?

00:28:16.680 Yeah, we have a minute 30.

00:28:17.400 They've only got to get in a handful.

00:28:18.620 I mean, they're not going to wheel out Carter anymore.

00:28:20.760 They are going to wheel out Biden, though.

00:28:25.480 He finally can not do anything wrong.

00:28:29.020 There we go.

00:28:29.520 Wow.

00:28:30.140 Oh, no.

00:28:30.680 There we go, Bubba.

00:28:31.940 And there's the least happy person in all of America, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

00:28:36.020 The one President Clinton.

00:28:37.480 The one and only President Clinton.

00:28:40.400 President and her husband.

00:28:41.840 Can you imagine just how terrible it is to be Hillary Rodham Clinton?

00:28:44.560 Like, you're the person who ushered Donald Trump into power, and then you lost to him.

00:28:49.780 And then Joe Biden, who you really don't like, won in 2020, and then he lost to him.

00:28:54.380 That's right.

00:28:54.560 And you this entire time have gotten to just be whiny.

00:28:57.920 Like, that's been your entire career has just been whining.

00:29:00.240 By the way, do you know that if Joe Biden had remained on the ticket, Barack Obama would still have a lot more political power than he does.

00:29:07.320 He played such an enormous card, only to be defeated.

00:29:11.640 I agree with Biden that he would have done better than Kamala, even after the debate, even with the dementia.

00:29:17.260 I do, too.

00:29:18.180 You do?

00:29:18.500 I don't think he would have won, but I think he would have done better than Kamala.

00:29:21.800 It's hard to do worse than she did.

00:29:24.800 You know, I think that it's hard for me to say that he would have done better.

00:29:27.940 I think that because he was so senile, he was so gone.

00:29:31.060 President and Laura Bush walking into the rotunda now.

00:29:34.280 President Bush had the best line of the first Donald Trump inauguration, which, if you'll recall, as soon as Donald Trump began reading Steve Bannon's speech,

00:29:44.080 God opened the heavens and poured down tears from the sky, at which point, apparently, George W. Bush leaned over to whomever was sitting next to him and said,

00:29:53.060 that was some pretty weird s**t.

00:29:54.180 I like, my favorite George W. Bush moment recently was at the funeral of Jimmy Carter, where he came out and slapped Obama in the stomach.

00:30:06.000 I just thought, I missed that guy.

00:30:07.700 I'm sorry.

00:30:09.720 I have to say that Republican presidents tend to be normies.

00:30:13.920 Yes.

00:30:14.400 W. was a normie.

00:30:15.340 He was a normie.

00:30:15.740 And the thing about Trump is that, yeah, he's weird on social media, but we all know Donald Trump.

00:30:19.520 He's the guy at the end of the bar.

00:30:20.540 Correct.

00:30:20.900 We all know him.

00:30:21.820 No one has ever met Kamala Harris because she's animatronic.

00:30:26.200 There's what's his name?

00:30:26.680 And there's Barack, and Michelle is not there.

00:30:28.360 Wow.

00:30:28.600 Michelle did not show.

00:30:29.280 President Obama without Michelle?

00:30:31.520 No.

00:30:31.820 That is so weird.

00:30:32.840 Or Jennifer Aniston.

00:30:33.980 There he is.

00:30:34.260 They're having those rumors.

00:30:35.380 Notably.

00:30:35.740 I wasn't going to say it.

00:30:37.220 That is actually weird.

00:30:39.200 Which is shocking, because the other rumor was worse than it, yeah.

00:30:41.400 Yeah.

00:30:42.520 She didn't seem like his type.

00:30:43.960 Let's put it that way.

00:30:44.640 But, you know, when I saw Michelle wasn't going to come, I said, okay, well, it happens.

00:30:50.100 She didn't go to Carter's funeral.

00:30:51.620 But that was really weird to see him walk down alone.

00:30:55.020 Yes.

00:30:55.220 Yeah.

00:30:55.600 And it was really weird that she wasn't at Carter's funeral.

00:30:58.120 Yes.

00:30:58.820 Truly.

00:30:59.600 No, she signed out.

00:31:00.600 She checked out.

00:31:00.800 She's had it, yeah.

00:31:01.780 She's like, I'm done.

00:31:02.780 I don't like any of these people.

00:31:03.840 I'm done.

00:31:04.300 You know, more power to her.

00:31:05.580 Yeah.

00:31:05.920 She signed out, but the question is, of what has she signed out?

00:31:08.920 Yeah.

00:31:09.200 And now we're awaiting the arrival of our current president for only a few moments longer,

00:31:14.920 Joe Biden.

00:31:15.860 Might take a while.

00:31:17.020 Yeah.

00:31:18.660 Oh, well, here come the Supreme Court.

00:31:20.020 Oh, the Supreme Court.

00:31:21.580 Okay.

00:31:21.960 Chief Justice Roberts.

00:31:23.100 Boo.

00:31:25.760 Kavanaugh.

00:31:26.380 Eh.

00:31:26.800 Eh.

00:31:27.800 Alito.

00:31:28.480 Yay.

00:31:29.300 Yay.

00:31:29.960 Yay.

00:31:30.600 Hey, there's a client.

00:31:31.520 Thomas.

00:31:32.020 Thomas, yep.

00:31:33.400 Yeah.

00:31:36.340 Gorsuch.

00:31:36.620 So, now that's me, our Kagan.

00:31:38.780 Gorsuch, yeah.

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00:32:08.520 Now, that's never been true before, but we're really proud of this new technology that we've

00:32:11.620 rolled out.

00:32:13.520 It's kind of interesting to see these tech guys, Elon Musk and Cook from Apple.

00:32:18.500 It's a new generation of barons.

00:32:21.940 There's also something to ... Even when you mentioned that Tim Cook was there, I thought,

00:32:28.160 well, it's good, obviously he's not a conservative, but he has to be there because he's a huge

00:32:33.160 figure in American public life.

00:32:34.480 He runs one of the biggest companies in the history of the world.

00:32:37.000 We sometimes forget it because we're so clean about our civics, but the guys who run these

00:32:42.260 big private institutions wield a huge amount of political power, for better or worse.

00:32:45.540 Of course.

00:32:45.900 Well, and imagine they all kicked Donald Trump personally off of their platforms four years

00:32:51.000 ago, and today he ascends to be the most powerful man on planet Earth.

00:32:55.160 I think you probably kissed the ring in that circuit.

00:32:57.240 Yeah.

00:32:57.900 Oh, maybe we overreacted just a little bit, Mr. President.

00:33:01.760 But I mean, business is good, right?

00:33:03.520 Business is good for America.

00:33:04.600 These guys have built some of the most beautiful businesses in the world, and it's great they're

00:33:08.960 coming around.

00:33:09.500 The businesses that they've built have great power to do good.

00:33:11.820 Yeah, and what I want from them is some acknowledgement that what they are doing now is a permanent

00:33:17.180 shift in the wind, and it's done to shift back two years from now.

00:33:19.580 You hear it's impossible all the time.

00:33:21.020 That's not what I mean.

00:33:21.540 No, honestly, I think one of the ways that they do that is actually doing public appearances

00:33:25.120 with people on the right.

00:33:25.960 Oh, all right.

00:33:26.540 They refuse to actually get in public, and they're not doing that anymore.

00:33:29.700 That's changing.

00:33:30.900 Here's the Trump family.

00:33:31.640 Here's the Trump family.

00:33:32.520 All right.

00:33:33.160 Ivanka and Don Jr.

00:33:36.580 And Tiffany and Eric, and Barron, who is enormous.

00:33:39.200 He's tall, yeah.

00:33:40.220 Octavian, no, Jared Kushner.

00:33:43.700 Yeah, he's probably home with the kids.

00:33:45.260 I didn't see any of the spouses.

00:33:46.540 Oh, yeah.

00:33:47.020 There were no spouses there.

00:33:47.920 Right.

00:33:48.580 I think you're right.

00:33:52.140 I'm very excited for Barron to change his name officially to Augustus.

00:33:56.920 I think that will happen.

00:33:58.880 Is that 28?

00:33:59.960 Does that happen?

00:34:00.500 I don't know.

00:34:00.880 Yeah.

00:34:01.500 The funniest thing that's happened so far was the exiling of Kimberly Guilfoyle to

00:34:04.880 Greece.

00:34:05.700 That is by far the funniest thing.

00:34:07.360 I'm sorry.

00:34:07.880 It's funny.

00:34:08.260 Like, you break up with the president's son, and then they're like, and you shall be delegated

00:34:12.580 to all.

00:34:13.420 You'll now have that.

00:34:15.480 If I could get Court of St. James, I might be willing to.

00:34:19.500 I'm a married man.

00:34:20.740 Court of St. James.

00:34:21.940 That's the best one, you know.

00:34:23.260 What are you talking about?

00:34:24.860 It used to be when England was England.

00:34:26.620 That's right.

00:34:27.180 Now I'm not sure you want to go on that.

00:34:27.900 Now it's like the ambassador to God.

00:34:29.380 Make Europe great again.

00:34:30.440 Or just start by making England great again.

00:34:32.000 That could really happen.

00:34:33.140 This right-wing movement across the West is so encouraging.

00:34:35.880 Our colleague, Dr. Jordan Peterson, plans to devote much of the next four years to that

00:34:39.940 particular fight.

00:34:41.100 Yes.

00:34:41.600 He thinks there's a real opportunity in Europe.

00:34:43.480 I spent some of last night.

00:34:44.580 I saw Liz Truss was in town, former UK Prime Minister.

00:34:47.800 Nigel Farage is in town.

00:34:48.940 I haven't seen him yet, but he's been going around to some of the parties.

00:34:51.460 So you do have, Georgia Maloney is in town.

00:34:53.880 I'm happy Mille was here.

00:34:55.020 Mille showed up.

00:34:56.140 That's good.

00:34:56.580 My boy.

00:34:57.300 Yeah.

00:34:57.600 Love me some Mille.

00:34:58.380 He's doing great.

00:34:59.960 He's doing fantastic.

00:35:00.680 It's unbelievable what he's doing.

00:35:01.980 What he's doing is insane.

00:35:03.100 He actually has them in the black.

00:35:05.220 It's crazy.

00:35:05.820 What I want to know is, did my favorite Latin American strongman make it?

00:35:08.660 Nae Bukele?

00:35:09.620 I believe he is coming.

00:35:11.360 All right.

00:35:11.940 Here we go.

00:35:12.420 I think Bukele is coming.

00:35:13.980 And my personal favorite Latin American strongman, Justin Trudeau.

00:35:22.340 Wow.

00:35:23.220 We really just teed it up and you're right there out of the bar.

00:35:26.820 As my father taught me, never pass up a cheat.

00:35:29.380 I actually was going to say, when he announced he was leaving politics, this would be the

00:35:35.660 first time since 1959 that Acastro didn't run a Western American nation.

00:35:39.440 That's not true.

00:35:40.360 The president of Honduras is Jomar Acastro.

00:35:42.800 Oh, there you go.

00:35:43.260 So we have one more to take down.

00:35:45.720 There is something unique happening across the world.

00:35:47.900 And you do see this kind of thing happen where very akin leaders across the world tend

00:35:53.140 to get elected at kind of the same time.

00:35:54.820 And I think that that's going to bode well for Europe.

00:35:57.900 I mean, the right-wing movements in France, in Spain, with the Vox Party, in France at

00:36:01.980 the National Rally, in Germany with both AFD in the center and the center of the Democratic

00:36:06.720 Union.

00:36:07.400 There is something happening.

00:36:09.340 And it is a revolt, a revolt of the people against the elitist nonsense that said you

00:36:14.060 can open up your borders endlessly and hand out cash like it's candy while becoming weaker

00:36:18.520 and weaker in the world.

00:36:19.540 That was Germany's third try.

00:36:20.860 They finally destroyed Europe.

00:36:22.000 Two shots, man.

00:36:24.820 And they figured this one out.

00:36:26.940 I give them Franco-Prussian.

00:36:28.720 I think they were...

00:36:29.620 They cheated four times.

00:36:31.960 Even thinking, you know, that the Brexit preceded the Trump election so closely and, you know,

00:36:38.040 Orban and Maloney.

00:36:39.360 But this goes back much further.

00:36:40.700 You think of Thatcher and Reagan coming up at the same time.

00:36:43.380 You know, this is...

00:36:44.140 And why is that?

00:36:45.040 Because we are one civilization and America is the global hegemon.

00:36:48.760 So, you know, that's obviously going to lead trends.

00:36:51.660 And I think that bodes very well for Europe.

00:36:53.120 I would like to see the phrase far-right banned from the newspapers.

00:36:57.020 Well, I like the word far-right if you're actually referring to the far-right.

00:37:00.680 It really bothers me when you're just like...

00:37:03.180 What is...

00:37:03.580 Describe you or me.

00:37:05.420 We're all far-right.

00:37:06.480 We're like the dead center of the mainstream.

00:37:07.880 I remember when you were the alt-right.

00:37:09.940 That was one of my favorites.

00:37:11.000 I was reading about the alternative for Deutschland, you know, the AfD party,

00:37:15.000 and the lesbian libertarian leader who thinks that Hitler was a communist.

00:37:19.120 She is a far-right leader, I mean.

00:37:21.080 Who knew?

00:37:21.360 First Lady Jill Biden walking into...

00:37:23.120 Dr. Jill Biden.

00:37:23.660 Oh, man, I thought I'd seen the last of Doug Emhoff.

00:37:25.600 And he's still there.

00:37:26.800 I apologize.

00:37:27.420 Dr.

00:37:27.720 Dr. Jill.

00:37:28.360 Dr. Doug Emhoff.

00:37:29.980 There he is.

00:37:30.740 There he is.

00:37:31.480 The worst Jew in America, Doug Emhoff.

00:37:33.720 I cannot stand that guy.

00:37:34.960 I'm sorry to hear he's a Jew.

00:37:37.380 I didn't realize he was...

00:37:38.300 Yeah, exactly.

00:37:39.360 He's kept it a secret.

00:37:40.620 It's a big secret.

00:37:41.700 I mean, it was a secret until, like, the last five minutes when they needed him to be.

00:37:44.260 Yeah.

00:37:45.000 Oh, God.

00:37:45.520 Doug Emhoff.

00:37:45.600 They are running a fairly...

00:37:46.800 I have to say, they started punctually.

00:37:48.680 Yeah.

00:37:49.120 Yeah.

00:37:49.500 Are you going to try and take credit for that clock?

00:37:51.460 That's it.

00:37:51.940 I'm just saying.

00:37:52.400 The clock is running the government.

00:37:54.500 Well, no, but it began right on time.

00:37:56.220 Oh, now you're just shifting the definition.

00:37:57.700 No, no, no.

00:37:58.520 These are, like, announced entries.

00:38:00.020 There's a guy with a staff, and he says,

00:38:02.220 hear ye, hear ye, the right honorable Dr. Jill Biden.

00:38:06.440 Speaking of Doug Emhoff...

00:38:07.260 Look how pissed off she looks, by the way.

00:38:08.240 Look how pissed off Jill Biden is.

00:38:09.540 Look how happy Emhoff is.

00:38:12.080 He's like, I'm out.

00:38:15.860 I was wondering, if he were sad today, like, when President Trump started speaking,

00:38:20.860 what do you think the odds are that he becomes so enraged that he just starts smacking all

00:38:24.840 the women all around?

00:38:26.880 Remember that time the entire media just ignored that story?

00:38:29.080 That was an amazing thing.

00:38:31.500 That was an amazing moment.

00:38:32.100 Will the Emhoff-Harris nuptials last per defeat?

00:38:37.380 Will they survive the defeat?

00:38:38.940 I mean, as long as they find each other mutually useful seems to be the rule in Democratic circles.

00:38:43.300 In Democrat circles, that's exactly right.

00:38:45.260 Sometimes in Republican circles, too, but mainly in political circles just generally.

00:38:48.320 Like, the utility seems to outweigh the morality.

00:38:50.900 I think Jill legitimately likes Joe, and I think she voted for Trump because she likes Joe

00:38:56.380 and hates him.

00:38:57.020 And hates Kamala.

00:38:57.860 Hates Kamala.

00:38:58.620 Will Kamala go run for something else?

00:39:00.480 Yes, governor of California.

00:39:02.300 No.

00:39:02.540 You think so?

00:39:03.140 And she'll stand a reasonable chance because California doesn't learn anything from us.

00:39:07.440 California is iconic, which is why we all left California.

00:39:11.120 Literally all of us.

00:39:11.920 The greatest state in the country, and they have literally turned it into a dumpster fire.

00:39:16.420 Yes, because the weather is a drug.

00:39:17.820 You think Kamala still has a chance in the wake of even what's happening in California?

00:39:22.200 You don't think maybe there's a little bit of an awakening there?

00:39:24.080 I'm hopeful that there could be an awakening.

00:39:25.600 I think if California can't wake up after the greatest man-made disaster in living memory,

00:39:32.020 then nothing will wake them up.

00:39:32.840 The problem is the Republicans tend to give up.

00:39:35.140 They've given up on New York, and they give up on California.

00:39:38.020 Republicans could win back California after this.

00:39:39.980 Ah, screw it.

00:39:40.600 Yeah.

00:39:42.560 I sure like it in Tennessee.

00:39:43.940 Yeah, exactly.

00:39:44.840 I'm not going back.

00:39:45.800 You're going back?

00:39:46.200 Yeah, no, absolutely.

00:39:47.220 You can tell me why.

00:39:47.680 I haven't missed it for 10 minutes.

00:39:49.200 Stop with it.

00:39:49.800 Stop with it.

00:39:50.500 Yeah, I think.

00:39:51.060 These darn Republicans who give up from California.

00:39:53.880 All right, see you guys.

00:39:57.900 The big problem is that for the Republican Party to actually win there,

00:40:00.900 they'd actually have to run on the issues that matter,

00:40:02.980 like running the state well and crime.

00:40:04.920 And they never did that.

00:40:05.720 They always run anything on, like, education.

00:40:07.440 Right.

00:40:07.760 You're always going to bid on education.

00:40:09.580 That's a giant fail.

00:40:10.400 So Kamala Harris will run there,

00:40:12.080 and I think that she stands a pretty good shot of winning

00:40:13.820 because, you know, right now it's a high watermark

00:40:16.060 for kind of love for Trump.

00:40:17.760 There always is this honeymoon period.

00:40:19.020 Trump's actually getting one.

00:40:19.900 He didn't get one last time.

00:40:20.580 Yeah, he didn't get one last time.

00:40:20.960 This time he gets one.

00:40:21.800 That's right.

00:40:22.100 But six months from now,

00:40:23.780 the left will have reconstituted in some form or fashion,

00:40:26.540 and Kamala, as running for governor of California,

00:40:29.740 now that Newsom has completely blown it,

00:40:31.860 could be the person who says,

00:40:33.200 listen, I ran against him.

00:40:34.280 I only lost because Joe Biden,

00:40:36.400 and it, like, give me the shot again.

00:40:38.300 And the intersectionality,

00:40:39.380 like, we all think DEI is dead.

00:40:40.740 DEI is dead for reasonable people.

00:40:42.040 For California, it's still very much a lot.

00:40:43.380 Oh, sure.

