Hour 1 - It's a Trap!

Summary

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Episode: "Hour 1 – It's a Trap!"
Date: March 9, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode opens the week with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton unpacking the fallout from escalating international tensions—specifically a recent terror attack attempt in New York City and surging gas and stock market volatility spurred by events in Iran. With their trademark mix of humor and direct talk, the hosts dissect media narratives, political grandstanding, and the underlying issues at play, particularly the left’s pivot to economic anxiety in an election year. The hour also takes a sharp look at the media coverage of a failed ISIS-inspired attack at a Muslim-related protest, using it as a touchpoint for wider cultural debates on protest rights, free speech, and the dangers of ideological labeling.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Economic Volatility: Gas, Stocks, and Politics

Timestamps: [03:07]–[17:22]

• Market Panic and Oil Spikes:
  Clay recounts how media outlets are highlighting stock tumbles and gas price surges linked to Middle East instability, drawing parallels to the previous year’s price freakouts.
  • “It should be only allowed to put the stock prices on your news screen if you also show them when the stock market goes up. But it’s not going to surprise you that MSNBC and CNN typically do not do that.” (Clay Travis, [03:07])
• Drilling & Energy Independence:
  The hosts stress the United States’ rising energy independence as a buffer:
  • “The United States is less dependent on oil and gas from the Middle East...we are now a net...exporter of oil and gas.” (Clay Travis, [05:25])
• Media & Election Year Narrative:
  Both hosts highlight how concerns over gas prices and economic issues always spike during election seasons and that the negative framing overwhelmingly dominates when numbers worsen.
  • “All of a sudden, Democrats care so much about prices…I thought they wanted us to stop using gas…Oh, it’s an election year. All that stuff just falls away.” (Buck Sexton, [13:54])

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2. Political Maneuvering over the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Timestamps: [06:37]–[10:19]

• Schumer’s ‘It’s a Trap’ Proposal:
  Schumer’s call for an SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve) release is dismissed as a calculated political ploy:
  • “One thing you never do—don’t take strategy advice from your enemies. That’s rule number one. And Chuck Schumer is not trying to help Trump out here.” (Buck Sexton, [07:54])
  • The hosts riff on the Star Wars “It’s a trap!” meme, applying it to Schumer’s advice.
    • “Admiral Ackbar, he’s kind of a crustacean looking…shrimp looking guy.” (Clay Travis, [10:19])
• How to Handle Volatility:
  Clay offers long-term, steady investment advice, urging listeners to ignore daily market fluctuations and media hype.
  • “If you’re the kind of person who gets nervous looking at stock prices…don’t check them. Buy S&P 500 index funds, leave your 401k untouched…You’re going to do great.” (Clay Travis, [11:44])

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3. Free Speech, Protest Rights & the NY Terror Attempt

Timestamps: [22:10]–[41:50]

• Incident Recap:
  Clay and Buck explain an anti-Islamic influence protest outside Gracie Mansion, the mayor’s residence, which led to a failed terrorist attack by two ISIS-inspired individuals.
  • “Among the counter-protesters, at least two individuals made a form of IED and hurled them while yelling Oahu Akbar…they were arrested.” (Clay Travis, [24:47])
• Media Coverage and Political Framing:
  The hosts skewer media misrepresentation of the event, especially attempts to label the original protest as “white supremacist,” regardless of facts.
  • “What they’re trying to hide is the white supremacist had nothing to do to the extent that this was a white supremacist rally...I don’t even necessarily agree with that contextualization.” (Clay Travis, [29:55])
• Defense of Free Speech:
  Buck defends the legitimacy of protesting against Islamic ideology in America, pushing back against labeling all critics as racists or supremacists.
  • “Islam is not a race, Islam is not an ethnicity…as part of a free and open society, you should be able to, and have every right to, be as critical of Islam as you want to be.” (Buck Sexton, [30:58])
• Western Assimilation and Islamic Influence:
  They draw parallels with European experiences, warning against suppressing legitimate policy debates about integration and cultural compatibility.
  • “The Islamization of the West is a very serious and very real concern…I think people should be allowed to talk about it.” (Buck Sexton, [32:07])

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4. On Political Labels and Media Distortions

Timestamps: [36:16]–[41:50]

