What s driving the gold price right now? Why is the price of gold hitting new all-time highs and why is it being driven by demand from central banks and other central banks? What are the reasons why gold is hitting new records and what s causing it? And what s the impact on the physical gold market? All that and much more on today's show!
00:05:25.000Happy President's Day, especially with your guy's favorite president in charge again.
00:05:30.000We had yet another weekend of non-stop breaking news, and my father isn't slowing down one bit, including on the racetrack.
00:05:41.000Also, J.D. Vance went to Germany and delivered a reality check that had the globalists.
00:05:48.000The people who hate us, the people who've given up all of their freedoms and rights other than those in charge, perhaps.
00:05:54.000He had them in tears, quite literally.
00:05:57.000And later, Daily Wire host Michael Knowles will be here, and he recently went into the left-wing's lion den and absolutely obliterated the entire Democrat Party platform.
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00:07:39.000Total gold demand set a quarterly record of almost 5,000 tons of gold by the end of 2024. Central banks bought more than 1,000 tons for the third consecutive year.
00:07:51.000We've just seen the three biggest years in human history of gold buying by central banks.
00:07:58.000Overall, I think the most Powerful dynamic driving gold's price is currency, right?
00:08:04.000And I think we have to remember that over the last number of years, the Fed has printed more dollars than the rest of American history all combined together.
00:08:13.000On top of that, as we've discussed before, Biden's 2022 weaponization of the dollar against Russia directly resulted in a five-fold growth.
00:08:25.000So we're seeing demand from central banks.
00:08:27.000We're seeing investment demand and technology demand all growing for precious metals throughout 2024. So there's been a lot of talk recently about disruptions in the physical gold market.
00:14:19.000That sounded a little jumbled, but it was an awesome day.
00:14:22.000I remember when I got to do that, man, a couple years ago when my father was president the first time around and just buzzing Daytona Motor Speedway in Air Force One and then seeing the entire crowd just go nuts.
00:14:40.000And while the Trump White House continues to rack up win after win by deporting illegals, rooting out waste and stopping fraud, the media is getting dizzy while they spin in circles.
00:14:54.000Here's CBS anchor Margaret Brennan yet again showing just how dumb the mainstream media really is interviewing Secretary of State Marco Rubio, suggesting that free speech is what caused the rise of Hitler and the Holocaust. suggesting that free speech is what caused the rise of You cannot make this insanity and this level of stupidity up, folks.
00:15:18.000Standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.
00:15:24.000And he met with the head of a political party that has far right views and some historic ties to extreme groups.
00:15:34.000The context of that was Changing the tone of it.
00:15:40.000And you know that, that the censorship was specifically about the right.
00:15:47.000Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide.
00:15:50.000The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened to also be genocidal because they hated Jews and they hated minorities and they hated those.
00:15:57.000They had a list of people they hated, but primarily the Jews.
00:16:00.000There was no free speech in Nazi Germany.
00:16:03.000There was also no opposition in Nazi Germany.
00:16:05.000They were a sole and only party that governed that country.
00:16:08.000So that's not an accurate reflection of history.
00:16:11.000It never seems to be an accurate reflection of history.
00:16:14.000They just say things hoping that no one will actually call them out.
00:16:17.000But again, in this Trump administration, those days are over.
00:16:21.000We will speak truth to liars in the media because that is speaking truth to power.
00:16:26.000Unfortunately, they still have a lot of power.
00:16:29.000But as you can see, their bias knows no bounds.
00:16:33.000Now, those remarks came in response to Vice President Vance J.D.'s speech.
00:16:37.000In Germany last week, where he excoriated the Europeans for putting censorship, open borders, endless war, and woke madness over the simple safety and security of their very own citizens.
00:16:57.000Even when people express views outside your own country, and even when those people are very influential.
00:17:04.000And trust me, I say this with all humor, if American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg's scolding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk.
00:17:19.000What no democracy, American, German, or European will survive is telling millions of voters that their thoughts and concerns, their aspirations, their pleas for relief are invalid or unworthy of even being considered.