00:40:43.840 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:40:44.340 And so, you know.

00:40:44.920 And Donald Trump should endorse her

00:40:46.500 if she runs for governor.

00:40:48.120 He's so funny.

00:40:49.020 Yeah.

00:40:49.320 He's so funny.

00:40:50.060 You deserve it.

00:40:50.880 You deserve it.

00:40:52.080 Well, what happened to your clock?

00:40:54.640 They're trying to,

00:40:55.080 well, they're trying to find Biden.

00:40:56.180 He's wandered off.

00:40:59.400 They were doing so well.

00:41:00.560 It is kind of disappointing.

00:41:01.800 I like to think that if we could hear

00:41:02.980 maybe somebody saying a prayer or something,

00:41:04.820 and we'd be like, oh, yeah, well, that makes sense.

00:41:06.100 But I don't think so.

00:41:06.580 They're all talking to each other.

00:41:07.360 Yeah, it's probably just all falling apart on me.

00:41:09.760 All my plans in this way.

00:41:11.300 Baron is like Nikola Jokic.

00:41:13.360 Yeah.

00:41:13.540 He's like dominating everybody.

00:41:14.860 He's amazing.

00:41:15.560 Last night I was talking to Gorka and Cal...

00:41:19.360 I'm sorry.

00:41:20.440 Gorka's a giant, too.

00:41:21.360 Calvin Robinson.

00:41:22.080 I felt like a munchkin.

00:41:23.380 Oh, I didn't even see Calvin.

00:41:24.400 Yes.

00:41:24.800 You know, he shaved off that afro.

00:41:26.780 I talked to him for 20 minutes.

00:41:28.060 It was when he walked away.

00:41:28.860 I went, oh, that's Calvin Robinson.

00:41:30.200 Our friends from The Blaze

00:41:31.240 were at the parties last night.

00:41:32.380 We were at the TPUSA gala last night.

00:41:34.760 All five of us, I believe, and Dr. Peterson.

00:41:37.880 And our buddies Glenn Beck and Tyler Carden

00:41:40.660 and Gaston Mooney, who are like giants.

00:41:43.520 Yeah.

00:41:43.880 They're all giants.

00:41:44.720 I know.

00:41:45.640 We need to carry around Apple boxes

00:41:47.220 when we're around these Nordic, you know...

00:41:49.440 Speak for yourself, guys.

00:41:50.480 Right.

00:41:51.160 And around Walsh.

00:41:52.060 The problem is that Matt's actually a small forward,

00:41:54.660 but in our lineup, he's the center.

00:41:57.620 We're a very undersized team, right?

00:42:00.100 Yeah.

00:42:00.340 That's just what it is.

00:42:01.240 Like, it's a Jewish basketball team.

00:42:04.440 You guys do make me feel very tall.

00:42:06.780 You're welcome.

00:42:07.580 You're welcome.

00:42:08.300 I did get home in time to watch your team

00:42:10.980 get humiliated in the...

00:42:12.820 You really didn't?

00:42:13.180 What was essentially the Super Bowl,

00:42:14.640 because nobody can beat either of those teams.

00:42:16.040 We were at our fancy ball last night,

00:42:17.500 and I was watching the game on the phone.

00:42:19.220 Yeah.

00:42:19.900 I was watching Matt get sadder and sadder

00:42:22.260 as the night went on.

00:42:23.080 Our last moment was heartbreaking.

00:42:24.040 And it was pretty, you know...

00:42:26.240 I was watching Matt and watching his heart break,

00:42:27.940 and we were in the loudest room

00:42:29.160 in maybe the history of humanity.

00:42:30.560 Everyone's celebrating.

00:42:31.780 I'm dying.

00:42:31.800 And it's just Matt dying inside.

00:42:33.840 I was like,

00:42:34.260 this is the closing moment of his movie, right?

00:42:36.200 Like, the camera just pans out,

00:42:37.920 and it's Matt lonely in a crowd,

00:42:39.480 all sad on the inside.

00:42:41.420 And I was like,

00:42:41.840 at that moment,

00:42:42.420 I realized that Matt had out miserable with me,

00:42:44.100 which I didn't think was possible,

00:42:45.160 because I hate giant parties.

00:42:46.700 Oh, my God.

00:42:46.900 Giant parties.

00:42:48.320 You like giant parties.

00:42:49.520 You know, I get a kick out of them a lot,

00:42:51.340 and I like seeing people, you know,

00:42:52.860 who you don't ordinarily see.

00:42:54.440 Yeah.

00:42:54.740 So I've been to about a billion political soirees.

00:42:57.300 Right.

00:42:57.620 What is really interesting about this spate of them,

00:43:00.100 we've gone to however many, you know,

00:43:01.640 and half a dozen or a dozen,

00:43:03.080 is the group of people

00:43:06.300 is unlike anything you've ever seen

00:43:08.020 in Republican politics.

00:43:08.920 Oh, yeah.

00:43:08.960 So you're walking in,

00:43:10.600 there is Conor McGregor,

00:43:12.100 and you turn over,

00:43:12.860 here's some, like, rapper,

00:43:13.980 you turn over here.

00:43:15.020 Kid Rock smoking a cigar inside.

00:43:16.340 Kid Rock smoking a cigar in the...

00:43:17.940 Only one allowed to.

00:43:18.680 I will say,

00:43:20.860 I talked to a lot of people

00:43:21.760 at the party last night,

00:43:22.400 and I have no idea what any of you said.

00:43:23.180 Anybody said, yeah.

00:43:24.900 You just kind of nod.

00:43:25.840 There was this,

00:43:26.340 I told Matt this last night.

00:43:27.300 I agreed to a lot of things,

00:43:28.040 I had no idea what I did.

00:43:29.720 I said this to you last night, Matt,

00:43:31.220 but this attractive woman

00:43:32.380 was speaking to me at one point,

00:43:34.420 and she,

00:43:35.180 she was much taller than me,

00:43:36.460 again,

00:43:36.700 because Jewish basketball team,

00:43:37.900 and she had leaned down,

00:43:38.660 and she was saying something to me,

00:43:39.700 you were standing with me,

00:43:40.560 and I was trying for all,

00:43:42.540 for all my might to listen,

00:43:45.200 and we got to the point

00:43:46.060 where she stopped talking,

00:43:47.620 and it became clear

00:43:48.280 that she had asked me a question,

00:43:49.760 and I had not heard one syllable.

00:43:51.700 No, you couldn't hear anything.

00:43:53.060 Not a single syllable.

00:43:54.060 I believe you said,

00:43:55.240 I really wish I could have heard

00:43:58.040 a single word you just said,

00:43:59.780 but sorry, you know.

00:44:01.160 Nothing.

00:44:01.620 But even that,

00:44:02.380 you know,

00:44:02.620 these events are so schmoozy.

00:44:05.120 That's just what these inaugurations are,

00:44:08.140 and,

00:44:08.520 but here,

00:44:09.540 there's just this,

00:44:10.620 there's the slippery,

00:44:13.480 kind of slick DC event,

00:44:15.160 and then there's the just exuberant DC event,

00:44:17.980 and this is the latter.

00:44:19.280 It's very fully in the latter.

00:44:20.480 So I think this was always part

00:44:21.540 of the Charm of Trump.

00:44:22.420 On the way here,

00:44:23.360 so we had to walk for a thousand miles

00:44:25.300 through a blizzard.

00:44:26.980 Uphill roadway.

00:44:27.480 Uphill roadway to get here.

00:44:29.380 And,

00:44:29.820 you know,

00:44:30.080 I was just taking a look

00:44:30.940 at kind of the aesthetics of MAGAville,

00:44:33.020 because DC is now MAGAville.

00:44:34.380 Yes.

00:44:34.580 This is MAGA country,

00:44:35.680 so Jussie Smollett

00:44:36.220 should have made his case this weekend,

00:44:37.660 right?

00:44:37.820 He got it wrong.

00:44:38.340 Polar vortex.

00:44:39.060 Yes.

00:44:39.800 This is MAGA country.

00:44:41.420 And,

00:44:41.440 and the thing about the Trump aesthetic

00:44:44.120 that's hilarious,

00:44:45.460 is that just aesthetically,

00:44:46.980 it's really ugly.

00:44:47.860 Okay?

00:44:48.120 Like the Trump hats,

00:44:49.520 right?

00:44:49.780 Like they are.

00:44:51.000 I love them.

00:44:51.300 But no,

00:44:51.780 this is kind of my point,

00:44:53.100 is that everything aesthetically Trump

00:44:55.260 is 1986 family reunion.

00:44:58.740 Yes.

00:44:59.200 In Minneapolis.

00:45:00.020 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:45:00.200 Right?

00:45:00.380 Like that's everything.

00:45:01.740 At the Mall of America.

00:45:02.440 At the Mall of America.

00:45:03.260 Yeah, yeah.

00:45:03.780 Right?

00:45:04.120 Like the hats are square and boxy,

00:45:05.860 right?

00:45:06.020 They don't actually fit your head properly.

00:45:07.500 And the ties are too wide.

00:45:09.400 And all the,

00:45:09.940 and all the,

00:45:10.560 all the signs are in like Times New Roman font.

00:45:13.940 It's like,

00:45:14.180 it's hip to be square.

00:45:15.080 It's like the 80s.

00:45:15.720 Yes.

00:45:16.100 That's it.

00:45:16.640 That's the whole thing.

00:45:17.440 That's the whole thing.

00:45:18.320 And so,

00:45:18.680 and so somebody was saying like,

00:45:20.020 why are we playing God Bless America,

00:45:21.680 God Bless the USA by Lee Greenland for the 127th time?

00:45:24.620 And it's like,

00:45:24.860 because you know what?

00:45:25.540 Most Americans actually like this kind of stuff.

00:45:27.420 They like it.

00:45:28.000 They kind of like this kind of stuff.

00:45:28.960 It turns out that the aesthetic of the 1980s,

00:45:31.040 we kind of like it.

00:45:32.080 It turns out that Huey Newton,

00:45:34.020 Huey Lewis was not wrong.

00:45:35.880 We like,

00:45:36.240 we like,

00:45:37.040 we like remembering,

00:45:37.920 I don't know about Huey Newton.

00:45:40.000 Huey Lewis is right.

00:45:40.780 We like remembering back to a time

00:45:42.920 when our nation was still powerful

00:45:44.420 and ascendant and confident.

00:45:45.960 And our hope is that in Trump's second term,

00:45:47.860 we're able to be that kind of man.

00:45:48.900 And now we can all feel like Patrick Bateman,

00:45:50.840 like,

00:45:51.040 hey,

00:45:51.200 left,

00:45:51.860 you like Huey Lewis in the news?

00:45:55.120 I will say,

00:45:55.840 it is bizarre and surreal to walk around DC

00:45:57.820 and everyone everywhere is a conservative.

00:46:00.500 It's like other fans.

00:46:02.160 It's like everywhere you go.

00:46:03.140 It's such a change.

00:46:04.520 I'm looking forward to it

00:46:05.680 because I live,

00:46:06.260 you know,

00:46:06.780 right near here,

00:46:07.580 and it's going to change everything

00:46:09.120 about my actual existence.

00:46:10.600 I love it.

00:46:11.060 Yeah.

00:46:11.260 And we were greeted as liberators.

00:46:15.820 Who's this guy?

00:46:16.780 I don't know.

00:46:17.200 This is a close up on this.

00:46:18.280 Where's his tie?

00:46:18.900 Where's his tie?

00:46:19.660 Yeah,

00:46:20.140 that's a problem.

00:46:20.640 You're at the inauguration

00:46:21.680 of the president of the United States.

00:46:23.320 This is one of the,

00:46:23.960 one of the things I,

00:46:24.920 who are you?

00:46:27.440 Oh,

00:46:27.620 he's singing.

00:46:28.720 Oh,

00:46:28.960 he's singing.

00:46:29.400 Okay.

00:46:29.780 Oh,

00:46:30.060 he's the opera singer.

00:46:30.920 Oh,

00:46:31.080 this guy's good.

00:46:31.600 So we have to have an open throat.

00:46:32.700 Because I was going to say,

00:46:33.720 I was going to say

00:46:34.320 that's very Italian of him,

00:46:35.820 but that checks out.

00:46:36.920 That actually works.

00:46:40.120 Oh,

00:46:40.520 man,

00:46:40.780 I feel bad that I mocked this guy.

00:46:42.200 Yeah,

00:46:42.380 no,

00:46:42.500 he's great.

00:46:42.800 I've heard him sing before.

00:46:49.320 Imagine being in the rotunda

00:46:51.020 of the Capitol

00:46:51.620 with those vast acoustics

00:46:54.620 in that space

00:46:55.460 listening to this.

00:46:56.680 Can I get somebody

00:46:57.120 to turn up my ear a little bit?

00:46:58.260 I'm having a hard time

00:46:58.880 hearing this.

00:47:02.700 I guess not.

00:47:16.920 What's he singing?

00:47:17.720 Because he's not the star

00:47:18.260 saying the letter.

00:47:18.940 No.

00:47:20.080 But at the Trump rallies,

00:47:21.260 he'll sing opera.

00:47:22.440 Actually,

00:47:22.800 like pretty beautiful arias.

00:47:24.560 I mean,

00:47:24.680 that's very Trump,

00:47:26.440 right?

00:47:26.640 It's like,

00:47:27.740 memories from cats.

00:47:28.740 Yeah,

00:47:28.980 yeah.

00:47:29.140 He's such a normie.

00:47:32.440 Like,

00:47:32.560 everyone knows Trump,

00:47:33.500 right?

00:47:33.640 Like,

00:47:33.980 his tastes are absolutely mid.

00:47:35.960 Right?

00:47:36.180 They're absolutely mid-brow.

00:47:37.240 Right?

00:47:37.440 It's like,

00:47:37.880 he likes memories from cats

00:47:39.260 and he likes Ness and Dorma.

00:47:40.840 Right?

00:47:41.080 And he likes My Way

00:47:42.740 by Sinatra.

00:47:43.560 Like,

00:47:43.800 everything that he does

00:47:44.720 is like,

00:47:46.360 he represents the people.

00:47:47.540 Yeah.

00:47:47.700 He is the avatar

00:47:49.060 of the American spirit

00:47:50.100 of the last 50 years.

00:47:51.180 There's no question about it.

00:47:51.960 At least.

00:47:52.440 Even in his garishness.

00:47:54.280 And he always was.

00:47:55.340 This is the thing that,

00:47:56.000 you know,

00:47:56.220 when those of us

00:47:56.900 who underestimate it,

00:47:57.540 so I went from

00:47:58.420 estimating him properly

00:47:59.600 to underestimating him

00:48:00.660 to,

00:48:01.060 I think,

00:48:01.300 estimating him properly.

00:48:02.060 Meaning in 2012,

00:48:02.800 I wrote a column

00:48:03.360 suggesting he should run

00:48:04.440 for president of the United States.

00:48:05.780 That's right.

00:48:07.200 That was when he was running,

00:48:08.380 he was thinking about

00:48:08.920 running against Romney.

00:48:09.600 And I wrote a column in 2012

00:48:10.540 saying he's the most likely

00:48:11.720 person to win.

00:48:12.480 Yeah.

00:48:12.940 And then in 2015,

00:48:14.040 2016,

00:48:14.620 it was like,

00:48:14.960 okay,

00:48:15.200 maybe he's past his prime

00:48:16.000 and he's too wild

00:48:16.740 and then he won,

00:48:17.460 of course.

00:48:18.000 And the thing about Trump,

00:48:19.820 that dude's been

00:48:20.480 internationally famous.

00:48:21.580 Yes.

00:48:22.180 For literally 50 years.

00:48:24.060 Yep, yep, yep.

00:48:24.640 For 50 years.

00:48:25.540 I mean,

00:48:25.780 he was in rap videos.

00:48:27.540 I mean,

00:48:27.940 this guy was in

00:48:28.300 McDonald's commercials.

00:48:29.200 He was in Home Alone.

00:48:29.760 The idea that he like

00:48:31.660 came out of nowhere,

00:48:32.620 he came out of nowhere

00:48:33.080 politically,

00:48:33.620 but he certainly didn't

00:48:34.200 come out of nowhere culturally.

00:48:35.300 He was always a representative

00:48:36.600 of a giant chunk

00:48:37.740 of the public

00:48:38.180 because you cannot be

00:48:39.380 that famous for that long

00:48:40.620 without being a representative

00:48:41.900 of something in the public spirit

00:48:43.480 that people actually like.

00:48:44.760 He's what we said

00:48:45.680 instead of Rockefeller.

00:48:46.680 In the old days,

00:48:47.120 you would have said Rockefeller,

00:48:48.120 you know,

00:48:48.380 now you,

00:48:48.760 then you said Trump.

00:48:49.880 All through the 80s.

00:48:51.000 Especially as a New Yorker,

00:48:52.720 there has not been

00:48:53.520 a day of my life

00:48:55.040 that I have been conscious

00:48:56.660 and not aware of Donald Trump.

00:48:57.880 Yeah.

00:48:58.080 That's not an exaggeration.

00:48:59.160 No.

00:48:59.460 So when people said

00:49:00.100 he's this radical fringe guy,

00:49:01.740 what are you talking about?

00:49:03.660 He's still Trump from the block.

00:49:04.920 He's still Trump from the block.

00:49:06.160 Yeah.

00:49:07.260 He,

00:49:07.580 yeah,

00:49:08.420 I was watching some movie,

00:49:09.980 I can't remember what it was.

00:49:10.780 It was like a 1993 movie

00:49:12.300 and just randomly

00:49:12.920 they started talking about like,

00:49:14.280 well,

00:49:14.420 maybe Trump will be president.

00:49:15.420 Like,

00:49:15.940 people would drop that routinely.

00:49:17.760 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:49:18.220 In like the 80s.

00:49:19.380 So,

00:49:19.800 should we be that, Chuck?

00:49:20.720 Maybe not.

00:49:21.480 Roger Stone called it

00:49:22.400 in like 85 or so.

00:49:23.480 Maybe there was such

00:49:24.260 a cultural disconnect

00:49:25.100 that happened

00:49:25.720 in the post-Bush era.

00:49:27.420 Yeah.

00:49:27.860 And Hollywood turned so far left

00:49:29.140 and culture turned so far left

00:49:30.240 that we actually just forgot

00:49:31.240 about the people

00:49:31.720 who were really,

00:49:32.320 really,

00:49:32.540 really famous

00:49:33.000 for a very,

00:49:33.560 very long time

00:49:34.060 in the United States.

00:49:35.220 It also exposed

00:49:36.620 a lot of this lawfare

00:49:37.820 when they went after him

00:49:38.700 with all these investigations.

00:49:40.220 I thought they'd been

00:49:40.780 investigating this guy

00:49:41.800 since I was a child.

00:49:43.740 You know,

00:49:43.940 they're not going to find anything.

00:49:45.100 If he were dirty,

00:49:46.380 that'd have got him by now.

00:49:47.220 He's just not.

00:49:47.760 You know,

00:49:48.220 he's just not.

00:49:48.660 I'm glad that we could just

00:49:49.660 talk over this entire

00:49:50.600 beautiful performance.

00:49:51.500 Yeah.

00:49:52.880 You know,

00:49:53.260 he wasn't wearing a tie.

