Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - The Hunt for Prosperity: Texas Congressman Wesley Hunt on How we Win in 2024 | TRIGGERED Ep.104

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00:10:48.000 Okay, joining me now, guys, Congressman from Texas' 38th District, West Point grad, Army veteran, Apache helicopter pilot.

00:10:57.000 He actually, on the show the first time, changed his pronouns right there in real time to Apache helicopter, so we must acknowledge that, okay?

00:11:06.000 Those are the rules. We just play by them, okay?

00:11:08.000 But truly a MAGA, America First rock star, Wesley Hunt.

00:11:14.000 Congressman, good to have you back on here, buddy.

00:11:16.000 Sorry, Apache helicopter.

00:11:20.000 You know what? If we're going to do pronouns, if that's what I want to be called, damn it, you're going to call me that. 0.96

00:11:25.000 Apache pilot American. 0.85

00:11:27.000 Yeah, listen, it's so much better than, like, zim-zer-thims. 1.00

00:11:31.000 I'm like, some of this other stuff, like, these aren't even words, let alone, so if I'm going to be known as something, like, I'm going to come up with something kick-ass, like, you know.

00:11:40.000 But, so, you know, Apache helicopters, you know, it's legit.

00:11:44.000 I can actually let that slide.

00:11:45.000 But Don, not only that, but I'm going to demand that you call me that.

00:11:49.000 Even if you don't know, even if you can't tell, I'm going to demand that you call me Apache Pilot.

00:11:54.000 I'm okay with that. That's the one time I will bend the knee to the insanity of pronouns.

00:12:00.000 The one time. I got to be careful how far I take it, because sometimes we get a little bit like this, and Kim's like, okay!

00:12:07.000 Hey, there's people listening. That's enough.

00:12:09.000 That's enough. They're giving the hook.

00:12:11.000 So you were out there last week on Monday in Iowa with us.

00:12:16.000 We all sort of split up, divide and conquer, cover those things.

00:12:20.000 And then I was basically in bed.

00:12:22.000 Kim's much more social than me. It was like 11 o'clock.

00:12:25.000 All the stuff was in. DJT just leaves.

00:12:27.000 I'm in bed. Naked, about to go to sleep, and she calls like, hey, Wesley's downstairs, Byron's downstairs, Matt Gaetz.

00:12:37.000 I'm like, you're going to make me put my pants on, aren't you?

00:12:40.000 So I did. I put my pants back on, I came downstairs, and I'm not exactly sure what time we left, but it wasn't early.

00:12:48.000 No, it was not. Kim was literally there, like, hurting sheep, like, you know, is that person pressed?

00:12:55.000 Is that person pressed? Because, like, the conversation we were having would probably be a liability to the rest of our political futures.

00:13:01.000 I think to real Americans, though, they would get it. 0.98

00:13:03.000 So we had some fun there.

00:13:05.000 We had too much fun.

00:13:07.000 And what I really want people to understand is those conversations that we had in that speakeasy, man, and just hanging out, chopping it up like regular people, regular Americans. 0.99

00:13:16.000 You're exactly right.

00:13:18.000 That's the kind of thing that people want us to see.

00:13:21.000 They want us to know that we are just having real conversations about our country, how to make things better, laughing, joking, probably being a bit inappropriate.

00:13:30.000 But at the end of the day, man, we're just having a good time and sharing stories.

00:13:34.000 And I think That's the side that a lot of Americans want to see more of us.

00:13:38.000 And that's why I was very glad to share that with you.

00:13:41.000 And then for those that are watching and listening, Don is the most fun.

00:13:47.000 Too much fun!

00:13:49.000 I call Kimberly, you know, Kimberly voice of reason.

00:13:52.000 When we were, you know, let's just say we may have been like recreating a meme and it was like me on a couch and you and Byron Donald's behind me.

00:14:00.000 And I was like, you know, she's like, what are you guys doing?

00:14:04.000 I'm like, Isn't this, like, we're supposed to be able to have fun like this?

00:14:08.000 Yeah, sure, it's totally inappropriate, but, like, the fact that, like, friends can actually do that, you know, the other side has beaten, you know, everything out of humor.

00:14:16.000 You're not allowed to make those jokes, and I'd say, you know, obviously that was MLK Day, right?

00:14:21.000 So people, you know, there's a lot of sort of stuff going on back and forth throughout the day, and, you know, we're just having fun, and I think that was sort of the ultimate expression of where America has gone, that we can joke around about those things and be totally...

00:14:34.000 You know, totally funny.

00:14:36.000 And then, you know, having the people that are a little bit more reasonable, perhaps panicking, but it's like, that's what it's all about.

00:14:41.000 That's the point. That's the point.

00:14:42.000 And the second that we stopped doing that as this country, you know, you and I were talking about, actually, we kind of grew up around the same era, like in the 80s and 90s, where, like, you know, you could actually be funny, and Richard Pryor was actually funny, and Eddie Murphy was actually funny, and we could get away with things that were a bit edgy, but we didn't take each other too seriously.

00:15:01.000 And the left is stealing all the joy from everything.

00:15:04.000 And I'm seeing this thing kind of come full circle.

00:15:07.000 I'm seeing Americans just like us being like, you know what?

00:15:09.000 Like, I'm not going to adhere to that.

00:15:11.000 Like, you're not going to take my fun away.

00:15:13.000 Yeah, we're going to be edgy. Yeah, we're going to have fun.

00:15:16.000 And yeah, we get to say whatever we want to say because this is America.

00:15:19.000 It's a free country. Can we just have a good time?

00:15:21.000 Can we joke, please? It was funny, so we're sitting there in a room, and there's political consultants and pollsters, and you, me, and Byron, we're reenacting probably one of the last great comedic skits that was probably pushing the boundaries of race these days. 0.59

00:15:42.000 And when we started talking about Clayton Bigsby, the black-white supremacist, you could see all the consultants were like, And then you, me, and Byron just are cracking up, because it's one of the great skits of all time, but in the world of politics, you see that.

00:16:02.000 Everyone's so guided by that, whereas I think, again, the ultimate expression of...

00:16:09.000 Not being racist is actually being able to joke about this with your friends, right?

00:16:15.000 It's the irony of Clayton Bigsby. 0.98

00:16:17.000 We're talking about a black, white supremacist. 0.92

00:16:19.000 I mean, he's poking fun at the very issue. 0.94

00:16:21.000 How much time you got?

00:16:23.000 Kind of lingers rice? 1.00

00:16:27.000 Sounded like a Mexican dick? 1.00

00:16:30.000 So, yeah, just set the table for everyone watching. 0.98

00:16:33.000 I mean, this was like a 45-minute, like, I mean, we took the skit for, like, so much further than the actual skit ever went, but it was a blast.

00:16:43.000 But you could see, like, Matt Gaetz, like, guys that you can see are just relaxed and fun.

00:16:49.000 We're having a blast. Other people were like, um, am I allowed to laugh?

00:16:53.000 Like, I'm like, we're good.

00:16:54.000 Like, it's fun. We're not the communists.

00:16:57.000 You can still have a sense of humor.

00:16:59.000 Exactly. So what did you think?

00:17:02.000 You were on the ground there, and thank you so much for that.

00:17:04.000 I mean, you know, your work, I know, again, you, Matt, Byron, you know, a bunch.

00:17:08.000 Kerry Lake was all over the place. We all sort of split up.

00:17:11.000 We divided and conquered, go speak at these precincts.

00:17:13.000 I got to speak right after Nikki Haley, which was...

00:17:17.000 Fun. For a person like me, that was fun because I don't have to give the canned, you know, sort of same old speech.

00:17:22.000 You loved it. She was thrilled to sit there and be like, oh really?

00:17:24.000 Like, I can't wait to respond to this.

00:17:25.000 And the press reluctantly had to admit that I got more applause than she did by a significant margin because, well, I'm not a phony and I'm also a Republican, unlike her.

