Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - JD Vance Live from Mar-a-Lago | TRIGGERED Ep.159

00:00:00.000 Okay.

00:04:18.000 to another huge, with a capital Y, episode of Triggered.

00:04:22.000 Tonight we have GOP vice presidential candidate J.D.

00:04:27.000 Vance live here from the Lago.

00:04:30.000 We are going to have a good time.

00:04:31.000 There's so much to discuss.

00:04:33.000 So much has changed in two weeks.

00:04:35.000 I'm even wearing a suit, which you don't get to see all that often, but it's pretty serious.

00:04:38.000 So we'll go to J.D.

00:04:39.000 in a second.

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00:05:24.000 Now that we got the niceties out of the way, normally I drag that out much, much longer, but this is a big one, so we're going to have some fun with it.

00:05:30.000 We have Vice Presidential Candidate J.D.

00:05:33.000 Vance, happens to also be my good friend.

00:05:36.000 What's going on, man?

00:05:38.000 Life has changed a lot.

00:05:39.000 How is life?

00:05:42.000 It's good, it's good.

00:05:43.000 You know, I have a plane now that I get to fly around in and go on campaign.

00:05:46.000 That's nice.

00:05:47.000 I never got a plane.

00:05:48.000 I always had to fly on my Big Bird, as we called it, before it became Trump Force One.

00:05:53.000 I mean, look, we're having a great time.

00:05:56.000 You know, unlike the Senate campaign, this has become a bit of a family affair.

00:05:59.000 So my wife's come around with me a lot.

00:06:01.000 We've been mostly doing fundraising.

00:06:02.000 We've done a couple rallies.

00:06:04.000 Everything's going well so far.

00:06:05.000 I think people are really excited.

00:06:07.000 We did a rally in Radford, Virginia with like 1,000 people inside and 700 people who couldn't get in.

00:06:12.000 So look, it's going really well so far.

00:06:14.000 Obviously, we now have this crazy switcheroo situation, which I'm sure we'll get to.

00:06:17.000 But it's just such an honor to be on the ticket, and we're having a good time with it.

00:06:21.000 Well, so Middletown, Ohio.

00:06:22.000 That was the first rally, right?

00:06:24.000 I mean, sold-out crowd.

00:06:26.000 VP doesn't usually do that.

00:06:28.000 I think there's something special, you know, hometown boy, but you know, you've actually stayed true to those roots.

00:06:34.000 I mean, I loved what you were talking about in your speech last week at the RNC.

00:06:40.000 Talk about how that felt, you know, going there as a kid from both Middletown and also Appalachia.

00:06:47.000 Now you're on, you know, On the ticket.

00:06:51.000 With a former president as a potential VP.

00:06:53.000 I mean, that doesn't happen that often.

00:06:56.000 That's pretty surreal.

00:06:57.000 No, it's just an incredible testament to the country.

00:06:59.000 So, you asked about the Middletown rally.

00:07:01.000 So, first of all, if I can't sell out a rally in Middletown, Ohio, we've got problems, right?

00:07:08.000 Maybe the president made a mistake here.

00:07:09.000 Please go vote on November, I guess.

00:07:10.000 I don't know.

00:07:12.000 It was great.

00:07:13.000 We had, again, like a thousand people inside, hundreds of people outside who couldn't get in.

00:07:17.000 I obviously hung out and said hello beforehand.

00:07:20.000 But look, I mean, this is my hometown, right?

00:07:22.000 This is the place that formed me more than any other place in the country.

00:07:25.000 And you know the story of Middletown, right?

00:07:26.000 So Middletown was a place where the Middletown works of Armco Steel Had 8,000 good middle-class jobs.

00:07:33.000 A bunch of our leaders screwed up.

00:07:35.000 Now that, and it's one of the lucky ones, right?

00:07:37.000 Because it's still in operation.

00:07:38.000 But that same facility now probably employs 2,500 people.

00:07:42.000 So it's been hit by globalization, but the people are still the same, right?

00:07:45.000 They're good people.

00:07:46.000 They're honest.

00:07:46.000 They're hard-working.

00:07:48.000 And they're fundamentally like the people who actually made me who I was.

00:07:50.000 So we just had a really good time.

00:07:52.000 And we joked with the crowd about donuts.

00:07:54.000 You know, everybody has their favorite donut place in Middletown.

00:07:56.000 Whether it's Central Pastry or Milton's Donuts.

00:07:59.000 It felt like a homecoming because that's exactly what it was.

00:08:02.000 I had one of my math teachers from high school who was in the crowd.

00:08:04.000 It was just a very emotional thing for me.

00:08:07.000 Very, very cool.

00:08:08.000 And then we went from there to Radford, Virginia, which, thanks to the plane, is now possible.

00:08:12.000 See, this is the crazy thing about a Senate race.

00:08:13.000 People ask, like, oh, is a Senate race so much easier than a national race?

00:08:17.000 And it's like, well, it takes five hours to get anywhere in a Senate race because you're driving everywhere, right?

00:08:24.000 You can actually do multiple things at once, which is really cool because you get to see

00:08:28.000 different parts of the country.

00:08:30.000 And it also felt, again, a little bit like traveling my family's story because in Middletown,

00:08:35.000 that's the town that really made me who I was, that's where I spent most of my time.

00:08:39.000 But then in Radford, Virginia, we're not far from the Kentucky border.

00:08:41.000 Yeah, you're right there.

00:08:42.000 We're deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

00:08:44.000 And again, to get that kind of crowd and that kind of enthusiasm,

00:08:47.000 obviously people love your dad.

00:08:49.000 I think they're excited about me as VP, which is very humbling,

00:08:52.000 but they're just excited about taking the country back.

00:08:54.000 Right?

00:08:54.000 That is the cool thing is people are pissed off about how we've been governed,

00:09:00.000 but it's not this like high level of rage.

00:09:03.000 It's, yeah, we're mad and we're hopeful about turning the page

00:09:07.000 and sending things in the right direction.

00:09:09.000 You know, I think that's what I got out of your speech that was sort of interesting.

00:09:11.000 It wasn't just, like, doom and gloom.

00:09:14.000 Like, it's still America.

00:09:15.000 There is a chance.

00:09:16.000 I mean, and I think perhaps that's why it resonated so well.

00:09:19.000 It's like, your story, and I mean, my dad's too, to an extent.

00:09:23.000 My family's been blessed with the American dream.

00:09:27.000 It's a thing that so many Americans face, whether it's the crisis of poverty, whether it's the exportation of your American dream abroad to the decimation of these small towns in middle America, to addiction.

00:09:42.000 You covered it all.

00:09:44.000 Not many people are able to break through that vicious cycle.

00:09:49.000 What do you think you can do to help that?

00:09:53.000 You hear about, Tucker talks about it, you know, we've lost more Americans to fentanyl than we did in World War II.

00:09:58.000 I always say, we lose two Vietnams a year and no one even talks about it. 1.00

00:10:03.000 It's not even your colleagues on our side.

00:10:06.000 It's like, eh.

00:10:07.000 It's like, wait, 100,000 people a year to fentanyl and it's like, eh.

00:10:11.000 I mean, it's insane.

00:10:14.000 What do you think we can do about that?

00:10:15.000 Because I think your message really resonates, because you are those people, but you understand how to get out of it.

00:10:21.000 You created businesses, you created success in everything that you did.

00:10:24.000 What can we do to help those people get out of it?

00:10:26.000 And how do we force Washington to actually pay attention?

00:10:28.000 Yeah, you're absolutely right.

00:10:29.000 Our leadership treats it almost as a statistical error, and that's 100,000 of our own citizens.

00:10:35.000 It's an unfold human disaster.

00:10:37.000 That's a lot of parents who have grown up in orphaned households, right?

00:10:40.000 Their parents have been taken from them.

00:10:42.000 That's a lot of grandparents raising grandkids they weren't expecting.

00:10:44.000 This is an unbelievable human tragedy.

00:10:47.000 You know, things worked out for me. 0.98

00:10:48.000 I mean, I think every person's story is obviously different, Don, but my story worked out because my grandma was tough as nails and she didn't take any bullshit, right?

00:10:56.000 And I talked about her at the RNC speech, and I had no idea how people would react to some of these stories. 0.92

00:11:01.000 I tell this story that my grandma, when she found out I was hanging out with a drug dealer in the neighborhood, she came up to me and said, J.D., if you keep hanging out with this kid, I'm going to run him over with my car.

00:11:11.000 And that was not hyperbole.

00:11:18.000 I actually believed that she would do it and so I was like alright for this kid's sake I'm never gonna talk to this kid ever again and there were all these weird little moments where she kept me on the straight and narrow.

00:11:27.000 Obviously I made a lot of mistakes like any other kid but She managed to sort of keep me rowing in the right direction, and life worked out for me, right?

00:11:35.000 I enlisted in the Marine Corps, and then I went to law school, I started businesses, and started a family.

00:11:41.000 We've got three little kids, and I just look back on my life, and it's like, wow!

00:11:44.000 Things really worked out for me, and you feel this sense of gratitude, but then you also feel this sense of anger, because it's not working out for a lot of people who are doing the right thing, and are just getting screwed over by people in Washington, D.C.

00:11:56.000 Let me give you an example.

00:11:57.000 Okay, so my mom.

00:11:59.000 I don't know.

00:12:04.000 As I talked about at the convention, in January of next year, she will celebrate 10 years clean and sober.

00:12:08.000 Like an amazing, amazing thing, right?

00:12:11.000 And my kids, I think about it from their perspective, they've only known her as like the best grandma in the world.

00:12:16.000 What an incredible blessing to get that second chance.

00:12:19.000 Okay, now go back 15 years when mom was really struggling.

00:12:24.000 What if the poison that Joe Biden is letting come across this country today was coming across 15 years ago?

00:12:29.000 I don't think I would have gotten a second chance with my mom.

00:12:31.000 We're talking about 100,000 dead Americans every single year.

00:12:35.000 It's that.

00:12:35.000 That's 100,000 second chances that families never get.

00:12:38.000 That's 100,000 kids who are mourning their parents.

00:12:41.000 Actually, more than 100,000 kids.

00:12:43.000 And this is the fruits of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden's policy failures.

00:12:49.000 And nobody seems to care about it.

00:12:51.000 I mean, we can sort of, you know, get pretty fired up here because all of a sudden, four days ago, Kamala Harris became the second coming of Abraham Lincoln.

00:12:59.000 She was the border czar.

00:13:01.000 the person who let this happen.

00:13:03.000 I literally have seen, I was fact checked the other day for saying, she owns the border

00:13:08.000 crisis.

00:13:09.000 I mean, I think it was USA Today.

00:13:10.000 I call the people, like, you know, I called Beto, I was like, well, you gotta, I was like,

00:13:14.000 here's the quote, you know, and then there was Axios.

00:13:17.000 She wasn't.

00:13:18.000 The reporter that said she was the border czar wrote the article.

00:13:22.000 It wasn't even like it was the same publication.

00:13:24.000 It was the same journalist.

00:13:27.000 I'm like, this you?

00:13:28.000 Like, because like, here it says like, she's the borders are like, it could.

00:13:32.000 How do they get away with that?

00:13:34.000 It's like something out of George Orwell.

00:13:35.000 Somebody sends me a screenshot of a reporter saying, Kamala Harris is the Borders are three years later, and the exact same person saying she's no longer the Borders are.

00:13:44.000 That was never the case.

00:13:44.000 What the hell are these people doing?

00:13:45.000 It's like they're going back, like, delete, delete, delete, delete.

00:13:48.000 I know.

00:13:48.000 It really is like something out of a science fiction novel.

00:13:50.000 What's sort of frustrating about it, and listen, I've dealt with fake news.

00:13:54.000 My father is the guy that coined the term.

00:13:55.000 It's been weaponized against him.

00:13:57.000 It's been weaponized against me personally, our family.

00:14:00.000 But what's really interesting is for the first time in arguably decades, the last three weeks prior to Joe dropping out, was the first time I've actually seen the media be like somewhat honest, like somewhat introspective to be like, you know what?

00:14:17.000 Maybe Joe's not the guy.

00:14:18.000 And then you realize, they give it to Kamala.

00:14:20.000 All of a sudden, her record scrubs.

00:14:22.000 She's no longer the most radical person in the Senate, even though she was literally dubbed that across the board by random agencies that check these things. 0.99

00:14:29.000 That's not me saying it.

00:14:30.000 That's their people.

00:14:31.000 That's government saying it.

00:14:32.000 That's whoever it may be.

00:14:34.000 She's no longer the Borders are. 0.69

00:14:35.000 That's been clear.

00:14:36.000 Every person in Congress has her as the Borders are. 1.00

00:14:39.000 She never visited the border.

00:14:41.000 You see the clips of the reporters calling them out.

00:14:43.000 And now they're like they're back to full regime propaganda.

00:14:47.000 They were honest for the first three weeks in modern history, and now they're back to doing the bidding of the Democrat Party.

00:14:53.000 And it's frustrating because it was like, you know what?

00:14:56.000 It'd be nice if everyone could actually make a decision based on news and truth rather than sort of narrative that they've been manipulated into believing.

00:15:04.000 Well, my attitude, Don, to put on my tinfoil hat here, is they were doing the bidding of the Democratic Party during the three weeks when they were honest.

00:15:10.000 Yeah.

00:15:10.000 But it was honesty in the service of getting Joe Biden out, right?

00:15:13.000 Correct.

00:15:14.000 We have to remember here that for three and a half years, the media and the Democratic Party lied about Joe Biden's fitness to serve.

00:15:21.000 And it's not even, I mean, yes, him falling down the airplane stairs is embarrassing.

00:15:26.000 Him flubbing an answer to a debate, that is embarrassing.

00:15:30.000 What's scary is when he's in a room with world leaders and the cameras aren't on, and who the hell knows what's been going on for the past three and a half years.

