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Well, in this episode, Eric Trump spitting fire is on the pod. Do an interview with him and also the news with Rudy. And we'll do all that right after this. Bet online. Hey, it's Adam Carolla from the Adam Carolla Show. Football season is in full swing and there's no better place to get in on the action than Betonline, your number one source for all things football. Betonline gives you more ways to play with the latest odds, breaking news, live scores, and even in game betting. So you never miss out on a moment from every NFL and college game and matchup. Betonline is your place for all things football. And if you love MLB or UFC or NHL, anything with letters in it, futures, even, Betonline keeps you locked into the action all year long. And don't Forget the BETOnline VIP program with exclusive level up bonuses, weekly cash boosts and rewards designed for serious players. Head to Betonline today. That's Betonline. The game starts here.
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From Corolla One studios in Glendale, California, this is the Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest today, Eric Trump. Plus the news with Rudy Pavage. And now a man who also understands the pressure of having a rich and powerful father, Adam Carolla.
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Yeah, get it on, got to get it on. No choice, we got you mandate you get it on. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for telling a friend. We love that about you. Rudy Pavich in studio. We're gonna do some news with him. Very funny. Stand up, comed. Eric Trump's gonna bring the heat in the second half.
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C
I see his book sitting here, man. Did you get a chance to page through it?
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A
Yeah, I'm not a good book pager through her, but I did and I found both all the Trumps are impressive. And I said this just so people are accurate. I did Celebrity Apprentice, I don't know, 15 years ago or something. And people are like, what's Trump like? And I was like, he's in a hurry. He's always in a hurry. He's the last guy to show up to the boardroom. He, blah, blah, blah, and then blasts off to the next event, which is what busy guys do. Insecure. People get insecure around it because they take it as a slight and they take it as being like shown the high hat or blown off. But it's really, they're always in a hurry. And, and I have that a lot with people. Where I go, they'll go, hey, man, what's going? And I go, sorry, I'm flying to the next thing. But it's great seeing you, and we'll catch up when I got some time, but I gotta go. And then maybe it feels Kurt or something, but that's who he is. He's building five buildings and doing 10 things. So I got that. So I said, he's in a hurry. He's a blowhard. Which I didn't like at the time. But I said his kids all respect him, and they're really good kids, and they all have a really sincere respect for him, which I then took as a good sign. Because if you show me kids that don't like their dad, I'm gonna show you a dad that's either not good or done a lot wrong.
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Yeah.
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You're sitting next to one right now.
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Yes.
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Just an asshole. The worst.
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Yeah. Now, there can be phases, you know, My daughter went through a teenage girl phase where she was like, dang, she was shitty. And then Covid exacerbated it. And then, of course, her mom screwed her up. And then she got weaponized by Covid and society and everything else, and I should be suing everybody, but she's over it, and now she's good, and we're good, and my son's good and. And everything's good. Show me a kid that doesn't like the dad, and I'll show you a dad that's not good. And let's break it down, Rudy. Moms run a little deeper, and there's a little more. There's more moving parts to moms. You know, it's kind of a. You know, moms are kind of a Steinway and men are kind of a juice harp. Yeah. Maybe a banjo.
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C
I've seen that bumper sticker.
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We don't have as many moving parts. You know what I mean? Like, it's just harder. You know, daughters and their relationship with their mom run weird and deep, and there's a lot of different components to them. There's even a weird competition component at some point where she's wearing skinny jeans and she's 51. You really think that's appropriate? But you get your hair cut, your hair's too long. And. Are you flirting with my boyfriend? You know, like, there's stuff.
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Now, as someone who dates somebody who still looks hot and dresses like that, I'm like, do it all day, girl. But when I look out from the outside looking in, I go, maybe it's time to.
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But you're not the daughter.
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C
You are. Right. Yes.
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The daughter has different thoughts than you have.
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C
Yeah.
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And so moms and daughters have more Layered, intricate, nuanced relationships where there can be a lot of mixed feelings, lot of good and a lot of bad rolling along. Yeah. Relationship with the dads I'd call a little more straightforward. Little more like the relationship you have with your dog growing up. It's either a good dog or he's not. You know, it's just if the guy's pretty solid, fairly consistent, provided taught you a lesson or two, gave you a little tough love that you deserved when it was appropriate, that took you out fishing or to watch a ball game or something like that. It's pretty easy, nuts and bolts kind of stuff. It doesn't take a lot to leave a good taste in a kid's mouth about the dad because all the dad has to do is not be a fall down drunk alcoholic and not gamble the money away and take you to a couple of home openers and sit up in the stands a little bit. Yeah, Pretty. Pretty basic, easy.
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Yeah. And you can definitely tell how, you know, having a dad in the house is so detrimental to kids as they grow up. Somebody just sent me a video of the Jenny Jones show. Remember that?
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Yes.
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And there was a. You know, they bring the sergeant in for boot camp. Boy, you better, you better shape up. I'm gonna put a boot in your ass. And this poor kid is like 9 years old and this guy's in his face and he's screaming at him and he's like, he's like, do you disrespect your mom? And he's like, yes, sir, I do. And he's like, do you want me to live in your house? And he goes, he's, yes, I do. And he goes, why you want me to be your dad? And he goes, I do. And he goes, why do you want me to be your dad? And this kid goes, cause I don't have a dad. And then the whole crowd was like, my God. Like, oh, this is. That's the root of the problem right there.
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Oh, yeah. Everything. Everything's. Dad's not raising. You said detrimental, but I don't know if you meant it that way when you said a dad being in the house.
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C
Did I use that word incorrectly?
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I think you said having a dad in the house is detrimental.
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Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, I guess it would be. Having one in the house is detrimental to how they turn out as an adult. Correct? Am I saying that correctly?
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I don't think so.
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I don't think so.
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No.
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Detrimental is bad.
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You meant to say not having a.
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Dad in the house is detrimental Okay.
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I always thought the word boy. I didn't realize we're going to go down this rabbit hole. I always thought that word was something that is like. It is.
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Was.
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Now I'm space, not at sea. This is northern Minnesota education here.
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Yeah.
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I think is to your detriment. It hurts you.
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Everybody's allowed a few of those. A few of those words.
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Yeah, yeah. You know, the people. Like, I heard an adult the other day in a very high power position say, it is, it is. Irregardless.
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I was just thinking of that. That's funny.
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I was like, dude, you're like 47. You're a CEO of a company. Irregardless.
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I heard a woman get really angry at another guy in a softball field once and yell suck my cock as loud as she could, which I love. I got the spirit. It was more the spirit.
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C
Thank you. Yes.
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Detrimental, tending to cause harm.
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C
Yep.
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Yeah. All right.
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I just listen, I'm not in the correct people business per se, but you used a word. It was incorrect. I didn't know if you knew it or not. I didn't want people to think you did think that way. So I circled back quietly.
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No, I appreciate that. I appreciate that. And the other thing about it is, I've told you before, the best compliment I ever got was you might not be the most talented, but you're the most coachable.
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Oh, yeah.
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And that is the thing that I've always taken away is when people say, dude, you are not. You're not the best, but I can show you how. And you take criticism well. That is the best compliment I've ever received.
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Coachable should be a compliment, especially in this day and age where no one is, you know, you're not the boss of me. But so anyway, I said that the kids who I got to spend a fair bit of time with in the boardroom and beyond in the field and all that with Celebrity Apprentice, I was like, these kids really respect Trump. And I was not in the business of defending Trump at the time because I wasn't really a big fan of Trump cuz I got kind of screwed in the game and he kind of did a thing that I ended up getting sort of thrown under the Trump bus for something I didn't really do in terms of getting dumped off of a Celebrity Apprentice. So I wasn't a huge fan of Trump. But I said, look, I'll give him his due. His kids really respect him. They're good, they're well put together and they're prompt, they're sober. They're on time and they respect their dad and he did something right versus the kid that never talks to their dad. The dad did something wrong.
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Yeah.
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And it takes two to tango. And sometimes there's extenuating circumstances, but most of the time, if you are not on speaking terms with your adult children, could have done a better job.
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Pretty good indicator. Yeah.
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Which, by the way, a remarkably high number of adult moms and dads are sort of okay with that, which is remarkably high to me because I'm not touchy feely and I'm not, you know, I'm not gushy and I'm not even. I'm not a hugger. But I would not be okay with my kids not being okay with me.
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C
Yeah.
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I was okay with my daughter not being okay with me for a period of time because that was just her being her. You know, like, she's screaming, take your shoes off when you come into the house. Like, if you want to be unreasonable. Yeah, then go ahead and be unreasonable. I'll. I'll deal with that.
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And it's good for them to push back a little bit because as I found out, my daughter is 17. And when we started going through this phase, I was chatting with somebody who was well versed in, you know, child psychology. And I was like, what? What is going on here? And she goes, basically, what they're doing is they are trying to separate themselves from their parents because they know what's coming. They know that in a year and a half to two years, they're going to be living on their own. So subconsciously, they will start to. Whatever it is that you say, they go against it because it is them. That's them mentally preparing to go out and be independent. And after she said that, I was like, oh. So anytime my daughter and I would get into, like, a little tift, I would always think, oh, this is just her becoming an adult. This is what this all has to. We have had to have a lot.
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Of employees, I guess, that were planning on becoming independent at some point, who just disagree with everything I say independently.
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C
Unwealthy.
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Yes. There's a clip recently of AOC giving a crazy rant when she was at Mamdami's rally with Bernie screaming. It was funny because it reminded me, Dawson, you know Josh Gardner's song We Can Work It Out?
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Yes.
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You know that one, Rudy?
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Yeah.
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I love. We Can Work it out. Because he goes through all the ethnicities and kind of explains what they do. But then when he gets to, like, Puerto Ricans, there's like, yeah, they do their crazy thing. They do. You know, like the Irish enjoy good times over family. Which, like. And she's. She's going on a rant about what everyone brought to this country and how they came to this country. And then she got to the American Indians and she didn't have a lot to offer there, but here it is, sir. Made me laugh.
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This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Jews escaping holocaust, black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow, Latinos seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves.
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Asia, you can pause it there. Just standing for themselves. I've not seen a lot of cities built on the backs of people standing for themselves. You gotta get to work, right? I've been on a lot of job sites and I've seen guys stand for themselves, but better they should hang drywall. In terms of building the city, can't you come up with something euphemistic that would be helpful about the American Indians rather than standing for themselves smoking in a casino? Like something.
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Yeah, dude, something. As a guy who goes to northern Minnesota at an Indian reservation, a lot of them riding an old busted up mountain bike down Highway 2, I see it A lot.
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For themselves.
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For themselves, yes.
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So the Irish escaped the famine and the Italians came here to escape fascism. And I had no idea that this entire country was built solely by black people. I did not. I know that, by the way, in terms of black folks and your skills and your trades, I comment on this all the time. I went to a job site in the Palisades and did a vlog, one of my fire vlogs. And I was there on Friday and I was walking through the house and it was interesting. I learned a few things. Some interesting stuff that I can share with you if you remind me just off the top of my head, but I. I would say Andrew was with me. I would say There were between 15 and 20 people working on that job. All different trades. Mostly guys framing, but some guys doing roofing and torching down some roof and so on and so forth. Not one black face. So it's interesting to me that blacks built this country and built the White House and built Washington D.C. and built every major city and have put. They dropped their tool bags or something because they ain't on these jobs physically building it is 100% Latino. There's no black person anywhere near inside. There's no tools, there's no hammers, there's no nothing. It's 100% Latino and zero black. So for a group that built this Country. They stopped building at some point, especially out here. You have that song, Dawson can't find it.
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I'm looking.
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We're weird. Well, we'll have to figure out our. We'll have to figure it out. And those guys are making low end like 250 a day and higher end more like 375 a day. They're getting paid. I'm a broken record with the trades, but fuck, go down the inner city, go find these kids, go down to South Central, let's get some trades cooking. I'm on one house in the middle of the Palisades and I don't know, I'm putting Andrew on the spot, but I don't know if you have any clips of drone shots or anything, but they're doing a house. 5,000 square foot to the right is 75 burned out lots and the left is 75 burnt out lots. There's work to be had to be done. There's one crew, there's a couple of crews, couple of crews working. But if you're a framer or your electrician, rough electrician or rough plumbing, whatever, foundation, concrete, drywall, roofer, all the trades, you're gonna be busy. You're gonna be busy for the foreseeable future and you're gonna be busy making 3, 400 bucks a day and having a trade. And it's not like you're gonna be a thoracic surgeon or anything. You're like a year's worth of apprentice walk onto the job, starting 35, 40 bucks an hour. And then learning every day the fact that there's zero politicians in all of Los Angeles who go, let's go down the inner city, let's go find some of these kids, let's go pull them out of these gangs, let's get them into some of these trades. All that means to me is they don't give a fuck. Because if you cared, absolutely, I mean, you need their vote. You want them agitated, you want them thinking we live in a racist society and so on and so forth. But if you really care, cared, if you really gave a shit, you would go down there and recruit these kids. Cuz all you do is black and brown, black and brown, black and black people, brown, black and brown people. They don't have. This job site's 100% brown. The Browns don't have to worry about it. We're talking about the blacks, everybody. And you can go to amcroll.com and you can look at this. But as Andrew pulls away with his drone, you can see that the house that I toured and we were working on on Friday is there. And then there are hundreds of vacant lots around it. Just dirt lots. All by the way, all $2 million lots. All gonna get a. Here's the math. They're gonna get. It's a $2 million lot. It's going to get a 5,000 square foot home put on there. Whatever they'll allow. The home is going to be 6, 700 bucks a square foot to build. They're going to be 3 million into the thing. They're going to be 5.5 million bucks when they're done. They're going to try to sell it for seven or eight. Wow. That's the math. But it is endless. Burnt vacant lots of. And we could be taking kids. And by the way, once you get into the trades, you stay in the trades. You don't work in the trades for five years and then work at Chipotle because you're making three, four hundred bucks a day.
