00:09:55.800Are there already bets being placed on this one?
00:09:58.620Because I feel very confident on the Democrat side.
00:10:01.140When I saw it, first of all, Gavin Newsom feels like he's playing evil Keanu Reeves.
00:10:06.920When I hear him talk now, it just sounds like he's an actor pretending with that voice.
00:10:11.360Maybe he's got a little bit more of a cold than normal.
00:10:14.280I guarantee you, Buck, that Gavin Newsom has been furious that Tim Walz and Jacob Fry in Minneapolis have managed to push themselves into the chief opposition to Donald Trump.
00:10:26.640And they have knocked him off the newspaper front pages outside of the opens of television shows.
00:10:32.380And I think he made a calculated decision.
00:10:33.840By the way, saying world leaders are in knee pads?
00:17:41.820Trump is now in the communication, the sales pitch aspect of his presidency, as we move towards what will, frankly, be the last election that is, in many ways, a referendum directly on President Trump's leadership.
00:17:56.480After, from 2015, when he came down the escalator for the first time, to 2026, the Trump era of effectively 11 years.
00:18:06.720Now, you can say 2028 will be potentially for the Republican candidate, if it is J.D. Vance, if it is Marco Rubio, somewhat of a referendum of Trump himself.
00:18:17.260But he will not be on the ballot in any way in 2028.
00:18:22.140So, the last real time that Trump has a referendum on his leadership, on his presidency, will be the midterms.
00:18:30.820And so, we are now into the sell-the-job-that-you-have-done stage of Trump 2.0.
00:18:36.960And I mentioned these stats, but I want to hit you with them right off the top here.
00:18:40.900Because I do think that the challenge is making everyone aware of the promises that he has delivered on.
00:18:48.880And I would say, number one, the most significant accomplishment of President Trump, Buck, is the secure border.
00:18:55.340And it's so successful that nobody even talks about the border anymore.
00:19:00.580So, for a decade, we talked about, hey, we should build a wall.
00:19:24.920With 401Ks, huge percentages of the American public, particularly Republican voters, have exposure to the stock market in some form or fashion.
00:19:33.320So, record high stock prices is super important.
00:19:36.600I would say the third most important thing he has done, Buck, 4.3% GDP at the end of the third quarter.
00:19:42.980There is a very good chance that we are going to be at 5% plus for the fourth quarter and on into 2026.
00:19:50.140Inflation in the wake of tariffs did not skyrocket.
00:19:53.120In fact, it has continued to come down four-year lows going all the way back, I believe, to March of 2021.
00:20:04.720One of the biggest murder declines we have ever seen in many different cities out there, particularly the cities that President Trump has surged federal support the most for.
00:20:14.000I would say sixth most impressive thing.
00:21:40.400I just laid out those eight different things that I think are all super consequential and important that are evidence of the success that he has had in year one.
00:21:49.180You know, I just also think there's such a difference in a lot of the conversation among Trump supporters.
00:21:55.640First time around one year in, and I mean for people who were as pro-Trump as it gets, voted for him, love the guy, love what he's trying to do for the country.
00:22:04.200There was a lot of frustration over staff, who's he got in place, are they on board?
00:22:16.060It's just a totally different, and this is just marking the progress I'm saying, marking the transformation of, honestly, the experience level that Trump as commander in chief, as well as the people around him have had.
00:22:30.920But we have very little, now, look, there's always going to be people who don't like, you know, what happened at, you know, pick your department, or they think that this could be different.
00:22:42.200But there isn't this, you know, hey, it's not Trump's fault.
00:22:45.680It's the fault of these people or that people that didn't do this thing.
00:22:48.280We're not wasting any time with that because overall the agenda is being implemented, is being pursued.
00:22:54.800You know, you have to give credit to the people that are the main implementors, whether it's at any of these different agencies.
00:23:06.660It's at, obviously, the funniest thing with Marco Rubio these days is all the memes about how he's got 15 different jobs.
00:23:12.580And, you know, you have a lot of people around him who have stepped up.
