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Happy Trans Father’s Day from the New York Times - Scrolling w/ Hayley (Ep. 323)
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In this episode of Scrolling: The New York Times celebrates Fathers’ Day in the wokest way possible, reflecting pool vandals will be prosecuted, and the Democrats are dancing again…
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Dan Bongino
Hello, Happy Monday and a happy belated Father's Day. To all the dads and granddads watching or listening to the show, including my own, thank you for always supporting me. We need more strong fathers in this world. We need more masculinity, not less. So cheers to all of you. The New York Times, however, they have celebrated Father's Day the only way they really know how and it's the wokest way possible. Then the media still can't stop obsessing over the Reflecting Pool rehab instead of, I don't know, other important bombshells in the media like the COVID cover up and the Rape Gang Inquiry report. But the media is going to media and we are about to scroll. But first I want to remind you to subscribe to this show. Rumble.com Haley Will brings you to the Bongino Report channel. Make sure that you hit the like button, hit the subscribe button, hit all the buttons that you're supposed to hit, comment, scroll with everyone in the chat and if you can't catch us live, that's okay. 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And this is rare because I want to point out that male to female transitions outnumber female to male transitions three to one. And I think a lot of men who are transitioning to women, I think they're just gay. I think they were gay in the first place. They probably got married to an unsuspecting woman, probably poor girl, which I think happens more often than people would like to admit. And now it's become more socially acceptable to cosplay as a woman, unfortunately. Thank a Democrat for that. I think closeted gay dads are now transitioning. I'm sure in a few years Christine Ohm's husband will be full blown transgender. We're just, we just gotta wait a few years. But you heard it here first. But I think it's because if they transition to a woman, they think that they can date men and it's more socially acceptable, like it's less gay if they transition to a woman, you know, as close as they can get to a woman and then they get to date men. That's what I think and that's what they've always wanted. But maybe they were never gay. Maybe they were just infected by the woke mind virus mixed with the porn mind virus. And being a straight man isn't doing it for them anymore. And I think if they people just have to up the ante. And I think for most people it's this like sexual fetish turned real life mental illness fantasy that they feel justified in pushing on the rest of us. Happy pride everyone. And the New York Times is like, you know, this is how they celebrate fatherhood. Right. So they highlight this guest essay, which, again, is a woman who has transitioned to a man. Not sure why. We don't really get too many. Too many of the background details in this piece, but it's like a picture book in an article form. So let's get into this. The headline is, to my daughter, my gender was never complicated. So it says this. I've been living as a trans man since I was 18 years old, but when my wife and I had Elliot, I had to learn how to be a trans dad. So these are two women who had a daughter, somehow don't know how, and they named their daughter Elliot. It's quite confusing. Try to stick with me here. So unless the wife is also transgender and is a man, the article doesn't say. I don't know how they. Maybe they adopted Elliot. Maybe they used a surrogate or something or a sperm donor. I don't know. But in this opinion piece, which is entirely made up of pictures, the daughter is asking a lot of questions about her transgender dad. Like, how did you grow a mustache if you were a lady? And, you know, some women, you know, in. In back in the day in the circus, you know, when they had, like, the freak shows and stuff, they had bearded ladies. That was, like, an attraction. I feel like they're more. They're more common now. There's still freak shows, but there's just, like, maybe less common. But I'm in all seriousness, there are women who grow facial hair for whatever reason, but it's a hormonal imbalance, right? And it's wild to me because there are biological women who struggle with these issues, like pcos and other issues. And then there are women who are transgender. They think they're transgender, so they choose to disturb their hormones in an attempt to look like the opposite sex. But they'll never be the opposite sex, but they try to look like it. And that's so strange to me that you would want to impose hormonal imbalances on your body for this reason. And even if they try to get, you know, top or bottom surgery, they still don't look like men. They'll never be men. Which is just. It's confusing enough for me as an adult to try to. I can't imagine trying to explain this to a child. Like, well, I'm on testosterone, and I'm on. I. I rub this gel on my chest, and I'm taking these shots, and I'm injecting myself with this so that I can look differently. How do you explain this to a child? I don't know. Another question that the daughter had was, who is that looking at old photographs of her trans dad as a woman? And she has to explain, you know, that's a photo of me before I mutilated my body. Isn't this strange? You know, and in this picture it says, I wasn't out to everyone as trans, but with Elliot, I had to learn how to talk about it because obviously you can't hide this kind of thing from your biological children. So now they're looking at old photographs and it's like, who, who is that? That's not my dad. This, this little girl thinks that this is her dad and then he's, she's seeing two women back in these old photographs. That must be a very strange experience. And I think when people, I saw a ton of people talking about this article online yesterday, and no one was really talking about the fact of how disturbing this, this must be for the daughter in all of this. Like, people were saying, oh, the New York Times is so gay. And like, oh, the New York Times is so woke. Like, yeah, and all that's true. And we're going to talk about that. But imagine that, like, this is, I suppose, a real story, a true story. This is a real daughter that has to deal with this stuff. It's horrific. So then another slide of this thing. Oh, you look really different looking at this photograph and then saying, you know, you look cool. And the dad asks, then or now? And you know, how do, how do parents, how do trans parents teach their kids to love themselves as they are? How do trans parents teach their kids to have confidence in their own skin if they don't? How do Transparents teach their kids, oh, you're beautiful, you're perfect. You don't need plastic surgery. You don't need to change anything about you. When they have a parent who will take a hatchet to their own body to appease their body dysphoria. I just don't understand how you can have these conversations with a child and, and not impose some kind of your. And not impose your body. And what is it, like low self esteem or I'm body image? Like, poor body image? How do you not project that onto your child? I don't know. Then this next slide, number six. I had to trust her with the most vulnerable version of myself. And the little daughter is saying to her trans dad, I told my friends at school that mom made you a cake when you got your surgery. And the dad, you know, trans dad responds, and says, oh, right, that's nice. But I don't actually tell everyone that I'm trans. I save that for special people. And the daughter responds, oh, don't worry. I didn't tell them you were trans. Now, I also don't understand this. They want so badly to fly under the radar, and yet it's so obvious to everyone else. I'm sure all the parents in this school know that this dad is trans. There's no way. Like, if you were to hang out with a guy, a trans. A woman who has transitioned to a man, wouldn't you sniff that out immediately? Like, wouldn't you be able to tell? Doesn't matter how long they've been on hormones, doesn't matter what surgeries they have. Right. Wouldn't you be able to tell?
