Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - The Legend of Zeldin and the Common Sense Agenda, Interviews with Lee Zeldin & Sean Davis | Triggered Ep241

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00:11:27.000 Guys, joining me now, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.

00:11:32.000 Now, Lee, you know, I didn't see this because the EPA is one of these interesting places, right?

00:11:38.000 You just, you guys are crushing it.

00:11:41.000 You're getting rid of so much of the nonsense just exposing it.

00:11:44.000 I mean, every day I look at Twitter, Zeldin's doing this.

00:11:46.000 You're going to live up to your nickname amongst some of our little group chats over the years, the legend of Zeldin.

00:11:53.000 I think you're going to go down as a huge part of this administration, as a huge part of getting rid of some of this nonsense.

00:12:01.000 You made a lot of Americans happy this week, Lee, with your announcement on start-stop technology, literally the dumbest feature in the history of automobiles.

00:12:12.000 I don't know anyone that likes it.

00:12:14.000 The previous EPA approved it, but everyone hates it.

00:12:18.000 What are you guys doing about it? 0.94

00:12:20.000 It might be the single dumbest feature in the history of putting features in our motor vehicles. 0.94

00:12:27.000 And the hatred out there from across this country comes in hot. 0.94

00:12:32.000 It's certainly quite frustrating when you experience it yourself.

00:12:36.000 You're sitting at an intersection and it stops, but imagine you have one of these vehicles where as soon as your vehicle turns on, you have to turn it off.

00:12:43.000 Every single time, you start scratching your head and that's government working for you.

00:12:48.000 And you start asking, well, what's the impact on my battery, on my starter, on the quality of other parts?

00:12:55.000 How much gas is this really saving?

00:12:58.000 Yeah, but how much gas is it really saving?

00:13:01.000 Because, you know, this feature drives me nuts.

00:13:03.000 Like, I literally, like, look to cars that don't have it because...

00:13:06.000 You know, there's nothing worse than being at a red light and you move your foot a little bit off the brake.

00:13:10.000 The car doesn't even move and it starts back up.

00:13:12.000 And you're right.

00:13:13.000 Like I'm saying, you know, my starter is going to get destroyed.

00:13:15.000 Can't be awesome for the battery, although your alternator, I guess, will charge the battery.

00:13:19.000 But when I think of the savings in fuel, I can't imagine it outweighs having to replace your starter every two years.

00:13:26.000 Yeah, no, 100 percent, I agree.

00:13:28.000 And then on top of it, if anyone was looking for a tiebreaker, well, the American public doesn't want it.

00:13:34.000 I mean, most Americans are demanding that this get out of their vehicles.

00:13:41.000 And shouldn't that matter?

00:13:42.000 Like, we live in this republic, we have elections, people demand representation, and too often these people go to Washington, and whether you're serving in Congress or you're some bureaucrat at an agency, and you start acting like you know best, well, the American public doesn't like it.

00:13:59.000 Shouldn't that be worth something?

00:14:01.000 I mean, it should.

00:14:02.000 Are there real numbers on how much it actually saves?

00:14:05.000 Because I can't imagine it being much.

00:14:08.000 It's minimal.

00:14:09.000 And you might see a figure for one type of driving, say, inside of a city.

00:14:17.000 And then there are other people who are wondering, well, okay, what do the numbers mean when it relates to the way that I drive it?

00:14:24.000 Because, you know, I might be driving...

00:14:28.000 I live in a rural community, so your minimal savings would be even less where they live.

00:14:35.000 The fact is, whatever type of stats have come out, the numbers are minimal, and they're often not looking at the other impacts.

00:14:45.000 The Biden EPA didn't even want Americans to be able to buy gas cars.

00:14:49.000 So it actually goes all the way back to Obama and this idea that greenhouse gases and fossil fuels were some sort of threat to our national security.

00:14:58.000 It's really bizarre to me.

00:15:00.000 What are you doing to right some of those wrongs over at the EPA?

00:15:03.000 Because that seems to be the place that they used.

00:15:06.000 To really block anything that was common sense about not just our own energy and fossil fuels, but I look at that stuff as national security, and they did everything they could to diminish that.

00:15:18.000 President Trump campaigned against having EV mandates.

00:15:22.000 We see a standard that's come out of the state of California that other states have adopted to go to all electric vehicles.

00:15:30.000 The president didn't just campaign on it.

00:15:32.000 He's followed through on it once he was sworn in.

00:15:35.000 One of the first actions that I took was that I sent The California waivers from the Biden EPA to Congress.

00:15:42.000 The House passed three bills through the Congressional Review Act to overturn those waivers.

00:15:48.000 They're now in the Senate.

00:15:49.000 If the Senate passes it, then it goes to the president for a signature.

00:15:53.000 And those waivers to California where they have, for example, that EV mandate, it's all going to be eliminated.

00:16:01.000 There's also other rules that we are reconsidering right now as it relates to vehicles.

00:16:06.000 You mentioned one action that was announced yesterday as it relates to one feature, which is actually a decision from the Obama administration.

00:16:14.000 This off cycle credit for the start stop, which ended up resulting in car manufacturers putting it in many of our cars.

00:16:23.000 Most actually now that the status over half.

00:16:27.000 So there's actions that we're able to take through regulation.

00:16:30.000 The president has been setting the pace.

00:16:37.000 Since he came in fulfilling his campaign promises, there's a lot to do.

00:16:41.000 And fortunately, a lot of progress has already been made in the first 100 days.

00:16:44.000 So, you know, California is a great example, obviously.

00:16:46.000 You know, I imagine they're going to fight all of this tooth and nail.

00:16:50.000 They're going to totally disregard the federal laws.

00:16:53.000 It seems to be pretty consistent.

00:16:54.000 You know, they're running their own, you know, I guess, dystopian society over there.

00:16:59.000 What do you foresee happening there and how do you combat that?

00:17:03.000 If Congress ends up passing these Congressional Review Acts, again, the House already passed the three California waivers.

00:17:11.000 If the Senate passes it, not only do those waivers go away, but when the pendulum, if the pendulum swings at some point far into the future, you can't bring those waivers back.

00:17:23.000 When Congress passes something with the Congressional Review Act, you can't do something that is substantially similar in the future.

00:17:32.000 And the other thing to point out is that in the Senate, this doesn't require 60 votes.

00:17:35.000 With the Congressional Review Act, it only requires 51 votes.

00:17:40.000 Now, lastly, I'd point out that this is a really short timeline.

00:17:43.000 With the Congressional Review Act, the Senate needs to act over the course of these next few weeks where the deadline passes for them.

00:17:51.000 So hopefully we get Senate action here this month.

00:17:53.000 Do you see any holdouts on the Republican side trying to slow roll that or prevent it from going through?

00:17:58.000 I'm not aware of any on the House side.

00:18:02.000 It was actually a bipartisan vote where there was 10 Democrats who voted for one.

00:18:08.000 There was 12 or 13 Democrats that voted for another bill.