00:17:36.000 But... What was your sentiment on the ground, you know, as you went around and sort of did these events and, you know, spoke at the precincts and stuff like that?

00:17:44.000 I mean, because to me it felt really, really good.

00:17:48.000 And I'm, unfortunately, you know, not really a rookie at this.

00:17:51.000 I've now done this. This is my third cycle, you know, doing this at a pretty high level.

00:17:56.000 You know, it's confirmation for what I've seen in Iowa for the past few years.

00:17:59.000 You know, my wife was born and raised in Iowa, so I spend at least, you know, three times a year up there in the eastern part of the state.

00:18:05.000 And the amount of support that I have seen, not just this past week and then the caucuses, but for the past few years, has been very consistent with what we saw a couple of days ago.

00:18:14.000 And the idea that President Trump One, by 30 points is astronomical.

00:18:20.000 It almost tripled the record that we've seen in the history of this country for the Republican Party in the Iowa caucuses.

00:18:26.000 What that tells you is this.

00:18:28.000 This is going way beyond this Republican Party.

00:18:30.000 This is going now to every single American that is fed up and sick of what we've seen over the course of the past few years.

00:18:36.000 30 points is insane.

00:18:39.000 Yeah. And the energy that we saw on the ground, the victory party afterward, by the way, you and your brother were looking pretty solid up there, standing next to each other, like two bookends.

00:18:48.000 And being there at the party, seeing the energy, dude, I cannot imagine a world that we didn't wake up in November and Donald Trump's our president again.

00:18:56.000 And the fact that we were able to send that first shot across the bow and make such a strong appearance in that first state.

00:19:03.000 Man, I'm really excited for New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina, and I think your dad's going to win every single state in the Republican primary.

00:19:11.000 It was funny watching the leftists meltdown.

00:19:14.000 He gave a speech where he was literally talking.

00:19:16.000 He's like, you know, listen, it's now time for unity.

00:19:20.000 And by the way, it wasn't just like unity within the Republican Party.

00:19:22.000 It was unity. I want Democrats.

00:19:24.000 He was joking backstage. And I say, hey, we'll even unify with the communists in this.

00:19:27.000 We're not going to give them what they want. I was like, maybe not.

00:19:31.000 Don't say that. Because the Marxists and the communists, we want some unity too.

00:19:36.000 But it was like, we're not going to give them anything they want.

00:19:38.000 But like, you know. We're happy to welcome him into the fold.

00:19:41.000 I was like, you know what?

00:19:43.000 It was classic Trump, right?

00:19:46.000 It's really funny, but I was like, why don't we just talk about the non-sociopaths?

00:19:51.000 I know we want to welcome everyone.

00:19:54.000 It's about addition at this point.

00:19:56.000 But I thought that was such an important message as well, because you can see it.

00:20:01.000 I guess I'd start with your bird's eye view, being both in Congress But also, as a, you know, a congressman from Texas where you have a border crisis like we've never seen before, the Biden disasters, you know, they're legitimately driving our country off a cliff.

00:20:17.000 I mean, last week Jamie Dimon was like...

00:20:19.000 Um, well, you know, maybe we shouldn't vilify Trump as bad.

00:20:23.000 He was actually right about a lot of things and the policies were pretty good.

00:20:25.000 Maybe I didn't love the way he said it.

00:20:26.000 I was like, wait a minute, Jamie Dimon, like the guy that they wanted to literally have replaced Joe Biden as a Democrat, was actually...

00:20:33.000 That was sort of interesting, you know?

00:20:35.000 But the sell of Build Back Better, nothing's built.

00:20:38.000 Nothing's back. Nothing's better.

00:20:39.000 It's a disaster. Can you think of anything that Joe Biden has done to make life better for just...

00:20:46.000 Ordinary Americans or common sense Americans.

00:20:50.000 We were joking about this one the other night.

00:20:52.000 The other movie was like the Truman Show.

00:20:54.000 I'm like waiting for a camera to fall out of the ceiling because they must be just filming me because it's so far out of whack it makes no sense.

00:21:02.000 I can't think of a single thing that he has done to make this country better in three years.

00:21:06.000 Like, not a single thing. I mean, other than maybe his love for ice cream, and then maybe he has helped out the ice cream industry for chocolate, chocolate chip.

00:21:13.000 I don't know. But other than that, man, no.

00:21:15.000 And being in Texas, the border that we are seeing is unbelievably It's horrible.

00:21:21.000 It's beyond anyone's imagination.

00:21:23.000 And it's the worst I've seen in my entire lifetime.

00:21:25.000 Eight million people entering our country illegally?

00:21:27.000 Are you kidding me? Enough fentanyl pouring into this country to kill every single American at least five times. 0.94

00:21:32.000 And your dad talks about this all the time.

00:21:34.000 Why are we allowing people to kill our fellow Americans by smuggling drugs into our sovereign nation?

00:21:40.000 That clearly right now is not a sovereign nation.

00:21:42.000 This is the worst inflation we've seen in our lifetime.

00:21:44.000 And when you start to add all these things up, this is how you get a 30 point win in Iowa.

00:21:49.000 This is how no one can touch you.

00:21:51.000 This is why everybody realizes this one simple question.

00:21:54.000 Am I better off now or was I better off four years ago?

00:21:58.000 And the answer is quite obvious, brother.

00:22:00.000 Yeah, no, it was funny. You mentioned 30 points, but it was funny watching the Democrats be like, oh, it should be 100 points.

00:22:05.000 That's a lot. Just for perspective, the largest ever, ever in history margin in a Republican caucus in Iowa was 12 points.

00:22:15.000 It didn't matter when. 12.

00:22:16.000 So this is... It was like 31...

00:22:18.000 It's literally almost three times that.

00:22:20.000 And they're like, why didn't he win 100%? 0.96

00:22:22.000 Ridiculous. It's so insane. 0.95

00:22:25.000 But that's what we're up against.

00:22:27.000 None of it has to make sense.

00:22:28.000 But, you know, down in Texas, you know, every...

00:22:32.000 It's not even Texas anymore now.

00:22:33.000 Every state is a border state.

00:22:35.000 For example, even up in Maine, there's reports about the state building apartment buildings.

00:22:40.000 So illegals can live rent-free. 0.93

00:22:43.000 I mean... Legitimately, we're second-class citizens in our own country.

00:22:48.000 That's America last, not America first. 0.81

00:22:50.000 I mean, hey, you know, I can afford my own rent.

00:22:53.000 I don't need it. There's plenty of Americans and plenty of veterans, plenty of people who've paid into system, plenty of elderly people being thrown out on their butts to house people who have never paid into a system, who aren't even here legally, you know.

00:23:08.000 The Democrats are trying to convince us that this isn't actually happening.

00:23:11.000 How and why can they get away with that?

00:23:14.000 And to piggyback on that a little bit too, we are running an annual $2 trillion deficit.

00:23:19.000 By the end of Q1, we are going to run a $500 million deficit in Q1 of this year.

00:23:25.000 We are $34 trillion in debt.

00:23:28.000 We cannot afford to have illegal aliens in our country living rent-free, literally, living rent-free in Maine while the American taxpayer pays for it. 1.00

00:23:36.000 This is just basic American stuff, basic sovereign nation stuff.

00:23:41.000 And I think what they are trying to do, in my opinion, brother, is bring in as many illegal people in this country as possible, try to get them to vote so they can try to steal these elections again. 0.97

00:23:51.000 And I'm not quite sure that's going to work, because I want to let you know something in Texas.

00:23:56.000 Our governor and our attorney general and lieutenant governor just won our last election by 10 points.

00:24:02.000 And by our next census, we're going to be a majority Hispanic state.

00:24:06.000 Just because Hispanics are in this country, the ones that are here legally, the ones that can vote, they don't like or want the idea of liberals destroying the very fabric of Texas and our country.

00:24:17.000 And so you let these people in here, but let me be clear about something.

00:24:21.000 They're going to come here. They're going to work.

00:24:22.000 They're going to have families. They're going to start going to church.

