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Clay Travis
Welcome everybody. Tuesday edition of Clay and buck. And it's 100 days of Trump into this second term. 100 days of Trump. Absolutely fantastic stuff to talk about about here. We will dive into all of the latest with the Trump administration, but also take a look at what has gone on so far. It has been transformative, it has been fast and furious and it is just the beginning. So we want to take a moment here to see how it has been and will be on Trump 2.0. And we'll take your calls on this obviously and have a free flowing conversation about the wins and the challenges left to be tackled. We've also got J.D. vance, Vice President Vance Clay and I both will have to try not to call him JD cause we've known him as JD for years but now he is Vice President Vance. He will be with us. We did an interview with him second hour of the program, so definitely want to tune in talking about all the big stuff going on right now, everything from men and women's sports to tariffs to the border to Trump 2.0. So definitely second hour diving into that. Looking forward to that conversation for all of you and we have more to look at here on the sports side of things. Clay, the Philadelphia Eagles went to the White House, which is very nice. They had a nice time. From what I understand, the Canadian election didn't exactly go the way we wanted it to. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. We won't spend too much time on this because, well, very few of you live in Canada, so not really our problem. There are some, we have some Canadian.
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Buck Sexton
Listeners, but generally I don't know anything about Canadian politics. We talked some about Pierre Poliev because he had a couple of viral videos, but Once Trump won, I gotta be honest with you, my interest in what happened in America's top hat really kind of vanished. I feel bad for Canadians stuck behind enemy lines. But I, we're kind of rolling here, so it's hard for me to get too worked up about what happens in Canada. I think that's probably the general perspective. But we do have empathy for those of you a that are stuck above the border dealing with chaos and insane leadership.
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Clay Travis
They didn't learn the lessons of Trudeau painfully enough. This is what you see in microcosm in places. Well, actually I think California has more people than Canada, but this is what you see in places like California where even when there's tremendous mismanagement, you have Democrats who double and triple down on the madness. Well, the liberals, the leftists in Canada, doubling and tripling down on the madness. They want everything to be dysfunctional. They want, you have sky high housing prices and a, an anemic economy and all these things. Okay, they want to have bad health care that they tell themselves is great because it's free, but actually it's not free at all. It's very expensive when you add the time and the cost and the inability to get care. But like I said, Canada, not our problem. Not going to be the 51st state either. So who cares? Well, we care a little bit, but we don't care that much. Now 100 days of Trump and some exciting things going on. Let's take it first to this cut to Caroline Levitt talking about what the some of the top line numbers are for this first 100 days of Trump 2.0. Play it.
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Buck Sexton
So far, total investment commitments under the Trump administration have reached more than $5 trillion including 500 billion from Apple in US based manufacturing and training, 500 billion from Nvidia and AI infrastructure, 100 billion from TSMC and US based chips manufacturing, and the $500 billion private investment by OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank in AI infrastructure as well. All of these investment commitments are estimated to generate at least 451,000 new high paying jobs for American workers and families. At this point, President Trump has secured more investments in the United States of America in 100 days than Joe Biden did in four years.
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Clay Travis
Trump is a dealmaker, as we know Clay, and we'll talk more about tariffs last. JD Vance about that too. But in terms of the economy being open for business in this country, and particularly look at things like going to maximize, trying to maximize energy production, going after our own resources, a lot to be proud of so far, in 100 days.
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Buck Sexton
Totally. And some people are going to say, because the negative, given that we're at 100 days going to be, hey, let's look at the polling numbers. Here's what I would say about the polls. First of all, I don't really care. And you might say, ok, what do you mean by that? Trump is not going to be eligible to run for reelection. So I suspect that by the time Trump's term is coming near an end that he will be on a popularity upswing like we saw with Barack Obama and with Bill Clinton by and large. Did you sign on to this buck that the only two two term presidents that could have been reelected if they had been able to run would have been Bill Clinton in 2000 and Barack Obama I think would have won in 2016. Now maybe not. I also think Ronald Reagan, if he had been able to run in 1988, even with his advanced age, would have likely won two. I think Trump will be at his peak popularity. Here's a three year in advance prediction. Trump in the fall of 2028 will be at peak popularity because the impact of his trade agreements and of his economic policies will be flourishing at a high level. I think we will have peace. And I think that if Trump were eligible to run for a third term that he would win again in 2028. So I think it's very, very early. Very early.
