Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - "Publicly" Funded Propaganda Dealt Reality Check, Live! | TRIGGERED Ep.259

00:07:18.000 What's happening, guys?

00:07:19.000 Welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.

00:07:23.000 Like I've said, I've been on the road pretty much non-stop.

00:07:28.000 It's been wild.

00:07:30.000 I'm glad to be here during this jam-packed summer.

00:07:33.000 It keeps getting busier, busier, crazier, etc.

00:07:38.000 So, you know, a lot to cover, a lot going on.

00:07:41.000 Amazing stuff regarding crypto.

00:07:43.000 House just passed the Genius Act today.

00:07:46.000 Next week, we'll have some guys from the space really talking about the details of that.

00:07:50.000 Obviously, we're super long crypto and not because we were guys that were into it in 2012, but because of everything with debanking and all of the crap that happened to us once we got political, we saw that as a great opportunity to democratize finance, make things right.

00:08:08.000 So I'll probably be talking with the guys from American Bitcoin, sort of a mining data center company my brother and I are working on heavily.

00:08:15.000 We'll be talking eventually with the guys from World Liberty Financial on the stablecoins and the DeFi platform.

00:08:21.000 For those of you who don't know anything about crypto, Monday we'll talk about it a lot and get into some of those details so you can kind of figure it out for yourself, how to start, how to build into it.

00:08:31.000 For those of you who are experts, probably learn something too.

00:08:34.000 So guys, remember to like, to share, and to subscribe so that you never miss one of these major episodes.

00:08:41.000 Just hit the like button.

00:08:43.000 It takes like two seconds.

00:08:45.000 Okay, not even.

00:08:46.000 Okay.

00:08:46.000 It's really fast.

00:08:47.000 It's right there.

00:08:48.000 Make sure you do that.

00:08:49.000 Remember, if you miss the show here on Rumble, you can go to Apple, you can go to Spotify Podcasts, you can get it there.

00:08:55.000 And for all of the top headlines that we cover here on the show, go over to my news app, MXM News, like minute by minute.

00:09:03.000 Mike, X-Ray Mike, News, MXM News, easy, where you can get the mainstream news without the mainstream bias.

00:09:10.000 And of course, don't forget about our brave sponsors, people who have the guts to support this program.

00:09:18.000 Because honestly, after everything we've been through for the last few years, saying that we have trust issues with the so-called health experts is, I don't know, let's just say an understatement, okay?

00:09:30.000 It's a serious, serious understatement.

00:09:33.000 They used pressure, lies, and red tape to block access to medications that were once easy to get.

00:09:40.000 Okay, they lied about a lot of those medications as well.

00:09:43.000 That cannot happen again.

00:09:45.000 And with all-family pharmacy, it won't.

00:09:48.000 All-family pharmacy is redefining health care.

00:09:51.000 No waiting rooms, no delays, no insurance games or gimmicks, none of that nonsense.

00:09:57.000 Just direct access to over 200 trusted medications, including ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, antibiotics, emergency kits, and so much more.

00:10:07.000 Go to allfamilypharmacy.com slash Don Jr.

00:10:11.000 D-O-N-J-R or use promo code DonJunior20 for 20% off your first order. 0.82

00:10:17.000 Again, that's allfamilypharmacy.com slash D-O-N-J-R and use Don Junior20 for 20% off.

00:10:26.000 And guys, don't stop there.

00:10:28.000 Remember to protect yourself for the future with the Birch Gold Group.

00:10:32.000 While the Trump administration is moving mountains for the good of the nation, remember that you can do the same for your own good too.

00:10:40.000 One of the best ways is to look after your savings, and it's through diversification, like with gold, from my trusted friends at the Birch Gold Group.

00:10:49.000 For the past 12 months, the value of gold has increased by 40%.

00:10:53.000 Central banks continue to bolster demand for gold by buying in record quantities.

00:10:57.000 Easily convert an existing IRA or 401 into a tax-sheltered IRA in actual physical gold, or even to store actual gold in your home safe.

00:11:11.000 Just text my name, Don Jr., D-O-N-J-R, to the number 989898, and Birch Gold will send you a free info kit on gold.

00:11:20.000 There's no obligation, only useful information.

00:11:24.000 Educate yourself.

00:11:25.000 Learn from it.

00:11:26.000 That's what we're here, and that's what we're all about.

00:11:29.000 Educate yourself.

00:11:29.000 So again, text Don Jr. to the number 989898.

00:11:36.000 And now, with that, guys, let's take a look at some of the top headlines.

00:11:41.000 For years and years, we had to listen to the Democrats and their cronies in the media tell us that an open border, it was compassionate, remember?

00:11:50.000 Open border is wonderful.

00:11:51.000 It's compassionate.

00:11:53.000 They called us racist and everything else in the book for wanting to build a wall.

00:11:58.000 They lectured us while millions of bad hombres poured into our country, bringing with them crime, chaos, death, and more.

00:12:08.000 And now, now that we have a president who actually takes the border seriously, we're seeing just how much the swamp was lying to us all along.

00:12:20.000 The border is being shut down.

00:12:22.000 Illegal crosses have plummeted to historic lows.

00:12:26.000 We're actually deporting criminals.

00:12:29.000 And the media?

00:12:30.000 No praise.

00:12:32.000 No, wow, these new policies are working.

00:12:35.000 Why?

00:12:36.000 Because it proves how right all along we were.

00:12:39.000 In June, there were zero, okay?

00:12:43.000 Zero illegal crossings.

00:12:46.000 Okay?

00:12:46.000 I'll say that again, guys, just so we're clear.

00:12:48.000 Zero.

00:12:50.000 The border numbers are real and they're spectacular.

00:12:54.000 And the huge part of this is the fight against The fentanyl crisis.

00:13:02.000 It's taken far too many lives and is the number one cause of death among young Americans and even teenagers.