00:24:25.000 And if you think they're going to vote for Democrats with their craziness about this women playing against men in sports and open border policies and spending it to oblivion, if you think that they're going to be okay with that, they're not.

00:24:37.000 That's why Texas is still very red.

00:24:40.000 I don't think they're coming for the free sex change operation that California is offering them now.

00:24:47.000 I imagine it's other things.

00:24:50.000 But I also see the schism between some of the most patriotic people I know are legal immigrants, but people who went through a process and did this over a long period of time. 0.69

00:25:00.000 And again, the Biden administration doesn't seem to make it easy for someone who'd be like a nuclear physicist or someone who's not going to be a dependent or someone, We're good to go.

00:25:31.000 What is it? 29th in the world, and we spend more per capita than anyone, but now you're going to throw millions of more kids, many of whom don't even speak English, into these schools, and you think that's going to be beneficial for you?

00:25:42.000 The lowest income earners are now going to be competing with people who don't even have the papers, so to speak, and they'll be taking cash off the books.

00:25:50.000 It's a scary prospect, frankly, much more scary for lower and middle income earners.

00:25:59.000 It most certainly is.

00:26:01.000 And I actually just put out, we were talking about this actually the other day at the bar.

00:26:05.000 I put out a tweet that was talking about Meek Mill and talking about how people, black folks that live in their poverty right now, who they are going to vote for in droves.

00:26:15.000 And it's going to be Donald and John Trump.

00:26:16.000 And we talked about this before.

00:26:19.000 President Trump will get the highest black vote that we have seen for Republican in modern history.

00:26:24.000 For the exact reasons that you just stated.

00:26:27.000 If you think back to 2020, President Trump got 18.7% of black men.

00:26:31.000 That's a record. I think this year he will get at least between 25 and 30% of black men.

00:26:37.000 And if and when that happens, the Democrats have a very serious math problem.

00:26:41.000 But see, Democrats think that black people... 0.81

00:26:44.000 Want to pay more taxes. 0.97

00:26:46.000 And they want to live in a hyperinflation state.

00:26:49.000 And they want illegals coming there taking our jobs. 1.00

00:26:52.000 See, they are assuming that all black people are going to think that way.

00:26:55.000 And then when we've had the last five years that we have seen this complete and utter disaster, people trying to figure out, am I going to put gas in my car or take my kid to school?

00:27:04.000 All of a sudden, you have ASAP Rocky.

00:27:06.000 You have Meek Millie. 0.99

00:27:07.000 You have all these people that are like, you know what?

00:27:09.000 Uh-uh. We're going to go back to Donald John Trump so we can get this right.

00:27:12.000 Okay, but let's play this out a little bit.

00:27:14.000 Obviously, the Trump administration did a lot for the African American community.

00:27:18.000 We're sort of, you know, opportunity zones, you know, prison reform.

00:27:21.000 You had, you know, historically black universities, you know, funding that in perpetuity.

00:27:27.000 But it did not seem to translate all that well still.

00:27:31.000 You know, meaning, you know, it's one thing being the Democrat Party and they gave you nothing and they promised you the world and they don't deliver for 50 years.

00:27:38.000 But now, it's even worse.

00:27:41.000 Like... It just feels like it's the holy grail.

00:27:46.000 It should always happen.

00:27:47.000 The Democrat Party has failed so miserably, and yet it never does.

00:27:50.000 Do you actually believe it?

00:27:52.000 I certainly think I see it with the men, because they're commenting, the guys that sort of grab me randomly, not because they're attending the thing that I'm at.

00:28:01.000 It's because they actually work there.

00:28:02.000 They're like, hey man, let me tell you something.

00:28:05.000 We're like, we're good.

00:28:07.000 No, because they get it, they see it. 0.99

00:28:08.000 Like, they're like, enough of this crap already. 0.98

00:28:11.000 But I always felt there was such a stranglehold. 0.99

00:28:13.000 You go in the inner cities and the pastor, I'm sure he's great, except he's on the payroll of the Democrat Party.

00:28:19.000 It made it so much harder that even with facts, even with actual progress, even with this, it didn't matter.

00:28:25.000 They were still voting Democrats. So I'm hoping it's not just a pipe dream.

00:28:29.000 I'm pleasantly surprised.

00:28:31.000 I'm actually shocked you don't see sort of an equal amount of movement with the women. 0.97

00:28:37.000 I'd love you to maybe explain that one to me because I feel like it's their children that are the ones that are going to be suffering.

00:28:41.000 And, you know, you don't mess with Mama Bear where they're, you know, You're, you know, white, black, green, blue, purple, doesn't, you know, Mama Bear's still Mama Bear.

00:28:50.000 You know, get into the details of that, because, I mean, you obviously understand it.

00:28:54.000 So, what's really interesting is this.

00:28:56.000 You can promise all these things.

00:28:57.000 You can do everything right, as we saw, you know, from 2016 through 2020.

00:29:01.000 I think President Trump probably did more for the black community than any other president that we've seen in modern history.

00:29:06.000 I can pretty much attest to that.

00:29:07.000 And you very acutely laid it all out.

00:29:10.000 And then the issue is always rhetoric, and the issue is always what's seen on TV, and the issue always gets propagated by people saying that we are inherently racist, and the MAGA movement is racist, and they don't like black people to succeed, and X, Y, and Z. And then you spend three years under Joe Biden.

00:29:29.000 And it confirms every single fear that you've had prior to that.

00:29:33.000 All of a sudden, we don't really want to hear about calling MAGA people racist.

00:29:37.000 I don't want to call Donald Trump racist.

00:29:39.000 I just don't want to pay this ridiculous amount of inflation because I can't live every single day.

00:29:45.000 And so the issue is not that this is going to happen overnight, but that we build on a progress that we saw in 2020.

00:29:50.000 We see the disaster for the past three years under Joe Biden and people are waking up and they're starting to really speak out about this.

00:29:57.000 And back in 2016, 2017, 2018, a lot of black people were kind of concerned about being overtly supportive of President Trump.

00:30:05.000 I never was scared because I always knew what he was about, but I got it, right?

00:30:09.000 Because then you have to go home and go to the family reunion and talk to other black people.

00:30:12.000 They're like, hey, man, are you with Trump? 0.82

00:30:14.000 Why? Those conversations have changed tremendously.

00:30:18.000 And now you're finding out that people are actually being far more open about what their support is going to be for President Trump, especially amongst the black men.

00:30:26.000 You have to understand, too, Demographically speaking, black men, Hispanic men, and actually Hispanic women, they're going to gravitate toward your father and toward President Trump because at the end of the day, he's an alpha guy.

00:30:38.000 And what you have to understand is that alpha guy- Yeah, there's a macho culture there for sure.

00:30:42.000 Of course there is. Of course.

00:30:43.000 That's why I love him.

00:30:44.000 And- But to certain demographics, it turns them off.

00:30:50.000 That's the issue. Now, quite frankly, toxic masculinity is what people would call it. 0.98

00:30:56.000 I think we need more of it.

00:30:58.000 The reason why we don't speak German and the reason why this country was saved in World War I and World War II is because of brave men storming the beaches of Normandy to ensure that the world doesn't speak German and it weren't taken over by a fascist country. 0.50

00:31:11.000 That's what toxic masculinity got us here. 1.00

00:31:13.000 I think we're good to go.

00:31:33.000 Yeah, I love hearing that, because you're right, the unity message is important, but sometimes I'm just like, listen, and maybe it's easy for me.

00:31:40.000 I'm the son of a billionaire from Manhattan.

00:31:42.000 They've gone after me for a long time. 0.99

00:31:44.000 You son of a B. Yeah, sure, I understand I'm blessed, and I also understand I'm not the upstanding citizen that Hunter Biden is, so I'm treated a little bit differently, but I'm like, hey, bitch, where's my white privilege? 0.98

00:31:59.000 I'm trying to be like... Like, if my children were applying to college right now, I'm like, don't put your name. 0.98

00:32:04.000 Like, you know, I'm trying to convince my boys maybe they got to go trans just so they can get into a college right now because, like, you know, they do that. 1.00

00:32:14.000 I'm not a Democrat. I'm not willing to castrate my child.