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Clay Travis
A lot of historically very early. A lot of we can't test the thesis one way or the other. I mean, I think Bill Clinton is incredibly lucky as a politician in the luck that that guy had on a whole range of things. But if he had been in office when 9, 11 actually happened, the straight line between him being an imbecile on foreign policy and missing every chance and us getting hit with the worst attacks since Pearl harbor would have been irrefutable even for Democrats. Also the stock market crash, also a lot of things. This guy got out.
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Buck Sexton
But don't you disagree that he would have won? I think he would have beaten George W. Bush.
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Clay Travis
I don't know. I don't know.
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Buck Sexton
I think he would have won. I think Reagan would have won in 88. This is an argument in favor of Reagan.
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Clay Travis
Reagan would have been too. Reagan would have been too old at that point. That would have been a problem for him.
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Buck Sexton
I think he would have won because the only reason that George Bush senior one was because Reagan was so beloved and obviously Dukakis was not a candidate. You don't think Ronald Reagan would have beaten Dukakis in 88, even old Reagan.
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Clay Travis
He would have won. You, I mean, if you're throwing in the mix, like who he's going up against, you know, Barack Obama, though, running. Barack Obama running against Donald Trump. I actually don't think Barack Obama would have won.
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Buck Sexton
I think Trump, I think. I think.
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Clay Travis
I think he would have won that election.
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Buck Sexton
I think that Obama would have beaten Trump in 16.
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Clay Travis
Well, remember you. And I disagree vociferously on that.
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Buck Sexton
Remember Hillary, first of all, I don't think Trump would have been the nominee necessarily, but Hillary came within whatever it was, 80,000. Hillary was an awful candidate, right? Awful candidate. She was. I mean, even Democrats, looking back, they're like, man, you know, she just. I don't know who she would have been able to beat. I think Trump was a great candidate against her, ran a phenomenal campaign. But I actually think the best campaign Trump ran was 24 of his three election campaigns. Sixteen was phenomenal. I think he was so well schooled by 24. 16 was more haphazard. I think that this one was great. Again, we're 100 day.
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Clay Travis
16 was. Was insurgency. He was the insurgency against the machine. And just like happens sometimes in real life, the insurgency overcame the superior force in terms of battlefield operations. And then in 24, it was the comeback campaign. So the great American comeback, which. So the narratives, I think were pretty clear in both of those. And then 2020 was the COVID you know, freak show, what the hell is going on? Campaign for everybody. And, and I know all the other stuff, quote, unquote, shenanigans. We won't talk about it right now, but anyway, Clay, I think that Trump's first 100 days, here's the. Here's what we have to remember about it. We wanted him to do the things. We want him to do the things that he promised to do. And some of those things are disruptive. And disruptive things can be a little bit off putting sometimes to the markets. It can feel a little bit. They can create a little bit of anxiety among people because, oh, wait, it's not exactly status quo, is comfortable. This is why so often and particularly in politics, I think people get into inertia. Well, this is the way it is. So this is the way it will be. This is the way we've done things. So let's keep doing it that way. Trump isn't running again. I know he jokes about the third term. That's the troll, Libs. It's like the 51st state, Canada. That's the troll. You know, know Canada and Trudeau and the rest of them, Clay, he's not running again. We need him to do the things that a politician who's obsessed with his next election won't do. Yes, and this is what is so key.