• Misuse of ‘White Supremacy’:
  The hosts criticize the overbroad expansion of “white supremacy” as a catch-all for dissent or criticism.
  • “Of the expansive nature by which white supremacy has replaced racism…we can’t even name an actual white supremacist.” (Clay Travis, [38:19])
• Real World Threats vs. Political Narrative:
  Buck and Clay point out the real-world fallout of security measures driven by Islamic terrorism, not the specter of right-wing “white supremacists,” highlighting the disconnect between public discourse and public policy realities.
  • “When we go to the airport…The security lines are because of Islamic radicals…It’s not because of January 6, guys.” (Buck Sexton, [38:44])

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Clay Travis:
  • “If you’re the kind of person who gets nervous looking at stock prices…don’t check them. Buy S&P 500 index funds, leave your 401k untouched…” ([12:38])
• Buck Sexton:
  • “One thing you never do—don’t take strategy advice from your enemies...Chuck Schumer is not trying to help Trump out here.” ([07:54])
  • “Islam is not a race, Islam is not an ethnicity…you should be able to…be as critical of Islam as you want…” ([30:58])
  • “America is the greatest wealth generation machine in the history of humanity…You can either bet on America or you can freak out and think the world is ending tomorrow.” ([16:59])
• Comic Relief:
  • Star Wars banter about Admiral Ackbar’s species:
    • “Admiral Ackbar, he’s kind of a crustacean looking…shrimp looking guy.” (Clay Travis, [10:19])
    • Listener down the line: “Admiral Akbar is an amphibious non calamari.” ([45:41])

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Important Segments & Timestamps

• Stock market/gas price panic & U.S. energy independence: [03:07]–[06:26]
• SPR, Schumer ‘trap’ & Star Wars meme: [06:37]–[10:32]
• General investing advice (Warren Buffett principles): [11:44]–[13:54]
• Explosion at anti-Islamic protest, media coverage: [22:10]–[41:50]
• Debate on labeling protests and valid criticism of Islam: [30:58]–[32:59]

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Summary

In this episode, Clay and Buck combine sharp analysis with humor to walk listeners through the fallout from international incidents and their domestic reverberations—especially on the economy and the fabric of public discourse. They argue that surging gas prices and market jitters are being cynically weaponized by political actors (notably Chuck Schumer, whose advice they liken to a Star Wars “trap”), but urge listeners to stay calm, take a long view on investing, and question media narratives.

The focus then turns to the botched ISIS-inspired attack at a controversial New York protest—an episode the hosts consider emblematic of media misdirection and political language inflation (particularly the broadened use of terms like “white supremacy”). They defend the right of protest, honest public debate, and confront the realities of ideological radicalism without caving to pressure to conflate all criticism with hate or racism.

This hour sets the tone for the week with its mix of sober warnings, practical advice, cultural commentary, and their signature wit.

Transcript

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[Clay Travis]

Welcome in Monday Edition. Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show. It's deja vu all over again. As Yogi Berra, I think once memorably said, we've got a lot to dive into. Coming out of the weekend, a Mandani terror attack outside of Gracie Mansion in New York City. The stock market panic of April of last year is back. It is it should be only allowed to put the stock prices on your news screen if you also show them when the stock market goes up. But it's not going to surprise you that MSNBC and CNN typically do not do that. As I'm watching right now, MSNBC featuring the stock prices, which they have not done for the first year and a half, most of the time when they have been positive, but when they turn negative, also the price of gas, what gas is doing, that is the line of attack that we told you all was going to be coming. And so we have a new announced leader in Iran, the son of the killed ayatollah is poised to take over. And buck, it feels to me, first of all, exactly what we told you was going to happen is now the story on the left they moved from. There's really no way to justify taking out the ayatollah, which they had argued needed to be done for decades to oh, the price of gas is up at gas prices is the number one story in America. It reminds me of when egg prices were the number one story in America early in Trump 1.0, the first year of Trump 2.0, I should say. And on top of that, we also have a sort of echo, a reverberation of what happened last April when during the tariff battle, everyone said, oh my goodness, this is absolutely going to be the end of our country. We'll never recover from this. You. And I said, stay calm, hold your stocks. If you have added money on the sideline, it's a Good time to buy. I would echo that here. And what we are seeing is there is a bit of a panic in the gas marketplace which will. At some point in time, it's already started to come back down quite a lot. Overnight, gas prices went all the way up to $120 a barrel. They've come back down to around $110 a barrel. But all this was very predictable. If you listened to us last week, you would know exactly what the talking points were going to be by Monday. And buck, here we are. The one super positive I would say is this is not going to last. The second super positive is the United States is less dependent on oil and gas from the Middle east than it has ever been in our entire nation's history because we have started to drill, baby, drill. And because we are now a net, I believe, Buck, exporter of oil and gas. In other words, we create enough to be able to satisfy all the demand here, which means we. We are not as subject to being able to be controlled by oil and gas in the Middle east as we have been in past, particularly with Venezuela now added on. All right, there we go. There's the lead in your thoughts as we begin Monday.