00:49:54.020 He was singing his heart out.

00:49:54.680 See,

00:49:54.920 the right doesn't care

00:49:55.740 about the arts.

00:49:56.380 That's what I keep saying.

00:50:00.400 Maybe people are going,

00:50:01.700 who was that guy?

00:50:03.940 How did he get in here?

00:50:08.060 Well,

00:50:08.420 I mean,

00:50:08.600 it's better than

00:50:09.080 the lesbian dance troupe

00:50:10.380 that was planned for Kamala's.

00:50:12.320 Oh, God.

00:50:15.400 Somebody else is coming.

00:50:16.740 Who is this?

00:50:17.380 I don't know.

00:50:17.840 It's like a mystery curtain.

00:50:19.040 I'm enjoying the mystery curtain.

00:50:20.640 The curtain of mystery.

00:50:21.220 It's the undertaker.

00:50:24.120 Hey,

00:50:24.520 brother.

00:50:25.520 He starts pulling his shirt off.

00:50:30.040 Who are these people?

00:50:31.080 I don't know

00:50:31.520 who any of these people are.

00:50:32.760 Yeah,

00:50:32.980 I actually don't know.

00:50:33.540 We're doing a great job

00:50:34.240 of narrating this.

00:50:35.020 Yeah.

00:50:35.440 We're supposed to be telling

00:50:36.640 the people at home.

00:50:38.280 Yeah,

00:50:38.680 so great job,

00:50:39.380 support staff,

00:50:39.920 for letting us know

00:50:40.440 all these people

00:50:40.880 who are walking through.

00:50:41.560 I'm going to blame it on you.

00:50:42.040 I just blame it on the staff.

00:50:43.320 A bunch of random people

00:50:44.160 that we don't know

00:50:44.740 just walk.

00:50:45.320 If you're listening,

00:50:46.380 I'm going to explain in detail.

00:50:47.240 It just happened.

00:50:47.780 A curtain opened,

00:50:48.380 some random people

00:50:48.900 we don't know walked through.

00:50:49.820 But the men had ties on,

00:50:51.240 so that was good.

00:50:52.160 Nice.

00:50:52.720 Random people

00:50:53.460 who were invited

00:50:54.680 to the inauguration

00:50:56.640 of the President

00:50:57.220 of the United States

00:50:57.980 inside the rotunda.

00:50:59.020 Wait,

00:50:59.200 this is Vance.

00:50:59.840 Ah,

00:51:00.280 here's our First Lady,

00:51:01.440 Melania Trump,

00:51:02.440 entering into the rotunda.

00:51:04.320 Very nice hat.

00:51:04.980 Very fat,

00:51:05.860 snappy hat.

00:51:06.400 She has excellent taste.

00:51:08.620 Do you think we could put her

00:51:10.160 on the covers

00:51:10.980 of some magazines?

00:51:11.560 Magazines now?

00:51:12.300 Oh, my God.

00:51:12.900 Oh, it's coming.

00:51:13.640 I guarantee you.

00:51:14.140 Michelle Obama won't appear

00:51:15.440 on them anymore.

00:51:16.180 I guess there's room

00:51:16.940 for the supermodel First Lady.

00:51:18.360 That was the pettiest thing

00:51:20.080 about that.

00:51:20.440 Yeah, I think it was.

00:51:22.700 She got like

00:51:23.280 Aubrey Hepburn post.

00:51:24.240 No, she's really got good taste.

00:51:30.580 Bold to wear a hat, too.

00:51:31.820 Yeah.

00:51:32.000 It says that you're confident

00:51:33.660 in your sense of style.

00:51:34.840 Yeah.

00:51:35.880 I mean, truly.

00:51:36.220 That's a great analysis, though.

00:51:38.440 I know,

00:51:38.760 but I just wasn't expecting

00:51:39.560 like actual fashion analysis

00:51:40.880 from our fashion,

00:51:42.420 our straight fashion correspondent,

00:51:44.420 Jeremy Boring.

00:51:45.440 We depend on Jeremy

00:51:46.340 for the fashion.

00:51:46.640 I like to say straight-ish.

00:51:49.020 The fashion commentary.

00:51:50.420 Yeah,

00:51:50.540 like color palette analysis

00:51:52.500 of what that means

00:51:53.820 for the future of the country.

00:51:57.580 She's painting in bold colors.

00:51:59.160 She's got the contrast

00:52:00.460 between black and white

00:52:01.220 just demonstrates

00:52:01.860 how bold this presidency

00:52:02.880 is going to be.

00:52:05.360 It's a concession, too,

00:52:06.880 from Jill Biden

00:52:07.500 that she decided to wear blue

00:52:08.940 unlike on Election Day.

00:52:10.320 She looks so miserable.

00:52:12.120 She does.

00:52:13.040 She looks absolutely miserable.

00:52:15.480 Not miserable enough.

00:52:16.180 I think the proper man.

00:52:18.660 Do you think that's it?

00:52:19.440 Yeah, I think she got

00:52:20.320 what she was doing.

00:52:21.020 You're a merciful man.

00:52:21.720 You know, God comes for us all.

00:52:23.400 That's true.

00:52:23.980 His justice.

00:52:25.440 Here comes

00:52:26.220 the Honorable Robert Dunkey.

00:52:28.980 Yeah.

00:52:29.180 Yeah.

00:52:29.240 Yeah.

00:52:29.300 Yeah.

00:52:31.860 I want you to play that

00:52:42.320 when I come into my room

00:52:43.220 throughout here.

00:52:44.180 I'm hoping for a Charles II,

00:52:46.120 Trump comes in and he says,

00:52:47.240 gentlemen, go home.

00:52:48.260 The Honorable Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

00:52:51.860 It's his exit.

00:52:52.780 It's his exit show.

00:52:54.540 The Honorable Kamala Davy Harris.

00:52:57.540 She is so unhappy.

00:52:58.920 Wow.

00:52:59.180 Well, we're going to go ahead

00:53:06.120 and kick this over

00:53:06.840 to the live broadcast

00:53:07.820 of Donald Trump's inauguration.

00:53:09.340 Stick around afterwards.

00:53:10.160 We'll be back

00:53:10.680 to give you more inane commentary.

00:53:14.500 And fashion advice.

00:53:17.100 We'll see you guys there.

00:53:18.120 Ladies and gentlemen,

00:53:19.660 please welcome

00:53:20.240 Associate Justice Kavanaugh

00:53:21.760 to administer

00:53:22.440 the vice presidential

00:53:23.520 oath of office.

00:53:24.600 Please raise your right hand

00:53:26.900 and repeat after me.

00:53:30.540 I, James David Vance,

00:53:32.800 do solemnly swear

00:53:34.020 I, James David Vance,

00:53:35.780 do solemnly swear

00:53:36.700 that I will support

00:53:38.360 and defend

00:53:39.240 the Constitution

00:53:40.160 of the United States

00:53:41.620 that I will support

00:53:42.600 and defend

00:53:43.300 the Constitution

00:53:44.080 of the United States

00:53:45.160 against all enemies,

00:53:47.260 foreign and domestic

00:53:48.680 against all enemies,

00:53:50.380 foreign and domestic.

00:53:51.920 That I will bear true faith.

00:53:53.720 That I will bear true faith.

00:53:55.640 And allegiance to the same.

00:53:57.480 And allegiance to the same.

00:53:59.360 That I take this obligation freely.

00:54:01.760 That I take this obligation freely.

00:54:03.680 Without any mental reservation.

00:54:05.900 Without any mental reservation.

00:54:08.060 Or purpose of evasion.

00:54:09.840 Or purpose of evasion.

00:54:11.280 And that I will

00:54:12.480 well and faithfully discharge.

00:54:14.800 And that I will well

00:54:15.820 and faithfully discharge.

00:54:17.540 The duties of the office.

00:54:19.100 The duties of the office.

00:54:20.280 On which I am about to enter.

00:54:21.940 On which I am about to enter.

00:54:23.560 So help me God.

00:54:24.760 So help me God.

00:54:25.900 Congratulations, Mr. Vice President.

00:54:53.180 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Chief Justice Roberts to administer the Presidential Oath of Office.

00:55:00.880 Please raise your right hand and repeat after me.

00:55:04.280 I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.

00:55:06.960 I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.

00:55:10.240 That I will faithfully execute.

00:55:12.640 That I will faithfully execute.

00:55:14.660 The Office of President of the United States.

00:55:17.480 The Office of President of the United States.

00:55:20.280 And will, to the best of my ability.

00:55:22.860 And will, to the best of my ability.

00:55:25.440 Preserve, protect, and defend.

00:55:27.640 Preserve, protect, and defend.

00:55:29.340 The Constitution of the United States.

00:55:31.260 The Constitution of the United States.

00:55:33.380 So help me God.

00:55:34.280 So help me God.

00:55:35.520 Congratulations, Mr. Vice President.

00:55:36.600 It is my honor and pleasure to introduce to you the 45th and the 47th President of the United States of America,

00:55:59.720 Donald J. Trump.

00:56:01.480 Thank you.

00:56:02.280 Thank you.

00:56:06.700 Thank you very much, everybody.

00:56:34.700 Well, thank you very, very much.

00:56:39.700 Vice President Vance, Speaker Johnson,

00:56:43.700 Senator Thune, Chief Justice Roberts,

00:56:47.700 Justices of the United States Supreme Court,

00:56:53.700 President Clinton, President Bush,

00:56:57.700 President Obama, President Biden,

00:57:01.700 Vice President Harris,

00:57:04.700 and my fellow citizens.

00:57:07.700 The golden age of America begins right now.

00:57:10.700 From this day forward, our country will flourish

00:57:22.700 and be respected again all over the world.

00:57:25.700 We will be the envy of every nation,

00:57:28.700 and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer.

00:57:34.700 During every single day of the Trump administration,

00:57:38.700 I will very simply put America first.

00:57:43.700 Our sovereignty will be reclaimed.

00:57:55.700 Our safety will be restored.

00:57:57.700 The scales of justice will be rebalanced.

00:58:01.700 The vicious, violent, and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department

00:58:06.700 and our government will end.

00:58:08.700 And our top priority will be to create a nation that is proud, prosperous, and free.

00:58:27.700 America will soon be greater, stronger, and far more exceptional than ever before.

00:58:42.700 I return to the presidency confident and optimistic that we are at the start of a thrilling new era of national success.

00:58:50.700 A tide of change is sweeping the country, sunlight is pouring over the entire world,

00:58:56.700 and America has the chance to seize this opportunity like never before.

00:59:01.700 But first, we must be honest about the challenges we face.

00:59:05.700 While they are plentiful, they will be annihilated by this great momentum

00:59:10.700 that the world is now witnessing in the United States of America.

00:59:15.700 As we gather today, our government confronts a crisis of trust.

00:59:20.700 For many years, a radical and corrupt establishment has extracted power and wealth from our citizens

00:59:26.700 while the pillars of our society lay broken and seemingly in complete disrepair.

00:59:33.700 We now have a government that cannot manage even a simple crisis at home,

00:59:37.700 while at the same time stumbling into a continuing catalogue of catastrophic events abroad.

00:59:44.700 It fails to protect our magnificent, law-abiding American citizens,

00:59:49.700 but provides sanctuary and protection for dangerous criminals,

00:59:53.700 many from prisons and mental institutions that have illegally entered our country from all over the world.

01:00:00.700 We have a government that has given unlimited funding to the defense of foreign borders,

01:00:06.700 but refuses to defend American borders or, more importantly, its own people.

01:00:13.700 Our country can no longer deliver basic services in times of emergency,

01:00:17.700 as recently shown by the wonderful people of North Carolina,

01:00:23.700 who have been treated so badly.

01:00:25.700 And other states who are still suffering from a hurricane that took place many months ago.

01:00:35.700 Or, more recently, Los Angeles, where we are watching fires still tragically burn.

01:00:41.700 From weeks ago, without even a token of defense.

01:00:46.700 They're raging through the houses and communities, even affecting some of the wealthiest and most powerful individuals in our country,

01:00:53.700 some of whom are sitting here right now.

01:00:56.700 They don't have a home any longer.

01:00:58.700 That's interesting.

01:01:00.700 But we can't let this happen.

01:01:02.700 Everyone is unable to do anything about it that's going to change.

01:01:08.700 We have a public health system that does not deliver in times of disaster,

01:01:13.700 yet more money is spent on it than any country anywhere in the world.

01:01:17.700 And we have an education system that teaches our children to be ashamed of themselves in many cases,

01:01:23.700 to hate our country despite the love that we try so desperately to provide to them.

01:01:29.700 All of this will change starting today, and it will change very quickly.

01:01:46.700 My recent election is a mandate to completely and totally reverse a horrible betrayal

01:01:54.700 and all of these many betrayals that have taken place,

01:01:58.700 and to give the people back their faith, their wealth, their democracy, and indeed, their freedom.

01:02:06.700 From this moment on, America's decline is over.

01:02:12.700 Our liberties and our nation's glorious destiny will no longer be denied,

01:02:28.700 and we will immediately restore the integrity, competency, and loyalty of America's government.

01:02:35.700 Over the past eight years, I have been tested and challenged more than any president in our 250-year history.

01:02:41.700 And I've learned a lot along the way.

01:02:45.700 The journey to reclaim our republic has not been an easy one, that I can tell you.

01:02:52.700 Those who wish to stop our cause have tried to take my freedom, and indeed, to take my life.

01:03:01.700 Just a few months ago, in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin's bullet ripped through my ear.

01:03:08.700 But I felt then, and believe even more so now, that my life was saved for a reason.

01:03:15.700 I was saved by God to make America great again.

01:03:20.700 Thank you.

01:03:21.700 Thank you.

01:03:22.700 Thank you.

01:03:23.700 Thank you.

01:03:24.700 Thank you very much.

01:03:25.700 Thank you.

01:03:26.700 Thank you.

01:03:27.700 Thank you.

01:03:28.700 Thank you very much.

01:03:50.700 Thank you.

01:03:51.700 That is why each day under our administration of American patriots, we will be working to meet

01:03:59.700 every crisis with dignity and power and strength.

01:04:03.700 We will move with purpose and speed to bring back hope, prosperity, safety, and peace for citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed.

01:04:15.700 For American citizens, January 20th, 2025 is Liberation Day.

01:04:32.700 It is my hope that our recent presidential election will be remembered as the greatest and most consequential election in the history of our country.

01:04:41.700 As our victory showed, the entire nation is rapidly unifying behind our agenda with dramatic increases in support from virtually every element of our society.

01:04:51.700 Young and old, men and women, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, urban, suburban, rural, and very importantly, we had a powerful win in all seven swing states.

01:05:06.700 And the popular vote we won by millions of people.

01:05:15.700 To the black and Hispanic communities, I want to thank you for the tremendous outpouring of love and trust that you have shown me with your vote.

01:05:26.700 We set records and I will not forget it.

01:05:30.700 I've heard your voices in the campaign and I look forward to working with you in the years to come.

01:05:36.700 Today is Martin Luther King Day and his honor. This will be a great honor.

01:05:41.700 But in his honor, we will strive together to make his dream a reality. We will make his dream come true.

01:05:50.700 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

01:06:10.700 National unity is now returning to America.

01:06:15.700 And confidence and pride is soaring like never before.

01:06:20.700 In everything we do, my administration will be inspired by a strong pursuit of excellence and unrelenting success.

01:06:27.700 We will not forget our country. We will not forget our Constitution.

01:06:32.700 And we will not forget our God.

01:06:36.700 Can't do that.

01:06:38.700 Today, I will sign a series of historic executive orders.

01:06:54.700 With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense.

01:07:02.700 It's all about common sense.

01:07:06.700 First, I will declare a national emergency at our southern border.

01:07:11.700 First, I will declare a national emergency at the northern border.

01:07:12.700 All illegal entry will immediately lead to the eastern border.

01:07:34.700 All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning

01:07:45.300 millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came.

01:07:52.300 We will reinstate my Remain in Mexico policy.

01:07:58.860 I will end the practice of catch and release.

01:08:10.360 And I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country.

01:08:22.040 Under the orders I signed today, we will also be designating the cartels as foreign terrorist

01:08:29.440 organizations.

01:08:34.040 And by invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, I will direct our government to use the full

01:08:56.700 and immense power of federal and state law enforcement to eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs

01:09:02.600 and criminal networks, bringing devastating crime to U.S. soil, including our cities and

01:09:11.100 inner cities.

01:09:19.200 As Commander-in-Chief, I have no higher responsibility than to defend our country from threats and

01:09:24.600 invasions.

01:09:25.960 And that is exactly what I am going to do.

01:09:29.600 We will do it at a level that nobody has ever seen before.

01:09:32.700 Next, I will direct all members of my cabinet to marshal the vast powers at their disposal

01:09:39.100 to defeat what was record inflation and rapidly bring down costs and prices.

01:09:52.280 The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices.

01:09:58.040 And that is why today I will also declare a national energy emergency.

01:10:04.280 We will drill, baby, drill.

01:10:13.280 America will be a manufacturing nation once again, and we have something that no other manufacturing

01:10:33.220 nation will ever have, the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth.

01:10:38.780 And we are going to use it.

01:10:43.880 We will bring prices down, fill our strategic reserves up again, right to the top, and export

01:10:53.460 American energy all over the world.

01:10:56.880 We will be a rich nation again, and it is that liquid gold under our feet that will help

01:11:08.100 to do it.

01:11:09.980 With my actions today, we will end the Green New Deal and we will revoke the electric vehicle

01:11:15.480 mandate, saving our auto industry and keeping my sacred pledge to our great American autoworkers.

01:11:30.480 In other words, you'll be able to buy the car of your choice.

01:11:40.740 We will build automobiles in America again at a rate that nobody could have dreamt possible

01:11:45.660 just a few years ago.

01:11:48.200 And thank you to the autoworkers of our nation for your inspiring vote of confidence.

01:11:53.540 We did tremendously with their vote.

01:11:58.540 I will immediately begin the overhaul of our trade system to protect American workers and

01:12:05.700 families.

01:12:07.200 Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries

01:12:14.880 to enrich our citizens.

01:12:22.440 For this purpose, we are establishing the external revenue service to collect all tariffs, duties,

01:12:33.920 and revenues.

01:12:34.920 It will be massive amounts of money pouring into our treasury coming from foreign sources.

01:12:41.980 The American dream will soon be back and thriving like never before to restore competence and

01:12:48.100 effectiveness to our federal government.

01:12:50.840 My administration will establish the brand new Department of Government Efficiency.

01:13:09.820 After years and years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to restrict free expression,

01:13:16.320 I will also sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free

01:13:23.380 free speech to America.

01:13:42.380 Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents.

01:13:49.520 I know something I know something about.

01:13:52.560 We will not allow that to happen.

01:13:54.540 It will not happen again.

01:13:56.380 Under my leadership, we will restore fair, equal, and impartial justice under the constitutional

01:14:02.820 rule of law.

01:14:05.200 And we are going to bring law and order back to our cities.

01:14:18.480 This week, I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender

01:14:25.760 into every aspect of public and private life.

01:14:36.860 We will forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based.

01:14:44.760 As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there

01:14:54.760 are only two genders, male and female.