00:17:35.000Well, Vance's speech even had one European diplomat in tears, literally in tears.
00:17:50.000One did this better than President Zelensky.
00:17:54.000Let me conclude and this becomes difficult.
00:18:22.000And yesterday, Germany and the media proved Vance right as German officials went on the record to 60 Minutes, saying that posting an insult online is a crime.
00:19:18.000There's no chance they can survive with these asinine policies on there.
00:19:22.000Don't forget, the guy that was crying on that stage, the guy that was boohooing, that was the guy that laughed when my father called out Russia and their energy prices in Europe, that they wouldn't be dependent on them, yada, yada, yada.
00:19:37.000And as always, like with any good conspiracy or with any leftist politician, anything they say, they were wrong.
00:20:07.000They are an invaded nation run by absolute lunatics.
00:20:13.000So whether it's Germany or so many of the other countries there, hopefully they do something about it before it's too late, if it's not already too late.
00:20:21.000Speaking of invasions, on the border, we are already seeing historic success as the era of catch and release is over, folks.
00:20:32.000One shelter in San Diego even says they've not had one migrant walk through its doors since my father took office.
00:20:41.000And the facilities that are filling up are the ones filled up with those who are being removed, repatriated, and deported.
00:20:51.000Here's border czar Tom Homan laying it out right now.
00:20:57.000Has closed an office that was opened up to receive illegals.
00:21:16.000That is what the Trump administration is doing.
00:21:18.000That's what the promise that President Trump made to the American people.
00:21:21.000We're concentrating on the export program.
00:21:23.000We're not going to be—catch and release is over.
00:21:25.000So those facilities that were at great taxpayer expense, to welcome people flying to the city of their choice, give them a free hotel room at taxpayer expense, three meals a day, free medical attention, those days are over.
00:21:36.000We're going to detain, we end catch and release, and we're going to hold people to remove, not to release.
00:21:43.000My father is making it clear that America isn't going to be taken advantage of any longer, and that reciprocal tariffs are coming if other countries choose to put tariffs on us.
00:21:55.000But of course, if you make your products here in the United States, if you employ great, blue-collar, hard-working Americans, then you don't have to worry about the Trump tariffs.
00:22:12.000Maybe you should start manufacturing in America again.
00:22:15.000And foreign companies seem to be getting the message loud and clear.
00:22:20.000Just look at this piece from Fox Business, where even a quartz and marble company from China just announced a $250 million investment into America, writing, and I quote, with President Trump in power, we're more excited than ever to commit to the United States, adding...
00:23:50.000We're going to get into all of that in just a few seconds with Michael.
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00:26:02.000Given that those people allowed those things to happen, given that there wasn't whistleblowers for all of this insanity, I'm not sure that they're hireable outside of government.
00:26:11.000I don't know that they're qualified to do anything other than be a bureaucrat.
00:26:16.000I feel badly for them, but I sort of feel like they've also done this to themselves.
00:26:21.000Maybe that can be part of the trade with the tariffs.
00:26:23.000You know, as we reshore American manufacturing, maybe we can just ship all of those bureaucrats overseas to Mexico, Canada, China.
00:27:07.000I mean, they just keep lying and lying and lying.
00:27:09.000But I think the good news is it exposes people and, you know, hopefully that shifts the momentum.
00:27:15.000Well, Don, I think you know exactly what that's like.
00:27:18.000Somebody tells me you've been surrounded by a lot of people who want to rip you to shreds in recent years, as have most conservative Americans, actually, because the mainstream culture is extremely liberal.
00:27:29.000And over the last five to 15 years, it has pushed really, really radical stuff.
00:27:34.000The open borders, the trans craziness, you name it.
00:27:38.000So most people are familiar with being surrounded by people who want to rip you apart.
00:27:45.000Distills that into its most concentrated form so that you're sitting there in the center surrounded by a couple dozen people who disagree with you on everything.
00:27:54.000And some people seem surprised that when I went on this show, chatted with these guys for like two hours or something, that I was calm.
00:28:03.000But I think that most conservatives can behave that way because...
00:28:12.000Reality does not actually change despite the fantasies of the radical left.