00:23:15.600So the conversation is different, and it's now just how do we keep it going instead of, okay, we've got to have a big change in course here.
00:23:23.460Like, does anyone even remember, what did Rex Tillerson do his first year as Secretary of State?
00:23:31.580Rubio, you see what he's been up to, and obviously he's a long-standing Republican fixture now in the Senate and on Foreign Relations Committee, et cetera.
00:23:41.760But these are people who understand what the Trump mission is and are getting it done day in and day out.
00:23:49.020So I've got to say it's been a great first year.
00:23:52.540That doesn't mean there aren't – there's always going to be areas of improvement.
00:23:55.100There's always going to be some criticism that I think is necessary to help the team get better.
00:24:00.500But, man, it's just a world of difference.
00:24:02.800We're playing a lot of – Clay, we're playing so much defense back in – we, you know, the Trump voters,
00:24:09.020playing so much defense back in 2017 into 2018 on the Russia collusion craziness.
00:25:24.280They really went after Trump on his inability to have a consistent managerial core in the first Trump administration.
00:25:33.280And they were constantly shifting in and out of people.
00:25:36.000Man, with James Blair, with Stephen Miller, with Susie Wiles, the chief of staff core has remained very, very consistent.
00:25:42.780And then you look at the entire cabinet.
00:25:45.420Everybody, it seems, is in pretty decent shape as we move into year two.
00:25:48.920Now, again, people are going to decide this is too much work.
00:25:52.420I need a little bit more life work-life balance.
00:25:55.300That's natural in the White House because it is such an all-encompassing job.
00:25:59.160But in terms of the media being able to browbeat Trump into making changes in his personnel, it hasn't happened.
00:26:05.460And I actually think if you look at Hegseth, J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio, and Trump in terms of those four supremely important positions, I'm not sure that we have actually been in a stronger position as a country than having all of those individuals involved right now.
00:26:47.260I had to gear up for this, you know, after the – because, again, we're marking the one year of Trump getting sworn in for the second time.
00:26:55.760Okay, so the start of year two of term two is today.
00:27:00.160And I remember after the huge win and just the enormous relief thinking to myself and how we were going to have to deal with this if it came to it, which is, this isn't term one.
00:27:14.220Obviously, this time around, had to be prepared to say, if he wasn't pursuing the agenda on something that was promised or if he was making personnel decisions that were really counterproductive, we were going to have to hold that to account.
00:27:28.020And we will if that happens in the future.
00:27:29.940But I look at term one and I'm like – or year one, rather – and they're getting it done.
00:27:37.180And we're not mired in defending against the same media nonsense with Russia collusion and then the prosecutions and all this other stuff they've thrown at Trump.
00:27:46.100Do you see what Trump and his team are capable of doing without, like I said, all the artificial sabotage of the media and the Democrat Party weaponizing the deep state against them?
00:27:57.660If I were going to point to one thing that was not handled well, it would be Pam Bondi and Epstein.
00:28:03.540Like, if you gave me a magic wand and you said you can go back and manage –
00:28:17.100The fact that she said the files were on her desk, the fact that they had those influencers walk in with the binders and all that, I think that's the biggest unforced error of the first year.
00:28:26.000They still have to get those files out, by the way.
00:28:45.780And then there's these other things that we're talking about, the economy, the border, national security, not being involved in stupid wars.
00:28:52.800I mean, these are very, very big things that affect all of us.
00:28:56.620And I think that on those areas, those issues, it has been really strong.
00:29:00.560By the way, Scott Besson, who I think has been the, I think has been the out, I think, Clay, you could say, that Scott Besson outkicked his coverage or has certainly outperformed expectations for what he'd be able to do.
00:29:17.280I think because a lot, look, I didn't know who he was before Trump made him Treasury Secretary.
00:30:20.100I think the Supreme Court is going to strike down some elements of President Trump.
00:30:24.340And I appreciate the fact that Scott Besson is making that argument because that is his job and he should be advocating for the president's perspective.