00:32:17.000 Just for the record, because you know there's going to be some asshole on here that clips it and be like, Don Jr. 0.99

00:32:22.000 said his sunglasses. Yeah. 0.99

00:32:26.000 Yeah, but it's sort of where we are, right?

00:32:29.000 You see this stuff.

00:32:30.000 The military is now paying for trans operations.

00:32:34.000 There was sort of a great meme last week, and it was like...

00:32:37.000 We can't figure out why the recruitment number stood out.

00:32:39.000 It's Millie in a Karen wig with long nails and makeup. 1.00

00:32:43.000 And you're like, who's going to go fight for that?

00:32:46.000 I mean, you have obviously a history of serving yourself as an Apache pilot.

00:32:52.000 Your whole family, your sister.

00:32:54.000 I mean, when you're at home, With a long and generational history of military service, and you see what's going on right now there.

00:33:07.000 What's that conversation like?

00:33:10.000 It's a very interesting one.

00:33:11.000 So, you know, my sister's West Point, class of 93, I'm West Point 04, and my brother's West Point 05.

00:33:16.000 We went to West Point before West Point was woke, before the military was woke.

00:33:20.000 We weren't talking about these kinds of conversations.

00:33:22.000 You know, I saw something at the Air Force Academy where they were considering taking out sir and ma'am because they wanted to be more inclusive.

00:33:31.000 And if we're talking about the military...

00:33:34.000 It's like a basic tenet.

00:33:35.000 Sir, yes, sir. Yes, sir.

00:33:37.000 Yes, ma'am. I didn't serve.

00:33:39.000 I kind of know that one.

00:33:40.000 This is really weird. And it's the military that you volunteer to join.

00:33:45.000 So if you don't like the parameters or the structure and what you set up, then don't join.

00:33:49.000 Go join the Peace Corps. But it is our job to fight and win our nation's wars.

00:33:54.000 It's not our job to do misgendering people and the taxpayer paying for people to transition. 0.88

00:34:01.000 That's kind of ridiculous.

00:34:02.000 That's outside of the scope of what the military is. 0.77

00:34:05.000 And Don, the military was actually literally the first meritocracy that we saw in this country.

00:34:12.000 The first organization to really start to break down these racial barriers from the past and allow black people and women and people of color into the fold.

00:34:23.000 And guess what? Depending on how well you perform, you can rise in the ranks.

00:34:28.000 Look, that's how it should be.

00:34:30.000 It should have never gone away from that.

00:34:32.000 And if you're looking at why our recruiting numbers are so low, the 18-year-old, 16, 17, 18-year-old that wants to go join the military, that's gung-ho, that wants to go be a Ranger or a Navy SEAL or an Apache pilot, that person is not concerned about gender. 0.54

00:34:46.000 They're concerned about kicking ass for this country. 0.94

00:34:48.000 End of discussion. So when you stop catering to that individual and start catering to the woke stuff, You turn off that person that wants to get out and serve their country and potentially be willing to give their life for this country. 0.91

00:34:59.000 We got to get back to that.

00:35:02.000 West Point 2000, 2004, 93.

00:35:04.000 Let's get back to that.

00:35:06.000 Back to a meritocracy. 0.97

00:35:07.000 This is our main mission, to fight our nation's wars, and most importantly, to serve as a deterrent so that people know we don't want to mess with them because they're proficient, they're tactically sound, and they will kick our butts. 0.97

00:35:19.000 And they aren't worried about trans stuff. 0.64

00:35:20.000 They're worried about winning America's wars.

00:35:23.000 Yeah, when I see, like, the trans-military TikTok videos, and I'm just like... 0.95

00:35:27.000 It's so ridiculous.

00:35:28.000 I'm like, you know, China's, they're like, Dr. 1.00

00:35:31.000 Evil, excellent. Right, right, this is great.

00:35:34.000 We're like, we're going to win this war.

00:35:35.000 We won't have to fire a single bullet.

00:35:37.000 Like, they, you know, just...

00:35:38.000 Give them a stripper pole and they'll entertain themselves for hours while we take over the major cities of America. 1.00

00:35:43.000 I mean, it's crazy, but I want to get your opinion also on a lot of the stuff we see in the world of sort of DEI, right?

00:35:52.000 The diversity, equity, inclusion.

00:35:54.000 I was speaking to a friend who flies fighter pilots.

00:35:57.000 He's a fighter pilot. I don't even want to get into the details of the plane because the military will figure out who it is and then they'll be shipped off to...

00:36:05.000 To quote Top Gun, you know, flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog shit out of Taiwan. 1.00

00:36:10.000 But, I mean, he said, so what's it like? 0.98

00:36:14.000 And he goes, they're literally trying so hard, they're putting people into, you know, like F-35s that you wouldn't put in a Cessna.

00:36:23.000 And I was like... Whoa.

00:36:25.000 Do you keep in touch with other guys?

00:36:28.000 Have you heard these similar stories?

00:36:29.000 Is this an exaggeration, or is it real?

00:36:31.000 When he's like, because I'm a pilot myself.

00:36:33.000 Nothing like that, obviously. I have single-engine land, but it was like, you know, there's still basic things.

00:36:37.000 You see the FAA requirements and the Boeing diversity requirements.

00:36:40.000 You're like, wait, these are really large objects, in many cases on the commercial side, with hundreds of people in them flying 600 miles an hour at 36,000 feet.

00:36:48.000 Like, this is a problem.

00:36:50.000 But when I heard about it in fighter jets, in F-18s, in F-35s, and it's, they're like,

00:36:58.000 dude, these guys, they wouldn't have flown cargo planes when I got in X number of years

00:37:04.000 ago.

00:37:05.000 And now it's like they're trying to stick some of the worst candidates into some of

00:37:08.000 our finest machinery.

00:37:11.000 So I can even, before we get to those super advanced aircraft, you and I were talking

00:37:16.000 about how many flights we have.

00:37:18.000 You and I fly commercial a lot.

00:37:19.000 I was actually pleased to hear that. You fly commercial and you fly coach a lot.

00:37:23.000 95% of my travel is commercial coach.

00:37:25.000 Made my day. I was like, this is really cool, actually.

00:37:28.000 Because you don't have to. That's really cool.

00:37:30.000 And we're talking about that.

00:37:32.000 And of all the flights, of every time that you got on a plane to fly anywhere in the country or anywhere in the world, did you peek your head into the cockpit and say, hey, I just want to make sure that you, Delta Airline, or you, United Airlines, that you have major DNI requirements?

00:37:46.000 Because if you didn't, I'm not getting on this plane.

00:37:48.000 Yeah. I want to make sure.

00:37:51.000 I don't really care so much about hitting the ground at 600 miles an hour and going out in a fiery ball of death.

00:37:57.000 I want to make sure we're inclusive.

00:38:01.000 Yeah, but it's also creating, though, a vicious cycle, because I do get on these planes, like, a lot.

00:38:05.000 I probably fly, like, between 200,000 and 300,000 commercial miles a year, and I look in the cockpit, and sometimes now I could see someone.

00:38:12.000 By the way, they may be the most competent person in the air that day, but if I'm seeing, like, I'm like, but I don't know, because I don't know.

00:38:21.000 And that sucks. Like, that's a shitty feeling when you fly as much as I do.

00:38:25.000 You know, the odds of something going wrong in a flight that I'm on eventually is real.

00:38:30.000 You know what I mean? And you also do an injustice, in my opinion, you do an injustice to these minority groups.

00:38:36.000 Because the first thing that anybody cares about is, are you proficient and are you good at your job?

00:38:41.000 Can you do that? And now we have a world with Kamala Harris and Ketanji Brown and all these people that are getting these positions just because of the way they look. 0.66

00:38:51.000 You are now questioning their acumen.

00:38:53.000 And that's not fair either.