00:13:10.000 It's a tragedy in the worst possible way.

00:13:14.000 Under the last administration, this poison flooded our country.

00:13:19.000 It was a chemical weapon being used to poison our people, and they did nothing about it. 0.66

00:13:25.000 Nothing.

00:13:26.000 And now, we finally said enough.

00:13:30.000 Yesterday, my father signed into law the HALT Fentanyl Act, which will place all fentanyl-related substances on the Drug Enforcement Administration's list of the most dangerous drugs, classifying them as Schedule I under the Control Substances Act.

00:13:47.000 We're closing the loopholes that criminals use to skirt around the law, and it will now be easier for law enforcement to prosecute those criminals and save countless lives.

00:13:59.000 This isn't just about putting out a press release.

00:14:02.000 This is about taking tangible action to save American lives.

00:14:07.000 And yesterday, the families who lost loved ones to Fennel delivered emotional remarks about their own story and turning their own pain into passion for saving future generations to come.

00:14:21.000 Good afternoon, Mr. President and distinguished guests.

00:14:25.000 My name is Anne Fendner.

00:14:30.000 Thank you.

00:14:32.000 And I'm an angel parent.

00:14:34.000 One year ago today, on July 16th, I stood in front of America and told the story of my son Weston, the RNC.

00:14:44.000 And about how he was a beautiful, loving, had a wonderful life.

00:14:49.000 We did everything right.

00:14:51.000 But one pill, one mistake, given by a friend under peer pressure took his life.

00:14:58.000 In the last four years, fentanyl became the number one killer of Americans, ages 15 to 48.

00:15:06.000 And children under 14 are the fastest growing demographic.

00:15:10.000 President Trump, for four years we felt ignored.

00:15:15.000 But you've changed that.

00:15:17.000 And we appreciate that so much.

00:15:20.000 You've closed the borders, sanctioned cartels, imposed tariffs, closed shipping loopholes.

00:15:27.000 Most people don't know about that.

00:15:28.000 That was a big one.

00:15:29.000 Dealt with countries where it's coming from. 1.00

00:15:32.000 You mobilized Treasury, Justice Department, Homeland Security, lawmakers, legislators.

00:15:40.000 And today, the signing of the Fentanyl Act, bipartisan and overwhelmingly supported by everybody.

00:15:46.000 Making fentanyl a schedule one drug to strengthen the criminalization and prosecution of people who peddle this.

00:15:56.000 It is a lifeline for families across America, keeping our families safe.

00:16:03.000 And that's all you always want to keep America safe.

00:16:06.000 Thank you so much.

00:16:08.000 Thank you for keeping America safe and for our children.

00:16:12.000 And this is what we voted for, Mr. President.

00:16:15.000 God bless you.

00:16:16.000 God bless our angel families who are all here with us today and all of you sitting up here with us.

00:16:23.000 And God bless America.

00:16:24.000 Thank you so much.

00:16:30.000 This was a big one for me.

00:16:31.000 I met that lady, that mom who lost her son at the RNC. 0.88

00:16:38.000 One of the co-sponsors of the bill, Addison McDowell, he's a congressman from North Carolina, a good friend of mine, one of, you know, brother of a really good friend of mine.

00:16:48.000 I campaigned very hard for him in North Carolina to become a congressman there.

00:16:54.000 His number one issue was that because Addison and his brother lost their third brother to fentanyl in an overdose.

00:17:03.000 And so it was one of the passion things that he ran on.

00:17:06.000 I saw that passion.

00:17:07.000 I saw the lack of action.

00:17:09.000 So it was awesome to be able to help someone out who actually co-sponsored and put this bill into action that my father signed into law to make this insanity stop.

00:17:21.000 I mean, when you think about the numbers, I always remember, I think it was 100,000 deaths a year.

00:17:26.000 I mean, think about that.

00:17:27.000 100,000 American deaths a year is what I've read.

00:17:30.000 It's two Vietnams. 1.00

00:17:32.000 Two Vietnams. 0.99

00:17:33.000 Vietnam's like a 12, 13-year war.

00:17:36.000 Two of them.

00:17:37.000 A year.

00:17:38.000 And no one did anything.

00:17:40.000 Nothing.

00:17:41.000 So that has to stop.

00:17:43.000 That has to change.

00:17:44.000 And this is actual, real action, not talk, not nonsense, but action.

00:17:50.000 This is powerful.

00:17:52.000 It's profound.

00:17:54.000 We've put up with it for far too long as evil cartels and rogue regimes have flooded our nation with terrorists, gang members, and drugs, CCP, SIOP operations, because fentanyl targets everyone equally, right?

00:18:08.000 This isn't a drug that only hits, it hits everyone.

00:18:11.000 Everyone watching right now, I'm sure, has one degree of separation from someone who lost a loved one or perhaps even a direct person who lost their lives to this insanity and this poison.

00:18:23.000 And it's got to stop.

00:18:24.000 And it's time we put an end to it.

00:18:27.000 So this was huge.

00:18:29.000 Something I'm super excited about.

00:18:30.000 It was a huge issue for me.

00:18:32.000 I mean, one of the biggest reasons to close the border.

00:18:35.000 You have, obviously, you know, fentanyl, the insanity of all of this for that long was a big one.

00:18:41.000 So I'm really excited to see that.

00:18:43.000 And guys, it does not stop there, though, because today, Treasury Secretary Scott Besund sanctioned six leaders and key affiliates of the Maduro terrorist cartel, Trende LaRagua, because the Trump administration will not allow Trende LaRaga to continue to terrorize our communities and harm innocent Americans.

00:19:06.000 So while this administration is cleaning up the border, we're also cleaning up the economic mess the Democrats left behind after four years of insanity.

00:19:18.000 Remember Bidenomics?