00:30:30.560So I don't begrudge anybody advocating in that way.
00:30:33.520I think this is one where the president's going to get a pushback from the Supreme Court and they are going to have they're going to have a really complicated situation here.
00:30:47.540We keep waiting for the official following Shannon Bream this morning because I thought we might be getting the tariff Supreme Court case.
00:30:55.720My concern is that they're going to slap him back some on this.
00:32:17.640You don't want to worry about a flood.
00:32:18.880You don't want to worry about just someone who is holding all these great memories, having them in their attic and forgetting where they were, losing them.
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00:32:52.740Welcome back in, Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show.
00:32:56.480We continue to wait the White House press conference President Trump addressing on the one-year anniversary of his swearing in as we begin the second year of Trump.
00:33:05.800I saw this morning, I was reading Axios, Buck, and I know there were probably left-wingers out there who just had tears running down their cheeks.
00:33:13.640We still have over 1,000 days left of Trump 2.0.
00:33:18.700So, this is, you know, we're 25% done, but we still have 75% of the fun still to come.
00:33:28.360It doesn't mean that people are not still behaving in a crazy fashion on The View.
00:33:34.260In fact, they may have gotten crazier.
00:33:35.940They had, I saw this this morning as I was getting ready for the show, Buck, they had Pam Greer on.
00:33:39.760Pam Greer was a star, Foxy Brown, of the so-called, like, sort of blackploitation movies of the 60s and 70s.
00:33:55.140Listen to her say that when she was growing up in Columbus, Ohio, lynchings were so common for her that her mom had to tell her not to look at the dead black bodies that had been lynched by white people.
00:35:27.120They, everyone on the left will recognize that victim status is something that is very desirable.
00:35:38.280Because when you're a victim and you tell a victim narrative about yourself and all of the things in your life that haven't gone the way that you want them to are somebody else's fault.
00:35:49.080And you also have a claim about how it is their fault, therefore they should do more for you.
00:35:55.240Or it is their fault, therefore something else should be made to happen for you.
00:36:00.700And because the left is so, in my opinion, the left is so, I guess everything I say here is my opinion, but you know what I mean, deeply enmeshed in this ideology, like this faith of victimhood that they have, they don't even recognize absurd exaggeration.
00:36:19.420They're just like, oh, well, that's her story of victimhood, so like I have to respect that, you know.
00:36:24.660That's her lived experience, even though that wasn't her lived experience.
00:36:28.800But you know, the mentality is, however you're going to describe your oppression narrative must be accepted by others.
00:36:35.540Because oppression narratives are so important to people who are of the leftist mindset.
00:36:39.720And I actually believe it's, like, structurally, in the working of the mind, left and right, political sense is, I think it's much more in the brain than it is, than a lot of people think about, or a lot of people will get into.
00:36:53.940Because I just can't imagine approaching the world the way so many of these people do, whether it's the maniac screaming at ICE officers in the streets, or it's this kind of washed up actress saying that she saw, you know, lynchings in the trees by her home.
00:37:10.360I mean, they're just all used to making stuff up for the purposes of self-pity, Clay, that I don't think any of them want to call anyone else out, because this is so common.
00:39:19.100But, Clay, that's a very uncomfortable reality for some people because the narrative is so powerful.
00:39:23.680Well, not only that, it's if you ask any questions at all about it, to your point, if you say, are you sure that was racism?
00:39:31.960Like, I lived through this, and I was talking about earlier, we were at the Indiana-Miami game,
00:39:36.460and just how much patriotism it felt like in that stadium as they sang the national anthem, put Trump on the scoreboard, everybody cheered.
00:39:43.860But it wasn't very long ago people were taking knees, and there were players coming out and saying, oh, I was racially profiled, to your point.
00:39:52.600And I remember one of the players saying, I was racially profiled at a Las Vegas casino.
00:40:00.220I mean, if you said to me, hey, what place in America has more cameras per capita than a casino?