01:14:57.760 This week, I will reinstate any service members who were unjustly expelled from our military for

01:15:22.080 objecting to the COVID vaccine mandate with full back pain.

01:15:38.920 And I will sign an order to stop our warriors from being subjected to radical political theories

01:15:44.940 and social experiments while on duty.

01:15:47.740 It's going to end immediately.

01:15:53.680 Our armed forces will be free to focus on their sole mission, defeating America's enemies.

01:16:17.740 Like in 2017, we will again build the strongest military the world has ever seen.

01:16:34.000 We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we

01:16:40.040 end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.

01:17:04.440 My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier.

01:17:09.640 That's what I want to be, a peacemaker and a unifier.

01:17:13.240 I'm pleased to say that as of yesterday, one day before I assumed office, the hostages

01:17:20.200 in the Middle East are coming back home to their families.

01:17:28.040 Thank you.

01:17:41.640 America will reclaim its rightful place as the greatest, most powerful, most respected

01:17:50.840 nation on Earth, inspiring the awe and admiration of the entire world.

01:17:57.240 A short time from now, we are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf

01:18:04.340 of America, and we will restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount

01:18:13.540 McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs.

01:18:19.240 President McKinley made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent.

01:18:32.040 He was a natural businessman and gave Teddy Roosevelt the money for many of the great things he

01:18:37.640 did, including the Panama Canal, which has foolishly been given to the country of Panama

01:18:44.240 after the United States, the United States, I mean, think of this, spent more money than

01:18:50.840 ever spent on a project before and lost 38,000 lives in the building of the Panama Canal.

01:18:59.620 We have been treated very badly from this foolish gift that should have never been made.

01:19:04.940 And Panama's promise to us has been broken.

01:19:08.880 The purpose of our deal and the spirit of our treaty has been totally violated.

01:19:14.360 American ships are being severely overcharged and not treated fairly in any way, shape or

01:19:22.920 form.

01:19:23.920 And that includes the United States Navy.

01:19:27.020 And above all, China is operating the Panama Canal.

01:19:30.760 And we didn't give it to China.

01:19:32.420 We gave it to Panama.

01:19:34.160 And we're taking it back.

01:19:53.420 Above all, my message to Americans today is that it is time for us to once again act with

01:19:58.860 courage, vigor and the vitality of history's greatest civilization.

01:20:04.940 So as we liberate our nation, we will lead it to new heights of victory and success.

01:20:12.180 We will not be deterred.

01:20:14.180 Together we will end the chronic disease epidemic and keep our children safe, healthy and disease

01:20:19.680 free.

01:20:21.000 The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation.

01:20:26.240 One that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations

01:20:32.680 and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons.

01:20:37.480 And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to

01:20:43.360 plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars.

01:20:47.240 Ambition is the lifeblood of a great nation.

01:21:11.640 And right now our nation is more ambitious than any other.

01:21:16.920 There's no nation like our nation.

01:21:20.640 Americans are explorers, builders, innovators, entrepreneurs and pioneers.

01:21:26.160 The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts.

01:21:29.640 The call of the next great adventure resounds from within our souls.

01:21:37.320 Our American ancestors turned a small group of colonies on the edge of a vast continent into

01:21:44.020 a mighty republic of the most extraordinary citizens on Earth.

01:21:48.640 No one comes close.

01:21:51.440 Americans pushed thousands of miles through a rugged land of untamed wilderness.

01:21:57.720 They crossed deserts, scaled mountains, braved untold dangers, won the Wild West, ended slavery,

01:22:05.220 rescued millions from tyranny, lifted billions from poverty, harnessed electricity, split the

01:22:11.240 atom, launched mankind into the heavens, and put the universe of human knowledge into the

01:22:18.300 palm of the human hand.

01:22:20.720 If we work together, there is nothing we cannot do and no dream we cannot achieve.

01:22:27.800 Many people thought it was impossible for me to stage such a historic political comeback.

01:22:35.220 But as you see today, here I am, the American people have spoken.

01:22:38.720 I stand before you now as proof that you should never believe that something is impossible

01:23:03.980 to do.

01:23:05.580 In America, the impossible is what we do best.

01:23:16.240 From New York to Los Angeles, from Philadelphia to Phoenix, from Chicago to Miami, from Houston

01:23:23.260 to right here in Washington, D.C., our country was forged and built by the generations of patriots

01:23:31.080 who gave everything they had for our rights and for our freedom.

01:23:37.080 They were farmers and soldiers, cowboys and factory workers, steel workers and coal miners,

01:23:42.740 police officers and pioneers who pushed onward, marched forward, and let no obstacle defeat

01:23:49.500 their spirit or their pride.

01:23:51.740 Together, they laid down the railroads, raised up the skyscrapers, built great highways, won

01:24:00.400 two world wars, defeated fascism and communism, and triumphed over every single challenge that

01:24:07.900 they faced.

01:24:10.400 After all we have been through together, we stand on the verge of the four greatest years in American

01:24:15.740 history.

01:24:17.400 With your help, we will restore America's promise and we will rebuild the nation that we love

01:24:23.400 and we love it so much.

01:24:25.400 We are one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God.

01:24:30.840 So to every parent who dreams for their child and every child who dreams for their future,

01:24:37.160 I am with you, I will fight for you, and I will win for you.

01:24:42.060 We are going to win like never before.

01:24:44.060 Thank you.

01:25:04.720 In recent years, our nation has suffered greatly, but we are going to bring it back and make

01:25:10.220 it great again greater than ever before.

01:25:14.680 We will be a nation like no other, full of compassion, courage, and exceptionalism.

01:25:20.380 Our power will stop all wars and bring a new spirit of unity to a world that has been angry,

01:25:26.540 violent, and totally unpredictable.

01:25:30.160 America will be respected again and admired again, including by people of religion, faith,

01:25:36.540 and goodwill.

01:25:38.220 We will be prosperous.

01:25:39.940 We will be proud.

01:25:41.740 We will be strong, and we will win like never before.

01:25:45.880 We will not be conquered.

01:25:47.720 We will not be intimidated.

01:25:50.380 We will not be broken, and we will not fail.

01:25:54.200 From this day on, the United States of America will be a free, sovereign, and independent nation.

01:26:00.440 We will stand bravely.

01:26:02.320 We will live proudly.

01:26:04.560 We will dream boldly, and nothing will stand in our way because we are Americans.

01:26:10.500 The future is ours, and our golden age has just begun.

01:26:16.440 God bless America.

01:26:17.440 God bless America.

01:26:18.440 Thank you all.

01:26:19.440 Thank you.

01:26:20.440 Thank you very much.

01:26:22.380 Thank you very much.

01:26:24.220 Thank you.

01:26:26.220 Well, there you have it.

01:26:27.220 America has a new president, 47 himself, Donald Trump.

01:26:31.160 Just inaugurated in the Capitol Rotunda right behind us in a unique and celebratory, for the most part, ceremony.

01:26:41.100 And I think that the theme of it could best be encapsulated in a quote from Donald Trump during his 29-minute address.

01:26:46.840 God saved my life to make America great again.

01:26:50.480 Here with the first reaction, Ben Shapiro.

01:26:52.680 So, it's a pretty impressive speech from the former and current president of the United States.

01:26:58.340 President Trump gave a 29-minute address, very short for him.

01:27:02.040 It began with him suggesting that this was the beginning of a new golden era for the United States.

01:27:06.780 That obviously is his ambition.

01:27:08.240 And then he recapped the last four years, which he characterized as dark, depressing.

01:27:12.560 I think, obviously, he was right in all of that.

01:27:14.500 And then he began to lay out an incredibly pragmatic course of action that he's going to pursue immediately.

01:27:20.120 And that includes everything from designating drug cartels, terrorist organizations, to putting back in place Remain in Mexico,

01:27:26.460 from declaring a national energy emergency, to drill, baby drill, those are his words,

01:27:30.820 to a foreign policy that's led with strength.

01:27:33.120 He mentioned the release of three hostages by Hamas over the weekend.

01:27:37.060 The president of the United States also dropped some pretty charged language about what he sees as the future of American territory.

01:27:43.640 He used the phrase manifest destiny to describe the possibility of expanding America's territorial holdings,

01:27:49.160 including regaining some level of control over, for example, the Panama Canal,

01:27:53.660 which he said we did not build for the use of China or ownership by China, which, of course, is exactly correct.

01:27:59.100 The bottom line is this. President Trump said in the speech that he is going to be a common-sense president.

01:28:03.640 And that is what you heard. This is a president who is much more focused than he was during his first term.

01:28:08.360 This is a president who actually has an agenda. This is a president who is ready to make that agenda happen in real time.

01:28:14.780 I don't think that it was the most soaring rhetoric I've ever heard from President Trump,

01:28:19.080 but it was some of the most pragmatic rhetoric that I've ever heard from President Trump.

01:28:22.940 Again, it was a shorter address than he usually gives in these sorts of situations.

01:28:26.480 And I think that played to his benefit because, again, it allowed the American public to focus on what he was saying.

01:28:31.840 He suggested that maybe the most important wars we fight are the ones that we never fight,

01:28:35.220 which is a strategy of deterrence that he has suggested in the past and that he pursued with elaparty during his first term.

01:28:40.800 He suggested that when it came to foreign trade, that we were not going to impoverish American workers in order to make people rich elsewhere.

01:28:46.880 We'll see how that manifests in terms of his actual trade and tariff policy.

01:28:50.300 But the bottom line for President Trump is, was, and will be utilitarian.

01:28:53.780 It's going to be about winning. It's going to be a pragmatic winning for the American people.

01:28:57.580 That's the theme that he kept coming back to.

01:28:59.560 And he also, in the more inspirational moments of the speech, I think,

01:29:02.700 talked about what he sees as the future of the country and the past of the country,

01:29:06.860 the sort of pioneer spirit that it takes to cross mountains and settle along rivers,

01:29:11.060 the kind of pioneer spirit that it takes to, for example, go to the moon and plant an American flag on the moon.

01:29:16.460 There's an aspirational nature that's combined with the pragmatic utilitarian on the ground stuff that I think is going to make

01:29:22.340 President Trump's second term unique and could, in fact, make President Trump's second term historically unique.

01:29:28.240 It's pretty rare to have a president who's both pursuing the sort of pragmatic on the ground things that are necessary to fix the broken toilet

01:29:33.960 and at the same time pursuing the big ideas, the big bold ideas.

01:29:38.160 And it's been a long time in this country since we've pursued actual bold ideas.

01:29:41.880 For a very long time, probably my entire political lifetime, we've been stuck in the position of sort of global managerial class.

01:29:48.340 It's our job to sort of fix things around the world or fix things at home.

01:29:52.120 President Trump did talk about innovation.

01:29:54.180 He talked about dynamism.

01:29:55.300 He talked about shooting for something that was larger.

01:29:58.420 And, again, there is to his administration a seriousness of purpose that I think a lot of people found lacking at the very beginning of his first administration.

01:30:05.220 He's learned something.

01:30:06.460 Again, the key line was one that Jeremy mentioned a moment ago.

01:30:09.600 So, and that key line was that God saved his life in order to make America great again.

01:30:14.320 And I think that because that happened, because he narrowly avoided being assassinated in front of the American people,

01:30:19.280 having his head blown off on national television, I think that he does have a seriousness of purpose.

01:30:23.640 He could sit back on his laurels.

01:30:25.460 He could right now say, listen, I won.

01:30:27.620 I did the thing that I set out to do.

01:30:29.000 I won one term.

01:30:29.940 I lost.

01:30:30.500 And now I came back and I won a second term in historic fashion.

01:30:32.920 He's not doing that.

01:30:33.800 He actually has an agenda.

01:30:35.520 And you can see that agenda unfolding in real time.

01:30:37.460 We were noticing as this speech was unfolding, the White House site had already shifted over to a picture of President Trump with the label America is back.

01:30:45.680 And it's worth mentioning right here that on his way out the door, this broke pretty much as President Trump got up to speak,

01:30:51.580 that Joe Biden actually pardoned all the members of his own immediate family in preparation for the idea that Republicans were going to go after them.

01:30:58.800 That's not true.

01:30:59.580 The reality is, again, that President Trump, I think, is not going to be focused, and I hope he's not going to be focused, and I think his speech suggests this.

01:31:06.700 This is not a revenge-minded administration.

01:31:08.540 This is a forward-looking administration that is looking to solve the problems of the American people, that is going to put American interests first on foreign and domestic policy.

01:31:16.240 And again, it's going to be measured by its success.

01:31:18.320 That was the word he used many times during the speech, success.

01:31:21.540 And that's always been President Trump's metric of what matters, is success and winning.

01:31:26.220 I don't think any of that is going to change in the second administration, but I do think the approach will change much more practical.

01:31:31.500 He actually knows how Washington works now.

01:31:33.260 He's appointing people who are going to break the things that need to be broken.

01:31:36.540 I'm not sure I've ever been more optimistic about the country in my lifetime, which is, I think, a far cry from where all of us were four years ago.

01:31:44.120 Our faith has been placed in President Trump as President of the United States again.

01:31:48.240 And I think that the faith of the American people, I hope and I pray, I think as all of us do, that the hope that the American people have placed in President Trump is well justified.

01:31:58.260 Again, it's an incredible moment, and I think we are all feeling that.

01:32:03.800 Can I just say, that was actually maybe my favorite President Trump speech of all time.

01:32:09.420 Because I thought that it was short, it was punchy, it got to the point, it was hopeful and optimistic in a way that we don't hear very often.

01:32:19.020 We haven't heard in a long time from an American president.

01:32:21.540 My favorite part of the speech by far is when he used the phrase manifest destiny.

01:32:27.260 Because I think that we could talk about these practical things, that was the other great thing about the speech, a lot of practical things we're going to do.

01:32:32.120 But then there's also, okay, we talk about making America a great country.

01:32:35.860 What does that actually mean?

01:32:36.900 What does it mean to be a great country?

01:32:38.360 I think capturing that feeling of, let's go out and conquer something, let's expand, manifest destiny brings us back to when America was truly a great country.

01:32:47.260 We haven't had, he talked about planting a flag on Mars, which I think is another of my favorite parts of this speech.

01:32:52.860 Because when was the last time America had a triumph, like a historic victory where everyone together as one people celebrated something?

01:33:01.240 Probably the last time was landing on the moon, which was a long time ago.

01:33:03.720 So I think Trump is talking about having moments like that where the American people together are trying.

01:33:09.980 Well, we should not divide the high-minded, idealistic stuff from the practical, pragmatic stuff.

01:33:15.480 I think to your point, Ben, the focus that he showed in this speech is clear on both sides of it.

01:33:21.820 So on the one hand, he says, we will pursue our manifest destiny.

01:33:25.820 That is an amazing 10,000-degree view.

01:33:29.420 And then he says, we're going to take back the Panama Canal, that we built that, we gave up our lives for that, we didn't mean to give it to China, we're going to take that.

01:33:37.960 He says, we're going to secure our nation and our border.

01:33:40.940 He says, we're going to label the cartels terrorist organizations.

01:33:45.020 That means that a lot of cholos with face tattoos are about to get a visit from U.S. Special Forces.

01:33:49.840 There's high-minded and there's practical, even on the tariffs.

01:33:52.680 When he said, we're going to rename Mount McKinley to be Mount McKinley, I was joking with Jeremy off camera.

01:34:00.180 I said, and we're going to pay for it through McKinley tariffs.

01:34:02.540 And then immediately, he said it into his practical tariff policy.

01:34:05.900 So I think the focus and the actual coherence to this policy is so encouraging.

01:34:12.520 I was here for it already.

01:34:13.720 I expected it, and I felt he delivered even more than I was hoping for from the speech.

01:34:18.500 You know, I have to say, first of all, I just want to say this one thing.

01:34:21.980 I love this freaking country.

01:34:23.700 I love it.

01:34:24.600 I just, I love it so much.

01:34:25.940 I love the bizarreness of it.

01:34:27.080 I love the chaos of it.

01:34:28.120 I love the fact that a Catholic and a Protestant and a Jew and a black guy and a white guy are all praying to God together.

01:34:34.360 That, to me, that's what I'm here for.

01:34:35.940 That's why, you know, I left this country for seven years.

01:34:38.460 When I came back, I knew exactly why I came back.

01:34:40.840 I came back for this.

01:34:41.620 I came back for this moment, but I also came back for this fight and all the fights that we have to go through to keep that thing alive.

01:34:47.720 You know, this wasn't Lincoln's second inaugural.

01:34:50.820 It wasn't like this beautiful let's come together thing.

01:34:53.640 But even though I believe this is a country for all kinds of people, it's not a country for every idea.

01:34:59.240 It's not a country for the idea that you can cut children to pieces for some sexual, you know, craziness that happens to pass through the university system.

01:35:06.760 And their idea, just in the same way it's not a country for bigotry, it's also not a country to just let anything happen and enforce it by, you know, bullying people into silence.

01:35:16.960 So, in a way, even though it was not a uniting speech, it was a speech saying we just came through four years of garbage.

01:35:23.460 It was a speech redefining the borders, not just on our southern border, not just on our northern border, but also on our border of ideas.

01:35:31.140 The ideas of freedom, the ideas is liberty.

01:35:33.900 When that guy was saying let freedom ring, let freedom ring, I was thinking absolutely let it ring.

01:35:37.840 Because it's just been, we've forgotten, we've forgotten it.

01:35:41.320 It's been four years when the pandemic happened, the fact that people could be forced out of their churches, the fact that people could be forced into their homes, forced to wear masks, forced to take drugs they didn't want.

01:35:50.360 That is not America.

01:35:51.660 That is un-American.

01:35:52.860 It should be excluded from any vision of the future.

01:35:55.140 I want to talk about the fact that the New York Times headline tomorrow is definitely going to be most evisive inaugural address in U.S. presidential history.

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01:37:20.080 President Trump and President Biden, along with their wives and their vice presidents, exiting the Capitol here, posing for some photographs as they wait for their vehicles, which presumably at this point will take them to...

01:37:35.220 I think typically what happens is the president goes and has a luncheon with legislators, but things are a little bit upside down this week.

01:37:42.920 I'm not sure if that's exactly what's going to happen or if they're going to take him straight to his live remarks at the auditorium here in Nashville.

01:37:48.340 He might go back to the White House to sign some executive orders.

01:37:50.140 He's doing the executive orders.

01:37:51.980 He's doing the executive orders, they've told us, at 5 p.m. in front of the crowd at the arena.

01:37:57.340 There's a great photo.

01:37:58.300 I don't know if we have access to it, but they've brought the presidential signing desk out into the middle of the arena.

01:38:02.320 That's unbelievable.

01:38:02.860 And it's currently set up where 15,000 or 20,000 people will soon be gathered.

01:38:07.420 I think that the optics, because the optics were very weird this time, right?

01:38:10.280 You didn't get the sort of the big spanning vistas that are usually behind us.

01:38:14.860 The National Mall.

01:38:15.520 That we set up for and spent a lot of money to make sure that we caught on camera.

01:38:17.920 And because of that, I do think that it actually benefited Trump in some ways.

01:38:22.500 I think that because the speech was quite practical and because it wasn't nearly as soaring as like a second inaugural by Lincoln or something.

01:38:30.240 Because of that, the intimacy of the surroundings, I think, played in his favor.