[Buck Sexton]

I think he covered it. Honestly, I think the world is fixed according to Clay's strategic skill set here. I think we're good to go. Honestly, though, I mean, look, this is. We're so.

[Clay Travis]

See you guys next week.

[Buck Sexton]

Exactly. I was going to say, you guys, you know, make sure you tip your waiter. We'll see you later. Look, this is such early stage of the Iran situation. Oil prices. Do we have Schumer? Schumer's like, we better open the strategic reserve. Do you have, oh, 14. Yeah. Play cut 14 here. American families cannot afford to simply wait and hope for the price to come down. The solution is right here at home. Trump, use the spr. Release it. Prices will come down. Stop this blather that. It'll go away soon. It won't. There's a war going on over there. Just last night, I saw a big oil refinery in Iran hit by missiles. Okay, that makes. Just. Just hold on a second here. First of all, you know that Star wars meme with General whatever his name, where it goes? It's a trap, you know, which. Which has been used a lot on the Internet. Maybe some of you don't know what I'm talking about, but there's the moment in Star wars where the alliance or whatever realizes the rebel alliance realizes it's trapping this one general who looks kind of like A, I don't know what you, how you even describe what he looks like.

[Clay Travis]

Kind of rat like. Rat like would be a way to describe.

[Buck Sexton]

Is he rat like. Anyway, he's got a human rat. He's a weird alien for sure.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah.

[Buck Sexton]

But he goes, it's a trap. Going into the strategic reserve right now. It's a trap because what do you think they talk about for weeks if we do, if we were to do that. Oh, Trump screwed up so much that he had to go in the Strategic Petroleum reserve right away. Please. Okay. One thing you never do, don't take strategy advice from your enemies. That's, that's rule number one. And Chuck Schumer is not trying to help Trump out here. The gas prices have been high for a couple of days. It's a lot of this has to do with speculators in the market and people who are making moves, financial moves that are pushing the prices up higher right now. But I think that you're going to see price come down also. What we, what was hit by Israel. And look, the administration, based on the reporting, they didn't love the optics of this. But over the weekend the Israelis hit and it was very clear that the Israelis did it, not America. The Israelis hit some oil storage tanks, essentially not the ability to create. It's not the extraction facility. We weren't blowing up oil wells or oil derricks, but we hit some, we hit an oil, some oil depots. And that's meant to limit military response. A huge part of what's going on right now is we're destroying all their mobile missile launchers. Because here's the thing about all the missiles they have buried underground. If you don't have any launchers for them, the missiles are worth a whole heck of a lot less militarily, aren't they? And we've taken out a good chunk of those mobile launchers. I would note this is very similar. A lot of you are thinking back, some of you, some of you are probably hunting those Scud launchers yourselves as part of Desert Storm. This is like in Iraq when we're going after, remember the Scud missile launchers, Clay? And that was the big threat, these long range missiles and we were blowing them up in the desert and that was a big concern. And I'm talking 93, right? That was when we did this. 93. I was a, I was a kid. Clay was finishing his PhD and it's yet again the Democrats who before anything has happened here, before anything is going on, they're trying to turn this into a political narrative and attack the President and say that this is all a mess. MOJTABA Kamen A. This is not good. This is not a good solution for us. So this is not going to work. It's not going to work. Right? This isn't, this isn't like they put somebody in place. It's not like the Venezuela situation. Clay so the punishment will continue here from the air.

[Clay Travis]

By the way, first error of the week. I want to apologize. I was thinking of the wrong store. Star wars guy, Admiral Ackbar, he's kind of a crustacean looking.

