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Inside ‘Trump 2.0’ and the Media’s Role in Political Violence | Sean Spicer
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Sean Spicer
You have the President of the United States having three assassination attempts, and we don't know the motives is a lie. We do know the motives. The guy literally wrote them down.
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Jania Kellogg
In this episode, I sit down with former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer. We discuss the attempt on President Trump's life at the White House Correspondents association dinner and his new book, Trump 2.0, the Revolution that Will Permanently Transform America.
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Sean Spicer
He had four years out of office. And what happened in those four years? They plot, they plan. What will we do when we get back? What we do differently? Who do we need on our team? Who do we need to keep away from our team? What are the forces against us?
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Jania Kellogg
From his insider's perspective, he breaks down how President Trump's second administration is fundamentally different from the first.
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Sean Spicer
There would be no Maha without Trump 2.0, and there would be no Trump 2.0 without Maha.
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Interviewer
A lot of the Maha people feel like they're not being listened to. How do you talk to them?
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Jania Kellogg
This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Jania Kellogg.
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Interviewer
Sean Spicer. Such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.
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Sean Spicer
Thanks for having me.
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Interviewer
Well, we have to talk about the White House correspondence.
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Sean Spicer
Do we?
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Interviewer
Well, I think we do have to. So where were you and what's your reaction to all this?
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Sean Spicer
I was trying to. Trapped on 17th street right outside the White House, trying to get into another event when the yellow tape got thrown out, and the Secret Service is like, you're not going anywhere.
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Interviewer
Fascinating. So, yeah, so tell me about that experience.
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Sean Spicer
I mean, so first of all, in the book I write about my opposition to the White House Correspondents Association, I believe that the organization is corrupt and sort of needs to be broken up, et cetera. So I have chosen to attend the substack alternative event, which is, to me, actually what the First Amendment is all about, which is acknowledging people's freedom to write whatever they want and acknowledge that. And that party was at the Renwick Museum Gallery, which is right across from the White House, next to Blair House, 17th and Pennsylvania Avenue. And so we get out of the car. There were some of my co hosts from our morning show called the Huddle. We had all ridden in together. We get out, and we start seeing a lot of lights and sirens. Okay, well, you see that often. And one of my co hosts gets a text, and he says, my sister's watching on C Span. And she says, something's going on. Next thing you know, the Secret Service has got the yellow tape out. They're like, stay where you are. Don't go anywhere. And we're like, what's going on? And then literally watching live this thing start to unfold, that we're. We're now sitting in the freezing cold. It's like 40 degrees out at 17th and Pennsylvania, hearing about the shots getting fired. But the Secret Service, I think there was a lot of question about the president. Is he coming back to the White House? When is he coming back to the White House? But they wanted all the routes cleared, and it was like an active crime scene. I mean, yellow tape up and down 17th Street. It was surreal. I've seen a lot in 30 years. That was one of the most interesting evenings of my life.
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Interviewer
And now when you're looking back at. This is actually my next question. Right, right. So you had this experience on the ground. What about now? Knowing what you know, now it's an.
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Sean Spicer
You know, it's so fascinating that you ask it, because I think of these things in, like, multiple things. Right. So there's a discussion about the security there. I actually think the security worked. I mean, like, you were there, right. People were given the impression this guy was, like, running through the ballroom, firing off. It wasn't. He was a floor up. He didn't even get down close to the. Well, he got near the stairs that would have taken him to that level. Security worked. He rushed a magnetometer, and they took him down. That's what's supposed to happen. That's number one. Number two, I think there are serious questions about the continuity of government, how we operate, because, right. It would have been in the room was the president, the vice president, the speaker of the House. I don't believe the Senate pro tem, Senator Grassley, was there, but that's who we would have been stuck, stuck with had everything gone horrifically wrong. I think that the idea that so many Republicans and conservatives were there is part of my problem. Like, why are we supporting this organization? Why are we complicit in adding legitimacy to this dinner and to this group of people that hate conservatives? So there's a lot of different ways that I looked at what's going on in the night. And then obviously, even just some of the reporting about, you know, people talking about the security there. The shooter himself, no one wanted to admit, we had a manifesto. We know what his motivations were. He wrote them down. And yet most of the media just showed their true colors by saying, we don't know the motivations. Barack Obama said, well, we don't know much. We did. And I think what unfolded Saturday night showed a lot of things to be true, right? Who they really are, what's gone on in the left. I mean, this guy was a radicalized shooter who believes the rhetoric of the left, who said, trump is Hitler, Trump is a tyrant, Trump is authoritarian, Trump is a threat to democracy. What did you think was going to happen? And I think the lack of accountability from the left came really through Saturday night into Sunday and Monday.