00:38:55.000 But the problem is we've done this so much, right?

00:38:59.000 With Kamala Harris.

00:39:00.000 Then you listen to her speak and be like...

00:39:02.000 I don't know. There's probably a reason she was polling at 1% in the Democrat primary.

00:39:06.000 But she became vice president anyway.

00:39:08.000 You see it. I don't know enough about Ketanji Brown-Jackson, but, you know, people putting stuff out.

00:39:14.000 But Corrine Jean-Pierre is like, no, I won't.

00:39:16.000 She's the press secretary. She's going to be the face of the Biden administration on a daily basis. 0.87

00:39:20.000 And she's great because she's the first gay, black, lesbian who wasn't born here or something. 0.85

00:39:27.000 It was like, they were like box checkers. 1.00

00:39:29.000 Check, check. It's like, oh my God, she's checked so many boxes.

00:39:31.000 We should put her in an Apollo mission spaceship. 1.00

00:39:37.000 Does she know anything about that?

00:39:38.000 No, but who cares? She checked all four boxes.

00:39:41.000 But you see the performance.

00:39:43.000 But worse, you see the media like, oh, you're not going to address that?

00:39:47.000 It's the biggest story of the week.

00:39:48.000 Oh, you're just not going to address that.

00:39:51.000 They give her a pass. 0.99

00:39:52.000 They understand she's not capable of answering the question.

00:39:55.000 But no one says, hey, can we get back to competence?

00:39:58.000 No. You know, they wouldn't have given that same slack to, you know, someone that my father put in, you know, into office that way.

00:40:05.000 And that's the problem.

00:40:06.000 So you see people, they may belong in a position.

00:40:09.000 You see the treatment of Claudine Gay over at Harvard.

00:40:11.000 Yes. She should have never been there.

00:40:13.000 She should have never been in the first place. Black woman, like, it's time. 1.00

00:40:17.000 Well... That does such a disservice for someone who actually is a black woman who actually belongs in that position, and I'm sure there's a bunch of them. 0.99

00:40:25.000 Yes, as long as they're qualified.

00:40:27.000 You know, the first thing you said about me, this is why I love you, and this is why I love conservatives.

00:40:32.000 The first thing you said about me on this show, here's Wesley Hunt.

00:40:34.000 He's a West Point grad.

00:40:36.000 He's an Apache pilot.

00:40:37.000 These are things that I have accomplished in my life that's given me a level of competence and understanding to do my job very well now.

00:40:45.000 Yeah. I'm a husband.

00:40:47.000 I'm a father. I'm an Apache pilot.

00:40:49.000 I earned three master's degrees from Cornell University.

00:40:51.000 I didn't plagiarize anything. That's almost an IV, I think, right?

00:40:55.000 Almost. Hey, listen, I went to Penn, so I should be talking shit, and until we had our Leah Thomas incident, I'm like, okay, fine. 0.99

00:41:05.000 He was all good. We were doing great. 0.99

00:41:06.000 Then they were like, Leah Thomas, and I'm like...

00:41:09.000 That's my alma mater now.

00:41:12.000 I probably should just sit this one out.

00:41:16.000 I feel like I'm all those things first before I'm a black man.

00:41:20.000 And by the way, I'm a proud black man.

00:41:21.000 Trust me on that.

00:41:22.000 I'm black and I'm proud.

00:41:23.000 But so many things before we get to that.

00:41:26.000 That's what I love about our party.

00:41:28.000 I love that I bought our party.

00:41:30.000 We are not going to put somebody in a role just because they look a certain way.

00:41:34.000 We're going to put somebody in a role because they're the best fit for the role and what the country needs.

00:41:39.000 And also, they're competent.

00:41:41.000 And they're good at their job.

00:41:43.000 They don't check boxes just for games or for fun.

00:41:46.000 It's because they're actually, look, here's what they've done.

00:41:49.000 They're qualified. They present well.

00:41:51.000 Boom. This is our person.

00:41:53.000 If it happens to be a black person, great. 1.00

00:41:55.000 Or a white man, great. 0.64

00:41:56.000 Or a Hispanic man, Hispanic woman, great. 0.92

00:41:59.000 I want the best person. It works against me, too.

00:42:01.000 If I'm hanging out, oh, that's Don's token black friend. 0.93

00:42:04.000 I'm like, what? I'm incapable of liking someone.

00:42:07.000 How about that fucking guy's funny as hell? 0.99

00:42:11.000 We're sitting there. It basically ends up being you, me, and Byron just in the corner. 0.99

00:42:15.000 I think everyone else may be a bit racist.

00:42:18.000 They were afraid to hang out with us.

00:42:21.000 Or they're just worried about the reputational damage of being associated with what was coming out of our mouths.

00:42:26.000 You earned your black card that night, Doc.

00:42:28.000 Yeah, you know, dude, that was what we got to do with more of that.

00:42:31.000 Especially when there's fewer people around.

00:42:35.000 But yeah, there is so much of that.

00:42:37.000 And it's like, it's crazy.

00:42:39.000 Listen, by the way, you see it this week.

00:42:42.000 Lloyd Austin, the Secretary of Defense, he goes home for a week.

00:42:46.000 Doesn't even tell the Biden administration.

00:42:48.000 Now this could be, by the way, this may not be like he gets a pass because of race.

00:42:52.000 It could actually just be because the military industrial complex no longer feels like they need to tell Biden.

00:42:58.000 Biden. By the way, similar generals...

00:43:01.000 It's Biden. Do you know anyway? No, of course not.

00:43:04.000 But other people... The person they put in was a woman. 1.00

00:43:07.000 They made a big deal of saying that.

00:43:08.000 The problem is she was on vacation in Puerto Rico.

00:43:10.000 Correct. Which is wonderful, but I don't know.

00:43:13.000 If you're the acting sec def, maybe it's time to come home.

00:43:16.000 But perhaps the bigger problem isn't that he got a pass because of that.

00:43:20.000 But now you don't know. Now you don't know because you're not sure if anyone's a checkbox. 0.65

00:43:24.000 They could be the most qualified person in the world, but you wonder, which makes you

00:43:28.000 question your orders, I would think, which makes you, you know, like, hey, is someone

00:43:32.000 who's got an IQ of three sending me to death in a war we should never get into because

00:43:36.000 they have bad judgment and don't belong there?

00:43:38.000 And so, you know, or perhaps the bigger problem, and I'd love your opinion on this, is really,

00:43:44.000 isn't it maybe the military-industrial complex also saying, hey, we no longer respond to

00:43:49.000 the civilian chain of command?

00:43:50.000 Like, you know what? We know more.

00:43:52.000 Joe Biden's an idiot. We're just not going to listen. 1.00

00:43:54.000 And by the way, they tried doing the same to my father.

00:43:56.000 You know, he'd say, this is what we're going to do to get to peace, and yada, yada.

00:43:58.000 We don't want to do that.

00:44:00.000 So they slow play it.

00:44:01.000 They drag it out. Here's 30 reasons why you can't, and they sound really serious.

00:44:05.000 You're going to endanger your lives, but it's all bullshit, right? 0.84

00:44:07.000 Here's a briefing made to order, meaning here's a briefing where this is the conclusion we want, and therefore we'll give you a bunch of stuff as to how we got there to give us the answer we want, even if there's no truth to it. 0.97

00:44:19.000 But in the case of the Lloyd Austin, I mean...

00:44:22.000 If you did this, if you disappeared for five days when you were in active duty and didn't tell anyone, there was no one in the chain of...

00:44:29.000 Wouldn't you be relieved of duty?

00:44:30.000 Immediately, actually. Immediately.

00:44:32.000 Like, not even...

00:44:34.000 Without a question. Bye!

00:44:36.000 Without question. And I was a captain.

00:44:38.000 I was a captain, not a four-star general.

00:44:40.000 Without question. If I disappeared for five days, they did not tell my chain of command and said nothing.

00:44:47.000 No text, no phone call.