[Buck Sexton]

The, that's Admiral looking about. Yeah.

[Clay Travis]

Shrimp looking guy. Producer Greg coming in strong there with his Star wars nerdom. So I want to apologize to the Galactic Empire out there that is already angry at me to start. One of the funny things about Chuck Schumer is he's opposed the restocking of the, the strategic reserves when prices have been really low. Because he said in the past that it is a giveaway to oil and gas companies to go buy up all the oil and gas at good prices. I mean these guys really, between Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, they are the worst leadership I think that Democrats have ever had. Hakeem Jeffries looks, I'm not sure there's ever been a deader eyed person like you just look at him and he looks like he's incapable of emotion at all. I mean it is really kind of a strange look that he has about him. Schumer is just weird. I think he's probably a strong strategic advocate for Democrats in terms of the nuances and intricacies of the Senate, but he's not a good communicator. And every time he comes out, being reflectively opposed to Trump isn't a very good angle. But what I would say in general is, first of all, again, I think this is so important. If you're the kind of person who gets nervous looking at stock prices on a day to day basis, the best thing you can do is not check them. Just trust. Buy S&P 500 index funds, leave your 401k untouched every few months, check it over the years. You're going to do great. The worst thing you can do is respond emotionally when places like MSNBC and CNN decide that they're going to start putting the stock market prices up as their lead story again. They never do it when it's positive. They only do it when it's a negative.

[Buck Sexton]

You, you, you don't have to listen to us on this one. And obviously do your own research. And we don't give financial advice on the show. And we certainly aren't telling you what stocks or index or index funds to invest in, but you can.

[Clay Travis]

I am, by the way, s and P500 is the, is the, is the play. I am telling you, you're going to beat the market almost always in terms of individual investors. Just buy s and P500 index funds. I am telling you that is what you should do. And don't touch them for years.

[Buck Sexton]

I love how the lawyer's like, forget the disclaimer. Forget the disclaimer.

[Clay Travis]

It is the best advice. It is the best advice. Buy the 500 largest companies, trust America and get out of the way.

[Buck Sexton]

Clay turns into light them up Linda via stocks. He's like, buy them. Buy them and hold them. Don't worry about it. Light them up. So I have to tell you, you can go and pick up any book by Warren Buffett, anyone who, you're like, how did this person make so much money? And over a long period of time, I might add, not how did someone make a lot of money and then their hedge fund blew up two years later and now they're selling online courses. There's a lot of that out there. You know, I'm talking about people who really have, have understood, have mastered the market and they'll just explain this to you. They say, first of all, unless you're doing this all the time for a living, and even then you're probably not going to be better at generating wealth, generating returns than the overall US Economy. So literally what you want to do is, is America going to be richer

[Clay Travis]

or poorer in 10 years?

[Buck Sexton]

I think the answer is quite, let me add, if America is poorer in 10 years, the whole world is so messy, we're all screwed. It doesn't matter. Then we're talking, we're just talking, you know, yes, good to have gold ammo, portable water. I mean, we're in a whole different universe, okay? America is going to be in a better place in, in 10 years, wealth wise, overall. And so you invest in the market and you let it sit and you don't get caught into, you want to invest, you don't want to gamble getting in and out. I'm going to buy this. I know more than these other people or whatever. That's gambling basically for most people, especially if you're doing it rapidly and you don't want to be involved in that kind of stuff because the, the data sets are very clear. You're not going to win you're not going to win getting in and out of stocks all the time as a side hustle from whatever your actual job is. The chance of you winning if you invest in the US economy is. Look at the last 50 years. Look at, look at 50 years of data and tell me what you think. So that's our short for. There we go. That is our TED Talk on investing today on the show. And also gas prices. All of a sudden, Democrats care so much about prices. I thought they wanted us to stop using gas. Clay, whatever happened, whatever happened to whatever the cost is, climate change is an existential threat. And if you have to pay European style gas prices, if you have to be making California look like gas is cheap, you're saving the world. Oh, it's an election year. Oh, all that, all that stuff all of a sudden just kind of falls away. And they care about the kitchen table economic issues that they've been ruining every time they're in power always and forever. We all know the game.

