Behind the scenes at Shot Show, exclusive interviews with Gov Kristi Noem, Gov Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Ted Nugent, Ric Grenell, and much more | TRIGGERED Ep.106
On this episode of TRAPPETIZED, I sit down with a bunch of great patriots, including Ted Nugent, Kristy Noem, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Rick Grenell, Michael Seiffert, and more. We talk everything from public square, the patriot economy, public square culture, public safety, and much more. It was a blast and I can't wait to do it again! Thanks to everyone for all your support, stay safe out there and keep up the fight for our Second Amendment! . . . . ... and stay safe in the Second Amendment. Stay safe, and Stay DTFFT! -Jon Sorrentino and stay DTFFFT! If you like what you hear here on TRAPPED, please HIT the SUBSCRIBE button to get notified when we deconstruct the latest news and discuss it on the next episode of RAGBOUND. ...and don't forget to leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! You can also join our FB and Subscribe to stay up to date with the latest episodes of TROTED! Thank you for supporting the show! RATE, RATE and SHOUT OUTS, and spread the word to your friends about what you're listening to this podcast! ! I'm not the typical podcast that goes every other podcast that doesn't have a dedicated episode that you're getting a chance to be featured on it! ...I'm looking forward to getting more episodes like this one! I'll be looking out for more episodes coming soon! Enjoyed this one... Subscribe to the latest episode of Triggered. RUMBLE! Subscribe, Subscribe, Like, Share, and Share it on your social media! , and spread it around the world! XOXO - Jon's newest episode - Jon is looking for you're going to be the next one? Jon's next episode will be out in the latest edition of TROGCAST! -- -Jon's NEW EPISODE of TROLLO. -- Jon's NEW PODCAST: -- -- CHECK OUT! -- -- BONUS EPISODED -- RATE -- BLOGCAST -- JUDGE PRODCAST? -- CRITICATED -- PRODUCED! -- CRUCIAL? -- CROWNED
00:07:27.000You see some of the other things that I'm working on.
00:07:30.000Obviously some politics too, but it's actually, you know, more of the passion projects in my life.
00:07:36.000And then sitting down with some of the people who make that happen, some of the people who are on the front lines of defending our Second Amendment, not just the manufacturers, but also the politicians who are out there.
00:07:46.000And again... Some of the stuff I do for fun.
00:07:49.000So, I know you guys also, when we do the little survey about who do you want in what role, we got Ted Nugent on there.
00:07:56.000I know I mentioned that, but we also discussed he's going to come on long form one day.
00:08:02.000So, for all of you guys who are super excited about the possibility of a Ted Nugent press secretary position, we're going to have some fun with this one.
00:08:11.000So, again... Breaking it up a little bit, a little bit of a different look, but we're going to have a lot of fun.
00:08:16.000And like I said, you see some of the other things that we're working on behind the scenes, also really fighting for the patriot economy, for the things that we believe in, for our freedoms and values.
00:08:26.000Probably no better place to do that than SHOT Show Vegas 2024.
00:08:31.000So you're going to really enjoy that one.
00:10:21.000Take a look at your screen. This is one of the suspects, 22-year-old Jawan Boata, leaving court after his arraignment yesterday, at times covering his face and then giving not one but two middle fingers to the media.
00:10:33.000The Manhattan District Attorney's Office confirms to Fox cash bail was not requested for the five...
00:10:39.000Yeah, guys, this is going to work out wonderfully.
00:10:42.000That person's going to be lovely to your children or to your daughters later on.
00:10:47.000They're totally going to become incredible citizens of this once great nation.
00:10:53.000They're going to integrate into society perfectly well.
00:10:56.000They won't be career criminals, right?
00:11:01.000He's cocky because he knows nothing's going to happen to him.
00:11:49.000As long as you vote Democrat, you're wonderful in the eyes of Joe Biden and the Democrats.
00:11:56.000And honestly, even in the eyes of some rhino Republicans.
00:12:01.000Senator James Langford of Oklahoma, a Republican, by the way, we're going to call him a rhino, a Republican in name only, he sees this and he thinks he's got the solution.
00:15:09.000He just knows the media will do his bidding.
00:15:12.000He knows that big tech will figure out a way to somehow blame the border on Republicans.
00:15:16.000He understands it's not even a popular issue anymore, so they're going to do what they can to lie to you like they always do.
00:15:24.000Biden doesn't call our open border a crisis because he wants open borders.
00:15:29.000All he had to do was leave Trump's policies in place, but of course that wouldn't get them millions of permanent Democrat voters.
00:15:37.000So why is Lankford going along with Biden's lies?
00:15:42.000Democrats don't care about securing the border.
00:15:45.000How do I know that? Because 155 House Democrats, including the guy that would want to be the Speaker of the House, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, just voted against a bill to deport illegal immigrants convicted of Social Security fraud.
00:16:07.000155 House Democrats just voted against a bill to deport illegal immigrants convicted of Social Security fraud.
00:16:17.000Just so we're clear, that is your money.
00:16:20.000Democrats don't want to deport illegals who commit Social Security fraud and steal from hardworking seniors and the American taxpayer.
00:16:30.000They don't even want to deport illegal immigrants who are convicted of DUIs.
00:16:36.000Today, 150 House Democrats voted against legislation that would deport illegals convicted of DUI. So you can commit social security fraud, you can get DUIs, and they still would love you to be part of our country.
00:16:55.000We are not bringing our finest, because they don't care.
00:17:00.000Again, I understand the PR machine that we will be up against.
00:17:03.000I understand what big tech will do to truth, logic, reason, and fact.
00:17:10.000That's why I always ask you, share this stuff.
00:17:44.000Their leader, Joe Biden, doesn't think DUI should be grounds for deportation either.
00:17:50.000You can listen to him stammer through it himself right now.
00:17:54.000What exact changes would you bring to ICE as an agency?
00:17:58.000I would hold ICE agents accountable if, in fact, they stepped over my executive orders, which is no arrest of anyone outside of their school.
00:18:07.000One of the things that's happening is, particularly for Latino and Hispanic kids, is the incredible pressure on them in terms of their Their sense of security.
00:18:20.000They go off to school wondering whether when mom comes and picks them up, is she not going to be there because an ICE agent was there to arrest her?
00:18:26.000Or she takes them to the doctor that she's going to not be there because she is, quote, undocumented and a ICE agent is going to pick them up.
00:18:35.000You change the culture by saying you're going to get fired.
00:18:39.000You're fired if, in fact, you do that.
00:18:41.000You only arrest for the purpose of dealing with a felony that's committed, and I don't count drunk driving as a felony.
00:18:49.000Guys, in Joe Biden's America, you can get a free pass if you're here illegally.
00:18:56.000What Biden cares about is locking up peaceful pro-like activists.
00:19:02.000This is one of the greatest miscarriages of justice I've ever seen.
00:19:06.000The Biden Justice Department announced yesterday that six pro-life activists were found guilty of, quote, conspiracy against rights.
00:19:16.000And everything's a conspiracy against rights, as long as it's what the Democrat Party wants, due to a peaceful protest held at an abortion clinic.
00:19:24.000The DOJ said, and I quote, Singing hymns and urging women to reconsider their decision to seek an abortion, close quote.
00:19:57.000These six activists now face up to 10 years in prison.
00:20:02.000Again, folks, this is stuff that doesn't get out there.
00:20:06.000It doesn't make the news because it's smothered, it's censored, it's suppressed.
00:20:12.000We need you guys and we need your help to push it out there.
00:20:17.000If this doesn't make it clear, folks, that there are two sets of laws in America, I don't know what does.
00:20:24.000Then, clearly, what's happening in Fulton County will make it even clearer.
00:20:29.000Again, if you're watching this, you probably get it, but the amount of people who have no understanding of everything that's going on, who have no understanding just how insane, how weaponized, how much of a Dictatorial regime, the Biden administration, and the Democrat overlords running DOJ, the FBI, etc.
00:20:51.000are, hopefully this will help drive home that message.
00:20:55.000Fannie Willis, who rules Atlanta like a tin-pot dictator, she abused her office to indict her party's leading political challenger, my father.
00:21:08.000She gives hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to her boyfriend, and then she...
00:21:13.000Fires whistleblowers, who she's vacationed on with taxpayer dollars, spending that money freely, laughing her ass off probably, at what they can get away with because no one holds them accountable.
00:21:25.000Well, this week, audio was released of a former employee in Willis' office named Amanda Timpson.
00:21:33.000In the audio, which I'm about to play, you can hear Timpson tell Willis about the illegal misuse of grant funds.
00:21:41.000Willis did not dispute the allegations.
00:21:44.000Listen and hear for yourself so you can understand the level of depravity we're up against what they think they can get away with.
00:21:52.000He would take me off projects, tell people I wasn't doing what I was supposed to because I questioned him.