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Sure.
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And you have a skill. And by the way, these guys are light on their feet. They're bouncing around. They're in a good mood, they're busy. They have pride, they have a skill. They've got their tools. They're like interacting. They got a sense of humor. They're enjoying themselves. The lunch truck shows up, the head out. Have a fun. You know, they're laughing, sitting at the table, eating lunch. They got a life, they got a skill.
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Yeah. The degree of satisf. I think the degree of satisfaction that people get after a job well done, I think we're sort of throwing that out the window and not telling people 100%.
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100%. So if you look at this, you can see the house I'm visiting is alone in a sea of. Just from a still shot up 200ft and down at an angle, you could count 25 vacant lots, all of which are gonna need crews. H vac, plumbing, electrical framers, big crews, foundation, and then everything in between finish. I mean, you know, drywall, everything, sprinkler systems. It's gonna keep going and going and going. And you could be recruiting down at the inner city right now. And you can get a bunch of 17 year olds who are heading for gangs and give them to head toward a job site. But never heard it. I've never. I know we have to fight ice, but other than that, are there other things we could do as a city council?
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You know, I saw on CBS Sunday Morning maybe about a year ago the number one job with black men in middle age probably like 45 plus is truck driver. That's, that's the job that they're going to. And one of the things that, that was during this interview. The guy, when they interviewed him, they said, what's the, what's the biggest thing you get out of it is he goes, I wish I would have started doing something like this earlier. I wish I would have. Instead of just sort of like going job to job, drifting around, having no, you know, no focus on anything. Now I finally have something. I wish I would have had an opportunity to do this earlier had I known that, that if somebody would have pointed me in this direction, I would have gone that way.
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Yeah. Now, I think part of the problem with like LA is the city council's all a bunch of dumb cows and they're chicks and they're not interested in this. They don't really understand it, they don't look forward to it. And by the way, to them it's poor people work. It's like, who's gonna clean your toilets? Who's gonna, you know, the Mexicans? Like, this is, you're supposed to go to college and then you're supposed to be professor and then you're supposed to have an office with a nameplate on the door. Like, you're not supposed to be, you're supposed to be in air conditioning and sitting down and sort of seat with proper lumbar support. You're not supposed to be on your feet. This is for the dumb people. This is for the non college people. So you don't aspire to do this. But when the choice is this or not work at all or join a gang or work at the airport, I would argue this is much better. We're looking at a shot of this house with the drone up 3, 400ft and it is a moonscape of cleared lots. Wow.
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Yeah.
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And one house in the middle getting built. Now, I did say a couple things. I said, why are you guys able to get a permit to build so fast? And he said, well, there was already a house here that was about the same size, so we were able to fast track it. But they do not have to deal with the Coastal Commission. They're not, they are not the coastal people. So once you get away from the coast, even though you're in the Palisades, but you're not on the coast, you're probably, I would say as a crow flies, you're about three miles away from the ocean here, but you're not that close to the ocean. You can see it, but it's in the distance so they don't have to deal with the coastal commission and thus they're able to get their permits. Nobody who is on the coast can rebuild because of the coastal commission.
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How long does a house like that take from shovel into the ground? Day 1 to the day that they cut the ribbon and the family moves in. How long does that take?
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They I said to the builder, I said, how far are you into this? And he said, two months. Whoa, really? I said, two months? He said, yeah. I said, you hadn't poured the slab in two months? He said, no, two months ago. I said, wow. I mean, it's framed up and as far as the inside goes, the wires are pulled, the H VAC is pulled, the plumbing is pulled. I mean, lots of straps, lots of hold downs, lots of steel, lots of earthquake, lots of clips and things like that. That thing is framed up and pretty much needs insulation and drywall. And I said, when are you going to be done? He said, two months. I said, you're going to do this whole thing? We can't build a train from Merced or whatever. We're on year 17 of that. But yeah, when these guys fly, they fly. And the guy knew what he was doing and that was his crew and he moved and he moved fast. And he got his guys and like, here's the thing, he is going to. He's getting paid. So he is moving. It's not like he gets paid one way or the other. He gets paid more when he finishes faster. So he's flying and these guys go fast. I mean, you can frame a 5,000 square foot, two story house. You can go pretty quick if you got a full crew and they're going to. So, yeah, it was kind of interesting to me.
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Yeah.
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When you watch guys that know what they're doing, it is. It's like just watching somebody play a guitar like a virtuoso, you know, Because I. My uncle, longtime carpenter, my stepdad, had the promise of a bedroom in the basement. I'm gonna build you a bedroom. And he went and got the wood and it sat down there for six months. And my uncle came over one day and said, has he not built this room yet? And I'm like, I don't know. Whenever he gets to it and he goes, God damn it. He walks out, grabs his tool belt, comes back in two hours later, we got a framed up bedroom. And he's like, there. Now tell him to goddamn wire this thing and I'll take care of the rest of it.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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And that always upsets the people who don't build.
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Cause he was so embarrassed that he did this.
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They hate it, the people. And that's kind of what LA is. They're sort of process people. They want to sit around, talk about everything. God, you look at this great shot Andrew got. Like everything is burnt out around it. But this house boom went right up. By the way, fireproof or fire retardant plywood on the outside now, which is fire rated sheer wall, basically the outside of the house all shear walled with half inch ply. But anyway, it's fire rated in terms of the fire flat roof, nothing combustible on the roof. They're gonna do a deck on the roof. So it's gonna be like cement on the roof.
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Oh, cool.
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They're doing fire sprinklers on the roof as well. The big thing is no eaves, no wooden eaves, no place where it can. The eaves will be wrapped in stucco. It's a modern contemporary house. And no more wood rafter tails hanging out and eaves getting sucked up, sparks into attics kind of thing. So the whole. Basically the conceit is we are going to make a fireproof envelope around the outside of the house. The inside of the house is still going to be wood and framing and timber and combustible materials. The outside is going to be an envelope of masonry, stucco, roofing material and glass and metal. So the outside will be fireproof. We'll do an envelope of fireproofing around the exterior. And that's how they're doing it, man.
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It seems like everything, whether it be construction, whether it be Hollywood, movies, tv, as long as you can get people out of the goddamn way, people can get stuff done.
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Good point.
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Yeah.
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All right. You got some news there, Rudy? Do you?
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Let's do it, huh?
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Let's do it.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom's characterizations of his humble origins are raising some eyebrows given his family ties to the late billionaire heir Gordon Getty. During a recent appearance, Newsom recounted that his mother, who divorced from his father when he was young, hustled when he was growing up. My mom, yeah, my mom was 19, pregnant and divorced a few years later with two kids. Came from no money and just hustled, you know, worked hard, grinding every single day. Two and a half jobs, no bullshit. We had roommates all the time because she couldn't afford the rent. And throughout his career, Newsom has told similar hardscrabble stories about living in poverty about the time that his. For example, he claimed to have slept on the couch while his sister slept in a hallway because his mother had to rent out the spare bedroom.
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You know, it's kind of interesting. I was thinking sort of the mindset on this. Newsom grew up with privilege. His dad was a judge. His dad was a judge that was pretty favorable to the Getty family, and then later on became in charge of the Getty trust of like $4 billion or whatever. So his dad was a big, heavy hitter, rich guy, and that's where he came from. Bay Area O'Reilly Auto Parts. Pow. Yeah, Catchy tune. You know the jingle. These guys keep your car on the road so you don't end up by the shoulder looking like a dope. Friendly, helpful service people who actually know their stuff, not just some kid who'd rather be on his phone or anywhere other than helping you. I use O'Reilly. I get my parts from O'Reilly. I get my stuff. It's not just parts. I mean, I spilled a whole bunch of hydraulic fluid back here several weeks ago and I needed the stuff to sop it up. O'Reilly has that as well. Thousands of parts and accessories stocked in the store or online. Don't panic when that check engine light comes on. You got O'Reilly wiper blades, brake lights out. They'll help you. And they can help you if you're not a DUI type, find a shop nearby that will take care of the business. So whether you're a gearhead or you don't know a lug nut from a donut, they'll walk you right through it. No attitude, just real help. Stop by O'Reilly Auto Parts today or visit us at O'ReillyAuto.com Adam that's O'ReillyAuto.com.
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Look, there's certain indicators and people should just know the indicators. Like if you open a winery at 25, you probably have some money, some family, some backing or what have you. But I was kind of trying to picture the psychodynamic of it. And we'll hear him. Let's listen to him. And then I'll tell you what I think. But also, you know, it was also about paying the bills. Man, yeah, man, it was just like hustling and. And so I was out there kind of raising myself, turning on the tv. Tv. You know, just.
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D
What?
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A
Getting obsessed, you know, sitting there with the, you know, the Wonder Bread and five stacks of like the white stack.
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D
Five stories.
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A
Come on. Crap. Macaroni and cheese. Cheese. You talking about me, Young yg. Yg. Every day. Every day in the backyard, just bouncing the basketball, throwing the ball against the.
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C
Ball is just like frame, man.
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A
And you yourself, come on, man. So you know what I realized? Obviously he grew up with privilege and his Nancy Pelosi and the whole thing and. Okay, fine, dad. Okay, you can do a bullshit thing where your parents got divorced, but if your dad is handling the Getty Trust for $4 billion, you're fine doing okay. Okay. Now here's what I realized as I was trying to really think about it. He claims he was this, like, he grew up this, this way. He grew up this way. I don't know what. We'll play a clip of him. Here's him talking to me about growing up with a single mom. Let's put it to you this way.
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B
You want to talk some more?
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A
Everyone wants to talk about an even playing field. I tell people there's no such thing as an even playing field. Some people grow up with rich people. Some people grow up their dads own factories they can work at. Some people grow up poor. I grew up poor. I don't know where you grew up. Somewhere in the country. Worked two jobs and we were a foster family and some people. Yeah, so everyone grew up somewhere different. Sometimes your ethnicity holds up. And by the way, in a divorced household where my mother stepped up and stepped in and just my dad wasn't there, didn't mean I, you know, I had no damn chance. There were other factors. Well, he was there for a while. He was there for a year and a half. Really? Yeah. When did he cut out his 18 year old pregnant mother? Had me at 19, my sister at 20, and they were divorced a year and a half later. And now he's, you know, he still.
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C
Played a role in our lives.
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A
All right, so he grew up heartscrabble rich.
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C
Yeah.
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A
Okay. But as I was thinking about this, I was like, all right, let's try to figure out this dynamic. You can clear the screen if you like. I grew up poor. And I didn't grow up like poor sharecropper poor. I grew up about as poor as you could be in the 70s in Los Angeles, which is not Kansas, in the 20s. That was a different kind of poor. That's a. Yeah. Wait in long lines wearing dress shoes.
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C
Yeah.
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A
Poor with dress shoes. Now we have poor with Air Jordans. And that's a different kind of poor. So now there's poor with a smartphone and poor with cable and poor with Uber and you know, that's not really poor. But I grew up about as poor as you could be in sort of semi modern Los Angeles and food stamps and welfare and that kind of stuff. And then I realized I have a totally different perspective on poor people. Like, poor people that I grew up with were fucking lazy and they're complainers. And my mom could have got a job, but she didn't really want a job and she'd rather get welfare and food stamps and complain about the government. And most of the people I hung out with, their parents were kind of like, you know, and they didn't, they weren't exactly hustlers. They didn't work weekends. They did. They like to smoke, they like to drink, they like to watch tv. Like they were kind of poor for a reason.
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C
Yeah.