00:44:48.000 They didn't know where I was. You should have seen the packets that we had to fill out to go on leave for a weekend.

00:44:53.000 I had to kill a tree to let my commanders know where I was, what I was doing, how many miles I was driving.

00:44:58.000 I got my car inspected.

00:45:00.000 Here's my license and registration. You name it.

00:45:02.000 You leave to go on pass for the weekend.

00:45:05.000 And so if we have a leader who's a four-star general that leaves and does not tell his direct leader, which would be Joe Biden, that he's leaving for five days, that's a very serious problem.

00:45:15.000 I have a bigger concern, though, Don.

00:45:16.000 A bigger concern is this. What is Vladimir Putin saying?

00:45:20.000 What is Xi Jinping saying?

00:45:21.000 We must be the laughingstock of the world.

00:45:23.000 Oh, my gosh. Like, it's sort of, you know, it's the dream of all foreign adversaries to have a situation like this in America right now.

00:45:33.000 You know, they were hoping that maybe they could pressure us into these situations.

00:45:36.000 You know, we beat and won the Cold War basically because of the economy, right?

00:45:40.000 They ran out of money with their nonsense.

00:45:43.000 We're becoming that communist nation very quickly, and that's no joke.

00:45:47.000 I mean, but...

00:45:49.000 You see that going on, and I guess I'd ask, are we prepared for a major foreign conflict?

00:45:53.000 I mean, there's three brewing right now between, you know, what's going on, you know, Israel and then south further in sort of the shipping channels.

00:46:00.000 You obviously have Ukraine.

00:46:01.000 You have what's going on, you know, sort of on the border of Venezuela and Guyana.

00:46:04.000 Like, you know, and yet, you know, the war machine in D.C., they want to get in all of these things.

00:46:09.000 Yeah, I don't know that we have the capability for any of them.

00:46:12.000 Right now, we don't. We don't.

00:46:14.000 And it's flipped, and it changed just like that with poor leadership.

00:46:20.000 We can actually get back to being a competent fighting force just as quickly with good, strong leadership.

00:46:26.000 And keep in mind, this ebbs and flows.

00:46:28.000 This is actually not our first rodeo.

00:46:30.000 We've been here before. But to answer your question about are we tactically competent enough right now with the force that we have right now to fight a potential two- or three-front war?

00:46:41.000 Absolutely not. And that's exactly why these countries are behaving the way that they are behaving.

00:46:45.000 There's a reason why Vladimir Putin chose now, especially after the disastrous Afghanistan pullout.

00:46:50.000 There is a reason why Hezbollah is doing what they're doing right now and Iran is on path to having another nuclear weapon. 0.98

00:46:57.000 There's a reason why Xi Jinping is rattling the sabers against Taiwan.

00:47:00.000 There's a reason why.

00:47:01.000 Because they know that the big dog is no longer in charge right now.

00:47:06.000 That's it. We have, they're thinking to themselves, we have about one more year to get away with whatever we can, because when Donald Trump comes back, it's over.

00:47:15.000 Yeah, you noticed that, like, the other night in Iowa, it was literally, I was watching the futures markets over in China, and their stock markets started cratering.

00:47:22.000 They're plummeting. Jack Posobiec, I think, said it best.

00:47:24.000 He was like, oh, they know daddy's coming home.

00:47:28.000 Oh, yes he is. But it was an important message to the world, because you're right.

00:47:32.000 I don't think any of these things would have happened.

00:47:34.000 There was a reason none of them did happen during those four years.

00:47:38.000 We had world peace. We had world peace for four years.

00:47:40.000 Yeah. Literally. It's the nature of predation, I always say.

00:47:43.000 Like, you know, predators prey on the weak.

00:47:45.000 That's what they do. It's a story literally as old as time.

00:47:48.000 And yet, you know, when you have a guy that can't find his way off the stage, you're saying, you know what?

00:47:53.000 This is a good window.

00:47:54.000 Let's go do it. Right now.

00:47:56.000 And I have a prediction, too.

00:47:57.000 You know, I'm very confident that your dad's going to win.

00:48:01.000 And when he wins, there's going to be a window from November to the time he gets sworn in in January.

00:48:07.000 I have a prediction that all these conflicts, before he even gets sworn into office, will come to an abrupt stop.

00:48:13.000 Hey guys, we were just kidding.

00:48:15.000 I don't want to deal with this.

00:48:20.000 I sort of hope so, because it's pretty scary.

00:48:25.000 I want to get your assessment.

00:48:27.000 The House Republican Conference right now, under the leadership of Speaker Johnson.

00:48:31.000 Yeah. It's rough.

00:48:35.000 Rough times. Yeah. You know, man, like, you know, it's an interesting one because, you know, listen, Kevin has his flaws.

00:48:42.000 I get that. But he was politically astute.

00:48:44.000 You know, he helped raise a lot of money to help get guys like, you know, I think you'll be fine, but there's others that need help that are great guys.

00:48:51.000 You know, and, you know, when they were like, no, we love a guy that basically, like, I never, I don't know that I had even heard of him before that.

00:48:58.000 And I'm pretty active in this stuff.

00:48:59.000 And I was like, well, no, he's got $5,000 in the bank.

00:49:02.000 He's never had. I was like, I like that because it seems nice and innocent.

00:49:06.000 The problem with being nice and innocent is that you're now swimming with the big boys, none of whom are nice or innocent.

00:49:11.000 And I want someone who's functioned in the real world at that level who can play that game.

00:49:15.000 I talk about it on the show. There's what you want, and then there's the realities of dealing within Washington, D.C. And if you pretend that those two things don't simultaneously exist, you'll literally get nothing done.

00:49:26.000 And I'm worried that he's getting rolled out.

00:49:30.000 By the way, I think the Senate is significantly worse when I look at the immigration bill.

00:49:34.000 It's a disaster.

00:49:35.000 Anything you want, Mitch will give up.

00:49:37.000 He'll sell all your children if he can send another $60 billion to Ukraine.

00:49:41.000 I'm like, no one can figure out why.

00:49:43.000 It's totally unpopular with Republicans.

00:49:46.000 I assume he's got a board seat waiting for him down the line, or his children or grandchildren, whatever it may be, are going to be on the board of Raytheon and Boeing in perpetuity, and maybe that's the retirement plan for them.

00:49:55.000 Right. What's your assessment, both House and Senate, right now?

00:49:59.000 So right now, you have to go back to the majority that we have in the House right now, Don.

00:50:03.000 We have a two-seat majority.

00:50:05.000 Yeah. And by the way, I get that that's not easy, right?

00:50:07.000 You're not going to pass legislative things, but isn't there a point where we say, enough?

00:50:13.000 Well, I'm actually there. I'm getting ready to go vote on the CR right now, and you will find out I'm going to be a no.

00:50:17.000 I don't think we should be passing any more CRs.

00:50:20.000 It's time for us to get to work and actually control the power of the purse.

00:50:23.000 With the two-seat majority, it's tough to get things done.

00:50:26.000 You're right. The Senate is worse off, and the Biden administration is a complete joke.

00:50:31.000 With a two-seat majority, you have to understand that The difference between Kevin McCarthy and Speaker Johnson right now, from a legislative standpoint, probably is not going to be all that different.

00:50:43.000 What happened with McCarthy was there was a lack of trust, I think.

00:50:46.000 And sometimes, brother, when you're here for long enough, either you die the hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

00:50:53.000 And I think over time, Kevin drew some trust issues.

00:50:58.000 And it wasn't just Matt Gaetz and those eight people.

00:51:00.000 It was actually quite a bit more than that.

00:51:03.000 The reset with Speaker Johnson is now, he's a new face, he's a different person, different guy.

00:51:08.000 He's been here for six years.

00:51:10.000 Let's give him a shot.

00:51:11.000 Now here's the problem. We're giving them a shot with deals that were already made the previous year.

00:51:16.000 Instead of a four-seat majority, we've had two retirements, and now we have a two-seat majority, and Steve Scalise is out, and I hope he gets better.