00:15:37.000 One person who knows is Kamala Harris, and she lied about it. 0.99

00:15:41.000 And a lot of reporters knew about it, and they lied about it because they knew that if the American people knew the truth about Joe Biden, then President Trump would glide to re-election.

00:15:50.000 Okay, so now we have this debate.

00:15:52.000 They can't hide from it anymore, and they come up with a new plan, which is to effectively boot this guy off the ballot after lying about him for three and a half years, tell the truth for just long enough to get him off the ballot so they can replace him with somebody else, and that's exactly what we're seeing happening.

00:16:07.000 And look, I think all evidence is that Kamala Harris is going to be the nominee, and so we have to run our race and actually articulate for the American people why her record is so broken.

00:16:17.000 I'm sure you and I will get into that.

00:16:18.000 But Don, it would not shock me If this is just another trial balloon.

00:16:23.000 Joe Biden was trial balloon number one.

00:16:25.000 Even the New York Times polling had him down by six points to your dad.

00:16:28.000 Okay, we're done with that one.

00:16:30.000 Now Kamala Harris is the new trial balloon.

00:16:32.000 Let's see how her poll numbers are for the next few weeks and see what happens there. 0.99

00:16:36.000 It's fundamentally undemocratic.

00:16:38.000 Well, the whole process, I mean, talk about that because you've been hearing, you've been in the Senate for a few years now.

00:16:44.000 You've been in politics now involved for a while.

00:16:48.000 They talk about democracy every... Everything's a threat to democracy, except when they run roughshod on, like, a democratic process.

00:16:55.000 But it's like, well, they're going to destroy democracy to save democracy.

00:16:59.000 They're going to make sure Americans can't vote for their chosen candidate to literally save democracy, because it's literally at risk, J.D.

00:17:06.000 That's why I keep hearing it.

00:17:07.000 Yeah, 14 million people voted for Joe Biden in the Democratic primary.

00:17:10.000 Look, it's not my party.

00:17:12.000 He's not my president.

00:17:13.000 Obviously, I don't like his policies, but he was the person that Democratic primary voters selected during their legitimate election.

00:17:21.000 Okay, so now Joe Biden is a deadweight politically, and Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, and a few billionaires literally get together and decide they're going to completely take this guy out politically so that they have a chance at winning the 2024 election.

00:17:37.000 That is a real threat to democracy.

00:17:39.000 And look, I mean, my attitude on it is it happened.

00:17:42.000 There's no use in whining about it.

00:17:44.000 But I think it's important for us to point this out to especially Democratic primary voters that we actually try to persuade you.

00:17:51.000 You may not vote for us, but we respect you enough that we want you to hear our viewpoint and try to hear why we think we deserve your vote.

00:17:59.000 Their attitude is, we're going to take 14 million of your votes and completely throw them in the garbage pit because we want a chance at winning in 2024, and we think your choice wasn't good enough.

00:18:09.000 Yeah, well, I mean, I've sort of said this a little bit tongue-in-cheek.

00:18:11.000 Not really, though, because, you know, their party does not quite stand for what the old Democrat party used to stand for, but it was like, hey guys, You want to show your party that your vote actually matters?

00:18:21.000 Vote for Trump.

00:18:22.000 Like, we will fix the economy.

00:18:23.000 We'll end all the endless wars.

00:18:25.000 We can get back to peace and prosperity.

00:18:28.000 And then, like, in four years, you know, you can try again for, like, drive-through abortions and whatever, you know, whatever you want. 0.97

00:18:33.000 Like, you can go back to being insane.

00:18:35.000 But like, as long as they keep pushing this Notion that, you know, democracy is all things, but if the elite, meaning, you know, Barack Obama, the Clintons, a couple billionaire donors, be like, okay, this isn't working, we're gonna take everything we gave you, we didn't give you any other options, we threw, you know, RFK off the ticket, we basically tried to push anyone else from happening, so we gave you your only choice, you actually then chose that person, and now, eh, we don't like it anymore, so we're just gonna subvert democracy to install our puppet candidate.

00:19:05.000 Yeah, that's exactly right.

00:19:06.000 And I've been making this pitch to Democratic primary voters.

00:19:09.000 Look, this was fundamentally illegitimate, and Republicans, we do actually respect this process, and we think we should have to earn your vote, not, like, throw off one candidate, replace him with somebody else that has no real Democratic legitimacy.

00:19:21.000 And we have to remember, Kamala Harris has no Democratic legitimacy.

00:19:24.000 Yes, she's, you know, has political problems. 0.92

00:19:27.000 Like, I'll let the pundits analyze that.

00:19:29.000 But look at her record, Don.

00:19:31.000 It is the worst record imaginable.

00:19:33.000 Talk about that because people don't understand it because they're trying to literally whitewash that right now to pretend that she was not the most radical leftist person to sit in the United States Senate. 0.99

00:19:44.000 I wrote about this in my book in 2020.

00:19:46.000 It was always there.

00:19:48.000 The people who wrote that, the people who even published it at the time thinking that was a great thing and maybe that's where America is.

00:19:53.000 America is not there.

00:19:55.000 Now they're pretending, no, no, she's a moderate.

00:19:57.000 They did the same thing with Joe Biden.

00:19:57.000 He's going to be so moderate.

00:19:58.000 He's so moderate.

00:19:59.000 Look, he's moderate.

00:20:00.000 The policies were not moderate.

00:20:01.000 Not moderate.

00:20:02.000 But Kamala Harris, I have to say, is like far worse. 0.99

00:20:05.000 If you look, you're talking about some of these nonprofit groups that rank who's the most liberal senator.

00:20:09.000 Kamala Harris, consistently the most liberal senator in the entire United States Senate.

00:20:13.000 And now they're going to rebrand her as like, you know, a right-wing Democrat, basically. 0.96

00:20:17.000 Because that's the theory of the case for how they can make her most politically palatable to the general electorate. 1.00

00:20:23.000 But look on issue after issue.

00:20:24.000 Okay, she supported an end to fracking, which drives up energy costs, put a lot of energy workers out of business. 0.99

00:20:31.000 She has supported giving Medicare and Social Security to illegal aliens, which would bankrupt those programs and throw a lot of hardworking Americans into poverty for the rest of their lives. 0.98

00:20:41.000 Congratulations, you can pay for your own health care and Medicare over the course of your entire life and career.

00:20:47.000 It's going to be insolvent anyway, and we're going to accelerate that process so you too can have the privilege of paying for an illegal who's never going to contribute.

00:20:53.000 Exactly.

00:20:53.000 Who came to this country illegally, violated our country's laws to be here, and now we're going to give them free health care in a way that makes your life more impoverished and worse.

00:21:03.000 That is exactly what the Kamala Harris agenda is. 1.00

00:21:06.000 Okay, talk about manufacturing jobs.

00:21:08.000 I care a lot about this.

00:21:09.000 You know it's one of the reasons why I became so supportive of your dad.

00:21:12.000 Bringing back American manufacturing jobs.

00:21:14.000 Making things in the United States of America again.

00:21:17.000 Kamala Harris, even though she wasn't around when NAFTA was first approved, she continued to support it.

00:21:23.000 And then she blocked the renegotiation of NAFTA that created a lot of good manufacturing jobs. 1.00

00:21:28.000 And you know why she opposed it?

00:21:30.000 Because it wasn't green enough.

00:21:32.000 So this is a person who wants to throw energy workers and manufacturing workers out of a job in service of the Green New Scam, which just creates a lot of jobs in China.

00:21:41.000 So she's just a nightmare on public policy. 0.98

00:21:45.000 In the border, she wants to decriminalize illegal entry, basically give people not even a slap on the wrist 0.95

00:21:52.000 for coming into our country illegally.

00:21:53.000 That's gonna exacerbate the border crisis that she has already set in motion. 0.99

00:21:58.000 It's just top to bottom, the worst possible policy agenda for the American people.

00:22:03.000 And by the way, the media is totally uninterested in talking about it.

00:22:06.000 Like what are her actual views?

00:22:07.000 What did she actually vote for?

00:22:09.000 What is, you can go through any number of ways where she's been pro-criminal and anti-cop,

00:22:15.000 pro-illegal alien, anti-American citizen. 0.99

00:22:17.000 The media seems totally uninterested in it, which is why we just have to remind the American people, this is a crazy person. 0.97

00:22:24.000 Her policies are bad for America.

00:22:25.000 Yeah guys, like, share, subscribe.

00:22:28.000 Get this message out there.

00:22:29.000 I hate to say it, but like literally, but it's like me, a couple other people that we're friends with that are like, hey guys, here are the facts, but you're not gonna get that.

00:22:37.000 Honestly, you may not get that on Conservative programming in America.

00:22:41.000 They're sort of, you know, globalist in and of themselves.

00:22:43.000 But like, you know, you're certainly not going to get it from CNN or CNBC or MSDNC.

00:22:48.000 They're going to go and they're going to try to pretend her record, years, years in the Senate, does not exist.

00:22:56.000 And they're going to try to magically remake that.

00:22:58.000 So make sure you guys are sharing this, that other people can actually see it.

00:23:01.000 Because that is, it is absurd.

00:23:03.000 But that's what we're going to be dealing with.

00:23:05.000 And there's no amount of money that we'll be able to raise to compete with the Democrat machine.

00:23:08.000 I want to ask you about that, because, I mean, did you see the statistics?

00:23:11.000 I mean, one person donated 7,000 times in a seven-hour period.

00:23:15.000 I'm like, I don't know!

00:23:18.000 Seems like it should be illegal to me.

00:23:20.000 I am reasonably fast.

00:23:20.000 If you see me on Twitter, like, I'll get out a mean tweet in seconds.

00:23:24.000 I don't think I'm going through a checkout process 7,000 times or whatever the statistic, and it's over and over again.

00:23:31.000 Hey, I get that they got Joe Biden out.

00:23:33.000 Maybe there's a little bit of enthusiasm.

00:23:35.000 I don't think, you know, Kamala Harris wasn't able to get 1% of a Democrat primary.

00:23:40.000 You know, she was going to be the winner, and then she drops out, not even being able to get 1% before even Iowa took place. 0.99

00:23:46.000 I don't think there's all that much enthusiasm for her.

00:23:48.000 Maybe relative to Joe Biden, at least they, like, Biden, we have a sentient being.

00:23:52.000 This is a win.

00:23:54.000 She can almost kind of complete a sentence, even if it's sort of rhymey and run-on-y and goes nowhere.

00:24:01.000 At least she's alive.

00:24:04.000 What's going on with the fundraising mechanism?

00:24:06.000 Because the whole WinRed thing, I mean, that looks like the greatest scam in the world.

00:24:09.000 But of course, because the FEC is going to be super left-leaning and all this stuff, I'm sure if there's ever a problem, it'll be discovered on about November 7th after it no longer matters.

00:24:19.000 Like all proper things that have been weaponized.

00:24:21.000 You mean actively.

00:24:22.000 You mean the Democratic Party.

00:24:23.000 I'm sorry, yeah.

00:24:24.000 WinRed is the good thing because it helps us.

00:24:27.000 That's the other one.

00:24:30.000 Here's the crazy thing.

00:24:32.000 They have figured out a way, I think, of funneling a lot of resources from mega billionaires.

00:24:38.000 And I don't know if it's legal or semi-legal or maybe it should be illegal, but it's actually totally fine.

00:24:43.000 It is something that we need to look into.

00:24:44.000 Because the whole purpose, whether you agree with it or disagree with it, the whole purpose of federal elections law is to ensure that normal people have a stake in this.

00:24:52.000 It's one of the great things about the Donald Trump fundraising machine is that it was really powered by people.

00:24:58.000 And if you look at what Kamala Harris has been depending on, it is the mega donors of the Democratic Party. 0.94

00:25:04.000 Those are the people who got Joe Biden out of the race to begin with.

00:25:07.000 They're the people who are trying to deliver her the nomination, and then they will try to deliver her the presidency. 0.98

00:25:12.000 I don't know exactly how it works on the back end, but we know that the big Wall Street donors, the people who've gotten rich from shipping American manufacturing jobs to China, the people who've gotten rich when you bring in 20 million illegal aliens because their housekeeper is a little bit cheaper, but normal Americans get their communities flooded with fentanyl, those people like the policies of Kamala Harris.

00:25:33.000 President Trump and I stand for normal Americans who want safe streets, no fentanyl in their schools, just common sense, right?

00:25:40.000 The President says this all the time and I think it's very powerful.

00:25:43.000 We just want common sense, right?

00:25:45.000 We're going to disagree about a whole host of issues, a whole host of social issues and things like that.

00:25:49.000 We just want good middle class jobs for people who work hard, schools that make sense and educate kids, and basic border security and community safety.

00:25:59.000 That's it.

00:25:59.000 That's what the Republican Party is all about.

00:26:01.000 It's not rocket science, right?

00:26:02.000 It really isn't.

00:26:03.000 It's not all that complicated.

00:26:04.000 And some of this stuff is hard, right?

00:26:05.000 Like public policy sometimes is really hard.

00:26:07.000 It's complicated.

00:26:08.000 Safe streets.

00:26:09.000 Closing down the border.

00:26:10.000 Bringing middle class manufacturing jobs back.

00:26:12.000 This is not rocket science.

00:26:14.000 You just need a leader like President Trump who puts the interests of his citizens first.

00:26:19.000 What would Meemaw say about everything that's going on in the last couple of weeks?

00:26:23.000 A lot of F-words, man.

00:26:27.000 It's a bit like my grandmother that way.

00:26:29.000 This sweet old lady, and then you hear her, and you're like, whoa!

00:26:31.000 It hits so much harder when you're not expecting it.

00:26:34.000 If Trump drops one, you're like, OK, it happens.

00:26:36.000 Well, obviously she's in the news so much lately, so we've had all of these moments where somebody will reach out to me and be like, oh, do you remember this story about Mammal?

00:26:43.000 Do you remember that story about Mammal?

00:26:45.000 One of my favorites, which I was there for, but I forgot because I was six years old, my aunt calls me a couple days ago.

