00:06:21.000Hey guys, welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.
00:06:24.000I hope everyone's doing well on this Tuesday.
00:06:27.000A little bit unusual again, but as you might have seen, I was in Washington, D.C. I decided to have a little sleepover, sleepover at Dad's house, also the White House.
00:06:40.000You may have seen the video, it was actually really cool.
00:06:44.000Some sleepovers just hit a little bit harder than others, and so this was kind of a unique one.
00:06:49.000You don't usually get to show up to the sleepover in Marine One.
00:08:02.000You have your favorite president walking through Durrell, meeting normal, common sense Americans, pushing peace through strength, making deals, getting value for taxpayers, and really telling the world very clearly that America is not getting pushed around anymore.
00:08:19.000On the other side, as always, you have Democrats doing what Democrats do they basically broke an airline.
00:08:27.000You heard about Spirit Airlines, they tried to break DHS.
00:08:36.000And then they go on TV and have their lapdogs in the media push their narrative and lecture you about compassion and democracy and the experts, their expertise.
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00:10:37.000And I actually want to start out by zooming like way out, you know, the 30,000 foot view, because we are watching in real time how Democrat policy doesn't just hurt people on the ground, it now kills companies in the sky.
00:10:53.000Spirit Airlines, 34 years in business, the bright yellow planes, you know, everyone made fun of, but everyone also flew on when they wanted to fly without taking out, I don't know, a second mortgage.
00:12:07.000This wasn't natural causes, this was a hit job.
00:12:11.000And the fingerprints are all over the crime scene.
00:12:15.000And they belong to the same usual suspects Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, the Biden DOJ, and the queen of bad ideas herself, none other than Pocahontas, also known as Elizabeth Warren.
00:12:31.000So let me walk you through what actually happened, okay?
00:12:35.000Because they're going to try to blame everything else.
00:12:36.000The regime media is going to try to bury this.
00:12:39.000They're going to say it was fuel prices, it was the Iran war, it was anything but what it actually was.
00:12:46.000Here's the timeline, so pay attention.
00:12:49.000In 2022, JetBlue Airlines offers to buy Spirit.
00:13:40.000Everyone who actually understood the business, everyone who was actually a stakeholder, voted yes.
00:13:48.000And then walks in Pocahontas with a pen and a victim complex, the usual.
00:13:53.000Elizabeth Warren, who's never run a business, Never met a payroll, never really made anything in her lies that wasn't basically a fake Cherokee origin story.
00:14:06.000She starts firing off letters, letters to the DOJ, letters to the DOT, the Department of Transportation, pressure campaigns on the Biden administration saying you can't allow this merger.
00:14:22.000And the Biden DOJ, ran by Merrick Garland, they sue in federal court to kill the deal.
00:14:30.000The deal that, again, everyone who was a stakeholder, who actually had something vested, whether it was their job or investment or otherwise, wanted.
00:15:06.000Well, of course, they filed for bankruptcy within months of the merger getting killed.
00:15:13.000They had lost a two and a half billion dollars since 2020.
00:15:19.000The merger was the way out, and the Biden administration took it away, along with those 17,000 jobs and so much else.
00:15:27.000And after they killed the deal, they took a victory lap.
00:15:30.000I don't know exactly what they were celebrating, but Elizabeth Warren goes on Twitter March 6, 2024, and writes, and I'm currently quoting her directly I've warned for months that a JetBlue Spirit airline merger would have led to fewer flights and higher fares.
00:16:01.000There's just 17,000 unemployed Americans and a bunch of stranded passengers staring at empty terminals trying to figure out how to get home.
00:16:11.000Well, here's Secretary Duffy, Saturday morning, laying it all out.
00:16:16.000Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg, along with the Biden DOJ, decided that they didn't.
00:16:21.000They did not want that merger to take place.
00:16:24.000And at the time, the Biden and Buda judge DOJ bragged and said, as they canceled the option for this merger, that this was a victory for U.S. travelers who deserve lower prices and better choices.