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Buck Sexton
That's why I'm saying the polling I'm not focused on if he were trying to run for reelection. I think you'll look at polling and you think about how that's going to play out. He is uniquely liberated to do what he thinks the right results are without having to worry about the day to day polling. And, and by the way, that is potentially going to run out in 2026 when they're likely going to impeach Trump again. If Democrats take back control of the House, they don't have anything new to hit him with. So expect for them to go back to the tried and true failed methods of the past. We've already seen it with them trying to broadcast and attack him by saying he's Hitler. I think where we are likely headed is Trump has got to get everything done between now and the summer of 2026. And then we will see the House come down to five or six different really close races and Democrats are either going to have a tiny minority or Republicans are going to have a tiny, tiny majority. Right. Tiny leadership I think that we're going to see in the Senate. Good stuff. Republicans are going to maintain control of the Senate. So for judges, things like that, Trump is going to have four years to get his, get his view of the judiciary through, get as many different judges confirmed. But in order to have both control of the House and the Senate, he's got to be fast, he's got to be decisive. And I think that's what you're seeing right now. And sometimes that's going to make people a little bit upset. So that's why I'm not concerned about any of the polling to the extent it's accurate as we sit here at 100 days. Because he's making decisions that are multi years in nature.
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Clay Travis
Well, yes, and this is why I want Trump to not care about the polls right now because the polls in a year as they pertain to the midterms and the Republican Party in its future will matter. The polls right now do not matter at all. In fact, all the polls really do is give a talking point to anti Trump media and the Democrat Party that want to create a perception of, oh, this isn't working. Oh, oh, this is failing. Trump should not be doing the things that he's doing. He's doing what he promised to do when he ran. He said he would take on the tariff issue. He said he would get a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. He said he'd secure the border. You know, I could go down the whole list. He's doing the things he said he would do. Some of these things are, as we've said, a departure from the status quo. They are disruptive. And so clay, by their very nature, they're going to create a little bit of friction and a little bit of uncertainty. If you, if you don't want that, you don't want change, you don't want someone to fix anything. You just want more of the same. I think we all need to remember that the first 100 days has been a plus overall. It's not perfect. Nothing ever will be. And there's no certainties, there's no guarantees in life. But he's doing what he said he would do and he, I think he should have our full support as he continues to, to pursue that mandate. If he had veered off into nonsense, I'd be saying, why did he veer off into nonsense? That's not what has happened.
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Buck Sexton
I also think, and we'll talk about this more, the next hundred days or so are set up to be incredibly consequential. Hopefully we get some form of resolution in Ukraine, more resolution in Gaza, and again, inflation, which to me, I'll hit you when we come back, buck with what the American public from an economic perspective is most focused on. And inflation is at four year lows. To me, that is the number one laser focus. After Biden took us over 9%, people still feel like things cost more than they should. Tomorrow evening, Israel begins celebrating their own Independence Day 77th anniversary as a nation. And like our Independence Day, it should be a celebration. But this year, once again, it's going to be tense for the majority of people living in Israel, freedom nothing more than a daily struggle just to survive. There's no real peace, only hesitation and fear of when another missile attack might arrive. It's difficult to find moments of joy when there is so much danger and suffering out there. The Israeli government appreciates the international fellowship of Christians and Jews because they're helping to make sure the elderly, the sick, the wounded, soldiers and impoverished families, they don't fall through the cracks. I saw all the work that the fellowship does when I was in Israel during December. We can provide, thanks to you guys, life saving aid, medicine, hearty meals, safety and comfort. When we bless the people of Israel, we unlock God's blessing in our lives. As well. You can join us and show your support for Israel by making a life saving gift today. Call to make your gift at 888-488-IFCJ. That's 888-488-4325. You can also go online at supportifcj.org One word supportifcj.org Saving America One thought at a time Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app.