00:28:16.000So, yeah, why wouldn't we become, you know?
00:28:19.000And I think actually in this particular political moment, that's all the clearer.
00:28:24.000When you've got the establishment media, the radical left activists in the government.
00:28:30.000Shrieking and hollering because of, as we were just discussing, Elon and Doge or because J.D. Vance is scolding Europeans at the Munich Security Conference or because your father is deporting criminal aliens with face tattoos.
00:28:42.000When the left is screeching and screaming and crying about it.
00:28:47.000We don't really need to have an emotional reaction because we are confident that what we are doing is right.
00:28:52.000We know that the American people are behind us.
00:28:55.000A landslide election with the popular vote will show you that.
00:28:58.000And now we happen to have some political power so we can restore some sanity to things.
00:29:03.000I mean, I think it's a mark of a debate.
00:29:05.000Just generally, that the side that is screaming and pulling its hair out and turning red in the face versus the side that is calm and collected and just stating facts, anybody, any reasonable person who's watching that debate is going to be on the side of the sane, normal person.
00:29:21.000And I think maybe you see that play out on YouTube, but I think we've seen that play out nationally in the last six months.
00:29:27.000Yeah, because it's sort of amazing, right?
00:29:28.000I mean, the left doesn't really have an equivalent where...
00:29:32.000You know, someone who's actually versed in these things sort of gets owned, you know, by one of these activist types, right?
00:29:45.000You know, I feel like the left equivalent, they find like someone who knows nothing about it.
00:29:48.000They try to find, you know, probably someone who means well, but just isn't all that educated on it, even if they are disagreeing with it.
00:29:54.000And like, that's when they're like, oh, I got you because they found, you know, the lowest IQ individual on the right to actually debate.
00:30:01.000And then it's You know, they don't have an equivalent.
00:30:04.000They try to own people who just, you know, wouldn't be able to do that, wouldn't be great at it.
00:30:09.000And you don't even see that anymore because it feels like literally toddlers could go up against their narrative right now and demolish it.
00:30:17.000I think it is pretty telling that especially with the Jubilee Surrounded show, generally speaking, it's one conservative versus a couple dozen radical leftists.
00:30:27.000And it's usually not the other way around because if it were the other way around, the 25 conservatives would be respectful and would probably present pretty good arguments and they would be genial about it.
00:30:39.000And that doesn't make great TV. So I think actually it's the difference between the left and the right that is kind of built in there.
00:30:47.000In terms of practical politics, one of the first rules is that when your opponent is making a mistake, you should not interrupt.
00:30:55.000And that's generally what happens on here.
00:30:57.000When the radical leftists are spewing total nonsense, you can kind of guide them into their inconsistencies, but really you can just let them speak.
00:31:06.000They're going to hang their own arguments with their own rhetorical rope.
00:31:09.000And at the national level, I think that's exactly what's happened in the last five years.
00:31:13.000Really, you could say that's what's happened for the last 50 years.
00:31:16.000The left has become so extreme, but especially you think that the last five years, record numbers of illegal aliens crossing the border under Biden, Biden basically welcoming them for that.
00:31:26.000Obviously, the trans craziness, the social policy, even the foreign policy has just spun so out of control.
00:31:32.000The left has just made so many mistakes.
00:31:35.000They've so exposed themselves that the American people broadly turned on them in November, and it's going to take a lot for the left to unwind that.
00:31:45.000Now, it seems to me, they still haven't really learned any lessons.
00:31:49.000The one kind of moderate Democrat in the Senate isn't a force anymore, Joe Manchin.
00:32:20.000You know, Margaret Brennan had a couple great ones.
00:32:22.000You know, one, I guess it was with J.D. when it was like, well, they only took over, you know, radical Venezuelan gangs only took over a couple of buildings in Colorado, J.D., and then it was with Marco this weekend.
00:32:33.000I mean, listen, you know, free speech led to the rise of Nazi Germany.
00:32:38.000I mean, where are they getting these history books?
00:32:55.000But it's actually shocking that they could be that ignorant, given where the world is right now and what's going on over the last four years.