00:16:38.000Now, many at the time said this was a disaster.
00:16:53.000We had an airline go down because the markets were trying to allow two airlines to merge, make them stronger, and offer more competition for the American consumer.
00:17:04.000Also, Elizabeth Warren at the time cheered the blocking of the merger, saying that this was a Biden win for flyers.
00:17:14.000So, again, I think it's important that we always look with a keen eye when airlines want to merge.
00:17:21.000We care about pricing for consumers, we care about competition.
00:17:26.000The markets are saying there needs to be a merger because there's health issues with one of the airlines or more than one airline.
00:17:33.000We have to take a look at it and make sure we make the right choices.
00:17:38.000And in this situation, history has judged the denial of the merger between JetBlue and Spirit through the Biden administration with, I think, a view that it was a massive mistake.
00:17:50.000Democrats blocked the merger in the name of more competition.
00:17:54.000And now it's sort of, I don't know, the exact opposite.
00:17:59.000How is keeping a struggling airline that was going to go bankrupt and ultimately filed a few weeks after they stopped them from doing that, how is that doing what the Democrats intended?
00:18:10.000And this is the democratic economic model, basically, in one story, guys.
00:18:14.000They don't build anything, they don't fix anything, they don't run anything, and they don't understand anything because they've never done anything.
00:18:21.000They've never had to actually deal in the real world.
00:18:25.000You know, they get their pats on the back from the media, whether it's good, bad, indifferent, terrible, usually terrible.
00:18:32.000They regulate, they block, they sue, they posture, they write strongly worded letters, and then they take selfies at the press conferences.
00:18:41.000And when the whole thing collapses, when the workers lose all their jobs, when the consumers get stranded at LaGuardia at 5 a.m., they pop up on cable news and act like nobody could have seen this coming.
00:18:56.000Because for these people, they probably couldn't.
00:19:02.000It's never about results, it's about ideology.
00:19:06.000It's about the dopamine hit of stopping a corporate merger.
00:19:11.000It's about the press release, it's about the fundraising email that follows.
00:19:16.000And meanwhile, real Americans pay the price.
00:19:19.000Now, here's the contrast because there's been a lot of reporting the proposed $500 million taxpayer bailout.
00:19:28.000My father didn't just say, sure, here's a blank check.
00:19:32.000Take $500 million of taxpayer money and go figure it out.
00:19:36.000That would be the Democrat solution when they want to bail out one of their buddies, again, as long as there's kickbacks to the Democrats and all the other stuff that comes with that.
00:19:47.000Secretary Duffy said, my father was like a dog on a bone trying to find a way to save those 17,000 jobs.
00:19:56.000But the deal had to also make sense, it had to make sense for the taxpayer.
00:20:00.000For the long term viability of the airline, they put a real proposal on the table.
00:20:06.000But your favorite president wasn't going to torch the taxpayer and put icing on a stale cake and try to actually pretend that the damage wasn't already done.
00:20:17.000You can't turn back time on these things.
00:20:37.000It's not just something Democrats can't do because they don't think like that.
00:20:41.000They think like activists, they think like staffers, they think NGO, you know, basically they think like NGO grant recipients.
00:20:50.000And Secretary, let me get your take on what took place in terms of Spirit Airlines because I know that the Democrats did not want Spirit to merge with JetBlue a year ago, and now we see that Spirit Airlines closed operations.
00:21:06.000The Treasury was supposed to be doing a deal to save this company.
00:21:14.000So, this is just more of the mess we inherited from the Biden administration.
00:21:19.000In September 2022, Elizabeth Warren, who loves to write letters, sent a letter to the Justice Department, to the Transport Department, saying that they should oppose the merger with Spirit Airlines.
00:21:34.000JetBlue wanted to buy them for $3.8 billion.
00:21:38.000It would have given them much more resiliency.
00:21:41.000And she and the Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who's probably the worst Transportation Secretary in history when he came to the office, also were against the merger.
00:21:53.000And if JetBlue had merged with Spirit, we would have all these jobs that were lost yesterday.