00:18:11.000 And then there were over 30 Democrats that voted for the third bill.

00:18:15.000 So this isn't even something that was along party lines in the House.

00:18:19.000 This was bipartisan support.

00:18:21.000 So hopefully some Democrats vote for the CRA over in the Senate.

00:18:25.000 I'm not aware of any.

00:18:27.000 Can you talk about sort of the overall, you know, insanity of, you know, all this being symbolic of the larger agenda that we'd seen over the years at the EPA?

00:18:37.000 I mean, when you got into this role, what exactly did you find?

00:18:41.000 And perhaps, I guess, what shocked you the most?

00:18:45.000 So I gotta tell you, the thing that shocked me the most is how much we're able to do at once.

00:18:50.000 I mean, we're not pacing ourselves.

00:18:52.000 There was a lot to fix.

00:18:53.000 We inherited a big mess and we're fixing it.

00:18:55.000 And we want to fix everything.

00:18:56.000 This year, on March 12th, we made an announcement of all different kinds of regulations that are being reconsidered.

00:19:04.000 This would amount to the largest deregulatory action in the history of the country.

00:19:09.000 One agency, one year.

00:19:11.000 Doing more deregulation than entire federal governments have done across all agencies, across entire presidencies.

00:19:17.000 That's how much of a mess it was that we inherited.

00:19:20.000 We announced that action on March 12th.

00:19:22.000 Now, I'll tell you what's shocking from a different standpoint when I came in was just how little we had people actually showing up in the office.

00:19:32.000 The president ended COVID-era remote work.

00:19:35.000 One of the questions I asked was how many people are coming into the office here in D.C.?

00:19:40.000 We have five buildings across two square city blocks.

00:19:43.000 I already announced we're pulling out of one of the buildings.

00:19:45.000 We're looking to do real estate consolidations to save taxpayer money.

00:19:49.000 Well, last year, the average attendance on Mondays and Fridays was 5% to 8%.

00:19:55.000 5% to 8% showing up in the office.

00:19:57.000 The single highest record attendance.

00:20:00.000 Last year, there was one day...

00:20:03.000 Where there was 37% of the employees showing up in the office.

00:20:07.000 Well, COVID-19 remote work is done.

00:20:09.000 We need to be in the office being productive and collaborative.

00:20:12.000 And we want to make the American public proud.

00:20:14.000 And the decisions that we're making, listen, it might not be for today's taping with you, but maybe a future taping.

00:20:22.000 I see you ripping off your shirt like Hulk Hogan ripped off his at the convention.

00:20:27.000 And it says, I love EPA or I love Trump EPA.

00:20:30.000 Let's see what we can get, you know, at a...

00:20:32.000 Don Jr. eventually, but we have to earn it.

00:20:35.000 Well, it feels like the EPA sort of lost its ground.

00:20:38.000 I mean, I totally, listen, I'm an outdoorsman.

00:20:40.000 I love being in the woods.

00:20:42.000 That's sort of my happy place.

00:20:44.000 I'm all for the environment, but it seemed like the agenda of the EPA wasn't actually preserving the environment.

00:20:50.000 It was destroying everything else around it.

00:20:53.000 You mentioned the biggest deregulation.

00:20:56.000 Action in history.

00:20:58.000 Can you talk about some of the things that you guys got rid of that would just be sort of striking to the American people, the things that would surprise people most about just how insane some of those things got and just how detrimental they would be to business, to the economy, to people's actual use of the environment and being in the environment?

00:21:20.000 Because I imagine there's some things in there that are pretty shocking and probably not at all on mission.

00:21:29.000 It's trillions of dollars of regulation.

00:21:32.000 We're going to be reducing the cost of living.

00:21:35.000 We're going to make it easier to be able to purchase a car, make it easier to heat your home.

00:21:39.000 We choose protecting the environment.

00:21:42.000 And growing the economy.

00:21:44.000 We don't have to choose between the two anymore.

00:21:46.000 What was most outrageous to many Americans out there, seeing tens of billions of dollars of their money get wasted with little accountability, with self-dealing and conflicts of interest, with unqualified recipients.

00:22:00.000 So we instantly got a handle over that.

00:22:02.000 I've canceled $22 billion worth of grants.

00:22:05.000 Our annual budget is only about $10 billion.

00:22:08.000 And I've already canceled $22 billion.

00:22:11.000 That's how much money was going out through EPA.

00:22:13.000 On the regulatory front, entire industries were getting targeted.

00:22:17.000 About a month ago, the president at the White House signed a coal executive order and other executive orders where he is reversing attacks on entire industries.

00:22:28.000 And there are states, many states in the country, that were begging for this kind of leadership out of Washington and the president's addressing it.

00:22:37.000 Now, when you start looking at the individual regulations, there are particular terms, there are acronyms that they get referenced as.

00:22:46.000 So, listen, some people might not be familiar with it, but it's called Clean Power Plan 2.0 or MATS, Mercury and Air Toxic Standards, or PM 2.5.

00:22:55.000 Actually, one example, which I know that you're aware of, on Caitlin Collins' show a few weeks ago, the chief climate...

00:23:03.000 A correspondent goes on air and he was criticizing our March 12th announcement and he says that we were putting out press releases so quickly we didn't even proofread it.

00:23:11.000 And he puts up as an example our change to Quad OBC with regards to oil and methane regulations.

00:23:17.000 And he says, look at this press release.

00:23:20.000 It says 0000B slash C. This is their chief climate correspondent.

00:23:27.000 No, actually, this is a regulation, and it's called QuadOBC, and this is why it's important.

00:23:34.000 So there's a lot of acronyms out there.

00:23:35.000 We encourage people to go.

00:23:37.000 They can go to our website.

00:23:39.000 They can read each of these press releases.

00:23:41.000 They all amount to what were trillions of dollars of regulations, all done.

00:23:48.000 You know, 2023, 2024, towards the end of the Biden administration, not all of them, some are from the Obama administration, but almost all these actions are from that last year or two before President Biden left office.

00:24:02.000 Yeah, I mean, I remember that one with the quad zero.

00:24:06.000 I mean, this is their expert.

00:24:09.000 This is CNN's, like, the guy that's supposed to know so he can speak, you know, truth to power or whatever the hell they're doing.

00:24:17.000 He didn't even understand.

00:24:18.000 Like, when I read it, I was like, oh, that seems like a basic thing.

00:24:22.000 Like, this wasn't like, you know, he just didn't understand the nuance of something incredibly, you know, complex and whatever it was.

00:24:29.000 Like, he didn't understand the basics.

00:24:31.000 So it feels like these guys like to screech about stuff that they don't even understand.

00:24:34.000 It's sort of like what I've, you know, certainly bitched even to you about in private.

00:24:39.000 Like, people making decisions, whether it's in Congress or in government, who...

00:24:43.000 Don't have a basic understanding of what's even going on, but, you know, hey, it's a convenient soundbite against Trump, so we'll get out there and say that they didn't proofread their press release.