00:26:51.000 And she's like, do you remember that time we were driving to Kentucky?

00:26:53.000 and there was this motorcyclist and he got really aggressive

00:26:56.000 and he was swerving in and out and he was kind of like scaring all of us.

00:26:59.000 And I was like, yeah, I kind of do remember that.

00:27:00.000 I was probably five or six years old.

00:27:02.000 And she was like, you remember what happened the next night?

00:27:04.000 I was like, yeah.

00:27:05.000 Mamaw reached under her seat, pulled out a 44 Magnum, tapped it on the window, 1.00

00:27:09.000 and this dude nearly crashed his car, right?

00:27:11.000 Like you ask, how did things work out for me?

00:27:13.000 That's a big part of the answer.

00:27:15.000 But what's so cool about it is that is both incredible but also just normal American spirit, right?

00:27:22.000 There are these personalities all across our country.

00:27:25.000 It's actually Trump-like.

00:27:26.000 Yes, you know what I mean?

00:27:27.000 When you said it, the first thing I could think of is literally two weeks ago when my father got shot

00:27:32.000 We're still going!

00:27:36.000 That is a one-in-a-million kind of personality, but that is the embodiment of the American spirit.

00:27:42.000 That is what allowed us to do all of the things we've done as a civilization, as a country.

00:27:46.000 And I think what is so sick about our current leadership class is they look down on people like my grandmother and they say, Oh, they're backwards.

00:27:55.000 Oh, they don't understand how the economy really works. 0.79

00:27:57.000 Oh, they want to border, they must be racist.

00:27:59.000 This is like the best of America, right?

00:28:02.000 These are the people, my grandma had six grandkids, three of us enlisted in the United States Marine Corps

00:28:06.000 at a time of war.

00:28:07.000 Like this is actually what powers America and makes America great.

00:28:11.000 And I just want, you know, people, like if people get anything out of this campaign,

00:28:15.000 I know President Trump feels like that.

00:28:17.000 I want them to know that I feel like that too.

00:28:19.000 Like we actually love the citizens of this country.

00:28:21.000 We respect who built this country and what makes it great.

00:28:24.000 And this campaign, if it's about anything, it's about making people like that feel heard.

00:28:28.000 Yeah, I said it in my speech at the RNC, which is like, what are the odds?

00:28:32.000 A kid that grew up on the 70th floor of Trump Tower overlooking Central Park in a tall, gilded glass building?

00:28:40.000 Become buddies with me, right?

00:28:42.000 But for the same cause.

00:28:43.000 Yes.

00:28:44.000 And I saw that in 16.

00:28:45.000 There was a true disdain for those hardworking Americans that do that.

00:28:49.000 Yes, there is.

00:28:50.000 It was like, they've cancelled a pipeline.

00:28:52.000 Learn to code.

00:28:52.000 It's like now all those writers that were complaining about learn to code, now they're saying, those are the guys being replaced by AI.

00:28:58.000 The pipeman, the plumber, those guys, they still have jobs.

00:29:02.000 So it was sort of interesting because it was like, the people who thought of themselves as the elites Even if they're very average at what they're doing, they thought of themselves as the elites, and yet they're the first people to get traded in by AI and everything like that.

00:29:17.000 There's this thing you hear, Don, which is very common in Silicon Valley, where people are talking about the new economy and the old economy, right?

00:29:24.000 The new economy is software.

00:29:26.000 It's digital innovation.

00:29:27.000 It's people working on computers.

00:29:29.000 The old economy is people working with their hands.

00:29:31.000 I actually think we should turn that on its head.

00:29:33.000 It's the real economy and the fake economy, right?

00:29:36.000 The people who are growing our food, transporting our food, getting energy out of the ground, that is what's necessary to run a real economy and to have real prosperity.

00:29:45.000 The people who are selling targeted advertisements on Google, Come on, right?

00:29:50.000 There's an algorithm for that, yeah.

00:29:52.000 And you're exactly right.

00:29:53.000 Those are the jobs that are being automated away because those are the jobs where AI can replace them.

00:29:58.000 You cannot AI yourself out of, we need farmers to grow food, right?

00:30:02.000 You can make people more productive, but you still need farmers, and you still need truck drivers, and you still need people who are actually going to do the jobs that are necessary to power the economy.

00:30:11.000 It's one of the, actually, one of my really To get a little in the weeds here, people say that AI is going to replace truck drivers.

00:30:18.000 I actually don't believe that.

00:30:19.000 I think it'll make truck drivers able to drive longer distances.

00:30:22.000 It'll replace journalists.

00:30:24.000 The AI can already write a better story than 99% of journalists.

00:30:25.000 None of these guys are exactly...

00:30:28.000 They all copy everyone else's thing.

00:30:29.000 The AI can already write a better story than 99% of journalists.

00:30:33.000 Exactly.

00:30:34.000 No, I mean, you and I have been on text chains where we've joked like, oh, this is a New

00:30:38.000 York Times story.

00:30:40.000 Let's actually have ChatGBT write this exact same story.

00:30:42.000 And it's like, oh, ChatGPT did a better job.

00:30:45.000 And this is, I think, why journalists do this without the bias.

00:30:48.000 And it's like, point two seconds and for two cents.

00:30:51.000 Rather than having some like, you know, rainbow haired freak reporter that, you know. 1.00

00:30:55.000 Yes.

00:30:55.000 hasn't left the bubble of their sphere, they've never left New York City or DC,

00:31:00.000 they can't relate to the truck driver who does real work.

00:31:04.000 They think that every little gripe and grievance, they're all of a sudden a victim,

00:31:09.000 rather than actually having to deal with real world problems.

00:31:11.000 And it's sort of amazing.

00:31:13.000 They're the ones that are fastest for place.

00:31:14.000 And you actually have real world experience in tech.

00:31:17.000 I mean, you go to the Marine Corps, you go to law school.

00:31:20.000 I love that you did that first, not like the obligatory,

00:31:22.000 I'll go do the Marines thing, I'll sit behind a desk for a year or two.

00:31:25.000 after I do all these other things because I want to get into politics.

00:31:27.000 You did it first.

00:31:29.000 But then you went into tech.

00:31:30.000 Explain, there's sort of an interesting revolution going on right now in the tech world.

00:31:34.000 The guys that are, you know, whether it was David Saxon, you know, the Winklevoss twins, like, all these guys, like, jumping on, being like, okay, we're done with this Democrat, you know, just blind following thing.

00:31:48.000 Explain that change, because it's interesting, because people like on our side, and by the way, I'm the first guy, big tech's been screwed, and you know, they have.

00:31:55.000 But there is a change, and it's not from like, you know, the programmer at Facebook.

00:32:00.000 It's from the people at really high levels that are on the cutting edge of this technology.

00:32:04.000 They see a difference.

00:32:06.000 It's going to take a while to disseminate down to sort of, let's call it the programmed, no pun intended, masses.

00:32:11.000 But there is a real shift going on there.

00:32:14.000 Yeah, so there are a few different things, and I've been thinking about this for a while,

00:32:17.000 but I think there are a few different things going on.

00:32:19.000 So, number one, you have a lot of people in tech who recognize the difference between the old versus new,

00:32:26.000 and I think are more leaning into the real versus fake.

00:32:29.000 So for example, right, Winklevoss twins, very successful in the crypto world.

00:32:33.000 Okay, to do cryptocurrency, that has to sit on top of a layer of really high-quality access to power.

00:32:40.000 Crypto doesn't work unless you have cheap energy.

00:32:42.000 So these are guys who recognize that unless you have the cheap energy, all of the cool innovation they're doing doesn't make sense.

00:32:48.000 So they want an American president who cares about the energy sector.

00:32:55.000 I've never actually heard that argument for crypto, because I know the crypto bros all love us, but I never thought about the massive amount of energy that it requires, and you're not going to get that using fake subsidized wind farms and solar panels on people's roofs.

00:33:09.000 It just doesn't make enough energy, and they recognize that.

00:33:12.000 You take a guy like Marc Andreessen or David Sachs, These are guys who are investing a lot and creating businesses a lot in the real economy, right?

00:33:19.000 They're interested in bringing American manufacturing back and they're figuring out how AI is going to play a role in making manufacturing workers more productive, which is great, right?

00:33:27.000 Higher wages, more technology, more innovation.

00:33:29.000 And they recognize that the regulatory burden of the Biden administration, the Kamala Harris administration, is destroying our capacity to innovate.

00:33:37.000 Like there's the old way of putting it, which is that America innovates, China steals and Europe regulates, right? 0.90

00:33:45.000 You hear that formulation a lot.

00:33:47.000 Well, America isn't going to innovate if we regulate the productive sectors of our economy into oblivion.

00:33:53.000 So there's a real overlap.

00:33:55.000 It's always the small business that gets the bad end of the regulation stick, right?

00:33:58.000 Exactly.

00:33:59.000 It's not the big tech.

00:34:00.000 They'll be fine.

00:34:00.000 They have friends in DC that they pay $100,000 a month to make sure that it never becomes a regulatory problem for them.

00:34:07.000 Just a little guy that doesn't have the advantage of having high-powered lobbyists You know, doing their bidding for them.

00:34:12.000 Well, that's a good point.

00:34:13.000 That's another division is big tech versus little tech, right?

00:34:16.000 Facebook, Google, these companies, I think, are still pretty hostile to President Trump, pretty hostile to the Republican Party.

00:34:23.000 But little tech, guys who are innovating, guys who are trying to take on the big incumbents, they just want reasonable regulation.

00:34:29.000 They want low-cost power.

00:34:30.000 They want to be able to hire who they want to hire.

00:34:32.000 And this is the final point, man.

00:34:34.000 People are sick of being told, you have to hire somebody who checks the box instead of you can hire for merit.

00:34:40.000 And I think that merit focus on hiring is bringing a lot of guys to Silicon Valley, or a lot of guys in Silicon Valley to our side.

00:34:48.000 Yeah, that's an interesting one.

00:34:49.000 Because for a long time, and I've seen this, we have a share of friend in common who has, you know, a person in their family that does a lot of sort of high net worth, you know, Fortune 500 company job placements.

00:35:00.000 And like, there are Fortune 500 companies out there, like, no white guys. 0.54

00:35:03.000 Yes. 0.97

00:35:04.000 Some of them are like, we don't even want white women. 1.00

00:35:06.000 We need to check three or four boxes so you can end up with, if you're a trans communist, this, that, and the other, you too can be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company with no experience whatsoever. 0.95

00:35:17.000 Which is illegal.

00:35:18.000 By the way, which is illegal.

00:35:19.000 Of course it is.

00:35:19.000 But it doesn't matter because the virtue signaling overrides.

00:35:23.000 They would rather be busted literally breaking the law to put in a checkbox type figure.

00:35:31.000 You'd see the nonsense going on with I mean, you know, planes are falling out of the sky.

00:35:35.000 I'm like, can't we pick something that's a little less dangerous?

00:35:38.000 If we're going to play this game, let's not try it with a plane going 700 miles an hour at 36,000 feet, because it's probably not a recipe for success.

00:35:45.000 There are two things where I really, really care about merit.

00:35:48.000 The guy operating on me and the guy repairing my airplanes, right?

00:35:52.000 I'm not a big fan of the DEI stuff, but I really want the highest quality person working on airplanes, operating on people.

00:35:59.000 You've got to hire for merit.

00:36:01.000 By the way, the people pitching the DEI framework and stuff like that, the powerful ones, they too are going to the best doctor and not the DEI hire.

00:36:09.000 It's a great idea for you, not so much for me.

00:36:12.000 It's all a scam.

00:36:13.000 And we know, of course, Kamala Harris's Department of Justice is not going to go after these illegal hiring practices, even though they are explicitly illegal. 1.00

00:36:20.000 One of the most profoundly evil things the Harris administration has done over the last

00:36:24.000 few years is they did a farm aid program where they said literally only non-whites can apply.

00:36:32.000 Okay?

00:36:33.000 Which, by the way, I want everybody who needs farm assistance to get started.

00:36:37.000 I want to help all farmers.

00:36:38.000 I want to help all farmers, right?

00:36:39.000 And that's what an America First perspective would say is, whatever the color of your skin,

00:36:42.000 we want to help Americans grow their own food.

00:36:45.000 The Biden-Harris administration is saying, no need to apply if you're a white guy. 0.96

00:36:49.000 That is just evil, evil stuff. 0.78

00:36:52.000 And yes, it's illegal, but if they hold the strings of power, they're never going to get

00:36:55.000 penalized for it.

00:36:56.000 It's why we've got to elect Donald J. Trump.

00:36:58.000 Sort of like, I always use the example, you know, me versus Hunter.

00:37:01.000 You know, we're not exactly the same, and yet, you know, he skates, and I do 50 hours of testimony, and it's just like, you know, insane.

00:37:07.000 But I think, you know, my audience is going to want to know, what's it like now with, let's call it, significant interaction with my father?

00:37:17.000 Because it is, that one's always fun, and it's interesting, and he can put you on the spot at an uncomfortable, any good stories yet?

00:37:25.000 Oh, man.

00:37:25.000 So many good stories.

00:37:26.000 My favorite story, though, is I get a text from somebody on the campaign staff.

00:37:30.000 This is Monday around noon, saying, you missed a really important phone call.

00:37:35.000 Right?

00:37:35.000 And this is when he is about to make a selection for VP.

00:37:37.000 So I'm like, oh, shit. 0.99

00:37:39.000 Either this is a bad phone call or a good phone call. 0.99

00:37:41.000 I'm like, honestly, I don't know.

00:37:43.000 I'm going to read about it on social when you do.

00:37:46.000 That's how I'm going to know.

00:37:47.000 And you know we're texting back and forth.

00:37:49.000 I'm staring at my phone.

00:37:50.000 So it just went straight to voicemail.

00:37:52.000 Some wires got crossed, whatever.

00:37:53.000 So I call the President back and President Trump's like, hey, J.D., you missed a very important phone call.