[Clay Travis]

It's just so predictable. Because the argument that we shouldn't have taken out the Ayatollah flew in the face of everything that Democrats have said publicly for decades. They couldn't manage to make that case. And so the pivot goes directly to, well, this is really not about the decision in Iran. It's just about what oil and gas prices are in the United States at this present moment. Uh, by the way, President Trump has said that this is not going to go on very long. There is polling out there that says this thing has 75, 76% approval if it lasts a month or less. Uh, and so I don't think we're gonna get involved in a monthly bogged down process here of multi months. So again, stay strong, don't panic. The exact same advice we gave you back in April. And if you're the kind of person who panics, don't look at stock prices. There are lots of other things you can spend your time on. You make sound, strategic, smart decisions and then you just kind of get out of the way. And don't allow yourself to sabotage because most of the time the great quote from, from Warren Buffett is be when. Be greedy when others are panicking, fearful and, and fearful when others are greedy. Basically. I'm paraphrasing that it's basically a counterintuitive take whatever the masses are doing, you often do better to go in the opposite direction.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah. If you believe in America, just think about it this way. America is the greatest wealth generation machine in the history of humanity. That is just a fact. That is true. And you can either bet on America or you can freak out and think that the world is ending tomorrow. But I can tell you this, the people that freak out and think the world is ending tomorrow, they give away their retirement upside and they lose.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah.

[Buck Sexton]

So don't freak out. Don't freak out. It's going to be fine.

[Clay Travis]

Can't freak out.

[Buck Sexton]

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[Clay Travis]

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[Buck Sexton]

Welcome back into. Oh, wait, did you play it again so people could hear it? I talked over it. There you go. Admiral Akbar. It's a trap.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah.

[Buck Sexton]

Anytime Chuck Schumer gives you political advice as a Trump or Republican person, you. It's a trap. So there's that. And then speaking of Akbar. Allahu Akbar. It's kind of a tough turn, but there was a terrorist attack.

[Clay Travis]

Very, very tough turn.

[Buck Sexton]

Terrorist attack in New York City, and no one was hurt in this one. There was attempted terrorist attack, I should say, but. Oh, actually, one of the guys yelled, allahu Akbar.

[Clay Travis]

Yes, that's why I thought you were making the perfect transition.

[Buck Sexton]

No, I just assumed.

[Clay Travis]

I mean.

[Buck Sexton]

I mean, I made the assumption, but the assumption was correct because, you know, guess what? Usually when they do this, they. There's something they yell. One of them did yell allahu Akbar, not Admiral Akbar. And the lib media tried to make this. Someone throw. There's a protest. Knowing the protest is breaking the law. It doesn't matter what. I don't care what they're saying. As long as they're not breaking the law, they're allowed to protest. And someone throws an ied, basically a homemade bomb at them. And the overwhelming. This was in New York City, outside of Gracie Mansion, the. The mayor's residence in New York, the commie mayor and Clay. The media focus was on the mean things that the people were saying at the protest, not the jihadist wackos who showed up and threw a bomb among them that fortunately did not kill anyone.

[Clay Travis]