00:51:22.000 So now we actually have a one-seat majority.

00:51:24.000 It is very difficult to get anything passed in this Congress with a one-seat majority, and you don't have the Senate, and you don't have the presidency either.

00:51:33.000 It is our job at this point.

00:51:35.000 You ever shut it down, though? I get it.

00:51:38.000 Listen, you can say, hey, we'll meet our existing debts, but nothing else.

00:51:42.000 We'll agree to all sign off on that because you can't default on your debt.

00:51:45.000 That would be a disaster for the American. 0.76

00:51:47.000 Just so everyone, because everyone's like, oh, and again, I'm a rabble rouser. 0.66

00:51:51.000 I'm loud. I'm aggressive.

00:51:53.000 But I also understand the realities of the world.

00:51:55.000 You got to pay your debts because if you shut that down, you're going to give China an excuse to put the world on the wand and If U.S. starts defaulting on their debts. 0.93

00:52:03.000 But you can all say very publicly, hey, we will meet our existing debt obligations, we're doing nothing else going forward, and we'll shut that aspect of it down.

00:52:10.000 And I understand that's horrible.

00:52:14.000 But here's the actual argument. I am in favor of shutting the government down, especially if we get border security.

00:52:20.000 If we pitch that to the American public, I think it would go over just fine.

00:52:23.000 Actually, just like your dad sat down with Chuck Schumer.

00:52:27.000 I would be willing to shut the government down for border security.

00:52:30.000 If we took that stance, I think you'd be surprised at how much we could actually get down the road.

00:52:35.000 But you have to understand, if there's more than three moderates or more than three people that won't vote with us and every Democrat votes against us, then nothing's happening.

00:52:44.000 Yeah. And therein lies the point.

00:52:47.000 We have to implore the American public to not give us a four-seat majority.

00:52:51.000 We need a 20-seat majority.

00:52:53.000 We need the presidency. We need Donald Trump back in office.

00:52:55.000 And we need the Senate. If we could get those things done this year, I think you'd be surprised at what we can get done for the next two years.

00:53:04.000 Yeah, and you need that majority.

00:53:05.000 And again, you're right. It can't just be a majority of weaklings, right?

00:53:08.000 It cannot be. We had the Senate when my father first got elected.

00:53:12.000 We had the Senate, we had the House, and we had the presidency.

00:53:14.000 And people were like, well, why didn't you get more done?

00:53:16.000 I was like, well, because Paul Ryan is a weakling, and he was never going to do anything to help.

00:53:20.000 He wanted to be loved in D.C. That was much more important than doing what the people who elected him in Wisconsin wanted him to do.

00:53:25.000 It was funny. So as I was going around in Iowa last week, this person from, I guess, the Fox affiliate, now he sits on the board of Fox News, but the Fox affiliate in, you know, I guess one of the districts must have overlapped in terms of a zone.

00:53:38.000 He's like, well, Paul Ryan just threatened the Republican conventions in Milwaukee.

00:53:44.000 He's not going to even go.

00:53:45.000 I was like, who cares? No one cares.

00:53:47.000 Literally, other than maybe one or two rhinos in Washington, D.C., there are literally zero people in the Republican Party that could give a single shit if Paul Ryan... 0.98

00:54:00.000 If he goes to the convention, they'd love him to be less involved, not more. 0.98

00:54:04.000 And the guy was like, no, no, no, but he said he won't even go.

00:54:07.000 I was like, no, this isn't a trick question.

00:54:12.000 He didn't get it, but he works for Fox, so it's a little bit different.

00:54:17.000 By the way, speaking of being ambushed with what I thought was a funny question like that, you...

00:54:24.000 Had a protester come up and yell at you in Iowa.

00:54:29.000 And guys, just so you understand, Wesley's built like a Briggs shithouse. 0.89

00:54:34.000 His arms are bigger than my legs. 0.95

00:54:37.000 He covers it up pretty well.

00:54:39.000 Even Byron, who's a big dude, was like, no, no, no, that guy's strong and thick.

00:54:46.000 Tell me about it, because I was like, that guy was about to have a really bad day.

00:54:49.000 I don't think he realized it.

00:54:51.000 He really was about to have a bad day, and I kind of...

00:54:54.000 I actually remember in the moment, I was actually advocating for your dad.

00:54:57.000 I was at one of the caucus sites, and I thought I was actually giving a pretty good speech.

00:55:01.000 I was actually really, really proud of it.

00:55:03.000 And then all of a sudden, I get interrupted, and I turn around, and this guy starts approaching me.

00:55:07.000 And the good people of Iowa, in good fashion... 0.98

00:55:10.000 Ran out, came to my defense, and threw his butt out. 0.56

00:55:13.000 But as he was approaching me, you're right. 0.63

00:55:15.000 It was getting kind of testy there in a second.

00:55:18.000 I faced him. I was like, if this dude gets about three feet closer, he's going to have a real rough day.

00:55:24.000 It was funny. After a little time in the bar, it was funny hearing the retell of this story.

00:55:30.000 That was good.

00:55:32.000 Yeah. But it is, I mean, it is sort of crazy, right?

00:55:36.000 These primaries, you know, you go out there and you put yourself out there.

00:55:39.000 I know, you know, when I was there speaking before Nikki Haley, it's like, you know, I go in the room, there's 250, I don't have a security guard, I'm in a room, there was 250, 300 people in there, whatever.

00:55:50.000 I did a press thing for half an hour and she was hiding backstage and runs in and, you know, gives a speech, runs out. 1.00

00:55:54.000 I'm like, it is.

00:55:56.000 I mean, there's times you're out there, you're actually pretty exposed and pretty vulnerable and, you know, You do this enough, you run into a lot of people and some are...

00:56:04.000 Let's say a little bit off.

00:56:06.000 Yeah, they're a little bit off, but you know what?

00:56:07.000 We have to do it. Because if we don't do it, brother, then who is?

00:56:10.000 We are the ones that we got to take that risk every now and again and put ourselves out there.

00:56:13.000 Because if we don't, we will lose our country.

00:56:15.000 It's the bottom line. You have kids.

00:56:17.000 I have kids. We're doing this for them.

00:56:20.000 I said that actually in that speech.

00:56:21.000 I told a story about your dad picking up my little baby girl and giving her a big hug.

00:56:26.000 And I'll never forget that because it dawned on me that that's what he does to your children and

00:56:30.000 his other grandchildren. And if we don't step into the fray, and if we don't fix this country

00:56:35.000 right now, we are four years away from losing it all. And this is actually the first time I can say

00:56:41.000 that in my in my lifetime. I mean, it's been bad. It's been okay. I wish it could have been better

00:56:45.000 here or there. But we are four years away. If by if Biden Harris are back in office,

00:56:50.000 it's over. As we know it, it's over. It's sort of political hyperbole. But like,

00:56:55.000 it's actually real. I probably even said it last time because I foresaw what was happening. But

00:56:59.000 you're right. Like, there's a chance to turn this around.

00:57:01.000 But you're getting to the point of like the pendulum. You know, it's too far. And like, to

00:57:05.000 your point, I'm not doing this because this is good for me. 0.99

00:57:09.000 My life was a lot easier before this shit. 0.99

00:57:15.000 Speaking before all these congressional committees, you know they want to try me for treason, a crime punishable by death. 1.00

00:57:19.000 Minor details. Stuff like that.

00:57:22.000 It's my average Tuesday.

00:57:24.000 I have a question for you. Who's cocaine was in the White House?

00:57:27.000 I have no idea.

00:57:29.000 Could it be the world's number one crackhead?

00:57:32.000 So when that story came out, it was so funny.

00:57:34.000 I'm looking at Twitter. I'm like, oh yeah, they found Hunter Koch in the White House.

00:57:39.000 Leftist Twitter was like...

00:57:40.000 It must have been Don Jr.'s like, dude, I haven't been in the building in three and a half years.

00:57:44.000 How's that even possible? I'm like, wait a minute, it's mine?