00:37:59.000 Maybe I'm going to have to go with somebody else.

00:38:01.000 And of course, I clench really hard.

00:38:05.000 I'm like, oh, OK, fine. 0.99

00:38:06.000 He's just screwing with me. 0.98

00:38:07.000 The best part of that phone call, though, is I'm talking to him, and he starts 0.98

00:38:11.000 walking through what he wants to say publicly for why he endorsed me.

00:38:14.000 And my son, my seven-year-old son, is in the background talking about Pokemon cards. 0.71

00:38:19.000 And I'm just like, I'm putting the president on mute and saying, son, shut the hell up about Pikachu.

00:38:24.000 For 30 seconds, don't talk about Pikachu! 0.83

00:38:28.000 I'm trying to take this phone call.

00:38:30.000 Eventually, your dad hears him, and he's like, hey, who is that?

00:38:34.000 I'm like, that's my seven-year-old son, sir, I'm sorry, he's just in the hotel room.

00:38:36.000 He's like, no, no, no, put him on the phone.

00:38:38.000 So then your dad starts asking my seven-year-old son what he thinks about the truth statement

00:38:43.000 that he's about to put out about the endorsement.

00:38:45.000 And my son's just like, yeah, that sounds good.

00:38:47.000 And then he goes back to his Pokemon cards.

00:38:48.000 He goes back to Pokemon.

00:38:49.000 That's good.

00:38:50.000 One of the most surreal moments of my life, Donald Trump talking to my son, who just wants to get back

00:38:55.000 to his Pokemon cards.

00:38:56.000 And I'm about to be nominated as vice president.

00:39:00.000 Like, I've seen that a lot, actually.

00:39:01.000 And it's actually been an interesting one for my father in business, which is like, he will ask,

00:39:05.000 the guy that's working on the job site, And it's amazing how... And I think it's why he also, unlike the Democrats, actually has so much respect for the working man and woman of America.

00:39:17.000 Absolutely.

00:39:17.000 Because he spent his time on those job sites.

00:39:19.000 He's been there on the ground.

00:39:21.000 He'll ask them their opinion, and all the guys behind their computer screens, in their corner offices, they totally miss it, because they're not on the ground.

00:39:32.000 Perhaps he's the guy that shouldn't, based on the usual metrics of it, but he has more respect for those guys, and he's able to talk to those people so much more effectively than anyone else in politics, because he's actually spent real time with them. 0.95

00:39:45.000 I would say he's the blue-collar millionaire, and 15 years ago when I said it, people used to shit all over me, like, what are you talking about? 0.97

00:39:50.000 You don't understand! 0.98

00:39:51.000 And now they understand, maybe.

00:39:52.000 But people know when somebody's interested in what you have to say, and he's actually interested in what they have to say, and people pick up on that, right?

00:39:58.000 So, you know, the media always asks me, have you ever talked to the president about being VP?

00:40:02.000 And this is before, of course, he named me.

00:40:03.000 And the answer was no.

00:40:04.000 Like, I actually didn't talk about him until the Saturday morning that he got shot, actually.

00:40:08.000 And of course, none of us knew what was going on.

00:40:10.000 I was here in Mar-a-Lago.

00:40:12.000 He's about to fly to Pennsylvania to do this rally, and we finally have a conversation about VP.

00:40:16.000 And at one point he's like, you know, I ask everybody.

00:40:18.000 I think it's important to get input from people.

00:40:20.000 He's like, you know, I'll ask the gardener at Mar-a-Lago what he thinks.

00:40:23.000 And it's like, well, what did the gardener at Morolago say, right?

00:40:26.000 I'm very interested in the answer to this question.

00:40:28.000 I knew you were going to shut up.

00:40:29.000 It's kind of a big one for me. 0.93

00:40:32.000 So what the hell did he say?

00:40:33.000 He talked to the gardener at Mar-a-Lago?

00:40:38.000 So many stories like that.

00:40:39.000 As you know, the thing the media really gets wrong about your dad is that he's just a fun human being to be around.

00:40:46.000 He's funny, he's charismatic, he asks people what they think, and he's very interested in other human beings.

00:40:52.000 We did this fundraiser for him in Cincinnati.

00:40:55.000 This is April, May.

00:40:57.000 The time slows down, so I have no idea.

00:40:58.000 By the way, the last two weeks must feel like a millennia at this point.

00:41:02.000 It's been a long one.

00:41:04.000 But he's talking to my wife and gives her a hug.

00:41:07.000 He's like, oh, you look great.

00:41:08.000 What do you think about politics now that your husband's brought you into politics?

00:41:11.000 What do you think about this?

00:41:12.000 She gives this very diplomatic answer, like, oh, sir, you know.

00:41:16.000 Definitely fair.

00:41:16.000 appreciate his love of service and I want to support him however I can. It's

00:41:20.000 just like a totally, it's a very Usha answer right, because she's a very 0.72

00:41:23.000 diplomatic person and he looks at her and says, yeah my wife hates it too. 1.00

00:41:28.000 But it's funny like actually this, this process of running, my wife is

00:41:38.000 And that's one of the cool things is, I don't know if it's just because it's a different stage or because... Yeah, talk about that, because that's a big change, right?

00:41:44.000 I mean, she's a lawyer, she's this, she's a mom of three.

00:41:47.000 You know, even as a senator, I mean, it's just...

00:41:51.000 You see it.

00:41:52.000 Now it's next level.

00:41:53.000 You saw that reaction on the people, on the floor of the convention.

00:41:55.000 This one was particularly warm.

00:41:56.000 I mean, you know, grown men coming.

00:41:58.000 You're literally in tears.

00:41:59.000 It was amazing.

00:42:00.000 How has she taken to that?

00:42:01.000 Because that can be a big change, especially on our side, right?

00:42:03.000 Where we're not going to get the benefit of the media, you know, giving us a modicum of the benefit of the doubt, right?

00:42:11.000 Everything is wrong all the time.

00:42:12.000 Everything's terrible. 0.99

00:42:13.000 She's a brown woman that will be called a white supremacist almost without question. 1.00

00:42:18.000 I'm sure she has.

00:42:20.000 You know, it's funny, Don.

00:42:22.000 I didn't know how she would react to it.

00:42:24.000 She's really loved it.

00:42:26.000 I think she's loved it in part because people are so nice, and she's gotten to meet a lot of cool people.

00:42:31.000 To your point, people come up to her and cry and tell her their life story, and she likes people just like I like people, so she's gotten into that.

00:42:38.000 I think one really interesting thing about the Senate race that is just different this time is Terrible mistake in family planning.

00:42:48.000 We had a baby like four months before the Senate primary, and so she was just exhausted.

00:42:51.000 I remember.

00:42:52.000 I was out there, and I was like... Love our baby, so glad we had her, but maybe we could have timed it a little bit better, right?

00:43:02.000 But this, it's just, you know, our kids, our youngest is now two and a half, and the kids are easy to travel with, and I just, we've tried to make it a family thing, and the kids, you know, they got to see Milwaukee, and my son, my four-year-old's still talking about, like, You know seeing Lake Michigan and it just the thing about campaigning for vice president is you see the country in a totally different perspective and to get like a little sentimental you really appreciate what makes the country great and you get to see it up close and you know I want us to win I think we're gonna win I will always be grateful for this experience and just the I'm trying to enjoy the ride just as the ride.

00:43:38.000 And you should, because it is amazing for me.

00:43:41.000 I need this like a hole in the head as well, and we were real estate guys, and that's how we made a living, and it was a lot easier.

00:43:45.000 And yet, when I do see that, mother, these policies allowed me to build a business.

00:43:51.000 You guys did it.

00:43:52.000 Can you please come back?

00:43:54.000 It was going so good for so long, and now I'm getting crushed.

00:43:58.000 It's like, oh crap, when I'm like, it's really inconvenient that I got another hit piece from the New York Times, I don't even care anymore. 0.50

00:44:05.000 That means nothing, because that story, and it's day in and day out, or worse, the person who lost a child to fentanyl. 0.95

00:44:13.000 Every day. 1.00

00:44:14.000 And you're like, hey Don, stop being a bitch. 1.00

00:44:17.000 Whatever they throw at you, you can handle it. 1.00

00:44:20.000 Because that person's life was destroyed by these policies, and that's why we're fighting.

00:44:25.000 I think my father said it best.

00:44:26.000 He said, listen, if we don't win this election, and there's radical leftist policies, and we would be told that they are moderate policies, but the radical policies, we do get to a point where the pendulum can't Get back to normal.

00:44:40.000 It can't correct enough.

00:44:42.000 Talk about that and where we are and just how bad that can be, because once you lose that, there is no coming back.

00:44:48.000 We live in a draconian world.

00:44:50.000 These guys are literally pushing socialism and communism.

00:44:53.000 It's not a joke.

00:44:53.000 It's not hyperbole.

00:44:54.000 They're basically saying it out loud.

00:44:56.000 They won't say it in the media, but behind closed doors, this is how they're acting.

00:45:00.000 Yeah, well, I mean, look, 20 million illegal aliens, the Democrats, Kamala Harris has been explicit.

00:45:05.000 She wants to give every single one of those people amnesty, wants to leave them in the country, and then give them the right to vote, okay? 0.97

00:45:10.000 So who are they going to vote for?

00:45:11.000 The person who gives them free healthcare, or the people who are paying for the free healthcare, right?

00:45:15.000 We know they're going to vote for the Democrats.

00:45:17.000 Electorally, I don't know if the country ever comes back from that.

00:45:21.000 And I think even a lot of Democrats, right, who maybe they're going to vote for Kamala Harris or maybe they're undecided.

00:45:27.000 My pitch is, you should want to vote for a president who puts your interests first.

00:45:31.000 Even if you don't always agree with the specific policy, somebody who wants to give 20 million people who broke our country's laws legal status so that they can vote.

00:45:40.000 And your money.

00:45:41.000 And your money, so that they can then vote.

00:45:43.000 more of your money to themselves, like that is not the way this country should be governed.

00:45:48.000 It's insulting to American citizens.

00:45:50.000 It's insulting to the people who came before us.

00:45:52.000 So I really do think the border issue in particular, if we don't get this under control, if we don't make it clear that you're not allowed to come here illegally and send at least the violent criminals back to where they came from, we are never going to have a border and fundamentally we'll never have a country again.

00:46:08.000 So we've got to vote against Kamala Harris for President Trump.

00:46:12.000 Or, look, the consequences are going to be so dire, it's going to be really hard for us to come back.

00:46:16.000 Well, J.D., I know you have to get going.

00:46:18.000 Guys, I'm going to stick around.

00:46:19.000 I'm actually going to go to the live feed in two seconds.

00:46:22.000 I'm going to take some of your questions.

00:46:24.000 J.D., great to see you.

00:46:25.000 I'll see you in the other room in a little bit.

00:46:27.000 We're live from the Lago.

00:46:28.000 Really appreciate it, man.

00:46:29.000 Thank you.

00:46:29.000 Thanks, man.

00:46:30.000 Alright guys, I'm going to pull this up.

00:46:32.000 We'll get to some of the questions.

00:46:35.000 Let me catch up because I'm probably going to be a little bit behind here.

00:46:37.000 I look like a boomer trying to figure out my phone right now.

00:46:44.000 That was amazing.

00:46:46.000 He's so right.

00:46:47.000 It's so hard to believe that some of these concepts have been so forgotten.

00:46:50.000 So before I get to the questions, I want to thank our sponsors again.

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00:47:38.000 And with that, I'm going to go take some of these questions.

00:47:41.000 So let's see.

00:47:44.000 J.D., congratulations on VP.

00:47:46.000 This is from Stefanog.

00:47:48.000 We couldn't ask for a better person.

00:47:49.000 Thank you helping save the U.S.

00:47:51.000 and the world.

00:47:53.000 True social loves it when you post.

00:47:54.000 That's a good one.

00:47:55.000 I appreciate it.

00:47:57.000 JKJD4T.

00:48:00.000 Trump fans, make America great again.

00:48:02.000 Fight and win.

00:48:03.000 I agree with that.

00:48:04.000 It's J.O.

00:48:06.000 Hellos from Georgia.

00:48:07.000 This country is really a blessing.

00:48:09.000 I'm for America first, for sure.

00:48:11.000 Trump got my vote.

00:48:12.000 But don't stop molding people into Americans.

00:48:14.000 Don't deport everyone.

00:48:16.000 No, listen, guys.

00:48:16.000 We're for legal immigration.

00:48:17.000 Don't kid yourself.

00:48:18.000 My mom's literally a legal immigrant. 1.00

00:48:21.000 She went through the process.

00:48:22.000 She did this legally.

00:48:24.000 There's a way to do that.

00:48:25.000 But don't forget, even the Biden open border policies, they don't want...

00:48:31.000 A genius computer programmer from Latin America or Eastern Europe.

00:48:35.000 They want dependents. 0.97

00:48:37.000 Look at the people who actually would create jobs and add value and create tax revenue and all these things that they want.

00:48:44.000 Those people go to the back of the line and they have to wait years.

00:48:47.000 It's only those who come that need something from the government that the Democrats think they can control.

00:48:52.000 So that's a really, really big one.

00:48:55.000 Let's see if I can... Whoa, there's a lot of comments on this one.

00:49:02.000 Legal but not illegal?

00:49:03.000 Yeah.

00:49:05.000 Let's see.

00:49:07.000 What's with J.D.' 's Trump accent?

00:49:09.000 Okay, listen guys, he's learning.

00:49:12.000 Okay, it takes a little bit of time to get the Trump accent down, but one day, he will have it perfect.

00:49:16.000 It will be huge.

00:49:17.000 Okay, we'll get that figured out soon.

00:49:21.000 How will you stop the steal in November?

00:49:23.000 Listen, that's going to be all of the stuff we're doing with WinRed.

00:49:26.000 I confused it with AgBlue earlier.