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
Yeah, there's usually.
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Dan Bongino
Usually telltale signs. Telltale signs. So you're telling me that this transgender person isn't in the pickup line and all the other dads or the moms don't know? They know. So why are you hiding it? You know? And it's. It's just bizarre. So then the daughter. This is obviously impacting the daughter a great deal because she says, when I grow up, I want to grow a beard. I want to grow a beard when I grow up.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
What?
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Dan Bongino
Why would your daughter think that? Your daughter only thinks that because her dad is a woman. And then the kids reply, you can't. You can't grow a beard. You're a girl. And she replies, my dad did, and he was a girl. So now the kids of trans parents think that this is a viable option. They know that people are unhappy with the. The biological sex that they were born with, and they think that this is just a quick little switcheroo. No big deal, on and off, switch, male, female, no big deal. Without fully understanding how damaging this is to the body. The side effects, the pain, the continued dysphoria and disappointment, suicidal ideation that these trans people have. And then they're pushing this on their children. So the New York Times. This is how the New York Times is trying to celebrate Father's Day. A woman who has transitioned to a man. Are you kidding me? And at some point, trans people will have to come to terms with the fact that despite putting themselves through hell and back, they'll never get to the opposite sex. That's why they call it a transition, right? They call it transgender because they never fully transition. They're always part of the transition. They never get to their destination. And real men don't have to Create penises out of their forearm. And real women don't have to create a vagina. They're born with it. And this transgender adult who is pushing this stuff on their child says that it's okay because kids can accept this stuff at face value. Kids are better at. They're better at understanding these things. They can move between complex topics. Could you pull up slide 11? This is why, like, this is the part where this gets really sinister. The daughter's asking her dad, I. If you're listening, I. I keep doing air quotes when I say, dad, it's not a dad, it's a woman. How long did you have breasts for, dad? You know, kids will be curious and ask questions about sex. I see videos on TikTok all the time of kids asking their parents to get our babies made. You know, they have a sibling on the way, and they're like, well, how did the baby get in your stomach? And blah, blah, blah, right? And the different ways that the parents handle it. It can be funny, but kids don't usually have to ask about their dad's breasts and how long did they have breasts? And when were you a woman? And when did you. You know, it's just. This is very confusing for children. And the article ends with this. The more I've watched Elliot embrace who she is, moving through the world with her wild and free spirit, her sense of humor, the more I've learned to embrace who I am. I thought I was teaching Elliot how to be happy and secure, yet all along, she had been doing that for me. Tell me you're insecure without telling me. And I'm sure I'm not a parent. I hope to be a parent one day. I. I'm sure parenthood teaches you a million things about yourself, challenges you in ways that you probably never thought. But to go through a transition and then be still so deeply insecure about whether other people think about you, to constantly worry about what your daughter thinks of you, this is so sad. It is deeply sad. This person clearly has no sense of self, no confidence. Their transition clearly didn't get them any closer to self acceptance. These are the kinds of truths that conservatives say. And then people on the left are like, you're transphobic, even though it's just the truth. And yet this is the kind of father that the New York Times celebrates on Father's Day. It's a woman cosplaying as a man, a woman who doesn't embody strength or masculinity at all. And we talk about the fatherlessness crisis Especially this comes up in the conservative movement. We talk about how important it is to have dads, and I think it's important to talk about on Father's Day, of course, the day after Father's Day. But, you know, think about what it is like to grow up with two women and listen, moms are great. Moms are. They're superheroes. But you need both. You need the yin and the yang. You know, they're men and women. They are perfectly made. This is. This is how babies are made for a reason. To reject the biological sex. When you're transgender and you reject the biological sex that made you a mother or a father, that's mind bending to me. I don't understand how you can be a woman and you can carry life, and you say, well, I don't want to be a woman anymore. So then you become a man, and then you have a