Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - Interview With Your Favorite President on the New Book "Letters To Trump"

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00:00:08.000 you hey guys Thursday April 27th and I want to welcome you to

00:00:42.000 another major episode of triggered because tonight we have a special one for you

00:00:47.000 I sit down with my, and your, favorite president, also happens to be my father, President Donald J. Trump.

00:00:56.000 He has a new book out called Letters to Trump, and it captures...

00:01:01.000 Some of the correspondence with some of the biggest names in history throughout the last 40 years.

00:01:06.000 We're going to talk a little about hypocrisy and irony and also talk about the state of 2024, the race, the MAGA movement, our country, and so much more.

00:01:17.000 I think you're going to like it because I think you're going to be really surprised given the narrative of the last few years just who used to kiss his ass.

00:01:26.000 So I think we'll try to have some fun with that one.

00:01:29.000 It's always interesting interviewing my father, right?

00:01:31.000 It's just a little bit different.

00:01:33.000 But coming up first, let's do a little rundown of some of the top news headlines of the week.

00:01:40.000 Because there's some big ones.

00:01:42.000 Joe Biden says he's running in 2024.

00:01:46.000 And he announces with a video of January 6th.

00:01:51.000 Biden claims he's running in 2024.

00:01:53.000 Now, he didn't announce it with some grand, inspiring speech, a big talk in front of everyone.

00:02:01.000 Instead, he decided to fuel more hysteria about his fellow Americans by calling them MAGA extremists and claiming the country is under attack.

00:02:12.000 Check it out for yourself.

00:02:14.000 Freedom.

00:02:27.000 Personal freedom is fundamental to who you are as Americans.

00:02:30.000 There's nothing more important, nothing more sacred.

00:02:33.000 That's been the work of my first term.

00:02:35.000 To fight for our democracy.

00:02:37.000 Remember, guys, this is the same guy who basically said that 75 million Trump voters were the greatest threat to democracy behind, or in front of, I guess we should say, that draconian, red, fascist-looking wall.

00:02:53.000 Remember, the guy that was going to bring unity to America is really doing anything but that and will literally spend time, resources, and a whole lot of time Going after and attacking half of the country's electorate.

00:03:10.000 What democracy exactly is Joe Biden protecting?

00:03:15.000 Democrats will put you in prison for a meme.

00:03:18.000 We've seen that in the last few weeks.

00:03:20.000 They'll put peaceful protesters in prison for two years, i.e.

00:03:24.000 January 6th, simply to fulfill their narrative.

00:03:28.000 They'll take the exculpatory evidence and the video of that and make sure that no one sees it for years.

00:03:35.000 They're all about censorship and control, mystery ballot boxing showing up in the middle of the night.

00:03:41.000 That's not democracy, folks.

00:03:44.000 You'll notice that unlike any other majority presidential candidate, he announced through an edited video, highly edited, and not a speech, They're gonna try to hide Joe Biden like they did in 2020 in his basement.

00:04:05.000 And for good reason.

00:04:06.000 He's unable to function.

00:04:09.000 Reporters at his press conference have to give the White House their questions and their picture beforehand.

00:04:16.000 Don't believe me? Just look at the pictures.

00:04:19.000 So Joe Biden can prepare an answer.

00:04:21.000 Or worse, perhaps the White House is giving the reporters the questions they're allowed to supposedly ask so that he can be prepared.

00:04:30.000 He is incapable of thinking on his feet, and he just got caught.

00:04:37.000 Imagine if you would for a second that this was Donald Trump.

00:04:41.000 These are the people who claim democracy dies in darkness.

00:04:45.000 And they're acting as an arm of the Biden White House.

00:04:49.000 These same so-called journalists are the same ones celebrating Tucker Carlson leaving his primetime show on Fox News.

00:04:56.000 They love every aspect of it.

00:04:58.000 The one guy who actually spoke truth to power.

00:05:04.000 The one guy that actually questioned.

00:05:07.000 These supposed journalists...

00:05:09.000 Are regime propagandists and nothing else.

00:05:14.000 They're an embarrassment to the institution of journalism.

00:05:18.000 And if we weren't living in 2023, they'd be ashamed of themselves.

00:05:23.000 The legends of that profession are rolling over in their graves, watching journalists turn into sheep and spokespeople for the Democrat Party.

00:05:34.000 And by the way, what accomplishments is Biden actually going to run on?

00:05:39.000 An open border that rapists, murderers, and fentanyl floods across?

00:05:45.000 Putting us on the brink of World War III? Record high gas prices, inflation?

00:05:51.000 No, no, no. Bloomberg will run an article saying that he's created more jobs than any president ever!

00:05:58.000 Because, uh, they allowed people to go back to work after shutting them down?

00:06:04.000 You can't make this stuff up anymore, folks.

00:06:07.000 And will Biden ever actually take any responsibility?

00:06:12.000 Will there ever be any accountability?

00:06:14.000 He still hasn't visited the residents of East Palestine, Ohio, after the toxic rail derailment.

00:06:20.000 And here's what the mayor had to say last night while endorsing Trump 2024.

00:06:29.000 We appreciate it. We have no idea how much we appreciate that.

00:06:32.000 Like I said, it really changed things.

00:06:36.000 And that's why, if you do not employ anymore, I support your father's great election.

00:06:41.000 Okay, I... Got to go up there.

00:06:50.000 I got to go up to East Palestine right after the accident.

00:06:54.000 I was speaking at a Lincoln Day dinner in Columbiana County and the mayor was there and he showed up.

00:07:01.000 And that's a hero. That's someone who stood on the front lines of a toxic chemical spill.

00:07:10.000 One of the greatest environmental disasters in our country.

00:07:14.000 And he led And he himself thanked my father, President Trump, for showing up and bringing attention to the disaster.

00:07:24.000 My father had said he's going to fight for the forgotten man and woman of America.

00:07:29.000 And he meant it. And he did just that.

00:07:32.000 And in two short years, that's all gone by the wayside.

00:07:37.000 There's no great policies being hashed out in the White House.

00:07:41.000 Joe Biden can barely walk up a flight of stairs.

00:07:44.000 No, America's most famous home is instead acting as perhaps the most expensive, publicly funded, old age home, and also the place where Joe Biden's crackhead son is possibly hiding out from his stripper baby mama.

00:08:05.000 Now, according to the New York Post, reported that Hunter Biden may be living in the White

00:08:12.000 House in an attempt to evade legal papers from his baby mama.

00:08:17.000 Now imagine for one second if it was Don Jr.

00:08:20.000 We've discussed this one before and it's nothing new.

00:08:23.000 Imagine it was Don Jr.

00:08:24.000 laptop from hell.

00:08:26.000 Imagine if it was Don Jr.

00:08:27.000 smoking crack with prostitutes or talking about how the Russian mob has his laptop and

00:08:31.000 may weaponize it against his father and the presidency.

00:08:35.000 You know, these would be kind of big stories, but it's no wonder Joe Biden will only take

00:08:41.000 questions from approved journalists that have been vetted and explained.

00:08:46.000 And he's probably got an earpiece to guide him along that process, seeing as we have pictures of him daily being led around because he does not know where he is.

00:08:56.000 How would he explain this one anyway?

00:08:59.000 The facts aren't on their side.

00:09:01.000 That's why they want to silence and censor anyone who challenges their grip on power.

00:09:08.000 And the media is totally complicit.

00:09:11.000 Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went on MSNBC on Sunday and called for the government to go after Tucker Carlson.

00:09:20.000 The next day, Fox canceled his show.

00:09:24.000 AOC and the leftists, they celebrated and put out videos where she explicitly said, quote, deplatforming works.

00:09:36.000 Watch the clip and see for yourself.

00:09:40.000 Deplatforming works, and it is important, and there you go.

00:09:46.000 Good things can happen. They just say it.

00:09:51.000 The quiet part is out loud these days.

00:09:55.000 They want to censor you.

00:10:12.000 They're gonna not let him say anything.

00:10:15.000 Just watch.

00:10:16.000 They're gonna prevent him from having another platform where he can question the uni-party, where he can question the warmongers, where he can question the elite and the globalists.

00:10:28.000 Just watch what they're gonna try to do.

00:10:31.000 And also watch who's gonna be silent.

00:10:34.000 Watch who's not going to come to his defense on both sides, because that's the problem that we have to surmount.

00:10:41.000 They have total control, and they love it that way, because that's what this has always been about.

00:10:47.000 If there's one thing that threatens the political establishment, it's free and independent thought.

00:10:54.000 And they cancel the big one on Monday.