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Interviewer
So, yeah, I think on the floor, as we. We were still figuring out whether this was going to continue or not, I saw Senator Deb Fisher from Nebraska on the floor, and she had said, this is a. She believed it was a product of the rhetoric that had been happening.
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Sean Spicer
Of course it is. But look, I'm going to ask you a question. I mean, in its simplest terms, if somebody says, we want to get out of this room, and you say, well, that person is blocking us from getting out of the room at some point, the only way to get out of the room is to take them and get them out of the way. Right? I mean, and so when somebody says over and over again, whether it's Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Kamala Harris, Tim Waltz, Senator Alyssa Slotkin, you name it, Trump is a threat to democracy, he's a threat to our way of life, what do you think is going to happen? At some point, somebody says, well, I love democracy. I love this country. If he's a threat, I need to do something. They have radicalized these people. Chuck Schumer said that we need to get Kavanaugh. Maxine Waters said that we should surround Trump officials and make them feel it. I don't know why any of this is a shock. I played a clip of Alyssa Slotkin on my show that airs on YouTube, and it shows her saying to a crowd, we can either sit back and weather this storm, meaning Trump 2.0, or we can recognize the threat that he is. Well, think about it. If you're in that crowd right now, she just. And she goes, and I hope we don't choose the first. So she's telling people, don't weather the storm. Don't sit there. This guy's an actual threat. If you're in the audience, I don't see how you don't take that as I'm being called to do something. And you look at what happened to the CEO of United Healthcare, not only did they applaud it, they set up a legal defense fund, they are encouraging violence. And the media is complicit in this as well.
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Interviewer
I mean, to be fair, though, I think Most people that are, you know, saying the threat thing are not calling people to violence. They're saying, no, this has to be done peacefully. I mean, I remember I was reading something from former President Obama about this specifically, like today, I think a post that he had. I mean, I'm not, you know, I'm not trying to take away from your point, but. But a lot of these people would say this should be nonviolent.
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Sean Spicer
They should, but then they don't say it. And here's my point. When you tell me that something's a threat, and that's why I went through this little exercise at the beginning. Again, this is why I'm trying to say, what do you think will happen? And then say, oh, but don't be violent. There's a threat. Our country's existence is at stake. But, oh, don't do anything. I mean, wink, nod. I'm sorry. And the reason it's so personal for me is I've had people come up to me and my family in person. I've had people show up to my house, the threats online. I know what it's like. Do you realize that almost every senior staffer who works in the White House now needs a security detail? Staff just for serving their country, they need a security detail. We have at least close to 10 officials. Again, staffers. The White House press secretary lives on a military base. So many. I won't go through the list because I want to preserve their privacy. Think about that. They have to live in a protected place. I've had people show up at my house. I've had my house put up for sale. This is a real, real threat. And I think sometimes there's a difference. If you haven't lived through it, maybe it's not as personal, but for me, it's a very personal thing. And you have the President of the United States having three assassination attempts. And to have President Obama say we don't know the motives is a lie. It's a lie. We do know the motives. The guy literally wrote them down at
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Interviewer
the press event after ultimately, it was decided that this event would be postponed. The president held a press event very quickly, and I don't know, the atmosphere in the room was different than I frankly, regularly see. And your impressions?