00:57:47.000 It's mine? So then this week, or last week, I guess it was, the DOJ finds cocaine on the gun case of the Hunter Biden illegally purchased felony firearm, which is literally one of the things you check off.

00:58:00.000 Like, you're not, like, they find cocaine on it.

00:58:02.000 Now, of course, the DOJ tells us this four years later.

00:58:06.000 Yes. Four years later.

00:58:08.000 By the way, what we knew to all be true anyway.

00:58:10.000 We knew it. Because we don't live in a system of equal justice anymore.

00:58:15.000 It's crazy, but we're fighting to get that decency back.

00:58:20.000 We're fighting, as you mentioned, our kids. 1.00

00:58:22.000 Like I said, I don't need this shit. 1.00

00:58:23.000 My life was so much easier just being the son of a rich guy from New York building buildings. 1.00

00:58:27.000 I used to think construction and that business was rough, but it's nothing compared to this.

00:58:32.000 But we do it for them.

00:58:33.000 We do it for their future because we believe in the freedoms that at least the conservatives I know hold dear.

00:58:40.000 Democrats seem pretty willing to just roll over and die for the communists.

00:58:43.000 But I'm not there, and I never will be.

00:58:46.000 Yeah. And I'll say this, too.

00:58:48.000 You know, you talk about the tale of two sons, Hunter Biden versus you.

00:58:52.000 I tell you, even though the left-wing media is not going to report this, and even though you're not going to see this on any show, and even though we're finding out this stuff four years later, thank God for Twitter, thank God for Instagram, and thank God for social media.

00:59:03.000 Because kind of below that current, people are talking about this.

00:59:07.000 People are talking about the disparity. 0.98

00:59:09.000 People have said millions of times, damn, if that were Don Jr., He'd be under the jail right now. 0.97

00:59:16.000 Those people get shadow banned. 0.96

00:59:18.000 Only 5% of the people that should see that post will actually see it.

00:59:21.000 At least on Twitter, we're getting a sense of, on truth, we have fairness.

00:59:26.000 On Rumble, we got objectivity.

00:59:28.000 But if I was on YouTube, if we did this show on YouTube, they'd take it off.

00:59:31.000 It wouldn't be allowed to be up there.

00:59:32.000 So, you know, you're right.

00:59:34.000 Social media is helping, but we've got to remember, like, we are not on an equal footing in terms of that.

00:59:40.000 You know, I see clowns that have three followers with very average content.

00:59:44.000 30,000 retweets, and I'm like, what's going on? 0.90

00:59:46.000 It's insane.

00:59:48.000 And I do enough of this stuff, and I do it myself, so it's like, I know when I hit send, if something's going to go big, and it's like, oh, it's going big, and then it's like, erk!

00:59:54.000 It just stops. It stops.

00:59:56.000 But we also can't cede that battlefield.

01:00:00.000 We can't cede it.

01:00:01.000 We're working at a disadvantage.

01:00:03.000 We've got to keep fighting. Correct.

01:00:04.000 That was my point, brother.

01:00:06.000 That's my point. So, the primary is basically over.

01:00:09.000 I think, you know, in my opinion, my father's going to be the nominee.

01:00:12.000 We've got some steps to go along the way, but what do you see as, what are going to be the key benchmarks for a MAGA victory in 2024?

01:00:20.000 What do you hear from the people?

01:00:22.000 What are the issues? What do we got to focus on?

01:00:24.000 Is there anything we're missing? The speech?

01:00:26.000 The speech that your father gave in Iowa...

01:00:29.000 Hit the nail on the head. That's it.

01:00:31.000 If we stay focused on those issues, we stay focused on the border, we stay focused on the economy, we stay focused on safety, we stay focused on not getting into more protracted and involved wars, we take the power away from Xi Jinping, take the power away from Russia, unleash American energy.

01:00:50.000 If we do these things and keep...

01:00:53.000 Just stay laser-focused on these issues.

01:00:56.000 We're going to be just fine.

01:00:58.000 A 30-point win in Iowa is unbelievable.

01:01:01.000 And it's not just because MAGA people and conservatives are all for your dad.

01:01:05.000 This is about a movement.

01:01:07.000 This is about moderates, and these are about independents that are saying, I'm not voting for Joe Biden, and I'm absolutely going to vote for Donald Trump, especially as we continue down this path.

01:01:18.000 So my advice would be, don't change anything.

01:01:21.000 I love the fact that the last tweet that your dad made was his mugshot.

01:01:25.000 Arguably the greatest mugshot of all time.

01:01:27.000 By the way, it may be the most viewed...

01:01:30.000 It's a beautiful mugshot. You've got the Mona Lisa, but there's some famous art out there.

01:01:34.000 But honestly, because of the digital age, because of the way it just works now, there's more pictures taken on a daily basis today than there was in the prior 200 years.

01:01:43.000 Those kind of stats. It may be, and go down as maybe the most famous individual image ever in time.

01:01:51.000 Potentially. And the fact that that's your dad's last tweet, he's still cutting loose on truth.

01:01:57.000 Just keep doing what we're doing.

01:01:58.000 And I think we're going to be more than fine.

01:02:00.000 Right now, Joe Biden has a 31% approval rating.

01:02:04.000 He is literally by far the worst president we've seen, arguably, not even arguably anymore.

01:02:08.000 He's the worst president that we have seen in the history of this country at this point.

01:02:11.000 Do they let him get to the finish line, though?

01:02:13.000 Do they, you know, because, again, they've shown there's nothing they're not willing to do, right?

01:02:17.000 You know, someone, you know, they shook a fence.

01:02:19.000 That's 25 years in prison.

01:02:20.000 Oh, you know, let's jail your political opponents for a thousand years. 0.82

01:02:23.000 You know, Trump's young. He's vibrant.

01:02:25.000 But, you know, a thousand years is a long time.

01:02:27.000 That's some millennium. So where are they going to go?

01:02:29.000 So let's just say something happens to Joe Biden before that.

01:02:32.000 Well, then Kamala Harris becomes the de facto nominee.

01:02:36.000 By the way, I welcome that.

01:02:38.000 They have to figure out a game to exclude her.

01:02:42.000 Make her a Supreme Court justice or something like that to be able to... 0.98

01:02:45.000 But Don, she's a black woman. 1.00

01:02:49.000 Oh no. You can't just... 0.87

01:02:51.000 No, that's a lifetime appointment.

01:02:54.000 That's better than the other one.

01:02:56.000 They'll come up with some way to spin it.

01:02:57.000 We gotta get this brought out of here.

01:02:59.000 Relax. Like right now, right?

01:03:02.000 This doesn't work. I don't think it doesn't work.

01:03:04.000 I don't think they can do it. The election is in 10 months.

01:03:08.000 You're out of time.

01:03:09.000 I think at this point, they're going to roll with Joe Biden.

01:03:12.000 If that's the case, we're going to have not just a good day, we're going to have an outstanding day in November.

01:03:17.000 Yeah, and Joe's not going anywhere while the Hunter Biden stuff is outstanding.

01:03:20.000 He's going to be there to make sure they give whatever pardon they can give him.

01:03:24.000 Yeah. All right.

01:03:26.000 Well, buddy, I know that you have votes.

01:03:28.000 I appreciate your time as always.

01:03:30.000 More importantly, I appreciate your fight.

01:03:32.000 Of course. You know, it's awesome.

01:03:34.000 And, you know, again, look forward to hanging out again very soon because that was way too much fun.

01:03:40.000 We just got to go fishing or something like that.

01:03:42.000 Or hunting. Other than the Chinese probably spying on us with balloons and stuff like that, no one will be listening, so we'll have some fun. 1.00

01:03:49.000 We'll suit them down, dude. Perfect.

01:03:51.000 You be good, buddy. Thanks.

01:03:53.000 Thank you, brother. Take care, man. Appreciate it.

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The Hunt for Prosperity: Texas Congressman Wesley Hunt on How we Win in 2024 | TRIGGERED Ep.104

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