01:38:33.900 He wasn't booming out about remaining in Mexico over a crowd of 750,000 or a million people.

01:38:38.720 Instead, he was saying it directly to the American people in a pretty intimate fashion.

01:38:42.180 And I think that may be something that is worthwhile and that really plays to his benefit.

01:38:46.680 Because the truth is, when you're speaking common sense to people, you don't need to thunder it.

01:38:49.800 You just need to say it.

01:38:50.640 And I think that what he did in that speech, and again, keeping it focused, like we had an over-under bet that was going to be perfectly transparent with the audience.

01:38:58.400 And I went way over.

01:38:59.420 I thought for sure, it's his second inaugural.

01:39:01.720 He's going to go for it, right?

01:39:02.980 Whatever William Henry Harrison's record is.

01:39:05.780 You've got to put your name at the top of the record books, man.

01:39:07.780 If you ain't number one, you're nothing.

01:39:08.820 But instead, he actually went really, really short for him.

01:39:12.700 And I think that benefited him.

01:39:14.700 I think that he's, I'm hoping that he's starting to understand that the power that he has is best used sometimes as pepper rather than as salt.

01:39:23.380 You know, I think his sincerity came across too.

01:39:26.080 I saw Trump at MSG, which is probably one of the coolest speeches he's ever given.

01:39:30.640 And when he walked on stage, I'd never really seen him do that live, oddly enough.

01:39:34.940 And I had this thought.

01:39:36.440 I said, oh, he's Elvis.

01:39:38.200 That's why this works, is he's Elvis.

01:39:40.360 And that doesn't totally come across on TV.

01:39:43.060 Well, on TV, he brought up God a lot in that speech.

01:39:46.540 And I don't think it was cynical at all.

01:39:48.560 I think it was sincere.

01:39:49.900 I think that guy got religion in a field in Pennsylvania.

01:39:53.020 In fact, I don't know how you couldn't get religion in that field in Pennsylvania.

01:39:56.820 And even there, he tied the ideal to the practical when he said, God saved my life to make America great again.

01:40:04.560 I think he believes that deep down in his heart.

01:40:06.780 I certainly believe that deep down in my heart.

01:40:08.960 And I think it really came across as truthful.

01:40:11.660 By the way, I'm going to say that I think the Catholics won the invocation game today.

01:40:15.000 Yes, absolutely.

01:40:15.380 Cardinal Dolan's invocation was, I think, the best invocation.

01:40:18.260 The best prayers I think I've heard in Inaugurals.

01:40:21.760 Yes, yes.

01:40:22.500 And very, you know, I don't want to use the word aggressive, but sincere and definitive.

01:40:27.680 There was not the kind of reticence that I've heard.

01:40:29.360 The first two in particular were masculine.

01:40:31.180 That's what stood out about them to me.

01:40:32.420 You don't often get masculine prayers, particularly at events like this.

01:40:36.820 And now we're saying goodbye to President Biden, who's about to enter the Marine One helicopter, which should take off not far behind us.

01:40:45.580 I'm trying to hold myself back here.

01:40:47.300 Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord is placed.

01:40:49.240 I don't know.

01:40:50.000 It's a very heavy thing to consider leaving the presidency.

01:40:54.100 Of course.

01:40:54.500 But not for us.

01:40:55.820 He is being replaced by someone who knows how it feels.

01:40:58.520 Also, does he understand that that's happening to him?

01:41:00.560 I mean, I think that's the central question.

01:41:02.160 You can run again.

01:41:02.840 You only get one time.

01:41:06.520 You know, America's third non-consecutive.

01:41:08.840 I don't know if you were watching his face when the singer was singing the national anthem.

01:41:13.960 He looked like he was going to weep.

01:41:15.160 He looked like he was going to weep and not tears of joy.

01:41:17.660 That's for sure.

01:41:18.280 Yeah.

01:41:18.720 And they were tough on him.

01:41:20.200 You know, Franklin Grant came out and he gave that.

01:41:22.400 He said, you know, this is a great, we've been saved.

01:41:25.100 Four years were very dark.

01:41:26.300 I mean, Trump was tough on him.

01:41:27.820 The first 10 minutes of the speech was Trump basically just curb stomping him.

01:41:30.560 Yeah.

01:41:31.320 He was like, here's all the things that are wrong with the country because of what's happened

01:41:34.320 over the course of the last few years.

01:41:37.340 He's looking right behind him.

01:41:40.180 Here we have President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance seeing off President Biden, whose

01:41:45.540 helicopter is about to take off.

01:41:47.440 I think probably from our jib shot, we may even be able to catch.

01:41:49.960 And goodbye.

01:41:50.220 See you later.

01:41:50.880 We may be able to catch the image.

01:41:51.980 Oh, well, bye.

01:41:53.080 Yeah.

01:41:54.440 Bye-bye.

01:41:55.440 Catch you later.

01:41:56.060 Yeah, now we're all looking for the helicopter.

01:42:00.320 Is that the helicopter?

01:42:01.040 No, that's the new helicopter covering it, yeah.

01:42:04.780 Well, I mean, it did warm up out here, so theoretically they could have done the inauguration

01:42:07.820 out here.

01:42:08.200 It got real nice.

01:42:09.340 Certainly.

01:42:10.060 Certainly.

01:42:10.400 Security.

01:42:10.960 The point you made about this being a small, intimate area, it made him sound much more

01:42:14.860 confident.

01:42:15.820 Yes.

01:42:16.180 He wasn't enforcing his will.

01:42:18.160 He was just saying, I'm going to do this stuff.

01:42:19.680 I like that a lot.

01:42:21.260 Even the little asides work better intimately.

01:42:23.540 He says, you know, we're going to stop the persecution of political enemies.

01:42:28.340 I know something about that.

01:42:30.420 You're totally right.

01:42:31.140 If he says it softly, it's different than if he's thundering that to a million people.

01:42:33.640 That's exactly right.

01:42:34.500 I totally agree with that.

01:42:36.180 And, you know, again, I think that he spelled out some very practical policies day one.

01:42:39.600 And if you list those policies, those are 80-20 policies.

01:42:43.140 Those are 80-20 policies.

01:42:44.300 The thing that, one of the things that President Trump, I think, is really doing here is the

01:42:47.700 thing that you're supposed to do when you get in office, which is focus on the policies

01:42:50.420 where the vast majority of Americans actually like the policy and get off on the right foot.

01:42:54.400 So when he's talking about border enforcement or remain in Mexico or we're going to go after

01:42:59.960 criminal aliens, right?

01:43:01.100 He specifically said criminal as opposed to, like, all illegal aliens because he can see

01:43:04.580 the polling, which suggests that it's a little bit wishy-washy about, like, all legal, like,

01:43:08.600 most recent.

01:43:09.320 But criminals is like an 80-20 issue.

01:43:10.880 Oh, that's right.

01:43:11.580 He picked a bunch of 80-20 issues.

01:43:13.760 And by the way, one of my favorite parts of the speech that we haven't mentioned yet

01:43:16.360 was him talking about the death of diversity, equity, and inclusion, right?

01:43:19.820 Yeah, that's right.

01:43:20.420 The end of DEI and the return of merit is a huge, huge thing and maybe a defining feature

01:43:26.360 of what, I think, the defining feature of what's made America exceptional in the first

01:43:30.360 place.

01:43:30.600 I also want to buy, I said to Drew, I do want to buy some stock in superlatives.

01:43:33.380 If somebody has, like, an ETF in superlatives, I'm a all-in, life savings, I'm going to

01:43:38.140 get a lot of use of superlatives over the course of the next four years.

01:43:40.400 But once again, DEI is un-American.

01:43:42.660 It's just racism.

01:43:43.940 It's just actually institutionalized racism.

01:43:46.440 And it should be just kicked out the door.

01:43:48.140 The fact that we have to have an executive order to declare that people are male and

01:43:51.760 female is, like, bizarre.

01:43:52.880 That almost made me sad when Trump said there are only two sexes.

01:43:56.520 And from today forward, American government will recognize that one plus one equals two.

01:44:03.120 That's where we've come.

01:44:04.200 And we sort of have to state that.

01:44:06.740 And now we get to the practical business of governing.

01:44:08.580 And I think one of the things that Trump has a lot of latitude to do, and this is one

01:44:12.220 place where he's unique, is because he has built such a broad coalition, when it comes

01:44:17.000 to the actual policymaking at the congressional level, right?

01:44:19.980 There's a couple different levels of policy.

01:44:21.920 His executive orders, I think, we're all going to be very, very happy with as a general

01:44:25.360 rule.

01:44:25.800 When it comes to legislative policy, it's going to get messy.

01:44:28.600 And it's going to get messy real quick.

01:44:29.960 Mike Johnson has basically no majority.

01:44:32.080 He has a majority of one vote.

01:44:33.840 One vote.

01:44:34.620 And meanwhile, over in the Senate, there's a majority of three.

01:44:37.620 But two of those three.

01:44:38.700 But you also have Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins.

01:44:41.120 Pass small bills reinforcing the executive orders.

01:44:44.660 Don't go for giant omnibus where there's going to be three years of negotiations.

01:44:49.280 Every one of these executive orders turn into an omnibus.

01:44:51.120 But here's the problem.

01:44:52.620 The reason, okay, so here's why.

01:44:53.980 That's not going to happen.

01:44:55.280 Ideally, and this is where the battle is going to be, and I think that we need to be practical

01:44:58.020 about it.

01:44:58.480 Here's President Biden's helicopter taking off.

01:45:00.780 If we go into our wide shot, we'll probably be able to see.

01:45:07.440 Well.

01:45:09.080 Coming around.

01:45:09.660 There it is.

01:45:10.120 Wow.

01:45:11.680 See ya.

01:45:12.780 Catch you later, dude.

01:45:13.920 See ya, buddy.

01:45:15.500 Wow.

01:45:15.740 The last time a helicopter took off from this kind of disaster was Vietnam.

01:45:20.860 I'm going to take a selfie with Biden leaving.

01:45:26.040 Pretty remarkable.

01:45:26.820 Bye.

01:45:28.000 Catch you later.

01:45:30.280 Toodles.

01:45:30.820 Say it, pal.

01:45:31.640 It couldn't come a moment.

01:45:32.700 All right.

01:45:33.400 Woo!

01:45:33.840 Hey!

01:45:34.640 Yeah.

01:45:35.060 Catch you later.

01:45:36.520 Woo!

01:45:37.940 Toodaloo.

01:45:38.840 Wow.

01:45:39.200 The crowd behind us equally happy to see President Biden heading back to Delaware.

01:45:49.120 We're going to enjoy some nice beach time with the newly partened family.

01:45:52.080 That's right.

01:45:52.340 I will say that some of the, some of the most, um...

01:45:55.820 He didn't pardon the grandkids, though.

01:45:57.240 He did not pardon the grandkids.

01:45:57.720 We can still go after the grandkids.

01:45:58.660 Let's get them.

01:45:59.300 I think one of the most enjoyable aspects of actually being here, obviously it was kind

01:46:03.220 of a cold vantage, and we didn't get the beautiful view of the inauguration that we had expected

01:46:06.940 to have, um, but we did get to feel the rudders as the former president left, and in

01:46:12.840 the exact moment that President, uh, Trump finished saying the oath of office, a cannon

01:46:19.640 salute broke out on the grounds of the Capitol, a 21-gun salute, that you wouldn't have been

01:46:23.720 able to, yeah, you wouldn't have been able to experience it unless you were just right

01:46:27.760 here, so visceral.

01:46:28.720 Well, to get back to the legislative policy question, I think that one of the reasons

01:46:31.820 you're seeing Republicans say, things like one giant bill, is because when you're trying

01:46:35.680 to cobble together coalitions that are this broad and this diverse, it is incredibly difficult

01:46:39.860 to pass narrowly focused bills without losing two or three votes, who can then hold up the

01:46:44.500 entire work.

01:46:45.040 So I think that the goal here from President Trump, and it is going to take the bully pulpit

01:46:47.980 to do it, you know, our hope as conservatives is going to be that conservatives do hold up

01:46:52.320 the works enough to actually get some conservative policy in there.

01:46:54.780 At the end of the day, in order for anything to get done, everything is going to be a crap

01:46:58.280 sandwich.

01:46:58.840 That's just the reality.

01:46:59.740 And it's going to be especially a crap sandwich because they can only do this through reconciliation.

01:47:03.600 There has never been, as far as I'm aware, in modern times, two reconciliation bills passed

01:47:08.560 in the first year.

01:47:09.600 It's usually one.

01:47:10.700 And so what they're going to try and do, if they can get away with it with the Office

01:47:12.900 of Management and Budget and with CBO, is going to be whether they can get through border

01:47:17.800 security and reinforcement of the Trump tax cuts.

01:47:21.700 Everything else is going to be executive policy.

01:47:23.100 And that's just an unfortunate way that the government has now come to operate.

01:47:27.300 And that's going to have to be the next step for the American people.

01:47:30.620 It's going to be to elect a coalition of Republicans broad enough that you can actually go through

01:47:34.900 a normal appropriations process when you're trying to pass a damned bill.

01:47:39.040 Well, if you can't, then you don't actually have a legislature anymore.

01:47:41.680 Yeah, that is the problem.

01:47:42.580 That's what it really comes down to.

01:47:43.580 But that's not the president's fault.

01:47:45.260 That's the legislature's fault for sending all their power away.

01:47:47.760 I would also like to see a bill, a law, if not a constitutional amendment, saying that

01:47:54.140 laws have to be a readable size.

01:47:56.820 If you have a thousand-page law, you don't know what's in it.

01:47:59.640 Like that continuing resolution.

01:48:01.080 They can do it.

01:48:02.200 They went from a 1,200, 1,500-page CR down to a 150-page CR overnight.

01:48:07.840 I will say, though, that AI is going to change this.

01:48:11.080 You can now, this is, I'm not being glib.

01:48:13.240 You can take a 1,200-page bill, upload it into Grok, and you can ask Grok any question

01:48:20.080 you want about it.

01:48:21.100 It will tell you everything that's in the bill instantly.

01:48:23.860 It is a complete game changer.

01:48:25.800 And I think that activists and watchdog groups will make faster use of this than actual congressmen.

01:48:30.960 We will know what is in these bills instantly from now on.

01:48:33.800 Well, that's a hopeful point.

01:48:34.320 So now they're going to get longer is what you're saying.

01:48:35.820 That's right.

01:48:37.440 Exactly.

01:48:38.840 So a huge day.

01:48:39.960 We have Donald Trump now, the 47th president, going in to have a luncheon with congressional

01:48:46.440 leaders, and after which there's typically a parade, which would go right behind us down

01:48:50.920 Pennsylvania Avenue.

01:48:51.780 Now that's going to take place inside an arena here in Washington, D.C.

01:48:56.080 But we also have big news at the Daily Wire, because with this new four-year term of President

01:49:01.780 Trump, we're also going to be expanding our news division and really covering D.C.

01:49:07.040 in a much deeper way than we've ever done before, and that includes having a brand new

01:49:11.220 White House correspondent, which we've never had before, and now we will have.

01:49:14.840 And listen, if J.D. Vance's remarks on this are accurate, maybe we'll even eventually

01:49:20.840 get a seat toward the front, because apparently, according to Vice President Vance and Donald

01:49:25.040 Trump, they want to kick the legacy guys to the back of the room, which, you know, wouldn't

01:49:28.380 hurt my heart any.

01:49:29.340 But we do have this wonderful new White House correspondent.

01:49:32.220 She's been with the Daily Wire for some time now.

01:49:34.700 In fact, she was with us for a while, left, and is now back, and it's our very own, I

01:49:38.740 know that I said on X that it was all the guys at the Babylon Bee, who also would have

01:49:42.280 been good at the job, but it is, in fact, our very own Mary Margaret Olihan, who is here

01:49:47.260 with us right now.

01:49:50.740 Mary Margaret.

01:49:54.160 Hello.

01:49:55.060 Thank you so much for having me back on, and it's an honor to be Daily Wire's new White

01:50:00.180 House correspondent.

01:50:01.180 I don't take this lightly.

01:50:03.220 I'm very excited to bring the news to our viewers, and after the last four years, I think

01:50:08.120 it's more clear than ever that new media is so important.

01:50:12.320 We belong in the briefing room.

01:50:14.080 We need to be bringing the American public these stories and sharing with them the truth

01:50:18.220 that legacy media has no intention of ever sharing with them.

01:50:22.180 So I'm excited to be in there.

01:50:23.940 I'm excited to be asking questions to the Trump administration, and I'm excited to be sharing

01:50:28.680 what the legacy media is not going to be asking them as well.

01:50:32.320 So big year for us, big next four years for all of us.

01:50:36.440 We're really excited to have you with the company, of course, and to have you in this

01:50:40.220 new role.

01:50:41.220 You'll be in the White House on a day-to-day basis, being able to ask the kinds of questions

01:50:44.620 that we haven't been able to ask as conservatives in previous administrations.

01:50:49.040 We look really, really cold right now.

01:50:54.200 It is very, very cold.

01:50:55.640 I'm standing outside of Union Station here in Washington, D.C., where we've been talking

01:51:00.480 to all of these Trump supporters who, like you were sharing earlier, wanted to be on

01:51:05.240 the National Mall for the inauguration, and unfortunately, they can't be.

01:51:09.220 But I will tell you, Jeremy, I have not spoken to anyone that was in a bad mood, anyone that

01:51:13.840 was discouraged.

01:51:15.160 And I might add, it is freezing out here, but they're all beaming, they're smiling.

01:51:20.320 We walked down to Kelly's Irish Times, which is one of my favorite pubs here in D.C.

01:51:24.780 The entire bar was filled with Trump supporters.

01:51:27.400 They were so happy and excited as they cheered and watched Trump be inaugurated as the 47th

01:51:33.660 President of the United States.

01:51:35.880 And Tom, who's working the camera with me, and I, we were saying it's some of our favorite

01:51:39.240 footage we've ever gotten, these Trump supporters reacting to this inauguration.

01:51:43.720 So, really awesome day, and it's so exciting to be here.

01:51:46.900 It's really unique for D.C.

01:51:48.220 I mean, it's the first time I've ever been here and felt like conservatives had a real

01:51:51.680 presence on the streets.

01:51:52.860 Red hats everywhere, sequined vests everywhere.

01:51:56.360 It really is, it's MAGA country in D.C. right now.

01:52:00.800 It is.

01:52:01.620 It is.

01:52:02.160 You walk outside and you can hear people listening to the inauguration on their phone.

01:52:06.140 A bunch of teenage boys just walked by us and they were singing the whole, like, na-na-na-na

01:52:10.980 song, hey, hey, hey, goodbye, about Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.

01:52:15.780 So, it's just so much fun.

01:52:17.700 And the MAGA hats are everywhere.

01:52:19.700 I don't remember this in 2017.

01:52:21.820 I know, you know, there was a strong Trump presence.

01:52:24.180 But this is unlike that.

01:52:25.880 And I think part of that is this coalition that Trump has built, whether it's the Maha

01:52:30.360 Moms or the Parents United Against Transgender Ideology or people who are just sick and tired

01:52:36.140 of the economy being so bad and having criminals come across our border.

01:52:40.320 But this, it's a really unified front.