baby. Like, I don't. I don't understand. You obviously don't hate being a woman. You're going to bring a child into this world. The only way that's possible, that's via a woman. So these gender fluids types, they claim that, you know, what they feel inside doesn't match their biological sex, but then they have children, and it requires again, man, woman, not man and man not woman and woman, man and woman, sperm and egg. No other way to do it. And yet our society is so sick that it coddles people who are even more sick into thinking that biological sex is something you can switch on and off. Oh, I don't feel like a woman, so therefore I'm not anymore. So therefore I'm a man. And they know deep down that they aren't. They're so insecure. They need everyone else to affirm their delusions because that's the only way that they'll ever feel that sense of self that they can't get internally. They know that they're transgender, but they want the rest of the world to affirm their delusional fantasies. Imagine how strange it is for the children who have to grow up in that environment. And people are gonna tell me, oh, the Kardashians. They're slop. Horrible show. Useless. We never get anything out of it. Let me just say we saw this play out on the show Keeping up with the Kardashians. I am actually very grateful that we got to see how painful and distressing it is for the family that transgenderism leaves in its wake. You all know Bruce Jenner. Bruce Jenner, you know, attempted to become Caitlyn Jenner. He Goes by Caitlyn Jenner now. And throughout his transition process, they did. They were filming, the cameras were rolling. And you may remember, you know, he cover, I think it was the COVID of Vanity Fair. And he's in this lingerie and, and he's got this long hair and makeup on and oof. Like that is really tough for his daughters to see. And they had what's her face. Diane Sawyer did this whole sit down interview with Bruce Jenner as he's going through this transition about, you know, so you're going to be a woman now. Are you still attracted to women? Does that make you a lesbian? Like, Diane Sawyer was getting into the nitty gritty. I actually, I commend her for going to the places that some journalists would not want to go to. And this was just really, truly disturbing and distressing for his family. We could see all of his daughters crying as they struggled with this change. They were mourning their father as if he was dying. Because Bruce was already fully moved on. He didn't give one damn about the family that was left in the dark. He didn't really care. This was all about him. Me, me, me. Very selfish. And I get that Bruce is, you know, Caitlin, whatever, is part of the conservative movement. I have no issue with that. I'm part of this big tent mentality where the more people who vote Republican, no matter how they identify sexually, the better. I don't really care what people do as adults in their own lives, but I'm also allowed to criticize it. And Bruce was so rude to his own family throughout the process. I don't know if any of you have seen this, but if you haven't seen that sit down interview, I actually urge you to see it because it really is wild and that I actually, I don't even know if they had done that in a different time. Like if they had. If Bruce had transitioned now, I think because of cancel culture and things like that, I wonder how people would respond. This was like the first of its kind to happen in front of our faces on reality television. And, you know, people were pretty. Well, it was well received how upset the Kardashians were. I wonder if Bruce transitioned now if people would be more or less likely to support them. But I remember people were feeling very, very sorry for Kris Jenner because she felt extremely blindsided. You know, her husband was transitioning to a woman. Like, even though they were divorced and dating other people, like, this was still. She was like, I feel like my marriage was a complete lie. I feel like the person that I married isn't even the person. You know, he's saying that he was never Bruce, and Chris was like, well, who. Who the f did I marry then? You know, like, if you didn't think that you were Bruce, but I thought you were Bruce, like, what's going on? You know? And then he's talking about, well, I cross dress and I was trying on your clothes when you weren't at home. And it's like this whole secret life that they didn't know. That's very traumatic, and it's very hard because, you know, the older Kardashian girls, Kim and Kourtney and Khloe, whatever, they grew up with Bruce at a very young age. You know, they lost their dad young. But Kendall and Kylie, the younger ones, that's their biological dad, their bio. They had to see their biological dad wear lingerie on the COVID of Vanity Fair. I like the Kardashians. Hate the Kardashians. Whatever. Could you imagine seeing your dad in lingerie on a cover of a magazine? People don't go through that kind of trauma. Like, that's not normal. But I feel like now it's going to become even more normal.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 2
Just.