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Sean Spicer
I give the President a lot of credit because if I had had my life. And again, he's sitting next to the first lady, the butler thing and the golf course thing, he was on his own. Right, so. But to have your wife sitting next to you and thought she could have been a Target to the vice president, your press secretary. That's a very different. And this guy in the manifesto says he's going to take out everybody, as many people, according to him, everyone was complicit in that room. I thought the president rose to the occasion, the level of, I don't know that I could have done it. How Zadis putting it, like somebody threatens your life, they want to come in and kill you and then to sit there and say, be complimentary. As I said, I'm sorry. So many of these people in the press corps have encouraged this, have failed to call it out, even in the wake of this. On Sunday morning, countless Democrats. Jamie Raskin is on CNN saying he can't recall a situation or an example where he or his party has used heated rhetoric. Not one, not one time that he recalls anyone in his party calling Trump, Hitler a threat to democracy, a Nazi, an authoritarian, you name it. He couldn't think of one example on cnn. Not one. And again, unchecked, the idea what upset me so much is that here we are in this event with a bunch of liberal media that supposed to be celebrating the First Amendment and a free press and they didn't even do their job covering it. They lied. Abby Phillip from CNN put a big thing out there that this is one of the most secure places. It's not. They can't even tell the most. I mean, that's just simply a false and patently false statement. It was all about them. It was all about their evening. I mean, I, as I said, you and I have talked about this prior to this. I was opposed to the president going. I wish he hadn't gone. I hope he doesn't go. I hope, you know, it is not a good thing. They are free. The First Amendment gives them not just the freedom of press, the freedom of speech, but the freedom of assembly. If they want to gather and give themselves pats on the back and awards for coming after conservatives, God bless him, go for it. But I don't think we should be complicit in it.
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Interviewer
It's interesting because the president said something, if I may paraphrase here, okay, that the president said, you know, he was going to be, it was going to be really a really tough speech or something like this. And he said maybe when it actually happens, it won't be as tough. This is a very rough paraphrase. And then later, he actually kind of called for unity. Actually, he did.
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Sean Spicer
And within what, 24 hours, the same network that, you know, Wei Jiang, who is the, was the president of The Correspondence Association. The president did one step further. He went on 60 Minutes 24 hours later. And, you know, they came at him. They have a right to do that. This is aand again, I don't. They have. But to pretend that they are nothing more than an appendage of the liberal ideology and Democratic Party is, I think, just we shouldn't be part of it. So just because he was magnanimous in the moment doesn't mean that we should be complicit in a prop. I think in their attempt to make themselves look like they're fair or unbiased or what have you.
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Interviewer
Okay, let's talk about Trump 2.0.
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Sean Spicer
Yes.
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Interviewer
You know, you're saying this is a revolution that will transform America. Is it transforming America? I mean, we're a year and a bit in now.
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Sean Spicer
Oh, I think absolutely. And part of the question that I try to answer in the book is the why anybody can just look at Trump 2.0 and say, okay, here's what his administration's doing. And I'm not trying to be a stenographer of history. Part of what I'm trying to answer is the why. Like, why is Trump 1.0 different than Trump 2.0? I had this conversation with the president in the Oval Office when I was talking to him about the book. You have to understand that, like, when we came into office, this is a guy who was a businessman, a reality star, real estate mogul. He'd never been in government, and he was being told, this guy's good for Secretary of defense. This person's good to lead Health and Human Services. And he took people at their word. I joke with people. Yon he met Jim Mattis, General Jim Mattis, at Bedminster for about an hour to talk about being Secretary of defense. On December 5th, we flew down with him to North Carolina and announced him at a Trump rally. He had known the man that would lead the Department of Defense in his administration for one hour. He's known Pete Hegseth for 15 years. He knew Susie Wiles for 11. He's known Caroline Levitt for seven or eight in the first administration, worked on the campaign. Steven Chung, the comms director, he was on the campaign with me in 2015, worked in 2016. You go down the list. These are people that he's known and is familiar with in a way that he wasn't in Trump 1.0. So they're on board. I mean, we had people coming into the administration to. With the stated goal of, like, opposing him. You remember the New York Times op ed. Anonymous. It was like, I'm serving to protect you from him. So let me get this straight. The guy gets duly elected by the American people, and you feel so opposed to his agenda that you're serving and writing op EDS about how you're trying to undermine the agenda? That's ridiculous. And so this is such a different and unique thing. But, but getting back to the why, and this is the important thing. He had four years out of office. And what happened in those four years? They plot, they plan. What will we do when we get back? What we do differently? Who do we need on our team? Who do we need to keep away from our team? How will we do this? What are the forces against us? The way I try to liken this is imagine you're playing on a team, or it could be even an individual sport. Like you're playing, playing tennis. You play somebody and then you play them. Months later when you play them again, you think to them, okay, I know how they come at this, you know, And I know what to do differently. And I