00:40:09.920Because they're trying to catch everybody to make sure you're not cheating at cards, to make sure whether or not you actually won your slot machine game, all those things.
00:40:18.440Video comes out, and it wasn't actually true at all, right, as often is the case.
00:40:23.160And you've talked about, with BLM basically dying, because now everybody has a video of the police officers, and what we overwhelmingly see is they're pretty good.
00:44:02.240When I said most lynchings or not, there is a, this is interesting actually.
00:44:06.500Historically, and I'm seeing this play out now in the way that they do these numbers.
00:44:11.040So they make a distinction between like a non-judicial hanging versus a non-judicial hanging where there is some judicial procedure that was supposed to be in place.
00:44:20.560And that is how they get to the 70-30 number.
00:47:05.100So, Trump is, he's freestyling right now.
00:47:07.860He's just letting it rip up at the podium.
00:47:10.040We're going to bring in some of the highlights of it because he's weaving, for sure.
00:47:14.460Kind of going in and out of different things.
00:47:16.980And I think he's laying some of the groundwork for his discussions in Davos.
00:47:23.120And specifically over Greenland, which I think is very much going to be, it's going to be a bit of a showdown with some of these European bureaucrat types.
00:47:34.680For example, Clay, here is, let's cut 18, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, you know, of the von der Leyen's.
00:47:50.500Ladies and gentlemen, we consider the people of the United States not just our allies, but our friends.
00:47:58.120And plunging us into a downward spiral would only aid the very adversaries we are both so committed to keeping out of the strategic landscape.
00:48:08.800So our response will be unflinching, united and proportional.
00:48:12.860But beyond this, we have to be strategic about how we approach this issue.
00:48:18.760And this is why we are working on a package to support Arctic security.
00:48:22.780First principle, full solidarity with Greenland and the kingdom of Denmark.
00:48:27.040The sovereignty and integrity of their territory is non-negotiable.
00:48:37.020Well, why does Denmark get to have control over Greenland if it's so bad for non-Greenlanders to be in control of in any way their future?
00:48:47.920Why is Denmark allowed to still have this asset?
00:48:50.480And, Buck, let me just – what President Trump is looking towards is, I think, a future where if you saw what Russia did with Ukraine, where they went in and they decided they were going to take that territory, he's asking a very valid question.
00:49:03.500There is basically no defense of Greenland at all.
00:49:06.620What if Russia decides that they want to go in and occupy that country because of its strategic value?
00:49:12.080Which Russia has done numerous times in the last two decades to countries that are sovereign nations with real militaries, I might say.
00:49:20.980I mean, what China has done is slowly try to, especially in the South China Sea, take over shipping lanes, restrict who's allowed to transport and ingress and egress in those areas.
00:49:31.760Why is it crazy to think that Russia, as these Arctic shipping lanes open up, might not engage in aggressive behavior and start to try to take over?
00:49:40.780And I think what Trump's looking forward towards is trying to limit that from ever becoming a reality.
00:49:47.080Here is a Danish parliament member among the most well-known – because none of us know any of them – Rasmus Jarlow.
00:49:56.180I've always been a fan of the Jarlow family.
00:50:03.820If there is an evasion by American troops, it would be a war, and we would be fighting against each other.
00:50:10.240We know that the Americans are stronger than us, and you have a much stronger military than ours, but it is our duty to defend our land and our people, and the 57,000 Danish citizens that live in Greenland that have made it absolutely crystal clear that they don't want to be taken by the United States.
00:50:26.040We have an obligation to fight for those people, and our forces will do that, but it would be a disaster also for the United States.
00:50:32.280We're not – there's not going to be a war.
00:50:47.600I mean, there's not very many of them.
00:50:48.680We have Greenland listeners right now, but they're on the Space Force base.
00:50:53.060Well, look, here is what's going to happen.
00:50:56.760If we are going to acquire Greenland, it is going to require us to make cash payments to people who live in Greenland, and they're going to vote to be territorially connected to the United States instead of Denmark.
00:51:10.520You can be rich and American, or you can be cold and Danish.