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A
Which is they didn't. Didn't get their fucking hustle on. Like they didn't make the hay while the sun was shining. Some of it was like substance abuse, some of it was just kind of, you know, kind of a basic low IQ kind of duller, kind of stupid. You know, Part of it was like them kind of trying to game the system a lot, kind of get their hustle on a little bit, you know, Like, I don't mean hustle like hustle movement. I mean like bullshit hustle. Like we would, if there was free spaghetti night at the church, we'd go down there. We didn't have any business getting free spaghetti at the church. My mom could have made spaghetti at home, but this was free, so why not stand in line? Lots of like, tell the school to get the lunch tickets and all that, all that shit. But far as I could tell, a lot of underachieving bullshitters who drank a little too much, who had a couple of vices, who gambled a little even though they had no business gambling and kind of were more into fixing up their own chopper than paying for their kids braces or saving up for college, it was on them. And I was like, you guys are fucking dumb and you're lazy and you're depending on the government to bail you out, but it's not because you're not able bodied. You're just fucking dumb and lazy and you don't fucking wanna do anything. You're Not. And sort of narcissistic. Like, just like, hey, man, I could go do this and go do that on a Saturday. But I'm fucking. I want to hang around and have a beer and relax.
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C
Yeah. You know when people will say things like, they'll look at. Maybe somebody who is 50 years old will see another person who's 50 years old, and they'll go, oh, my God, do I look that old? And you're like, no, no. You look older than that.
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A
Right.
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C
I would love for people to hear people talk about the race to the bottom. I grew up hardscrabble. I grew up with this, I grew up with that. And then afterwards, play them the tape and go, by the way, you sound like that but way more whiny.
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A
Yeah.
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C
Wouldn't they just go, oh, shit, I sound like an asshole.
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A
So the thing about Newsom is I was trying to break it down in my head when he was lying about his hardscrabble. He did not grow up that way. So he doesn't. He may have a sympathy for these people because he doesn't know them.
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C
Sure.
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A
And so the people that don't know these people are constantly like, these are hardworking, proud people who are just looking for a hand up. Not a hand. No, they're fucking lazy people who want the government to fucking pay them and then complain nonstop about rich people not paying their taxes. When they don't pay jack shit for taxes or do anything for anybody. I know them. They're not proud. They're fucking dumb. They're dumb and they're basically lazy. And they do a lot of pushing off on the government and the people that sort of blaming the old man or the lady or the whatever. They do a lot of externalizing. They're fucking lazy, and they're not very motivated and they don't have much ingenuity at all. They're just like, fuck. You know, they're not here to do anything but take care of themselves. And that's how they roll. And then their kids, because they're not being taken care of, essentially just drift off early and they drop out of high school and they don't. And they smoke early and they drink early and they get shitty jobs and they follow the trajectory because there was no guardrails. There's no college savings. There's no tutelage. There's no guidance. There's this, as a matter of fact, the kids are like a liability. And they want those kids to get the fuck out of the house so they don't have to Deal with somebody who wants food, you know, they don't want Mac and cheese all the time, you know, So I got a front row seat to these people, and there's nothing proud about them at all. And it's not just me. My friend's parents were like, I was just saying how my friend. I was saying yesterday, my friend, best friend, Chris, Dad, I mean, we live in an apartment together. His dad had to come stay with us for a month before he checked himself into prison. He was like 48, you know what I mean? These are fuck up losers. Not proud anything. They're fucking grifters who'll take as much free shit as they can get their fucking hands off.
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C
There's nothing sadder than seeing the mom and dad with the goddamn sign at the end of the exit ramp and they got two little kids with them. And every time I'm like, you are showing those kids the worst possible. You never want to end up like this. And why are you showing them that? This is an example of how you get by.
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A
Yes, But I realize Newsom never saw that, cuz he's lying. He's lying about this. Like Kamala Harris has to lie about working at McDonald's. Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie about Hardscrabble because that's their constituency. And in their world, somehow in order to do something for black people, you have to talk black or keep hot sauce in your purse or some sort of bullshit. Hey, man, I lived on Mac and cheese, man. I played basketball, man. You know, I love. I love Fat Albert, man. I love that cartoon, Fat Albert. Ooh, yeah. So he's full of shit. He doesn't know it and he thinks these people need it. I lived it, I saw it. They don't need it. Like, he sent out a. I think it's one of your stories about Snap getting cut off or whatever. He sent out a tweet last night, Newsom did. About 40 million people gonna be denied access to food. But I love the. Denied access. Yeah, Denied access to food. So do you. Get yourself an In N Out burger, someone's gonna slap it out of your hand from the government.
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C
There's that word. Literally again.
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D
Literally.
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A
Yeah. So it says, donald Trump is literally dancing in Asia while 40 million people lose access to food. You don't lose access to food. You lose access to me buying you food. Yeah, you can go get your own food. Hey, Dawson, you're eating right now?
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B
Yep.
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A
Did I buy that food?
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B
Well, yeah.
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A
All right.
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D
You work here.
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A
Did I remove access for you to get that food?
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D
Nope.
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A
No. You bought that food with your money. That's your food. Well, there's not access. Everyone has access to food. Just like you have access to birth control if you work at Hobby Lobby. Now, Hobby Lobby may not buy your birth control, but you still have access.
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B
Maybe. Access is one of his words, though. Remember he said these people don't have access to checking accounts.
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A
Right. So here's the thing. Why do I have access to everything and these people have access to nothing? First off, these 40 million people, 37 million of them are morbidly obese. They're all fat. Yeah. These people have access to fat reserves that are gonna keep going for at least five days.
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C
Oh, God.
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A
I saw at least a fucking 48 hour fast would be the best thing that ever happened to these lazy fat asses. Number one. So they don't have access to food. Okay, so let's cut them off. Do they wither and die on the vine? I'll bet they find a way to eat. Yeah, that's me. I'm optimistic that way. But I wrote they should explore the possibility of getting their own food. I know it sounds crazy and I know, see, Democrats, and especially Newsom, looks at himself as a zookeeper. And they're the animals. And he's in charge of slopping the animals. And they will perish if he doesn't slop them. What he doesn't understand is they can go out and hunt and get their own food. And he's not the zookeeper. And they're not in cages. They have free will.
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C
Yeah. Every time somebody talks about universal healthcare and they go, it's the right. That's why we'll never get universal healthcare. I saw a woman the other day drinking a Nestle's chocolate milk. Like the half gallon of it. Drinking it at a bus stop while simultaneously smoking a cigarette while being 85 pounds overweight. And I thought maybe that's the reason right there. Like we can't take care of ourselves.
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A
That's it, judge. So 40 million people are not going to have access to food. I've never again. I've been poor. You find food. I found it at my friend's house. A lot of times you figure it out. Just like if you're homeless, you find a place to live. Unless you're a junkie, in which case you don't do. We have Josh Gardner. We can work it out. By the way, I haven't heard a song in a while. I like it, but it kind of reminds me of AOC talking about what The Indians do. We can make it work. We can make it happen. Every man, woman and child throughout the land Gotta do our part Gotta love our brother, man we all got to get together, lend the help at hand. Blacks are good at sports, Jews and making money. And Greek folks used to be good at a lot of things. Swedish chicks are hot, French folks are saucy. And Puerto Rican's boogie to that crazy beat. Albanians love sheep, Hispanics love relaxing. And Irish people value good times over family. All right, we got it. They value good times over family.
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C
Great line, man. Great line.
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D
Yeah.
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C
You know, one of the things talking about, you know, people.
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A
Let's hear AOC again, because that reminds me, if we can work it out. Yeah, I like. Yeah. So basically the Indians boogie to their own crazy beat is essentially what. What goes on. She's great. All right, here it is. Let's see.
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D
This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Jews escaping Holocaust, Black American fleeing slavery and Jim Crow. Latinos seeking a better life. Native people standing for themselves, Asian Americans coming together in Queens, in Brooklyn, in the Bronx, in Manhattan, in Staten Island.
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A
Oh, Jesus Christ.
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D
Fucking.
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A
Just talk, Just go do something, would you? Build something. All right, all right, all right. That's weird, but it's attractive. People like the process.
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C
Yeah, yeah. Because look at everybody behind her just nodding their heads the whole time.
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A
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They hate. It's part of the reason also. It's two parts. A, they love process, they love to talk about stuff, but they get really shamed and agitated if you just start building shit without them. So it's like. Like anyone is. So the ballroom fucks them up. They don't like Trump in his ballroom, and they're so agitated because if you really think about it, what's the ballroom? I don't know. It's a ballroom that they need because they used to do shit in a tent with wet grass, and then Trump's donors are gonna pay for it. So your thing as a Democrat should be. Yeah, I don't know. Knock yourself out.
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C
Sure.
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A
Also, I don't know what Trump is. Is Trump's 79. Like, he's gonna turn 80. He's going to be out of there at 83. How much ballroom use is that guy going to really get? You know, I mean, I don't know. You can look it up, but the ballroom is going to take two years to finish.
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C
Yeah.
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A
And he's 80. So how much of this is going to be used by him? Yeah, I would say future generations will probably be Able to use the ballroom more than him. But you should be neither here nor there on the ballroom. But they get agitated. And I've definitely experienced this with roommates where you go, like, why don't we clean up? And they go, I'm not gonna. Fine, I'll start. And you start cleaning around them. And they get pissy. They get really shitty. Like when the room was finished in the basement.
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C
Yeah.
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A
Cause it shames them.
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C
Yeah, it shames them. Absolutely.
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D
Yeah.
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C
And it's the ultimate troll to add something onto the White House that's gonna stand the test of time. And it's gonna be a giant reminder, a big F you to everybody who hated that guy. Did you see the video he posted the other day of him flying the fighter jet, dropping shit all over the no king protesters? The guy is the. They should teach a class on how to troll people and it would just be all of the stuff that he posts.
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A
I think they will hold on. Experts interviewed when New York Times described proposed timetable for the completion of 2029 is optimistic. So not two years then? Like four years is optimistic. Trump's gonna be out of office and well into his 80s, so I don't know how much booging to that crazy beat he's gonna be doing in that ballroom. Yeah, that'd just be for other people.
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C
Yeah. Let's move on. Laugh Factory Chicago manager arrested for allegedly interfering with ice. A manager at the Laugh Factory Chicago was arrested by mass federal agents. And the wild encounter with law enforcement was Caugh. Night manager Nate.
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A
You ever been there?
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C
I have been there. I've met Nate real quick in passing. I don't know him very well. I mean, seriously, we shook hands real quick. I don't really know him and he meets a million people a day. But yeah, I saw this the other day.
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A
Is that in downtown Chicago?
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C
I maybe it was downtown. They do talk about how this was definitely in Chicago. It happened in front of his mother who was in town visiting, but doesn't give an exact. You know what. Actually it said it was outside of the club. That was the first report that I had seen. It's not in this from tmz.
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A
Nate white guy or Nate Hispanic guy?
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C
Nate white guy, beard. Yep.
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A
Okay, so he's. They're doing battle with the ice.
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D
Yeah.
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A
There's no such thing as anything happening without women screaming what's going on? Women are going nuts.
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C
Yeah.
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A
Hold on a second. You know, it's funny. The guy who's being handcuffed and zip tied and tackled is not making a peep but every woman around is screaming at the top of their lungs, what the fuck are you doing? Crazy. So that's him on the ground.
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C
That's him on the ground.
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A
Now, how did he get to there?
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C
You know, they don't show that in the video, but from what some of the reports were with that is that he was interfering with law enforcement while they were possibly interrogating somebody or making an arrest. And that's where. That was the first initial meeting that he had with police officers and ice. And then this is where it ended up. But they don't show. There's no video that shows before that.
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A
There'S something going on. And I think we need to put a PSA out. Cause we haven't really gotten the message. If you fuck around with cops or ICE or uniform, whatever, they just take you down. But for some reason, we have a lot of bravado. It's sort of like every once in a while you see a blonde chick slap a black dude, and it's like he's going to counter that with a stiff right cross. I know you think nothing's going to happen because you're a girl and he's a guy and he's not gonna. And we're in public, he's gonna. So don't do it. And there's a weird thing women have more than men, which I keep seeing, which is they run up to the ICE guy and they start shoving him and screaming and stu, bitch, you're going down to the asphalt. And then when you go down to the asphalt, don't scream, what's going on?
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C
You're surprised by it.
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A
I like the surprise part. I would never be surprised if I tried to fight a cop. So if you get in on them and you start pushing on them or blocking them or whatever, then you go to the ground. Now you can go, why are they there? Oh, I don't know. Well, what right do they have to be there? I don't know. Well, is it good or bad or right or wrong that they're there? That's all a secondary question. It's the first part where you push on them. Don't do it. You'll go down to the ground and then they'll go, why? And it's like, well, because you pushed on them. And then they'll go, but they weren't even. They were in the wrong building. Yeah, I know, but you pushed on them. So now you're on the ground.
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C
Yeah. I think if you play the video a little bit more, you'll actually See, I think the women that are in this video go a little bit more bonkers than what they already are. Like, they kind of really start to.
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A
That's good.
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C
You can bring it up. Yeah. Because I.
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A
So there's two people on the ground.
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C
There's two people on the ground. I don't know if the one is because he was with his mom and I don't know if one of them was his mom that was on the ground with him.
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A
I don't know my. I don't think my mom would ever jump in.
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C
Oh, yeah. Not a chance.
