Clay Travis (6:03)
Or maybe I just texted Greg and Mark. I don't think we knew. I'm going to have to get Buck. I'm going to text Buck and be like, ali's holding out us. Have we been invited to so many things? And I probably tell you 5%. How, how I know. I mean, I'm going to have to fire you again. How often are we invited to the White House and we don't hear about it as this. Has this happened more than once? Well, if it involves Trump, you always hear about it, but you get invited to a lot of things. Well, I appreciate all the invites, most of which I never hear about, according to producer Ali. So I can honestly say I didn't even reject the invite. So that is the President. Gobble and waddle. We would be there. Producer Alley doesn't know this. I'm going to be in D.C. next week for the FIFA, the World Cup. They're having the Kennedy Center. Trump is presiding, I believe with Fox Sports over the World cup soccer draw, where everybody finds out which group they're in. I believe there's 48 World cup teams. Now, for those of you who hate soccer, apologies to start the show this way, but we're going to have the World cup as part of America's 250th anniversary. There will be the World cup going on this summer all over North America, a little bit in Mexico, a little bit in Canada. And they are going to draw all of the different groups, which should be really cool. So we'll see how exactly that ends up going. And again, we're rolling on the turkey pardon, which we were invited to, which we have evidently not been able to attend. All right, we got a bunch of things that I want to run into. We've got the crazy chick who's running for Congress in Nashville. There keeps being more and more crazy things that she has said. We talked yesterday with Matt Van Epps. This race is in one week. And again, I'm just going to beat the drum here because I think a lot of people don't know if you are listening to us right now in the Nashville area, in the Clarksville, Fort Campbell area, all the way down to the border of North Alabama, southern Tennessee. This likely is your congressional district. And so the seventh Congressional district in Tennessee they have put forward, the Democrat Party has a woman who makes AOC seem like a crazy right winger. This is how much of a leftist, insane person she is. We'll get into that a bit. Our buddy Ryan Gardusky is going to join us in hour two. Senator Mike Lee is going to join us in our three. Let me hit you with this. I was thinking this last night as I was getting ready for bed. I was thinking about the fact that I'm very thankful for the world that we live in right now, that I'm thankful for the 10 months that President Trump has had in office so far and all the tremendous successes that he has had. But I was thinking back to we spent a lot of 2024 telling you that the 2024 election was as easy as EBC, economy, border crime. And if you look at the first year, and I would give President Trump an A, if you look in the first year, the border, no one even talks about the border anymore. Do you remember? It wasn't very long ago. In fact, it was at the end of the 2024 election cycle. Democrats were all screaming, there's no way to fix the border without congressional action. And then President Trump got into office, he pulled his pen out and we have never had a more secure Southern border right now than what we have right now. Ok, so he has solved border issues. The number of illegal immigrants in the country, probably probably over a million of them have left, maybe 2 or 3 million. It's still not anywhere near as many as we need. But there has been a substantial deportation through ice, but also a voluntary decision by lots of illegals to say, hey, you know what, maybe I'll decide to go back to my country. So the ebc, the border is fixed. Crime. I want to take some calls from some of you in Memphis because nobody is talking about this story by and large in the media, but I think it is one of the best stories that is out there right now. Congressman Jim Jordan shared this data this morning. Memphis crime stats. And again, everybody focuses on Chicago, Everybody focuses on D.C. a lot of talk about a variety of different, bigger cities than Memphis. But this is an extraordinary success. And Memphis is a great test case because Memphis is in a red state where I live in Tennessee. It's a blue city. But to the credit of the mayor of Memphis, much like the mayor of D.C. to be honest, the mayor of Memphis said, hey, I don't really love this, but I'm willing to try to work with the governor of Tennessee. I'm willing to try to work with the President of the United States. There is a recognition that based on some data, on a per capita basis, Memphis has the highest violent crime rate in the country. And we have to do something to protect all the innocent people in this community. And Jim Jordan, you're hearing very little about this since the feds and since the state started working together in Memphis. Listen to this. Murders down 50% in Memphis. Assault down 40% in Memphis. Robbery down 60%. Very little attention. Think about how transformative this has been for many Memphians out there. Again, the city's not big enough. Those of you who live in the middle part of the country kind of know how this is. If it doesn't happen in New York or la, it's like it doesn't register on the national media scale. Rush used to talk about the drive by media all the time. Anything that happens in New York City