00:19:19.000 Bidenomics was working for you.

00:19:20.000 I don't get it.

00:19:22.000 Listen, I always remember, if Donald Trump Jr. has sticker shock at McDonald's or when he's buying eggs or whatever it may be, That's a serious problem for America.

00:19:32.000 But Bidenomics was working.

00:19:33.000 No one saw it.

00:19:34.000 No one could feel it.

00:19:35.000 They felt the opposite.

00:19:36.000 But trust me, guys, that was the media narrative.

00:19:39.000 Remember Bidenomics? 0.99

00:19:41.000 I mean, that was one of the dumbest things I ever. 0.97

00:19:44.000 I was like, wow, I can't believe they're actually doing this, but they did. 0.96

00:19:47.000 That was code for massive inflation, guys.

00:19:50.000 That Bidenomics.

00:19:51.000 Massive inflation, runaway spending, and a war on American energy.

00:19:58.000 Your grocery bills went through the roof.

00:20:01.000 Your gas prices were insane.

00:20:03.000 And for what?

00:20:04.000 So they could pour your money into green new scam far-left fantasies.

00:20:11.000 Probably funding transgender surgeries and awareness in third world nations.

00:20:16.000 Billions and billions wasted.

00:20:18.000 We've changed that now, guys.

00:20:20.000 It's called investing in America and Build Back Better.

00:20:25.000 Remember when they tried doing that one too?

00:20:27.000 Build Back Better.

00:20:29.000 Huh, really?

00:20:31.000 I don't know what they were building back better.

00:20:33.000 We built back broke.

00:20:34.000 Remember Build Back Better?

00:20:36.000 That was a good one too.

00:20:38.000 They're good at marketing.

00:20:39.000 They're good with these little catchy titles, but none of it ever seems to pan out.

00:20:43.000 But nothing came back.

00:20:44.000 Nothing was better.

00:20:46.000 And not much was really built.

00:20:49.000 Remember when they spent like $7 billion to get like one charging station or zero for EV mandates?

00:20:56.000 Because what they were doing was simply wasting your money on an epic scale.

00:21:01.000 Probably de facto funding their friends and other NGOs, whatever it was, all kickbacks to the Democrat fundraising apparatus.

00:21:09.000 There is no better example of this than the disaster, though, known as the California Bullet Train.

00:21:15.000 The California, I don't know, the EV one was pretty bad.

00:21:18.000 What was the number, guys?

00:21:20.000 It was like $7 billion, and they built like...

00:21:24.000 You're right.

00:21:24.000 But it was like, I'm like, seven.

00:21:27.000 And that's a lot of money for seven charging stations.

00:21:31.000 And I don't think it was like seven major charging stations in like a major city.

00:21:35.000 It was like seven plugs.

00:21:37.000 Like they plugged seven things into a wall and seven billion dollars.

00:21:40.000 What incredible use of funds.

00:21:42.000 But the California Bullet Train was another big one.

00:21:45.000 But now my father and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy finally pulled the plug, clawing back billions of your money from this train to nowhere.

00:21:56.000 Literally, it was actually a train literally to nowhere, billion dollar projects.

00:22:00.000 After 16 years and $15 billion spent, they hadn't laid a single piece of high-speed track.

00:22:12.000 You know how hard it is to spend $15 billion and do nothing?

00:22:16.000 I mean, think, not a single piece of track.

00:22:19.000 The train was going to like a town that no one went to, a place that wasn't populated.

00:22:23.000 $15 billion, 16 years.

00:22:26.000 The project cost an estimated $135 billion, right?

00:22:33.000 So the cost balloons to $135 billion.

00:22:37.000 What's $135 billion between friends?

00:22:39.000 For a train to go nowhere.

00:22:41.000 This isn't a train.

00:22:43.000 It's a giant slush fund for Democrat cronies.

00:22:47.000 And we just turned off the spigot.

00:22:49.000 Check this out.

00:22:53.000 The estimated costs that have shot up from $33 billion to $43 billion.

00:22:58.000 The project is estimated to cost $68 billion.

00:23:04.000 A new report shows California's high-speed braille project is costing taxpayers more than $3 million a day.

00:23:10.000 The LA Times reports the budget has grown to $77 billion.

00:23:15.000 The cost for the project, though, has jumped to nearly $128 billion, much higher than the $33 billion voters approved in 2008.

00:23:26.000 The project is no longer a $33 billion project.

00:23:29.000 The project's years and years behind.

00:23:30.000 The project's wildly over budget.

00:23:32.000 That doesn't mean it's a bad idea, but it is a bad idea not to be truthful about things.

00:23:38.000 Gavin Newsom is a bad idea.

00:23:39.000 And so is California's high-speed rail boondago.

00:23:42.000 It's now projected to cost $135 billion.

00:23:47.000 For that price tag, we could give every single resident of LA and San Francisco almost 200 free flights.

00:23:55.000 This is the definition of government incompetence and possibly corruption.

00:24:00.000 That's why we're pulling the plug.

00:24:01.000 No more federal funds for this high-speed train to nowhere.

00:24:05.000 President Trump and I won't help Gavin Newsom waste your money.

00:24:12.000 You see, it was costing $3 million a day, like in 2021.

00:24:17.000 Like, I'm sure that's a lot more now.

00:24:19.000 What was it for a train that goes nowhere?

00:24:22.000 I mean, that stat that Sean Duffy brought up was incredible.

00:24:25.000 They could get every resident of Los Angeles, every resident, like these millions of people, 200 and San Francisco.

00:24:33.000 My team's like, yeah, and San Francisco.

00:24:35.000 That's a good city of a couple million.

00:24:37.000 200 free flights to wherever they want to go.

00:24:38.000 I mean, think about how insane that is.

00:24:40.000 That's how much they were spending.

00:24:42.000 And what's the alternative to their waste?