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D
You doing.
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A
Where are you taking him? Where are you taking. Where are we taking him? He's going to Honduras to open a comedy club. He's going to open for Jose Feliciano in Honduras. Where are you taking him? He'll be fine. Yeah.
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C
In a post that came up by Nathan's brother in law, they put out a GoFundMe for legal fees.
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A
Hold on. I would like to hear the chick scream a little more. Oh, just a little more. That's okay. I love women screaming. Women are so miserable now. It's so sad. That's all our fault.
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C
Yeah. And they Gofundme. Though it's posted by his brother in law for legal fees, it turns out that after four hours after being detained, he did pop up in FBI custody. Where he's at now, it doesn't say.
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A
He's at the Zany's in Guadalajara. He's open to Zany's in Guadalajara?
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C
Yeah. Should we go on to Zohan Mamdani's?
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D
Yeah.
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C
So this.
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A
I love this guy.
- [54:44]
C
Oh, my God, this guy.
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A
I love him.
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C
So Zoran Mamdani's dad claims that Nazis took direct cues from the United States. Mamdami, 34, has often credited his father.
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A
Why? Why do people listen to their dads? I thought the whole point, it's like, you think I'd do anything that Jim Carolla did or told me to do? I'm like, I'd do the opposite of what that guy said to do.
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C
I've always said I figured it out early on. If I just do exactly opposite of the people in my life while growing up, I'll be successful. And so far, things are working out.
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A
I did the same thing. I was like, if I just do the opposite of what Rudy's dad would do, I'll be a success. But I have a West coast version of that, which is Jim Carolla, and I'll just do the oppos. Opposite of what he would do. He wasn't even a bad guy. But he wasn't successful at all. So I was like, I'll just do the opposite. But this is Zoram's dad. What about his aunt, though? Who's forced not to ride the subways? That was my favorite story.
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C
So this is where he said that his aunt.
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A
Well, we'll listen to the dad for a second. I love it. He's a good guy. America is the genesis of what we call settler colonialism.
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C
And the American model was exported all around the world.
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E
Abraham Lincoln generalized the solution of reservations.
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C
They herded American Indians into separate territories. For the Nazis. For the Nazis, this was the inspiration.
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E
Hitler realized two things. One, that genocide was doable.
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A
All right, pause it. I don't wanna sound like a broken record, but what are you doing here if it's so bad? If everything's so bad all the time, and your native Uganda is a miracle wonderland. It's Xanadu, where people and unicorns frolic. Then just fucking go there. Just go there then. I really like. Not for me, for you. For you with. So much better. It's so much better. Just go there.
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C
Yeah.
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A
Jesus Christ. I love. I love the aunt. I love Zoran's aunt who the poor woman was scared to ride the subway with the hijab on.
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C
Yeah.
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A
Because it's a great story. Yeah, it's great.
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D
Yeah.
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C
It's funny because he had basically said, it seems like she was the real victim of 911 who was scared of taking the bus while wearing her hijab. Right.
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A
But let's. Let's just. Just play it for a second. Let's see.
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C
I want to use this moment to speak to the Muslims of New York City.
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A
Good. Let's talk to them. What's going on? Muslims, New York City.
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C
I want to speak to the memory of my aunt who stopped taking the subway after September 11th because she did not feel safe in her hijab.
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A
Mm. Okay. Let me just say this. You know, we do this thing. It's like, by the way, his aunt didn't live in New York, didn't wear a job, and wasn't here during that time period.
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C
Yeah. You wanna feel unsafe, wear a Blue Jays hat down to the Dodger Stadium today. That's a feeling of unsafe.
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A
Yes. She was in Tanzania or something, I think. I can't read it from here. But she wasn't in the country. She wasn't on the subway. She didn't have a job. But other than that, it's a perfectly accurate story. Just like Kamala Harris is working at McDonald's and Gavin growing up hardscrabble. It's a great parable, except for it never happened. But here's the thing. After 9 11, there was a lot of like, hey, there's a thing where some guy driving a ram truck yelled at a guy in a 711 because he was wearing a turban. It's like, did he put his hands on him? No. You know, it's really not that bad considering 3,000 people are dead and the towers are gone. I feel like as a nation, I don't know what you're expecting, but I don't know that the Middle east folks would have done much better. And here's all I'm saying, if I was just like living in Iraq and they had a financial center with two big skyscrapers and the Rams team plane flew into it and took them both down. And then I was like, why can't I wear my rams hat on the subway the next day? Someone's go, just because you shouldn't, you know? And I mean, why not? I wasn't flying that plane. I can't wear my rams hat. No, I just. Just for a couple months, for. This is bullshit, man. By the way, I would be torn apart limb from limb if I put my rams hat on and went down to subway in Tehran the next morning. So this thing now, obviously this never happens. So he's just a fucking liar. More victim shit, more sympathy shit. I get it. That's how you run. You run on pretending you're poor and pretending you're victim. Zoran has to pretend he's poor and he's a victim at the same time. He's rich and he's not a victim. And your aunt didn't even fucking live here. But keep lying. And by the way, the people that vote for this guy, you should have thoughts about continuous lying.
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C
They're okay with it when he lies, but when Trump lies, when anybody else on the right lie now, they're the worst people. I can't believe that people vote for these people, put them into power.
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A
Also, there's a weird thing. I don't mind the lie that said you won the golf championship at the club or you're all Central Valley or something in high school or something. I don't like it. I don't mind it. For some reason, the victim lie bothers me more and I don't know why, but my aunt couldn't wear the hijab. Also, first off, you can take a cab for three months.
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C
Sure.
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A
You don't have to ride the subway. Also, nobody did anything to your aunt, by the way. Your aunt didn't ride the subway. But if she did, no one would have put hands on her. Yes. Maybe she got a look. Okay. I'd say it's a small price to pay.
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D
Yeah.
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C
I had a guy this weekend tell me that at the age of 17, went on tour playing for Earth, Wind and Fire and then was also a colonel in the army. I'm like, wow, they give you enough time from Earth, Wind and Fire to go work your way up the ranks of the US Military. And he was like, yep, totally happened. I was like, you do realize, dude, this is a easy Google search to find out.
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I know they did, but I don't even care.
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C
Who cares? I know it's bullshit, but it's a fun lie.
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They found Zoran's aunt. His only aunt was living in Tanzania and not wearing a hijab in 10 minutes and then put it up. I don't know why, but again, I don't know. You said you worked at McDonald's. It's discernible.
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Yeah.
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Not bothersome that you didn't. All right, we will take a little break. Eric Trump is going to join us. Rudy, you got dates. La Jolla, Comedy Store coming up.
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Yeah.
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November 7th through the 9th. And then heavy rotation brewing in Minnesota or Minneapolis.
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C
Yeah, Minneapolis. Yeah, it'll be a good one. That's a black Friday.
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A
So right after Thanksgiving, that's November 28th. And we'll take a quick break. Be back with Eric Trump right after homes.com. some might say homes.com is the best home shopping site. I would be amongst those some. And maybe homes.com's super comprehensive and transparent agent directory. Or Maybe it's at. Homes.com is the only site that that always directly connects you with the listing agent who knows the home the best. Or Perhaps it's because homes.com has the most in depth neighborhood content of any home shopping site that's extensively researched to highlight the personality of each neighborhood. Yes, they're very granular over there. Homes.com goes above and beyond to bring home shoppers the in depth info they need to find the right home and find it fast. I love these guys. It's a hobby. It's a passion. I go to holmes.com holmes.com We've done your homework, Morgan. And Morgan. Well, there's a reason why Tom Brady's got seven rings. That's some bitch. Seven rings. Just like there's a reason Morgan. Morgan is America's largest injury law firm over 20 billion recovered for more than 500,000 clients. That's not a slogan. That's results. In one Florida case, insurance offered 350k client walked out of there with 12 million. They've been doing this for 35 years. Fighting for the people. Morgan and Morgan. It's America's largest injury law firm. For the people, not the powerful. It's Morgan and Morgan. Right, Dawson?
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If you're ever injured, you can check out Morgan and Morgan. Their fee is free unless they win. For more information, go to for the People.com Adam or dial pound law pound 529 from your cell phone. That's F O R the People.com Adam or pound law pound 529 from your cell. This is a paid advertisement. The Adam Carolla show presents Eric Trump's birthday cocktail party for January 6th 6th. Let's see who's invited. Here's King of England, Richard II. Let's welcome Roman Catholic saint and national heroine of France, Joan of Arc. Here's Abraham Lincoln's dad, Thomas Lincoln. Let's welcome American actor, comedian and coffee table enthusiast Danny Thomas. Welcome banjo legend Earl Scruggs. Here's coach Lou Holtz from Notre Dame fame. Let's welcome Pink Floyd's first frontman, Syd Barrett from the fabulous Thunderbirds. Here's vocalist Kim Wilson. ACDC's Malcolm Young is here. Hey, it's Mr. Bean. Rowan Atkinson. The Walking Dead's Norman Reedus just walked in. Here's volleyball star Gabrielle Reese with Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston. And not sure if this counts, but the British fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. Eric Trump is on the Adam Carolla Show.
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A
I was thinking about that. Eric Trump is on with me that when I heard your book went number one on New York Times. The New York Times is a bestseller list, but it's not how many units were sold. It's a quiet proprietary herbs and spices like the kernel, like kfc. They don't tell you what's in it. And they'll usually use it to skew folks they like or don't like, depending on how their politics are. So when you get to number one on New York Times bestseller as a conservative, that means you really sold a lot of units.
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D
So I went into this thing saying, listen, it has to be too big to rate, right? No different than the election. It has to be too big to rig. And so honestly, Adam, we went in there, we absolutely crushed it. And I think, honestly, the entire country is pissed off. I called it under siege because it wasn't just our family under siege. It wasn't just me under siege. It was our entire nation that was under siege. It was all Americans that were under siege. You talk about it all the time, and I think you have one of the best voices as it pertains to the nonsense that they've done to all of us. But there was almost a referendum and it was almost done through this book and, and the numbers were some of the biggest that the publishers have ever seen.
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Well, in a way, it's what I've been talking about for a long time. It's kind of the Gutfeld theorem, which is, look, you can't just have a late night host that caters to half the country. Somebody else is gonna have to make a product that caters to the other half. Now it's safe to poke your head out, say how you feel, live in Hollywood, and so on and so forth, but when it was eight or nine years ago, I started saying the stuff I was saying, and people are like, shut up. You're gonna ruin your career. You're not gonna get any advertisers, you're gonna get dropped, nobody's gonna follow you. It's taboo. And I'm happy to say that pretty much in large part because of your family, especially your dad, that, that the pendulum is swung and you're able to go, hey, this is the way I feel. And by the way, I may be more popular with these thoughts than you were with your thoughts some years ago.
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Yeah, well, isn't that amazing? I mean, there's kind of a quote out there. Everything woke goes to. You know what, right? The crap. Everything woke goes to shit. And that's what's happened. I mean, look at the Emmys, look at the Oscars. Look at everything that they've tried to go woke with, right? It's all disappeared. Look at, we used to own Miss Universe, right? As soon as we literally sold it, they decided to put Ms. Ms. Spain was actually Mr. Spain. And guess what? No one watched Miss Universe anymore. It went woke and it absolutely went to hell. Adam, my wife has a, you know the number one show on Fox News on the weekends at 9 o' clock on Sunday night. You know, that's Death Valley in terms of rating. She's getting better ratings. She's getting like 2.3, 2.4 million people on a Saturday night at 9:00'. Clock. She's getting substantially more ratings than network TV is at 9:00 clock during the week. What does that tell the entire world? So, and by the way, the worse they do, the more they Try and cling to relevancy, which means that they do worse and worse and worse. And it's kind of this perpetuating cycle. No one likes the mainstream media anymore. We had negative 98% media coverage against our family for the last 10 year period of time. And yet my father had the most resounding victory in modern American politics. We won every swing state, we won the popular vote, every state tacked to the right. We won 11 counties in California that had never been one before. The point is their message isn't working. The point is the people of this country don't like them. And by the way, I think the Republicans approach humor as a joke and kind of funny snarkiness, right? And they poke humor. We've definitely won the meme war. The problem is on the other side now, they've just become mean. I've seen so many clips of Jimmy Fallon. These guys, they've become mean people. Like, they can't do humor in a funny way. They have to do it in a mean way. And I think that's the turn off to a lot of people.