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Buck Sexton
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. I just shared Buck a picture that was really really cool from our friend Seaton who runs Chalk. But we now have Crockett Coffee up in the gift shop at the Alamo. So as a history nerd that is very very cool. Proceeds going to help with the Alamo. Obviously not a cheap historical location to be running, but if you go into the Alamo now and you go through the gift shop there you will find Crockett Coffee available which is very very cool. You can sign up crockettcoffee.com get an autographed copy of my most recent book when you subscribe and we would love to see the if you are going into the Alamo and we know we have a big audience down in San Antonio, you can tag us either me or Buck or the show and and let us see that that you have found Crockett Coffee in the gift shop. This is one of the cool things they reached out to us and obviously to have a coffee company named after Davy Crockett fits very well at the Alamo. I think we were talking also they had flooding issues with the birthplace of Davy Crockett. We also wanted to get our coffee potentially in there to help those guys as well. So you can help us continue to grow a great American coffee company that loves American history. Buck, I've got a poll that is up right now and you guys can go vote in that. Asking, what letter grade would you give President Trump on the first hundred days? 27,000 people have voted so far and nearly 80%, 79% of you have given an A or a B to the first hundred days of the Trump administration. I would give them an A. You said you would give them an A. Plus, I think you can, you can break it down by subject matter. The border, if you're, if you're really.
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Clay Travis
Going to hold me to this. Yeah, the border clearly is an A. Look, I would say A as well, just because you've always got to leave some room for improvement and nothing is perfect. But yeah, I'd give them an A. I'd give the first hundred days of Trump in 2016 a B. And I, it was much messier, much messier. The personnel issues, it was not, you know, look, he was new. He would have, I don't think Trump would even say that was, he knew that wasn't his A game. So I would say it was a B.
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Buck Sexton
And I think you can break it down on different subject matters, as our friend Bill O'Reilly has said, and we'll do that as we continue during the course of the program.
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Clay Travis
We don't throw around the term sovereign wealth fund very often, but funds of this type do exist. Ten states have one set up. In fact, the fund takes the net proceeds of a natural resource that's been sold and distributes the money to residents. Now imagine that there's such a setup nationwide within our country, harnessing the value of one of our nation's greatest assets. Up until now, it's never happened. In our nation's case, there are more than a few very well informed people who believe that our nation has an asset worth $150 trillion buried on American soil and could be the basis for creating such a fund. This endowment, so to speak, could pay off our national debt four times over. So why has it been kept secret for so long? Thanks to a Supreme Court decision, President Trump could soon release it to the public. To hear more about this from Jim Rickards, former adviser to the White House and the fed, go to birthright2025.com that's birthright2025.com to get the details free of charge, paid for by Paradigm Press. All right, welcome back into CL Buck. Just a reminder, we've got Vice President J.D. vance at the top of the next hour. So you definitely want to stick around for that man. I remember when I was, I was telling Clay this morning, I remember when I was texting jd, good luck and then congrats when he won his Senate seat, which I don't think was a big surprise, but it was certainly he was a political newcomer and from that to vice President has been quite a speedy process. So, so an incredible story And I think JD's personal story, his life story is something that should be celebrated by all Americans because it really is the American dream, right? You can come from a difficult, you could argue a very much disadvantaged upbringing. If you've read Hillbilly Elegy Clay as Clay and I have, you certainly see that. And then you become a wealthy venture capitalist with a beautiful family who is the Vice President of the United States, not because of who mom and dad are, not because of any, you know, any superficial characteristic, just from ability, hard work.
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Buck Sexton
We'll talk to him about Ohio State, Yale Law, which is a big part of both of that, that resume of success. And yeah, to your point, he was in a really difficult Republican primary that for people who have forgotten how that race went until Donald Trump endorsed him, it was unclear who was going to be the, the victor in that primary and ended up pretty, pretty close even, even with the endorsement.
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Clay Travis
Isn't it amazing, you think about some of these, I'm weaving, I'm just, I feel like I have to start giving that like a, like a warning before I'm weaving. But isn't it amazing how the stories of American success that are celebrated when you really start to pick this apart, you can see how obviously partisan so much of this is. JD Vance is attacked by people now who don't like him or don't support him as a fat cat venture capitalist, you know, in with Trump and you know, friend of Peter Thiel and all this stuff and you go, this kid had a drug addicted mother and beat all of the odds. But I just, I want to point out, I mean, you look at someone like Justice Thomas, for example, Justice Thomas grew up speaking a dialect from the islands off of Georgia. Some of you, I forget what it's called. Some of you are Gullah, what it is. Gullah. Thank you. Gullah speaking Gullah and had a dirt floor in his house and is now a, I mean they obviously the left disagrees, a giant of the Supreme Court. You want to talk about coming from humble beginnings, right? I mean you can do but notice if you, if you are a constitutionalist A conservative. You know your stories. And then they tell us, oh, Obama, for example. Look at. Look at Obama's personal story. Grew up in Hawaii and was kind of like waved into Harvard and made the. He sit there. He go, I don't know. I mean, I don't think it's as impressive as some of these other guys, but all the, you know, dreams from my father and all this stuff, like, it's just all partisan to them, right? The great American success story doesn't count if you are on the right. That's. That's essentially my thesis here.