00:22:00.000We had 30 regional airports who have lost service.
00:22:04.000And I can tell you what happened here.
00:22:06.000It wasn't Treasury, it was Commerce that was trying to put something together.
00:22:11.000The reason we were here was because the merger, the Biden administration opposed the merger.
00:22:17.000We shouldn't have been here in the first place.
00:22:19.000Now, the good news is the Trump administration is taking steps to help the former Spirit employees find jobs, to get travelers rebooked on other airlines, and to turn this mess into something that can be fixed and stabilized.
00:22:34.000And you see that same standard in transportation more broadly, where we're cracking down on fraud.
00:23:04.000A series of horrific fatal crashes have been caused by dangerous non-domiciled CDL drivers.
00:23:09.000Illegal aliens who don't deserve driver's licenses, let alone commercial driver's licenses.
00:23:15.000If you are not following the rules, And you're not doing the things that you're supposed to be doing, we're going to ensure that we put you out of business.
00:23:22.000Well, today the driver's licenses for thousands of commercial drivers across the state were revoked.
00:23:27.000Revoking over 13,000 driver's licenses in the state of California.
00:23:32.000Number one, we're issuing an emergency rule that fundamentally overhauls who is eligible for a non domiciled CDO.
00:24:11.000Maybe you should be able to read the road signs.
00:24:14.000Maybe the system shouldn't be handing out commercial driver's license like, you know, Participation trophies because some state bureaucrat didn't want to ask hard questions.
00:24:25.000Maybe we shouldn't let all those people who've been killed by these people holding these licenses who had no business being in these trucks, maybe we should do something to stop that from ever happening again since no one wanted to do something to prevent it in the first place.
00:24:37.000But this is where the left has taken us.
00:24:40.000Basic safety standards are now extreme.
00:25:50.000Democrats objected to funding ICE and Border Patrol and wanted reforms like banning masks and requiring warrants for certain immigration arrests.
00:26:01.000Democrats decided to hold the department hostage because they couldn't stand the idea of ICE actually doing its job.
00:26:09.000And Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen laid out the damage.
00:26:13.000Well, after 76 days of shutdown, which is an historic shutdown, longest government shutdown in history, it's going to take some time to recover.
00:26:21.000I mean, were we able to still be mission capable?
00:26:28.000I mean, just for an example, we had 500 electric bills throughout just the Coast Guard.
00:26:33.000That was in default, and in some cases, we were having to have the State Department and DOW pay the bills.
00:26:40.000Our gas cards throughout the department, through 22 components, was getting turned off, and we just have to have different agencies pay those bills for us.
00:26:49.000And so, we were also having a tremendous amount of morale issues.
00:27:17.000In the Coast Guard, they have one agency that does nothing but license barges and vessels for United States waters.
00:27:26.000They're 18,000 vessels behind, and even if we did nothing but just work on the vessels behind, it would take us till the end of July to get them licensed and back on the water.
00:27:39.000On what happens throughout transportation, what happens with recreational vehicles.
00:27:46.000And this is all because the Democrats wanted to have open borders and allow criminals to flow freely on the streets.
00:27:53.000And it makes absolutely no sense, Shanna.
00:27:55.000But morale is high, and we're laser focused on delivering for the American people, protecting the homeland.
00:28:01.000And I want to get to some of the things Democrats wanted open borders, Democrats wanted criminals flowing freely throughout the country.
00:28:09.000Because Democrats decided the feelings of illegal aliens, and really the people who would ultimately vote for Democrats in perpetuity, were more important than the security of American citizens.
00:28:30.000Not the traveler waiting in line, not the Coast Guard family wondering about pay, not the cyber team trying to protect infrastructure, not the border agent trying to stop criminals, rapists.
00:29:39.000Well, I think the market has been pretty consistent.
00:29:43.000The fact is that what the president is seeing is that the blockade is working, it's putting an enormous amount of pressure on Iran.
00:29:50.000And Iran's threats to put mines in the straits have even made it so that humanitarian aid that, of course, we would let through.