00:24:45.000 Guys, what's the alternative?

00:24:47.000 There's actually things that we could do that would probably better use of those funds.

00:24:51.000 How about like an actual America-first economic agenda?

00:24:56.000 It's common sense.

00:24:58.000 We're cutting the regulations that kill businesses.

00:25:01.000 We're unleashing American energy.

00:25:04.000 We are an energy superpower and we're finally acting like it again.

00:25:10.000 And yes, we're using tariffs to protect our workers and our industries from countries that cheat.

00:25:16.000 Our loyalty is to the American worker.

00:25:19.000 We're bringing jobs back.

00:25:21.000 We're making things in America again.

00:25:23.000 And that's how you build real, lasting prosperity for everyone.

00:25:29.000 Just look at your screen for a second.

00:25:31.000 Major companies continue to roll out one investment announcement after another.

00:25:36.000 The list gets longer and longer every day in states across the country.

00:25:42.000 You saw it earlier this week in Pennsylvania.

00:25:44.000 But it's in state after state after state.

00:25:48.000 Companies like Brookfield, Samsung, Rolls-Royce, Amgen, Honda, Faraday Future, Westinghouse, Kraft, Heinz, they're All going in and all in on the Trump agenda.

00:26:04.000 Maybe tariffs actually work, guys.

00:26:06.000 Maybe they actually do it with Americans and American workers because there's incentive to do so.

00:26:12.000 Okay?

00:26:13.000 I'd love them to do it on their own, but if everyone's going to give them the freebies, we might as well make sure we take advantage of it and bring it back home.

00:26:19.000 I could literally do a whole show just going through the lists.

00:26:23.000 I mean, look at all these things.

00:26:24.000 These are major businesses.

00:26:26.000 $3 billion, $1.7 billion, $1.4 billion, billion, billion, billion, $900 million.

00:26:26.000 What?

00:26:31.000 I mean, it goes on and on.

00:26:33.000 Stuff that literally did not exist.

00:26:35.000 It's like we brought in a trillion dollars of investment.

00:26:39.000 This looks like more based on just doing the basic math, but just by having common sense.

00:26:46.000 Okay?

00:26:47.000 Again, here's just another small sample on why the Trump economic agenda is working.

00:26:55.000 Check this out.

00:26:56.000 Tariffs are now luring at least a couple of foreign companies to manufacture their products stateside.

00:27:01.000 This includes South Korea's Samsung.

00:27:03.000 They are now going to produce their washing machines out of Newberry, South Carolina.

00:27:09.000 Steve Harrigan has those details for us.

00:27:11.000 Hey, Steve.

00:27:13.000 Billy, those washing machines are actually rolling off the assembly lines right behind me.

00:27:17.000 There's been a whole lot of debate in Newberry, South Carolina about whether or not President Trump's tariffs helped or hurt the economy here.

00:27:25.000 They say it helped.

00:27:26.000 Putting in 20 to 50% tariffs on foreign-made washing machines back in 2018 motivated Samsung to build a $500 million washing machine manufacturing plant here, making them instantly the county's largest taxpayer.

00:27:42.000 I think tariffs are a really important topic in our current environment.

00:27:46.000 Even before tariffs became a really hot topic, we're trying to strike that American dream, right?

00:27:51.000 Made an America for Americans.

00:27:55.000 That factory also created more than 1,600 jobs here, starting salary of $17 an hour.

00:28:02.000 That's a lot higher than the local minimum wage here of just $7.50 an hour.

00:28:09.000 Family, we just run over to the electronic area.

00:28:13.000 I get a really proud feeling when I see those customers walking out of the store with product that was built here.

00:28:20.000 Man, it's almost like all we needed was a new president.

00:28:24.000 It's working.

00:28:25.000 And as I mentioned, we saw something incredible this week in the Keystone State.

00:28:30.000 Here's Senator Dave McCormick on the Pennsylvania Investment Summit and what it matters and why it matters more than ever before.

00:28:40.000 Check this out.

00:28:42.000 And I had talked right after the election, and he had agreed to come to Pennsylvania to talk about really the energy revolution and the AI revolution.

00:28:50.000 And the crossroads for the two is Pennsylvania.

00:28:54.000 And the reason is we have abundant energy.

00:28:56.000 We're the second largest energy producer in the United States, the fourth largest natural gas reserves in the world, an incredible skilled workforce, incredible technology.

00:29:06.000 We had this at CMU, this summit at Carnegie Mellon University, which is one of the leading AI producers.

00:29:13.000 And so I asked the president to come, and the fact that he came was an opportunity to reinforce his policies and what they're doing for America.

00:29:21.000 We had 60 major CEOs, $90 billion of investments in data centers, in energy transmission, energy infrastructure, energy distribution, nuclear reactors.

00:29:35.000 And then beyond that, we had 150 members of the media so we could tell Pennsylvania's story.

00:29:40.000 And finally, the thing I think clinched it for the president, he and I could both say, and this is what he campaigned on and I campaigned on, we're bringing jobs and opportunity to working families across Pennsylvania.

00:29:52.000 So it was really a great day, and the president brought many key members of his cabinet, Secretary Bessant, Secretary Luttnick, Secretary Bergham, Secretary Wright, David Sachs, Lee Zeldon.

00:30:04.000 We really had the A-team and it was a great day for Pennsylvania.

00:30:09.000 And just today, we saw another legislative win for the Trump administration as the House, it's a big one, overwhelmingly passed the Genius Act, which now heads to the president's desk.

00:30:23.000 Now, the Genius Act is the first major crypto legislation ever passed by Congress.

00:30:31.000 It establishes clear, actionable rules for stable coins and digital assets and also sends a clear message that the U.S. will lead the world in common sense crypto regulation.

00:30:43.000 The bill also prohibits the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency.