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Buck Sexton
And for everybody who's connected to him. I mentioned this earlier, but it should. I have not read this piece. Maybe there is somebody who has written it, and if so, you can tag me. I would love to read it. He and his wife just toured India. I believe they have three kids. His wife is an incredibly accomplished woman, too. She went to Yale Law School. My understanding is that's where they met. They went to India. She is an immigrant. Her family are legal immigrants. And there was almost nothing written about the fact that he took his wife as vice president on a state visit to India and the connection that that likely inspired. Can you imagine, Buck? Just think if you're an Indian kid and you suddenly are looking around and the vice president is touring your country and his wife has family that is all from India. India is now the most populous country in the world. Right. I believe it has passed China and is now the most populous country in the world. Can you imagine the cultural connection that that likely created? JD Vance? Half Indian kids, half white kids, and nobody's even mentioned it. Right? I mean, if he were a Democrat and he was taking his wife, who was an Indian immigrant, back her family and they were visiting that country, it would have been the lead story for the entire trip that they were there. Almost no one even mentioned it. And yet it feels to me like a compelling part of his and his family's story as well.
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Clay Travis
We have had two biracial vice presidents, as we know. Kamala Harris, the most recent. But do you remember the first?
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Buck Sexton
All the time. The first biracial president.
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Clay Travis
Vice president. Vice president, yes. Tick tock, tick tock, Clay. This is a very tough. This is very tough. This is not. This is not an easy one. I know.
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Buck Sexton
I don't even.
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Clay Travis
Charles Curtis under Herbert Hoover. He was a member of the Car nation in the. So he's Native American. He was partially like half Native American, essentially.
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Buck Sexton
Is this like Elizabeth Warren Native American, or are we confident? No, no, I don't want to throw him under the bus here.
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Clay Travis
No officially recognized member of the tribe. I don't think anybody.
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Buck Sexton
Not like one 1024th Native American like I am.
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Clay Travis
I'm sure you are too. I am everybody in the Elizabeth Warren and I did not get to check that box to get into Harvard, much to my chagrin. But yeah. So the Charles Curtis fun, fun trivia for all of you here. The 31st Vice President, United States under Herbert Hoover. He is the first biracial vice president. Kamala Harris is the second biracial vice president. But J.D. vance's family is biracial, which is what makes me think of this, which you never hear anything. Never hear.
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Buck Sexton
And they just visited India. Are you with me? That feels like it was kind of a compelling thing. There's a billion people in that country. I imagine it was a big story there. Almost no blip here.
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Clay Travis
The more the US can have. India is a multi confessional, you know, multi ethnic to say multilingual. It's just, I think there's 300 plus languages or some crazy number of languages spoken there. But India is a. Is a multi religious, multiracial democracy that we absolutely want to have as good a relationship with as we can. Because if you want to talk about somebody that can hem in, you know, boxing Chinese aggression and ambition, you know, India plays a very important role. This. Now, of course, India and Pakistan, as I've mentioned on the show, are at each other's throats right now. This is. I saw this yesterday. I couldn't believe that it was. It was real. But it is real. At that terror attack that happened where it's. It's Kashmiri separatists on behalf of Pakistan. I know Pakistan says they're not, but. But they are. Okay, Pakistan can sue me. They, they had a terrorist attack kill 26 people. There's a guy on a zip line. I checked this out. This seems to be real, Clay. It looked like it was an AI video at first. A guy on a zip line in this area of Kashmir. He is going on the zip line and he is videoing it himself like almost like a selfie video. And there are people falling from being shot below him in the terror attack in real time. It is a gut punch video. I mean, it is, it is crazy. But India and Pakistan are at each other's throats right now in a. In a way that, look, it'll probably be a limited military incursion. I don't think it's going to escalate to nuclear war. But when you have Two countries with deep antagonism against each other, that share a border, that have territorial disputes, that have longstanding, you know, violence issues between the. Anyway, that this could. This could escalate. This could become a real problem. All right. I thought the Charles Curtis, though trivia question for all of you would be.