00:24:51.000 Yeah, and then, you know, as soon as he says it, Caitlin Collins says, whoops, you know, like trying to, as if we're the target of the joke.

00:24:59.000 Well, the whoops is your own chief climate correspondent who is supposed to be that expert.

00:25:04.000 For the audience watching, they might say, oh man, you just owned the EPA administrator.

00:25:10.000 You know, like, oh, they didn't fix that proofreading mistake.

00:25:14.000 So you end up dumbing down your own audience.

00:25:16.000 So it's important that these people who are the experts on TV, that they know what they're talking about, because folks are tuning in, actually looking to get caught up on what's going on.

00:25:26.000 They're not tuning in to get dumbed down, but that's what happened that day.

00:25:29.000 Yeah, well, you know, the problem is, like, and we talked about it on this show and others, that's why I tell people, hey, get this message out there, you know, like, share, subscribe, push it out, because the reality is the average person watching CNN that day actually thought they notched a win.

00:25:43.000 They'll probably never know that the CNN climatologist or environmental expert, whatever the hell he is, had no idea what he was talking about.

00:25:52.000 And that's the problem with all of these things.

00:25:54.000 They take these wins.

00:25:56.000 If they ever even bother to correct it, even once they know they're wrong, it's on page 37 of a webpage that no one will ever read.

00:26:03.000 You know, there's never been any accountability.

00:26:05.000 How do we get that out there so that people understand that the people complaining about this may not actually know what they're talking about, may not know the downstream consequences of some of the insanity that's out there, what it does to people, their families, their energy bills, whatever it may be.

00:26:23.000 How do we get that out there so people fully understand it?

00:26:27.000 Well, honestly, they should be following the playbook of how President Trump Punches back.

00:26:34.000 And you do.

00:26:35.000 It's important that when you see something that needs to be exposed, that you don't allow it to be out.

00:26:42.000 Something that is untrue, if you just let it sit out there and there's no pushback, well then people may think it's true.

00:26:50.000 And in the case of what we just referenced with the CNN chief climate correspondent, we pushed back.

00:26:55.000 And that actually got more traction on social media.

00:26:59.000 Then the original comment, and hopefully it ends up resulting in these people going back on air, which ended up happening, it was like the next day, this chief climate correspondent goes back on Caitlin Collins' show or someone else's show on CNN and walked back his statement from the day prior.

00:27:16.000 That wouldn't have happened if we didn't push back.

00:27:19.000 Over the course of the last week or two, we had a media availability here in D.C. Where I was pushing back on the claims from the media that there's no evidence of anything that is wrong with the $20 billion that went out through the Biden EPA, which a Biden EPA political official towards the end of last year referred to as tossing gold bars off the Titanic.

00:27:44.000 And New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, they've been saying that there's no evidence of any wrongdoing.

00:27:51.000 So some New York Times reporter ends up volunteering herself. 0.57

00:27:55.000 And she says it's not true that the New York Times has been saying that there's no evidence.

00:28:01.000 I instantly start reading back her words from her story.

00:28:06.000 I saw that one.

00:28:07.000 You just, you gotta push back, because if you don't, then it's just gonna stay out there, and folks are just gonna assume it's true.

00:28:14.000 So you mentioned sort of earlier, you know, some of the, you know, whether it's the self-dealing, you know, let's call it sort of kickbacks.

00:28:21.000 We've read about that all over the place.

00:28:23.000 I've talked about it here a lot.

00:28:24.000 USAID has sparked a lot of outrage.

00:28:27.000 I imagine at the EPA, some of these things were just as bad, if not worse, in terms of dedicating a lot of money to a cause, most of which gets kicked back to some NGO, which probably ends up back in the bank account of the Democrats.

00:28:42.000 In the end, what have you found there?

00:28:44.000 $20 billion went through just eight NGOs as pass-throughs.

00:28:49.000 And as that money goes through those pass-through entities, we start losing all sorts of levels of oversight and control that we would want and should want.

00:29:00.000 The American taxpayers would want EPA to have.

00:29:04.000 So there are basic questions you could ask me of what happens to all of this money that I don't know the answers to.

00:29:11.000 Now, as far as those eight NGOs, many of them are brand new.

00:29:14.000 President Trump talks about this one NGO.

00:29:17.000 That is connected to Stacey Abrams that received $2 billion in 2024.

00:29:23.000 That NGO in 2023 only received $100.

00:29:28.000 They received $100 in 2023 and they get $2 billion.

00:29:33.000 That's a pretty good return on investment.

00:29:35.000 I need one or two of those deals in my life.

00:29:38.000 Yeah, and I've got to tell you, one other important point.

00:29:40.000 As we're here talking about oversight over taxpayer dollars, we're talking about regulations and making sure that we're not suffocating the economy.

00:29:50.000 What should not get lost is that, and you pointed it earlier, and I know that you're someone who is an environmentalist.

00:29:56.000 You are an environmentalist.

00:29:57.000 You spend a lot of your time out there hunting.

00:30:00.000 You're in the wildlife.

00:30:02.000 You want...

00:30:03.000 Clean air, land, and water for all Americans.

00:30:05.000 President Trump talks about clean air, land, and water for all Americans.

00:30:09.000 Well, as soon as President Trump came in, he gave us 30 days to clean up hazardous materials after the LA wildfires.

00:30:15.000 People thought it was impossible.

00:30:17.000 We got it done in less than 30 days.

00:30:19.000 It's the Trump administration all in tackling the raw sewage coming across the border in Tijuana from Mexico into the United States.

00:30:29.000 We have all across the map have been focusing on these environmental wins.

00:30:34.000 So the morning of the 100th day of the Trump presidency, as we're all inside of the White House for that cabinet meeting, I was able to talk about 100 environmental actions.

00:30:46.000 Big environmental actions that we took in the first 100 days for clean air, land, and water for all Americans.

00:30:52.000 The Trump administration, the Trump EPA chooses both protecting the environment and growing the economy.

00:30:58.000 We're going to be more responsible taxpayer dollars.

00:31:01.000 And we're going to make sure that we're heeding the demands of the American public.

00:31:04.000 The Trump mandate that was earned last November to make sure that we're fulfilling both.

00:31:09.000 Both of these priorities, we're not turning a blind eye to economic pain that Americans are concerned about or their environmental demands that they're talking about as well.

00:31:19.000 They want common sense.

00:31:20.000 That's what we're pursuing, common sense and choosing both.

00:31:23.000 Yeah, you know, obviously I sort of said in the intro, you've been, you know, leading the charge in terms of, you know, the attacks from the Democrats on the things that you're doing.

00:31:33.000 I think that's because you've been very effective, you've been very assertive, you've been aggressive, you have pushed back, you've functioned unafraid.

00:31:39.000 I noticed this week the media was melting down over something called Energy Star.

00:31:45.000 That was their, that's their latest outrage cycle, you know, the Energy Star program.

00:31:49.000 What exactly is it and what are you doing with it?