00:21:58.000Because I understood. I helped write that grant.
00:22:02.000He told everybody in front of Crystal, Deontay, everybody, we're going to get MacBooks, we're going to get swag, we're going to use it for travel.
00:23:05.000Brian Camp in Georgia doesn't seem to want to do anything about that because, you know, we're never going to upset the Democrats.
00:23:10.000They'll be mean to me. People in the press will write bad articles about me because they're just fine with the Democrats doing whatever they want.
00:24:01.000That's what we've seen become so clear about I'm not saying it wasn't probably going on in all of these areas before Trump, but Trump derangement syndrome brought it to the top and we have to call it out.
00:24:16.000We have to fight back or we're not going to have a country left to save.
00:24:20.000So finally, I want to end, before we get to the interviews of SHOT Show and again, the stuff I'm doing with Field Ethos and the governors and Ted Nugent and like all the fun stuff.
00:24:31.000I want to end on an important update on the Senate sex video scandal.
00:24:36.000You remember this one, right? I'm not even going to show the video here, or even the pictures, because it's disgusting.
00:24:43.000But the Capitol Police this week announced that they will not be filing any charges for this incident.
00:24:50.000Remember, this was the gay sex incident in one of the secure rooms of the Senate.
00:24:57.000This is very surprising to me though, folks.
00:24:59.000They are typically very anal about minor violations in the law.
00:25:12.000When it's Democrat staffers having anal gay sex in a Senate room, that's just fine.
00:25:18.000But if you're someone's grandmother and you walk through the velvet ropes of Congress taking a selfie without doing anything violent, you get to go to jail for a very long period of time.
00:25:30.000At this point folks, they're laughing at you.
00:25:36.000They're challenging you to do anything about it because they couldn't give a damn.
00:25:42.000I've had enough but I can't do it alone.
00:25:44.000We need you guys to be a part of that.
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00:28:14.000It's a compilation of like a couple of days of SHOT Show, absolute insanity,
00:28:18.000but you get to see some other things we're working on.
00:28:19.000You know, Michael Seifert from Public Square, you know, check them out.
00:28:22.000This is how we also vote with our wallet.
00:28:26.000They're doing a deal with Cordova, help people buy firearms without the banks canceling them,
00:28:31.000without getting put on a list, buy now, pay later type of options
00:28:36.000with the world which we're going right now.
00:28:38.000That makes a lot of sense. We get to see that.
00:28:40.000We get to hear about what some of the governors are doing, what Kristi Noem is doing, actually building gun ranges in South Dakota, what Sarah Sanders is doing.
00:29:01.000You also get to see me, you know, really visiting with some of the great sponsors of Field Ethos from the gun world, the stuff that I do in the outdoor space.
00:29:08.000If you haven't checked that out, go to fieldethos.com.
00:29:12.000You know, fun, witty, intelligent, unapologetic, outdoor lifestyle, adventure lifestyle magazine that I do.
00:29:19.000One of my little side pleasure projects.
00:29:22.000So I think you'll really enjoy this one.
00:30:16.000We started that. We've been working on it together for almost two years now, from something to now a big public company, but now we're taking it further to To really stop a lot of the cancellation that's going on.
00:30:27.000We see it with guns, but if they're doing it to people who are buying guns, if they're doing it to people who manufacture components of guns, if you're getting debanked, if I'm getting debanked for creating a news app, guess what, folks?
00:30:40.000So, Michael, give us a little bit of the background on that and what we're talking about here, what we're doing to be able to combat that, to make sure that we're uncancellable.
00:30:47.000Yeah. Well, SHOT Show is a perfect example of our market that we're trying to serve, 2AT. There are 77,000 gun industry insiders here in Las Vegas for this week, and all of them have gone through a similar experience.
00:31:02.000They know what it feels like to be under the thumb Of big commerce or big tech cancellation pressure.
00:31:09.000And just like what happened to MXM, banks just shutting the door overnight.
00:31:12.000These businesses, we've heard from some of them say it's happened to them multiple times where they're trying to do right by their consumers.
00:31:19.000They're trying to help folks exercise their Second Amendment rights.
00:31:23.000And the financial institutions of this country should be behind them, but instead are actually saying, I'm not here to serve you.
00:31:32.000To you, that's a real shame. It's why we're so inspired to do this.
00:31:35.000And so, as we look to 2024, we had an amazing year in 2023, took the company public, grew past a million members faster than many of the industry giants.
00:31:43.000As we look to 2024, we are looking to build the foundational infrastructure of things like payments and things like software so that the businesses, over 75,000 now on our platform, can not only be able to experience the joy of Connecting with like-minded consumers, but also can be safe.
00:32:03.000Soup to nuts, top to bottom, completely safe and cancel-proof in their business's expression of their products and services.
00:32:10.000Cordova's a great company. We're proud to announce a partnership with them today.
00:32:14.000They're a consumer financing juggernaut for the parallel economy.
00:32:17.000They help folks access some really expensive items that are so fundamental to our Second
00:32:23.000Amendment in a way that's very user-friendly.
00:32:26.000They help offer buy now pay later services to folks that are wanting to purchase firearms
00:32:43.000So if you're buying a gun, they're pushing Visa and MasterCard and many retailers even, like Bass Pro and Cabela's, to actually code your purchases.
00:32:52.000So you have a lot of people now that are feeling like, well, my only option's cash.
00:32:55.000Problem is... When's the last time you purchased something for $2,000 in cash?
00:33:01.000Cordova's cool because you can actually escape the credit card woes by purchasing through Cordova and have access to some of these goods.
00:33:09.000So we're going to implement their technology on our platform.
00:33:11.000It's going to be great. And ultimately, our goal this year is let's build at Public Square a real impenetrable payment stack that allows for folks to transact without fear.
00:33:20.000That's where we're going. I mean, we've seen that everywhere, right?
00:33:23.000You see it with the credit card companies.
00:33:24.000Then you see, you know, if someone bought a Bible, the banks literally gave that information to the FBI. I mean, like, you're on a list.
00:33:31.000And so if you're watching this podcast too late, you're on a list.
00:33:33.000So now you might as well be all in. We're all on a list.
00:33:35.000It's fine. I'm on every list for sure.
00:33:38.000But you saw that with PayPal earlier this year.
00:33:40.000If you said something that they deem misinformation, because the arbiters of truth aren't necessarily truthful, but they are the arbiters.
00:33:47.000They were going to fine you $5,000 just taken out of your PayPal account.
00:33:51.000If you're using that still, you're doing yourself a major disservice.
00:33:57.000You're not going to be put on a list. You're not dealing with the banks that are making that difficult for you.
00:34:01.000And again, so much of what we've got to do is not just We've now got to vote with our wallets.
00:34:06.000We've got to escape the pressures that they've put on, and I think this is what we're slowly starting to build.
00:34:11.000I mean, it's just the beginning of all of this, but we did it with Publix where now we're getting the options of payment and adding onto these platforms and actually growing real parallel economy businesses.
00:34:20.000Yeah, well, and what's really important to recognize is that throughout history, any of the authoritarian regimes that have risen to power, the first thing they've tried to cut off is your economic access.
00:34:30.000They want to shut off your ability to transact.
00:34:32.000If you look at China right now, their entire economic system is structured around a social credit score.
00:34:38.000If you don't act in a way that the regime is proud of, you have your credit score dinged.
00:34:43.000So our credit score system in the United States is a bit of a mess.
00:34:47.000Imagine if it was tied to your behavior and your opinions about the political regime in power.
00:34:51.000That's the future that these globalists want for us.
00:34:54.000And so we as American people have to make a decision.
00:34:56.000Do we want to keep empowering those tyrants to weaponize their beliefs against us?
00:35:02.000You've got people like Mark Benioff at Time Magazine who started Salesforce contributing to lawsuits against your father.
00:35:08.000You've got people like Mark Zuckerberg investing $400 million in elections.
00:35:13.000So we may say, oh, we don't care about politics.
00:35:15.000We want to detach politics from business.
00:35:17.000The hard part is, and it's a tough pill to swallow, politics cares about you deeply.
00:35:28.000We don't have equal justice under the law.
00:35:31.000My classic example is me versus Hunter Biden.
00:35:33.000I understand I am not the upstanding human being that Hunter Biden is, but you'd think, you know, if I did, if it was my laptop from hell, there would be hell to pay.
00:35:41.000I'd be at Gitmo. Don, I would never see you again if you were out of your mind.
00:35:46.000It was a wonderful run, Michael, but you're going to Gitmo forever.
00:35:52.000You see it in the disparate treatment of the January 6th versus the mostly peaceful protesters that burned down buildings, looted, arson, murder for the 2020 summer of love.
00:36:04.000And so until we actually start taking away The funds.
00:36:07.000I mean, we're funding woke corporate America and these big corporations that are then in turn taking that, donating to Democrat causes that would literally put you in jail.
00:36:14.000They're donating to all the causes that you hate on the charitable side.
00:36:18.000And your own hard-working money is being weaponized against you.
00:36:21.000We need to stop that once you cut off at least some of that.
00:36:24.000And we are overwhelmed in terms of, you know, conservative versus liberal on the donation side.
00:36:29.000We're always 5 to 1, 10 to 1 in terms of that.
00:36:31.000But if we can take off some of that, That's how we start making a dent.
00:36:36.000That's where they're going to be much more reluctant to weaponize all of the basic values and principles against us that they've been doing.
00:36:44.000Yeah, and I think, you know, I'm hopeful.
00:36:47.000I was actually talking to a firearms manufacturer that stopped by this booth, our Public Square booth here yesterday, and he said, what are you doing?
00:36:54.000Tell me about this. And I said, well, Public Square is the largest marketplace in the world of businesses that don't hate you.
00:36:59.000They love your freedoms, they love your constitutional liberties, and they want to serve you without fear of cancellation.
00:37:04.000And he said, I've been cancelled more than a few times.
00:37:07.000I said, tell me about that. And he actually gave an example.
00:37:11.000We think, oh, Texas, red state, we're safe.
00:37:14.000He was banking in Texas with a community bank.
00:37:17.000He posted a picture on his social media of him and his truck and he had his big truck wrapped in a picture of the ARs that they build for their customers that they've worked so hard to earn.
00:37:27.000And he said the banks took one look at that picture and after almost a decade of banking together said we're done.
00:37:39.000Let's link you with some of the banks that you can find on Public Square.
00:37:42.000We have plenty. Whether you're talking about Axos, whether you're talking about a local credit union, America's Christian Credit Union, if you're faith-based, Carrollton Bank, I mean, these incredible financial institutions that are proud to serve you.
00:37:53.000The problem is people just don't know they exist.
00:37:55.000And so I hope, Don, that like with the awakening that you and I talk about really frequently, that people will be so proactive about recognizing there are solutions and then actually making the move, kicking convenience to the curb, making the move, and finding in the process that not only are these other financial institutions excited to serve you, but they also are often better.
00:38:19.000It's killing productivity. You've got doors falling off flames and wheels rolling down.
00:38:22.000Yeah, and wheels rolling down. What is it?
00:38:23.000But no, and that's the real, it's not just about the convenience, because you know what's much more inconvenient than switching banks to someone who likes you?
00:38:31.000It's being canceled by a bank, not getting a mortgage that you've been working on, and losing that time then trying to find it.
00:38:38.000So, you know, that little bit of inconvenience is made up for in spades, you know, when you don't, Get canceled in the middle of a transaction, or an expansion, or get denied a financing that you've worked on for months to build up your product lines.
00:38:52.000And that's what it is. I love that we're doing this now with Public Square, taking it to the next level, because it started off as, hey, we're going to, and it still is, but there's just a lot more now.
00:39:02.000We're going to link you so you can shop with people who actually share your values.
00:39:06.000You can put their kid. It's small business.
00:39:09.000You don't have to go to Target to find a t-shirt.
00:39:11.000There's plenty of people around you, whatever it may be.
00:39:14.000That's what the Public Square Marketplace is all about, finding like-minded people, letting them spend money with people who share their values, build those business, put their kids through soccer camp or whatever it is.
00:39:25.000That American small business that was always the lifeblood of our country that's just been...
00:39:31.000Frankly destroyed by so much of corporate America, who has then decided to become political, who doesn't care about our beliefs.
00:39:39.000We can actually push back, but it takes all of us to actually do it.
00:39:42.000Yeah, and even some of the institutions that were supposed to serve the small businesses you just described, Have completely abdicated their responsibility.
00:39:50.000The great example is the Chamber of Commerce.
00:39:52.000The U.S. Chamber of Commerce was supposed to be a home for small businesses to be able to thrive, access resources, and community.
00:39:59.000Now, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is advocating— The U.S. Chamber of Chinese Commerce.
00:40:02.000Yes, and they're advocating for open borders.
00:40:04.000They're literally advocating—well, and for getting everything abroad.
00:40:07.000Offshore it, because the consultant and managerial class— Like everything else, took it over.
00:40:13.000You can save two cents on your widget by sending everyone's jobs in American Dream abroad.
00:40:17.000Oh, that's wonderful. That hasn't served us well at all.
00:41:50.000So they are not choosing Washingtonian type of people.
00:41:54.000You know, Alex Jones for press secretary.
00:41:57.000Rick, and your name comes up a lot in some very high levels.
00:42:01.000Let's go. You know, you're in there with the base.
00:42:04.000Yeah, look, you know, it was the most incredible, I'm not just throwing a line, it was the most incredible honor of my life.
00:42:10.000To be representing America and to be representing President Trump.
00:42:15.000It was amazing sitting in Germany, have him call me pretty regularly to say, hey, let's get this done, and I realized pretty quickly that he didn't really view me as just Germany, it was Europe.
00:42:28.000Yeah, well, for those of you who don't know the backstory, Rick was probably the only ambassador.
00:42:35.000And Rick was also probably the only ambassador that actually, let's say, spoke truth to power.
00:42:41.000And I would say understand the role, right?
00:42:43.000You're working for America, you're working for the president, not for the other countries.
00:42:46.000He was the one that goes to Angela Merkel and was like, listen, you want NATO to spend all this money, when I say NATO, I mean the United States, for NATO, for their benefit, while they're giving billions to Russia.
00:42:57.000So you had to explain to her that the United States position under my father was not exactly, we're going to just write unlimited checks, you don't have to cover your agreed-upon share like they hadn't been doing, and you can enrich the people.
00:43:16.000One of the best moments of being ambassador to Germany was sitting in the White House Chancellor Merkel was there, and we were sitting there.
00:43:29.000The president was negotiating with her, and he looked at her and he said, look, I gotta be honest with you.
00:43:34.000I don't blame you for wanting America and Americans to pay for your security.
00:43:40.000I don't blame you. I actually think it's pretty smart.
00:43:41.000If I was in your job, I'd probably do that too.
00:43:43.000If I represented Germany, I'd want somebody else to pay for my security.
00:43:47.000And he turned the whole thing around and he said, but you know, you can't blame me.
00:43:52.000For now wanting to represent the American people.
00:43:54.000Because you duped all the other presidents before me into getting them to pay for your security, but it stops here.
00:44:02.000And to be honest, she totally respected him for it.
00:44:05.000She saw it. She was like, yeah, I get it.
00:44:07.000You've got to fight for America. I'm fighting for Germany.
00:44:10.000I spent eight years... How is it that we had politicians, though, and presidents that just never even got that before?
00:44:15.000I mean, because that's a... That's scary because that's like a, you know, just institutional failure.
00:44:19.000Like if our presidents, they don't care.
00:44:22.000What's another trillion dollars that we're not going to look at?
00:44:25.000We'll just pay for these guys. They literally like, I'm like, well, you're going to destroy that?
00:44:30.000I was like, no, no, no. People have in writing, like they're putting this percentage of their GDP and they're putting nothing in.
00:44:36.000Like it's a deal. It's not like we're trying to get them to pay more.
00:44:39.000We're just trying to get them to pay what they already agreed to.
00:44:41.000Exactly. What you just described is literally the heart of why we say we want an outsider.
00:44:47.000Yeah. Because somebody who spends 20 years in the foreign policy world, okay, and I spent eight years at the UN watching all these diplomats and they get recycled, they eventually grow into saying, oh, you know, I want the other side, I want the Europeans, I want the Latins, I want the Africans to like me.
00:45:08.000I want them to negotiate with me and say, you know, you're a good guy.
00:45:12.000It's not your job to be liked. It's not your job to be liked.
00:45:19.000Because it's easy to do that when you're playing with other people's money.
00:45:21.000Exactly. I always say the opposite of America first, the exact opposite philosophy is consensus with the Europeans.
00:45:30.000Yeah. You're either going to go and have the lowest common denominator of what all of these other countries think, which is called the UN, or you're going to advocate for what's best for your country.
00:45:42.000And that's what President Trump did better than anyone, and why I jumped on and believed in this movement.
00:45:48.000And you see that rearing up. Davos going on last week and all this kind of stuff.
00:45:53.000And it's like, well, we really don't want Trump to come back.
00:45:56.000I'm like, oh, you mean you really don't want to be held accountable for your actions?
00:45:59.000Were you basically taking total advantage of America and, frankly, the world with your nonsense?
00:46:05.000And it's like, isn't that the greatest endorsement of Trump you can imagine?
00:46:08.000Like, when your rivals, when the people...
00:46:13.000Isn't that exactly who the American public should vote for if they don't want it?
00:46:16.000Not because the policy, we weren't in wars, but because we held them to task and we weren't just Ridiculous with the American taxpayers' money.
00:46:26.000Right, and when you concentrate on that, when you concentrate on the American people's money, and you say to these other countries, hey, we don't want to do that because it's spending the American people's money for your security, the other side, the other countries get mad.
00:46:42.000They go to the press and they say, oh, this person is undiplomatic, right?
00:46:46.000So then the press coverage becomes, this person is mean to our allies.
00:46:50.000And what I tried to explain in Germany is, You're not a very good ally.
00:46:54.000If you're making the American people pay for it, you're not a good ally to us.
00:46:58.000With allies like that, if you want us to spend more of our money to protect you from those who you are enriching with friends like that who needs enemies.
00:47:07.000I said that and they were like, how can you say that?
00:47:09.000They're not an enemy. I'm like, but they're certainly not acting like friends.
00:47:12.000They're taking advantage of us. They certainly are taking advantage of us.
00:47:15.000Look, I have this philosophy when it comes to NATO. It's a little controversial.
00:47:19.000But I don't believe that anyone in NATO, any member of NATO right now, who's not paying their obligations, their 2%, if you're not up to good in your remittances, you shouldn't be voting on how to expand NATO, how to expand the security presence.
00:47:41.000Because what you're doing is, you're not paying your fair share.
00:47:43.000You're voting for new members, knowing that the American people are going to have to pay for new members.
00:49:17.000Well, look, I care about international issues.
00:49:20.000I have a lot of friends internationally.
00:49:23.000And this whole idea of capitalism, the Second Amendment, certainly in America, And safety, national security, is really at the forefront of what happens at SHOT Show.
00:49:37.000It's not just about our individual rights, but a lot of companies here around the world are worried about making sure that we have secure safety.
00:49:47.000And so I come here and meet up with a lot of my friends internationally who care very deeply about these issues, and I will tell you this.
00:49:55.000Privately, all international leaders will tell you they want Trump back.
00:50:01.000Because honestly, and this is where I think our foreign service officers and the State Department and our embassies around the world, they should change their rhetoric.
00:50:10.000We should make the argument that when America puts itself first, the rule of law is supported, capitalism is supported, Democracy, human rights, the world order becomes more established when America puts itself first because we're not a selfish country.
00:50:27.000We don't go and conquer and take other people's oil and do that.
00:50:31.000We're just trying to drill here and use the resources that we have.
00:50:35.000Although it's interesting when people are defaulting and you spent more time there than probably anyone I know at the UN. The UN doesn't believe what you just talked about because they'll put Iran on the Women's Council for...
00:50:52.000You're having one of the largest oppressors of women in the world get to decide what are the issues for women in the world.
00:50:58.000And I'm like, I don't... This is the fundamental flaw that we need to take to the UN. Because the theory of the UN is good, the theory, right?
00:51:06.000But the reality is that the UN believes that all countries are equal.
00:51:26.000Even the UN system of how they assess the contributions from different countries, they take into account the GDP. So they're not looking at countries as equal when they're assessing contributions.
00:51:39.000So why should we have a system that says every country is equal?
00:51:43.000We know Iran. It kicks women systematically off basic human rights, pushes gay people off buildings.
00:51:51.000We see them foment and fund terrorism.
00:51:55.000They're not equal with the United States.
00:51:57.000And so we need to make a judgment about this, that countries are not equal, that people are equal.
00:52:03.000So what do you do with the UN to fix it?
00:52:05.000Because, like, I mean, it does feel like you're being punked when I see some of the stuff coming out of their mouths at, you know, when they meet.
00:52:13.000Like I said, putting, you know, literally countries that oppress women on the Women's Council, you know, like, I don't know.
00:52:21.000It shouldn't just be their turn, and it And if you are a place that segregates that way, you shouldn't get a say, in my opinion, and yet it's happening every day.
00:52:31.000I mean, does it have hope or is it like the FBI where you sort of got to burn it down the ground and start a new structure?
00:52:38.000Look, I'm going to give you the diplomatic answer.
00:52:40.000No, no, I don't want the diplomatic answer.
00:52:42.000You're not a diplomat when you're on this podcast.
00:52:44.000You can be a diplomat again in 10 months.
00:52:47.000The reality is the UN does not work unless the US isn't leadership.
00:52:51.000Correct. And so you've got to be able...
00:52:54.000There's always an American that's running that because we voluntarily give a lot of money to the World Food Program.
00:53:01.000It's a great organization, run well, when you have people who are paying attention, Americans with American management spirit or Westerners.
00:53:10.000That's just the reality. When you do the UN like a jobs program where, okay, now it's Asia's turn, now it's Latin America's turn, and now it's Africa's turn.
00:53:18.000You're not looking at the system as rewarding qualified applicants, and that has to change.
00:53:24.000And you would know this from being an ambassador, understanding sort of the...
00:53:28.000I mean, part of that job is actually the relationship between businesses for cross-border transactions.
00:53:36.000I've actually run into a lot of guys here on the floor of the SHOT Show, big guys, major corporations, major 2A guys.
00:53:42.000Hey man, we're not able to have meetings with some of the people from Israel.
00:53:48.000The Biden administration seems to be doing it.
00:53:50.000Hey, they're blocking our ability to ship product.
00:53:53.000Like American manufacturing, putting Americans to work, shipping to other countries that are literally...
00:53:58.000It's not like you're shipping to Iran.
00:54:00.000You're shipping to countries that are allies.
00:54:03.000And they're like, hey man, they're holding our stuff up for months.
00:54:18.000It's everything. But it's also our allies being able to defend themselves.
00:54:22.000And by the way, if they're going to defend themselves finally and not just have us do it and spend money, I love that it's with American companies, but they're making it hard to do that even.
00:54:30.000Every one of our U.S. embassies should be mini-chambers of commerce.
00:54:34.000We should have people at that embassy that absolutely know how to expand American jobs.
00:54:38.000Their job being paid by American taxpayers.
00:54:41.000Not chamber of commerce like we see today, which is like...
00:54:44.000Capitalism. Yeah, the chamber of Chinese commerce, where it's like, just ship it to China, it'll be fine.
00:54:49.000Capitalism. The way it was originally intended.
00:54:51.000We should have embassies that absolutely know how to grow American jobs.
00:54:57.000Capitalism, businesses, private entrepreneurs should be able to go to our embassies and get help, not get hassle.
00:55:06.000And that's what they're getting harassment and hassle right now.
00:55:08.000We spend way too much money at the State Department paying foreign service officers who send cables back and report on the political activities of that country.
00:55:58.000We have some fun. And so we appreciate it.
00:56:02.000Okay, guys. Continuing the SHOT Show special.
00:56:05.000Woo! This is interesting, because if I'm seeing you walk the floor, we're here with Tim Kennedy.
00:56:11.000You are like a hot chick at a pervert convention here.
00:56:14.000Yeah, it's weird. The amount of grown men that I've heard about, like, that just want you to choke them out on the floor is a little bit weird.
00:56:21.000Yeah, I take it as a compliment, but I'm also like, I don't know what to do.
00:56:54.000Half the people in there have served their country in some way, shape, or form.
00:56:58.000Getting all those people with those shared values in the same room at the same time, with the same beliefs, it's a magical place where a ton of great things happen.
00:57:07.000And one thing, man, I love the Second Amendment and getting, you know, we've been losing ground year after year, whether it's legislation.
00:57:15.000Death by a thousand cuts. Yeah. And the Second Amendment has been the thing that's been slowly dying.
00:57:18.000And we have to have that unified face, that unified voice in the fight for the Second Amendment.
00:57:25.000And we've never done that in a really long time.
00:57:27.000It's time that, like, we've been so busy building businesses and working that we haven't been focusing on protecting our rights.
00:57:34.000But for me, that goes so much more beyond the Second Amendment.
00:57:37.000I would say, hey, we've got to start building from the ground up.
00:57:39.000You know, we've got to win school board races.
00:57:41.000It's not about even presidency, and I'm obviously biased towards that one, but, like, or Senate or Congressman.
00:57:46.000You know, the left has infiltrated everything.
00:57:48.000It happens with the Second Amendment, but they've taken over our schools.
00:57:50.000They've taken over pop culture. They're...
00:57:53.000Some of the things that you're doing are really combating that.
00:57:56.000It's what we're doing with Public Square.
00:57:58.000Giving small, patriotic businesses a way to link up together.
00:58:03.000Talk about what you see with that, because it's not just about the Second Amendment.
00:58:06.000That one's very clear. That one's on the table.
00:58:09.000And it's negotiable, even for a lot of the rhinos, obviously, in Washington, D.C., unfortunately.
00:58:13.000But it does go beyond that in terms of our other rights and what's going on in our schools, across the I mean, schools specifically.
00:58:22.000We have Apogee Strong, our online mentorship program, and then we actually have our Apogee Physical Schools.
00:58:26.000We're going to open 50 campuses in 2024.
00:58:30.000And this hunger for people bringing the responsibility of education and morals being taught to the children back to the nuclear family, people realize that everything that we've been doing for the past 20 years is broken and flawed.
00:58:43.000We've been sending these kids to these schools and they're being indoctrinated and radicalized.
00:58:47.000They're being taught absolute lies And science that makes no sense.
00:58:51.000They can't do math, but they know the 4,276 genders.
00:59:04.000And I understand it's not easy. And I understand where I come from, so it's easier to talk about.
00:59:07.000To get your children out of our public school system is a net positive for them for the future.
00:59:13.000One is the money needs to follow the child.
00:59:16.000So a whole bunch of states have the school choice program.
00:59:20.000And that has been failing because school unions and school boards have been combating and saying it's anti-poor, it's anti-urban, which is just not true whatsoever.
00:59:30.000Those same people are trying to kill charter schools in poor urban areas.
00:59:34.000That's right. That is right. That is 100% correct.
00:59:35.000So when we say the money needs to be following the children, so you pay property tax and that property tax goes to support the school.
00:59:43.000At the school is where they're being indoctrinated and radicalized.
00:59:46.000So they're not allowing parents to have any decision or say in the family, from the family to the child.
01:00:24.000And then to the children, all right, let's really teach you how to be a critical thinker.
01:00:27.000What does it mean to have a Socratic conversation?
01:00:29.000Yeah. You know, here at SHOT Show, in addition to, like, talking about education and support in the Second Amendment, we held a forum yesterday about veteran suicide.
01:00:37.000Yeah. How do we, you know, 74% of veterans that commit suicide commit suicide with a firearm?
01:00:42.000Yeah. As a lover of the Second Amendment, how can I, at the same time, reconcile the fact that 74% of veterans commit suicide with a firearm while I protect the Second Amendment?
01:00:50.000And these are not mutually exclusive things.
01:00:52.000So talk about it. I mean, you said something a couple minutes ago.
01:00:55.000Like I said, seven people came up to you on the floor.
01:01:02.000They had a shotgun in their mouth, and because of stuff that you had done, they...
01:01:07.000They didn't. I mean, A, that's got to be one of the greatest feelings in the world.
01:01:10.000It's also the worst. The moment you say that, it feels like I have a weight on my chest of this responsibility that I can't hold.
01:01:16.000What am I not doing? Yeah. Like, how many did I not help?
01:01:20.000But we're living in really hard, frightening times.
01:01:22.000Post-Afghanistan, The mental health, the substance abuse within the veteran community, it has to be addressed.
01:01:29.000It has to be impacted. And being able to identify a veteran in crisis, being able to explain, hey, call 988.
01:01:36.000We have a number that you can call and there is somebody sitting there waiting to talk to you that wants to know about your story and care about you and help you.
01:01:43.000All the while, what are all the other different ways that we can positively affect veterans?
01:02:48.000They liberated people during the Holocaust from these concentration camps.
01:02:51.000They saw the most horrific thing, right?
01:02:53.000Then they came back. And built the strongest country in the existence of humans, of our species.
01:02:59.000So what do they have? They had purpose.
01:03:01.000These men and women came back and they had purpose, direction, motivation.
01:03:04.000They wanted to do something meaningful.
01:03:06.000I think right now we have a generation that's lost.
01:03:09.000We have these powerful men and women, these service members that are coming back and they don't know what to do.
01:03:13.000And I'm going to beg, I'm going to plead, I'm going to implore that they need to know what their purpose is and their purpose is to be a great American, to go out and vote, to be good moms and dads, to be good entrepreneurs and employees.
01:03:23.000Like, to build that strong economy again, to make all those little problems seem so less important because you're contributing something meaningful.
01:03:30.000Like, be an amazing dad. That is a great purpose.
01:03:34.000Talk about, you know, public square, because I think that's exactly what it is.
01:03:37.000It's creating a purpose. It's, you know, finding patriotic Americans, just Americans, and, like, letting them find other people of like mind, letting them also support small business.
01:03:48.000When you're talking about purpose, that lifeblood of what was always America, was that small business owner.
01:03:53.000Now it's been taken over by trillion dollar megacorporations that, frankly, could care less about you.
01:04:14.000It was sort of veiled, but it's gotten so ridiculous when they look at big corporate.
01:04:19.000So just being able to align people back with those values, allow them to find those small businesses, put that person's kid through BJJ school rather than giving it to Starbucks so they can donate to the trans causes that would put you and I in the gulags in about two seconds.
01:04:34.000Yeah, I mean, when I say go out and vote, there's lots of ways to vote.
01:04:38.000And voting with your dollars is one of the most important things that you can do.
01:04:41.000We saw what happened to Target. We saw what happened to Bud Light.
01:04:43.000You know, United, I think, is about to learn the lesson because people are scared to get on those planes now.
01:04:48.000Did you see? I'm looking at this, and I fly like 300,000 miles a year.
01:04:54.000I'm like... If I see someone under the age of 25, I'm like...
01:04:58.000Fortunately, we have enough of them boomers that they've been pairing them with one of these DEI hires, and so you'll have a boomer with a DEI hire.
01:05:06.000Well, those boomers are going to age out very soon, and you're going to have two DEI hires that don't know how to fly a plane, and hopefully you live.
01:05:14.000What could go wrong, right? Yeah. Talking about voting with your dollars is aligning and spending money with people that share your values.
01:05:20.000How awesome is it to buy from an American-made company that is owned by a veteran that loves this country, that shares your values, that loves the American flag, that doesn't think it's a symbol of racism.
01:05:42.000I've never met them before, but I found them on Public Square.
01:05:45.000And the whole entire thing is to create this other economy where I stop giving money to people that hate me and hate my values.
01:05:53.000As an American, it's hard to believe we're even having this conversation.
01:05:58.000We're filling a void that should not need to be filled.
01:06:01.000But it has, and all of that's been so weaponized, and we've seen that across the board.
01:06:05.000I mean, I see the criticism that even you get.
01:06:08.000I mean, you're an entrepreneur, you're doing business.
01:06:10.000I mean, you're bringing people, rescuing people out of foreign lands when the U.S. government leaves them.
01:06:15.000I mean, you'd sort of be like a great American, and yet you're a domestic terrorist.
01:06:21.000You, along with me, are on every list at the DOJ and FBI ever.
01:06:27.000But we do have to start somewhere, and I think this is a great way to sort of start chipping away.
01:06:31.000If you take away that dollar, again, it's not just about the vote.
01:06:34.000I mean, you take away their dollars, it's a lot harder for them to come cancel us.
01:06:37.000Yeah, I had a real weird relationship with money, and I thought I never wanted to be rich.
01:06:44.000As a Christian, I was like, you know, it's harder for a rich man to make it to heaven than go through an eye of the needle.
01:06:49.000And I was like, okay... So I want to be able to give and I want to be selfless.
01:06:53.000I now recognize that money and the economy is a lever and it is leverage.
01:06:58.000And we have been giving up those levers, being too busy, giving back to our families.
01:07:01.000We have to be intentional with our families.
01:07:03.000We also need to have an economy that supports our values.
01:07:07.000And every single one of these gigantic...
01:07:10.000I do not want to take my kids into Target because at eye level are a bunch of books about trans kids and they're targeting these poor impressionable young children.
01:07:32.000We have to make an effort. We've gotten so lazy.
01:07:35.000See, I can push one button. Well, sign up, you can do the same thing in Public Square, but you just gotta take the extra effort to go there.
01:08:44.000Thank you. Well, welcome back to the show. Governor, good to be back.
01:09:13.000This is an environment that we can hang out.
01:09:15.000For those on the show, this is Greg Gianforte, a good friend of ours, a congressman from Montana, then governor.
01:09:23.000And it doesn't take a lot to get me to go campaigning in Montana, but the last time we did it, we went shooting prairie dogs.
01:09:29.000Yes. And the New York Times, doing the New York Times, like the most New York Times thing ever, didn't understand what prairie dog shooting was in Montana, which is actually just getting rid of vermin.
01:09:39.000Yeah. They thought we were shooting pregnant dogs.
01:10:56.000That's amazing. Well, and that's the thing.
01:10:58.000I mean, I always talk about guys running for public service, running for that office.
01:11:01.000Trump was able to be successful, was able to do a lot of the deregulation that allowed businesses and the economy to boom because he'd actually functioned in that world.
01:11:09.000I mean, you built Don, I'm looking forward to the day that we have a businessman back in the White House.
01:11:25.000I was encouraged by the progress in Iowa and New Hampshire.
01:11:28.000Let me just say, Joe Biden has been a complete failure for this country.
01:11:33.000Opening up the borders, attacking our Second Amendment rights, empowering our enemies, and President Donald Trump did exactly the opposite.
01:13:14.000And if there are business folks out there that are thinking about expanding or looking for a new location, moving back to America, Montana's open for business.
01:13:22.000Well, it's a solid pitch. I look forward to just getting up there with you again because campaigning in Montana is great.
01:13:26.000I get to go through some fishing, get to go do some shooting.
01:13:32.000So great to see you, Greg. Great to see you, Don.
01:13:34.000Thanks. Good. We already know this, but the evidence that I get to witness and participate in firsthand Is a reaffirmation that God, family, country is still a guiding force for the American dream.
01:13:49.000And I meet with every imaginable ethnicity, color, race, creed, religion, lifestyle, socioeconomic strata, and they all believe in those fundamentals.
01:14:00.000Get up early, put your heart and soul into being the best that you can be.
01:14:02.000Be a productive member of society while you demand good over evil, law and order, punishment
01:14:10.000of bad people and rewarding of good people.
01:14:12.000Literally, the opposite of what's actually going on in government right now.
01:14:35.000And Texas can't even defend its own borders, according to the Supreme Court, according to everyone in Washington, D.C., according to even the weak Republicans.
01:14:43.000And certainly the Democrats are welcoming because they need to change the voter base because real Americans are actually starting to understand that God, family, country is not, in fact, controversial.
01:14:51.000Yes. It's actually the way we should live and we'd all be better off for it.
01:14:55.000It's the true North Compass setting of good America everywhere.
01:14:58.000We could be spoiled and think that America is perfect because we're at this celebration of ballistics and hunting and conservation.
01:15:06.000But outside the SHOT Show and outside our campfires, outside our barbecues, outside our family gatherings, We are represented by the majority of people.
01:15:17.000It's the people with the megaphones, the government, all the bureaucracies are so untrustworthy.
01:15:23.000Big tech, just horrible, horrible evil people.
01:15:26.000Hollywood, academia, those loudest voices Have too much power and they've mastered the abusing of that power.
01:15:34.000They don't represent the heart and soul of America.
01:15:37.000But if I may, and I may, worse than Democrats, it's hard to imagine, worse than liberalism, worse than communism and Marxism, Apathy.
01:15:50.000Conservatives who don't know their chief of police, their sheriff, their state trooper commander, their senator, their congressman, their mayor, their governor, they don't communicate.
01:15:58.000Everywhere I go, and I rock and roll and I hunt in 50 states.
01:16:02.000Yep. All those politicians work for me.
01:16:05.000And they all know what Ted Nugent stands for because I've not been afraid to speak my core values over the years.
01:16:38.000And not only did we win, we won before it even got to an election because we won so overwhelmingly because people got engaged.
01:16:44.000We have to do that not just for the president and congressmen and senators and governors.
01:16:48.000We need to start from the bottom up as well with the school boards and get involved or you're going to end up with some rainbow haired freak.
01:16:53.000Yes. Indoctrinating your children, poisoning them from day one, capturing them when they're most vulnerable to the nonsense.
01:17:01.000And then it takes years to get them back to normal.
01:17:04.000Sometimes they wake up and sometimes they never do, and that's a problem we face too.
01:17:07.000We're in the scramble of damage control because we weren't responsible enough to demand quality control.
01:17:12.000Correct. And if I may just emphasize, you and I, we come from different lifestyles in some ways, but still that spirit of the wild, the conservation instinct, has connected us.
01:17:23.000And that is a connecting link to every strata of the American society.
01:17:28.000And it's alive and well, but we created Hunter Nation.
01:17:31.000Visit HunterNation.org, and we've galvanized the most apathetic amongst us, which I'm embarrassed to say, is the hunting families.
01:17:40.000They hadn't engaged. They didn't engage.
01:17:42.000It's not really for them. But that's what I see.
01:17:45.000You know, the people who were agnostic.
01:17:47.000They sat on the sidelines. It's like, I don't trust you.
01:18:24.000This loudmouth, radical, extreme, constitutionalist guitar player, It's exactly what the Founding Fathers wanted all Americans to be.
01:18:32.000To question authority, to demand constitutional accountability, and any Neighborhood where that's considered radical, I give you a suburb of San Francisco.
01:18:44.000So take back America individually as families.
01:18:47.000Make sure your mayor, your governor, your senator, your chief of police, your sheriff, do they know you?
01:18:53.000Do they know that you support Kyle Rittenhouse, that self-defense is a natural instinctive righteousness?
01:18:59.000If they don't know you believe in that, then it's going to be like Sergeant Dan Perry in Austin who shoots a guy who attacked him with a rifle and in Texas, He was charged with murder for stopping someone from killing him.
01:19:54.000NATO says we're going to bring in Ukraine.
01:20:13.000That was the only red line. We gave Putin, and I'm not saying Putin's a good guy either, but we gave him every excuse that he needed to come across and start this war.
01:22:06.000And sometimes being governor and a mom to three kids can be a little bit challenging.
01:22:12.000I have an 11-year-old, a 10-year-old, and an 8-year-old.
01:22:14.000And so as much as I can, I try to combine things and take my kids with me as much as possible.
01:22:20.000And we were doing this pretty extended trip in Europe.
01:22:23.000And so my husband and I decided that we would take our kids with us and it would be a great opportunity for me to work but also spend some time with them.
01:22:31.000We landed in Paris and I had a couple hours before the very first event where we were going to start doing meetings and I thought, you know what, we'll go out and Experience Paris is the best way.
01:22:45.000Just sit on a little sidewalk cafe, watch people come and go, and that would be a great way for our kids to see and experience Paris for the first time.
01:22:55.000I think this is going to be such a special time.
01:22:58.000And as I look up across the street from this little cafe, instead of taking in the sights of Paris, I see that we've picked a cafe that's across the street where it's x-rated shot after x-rated shot.
01:23:11.000So we're sitting there and the entire time, instead of trying to We're, you know, taking the sights.
01:23:18.000We're trying to distract our three kids from bringing up and taking in anything.
01:23:22.000And I think we've gotten totally out of it, and we have made it in the clear.
01:23:27.000And as we're leaving, our eight-year-old George looks up and says, Mommy, can we go there?
01:23:38.000Thankfully, our trip got much better after that and we ended up with multiple new businesses and expansions of that trip.
01:23:50.000We're hoping to do the same thing here.
01:23:52.000Like I said, it's already been a great day meeting with a lot of companies that already invest and are operating in Arkansas and hopefully bringing a lot more business to this day.
01:24:03.000We know that this industry is not just A place where you get to see cool and neat things.
01:24:10.000But it really is what stands between our country having the freedoms that we get to enjoy and not.
01:24:17.000Because we know that if we can't uphold our Second Amendment, we can't defend ourselves,
01:24:22.000we can't fight for ourselves, then we cannot be a truly free country.
01:24:28.000And while we love the revenue, and we love the impact that your business has,
01:24:37.000more importantly, we love what it really means for our country long-term.
01:24:41.000And there are very few people that I know that support this industry and, frankly, the freedoms of our country.
01:24:48.000And my friend and our special guest here tonight is a little bit of a surprise.
01:24:52.000Some of you may know him as the son of our former president, soon to be new president.
01:25:00.000And we also happen to be one of the most outspoken defenders of the Second Amendment.
01:25:12.000And he's pretty outspoken about everything else.
01:25:16.000I had the opportunity to get to know him.
01:25:19.000And one of the things that I say all the time that people, I think, don't appreciate enough about the president Are that he has amazing kids.
01:25:28.000They work hard, they're humble, they're nice, they're good people, and you can't fake that.
01:25:33.000And so please help me give a warm Arkansas welcome to my good friend Donald Trump Jr.
01:25:39.000Thank you so much Sarah. I think Governor, if we're going to keep this informal, I've got to be respectful, but
01:25:50.000this woman has been absolutely amazing.
01:25:54.000She'll continue to do this. It's great seeing this, by the way.
01:25:56.000When are you going to be number one, though?
01:25:58.000We're working on it. We'll get her there, but just some of the brands, the people I know, like those of you who know me, I'm a...
01:26:11.000I know everyone in there, but it's absolutely great to be here.
01:26:14.000Thank you so much for what you're doing, the fight that you're doing.
01:26:17.000Everything that Sarah has done from day one has been awesome.
01:26:22.000You know, I look at our... Press Secretary today.
01:26:25.000It's like, well, they just don't answer questions because they don't have to.
01:26:27.000You weren't given that option, but when you did, you did it with the fight that we need to preserve our freedoms, to preserve our Constitution.
01:27:39.000He's the president of the United States.
01:27:40.000If you're the one guy going out there by yourself, And our enemies, both foreign and domestic, because there's plenty domestic, are channeling their fire on you.
01:27:54.000But now, with other people that have the guts to be unafraid, to speak up, to fight for the things that we all value, that we all believe in, I think we're sending a message to America, and I see that.
01:28:06.000As I go around the country, people are waking up.
01:28:08.000The people that were politically agnostic, the people that were sitting on the sidelines, or the people that were just honestly busy trying to feed their families, trying to live their American dream, what's left of it that hasn't been exported to China.
01:28:23.000China. We have a different vernacular right, Sarah, right?
01:29:03.000They see beyond how they've been influenced by big tech.
01:29:06.000They understand how stupidity, the lack of common sense, the America Last movement is like, which is basically, I literally can't think of anything else.
01:29:16.000I was joking. You know, oh, Manchurian candidate, Manchurian candidate, yada, yada, yada.
01:29:20.000But like, no, seriously. If you were trying to destroy America from within today, what would you do differently?
01:29:28.000Than the policies of the Democrat Party.
01:31:25.000We have tremendous companies that already operate in Arkansas.
01:31:30.000We're working to expand a lot of those businesses and also recruit new industry to come into the state.
01:31:36.000So it's a great opportunity. So you did some awesome stuff.
01:31:39.000I saw in the last couple of weeks you banned the CCP from buying land because what could possibly go rolling?
01:31:44.000You know what I mean? We would give up all our ads because the morons on the other side are fine with it because they basically are working for the CCP. Talk a little bit about that, because these are the important steps to preserving our own freedom, but also stopping our enemies from encroaching on everything that's going on.
01:32:00.000I think it's one of the most important things we can do right now, because the federal government is failing to actually protect our farmland, protect our ag industry.
01:32:09.000And we know that if a country can't feed itself, fuel itself, and fight for itself, it can't truly be free.
01:32:14.000So we have to protect our agriculture community.
01:32:16.000We passed a law this year banning any Chinese-owned company from operating and owning farmland in the state of Arkansas.
01:32:25.000We've already taken action against one company.
01:32:29.000And not only did we kick them out, but because they violated state law, we imposed the harshest penalty and they had to write us a check for $300,000.
01:32:37.000So we're going to continue taking steps like that.
01:32:40.000If the federal government won't protect our farmland, Arkansas will not.
01:32:43.000Now you've seen that they do the shale company and there's a sort of a patsy owner that doesn't actually, are you guys going all the way down?
01:32:56.000They got to feed millions of it. I could see them doing that.
01:32:59.000They bought Smithfield Farms and some of these great iconic American companies.
01:33:03.000You think you're supporting America, but you're actually supporting the CCP and they'd cut us off in a second if they could.
01:33:07.000That's exactly what they do. They use these shell companies and they put, you know, so many layers.
01:33:11.000So it takes a lot of time to do the investigative work.
01:33:14.000I'm thankful that we have a great team that is dizzying in and continuing to look at any company that's operating in the state, making sure that if you have that majority ownership in the CCP, then you don't get to operate in Arkansas anymore.
01:33:28.000How are you seeing, you're out there on the ground, right?
01:33:33.000You're great because you actually understand the people.
01:33:35.000I sort of feel like that's my strong suit, too.
01:33:37.000How do you feel about everything on the ground as someone who's been there in D.C., who's gone through the stuff, who's had the slings and arrows thrown at them just because you were in the Trump administration?
01:33:51.000I think people are paying attention now more than they ever have before.
01:33:55.000You know, I was telling somebody just this week that the energy that I see out on the campaign and around the country for your dad to be re-elected is, I think, even higher than it was in 2016.
01:34:08.000Because now it's a very different election.
01:34:11.000You have two people who have four years of a record to run on, and there could not be a greater difference between the two administrations.
01:34:19.000We have one that governed for a position of strength and actually has a great success story and everyone was doing better versus one that is a total story of failure and has governed for a position of weakness.
01:34:34.000I think your dad is in an absolutely incredible position.
01:34:39.000He's going to not only win, but win big in November.
01:34:42.000And frankly, it can't happen fast enough.
01:34:44.000All right, isn't it? Everything they said Trump was going to do, the wars, the crashing the economy, the this, the interest rates, the inflation, it's literally happening now.
01:34:53.000And so even those who've been sitting on the sidelines who don't have the time to vote, they're trying to feed their families.
01:34:59.000I get it. You can't hide from it anymore.
01:35:02.000The results, the record, they all speak for themselves.
01:35:04.000Because everybody's feeling the impact of their poor leadership, whether it's, you know, going to the grocery store, putting gas in their car, or the schools that their kids are going to.
01:35:13.000Every little thing, they're feeling it every single day, and they're tired of.
01:35:18.000And they want to go back to the leadership that they had under your dad.
01:35:22.000And I think that the contrast between the two is what is going to drive the level of enthusiasm for him to win.
01:35:29.000I love it. Guys, we talk about it every time.
01:36:07.000My dad's almost like... What are you doing?
01:36:08.000Stop it! You're holding a rattlesnake.
01:36:10.000It's insane. Well, it's a little insane.
01:36:12.000So I've done rattlesnake hunting too and it is insane.
01:36:14.000It's stupid. But that's part of what makes it fun is there's this balance to the outdoors and wildlife and the more you're out there experiencing it, the more you understand that you have to Control every predator, and rattlesnakes are a big part of it.
01:36:28.000When you do the next South Dakota rattlesnake roundup, I need an invite.
01:36:34.000Just because he can be like, you're insane.
01:36:36.000And we can also do the prairie dog hunting that we were talking about.
01:36:38.000That's good. We both have that reputation, so we'll be fine.
01:36:45.000I've seen the schedule. It's literally a minute by minute.
01:36:48.000So you're working hard for the people of South Carolina, but also the Second Amendment.
01:36:51.000Tell us a little bit about some of the initiative that you're doing.
01:36:53.000It sounds really cool. Well, so here's the deal.
01:36:55.000Since I've been governor, I have been aggressively defending the Second Amendment.
01:37:01.000People think of South Dakota as conservative, which it is.
01:37:03.000But remember, I replaced a Republican governor that vetoed twice constitutional carry.
01:37:09.000So the first bill that I signed into law was constitutional carry, and we did it in the rotunda and had a huge celebration about we have had a change in guard, and South Dakota is now going to be the biggest defender of our freedoms.
01:37:20.000And the constitutional amendment to me That is the most important is the Second Amendment, because it's the only way that the people can defend themselves from a corrupt government.
01:37:29.000So I have waived all fees on any permits in South Dakota.
01:37:33.000I even, as a state, we pay for people's federal background checks, so it doesn't cost them a penny to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
01:37:40.000And then we've been aggressively going out there and fighting a lot of these lawsuits and illegal activities that have come out of the federal government against our gun and ammunition industries.
01:37:49.000Yeah, and I think if people have been paying attention, you realize just how important it is, where you see the crime that's coming with a lot of, obviously, the border crisis and the Fennel crisis and all that.
01:37:57.000I mean, they're not going to be there to defend you.
01:38:00.000No. In some of these places, I see the stats I'm seeing from the guys, 30-40% of the gun purchases made in the last, like, 24 months, first-time gun buyers.
01:38:10.000Yes, absolutely. Because they realize it, too.
01:38:15.000And I found out when I went home last weekend that she went and got a pistol, asked for one for Christmas, but she went and took a full instructional course and she took my sister and several nieces.
01:38:27.000Without me even knowing about it, they all went and got trained and it was all just because they thought, you know what, we're not going to depend on anybody anymore.
01:38:33.000We are literally on our own with this White House and the way that it sits today.
01:38:37.000It's crazy. After the Israel attack, a lot of my friends from New York and real estate guys, a lot of my friends, Democrat, Jewish guys.
01:38:55.000And that's what we're thrilled about, is that people are paying attention.
01:38:59.000So if we are willing to go out there and be aggressively educational about it, boy, we can turn this whole country around.
01:39:06.000What I have right now going on in South Dakota is that I see the White House specifically punishing me in South Dakota.
01:39:12.000They tried actually removing some funding.
01:39:15.000Putting up roadblocks to funding that was already agreed upon about a range that you're building that sounds like a spectacular facility.
01:39:20.000We're building a world-class shooting complex.
01:39:23.000It is going to be short-range clay shooting, shotgun ranges, long-range target shooting, built so that we can host national and international competitions, but also start programs and facilitate ones in our state that are training our youth and making sure that everybody's well-equipped and And building out a lot of our heritage and passing that on to the next generation.
01:39:44.000But it was always a partnership before we even broke ground that it was going to be partially state dollars that we funded and I dedicated.
01:39:52.000Partially private industry because everything we do is a private-public partnership.
01:39:56.000And then we were going to use federal dollars to use as well that Fish and Wildlife and Interior had signed off on, fully approved.
01:40:05.000And then we found out a week before we broke ground that they changed their minds.
01:40:09.000They've decided that they will no longer allow those dollars to be qualified, and it is just specifically to go after rifle ranges.
01:40:15.000It's specifically to go after a Second Amendment, and me personally.
01:40:18.000So basically, my attitude has been, screw you.
01:40:21.000We will build it, and we're going to build it bigger, and we're going to do it without you.
01:40:24.000Well, I see you out there working, talking with a lot of the private companies that are actually going to fund this, and that's what's sort of cool about SHOT. I mean, obviously, it's a business, but people do give back.
01:40:33.000I always talk about, for shooting, you need that mentor.
01:40:51.000Sort of the attack on the individual FFL dealers.
01:40:53.000Yes, that's true. You know, there was a procedural error in your thing.
01:40:55.000We're taking away your license. That's your, you know, million dollar family business.
01:40:59.000Just gone. Yeah. These are these people's livelihoods and they're just, they're toying with it like you wouldn't believe.
01:41:05.000I had a little lady in her 80s that had been a firearms dealer for generations, her family had been, and they went after her.
01:41:12.000And I had to specifically and personally step up, help her with her legal defenses and team just coordinating with her in order for them not to send this little old 80-year-old woman to jail.
01:41:22.000Just because they wanted to persecute her.
01:41:24.000Yeah, they won't go after the big guys because they know the big guys have the money to fund it.
01:41:27.000But the little guy, you could actually be right, but it doesn't matter.
01:41:30.000It doesn't matter. Because you can't withstand...
01:41:31.000Well, your father has proven that they'll go after the big guys, too.
01:41:34.000That's a solid point. I guess they'll do whatever they want to do.
01:41:37.000They'll do a little bit of both. But it's a new time in this country.
01:41:45.000It's weird for someone that I think there's that demographic to be this out there in front defending the Second Amendment, but it's a part of my life.
01:41:54.000I grew up that way. Every family vacation was a hunting trip.
01:41:57.000It was time spent with my dad and my family where we made memories, and it made me better informed about conservation, about wildlife.
01:42:05.000When I'm lucky enough to draw that West River tag, I spend a lot of time in South Dakota.
01:42:10.000Me too. So, we have a couple of buddies that literally have this old family ranch, and they always invite us out.
01:42:17.000And when I'm lucky enough to draw that tag...
01:42:18.000I'd love to say I can pull some strings, but I don't know if I can.
01:42:21.000Oh, by the way, if I got the governor's tag...
01:42:24.000I want to call you about the sheep one.
01:42:26.000Don't worry about the deer. That'll put in for him.
01:42:27.000But the sheep one, that gets a little crazy.
01:42:29.000That one. I'll call you. We'll do that.
01:42:31.000So one more thing, I see when you're out here working, I saw yesterday with Sarah Sanders, governor down in Arkansas.
01:42:37.000I saw she was the number three state for pro-gun bringing in businesses.
01:42:43.000Are you actually also out there recruiting some of these companies to come to South Dakota to bring that business?
01:42:48.000So what do you do for them to make that attractive?
01:42:50.000Everything. Beyond the freedom. So we have no income taxes, no personal property taxes.
01:42:55.000The only tax we have in our state is a 4.2% sales tax.
01:43:00.000And we made the largest tax cut in South Dakota history last year is what I got passed through our state legislature.
01:43:07.000With that, we are still, with these companies, telling them, we'll build buildings for you.
01:43:11.000We'll give you land. I will train your workforce for the first two years of any training they need to have the technical skills to do the manufacturing that you need, the gunsmithing you need.
01:43:20.000Whatever it takes, we will do that for you.
01:43:24.000For us, giving them millions of dollars to come to our state is a different situation because we're not going to tax you like many of these other states are going to do.
01:43:34.000I know. I know we have land and assets, and we are not going to ever be a state that will come after you with regulatory provisions that will impact you or hurt you.
01:43:44.000That we are friendly, and we're going to promote you and be proud of you.
01:43:47.000And we do it through all of our events, the way we talk.
01:43:51.000I started a habitat program as soon as I became governor, put in a conservation program, the first time ever in the state.
01:43:57.000On working lands, we have more public access areas than we've ever had in the history of our state.
01:44:03.000Landowners that are coming to the table on a new way to do it and started a predator bounty program again, which was hugely controversial.
01:44:10.000Which is ridiculous, but it's always the people who know nothing about it.
01:44:14.000They bring that stuff to D.C. So they can fight it with heartstrings, not with logic or actual on-the-ground experiences.
01:44:19.000PETA was horrible. I mean, just awful.
01:44:22.000But, you know, we're paying $10 a tail for...
01:44:29.000So, yeah, it's amazing to me how if we don't do these things and don't stay out in front that...
01:44:34.000And what I've had other governors tell me, Donnie, is that they say, Christy, when you do this stuff, when you are so out there, you know, like even during COVID, when you didn't shut down your state, when you didn't mandate stuff, it gave us cover.
01:44:48.000Yeah. You know, honestly, you were the crazy one.
01:44:50.000You gave them cover, but they still did the other things.
01:45:20.000As far as I'm concerned, I've already been gifted more days than he got.
01:45:24.000And I want to, when I'm done, just be able to say I actually did something that mattered.
01:45:29.000And so that's, there's no other place to do that with more Patriots than here at SHOT Show and to make sure we've got a plan to actually win.
01:46:49.000Which doesn't exactly suck, because I get to do it with my kids.
01:46:51.000but I appreciate everything that Congressional Sportsman does.
01:46:55.000There's not a lot of bipartisanship in politics these days anymore.
01:47:00.000That's why when they're reluctant to give me the mic because I will revoke your 501c3 status so fast your heads will spin.
01:47:08.000But we will save that for another day.
01:47:10.000But I'm excited about being here, talking about the Patriot economy, bringing other corporations in there for things that we can all agree on, protecting our Second Amendment rights, protecting our ability to be in the outdoors, all of the things and values that have done so much for me, for my children, for our families. And it's just great to be a part of this organization and for really bringing A new level of corporate America back into that.
01:48:05.000But unfortunately, many of the largest companies in this country today no longer respect those things.
01:48:11.000So I pinched at Don, what if we created a marketplace Full of businesses that would align with the Constitution.
01:48:19.000They would agree with the principles of this country, and he said we're all in.
01:48:23.000Now, I'm happy to say that Public Square, you can find the platform at publicsquare.com, we built this incredible marketplace of over 75,000 businesses in 18 months that love the country, the Constitution, and the values that that wonderful document protects.
01:48:41.000All of you, Are fighting the good fight in incredible industry positions.
01:48:46.000You are on the front lines, cherishing what should be seen as an endowed, untouchable right and responsibility and privilege, which is the Second Amendment.
01:48:59.000The Second Amendment is so fundamental to this country, and you all are on the front lines of protecting that.
01:49:04.000What we are trying to do is make sure that when you're looking to bank, when you're looking for insurance, When you're looking for customers, when you're looking for software platforms, you have resources that would never cancel you, but instead will celebrate the very fact that you exist and they want to help you grow.
01:49:23.000So that's what we're doing at publicsquare.com.
01:49:34.000And come reach out at our booth if you were interested in hearing more.
01:49:37.000Thanks, everyone. And off to Dusty here.
01:49:40.000We announced today a really cool partnership and I'm excited for you guys to hear about it.
01:49:45.000Thanks, everyone. Appreciate you being here today.
01:49:48.000We started in this industry about five years ago with a very simple idea that we wanted to bring financial services catered to the fire and business school.
01:49:59.000We saw that it has been beaten down over the years by the banks and credit card companies.
01:50:05.000So five years ago, we launched a buy-down-pay-later consumer winning.
01:50:08.000We were running out here trying to build relationships.
01:50:11.000A lot of you opened your arms to us, trusted us, And I can say now, after five years, we have financed over a quarter billion dollars in firearm transactions.
01:50:26.000Thank you guys for all that you've done for our company, trusting us.
01:50:30.000We're excited to bring Public Square into this fight with us to protect the Second Amendment.
01:50:36.000We're excited to bring you more financial services from groups that you can trust, that know that we're going to stand behind the ethics of liberty on the Second Amendment.
01:50:45.000So again, thank you all for trusting us and letting us be here, and we're looking forward to serving you for many more years.
01:50:50.000Thanks everyone. Okay, guys, I hope you enjoyed that.
01:50:56.000That was a lot of fun. It was a crazy week.
01:50:57.000I totally lost my voice between, like I said, I was working like five different gigs there.
01:51:03.000I had sort of the political hat on with some of the governors.
01:51:05.000I had, obviously, visiting the guys that sponsor us and advertise with us over at Field Ethos.
01:51:12.000You had the stuff we're doing with Michael Seifert at Public Square, obviously, on the Patriot economy, plus their partnership with Cordova for the gun space.
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