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Dan Bongino
Anyway, I'm grateful that we got to see that and that they are reality television stars, because, I mean, we got a front row seat to all that trauma. Not that I wish trauma on anyone, but I think it's important to see how gross this is, and I think it's gross for the New York Times to highlight this transgender dad that's pretending to be a man in such a way that makes it seem like this has no impact on the kids, that they're just going to, like, grow up and be fine, Right? Oh, I don't have boobs now. I grow a beard. I'm a man now. But none of that matters. Yes, it effing does. Kids are sponges. They're vulnerable. They pick up on everything. They hear fights. If a divorce can impact a child and in a negative way, certainly your dad dressing up as a woman or vice versa can impact a child in a negative way as well. And maybe some kids will just not care. Maybe they'll tell themselves they don't care. Maybe they'll be growing up in a different time where this is even more accepted than it is today, which scares me. But I guarantee you they'll be bullied in school, and maybe they'll grow up to resent their family that allowed for this nonsense. And Alex Berenson, journalist, pointed out, pointed out this, that the New York Times. In recent days, they have been covering Father's Day. They've had a few different Father's Day pieces, and in every way they're attempting to remove the father. So he posted this. Cannot make this up either. New York Times opinion has had four recent pieces about fatherhood and masculinity with six authors, three women, a trans man, so a woman. So that makes four women and two childless men, not one father. The cultural elite contempt for dads runs so deep that we don't even get to speak for ourselves. Silencing fathers is not the way. Silencing fathers is not the way. This is why I'm not even pro counterculture so much. Conservatives think that the way to win the culture war is just to let the left control everything, but then let their agenda fester in every aspect of society while we do our normal thing over here. No, I don't think that that's winning the culture war. I think that's sitting out. I think that's not putting up a fight. I think that's letting the left walk all over us. And I saw another post because I posted this on X last night and someone was like, don't even cover it. Don't even cover it. Don't cover the New York Times. Like, conservatives shouldn't even talk about the New York Times. The conservatives shouldn't give this stuff the time of day. Covering this is not in support of the New York Times. We must expose their lunacy. We must stand up and call it out. Because if we don't, we're sitting out and we're not putting up a fight. We're not sending the message that this is wrong and it is wrong. And that's exactly what the left wants. For them to be able to do whatever they want while they demand access to everyone's kids as soon as possible to so that they can retrain their impressionable brains to accept this nonsense and not question it and grow up to have soup for brains and get paid to protest. Which brings me to my next topic, which is people with soup for brains that are being paid to protest, which is happening in D.C. outside of the refurbished reflecting pool. And they are screaming, let's go, algae. They are actually in support of the algae growing in. In the reflecting pools. That's TDS for you. Watch.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 2
Let's go, L.G. let's go, algae. Let's go, algae. Let's go, algae. Let's go. Let's go, algae. Let's go. Let's go, algae. Let's go. Let's Go Algae. God sent the algae. Don't play. Good.
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Dan Bongino
Nice. Nice. No, they're really doing something that really spoke to me. I'm so happy that they're out there.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
I was just about to ask, what do you think the mindset is when you get home, you. You're wearing your custom made algae paint T shirt and you sit down on the couch.
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Dan Bongino
Hold on one second. Custom made is a stretch. They spray painted team algae on their shirts and then they custom and then they spray painted 8647 on their shirts. And so I found this on Tick tock. And their handle is the Karen Resistance. So they're kind of wearing the Karen moniker as a. A badge of honor, if you will. These women that complain about stuff and that are annoying and everyone hates, so it's like they're almost proud to be annoying and everyone hates them.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
How was work, honey? It was pretty good.
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Dan Bongino
They're not in relationship. They're not in heterosexual relationships, these people. Let's be real. They're not in heterosexual relationships. So the Karen resistance, you know, they're going out there screaming, can we watch this again? Someone said fat, ugly lip darts in the chat. Someone else said, let's go morons. Republican voters. Hypocrisy. Mushroom Dick messiah. They're calling Trump. Go Algae. Team Algae. They've got pink hair.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 2
Let's go. Let's go. Algae. God sent the algae.
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Dan Bongino
Don't play God. God sent the algae.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
I'd love to see them use the same mindset with kudzu. And then the world just gets taken over and we didn't play God though.
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Dan Bongino
It's so. It's so strange. I did look up one of these women is part of Black Lives Matter. So this is how you know that the black, like no one is really protesting for any Black Lives Matter purposes right now. Maybe they were doing that for Carmelo Anthony, but we haven't heard of BLM protests in a while.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
So it is a job.
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Dan Bongino
Then you know it another thing comes up, like whatever the current thing is, they start protesting it. This is how this works. They just protest the current thing. And you know, then it was fight the oligarchy. Then it was no kings, then it was no ice, you know, whatever the thing is, right? And I feel like for a while then the news cycle has been a little slow. And I guess if the news cycle slow, then it's slow for the paid protesters as well, because what are they going to protest, right? They need something to latch onto. This is how you know you've lost the Plot when you have absolutely nothing to protest. You're protesting algae growing in a reflecting pool. And some people were begging the National Guard soldiers that are out there to arrest them.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 2
Watch this $1.1 million for y' all to watch pun scam. Our money's really being spent well for you all to watch fun scam. Let's go of the. Let's go and watch P. Sc $1.1 million a day so the National Guard could come and watch P. SC don't you have to find something to arrest me for? I heal right. You're going to try to find something to arrest me for.