00:31:52.000 It's a government program that's been around for a long time that is well-known enough where the government doesn't need to prop it up anymore.

00:32:04.000 We have all sorts of credible programs outside of government.

00:32:09.000 You're a builder.

00:32:10.000 You're familiar with the LEADS program.

00:32:13.000 This is not a government-propped-up program, Leeds.

00:32:17.000 It's something that is out there in the private sector.

00:32:21.000 It's reputable.

00:32:22.000 It's well-run.

00:32:23.000 It's respected.

00:32:25.000 This has essentially become the Energy Star is like an advertisement for these companies that ends up requiring many dozens of federal officials to run.

00:32:39.000 It requires...

00:32:40.000 You know, tens of millions of dollars of tax dollars in order to prop up.

00:32:46.000 And if the federal government stopped running ENERGY STAR today, there would be so much competition to be able to credibly and legitimately run this out of government tomorrow.

00:33:00.000 And this isn't like a statutory obligation either.

00:33:03.000 It's not like something EPA was required to do because of some law that passed saying that this...

00:33:09.000 By the way...

00:33:10.000 Why would EPA be the agency that would run it instead of the Department of Energy?

00:33:16.000 If you were to apply common sense looking backwards, there would be some changes made.

00:33:22.000 But if you look forward, there is a way to be able to run a program like Energy Star without it requiring the federal government propping it up.

00:33:31.000 You mentioned building, something I'm pretty familiar with before I got on this journey.

00:33:38.000 What role can the EPA have in places like California, where there's just so many roadblocks to building, and particularly after the wildfires there, rebuilding?

00:33:47.000 I'm already seeing the celebrities, probably not on our side, talking about, hey, I just want to build back what I had, and they're making it impossible.

00:33:53.000 What have you seen on the ground, and what can the EPA do to help the victims of those devastating fires?

00:34:00.000 Well, when President Trump gave us 30 days, the response that we were getting initially was that it was impossible.

00:34:07.000 It was going to take months.

00:34:08.000 You'd be lucky if you're going to get it done by the summer.

00:34:11.000 EPA had to complete our Phase I hazardous material removal before the Army Corps was able to come in and do their debris removal.

00:34:19.000 Well, a lot of the complaints that we hear about from locals on the ground...

00:34:23.000 It's not with the EPA because we did an amazing job fulfilling that executive order from the president.

00:34:30.000 But the local government can't get out of its own way.

00:34:34.000 And they're gumming up the works.

00:34:36.000 I get asked often, what can the EPA do as it relates to permitting reform?

00:34:41.000 What can the federal government do as it relates to permitting reform?

00:34:44.000 The most durable long-term action would be for Congress to pass a permitting reform bill.

00:34:51.000 You're actually changing statute to speed up the process.

00:34:54.000 The president created the National Energy Dominance Council.

00:34:57.000 He wants these agencies to work together collaboratively, as opposed to having all these different processes.

00:35:04.000 So a builder has to go through 12 months of one process, and then some other agency is saying, oh, by the way, you have to start all over.

00:35:11.000 And the builder is wondering, well, why didn't you tell me that 12 months ago?

00:35:15.000 There needs to be more certainty in the process, less time, less cost.

00:35:20.000 But I'll tell you what, while legislation would be the most durable long-term action, EPA has been able to help speed up permitting processes since we got in by getting out of the way, all over the place.

00:35:33.000 There were things that EPA was getting itself involved in, slowing stuff down that it didn't have to be involved in.

00:35:39.000 It shouldn't have been involved with in slowing down.

00:35:42.000 The president, when he called me up, it was Sunday morning, November 11th, asked me to do his position.

00:35:49.000 He was so motivated to tackle permitting reform.

00:35:53.000 He was talking about unleashing energy dominance on that call.

00:35:56.000 He was talking about making America the AI capital of the world.

00:35:59.000 But there was no topic that he was more pumped up about than permitting reform.

00:36:04.000 It's top of mind for him.

00:36:05.000 There's a lot to do.

00:36:06.000 But it really does require some of these other states and local governments to get out of their own way.

00:36:12.000 California certainly knows what it's like to gum up works. 0.95

00:36:18.000 They're trying to make it impossible for people to build back so they can either build, I guess, waterfront government housing or whatever it may be.

00:36:25.000 It's probably some sort of equity play in the end.

00:36:29.000 Is there a way for the federal government to step in to push this stuff?

00:36:33.000 Because it feels like they're going to put up whatever roadblocks they can.

00:36:37.000 It's not just bureaucracy.

00:36:38.000 It's not just incompetence.

00:36:40.000 It feels like the process is the punishment.

00:36:44.000 The process is what's going to drive those people away and prevent them from rebuilding in their own communities.

00:36:49.000 Yeah, you just said something incredibly important.

00:36:52.000 When you said it's not just incompetence, I'm glad that you recognize that it is incompetence to a certain level, but then it's also deliberate.

00:37:01.000 So you have this recipe that includes both incompetence, but also these other deliberate actions that make it harder for people to be able to build.

00:37:13.000 The fact that a project that might take nine months in another country, or maybe nine months in another state...

00:37:20.000 Might take seven years in California isn't just incompetence, as you point out.

00:37:26.000 So when California wants to come to the federal government and they're asking for funding to be able to rebuild, say, after what was this horrible, what seemed to be apocalyptic site that we don't want to ever see happen again anywhere else in America, we need to make sure that we are resolving issues as it relates to access to water.

00:37:49.000 This is President Trump's demand of Austin to different agencies.

00:37:53.000 It's certainly in demand in California.

00:37:56.000 Forest management to make sure that you're building back smart.

00:38:00.000 That's something that's been an important priority of the president's.

00:38:03.000 And these other individual aspects of rebuilding, where it might be something in the control of a state or local government, but if they're coming to the federal government and asking for a whole lot of money to help...

00:38:16.000 Well, it shouldn't go back there with no strings attached where we aren't having a conversation about these other needs because the residents of California are begging for the federal government to use the leverage to fix these problems at the local level.

00:38:31.000 Well, Lee, thank you for all that you're doing, guys.

00:38:34.000 Make sure to check out Lee Zeldin and the EPA to stay in touch with what's actually happening.

00:38:41.000 Don't listen to CNN's climatologists because they clearly don't know what they're talking about.

00:38:44.000 Get it direct from the horse's mouth.

00:38:46.000 Lee Zeldin, thank you so much.

00:38:47.000 Great to see you, my friend.

00:38:48.000 I look forward to continuing to watch the liberal tears flow for you initiating common sense in your branch of government.

00:38:59.000 Thanks, Don.

00:38:59.000 Thanks, man.

00:39:00.000 Be well.

00:39:01.000 And coming up in just moments, we'll get into more of all of this with the Federalist CEO, Sean Davis.

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00:39:58.000 And joining me now, the Federalist CEO and triggered regular, Sean Davis.

00:40:03.000 Sean, good to have you back, man.

00:40:05.000 How you doing?