00:10:58.000 They canceled another one with Dan Bongino last week, and they're gonna cancel anyone that gets in the way, even if they're their top performers, because it's not really about that.

00:11:09.000 It's about the power. One senator anonymously, anonymously, told The Hill this week that he's happy that Tucker's show is no longer on the air because it'll make it easier to gain support for the war in Ukraine.

00:11:24.000 Remember, we can't fund our own borders.

00:11:28.000 We can't protect our borders, but we'll fund theirs.

00:11:30.000 We couldn't spend $3 billion to complete our wall, but we can spend $130 to fight a proxy war, and it seems an actual war, with Russia, the world's largest nuclear power by number of nuclear warheads.

00:11:47.000 Tucker broke his silence last night and made it clear that the establishment media is broken, and we'll be hearing more from him soon.

00:11:55.000 I can't wait. Check out the clip.

00:11:57.000 Some-charges know this. That's why they're hysterical and aggressive.

00:12:00.000 They're afraid. They've given up persuasion.

00:12:03.000 They're resorting to force.

00:12:05.000 But it won't work.

00:12:06.000 When honest people say what's true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful.

00:12:13.000 At the same time, the liars who've been trying to silence them shrink and they become weaker.

00:12:19.000 That's the iron law of the universe.

00:12:21.000 True things prevail.

00:12:23.000 Where can you still find Americans saying true things?

00:12:26.000 There aren't many places left, but there are some, and that's enough.

00:12:30.000 As long as you can hear the words, there is hope.

00:12:33.000 See you soon. While people like AOC want Tucker censored, not a finger is lifted by Democrats to go after all this sick stuff going in in their own party.

00:12:49.000 The degeneracy that we see every week.

00:12:51.000 You saw last week Washington Democrats wanted to take children away from their parents if they didn't go along with their gender affirmation surgery and insanity.

00:13:05.000 And this week, Democrats in Minnesota are putting forward a bill that would open the possibility to pedophilia.

00:13:14.000 Pedophiles. Being a protected category when it comes to matters of discrimination.

00:13:20.000 Like, being gay, you can't discriminate against a pedophile.

00:13:25.000 That's today's Democratic Party.

00:13:27.000 They actually got rid of language excluding pedophilia as a protected category.

00:13:35.000 Oh yeah, guys, it's just a conspiracy theory, right?

00:13:38.000 They have acronyms like MAPS, you know, minor attracted persons, and YAPS, youth attracted persons.

00:13:47.000 They're making this stuff common vernacular.

00:13:50.000 They're trying to normalize it.

00:13:52.000 They're attacking anything that is good, just, and decent, and innocent about our country and our children.

00:14:01.000 Just think about that.

00:14:03.000 Why on earth would they want to eliminate that exclusion?

00:14:07.000 Unless, unless, they're for it.

00:14:11.000 You see, in Florida, they're gonna shut down some of the pride parades because there's legislation out there that says you can't wave dildos and explicit stuff in front of children.

00:14:23.000 So you're gonna cancel the parade because you can't do it for the children?

00:14:27.000 Huh. Another conspiracy theory.

00:14:30.000 They're not groomers, folks.

00:14:31.000 Don't use that word. That's terrible.

00:14:33.000 You'll be censored and canceled.

00:14:36.000 Why else would they need to be performing in front of children?

00:14:41.000 No one says you can't do your ridiculous drag queen for adults, but the fact that they can't do it in front of children, that's going to be where they draw the line?

00:14:50.000 That's the problem?

00:14:52.000 There's no end in satisfying the depravity of these sickos.

00:14:56.000 They're sick, and unfortunately...

00:15:00.000 They're going to keep going. But, fortunately, Elon Musk now owns Twitter, and he's actually suspending some accounts.

00:15:08.000 There was an account that created a pedophilia flag.

00:15:11.000 You know, it's like a slightly modified version of, like, the trans-LBGTQIA++++++. You can't remember all the anacronomes anymore because no one even knows what the hell they're talking about.

00:15:24.000 But they created a pedophilia flag.

00:15:27.000 Apparently, quote, youth-attracted persons need representation.

00:15:33.000 It's disgusting, and I'm glad they removed that off Twitter.

00:15:36.000 Now, they don't talk about that, but in the meantime, they talk about Republicans.

00:15:40.000 They're trying to burn books.

00:15:42.000 They're censoring books. No, no, no.

00:15:43.000 Republicans don't want you showing porn to minors in their school libraries.

00:15:48.000 Okay? Degenerate stuff.

00:15:50.000 But, again, the mainstream media won't talk about that.

00:15:54.000 They'll pretend it's something else.

00:15:57.000 Meanwhile, the Democrats are the true fascists, actually trying to prevent anyone from having another thought.

00:16:02.000 They've tried canceling them on social, as we've seen from the Twitter files and everything that's come out with there.

00:16:07.000 But again, when you have big tech, when you have the mainstream media, when you have big social, and it's all on your side and they're functioning as the marketing department for the degenerate Democrats, Hey man, it's hard to overcome that.

00:16:20.000 That becomes the narrative.

00:16:21.000 And guys, we know there's only one man that's standing in the way of all of this nonsense and all of the insanity, and that's why they're so hell-bent on taking down Donald Trump.

00:16:35.000 Here's an example of how committed these left-wing lunatics are.

00:16:40.000 LinkedIn founder And Democrat mega-donor Reid Hoffman is apparently funding writer E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit against my father.

00:16:53.000 You know? And if you haven't seen the video, go look at her talking about it on Anderson Cooper.

00:17:00.000 He has no direct involvement in the case and is funding it, apparently, purely out of spite and hate from everything that I've been able to read.

00:17:10.000 Hoffman said before that he will, quote, spend as much as I possibly can, and it takes, and it's effective, to beat Trump.

00:17:20.000 This is the same guy that admitted to funding an online disinformation operation that made it seem like Russian bots were backing a Republican.

00:17:31.000 And here's the wild thing about Hoffman.

00:17:33.000 He's not just funding the bogus lawsuits.

00:17:36.000 Puck News reported this year that Hoffman's also looking on how to boost DeSantis over Trump in the 2024 primary.

00:17:45.000 If that doesn't tell you everything you need to know, I don't know what will.

00:17:51.000 And we close, before we get to the big guy, my big guy, not the 10% from Russia, China, Ukraine, and elsewhere big guy, but my big guy, a little sports.

00:18:02.000 In new sports news, a newly transgender runner Male to female, I guess he converted back in November, beat nearly 14,000 women in the female division of the London Marathon.

00:18:19.000 After just running the New York Marathon, I guess that was back in November, as a man, 50-year-old Glenique Frank gushed to the BBC about using girl power to run the key United Kingdom race on Sunday.

00:18:38.000 Guys, how does this seem fair to anyone?

00:18:41.000 Where are the feminists?

00:18:43.000 Where are the women coming out and fighting it?

00:18:47.000 How is it that Donald Trump Jr.

00:18:49.000 is a leading feminist fighting for the rights of women and girls and female athletes in sports to be able to do their best, people who've dedicated their lives?

00:19:01.000 How is it that I need to be the voice of these forgotten people?

00:19:06.000 It's just another example of how far-left lunacy is taking over everything.

00:19:13.000 Now it's even marathon running.

00:19:15.000 And folks, you know it only goes one way.

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00:22:59.000 What's going on? Welcome to another episode of Triggered.

00:23:03.000 And as promised, as promised, tonight we have your favorite president, and happens to be my father, Donald J. Trump.

00:23:11.000 I'm not sure how I managed to pull this off, but we're going to have a cool conversation.

00:23:15.000 Obviously, we're going to get into politics because...

00:23:17.000 These days in our family, you can't avoid it, but we had some fun putting together this book.

00:23:22.000 It's called Letters to Trump.

00:23:24.000 It's basically a collection of all the letters written to my father over decades, primarily even as a businessman.

00:23:33.000 Some of them happen when they're in politics.

00:23:35.000 But as we go through this next election cycle, as we look at the results achieved by his administration versus the disaster that we're experiencing right now, I think this is a little walk down memory lane and history about where People always were with him.

00:23:54.000 I mean, the people who wrote him these glowing letters of support throughout his life about friendship, about loyalty, who then, let's just say, took a drastic turn in a different direction.

00:24:08.000 I think it's amazing.

00:24:09.000 I think it talks a little bit about human nature, about the way that works, and I think it talks for us as conservatives about the battle that we're up against, how the outrage cycles, the mainstream media, big tech, how all of that is actually manufactured because you don't go from the letters that you'll read in this book from, you know, people like Oprah.