know maybe if it's a team sport, who to put in the game, who to keep out of the game, what players we need, what positions we need. And that's exactly what Trump 2.0 did. America First Policy Institute went around and interviewed a lot of people like me and said, if we ever get back into office, what do you think needs to be done differently? So they wrote up an entire whole dossier on how to run the press and communications office. So when Caroline was named press secretary and Steven Chunk, they got that information. Now, how much of it they looked at or implemented is up to them. But they had a starting point, a roadmap. Project 2025. It's this thick. It was two pages full of conservative groups that sat down and said, on immigration, on health care, on national defense, on trade, what will we do if we get back into power? They had a roadmap that we didn't have in Trump 1.0. Now, that's not to disparage any of the great work that the President did in Trump 1.0. It's just different. You have a leg up. You're not starting at square one. They knew exactly where to start, where to go. Tom Homan didn't just randomly pick cities to go into. He knew how to do this. And then we look at things like Maha. There would be no Maha without Trump 2.0, and there would be no Trump 2.0 without Maha. What these guys have done to transform how we look at Our food, our wellness, the medical industry, big pharma, big food has been revolutionary. I'm the perfect example. And I love the chapter on Maha. I always thought, like, you go to the doctor and they say, eat this many calories, okay? So I would put a plan together, eat this many calories. And the nutritionist would say, look at this. It says, heart healthy. Oh, awesome. 100 calories. Heart healthy. Bobby Kennedy comes along, is like, look at the wrapper. Can you pronounce any of this crap that's in your food? I mean, there's an entire thing in there about this thing called grass. You know what this is? I'm sure you do. Generally recognized as safe. Generally recognized as safe. I mean, that sounds like some kind of waiver you sign when you go to the amusement park. We're pretty certain you're not going to get in trouble. Like you're putting stuff in your body that we're not sure is okay from you. But it's generally recognized. None of this would happen without the sort of the Trump 2.0 dynamic of coming back and looking at how we do things.
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Interviewer
Let's talk about Maha a little bit. Because, I mean, I have, let's say I have my ear to the ground, okay, on Maha. And it's really quite a range of people's opinions, right, about what's happening here. Everything from the food pyramid being flipped is the best thing ever. And it's going to transform things, too. We felt like we've had some promises which just aren't being fulfilled around some serious issues, right? And so, and there's even, you know, there's even discussion about polling that suggested that the Maha aren't as important to the President as was thought before. But then there was counter polling created to show. No, in fact, it's very important. But so a lot of people, but generally a lot of the Maha people feel like they're not being listened to. How do you talk to them? That would be like a general sense I have.
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Sean Spicer
So let's start with a couple things. One, what I love about the way that Bobby Kennedy is approaching Maha is not to be your daddy. What do I mean by that? The government's not going to tell you what to do or not to do. You want to eat ultra processed food and chug red dye, go for it. He's giving you transparency for the first time so that you know what you're putting in your body and you know what options are available. That's, to me, what's. So the approach to this, which is so great is that it's not the nanny state, it's not saying we're going to ban it, we're not going to do this stuff. We're going to actually just give you the citizen better information, more transparent information as to what's out there. That's what I love first and foremost about this. Secondly, I think that, and I lay this out in the book, you can't. The wins, the ultra processed food, the red dyes, all the stuff that they have brought to the forefront is huge. I've worked in politics for 30 years, doing my first campaign in 1994. Okay. The progress that has been made on Maha is second to none when it comes to issues, tax policy, foreign policy, defense procurement, you name it. The amount of progress that has been made in this one area alone is monumental. And so I get for a lot of the Maha folks, they see stuff like the glyphosate ruling and say, oh, you got to be kidding me. And I agree with them on it. I mean, that's okay. But you have to say, look at the, in one year, the amount of progress that you have made now that's, you know, it's sometimes it's like calibrating, you got to child that's getting an F in a class and they come back to you a few weeks later and say, I got my grade up to a C. A good parent doesn't say, well, you're not at an A. You applaud the progress and say, look, you made great strides. Let's keep doing that. Maha has to recognize again, it's not an excuse. Just say, hey, we're still, we're moving the ball along, keep it going, keep the voices out there talking about things. But I think that I give Bobby Kennedy and Dr. Oz Jay Bhattacharya tremendous credit. And the MAHA movement, by the way, MAHA Action, MAHA Institute, what they've been able to do to get people into this movement aware and then on the political front, let's just be honest, politics is additive. You win when you add more people to a cause to get them involved and motivate, activate and vote. What Bobby Kennedy and the Maha movement have done to Trump 2.0 to the MAGA movement is expand it. They've brought especially moms into the political arena to understand that by being involved in this process in a way that many of them weren't, has been hugely additive to the party and to the movement. And I hope nobody dismisses that, regardless of whatever poll you look at. I know just personally and anecdotally how many people are involved now that were never involved in politics because the exposure to what government had been doing to cover up some of the dangers that we face as a society in terms of our wellness and our health, I don't think couldn't have, didn't happen if it wasn't for the Maha movement.