00:30:50.000 Okay, that's a big one, guys.

00:30:52.000 All the things that crypto was designed to do, you have a CBDC and all of a sudden you lose all those benefits.

00:31:00.000 Again, we got into crypto not because we were on the leading edge.

00:31:04.000 We're all in now, but we got into crypto out of necessity because we saw how broken so many of the regular financial institution, traditional finance, TradFi, was broken.

00:31:15.000 It was biased.

00:31:16.000 It was biased certainly once we got political.

00:31:19.000 I always say it.

00:31:20.000 I didn't realize for my years as a real estate guy in New York City when I could call any banker in the world and have him pick up the phone and get a loan in five minutes that, you know what, not everyone else can do that.

00:31:30.000 Now it's going to be based on the merits we created, the guardrails, the foundation for how to do that to ensure that the future of finance, which I believe crypto is going to be, stays in America, that we don't force this likely trillion dollar industry to be sent abroad, to be in other countries.

00:31:50.000 We're going to lead the world in crypto.

00:31:53.000 That's a big deal.

00:31:55.000 This legislation divides regulatory jurisdiction for digital assets between the Commodity Future Trading Commission, the CFTC, and the Securities Exchange Commission, establishing definitions of three types of digital assets.

00:32:12.000 Securities, commodities, and stablecoins.

00:32:16.000 Of course, it's not only about the economy.

00:32:20.000 We're in a fight for the soul of this country.

00:32:23.000 A fight against the radical woke ideology that has infected every major institution, from our schools To our corporations.

00:32:31.000 They want to tell you that men can be women, that math is somehow magically racist, and that America is an evil country.

00:32:39.000 We're fighting back to protect our kids, to protect women's sports, and to restore basic common sense. 1.00

00:32:48.000 Guys, that's what it's really all about, right?

00:32:50.000 It's about common sense.

00:32:53.000 It's about reality.

00:32:55.000 It's about truth, and the left cannot handle the truth.

00:32:59.000 And who is the chief purveyor of the woke propaganda?

00:33:03.000 Who pushes these lies more than anyone?

00:33:06.000 The taxpayer-funded regime media like NPR, National Public Radio.

00:33:13.000 For years, I remember when I lived out in Colorado, right?

00:33:16.000 I graduated from college.

00:33:17.000 I moved out west.

00:33:18.000 I was a bartender for, you know, almost two years living in the mountains.

00:33:23.000 Sometimes NPR was the only thing I could get on the radio.

00:33:25.000 This is like when you had like CDs still, like it was, it was a little different.

00:33:28.000 This was the, you know, year 2000.

00:33:32.000 I was listening to this garbage and back then it was really woke and it's gotten much, much worse. 0.94

00:33:36.000 Entirely left-wing propaganda paid for by you, even if you're not even remotely left-wing. 0.99

00:33:43.000 For years, we've had to pay for this.

00:33:46.000 Your tax dollars funding a media organization that despises you, that looks down on you, that thinks half the country is deplorable and probably worse.

00:33:55.000 Thankfully, today, the Senate slashed NPR and PBS public broadcasting stations funding, which is long overdue.

00:34:06.000 Because honestly, why should we be subsidizing our own destruction? 0.96

00:34:09.000 Why should we be subsidizing one political party and their ridiculous and failed ideas? 0.67

00:34:15.000 They call it national public radio, but it's simply state-sponsored media for the DNC. 0.87

00:34:23.000 They're not journalists.

00:34:24.000 They're activists.

00:34:26.000 They're propagandists with a press pass.

00:34:29.000 We're ending the handout.

00:34:31.000 If they want to push their radical agenda, they can do it on their own dime.

00:34:35.000 It is a free country, after all.

00:34:38.000 It's just got to be free both ways.

00:34:41.000 They can do it on their own dime and not yours.

00:34:45.000 We believe in a free press, not a taxpayer-funded press, not a press that only does the bidding of one political party.

00:34:55.000 But again, guys, according to CEO of NPR, Catherine Maher, NPR just calls balls and strikes.

00:35:04.000 Wink, wink, wink.

00:35:05.000 I mean, I can't even say it with a straight face.

00:35:07.000 I mean, but again, just sort of clear, you know, just calls balls and strikes, folks.

00:35:11.000 But let me remind you, this is the same woman who claimed that America is addicted to white supremacy. 1.00

00:35:19.000 Here's what she said this week, this week on cable news.

00:35:23.000 Remember, she was called out a couple months ago.

00:35:25.000 We talked about it on the show.

00:35:26.000 But this week, this is what she said.

00:35:29.000 As far as the accusations that were biased, I would stand up and say, please show me a story that concerns you because we want to know and we want to bring that conversation back to our newsroom.

00:35:40.000 Okay.

00:35:42.000 Again, Wink, sure.

00:35:45.000 Good job, Catherine.

00:35:47.000 It's amazing, man.

00:35:48.000 I know, you know, of course, that's going to be on CNN and these kind of places, so there will be no pushback.

00:35:52.000 But in response to that, Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana decided to put together some of NPR's greatest hits.

00:36:00.000 She asked for a list, and she got it.

00:36:03.000 Guys, this is not parody.

00:36:06.000 These are real headlines from NPR, an organization that is taxpayer-funded.

00:36:12.000 That's supposed to be unbiased, but I'd say probably is not.

00:36:16.000 But I'll let you judge for yourselves.

00:36:18.000 Check it out.

00:36:20.000 There's more.

00:36:21.000 I could do this all night, but I'm not.

00:36:25.000 Here's some more headlines from NPR.

00:36:30.000 There is no neutral.

00:36:32.000 Nice white people can still be complicit in a racist society.

00:36:39.000 That's what your tax dollars paid for. 0.88

00:36:42.000 Another one.

00:36:44.000 Ibram X. Kendi says no one is not racist.