00:24:30.000 Michael Jackson, Alec Baldwin, a bunch of Hollywood people, a bunch of celebrities and former presidents from Reagan, Nixon, Clinton.

00:24:41.000 It just shows you how much of everything we see and digest on a daily basis is just totally manufactured.

00:24:49.000 So I think it's so important to understand all of that.

00:24:52.000 I mean, for me, we found These letters in an archive, literally doing some cleanup in an office, and there were just boxes and boxes of them from some of the biggest people in the world, royal families, Prince Charles, Diana, and wanted to put this together just to show people what it was really like before we entered this crazy landscape of politics.

00:25:13.000 So I think you guys will find the book truly fascinating.

00:25:17.000 You can find it at We're good to go.

00:25:41.000 All of which, as we've watched, are on the table.

00:25:46.000 They're all at risk.

00:25:47.000 They're all in jeopardy right now, so you guys are really going to like this.

00:25:51.000 It'll be interesting to interview my dad, right?

00:25:54.000 It feels a little bit different, but I think we'll have some fun, and I think you guys will love it.

00:26:01.000 Check out the book, and again, I think you'll see a lot of hypocrisy, perhaps more than you could even imagine, and If you've been paying attention for the last few years, you know there's a lot out there.

00:26:11.000 So, thanks a lot, guys. You're the best, and check this out.

00:26:15.000 Well, guys, welcome back, and we are here with your favorite president, and it's about time.

00:26:21.000 We have an awesome sort of book.

00:26:22.000 This was a cool project, though.

00:26:24.000 I want you to talk about it in detail, but in going through your archives over years, there's really an incredible history of business people, celebrities, world leaders, Talk about letters to Trump and what it means and what you've learned.

00:26:40.000 Well, first of all, I can't believe I'm being interviewed by my son.

00:26:43.000 I've had Barbara Walters, I've had everybody, and now it's my son, and I think it's great.

00:26:48.000 And congratulations, because your show or podcast, whatever you nowadays call these things, is doing incredibly well, I hear.

00:26:56.000 It's doing well. See, people like what you are doing, and they like what we're doing, and they like that message, and they see how many people are trying to prevent You know, that movement from moving forward.

00:27:05.000 That's true, but it is moving forward.

00:27:07.000 And if it wasn't doing well, I would tell you.

00:27:09.000 You don't think that. Well, that was going to be one of my last questions.

00:27:12.000 I was going to ask you, what would you do if it was my laptop from hell?

00:27:16.000 Because I think... I think our audience would want to know what would happen if it was my laptop from out.

00:27:22.000 I would say this sun thing isn't working out too well.

00:27:24.000 I was actually saying the other night, I was watching just story after story, and I sort of joked about it a little bit, but it's really not funny because the country is not in a funny situation.

00:27:34.000 But at some point, does Biden say, you know, this whole sun thing is not looking good.

00:27:39.000 It's not working out. Is there some anger or does he not really understand how horrible these things are?

00:27:46.000 And what's being revealed. But what's really being revealed isn't because some of the stuff in there is so bad that they don't want to reveal it.

00:27:55.000 It's like unbelievable, including pictures of various types.

00:27:58.000 So, you know, let's hope it all works out.

00:28:01.000 But I would think that Biden could not be very happy because this has taken up a large portion of his His presidency.

00:28:08.000 Now, I will tell you, though, we had phony charges like Russia, Russia, Russia, impeachment hoax number one and two and all of the different things.

00:28:16.000 It took up a lot of our time, but we got a lot done, more than probably anybody would have gotten done.

00:28:21.000 Well, talk about that. I mean, I think that's what's perhaps, despite the Russia, Russia, Russia, despite all the obstacles, impeachment one and two that they put forward, your agenda actually still got something done.

00:28:32.000 And that's with even the rhinos working against you, with all of D.C., with the full weight and force of big tech and mainstream media working against you.

00:28:39.000 And people saw real wage growth, incredible job numbers, energy independence.

00:28:45.000 How come no one in politics has been able to do that?

00:28:47.000 And, you know, they profess to be the experts.

00:28:49.000 Well, I don't think anybody's done more than we have as president with the tax cuts, the regulation cuts, the Space Force, the right to try, and so many different things.

00:28:58.000 And some of the things that we would have done just would have happened automatically.

00:29:04.000 You know this better than anybody.

00:29:06.000 Zero chance that Russia would have attacked Ukraine.

00:29:09.000 Zero chance of any attacks with China.

00:29:14.000 If you look at China, what they're doing, what they will be doing, probably with Taiwan, they're certainly making the moves.

00:29:19.000 They weren't making any moves during our time in office during that four-year period, which was an amazing period of time.

00:29:25.000 Inflation wouldn't have happened because it was started by energy and we were energy independent and we were starting to sell energy at massive levels to Europe and other places.

00:29:34.000 I mean, so many things that were just, I guess, unforced errors.

00:29:40.000 They were... The things that have taken place in our country, in particular the border, Afghanistan, the way they withdrew from Afghanistan, like the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country, in my opinion, the withdrawal from Afghanistan And by the way, I'm the one that got it so that you could withdraw.

00:29:59.000 I was okay so that you could withdraw.

00:30:02.000 But I will say this.

00:30:03.000 I would have kept Bagram because it's an hour away from where China makes their nuclear weapons.

00:30:08.000 And now China has Bagram.

00:30:10.000 From what I understand, China has Bagram.

00:30:12.000 Afghanistan didn't want it.

00:30:14.000 One of the biggest bases anywhere in the world, air bases anywhere in the world, and cost us billions and billions of dollars to build it many years ago.

00:30:22.000 We were going to keep it because of China, not because of Afghanistan.

00:30:25.000 And so many mistakes that have been made, and those mistakes wouldn't have been made, Had the election not been rigged.

00:30:32.000 Am I allowed to say that on your program?

00:30:35.000 Hey, that's what's nice about Rumble.

00:30:37.000 You can say what you want. Can you say that now on Fox or anybody?

00:30:41.000 They say, oh, let's cut that, let's cut that.

00:30:44.000 And part of the problem they have is they're so afraid of speaking the truth that it actually hurts them.

00:30:50.000 Is that why they fired Tucker?

00:30:52.000 I mean, he gave you a lot of credit two weeks ago on foreign policy that you're the only guy that would have stopped perhaps these wars.

00:30:59.000 Do you think that going against the uni party, going against the establishment and actually having those conversations was a big part of that?

00:31:06.000 I think it's a shame what happened to Tucker.

00:31:08.000 He had the number one show.

00:31:10.000 He was doing great.

00:31:11.000 His show's very interesting.

00:31:13.000 And he was out there in the sense that he was telling the truth.

00:31:16.000 To me, the other ones are out there because they're lying and they're hiding and they're afraid to talk.

00:31:21.000 And in my opinion, Fox would not have had any award.

00:31:25.000 The first thing they needed is a new law firm.

00:31:28.000 But if you think about it, it's a platform.

00:31:31.000 People go and they talk about the platform, whether it's elections or anything else.

00:31:34.000 And they say the election was good, the election was bad.

00:31:37.000 Everybody talks. They basically said the person holding the platform is liable.

00:31:43.000 This was the craziest case I've ever heard.

00:31:45.000 And to pay almost $800 million, and they have other cases coming.

00:31:50.000 Well, to a company that's tiny, right?

00:31:51.000 I mean, if there's liability and you do damage, it's based on what the company's actually worth.

00:31:56.000 This seems like it's worth multiple times what the company could ever possibly be worth, and yet they were willing to pay it.

00:32:02.000 And it seems like that was designed to probably prevent You know, a Rupert from having to testify or something like that, but it doesn't seem like a fiduciary responsible decision.

00:32:11.000 I don't know how they could have lost a case if they had lawyers that would have talked about free speech, if they had lawyers that would have talked about platforms.

00:32:18.000 It's a news platform.

00:32:19.000 That means every time somebody goes on the news, If they say something, and if it's wrong, CBS or NBC Fake News or ABC Fake News, any of them, any of these groups or outlets or platforms are going to be responsible for whatever's said.

00:32:35.000 It's ridiculous. You won't have any news there, but they ought to close up their news shows right now.

00:32:40.000 So I think losing Tucker, having Tucker not be there, It's going to have a big impact and a very negative impact on Fox, yes.

00:32:49.000 And yet, you know, there are absolutely interesting letters in this book.

00:32:52.000 You have the letters from Putin.

00:32:54.000 You have letters from Kim Jong-il.

00:32:56.000 You have, you know, you called them love letters.