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Dan Bongino
I don't know what is on her suit. The frog suit, I think it said something with antifa or something. I can't read it. Yeah. Someone in the chat said, is that English? Well, what I could make out was that she's asking these National Guard soldiers to arrest her and she's taunting them, making fun of the fact that they're standing there obviously protecting the city, and she's taunting them. And these poor people, honestly, like, this is what they have to deal with. And then people are now vandalizing the pool. This is how you know that you have TDS beyond normal ranges. A cyclist, he's apparently an Olympic cyclist. And of course, the Washington Post and cnn, like, they're all over this, covering this because, you know, this is some, like, you know, upstanding citizen who was arrested. But a cyclist was arrested at Reflecting Pool. It's a former Olympian who denies vandalism claims. And so they said that this cyclist was caught reaching into the pool, the Reflecting Pool, and grabbing some of the sealant that was peeling off of the bottom. I'm sure you've seen these videos of, you know, CBS has been posting it, and the sealant on the bottom has been lifting up for whatever reason. And Trump says that this is going to be fixed, but it certainly doesn't help when people are ripping it off themselves. That doesn't help the process. And certainly it is a crime to vandalize government property and property that isn't your own. And according to the Washington Post, they say that it's paint. Then according to journalist Emily Miller, who is on the ground in D.C. it is the sealant on the bottom. And this cyclist guy also grabbed the hose that the worker was using to clear the algae. So this is obviously someone who is trying to derail this cleanup process, and he is innocent until proven guilty. We don't know what he's done or what he hasn't done. But according to U.S. attorney Judge Jeanine Pirro, people who are caught vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool or any other thing in Washington is going to be fully prosecuted, and they should be. And even minor crimes need to be prosecuted to keep the U.S. capitol safe. That's what she says. And I totally agree. A crime is a crime. And my thing is, why touch the reflecting pool? There is no reason to touch it. You can see it. You know what? It's like, so annoying when people say, oh, can I see that? And they grab for it and people say, you see with your eyes, not with your hands.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
Brutal.
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Dan Bongino
I really do like it's annoying when people say that. But I do agree when people are like, oh, let me see that, let me see that. You can just look at the reflecting pool. Look at the reflecting pool. You don't need to touch it. You don't need to rip the sealant off of the bottom. You don't need to vandalize it. You don't need to touch it. Just don't touch. You can hate Trump, but you don't have to touch it. Imagine hating your president and hating your city and hating your country so much that you hate to see it cleaned up, so much so that you will derail the efforts to make the city that you live in more beautiful to live in and actively try to make it more dirty. Activism used to be fighting to. To make where you live a better place, right? Think of all the protests in our nation's history. And you all. You all know how I feel about protests nowadays. I think it's really stupid. I think it's a waste of time. But I will always respect everyone's right to do so. So long as you are not violent, so long as you are respectful, fine. You want to waste your own time, stomp around with a sign, be my freaking guest. But for the most part now, it's people, you know, frustrated with the government for whatever reason, legally making their voices heard, demanding change. Now it is a complete farce. I guess they got tired of the no kings thing, and now they are protesting a reflecting pool. You have to get real. That's when you know you live in the greatest country on the face of the planet. You're protesting algae in a reflecting pool. If that's the case, you have no real problems. If this is what black lives matter is, protesting. Black lives are great. Everything's. Everything's good because you're protesting algae in a reflecting pool. So there are no issues. You have no issues. You're as privileged as you could ever be. And of course, CNN has been doing this hard hitting journalism on the reflecting pool for about a week now. And you know, I wasn't going to cover it because it's so dumb, but here we are. So they sent a reporter out last week to collect water samples. Look, could you imagine, this is your assignment. Look at this. And we're going to scoop up a water sample to see if we can get this tested. CNN independently took the sample of water and consulted with a pool store that regularly tests water to help read the results. It showed phosphate levels far higher than what is recommended to keep algae at bay. Based on estimates for a pool that holds 6.5 million gallons of water.
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Expert or Analyst
If there's already some phosphate fertilizer in
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
the water, that's really opportunistic, especially for
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Expert or Analyst
the blue green algae that can fix nitrogen. So they are.
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Dan Bongino
Well, I for one am so glad that CNN is on the ground boots on the ground journalism, collecting these water samples and then calling up a pool store and having them tested. I'm so happy that we have journalists in this country that are so determined to get to the truth that they will do, they will, they will go there, they will get their hands dirty to get to the truth. I'm just so grateful.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
I love that everybody's missing the plot. Maybe we take some time and reflect on the time that we've wasted talking about this.
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Dan Bongino
It's so stupid. And now CNN is reporting on its own hypocrisy because they've realized that the algae in this reflecting pool has really always been a problem. And then here, here's this woman saying the quiet part out loud on cnn.
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CNN Reporter
I reached out to the park police this morning for any information they could provide on how many people have been arrested, what they have been charged with. No response yet. But the thing that I keep coming back to in the course of this reporting is this idea that back in 2012, President Obama was president when there was a $34 million renovation of this reflecting pool and it also had a massive algae bloom right after it was refilled. Why don't we remember that? Why weren't we talking about that? Why are we talking about this now? Because President Obama wasn't personally involved. He did not insert himself. He did not drive his motorcade into the pool. But for Trump, that is how he does things. He is very personally involved. He views himself as the developer in chief. This is part of his legacy.
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Dan Bongino
It says yes. In May 2026, President Donald Trump's motorcade was driven Directly through the drained Lincoln Memorial reflecting pole. Okay, so it was drained.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
Huge flex.