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Well, you know, alluding to what you were talking about, Oscars, Emmys and all these legacy shows that used to be appointment watching, I'll just put it to you this way. And this is kind of my head on it. If you go back 30 years, the Oscars and the super bowl were sort of the two big appointment, sit down, can't miss TV moments. Even my screwed up family would watch the Oscars together and then you'd watch the Super Bowl. Some months later, the Oscars started tampering with their brand. They started getting woke and they started moving pieces around and they started saying, look, we need certain amount of representation and we need feminine, we need gay, we need black, we need his, we need this. And as they started doing that, that's when the viewership started falling off because it ceased to be a meritocracy. We went, wait a min. Is moonlight really the best film of the year? Or is it just because that guy's gay and black? And once you enter that question mark into America's head, we start going, nah, the super bowl, they were probably neck and neck 30 or 40 years ago. Now the Super Bowl's 100 million, whatever, and the Oscars is 4 million or whatever. They've pulled away because last year super bowl had two black quarterbacks starting because there were two best players on their team and in the league. That's why they start. No one ever questioned why there was a white Middle linebacker or why the cornerback was black. It was just the best meritocracy. And now we're all going to watch and enjoy. And when you start tampering with that, when you go, well, who's starting at free safety? The coach's son, really? Because that guy runs like a 5, 5, 40. No. Then we stop watching. And they don't understand that they're hurting their brand when they start making these decrees about representation.
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D
Sure. And no one gives a damn what Meryl Streep has to say about politics. Do me a favor. Act, act, entertain us. That's what we're paying for. We're not paying for your political views because we don't give a damn. And most of these people don't actually understand politics or are pretty disenfranchised from actually the average American in these swing states that feel like they've been so left behind. But honestly, Adam, even to. Even to the NFL, look what was happening under Colin Kaepernick, right? NFL ratings went to hell as you had a guy who was making, what, 30 million bucks a year or something along those lines, kneeling as. As they played the national anthem, you know, kneeling for the American flag. People didn't like that at all. People literally were canceling their NFL subscriptions, you know, left and right, you know, and then all of a sudden, my father comes in. You know what NASCAR does? They embrace it. They've got the Blue Angels flying overhead. They've got the B2 bombers flying overhead. They're playing patriotic music. Everybody's standing there, and all of a sudden, all these people rushed to something that they actually appreciate. They appreciate that something actually stood behind our country and the values of our country. And so, again, you know, if it turns woke, it dies. Look at the Nobel Peace Prize. Like, that's like almost the latest example that no one's talking about right now. So my father stopped all these wars. He's created peace. He's done things that everybody thought was impossible. People on both sides of the conflict are actually thrilled, right? I mean, in India and Pakistan, you had Modi, you had the PM in Pakistan both come out and say, thank you. Thank you, President Trump, for what you did. You had the same thing, obviously, with Israel and Palestinians. They both came out and said, hey, thank you. What you did was incredible. You didn't have that during World War II, where the Germans weren't exactly thrilled, thrilled that they lost World War II. The Japanese weren't, you know, the Japanese weren't exactly thrilled that they lost. Here you have both parties on both sides of these conflicts, who are, who are saying thank you. And yet the Nobel Peace Prize still won't give the Nobel Peace Prize to Donald Trump. So you know what's going to happen? That award is going to fade into oblivion. It's going to become politicized. People are going to roll their eyes to it because they know there's political forces behind it, as opposed to what you just said before, meritocracy, you know, and it's going to lose the value. And that's actually really sad. And something that should keep, you know, there's such a need for an award like that around the world. Great people who do great things should be awarded a great award that's respected, but that's going to fade into oblivion if they don't start taking that job seriously again. Everything that turns woke turns to. And I can give you a thousand other examples of that.
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Yeah. For you, I mean, it must be nice to be on, on the popular side of the high school lunch bench now versus the endless, just sort of amount of shit you guys had to sort of needlessly absorb with a constant defensive posture. If he never said that or he didn't call the unknown soldier a pussy or whatever, it just was endless. It was as endless and it has, regardless of how thick your skin is or how stiff your spine is, it's taxing and at least not enjoyable versus being on the sort of winning side of the equation. Right.
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But, Adam, the difference is, and I agree with you 100%, it's much nicer being on this side. But the difference is all of it was manufactured. I always called it manufactured outrage. Right, Right. They would come up with something. And I'll never forget, I got, I got asked a question like, you know, if, if, if you're, you know, what would your father think if your sister was in a workplace where she was getting harassed, harassed by her boss? And I said, I think my sister would, you know, my father would want my sister to, to leave that job to get the next day, you know, nothing, nothing the next day, nothing the following day, two days later. How dare you, Eric Trump. Not everybody has that kind of upward mobility. And I'm sitting there saying, give me a break. Like, you're, you're manufacturing outrage right now for, for talking points like, no father would want their daughter in a workplace where they were otherwise getting attacked. But right now you're just trying to manufacture a story that doesn't exist. Right. And we dealt with so much of that. And, but beyond that, they manufactured all of this. I mean, the book that you have right in front of you. I mean, I was the guy, Adam, that was getting calls from the FBI saying, I hear you have secret servers in the basement of Trump Tower communicating with the Kremlin. Right? I called him. Come over to Trump Tower. Take a look. First of all, we're not smart enough to communicate with the Kremlin. We hardly knew what a delegate was at that point. Right? Like we knew nothing about politics. Believe me, we were trying to figure out how to win Iowa, not communicate with the Kremlin, but come over to Trump Tower, Take a look. Take a look for yourself. And they let this BS percolate for a 3 year period of time, not only to try and get Hillary a couple extra votes, but then to give them, allow them to save face when she lost to a bunch of people that knew nothing about politics. I dealt with this manufactured nonsense every single day. That was the siege. It was the dirty dossiers where they're claiming my father didn't. Unthinkable things. Golden showers and all sorts of crap, which was all paid for by the Democratic Party. Right. I became the most subpoenaed person in American history for never, ever doing anything wrong. It was all manufactured to try and take us out of the race. I mean, we ended up spending $400 million defending ourselves off of BS, all because they wanted to get rid of us. They had a mainstream media, which was effectively the PR arm of the Democratic Party, who would carry their water every single day. It's the life that we live. But that was very different than the American people where every place I went, we're praying for your family. We love your family. Never stop fighting. Never stop being unpolitically correct and non politically correct. Go out, say what's on your mind. Say what we're all thinking. America is behind you. We love you. We appreciate the fact they're fighting for red, white and blue. Go get them. And so, so much of what you're referring to is just manufactured outrage that was perpetrated through media that otherwise hated us, not actually the sentiment of the American people.
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Well, it is interesting. And first off, back to the technology of Trump Tower. I stayed at Trump Tower for Celebrity Apprentice and I couldn't get my sling box to work because the Internet wasn't good enough. So not a bastion of communication technology coming out of the Trump Tower in Manhattan. It's nuts. It's also crazy. People put together these montages from 2017 or 2019 with all the Brennans and the clappers and the FBI and the CIA and the congresspeople and the senators and stuff. These never ending montages of them sitting up there looking very earnest and concerned, sort of saying, I wish it wasn't true. But there's many indications that Trump, Trump is a cat's paw to Putin and all this stuff. And you look at it and it's like they're so earnest and they have such a poker face and they all have credentials that go back 30 or 40 years and you're like, oh my God, none of this was true. And I saw one recently where they even wheeled Jimmy Carter out there to get in on the act. And I realized Jimmy Carter didn't even know what was going on at the time. They just sort of pushed him out and said, start talking about Russian collusion. And he did. Cuz he was fed all this stuff. It has to be almost surreal to look back at that.
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It is. I mean, they took that guy, Michael Sussman, apparently this is what's been obviously reported. And he went into the FBI, he said, hey, listen, I have a tip. Trump is colluding with Russia. He effectively leaves there, as it's reported, calls the Washington Post, calls the New York Times Times and says the FBI is looking into Trump for Russia collusion. And New York Times and the Washington Post calls the FBI and says, hey, are you, look, you know, are you investigating Trump for Russia collusion? At this point, they had gotten a tip from the same people who tipped them off. And what are they supposed to say? No? So they say no comment, which means that they're investigating Trump for Russia collusion. Here we go. We just pitted the two biggest nuclear superpowers against each other to get one greedy woman, you know, a couple more votes. I mean, Adam, you know, I'm a guy, you know, I love Charlie Sheen. And by the way, I was watching him on your show. Amazing. You know, I'm a guy who's never touched a drug in my life. I'm a guy who's lived clean life. I've never gotten speeding ticket. You know, I've lived a really clean life. I've never touched that edge in, in any way, shape or form. I became the most subpoenaed person in American history for never doing a damn thing wrong. Had I had Hunter, you know, Hunter Biden's laptop, you know, hookers marrying my dead brother, you know, wife, if that was the case. Entities all over the world, even though you were selling zero product, like, I'm still trying to figure out what product Hunter Biden sold that he needed all these shell entities and all these funds flowing through. I mean, if he's such a great businessman, like where's his website? What product? You know, what I do? Golf, hotels, residential, commercial. Could you imagine if I was out there finger painting every single day? Yet you had 51 intelligence officers who signed a memo saying that his entire laptop was, was quote unquote, Russian disinformation. I mean, who do you think Putin would rather have in the Oval Office? Donald Trump or Joe Biden? Give me a break.
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Yes, so I've shouted about that many times. Like, why would he want Trump? Here's what I'm saying. It's a prison and we're able to do what we want. We can make pruno wine in our toilet, we can smoke crack, we can have sex under this warden. Why do we want a law and order warden taking over this prison? If you're a bad actor and you run a bad country and you're a despot leader and you're up to whatever you're up to, that's negative. You don't want law and order. You don't want a law and order president coming in. And it's pretty obvious. And the thing about Hillary Clinton, it would have been live and let live. I believe whatever it is you're up to abroad, it would be business as usual. Or if you were bringing fentanyl in from the southern border, like who do you think any of these drug narco state, China, fentanyl, Mexico cartels, do you really think they wanted a Donald Trump in there?
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They're getting vaporized. They're on their like seventh drug boat in the last like four hours, right? You, you, you watch these missiles fly in and take out these little center console boats that have, you know, that have thousands of pounds of fentanyl on that, that are going to kill unthinkable amounts of kids. I personally have four friends who have lost children due to fentanyl. So every single time I, I see these guys get vaporized, I cheer just because I know the anguish in the hearts of friends who. Kids have literally been poisoned in this country, you know, with those very narcotics. But yeah, you know, you're Venezuelan cartel, you're a Mexican cartel member, you want Donald Trump who seals the border. Of course not.
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Right, so it doesn't make intuitive sense just at jump street, but as you start getting into it and Steele dossier and who paid for it and James Comer and Clapper and all that kind of stuff, it really becomes clear at a certain point what happened. But I thought maybe we could sort of walk through it from a timeline standpoint. And I'm curious about the exposure for someone like Barack Obama who went his trajectory. Obama's trajectory historically is going to be sort of that of Anthony Fauci, like, sort of hero to the left. Handles next coming build a shrine. He is science. He's politics, scandal, free administration. But as the years wear on, I don't think history's gonna be kind to either one of those two, but I think they'll fall in the same place, which is sort of of folk hero to what was this guy up to and how come we didn't know about it? That's kind of my Fauci Obama take.
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D
I think the slide has already happened with Obama. I mean.
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Oh, it's starting. Yeah.
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D
Yeah. I think he was above reproach when he came out of office. And I think that slide is happening in a very big way. I mean, look at the presidential library. You know, the thing is a $1.6 billion mess. I mean, he's effectively managing that as he did the government. You know, it's hundreds of millions of dollars, reportedly over budget. You know, doesn't look like anything's getting done. I mean, I built. I built the tallest building in Chicago. Second tallest building in Chicago. Right. I got done on budget, on schedule. I know how to build in Chicago. It's kind of what I've done my entire life. They're building a thing that looks like a prison, and, you know, it doesn't seem like it's anywhere near completion. It's an ugly building. Nothing's going right. The irony is that they're getting sued for discrimination at the Obama library. I mean, who could have ever made that up in a bad fairy tale? So you can't make any of this stuff up. But listen, so much of this stuff was orchestrated. It looks like all the reports are coming in now suggesting that Obama was the very one who obviously came up with a Russian collusion hoax. He did that initially to get her more votes, but then he did that afterward, obviously to allow the Democratic Party to save face as to why a guy like me and my father and a couple of us who were out there fighting every single day in every one of these swing states was able to win an election, you know, not knowing a damn thing about politics. It's really. It's really amazing how that works and, you know, and that plagued our country. I mean, imagine pitting the two largest nuclear superpowers against each other, effectively disabling their lines of communication because you want to make up a narrative that otherwise furthers your political party. And that was all. That was all Obama. Then you look at the Mar A Lago raid. I mean, you want to talk about other dishonesty, look at the Mar A Lago raid. I was the guy that got the call from my team, right, sir, there's 30 FBI agents here with a search warrant. They wanted to come into Mar A Lago, and they wanted you to immediately authorize us to turn off all security cameras. I go, under no circumstance, you turn off those security cameras. I go, why are they there? Sir, they're here. Apparently, on behalf of nara, I go, NARA National Archives. Adam, the National Archives is like, effectively, like a glorified public library. Right, Right. Does anybody actually believe that NARA was the reason that they were invading my father's home and Melania's room and Baron's room? Of course it wasn't. That all camera from Joe Biden, and it came from, you know, the crooks in. In Washington D.C. and it's painful for me to say that because I love this country and I love law enforcement. I love the gun carriers, and I love the guys who get the bad guys off the street. But they weaponized every aspect of the system. That. That is the siege. And by the way, when that siege didn't work, they didn't bankrupt us. They didn't. You know, they. I mean, they indicted 91 times my father. 91 times. I was in the courtroom with him every day. They weaponized the IRS against us. They weaponized the IRS against everybody. They took away his free speech. You know, they gag ordered him. And when none of that worked, they tried to kill him. They tried to kill him in Butler. Then they tried to kill him again, obviously, at the golf course, you know, eight weeks later. This was the siege that they were orchestrating, and it was the deep state. All of it was coordinated. I'm not talking about Butler for a second. But you better believe that their rhetoric caused that violence, and you better believe that every aspect of that siege was coordinated. As Letitia James was walking into the White House every day, as Alvin Bragg was walking into the White House every day. I mean, it was a total setup. It was the greatest conspiracy in the history of this country, and somebody should pay the price for the crimes they committed against this nation.