00:32:58.000 And you were criticized, but talk about...

00:33:00.000 Well, you were criticized because they didn't understand actual negotiation, in my opinion.

00:33:04.000 But talk about the ability to have that relationship with those people.

00:33:08.000 I don't think we make any qualms and pretend they're wonderful human beings.

00:33:12.000 They're, you know, dictators.

00:33:13.000 But... To be able to pick up the phone and actually have a relationship seems like it could stop World War III, which is where we're verging towards these days.

00:33:22.000 When I called them love letters, I said that obviously sarcastically, but they were letters where there was a certain degree of respect.

00:33:29.000 I would say ultimate respect.

00:33:32.000 And there was a liking.

00:33:34.000 We got it long, which is a positive.

00:33:36.000 I tried to explain that's a positive thing, and the fake news picked it up.

00:33:38.000 He said they were love letters.

00:33:41.000 He said... And I just say, it's just...

00:33:43.000 They're just so dishonest, and they're so disgusting, and they're so bad for our country.

00:33:48.000 And one of the very...

00:33:50.000 Terrific things I've done is I think I've notified the world and notified the people of our country that the news is, in fact, and not all of it.

00:33:58.000 You have some great journalists, some great everything, but there's a lot of fakery in the news.

00:34:02.000 And the concept of fake news is very good.

00:34:05.000 The only problem is I didn't get it quite right because it's not strong enough.

00:34:09.000 It should be corrupt news, but somehow that doesn't play as well.

00:34:13.000 The only problem with fake news is it's not strong enough because it's actually much worse than fake.

00:34:17.000 When you look at the 51 intelligence, so-called intelligence agents, and you see what they did.

00:34:24.000 Knowingly lied just before the election.

00:34:27.000 And it had an impact on the election, by the way.

00:34:29.000 That's election fraud just like ballots.

00:34:31.000 I have a feeling, again, they wouldn't be writing letters to protect me if I was in the Hunter Biden situation, right?

00:34:37.000 It would have been a little different. Nobody knows why do people want to have open borders and millions and millions of people coming in from insane asylums and mental institutions and prisons and ruining our country.

00:34:50.000 It's going to ruin our country. We have to stop it.

00:34:52.000 It's what they're doing is so bad.

00:34:54.000 And why do they want to have high taxes, high interest rates, a bad military, a woke military?

00:34:59.000 You look at the top of the military, it's woke.

00:35:01.000 Why do they want to have no voter ID? That, you know, is easy because they want to cheat.

00:35:06.000 You really say, why would a journalist, they go to school like we do, they go to the same schools, not as good as some of the schools we went to, to be honest with you, and I always get a kick when they say the elite.

00:35:19.000 I said, oh, are they more elite?

00:35:21.000 That's elite, really?

00:35:22.000 Well, the elite seem to be having a hard time paying for their college loans and they want hardworking Americans to do that, which also seems pretty ironic.

00:35:30.000 The term elite is ridiculous, but they like to use it.

00:35:33.000 I don't know. It's somehow a term that's used.

00:35:35.000 But why are they fighting common sense?

00:35:40.000 Because I think I can speak for you, I can speak for me.

00:35:43.000 You I know very well. But you're somebody that's got great common sense.

00:35:47.000 I have common sense. Common sense means a good border.

00:35:50.000 Common sense means good education.

00:35:53.000 You look at what's going on in the colleges and the endowment should be attacked.

00:35:57.000 Frankly, if we look at what Harvard has, billions and billions and billions of dollars, And then they do bad things to our country.

00:36:06.000 So there's a lot of things we're going to be doing.

00:36:08.000 All we have to do is get in.

00:36:10.000 We got more votes than anybody.

00:36:13.000 I got more votes than anybody.

00:36:15.000 Any sitting president by a lot, by 10 million votes more than Obama.

00:36:20.000 Think of it. 10 million more votes.

00:36:22.000 I was told we get 63 million.

00:36:24.000 We can't be beaten.

00:36:25.000 We got almost 75 million votes.

00:36:27.000 And that's the votes that they showed.

00:36:30.000 That's not adding other votes.

00:36:32.000 So when you look at it, but the main thing is we have to win in 24.

00:36:36.000 And if we don't, because this country is going Marxist, it's going communist, it's going bad.

00:36:41.000 And everybody knows it.

00:36:42.000 What they do to people, they're torturing people.

00:36:44.000 They're using the, they weaponize their justice system.

00:36:48.000 And nobody's ever seen anything like it.

00:36:50.000 So I will tell you that if this country doesn't win the presidency, In a very short period of time.

00:36:57.000 I used to say four years.

00:36:59.000 That's so long. But now we're talking about a very short period of time.

00:37:03.000 This country cannot survive.

00:37:05.000 President Obama is maybe one of those people.

00:37:07.000 You have his letter in the book.

00:37:09.000 And in reading the letter to you when you took over the White House, it's very preachy about democracy and all that.

00:37:16.000 And yet, you were actually 100% right, right?

00:37:19.000 It wasn't about democracy.

00:37:21.000 He was spying on your campaign.

00:37:23.000 They started the weaponization of the government that we're talking about, that we're seeing manifest That we're seeing, you know, Republicans in Congress now attack, but you actually called that way before anyone else.

00:37:34.000 Talk about that letter, the hypocrisy of all of it, because it was elite, preachy towards you, and yet they were doing the exact opposite of what they were saying about democracy.

00:37:45.000 So I thought the letter was very nice.

00:37:48.000 I thought it was a beautiful letter, beautifully composed, handwritten, all of the things that it should be.

00:37:54.000 It's a very important letter.

00:37:55.000 You know, when you receive those letters from the previous president, it's actually a very important one.

00:38:00.000 And nobody's seen the letter that I wrote to Biden.

00:38:05.000 And I felt that would be up to him if he wanted to do it.

00:38:08.000 But it's given from the heart.

00:38:11.000 And very strongly from the heart.

00:38:13.000 But I will say...

00:38:14.000 So it's not the meme that we've seen out there, which is, Joe, you lost?

00:38:17.000 No. It was a very nice letter, very well composed, actually.

00:38:21.000 But the letter means nothing compared to the fact, because the fact is they spied on my campaign, and we caught them.

00:38:28.000 And we caught them and we caught them very strongly.

00:38:31.000 It took a while to do it. It wasn't easy.

00:38:33.000 But these are people that are willing to cheat and steal and rob.

00:38:37.000 And frankly, the Republicans don't fight the same way.

00:38:40.000 The Republicans, we love our Republicans, but they don't stick together.

00:38:45.000 We have the Mitt Romneys of the world and the Paul Ryans and the Karl Rhoves and these people.

00:38:50.000 And they're very, very bad for the Republican Party.

00:38:52.000 Well, they stick together, but not for the benefit of what actual Republicans around the country want.

00:38:57.000 They don't fight as hard as they should.

00:38:59.000 They don't fight for the right things.

00:39:01.000 Like, I hear there's big windmills being built, wind farms being built off the Jersey coast.

00:39:07.000 That's a terrible thing.

00:39:09.000 It's bad for the environment.

00:39:10.000 Forget about the environmentalists.

00:39:11.000 The environmentalists afford, and I think there must be a reason, because they are a disaster.

00:39:16.000 It's the most expensive form of energy.

00:39:18.000 It's destroying our oceans.

00:39:20.000 Our whales are being washed up on shore at a level 15 times more than normal.

00:39:26.000 But it's definitely not that they're telling us.

00:39:27.000 And the Republicans have to stop it.

00:39:30.000 And they are...

00:39:32.000 Not as strongly opposed to it as they should be.

00:39:35.000 That's all I'm going to say.

00:39:36.000 It's a terrible thing.

00:39:37.000 I was dealing with Jeff Van Drew, who's a great congressman down in the Jersey Shore, along the Jersey Shore.

00:39:43.000 It's fantastic. And he called me and said, we have to stop this.

00:39:46.000 We have to stop this. Nobody wants it.

00:39:48.000 We have to stop it. They want to build virtually thousands of windmills all along the coast of New Jersey.

00:39:56.000 I think it's a horrible thing.

00:39:57.000 And hopefully the Republicans will be able to stop.

00:40:00.000 So, this book goes back years.

00:40:03.000 There's a lot of history. People who were, I mean, kissing your butt in a great way, complimenting you on the work that you did, giving you props for incredible ideas.

00:40:13.000 Who was perhaps the biggest disappointment of those who sort of conveniently just forgot Decades of history, decades of relationship of those people.

00:40:23.000 I mean, I know in the book you have Oprah, you have Rosie O'Donnell, Michael Jackson, you have Princess Diana, Alec Baldwin.