00:36:50.000 So what should we do?

00:36:53.000 Another one.

00:36:54.000 How artificial intelligence could perpetuate racism, sexism, and other biases in society.

00:37:02.000 Another, scientists debunk lab accident theory of pandemic emergence.

00:37:15.000 Here's another one.

00:37:17.000 As Trump pushes theory of virus origins, some see parallels to lead up and lead up to Iraq war.

00:37:28.000 Your tax dollars at work.

00:37:32.000 As U.S. confronts Russia, Trump's admiration of Putin is consistent.

00:37:38.000 Another headline from NPR.

00:37:41.000 The history of policing and race in the United States are deeply intertwined.

00:37:47.000 Another.

00:37:49.000 After Biden's debate performance, the presidential race is unchanged.

00:37:58.000 This was the debate performance that President Biden gave after which he got out of the race.

00:38:10.000 If you believe that headline, you believe in the tooth fairy and the Easter money and that Jimmy Hoffa died of natural causes.

00:38:23.000 But that's what NPR reported with your tax dollars.

00:38:30.000 Guys, I mean, the lab origins theory.

00:38:33.000 I mean, remember, like, I think I got canceled for this one back in the day because I was like, you mean to tell me that it's not even plausible?

00:38:40.000 I mean, of course it was the most plausible, but that maybe the Wuhan virus, named because it started in Wuhan, where we had the lab that we were funding with NIH dollars, that it may have come from the lab that was ground zero for the virus, from the lab that studied the exact virus.

00:38:59.000 I mean, remember when you were canceled for saying that?

00:39:02.000 Don, you're not an immunologist.

00:39:04.000 It's like, you don't have to be an immunologist.

00:39:04.000 How could you say anything?

00:39:06.000 You just have to not be a freaking imbecile. 1.00

00:39:09.000 It's not that hard. 0.99

00:39:10.000 I wish Senator Kennedy would have gone over to the other side of him, my right, his left, and seen Michael Avenati, a profile and a media savvy attorney.

00:39:21.000 Remember Michael Avenatti?

00:39:22.000 That's the guy that shook down, I guess, Nike.

00:39:26.000 He was the guy that the Democrats were thinking about running as a frontrunner against Trump in 2020.

00:39:31.000 He was the Stormy Daniels attorney.

00:39:34.000 He was the guy, I think he shook down, didn't he shake down like a paraplegic client or like stole his money for like millions of dollars? 0.67

00:39:39.000 I think he's in jail still, serving like a seven-year sentence.

00:39:42.000 I don't remember the exact sentence, but I think it's a seven-year sentence.

00:39:46.000 He was the guy that predicted that I was going to go to jail for, I'm not sure exactly what, I guess, you know, Russia, Russia, Russia.

00:39:52.000 I mean, that's NPR.

00:39:54.000 Those are their heroes.

00:39:56.000 Lab leak theory.

00:39:57.000 I mean, how dare you question that? 1.00

00:39:59.000 These people are nuts. 1.00

00:40:01.000 Okay. 1.00

00:40:02.000 They're insane. 0.89

00:40:03.000 You think they've ever had anything that's even remotely pro-Republican?

00:40:07.000 Because I bet you that list would be a lot harder to compile.

00:40:11.000 And as crazy as the DC Democrats get, there's a communist running for mayor in New York City named Zorhan Mandani.

00:40:20.000 And no matter how extreme the Democrats go, Mandani seems to just say, you know what?

00:40:27.000 Hold my beer.

00:40:29.000 It never ends.

00:40:30.000 Every time.

00:40:31.000 And by the way, and he keeps getting their backing.

00:40:34.000 There's nothing that he can say that's too radical for these wild radical Democrats.

00:40:40.000 Because newly surfaced footage shows him floating the idea of abolishing private property altogether.

00:40:48.000 Meaning, like you just get rid of private property.

00:40:50.000 You can't own anything.

00:40:52.000 But remember, guys, I think I tweeted about this earlier today.

00:40:54.000 Like, yeah, definitely not a communist.

00:40:56.000 I mean, you can't have any private property.

00:40:58.000 If you did, you're a communist.

00:41:00.000 Check this out.

00:41:02.000 Every single person should have housing.

00:41:04.000 And I think based with these two options, the system has hundreds of thousands of people unhoused, right?

00:41:11.000 For what?

00:41:13.000 And if there was any system that could guarantee each person housing, whether you call it the abolition of private property or you call it just a statewide housing guarantee, it is preferable to what is going on right now.

00:41:29.000 And I think that people try and play like gotcha games about these kinds of things.

00:41:33.000 And it's like, look, I care more about whether somebody has a home.

00:41:39.000 Guys, there's a famous quote from longtime NFL coach Dennis Green that reads, they are who we thought they were.

00:41:47.000 They are.

00:41:47.000 Okay?

00:41:49.000 That's exactly how we should sum up the Democrat Party.

00:41:52.000 They're exactly who we thought they were.

00:41:56.000 And actually, probably worse.

00:41:58.000 Because most of them probably believe the same thing.

00:42:01.000 They're just smart enough to not say it out loud.

00:42:03.000 They'll just get elected, they'll take office, and then they'll do all of those things, pretending they're not doing them, while having the cover of mainstream media, of big tech, of social, of all of it, and they get away with it.

00:42:18.000 Because today, there's yet another meltdown because the biggest gender-affirming care center, I mean, you know what I mean? 0.95

00:42:26.000 Gender-affirming care because your three-year-old should be able to switch genders and, you know, destroy their body, mutilate their genitals, you know, because their rainbow-haired teacher convinced them that they were something other than what they were. 0.97

00:42:38.000 But this was a huge meltdown because, again, the biggest gender-affirming care center for kids at Los Angeles Children's Hospital is closing down.

00:42:49.000 Guys, this is a reason to celebrate.

