Tonight on Triggered, I'm joined by my daughter, Kai, who gave her first speech ever last night at the Republican National Convention. We also have Hulk Hogan, Dana White, Kid Rock and more on the final night of the convention. And as always, we have some fun guests, including my oldest daughter and the eldest granddaughter of the President of the United States, Kai Madison Trump, who joins me live on camera to talk about a variety of topics including her relationship with her father, Donald Trump Jr., and how she grew up in the shadow of her famous Grandpa Donald Trump Sr. and what it was like to grow up with him as a kid. I also talk about the time he tried to get inside my head when he was a kid, and how he's a great golfing Grandpa. And of course, I get a chance to ask him some questions about his golf game, which is a first for me. Enjoy the episode and tweet me if you liked it! with your thoughts on the episode! Timestamps: 1:00 - Lou Dobbs 4:30 - My daughter's speech 6:15 - My son's golf game 8:00 9:20 - What's it like to be a kid with my dad? 11:40 - How I grew up with my Grandpa? 13:30 16:00- My Grandpa is a normal guy 17:30- My dad is a great golfer? 18:20- My golf game? 19: What does he do to me? 21: What is it like playing golf? 22:15- My first impressions of my grandpa s? 27:40- How I'm a normal Grandpa s biggest weakness? 29:15 32:00 | My first impression of my Grandma? 31:30 | I'm just kidding? 33:40 | I m a normal kid? 35:00 // 36:15 | I don't let him get to know me yet? 36:40 37:00 My Dad is a good guy? 39:10 | I think he's just like that? 38:00 What do you think I'm not a little cute? 41:00 How do you like it? 42:00 Is he a good one? 45:00 Can you be a little shy? 47:00
00:01:17.000This is a 17-year-old girl who's with me.
00:01:20.000When we got the news about my father being shot, she's the one that's the golfer, so she's with him every weekend, and they talk all the time, and they have a special relationship.
00:01:29.000And this little girl, she's not so little anymore maybe, but quite little girl, called me up and said, I want to speak at the RNC.
00:01:39.000To jump onto the RNC at that stage, you know, 30,000 people live, tens of millions on TV, and she absolutely crushed it, so I'm going to talk with her.
00:01:50.000Hulk's going to be speaking at the conference tonight, along with some other great speakers.
00:01:55.000Dana White, I know Kid Rock's playing, but Hulk Hogan's going to be here.
00:01:58.000We were supposed to have JD Vance, but he got sucked into a fundraiser stupidly, and now I got to get... So, you know, they forget really quickly.
00:02:05.000I'm going to give them a hard time about that one later on, but...
00:07:33.000I was like, but what, what made, what were you thinking before that?
00:07:36.000Cause we've never even had that conversation.
00:07:38.000I mean really like after what happened I thought I should just because I mean what happened was horrible and I thought I can maybe make a change in that and not just not like political change just tell everyone about my grandpa.
00:07:54.000Yeah you actually you know what people most people don't know you know my dad doesn't hang around with a lot of teenagers but uh you guys have a really unique relationship because of golf and uh you know you're the little rock star golfer in our family and that's what that's his sort of passion and so You guys probably spend more time together than anyone.
00:08:14.000So I think this one probably... You ticked this one pretty personal, because you do have that, like you spoke about in the speech.
00:08:19.000You have, you know... We have that relationship.
00:08:21.000You joke, you compete with each other when you're on the same team.
00:08:23.000It's good when you're not on the same team.
00:08:25.000He's playing the same games he is with, like, you know, a real business guy that he really wants to beat.
00:08:49.000You can tell she's a Trump, not only that she has the guts to get up on a stage like that and to do that, but she also knows what not to say sometimes, which isn't our strongest suit, but that was probably a very smart tactical decision to not talk about possibly outdriving Grandpa on occasion, right?
00:09:07.000Yeah, he wouldn't really like if I discussed that today.
00:09:11.000Like, listen, we helped you, you know, try to prep and you did such a good job, but what was it like?
00:09:17.000You know, it sounds like a great idea at the time.
00:09:19.000And then was there ever a moment where it was like, you walk out into that arena, even when during the prep times, you're like, Oh my god, like this isn't just like speaking in front of a classroom.
00:09:55.000At first, my only concern was like, hey, don't cry, because I don't want to ruin and destroy my long-held reputation of being a total jerk.
00:10:05.000If they saw me crying, they'd say I'm human.
00:11:55.000He likes, you know, he doesn't want Putin to see that he he's soft and he cares about anything or whatever it may be.
00:12:01.000So I thought it was the best speech of the night and As a Trump, I'm a little disappointed that you gave that speech because it overshadowed my incredibly brilliant and perfectly delivered speech of the evening, which really pisses me off, but I thought it was amazing.
00:12:15.000And if I'm gonna lose to someone, especially a 17-year-old girl, I am glad that it is you, Kai.
00:12:20.000So, you're the best, and I love you so, so much.
00:13:55.000Trump is this new rabble rouser in the party.
00:13:58.000I mean, I think you may have been there when I almost got in a fight with Mike Lee, like a senator on the floor because they were trying to do this deal.
00:14:03.000Now he's literally one of my closest friends in politics.
00:14:10.000I mean, can you talk about the difference?
00:14:12.000Yeah, look, you know, it makes sense when you just kind of look at the evolution of politics, how, you know, it was, I think the Republican Party, like the Democratic Party, was controlled by a bunch of elites.
00:14:23.000And what the Democrats are going through right now is, is it's going to be unbelievable.
00:14:28.000If they try to replace Joe Biden, ignore 50 states that voted for him, and suddenly a group of elites at the convention decide to dump him and replace him with
00:14:41.000who they want, to me that's where we were in 16. It was, we had an
00:14:47.000outsider, we had an insurgent coming in and saying, you know, what I love in looking back is Donald
00:14:56.000Trump critiqued the Bushes, the McCains, and the Romneys.
00:15:01.000And everybody said, if you do that, you will never win a primary.
00:15:05.000And not only did he win the primary, but he won the general.
00:17:08.000I mean, I said, it doesn't matter if it's Joe Kamala, frankly, any other Democrat at this point, because their policies are what have caused the chaos around the world.
00:17:15.000They're causing the wars, they're doing this, so it's interesting.
00:17:18.000I mean, and I would imagine, there's, I've been saying for a while, like, there is a part of me that says, like, I almost rather run against Kamala Harris, especially, like, I don't think she's gonna resonate well in the Rust Belt.
00:18:13.000You know, we're gonna have a gay guy next, then we're gonna have an Asian, then we're gonna have a... But the straight white guy's picking everybody the whole time.
00:18:28.000That may be too X-rated even for Rumble, but I want to get your take, Rick, obviously.
00:18:35.000You know, a lot's changed in a couple of days.
00:18:37.000You saw, you know, a literal assassination attempt on my father.
00:18:40.000But someone who's not just a guy with a Secret Service detail, but also the presumptive nominee, so a pretty built-up Secret Service detail.
00:19:07.000I don't want to be the guy to get conspiratorial, but how do you not?
00:19:12.000How is there that kind of breakdown for a presumptive nominee?
00:19:18.000It seems like lunacy, and that the Secret Service Director is running away from active senators who want to ask real questions of them, and she doesn't feel obligated to respond or speak to them?
00:20:56.000For him to... By the way, and also, the other crazy part of it is he's pointing to an immigration chart, ironically, but I've been to dozens, maybe a hundred rallies.
00:21:22.000It is the hand of God, but here's the other thing is that I don't want... I mean, a congressional investigation is dumb.
00:21:31.000I also don't want the FBI to give me the pre-written report that they wrote on Friday, the day before it happened.
00:21:40.000Everything was fine, there was a breakdown, they'll blame it on some local cop who's the fall guy and nothing will actually happen.
00:21:46.000I don't believe a radicalized 20-year-old, radicalized enough to try to shoot my father in the face It's the only 20-year-old in the world that doesn't have a social media footprint at all.
00:22:25.000That doesn't take a congressional investigation.
00:22:27.000That takes someone saying, we messed up, we didn't think about it, we got confused, local cops were supposed to do it, we thought, whatever.
00:24:22.000I mean, the way I look at it, it's like, hey, if reasonable, successful people that are doing this, if they're at the point where they're getting radicalized against our government because of the constant failures, what's like the Florida man?
00:24:36.000What's going through that guy's head right now?
00:24:39.000I want to say this, Don, because I really mean it, is that Avril Haines, who's the Director of National Intelligence, she's had so many failures where she's been silent.
00:25:54.000I couldn't do anything without them being all over me.
00:25:58.000Well, and that's precisely... Why is there a different standard for a Director of National Intelligence just because they happen to be, you know, a Democrat?
00:26:06.000I mean, and why does the people who hold them account?
00:26:09.000When do the strongly worded letters from members of Congress, like, when does that get old even for our guys?
00:26:43.000Yeah, the October 7th one is another one like that, which is like, you mean like between us and the Israelis, like, you know, the IDF and or Mossad, like a guarded fence, like they got mobilized like air scooters, like, right.
00:28:18.000You were a DNI, but this stuff would still go on, because they'd keep information even from you, I'm sure.
00:28:22.000Or, you know, just... It's sort of like when people would deal with my father, when they want an answer.
00:28:27.000It may not be the best answer for my father, but they want the answer that they're on someone's payroll to get, or whatever it is.
00:28:32.000So they show up and they're like, Here's what you need to know.
00:28:35.000And they conveniently leave out all of this information, which was the other stuff you'd need to know that would negate the answer that they want.
00:31:48.000So what do you expect from the speech tonight?
00:31:51.000You know, if you look at Melania's letter, which I think is very similar to Nancy Reagan's letter and moment and her conversations and her actions after Ronald Reagan was shot, I think it's, I think everybody's a changed member of the family.
00:33:13.000I think if you take the Nancy Reagan example, She became more protective of Ronald Reagan, but she also became more hostile to the political process.
00:33:27.000She became more aggressive about saying, that's a political phony, get him out of here.
00:33:32.000And people really were in awe of how much she started flexing.
00:33:36.000So I think the family, the Trump family, the people who are loyalists to President Trump, are the ones now that are going to be a little louder about protecting President Trump and saying, These people are just too political and fake.
00:33:50.000They're not equipped to run departments or agencies or the Secret Service.
00:33:56.000We've got to be careful as to who we're putting in because they're just simply political types that aren't interested in reform, aren't interested in making Washington better.
00:34:08.000The next paycheck and whoever's going to get them the next paycheck or to what they'll sell you down the river in two seconds to get that next appointment or whatever it may be.
00:34:16.000Talk a little bit about some of your efforts sort of on the side.
00:34:19.000You're out there sort of doing some, you know, get out the vote type of stuff.
00:34:23.000You're mobilizing people in places that they wouldn't otherwise be mobilized.
00:34:26.000You know, by the first things like the text message I just got after the hey, I hope your dad's OK.
00:34:31.000It was like, well, now that the election's in the bag, what are you going to do for the next four months?
00:34:53.000We got 10 billion votes in a country of 330 million and they'd sell it and the media would go along with it and big tech would be like, how dare you?
00:34:58.000And anyone who says, seems like I don't know, like 30 times the population of the country.
00:35:32.000So I'm doing a lot of work in the swing states.
00:35:35.000Where's the primary focus for you there?
00:35:39.000So we're doing Arab Americans in Detroit and Phoenix, two swing states of Michigan and Arizona.
00:35:49.000We're trying to get the vote out with Serbs, which are a big part in Wisconsin.
00:35:54.000We did a big Serbs for Trump event here this week.
00:35:58.000We're working really hard to get the Albanians out.
00:36:01.000Albanians are huge numbers in Detroit, so in that swing state,
00:36:05.000and in Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania area.
00:36:12.000We're really trying to register conservatives who are sitting on the sidelines.
00:36:17.000I'm doing a lot of this in California, but we're moving into the swing states now to target people who are sitting on the sidelines digitally.
00:37:47.000They look at filling up their gas tank.
00:37:50.000It's dramatically different under Joe Biden.
00:37:53.000These are simple issues that I think we win on when we remind people But the reason why things are costing a lot more is because Joe Biden doesn't have us drilling for energy, oil.
00:38:07.000We're not doing liquid natural gas, LNG, like we should.
00:38:11.000There's not a single terminal on the West Coast of America to be able to take our LNG supply and go into Asia to sell that.
00:38:47.000We've got too many people who are all politics.
00:38:50.000And that's why, you know, the Democrats, when I look at how they're going to just toss Joe Biden off after a primary, it's because they're political.
00:38:58.000They're reading a poll, Don, and they're like, oh, you know what?
00:39:03.000What's to say in the future when they have a primary again and the people pick that the elites don't come in and say, no, you didn't perform that well.
00:39:26.000The things they're accusing us, they're doing.
00:39:28.000We're just getting a live update from the New York Times that people close to Biden say he appears to accept he may have to leave the race.
00:39:36.000Look how many, though, qualifiers are in there.
00:39:59.000Whenever you see Peter Baker's name on anything, he's a hardcore left activist Democrat whose wife is also a phony journalist and pretending to be unbiased.
00:40:30.000Mark Halperin is pretty juiced, but I do have to say, you know, a lot of people are chasing this story, and I think that among political types, Yeah, top Dems say Biden will drop out maybe by the weekend.
00:40:56.000You know, if they stop working on them and the fundraising stops, you know.
00:40:59.000Yeah, they're all talking to each other.
00:41:00.000I don't see Joe wanting to do it because with the Hunter stuff still sort of unknown and out there, will they just sort of give him a handshake guarantee like, hey, well, we'll pardon Hunter.
00:42:15.000Peter Baker is so outraged that his party has a guy who's gonna lose, so they're working to try to will it into existence, rather than Peter Baker writing to say, why is The elites trying to undermine our democracy.
00:42:33.000Joe Biden ran the Joe Biden of December 2023.
00:42:37.000Very similar to the Joe Biden of July of 2024.
00:42:40.000No one's going to tell me that suddenly the media woke up in July of 2024 to dementia.
00:43:22.000Even if I was a Democrat voter, it's never going to happen these days, but if I was, don't they have to answer the Democrat voters at this point?
00:43:58.000It takes a lot, frankly, to support programming like this because we actually have real conversations and talk shit that needs to be said.
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00:45:01.000So, Rick, speaking of that, you know, we're talking about that sort of inflation.
00:45:04.000I was with a bunch of reporters this week and many of them from, you know, I have cordial relationships with clearly from sort of hostile reporting.
00:45:11.000And, you know, one of them may have been, you know, the Washington Post or New York Times or whatever it may be.
00:45:16.000I won't name names, but the economic numbers are really good for Joe Biden.
00:45:21.000They're moving in the right direction.
00:45:22.000Is this the time when you're talking about $4.50 gas, and it came down to $4.49 gas?
00:45:28.000And it's like, look, it's going in the right direction.
00:45:31.000Because I literally was like, I'd argue that with you right now.
00:47:17.000She's never been vetted, so I say if they dump him, there'll be a couple of weeks of pretending like she's amazing, and then as soon as she starts doing a few interviews, she'll collapse.
00:48:57.000I have a live TV hit elsewhere, so We'll do that and I promise we're going to get Hulk Hogan on in an episode in the not too distant future.