00:33:02.000Well, this is what makes me think they're going to keep making these mistakes through the midterms, through the next presidential election.
00:33:09.000Even, you mentioned Margaret Brennan on CBS, and she in particular keeps making these mistakes, trying to defend USAID spending that didn't work out very well.
00:33:19.000But Michael, who wouldn't want to send $7 million for, you know...
00:33:50.000They keep doing it, and you alluded to it just now, but Margaret Brennan suggesting, her words not mine, that the Holocaust...
00:34:00.000was caused by an abundance of free speech.
00:34:04.000And you think, you know, look, I'm not the greatest scholar of the Second World War, but it seems to me in 1933 in particular, you had at least three or four major provisions out of Nazi Germany that severely limited free speech and civil liberties.
00:34:17.000Miss Brennan, can you have any example to the contrary?
00:34:23.000You know, Ronald Reagan famously said, the problem with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.
00:34:31.000I mean, I think this is the most tedious aspect for people left, right, and center in America, that for the American left, including the mainstream...
00:34:51.000Believe it or not, other things happened in history beyond the Second World War.
00:34:55.000And of course, the irony is the people who constantly compare every event to the Second World War.
00:35:00.000Don't even know that much about the Second World War.
00:35:03.000They're just exposing a lack of knowledge and political sophistication that is stunning, which is really delightful if you're on the right side of things.
00:35:12.000Yeah, you don't have to be a World War II scholar to know that, of course, Hitler started banning guns.
00:35:23.000That was the beginning of the rise of Nazi Germany.
00:35:26.000It's literally the opposite of what she said.
00:35:28.000Anyone who's taken You know, sixth or seventh grade, like, world history would know that, and yet they conveniently either forget or don't know or don't care, all equally bad.
00:35:41.000And there is a reason that the left has sought to censor people.
00:35:46.000You saw this when JD was lecturing Europe.
00:35:49.000Europe has been even more egregious about this, effectively banning right-wing political parties, prohibiting people from praying 50 meters away from abortion clinics.
00:36:17.000This is where debates like the show that I just went on that's going viral, this is where I think you see why they're censoring it.
00:36:24.000Because if a debate is able to happen in public for everyone to see a fair fight where both sides can be heard, be that on a YouTube interview show or be that in a presidential election, if it's a fair fight, Then the right side is going to win right now, because the left has lost the common sense.
00:36:44.000And so, thankfully, we were able to get a little foothold into social media, which so tried to destroy your father in 2016 and 2020. Once you get just a little bit of that exposure, you are not only going to win over the choir and your core base, you are going to win over, as we saw, the majority of Americans.
00:37:02.000Yeah, I mean, it's why the left, they were such Elon fanboys until he helped level that playing field.
00:37:07.000You know, when they had the entire weight and force of social media, I mean, and they still do, you know, across the broad spectrum of, you know, apps or whatever you want to look at it at, when you have the entire weight and force of mainstream media, and then you have a government backing it up and or subverting truth, whatever it may be, through USAID funding all sorts of other levels of journalism, like...
00:37:31.000I was always shocked, frankly, that elections are as close as they are.
00:37:35.000I feel like if I was running the other side with the resources that they had, with the operatives that they had that are all home team, all functioning as the marketing department of the radical left, elections would be like 99.9 to 0.1.
00:37:56.000Once you had a little exposure to that, they freaked out because they realized that they're We're losing badly, and it's the first time they've lost the cultural wars, even with the handicaps that they were giving themselves for all these years, perhaps certainly in my lifetime.
00:38:27.000Twitter is by far, or at least was before Elon really made it much better, but it was the smallest one by far compared to Facebook and Google.
00:38:35.000Just getting that tiny foothold into the social media was enough to shift the entire dynamic of the election.
00:38:44.000Just cleaning up One agency of the federal government, USAID. The left loves to say now it's less than one percent of the federal budget, which first of all is a lot of money when you're considering the United States federal budget.
00:38:55.000But in any case, sure, okay, it's just one agency of the federal government.
00:39:34.000The moment you start shedding a little bit of light on this, I think the people, even those of us who were aware that there was serious corruption, are just astounded by the sheer enormity of it.