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Buck Sexton
Would be, I never. I don't think I've ever heard that.
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Clay Travis
You know, that's what. You know what I mean? That's. The buckster. Likes to keep you on your toes, man. You know, just. Just sitting here, sitting here, dropping Civil War knowledge all the time. We got to bring you into the Herbert Hoover administration a little bit. Okay, now let's get back to. Does anyone remember anything about Herbert Hoover, by the way, other than womp womp. Not. Not the damn and womp womp. The economy?
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Buck Sexton
I will say I visited Stanford, the Hoover Institute. Very positive. Like what he did at that university where he is an alum. I didn't remember the connection there, but they have a. You've been a guest, right, at the Hoover Institute?
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Clay Travis
I was on campus. A media. A media fellow for a week at Hoover Institute. Hoover is a great place with some fantastic scholars. So. Yes, thank you for reminding me of that. Uh, I don't want to seem ungrateful to the Hoover Institute, but Hoover, the presidency had some issues. Okay, let's talk about this presidency again. The weaving is done. Um, Scott Besant, he is a guy who, I think a lot of people who are focused on the markets and the economy are happy is involved in this administration. This guy knows this stuff at a high level. He is very. Yeah. People within the industry recognize he is very smart. And here he is saying a few things. First of all, let's get into the Chinese tariffs. Actually, first, this is cut for Scott Bessant talking in advance of the 100 day anniversary. Hit it.
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Unknown Male Speaker
I think that, you know, over time we will see that the Chinese tariffs are unsustainable for China. I saw. I've seen some very large numbers over the past few days to show if these numbers stay on, Chinese could lose 10 million jobs very quickly. And even if there is a drop in the tariffs, that they could lose 5 million jobs. So remember that we are the deficit country. They sell almost five times more goods to us than we sell to them. So the onus will be on them to the take off these tariffs. They're unsustainable for them.
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Clay Travis
Besson is saying they're going to have to blink on this one. And, you know, look, Trump is a brawler and maybe he gets a little ahead of his skis sometimes. But when Trump and Besson are aligned on something, I think people can feel pretty confident that we have the upper hand here.
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Buck Sexton
Well, and I think they're going to be smart about the way they start to roll out these tariff agreements with a lot of countries that we have good relationships with, whether it's Japan. We just had the Italian president Maloney, I believe, come and visit. That feels very likely. England is going to happen quickly. A lot of these deals are going to be, I think, hammered out very rapidly. And then we're going to see who has a higher basic, basic willingness to have a little bit of pain. And again, it should be China having way more pain than us because they rely on exporting goods to the United States way more than the United States relies on exporting goods to China. And we'll talk about this with the vice president because one of the challenges about U.S. china trade policy is the fact that we have a situation where China produces materials that we have to have, rare earth minerals, variety of different aspects. It's one thing to choose whether or not you want to buy a cheap pair of pants on a, on a fashion app from China or not. Most people are going to be fine with that. But China thinks they have us over necessary goods that they create. So that's going to create another aspect of this battle. But really, China's the one that has a lot more to lose here. And so will they blink? Will we get a more rapid resolution than maybe some anticipate? I, I think that's likely.