00:51:16.520Also, Denmark is spending, based on my reading, around a billion dollars a year because as we started, I think, this week or last week maybe it was we were talking about this, the primary economic value right now of Greenland is shrimp.
00:51:32.920I bet a lot of you out there like to eat shrimp.
00:51:35.680It's not exactly the greatest foundation for economic viability in the 21st century to say, hey, what is your country known for?
00:51:43.140Well, we go out and we harvest a lot of shrimp from the sea, and so it's all these mineral rights going forward.
00:51:52.580Again, I just I don't think Trump is getting enough credit.
00:51:56.420The one thing the guy knows is land value development.
00:52:00.200He is looking at this, and he's thinking not for the next five years.
00:52:03.680He's thinking for the next 25, next 100 years.
00:52:07.660This is a decision that makes rational sense to him.
00:52:10.440Well, why also you think of something like like Greenland or, you know, the Falklands, which they did fight a war over with Argentina a while ago, back in the early 80s, between the Brits and the Argentinians.
00:52:22.220Margaret Margaret Thatcher was not messing around.
00:52:24.940She also had a bit of a find out, you know, mess around and find out foreign policy approach.
00:52:30.900But these are places that are self-governed, but have some connection to another country for their defense.
00:52:38.620Like we have to pretend like this is an integral part of this this nation's sovereignty.
00:52:54.480There has to be a negotiation for this.
00:52:57.440But it's like I said, I mean, you're we got we got a man here who is really the legal eagle of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
00:53:03.820There's not very many of us that are actual lawyers licensed in United States territory.
00:53:08.600One day, one of you is going to be on a cruise and something's going to go awry.
00:53:12.640You know, you're going to have some problem and you're going to be calling Mr. Clay Travis here on the radio show asking him for advice because he knows his way around the legal system in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
00:53:21.480But if if Russia, because they wanted a warm place for their billionaires, for the oligarchs, well, Russia is a bad idea because we don't we got all these problems with Russia.
00:53:30.480But I'm just if some foreign country said, you know what, we're going to give you, I don't know, a trillion dollars for the U.S. Virgin Islands and we'll provide all defense and whatever.
00:54:25.480The last asset we bought, 1917, U.S. Virgin Islands now, we bought all three of these islands from Denmark in 1917 for $25 million in cash.
00:54:36.140Why is that not an analogistic example of what could happen with Greenland?
00:54:41.000And by the way, the reason we wanted the U.S. Virgin Islands, to my understanding, is to have a basically shipping depot for transit purposes as it pertained to assets, strategic assets in Latin America.
00:54:54.100And also then for going across to to Europe for shipping lanes, everything else.
00:55:00.400So I am a territorial lawyer in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
00:55:04.440Why would it not make sense to have Greenland under the exact same auspices?
00:55:09.120And I believe what American Samoa, we've talked about all the territories that are uniquely the insular cases.
00:55:14.880For those of you who really want to dive into the legal proceedings of the U.S. Virgin Islands back in the day,
00:55:20.580there's an entire Supreme Court precedent surrounding these territories, which are not states, which are not allowed to vote for president of the United States, for instance, that are still subject to American jurisdiction.
00:55:33.480So you have some form of independence, but you're under the fabric of the United States protection.
00:55:39.220Why would that not make sense for Greenland?
00:55:40.600And again, I come back to the way this would work is we would pay every Greenlander a certain amount of money and they would decide that they no longer want to be affiliated with Denmark.
00:55:53.700And that seems eminently rational to me.
00:56:11.700When we come back, we will take some of your talk back.
00:56:14.160We will close up shop on the Tuesday edition of the program as President Trump continues to talk in front of the media here on the one year anniversary of Trump 2.0.
00:56:26.860And I want to tell you, going into this weekend, AFC Championship game, NFC Championship game, Buck and I are in Miami.
00:56:33.820We went last night to watch Indiana and Miami play a stellar game.
00:56:37.080By the way, those of you who are mad at me, if you go with my football analysis, you get what you get.