00:39:46.000Yeah, I guess, you know, all these left-wing narratives really collapse on themselves.
00:39:52.000The conversation down to basic truths.
00:39:55.000There's a lot of sort of cognitive dissidence on the left.
00:40:00.000We're seeing it all play out in very obvious ways.
00:40:04.000What are some of the other most egregious examples that you've seen play out where you can't even believe that you're having the conversation?
00:40:12.000Well, I can believe that the left has gotten this extreme because their ideas have consequences.
00:40:19.000And so left unimpeded, they're going to go all the way from, you know, Gloria Steinem in the 70s saying a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, all the way to...
00:41:25.000You know, a border is literally the thing that delineates a nation from all of the other nations.
00:41:30.000So when you have the left with their genius experts coming out and saying, well, actually, you know, we don't really have a border.
00:41:36.000And actually, the law technically doesn't mean that you can distinguish.
00:41:38.000You know, you just think, hey, shut up, man.
00:41:40.000I'm pretty sure we can enforce basic immigration law.
00:41:44.000And if one's political ideology runs contrary to all of our common sense...
00:41:51.000The left thinks that means there's a problem with our common sense.
00:41:54.000In reality, it means there's a problem with that political ideology.
00:41:58.000And if the voters have the opportunity to vote that out, which was a little unclear because the left wanted to take your father off the ballot in this past election.
00:42:23.000I mean, you saw this just at the Munich Security Conference that J.D. caused this big ripple at.
00:42:28.000He said, you know, democracies don't have firewalls.
00:42:31.000And I think a lot of Americans are not familiar with this term.
00:42:34.000Germany, and therefore Europe, has this so-called firewall to prevent right-wing parties and even ordinary conservatism from rising in Germany, which is the leader of Europe.
00:42:44.000And J.D. pointed out, he said, All you guys here, you prattle on and on about democracy, but you're afraid of your voters.
00:43:59.000I first saw it from Walter Kern, but he pointed out that this shift from Biden to the second Trump administration feels like an actual peaceful transfer of power.
00:44:10.000You know, we always hear the left prattle on about the peaceful transfer of power, but when you go from Bush to Clinton to Bush to Obama.
00:44:19.000It kind of just feels more like people changing shifts at the regular job.
00:44:24.000This, however, seems like a legitimate transfer of power, and the left is not particularly peaceful about it, but it's a new vision for the country.
00:44:33.000And every entrenched power is upset about it, other than the people.
00:44:39.000And the people, happily, in this case, have had their say.
00:44:42.000Well, we touched on it a little bit, but obviously we're learning that the entire...
00:44:46.000Woke agenda has really been propped up by our own tax dollars.
00:44:50.000It was a lot of smoke and mirrors from the start.
00:44:52.000The left can't really exist without essentially the government subsidies that we're getting.
00:44:57.000I mean, I noticed that none of the things in USAID or any of the other things went to prop up anything that was even remotely right-leaning or conservative.
00:45:06.000It was just always the worst of the left.
00:45:09.000And then you start looking back in hindsight now that you know where this money is coming from.
00:45:13.000And you understand exactly why they took the positions that they did.
00:45:58.000But of course, so much was leading to domestic unrest and astroturfed leftism.
00:46:03.000And so it was so brilliant, as the administration is really going into high gear, to say, okay guys, if people really oppose the basic common sense policies that we're instituting, that's fine.
00:46:36.000Well, I imagine they were funding all of that, too, by the way.
00:46:40.000And I'm sure we'll find out more in the coming months.
00:46:43.000But, you know, we talked about J.D. Vance a little bit.
00:46:46.000And he literally brought a European diplomat to tears for simply saying we shouldn't have censorship or give away endless money to Ukraine.
00:46:56.000By the way, that was the same guy that when my father said, hey, Russia's going to own your lunch if you don't have yada, yada, yada.
00:47:01.000He laughed at him, you know, five or six years ago.
00:47:05.000Turns out, like all conspiracy there is, my father was right and the leftist morons were proven wrong.