00:40:05.000 I'm doing great, and it's great to be back.

00:40:07.000 Thank you for having me.

00:40:08.000 It's my pleasure.

00:40:09.000 So I want to start with a story I covered earlier this week on these woke refugee resettlement groups who seem to want to, you know, they want to resettle MS-13, they want to really resettle, you know, Trendelaragua, maybe the worst human beings in the history of the world, but they refuse to resettle, like, South African farmers, families, kids who are victims of discrimination and, you know... 0.69

00:40:36.000 Some pretty insane stuff over there.

00:40:38.000 They love their bumper stickers that say, hate has no home here, but clearly that's just another lie.

00:40:45.000 What are your thoughts on all of this that you see going on?

00:40:49.000 I mean, it's playing out before our eyes.

00:40:51.000 It's the first time I've seen children coming over here, and they're waving American flags.

00:40:56.000 The rest are military-aged fighting men who have criminal records and murder and rape as their hobby and passion.

00:41:06.000 What's going on?

00:41:08.000 Yeah, it was kind of an amazing mask-off moment that we got to witness.

00:41:13.000 I've said for years that when it comes to Dems and neocons, their foreign policy is driven by what's least in our national interest.

00:41:23.000 So as far as you can get away from our national interest, the greater a priority it is for them.

00:41:28.000 And the closer it is to a key national security core interest, the less likely they are to support it.

00:41:33.000 And I feel like this immigration gambit is a perfect example of that. 0.99

00:41:37.000 They want a bunch of non-English speaking, voodoo-worshipping, cats skinning and eating. 1.00

00:41:47.000 Allegedly, Sean.

00:41:48.000 Allegedly.

00:41:49.000 I mean, those videos didn't look like a ribeye, but in the eyes of the mainstream media, that definitely didn't happen.

00:41:56.000 Yeah, we...

00:41:58.000 But yeah, so they want the people who are least compatible with American culture.

00:42:03.000 And we're not talking about skin color or anything like that.

00:42:06.000 We're talking about compatibility with American culture, which is understanding our culture, our tradition, our faith, our language.

00:42:13.000 The less likely you are to be able to do that, the more they want to import you in.

00:42:18.000 The less likely your country is to jive with American culture, the more they want to import everyone there. 0.98

00:42:25.000 And yet when we see South Africa, which is, you know, they're largely English speaking.

00:42:30.000 Obviously, they speak Afrikaans and other stuff.

00:42:32.000 They speak English.

00:42:33.000 They're largely Christian.

00:42:35.000 They understand our culture.

00:42:36.000 They will come here and they will assimilate probably within five minutes.

00:42:41.000 And yet suddenly, of all the people on Earth, that's where the left looked and decided, no, no, no, no, we're full.

00:42:47.000 We're full now.

00:42:48.000 We might have room for some more Somalians and Haitians, but if you speak English and you love Jesus, you've got to go back. 1.00

00:42:54.000 You're not compatible with what we're trying to do here.

00:42:56.000 Yeah, I mean, I think you nailed it.

00:42:58.000 I mean, it was definitely a mask-off moment.

00:43:00.000 They have a lot of these things where it's like, I mean, you know, there's these 80-20 issues.

00:43:05.000 Some of them are like 99-1 issues, and they can't help themselves.

00:43:10.000 They've got to take the one.

00:43:12.000 You know, just like we saw with the...

00:43:15.000 You know, judicial sabotage and the Democrats trying to break into ICE facilities and wanting to meet with Trendelaragua and MS-13 gang members in El Salvador.

00:43:23.000 I mean, they're all in, you know, protecting these people, but not like children who are being murdered or would be if they stayed.

00:43:34.000 I mean, it's all out in the open now.

00:43:38.000 And again, I'm...

00:43:39.000 The hills they choose to die on are sort of amazing to me, but what's driving the left to embrace literally enemies of America, of democracy, of freedom, safety, sanity?

00:43:55.000 How is that their primary demographic focus these days?

00:44:01.000 Well, it's going to sound cliché, but it's also true.

00:44:04.000 They just hate America.

00:44:06.000 They hate the founding ideals of this country.

00:44:09.000 They hate the people who founded it.

00:44:11.000 They hate the foundation of the founding.

00:44:13.000 People came here to have the freedom to worship Jesus.

00:44:18.000 They were religious Christian refugees who came here and settled a country.

00:44:23.000 So they'll say, oh, America's a country of immigrants.

00:44:26.000 No, it's not.

00:44:27.000 America was settled. 0.83

00:44:28.000 It's not like they came here and there was like a thriving country.

00:44:32.000 There was nothing.

00:44:33.000 Yeah, there was actual risk, right?

00:44:37.000 Like, when you came here, like, there wasn't a safety net, and you didn't get your Obama phone, and money, and guaranteed healthcare, and housing, and everything else that Americans actually have to work for.

00:44:51.000 You weren't given any of that.

00:44:53.000 No, there's nothing, and I think about it a lot.

00:44:55.000 I think about the original settlers.

00:44:57.000 I think about what Lewis and Clark went through, and I think, I am so soft.

00:45:02.000 Like, my generation is so soft.

00:45:03.000 They showed up with nothing.

00:45:05.000 They spent like three months or whatever at sea.

00:45:07.000 I think half of them were dead within a year.

00:45:10.000 Like, it is remarkable what they did.

00:45:13.000 And so the left in America and the left globally hates this country.

00:45:18.000 They hate it.

00:45:19.000 And so what they want to do is they want to conquer it.

00:45:21.000 They know they can't do that head-on, so they've been engaged in a multi-decade practice of conquest through dilution.

00:45:27.000 And the idea that they're just trying to replace Americans. 0.67

00:45:32.000 It's true.

00:45:33.000 We know it's true because they're saying it.

00:45:35.000 Because when you bring people over here who are just like Americans culturally, they say, no, we can't have that. 0.99

00:45:40.000 They want to bring people who are least like us and who are most likely to dilute what it actually means to be an American anymore. 0.85

00:45:47.000 It's the entire purpose.

00:45:49.000 So if it looks like they're trying to destroy the country through this nonsense, it's because they are trying to destroy the country through this nonsense.

00:45:55.000 Yeah, I mean, a lot of people, I guess, have referred to that sort of like the great replacement theory.

00:45:59.000 And for a while, two, two and a half, I mean, it was verboten to even say, like, hey, I mean, your actions clearly show that this is what you're doing.

00:46:11.000 You know, and since then, we've seen the emails and we've seen the letters, and they've given up on even pretending that that's not their plan.

00:46:18.000 They're just saying it out loud at this point.

00:46:20.000 It's just like, okay, well, you know, now that it's out there.

00:46:22.000 But before, if you said that you were a racist, you were a misogynist, you were homophobic somehow, you know, it doesn't matter.

00:46:27.000 You're one of the ists, because they don't have actual answers, so they just try to... 1.00

00:46:31.000 They try to label you and brand you, and luckily people don't care that much anymore because if that's the cause of and solution for every issue in the world, it loses its effect, even if it's a real issue in certain instances, just not everything.