01:52:42.960 And look, I lived in D.C. for 10 years.

01:52:45.200 I am not used to this many masculine men walking around and even just happy people being here.

01:52:51.480 So, it's a new scene.

01:52:53.740 Well, thank you, Mary Margaret.

01:52:55.760 We'll be checking back in with you.

01:52:57.000 That's Daily Wire White House correspondent Mary Margaret Olehan.

01:53:00.260 And we're going to go to the Capitol again right now where newly inaugurated Vice President

01:53:04.460 J.D. Vance is giving remarks.

01:53:06.240 President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.

01:53:16.780 No, he's right.

01:53:17.860 I looked, I said, oh, look at this beautiful sunny day.

01:53:21.680 We blew it.

01:53:22.720 We blew it.

01:53:23.480 And then I went outside and we were freezing.

01:53:26.380 You would have been very unhappy.

01:53:28.360 The sun was very deceptive, I will tell you.

01:53:30.660 It is cold out.

01:53:32.320 And I'm sort of saying, you know, that was so beautiful today.

01:53:34.680 Maybe they should do it there every four years.

01:53:37.500 Does that make sense?

01:53:38.380 I don't know.

01:53:39.400 Because, you know, the outdoor thing is really good, but it gets a little cold around this

01:53:43.260 time of the year, as some people have noticed.

01:53:45.000 And a lot of times they suffer through it.

01:53:48.000 There was no suffering in that room.

01:53:49.800 It was 72 degrees.

01:53:51.040 It was perfect.

01:53:52.160 The best acoustics I think I've ever heard in a room.

01:53:55.900 This is not so bad either.

01:53:57.100 But I just want to say, you're a younger, far more beautiful audience than I just spoke

01:54:05.140 to.

01:54:05.440 And I want to keep it off the record.

01:54:08.740 I want to keep that off the record.

01:54:10.960 Because I don't want to have all those big shots up there.

01:54:15.700 I don't want to think, you're more powerful than them.

01:54:17.980 You look better than them.

01:54:19.440 And I love you.

01:54:23.860 Now, we just had a great time.

01:54:25.720 We just had a great day.

01:54:28.020 This was amazing.

01:54:29.620 You know, when you think we took a journey.

01:54:32.240 I mentioned in the speech, a lot of people said that was not a journey that was possible.

01:54:36.560 And it was indeed possible.

01:54:38.640 I didn't really know too much about what they were saying when they said that.

01:54:41.560 But a lot of people felt it.

01:54:44.160 And we hooked up with J.D. very early.

01:54:46.980 I watched J.D. over a period of time.

01:54:48.880 I endorsed him in Ohio.

01:54:51.060 He was a great senator.

01:54:53.540 And very, very smart.

01:54:55.900 The only one smarter than him was his wife.

01:54:58.060 That was...

01:54:58.800 I would have chosen her.

01:55:00.500 But somehow the line of succession didn't work that way, right?

01:55:05.080 But now she's great.

01:55:06.420 And he's great.

01:55:07.040 This is a great, beautiful couple and unbelievable career.

01:55:12.200 I just said to him, you are very upwardly mobile.

01:55:15.380 Because he hasn't been doing it that long.

01:55:17.300 But he picked it up so quickly.

01:55:18.920 Remember, the first week was a little bit like the fake news was hitting him really hard.

01:55:24.560 And I said, ooh, this may be tough.

01:55:26.520 But after that, it was smooth sailing for him.

01:55:29.760 He took on everybody.

01:55:30.820 He took on the meanest.

01:55:34.240 I don't want to use the word corrupt because we're into a new system.

01:55:37.480 So let's wait till the corruption begins because it will.

01:55:40.840 But he took on some pretty mean people.

01:55:43.160 And he handled it well.

01:55:44.400 I want to also congratulate Mike Johnson for the job that he's doing.

01:55:53.260 Steve, we gave him a majority of almost nothing.

01:55:57.720 And then I said to make it tougher on him, let me take two or three of the people, right?

01:56:02.260 I said, he'll only have to suffer with that for about three months.

01:56:05.220 How are they doing, by the way?

01:56:06.380 Are they...

01:56:06.820 Is that moving along?

01:56:07.780 Totally unified.

01:56:08.340 I said, do you mind if I take this one, that one, and a couple of others?

01:56:13.720 He didn't mind.

01:56:14.760 He can handle it.

01:56:15.820 No, he's a man that's liked by everybody.

01:56:17.620 I've never met a man like this.

01:56:18.960 You've got two...

01:56:19.540 How many is it?

01:56:20.080 219 or 220 or something?

01:56:22.380 220.

01:56:23.140 And of the 220, 219 really like him.

01:56:25.780 I noticed he got one negative vote once about two weeks ago.

01:56:29.100 But I think even 220 like him, if you want to know the truth.

01:56:32.020 And that's very unusual.

01:56:33.600 I know a lot of nice guys in Congress, and they have 35 people that hate him.

01:56:37.180 And so if you have 35 people that hate you, and you only have one or two or three votes,

01:56:41.520 you'll have five, I think.

01:56:43.120 But that's going to be like...

01:56:44.460 You know, the good news is, when we get to that five number, it's going to feel like

01:56:48.240 a massive majority.

01:56:50.880 You could be really nasty to a couple of them, at least.

01:56:54.880 So it's going to feel like kidding your head on the wall and stopping.

01:56:58.740 It feels so good to stop.

01:56:59.940 But he's done a fantastic job.

01:57:02.060 And Steve Scalise, he's our hero, because, you know, I was with him.

01:57:07.180 You talk about being shot.

01:57:13.240 I was with him.

01:57:14.280 He got some bad ones.

01:57:15.900 And his incredible wife.

01:57:17.720 And she really loves him.

01:57:20.540 You know, you never know about that.

01:57:22.060 I've been with other people.

01:57:23.480 They were doing poorly.

01:57:24.600 And the wife is like looking at a watch.

01:57:26.520 She can't get out of the hospital fast enough.

01:57:29.520 How's he doing?

01:57:30.420 I don't know.

01:57:31.240 He's all right.

01:57:32.700 That woman was a mess.

01:57:35.080 She was crying and crying.

01:57:37.260 No, they're going to take him.

01:57:38.720 They're going to take him.

01:57:39.940 I told Steve when he finally woke up.

01:57:41.720 It was a while, too.

01:57:42.940 The doctor told me it was the most blood they've ever transfused in any patient.

01:57:48.380 They've never done anything like it.

01:57:49.600 And here he is, the picture of strength, right?

01:57:52.420 And he's been a great friend of mine.

01:57:55.480 Right?

01:57:56.120 With a family.

01:57:57.020 Because of a family.

01:57:59.100 And what a job you did.

01:58:00.720 It worked out pretty much better than we even thought, right?

01:58:05.860 And I did have a couple of things, you know, to say that were extremely controversial.

01:58:09.520 And between J.D. and Melania and anybody else that heard, please, sir, it's such a beautiful,

01:58:18.100 unifying speech.

01:58:19.220 Please, sir, don't say these things.

01:58:22.500 I said, I'm telling you, it's going to play great.

01:58:27.200 They say, you're right.

01:58:28.340 For this group of people, it's going to play great.

01:58:30.760 You're the only ones I heard by that.

01:58:32.720 Oh, but we had some beauties, didn't we, Melania?

01:58:34.840 She said, sir.

01:58:36.620 Calls me sir when she's angry.

01:58:40.340 No, I'm only kidding.

01:58:42.580 I better say I'm only kidding or the press is going to pick that one up loud.

01:58:47.560 No, but she said, no, I think it would be terrible.

01:58:52.060 It's such a nice speech.

01:58:53.240 I think it's, you know, it all depends on your delivery.

01:58:55.960 How was the delivery?

01:58:56.900 Was it good?

01:59:01.540 But she said, it's such a beautiful, such a beautiful speech.

01:59:04.960 You can't put things in there that you were going to put in.

01:59:08.240 And I was going to talk about the J6 hostages.

01:59:13.720 But you'll be happy because, you know, it's action, not words that count.

01:59:19.720 And you're going to see a lot of action on the J6 hostages.

01:59:23.880 See a lot of action.

01:59:25.120 And I was going to talk about the things that Joe did today with the pardons of people that

01:59:32.580 were very, very guilty of very bad crimes.

01:59:36.780 It's like the unselect committee of political thugs, where they literally, I mean, what they

01:59:45.460 did is they destroyed and deleted all of the information, all of the hearings, practically

01:59:52.680 not a thing left.

01:59:53.800 They deleted all the information on Nancy Pelosi, having turned down the offer of 10,000 soldiers.

02:00:00.460 You wouldn't have needed 10,000.

02:00:01.820 You could have had 500.

02:00:03.540 And it would have stopped.

02:00:05.480 Because we may have had a million people that day, the people that were there.

02:00:09.540 You don't see any photographs.

02:00:10.880 But we have a lot of great photos.

02:00:12.980 But you don't see those photographs.

02:00:14.380 They don't put them in.

02:00:15.120 They show the people at the Capitol.

02:00:16.420 But I was talking about that.

02:00:20.620 I was going to talk about that.

02:00:22.760 They said, please don't bring that up right now.

02:00:25.200 You can bring it up tomorrow.

02:00:26.660 I said, how about now in front of the very...

02:00:29.440 I'll bring it up right now.

02:00:32.560 You know, this little time delay is good because we're getting great reviews on the speech.

02:00:36.760 Now watch.

02:00:37.620 They'll take the speech and say, I didn't like it because he left there and he's talked

02:00:41.220 to people.

02:00:42.300 But we're giving you a little more information than we gave up since.

02:00:45.000 But, you know, they pardoned a lot of people.

02:00:47.940 They pardoned, before we even get to today, they pardoned, what is it, 33 murderers?

02:00:54.420 Absolute murderers.

02:00:55.280 The worst murderers.

02:00:56.980 You know, when you get the death sentence in the United States, you have to be bad.

02:01:01.540 Because they don't give it much.

02:01:03.780 And he pardoned almost everybody having a death sentence.

02:01:07.440 And if you went through the crimes that were committed, you wouldn't even believe them.

02:01:11.860 The level of violence, the people that were killed, the innocence of people that were killed

02:01:18.360 and children killed by these people.

02:01:19.960 And he pardoned them for whatever reason.

02:01:22.100 He spared them.

02:01:23.040 And, but they didn't spare the people that they killed.

02:01:26.260 And, you know, who knows what happens in the future.

02:01:29.040 It's one of the worst because a lot of times they let them out early after that.

02:01:32.120 You know, they say you're going to be in for life, but then all of a sudden they get let

02:01:35.660 out for good behavior.

02:01:37.660 And then they go on a rampage.

02:01:39.180 You know, it's one of those little things, right?

02:01:41.960 But I was going to talk about that.

02:01:44.240 But I was really going to talk about the level of, you know, what's going on.

02:01:49.520 Why are we doing this?

02:01:50.500 Why are we trying to help a guy like Millie?

02:01:55.020 Why are we doing Millie?

02:01:56.220 He was pardoned.

02:01:57.240 What he said.

02:01:58.540 Terrible what he said.

02:02:00.300 Why are we helping some of the people?

02:02:02.700 Why are we helping Liz Cheney?

02:02:04.460 I mean, Liz Cheney is a disaster.

02:02:06.100 She's a crying lunatic and crying, crying Adam Kinzinger.

02:02:10.820 He's a super crying.

02:02:11.960 I never saw the guy not crying.

02:02:13.300 He's always crying.

02:02:14.860 I look at him.

02:02:15.720 I remember years ago he was actually on my side.

02:02:19.160 And then one day, you know, when you don't want to kill people in wars, they turn against

02:02:22.760 you.

02:02:22.980 Liz Cheney hated the concept of not going to war with everybody.

02:02:28.040 Let's kill everybody.

02:02:29.220 Let's spend a lot of money on military equipment.

02:02:31.680 You know where her father works, right?

02:02:33.440 And but what she did was incredible.

02:02:37.600 Think of it.

02:02:38.380 They destroyed and deleted all of that information that went on for almost two years against Trump.

02:02:43.800 And the reason they did, because it was all false, like the person that said, I tried

02:02:48.700 to strangle a Secret Service agent.

02:02:52.360 That's one of the toughest human beings I think I've ever seen.

02:02:55.040 I actually had a friend say, please don't change that, sir.

02:02:59.820 You are the coolest sucker in history.

02:03:03.560 Remember, she said I put my hands around his neck because he wouldn't go to the Capitol.

02:03:08.840 Made up fiction.

02:03:11.020 And I was rebuffed.

02:03:12.780 And the guy on the right is a massive weightlifter, probably stronger than me.

02:03:17.200 Do you think he's stronger than me, honey?

02:03:18.620 You know who I'm talking.

02:03:19.500 And possibly stronger than me, slightly younger than me, like I won't say how many years because

02:03:27.040 I don't want to talk about that, but a lot of years.

02:03:30.540 But I had a friend that said, why are you disputing that story?

02:03:34.120 That's the coolest story I've ever heard, that I would attack a karate champion, get slightly

02:03:40.360 rebuffed and then throw my arms around a guy with a neck about this big.

02:03:44.340 Even though there are bars, you know, there are bars that you can't really do that anyway.

02:03:50.320 So I wanted to talk about that.

02:03:53.960 But all of that stuff got deleted.

02:03:56.160 And the reason it got deleted is they were all caught in lies.

02:03:59.000 You know, Secret Service testified and they said it didn't happen.

02:04:03.240 Actually, the two guys were very embarrassed.

02:04:05.300 They're suffering because their friends are saying, did Trump really do that to you?

02:04:10.720 But they gained a whole new respect for me.

02:04:14.860 But it was just make-believe stuff.

02:04:16.780 And there were a lot of make-believe stories made up.

02:04:19.720 So rather than suffer the wrath, like the story with Nancy Pelosi, I offered to 10,000 soldiers.

02:04:25.940 She knows it.

02:04:26.640 She admitted it on tape that her daughter made.

02:04:29.340 She's a videographer or whatever you call her, which I'm glad she is.

02:04:34.580 Oh, she can't be in good stead with Nancy.

02:04:36.820 But Nancy said it was my responsibility as she's leaving the Capitol.

02:04:41.780 She said it was, and it was.

02:04:43.060 She's in charge of security at the Capitol.

02:04:45.460 But I offered them up to 10,000 soldiers, even more.

02:04:49.600 One time I said more, as many as you need.

02:04:51.520 But you needed four or five hundred.

02:04:53.720 If four or five, you had 10,000.

02:04:55.120 That would be more than the number of people there by lot.

02:04:59.080 But we offered her 10,000.

02:05:01.220 Think of it, 10,000 soldiers.

02:05:02.960 In other words, J6 wouldn't be J6.

02:05:05.960 There would have been no J6.

02:05:07.700 But she rebuffed them.

02:05:08.880 She didn't like it.

02:05:09.780 No, she didn't like it.

02:05:11.280 Maybe she wanted that to happen.

02:05:13.440 But she's guilty as hell.

02:05:15.640 And now we would have to go through the process because they destroyed all evidence.

02:05:20.620 They deleted everything.

02:05:22.260 There's virtually nothing left.

02:05:24.420 The other fake story and so many other fake stories.

02:05:26.860 And many people came out on our side.

02:05:30.640 And those people now would get to find them.

02:05:33.080 There's nothing left.

02:05:34.500 So that's a criminal offense.

02:05:36.240 If that were a civil case, it would be a criminal offense.

02:05:39.540 If that happened civilly where you did that, it would be a criminal offense.

02:05:43.940 So I decided I'm not going to make this speech complicated.

02:05:47.840 I'm going to make it beautiful.

02:05:49.140 I'm going to make it a unifying speech.

02:05:51.900 And then when they said, we have a group of people that are serious Trump fans, I said,

02:05:58.640 this is the time to tell those stories.

02:06:07.260 You know.

02:06:10.060 But seriously, I'd like to, I think it was a tremendous success.

02:06:15.160 I think we're very lucky we put it inside because it is really cold.

02:06:19.100 We just went to the helicopter out of respect for something that's taken place for a long time.

02:06:26.740 I guess it's as old as helicopters.

02:06:29.780 You used to get into a stagecoach.

02:06:31.380 Now you get into a helicopter.

02:06:32.780 Times change.

02:06:34.180 But it's pretty old custom.

02:06:37.940 And it's a beautiful custom, actually.

02:06:39.720 It's a beautiful custom.

02:06:40.680 I wish we could have had a better relationship.

02:06:43.300 I wish we could have had a better relationship between Republicans and Democrats.

02:06:47.260 I was with Senator Schumer.

02:06:49.480 I said, Chuck, I think it's time we all start getting along a little bit because it doesn't make sense.

02:06:54.720 I mean, we literally never get a Democrat vote.

02:06:56.900 They never get a Republican vote, almost.

02:07:00.220 And although there is a bill coming up very shortly that we have a lot of Democrat votes, right?

02:07:05.520 It's going to be a very beautiful bill.

02:07:09.360 We're going to have a deciding, I would say, within a week or so, I think.

02:07:12.740 And it's going to be a very good bill.

02:07:15.040 You all know what I'm talking about.

02:07:16.520 So I just want to thank you all for being here.

02:07:19.260 You have been our fans from day one.

02:07:21.120 All these people all over.

02:07:23.220 You've been our fans.

02:07:24.220 You've been our fans.

02:07:24.340 This has been a movement like no movement ever in history for probably any country, let alone this country.

02:07:43.140 You know, if somebody is running for president, and if they go out and they announce they're going to Arizona, they're going to Nevada, they're going to someplace, if you have 200 or 300 people, that would be standard.

02:07:57.200 Ronald Reagan would go out.

02:07:58.480 But, I mean, outside of the last couple of days where people get a little excited, but even then you have a couple of thousand people.

02:08:04.740 But if you're going to go someplace, any place, any one of the swing states, any one of the other states, I mean, how about the non-swing states?

02:08:13.880 We won Alabama by 48 points.

02:08:16.320 We won Tennessee by massive numbers.

02:08:18.760 Wyoming, we won by numbers that are – nobody's ever seen numbers.

02:08:23.060 And, you know, places like California, we did great, but when they send out like 38 million ballots, nobody knows where the hell they're sending them, and then they come pouring back the whole thing.

02:08:35.780 You know, they passed a law in California that if you work in an election bureau, and if you so much as ask for a voter ID, if you say, sir, ma'am, could I please look at your voter ID?

02:08:48.280 They have the right to put you in jail.

02:08:49.700 You're a criminal.

02:08:50.440 Can you believe that?

02:08:51.220 There's only one reason that happens.

02:08:53.880 They want to cheat.

02:08:55.260 So they had it where voter ID wasn't accepted.

02:08:59.300 But now if you even ask for – this is seriously a bill that was just signed.

02:09:03.360 It passed in their legislature, and it was signed.

02:09:08.760 And I think when we get things cleaned up and we get back to a little bit of normalcy, I'm going to ask the speaker to really get involved because I think we would have won the state of California.

02:09:18.840 Because, you know, if you look at my numbers with Hispanic, we're at 56 percent, and we were winning – we won the Texas border that had never been won – as the governor said, he's doing a good job, the governor, by the way, of Texas.