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Interviewer
One of the narratives I'm hearing is that, you know, basically the administration is less interested in Maha at this point than it was before for political reasons. And just that's, that's a narrative which has been rising. Do you agree with that? Do you think what is your.
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Sean Spicer
So there's. First of all, it's true there are some in the administration that don't fully appreciate the benefits. I think that's shortsighted. I think within the Maha movement, there are certain aspects of it that some people don't like that get them queasy, let's be honest. Mostly and almost entirely revolves around vaccines. But I look at the movement as a whole and there's no question that it's additive. I mean, none. It's impossible to deny that this has been a huge help to the MAGA movement, to the conservative movement writ large. I mean, I don't think anybody. I get to your point. It is true. I mean, there are some people that question it and I think they are very short sighted.
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Interviewer
I'm trying to. You are this political junkie. I am not a political junkie. Right. I come from a very, very different vantage point. And you're saying that these shifts. So you think, you would say that HHS is the area where the most action has happened out of everything.
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Sean Spicer
So like foreign policy, NATO, trade, there are some policy things, shifts that have been. But Maha, what it has done to us as a society is monumental. You can, I mean, look, look, President Trump instituted tariffs to rebalance our trade inadequacies and he was right to do that, by the way. We've been getting screwed for decades. But someone can undo that really quickly. Right. What the Maha movement has done is created a level of awareness that can't be undone. I look at a label now in a way that I've never looked because of what Maha has done. I ask questions of my doctor in a way that I've never done because of this movement. That's not going to get undone. We have started to rethink. You mentioned the food period a minute ago. Again, for most people, you know, I went in, I saw the doctor and they'd say, do this, do that. Okay, you're the expert I do that the FDA would issue guidance. They'd say, well, government says so that makes sense. What we've learned in the last year is that not all of that is 100% accurate or right. We were eating stuff and putting stuff in our body that wasn't making us healthy. In fact, it was probably making us sicker and leading to chronic diseases. And when you think about lasting effects, I do think that probably what Maha has done to us as a society will be probably the greatest, will have the greatest impact on us.
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Interviewer
There's conflict in the Middle east, unclear exactly how it's going to resolve. I'll say that the information of war around this and everything is thick and it's kind of hard to see through it. But the gas prices, the price at the pump is higher, food is costing more. People are feel this is the stuff that people tend to vote on. I'm asking you now as someone who really is relatively new to this whole sphere, right, not the political and self professed political junkie that you are, what does that mean?