00:46:46.000 Yeah, they did like the old canard of that's not happening and it's good that it is.

00:46:51.000 No, no, no, we're not trying to replace you, but it's good that we're trying to replace you.

00:46:54.000 And again, they want to make it about skin color or nationality or something like that.

00:46:59.000 It's not.

00:47:00.000 It's about compatibility with American culture.

00:47:04.000 America is for Americans.

00:47:07.000 Now, does that mean you can't come here and be an American?

00:47:09.000 Of course not.

00:47:10.000 What it means is, like, being an American, because America is a country and a culture, it's not an idea, it's not an economic zone.

00:47:17.000 Being an American means subscribing to our ideals and our culture, and you can come and do that, but it's more than just having a piece of paper or a thing that says, oh, I'm a citizen, you know, I'm equal under the law.

00:47:29.000 Being an American is like a big, important thing, and it's something people used to aspire to.

00:47:34.000 You know, the world over, they wanted to come here.

00:47:37.000 They saw what we had built, and they wanted to be a part of it.

00:47:40.000 Now they just kind of want to come here and get the money and do whatever, and they have no interest in being an American, and it's why we're in the position we are now culturally. 0.94

00:47:48.000 Yeah, no, I know this will be incredibly controversial, but I'm going to go on the record here and say, like, if it was white people coming over and murdering people, I don't want them either. 0.84

00:47:57.000 It doesn't matter if you're white, blue, green, purple. 0.85

00:48:00.000 I don't want murderers.

00:48:02.000 I don't want drug dealers.

00:48:03.000 I don't want rapists. 0.98

00:48:05.000 And I guess it's hard to believe that that is controversial.

00:48:10.000 Again, the fact that they're protecting murderers in our country illegally, rapists in our country illegally, it's mind-blowing.

00:48:19.000 I think we talked about this one of the last times we talked.

00:48:22.000 13,000 murderers let into the country.

00:48:25.000 And they knew.

00:48:26.000 I mean, these are ICE statistics under Joe Biden's administration.

00:48:29.000 They knew.

00:48:29.000 16,000 rapists, right?

00:48:31.000 Let's say 30,000 people overall that are either murderers or rapists.

00:48:37.000 I mean, spread 30,000 people amongst what?

00:48:39.000 The 4,000 counties of America?

00:48:41.000 Like, what do you do by adding, you know, eight? 0.92

00:48:44.000 Murderers and rapists to every county in America.

00:48:47.000 What do you expect to happen in your backyard? 0.74

00:48:49.000 And yet it's just like, we must go all in.

00:48:52.000 It's wild.

00:48:53.000 Yeah, and you're right.

00:48:54.000 It's like, if there's people who are white and they're from somewhere overseas and they reject our culture and they reject our faith and they don't like our system of laws, for example, like Soviet communists in the 1980s. 0.52

00:49:07.000 We don't want you.

00:49:08.000 Your views are incompatible with the American way and with American culture and law and tradition and faith.

00:49:14.000 And the left never wants to have that conversation.

00:49:18.000 They just want to say, you're racist.

00:49:21.000 And yet when they do, when they look at these Afrikaners, it's just shocking to me. 1.00

00:49:27.000 You had the Episcopal Church, I think, who, like one of their bishops, I'll put in air quotes.

00:49:33.000 Trump trashes President Trump when he's inaugurated for rejecting their view of mass migration.

00:49:39.000 The Episcopal Church was out recently saying, actually, we're not going to help settle migrants anymore if they're going to be Africaners.

00:49:45.000 It's amazing.

00:49:47.000 If you put it in a book...

00:49:48.000 Trans flag emoji! 0.98

00:49:51.000 Yeah, if you tried to predict that like a week or a month ago, everyone would be like, that's ridiculous. 0.94

00:49:56.000 No, no, no.

00:49:56.000 I did not have that in my bingo card, Sean.

00:49:58.000 That was not there.

00:49:59.000 But at this point, you know, the world has gone so insane, I guess nothing surprises them anymore.

00:50:06.000 But, I mean, their entire tenant was resettlement of refugees who are in threat.

00:50:11.000 So, like, why would these people be any different?

00:50:13.000 And we all know the answer, unfortunately.

00:50:15.000 Yeah, and it just exposes the lie of the multicultural idea.

00:50:20.000 And what I find really interesting is I think it was 59 people from South Africa who were brought in compared to like the 20 million that have legally or illegally immigrated in the U.S. in the last couple of years.

00:50:32.000 59 people.

00:50:33.000 All the left had to do was be quiet.

00:50:35.000 Be like, yeah, you know, obviously, you know, we'll spot them a tenth of a percent of what we brought in.

00:50:40.000 But they couldn't do it because it's actually fatal to their entire conceit.

00:50:46.000 Yeah, I guess the other issue where we've seen that, where Democrats used to at least pretend to be on the side of working class people, was lowering drug prices.

00:50:57.000 But now that my father, now that Trump is for it...

00:51:03.000 They're now against it.

00:51:04.000 I guess they have to be.

00:51:05.000 I mean, I love it.

00:51:06.000 I mean, you know, like lowering prescription drug prices.

00:51:09.000 So in Europe, an American drug company sells their drugs for a tenth or less the cost that the American has to pay.

00:51:16.000 But we're going to lower it for America.

00:51:18.000 And now they're against that.

00:51:21.000 What's your read on how that one plays out?

00:51:23.000 Because, man, that seems to really hit people hard to the point where so many prescriptions just go unfilled for things that people actually need to survive or to live.

00:51:32.000 You know, a happy life.

00:51:34.000 Yeah, it's crazy.

00:51:35.000 So I worked for for Tom Coburn, a senator from Oklahoma in the mid 2000s.

00:51:40.000 And I remember remember him being like an oddity in the Republican Party.

00:51:44.000 He was a doctor's practicing physician.

00:51:46.000 And I remember him saying, yeah, there's no reason we shouldn't be importing the cheaper stuff from Canada.

00:51:51.000 Like, why on earth are we paying 10x what they're paying?

00:51:54.000 Why are we subsidizing the rest of the world?

00:51:57.000 Because what's happening is.

00:51:58.000 America pays all of these massive R&D costs, and they are massive.

00:52:03.000 You know, for every one drug or pill that works, there's probably 10 that failed, and so they're having to spread the success out over a bunch of failures.

00:52:12.000 But basically, America was having to pay all these fixed costs, and what everyone else on Earth was paying was just the marginal cost of what it cost to just, like, produce the pill.

00:52:21.000 It's like a nickel.

00:52:22.000 It was there.

00:52:23.000 Let's forget about the R&D.

00:52:24.000 It's sort of like with China. 0.87

00:52:25.000 We develop military technology.

00:52:27.000 They steal our IP.

00:52:28.000 We have a trillion dollars invested into it.

00:52:30.000 They pick it up.