00:47:12.000I mean, what is wrong with these people?
00:47:14.000I mean, imagine being brought to tears by just a disagreement of something that, I don't know, seems fairly obvious.
00:47:20.000Is it just that they see their power slipping away and they understand that they're inextricably linked to that hegemony and it's at risk?
00:47:29.000I totally understand why not just the one guy, but why so many at the Munich Security Conference would have been brought to tears.
00:47:36.000Because they, as you say, are seeing their power slip away and they are seeing a fundamental shifting.
00:48:50.000I haven't seen a lot of evidence that he was all that actively the president.
00:48:53.000But in a way, there was a kind of providence because the speed and intensity.
00:49:00.000With which the second Trump administration has been able to hit the ground running, the clarity of political vision is not just an ordinary second term.
00:49:14.000Look at all the tears that were being shed in Munich last week.
00:49:17.000A lot of other people are sensing that, too.
00:49:20.000Yeah, and I think maybe that's what we needed.
00:49:22.000I would say, hey, you know, the last four years under Biden, it's sort of like addiction, right?
00:49:25.000Maybe you have to hit rock bottom to understand.
00:49:28.000What you have to understand just how fragile it all is and how one dolt like Joe Biden and a couple radical leftists in his cabinet can literally destroy it.
00:49:39.000We also had those four years to figure out who was actually really good.
00:49:42.000So you're not just rolling over the 16 to 20 team that we just didn't know any better when we got in.
00:49:47.000Now they're getting things done to the...
00:49:49.000Guys like James Carville are like, don't worry, guys.
00:49:53.000They can't keep this up forever and we can get ahead of the narrative again.
00:49:57.000It's like by the time they get outraged and all the talking points memos go out, it's like there's three things already that have gone on since then.
00:50:05.000They don't even know what to be outraged about anymore.
00:50:07.000This is the really important point too about transparency and giving the voters in a democracy real ample notice of what you're going to do, is that when the supposedly controversial picks for the administration came up, Tulsi Gabbard, Bobby Kennedy, Kash Patel, even Elon Musk over at Doge, no one could seriously argue that this was a big surprise.
00:50:32.000Your father was campaigning with these people.
00:51:10.000The Democrats, they hide the ball on the real powers there.
00:51:13.000But when your father goes out, really not beholden to anybody, one of the advantages of running after a very successful business career, is he can say, look, look, Republican squish senators, you don't want to confirm Bobby Kennedy, you don't want to confirm Tulsi Gabbard?
00:51:27.000Well, the American people voted for them.
00:51:29.000Or he can say, hey, look, establishment media, you're trying to raise a ruckus about Elon Musk going in and cleaning up the government.
00:51:36.000I campaigned with him at dozens of rallies.
00:51:41.000So you can lie and pretend that this is some big surprise, but you're going to do so at your own peril.
00:51:46.000You and the media, the peril of your ratings collapsing, which they have for the liberal media, and you squish Republicans in the Senate, good luck running for re-election because the American people clearly voted for this, okay?
00:51:59.000And if you want to stymie that now and you want to go side with the swamp and the Democrats and the careerists in the bureaucracy, Be my guest.
00:52:07.000You're not going to be around Washington very long.
00:52:09.000Yeah, you're not going to be on the right side of history.
00:52:11.000And, you know, we had to deal with a couple of those early on in sort of the administrative process, just getting those through.
00:52:30.000There were some, you know, squishy Republican senators that weren't going that way.
00:52:33.000I think that when they made that very clear.
00:52:35.000You know, guys like you, me, a bunch of the other people, we just sort of went after him and everyone else followed suit.
00:52:41.000I think that reigned in a lot of insanity that allowed us to get Tulsi, that allowed us to get Pete Hegseth, that allowed us to get Bobby Kennedy.
00:52:48.000Again, all people that were, you know, quite vocal and...
00:52:54.000The next one, obviously, we got to get across the line is Kash Patel.
00:52:57.000I'm seeing the feed just blow up about that because I think, you know, you need someone who actually understands those things because I think if there's a department that the American people were frustrated with before it was all exposed, before all this information was out there, you know, half the people probably watching had no idea what USAID even did until about three weeks ago.