00:40:29.000 I mean, it's sort of interesting when you see where some of these people have gone.

00:40:33.000 Who was your biggest disappointment and who was the person that actually stuck with you the best?

00:40:37.000 So I have to say, many were great and some were bad.

00:40:42.000 You had some politicians, I think they probably all voted for me, you want to know the truth.

00:40:46.000 You had some people that were politicians that were on the other side, maybe that's a natural thing, but you had a lot of celebrities, a lot of movie actors, a lot of people are mentioned in the book, and some were great and some were bad.

00:40:59.000 People that I know very well, they said, you know, they wink at me as they say something somewhat negative.

00:41:05.000 But I'll tell you, in Beverly Hills and in Bel Air and in Palos Verdes and all these rich communities, I'll bet you a lot of them voted for us.

00:41:14.000 When you think, and by the way, while I'm on the subject of California, so I do rallies, a couple of them, not too many, because everyone says you can't win California.

00:41:21.000 I think it's totally wrong.

00:41:23.000 They send out like 38 million ballots.

00:41:27.000 They go all over the place.

00:41:28.000 Some people get seven, some people get five, some people get two.

00:41:32.000 They send out these millions and millions of ballots and then the ballots start pouring back in by the millions.

00:41:40.000 And I go to California and I think I'm very popular in California.

00:41:45.000 I don't think, I think the whole thing is a rigged state.

00:41:49.000 And you know, anytime you have mail-in ballots, you're going to have fake elections because it just works that way.

00:41:55.000 They have to go to the postman.

00:41:57.000 The postman sometimes delivers, sometimes they don't, sometimes they take them from a Democrat area.

00:42:02.000 Look, you are going to have rigged elections and Whether you love Jimmy Carter or not, he was a nice man and he was a truthful person.

00:42:11.000 He did a commission and he was involved with a couple of other people, pretty well known.

00:42:16.000 But he said you cannot have mail-in ballots because it's ripe for fraud.

00:42:22.000 And there's tremendous, tremendous fraud with mail-in ballots.

00:42:26.000 They deliver them. I mean, people get six, seven, eight of them.

00:42:30.000 And many of the people...

00:42:32.000 More Democrats and they're the ones that get them.

00:42:34.000 They get sent to Democrat areas and less Republican areas.

00:42:38.000 We've had complaints where Republican areas didn't get their ballots and they don't get them and Democrats get seven of them.

00:42:45.000 So look, you will never have honest elections if you have mail-in ballots.

00:42:49.000 France We had an election.

00:42:52.000 It was paper ballots.

00:42:53.000 It was a one-day election.

00:42:55.000 It took one day, France, 36 million people, and they had voter IDs.

00:42:59.000 So you have paper ballots, you have voter ID, you have the same day, and they had 36 million people vote.

00:43:07.000 And by 10 o'clock in the evening, it was over.

00:43:09.000 They had a winner, they had a loser.

00:43:11.000 And everybody went home and they started working on the next election.

00:43:15.000 With these things, you have weeks afterwards, they still don't know the vote, they still don't know the count.

00:43:20.000 Nobody knows what's going on.

00:43:22.000 You have some places where it goes a month and almost two months.

00:43:27.000 Our voting system is so bad.

00:43:29.000 So what do we do to change that?

00:43:30.000 I mean, I agree with you, meaning they've been able to set the table for that, right?

00:43:34.000 We can't change to same-day voting, paper ballots, voter ID, if we're not in control, but we have to win first.

00:43:41.000 The Republican governors can do it right now, and Republican governors should do that right now and at least get this thing started, because ultimately, to have it right, you should have, and you probably have to have, Paper ballots, same-day voting, voter ID, and you have mail-ins for military when they're far away and people that are truly sick, not people that are vacationing someplace and they send in their ballots because they don't want to do anything, or they send in more than one.

00:44:09.000 The right way, you take a look at so many countries where they actually tried this.

00:44:14.000 We try it, it gets worse and worse.

00:44:16.000 Every year they loosen it up and they make it worse.

00:44:18.000 That's another thing Republicans have to find.

00:44:20.000 The Europeans who are far left of us on these issues are shocked at how lax These things are, how ripe they are for fraud, and yet it continues, and that's fine because the Democrats want that, and the media will cover for them, and big tech is also backing that system up.

00:44:33.000 But, you know, to me it's a number one issue that we have to actually engage in for 2024 to actually surmount the insanity that's going on right now.

00:44:40.000 So we have to get there first, and we have to live by a horrible system.

00:44:44.000 Now, I will tell you, the system is just horrible.

00:44:47.000 Nobody knows what's happening.

00:44:49.000 You know, they had small races, a couple of them in New York and New Jersey where they had mail-in ballots, and it was a disaster.

00:44:55.000 They still don't really know who won.

00:44:57.000 They declared winners, but nobody knows who won.

00:45:00.000 They won in New York. I actually think that perhaps the opposing person won.

00:45:06.000 And yet they called it for somebody else.

00:45:08.000 They just don't know what's going on.

00:45:10.000 And what you do is the paper ballots, same day voting, voter ID, and eventually if this country doesn't get back to it, they're never going to have honest elections.

00:45:18.000 And, you know, when you look at 75% of the people think the elections are not honest, A country can't even survive with that.

00:45:26.000 Between borders, elections, I mean, the things that we have going wrong in this country, it's very, very sad.

00:45:32.000 But that's why I'm so happy you're doing what you're doing, because you have a big voice, and you will explain it.

00:45:38.000 And I don't know, can anyone take him off the air?

00:45:39.000 Is it possible? Now we're at Rumpel.

00:45:41.000 That's what's nice. We can actually say the things that others are thinking, and you're not going to get penalized.

00:45:45.000 You're not going to be canceled. I think it's why we have to support those kind of platforms.

00:45:50.000 I mean, there's other places even I was probably offered to go, but you don't want to spend all that time, and then one day you say something that ends up being 100% true three months later, but they throw you off the platform like a dog, and they prevent that.

00:46:02.000 That's one of the obstacles we're up against.

00:46:06.000 So, I had a recent interview.

00:46:09.000 I thought it was great, and they left the whole thing in, but they cut out that little section when I talked about voter fraud, and I sort of knew they would.

00:46:16.000 Even the Nelk boys, the Nelk guys are great guys.

00:46:20.000 They're great. And I did their show, and I had a lot of viewers, the first one I did, and I said, watch, you're going to be cut, because I talked about voter fraud.

00:46:28.000 You shouldn't be cutting for voter fraud.

00:46:30.000 How about the people that defrauded?

00:46:32.000 Those are the people that should be under investigation.

00:46:35.000 In this country, Voter fraud, they go after the ones complaining, not the ones that do it.

00:46:40.000 It's the most incredible thing.

00:46:41.000 So, I believe it's turmoil, but I believe, ultimately, that's going to be a big victory.

00:46:48.000 Well, you see that as well. And I even saw that on that interview, they both done the same with me.

00:46:52.000 Not enough, but they're great guys.

00:46:54.000 But they take nine seconds of a two-minute-long clip, and they say, this is what he said.

00:46:59.000 And if you listen to the explanation, it's literally the exact opposite.

00:47:03.000 You know, those things are dishonestly manipulated to try to create a point, and then that goes viral online.

00:47:09.000 Well, usually they don't take it.

00:47:11.000 Usually they cut it. Well, it's someone else, yes.

00:47:13.000 They don't want to be talking about voting, especially the 2020 election.

00:47:18.000 The one thing they don't want to be talking about is that it was fraudulent, because they got away with murder, and they don't want to be talking about it.

00:47:26.000 And if you notice, and I notice it all the time, the ones that stay with that theme They're the ones, when they go down to see this January, this fake January, this partisan, disgusting January 6th committee made up of just horrible people that I really believe hate our country.

00:47:44.000 When you talk about, just take a look at some of the people, when they go and say the election was rigged, the election was stolen, the election was this and that.

00:47:52.000 We don't want to talk about it.

00:47:53.000 Get them out of here. When you have people that are apologetic, they take them for long periods of time, and let's talk about it.

00:48:01.000 Once the videos came out of all the stuff from January 6th, the entire narrative changed.

00:48:05.000 Guys were released, and yet they managed to keep that under wraps from the American public for two years, denying them basic due process.

00:48:11.000 And I mean, I think that's the problem of what you see today.

00:48:15.000 Everything's an act, right?

00:48:16.000 Biden announced his campaign for re-election this week by video.

00:48:22.000 Do you think that's because he was incapable of actually doing it live and in person?