02:09:32.040 But as the governor said, it hasn't – oh, did I get lucky?

02:09:37.220 Did I get lucky?

02:09:40.680 Supposing I said, you know, he's not here, but the governor of Texas has done a terrible job.

02:09:47.000 Wow.

02:09:47.740 Look at you.

02:09:49.980 You mean we couldn't get you up in the front row?

02:09:52.640 No, I'll tell you.

02:09:56.360 Supposing I said, J.D., the governor of Texas, he's not doing his job.

02:10:01.980 You heard what I said.

02:10:03.060 See, I didn't know you were there.

02:10:04.560 I said, he's doing – he's doing a great job.

02:10:07.140 He's doing a phenomenal job.

02:10:08.440 But now you're going to have a partner that's going to work with you because you didn't have – not only didn't he have a partner, he had people selling the wall.

02:10:17.660 Right?

02:10:18.100 We have a fence structure that we worked on, the governor worked on with me.

02:10:22.600 And I didn't love it, to be honest with you.

02:10:24.380 I wanted a nice precast concrete, you know, 40, 50 feet high, like a – beautiful.

02:10:30.660 Could have been a T-shaped, Y-shape.

02:10:32.540 I love construction.

02:10:34.560 I wanted that sucker to go up maybe 50, 60 feet.

02:10:37.640 It would have looked beautiful.

02:10:38.620 A nice Y-shape.

02:10:40.860 And they said, the problem is, sir, they climbed that like a rabbit.

02:10:44.560 I said, what do you mean?

02:10:45.660 No way.

02:10:46.120 And they brought some of these guys out.

02:10:47.520 But they climbed it like – and the other thing is, you hit it with acid and the thing will disintegrate.

02:10:53.300 You know, they have things for concrete.

02:10:55.180 So they needed very hardened steel, very special steel.

02:10:58.380 And then they needed 7,000-pound concrete inside that steel, unit inside that steel.

02:11:02.520 And then they have a rebar that's the toughest steel made.

02:11:07.740 Very hard to cut.

02:11:09.600 So this is why very little is cut.

02:11:11.640 I mean, it's right.

02:11:12.300 And then they put an anti-climb panel on top.

02:11:14.500 I hated it.

02:11:15.300 And I said, it's so unattractive.

02:11:18.480 And I said, why would that work?

02:11:20.280 I don't believe it works.

02:11:21.180 And I went to watch the Border Patrol, gave a display.

02:11:24.360 We had actually two sets of climbers.

02:11:27.300 The guys that climb up walls with drugs on their back.

02:11:30.420 I mean, they got like 60, 70 pounds of drug.

02:11:32.420 And they go as fast as you can walk.

02:11:34.080 They go, bop, bop, bop.

02:11:34.800 Or we have Mount Everest-type climbers.

02:11:38.940 And honestly, the drug guys were much better.

02:11:41.180 I couldn't believe it.

02:11:42.300 The drug guys blew them away, right?

02:11:44.900 But it's true.

02:11:45.680 The anti-climb panel, they couldn't get around it.

02:11:48.380 They just couldn't.

02:11:49.140 You didn't have it.

02:11:51.120 So sometimes you sacrifice beauty for efficiency.

02:11:55.460 And we did.

02:11:55.980 And so we built this wall.

02:11:58.560 And we built over 500 miles of wall.

02:12:02.620 That's why we had such good numbers.

02:12:03.960 The famous chart that came down, very thankfully.

02:12:06.820 The chart that came down on my right governor, had I not looked over there.

02:12:10.940 I'm not speaking right now.

02:12:12.200 You might be speaking here.

02:12:13.300 You want to know the truth?

02:12:14.160 But you, JD, have got a lot of great people in this party.

02:12:18.300 But I got very lucky.

02:12:20.060 But we had the best numbers we've ever had.

02:12:22.460 But I bought, you know, what happens is when you fill it up, it's like water.

02:12:25.360 You fill it up.

02:12:26.560 Now we have 571 miles of wall.

02:12:29.780 And they would always say, you know, when we renovated a wall.

02:12:33.400 So there'd be like a piece of plywood sitting there for 60 years.

02:12:38.860 Or a two-by-four sitting for 60 years on the ground and rotting.

02:12:42.820 And they'd say, you didn't build a new wall.

02:12:47.180 Here we're building 50 feet up in the air with 30 feet sections, 50 foot sections, all steel, all concrete, all everything.

02:12:54.400 And oh, by the way, they don't even want me to say this, but what the hell.

02:12:57.660 It doesn't take them a long time.

02:12:59.240 They were all wired for all of the equipment.

02:13:01.120 We put wires in everything so they can easily wire for all the different types of equipment.

02:13:06.260 And if there's a doubt, we have a wire.

02:13:08.900 Whenever we just look, you just find the wires all over the place up top.

02:13:12.660 So we could just hook it up.

02:13:14.300 We don't have to have wires on the outside, which wouldn't do too well, right?

02:13:18.560 So anyway, so we built an extra 200 miles of wall.

02:13:24.340 And the governor wanted to buy it.

02:13:26.100 He tried to buy it.

02:13:27.060 And they wouldn't sell it to him.

02:13:28.220 He wanted to put it up himself.

02:13:29.380 Could have been done in three to four weeks, 200 more miles.

02:13:32.400 Because when you do it now, they just keep going further out, further out, further out, getting around.

02:13:37.520 So we did an extra 200 miles.

02:13:40.940 And it was all bought.

02:13:44.040 And they announced that they're not going to put it up.

02:13:47.700 And that's when I realized they wanted open borders.

02:13:49.920 And that's when I realized that people are going to come pouring through the wall like nobody's ever seen before.

02:13:56.820 But you've seen it.

02:13:57.880 A lot of you are here because of that.

02:13:59.700 I made it my number one issue.

02:14:01.140 They all said inflation was the number one issue.

02:14:03.220 I said I disagree.

02:14:04.280 I think people coming into our country from prisons and from mental institutions is a bigger issue for the people that I know.

02:14:11.440 And I made it my number one.

02:14:12.580 I talked about inflation, too.

02:14:13.920 But, you know, how many times can you say that an apple has doubled in cost?

02:14:18.300 I'd say it.

02:14:19.380 And I'd hit it hard.

02:14:20.520 But then I go back to the fact that we don't want criminals coming into our country.

02:14:25.180 We don't want the jails of every country in the world virtually being deposited into the United States.

02:14:31.520 And that man had to suffer with it.

02:14:33.840 And he did an unbelievable job.

02:14:35.700 I'll tell you, he was a very popular governor.

02:14:37.400 But now he's like an unbeatable governor because of your border policies.

02:14:41.460 He was fantastic.

02:14:43.200 And he really was.

02:14:47.520 Governor Abbott.

02:14:49.260 He's a great man, a great leader.

02:14:52.540 And but it did make him very more.

02:14:55.180 Did you do it?

02:14:55.960 You didn't do that for politics.

02:14:57.300 You did it because you wanted to do the right thing.

02:14:58.840 But I'll tell you, it sure as hell worked for politics, too.

02:15:02.020 It's self-preservation.

02:15:03.720 That's right.

02:15:04.680 But now because the people are demanding it.

02:15:06.620 The people of Texas are demanding it.

02:15:08.280 The people are demanding it all over.

02:15:09.720 So anyway, so we built it and they wouldn't let us use it.

02:15:15.240 They wouldn't let the governor use it and other governors.

02:15:17.840 They wouldn't let him use it.

02:15:19.240 But he was the leader of the pack and did a great job.

02:15:22.340 And then we heard about a month ago that not only wouldn't they let it use it, they were

02:15:28.100 selling it.

02:15:28.700 They were going to sell it for five cents on the dollar.

02:15:30.860 Now, five cents on the dollar then.

02:15:33.520 But today it would cost more than twice as much to bill because we bought it like six

02:15:37.840 years ago.

02:15:38.400 And it was just sitting on the ground.

02:15:40.780 And that does not do well for the whole thing.

02:15:43.420 But it was just sitting on the ground.

02:15:45.260 And I heard about it.

02:15:47.220 And I called the governor and I called a lot of people, your attorney general.

02:15:51.740 And here's the story.

02:15:54.080 They were going to buy it.

02:15:55.060 And these are great business people.

02:15:57.000 They were going to buy it for five cents on the dollar or less.

02:16:00.700 And they were calling us up, we'll sell it to you for 200 cents on the dollar.

02:16:07.360 In other words, it will cost you twice as much.

02:16:10.540 So it's 200 cents on the dollar.

02:16:13.080 I said, can somebody explain that to a judge?

02:16:16.460 I mean, how corrupt is that?

02:16:18.520 You'd think they'd say maybe we'll sell it to you for 20 cents, 30 cents, but not 200 cents.

02:16:26.540 So they were going to buy something for five cents and they were going to sell it to us

02:16:31.900 for a fortune.

02:16:32.560 They were going to make it would be, they'd have it down in Fortune magazine.

02:16:36.500 They'd put it of the deal of the year.

02:16:38.380 Okay.

02:16:39.400 You buy something like that.

02:16:40.620 But it was so corrupt and so horrible.

02:16:43.280 And when we told that to the administration, they didn't care.

02:16:46.520 They just kept going forward.

02:16:47.680 They couldn't care less.

02:16:49.480 And they kept going forward.

02:16:50.900 They knew that they were trying to sell it back to us.

02:16:53.080 They would have sold it back to us.

02:16:54.260 You would have ended up buying it.

02:16:55.380 And you would have paid probably 50, 60 cents.

02:16:57.920 Who knows?

02:16:58.960 But they were going to use it for scrap metal.

02:17:00.860 But then they made a much better deal.

02:17:02.280 They could just buy it and sell it to us for 15, 20 times what they paid.

02:17:06.400 20 times.

02:17:07.480 Think of it.

02:17:08.080 Like 20 times what they paid.

02:17:10.600 And we wouldn't let it happen.

02:17:12.960 And the governor with his attorney general, Ken Paxson, they made a fantastic, good lawyer.

02:17:21.440 He's pushing around pretty good by people, right?

02:17:23.900 He said, you got a great attorney general.

02:17:26.880 They should leave him alone.

02:17:28.180 He was with me.

02:17:30.000 But Ken and the governor went to court.

02:17:32.280 And a judge actually became incensed and actually called for an investigation.

02:17:36.840 How could a thing like this happen?

02:17:38.780 So he stopped it.

02:17:40.200 So we're waiting to put that wall up.

02:17:41.720 And now that you have a new president, that wall will go up so fast.

02:17:46.400 The governor will complain, sir.

02:17:50.680 This is Greg Abbott, sir.

02:17:52.640 Please.

02:17:53.340 The wall is going up too fast.

02:17:55.100 Please don't do that.

02:17:56.660 You know the story about winning.

02:17:58.020 No, no.

02:17:58.840 We're going to win too much.

02:17:59.940 We're winning too much.

02:18:00.920 Please.

02:18:01.500 People always love that one.

02:18:02.820 We'll do this with the wall.

02:18:04.440 Governor Abbott calls, sir.

02:18:05.980 The wall is going up too fast.

02:18:07.620 We can't take it.

02:18:08.480 We just can't take it.

02:18:09.520 No.

02:18:10.120 I think you'll be very happy if the wall goes up too fast, right?

02:18:13.640 But we'll get that dude and we'll work with you on that.

02:18:15.740 But it was a great decision by a great Texas judge, right?

02:18:19.560 And it was beautiful.

02:18:21.040 Beautiful to watch.

02:18:21.860 We see he stopped them right in their track.

02:18:23.920 I mean, they were literally loading the stuff under trucks.

02:18:26.440 It was terrible.

02:18:27.420 Honestly, it was terrible.

02:18:29.260 And he wouldn't take it.

02:18:30.220 So I'm so glad I mentioned that they have a really good governor in Texas.

02:18:34.120 And I swear, I didn't know he was here.

02:18:36.600 I swear to you.

02:18:37.460 You know, it sounds like a setup.

02:18:39.120 I didn't know you would end.

02:18:40.640 Did I get lucky?

02:18:41.980 I said the right thing.

02:18:43.560 Because there have been moments when I wasn't so happy with him, you know?

02:18:47.300 But not too many, I can tell you that.

02:18:49.340 So anyway, it's good to see you too, Governor.

02:18:51.140 Great.

02:18:52.140 But I just want to thank everybody.

02:18:53.680 You've been incredible.

02:18:55.460 I recognize so many of you.

02:18:56.660 It's so crazy.

02:18:57.880 But this has been a long journey.

02:18:59.900 This was a journey that started in 2015, probably started 20 years before that.

02:19:05.560 People used to say, you're going to run for president?

02:19:07.700 You're going to run, run, run?

02:19:09.440 And I always said, no, no, no.

02:19:11.800 I don't want it.

02:19:12.360 And then one day I said, let's give it a shot.

02:19:15.360 And what I talked about then was the border, too.

02:19:18.840 I think it probably was the number one issue for me.

02:19:21.940 Back in 2015, 2016, I talked about the border.

02:19:25.860 And now I talked about the border, but this border is much worse.

02:19:28.520 We fixed the border.

02:19:29.280 It was totally fixed.

02:19:30.160 There was nothing to talk about.

02:19:31.220 2020, by the way, that election was totally rigged, but that's okay?

02:19:36.360 It was a rigged election.

02:19:39.500 You know the only thing good about it?

02:19:41.260 It showed how bad they are, showed how incompetent.

02:19:44.040 And frankly, historically, this is a much bigger event.

02:19:47.920 If that would have gone like it should have.

02:19:50.200 The bad thing about it is some bad things happen, like a lot of people in our country

02:19:54.320 that wouldn't be in our country right now.

02:19:56.020 So, you know, that's the bad part.

02:19:58.740 But I will say that it started in 2015, and right from the beginning,

02:20:03.640 we went to the top that day one.

02:20:06.840 They announced Trump, and Trump went to number one

02:20:09.080 and stayed there for the whole primary.

02:20:11.460 And then we took on Hillary.

02:20:14.880 She didn't look too happy today.

02:20:17.220 We took on Hillary.

02:20:19.140 A very nice person.

02:20:21.120 But we took on Hillary, and we defeated Hillary.

02:20:23.500 And then we did much better the second time in 2020.

02:20:27.840 You know, we got millions more votes.

02:20:29.400 We got millions, like 10, 12 million more votes

02:20:32.600 than we did the first time.

02:20:34.720 No president has ever gotten that many more votes.

02:20:37.460 I got like 9 million more than anybody else had ever gotten.

02:20:41.280 And they said, we lost.

02:20:43.400 And because of that, I said to Melania, what do you think?

02:20:47.880 And she said, you want to do this again?

02:20:50.920 And had we lost, and had I thought we lost, I wouldn't do it again,

02:20:54.500 because that's like the ultimate poll, right?

02:20:56.180 But I knew how well we did.

02:20:58.440 And this time, we made it too big to a rig.

02:21:00.480 It was so big.

02:21:01.380 They tried.

02:21:02.100 They tried.

02:21:03.520 They tried like that.

02:21:05.540 In the butt.

02:21:07.980 They tried.

02:21:08.980 They tried to do it.

02:21:10.880 And around 9.02, they gave up.

02:21:12.980 Last time, they did bad things.

02:21:15.080 At this time, they just said, yes.

02:21:16.780 You know, I don't know if you saw, Mr. Speaker, in Washington,

02:21:20.860 they had placards.

02:21:21.660 They were all set to march.

02:21:22.840 They thought it would be closer.

02:21:25.700 A gentleman asked me, a very respected gentleman asked me yesterday,

02:21:29.140 how come the polls were so wrong?

02:21:31.700 They showed you winning, but not in a landslide.

02:21:34.540 I said, because people that are true Trumpers

02:21:36.960 are so angry at the whole polling system

02:21:41.060 and at the writers, the fake news,

02:21:43.760 that they don't want to talk to anybody.

02:21:45.580 So when you call somebody from Trump,

02:21:48.600 who are you voting for?

02:21:50.460 They say, it's none of your business.

02:21:53.040 I'm not telling you.

02:21:54.900 And that was probably 40% of the people they called.

02:21:58.120 So they would discard that one.

02:22:00.640 And they didn't show that.

02:22:02.800 And then when the election happened, you know, the vote came

02:22:05.640 and it was much different, much higher than we're going to win.

02:22:08.400 But they thought, they really thought,

02:22:10.480 they couldn't believe the one man said,

02:22:11.940 I mean, it was so much higher.

02:22:13.080 We won all seven swing states.

02:22:14.680 We won the popular vote by millions of votes,

02:22:17.860 which is hard for a Republican.

02:22:19.840 I'll tell you who came through.

02:22:20.800 The unions came through.

02:22:21.980 The auto workers were great.

02:22:23.140 The Teamsters were great.

02:22:24.220 The firemen were great.

02:22:26.260 I think almost every union was great.

02:22:28.780 The only one that weren't great.

02:22:30.160 The only one that weren't great, although Sean was great and the Teamsters,

02:22:34.520 the head of the, Sean O'Brien, the head of the Teamsters was fantastic.

02:22:38.840 But generally speaking, the head of the union was against Trump,

02:22:43.080 but the union would be with us for like 80, 85%.

02:22:47.380 Look what we did with the auto workers in Michigan.

02:22:49.680 Look what we did with the Teamsters.

02:22:51.580 The Teamsters were unbelievable.

02:22:53.120 They were a solid Democrat vote and they voted for Trump.

02:22:57.400 So we had a great experience.

02:22:58.980 This has been, now we have to go to work and get it done

02:23:01.280 because we have to do something that's going to be great.

02:23:03.800 We're going to turn our country around.

02:23:05.260 And we're going to turn it around fast.

02:23:09.200 And I think this was a better speech than the one I made upstairs, okay?

02:23:14.020 I think this was better, J.D.

02:23:17.440 I think this was much better.

02:23:19.680 And I got to see my friend.

02:23:22.020 So, Governor, take care of yourself.

02:23:24.000 You call me, we'll start working.

02:23:26.400 You know what that means with him.

02:23:27.740 He's going to be calling me tomorrow morning at about 6.

02:23:30.320 And I said, how about next week?

02:23:32.680 You call me and we're going to get it started real fast.

02:23:35.040 We'll really help you a lot.

02:23:36.480 You've done a fantastic job protecting something.

02:23:38.880 It's not supposed to be for the states.

02:23:41.600 And amazing job you've done.

02:23:43.960 Thank you very much.

02:23:44.680 And I want to thank everybody.

02:23:47.080 And I have a First Lady who's been incredible.

02:23:50.320 I was just too grateful.

02:23:56.460 I shouldn't say this.

02:23:58.360 I'm going to get hell when I say this.

02:24:00.340 But her feet are absolutely aching.

02:24:03.760 You know those heels.

02:24:05.040 And we thought we were leaving.

02:24:08.920 We were going home.

02:24:09.820 Sir, would you be able to go down and say hello to some of your other fans that are here?

02:24:15.740 I said, oh, I didn't know that.

02:24:17.140 Well, did you get to see pretty clearly the picture, I hope?

02:24:20.380 Good.

02:24:21.260 That's good.

02:24:22.220 Because you wouldn't want to make the same speech again, right?

02:24:25.080 But she said, darling, I love you so much, but my feet are killing me.