or la, everybody rushes and covers with a fine tooth combination. But lots of things happen in the middle part of the country. Where I live, where many of you listening to us right now live and doesn't get very much attention. And I saw those Memphis numbers and where I live in Nashville, you know, murders are at a 60 year low in the city of Nashville. I mentioned this yesterday. Buck was talking about it. One way to tell, I always say this is a city, safe or not, is how many young women feel comfortable there. If you're in a place where you drive through and young women are out jogging around the time that it's going to be dark, you probably live in a really safe city or really safe part of the city. If you live in a part of the city where there's no young women that are ever out on the streets anywhere near dark, where nobody's out jogging, you probably live in a really unsafe place. Nashville, because of all the bachelorettes, and some of y' all probably have yourselves or your daughters or your granddaughters, it is the bachelorette capital of America. Why do people come to Nashville? Because it's safe. Because girls can say, hey, we're going to go to a bunch of bars, we're going to go sing on the stage, karaoke. We're going to have an awesome time. They call them the Woo Girls here. I'll play an audio of Afton Bain, who wants to represent Nashville, going after them. But there's an overall tremendous trajectory right now. The border is fixed. Crime is declining at rates of rapidity that we have not seen in a long time. A lot of you out there listening are police officers. And it turns out when you let police officers do their jobs and when you put violent criminals behind bars and you keep them there, it turns out that cities get a lot safer. I know. Go figure. It's wild. What's left? The economy. It's as easy as ebc. Trump has delivered in a way that I don't think anybody even could have anticipated on the border on crime. The nation is moving towards the safest it's ever been. The economy is the challenge as we look forward for 2026. And I think that actually underlines the relationship that you saw between Trump and Mamdani in the Oval Office last week. What's going on there? Why do they have a bro fest? It's because Trump recognizes that the politics of 2026 is not going to come down to the border because it's fixed. It's not going to come down to crime because to a large extent people are starting to feel safer and Trump has made it safer all over the country. It's going to come down to pocketbook issues and how people feel now. Stock market's near record highs. And so those of us who are out there that have 401ks, that have stocks, if you check your stock holdings at the end of the year, you're probably going to be pretty happy with what the results have been. But I come back to the thing that just makes people angry. It is this cost of goods because Biden was so bad. The biggest challenge that Trump has now as we move into year two. And I'm going to be hammering on this a lot because I think the White House sees it, but this is what they have to address. Everything cost too much in your head. Just things cost what they shouldn't. You know how you have in your head kind of running calculator if you're sitting down at a meal. I talked about this last week. I took my son to Subway and we spent nearly $30, the two of us, on a meal at Subway. In my head, that meal should cost $20. Everything has skyrocketed. I've talked about when I take the Travis boys, my three kids through the Chick Fil, a drive thru and it costs over $50 for us to Get Chick Fil A. It's way too much. Prices rose so rapidly that there is a visceral anger out there in America that crosses party lines from everybody that has to pull out their wallet, that has to pay for goods in this country. I feel it. You feel it. Things cost more than they should. That's the issue in 2026. And that is the biggest issue, I think, of the disaster that was Biden. Most of us out there, and I'll put this in my camp and put myself in this camp, have never seen inflation rise as quickly as it did in 2021 and 2022. And the cost of goods skyrocket as quickly as it did. Now, some of y' all out there, you live through Jimmy Carter. And so you know what that experience is like. And I'd be curious to hear from some of you, how long did it take for those fixed cost goods to start to get used to those prices and for the Reagan revolution, optimism in the economy to really take root? I wish Trump could run for reelection in 2028, because I think the answer is by 2028, based on the decisions President Trump is making, I think the economy is going to be firing on all cylinders. He can't run for reelection. It might be good for J.D. vance, might be good for Marco Rubio. We'll open up phone lines, 800-282-2882. But again, 2024 was about EBC. It's as easy as EBC. Economy, border, crime. Trump has delivered on border, he's delivered on the crime. But the economy is, is now going to be the flashpoint, the cultural litmus test in the midterm in 2026. And Trump's ability to deliver on that issue is going to determine what happens in the Senate, what happens in the House, and what happens in a ton of governor's races all over the country. We'll talk about that quite a lot again. Buck will be back with me tomorrow on Thanksgiving eve, but I've got you guys rolling through the Tuesday edition of the program solo. 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