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Sean Spicer
I mean, to be honest, it means what you just prefaced the question with. But I'll go back to the why. I think what the White House needs to do is greater and consistently more message. This, this is about our safety and security. I mean, Iran posed an existential threat to us, full stop. No question about it. You think about Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton. I mean, leaders in both parties have been talking about this for decades and President Trump was the first one who took action. There was never going to be a political upside to doing this. Not going to happen. And he did it not because he was going to benefit politically, but because it was the right thing to do for our safety and security. Now when you connect that into the fact that, yes, this is a midterm election and you're absolutely right, you better, you have to double down on the messaging on what you're doing and why so that voters expect that. Because If I'm paying $4 gas, and let's be honest, John, I'm like a New England frugal guy. So I always my barometer as to how the economy's doing is gas prices. I got two gas stations at the end of my street and I will keep an eye on both of them and then drive to the cheapest one pretty regularly, my mom will probably drive halfway across the state just to get cheaper gas. So I understand that that's somewhat of a barometer when it comes to how people judge the economy, but one, we hope that it comes down. I mean, politically speaking, you know, July, August, they got to really think about how they're doing that, or they have to double down on their messaging. But there's no question, I think, when people, people vote largely on economic reasons, how do I feel the economy's doing for me? Am I putting money away? Do I feel safe and secure in my job and my ability to pay my bills? So they have to do this now. The upside is they at least have a series of positive things that they're doing. The no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime. And the American people felt that at tax season time. So I do think that they need to double down on messaging. They did this stunt with DoorDash 10 days ago. I thought it was smart. They need to do more of that. They need to remind people why the policies of Trump 2.0 are making their lives better.
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Interviewer
Who is this book for? As we kind of come to a. I would love to have you for another two hours, frankly, to talk about this. I mean that sincerely, because I find what you're saying very interesting. Who is this book for?
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Sean Spicer
Well, I mean, at its core, I think if you are a voter, because I don't think. I mean, just if you're a citizen and you're not voting, then maybe not. But anybody who's interested in the politics, like as I said at the outset, Trump 2.0 isn't just about being a supporter of President Trump. It's about understanding why. So I always tell people, I read everything. I'll read books and studies from both parties because I want to understand the process. What is somebody doing right? You know, when a team goes in and watches film with the other team, it's not because they're fans. They want to know how to play that game. If you really want to understand what's going on in our country, whether or not you love President Trump or absolutely detest him, you want to read Trump 2.0 to understand the why. Why is it happening? So that, you know, if you love them, you can continue those policies. And you know what we need to lock in. If you don't like them, you might want to know the game, the plays that we're running, right? So I think anyone who's got an interest in politics, who is active, who wants to understand how our country operates and why things are happening. And again, so we just talked about Maha. Do you realize that 10 of the last 11 FDA commissioners have all gone on to Big Pharma except one, David Kessler? He went into academia. That seems to me a bit nuts. I mean, and I learned this, I'm like, no wonder you suddenly have an FDA that sides with Big Pharma all the time. If that's. And I talk about how much money is spent advocating for big food and Big Pharma. If you want to understand the why even I mentioned the trade policy. I mean, think about this. Our farmers, rancher, service providers face enormous barriers, financial and what we call non tariff barriers, going into other countries when those same countries ship their services and products to America. Almost entirely tariff free, non tariff barrier free.
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Interviewer
Until recently. Yeah, right.
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Sean Spicer
But my point is that or you look at NATO and all of this in the book is, explains the thing. Why does Trump care about NATO? Well, because we created NATO to make a hedge against the Soviet Union, technically. Right. And yet none of these people are living up to their obligations, the obligations that we'll all protect each other if something happens and we'll all agree to spend up to 2% of our own GDP on our national defense. All these other countries got a free date. They realized, hey, the United States will spend plenty of money. Why don't we spend our money on social projects or welfare? Roads and bridges, Let them. They'll cover for us. And we did. Why were we spending our tax dollars when they wouldn't spend theirs? That was their obligation. So once you understand the government better and the process better, I think you come away as a better and more informed citizen. So part of the book is, and even we talked about the media, there's a whole chapter on the White House Correspondents Association. When you realize that that organization determines who gets into the Oval Office, you realize that abc, the New York Times, their goal is to ensure that you only read what they see and hear. So they have decided what you will read, see and hear every day. The White House Correspondent association, they determine who flies in the Air Force One with the President, who goes in the Oval Office with the President until this administration. Why does that matter? That's all in the book. And so just if you want to be a more informed citizen to understand the process, and that's what I love, hopefully I bring to the fight, right? So after 27 years in the military, 10 different members of Congress, two administrations in the executive office of the President, to be able to say, this is how your government works, I mean, you want to be more informed, you want to help make change, here's how to do it.
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Interviewer
Well, Sean Spicer, it's such a pleasure to have had you on.
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Sean Spicer
Appreciate you having me.
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Jania Kellogg
Thank you all for joining Sean Spicer and me on this episode of American Thought Leaders. I'm your host, Jania Kellogg, SA.