We will talk about this when we come back from this break because it is a big story, and it's a significant story, and there are a lot of different angles to hit with it. And the media, not surprisingly, is not being honest with you. And we will take you into that story and why it matters. Also, by the way, our buddy Sean Hannity gonna join us a little bit later. Chip Roy from down in Texas. All that and more. In the meantime, if your cell phone Service is with AT&T, Verizon or T Mobile, switch it to PureTalk. You'll be saving hundreds of dollars A year without sacrificing any quality. For 25 bucks a month, PureTalk gives you unlimited talk text, plenty of data. How does that compare to your current cell phone bill? PureTalk's cell service is the best nationwide 5G network available. Their customer service even better. The entire team US based. No contracts, no cancellation fees. Now it's time for you to make the switch. Grab your cell phone, dial £250, say the keywords, click. Clay and Buck. Let Pure Talk's US customer service team help you make the switch in 15 minutes or less. Dial pound 250, say Clay and Buck. And you'll also save 50% off your first month. Pure Talk, America's wireless company. That's pound 250, say Clay and Buck. Pound 250 say Clay and Buck. Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Buck has no idea this is going on in much less serious news, but NFL free agency is officially underway which if you're an NFL fan is like Christmas morning. And I'll just tell you this because I know we have Rush's audience way over indexed for NFL fans. The Kansas City Chiefs have signed Kenneth Walker, Seattle star running back as their new running back. So now you have Patrick Mahomes with a great running back. There you go. Breaking news that's gonna break much of the Internet if you are sports related fan. And Travis Kelsey, AKA Taylor Swift's husband to be has decided he's not going to retire. So the Chiefs are running it back for one more big go round if that is that is to be gleaned from social media right now. All right, that is not serious in the grand scheme of things. This is one of the most dishonest stories that I have seen in some time and I know a lot of you in New York City have experienced this story and have paid attention to it, but I feel like many people out there are not aware of this story because frankly Iran's going on and there's just so much activity out there. So let me try to like simplify this in a way that everybody can understand and then we'll dive into more specifics. Buck, you correct me if I'm wrong on this. There was a basically a anti Muslim influence in New York City protest scheduled for outside of Mamdani's Gracie Mansion home. That is where the mayor of New York City lives. Mamdani is there. Uh, as this rally was going on, there were around what I read Buck, 20 protesters of that opinion. There were around a hundred counter protesters. So it's one of Those things where there are more people who show up to protest against the protest than showed up for the protest. Initially, while the protest is going on, among the counter protesters, at least two individuals made a form of IED and hurled them while yelling Oahu Akbar. Like basically it's endorsing in some way jihad. Those two individuals have been tackled. They later found they were arrested. They later found other devices that could have also worked as as flammable IED devices. Jess Tish, who is the running the nypd, who you know, Buck, of the Tisch family. Her family is mostly Republicans, I think.

[Buck Sexton]

Right.

[Clay Travis]

In general, I think her politics definitely billionaires. Yeah, yeah. I think that they are kind of known as Republicans here. Let's see is just Tish cut 3. Saying the attempted bombing being investigated as an ISIS inspired terror attack attempt. Cut three. The suspects here, Amir Bilat and Ibrahim Kayumi, are going to be prosecuted in federal court here in Manhattan and a complaint will set forth criminal charges and the factual allegations supporting those charges. After that complaint is made public, which I expect to occur later today, I will be able to say much more about the investigation and what we have learned in this case. But it is crucial that we respect

[Buck Sexton]

that process and not get ahead of it.

[Clay Travis]

That being said, I can confirm this morning that this is being investigated as an act of ISIS inspired terrorism. Okay, one more cut here, Buck. This is where it particular so you heard the actual facts. Credit to Just Tish in New York City, the head of the nypd effectively laying that out. Here is what Mamdani said. This was a white supremacist protest. Him not being. He's trying to hide what actually happened intentionally. This is cut one.

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On Saturday, a protest was held outside Gracie Mansion where I live with my wife Rama. Neither of us were home at the time. This was a vile protest rooted in white supremacy entitled Stop the Islamic takeover of New York City. I'm the first Muslim mayor of our city. Anti Muslim bigotry is nothing new to me. Nor is it anything new for the 1 million or so Muslim New Yorkers who know this city as our home. While I found this protest appalling, I will not waver in my belief that it should be allowed to happen. Ours is a free society where the right to peaceful protest is sacred. It does not belong only to those we agree with. It belongs to everyone.

[Clay Travis]

Okay, Buck, so I agree with the second part there. But again, what they're trying to hide is the white supremacist had nothing to do to the extent that this was a white Supremacist rally. I don't even necessarily agree with that contextualization.

[Buck Sexton]

I've never heard of this guy before, Jake Lang. I don't know if he's somebody that, I've never heard of him. So it's not like he has some big resonance or some huge audience on the right. And I would just say, you know, the, there's a whole lot to discuss here. One, there's some report, Clay, that, that there was pepper spray used by the, you know, the anti Islamic protesters first. Now that doesn't justify throwing an IED at somebody. Also, did you punt? You know, these are some of the details that need to be worked out. Is that just being said now as part of a defense strategy? But I, I, it doesn't justify an id. I'm just trying to get all the facts out there.

[Clay Travis]

Also, you have to make the ID in advance. So even if you were pepper spray, it's not like, yeah, it's not like you're, you don't accidentally show up with a bomb at a protest.

[Buck Sexton]

You, you can't bring a bomb to a shoving match at a protest and be like, well, but they, they said something mean, right?