00:53:17.000But what happened at the FBI? The weaponization of, you know, the DOJ and the FBI against ordinary Americans.
00:53:24.000We talked about, you know, concerned mothers at PTA meetings.
00:53:27.000But, you know, the guy drove through a Christmas parade.
00:53:30.000You know, well, that guy was on our watch list, but we couldn't do anything because he checked a couple boxes.
00:53:40.000And what you're seeing here with what Kash Patel is going to do, I'm quite confident, what Tulsi Gabbard and Bobby Kennedy and the whole admin are doing, is in many ways not charting some...
00:53:52.000In many ways, it's just restoring what's normal.
00:53:55.000I so loved when your father the other day made the Libs' heads explode because he tweeted out a quote attributed to Napoleon, which is that the good of society is...
00:54:06.000No man violates the law when he is saving a country.
00:54:14.000Much older political wisdom coming from Cicero in On the Laws, who says that the good or the health of the people is the supreme law or should be the supreme law.
00:54:24.000It's actually used as an epigraph in John Locke's Second Treatise of Government.
00:54:28.000In other words, the Libs lose their minds, big headlines, Trump is going to make himself Napoleon, it's the end of the Constitution.
00:54:36.000They find out that actually your father is articulating the words of classical political thinkers, enlightenment political thinkers.
00:54:44.000The very men who served as the basis of our Constitution when our framers actually put it together.
00:54:53.000It even reminds me of when J.D. Vance was lecturing Margaret Brennan about the order of charity, the Ordo Amoris, and the Libs all lost their minds.
00:55:02.000They had no idea where it came from, that this was a basic concept, not only in Christianity, but in our political tradition.
00:55:08.000And it's so refreshing because you recognize how much of this Modern liberal order is totally foreign to how things used to be in this country.
00:55:18.000We used to have a pretty normal country back when we were flourishing.
00:55:22.000And so every time the liberals' heads explode because your father tweets something or more importantly does something, I think a lot of people are just waking up to the fact that, oh wait, that thing that Trump is talking about, that thing that Trump is doing, that's actually what used to be normal in America.
00:56:17.000They've weaponized themselves against one side.
00:56:20.000Why do they deserve to sit in that versus, I don't know, maybe a podcaster who is a much bigger following could objectively be proven to be far more accurate over the last few years.
00:56:30.000There's no First Amendment right to be able to just get in the Oval Office.
00:56:34.000You can report on everything the way everyone else does.
00:56:37.000You have to ask yourself, what is the point of these briefings?
00:56:40.000Be they from the briefing room or be they from the Oval Office?
00:56:43.000The point is to inform the American people of what the government is doing and to hear the questions from the American people for the government.
00:56:50.000If the media are not fulfilling that intermediary role, then there's no purpose in them being there.
00:56:57.000The last time that I was on this show with you, Don, we made a little bit of news because I suggested...
00:57:02.000Kicking some of these establishment outlets out.
00:57:04.000And you said, well, you know, not to get too out ahead of our skis here, but stay tuned because that's exactly what's going to happen.
00:57:11.000And I have to say, I had suggested kicking out the New York Times or the Washington Post.
00:57:17.000And what the White House has done is even better than that, because the New York Times and the Post have their own problems.
00:57:28.000Biggest purveyor of fake news in the establishment media today.
00:57:33.000Just through the AP Style Guide alone, just in recent years, the AP Style Guide has insisted on woke transgender pronouns, has actually called to eliminate the use of the word woke as a pejorative.
00:57:47.000The Associated Press Style Guide has called to capitalize the letter B when talking about black people, but lowercase the letter W when talking about white people.
00:57:58.000Yeah, just so everyone's clear, maybe give them a little bit of understanding, right?
00:58:01.000The AP aggregates a bunch of news from all over, then they write it as though it's their own.
00:58:05.000But they put out a guide as to how to do journalism.
00:58:10.000And the guide is like a manifesto of the most insane views of the radical left.
00:58:16.000You know, anything that's conservative has to be minimized, not even talked about it.