00:42:53.000 Okay, it's closing down.

00:42:55.000 We're not funding it.

00:42:56.000 We're saying enough is enough.

00:42:58.000 The insanity has to stop.

00:43:01.000 But guys, according to the AP, the Associated Press, it's a sign of, quote, bigotry.

00:43:08.000 Really?

00:43:09.000 Is it?

00:43:11.000 It seems like a sign of common sense.

00:43:11.000 I don't know.

00:43:13.000 Okay?

00:43:14.000 Is it really bigotry for holding hospitals accountable?

00:43:20.000 For pushing drugs and sterilization on young kids, guilting their parents, or allowing insane liberal parents to do this to their children?

00:43:32.000 I don't know. 1.00

00:43:33.000 These people are nuts. 0.99

00:43:35.000 If they're adults and they want to do it, I don't want to pay for it. 1.00

00:43:39.000 I don't want to hear about it and stay the hell away from my kids.

00:43:42.000 Otherwise, have at it.

00:43:44.000 That's not what they want.

00:43:45.000 They want to do that.

00:43:46.000 And there's a reason, the recidivism rate of children who go through these things, even older people who do that, even the ones who do it voluntarily, perhaps, and I imagine they've been brainwashed or put on so many meds they can't actually think straight.

00:44:00.000 But there's a reason that recidivism rate where they're like, I really regret that.

00:44:04.000 I wish I wouldn't have done it.

00:44:05.000 Now I've destroyed my body and I'm on these drugs forever and I can't have kids and yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, is in like the 90% range.

00:44:12.000 Okay?

00:44:13.000 Again, this should be a 100 to zero issue or at least a 90-10.

00:44:19.000 I mean, it's hard to believe that, okay, if we're saying the country's 50-50 and 10% of Democrats want to do it, 20% of Democrats perhaps actually still believe that, but like at least a 90-10 issue.

00:44:29.000 But Democrats and the media just can't bring themselves to admit the obvious, that this amounts to medical malpractice and probably worse.

00:44:40.000 And we're not stopping at just one hospital.

00:44:44.000 Others around the country, including Cincinnati Children's Hospital, is also under FBI investigation for allegedly violating federal statutes relating to bans on female genital mutilation.

00:44:57.000 Honestly, is it just me or is it like hard to believe that we're even having this conversation in 2025 in America?

00:45:05.000 Like we're going to have to really talk about, I mean, we really want to be able to do genital mutilation on females. 0.94

00:45:10.000 I mean, we're going to make sure we do that. 0.98

00:45:13.000 It's nuts.

00:45:14.000 And remember, guys, we've covered Cincinnati Children's Hospital on this show before with the so-called butcher of Pakistan, a spinal surgeon who deformed and destroyed the bodies of hundreds of patients and then fled the country, allegedly with the help of a Berkshire Hathaway insurance company who was refusing to pay the victims. 0.76

00:45:36.000 Remember that one?

00:45:38.000 We spoke about the lawyer.

00:45:39.000 We spoke on this show with the lawyer actually handling that case, which sounds a whole lot like another investigation that's also on its way.

00:45:49.000 Because for too long, sick medical experimentation has gone unpunished.

00:45:55.000 And that's all changing now.

00:45:58.000 Look, all of this is connected.

00:46:01.000 The disastrous open border, the left's equity economy, the insane cultural war, the corrupt media, it was all part of the same managed decline, okay, to ensure our DELF, our full commitment to communism, insanity, and whatever disastrous dystopian utopia the Democrats are really looking for.

00:46:28.000 It's all about power.

00:46:29.000 It was the swamp's agenda to make America weaker, poorer, and more divided.

00:46:35.000 That gives them control.

00:46:37.000 The good news is that's over now.

00:46:39.000 And there are more and more signs that we are, in fact, winning the culture war.

00:46:45.000 Common sense is making a comeback.

00:46:47.000 And so is comedy.

00:46:49.000 Because it's okay to laugh again.

00:46:51.000 I know.

00:46:52.000 Remember the attack?

00:46:53.000 Remember?

00:46:54.000 Like, there hasn't been a lot funny said in like the last decade.

00:46:57.000 People refused to do it.

00:46:58.000 Comedians didn't want to get canceled.

00:46:59.000 And so they dumbed down their acts and couldn't do it.

00:47:01.000 And you sit there and be like, is that comedy or is that just a lecture?

00:47:04.000 I didn't get it.

00:47:05.000 Just look at this clip from Shane Gillis last night at the Espys.

00:47:10.000 Four-time WNBA All-Star Brittany Hicks is here.

00:47:13.000 Give it up for Brittany, everybody.

00:47:14.000 I'm joking around.

00:47:18.000 That's my friend's wife. 1.00

00:47:20.000 I knew none of you knew.

00:47:21.000 WNBA players.

00:47:25.000 That's crazy and clap for the.

00:47:28.000 Four-time WNBA All-Star Brittany Hicks is here.

00:47:30.000 Give it up for Brittany, everybody.

00:47:35.000 I'm joking around.

00:47:36.000 That's my friend's wife. 1.00

00:47:37.000 I knew none of you knew WNBA players.

00:47:42.000 That's crazy and clap for the.

00:47:46.000 You just can't make it up.

00:47:48.000 And we also found more of NPR's greatest hits from Senator Kennedy, which we just have to play.

00:47:56.000 Literally, my team's pulling up.

00:47:58.000 By the way, there was more.

00:47:59.000 There's a longer clip.

00:48:00.000 They read what I was saying.

00:48:01.000 I'm like, it's sort of amazing, but let's play it, okay?

00:48:05.000 Let's see what we got.

00:48:08.000 I want to give you a few examples of stories that NPR has published using taxpayer money.

00:48:16.000 I'll just read the headlines.

00:48:19.000 First headline, NPR News Service.