00:48:25.000 Because those don't seem to work out too well.

00:48:27.000 It's shocking. I saw that.

00:48:28.000 It's shocking that somebody's going to run for presidency and they do a tape.

00:48:33.000 They put it in a can. And supposedly he had to do it seven or eight times before he got it right.

00:48:39.000 But think of it.

00:48:41.000 You're running for the presidency.

00:48:42.000 Who would even think of doing that?

00:48:44.000 But in retrospect, probably it was a smart thing to do for them.

00:48:48.000 You mentioned about the tapes on January 6th.

00:48:50.000 Well, something went on, and it'll be interesting because I think Tucker probably now is in a position where he can say what happened.

00:48:56.000 But he was all gung-ho about it.

00:48:58.000 This was going to be running for a long time because he had a lot of tape, and all of a sudden it was just sort of shut down, never to be spoken of again.

00:49:06.000 And I think that was a hard period for Tucker, to be honest with you.

00:49:10.000 Well, I think he did an incredible service to those people, but the fact that it took that long in our government just shows just the unequal justice under the law.

00:49:19.000 They don't want those tapes exposed, meaning they, meaning the Marxists, the Communists, the radical left, they don't want them exposed.

00:49:27.000 So, in the book there's some interesting letters, right?

00:49:30.000 You have a letter from Oprah where she actually talks about possibly running with you as a running mate.

00:49:38.000 When you see that, I mean, that sort of level of love, commitment, understanding of your abilities to perform the American people, and then you see the reversal of all of that, you know, just catering to the Hollywood elite and the mainstream media mob.

00:49:52.000 What does that tell you about the state of our country?

00:49:55.000 Well, I think Oprah was being nice and she was kidding a little bit.

00:49:58.000 You know, I think. I don't know.

00:49:59.000 You wouldn't know that by the letter.

00:50:01.000 You weren't really political at the time, right?

00:50:03.000 So maybe that was nice.

00:50:05.000 Once you put an R next to your name, it's different.

00:50:07.000 If you were a Democrat, maybe she'd be all for it still.

00:50:09.000 So... I look at some of the letters and I'm amazed by them.

00:50:15.000 I look at others, I thought they were very beautiful things.

00:50:17.000 I thought the Diana letters were beautiful.

00:50:18.000 I really thought they were great.

00:50:21.000 She would not be too happy with one of her sons right now, I can tell you that.

00:50:25.000 Because I think what has happened to the family, I got to know the Queen very well.

00:50:31.000 Well, talk about that, because that was interesting.

00:50:33.000 Probably the only trip I went with you internationally was that, and that was just a cool thing to be a fly on the wall.

00:50:40.000 And the Queen, I remember we were, as a family, just in the waiting room for her to come, and I was just standing back towards the door, and the door opens and it was all set to the Queen.

00:50:49.000 I'm like, oh, even me, not usually sort of uncomfortable in those situations.

00:50:53.000 It's like, ah, what do you do now with all the decorum?

00:50:55.000 And she sort of gave me the pat on the back and like, don't worry about it.

00:50:58.000 There was an element of her that was actually just, Very cool.

00:51:02.000 She performed at such a high level for so long.

00:51:04.000 You had really an interesting time with her.

00:51:07.000 Probably an unusual connection.

00:51:09.000 Why do you think that was? What was that like?

00:51:11.000 I got along with her well.

00:51:12.000 I was supposed to be with her for 15 minutes, and it turned out to be a long period of time.

00:51:18.000 And we got to know each other well.

00:51:20.000 She liked me and I liked her. She actually made it be known.

00:51:23.000 She liked me a lot.

00:51:24.000 And I liked her a lot.

00:51:26.000 And she was probably, I guess, 94, 93.

00:51:30.000 I think when I met her, she was 92, and she was 100% sharp.

00:51:34.000 That's why with Biden, it's not the age.

00:51:37.000 He's got something else going on.

00:51:38.000 It's not the age. 80 and 81 and 82.

00:51:42.000 I know people that made their fortune from 80 to 90.

00:51:45.000 I know people that are 90 that are amazing.

00:51:48.000 You look at Bernie Marcus.

00:51:50.000 He's 94. You talk to him, and it's like he was 35 years old.

00:51:55.000 So it's not an age thing.

00:51:56.000 I think they like the age thing because I'm four and a half or five years younger than Biden.

00:52:03.000 So they like to bring the age thing up.

00:52:05.000 And I think that's why they bring it up.

00:52:07.000 Because everybody knows a lot of people that are in their 80s that are just as good as they were 25, 30 years ago.

00:52:13.000 And it's not an age thing with Biden.

00:52:16.000 He's not old, relatively speaking.

00:52:18.000 I mean, it's... There's something going on and it's not good.

00:52:22.000 And our country's in big danger.

00:52:24.000 Our country's never been in the danger that we're in right now.

00:52:27.000 We are the most dangerous period of time in history.

00:52:30.000 We have weapons that are so powerful they can blow the hell out of a...

00:52:35.000 Anyplace they touch.

00:52:37.000 Anywhere, not even near, far away.

00:52:39.000 You drop it here and far away, it's massive damage and death.

00:52:43.000 And we have somebody that doesn't understand what's going on.

00:52:46.000 We have somebody that doesn't understand these leaders.

00:52:48.000 I understood them well.

00:52:50.000 We have a lot of people on our side that seem not to understand it as well.

00:52:53.000 I mean, I see Mitch McConnell say, it's the number one issue, is arming the Ukrainians.

00:52:57.000 And I'm saying, I don't think that's the number one issue amongst Republican voters.

00:53:00.000 It's not a top ten issue amongst...

00:53:03.000 Republican voters, and yet that's still Washington D.C. leadership.

00:53:06.000 Mitch McConnell's a disaster.

00:53:08.000 He's a total disaster.

00:53:09.000 He's a disgrace to the Republican Party and to the country.

00:53:12.000 He approved all of these things.

00:53:14.000 He got 10 people to approve them because they needed 10 votes or more or less, depending on how many people are going to show up.

00:53:20.000 But the Democrats tend to show up.

00:53:22.000 Mitch McConnell is a disaster.

00:53:25.000 Gave them trillions of dollars that was unnecessary.

00:53:27.000 And now, hopefully, we're going to take a lot of them back because of debt ceiling.

00:53:31.000 But he has been a...

00:53:33.000 Nobody could even understand why he's that way.

00:53:37.000 It's like they have something on him.

00:53:39.000 I'll say it on my son's show.

00:53:41.000 It's like they must have something on this guy.

00:53:43.000 Because Mitch McConnell has been a disaster for our country.

00:53:47.000 And his wife, Coco Chow, who I got to know very well, you can have her, too.

00:53:53.000 Talk about your relationship with Rush Limbaugh.

00:53:55.000 There's some incredible letter from Rush.

00:53:57.000 You gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

00:54:00.000 Amongst our people, he would have been a Tucker-type character, right?

00:54:05.000 A once-in-a-generation-type character, thought leader, etc.

00:54:09.000 You had a really interesting relationship with him, and probably one that maybe many wouldn't have ever thought would have emerged the way it did, given sort of your apolitical nature prior to this.

00:54:18.000 So Rush was special.

00:54:20.000 I didn't know Rush at all.

00:54:21.000 I heard of Rush and I saw Rush on television, but I never met him.

00:54:25.000 And when I made the announcement in 2015 that I was running for president, I made it at the base of the escalator in a building that you know very well, Trump Tower, and came down with Melania and the kids.

00:54:41.000 We'll always say kids because the kids are the kids, but even if they're a little older than you would think of.

00:54:47.000 But when the family was there and Melania was there, everybody was there, and I made a speech.

00:54:53.000 I didn't have speechwriters or anything, but I talked about the wall.

00:54:55.000 I talked about the rape that takes place.

00:54:57.000 I talked about everything.

00:55:00.000 All accurate and now worse.

00:55:02.000 It got great reviews. Until about two or three days later when they said, did you say rape?

00:55:06.000 Well, it turned out that the word rape, as used by me, was peanuts compared to what happens.

00:55:11.000 Because the women coming up in those caravans, it's a travesty what's going on.

00:55:17.000 The raping and the pillaging, it's horrible.

00:55:21.000 And pouring into our country at levels never seen before.

00:55:24.000 Millions and millions of people.

00:55:26.000 I think by the end of...

00:55:27.000 This year you'll have, the real number will be close to 15 million people, not 4 or 5 million people as they're projecting.

00:55:34.000 I think close to 15 million people.

00:55:36.000 Right now they're waiting outside because of our medical exemption.

00:55:41.000 They're waiting outside in the hundreds of thousands to pour into our country as soon as the time expires, which is going to be at another...

00:55:49.000 A couple of weeks. Hundreds of thousands of people are going to pour into our country at one time.

00:55:54.000 We have no idea where they came from.

00:55:56.000 We have no idea if they're sick, if they're well.

00:56:00.000 We have no idea did they come out of the prisons, did they come out of the mental institutions.

00:56:05.000 What they're doing to our country is unthinkable.

00:56:09.000 So you mentioned the infamous escalator ride, which is sort of an amazing start, right?

00:56:14.000 Who would have thought that was the start of an entire political movement, maybe the largest in American history?

00:56:19.000 But in the elevator before the escalator ride, you actually said something to me.

00:56:23.000 I wrote it down in my book, Triggered.

00:56:25.000 I just thought it was sort of fascinating because you understood it.

00:56:29.000 And you said, now's when we find out who our real friends are.

00:56:32.000 Meaning, you understood the way the world works.

00:56:35.000 If you're gonna do this, you're gonna make enemies of people who were friends 15 minutes before that, but more importantly, that you chose to do it anyway, despite sort of that consequence.

00:56:44.000 What have you learned about friendship and loyalty since then?

00:56:48.000 Because I thought business was vicious until we got into politics, and now you realize that's a whole new level.

00:56:54.000 So you mentioned Rush.

00:56:56.000 So Rush heard my speech, saw the whole thing, And he was with me from that moment on.

00:57:04.000 I'd never met him. And they said, Rush Limbaugh is with you.

00:57:07.000 And he ended up endorsing me very quickly.

00:57:11.000 He knew all the other candidates.

00:57:12.000 He ended up endorsing me.

00:57:14.000 And he was absolutely...

00:57:16.000 An amazing friend.

00:57:17.000 He never wavered.

00:57:19.000 He never wavered with all of the nonsense that went on, all of the hoaxes like Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.

00:57:25.000 He never ever wavered.

00:57:27.000 The guy was amazing and there was nobody like him.

00:57:30.000 I tell you what, Sean Hannity said it.

00:57:33.000 Because Sean's doing great and Sean is fantastic at what he does.

00:57:36.000 But he said there's never been anybody like Rush.

00:57:39.000 Mark Levin said it too.

00:57:42.000 Fantastic guy also.

00:57:43.000 But he said he was one of a kind.

00:57:45.000 He never wavered during the bad times, during any time.

00:57:50.000 And I heard that he was on my side.

00:57:52.000 Didn't know him. I told you I never met him.

00:57:55.000 But he was incredible.

00:57:58.000 Then I got to know him. Then ultimately I gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which was a fantastic, you know, that's the highest civilian award.

00:58:06.000 I gave it to him during the state of the year.

00:58:10.000 And you had half the room going wild and half the room was dead silent.

00:58:14.000 They were less than thrilled.

00:58:15.000 I remember that. No, no.

00:58:16.000 They were dead. They're like this...

00:58:18.000 And half are just going wild, standing ovations that wouldn't stop.

00:58:22.000 And you said, I wonder if there's a little divide in the nation, right?

00:58:26.000 But Rush was a fantastic guy right until the end.

00:58:29.000 And he was very brave. He fought on when very few people could have really sustained the pain that he was in.

00:58:35.000 But he loved doing what he was doing, and he loved our country.

00:58:38.000 But I'll never forget, you know, people, they want introductions because they'd like to get the support.

00:58:43.000 I never met Rush.

00:58:44.000 He was the biggest guy.

00:58:45.000 He had like 39 million people listening.

00:58:49.000 And out of nowhere, they said, this guy loves you.

00:58:51.000 He's going to endorse you.

00:58:53.000 I said, I don't even know him.

00:58:54.000 He just liked what I had to say.

00:58:56.000 I talked about the borders.

00:58:58.000 I talked about military.

00:58:59.000 I talked about education.

00:59:01.000 I talked about a lot of things.

00:59:02.000 No speechwriter. Most of it was just off the cuff.

00:59:05.000 He loved what I had to say.

00:59:07.000 And from that moment on, that was a very special day.

00:59:11.000 But from that moment on, Rush Limbaugh was with me 100%.

00:59:15.000 You had some interesting correspondence with Reagan going back and forth in the book.

00:59:19.000 But the one that was interesting, there seemed to be a lot of back and forth with you and Richard Nixon.

00:59:24.000 His wife even wrote one of the letters, you know, basically, that Donald, if he decides to run, he's going to actually win.

00:59:31.000 Talk about that relationship and how did it start?

00:59:34.000 Well, you know, they had a very good relationship, actually.

00:59:36.000 A lot of people don't know. In fact, the only time I saw Richard Nixon just totally break down was when his wife, who he loved, when she died.

00:59:45.000 That was the roughest day.

00:59:46.000 I've never seen him like that with all he went through.

00:59:48.000 He went through hell. But with all he went through, that was tough.

00:59:53.000 She saw me on the Phil Donahue Show, which you're too young to know about, but that was a very hot show.

00:59:57.000 That was pre-Oprah, sort of an Oprah-type show.

01:00:00.000 I was interviewed, and she said, oh, if he ran for office, he'd win.

01:00:04.000 He told me that she said that if I ever ran for president, I would win and all of this.

01:00:10.000 It was nice. He put it in writing, and it's one of the letters that we put in.

01:00:14.000 So, last week, I had the privilege of going with you to UFC Miami.

01:00:18.000 I thought that was incredible.

01:00:20.000 And, you know, that was, you know, deep blue Miami and the ovation in the crowd.

01:00:24.000 Even Dana said he's never seen anything like it.

01:00:27.000 Talk about Dana White, the early times at the UFC. I mean, there's letters from Vince McMahon.

01:00:32.000 I'd love to hear your thoughts on sort of that merger in UFC-WWE as well.

01:00:36.000 But that was sort of de facto cooling.

01:00:41.000 You know, that group of people and just...

01:00:44.000 A roar when you came in with Kid Rock.

01:00:47.000 They just went viral from there.

01:00:49.000 Talk about that. So, first of all, those two people are incredible.

01:00:53.000 Vince McMahon, what a job he's done.

01:00:56.000 There's a great letter in here from him.

01:00:57.000 Yeah. He's an incredible man, and his wife, Linda, she is fantastic, and she really helped a lot.

01:01:04.000 Believe me, you know, a lot of people, they talk Vince, and Vince would be the first to say that Linda was very instrumental, too.

01:01:09.000 And Dana is just nobody like him.

01:01:13.000 The job he's done with the UFC, they sold it for $4 billion, And it looks like the people that paid $4 million made a good deal because Dana, I don't even know if he's replaceable.

01:01:24.000 I always say everybody's replaceable.

01:01:25.000 I'm not sure he's replaceable or what he does.

01:01:27.000 He's an incredible person.

01:01:29.000 And they're both very loyal people.

01:01:31.000 Those people, all three of them, I have to say that because I'm going to include Linda.

01:01:35.000 But she's been, you know, she was head of small business.

01:01:38.000 And small business is actually very large business, but the Small Business Administration, and she did a phenomenal job doing that.

01:01:46.000 You know, you hear small business sounds like small, and then you look at, you know, tens of billions and just money like you never saw anything going out.

01:01:54.000 She was great. But Dana White, the job he's done with UFC is just incredible.

01:02:00.000 We did. We walked into the arena.

01:02:01.000 He said, I have never, ever Had a scene like that.

01:02:06.000 And there wasn't one hater.

01:02:08.000 There wasn't one person in the whole arena.

01:02:10.000 I don't know what they have. Whatever it holds and probably then you add some because the basketball court is much bigger than a ring.

01:02:18.000 So what happens is they have, you know, the people are loaded on the court.

01:02:21.000 The place was packed. And he said, I've never had anything like that where There was such enthusiasm and love.

01:02:29.000 The fighter even, he's a great guy, Jorge Masvidal.

01:02:34.000 Great fighter. He was out and he said, Trump, the greatest president we've ever had.

01:02:39.000 A bunch of the other fighters, by the way, for those who may not have even seen them on TV, jumped across the fence and were just giving you total respect.

01:02:46.000 From every demographic, guys, you wouldn't think.

01:02:48.000 Very nice. They got it. It was sort of unique to see.

01:02:50.000 I think that fighter, that individual sport, the self-reliance, so many of the things that are conservatives, we actually believe.

01:02:57.000 It was fascinating. Well, it is true, though.