00:29:59.000To Iran, that there are a lot of those ship captains that are wary of going to Iranian ports because they're worried about where the Iranians have put the mines.
00:30:07.000And so, you know, I go down to the sit room many times a week and get briefed on what's going on in Iran.
00:30:12.000And they're an economy that's really on the precipice of extreme calamity.
00:30:22.000The bottom line is that the pressure on the great American people because of these people who are like really intent on American and Israeli destruction with their nuclear weapons are still in power.
00:30:34.000One last thing, Margaret, I don't know if you noticed, but the UN human rights folks came out this week condemning Iran because they're killing people who are trying to stand up to this regime that's potentially causing starvation and even famine.
00:30:49.000That's what leverage looks like, guys.
00:30:51.000Not pallets of cash, not begging the mullahs to please be nice, not pretending a strongly worded statement from Brussels is a foreign policy platform.
00:31:02.000Economic pressure, military pressure, diplomatic pressure.
00:31:07.000The kind of pressure that makes bad actors understand that there are consequences and accountability.
00:31:13.000And of course, the Europeans started chirping from the cheap seats.
00:31:19.000Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz tried to criticize the United States over Iran, talked about humiliation, questioned the American strategy, basically doing what European leaders love to do, which is lecture America while literally depending entirely on America for their defense.
00:31:37.000And then my father pushed back, saying, We're cutting 5,000 troops from Germany.
00:33:29.000Not according to Democrats and the European technocrats and the usual suspects.
00:33:36.000But when America actually leads, when America says, no, we're not going to subsidize your weakness while you criticize our strength, people get the message pretty fast.
00:33:48.000And by the way, this is not complicated, guys.
00:33:56.000NATO can't be a cocktail party with an American credit card.
00:34:01.000And America can't keep acting like every other country's problem is automatically our responsibility while our own citizens get ignored.
00:34:10.000That's the Trump doctrine strength, leverage, results.
00:34:15.000And that's why the contrast is so obvious, because Democrats don't just oppose strength abroad, they oppose Basic order at home.
00:34:25.000Look at the Supreme Court decision on Louisiana's race based congressional map.
00:34:30.000The court blocked a map that was built around racial gerrymandering, and the left immediately went into meltdown mode.
00:34:38.000Donna Brazil, the one who gave Hillary Clinton the answers to the debate with my father prior to the debate, went on ABC and said the Supreme Court is bringing us back to.
00:34:51.000Come on, guys, you know where they're going.
00:35:35.000If Democrats can sort voters by race, that's democracy.
00:35:41.000If Democrats can carve up districts, Swiss cheese this thing to hell, and protect their power, that's representation.
00:35:50.000If Democrats can build an entire political machine around racial categories, that's justice.
00:35:58.000But the Supreme Court, the second the Supreme Court says, I don't know, maybe the Constitution doesn't allow you to treat Americans like racial chess pieces.
00:36:22.000Just like I said last week race as a map making tool, race as a funding tool.
00:36:28.000Race as a hiring tool, race as a censorship tool, and race as a political weapon, right?
00:36:33.000There's a reason, like New England, you look at some of the states up there 40% Republican, 43% Republican, 45% Republican, 42% Republican, across the board, zero congressional representation.
00:36:47.000If the maps can't be drawn around race forever, the political machine gets exposed.
00:36:54.000If Iran responds to pressure, the Obama Biden appeasement racket gets exposed.
00:37:02.000Not because Trump is chaotic, but because Trump is forcing order on systems that were designed to operate in complete and total chaos.
00:37:11.000Hell, just look at the recent news on energy down in Venezuela.
00:37:17.000The U.S. Energy Dominance Council is coordinating and leading new pathways to investment.
00:37:23.000The Venezuelan government is cooperating.
00:37:26.000We're making America stronger and making the Western Hemisphere more secure while also taking care of our worst enemies in that region and getting them the hell out of there.
00:37:43.000This flight marks the transition from dialogue to action.