00:49:28.000 AgBlue's starting to do the process of stealing, it seems, but we'll let that get settled with the FEC, the Federal Election Commission, where we filed a complaint because we find it unlikely that individual people donated hundreds of times in a 24-hour period, meaning one individual donated all these times over.

00:49:44.000 That sounds like a money laundering scheme to me.

00:49:49.000 I don't think the FEC is all that conservative or all that neutral, but we got to do whatever we can.

00:49:54.000 But we need you guys to be involved.

00:49:56.000 We need people to volunteer as poll watchers.

00:49:58.000 Get involved.

00:49:59.000 Make sure all your friends vote.

00:50:01.000 Register people.

00:50:02.000 Do everything you can.

00:50:03.000 I say, to win by two, we got to win by six.

00:50:07.000 That's the reality, right?

00:50:08.000 Make it too big to rig.

00:50:10.000 There's no amount of level that they won't go to.

00:50:12.000 We just have to get whatever that level is and overwhelm it aggressively.

00:50:18.000 So that will be good.

00:50:19.000 Well, I'd be at the meeting tomorrow with BB.

00:50:22.000 I don't think so.

00:50:23.000 No, I gotta go speak at Tennessee.

00:50:25.000 I'm going to speak at the Bitcoin conference in Tennessee.

00:50:29.000 You know, the crypto guys.

00:50:30.000 That was an interesting point JD made actually about crypto.

00:50:32.000 It's like so many of the guys that are on the cutting edge.

00:50:34.000 It does require energy.

00:50:35.000 So this notion that we're going to somehow do this with wind power and nothing logical doesn't make so much sense.

00:50:41.000 I never thought of it before.

00:50:43.000 So, you know, that's a big one.

00:50:45.000 But I'm going to be in Tennessee.

00:50:47.000 BB is going to be here at Mar-a-Lago.

00:50:50.000 Meeting with my father, and so that that should be interesting, so we'll see.

00:50:56.000 Are you aware the White House is getting news from citizen journalists on X, aka the ballistic reports, etc.?

00:51:03.000 I'm not aware of that, embody.

00:51:06.000 I don't know where they're getting their news.

00:51:09.000 The reality is this, if they're getting it from citizen journalists, you know, That's probably more real than most of the actual, you know, professional journalists that we see out there.

00:51:18.000 I think, you know, the stuff that we've seen from citizen journalists over the last few years has been sort of groundbreaking and has done some amazing things.

00:51:26.000 And so I think that's really important to keep nurturing that reality.

00:51:31.000 Make sure that people are doing that.

00:51:33.000 Make sure you get that stuff to other people who are not just The White House.

00:51:36.000 If there was good stuff there, I'd imagine they'd sweep it under the rug like they did Joe Biden's health, like they did, you know, his dementia-riddled brain, like all the things they've been lying to us about for a while.

00:51:46.000 But, you know, that's a bit of a problem.

00:51:50.000 Bobby1966, question on, can anyone go to Mar-a-Lago for a dinner at some point?

00:51:55.000 I'd like to take my wife. 0.99

00:51:57.000 Not really, you know, it's a big house, but it's a private thing, so it's set up as like a private club.

00:52:02.000 I know, you know, for politics, through a bunch of the things that we do, we, you know, we'll raise money and they'll do raffles where winners can, you know, get that ability.

00:52:11.000 I've run into people, you know, at some of the rallies where they just, they go so far out of their way in their work, I just say, hey, Go to dinner on me.

00:52:18.000 It's not the kind of thing you can just drive up, especially with Secret Service.

00:52:22.000 And, I mean, they gave me the, uh, hey Don, we're gonna have to sweep your car to get into Mar-a-Lago tonight.

00:52:28.000 I'm like, with what?

00:52:30.000 They're like, well, the bomb dogs and the this.

00:52:32.000 I was like, hey guys, I'm going in because, uh, Let's just say there's always a couple weapons in my car, and I probably just don't want to get swept at that point.

00:52:41.000 So I think I'll get my father to overrule that one for me.

00:52:44.000 It's one of the few times I probably can make something happen, because I come here a lot, and that would be really kind of annoying.

00:52:50.000 But because of that, they keep a pretty tight ship as to who can get in and when.

00:52:55.000 But you never know.

00:52:56.000 Like I said, there's a lot of opportunities.

00:52:57.000 They do these things on campaign things, at some of the rallies where they give away, you know, a table.

00:53:01.000 My father will sit down with 10 people who are lucky enough to win that opportunity.

00:53:06.000 It is a spectacular place.

00:53:08.000 I wish we could, and maybe one day we will.

00:53:11.000 But it's not the kind of thing you can just drive up to right now.

00:53:15.000 Don Jr., will you all have a rally in Hawaii?

00:53:18.000 Maga Pound Cake.

00:53:20.000 That's a good question.

00:53:21.000 Honestly, obviously, that's a Democrat stronghold.

00:53:24.000 Obviously, that's a place that is quite left.

00:53:27.000 And yet, when you look at what happened to Maui, when you look at the response to that, the disastrous response, not just from the local Democrats, but then the Bidens, it's like, here's 200 bucks, and we'll give 100 billion to Ukraine.

00:53:38.000 We'll pay their pensions.

00:53:39.000 We'll pay their this.

00:53:40.000 We'll do everything like that.

00:53:41.000 No one will get to do anything.

00:53:43.000 You start to wonder.

00:53:45.000 You know, is there a window to switch that out and to flip the narrative?

00:53:49.000 So, I don't know.

00:53:52.000 Probably not likely, but it doesn't mean you can't do something eventually because that matters.

00:53:57.000 Drill, baby, drill. 1.00

00:53:58.000 Yeah, that would do a lot for so many Americans, for the energy we're talking about.

00:54:01.000 That would do a lot for the crypto folks, especially when you're talking about LNG, liquid natural gas, when you can literally run power plants off stuff that's in the ground.

00:54:08.000 You can burn it clean, like much cleaner than so many other things.

00:54:11.000 Like, you know, not all fossil fuels are or the same or even environmentally close.

00:54:17.000 I mean, there's so many things we could do.

00:54:19.000 That's just stuff you'll never hear about.

00:54:21.000 So I agree with it and we got to do it.

00:54:23.000 But don't forget Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, these are the things they wanted to eliminate.

00:54:28.000 Kamala Harris owns that record too.

00:54:29.000 Look at the things she said about drilling and clean energy and all these things.

00:54:34.000 This would be a disaster for our energy.

00:54:36.000 Our energy is not just sort of security at home, but it's also security abroad.

00:54:41.000 If we're not beholden to our enemies, Don't forget, we still need oil, we still need these things.

00:54:46.000 We can do it ourselves, create incredible jobs for hardworking Americans, or we can just export it to Iran and Venezuela and regimes that we hate, which we're doing.

00:54:56.000 And that's sad, sick, and disgusting.

00:55:00.000 So let's see. 0.90

00:55:01.000 Okay.

00:55:05.000 Don, thank you and JD for sticking up for the little guy, packing cheese.

00:55:09.000 Listen guys, it's my pleasure.

00:55:11.000 Like I said, I understand totally the irony of me being that guy and being willing to do that.

00:55:17.000 I understand how odd that sounds, but I get it.

00:55:20.000 My parents were brought up, my grandparents really did a lot bringing me up.

00:55:24.000 I spent my summers in communist Czechoslovakia.

00:55:27.000 They didn't have two pennies to rub together.

00:55:29.000 My grandfather was an engineer.

00:55:30.000 It didn't matter.

00:55:30.000 He still didn't have anything, and it was an amazing experience.

00:55:35.000 But I also see what socialism, what communism has done to our country, and I see what they're trying to import here.

00:55:41.000 There's a reason there's just no one from, you know, behind the old Eastern Bloc, you know, Soviet Europe, behind the Iron Curtain. 0.77

00:55:49.000 It's a reason no one here that lived under that rule ever wants it coming to America. 0.90

00:55:55.000 There's a reason they don't want it.

00:55:57.000 They're here.

00:55:58.000 Those are the biggest vocal opponents of socialism and communism.

00:56:02.000 It's only like some teacher who goes, you know, it's Bernie Sanders.

00:56:04.000 They went there on vacation once.

00:56:06.000 It's wonderful.

00:56:06.000 Everything's great.

00:56:07.000 Everyone's equal. 1.00

00:56:09.000 It's such bullshit. 0.99

00:56:11.000 No one from any of these places ever advocates it for it here. 1.00

00:56:14.000 It's only the people who have no understanding, who's never actually been there, who've never actually lived it.

00:56:20.000 Those are the people doing it.

00:56:21.000 So we got to keep fighting.

00:56:23.000 Canadian here, fingers crossed for you guys.

00:56:26.000 M4NYAway, thank you. 0.93

00:56:31.000 We need you up here too.

00:56:33.000 Yeah, Canada, you've got your own problems as well. 0.95

00:56:38.000 I think you guys got problems.

00:56:41.000 H-B-O-M-R, 30k watching and only 900 likes.

00:56:44.000 Smash that like button, folks. 0.73

00:56:46.000 Thank you!

00:56:47.000 M-B-O-M-R. 1.00

00:56:49.000 Thank you.

00:56:49.000 That's a lot of people watching, not a lot of likes, okay?

00:56:53.000 You guys gotta take two seconds.

00:56:54.000 Like JD was saying, hey, we are literally, this is gonna be something that's gonna change over the course of the coming weeks.

00:57:00.000 Like, we are gonna be the people getting you actual information, right?

00:57:04.000 Whatever you see when you turn on regular cable, You know, it's going to be so muted and or so flipped on its head, so biased, so ridiculous, it won't be even like levels of truth, it'll just be outright lies.

00:57:18.000 So you guys like, share, subscribe, send this to your friends, make sure they see it.

00:57:24.000 Remember, you can get Triggered on Spotify, you can get it on Apple Podcasts, you can get it there.

00:57:30.000 If you don't get it here, we'll download it usually the next day.

00:57:33.000 On to there so that you can send it to your friends that get their podcast that way you're a hundred percent, right?

00:57:38.000 Like you guys participating in this you guys commenting that although live feeds going pretty nuts But you know the likes all of that stuff matters that changes the algorithm that means more people see it the more people that see this message Maybe we get a couple even a couple percent You change the minds of someone else who's been brainwashed, who's busy trying to survive in Kamala Harris, Joe Biden's America, under these ridiculous policies.

00:58:06.000 Maybe they're too busy.

00:58:08.000 I think it's hard to be too busy to be paying attention at this point, given all that's at stake, but maybe they are.

00:58:13.000 And I get that.

00:58:14.000 It's hard.

00:58:15.000 But you win over a couple percent of those people.

00:58:18.000 That can be everything.

00:58:18.000 Remember, the last election was lost essentially by 45,000 votes in a couple of areas, right?

00:58:23.000 Think of how little that is.

00:58:25.000 I mean, that's less than twice the amount of people that are watching this right now.

00:58:31.000 We get this in front of a few more people.

00:58:33.000 We do that for the next 104 days.

00:58:35.000 We do whatever it takes.

00:58:36.000 You went over those amount of people, and we can actually get our country back on the right track.

00:58:41.000 So you guys are right.

00:58:42.000 Smash that like button.

00:58:44.000 It's not that hard, folks.

00:58:45.000 It's not asking too much.

00:58:47.000 I can sit here and react to you guys for hours.

00:58:50.000 You guys can do that.

00:58:51.000 So let's see.

00:58:55.000 Let's see.

00:58:56.000 That was great.

00:58:57.000 I like that.

00:58:58.000 That's always good.

00:59:01.000 Your mama's still legit with me. 0.73

00:59:02.000 I don't know if that's me or if that's talking about JD's mom, but...

00:59:08.000 Junior mocking the accent, I love it.

00:59:09.000 Well, listen, we gotta have some fun with it.

00:59:12.000 The problem with politics, I think my father probably figured this out, whether intentionally or not.

00:59:16.000 So many of these guys are so stiff.

00:59:18.000 You gotta be able to relate to people.

00:59:20.000 You gotta be able to have a personality.

00:59:22.000 I mean, I thought my father, the clip of my father last weekend when he was doing, and he sees his hair from the side shot of the teleprompter, he's like, whoa!

00:59:31.000 Whoa! 0.71

00:59:33.000 That thing, that's like a work of art!

00:59:34.000 I haven't seen this thing!

00:59:37.000 Isn't that what you need from, like, let's talk about socioeconomic policy that no one understands, no one knows the details of, the numbers and the inputs that they use are always designed to get the result that they want that's convenient for them from an election cycle standpoint. 0.99

00:59:52.000 It's all bullshit.

00:59:54.000 So, you know, I think it's important to be able to have those conversations and actually be real. 0.99

00:59:57.000 So I will do that.

01:00:02.000 Okay.

01:00:05.000 Just ask them, honestly.

01:00:13.000 If you're in Atlanta, are you better off now?

01:00:16.000 Or were you better off under Trump?

01:00:18.000 You've had four years under both, right?

01:00:19.000 It's not like you're selling a fictitious dream, okay?

01:00:22.000 You had four years under Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.

01:00:25.000 You had four years under Trump.

01:00:26.000 If you're an eligible voter at this time, you were alive during both.

01:00:30.000 When were you better off?

01:00:32.000 When did your dollar go further?

01:00:34.000 I always tell the story, you know, my son even brought it up to me the other day.

01:00:38.000 He was like, yeah, he couldn't, someone else was like, it was a compelling story.

01:00:41.000 He just said, hey man, I came back, I was on a trip with my boys.

01:00:44.000 We came back from a fishing trip.

01:00:45.000 We went by McDonald's.

01:00:46.000 I had my 11-year-old and my 14-year-old at the time.

01:00:49.000 This is last year.

01:00:50.000 They're now, you know, I guess it was 10 and 14.

01:00:53.000 Now they're 11 and 15.

01:00:53.000 But when this happened, It was an 11-year-old, and a 14-year-old, and me.

01:01:00.000 And we got McDonald's.