02:24:30.680 I said, honey, let me just see how far it is.

02:24:33.680 I asked the person, oh, not that long, maybe four or five hundred yards.

02:24:37.340 That's five football fields.

02:24:38.620 And he said, can you make it?

02:24:41.060 She said, we're going to make it no matter what.

02:24:43.500 We're going to make it because we have the time.

02:24:45.180 Right?

02:24:47.460 Right?

02:24:47.860 And then we went out to the helicopter, though, just prior to this, and said goodbye.

02:24:56.280 And it's a custom.

02:24:58.000 And the wind is blowing like crazy.

02:24:59.540 And with the hat that she's wearing, she almost blew away.

02:25:03.100 We almost lost off.

02:25:04.120 She was being elevated off the ground.

02:25:09.260 She almost blew away.

02:25:10.700 No.

02:25:11.280 So we all appreciate it because you've been a great First Lady.

02:25:15.860 A beautiful and a great First Lady.

02:25:18.060 And they love our First Lady.

02:25:20.900 You know, J.D., whenever I make a speech, I see hundreds of times, we love our First Lady.

02:25:27.100 And they do.

02:25:28.100 And they should.

02:25:28.720 She's great.

02:25:29.540 So I just want to thank you.

02:25:30.920 Thank you very much.

02:25:31.920 I just want to thank everybody.

02:25:34.840 And I felt that I said to J.D., should we give him the A treatment, the B treatment, the C, the D, or the F?

02:25:43.100 You know what the F is?

02:25:44.600 Hello, everybody.

02:25:45.380 Thank you for being here.

02:25:46.360 Bye-bye.

02:25:47.800 I gave you the A-plus treatment.

02:25:50.260 Thank you.

02:25:51.140 Thank you all.

02:25:52.220 Thank you, Governor.

02:25:53.500 Thank you all very much.

02:25:55.060 Appreciate it.

02:25:55.760 Thank you.

02:26:04.120 There's just never been anybody like this guy.

02:26:07.460 No, maybe.

02:26:08.200 The President of the United States giving a second inaugural address off the cuff in the overflow room for people who didn't make it into the inaugural, into the Capitol Rotunda for the inauguration, which included governors and, I don't know about legislators, but many other dignitaries.

02:26:25.220 The speech started sort of like the interview with the quarterback after the game.

02:26:30.020 Yes, it was a post-game interview.

02:26:31.820 It was a post-game interview.

02:26:33.600 And then turned into praise for—

02:26:37.200 It's a capitulation of, I think, all of human history.

02:26:39.060 Yes, but a very, very personally aimed at Governor Abbott of Texas.

02:26:43.960 Yeah.

02:26:44.240 And then very funny remarks about First Lady Melania Trump.

02:26:47.760 My favorite part was him making fun of his wife's hat.

02:26:50.200 Yeah.

02:26:51.100 That's bold.

02:26:52.560 That's one of your wife's apparel in a speech.

02:26:54.420 That is dangerous.

02:26:55.460 And then he finishes up.

02:26:56.200 Ba-ba-da!

02:26:56.940 Ba-da!

02:26:57.960 That is what people love, though.

02:26:59.480 The fact that not only was it inside baseball on the post-game interview, what did you guys think about this at the thing upstairs?

02:27:05.500 But then even he did a post-that-speech speech.

02:27:10.300 And this speech, I didn't know what I was going to give you, okay?

02:27:13.280 A, B, C, D, F.

02:27:14.620 You know what?

02:27:15.160 I gave you all the A-plus treatment.

02:27:17.100 Bye.

02:27:18.140 So we're going to talk about the media's reaction to the president's first speech, which is already starting to happen.

02:27:23.220 And you will not be surprised to hear that they aren't very happy.

02:27:28.060 Truly a unique inauguration.

02:27:31.080 Yep.

02:27:31.180 And it was, in a way, I mean, as the media is saying, it was a divisive speech.

02:27:34.960 And it was somewhat divisive for an inaugural address.

02:27:37.800 I mean, one interesting thing about having a non-consecutive second term is that you have a president who does have a grievance.

02:27:46.260 He's coming into his second term not fresh off of his first, but having been, he believes, unjustly defeated in the election.

02:27:54.160 I think we all agree unjustly persecuted and even prosecuted by the government since the time of his presidency.

02:28:02.240 And so he threw some jabs.

02:28:04.140 Yeah, I think that, you know, not to steal Michael's shtick of citing annoying philosophers, but, you know, the Hegelian synthesis never takes place here, right?

02:28:14.460 So normally you say there's thesis, antithesis, synthesis, right?

02:28:16.920 You have, like, one thing and then it's opposite and then they come together in the third thing.

02:28:20.220 Well, what if it just went thesis, antithesis, thesis, right?

02:28:24.120 Because that's what we just did with the presidency.

02:28:26.100 And I think that's the thing that President Trump is saying.

02:28:28.120 I think what he's saying is, listen, you know, my ideas won.

02:28:31.800 My ideas won, right?

02:28:32.700 You tried my ideas and then you tried the opposite ideas and then my ideas won.

02:28:36.200 And so why would I stand up here and pretend that there's some sort of coming together around the ideas that lost to me?

02:28:41.960 You tried it.

02:28:42.620 You tried it.

02:28:43.140 You got to see both sides.

02:28:44.080 And then you guys decided with all the bad things on the table, it wasn't as though anything was hidden in this election cycle.

02:28:48.480 We had everything, right?

02:28:49.640 We had a full laundering.

02:28:50.500 We had a full airing of grievances about January 6th.

02:28:53.440 Then we had a full airing of grievances about COVID and now about BLM and about trans and all that stuff.

02:28:57.600 And you chose me.

02:28:58.660 And because you chose me, now I get to say the thing, which is I won.

02:29:01.920 This is not an experiment.

02:29:02.760 That's right.

02:29:03.000 I won.

02:29:03.740 So here's what I'm going to do now that I won.

02:29:05.880 And all the things that were bad that you hated.

02:29:07.980 And I think that there was a tacit acknowledgement by President Trump that one of the reasons he's back is because Joe Biden.

02:29:14.040 It is because Joe Biden.

02:29:15.100 I mean, my heart soared a couple of times today.

02:29:17.860 One was when President Trump actually took the oath of office and Joe Biden was no longer president.

02:29:21.400 And the other was when we all personally saw the helicopter take off.

02:29:25.120 When the helicopter took off, a load was lightened from my heart.

02:29:29.120 And suddenly, like, really, because every day you woke up in Joe Biden's America and it was like, what bad thing is this terrible person going to do to the country today?

02:29:37.540 Literally 15 minutes before he ceased to be the president, he pardoned his entire immediate family,

02:29:43.500 which is one of the most corrupt and now precedent-setting events that we've witnessed in our lifetimes.

02:29:49.340 In 2020, he literally said, you should not do this.

02:29:51.960 He said because there was talk that Trump was going to do this on his way out of office.

02:29:55.000 And Biden was like, you can't do that.

02:29:56.400 That's terrible.

02:29:57.060 And norm's defying.

02:29:58.180 And now he uses Trump as an excuse to pardon his entire family.

02:30:01.040 Well, I mean, here's the thing.

02:30:02.260 Once you do that, then you have now, you've basically excused all criminality by all first families for the rest of time.

02:30:09.420 This will now be de rigueur.

02:30:10.880 This goes back to the divisiveness of the speech.

02:30:13.360 You know, Barack Obama, the great deceiver, who has deceived Americans by saying, mostly we fight over the 50-yard line.

02:30:19.660 That was true until Barack Obama.

02:30:21.140 And the thing is, it's not like he's taking over from somebody who increased the welfare state a little bit or, you know, had some programs that we didn't like or something like that.

02:30:29.960 He's talking about people who are actually not just corrupt but oppressive, anti-American, were teaching our children anti-Americanism.

02:30:39.340 There's no reason to include them.

02:30:41.040 And the fact, you know, we were sitting around thinking, saying, oh, the New York Times just said, what a dark picture he painted of America.

02:30:46.240 And I'm thinking, nobody cares what you say.

02:30:47.940 Nobody cares what you say.

02:30:49.020 Dark for you, I guess.

02:30:50.100 Do not represent the people.

02:30:51.260 And the thing about the pardons, too, is that the precedent that it sets for such a frivolous reason, because it's not even as though, and we all know this, and Biden knows this,

02:31:00.920 Trump was not going to go after any of these people.

02:31:03.180 He wasn't going to go after the Biden family.

02:31:04.640 It was not going to happen in a million years.

02:31:05.980 The only reason Biden's doing it is just as a last little political stunt to try to make it seem as though Trump is this vengeful dictator who is going to try to put his whole family in prison.

02:31:15.920 I'm not sure about that.

02:31:17.160 I think he did it because he had to do it because he had pardoned Hunter.

02:31:21.920 I think he pardoned Hunter, and then all of his other kids were like, well, now they're going to come after me.

02:31:27.600 There is this weakness that—

02:31:29.360 But Liz Cheney, Fauci, I mean—

02:31:31.320 Mark Milley?

02:31:31.980 Well, yeah.

02:31:32.440 He's the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

02:31:33.660 No, that's a valid—

02:31:35.240 I do think that he has built up.

02:31:37.320 Biden's—he had to have some sort of world-shaking excuse for why he wanted to run again, because the tacit bargain of his election in 2020 was that he was only going to serve one term.

02:31:46.440 Yes.

02:31:46.700 And he could—I mean, he almost said it clearly during the campaign.

02:31:49.600 And then he basically changed his mind in 2022.

02:31:51.900 He said, I'm a transitional president.

02:31:52.900 Correct.

02:31:53.260 And then in 2022, he changed his mind, and he decided he was going to run again.

02:31:56.660 So the question became, what is the thing that is motivating you to run again?

02:32:00.480 And he basically said, it's that the tyranny that Donald Trump is going to bring upon the world is the reason I must run again.

02:32:06.340 And so he can't let go of that idea.

02:32:08.340 Yeah.

02:32:08.520 He can't let go of it, because the minute he lets go of it, then it really defies why he supposedly ran in the second place, right?

02:32:14.880 And so he has to keep maintaining that myth.

02:32:16.740 I think people can't handle cognitive dissonance, and Biden is no exception to this.

02:32:20.040 And so he had to just keep maintaining the facade that if he had not pardoned everyone in a 300-mile radius, then Donald Trump was going to go after everyone.

02:32:27.860 By the way, Anthony Fauci actively suppressed—actively used the power of government to suppress actually good information being put out by the very guy who's going to end up leading the NIH, Jay Bhattacharya.

02:32:38.200 And the people he's pardoning did terrible, terrible things.

02:32:41.000 They really did.

02:32:41.700 And if he says that he trusts the legal system, which he clearly does not, then he wouldn't have done this.

02:32:48.240 Yeah, that's right.

02:32:48.740 It exposes the whole fraud of what he was and what the system is.

02:32:51.420 It also, by these blanket pardons for crimes, no one's even been accused of a crime.

02:32:56.480 I mean, there's no investigation into Fauci.

02:32:58.800 No charges have been brought against Fauci.

02:33:00.580 When you pardon someone for a hypothetical crime, you are removing the power of the people to have any transparency into their government, to have any justice within their government.

02:33:11.440 The prosecution says he can pardon people who have committed offenses against the federal government.

02:33:16.940 And the archivist says that that means you have to have committed a crime to get a pardon.

02:33:21.100 Does the Nixon precedent, though, ameliorate that somewhat?

02:33:24.260 Nixon hadn't been charged with a crime.

02:33:26.340 That is the one exception, I think.

02:33:28.960 Jimmy Carter pardoned all the draft dodgers, even those who hadn't been prosecuted.

02:33:33.840 But it was a narrow pardon.

02:33:35.640 It was not a blanket pardon.

02:33:37.920 When Jimmy Carter, yes, he pardoned them for dodging the draft.

02:33:41.520 He didn't say anything that you may have done heretofore has now been pardoned.

02:33:46.340 It's crazy.

02:33:47.200 I mean, it's the letter from the three musketeers, right?

02:33:49.800 The bearer has done what has been done.

02:33:51.500 It's an insane thing to blanket pardon Hunter, especially because, I mean, for all I know, Hunter may have, you know, committed the arson in Los Angeles, given the fact that allegedly, you know, all of his paintings were insured.

02:34:03.980 And that's a joke, guys.

02:34:05.800 It's not real.

02:34:07.200 200 paintings.

02:34:09.420 Today.

02:34:10.060 Who's the insurance company on that?

02:34:11.300 So a few months ago, that was about $50 billion in art value.

02:34:15.720 Today, I think it's worth less than the canvas they were painted on.

02:34:19.200 What was it?

02:34:19.940 Nero said, what an artist the world loses to me.

02:34:22.000 That's, I think, Hunter Vajic.

02:34:25.440 And Fauci probably is complicit in one of the great crimes in human history, is the truth.

02:34:30.480 I mean, it's easy to blame the Chinese because the virus came out of China.

02:34:35.000 Fauci was almost certainly financing that.

02:34:37.500 He was.

02:34:37.880 Helping to find it.

02:34:38.300 He was demonstrably financing the type of research that was involved in the release of COVID.

02:34:43.960 I mean, honestly, even if you put that stuff aside, the thing that Fauci did to shut down any possible dissemination of information or alternative points of view with regard to shutting down the entirety of the country, that's the part that, to me, is, if not borderline criminal, actually criminal.

02:34:57.220 I mean, that is a wild thing that happened.

02:35:00.500 And you can kind of feel the stain of the last four years washing away.

02:35:03.000 It's going to be, it will be fascinating to kind of think what the legacy of Joe Biden will be 10 years from now.

02:35:09.160 Or even, like, I think we all forgot he was, for example.

02:35:11.660 That's my next blank book, I think.

02:35:12.640 We forgot he was president the day that the election was over.

02:35:16.120 That's right.

02:35:16.600 The entire world treated Donald Trump like he was president.

02:35:18.780 Joe Biden was an afterthought.

02:35:20.220 Yeah.

02:35:20.360 I mean, there were deals happening in the Middle East, and Joe Biden just wasn't even a part of that.

02:35:23.180 I think it goes beyond that.

02:35:25.060 People stopped treating Joe Biden as the president the moment Kamala Harris announced for the president.

02:35:29.600 That's right.

02:35:30.000 He disappeared off the stage of history.

02:35:31.620 You heard Mike Johnson's story about the fact that he didn't even know what executive order he'd signed.

02:35:37.160 It's a truly terrifying.

02:35:38.240 It's a terrifying account.

02:35:39.240 Yeah.

02:35:40.160 And from a very credible source.

02:35:41.660 And nobody has, none of the press corps has bothered to try to find out who's running the country.

02:35:46.360 And Biden did an interview, I forget what publication, maybe a month ago, where he was asked in the interview, well, could you have even served another four years?

02:35:54.960 And his answer in that interview was, well, who knows?

02:35:58.280 No one knows the future.

02:35:59.180 So, finally, he admits that, you know, long after the fact.

02:36:02.560 One of the things I think, though, that we should do, and here I'm going to tout a Jeremy Boring original idea.

02:36:08.060 This is an idea that I have to tout.

02:36:09.520 It's a congressional leadership as well.

02:36:10.820 But what Democrats have demonstrated over the course of the last four years, if you didn't already know it under Barack Obama, is they do not care about the institutions, laws, and rules of the United States.

02:36:18.980 They do not care about them at all, at all.

02:36:21.640 And so what Jeremy has proposed, and I think it's quite a good idea, is that one of the key institutions that's upholding the capacity of the United States to function is the filibuster in the Senate.

02:36:30.880 And we know for a fact that the Democrats were going to nuke that filibuster if they got a hold of the Senate, the presidency.

02:36:35.780 They were going to do it.

02:36:37.380 And so what Jeremy has proposed, and if you want to lay it out, you can, but I'm going to do it faster.

02:36:42.600 So, in any case, the basic idea that Jeremy proposed, which is a good one, is that the Republicans in the Senate should propose a constitutional amendment to enshrine the Senate filibuster in the Constitution.

02:36:51.840 And if it's not cleared in 18 months, they should nuke it.

02:36:54.440 Meaning that either we're all on board or we're not on board.

02:36:57.340 Yeah, that's a good idea.

02:36:58.140 Do we want to preserve our norms?

02:36:59.660 Then let's do it.

02:37:00.460 If not, we're not just going to wait for you to be the one.

02:37:02.760 Because guaranteed, the next time the Democrats have power, they're going to kill it.

02:37:05.600 You know, by saying that if we don't do it, the Republicans will, which is exactly the shtick.

02:37:09.540 Always this is the shtick.

02:37:10.920 But, you know, nature is beginning to heal.

02:37:13.640 The sun is out.

02:37:14.580 The sun is shining.

02:37:15.460 The birds are tweeting.

02:37:16.400 It's like the end of a Disney movie.

02:37:18.800 It truly is.

02:37:19.420 Before they gave all the characters.

02:37:20.220 The old Disney movie.

02:37:21.000 It is actually true that in the moment that President Trump gave his acceptance speech in 2016, it began to rain.

02:37:28.160 And as soon as he started giving his speech today, the sun came out.

02:37:31.180 God's writing is like getting more obvious.

02:37:32.660 God's writing is on the nose.

02:37:34.820 It is a great day for the country.

02:37:36.440 And one of the things that's important to me is that people remember you're not going to get everything you want.

02:37:40.380 Every president is a mixed bag.

02:37:42.960 Donald Trump will be a mixed bag.

02:37:44.180 You're going to get things that you want.

02:37:45.100 You're going to get things that you don't want.

02:37:46.060 There's going to be disappointments.

02:37:47.260 There's going to be failures.

02:37:48.100 There's going to be unforeseen challenges.

02:37:49.660 But you know who would not have been a mixed bag?

02:37:52.140 Kamala Harris.

02:37:53.140 She just would have been the bag.

02:37:55.940 And just in winning, Donald Trump has changed the course of our nation's history.

02:38:01.160 And so when the challenges come that are in front of us, when the disappointments come in front of us, when he does things that don't feel like what you thought you were supporting, when we get policy that won't be as good on economics as maybe what Ben and I, free economics is what Ben and I would like.

02:38:14.700 Or when he has to kill some people overseas and Tucker Carlson gets apoplectic because only our enemies say that we should kill people overseas or whatever bullshit happens.

02:38:24.840 Just know that we do live in a better world than the world we would have lived in had this not happened.

02:38:30.820 And that's not to say that Trump isn't going to do great things.

02:38:34.460 I think he is.

02:38:35.420 I think the beauty of a non-consecutive term is that he comes in empowered instead of it's not a stay the course.

02:38:42.160 Ben, your point is great.

02:38:43.100 He doesn't just have a popular mandate because he won the popular vote.

02:38:46.240 He has a popular mandate because a stark choice was given to people in the timeline and they chose Trump's policies.

02:38:52.700 And so I think he's going to have a very energetic second term.

02:38:55.100 But whatever the outcome of it is, it is a far, far better day today than it would have been if we were swearing in either a second term of Joe Biden or a first term of Kamala Harris.

02:39:05.820 The next four years are ours.

02:39:08.740 All of the opportunity is on our side if we will just seize it.

02:39:13.360 So let's seize it.

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The Michael Knowles Show - January 20, 2025

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