[Clay Travis]

Obviously.

[Buck Sexton]

Same way you couldn't pull out a pistol and be like, this guy is yelling mean things. So I just, you know, open fire. So that, that's, that's one part of it. But there's, there's a lot going on here. Something that I, I like to point out, this notion of anti Islamic bigotry. Islam is not a race, Islam is not an ethnicity. As part of a free and open society, you should be able to and, and have every right to be as critical of Islam as you want to be. If you're going to say that you do not believe Islamic ideology, Islamic faith is good in the west or has a role here, that is a legitimate con, that is a legitimate discussion to have under our First Amendment and under just the basic free speech tenets of a free society. And you'll notice they always do this thing of Islam, you know, they're calling it a white supremacist protest. Right. By the way, I don't know this guy, Zig Lang, maybe he is, maybe he isn't. I don't think about it.

[Clay Travis]

There were only 20 people there in the protest. So the idea, this is somehow a super influential person, I do think. But, but even said you can have awful views and not get blown up for having them.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, absolutely, but, but I would also say just on the, on the merits here of the conversation, The Islamization of the west is a very serious and very real concern. And I think people should be allowed to talk about it. They should be. They should be protected by law when they want to have a protest where they're like, you know what? Honestly, there's a little too much Islamic influence going on in our local government or in our. This is valid. I know people don't necessarily want to. Want to go down this pathway, but it is the truth. And conversations about whether Islam and the west are actually compatible as core and sort of foundational ideological and cultural systems, also very valid. It's not working out great in a lot of European countries, my friends, that have had a lot of Islamization over the last few decades. In fact, some of the. Really the most prominent contemporary French

[Clay Travis]

author,

[Buck Sexton]

novelist Ulbeck, writes about this and writes novels about how France is essentially surrendering what it is to be French because they brought in so many such a large population of Muslims who don't want to assimilate and are very open about this. You've had the same problem in the uk, the same reality. So this is happening in countries that are very close to us in terms of heritage and history and culture, and we are allowed to notice and have a conversation about that. It's not the same. This is my point, Clay. It's not the same thing as saying, oh, I, you know, I don't. I don't trust brown people. It's actually not the same thing. And they want to make it sound like it's the same thing. It's not the same thing. You're talking about an idea set, an ideology, a religion that is different from just a blanket. Oh, this person of this skin color. No, that's why they want to say it's a white supremacist protest. It is not necessary to be anti Islamic or to be critical of Islam is not the same thing as being a white supremacists is my fundamental point here. They want to make it about that because in our society, we rightly reject the idea that you can judge people based on skin color or you can treat people poorly or think less of a person because of skin color. That's unethical. That's immoral. Saying that. I think that Islam, when it reaches a critical mass of people that believe in it, is sometimes problematic for a free Western society. That's a conversation that people can have. That's a real thing that's out there.

[Clay Travis]

Actually, it's a conversation that we should have if we're going to look at American immigration. Policy. I actually was skeptical of this, Buck, because it's like the protesters designed the absolute best thing that could have happened for their protest and it happened, by which I mean, if you were going to show up and say, hey, radical Islam is a real threat to America and we should be talking about it more than we are, right? That's the protest writ large. And then a radical Islamic terrorist showed up and tried to throw a bomb at you while you were protesting the danger of radical Islamic terrorism. It feels too perfect and then it doesn't go off. Right? So you don't actually deal with the danger of the attack. It feels like a best case scenario for the protesters. And my general proposition is I'm skeptical when the best thing that could ever happen to you is you become a victim of an attack and then you become a victim of an attack. But it really does appear, based on all the evidence here, that these guys showed up and tried to IED, tried to bomb and kill the relatively limited 20 people. Buck, nobody would have even known this protest happened if these guys hadn't shown up and tried to blow it up. Right? It wouldn't be a story. We wouldn't be talking about it. 20 people showing up and protesting anything is not a story. There were more people showing up to protest against the protesters. And so these guys showing up and trying to bomb the. The protest is what made it a story. These, these are young guys whose parents were brought in as immigrants. Which again goes directly to the criticism of the protest.