01:01:01.000 And it was $47!

01:01:02.000 And change.

01:01:05.000 And I was like, it's too much!

01:01:07.000 So, if Donald Trump Jr.

01:01:09.000 has sticker shock, if Donald Trump Jr.

01:01:12.000 realizes that is too expensive, it's insane, Everyone has to understand that.

01:01:17.000 Everyone has to realize that.

01:01:19.000 That's what's going on right now.

01:01:21.000 So, you know, don't forget that.

01:01:24.000 Talk to them about real-world examples.

01:01:26.000 Are they better off?

01:01:26.000 Because we can bring that back.

01:01:28.000 But you're not going to get it back giving Social Security benefits to all the illegals. 0.99

01:01:32.000 That will get one thing.

01:01:33.000 That will get them to vote for Democrats forever.

01:01:36.000 And you, as American citizens who've been paying into these systems forever, will never get the benefit of the money that you've spent, because they will have given it away to illegals to buy their vote. 0.68

01:01:47.000 It's that simple.

01:01:49.000 Do not let them get away with that.

01:01:51.000 They're gonna run all this advertising of all the free stuff they're gonna get.

01:01:54.000 Remember, guys, the problem with socialism, as Margaret Thatcher once said, is eventually you run out of other people's money.

01:02:01.000 Do not let them get away with this insanity, because it doesn't work.

01:02:08.000 Trump is right.

01:02:09.000 Many will self-deport.

01:02:10.000 You're right.

01:02:10.000 You take away the freebies and they'll do that.

01:02:13.000 But the biggest thing, we've got to get rid of the violent criminals.

01:02:15.000 I mean, Venezuela crime stats are going down because they're releasing all the bad guys into America. 0.99

01:02:20.000 They're like, hey, you can go to jail or you can go to America.

01:02:23.000 You bring those guys here, your neighborhoods won't be safe, your stores, your small businesses won't be safe.

01:02:30.000 The big guys, they'll be fine.

01:02:31.000 They'll insure for that.

01:02:32.000 That'll crush working-class America. 1.00

01:02:35.000 That will crush small business.

01:02:37.000 And you guys know, here at Triggered, at Rumble, we support small businesses.

01:02:42.000 Whether it's our sponsors, whether it's the guys at Public Square, all the stuff we do with that, supporting the lifeblood of America by supporting small businesses.

01:02:51.000 If our neighborhoods go to hell, those small businesses go with them.

01:02:54.000 And that's a disaster.

01:02:55.000 We don't want to be ruled by the oligarch class of big, woke, corporate America.

01:03:01.000 That would be a disaster.

01:03:04.000 Can you answer my DM on Instagram, lugrace23?

01:03:09.000 I don't know.

01:03:10.000 Maybe.

01:03:11.000 I'll try to find it, but, you know, I have like 7 million followers on Instagram.

01:03:15.000 I basically only get, you know, DMs from people I follow or allow.

01:03:20.000 I get probably thousands otherwise, so I don't know.

01:03:25.000 It's just not that easy to find.

01:03:26.000 If you get a good picture or something like that, my man, you can tag me.

01:03:30.000 Maybe I'll see it in the comments.

01:03:32.000 But the problem is, I literally wouldn't be able to see any of my DMs if I just let everyone that did that.

01:03:36.000 It's sort of the way it's set up.

01:03:41.000 Are you the Trump future?

01:03:43.000 I don't know.

01:03:43.000 That's up for you guys to decide.

01:03:45.000 Who knows if I ever even run, but what I'll tell you this, I may not ever run.

01:03:49.000 Maybe I will.

01:03:51.000 I do have the bug.

01:03:52.000 I like the fight.

01:03:53.000 I like doing the things that most of the Republicans are not all that comfortable with, like engaging and getting aggressive about these things.

01:03:59.000 You got to want that day job.

01:04:00.000 But what I can assure you is I'm going to be out here fighting daily.

01:04:06.000 To make sure we save America, that we save small business, that we fight for the hard-working men and women of this country.

01:04:14.000 And, you know, hopefully you guys think I do a good job of that.

01:04:18.000 Let's see.

01:04:22.000 We got to fight.

01:04:23.000 We do have to fight.

01:04:23.000 And again, we fight with our vote.

01:04:25.000 We fight with our words.

01:04:26.000 We fight with our energy to get it out there, to make sure people are out there, to make sure that people are voting, to make sure that we're getting people registered, to make sure that people aren't buying into the fake news.

01:04:39.000 We gotta fight like the third monkey getting on the ark and it's starting to rain because that's what we're up against.

01:04:44.000 You saw that, the donations this week, you know, act blue, like it's literally insanity.

01:04:50.000 And they're gonna get hundreds of millions of dollars to spread the lies that will literally elect someone who's gonna be the most, by far the most radical person to ever sit in the White House, someone who is literally ranked, and the fact checkers will try to make this go away because even they said it, The most radical person in the United States Senate ever, Kamala Harris. 0.94

01:05:09.000 Like, that is insanity, but that's what we're up against.

01:05:12.000 CCW Maggie, Don Jr., 2028, I'd vote for you.

01:05:17.000 Thank you, Maggie.

01:05:18.000 I appreciate that.

01:05:20.000 Thanks, I guess.

01:05:23.000 I don't know if that's a compliment or a, you know, that could be like capital punishment at this point.

01:05:29.000 USA, USA, I know. Will there be outdoor rallies? I hope so.

01:05:39.000 I think if my father had his way, he would do it.

01:05:41.000 I think what they'll do is they'll come up with a way to stop it.

01:05:43.000 By the way, I think part of the The reality is this.

01:05:46.000 setting down of the outdoor rallies is really designed to prevent him from getting out there,

01:05:52.000 to try to hide him like they do, you know, Joe Biden, like they'll ultimately do with

01:05:55.000 Kamala Harris, to hide him in the basement and do that, where, you know, you just can't

01:05:59.000 not every little small town has a big stadium that you can do rallies like they were able

01:06:04.000 to do over the last couple of days.

01:06:06.000 The reality is this.

01:06:08.000 They can keep someone safe outdoors.

01:06:12.000 I know they can do that.

01:06:13.000 I know the capabilities of the Secret Service, and the teams they work with, and the counter-sniper guys, and the cat teams.

01:06:20.000 I've trained with them.

01:06:21.000 I know them.

01:06:22.000 Many of them are very good friends of mine.

01:06:24.000 I won't give you those names, because they'd probably lose their jobs in about two seconds for being friendly with me.

01:06:29.000 But they can do this easily, if there's a will.

01:06:34.000 It does not seem like there was a will.

01:06:36.000 It seems like...

01:06:39.000 A level of coincidence that is not even close to believable was going on during all of this insanity.

01:06:51.000 If they want to protect him, they can protect him.

01:06:54.000 He can do an outdoor rally and they can put him behind glass like they do the president or all these things like they used to do for him and stuff like that.

01:07:00.000 You don't have to leave him out there.

01:07:01.000 You can maybe cover roofs within a few hundred yards, you know, the little things like that.

01:07:07.000 But, you know, that was an act of divine intervention that saved my father's life.

01:07:11.000 Like, you know, I'm not, you don't hear me talking spiritual all that often.

01:07:16.000 And If I ever believed it was at that moment when he came up defiant, because that should not have been the case.

01:07:25.000 That should not have been the end result.

01:07:28.000 A very lackluster shooter in that situation with that much time and that kind of armament, almost impossible to believe.

01:07:39.000 Can you sue Newsweek?

01:07:40.000 I think it was USA Today that did the fact check on the other thing.

01:07:43.000 I think Newsweek, though, wrote the article.

01:07:45.000 Newsweek this week.

01:07:46.000 And this is when you know they're in full propaganda.

01:07:48.000 Newsweek wrote the article.

01:07:49.000 Well, we're not really sure Trump was shot.

01:07:52.000 Are you sure?

01:07:53.000 I'm like... 0.99

01:07:53.000 Are you shitting me? 0.99

01:07:54.000 There's doctors and people... They're literally doing anything. 0.99

01:07:58.000 They have no scruples.

01:08:00.000 They have no morals.

01:08:02.000 They have no decency.

01:08:03.000 However much you hate the media, however much you despise them, it is not enough.

01:08:10.000 Let's be clear, okay?

01:08:11.000 Because they will lie to you at this.

01:08:13.000 They will gaslight you.

01:08:14.000 They will whitewash the record of Kamala Harris.

01:08:17.000 They'll lie to you about my father being shot.

01:08:20.000 They did it within hours of him being shot. 0.96

01:08:22.000 You saw what I did to that MSDNC clown two days later. 0.86

01:08:25.000 They couldn't even wait 48 hours to go back to their narrative. 0.77

01:08:30.000 And you think it was bad then?

01:08:32.000 Now that they have someone who's like a... I mean... 1.00

01:08:34.000 I guess kind of a non-vegetable.

01:08:36.000 Kind of, sort of.

01:08:38.000 Not much better.

01:08:39.000 I mean, you hear the sentence that she puts together, and you're saying it's not much better, but it's a little bit better than Joe Biden.

01:08:44.000 Not much, but a little bit.

01:08:47.000 They're going to go to a level that we've never seen before.

01:08:51.000 It's going to make Russia collusion seem like A minor thing.

01:08:55.000 They're going to go so hard, so fast.

01:08:58.000 Now, the long-term benefit of that is probably good.

01:09:01.000 The long-term benefit will be that no one will ever trust the mainstream media.

01:09:04.000 You'll come to places like this.

01:09:06.000 You'll listen to guys like me and some of our other friends here at Rumble and elsewhere, citizen journalists.

01:09:12.000 Great.

01:09:13.000 The institution of our media Doesn't deserve to have any credibility, because they're no longer journalists.

01:09:20.000 They're not reporting news.

01:09:22.000 They are pushing propaganda.

01:09:24.000 They are literally actors for the regime.

01:09:27.000 If this happened to conservatives, the Federal Election Commission, the same FEC we're talking about with this, would literally sue them for in-kind contributions, for the free boost that they give to the Democrats, you know, and the lies that they give about Republicans.

01:09:42.000 It's not right, but it's never going to stop.

01:09:48.000 Is Elon Musk donating $45 million a month?

01:09:51.000 No.

01:09:52.000 I thought that was real too, but it turns out the original story was never real.

01:09:55.000 He's donating to, I guess, a PAC called America PAC.

01:09:58.000 I think they support, generally speaking, probably people who support freedom.

01:10:01.000 I think that leans far more Republican than Democrat.

01:10:04.000 I think, you know, I think he sort of endorsed Trump, but people are like, well, he's pulling back.

01:10:09.000 It's like, no, no, it was never actually true, but he is supporting a PAC that is supporting,

01:10:15.000 I believe, a bunch of Trump stuff, a bunch of conservatives, perhaps in the Senate.

01:10:20.000 So he's doing stuff that way, but people are like, well, he's changed his mind now.

01:10:24.000 And it's not because of Kamala Harris.

01:10:25.000 It was like, it was that the original story that was the premise for a lot of tweets and all this stuff actually turns out to never have been true in the first place.

01:10:33.000 So, uh, I guess fake news is gonna fake.

01:10:36.000 Let's see.

01:10:41.000 Don, I asked you... Abby H3048 asked you this last time, but I was wondering if J.D.

01:10:47.000 would consider running for president in the future.

01:10:49.000 You know what?

01:10:50.000 I missed him.

01:10:51.000 We sort of had a good chat.

01:10:52.000 I know we only had about, you know, 50 minutes to do that.

01:10:55.000 I imagine he certainly would.

01:10:57.000 I think he could be someone, you know, that would be great at that.

01:11:00.000 I mean, people were like...

01:11:02.000 Don Junior's trying to put someone in there that he can run with or run against or something.

01:11:07.000 If I wanted to do that, I wouldn't put that guy in there.

01:11:09.000 That guy's a charismatic guy with an incredible story, incredible background, incredible career, who came out of incredible poverty and a family that suffered from addiction.

01:11:20.000 I want that guy to help fix that.

01:11:22.000 I don't want to compete against that guy.

01:11:23.000 If I wanted to actually definitively run in 2028 or whatever the story is that they were trying to plant out there, I'd be like, I'll pick one of the old stooges that has zero chance, even if they had... even if they were my father's VP, and even if they had his endorsement that, like, you know, guys like me would destroy in a primary in about three seconds.

01:11:43.000 Like, I wouldn't be choosing a J.D.

01:11:44.000 Vance.

01:11:45.000 I chose a J.D.

01:11:46.000 Vance.

01:11:47.000 I pushed hard for that to happen, as hard as I've ever pushed for anything, other than perhaps J.D.

01:11:53.000 for Senate, which worked out great, and he was an incredible senator, and still is.

01:11:56.000 But, you know, that's the thing, guys.

01:11:59.000 I'm not doing what I do for me because I have some sort of ego or I'm hyper-aspirational that way.

01:12:09.000 That's like the Kamala Harrises. 0.94

01:12:10.000 They're just more ambition than sense, more ambition than brains.

01:12:15.000 They'll do anything to get there.

01:12:17.000 I'm not that guy.

01:12:19.000 I could care less.

01:12:19.000 Like, if I can go hunting and fishing, have a cabin in the woods and a drift boat and, you know, get to go hunting in deer season, like, I'm a happy guy.

01:12:27.000 I'm actually a pretty simple dude that way.

01:12:29.000 Like, I don't have the hubris, you know, perhaps, to ever even run.

01:12:34.000 But, you know, I'm not ever ruling it out.

01:12:36.000 If it needs to be done and I'm the guy that I think can get it done, maybe I would do it.

01:12:39.000 But, like, That's very different.

01:12:41.000 Like, I do what I do because I believe in our country, I believe in our Constitution, I believe in our values, I believe in everything we stand for, and I've seen the scourge of communism because my mother escaped it.

01:12:54.000 Legally.

01:12:55.000 Okay?

01:12:56.000 But I've...