00:52:31.000 They start with exactly what we have for zero basis.

00:52:34.000 Doesn't seem like a recipe for success, but the fact that they're doing that to Americans, that it didn't matter, is shocking to me.

00:52:43.000 But I guess there's never been a consequence, and I'm sure there's plenty of lobbyists, whatever it may be, fighting to keep the people in Congress.

00:52:50.000 You know, voting for this stuff.

00:52:52.000 Yeah, I'm really looking forward to all the arguments from like the pharma funded libertarian dorks in D.C. where they'll be like, well, this is communism.

00:53:01.000 You can't have price controls.

00:53:02.000 And it's absurd because the way drugs are priced now in America is you have the federal government through Medicare and pharma get together and the two of them decide together what the price of something is going to be.

00:53:14.000 And we're supposed to believe that that's like free market capitalism?

00:53:17.000 It's completely absurd.

00:53:19.000 But watch, a bunch of pharma-funded dorks in D.C. are going to publish a bunch of white papers claiming that that is like the true essence of capitalism.

00:53:28.000 It's the federal government and a monopolist industry colluding to set prices.

00:53:32.000 Yeah, why don't we let those countries in Europe pay the prices that Americans are currently paying and give it to us for next to nothing? 0.96

00:53:38.000 That's a way to cover the R&D cost.

00:53:40.000 You bring up a good point.

00:53:41.000 You don't want to...

00:53:43.000 Disincentivize all the R&D.

00:53:44.000 I'm sure that's the angle that they will do, but there's ways around all of these things.

00:53:47.000 We don't have to subsidize our alleged allies.

00:53:52.000 I don't think someone who takes advantage of you for decades doesn't want to contribute to NATO.

00:53:56.000 I don't know how much of an allies they actually are.

00:53:59.000 They're sort of allies in names only.

00:54:02.000 But it seems like there's ways to solve those problems fairly easily without putting that burden on the American taxpayer.

00:54:09.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:54:10.000 You should be able to spread that fixed cost, the R&D, all the overhead.

00:54:13.000 that shouldn't be born entirely by America.

00:54:17.000 Because, look, those costs aren't going to go away.

00:54:19.000 You do have to spend a lot of money to make stuff that works.

00:54:22.000 But there's zero reason why we should be paying all of it and then subsidizing every other country on Earth.

00:54:27.000 Whose welfare state, by the way, we subsidize, whose militaries we subsidize, whose wars we fight for them.

00:54:33.000 Like at some point, maybe America just gets to reap the fruits of America's hard work.

00:54:37.000 I know.

00:54:39.000 Well, you're wild.

00:54:40.000 You're wild.

00:54:42.000 Speaking of Wild, the knives do seem to be out amongst Democrats as the media finally wants to report some of the truth about the Biden decline that they clearly covered up, that guys like you and I have probably talked about directly, but certainly have in our individual capacities online, in our respective publications, etc.

00:55:05.000 They didn't want to cover the story when it mattered.

00:55:09.000 But now...

00:55:10.000 We're getting reports about Joe Biden likely having to have been in a wheelchair if he won a second term.

00:55:17.000 And I imagine that's just the tip of the iceberg.

00:55:20.000 But is the regime media just trying to save face?

00:55:24.000 Are they saying, you know, now we're going to be honest so that if Donald Trump sneezes, they can see, oh my God, see what I mean?

00:55:31.000 Now we can talk about these things.

00:55:32.000 Not that it ever stopped them before, but what do you think they're trying to do?

00:55:36.000 And is anyone even going to buy it at this point?

00:55:38.000 Yeah, it reminds me a lot of when O.J. said he was going to go and be involved in the search for the real killer.

00:55:44.000 In one big circle.

00:55:46.000 We're going to follow these tracks very closely in a circle.

00:55:49.000 Yeah, he was totally committed to finding out who did those awful things to Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman.

00:55:56.000 Look, the reality is the media were not duped into reporting that Biden's brain was fine.

00:56:01.000 They were very complicit co-conspirators in the con on the American people.

00:56:06.000 And what happened is, like, Biden lost, and so now they don't have to protect him anymore.

00:56:11.000 So that's number one.

00:56:12.000 Number two, they know that they're in a bit of trouble because everyone knew his brain of putting, like, the guy was probably sitting in the Oval Office, like, trying to answer a banana whenever he heard a ding on someone else's phone. 0.67

00:56:22.000 And so they're like, crap, we've got a problem now. 1.00

00:56:25.000 Everyone thinks we're a bunch of lying, corrupt idiots. 1.00

00:56:27.000 So what we're going to do is we're going to throw Biden overboard because he's useless now. 1.00

00:56:31.000 And we're going to pretend that we're actually the ones revealing all these previously unknown facts about how his brain was tapioca pudding. 0.90

00:56:40.000 Previously unknown, other than we all saw it on TV every day for four years.

00:56:45.000 But otherwise unknown, yes.

00:56:46.000 Yeah, and it's totally transparent.

00:56:48.000 It's entirely a media reputation rescue operation.

00:56:52.000 And they need to be able to say a year from now...

00:56:55.000 No, no, no.

00:56:56.000 Not only did we not cover it up, we were actually the ones who wrote the book on it.

00:57:00.000 Like, we did the reporting that they were going to have to put Grandpa Joe in a wheelchair.

00:57:03.000 And they're going to hope that we all forget about how when Biden ran a basement campaign in 2020 and we said, hey, maybe the guy's brain is fried. 0.96

00:57:12.000 They all screamed at us as being liars and disinformation artists.

00:57:17.000 I feel like every time we talk about the media, I say the same thing.

00:57:20.000 It's one of the most dishonest things I've ever seen.

00:57:22.000 And we'll say it next week when they have a new op, but it's true.

00:57:25.000 Watching Jake Tapper writing a book about Biden's decline, I'm like, I'm pretty sure I saw the clip where you basically tried to accost my sister-in-law, who's pointing out very obvious things.

00:57:35.000 And he tried to just wheel it away as though we're not to believe our lying eyes.

00:57:43.000 Yeah, they lie about everything.

00:57:45.000 And the thing is, They know they're lying, and we know they're lying, and they know that we know they're lying, and they just don't care.

00:57:52.000 They don't care because they have the memory of goldfish.

00:57:55.000 All they care about is, what do I have to say right now to get to the next news cycle so people will believe the lies I'm going to peddle at that point?

00:58:04.000 That's their whole game. 0.98

00:58:05.000 And so they're, like, doing this thing the past couple days and weeks with this dumb Qatari airplane. 1.00

00:58:11.000 The story immediately falls apart. 0.99

00:58:13.000 They never do a mea culpa or an apology, and they just move on to the next lie.

00:58:18.000 It's, you know, wash, rinse, repeat every single time.

00:58:22.000 Well, I mean, the Democrats seem to have a real branding problem in my mind.

00:58:26.000 They push basically everyone and all of the common sense out of their tent.

00:58:33.000 But is the GOP Congress doing what it takes to have a good midterm cycle?