00:37:48.000We are committed to a U.S. aligned Venezuela that produces real results for Venezuelans and for Americans.
00:37:56.000Under the leadership of the president, we've moved at lightning speed to get all the things in place we needed to do to establish air service.
00:38:04.000We are witnessing the rebuilding of our economic ties, the reopening of Venezuela to global commerce, and the reconnecting of our two countries.
00:38:55.000Well, it was a great trip, huge celebration of the partnership that exists today, thanks to President Trump, between Venezuela and the United States.
00:39:04.000Look, President Trump is a man of action.
00:39:06.000He wants to see progress, he wants to see action take place.
00:39:09.000And you saw action and progress in three important sectors transportation, the first daily flights backed from the U.S. to Venezuela.
00:39:20.000You saw three independent oil and gas companies, new entrants, signing deals with Venezuela.
00:39:26.000And on mining, you saw a huge landmark mining deal, the first of its kind for gold, for coal into Venezuela.
00:39:35.000All of these are showing the tremendous progress in just a short period of time between the U.S. and Venezuela.
00:39:41.000That's exactly the kind of message we want to send to the world that that relationship is strong, that now you have flights going down there.
00:39:47.000So it's now employees, it's people interested in investing, it's people interested in being down there and seeing their.
00:39:53.000Family members coming down to Venezuela.
00:39:55.000There was a huge party in Miami of people interested and wanting to go down.
00:39:59.000And then, even on top of that, American Airlines, on the very day of the first flight, they came out and announced they're going to do two trips a day now down to Venezuela.
00:40:07.000So the progress is happening at Trump speed.
00:40:11.000This would have taken months, if not years, to get to this point.
00:40:14.000And we're seeing it in a matter of weeks.
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00:41:25.000And by the way, if you want to know why Doge mattered, if you want to know why ending the status quo matters, We're seeing the evidence more and more every day.
00:41:37.000Luke Rasak at the Daily Wire has a new investigation using Medicaid billing data that Doge forced out into the open.
00:41:47.000And what they found in Ohio is insane.
00:42:16.000So in plain English, guys, Medicaid may be paying people to hang out with their own relatives while some middleman company bills the government for it.
00:43:54.000What's cruel is bankrupting the country while Medicaid middlemen get rich off of programs that are supposed to help the vulnerable.
00:44:03.000Open the books, follow the money, name the companies, cut off the scam.
00:44:10.000Because Americans are sick of being told there's no money for them.
00:44:14.000While there always seems to be money for some shell company, for some fake provider, for some fraud factory hiding behind compassion, for some illegal immigrant milking the system and then kicking the money back to Al-Shabaab in Somalia.
00:44:29.000And why are so many of these fraudsters foreigners?
00:44:33.000Why are so many of them illegal aliens?
00:44:37.000Because they exploit the system and kick back to the Democrat machine, of course.
00:44:42.000Just like USAID, just like ActBlue, just like the Minnesota daycare fraud.
00:44:48.000Just like with racially gerrymandered maps, it's a political machine completely dependent on fraud.
00:44:56.000And I do think this is becoming more and more obvious to anyone paying attention.
00:45:05.000But we do have to pay attention and make sure that others are too.
00:45:12.000You've got people in this country who are trying to make things work, and you've got lunatics who'd rather watch the whole thing burn.
00:45:19.000You've got leaders who go on to the table with common sense, and others who want to have debates about things that have already been totally obvious.
00:45:28.000Since the beginning of time, like whether we should have a border, whether genders exist, whether you can change them, whether we should punish violent criminals things that don't really even need a debate because the answers are so obvious if you're not an imbecile or milking the system.
00:45:48.000You've got folks who believe in playing by the rules and folks who will smear you as a radical, as a racist, as a misogynist, as a homophobe, whatever it may be, for even suggesting there should be rules.
00:46:03.000And when it comes down to it, one group treats power like a tool to look out for the good of the country.
00:46:09.000The other treats it like something to feed back into the machine that lines their pockets and maintains their power.