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I agree. And so I have a couple thoughts. First is a sort of disappointment, like what they tried to do with your dad and your family. I sort of feel that way about many of the January 6th participants, like. Like, you're just gonna take this taxpaying elderly citizen and have them rot in solitary, even though you know they didn't do anything wrong or this was not them trying to overturn the government or anything? You're fine with that person just rotting in prison so you can make a point and score points? That's fine. Like, there's a moral part of it that is gross. You know what I mean?
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They didn't give a damn.
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Yeah, that's my whole point.
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They had senators coming out and saying, please take away all Secret Service protection from Donald J. Trump. He doesn't deserve to have it. They wanted him killed.
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Right?
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I mean, they were thrilled with that. They broke into the cell phones of every single January 6th protester, every grandmother who's walking around the halls of the Capitol taking selfies, but yet the person who tried to take off my father's head with a rifle at 130 yards, thank God he turned when he did. You know, we've seen one picture of the kid when he was, like, 14 years old. Again, I'm not a tinfoil hat person. Right? But this entire country is pissed off at the unequal scales of justice. They put exponentially more time into investigating that January 6th person who did absolutely nothing wrong than they did figuring out who this damn kid was and who he is talking to and who he is conspiring with. We know nothing. We've gotten zero answers. And yet, you know, it was three years of hell for the January 6th people, many of which, as you said before, were absolutely rotting in hell before they even had due process allowed to go out there and sit in front of a court. And by the way, most of the judges were totally weaponized against them. They were giving them maximum sentences for things that they didn't even deserve.
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Right?
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And by the way, it pissed off. And they did that to scare people. They did that to scare people. They did that to intimidate people. No different than they indicted my father 91 times. They did that to scare him. No different than every DA and AG tried to get me to turn on my father, you know, in every way, shape, or form. You know, congratulations, all this will stop if you just. Just tell us anything you want. Right? And, I mean, it was. It's the greatest shakedown. It made the tactics of the mob look like child's play, what these people were doing. And that was our federal government. And again, I'm not a conspiracy guy. I am a normal guy. I am a pragmatist in life. But What I saw really opened my eyes to the system at hand. And it's scary as hell. And it can't be our system, it can't be the United States of America. I agree.
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And there's a part where I talk about just they cross, the kind of decent, moral, human thing. And it sort of reminds me of Mike Nifeung who was running for DA and the whole Duke lacrosse thing where it's like you were fine taking 19 year old boys who are innocent and destroying their life so you could get reelected. Like, yeah. So you're just gonna take these guys and put them in jail for the rest of their lives and hang a mantle of rapist on them and then you could never work again so you could get another four years as district attorney or whatever. It's like, yeah. And it's like there's a part of me that's almost like, wow, you can do that. You're not Al Qaeda, you're not a Mexican drug lord. You're an educated citizen who's running for office and you're fine with this. So you're fine with taking people you know are innocent and putting them in a hole in a prison for January 6th so that you can score a couple of points politically and hopefully keep Trump from a second term. Yeah.
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Power's so corrupting, by the way.
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Yes, it is, by the way.
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That's the entire democratic process. Right. You have these AOCs who've never accomplished anything, never had a job in their life. Life. Never signed the front of a check, never balanced a checkbook, never had to make payroll, never did anything of any substance. She goes in there, she's got a microphone for the first time. She's sitting in this beautiful white marble office overlooking the National Mall, overlooking Washington D.C. and Supreme Court and everything else. There's people coming up there and kissing her butt every single day and whining and dining her every single day and begging her and doing everything that every lobbyist does in Washington D.C. and for the first time in her life, she's got a calling. She doesn't want to lose this power. Right. And the same is true of most of the politicians. Right. The difference in a lot of the Republicans is most of them had careers before they went into the job. And I can name so many where they're doing this because they've gained some success and now all of a sudden they want to serve our nation. Right. These weren't the 22 year old that went in there again with no experience and were enamored by a System and wealth and power that was so far beyond what they had ever seen before. My father can be a straight shooter. You know why? He doesn't give a damn. Honestly, I would say that the White House is a step backward for him, right? Going in there, taking arrows to the back every day, getting shot at, getting indicted every single day. His life would have been a hell of a lot nicer, you know, staying in Mar a Lago, playing golf, hanging out with grandkids, making a lot of money, you know, doing the real estate stuff that we do better than anybody. You know, being the epitome of the American dream. Right. He went backward and that's why he can be honest about it. And also he has a checkbook that he can be on. He doesn't give. He doesn't need the lobbyist. He self funded his entire first campaign. He doesn't need these people. He's no longer enamored. So he can make the right decision, he can do the right thing. That DA that you're talking about probably needed that job. That was their claim to power. That's the first form of relevancy that they've ever had. Hence the reason they're willing to destroy a 19 year old's life for no reason whatsoever. But it's not just that. I mean, look at Kavanaugh. They were willing to destroy Kavanaugh for no reason whatsoever because he had what, a beer when he was in high school. They were willing to destroy his life. They were willing to destroy my life. They wanted me off that stage. They wanted me bankrupt. They wanted the Trump name gone off of every building in New York. They wanted me in prison. They wanted us gone. They would have done anything to see us gone. Yeah, and then, Adam, they resort to violence. I mean, you saw what they did to Charlie Kirk, right? When they lost the narrative, when they weren't smart enough to make coherent arguments that won over the American people. Guess what they did? They yell at us. They call us fascists. And then one of their guys goes on top of a rooftop, dresses up in black and shoots a 31 year old in the neck from 200 yards away.
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Yeah. What I sort of say is the old guard, the Pelosis and the Chuck Schumers and all these people, they start doing Hitler and fascist and they don't believe it, obviously, they're just saying it, but weaponized 19 year old on prescription meds who's been playing video games nonstop since he was 11. He believes the fascism that they're talking about. And so what they're kind of doing is they're going fascist, Nazi. That's just us talking. Don't listen to us. And it's like, well, no, someone is listening to you. The 19 year old who's been weaponized and stole his dad's gun. So this thing of like, well, it's just rhetoric. It's both sides. No, there it is, a call to action. I bring up the French Resistance and the French underground during World War II. Those people were heroes for fighting Hitler and Nazis. Nobody says they shouldn't have done it. They forged papers, they posed and stole uniforms. They had a whole underground world. And if one of them could have gotten a clean shot at Hitler, they would have been the hero of World War II and certainly the French underground because they were engaged in a noble cause, stopping Hitler. So you can't call somebody Hitler and then not expect some sort of resistance to pop up.
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But isn't that amazing how like the whole identity politics game has disappeared, Right? You go back to 2017. Donald Trump is sexist. Well, that kind of disappeared after his first campaign manager, the first campaign manager, the winning campaign manager in American history, Kellyanne Conway, happened to be a woman. So he's so sexist that he put, you know, a woman in charge of his campaign. You know what's really funny? The 2024 campaign, Susie Wiles, isn't that interesting that both his campaign managers were female, right? So let's throw the whole sexism thing out the window, you know, and then, well, he's anti Semitic. That's kind of funny because my sister's Jewish. She actually converted over to Judaism. And he's probably been the greatest president to Israel in the history of the world. And he's done more for, you know, First Amendment slash freedom of religion than any president history. So that went out the window. Then all of a sudden they post his mug shot, right? Which they didn't need to do. All they were trying to do with the mug shot was embarrass him, right? And guess what happens? That takes every inner city community and it instantly flips them. Wait, wait a second. The same thing that they've done to so many members of our communities, they're doing to this guy now. I like him. So that kind of threw out the whole racism thing. And then the fascist. I could go on and on and on. The problem is the Democrats got so wild that they actually killed identity politics.
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Right?
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They killed it. And by the way, they're actually the people who have done the worst for the inner cities. I mean, look At Chicago, Chicago's been run by Democrats for the last hundred years and seventy shootings. And then when my father goes in to clean up the city, they reject the National Guard. And by the way, and you have got community members within those inner city communities wearing MAGA hats saying please President, please come clean up our streets because we can't live like this anymore. You know, the Democrats identity politics died and it died years ago. And as much as they wanna say it, albeit I agree with you 100%, they are absolutely torching the minds of young kids who don't know any better. It's just not believable within society anymore.
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I agree. I've said for a million years there's never been a better time to actually be a racist because you would just get lumped in with the rest of humanity that was called a racist but actually weren't a racist.
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Isn't that sad? It is.
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It used to mean something like it really meant something that if somebody got caught saying something racist or doing something, it was a big deal. And now if somebody said, oh did you hear Tucker Carlson said this racist thing, or Eric Trump or Don Jr. Said a race, I'd go, yeah, yeah, right, okay, sure sir, I don't need to hear it because you say every.
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Day they've done that point eight times. Of course I can't tell you how many times they've tried to do that.
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But it doesn't mean anything anymore. Yeah, oh yeah, let's kind of break this down cuz I'm interested in this. And I've said recently when they said now Trump wants revenge. Lawfare. He wants revenge. And I'm like, well, revenge. What is revenge? Well, revenge in western movies is they burn the guy's ranch down and they kill his wife and his family and now he wants revenge. It wasn't they left him alone and now he wants revenge. That's not a story. Every third movie they tried to kill this guy or they kidnapped his daughter, his wife, and now he's coming for revenge. So it's funny that they go, he just wants revenge. Well I'm like, revenge from what? Cuz you're only telling the second part of the story. You had to have done something in order for him to get revenge. And revenge has a real negative connotation to it. But it's like, well, if you try to destroy his family and now he's in charge, well I think he's allowed to look into you. He's not allowed to manufacture things, but he's allowed to look into the people that tried to destroy him and his family.
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By the way, Adam, it's not even looking into them. They dug so deep in every one of these situations that they found themselves. There's no looking into people. We know that Jack Smith planted documents at Mar A Lago that came out in the court case. He took folders in there that said top secret. He lay them out on my father's office floor. They took pictures of them and they disseminated them to the entire mainstream media, which is the only images people saw for months on end. They manufactured those pictures. They manufactured the Russia hoax, which literally destroyed our country for a three year period of time to allow Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party to save face as they lost embarrassingly to people who didn't know what a delegate was three weeks earlier. They manufactured it. They manufactured the Russia, you know, the dirty dossier, you know, story steal dossier that my father was sleeping with prostitutes, that he was, had golden showers, all this stuff because they want. That was there, as John Podesta said, that was their October surprise, right? As defined by something that gets popped on you so late that you don't have enough time to disprove it and it does the damage.
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Right?
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This isn't about revenge. They were caught in the act because we had to defend ourselves from these accusations. And then we found their dirty fingerprints all over the crime scene. And now all of a sudden they say, no, no, no, just kidding, just kidding. Sorry about the $400 million you guys personally spent on lawyers to keep yourselves out of jail. We were just kidding.
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Well, if somebody wants to know, sort of the deep state. I would use this as an example. The Steele dossier was never real, didn't really exist, and it's full of conflated, confabulated nothing. So that's a nothing. So they took this thing that doesn't really exist and they lifted it up and turned it into the gospel, like this is the Bible. We're going to rely on this thing that didn't exist. Conversely, they took Hunter Biden's laptop, which did exist, and they did confirm and they did have and buried that and said it didn't really exist. So there's two pieces of, there's two articles. One is the Steele dossier, which doesn't really exist, and they elevated it. The other is Hunter Biden's laptop, which does exist, and they buried it in the ground. So you tell me whose side the intelligence community was on.