01:02:59.000 I mean, they're in the ring. They can't blame it on somebody else.

01:03:02.000 They are there by themselves against rough customers.

01:03:06.000 And you've got to fend.

01:03:08.000 You can't. There's no bullshit involved.

01:03:11.000 There's no nothing. You've got to fight.

01:03:12.000 And there is something very nice about it.

01:03:15.000 It's old-fashioned.

01:03:16.000 It's somewhat primitive.

01:03:18.000 But it's amazing, and there's no excuses.

01:03:21.000 You can't blame it on somebody else.

01:03:23.000 So speaking of privative, because it feels like it that way these days, you have a great mind in some of the speeches I've heard lately talking about you'd be the greatest women's basketball coach of all time if you could just recruit LeBron James, who doesn't exactly share our political beliefs, but Still a good basketball player.

01:03:41.000 Tell us a little bit about that, because I think it's amazing and true, and it shows how ridiculous what's going on in women's sports, or supposedly women's sports.

01:03:49.000 He's a great basketball player, but he's not a person that I like.

01:03:53.000 But he's a great basketball player, and as are some others, but he's really a fantastic player.

01:03:59.000 But I don't happen to agree with him, but I said women It's so unfair to women what they're doing.

01:04:07.000 They're putting men into women's sports, and they try and justify it.

01:04:11.000 That's one of the many things, like open borders, like voter ID, like all of these things.

01:04:16.000 There's so many things that's common sense.

01:04:18.000 Mutilation of minors. The mutilation.

01:04:21.000 There's a hundred different things you could say.

01:04:23.000 I actually call it now April Fool's because almost everything, like you said, who would say open borders are good and people are pouring into your country and that's a good thing?

01:04:31.000 I say, no, it's April Fool's Day.

01:04:33.000 Who would say that men should play in women's sports?

01:04:36.000 No, it's April Fool's Day.

01:04:38.000 You could do this with a hundred different things.

01:04:41.000 Education with the principles, where they get these principles and they're horrible.

01:04:46.000 And every single thing, almost every one of their energy independence, we have more liquid gold under our feet than any other country.

01:04:54.000 We have more than Saudi Arabia.

01:04:56.000 We have more than Russia. We were energy independent.

01:04:59.000 We were soon going to be energy dominant within a year.

01:05:02.000 We're going to make a fortune.

01:05:03.000 We're going to pay off debt.

01:05:04.000 We're going to lower taxes.

01:05:06.000 We're going to do things that were incredible.

01:05:07.000 And they stopped it.

01:05:09.000 And they stopped it when it hit the all-time high.

01:05:12.000 Energy, the oil and gas hit.

01:05:15.000 An all-time high And they announced there will be no drilling.

01:05:20.000 And yet now we take it from Venezuela, which has tar, which has very bad stuff, and it's refined in Houston because those are the only plants that can refine Venezuela oil, which is lousy, which is thick, terrible, very bad.

01:05:36.000 If you're a big believer in what they say going into the atmosphere, it's the worst.

01:05:42.000 And we refine it in Houston, and we take their oil.

01:05:45.000 So here's the thing. We have no common sense in our country.

01:05:51.000 We have no leadership in our country.

01:05:54.000 We're not respected anywhere in the world.

01:05:56.000 They're laughing at us. They think we're fools.

01:05:59.000 And our country has lost its way.

01:06:00.000 We're a country in decline.

01:06:03.000 I say it in speeches now.

01:06:05.000 It hurts me to say it. We're a failing nation.

01:06:07.000 We're a country in decline.

01:06:08.000 Serious decline. I think I have to say serious decline.

01:06:12.000 And it was all self-imposed.

01:06:16.000 If they just left the energy policy the way it was, we wouldn't have had any inflation.

01:06:21.000 We wouldn't have had any inflation.

01:06:23.000 We had the greatest economy in history, and we're going to do it again.

01:06:27.000 We had, without question, we had the greatest energy with the lowest prices we've ever had, and they were coming down even further.

01:06:35.000 We had the greatest, it was the greatest moment prior to COVID coming in, and then we fixed it, and the stock market ended up at the end being higher than it was just pre-COVID. We had the greatest economy in the history of our country.

01:06:51.000 There was never a nation in the history of the world that did as well as we were doing just prior to COVID coming in.

01:06:58.000 I'll never forget, I had some people, some political people, very big ones, very good ones, and some pollsters in, just prior to COVID coming in.

01:07:06.000 And we were talking about the election because it was coming down the road pretty soon.

01:07:09.000 And they said, if Abraham Lincoln and George Washington got together and came back from the dead, and they ran as president and vice president, they could not beat you.

01:07:19.000 And that's where our country was.

01:07:21.000 And the other thing, and just to finish up, people were coming together.

01:07:25.000 I was getting calls from people that you would not suspect.

01:07:29.000 And this country was coming together, African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic-American, people with great degrees from the best colleges, people with no degrees, people with no high school degree, people with only a high school degree.

01:07:43.000 Everybody was working.

01:07:44.000 We had 161 million people working.

01:07:46.000 We've never hit a number like that before or even close, including now.

01:07:51.000 It's a shame what's happened to our country.

01:07:54.000 Our country is now in trouble.

01:07:55.000 Look at these big cities.

01:07:57.000 They're rotting away. Nobody wants to live in our cities.

01:08:00.000 When I was young, the biggest thing I could do is get to Manhattan.

01:08:04.000 I want to get to Manhattan.

01:08:05.000 I'm going to make so much.

01:08:07.000 I'm going to build so many beautiful buildings.

01:08:09.000 So many beautiful buildings.

01:08:11.000 I'm going to build so beautiful, such beautiful buildings.

01:08:14.000 And I did that. A great thing.

01:08:17.000 Today, people don't want to be in the cities because of the crime.

01:08:19.000 Well, it's scary. I know women that are afraid to walk down the streets.

01:08:22.000 Well, listen, I think everyone understands that.

01:08:24.000 I think everyone's excited to get involved in 2024.

01:08:28.000 I think now, more than ever, they understand the stakes.

01:08:31.000 They understand the lies.

01:08:33.000 And perhaps it took The disaster we're going through to actually wake up people, people who are agnostic to politics, people who, you know, just busy trying to live their American dream.

01:08:42.000 But now they've watched that be exported to China and elsewhere at their expense.

01:08:47.000 And I think they're ready to actually fight back for their country.

01:08:49.000 So we're looking forward to 2024.

01:08:51.000 I hope they are, and I hope they're going to fight.

01:08:54.000 And if they don't fight, we're not going to have a country anymore because this country is in deep, deep trouble, including the possibility of World War III, which would be a nuclear war, which would be unlike anything that Anybody or any nation has ever experienced it.

01:09:09.000 And we're much closer than we are further.

01:09:11.000 I hope it doesn't happen.

01:09:13.000 But we have people that don't know what they're doing.

01:09:15.000 And we have China and we have Russia and they're teaming up and now they have Iran and they have North Korea and they're all teaming up against us and we have nobody.

01:09:23.000 We're losing countries and they're gaining countries.

01:09:26.000 And if we lose our dollar standard, which is a real possibility now...

01:09:30.000 That will be like losing a war.

01:09:32.000 That would be in many ways bigger than losing a war.

01:09:35.000 So I hope people are going to get out and they're going to vote in the primaries and they're going to vote in the election.

01:09:41.000 And if we don't change government, we're not going to have a country anymore.

01:09:44.000 And that's a certainty. Thank you very much.

01:09:47.000 And guys, check out the book.

01:09:49.000 Just like Incredible History, go to 45books.com.

01:09:53.000 You're number one on Amazon.

01:09:54.000 Amazingly enough, they even let that go to number one.

01:09:56.000 It's obviously a very high quality book at a different price point, so that's cool to see.

01:10:01.000 And again, I think it just shows that People are thirsty for that.

01:10:05.000 They're looking to get their country back.

01:10:07.000 They're looking to see America first.

01:10:09.000 That's not a terrible term.

01:10:11.000 That's the reality that they want, and that's what's good for their families and everyone else.

01:10:14.000 So just thanks for all the incredible hard work that you're doing, and we'll let you get back to the actual work of doing just that.

01:10:20.000 And good luck with the show, and I'm so happy that you're doing well.

01:10:23.000 I looked and I'm saying, that's my guy.

01:10:25.000 So I'm very happy, but you've done a great job with it.

01:10:28.000 Good. Oh, we've got to fight. It actually matters a lot.

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Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - May 03, 2023

Interview With Your Favorite President on the New Book "Letters To Trump" | TRIGGERED Ep. 28

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