00:58:21.000Anything that's woke, articulated, elevated, put out there very differently.
00:58:27.000I mean, these are the supposed to be arbiters and aggregators of news that have done exactly the opposite.
00:58:33.000They've pushed an agenda in each and every story published across their board because if you don't follow the style guide, you don't get to actually report there and they won't cover it.
00:58:45.000You know, in many ways, it's much more insidious than what the New York Times does.
00:58:49.000At this point, most people know the New York Times is a left-wing paper.
00:58:52.000So you know that going in, you know what to expect.
00:58:55.000But as you point out here, Don, the AP is establishing the rules for writing journalism.
00:59:01.000And as I point out in my book, Speechless, the way that the left has most thoroughly...
00:59:08.000Controlled our political order is by controlling language through political correctness or wokeness, through the schools, through the establishment media, through style guides like that of the Associated Press.
00:59:19.000And theirs has been so insane, demanding that journalists refer to men as women.
00:59:24.000When the right finally exposed critical race theory and its insidious effects on society and education, the AP style guide said, stop using this acronym, CRT. Please, if you're going to speak about it only...
00:59:37.000I think the other one was you can't refer to illegal aliens as illegal because illegal is, you know, strictly reserved for people who broke laws.
00:59:53.000But, you know, obviously coming into the country illegally is not breaking a law in their mindset.
00:59:58.000Again, they're trying to soften the reality of what's happened on one way and then trying to make it much harsher.
01:00:03.000Anytime a conservative does anything even remotely, it's blown so far out of proportion that that's how they've manipulated so much.
01:00:21.000Second administration for your father is coming in and saying look We have a mandate here and we're gonna take that seriously even on the littlest things I loved when when your father said the penny costs two pennies to produce that's crazy We're gonna get rid of the penny.
01:00:36.000We are going to save money Even when it comes to counting pennies.
01:00:42.000It reminds me of a line from the first season of The Crown, which is the head butler in the royal household says that it's in the little things that the rot begins.
01:00:51.000If you really want to refresh an institution, you need to pay attention to the really tiny little things, that little federal agency that no one's paying attention to, the little pennies, and especially the words that we are using.
01:01:50.000He's not this, despite numerous incidents, you know, falling upstairs, falling downstairs, can't remember anyone's name, walking off the stage, shaking hands with invisible people.
01:01:57.000I mean, now my father's everywhere and the media can't keep up.
01:02:03.000I think part of this is, like, they just don't like people working too much.
01:02:07.000I mean, that's why they're against coming back into the workforce.
01:02:09.000They don't want to have to work long hours because he does for the American people.
01:02:14.000Do you think that's part of the outrage?
01:02:43.000They really are profoundly lazy, and they've been able to coast because they've had institutional power, and now that power is being taken away from them.
01:02:54.000You know, the fact that the left wants to call your father a Nazi, or even in those viral exchanges you were showing earlier when I was on the Surrounded podcast, you know, some girl comes up to me and says, I'm going to call you a fascist.
01:03:11.000I used to say this about racism, so they moved racism to Nazium.
01:03:15.000It's like sort of the easy button of the left, right?
01:03:18.000It's like, if I can't win an argument, I'm just going to call that out, even if you're talking about basic things.
01:03:24.000And the problem is, I'm not saying there's not racism left in the world.
01:03:28.000It's just not like the cause of and solution for all of life's problems.
01:03:31.000I mean, it's a minor thing, but it is something that happens.
01:03:37.000When you use it as the excuse to win any argument that you can't otherwise win, the only people you actually do a real disservice to are those that are actually afflicted by it.
01:03:46.000Because now someone here is racist or Nazi and they just kind of roll their eyes and move on.
01:03:50.000It doesn't have any effect because everything has been racist.
01:03:58.000And you actually hurt those, you know, and I don't think it's a lot of people, but it's probably a lot of people throughout the world who are actually affected by these things.
01:04:04.000And by the way, good luck calling your father, or MAGA broadly, racist.
01:04:11.000And historic proportion of the Black vote, of the Hispanic vote for a Republican.