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Well, I mean, obviously the intelligence community was 100% on their side. Probably all being orchestrated by Obama behind the scenes. And the other day he kind of half admitted that. But I mean, how about Joe Biden's Cognitive Decline? So my wife was on cnn, Lara Trump was on CNN with Jake Tapper, and she goes, jake, Joe Biden's losing it. All of America can see that, right? He doesn't have his cognitive faculties. How dare you, Lara Trump? How dare you? Are you a PhD? Do you have the ability to diagnose? You're a bully. There's some kid out there that's traumatized based on your word because you're making fun of the president for having a stutter. And then this guy goes out and he writes a book, the Decline of Biden's Mental Health and the Media's Acting, covering it up. Something along those lines was the title of the book. And I'm sitting there saying, you dirty bastard, you attacked my wife for saying what everybody knew. You at CNN knew he was declining. Anybody could watch him try and walk across a stage at West Point in front of the cadets. He couldn't make it three feet without falling. He couldn't make it three sentences. He didn't know who his staff members were. And everything was being signed by the auto pen. And yet you came after her viciously for saying what everybody knew was so apparent. Right. It was so much more than just the laptop. The media literally carried their entire message. Could you imagine if my father went 90 days without having a press conference? Conference.
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Right.
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He can't go nine hours without having a press conference or the media would kill him. And yet, so. So everything was fabricated. Everything was propped up, everything was manufactured. And they can't do that. Adam May more. You know why they can't do it? Because of your independence voice, because of my independent voice, because of the Joe Rogans out there. The media is the weakest it's ever been. People don't like them, people don't trust them. And they've tuned them out. And guess who they're tuning in? They're tuning in. You. They're tuning in. Rogan. They're tuning in. Patrick Bet David. They're tuning in. These people who aren't controlled by these billion dollar big corporations that tell these people. Have you ever seen those clips where you have all those hosts around the country and they run the same crap?
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Yes.
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It's all manufactured. And everybody knows that at this point, which is why they have no trust.
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No, I agree.
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60 Minutes doctored Kamala's answers to make her try and sound intelligent about a Question about Israel. And we caught them and 60 minutes just paid us something like $20 million because they were literally doctoring her answers to try and prop her up. Because if America would have seen her original answer on 60 Minutes, she would have lost even more embarrassingly than she did.
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I agree. Leslie Stahl. Sir, sir, we're 60 minutes. We can't confirm that like that, that she looked insane. And look, you should just. These people don't need to go to prison. They've lost a reputation and their punishment should be. You never have to listen to another thing they say. And by the way, stuff could be true. Leslie Stahl may be correct about stuff in the future. I'm not listening anymore because she's a liar and your reputation is really all you have. And they played really fast and loose with their reputation and America caught on. And it's gonna take them a while to claw it back because that is gonna be. And it's not that they can't. Audi was a bad car to buy in the mid-90s. I would have told people, don't get an Audi. Not a good car, not reliable. And now in 2025, I drive an Audi. So you can get it back, but you have to put a good product out there and you have to be consistent. But for now, they ruin their reputation and that's their punishment.
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So do law enforcement. Right? And by the way, I can't tell you how many friends I have, personal friends, who are FBI agents, the greatest people in the world. I'm talking about the gun carriers, the guys who arrest bad guys. I'm not talking about the guys at the top of the org who don't carry guns, probably couldn't do a pull up, right? And it's changed now under Cash and under Bongino. These are good people, but same thing with them. I mean, it's hard to repair the reputation when people start doubting you. When the whole Charlie Kirk thing happened and all of a sudden instantly different theories of the whole thing started percolating around. Isn't that sad? Meaning there was instant doubt because a trust of a law enforcement agency was diminished under the last administration and diminished badly based on the weaponization, based on the FISA warrants, based on spying on campaigns. You know, you look at cnn, I mean, I mentioned my wife's show the other a little while ago, she's getting 2 plus million people on a Saturday night at 9 o'. Clock. Look at Kaitlan Collins on CNN, God bless her. She's getting 400,000 people, right? Fox, Hannity, might be getting 4 million on the same night. Three and a half. Four million on the same night in the same time slot. Who's the victim of that? Actually, the host ends up being the victim of that because guess what? They're not gonna get paid the same. They're not gonna have the prestige, they're not gonna have the eye. And why is that? Because they've lost that credibility. And so they're going to be licking their own wounds for a very long time. And it's going to be very hard for them, I think, to retake that seat, especially again, as they have to compete against platforms that have independent voice and people can tune into the people that they think are the most credible, the most trustworthy. It's going to be a real uphill battle. And by the way, your Audi example is exactly right. But what was interesting about your Audi example is what was the time period.
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You said it was like mid-90s to, you know, it took early 90s, you wouldn't have let one of your friends buy an audi.
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So in 2060, in 2055, you know, CNN might have a reputation again if they play their cards right. Like, have fun, guys. Have a great time in Atlanta and have a great time in, you know, Columbus Circle.
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Did so big picture. Nobody in legacy media, nobody in the Democratic apparatus and nobody in big law, FBI, CIA security wanted your dad to be in that Oval office. And did they not want him because he was a wild card? Did they not? Hillary Clinton, Obama, Biden for sure. Biden's establishment. He'll say whatever he says. We'll be in charge of the auto pen. It'll be business as usual. I think for any organization. What you want is business as usual, status quo. I mean whether you're in Washington or you're a drug cartel, all you want is predictable. And we know what we got and what we don't want is Wild Card. Cuz Wild Card could break this thing up fast.
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Sure.
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Was that the real reason? The unpredictable. We don't know who this guy is.
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Sure. And every single one of these people had been kissing her ass for 25 years knowing that one day she was going to ascend the throne of the Democratic party, which actually isn't all that Democratic based on the fact that that Kamala threw Joe Biden out like a dog in 24 hours, had 2400 delegates lined up for her, even though she was the worst performing person on the stage in the 2020 primaries. Right. Like the Democratic Party isn't all that Democratic. But they knew that Hillary was going to ascend the throne. They knew that she was going to be the chosen one. They had all gotten very close to her. They all had their ambassadorships picked out and they all had their prestigious jobs where they would make an absolute fortune and they would would get the title of the lifetime and they would run these prestigious organizations. And guess what? We came out of left field. New York Times gave us a one point. I think it was a 1.9% chance of winning that morning. Meaning election day, morning, November 8th of 2016. And all of a sudden we beat her pants off. And these people were really upset. They were really upset. And then my father gets in there and you know what he does? He flicks the beehive over and over and over and the bees are getting more pissed off and more pissed off and he keeps on flicking and flicking it. And there was a point where they started to sting and that's all they wanted. They just wanted death on the person who was attacking their beehive. And my father was doing that because he ran based on the incompetency of the federal government. He ran on the notion that he was going to go in there and be a total disruptor. That was his platform. That's what Americans voted on him to do. I mean, they voted for illegal immigration and to stop it, to secure the border, to build the wall. This is what people were pissed off about. People were pissed off about the fact that every day there were flights flying from Washington D.C. dulles to LAX. And those are the politicians. And they forgot about every single person along that route under their feet as they flew first class back and forth. They forgot about the everyday person as our companies went overseas and we lost the economy and they could no longer afford goods and they could no longer afford life. They were being left behind based on incompetent policies. They voted for my father and he flicked that nest. And that's exactly what they expected it. And the harder my father flicked it, the more Americans loved him, right? The harder he flicked it, the more the radical left and the deep state lashed out against him. You literally have, Adam, a deep state right now that is trying to argue for the saving of drug cartels. Please. It's unethical to bomb the boats, right? My father put them in a corner where literally, like, you know, they're advocating for men My size 6 foot 5, 2 15, to be swimming in collegiate women's sports. Like, this is a 1% issue. This is what they're doing, right? He put them in a box over and over again where they're advocating for the most insane positions. And in doing so, they lost the entire country.
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Would it be fair to make this analogy with Obama? Cuz I'd like to, in our last remaining time, kind of go through chronologically the whole first run and the Steele dossier and Obama and all that. Because I don't know if everyone really knows that story, but would this be a fair analogy? Obama is like a guy who says, I want this person to be the coach of this football team, meaning Hillary Clinton, let's say, I want her to be the coach of this football team. Team. And then at some point they went, well, they didn't go with your person, they went with another person. And then Obama went, all right, well, let me see if I can ruin the season. So the next time they're looking for a Coach, they will take my person, no question. Basically, the analogy when all the fans.
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Wanted somebody else, right? I mean, let's just add that to the analogy. All the fans wanted the actual coach who could lead them and who was proud to be American and loved the Constitution, believed in free speech and believed in having American greatness and being the number one superpower around the world and having family values and having their kids up on stage with them, fighting together as a family for America and ending the wokeness and ending the nonsense and getting ripped off and getting better taxes and I could go on and on. That's what the fans wanted, but it's not what the deep state wanted.
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Right? So let's just kind of walk through the chronology of it. So Obama's would like to see Hillary Clinton in place, but when that becomes impossible, he figures, well, let's just see if we can dirty up Trump's legacy or his tenure, his four year tenure as president. And how does that unfurl, how does that play out?
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Actually, Adam, I think that's right, but I think there might be a nuance there. They never saw us coming, right? They believe the New York Times, you know, they never went to Iowa. I was the guy sitting with a bullhorn, sitting on top of, standing on top of a tractor, a John Deere tractor, yelling into crowds eight hours a day. They never saw us coming. You know, back in, back in Time Warner center where CNN's based out of. They're laughing. Oh, ha ha, ha. Hillary Clinton, right? I mean, she literally rented the Jacob Javits center, had caviar, had Dom Perignon, had balloons under the glass ceiling because she wanted to be the, the first person to break the glass ceiling, right? You know where we were, we were at Michigan at 3 o' clock in the morning doing the last rally of the night, right? Like our shoes were smoking, our, you know, we had nothing left in the tank, right? And so they all thought that she was going to have this resounding victory, having never actually left the island of New York, even though they were broadcasting to the entire nation. They missed us, right? They missed us. And that's why, that's why the Russia hoax turned into the Russia hoax. They needed something to allow her to save face. And the only thing that they could come up with is Russia tampered with the election. And so you better believe that was created by, it was created a little bit before because they wanted to get a couple last votes in the last couple days of the, you know, of October leading into November election. But they sure as hell used that as the catalyst to try and destroy my father in every way, shape and form for the next three years until, you know, their own guy came out and said, this whole thing was fabricated. It was all made up, and there was no collusion with Russia. Russia, despite the fact that you had Adam Schiff out there every single day saying that Don Trump Jr. Is an asset of Russia and we're going to imprison him for treason. My father, my brother's saying, they're saying, I've never even met somebody from Russia. What are you talking about? I'm an asset of Russia. And by the way, in the civil context, if that was a normal human being that didn't have constitutional protections under speech and debate laws and everything else, Schiff would be homeless right now, now, because you would have sued him for everything he was worth, and you would have won. But unfortunately, these congressmen and senators, they say whatever they want. They say whatever is politically expedient at that moment, and there's no ramifications for it.
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So Obama gets a report from intelligence agencies that basically say, there's no meat on this Russian collusion bone. And he says, go back and find something and bring me something that suggests otherwise.
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Does that surprise anybody, considering this is also the same guy that under Lois Lerner was literally using the IRS to go after churches, to go after conservative organizations, to go after people affiliated with the Republican movement. Like, does that surprise anybody that this guy is going to weaponize government now? It's their only playbook. Honestly, their politics suck. We all laugh at it. I mean, you and I were laughing hysterically about some of their policies. They're insane, right? Look at the people that are doing this. No Kings March. They're dressing up like chickens. They're dressing up like frogs. They're putting on skirts, and they're prancing around these cities, right? These are the same people who are staging bricks in the quote unquote, Summer of Love all across cities and throwing them through windows. And then CNN is saying that they're mostly peaceful protests as buildings burned behind them. I mean, they're insane. But the only thing they ever had was weaponization and rigging of every institution. They weaponized every single institution they could, and that's the only thing that gave them the advantage.
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Well, do you think, in an interesting way, your dad has goaded them into a horrible strategy, which, again, is like siding with human traffickers from drug cartels. And he'd been goaded, like, in a way, in boxing, you go, oh, in the first. This is interesting. So the first Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran fight. Sugar Ray Leonard's very light on his feet. Fast, fluid jabs, moves around very well. Roberto Duran, heavy handed, sort of heavy on his feet, big puncher, he wants to slug it out. So Roberto Duran knows if he's going to float around the ring and flick jabs at me, I'm not going to catch up to him, and he's going to win this fight on points. So Roberto Duran starts insulting Sugar Ray Leonard's wife and starts calling her a prostitute and everything else. And he gets so far under Sugar Ray Leonard skin that Sugar Ray Leonard said, I'm not going to float around and pop jabs. I'm going to meet this guy in the center of the ring and we're going to trade. Well, now Roberto Duran has goaded him and dragged him into his style of fight. And Roberto Duran wins the first fight because Sugar Ray is not fighting like Sugar Ray formally fought. He's up in his head, he's pissed off, and he ends up getting the loss. Even though he's a better fighter, he gets a loss because he got dragged into Roberto Duran. In the second fight, Sugar Ray lets Robert Duran go out, celebrate, drink too much, eat too much, put on 40, 50 pounds and calls for an immediate rematch. And he knows Roberto Durant's got to lose £50 in two months and he's going to be depleted. And he does, and then comes out there with no mas because he went from £200 to £150 in five weeks. You know, so there's, there's, okay, they're both great fighters, but there's a strategy. And your dad has dragged these people into what is a horrible strategy for them.