00:58:39.000 Are they capitalizing on that enough?

00:58:41.000 I know my father is, but is he getting enough cooperation from the GOP Congress?

00:58:47.000 Obviously tight margins, but we do have a long and strong history of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

00:58:55.000 What are the key benchmarks in your mind for Capitol Hill right now?

00:59:00.000 Well, I think Republicans, they actually have a really easy job.

00:59:04.000 And the question is, why won't they do it?

00:59:06.000 All they have to do is what they said they were going to do.

00:59:10.000 And instead, I can't tell you a single thing they've done.

00:59:13.000 I think they've maybe passed five bills that Trump has signed.

00:59:16.000 But it seems like they're just trying, like Homer Simpson style, to just fall and disappear into the bushes and hope that nobody notices them.

00:59:25.000 It's one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen.

00:59:27.000 And if there's a cardinal rule of politics, it's that you have to give people a reason to vote for you.

00:59:32.000 You can't just have them vote against the other guys.

00:59:34.000 I honestly don't know what any of the Republicans in Congress believe.

00:59:38.000 I don't understand.

00:59:39.000 What they're for.

00:59:40.000 They seem to be absolute non-entities hoping that they can just hide and let Trump do all the work.

00:59:45.000 And I'm telling you, that's a recipe for political disaster next year.

00:59:49.000 They are going to get rocked if they continue to do this disappearing routine.

00:59:54.000 Just do what you said.

00:59:56.000 Like, encode and put in legislation all the things that Trump is doing so the next guy can't undo it.

01:00:01.000 And they refuse to do it, and I know the margins are thin, but I just find it mind-boggling.

01:00:05.000 Yeah, the executive orders are great.

01:00:07.000 They're a good catalyst to get things started.

01:00:09.000 It's a fast way to get everything rolling.

01:00:11.000 But you do need to codify these things into law so they just can't disappear with another stroke of the pen if a Democrat wins in three and a half years.

01:00:22.000 Yeah, and I think unfortunately, like on the House side, I think they want to do the right thing.

01:00:26.000 But a lot of them, especially in leadership, they're afraid of their own shadows.

01:00:31.000 And then the problem in the Senate is a little different.

01:00:33.000 I think you just have a bunch of saboteurs over there.

01:00:36.000 On paper, we've got 52, 53 votes.

01:00:39.000 In reality, we might have 48 because you've got this little band of saboteurs who seem to be trying to do everything they can to disrupt and block Trump's agenda.

01:00:47.000 So it's so frustrating.

01:00:49.000 I feel like this is just our life as Republican voters is constantly being disappointed in in leadership in Congress.

01:00:57.000 And I think one thing that makes the saboteur so mad about Trump is he goes in and he actually does the things that Republicans have promised but failed to do for like 30 years.

01:01:05.000 And it drives them nuts because it creates an expectation among their voters that they should be doing the same thing.

01:01:11.000 Yeah, I mean, you know, who wants to take the risk?

01:01:13.000 Who wants to not be liked in Washington, D.C., if you're one of these sort of weak Republicans?

01:01:17.000 But I guess speaking of which, I have to ask, I know since you're in Tennessee.

01:01:22.000 What's up with all these mayors in Nashville, the ones that have been elected there?

01:01:27.000 I mean, you know, obviously Tennessee, incredibly strong conservative state, but, you know, what's happening in Nashville?

01:01:32.000 It feels like it's turned into one of these sort of, you know, super liberal, you know, California, New York style cities.

01:01:41.000 It's exactly what it is.

01:01:42.000 And it's actually the same story that you see in red states and blue cities everywhere.

01:01:49.000 It's been taken over by lefties because lefties are all about, you know, the urban big city project.

01:01:55.000 It's where they have scale for their get out the boat stuff that it doesn't work that well in rural areas.

01:02:00.000 And so cities are what they control.

01:02:02.000 It's the base of Democrat left wing power in this country.

01:02:05.000 And you've got this like crazy sprawling city council with like a thousand people on it.

01:02:11.000 I'm exaggerating, but like not too much.

01:02:13.000 Normally on a city council, you have like five or ten people.

01:02:16.000 I think they've got like a hundred. 0.93

01:02:17.000 They're all a bunch of blue-haired freaks. 0.96

01:02:19.000 They're all communists. 0.89

01:02:20.000 I think the mayor right now might actually be a literal communist. 0.84

01:02:24.000 And before him, we had like this three-foot-tall Oompa Loompa mayor who's a total left-wing loony. 0.88

01:02:30.000 Before that, we had this crazy woman, Megan Barry, who got busted, like banging her bodyguard outside of cemeteries on work hours, which I'm not making up at all. 0.98

01:02:39.000 It's literally what happened.

01:02:40.000 She's taking her bodyguard boyfriend on foreign trips everywhere while she was doing communism.

01:02:44.000 Sounds like Fannie Willis. 1.00

01:02:46.000 Yeah.

01:02:46.000 And it's just, they're insane left-wingers, but because the city demographically is blue, they can do whatever they want.

01:02:54.000 So, I mean, it's really just a matter of time before it becomes another Chicago or Detroit or New Orleans or Philadelphia, because they're all a bunch of incompetent left wing kooks. 0.94

01:03:04.000 So, Sean, as we wrap up, we're through the first hundred days.

01:03:07.000 What do you think's in store for the next 100 days?

01:03:09.000 Oh man, well, I'm deeply concerned about the ongoing judicial tyranny and judicial insurrection and resistance.

01:03:17.000 You have a bunch of unelected oligarchs in robes who've decided that the powers of the presidency actually belong to them.

01:03:25.000 I don't think we have a Supreme Court that's really going to be willing to do what's necessary because, unfortunately, I think there may be five people on it, led by John Roberts himself, who are more interested in their own power than they are in their actual limited authority under the Constitution.

01:03:41.000 And then I think we're just going to see freak out after fake freak out from left-wing nutjobs and their enablers and co-conspirators in the media.

01:03:50.000 Well, yeah, that's a little scary.

01:03:51.000 It seems like they're doing those usual tactics.

01:03:54.000 It's why the legislation is so important, because it's like they'll do whatever they can to slow roll it, try to prevent Trump from getting a full four years.

01:04:01.000 You know, let's make it two.

01:04:02.000 Let's make it less.

01:04:03.000 Let's make sure these things lapse into another administration when, you know, maybe they get their wish and they get a Democrat in there, because it seems like there's certainly a lot of people, even allegedly on our side, working against us.

01:04:15.000 Sean Davis, Federalist CEO, thank you so much.

01:04:18.000 Guys, check him out on social.

01:04:20.000 One of the more aggressive, awesome, you know, MAGA Twitter feeds.

01:04:25.000 Really appreciate you, man.

01:04:26.000 I look forward to having you back on as things progress.

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Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - May 15, 2025

The Legend of Zeldin and the Common Sense Agenda, Interviews with Lee Zeldin & Sean Davis | Triggered Ep241

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