01:12:57.000 I've spent my summers there.

01:12:58.000 I did that for until I was 18.

01:13:00.000 I did that before the wall, after the wall.

01:13:03.000 I saw the effects before.

01:13:05.000 I saw the disasters.

01:13:05.000 I've waited in those bread lines.

01:13:07.000 Like, I'm not doing this for me.

01:13:09.000 It was much easier, frankly, to not be involved in politics.

01:13:13.000 I didn't get, you know...

01:13:14.000 White powder envelopes at my house all the time.

01:13:17.000 My father wasn't being shot at.

01:13:19.000 I wasn't getting hit pieces.

01:13:20.000 They used to like me in the press.

01:13:21.000 Like, you know, you give them a little bit of attention, they'd give you a fluff piece.

01:13:24.000 It was wonderful.

01:13:25.000 That is so different now.

01:13:26.000 So I'm not doing this for me.

01:13:28.000 I'm doing it for our country, and I'll do whatever it takes, whatever I see fit, to make that work for America, because that's what actually matters to me.

01:13:37.000 Let's see.

01:13:41.000 You sound exactly like your dad did on Oprah.

01:13:44.000 No, no, no.

01:13:44.000 He was much more aggressive.

01:13:45.000 He said, eh, you know, many have said, many have said, if I run, I would win.

01:13:50.000 And turns out he was right.

01:13:52.000 That's not what I'm saying.

01:13:53.000 I'm saying, I will do what it takes to help whoever I think is best to do what's right for our country win.

01:13:59.000 So it's a little different.

01:14:02.000 Next generation, maybe not quite as much, but I appreciate that.

01:14:06.000 I'll take it.

01:14:11.000 Let's see.

01:14:14.000 Why was J.D.

01:14:14.000 a never-Trumper, and what changed him?

01:14:16.000 That's a good question.

01:14:17.000 I think, by the way, Vincente, it's a fair question.

01:14:20.000 I think J.D.

01:14:21.000 bought into a lot of that narrative.

01:14:22.000 Don't forget, you know, we just got done with the RNC.

01:14:26.000 You know, incredible.

01:14:27.000 It was so good.

01:14:28.000 In 2016, I literally almost got in a fistfight on the floor with Senator Mike Lee, who's now one of my closest friends in government.

01:14:37.000 We text every day.

01:14:38.000 But at that time, it was like, who is this guy from New York?

01:14:42.000 And what's going to happen?

01:14:43.000 And there's no way he's going to be a conservative.

01:14:45.000 And JD bought into that mindset.

01:14:48.000 There's no way this guy's going to fight for the common man.

01:14:49.000 How can the guy that lives in Trump Tower fight for the common man?

01:14:53.000 He got it.

01:14:54.000 What I respect about JD, don't forget, everyone was in there.

01:15:03.000 Trump already. You talk about the people who were, you know, the other people that were VP picked,

01:15:16.000 you know, Marco Rubio, that was a rough primary. You had Doug Burgum, he said he'd

01:15:19.000 never do business with Trump at the time. And like, you know, people can

01:15:24.000 change their minds.

01:15:24.000 And that's the reality of our process.

01:15:26.000 We're not like the Democrats, where it's like, just blindly follow, like a robot.

01:15:31.000 What is the narrative?

01:15:32.000 And we're going to go by that.

01:15:33.000 Like, he wasn't sure.

01:15:34.000 But what I really liked about J.D.

01:15:35.000 Earley, and where I kind of got friendly with him...

01:15:38.000 After that, I loved this book and when it was like sort of being anti-Trump, at least initially, I was like, oh crap, because this is a guy, like, this is a guy you could build a movement around.

01:15:46.000 This is an awesome guy, really.

01:15:47.000 It was actually one of the few times I felt let down by a politician because I was like, this guy could be great at this.

01:15:53.000 But then...

01:15:55.000 Unlike a lot of others who were like, okay, fine, we'll reluctantly accept Trump.

01:15:59.000 We'll, you know, it's, I guess we got to deal with it.

01:16:01.000 He's got charisma.

01:16:02.000 I guess we, you know, in a couple of years we'll get rid of him and we'll go back to the old ways of never ending wars and shipping your jobs abroad.

01:16:10.000 J.D.

01:16:10.000 was like, oh crap, I was wrong.

01:16:13.000 That's it. 0.98

01:16:13.000 Like, I was wrong. 0.98

01:16:14.000 I love these policies.

01:16:15.000 And, you know, he became one of the greatest fighters for our movement.

01:16:18.000 And it wasn't, again, it wasn't a reluctant acceptance.

01:16:20.000 He was like, I was wrong. 1.00

01:16:22.000 I bought into the bullshit. 1.00

01:16:23.000 I understand how that happens. 0.99

01:16:24.000 Again, it's why I tell you guys, like, share, subscribe, so other people can see the truth and not just buy into it.

01:16:28.000 But even guys who are incredibly intelligent, who start businesses, who are conservative, I get it.

01:16:33.000 And then Trump was more of an unknown.

01:16:36.000 So, you know, he didn't come around because he was forced to.

01:16:39.000 He came around because he understood that the policies actually worked, and I respect that.

01:16:43.000 And so we became friendly, and I was like, he's going to do it.

01:16:45.000 I helped, you know, worked hard to try to, you know, get him the endorsement for Senate.

01:16:49.000 I worked hard campaigning for him for Senate. 0.99

01:16:51.000 He gets to the Senate, and he kicked ass. 0.99

01:16:53.000 He didn't just go with the, oh, everyone wants never-ending war in Ukraine. 0.99

01:16:56.000 What could go wrong?

01:16:58.000 He questioned it.

01:16:58.000 He called it out.

01:16:59.000 He voted against the nonsense.

01:17:00.000 So, um, you know, there's a big part of that is being able to make that change.

01:17:05.000 Do it organically.

01:17:06.000 You know, maybe everyone needs a little bit of humble pie for a couple seconds, but like that's the American system.

01:17:11.000 That's the process.

01:17:12.000 That's how we do this.

01:17:12.000 And I think it was kind of awesome.

01:17:14.000 Let's see here.

01:17:16.000 Okay.

01:17:18.000 We are bigger in the polls now than in 2016, but we can't take any days off.

01:17:23.000 We must fight every single day.

01:17:24.000 This needs to be a landslide victory.

01:17:26.000 We need to make everyone know that everyone needs to vote.

01:17:30.000 Liberty or death on X?

01:17:32.000 100%, guys.

01:17:32.000 Everyone's like, oh, he gets shot.

01:17:34.000 It's over.

01:17:35.000 No, no, no.

01:17:35.000 Honestly.

01:17:36.000 Do you even hear about the assassination attempt?

01:17:41.000 That was like 10 days ago.

01:17:43.000 It's almost like gone.

01:17:45.000 Two weeks ago, it's gone from the press.

01:17:48.000 They don't even want to talk about it.

01:17:49.000 This would be one of the biggest moments in American history, theoretically, and it's gone.

01:17:54.000 Now, Kamala Harris is a moderate.

01:17:56.000 The narrative will change so quickly.

01:17:58.000 This thing's not over.

01:18:00.000 This thing's not won yet.

01:18:01.000 It's not even close.

01:18:02.000 There's nothing they won't do.

01:18:04.000 Part of the Kamala Harris switch, in my opinion, is when they do break out their games, If Joe Biden wins, like, no one's ever gonna believe that.

01:18:12.000 At least we'll come out and be like, no, they love her! 0.64

01:18:14.000 She's female! 1.00

01:18:15.000 Yeah!

01:18:15.000 Checks box!

01:18:16.000 Like, it's just... All hands on deck.

01:18:21.000 Pedal to the metal through November 5th.

01:18:24.000 Do not even think for one second that anything is even remotely done.

01:18:32.000 SharpieDon22, it was genuine.

01:18:34.000 I agree with that.

01:18:39.000 Let's see.

01:18:41.000 Do liberals not see that they have to cheat with illegals to win? 1.00

01:18:44.000 Well, they don't care.

01:18:45.000 That's the point, guys.

01:18:47.000 Of course they do.

01:18:49.000 The policies have failed so many groups, whether it's Hispanics, even African-Americans, that are hemorrhaging.

01:18:55.000 They're leaving the Democrat Party because the policies have failed them.

01:18:58.000 But they don't care, because it's not about the policies.

01:19:00.000 It's not about you.

01:19:01.000 It's not about your well-being, or your job, or your business, or your family, or your children, or their education.

01:19:07.000 If it was about that, they could have done so many things.

01:19:10.000 They wouldn't cater to the teachers' union.

01:19:12.000 They'd say, you know, maybe math is more important than gender theory. 1.00

01:19:16.000 They don't care about any of it.

01:19:17.000 For the Democrats, it's about power.

01:19:20.000 It's only about power.

01:19:23.000 Okay?

01:19:23.000 None of what they're taught, none of it makes any sense.

01:19:25.000 It's ridiculous. 0.95

01:19:27.000 But as long as they have power, they don't care. 0.98

01:19:29.000 They'll jam bad policy down your throats to hold that. 0.97

01:19:32.000 So, I think they get it.

01:19:33.000 I just don't think they give a damn.

01:19:37.000 Love the JD pick.

01:19:41.000 Fight, fight, fight.

01:19:42.000 Win, win, win.

01:19:43.000 I love you so much, Don Jr.

01:19:45.000 Trump Vance 2024.

01:19:47.000 Melissa Maga 2020.

01:19:48.000 Thank you.

01:19:50.000 Thoughts on Bitcoin?

01:19:54.000 Listen, I love where crypto is going, because I think right now, and you know, we're working on some stuff actually in it, you know, from the family business standpoint.

01:20:05.000 That's literally happening now, looking at so many of these technologies, but ultimately it's... I love something that's of finite capacity.

01:20:13.000 I love something that's, you know, they can't just print more of it.

01:20:17.000 I love that.

01:20:18.000 That's like...

01:20:19.000 A great hedge against the insanity of what we see in terms of government spending and the ability to just print money and inflation.

01:20:28.000 So I love pulling that kind of stuff away from our government.

01:20:33.000 The head of the banking committee is there because they were there for 97 years, not because they know anything about banking, folks.

01:20:39.000 Now, I think we've got to create some structure for all of the crypto guys.

01:20:42.000 I think there has to be a legal framework so that we can function in this.

01:20:45.000 But I think It's there.

01:20:48.000 It's the future.

01:20:49.000 And right now, maybe a little bit of the Wild West, but it shouldn't be.

01:20:52.000 And if you can take these central banks out and hold them accountable with something real, I mean, I couldn't be more, I couldn't be more along.

01:21:02.000 So let's see.

01:21:05.000 Trying to catch up with all this.

01:21:08.000 Three of my grandkids are first-time voters this year, and all are voting Trump, Vance.

01:21:13.000 I'm a proud nana.

01:21:14.000 That's TRGentry16.

01:21:17.000 Well, I'm glad to hear that.

01:21:18.000 That's great.

01:21:19.000 I'm a little upset.

01:21:20.000 My daughter, the one who spoke at the convention, she's a little too young for it.

01:21:25.000 So she's going to miss it by a couple months to vote. 0.99

01:21:27.000 But I'm glad that your kids are going to be making up for that.

01:21:32.000 And we'll make it happen.

01:21:33.000 So The Quartering, Don Jr., we met at the Rumble Studio at the RNC.

01:21:37.000 We'd love to have you on my show sometimes, remote.

01:21:39.000 I'm happy to come down to Mar-a-Lago, LOL.

01:21:41.000 Oh, would you?

01:21:42.000 You'll come down here?

01:21:43.000 I appreciate you doing me that solid.

01:21:46.000 Okay, but we'll have to see.

01:21:47.000 If you know the guys there, we'll have to talk.

01:21:50.000 Let's see.

01:21:54.000 Check out the campaign ad I made for amazing President Donald Trump.

01:21:58.000 Win, win, win with this in November.

01:22:00.000 I'll check it out.

01:22:00.000 I don't want to share it yet because you never know if it's the trolls or not, but I will check it out.

01:22:06.000 I'll come back later on.

01:22:10.000 Let's see.

01:22:11.000 Make groceries, gas, ammunition, hunting, and travel affordable again.

01:22:15.000 CCW Maggie.

01:22:16.000 Yes, that's a great message, by the way.

01:22:20.000 Uh, you know, and again, for the people who ask, hey, I'm door knocking in Atlanta.

01:22:23.000 Talk about those things.

01:22:24.000 Maybe not ammunition.

01:22:25.000 I don't know if they care that much there, but like, you know, in rural Georgia, the ammunition probably matters more.

01:22:30.000 Uh, we got to get our factories working again.

01:22:32.000 We got to get back to main in the USA.

01:22:33.000 Trump Vance 2024.

01:22:35.000 A hundred percent guys.

01:22:37.000 That's a, that's a winning message.

01:22:39.000 And it's a, it's a no brainer.

01:22:42.000 Uh, so we'll keep going.

01:22:44.000 Dapper day of 2021.

01:22:45.000 Trump, the unifier, Vance, the attack dog.

01:22:49.000 Didn't see that on my bingo card, but you know, listen, I think that's true. 0.99

01:22:52.000 Getting shot in the face can change things.

01:22:56.000 Tucker for press secretary. 0.76

01:22:57.000 I think I'm going to be with Tucker in Tennessee tomorrow.

01:22:59.000 That'll be fun at the Bitcoin conference, so I'll actually be there.

01:23:05.000 Are you or Vance going to be on Crowder anytime soon?

01:23:09.000 Please and thank you.

01:23:11.000 Chell's on.

01:23:12.000 I'm on Crowder a lot.

01:23:13.000 When I can, we always just try to line it up and if we can make it happen, we make it happen.

01:23:18.000 So I will make a cognizant effort to Uh, to get back on Crowder.

01:23:23.000 Hey guys, I haven't told you, you know, smash that like button again.

01:23:26.000 Make sure you're sharing, make sure you're subscribing.