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Clay Travis
I think also Trump has shown that part of the strategy here is to isolate China and to make everybody take a moment, take a beat. I'm talking about the rest of the world, our allied countries, and look at what China is really doing and understand this is, this is not the status quo is not okay. Right. That's what people. The problem with the free trader mantra here is they act like we have free trade. Why is Trump messing it up with China? And we absolutely do not have free trade with China at all. We have a one way trade war. We have China waging trade war against us and all the IP theft and intellectual property theft and all of the ways that they rig the system to get maximum benefit for China. There's no such thing, by the way. This is just true of the Chinese Communist Party in general. And this is the way their economy functions. Clay, there's no such thing as fair. China doesn't care about fair or honest or this is the way it is, it's what benefits China. So we've been lulled into this false sense of like, well, they're doing it their way, we're doing it our way and everything is fine. No, the status quo is not good for us over the long run. And addressing that requires a little bit of growing pains.
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Buck Sexton
No doubt, just as we thought.
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Clay Travis
In fact, Clay, wouldn't it be weird if we tried to do this with China and there were no reactions in the markets and there was no sense of, oh, gosh, we're doing something, you know, if you're not going to take risk, you're not going to get reward.
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Buck Sexton
Well, yes, and this is also what I said about Trump not making decisions based on the short term because he's not focused on reelection right now, which is why I'm not very concerned with what the immediate reaction is in the larger marketplace. The president polling president's running for reelection. You sit there and you say, oh boy, let's figure out how exactly this is going to play out. Right now, I think Trump is playing the long game and he can afford to play the long game because he doesn't have to worry about being reelected. I think he's making decisions that he believes are important for decades to come. Look, playoff action right now heating up in the NBA and the NHL and Major League Baseball Every single night you got games going on so you can pick a variety of different sports if you would like. All you have to do is pick your favorite athletes, pick them to produce more or less on a variety of different stats and two or more athletes play them together. You can play in California, Texas, Georgia. Withdrawals fast, safe and secure. Sometimes you can get them in as fast as 15 minutes. It's easy to get your money out. Sometimes it's not easy to get your money out at some of these places. You may want to go and have fun with the games. Download the app today. Prizepix.com My name click play as the code for $50 instantly in your account after you play your first five dollar lineup. That's code clay for $50 instantly after the first five dollar lineup. Pricepix.com Code clay you can play in California, you can play in Texas. You can play in Georgia. Have some fun today. Play along with us. Prize picks run your game pricepix.com code price pick clay Patriots radio hosts a couple of regular guys, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Buck Sexton
Welcome back in CLAY Travis Buck second coming up in about 10 minutes. Top of the next hour, we'll be joined by Vice President J.D. vance on the hundredth day of the Trump Vance administration to talk about a variety of different subjects, the border trade, tariff deals, district court judges and the power that they bring to bear, unfortunately, in our opinion, to try and stop Trump 2.0. Also, men and women's sports. All those issues and more coming up at the top of the next hour. And I do think as more and more of you are pouring in and voting on, hey, would you give an A B, a C or D or an F right on the poll, 80% of you roughly A or B? I do think we can start to have conversations, Buck, too, about, hey, next hundred days, what should the focus be? And I'll share some of this in hour two. There is a pull out of the top economic issues that people are most concerned about. And I'll just go ahead and tease this. Inflation is overwhelmingly still the issue that most Americans care the most about. Even though it has begun to come back. I think there's still a lot of anger over what things cost as a result of the inflation that Biden put in place. And that to me is still the number one economic focus in most of the conversations I see. And I think it's reflected in what the data shows.
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Clay Travis
Vice President J.D. vance coming up with us here in just a few minutes. We're going to cover all of the big issues of the day, the tariffs, the border, probably talk to him about some of the football things, play some of the things of the football. So we'll, we'll get into it, all the stuff that really matters with him. Also want to hear from you. How do you judge the first hundred days, your favorite things. Things you might improve on. Light us up on the phone lines. Also the talkbacks. Remember, you go to the iHeartRadio app. Go to the Clay and Buck page. Subscribe to our podcast network because it's amazing and there's so many great shows, not just this show. So many great shows in that network and you can use a little radio microphone function to send us to talk back. The Vice President of the United States, J.D. vance, up with us next. Stick around.
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