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Dan Bongino
Yeah, I guess that happened a month ago. But did you notice the quiet part that she said out loud that the difference between the algae bloom during Obama's administration and the difference between the algae bloom during the Trump's administration is because it's Trump? That's the difference. They didn't care when Obama was in office. They didn't care about the algae in the pool. She's saying we care about this now because Trump cares about it. They're so obsessed. Like, truly, Trump has changed the game in politics, where we've never had a president that has been this involved. We have never had a president so transparent. We've never had a president so accessible ever in our nation's history. We've never had a president who has been kicked off of social media. He was so prolific on X that they kicked him off and then he started his own social media company. And we get to hear his stream of consciousness at all hours of the day and night.
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This is new.
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Dan Bongino
This is new for us, and this is new for the media. And, you know, remember when President Trump, he was out of office and CNN and msnbc, all these journalists were so excited to have a boring president again in Joe Biden. They were so excited to go back to what they said was normal. And I think for President Trump, this is his normal, but it's no one else's normal. He works at a pace that is, he's running circles around everyone else and nobody can keep up. And we are so lucky to have someone in charge like that. I like to see that the media cannot keep up with him. It forces everyone else around President Trump and in his orbit to work harder, and he sets the standard. If we have a president of the United States who's working harder than everyone else, you know, everyone else is going to try to keep up with him, and I think that that's good.
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And.
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Dan Bongino
And cnn, not only can they not keep up with Trump, they are so obsessed with him now, where it's like they hang on every word, every post, every truth social post, every tweet, every everything. And that's the difference. Obama never really gave a shit about the reflecting pool. It's not that Obama didn't insert himself into these issues. President Trump inserts himself into everything because why wouldn't he. Why wouldn't he insert himself into the cleanup of the city that he lives in? You know, and now CNN only cares because Trump is inserting himself. And they. They think that That's a bad thing. They think that it's a bad thing. And now Governor Tim Walls, or former governor, resigned. Governor Tim Walls, he's going to be out of office or, you know, out of political office. He weighed in on this. And nobody wants to hear from Tim Wallace ever again. But here he is. Found an imaginary problem. Said only they could fix it, but didn't listen to experts, hired buddies who grifted millions, failed miserably, bragged about how great it went. The entire Trump presidency in a nutshell. Oh, could you imagine being this out of touch, where you think that anyone wants to hear from you at all? But certainly on issues of wasting money and being incompetent and a poor leader. If Tim Walls thinks you're bad at your job, you're probably doing the right thing. You're probably on the right track. He says that President Trump and President Trump's administration found an imaginary problem, an imaginary problem that only they could fix. Cleaning up cities is not an imaginary problem. You would have to be a failed Democrat governor to believe that. Minneapolis is where American activists go to die for actual imaginary issues. Protesting government agencies that have been deporting illegal aliens for decades. And that's really the commonality between all of this. Liberals don't care until Trump is in office. Liberals didn't care about ICE when Bush or Obama or Biden was in office. They only started caring about it this year. Liberals didn't care about censorship when they were censoring conservatives for their speech and deplatforming the sitting president. But censorship was the theme of their counter protest to the UFC fight. Who has been censored on the left? I can't think of anyone. Maybe they're thinking of Jimmy Kimmel, who was caught lying on his show, or Stephen Colbert, who was caught tanking ratings and wasting money. That's not censorship. That's business. And liberals don't care when they run a guy with a Nazi tattoo. Graham Platner. I thought they hated Nazis. Oh, but not when it's one of their own. They also don't care about his sexual abuse allegations. Well, not enough. Here's Ro Khanna saying that he believes all women, but he still supports Graham Platner. Listen to this.
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Interview Host or Moderator
You also are not afraid to back Graham Platner. You've been one of the most steady voices for him within the Democrat Party. When other folks within your party have said he's crossed some lines for them. We're going to put up and scroll here for folks at home to see some of the controversies he's been accused of. Some of this stuff he's admitted to, some of it he's denied. But we're talking about things like the Nazi tattoo, which he said he didn't understand and later covered up, but, you know, slurs against specific communities, mocking, you know, a US Soldier who was shot by the Taliban, shaming rape victims and others. Do you worry about that? What is the line for you? Because there have been allegations, former female partners, of his who've alleged abuse and mistreatment, those kinds of things. I mean, what happened to believe women?
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Expert or Analyst
Well, I do believe those women, and I have said that his past conduct was shameful, and I totally condemned it. He did two, three tours of duty in Iraq. He came back with a ptsd. That's not an excuse. But he said that he had a problem with alcohol. He had a ugly period in his life, and he believes that he is transformed, and he's had redemption. And the voters of Maine had a choice, and they voted for him by 72%. At this point, almost the entire Democratic Party is supporting him, and it's for the voters to decide whether they believe his transformation is. Is sincere. I believe that they will make that determination. But I do believe that people have to extend grace to folks who. Who own up to past mistakes and say that they've transformed and that they're better.
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Interview Host or Moderator
Well, you are a little.
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Dan Bongino
Show the Nazis some grace, okay? Show the Nazi with the MeToo allegations some grace. That's what the message from the Democrat Party is. This is hilarious to me. They get caught in their own, like, their own vicious cycle where it's believe all women. And they say, you know, believe all women. And it's because it's, you know, whoever Brett Kavanaugh or. Or Trump or someone, right. Believe all women. And believing all women is insane. I mean, you. Why would you believe all women? Women lie. Like, it's so strange. The Democrats put women on this pedestal where it's like, believe all women. Women are. I don't know, like, what. Women are capable of lying, and they do lie, and they. They lie to ruin men's reputations. They do it all the time. It happens a lot in the sports world. It happened to Trevor Bauer, Matt Ariza, Duke Lacrosse. Like, these are ones that just come to mind immediately for me. And, you know, it's these horrific allegations that ruin people's lives and careers, but then they come out to be false, and it's like, what? So this is why I don't believe all women. That's stupid. But Democrats surely do. They, they believe all women. So then we get to throw it back in their face because none of their little sayings are backed in logic. It's just a blank, you know, believe all women. So then Shannon Bream says, okay, so do you believe these women that said that Graham Platner was, you know, abusive to them? Oh, yeah, I believe those women, but I don't really care. But I support him because, like, he's our guy and he's the, he's the, you know, he's the guy running. So there you go. Like, that's enough for the liberals. So liberals don't really care about sexual Abuse or MeToo or any of that. If it's at the hands of a Democrat, that's how, you know, they don't really care about the issue at all. They lose all credibility. Liberals didn't care about exposing Epstein when Bush or Obama or Biden was in office. They just started caring about it this year. And no major outlets, by the way, in the US have covered the rape gang inquiry report, aside from Fox News, Great Britain News. Left wing outlets haven't touched it. And these are the people that claim to care about pedophile rings. They claim to care about Epstein. Let's let me make this very clear. The people who only talk about the evils of pedophilia and child sexual abuse and human trafficking when it has to do with Epstein, the people who only talk about these issues when they think they can get Trump or expose some kind of government cover up, those people have no idea how bad this issue really is. If the only pedophile you care about is the One that died 10 years ago, you do not care about this issue. And I have called for justice and transparency when it comes to Epstein and his victims and his clients because I care about the victims and survivors of these crimes across the board. But if you only care about one pedophile, just one, you don't really care at all. And if you only care about pedophiles in the United States, but you don't care about the pedophiles in the uk, you don't really care at all. Because there's a pedophile in your neighborhood, statistically dozens and even more, that don't get caught. So pay attention, raise awareness, or get out of the way. That's my message to Democrats who claim to care about this stuff.
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Dan Bongino
Now let's get into scrolling time. Okay, I promised that I was done talking about Juneteenth and I'm breaking my promise because this is so funny, guys, I just have to play these videos. And I was so sick of the Juneteenth videos that Andrew had for me last week. I was like, all right, thanks. I'm done watching this, right? I'm done watching this. But then I saw this and I had to cover it. I just had to cover it. Here is a Juneteenth. What would you call this? A display? A Juneteenth.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
I don't even. A Juneteenth performance? Yeah, a live performance.
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Dan Bongino
I don't know. Just watch this. This is how they celebrate Juneteenth. Okay, so here's we've got people in shackles. They've got their arms in chains, wrists and chains, blood on their shirts. This woman's carrying a bowl on her head. They're all wearing clothes from like Target. You know, this woman specifically looks very well fed. I'll just leave it at that. But they're walking or this looks like somewhat of a fashion show. It looks like a Juneteenth display meets fashion show where they're walking. You know, there's people on the sides and they're watching this all the whole thing. And they're taking pictures and they got their phones out. I don't really understand what's going on here. And, you know, before the show started, Andrew asked me who asked for this? And that's a great question because I know I didn't ask for this. I don't know what the purpose of reenacting anything from slavery. I don't understand the purpose of that. Someone in the chat said, cry for attention. It's just victim. It's victim mentality that they can't get out of their heads. And it's also the ultimate virtue signal. You're dying to be a victim. You're dying to be a victim. No one's asking you to walk around in chains. And it's like, why are you doing this? I don't want to see anyone in chains. It's crazy. If you thought that was bad, it gets worse. Watch. This is another Juneteenth. Display live action reenactment of slaves picking cops. And this is another one that sort of left me speechless. Does this put us in a better place in society? Is this, is this necessary? Obviously not. It's not necessary. But I'm wondering why. What is the purpose of doing this?
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
Face value. I would assume remembrance. But it. I think the problem in this scenario is, is it's pushed so hard as something that we all should be so ashamed of, which slavery. Terrible.
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Dan Bongino
Yeah.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
You know, a blemish on the American history.
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Dan Bongino
Yes.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
All for remembrance, but using it as a token to be praised for. We've been through this. So you, you need to give us X, Y, Z.
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Dan Bongino
Right. Like, we demand reparations. We demand this and remember what you did. And it's like, none of these people were slaves. No one else was slave owners. Like, this was no one. No one in American history is like, let's go back to that. Let's go back to the good old days of slavery. Like, no one is saying that.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
And I would assume most Americans have the same sentiment. And it was a blemish. It was terrible. We need to harping on it, but we need to move on.
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Dan Bongino
Yes. Like harping on it is doing no one any good.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
We can't keep remembering.
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Dan Bongino
We can't keep doing this.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
We have to move on and under. Learn from our mistakes and learn.
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Dan Bongino
But we have. It's like we've correct. We've been learning from our mistakes. And it's almost like they don't want. It's like, let's hold this over generations of people's heads. People who have absolutely nothing to do with this anymore. And it's like, my grandparents weren't slave owners. My great great grandparents weren't slave owners. Like, what this has. Like, we have nothing to do with this. Like, it's horrible. Like, I, I think it's horrible. These people, I think it's obviously think it's horrible. Let's not harp on it anymore. And there's a difference. Like when you say that this is for remembrance purposes. There are ways to remember. Like, I think museums do a good job of that. Are there like World War II, Holocaust reenactments? Like, people aren't really reenacting.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
The only horrific that comes to mind
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Dan Bongino
is Civil War reenactments, Civil War, Revolutionary War reenactments. It's like, okay. But again, that I feel like is more for educational purposes where it's like
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
not a celebration or remember how terrible this was. You should be filled with guilt.
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Dan Bongino
Correct. That's the difference. Yeah. And then, you know, to pretend like your back's hurting and to pretend like you're picking cotton that's not on the ground. And then it's just like, this is really uncomfortable to watch. Honestly, I don't really want to see that. I don't want to see human beings in chains, even if it is just for whatever. And they would probably say that. That's the point. The point is to make white people feel uncomfortable. So our job is done here, you know, and it's just like, what are we doing? But over the weekend, it wasn't just Juneteenth celebrations or reenactments, I should say, but Governor Abigail Spanberger, she decided to bust a move, and it was just as cringy as you would expect. Watch. There she is, bopping, moving and grooving. Who invited her? Who invited her? She looks very out of place. Hey, there's some lessons to be taken from hey, ho.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
As a white guy who can't dance.
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Dan Bongino
Make up your own.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
Make up your own. Keep it tight. Trump keeps it tight. He's locked in. He's in his old box. Your hands shouldn't be above your head in any scenario as a read politician. Oh, he keeps it tight. He keeps it right here on the shoulders. There's nothing embarrassing.
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Commercial Voice or Sponsor Announcer
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Dan Bongino
When Trump dances, he's not trying to do anything other than just be himself and have a good time. When other politicians dance, it's performative in a way that when Trump does it, it just seems authentic. Like he's really just busting a move because he wants to.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
Unfortunately, the cool kid at the dance.
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Dan Bongino
Yes, he hears kind of. Yes, he hears why. He hears YMCA Come on. And can't help himself. So, you know. And again, no one else is dancing like this. He does this, like, weird, robotic. Like, again, he's not good at dancing, but it doesn't matter. He's doing his own thing. He's, like, in his own little world, and I love that for him. And when Abigail Spanberger dances, and when any Democrat dances, for that matter, what's her face? Elizabeth Warren. Remember when she came out and she was like this, like. I don't know when that video was from, but it's horrible. Hate to see that. Gwen Walls don't want to see her dance. Hillary Clinton don't want to see her dance. And I know what you're thinking. Abigail Spamberger is white, so she has an excuse. She's bad at dancing. It's okay. She's a little white lady. She doesn't have rhythm. So then what's Kamala's excuse? Watch this. You all right, mama? Is this good? Hold on. She's gonna start dancing again. There she goes. There she goes.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
Huge. Tell where her hands above her shoulders. Gotta keep it tight. Gotta keep it.
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Dan Bongino
Yeah, you gotta. You just gotta.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
Just a little.
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Dan Bongino
Just a little bit. Someone in the chat said she. She's got rhythm. I would expect more from her. Whenever I see Kamala dance, I expect more from her.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
Hot take. I thought Abigail Spamberger had rhythm. She. Her arms are just a little too high. Gotta keep it on lock.
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Expert or Analyst
Like you don't.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
You don't need to do the.
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Dan Bongino
No flailing.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
Yeah, no, let me bring it back. She's got a little bit of rhythm. A little bit.
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Dan Bongino
She's on beat, I'll give her that.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
This is where she. This is where she goes wrong.
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Dan Bongino
Oh, it was so good. It was so good. Until it wasn't too into it.
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Dan Bongino
She lost us.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
Come on, Abigail.
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Dan Bongino
Abigail. Just take some dancing tips from Trump. You just gotta. You just gotta do one of these. I hate to see it. I really. I don't want any politicians to dance.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
Except I don't need to be dancing.
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Dan Bongino
You don't need to dance. I know they want to try to be cool. A lot of them try to hop on tick tock trends and stuff to be like relatable and stuff. This is not relatable.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
Name one politician you have seen dance that has then been a positive. There's not one.
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Dan Bongino
Other than. Yeah, other than Trump.
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Co-host or Guest Commentator 1
He's an enigma. He doesn't count.
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Dan Bongino
I know he is. Politician that dance like it turned out to be a positive. I don't know. Let's end it on that. Then we'll dance out of the show. Goodbye, everyone. See you tomorrow. Follow me on social media. Bye. Look at my hands above my head like Abigail Spanberger.
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