01:23:28.000 We started the show about 45 minutes early, so if you're just getting on to the normal time right now, I see there's still like, you know, 21,000 people watching.

01:23:37.000 You know, make sure to share it with your friends.

01:23:38.000 Go back and watch the first 45 minutes.

01:23:40.000 We went right into JD.

01:23:41.000 We had a short window that we could, well, wait almost an hour, but We had a window that just worked between all of the other craziness they have been doing, so I love that the guy's actually a worker, too.

01:23:50.000 Not like so many of these politicians, who's like, anoint me, and then, you know, hide me in a basement.

01:23:56.000 He's actually working, so that's great.

01:23:58.000 Terry OC, Tucker is great.

01:23:59.000 Thank you.

01:24:01.000 Crystal LaRosie, you're awesome.

01:24:03.000 Thank you.

01:24:04.000 Let's see.

01:24:09.000 And, uh...

01:24:13.000 Redman, 1889, has not talked much about nuclear power.

01:24:17.000 It's the most bang-for-your-buck against environmental impact, I think, without question.

01:24:21.000 I mean, he does talk about that, and I've heard him talk about it a lot.

01:24:26.000 It's sort of a no-brainer.

01:24:28.000 These days, it's somehow become the boogeyman.

01:24:30.000 But when you think about what you can do relative to the impact, et cetera, It doesn't have to be like Fukushima, where you build it on a tectonic plate, right?

01:24:39.000 There's a way to do it where it's safer, where it's secure, and the power is incredible.

01:24:46.000 That, to me, is almost a no-brainer.

01:24:50.000 It's very hard to get that through common sense or lack of common sense Democrats, but that's a real big one.

01:25:00.000 World Weather Authority, Don Jr., thanks for considering watching the campaign I'm at for the President 2044.

01:25:04.000 God bless.

01:25:05.000 It's my pleasure, guys.

01:25:06.000 I try to interact as best I can.

01:25:07.000 As you can see, if you follow the live feed, it's a lot.

01:25:10.000 I cannot get to everything.

01:25:12.000 Unfortunately, there's only 24 hours in the day.

01:25:16.000 But I'll be there.

01:25:18.000 And I'll check out as much as I possibly can.

01:25:21.000 Don Trump Jr.

01:25:21.000 for Governor of California.

01:25:24.000 You guys are out of your mind.

01:25:26.000 You think I'm moving to California?

01:25:27.000 California is, by the way, it's one of the most beautiful states ever, and the weather's incredible, the scenery's incredible.

01:25:32.000 I ain't dealing with the commies, okay?

01:25:36.000 The policies have failed so badly, so badly.

01:25:42.000 You couldn't even, as a business guy, as a family guy, as a father, as someone who pays taxes and pays a lot anyway, the Delta would literally It would be a disaster.

01:25:55.000 It'd crush my lifestyle.

01:25:57.000 I'd rather live in Florida.

01:25:58.000 Trust me.

01:25:58.000 I escaped New York, which was almost as bad as California, living in New York City, New York State.

01:26:03.000 I was paying, what, 51, 52% taxes a couple years ago when I got out.

01:26:08.000 And, like, literally, you know, I live in an incredible house on the water, have a really nice boat.

01:26:16.000 It's wonderful.

01:26:16.000 And people are like, how do you do that?

01:26:18.000 I was like, well, I know.

01:26:18.000 I live there for free.

01:26:20.000 They go, like, what are you talking about?

01:26:22.000 You get rid of the 12% New York State tax, you get rid of the 4% New York City tax, on top of the 38, 39% federal tax, that like 14% savings, whatever, you know, 16% savings, whatever it's going up to, like, that allows me to live in a badass house, have a badass boat, have a this, that, and the other.

01:26:42.000 Assets accumulate, like create future wealth, assets that will accumulate.

01:26:47.000 For nothing.

01:26:48.000 It's insane. 1.00

01:26:51.000 You gotta be stupid, rich, to live in New York anymore and have it be worthwhile. 1.00

01:26:55.000 You can live in a crime-ridden street. 1.00

01:26:56.000 Sure, the restaurants are great, but you get mugged and you worry about losing your life on the way to work.

01:27:02.000 Zero chance. 0.98

01:27:03.000 You couldn't pay me to go back to those commie shitholes. 1.00

01:27:08.000 Not gonna happen. 0.98

01:27:10.000 I will take the Delta.

01:27:11.000 I will take that savings that I'm not giving New York City and State.

01:27:15.000 And I'll live a really awesome life in Florida.

01:27:21.000 Anyone, like, and that's what really sucks is a lot of hard-working Americans would love to make that switch, would love to make those savings, and they can't.

01:27:29.000 They're stuck.

01:27:30.000 I was blessed to work in a family business, have my own businesses that I do, I can do from my phone, from wherever I am.

01:27:38.000 That's a huge, that's a huge thing.

01:27:42.000 Allowed me to do so, so much.

01:27:45.000 And, you know, it's a big deal.

01:27:47.000 I ain't going back.

01:27:50.000 Any rallies in Boca Raton?

01:27:52.000 I need to go.

01:27:52.000 Probably, actually.

01:27:57.000 There's probably something in the old Lauderdale area.

01:27:59.000 Certainly be like the boat rallies. 0.75

01:28:00.000 If there's a boat rally down in Lauderdale or whatever, I'll run my boat down there and maybe join up and lead that movement.

01:28:06.000 That's always been really fun. 0.98

01:28:08.000 Jed Holmes 999 New York sucks. 0.99

01:28:10.000 Yeah, listen, and you know what? 1.00

01:28:13.000 New York City sucks. 1.00

01:28:15.000 That's gone crazy. 1.00

01:28:16.000 Upstate New York, I kept my cabin up there.

01:28:18.000 I still love that.

01:28:19.000 It's still a happy place for me.

01:28:21.000 I can only spend so much time there because I don't want to get hit with the taxes.

01:28:24.000 But there's so many parts of the state that are spectacular.

01:28:29.000 They're great.

01:28:30.000 But it's the politicians, it's the policies that have destroyed all of that.

01:28:36.000 Who do you think would be a great AG?

01:28:38.000 Ooh, that's a great question.

01:28:40.000 We've always said Mike Davis.

01:28:41.000 We know he can't get a firm.

01:28:42.000 There's a couple other guys we'd be talking about.

01:28:45.000 That would be great.

01:28:46.000 And that's one of the number one roles, because that's the place where you're going to stop the insane weaponization and what's going on.

01:28:53.000 I'll go to Ireland.

01:28:54.000 Well, listen, I have a great property in Ireland.

01:28:56.000 Family, you know, over in Doonbeg.

01:28:59.000 Amazing golf property.

01:29:01.000 So, you know, it's definitely a place.

01:29:03.000 I love it over there.

01:29:05.000 Lori Hoban.

01:29:05.000 Don Jr.

01:29:06.000 for Florida governor.

01:29:07.000 If we're going to be talking about me as a governor of somewhere, that makes a lot more sense, I think.

01:29:13.000 I know there's a lot of people interested in this cycle.

01:29:15.000 We'll see how that goes.

01:29:17.000 But maybe, maybe one day.

01:29:20.000 You never know.

01:29:22.000 You never know.

01:29:24.000 20k watching, 4k likes.

01:29:26.000 Smash that like button.

01:29:27.000 Okay, well, HBO and Mr., I appreciate you keeping track.

01:29:30.000 At least we're getting up there with the likes.

01:29:31.000 So guys, hit it.

01:29:33.000 Hit it. 0.98

01:29:35.000 LOL.

01:29:35.000 Was the Trump accident a joke?

01:29:37.000 Of course it was.

01:29:37.000 Like, we're just messing around, folks.

01:29:41.000 Ask Bongino to be the head director of Secret Service.

01:29:46.000 That'd be a great thing. 1.00

01:29:47.000 Dan would go kick ass in that. 0.99

01:29:48.000 I mean, I was with him last week, obviously, at the RNC. 0.98

01:29:51.000 I think, you know, he joined my show at the end of my stream.

01:29:54.000 I jumped on his.

01:29:54.000 I think it turned into, I think, the biggest live stream in the world.

01:29:58.000 Almost 200,000 people watching live.

01:30:00.000 It was amazing.

01:30:01.000 And, you know, he'd be the guy to do that.

01:30:03.000 And he also, just like me, was like, Hey man, like, he's never had a detail, but he was on a couple details a lot.

01:30:09.000 As a living, I've had a detail.

01:30:11.000 I've seen my father's.

01:30:12.000 It's like, he goes, that doesn't happen.

01:30:13.000 That's not a coincidence.

01:30:14.000 That's not a little bit of negligence. 1.00

01:30:16.000 That was just bullshit. 0.99

01:30:17.000 So, um, let's see. 1.00

01:30:23.000 Are we sure the Democrats aren't keeping Biden prisoner in the White House?

01:30:25.000 They don't lose a Senate majority seat.

01:30:27.000 Yeah, I, I don't, I don't know.

01:30:30.000 Maybe that's an interesting theory.

01:30:31.000 Wouldn't surprise me.

01:30:33.000 Uh, let's see.

01:30:35.000 Do I have a relationship with Senator Grassley?

01:30:38.000 He's making some hardcore posts on ex-eviscerating Cheadle.

01:30:41.000 Well, Mike Davis, the guy I just said, would be, you know, he was his chief of staff.

01:30:45.000 He worked for him in the Senate for a long time.

01:30:47.000 So, you know, I know him a little bit, not that well.

01:30:50.000 You know, he's not one of the guys I talk to on a regular basis, but he's coming out pretty hot on this one, which is actually nice to see when you get the guys that are a little bit more, you know, old guard and they come out and they fight.

01:31:01.000 Like, that is a, that is a big deal.

01:31:06.000 Okay.

01:31:07.000 Casey C. Gates.

01:31:08.000 California is not LA or San Francisco SF.

01:31:11.000 Lots of conservatives here.

01:31:13.000 I didn't say that.

01:31:14.000 The problem is the ruling party is still that.

01:31:15.000 We still have to go fight.

01:31:16.000 We got to win as many congressional seats as we can.

01:31:19.000 There are vulnerable places that you can fight in California.

01:31:21.000 California, I think, is like the second or third most populous conservative state in the union because they have the largest population of any state in the union.

01:31:28.000 They have 40 million people.

01:31:29.000 You know, if 55% of them are conservative, it blows away almost every state out there.

01:31:36.000 So I'm not done fighting for it.

01:31:37.000 I just don't think I could live there under those policies, under those tax things, under Soros DAs and the weaponized nonsense, because I understand I would just be a target.

01:31:46.000 For a regular guy, it probably wouldn't be as bad.

01:31:49.000 For me, it just wouldn't work.

01:31:52.000 And so there is a difference between that.

01:31:54.000 It's not a knock on.

01:31:56.000 California.

01:31:57.000 It's a knock on the systems they've installed.

01:32:00.000 Okay, fine.

01:32:01.000 You'll run for governor of California if I run for Florida.

01:32:05.000 Thanks, guys.

01:32:07.000 Keep pushing me into government, guys.

01:32:10.000 Trump Vance 2024.

01:32:17.000 Would love you as governor of Florida.

01:32:18.000 Thank you.

01:32:23.000 Let's see.

01:32:24.000 Yes, Dan Bongino, Kazakuti.

01:32:28.000 That's yes for Dan Bongino for Secret Service.

01:32:31.000 You know, Dan's doing pretty well for himself.

01:32:32.000 He's crushing it on Rumble.

01:32:33.000 He's got incredible podcasts.

01:32:34.000 He's doing all that.

01:32:35.000 So I'm not sure he wants to go run the Secret Service, but Dan is a patriot.

01:32:40.000 So he could be Ken Paxton for AG.

01:32:43.000 That's interesting.

01:32:44.000 That could be good.

01:32:46.000 Guys, I think I'm getting ready.

01:32:48.000 Guys, we did this remote, so we're talking.

01:32:50.000 I think they're doing some battery changes and everything like that, but looks like we're going to probably have to start running into that fundraiser.

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01:34:18.000 Soon, once we get out of the peak of summer, you know, gonna get back to probably doing a third show a week.

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01:34:49.000 So, you know, your kids can see it.

01:34:51.000 It's fine.

01:34:52.000 Won't kill them.

01:34:53.000 Probably need to get exposed to the real world sometime in the future, because I promise you, the real world's a rough place.

01:34:58.000 It's a mean place.

01:34:59.000 It's not what they've installed.

01:35:00.000 So we got to come to that realization at some point, too.

01:35:03.000 But 90...

01:35:04.000 95, 98% of the time.

01:35:06.000 Keep it totally clean.

01:35:07.000 We'll have some fun.

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01:35:22.000 It's not just the Democrats.

01:35:23.000 The media is working overtime to try to frame him, to try to pigeonhole him, to try to, you know, do...

01:35:30.000 It's not the guy.

01:35:31.000 I've gotten to know him over the last few years.

01:35:33.000 This is a great, patriotic American.

01:35:35.000 He'll serve you well as VP.

01:35:37.000 He'll serve my father well.

01:35:38.000 He's going to be steadfast and loyal.

01:35:40.000 And most importantly, he's going to fight for his people, the hard-working men and women of this country who are forgotten.

01:35:46.000 I want a guy like that in power.

01:35:48.000 I want a guy like that at the table fighting for America.

01:35:52.000 That matters, guys.

01:35:53.000 There's a difference between the elitists and the people who, you know, honestly, even Kamala Harris, who comes from families of...

01:35:59.000 I want a blue collar guy in there. 1.00

01:36:00.000 I want someone who's had that experience.

01:36:02.000 I want someone who's lived through that.

01:36:03.000 I want someone who was able to live the American dream because that's what it's all about.

01:36:09.000 That's what we're doing it for.

01:36:10.000 Guys, be well.

01:36:11.000 I will see you on Monday.

Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - July 30, 2024

JD Vance Live from Mar-a-Lago | TRIGGERED Ep.159

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