[Buck Sexton]

Stop bringing in. I saw you tweet about this, I think is very, very astute. Stop bringing in so many foreign Muslims into America because the risk of terrorism from that group is high. At a protest is being said where people of Islamic heritage show up with a bomb to try to kill the people. It's unbelievable saying this. I mean, well, this is a little bit of the. This is the. This takes us back into a conversation which is, you know, Islam is a religion of peace. And you better say it or we're going to cut your head off. I mean, this was a big thing that we were dealing with for a long time, certainly during the GWAT era in this country. And people noticed that as well. Remember that? That was post 9 11. There was this whole effort. Islam is a religion of peace. No, no, that's actually not. First of all, you never hear people say about. No other religion gets this sort of blanket. It's a religion of peace. You wouldn't hear that about any other. Even Quakers. I don't even hear that. About. I mean, I think Quakers, you have

[Clay Travis]

to say it as the talking point. It actually means there's a lot of evidence. There's a problem side. Right?

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah. Well, it's also the opposite of reality, as we all know. Okay. I mean, you don't have Quakers running in and blowing themselves up a suicide vest, yelling God is great in their, you know, in Arabic. And we all know every time there's a jihadist anywhere in the world, there's this playbook, there's this, these things that, that line up and it's all ideologically based. But I would just know. Clay, I was looking through this, this Jake Lang guy. So he was, he was at j. He was a January 6th protester. He was pardoned by. I'm just looking at what's said online about it from the different sites. Pardoned by Trump. Also at anti ice. Oh, sorry. A counter protester to the anti ICE demonstrations. I have seen. I, I don't know what his rhetoric is or whatever, but for them to call him a white supremacist. I have not seen whites. I've seen him saying that we should have immigration laws enforced at protests. And I've seen that he doesn't like the Islamification of New York. I have not seen him say, you know, what you would consider to be actually white supremacist stuff.

[Clay Travis]

Maybe he did.

[Buck Sexton]

I'm not saying, I'm just. I'm looking at what's out there about

[Clay Travis]

this, of the expansive nature by which white supremacy has replaced racism. Right. Remember Joe Biden told us that white supremacy was the number one danger facing our nation. I mean, he did an entire address where he said, and you and I, I remember after that, came on and said, we can't even name an actual white supremacist. They always go back to David Duke from 1988 or whatever the heck it was.

[Buck Sexton]

It's also really insulting because when we go to the airport and we have to get there, you know, an hour and a half early because of the security. The security lines are because of Islamic radicals. Ok? That's reality. That's why we all have security lines. That's why we have to go through airport metal detectors. It's just the truth. We all know it. So, like, it's, it's not because of January six, guys, you're. You're not being patted down every time you go to the airport, you're getting a reminder of who the real concern is for terrorism every time, you know. Yeah.

[Clay Travis]

I find it highly unlikely that the mom who's Trying to breastfeed and has a bottle filled with her breast milk is making me dangerous on the airplane flight that I'm going on.

[Buck Sexton]

And they always try to make this a racial thing. There are Muslims who are as white as me. There are Muslims who are as white as can be. There are Muslims who are black. There are Muslims who are brown. There are Muslims who are Asian. There are Muslims who are all different. And yes, a vast, vast majority of them are just normal people living their lives peacefully and everything else. But if you're wondering where the ideological threat of terrorism primarily globally comes from, what ideological tradition, what faith tradition is not a hard conversation to have. Or rather, it's not a hard answer to come to. As much as they want to pretend that we don't know. No, we know, actually, we know.

[Clay Travis]

If as a descriptive device you have to say the opposite of what many people think about it, then it's probably a sign that there's a lot of evidence. Right? You don't say, you know, Clay Travis, who absolutely, positively never wants to murder anybody.

[Buck Sexton]

Was.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, I've never murdered anybody. I think I don't. You don't need to like, as an introduction of me, explain that I'm very anti murder.

[Buck Sexton]

Right.

[Clay Travis]

I mean, when you. It is again, this whole protest, the fact that it went off the way it did, it's like if Jussie Smollett had actually been a victim like he claimed that he was, which would have been the best thing for Jussie Smollett. I would have been like, this is, you know, anyway, it's crazy.

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Is he actually named Calamari? I mean, the crustacean argument was a pretty good one then, right? Is the name of the franchise, I mean the name of the species Calamari. That's unbelievable.

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And at the end there was a little thing about Clay's book, so I got that one too. I'll see how he measures up to your writing ability.

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