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What a great analogy. And by the way, Roberto Duran's a personal friend of mine. He's great, he's a big supporter. And by the way, what hands that guy had. So it was a great analogy, but you're right, they're defending the undefensible. I mean, they're literally defending, I mean, the DEI movement. Right, right. Like it's insane. You'd have somebody who couldn't do a pull up in the military, and yet they passed a standard because, you know, they checked some box. Like, give me a break. Like, people in this country weren't into that. Right. And so many people got passed up for jobs last week. It was really amazing. And this flew by everybody. And actually Joe Rogan did a little skit on his show and I thought it was so brilliant. I Thought it was like the best skit. But somebody, one of the White House reporters after like the 10th shooting done by a transgender pill taking person happened in one the of of these schools, asked, are you guys looking into transgender people not being able to purchase guns anymore? And he goes, we'll just have to see about that. The next day, the Democrats were all coming out there defending gun rights saying, you know, transgender people absolutely have the right to the second amendment right. It was, it's hysterical when you look at it because he's just goading them into going into these positions that they otherwise would have never taken before. I mean, again, men changing in women's bathrooms like that is a 99.9% issue. There's not a single single female or a single male that's logical that believes that a man my size who's 70 years old should be going, or any man, but it should be going into their daughter's high school bathroom and changing in front of them. No one wants this. Or women swimming in men's sports or go down the list of the nonsense DEI things. People don't approve of that. And yet these were the issues that they had to fight because my father was on the right side of the issue. And so they had to go the other way. They were never, they didn't have enough hubris for some reason to say, you know, Donald Trump's right, I agree with him. You shouldn't have men in women's bathrooms. Or Donald Trump's right. It's not fair that a guy that weighs 220 shouldn't be swimming against my 140 pound daughter. Like, he's right on that issue. Or you know, Donald Trump's right that the cartels are killing people in our inner cities or all across the country, poisoning our youth with fentanyl and we should do something about the drug trade and we're gonna stand up and clap when a drug boat, you know, shatters into a thousand pieces and we know that people are gonna live because of it. Or you know, Donald Trump, he created peace in the Middle east and really well, well done. This is exactly what we want as a nation. We wanna be a peaceful nation, like well done. If they had a little bit of hubris, man, would they come across as rational? I hope I'm not giving them the formula, but they would come across as normal, sane individuals. The problem is they don't, right? They don't have that hubris. And so they have to tack into these corners that are unpopular and in doing so they lose the entire nation again, which is why we won the popular vote. We won every swing state. Every state in the country went right. We won 11 counties in California that had never gone Republican before. Adam. You know, and last but not least, we won Miami Dade. Right? We won Miami Dade by 11 points. It's the first time in 37 years Miami Dade has been won by a conservative. And it should show you, like you think, as I'm a business guy, if something's not going right, I can step back, I can look at it. Where did I screw up? What bad decision did I make? What did we get wrong? What did we miscalculate? They don't have enough hubris to stand back and think that they got anything wrong because they're the Democratic Party, and everything they do is wrong. Right, Right. And so the more they go down this path, just the more people they lose, and honestly, the further cement that the conservative movement has become, which is why they've lost youth. It's why they've lost African Americans. It's why they've lost the Hispanic vote. They've lost everyone. They've lost everyone in this country.
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Well, I mean, it's called Trump Derangement Syndrome. It's a syndrome, and the syndrome part is what almost makes it a disease. And when you talk to addiction medicine specialist, you go, man, this guy had a great family and a great job and a great career and a loving wife. Why did he throw it all away for painkillers? It's like, well, it's a disease. You know what I mean? It's not like a. It's a reaction. It's not a rational thought. You know, what you're dealing with is the syndrome part makes it not rational. It's a lot of why, why, why? But it's because of the syndrome part of it. Now, there are guys like Fetterman who don't have the syndrome. They're Democrats, but they're not stricken with the syndrome. So they can separate and go, well, I appreciate what he did here. I'm still gonna vote that way for this. But also, I'm glad Trump was able to accomplish that, because he's not afflicted with the syndrome. But when you have a syndrome, you're just in a fugue state, and you're throwing punches in every direction.
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Adam, look at, like, Medicare and Medicaid. You remember when Elon's in there, you know, under Doge, and he's cutting the hell out of, like, all the waste and fraud and abuse, right? He's sitting there saying there are 3 million people on Medicaid that are above, like, 140 years old. It was some astronomical statistic, right? You're all sitting there saying, give me a break. Like, who knows? 140 year old. There's none yet. There's all these people that are above 140 years old. There's all these addresses where it's, you know, pretty much the same permutation in the name going to. To the. And they're sending the same check to the same person at the same household. They change one letter in the name and, like, 12 checks are going to them. And he's cutting out fraud, waste, and abuse like crazy to save the system. And the Democrats are coming out, how dare you cut Medicare? How dare you cut Medicaid? He's like, I'm not cutting it. I'm literally. I'm stopping the rampant fraud. So the people who actually are on the system and need it can get a higher quality system because it's not just being infiltrated with fraud. And you have the Democrats fighting against that. I mean, they do it every single time. They do it every single time. And again, it's gonna be what takes down the system, but it's also what's kind of put my father at legendary status now. And I know that sounds weird coming from a son, but he is. He's beloved. He's beloved in this country. Everywhere I go, I mean, people used to be quiet about it. I'd go, and people would come up to me and they'd whisper, eric, I love your family. Our church is voting for him. Our whole family's behind him. We love you guys. Thank you for fighting. Now I'll go on to, like, a Delta flight, and the flight attendant will come up and jump in my arms. We love you. The whole crew loves you. I'm so glad you're here. I'm sitting there like, take it down, take it down, take it down. I'm just trying to be a little incognito here. And they're like, no, no, we're beyond caring at this point. Like, we love you. Thank you. For. People are no longer quiet in this country, which is one of the reasons you've had this massive resurgence that you have. You know, what used to be cool to whisper was like, they were on our side, but they would whisper. Now they're not whispering anymore. People are really vocal. And a lot of that has come out of my father's fight. A lot of that's come out of the fact that he has always stood up. And he's never backed down and he's never coward to these people. As much anguish as they put him through, as much hell as they put him through. And again, I really do believe that our world, certainly Western civilization, but our world is benefiting because you had somebody who had that backbone and tenacity and the balls of steel to go through this fight and, and willing to take on the system and not willing to back down. His life would have been a hell lot easier if he would have backed down and just conformed just a little bit. Had he done that, they would have left him alone. He's not a conformist. He's a disruptor. And he'll go down history for that.
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Well, maybe in his former life he wouldn't have gotten to heaven, but now.
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He saved a lot of lives.
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More than a coin toss. Well, last question for you, Eric. I was on Patrick Bet David's show, I don't know, a week ago, and we're sort of talking about the future. And I said, Well, I assume J.D. vance will just sort of pick up the mantle and keep going the same direction. And I got some pushback. There are articulate guys over there. And then, no, JD doesn't have it or whatever that is. So I'm, you know, and I know you're a little more behind the scenes and Don Jr. S a little more out front, but I see you on the shows making the rounds, and I go, this guy's articulate, he's sharp and he's fast and has the same tools that Pops and junior Has. So what do you think it'll look like in the next several years for the Republican Party?
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Well, Adam, according to Saturday Night Live, I was the guy with the fidget spinner. So I was the guy at 33 years old who was running a $12 billion company. My father asked me to obviously run everything that is Trump outside of Washington, D.C. why? While obviously he went and right with the fidget spinner. Yes, but I am the guy with the fidget spinner, according to Saturday Night Live. Listen, I think the difference in the Republican Party is unlike the Republican Party of 2017, where you had Ben Sasse and you had Mitt Romney and you had Paul Ryan and you had a lot of these people who were worthless. My father was the greatest rhino hunter of all time. He went into Washington, D.C. he killed every rhino, and now all of a sudden, you have a Republican Party that's fighting you. Look at the job that Marco is doing. He's doing a phenomenal job. You look at the job, the jds, you look at the Jim Jordans. I mean, I could go down the list, but you've got killers, and you have people who are willing to be loud. Second of all, he's inspired a generation. Like, I go trick or treating with my kids every year, and every single year, half of the kids that dress up are dressing up like Donald Trump because they. They freaking adore him. Right? And for the first time, like, you know, when I was going through school, Obama wasn't interesting. You know, George Bush wasn't interesting. These people weren't interesting here. Clinton wasn't interesting. You know, Donald Trump has, like, literally grabbed their heartstrings. And they adore the man. They love who he is. They love his personality. They love the fact that he's kind of the epitome of the American dream. They love the fact that, you know, he's outspoken on certain issues. And all of a sudden, it's brought in a whole new generation to politics. You never had a Turning Point movement when I was in school 25 years ago, right? 20 years ago, like, we didn't give a damn about politics. We couldn't care less what George Bush did. And now, all of a sudden, you have all these people who are engaged in a meaningful way. You've got 100,000 chapters of turning Point now. Right? I mean, it's. And people are seriously engaged on every single level. And so I think the Republican Party is in the best spot it's ever been in before. And I think politics has fundamentally changed because people enjoy the fight, people understand the issues, and it's no longer a sideshow. And so I really do think we're set up for great success. I think we've all developed a great voice. I certainly have. I mean, there is a reason that. That, you know, this became the number one book probably of the year and did so in five days. And we shattered every single record. Times, you know, times 10. People obviously, like what we stand for, like that we were in the fight and like that we never backed down. But I do think there's a lot of great Republicans in there, and I think the party's in really good shape. And I mean that very sincerely.
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So, J.D. vance, next time around, if you're a.
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Betting man, you know, I don't know. It's kind of hard. Listen, sitting here today, it's kind of hard for me to bet when all these people are in the cabinet or my family or. I know all of them. I'm friends with all of them. I Love JD He's a great man. I love Marco. He's a great man. I love everybody in that cabinet. They're killers now, right?
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Yeah.
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2020 was the greatest thing that ever happened to our party, by the way. Like as much as it hurt at the time, because he's just surrounded by killers who are doing a phenomenal job. And I don't know, I think the difference between us and the Democrats is we'll actually have a primary process where, you know, Americans will get to choose who's going to be on the ticket. Right. Versus what we saw in 2020.
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Well, who do you think the Democrats may run?
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I don't know, because they're insane. Like the people that they would choose are literally the very same people that I think are insane. Like you see the Democratic congressman like a bunch of years ago who literally thought that Guam was going to capsule.
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Yes.
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Do you remember this guy?
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Yes, I do. He's the same guy who plays the bass guitar in his office and communicate a song to your dad.
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D
I think you have some of these people, they're insane. Their policies are insane, their understanding of issues are insane. They're crazy.
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Yeah.
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But yet those very same people appeal to a person. I can't get my mind there. And I'm like a sane, rational person.
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Yeah. See, I think they, they sort of take a page out of your dad's playbook to the extent that they find some Mark Cuban type and go, okay, business background, sort of. Some people know who he is. Hank Johnson is the guy who was going to capsize Guam. I think it'll be like a Mark Cuban type or Mark Cuban like somebody where they go, so not someone who's batshit crazy like AOC and that sort of fringe wing and all that stuff, like maybe some Democratic version of your dad, somebody worked in the private sector, has a business and so on.
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Let me give you the good or bad news. They can't get through the primary process in the Democratic Party because they're so fringe. Right. Like you would have a person. Let's just use Mark Cuban. Right. And I don't agree with a lot of things, but whatever. Okay, so he's been successful in business and everything. They're question, you know, all of a sudden he would have to, you know, he would have to conform to again, the guy my size swimming against, you know, 140 pound girl. And like he probably couldn't get there. And that probably means he couldn't win their primary process. So, like. Right, congratulations. He just got eliminated. And his life is over. And by the way, since they've, you know, since Obama or whoever it is behind the scenes will be anointing the next person, you know, you better believe he's not going to be the anointed one because he doesn't owe those people anything. And, and therefore that will be another bump in the road. Like, congratulations, that person just failed. Like, who's next in their process? It's a lot tougher. A lot tougher in their process.
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Well, it's interesting that it's turned into a form of entertainment which in the past I was like, you, who cares? I don't know where these old stuffy guys are. I'm interested in other sports and things like that now. It's actually your dad has made it fun to watch and a form of entertainment where politics was watching paint dry in the past and now it's become a little bit of the UFC right on the front lawn. Eric, let me give you a plug. Under siege, My family's fight to save our nation. It's number one everywhere. It's available now insta an X at Air Trump as well. Give my love to all the appropriate people that you'll say hi to. It was great catching up with you.
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You're the greatest, my friend. It was an honor to be on and this was a lot of fun. This was smart and this was a lot of fun.
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Thanks, Eric Trump, everybody. Appreciate it, brother.
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