00:48:23.000 Michael Avenati, quote, a profile of the media savvy attorney.

00:48:32.000 They love Michael Avenatti.

00:48:35.000 You know where Michael Avenatti is today?

00:48:38.000 He's in jail.

00:48:40.000 You know why? 1.00

00:48:42.000 He's a crook. 0.98

00:48:45.000 But for a while, he was a media darling on NPR. 0.98

00:48:53.000 Here's another headline from NPR.

00:48:56.000 How racism became a marketing tool for country music.

00:49:02.000 I kid you not.

00:49:05.000 The American taxpayers are spending half a billion dollars a year to pay a local station to buy content that says country music is racist.

00:49:18.000 Here's another headline from NPR.

00:49:22.000 Donald Trump's long embrace of Vladimir Putin.

00:49:30.000 Remember the Russiagate?

00:49:35.000 Steele dossier?

00:49:38.000 NPR was right in there promoting it.

00:49:43.000 A couple more headlines that NPR is putting out there using your tax dollars.

00:49:53.000 This headline, monuments and teams have changed names.

00:49:58.000 Let me say it again.

00:49:59.000 Monuments and teams, presumably sports teams, have changed names as America with racism.

00:50:09.000 Birds are next.

00:50:12.000 I don't know any birds that are racist.

00:50:16.000 Here's another headline.

00:50:18.000 Eating less beef is a climate solution.

00:50:23.000 Eating less beef is a climate solution.

00:50:30.000 I don't have anything against vegetarians.

00:50:33.000 I'm a semi-vegetarian myself.

00:50:36.000 I eat beef and beef and cows eat grass.

00:50:40.000 So that makes me a semi-vegetarian.

00:50:43.000 But that's my choice.

00:50:46.000 Not on NPR.

00:50:48.000 Eating less beef is a climate solution.

00:50:50.000 Here's why that's hard for some American men.

00:50:55.000 Here's a final headline.

00:50:57.000 I could go on the rest of the evening.

00:50:59.000 How the Taliban adds to Afghanistan's woes when it comes to climate-fueled disasters. 0.68

00:51:07.000 Boy, I can tell you that's on the mind of every person in Afghanistan today.

00:51:10.000 It's climate change.

00:51:12.000 And the Taliban.

00:51:13.000 I can guarantee you.

00:51:17.000 I don't have a problem with these headlines.

00:51:19.000 This is America.

00:51:21.000 I'm not sure, guys.

00:51:22.000 I can probably come up with a couple other ways that the Taliban adds woes to Afghanistan.

00:51:27.000 It has nothing to do with climate.

00:51:30.000 That's where billions of dollars have been funneled for decades.

00:51:35.000 But the American people have woken up.

00:51:38.000 We saw what was happening and we put a stop to it.

00:51:42.000 The work we've done in the last six months is just the beginning.

00:51:46.000 We're turning the ship around.

00:51:49.000 We're putting America first in everything that we do.

00:51:52.000 We're restoring common sense.

00:51:55.000 But we can't get complacent.

00:51:57.000 The swamp never sleeps.

00:52:00.000 The media will keep lying. 0.98

00:52:02.000 The radical left will keep pushing their nonsense.

00:52:05.000 They are relentless, and that means we have to be too.

00:52:09.000 This is more than just politics.

00:52:11.000 This is our future.

00:52:13.000 This is Western civilization.

00:52:16.000 This is our children.

00:52:17.000 This is a movement to restore this country to the principles that made it great all along.

00:52:23.000 It's a fight for freedom, for prosperity, and for our future.

00:52:27.000 So I need you to stay in the fight with us.

00:52:30.000 Don't let them demoralize you.

00:52:32.000 Don't ever bend the knee.

00:52:34.000 We have them on the run.

00:52:36.000 Or, in Jerry Nadler's case, a very slow, penguin-like walk.

00:52:42.000 They are panicked because we are undoing all of the Democrats' destructive work.

00:52:47.000 We're actually winning.

00:52:49.000 Stay engaged, stay focused, and even stay a little bit triggered and never, ever stop fighting to make America great again.

00:52:59.000 Thank you all.

00:53:00.000 You're the heartbeat of this movement.

00:53:02.000 I really appreciate it.

00:53:03.000 Before we go, though, guys, remember to check out Burna to protect yourself in a time of crisis and to support companies who support you.

00:53:11.000 Burna, BYRNA, is excited to introduce the all-new Compact launcher, allowing you to conceal, carry everywhere, comfortably, and with confidence.

00:53:21.000 Over 80% of the components in the launcher are sourced in the United States, and their pistols are hand-assembled in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

00:53:28.000 Try before you buy.

00:53:30.000 Visit Burna.com to find a Burna dealer near you.

00:53:34.000 That's byrna.com.

00:53:37.000 BYRNA.com.

00:53:39.000 Check it out.

00:53:40.000 Guys, thanks so much for tuning in.

00:53:42.000 Remember to like, to share, to subscribe.

00:53:44.000 It literally takes no time whatsoever.

00:53:48.000 Also, check out our other great sponsors, All Family Pharmacy.

00:53:52.000 Check out the Birch Gold Group.

00:53:54.000 All of these great sponsors, again, who have the guts to support this programming.

00:53:59.000 Okay, like, share, subscribe.

00:54:01.000 Download the Rumble app so you can watch this on your smart TV with your family and educate your children and hopefully undo whatever indoctrination they may still be going through in their schools.

00:54:11.000 Okay.

00:54:11.000 Get involved.

00:54:12.000 Stay in the game.

00:54:13.000 Check us out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts.

00:54:17.000 If you get your podcasts that way, if your friends get them that way, make sure you're downloading and check it out that way.

Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - July 17, 2025

"Publicly" Funded Propaganda Dealt Reality Check, Live! | TRIGGERED Ep.259

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript