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This week we're going to take a look at another assassination attempt on President Trump and how is the media responsible for some of this? We're going to take a look at the hockey. The gold medal was won by Team usa, the men's team. They went to the White House. They went to the state of Union, became a political football. I don't know why. We're going to take a look at the state of the Union. How did the media act? How did the Democrats act? How did Trump do? It was his longest speech of all time. That and more coming up on Media Exposed.
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Media Exposed with Adam Wise starts now. Welcome back to Media Exposed. Man. There was another assassination attempt. Oh, past. Last weekend at Trump Mar A Lago. And that's if many of you don't know, that's Trump's home. He moved out of New York. He still lives in New York, but he moved there and it was a young guy, 22 year old guy that came out of the woodwork. Some golfing cart person, worked in a golf club, country club, came all the way there with a rifle and went into Mar A Lago and was shot. They told him to put us down. But this seems to be a symptom of society. Third assassination attempt to the president of the United States. How is this happening? How do we have a society that young people who's 22 years old that came out trying to assassinate the president of the United States. I want to welcome my next guest, Blair White. He's a Political commentator, podcast host of the Blair White Project, social media star, I'd say content creator. Blair, thanks for joining us again.
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Thanks for having me.
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You know, Blair, this story stuck to me because you take a look at this guy's age when, you know, when Trump became he's 22, right. He was killed going to Mar a Lago with a rifle. So if we go back in time, he was about 11 when Trump first became, when first started running, about 10, 11 years old. So if you take a look at this cut, I'm going to show you in a minute. But give me your initial thoughts on the 22 year old coming from North Carolina with a rifle going into. There's a lot of mental problems in this country. Give me your initial thoughts when you heard that story.
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Yeah, I think it's really sad to say, but assassination culture is officially prevalent in America. There's a large swath of people out here that think that words are not an effective vehicle for change. I disagree with that. And things get really ugly when people think that words don't work anymore.
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It's really bad. But what has happened in our culture, in our society, the media has played such a terrible role, such a disservice to discourse in America between political ideologies. I grew up in a time when it didn't matter. I had Democrats. We used to meet at the end of the day locally in New York. I used to meet Democrats. There's one bar called the Landmark Cafe. We all used to be friends. At the end of the day didn't matter. It was just politics. Value should be different than just politics. You disagree on something, you should all be hanging out at the end of the day. But look what the media has done. I want to show you to cut one. I have a little montage here of their voices over the last deck five or six years. Let me show you. Cut one. Democrats in the media are taking a page from their old playbook, ramping up the anti Trump rhetoric and comparing him to Hitler and other dictators. Check out these recent headlines. Trump is speaking like Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini. Trump's rhetoric is fascist and violent. And Trump is straight up talking like a Nazi. Those are real headlines from real left wing publications. Totally irresponsible. And here's what Democrats and the liberal media are saying. I know it's a loaded word, but when you say you're going to be dictator on day one, I mean look up the definition of fascism. The characteristics of a dictator, an authoritarian. I mean, General Milley said it himself, but Trump Again, reinforced it himself. So I don't think it's overstating. This is stuff from the 1930s. This is Hitler stuff. Yes, he is an authoritarian figure. General Mark Milley was quoted saying Donald Trump is fascist to the core. What is driving Harris to support this language publicly? I mean, it's the truth.
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It's what people believe.
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And I think that she wants the
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American people to really take a hard
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look at who she is running against and who could be the president in
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charge of the nuclear codes.
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Yeah, I mean he's a feral guy. Like he's a very animalistic human being. I think this one is. Don't risk it with this. This is dangerous talk. This is the talk of dictators. I don't know who Sleazia, Governor, you know, Governor Walls or Governor Newsom, they're both like sleazebags. But I think you got to be more careful of Newsom. He's like really slick, right? His hair slick. He's the one to watch out for. But they've normalized these words. If you lived in a neighborhood, Blair, and everybody said to the neighbor three doors down, he's Hitler, he's a dictator. What would all the other neighbors want to do? But give me your thoughts on that montage and what they've done, society they've created the media against.
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That was an insufferable montage. And also, you know, when you look at this person's age, this third assassination attempt, he grew up, his fundamental years were being inundated non stop with that and way worse. You gotta remember this is the conversations happening on mainstream, you know, family, safe television. Think about the sort of culture he grew up around, the people around him, the liberals around him. You know, it's. We've seen this start to creep in when Luigi Mangioni assassinated the healthcare CEO and hundreds of thousands of people, if not millions, were celebratory and they had merch celebrating him, fetishizing him too in a really weird way. A lot of women saying he was hot. You know, political violence, there's no monopoly that either side has on it throughout history. But if you look at recent times, right, it's not Democrat presidents having assassination attempts on their life. And thank God, I would never have wanted that for Biden. Obviously it's the Republican president. And three times now, it's not Democrat influencers getting murdered on college campuses in front of everybody. It's Charlie Kirk. There seems to be a one way stream of violence happening at least at this pocket of history. And for whatever reason, people are unwilling to really look at that. And we have to always play it safe and say, say, oh, it's a both sides thing. Rhetoric can be ugly on both sides. But what I'm looking at is in this recent slot of history, the other side has a complete monopoly on violence and assassination attempts. And it's really scary, like I said, when people start, stop thinking that words are going to get any change, you know, this is unfortunately inevitable. And throughout history we've seen what happens when people really give up on arguing for change they want.
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I can't exactly the year, but it was the White House correspondents dinner. Obama was speaking, Trump was in the audience. Obama made like five or six mean jokes towards Trump and you could just see him, you know, he was getting, he was getting livid about it. He wasn't laughing at it. It wasn't really good jokes. It was just going after Trump. And that's where Trump kind of, they say, finally made the decision he's going to run for president one day. But if you took a look at one State of Union speech, it was a congressman that screamed at Obama during one. There was one congressman that made, you know, got loud during Obama, man, they called him a racist. We got lectures. You're not supposed to behave this way during the State of the Union. So when the revolves are reversed and 70 people didn't even show up and we got Ilhan Omer smirking, we got Rasheed Tlaib screaming kkk. What a difference how the media covers it. Do you remember when Obama was president and any, anything directed towards Obama society was accused of what?
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Oh yeah, you had to walk on complete eggshells with Obama being president. He was almost uncriticizable, which is pretty insane. Looking back. I think that now people are starting to see that he was not the messiah that the media painted him out to be. But that really is the point, right? The media can either paint you as the Messiah or can paint you as Hitler, as Satan. And that's definitely what they've done with Trump. And so it's not only affecting Trump though, that has a trickle down effect to where violence is normalized against his supporters. I don't know if you saw, there was a clip pretty recently of a, I believe it was a high school or junior high incident where an anti ICE student punched a pro ICE student in the face for merely mentioning that he supports ice. And so that's obviously a much lower scale and level, but you can see how it trickles out.
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I want to show you this. Let's Go to cut two.
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What the hell is wrong with you? What the. What the. Get here.
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Get here. Get here.
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Get here.
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Go, brother. Get here.
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Oh, hell no.
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Oh, it's a kid. This trail. That's wild that our society has that, that young people are jumping a teacher. What we've normalized and I only saw that online. That should be splattered on every paper. They should be admonishing the kids suspended them. Give me your final thoughts on that clip.
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I agree. And it's shocking, even with this most recent assassination attempt, how little coverage it's gotten. It's pretty scary that it's so normalized, this sort of political violence, that it almost seems like it's par for the course. I see almost no one talking about it.
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Yeah. Blair, thanks for joining us. I'll see you soon. Thanks again. Coming up next, the US Wins gold for men's and women's hockey. But the media creates a negative tone and negative storylines. That and more. Coming up on Media Exposed. This is more than news. It's a movement. This revolution of people taking their countries back. A turning point. A chance to be part of something greater than yourself. Scan the QR code and stand with Rav. The story isn't over and neither is your part in it. Step in, be counted, be heard. Together we are Rav. We will achieve American greatness. I think when you're diagnosed with cancer, you crave a semblance of normalcy and control. And so work allowed me to be me. So I think it's really important that companies stay flexible. Cancer in a diagnosis can be all consuming, but it doesn't have to be. Research shows there is a significant connection between the ability to continue to work and cancer recovery.
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Welcome back to Media Exposed. It was actually Jewish hockey star Jack Hughes who clinched a goal for Team usa. Hughes helped the team to its first men's Olympic gold since 1980. He spoke about having a bar mitzvah and celebrating Passover growing up. His mother, Ellen Weinberg Hughes, who's also Jewish, represented Team USA in 1992, coached this year's gold medal women's team and as member International Jewish hall of Fame. I don't know this. The media doesn't tell us this. It was a historic moment overshadowed by political angles. Rather than focusing on gold the team their stories on a multi generation Jewish door. So coverage and so atlas shifted toward President Trump's involvement and the state of the instead of, you know, pushing it forward with the State of the Union invite. Turning a gold medal into a political flashpoint. Networks accused of pressing the family on Trump. Critics say ABC and ABC attempted to put the Hughes family in a political corner. Bad situation. The media went in overdrive when Cash Patel was invited down to celebrate with the team. That went viral. Then he faced backlash. CNN highlighted a viral clip of Cash Patel celebrating in a negative way. Why can't a guy celebrate a little bit? But the coverage quickly shifted to criticism. A commentators question of political optics of that moment. Victory be darn. We won the gold. Get over it. Stop worrying about this. Yet another gold medal story pulled into the cultural war cycle. That was terrible. Right. And I want to show the heading of this story if we have it up there, if we didn't get blocked out possibly but talked about the negative spin on Cash Patel. But I want to welcome my next guest, Matt Sheldon. Matt's a political commentator and a sports commentator at once. He's an avid sports fan. Matt, thanks for joining us. Actually, Matt from the slopes, actually Park City. Thanks for sports fan. Yeah.
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I'm coming to you from Park City, which if many of your viewers don't know is the home of the 2034 Olympics.
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So you know, eight years away that far in advance.
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Yeah, eight years. They just got the bid and then. Yes. So the next one's going to be in France and then following is going to be back here. We have a lot of hometown stars from Utah that are looking forward to it. These kids that are growing up are going to be competing. Yeah. In the next Olympics. But yeah, I mean I think the media coverage and I think you forgot to mention that the goalie for the women's team, Franco is also Jewish. She had one of the most insane runs as a goalie. Holy. For the women. So you had two stars that really won the gold for both sides that were Jewish. And I didn't see any coverage anywhere. I didn't see the New York Times cover it. The Post, New York Post did. Andrea Peyser did a story and then it was like the Times of Israel like that's covered it. You didn't hear anything else about the fact that both of these, these stars were Jewish. And let's be real about it, I think the media, they just don't like to cover Jews in a positive light with all the stuff going on with Israel. And so we didn't hear anything about it.
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It's a combination of they don't want Trump's the president right now. Trump called in and celebrated with them, thanked them, invited them all to the White House. And God forbid he made a joke and he says, I have to bring it, I have to invite the women, otherwise they get pushback. And the media took that out of context. And then the women decided not to come cuz they were all young. So they probably got persuaded by the media. Instead of saying, what did you think of Trump's joke? Right. They made it look like Trump was bashing women and all he did was make a little joke. I want to go to cut three here, Matt, and show you this clip. But when Jack Hughes was on the red carpet, actually these hockey players, they were supposed to go to New York because of the storm. They went to Miami early in the week and partied at 11, which is the hottest spot, one of the hottest spots in Miami, partied all night, then went right to the White House and celebrated. But I think this clip is on the red carpet at the 11. Let's go to cut three and watch Jack Hughes. He's got class. Well, we're just, we're athletes. We're so proud to represent the U.S. and when you get the chance to go to the White House, meet the President, you know, we're proud to be Americans. And you know, that's so patriotic. So no matter what your views are, we're super excited to go. How do you feel about the women not going? Everyone's giving us backlash for all the social media stuff today. But it's so negative. People are so negative out there and they're trying to find a reason to just like put people down and make, like, make something out of almost nothing. I think everyone in that locker room, you know, knows how much we support them, how proud we are of them. And we feel the same, the same way we feel about them. We know they feel that way about Matt. Why did they even have to ask that questions on the carpet? It's like, leave the guy, let him celebrate. Why are you putting it?
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It should, it should have been political. I mean, first of all, the thing with Capitel, I thought was so cool to see a minority FBI director celebrating with the team. They invited him in there and it' government supporting our athletes and vice versa. Now you flash to last night. I don't know if a lot of you saw, but Mikey Sheryl shows up and tries to at the Devil's game. This is Jack Hughes first game back. They're all going crazy for him. He gives a speech, she tries to inject herself into that. And you know, Comes onto the ice with Jackie and they boo him. They boo her and her husband. The entire crowd was booing everywhere. She posts something like, it was a great meeting with him and everything else. She leaves out that the crowd was going nuts. They hated her.
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She just signed anti legislation. She's not pro American. I mean, I know that she touts this, that she's this helicopter pilot and went to Annapolis, but the fans hated her. So this was Jack Hughes's moment. She kind of tried to steal the thunder a little bit, as opposed to an innocent moment with Cat Patel. He cursed. He was excited. You could see how excited. As a sports fan, I love that. I thought that was a great moment. The other thing I want to bring up, let's be real about this, we have, we have the World cup coming to North America in a few months. Look what's going on in Mexico right now. These cities that are under attack in Mexico are hosting World cup matches in the next few months. We have the Olympics coming here. The Summer Olympics are going to be in, in 28. And then of course, we have the Olympics here in Park City in 34. Like, as a country, we're celebrating this. And then you look at Mexico and it's a method. They're going to be hosting World cup matches in the next few months. Do they look like it's ready? So I think when you look at that, that culture, you know, coming across the border and how many of that come here, we don't want it. We don't want that violence. And we're going to have a very safe Olympics here. We're going to have a safe World Cup. I think Italy did a great job. You look at their, you know, their leadership in Maloney, she's pro Trump and they did a great job. So I think these are all issues that are, that are out there. But the truth is, don't put sports and politics together, especially for the Olympics. It really sort of tarnishes people that were out there speaking.
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Yeah, the media can't help it, Matt. They get involved. They want to make politics and everything. But I guess. Good question, but, you know, we know the answer. If J.D. vance or Trump walked in with Jack Hughes and were booed, it would be splashed on the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Vogue, every cover of every magazine today. But you had to tell me that Mickey Sherrill was booed. I didn't even know. Thanks for telling me. Let's go to cut four, because the viral moment you're talking about, let's show the audience Cash Patel was in the dressing room. Watch this. This is FBI Director Cash Patel celebrating in the locker room with the Team USA men's hockey team after its gold medal win at the Olympics. Patel is a longtime hockey fan and posted on social media several times from the game. And this video of him celebrating afterwards went viral. At one point, a player even drapes a gold medal around his neck. Another video appears to show Patel holding his phone while on call with President Donald Trump and the hockey team. Some critics question why the FBI director was celebrating with the team and why he was present in Milan. According to the FBI, Patel was in Italy for multiple official engagements prior to the hockey game. Patel responded to online critics who questioned why he was celebrating with the team. He wrote on X quote, for the very concerned media, yes, I love America and was extremely humbled when my friends, the newly minted gold medal winners on Team usa, invited me into the locker room to celebrate this historic moment with the boys. Sometimes I just can't stand the media. He's the FBI director. He's loved hockey his whole life. The team invited him in. The President said it was okay, and the media attacks him. It's like. And those moments,
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I think, watching him. And again, he's a minority. You know, it's. The other thing is, he's a minority FBI director. He's celebrated with the US Team. I thought it was a really innocent moment. It was a beautiful moment for hockey fans and sports fans and fans of usa. And the truth is, the Democrats hate America. They hate seeing America win, especially when it's under Trump. Yeah.
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When I first saw that video, I said, what a cool moment. But what I'm going to show you this other clip. It's George Stephanopoulos, and he has to ask the guys, the hockey players, since the girls aren't going, are you going to be upset? Let's go to cut five. Watch this.
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Quinn. Quinn, Jack mentioned the celebration you had
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with the women's hockey team. They've said they're not going to be able to go to the State of the Union tonight. Will you guys be going?
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I don't know how much I'm allowed to say, but I'm. Yes. And,
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yeah, we're excited to go.
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I mean, it's something. No, you don't get to do. I don't know what today is every. Every Tuesday, but, yeah, but it's gonna be. It's gonna be stuff for us. But I'm glad you mentioned the women's team again. You know, we're extremely happy for them. Obviously, a lot going on, media right
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now surrounding our team and their team.
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But, you know, in the last couple.
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Now, you see the way George said, the girls aren't, the girls aren't going. Are you going to go? It's like, if that question was anything else, most people would say, no, I'm not going to go too. Just the way he framed it, which is awful. And they're putting these little, these young hot guys that just won the gold into a setup, political setup. Give me your final thoughts on that question.
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Yeah. Adam, you remember Megan Rapinoe and the women started this whole thing when she was kneeling for the national anthem and Trump bashed her for that. So they started this whole sort of political dissent. And, you know, we're not going to support our president or whatever else. And it just, it's ridiculous. You know, it was in the NFL, was in the NBA. But, but those are, those are private. You know, those are private organizations. These hockey players and these athletes are representing the usa. Okay? And they have a duty to come in and try to win. And that's it. These journalists making it political, it's ridiculous. It's, it's. They love to do it.
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Ye.
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And the truth is, the truth is, let's be real, most hockey fans are probably Republicans. These guys, these kids are all alpha males. And you could see how they treated Mikey.
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Sheryl.
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Right. But the truth is, hockey fans, they like to drink beer and go out and party and, you know, be men. You know, so most of these, even the women, are.
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Thanks for joining us at the slopes. Matt and Stephanopoulos should be ashamed of. Thanks for joining us. Go back. And they all should. Go back and enjoy yourself skiing. I'll see you soon, Matt. Thank you. Thank you, buddy. Yep. Coming up next, we're going to talk about the State of the Union. Man, was that some long speech. How did the media cover it and how the Dems behave? That and more. Coming up on Media exposure. When I was diagnosed, all I wanted
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Welcome back to Media Exposed. Early in the week, President Trump delivered his longest State of the Union speech. Might have been the Longest of all time, President addressed lowering inflation, addressed criminal aliens getting out of the country, addressed other social issues. But Democrats boycotted. At least 70 of them. Didn't even come. The discourse in American politics is stooping to its lowest probably of all time. The way the Democrats behave. We used to have a country that would come together in the state of Union. Trump stood up for the base. He stood up for policy defenses. He attacked the Democrats when it was necessary. But what did we get from the Media? Right after CNN's Jack Tapper reacted to Trump's attack on Dems? Totally calling him when he had the moment, he called him crazy. And they didn't like it at cnn, but there was a reason why he did that. We highlighted pushing back on the Democrats and radical extreme position such as the trans issue. And then the coverage example from the media afterwards was hyperbolic. But what did the average American see? Joe Scarborough called the speech crazy on MSNBC Morning Joe. The unloaded with disguise speech was insane. He called it president would ever do. Characterized the address as unhinged and dangerous. The response underscored how quickly commentary shifted from analysis to personal criticism. As Republicans stood in a plotter throughout the night, many Democrats remained seated during key moments, drawing attention online, mocking online silliness online. But there was sitting for nothing. They couldn't support anything, anything good about America. I want to welcome my next guest. We're going to discuss the David Zier poster Breaking Point. He's up in Chavaquag, actually. David, thanks for joining us.
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Yeah, we're here at the Hillary deposition here in the Epstein debacle. But yeah, Adam, the state beautiful neighborhood chapel clog. It's very beautiful. It's an affluent area here, just north of New York City here. So, yeah, I was, I was just gonna say that this, the State of the Union had Trump staying on message. He really didn't wander. You know, I've covered probably 125, 150 Trump rallies and speeches, and, you know, sometimes he goes off script. He didn't really do that. I thought he hit home with the message in a lot of ways and kept it kind of, you know, wholesome and honored our troops and others who've given everything. And then the victims of these horrendous crimes and illegal aliens crashing into cars and all of that. And I thought it was really good. And the layperson probably looked at that and said, okay, this makes sense. Talking about the tax cuts and prices coming down and other things, I don't know if it's enough in time for the midterms for the Republicans keep the House here. You know, gas is still only down about 5% from the time he retook office last January 2025. But interest rates are down about a point and a half from Joe Biden's average. Inflation's down and it's going to happen here. But I was just taken back by a lot of the MSM's analysis of the speech, you know, people calling it crazy and unhinged and it really wasn't. And I thought he really drove home a message of optimism for America.
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I went out with a friend last night for dinner, Johnny, his name is, and he's a middle of the road Democrat, Republican, and he's not a big fan of Trump. He said, did you see the speech? And I thought he was going to criticize. I thought he was going to follow the mainstream league. He says, man, that was great. Trump was on message. Trump made the Democrats look like fools. And I said, that's a moderate. And if we came to people that were watching, if the Democrats like Petrel and Childs sitting in their seats, snarling, making faces, people don't like that. They want representatives on either side to behave themselves. And we're going to go to a cut and we're going to show you why Jake Tapper had a little meltdown. But let's go to cut six. And this is during Trump's speech. It was a social issue. But let's go to cut six, Dave. But surely we can all agree no state can be allowed to rip children from their parents arms and transition them to a new gender against the parents will. Who would believe that? We've been talking about. We must ban it and we must ban it immediately. Look, nobody stands up. These people are crazy.
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I'm telling you, they're crazy.
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So let's jump to seven and see how Jake Tapper didn't tell the truth about why he called them crazy. Let's go to seven. What did you think of the President calling Democrats crazy? What did you think? I mean, like, obviously that's his DNA, et cetera. But you know, what is it?
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A third of the country is Democrats.
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That doesn't mean they necessarily identify with the Democratic Party or members of Congress. But I think if this was 10
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But for Donald Trump, it's baked in.
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Whether it's at the State of the Union or at, you know, at a campaign rally or on his Truth Social, it does feel a little bit different. I think that this is where you're going when you have such an important speech. And it is for the entire country. And it's, you know, something that people are used to having a little bit more composure and a little bit decorum. Decorum. Thank you. Going back nine years, I'm thinking back to the. When I covered Obama and from at the White House and Obama one to. President Obama gave a speech one time criticizing Paul Ryan's Medicaid plan or Medicare plan. Paul Ryan was just, he was. I think he was chairman of the House Budget Committee, and he was in the audience and Obama was criticizing his plan. And you would have thought that he killed his puppy. No, but that's like, it's totally different. Well, here's my question. Are we ever going back to. Nor are we ever coming back to a place where you can't just call the other party crazy. David. It's just these people are unbelievable. Every name in the book, they call Trump. It would take us two years to. All the devious, the diabolical, awful things they've said about Trump and they're worried that. And they don't even explain. You notice, they don't explain why he said crazy. Give me your thoughts on that clip.
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The heinous stuff going on with the transitions. Look at this case in New York. The doctors lost. You know, they started transitioning this kid and his gender dysphoria wore off and he can't go back. These kids can't go back. And they're taking the rights away of the parents. It happens all the time. School counselors in California hiding the sexual preference of the kids from the parents once they come out and then recommending them for trans surgery. You know, this stuff is really heinous. And like the things like with the illegal alien truck drivers who killed innocent people and injured that young girl who may never walk right again, who was there, you know, that's what he's referring to. And, you know, they need to get a little bit more of a grip because just as much as, you know, Trump has to, you know, ride the middle a little bit to get the mid through the midterms, the Democrats have to do that, too. And Spanberger, Abigail CIA Spanberger, who's big on the trans issue, you know, pretended like she was a moderate in her rebuttal speech. So, you know, but yeah, a lot of these Dems are just completely unhinged.
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But it's the one moment, the state of the union where Trump, like I said, had the friend who's a moderate, and it got through to him. And because it's the one time he could speak to the nation. And it's not filtered. It's straight, not filtered by the mainstream media. And yet once it's over, they lie. They're all over. What a bad speech. Don't talk about honoring a 100-year-old veteran who's World War II. Don't talk about the, you know, the mom who was there from the poor Ukrainian that had a throat slit by an illegal immigrant criminal. Don't talk about that woman. If it was the other side, they'd be celebrating. All these people would be on talk shows the next day, celebrated. But they're not. These are historic, you know, heroic stories, sad stories. Erica Kirk was there. The hockey team was there being celebrated. Right. The media's even turned the hockey team into a political football, which is ridiculous, backward. We're old enough. At least I'm old enough to know in 1980, when they won, we beat the Soviets, man, it was just. It was just about America. It was just about hockey. Now the media turns everything into politics. Even. Even. Even the night. Even the gold, the gold for the hockey team. It's pathetic. What do you think about that football, how they've been even turning it into political discourse? The hockey?
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I think it was one of. Yeah, no, there's no doubt about it. And, you know, the hero of the game wanted to meet with Trump. But I think this is one of Trump's best three moments in his second term, between, you know, the successful Iran bombing, maybe the Venezuela raid, and the obbb, which has these incredible tax benefits. The average family getting back over $1,000 this year in their return, and then people saving thousands with the overtime and the tax on tips and Sullivan security up to 250,000 full deductions. This was one of his shining moments.
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Yeah, it was a great moment for President Trump because, you know, the negativity from the media, nonstop barrage. We've got the midterms coming up, and we got to get back those moderates. Otherwise, you know, it's bad enough. Now, if we've had these Democrats. Give me a final thoughts. Actually, at this point with this big state of union, how do you think the midterms look coming up, David?
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They have the Republicans losing, and they can only afford to lose two seats. Trump's in, you know, Corpus Christi. I covered him in Iowa two weeks ago. Covering for, you know, candidates who are toss ups. The GOP can only afford to lose two or three seats, and it's over for them. So it's going to be very contentious. Early voting starts in just seven months. The economy needs to heat up and these things have to take traction. I think after people file their tax returns, they're going to realize the benefits of what Trump's been doing. But it's going to be a dogfight all the way.
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David, I want to thank you. Good work in Chappaqua. Go do some sightseeing while you're there. Hopefully, hopefully to get some sort of good news out of that hearing or something out of those Clintons. Right?
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Yeah, we'll see. Bill Clinton's taking the stand tomorrow.
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What they call them, Slick Willie. Right. Slick Willie's back. Thanks, Dave. I'll see you soon. We're going to talk. Coming up next, we'll talk about the State of Union and what did the late night comics say after this? And what did one reasonable Democrat do during this? That and more. Coming up on media exposure. People at work supported me while I
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Welcome back to Media Exposed. There was one Democrat who seemed to take a mature stance. Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania criticized his fellow Democrats, members of his own party for disruptive behavior during President Trump speech, saying, just don't do that. Is it that simple? We can't have some sort of civil debate. Civil, civil time during the State of the Union speech. Respect the presidency. Stop acting like petulant children. These Democrats were seen to be like never ending petulant children that like need to get their need to get a spanking. Somehow internally, party tensions go public. Fetterman's rebuke highlights a growing strategic fight whether to meet Trump with loud protests or project restraint and discipline. They don't know what to do anymore. The Democrats, they said they were going to go different moderate direction, but that' stheir optics are overshadowing their policy. The visuals are shouting and interruptions quickly dominated the post speech news cycle, especially online. You know, because I've had moderates say me, man, they look bad. Party at images state with a presidential with the midterms looming, the question becomes whether such outbursts mobilize their base or reinforce voter fatigue with partisan I want to come my next guest, Dennis Neal Dennis is a media strategist, host of what's Bugging Me podcast and also he's the author upcoming book OREGONA Wait, OREGONA Sorry about that, Dennis. You know, so we watched the State of Union dress. Good to see you as always. And we watched the State of the Union dress. And I watched it and I remember a time Republicans came in Democrats one night, they would slap each other on the back, they would shake each other's hand. Ronald Reagan, George Bush, the elder Bush, the younger Bush, even Obama. We respected the president presidency. On the night of the State of the Union address, Democrats, Republicans alike. What has happened to the Democratic Party and the media afterwards went after Trump like it was something he was crazy. Like all sorts of negative. The next day from Morning Joe. But what, but the first question is what happened? Their behavior. The Democrats Go ahead.
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Well, the problem is that when you, when the Democrats have been demonizing Trump as a Nazi and a racist and a xenophobe and a sexist and a pedophile and, and a rapist and all of those things for the better part of 10 years, you simply can't afford to drop that for the State of the Union and to go there and behave, you simply can't. And when you're failing to come up with an agenda for America really for a true plan, as the Democrats have failed to do and to offer one, and all you have then is anti Trump, anti Trump, then it becomes even more divisive, it becomes even more bitter because they have nothing else to run on. And so the Democrats, yeah, they misbehaved. You couldn't tell on television as much as you could tell inside the chamber. And, and you had it so right when you pointed out, you know, you lie, the one guy said in Obama speech and it was a national crisis and the media went after it like crazy. Where this, you know, they hardly say a word about it. But what I like about it, Adam, is that when the Democrats, when the radicals, when the communists bear their claws. Thank you. Let's see it. See them for who they really are. And this is who they are. They're anti American. They're, they want Trump to fail. They're totally broken. And I was a lifelong Democrat and only weeks ago because I've moved down to South Florida from Brooklyn, I got my driver license. I got it done in 15 minutes here. And when it came time to register the vote as one of the last acts, I went ahead and registered Republican for the first time ever.
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Kudos. And the Sunshine State, hopefully, because hope, hopefully they're like you. If Democrats used to, you know, come down there, they become Republicans. We don't want to bring too many liberals down. And they switch a state because it's a freedom loving state, it's a warm state. The tax policy is good down here, much better. Look, we elect people that govern well. Big difference than New York City, right? We got a guy that can't even stand up for the police. They're throwing snowballs at a police and he's saying it was a snowball fight. You're throwing snowballs at the police officers and they get hurt in their eye and they have to go to the ambulatory room. And he's defending the snowballs. He's so deranged, this guy. But anyway, I want to show you this cut because what we saw, the Democrats acting like little civil, disobedient children. Stephen Colbert didn't think they went far enough. Let me show you this cut eight here. For Democrats who did attend, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries urged his members in the chamber to not make a scene, an approach he dubbed Silent Defiance, which I believe is a bold rebrand of doing jack squat. As Martin Luther King once said, Eventually there's a lot of people coming. The cabinet comes in, the families come in, all that kind of stuff. Eventually the president entered, looking a little tired, but his hair was nice and fluffy.
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Personally, I think he could have kept
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his head in the cotton candy machine a little bit longer. President started off with kind of a weird brag.
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Adam.
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It's amazing. Colbert's 80 years old. Dennis, go ahead.
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Dead man talking. I mean, he is going to be canceled in May by cbs, which months ago told him, you're going to be out of a job. So what he says really has almost matters not at all. And you know, what are these guys going to have when Trump is no longer president? They got nothing to talk about. I was looking the other day, Adam. Trump, everyone left and right, media and government and politicians, everyone marches, dances to Trump's tune. The news is all about something he said, something he did. Someone who said about something he said or did. I mean, Trump just dictates the agenda. And I wonder if it's going to be like that when he leaves office. My gosh. I think the Democrats need Trump. He unites them. He gives them something to be about. They have no idea what they're doing, what they're really about.
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It was back in the day when we were at Fox 13, 14 years ago or a decade ago, and Fox and Friends would do these evergreen stories. And it was somewhere during the Trump term, and I said, can we get this on? He says, we don't do these type of stories anymore. Cooking segments, this segment. I said, why not? It's just Trump 24 7. I said, you don't do any fluff pieces? Nope, it's just Trump. I said, how does a news cycle like you said, it just revolves around Trump morning, noon and night, so. But Colbert goes after Trump's hair. Trump's hair.
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Well, we should learn some things from this. You know, Trump understands the power of putting words into the universe. They make things happen that might never have come up. When he talked about NATO and Europe not paying enough for its defense, it's made a difference of hundreds of billions of dollars. When he talked about Greenland, if there's no one had heard of Greenland in decades. And he ends up getting all kinds of concessions to him simply by inventing out of thin air the idea that he might want to annex it somehow. I mean, he does this again and again out of nowhere. He said, let's cap credit card rates at 10% for a year. He has no power to do that, not even by executive order. And before you know it, he's got Democrats coming out and complaining that he hasn't followed through on his promise to do it because they like the idea. It's just incredible what he does just by saying stuff.
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But, like, even Elizabeth Warren stood up when he was talking about going after stock trading for insiders. And the one Democrat that stood up and actually seems a bit normal. Fetterman, I want to show you this cut because he admonished his own party a bit. Let's go to cut nine. Do you think the State of the
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Union address has changed for good now? Oh, yeah, absolutely. I mean, now it's, you know, the constant kinds of yelling and screaming and. And now holding up signs and for doing all these things, I don't think. I don't care if it's a Republican or Democrat as a president. Just don't do that. Don't do that. Respect the office, regardless who's in that. And now for. For me, it's like now when half the people in my party haven't showed up, and then some of them have chosen to just yell and say and scream during all of it. I just don't think that's what we want. And I don't believe, as a Democrat, I think, like, dancing frogs really moves the ball for us as a party either. On that first point.
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Here. Here are some of the moments you
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had Elon Omar out of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib out of Michigan. And just watch here for our audience.
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That is why I'm also asking you to end deadly sanctuary cities that are protect the criminals and enact serious penalties for public officials who block the removal of criminal aliens, in many cases, drug lords, murderers all over our country. They're blocking the removal of these people out of our country. And you should be ashamed of yourself. That exchange obviously went to Immigration and
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Enforcement and DHS funding.
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Wow, Dennis, I love that shot better. Dennis, if you and I were congressmen, white, older, white male, sitting there doing what Rasheed Tlaib and Ilhan Omar did to President Trump, but we did it to Obama, what would the reaction be from the media?
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Oh, my gosh, how long can this woman, Ilhan Omar get away with everything, get away with breaking the law, breaking immigration laws? I mean, lying to authorities, embracing Hamas and Palestine at the expense of America, telling Somalis that they come first in her service? I mean, my gosh, when will they get rid of her? I just can't believe it. But can I just give a couple quick comments about Trump's actual speech?
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Give me a quick final thoughts, couple things.
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First, I wish he would have been tighter and stuck to the point and not rambled into giving the longest speech ever. He does have a good story to tell. He doesn't tell it well enough and tight enough. Second, I wish he had gone way less on the graphic, violent descriptions of some of the heroes or survivors of people who came to a very bad end. I thought that that's, you know, you don't need to have the mother of Irina have to relive it with the words that you use. I wish his speech writers had won lighter on that and I wish he'd been just less angry.
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