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Clay Travis
Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show podcast.
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Buck Sexton
Welcome in Clay Travis. Buck Sexton show live from Washington, D.C. a bunch of different moving parts on the program today. A lot of different stories underway. We started off the day at the CIA, which I'm allowed to tell you because they took a photograph of us inside of the CIA that I imagine at some in time will be shared. Pretty cool. I've never been to CIA headquarters. Buck, you worked for a long time.
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Host
Like returning to my high school or something.
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Buck Sexton
We met a lot of people doing really good work on behalf of President Trump at the CIA. And we will talk about that a bit as the program progresses. Several different stories to update you on. Elon Musk has apologized, as we suggested would likely be the case, to President Trump for his tweets that went mega viral last week. We will discuss what exactly is happening there. Inflation for a fourth straight month has come in below. Quote, expert economic opinions. The important thing about inflation is not only what is the rate at which it is rising, but more importantly, are your wages rising faster than the cost of goods. For much of Joe Biden's tenure in office, that was not the case. That's why when you went to the grocery store, you had far less money than you did before. It's not just that prices rose, it's that your wages did not keep pace as a whole with the cost of goods that is now flipped. In the President Trump economy, wage growth around 4%, which is very good. The cost of goods growing at about 2.4%, which is low. So that means that every single month you are netting out, on average, everybody's financial circumstances are not the exact same, but more money in your pocket for the goods you are purchasing. Inflation conquered and we should be having. And now there is increasing motivation for this. The Fed lowering interest rates, which would be very transformative in a positive way for overall economic circumstances, whether it's for mortgages, whether it's for car loans, whether it is for credit card interest, debt, all of those different things. The borrowing costs would become cheaper. That is the direction we are going. Early this morning, Trump announced also that the China and the United States trade deal has effectively been reached and that we are going to have consistent 50% tariffs in place. China will have a 10% tariff on our goods. And that is another positive story.
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Host
They're going to give a little more rare earth minerals to us in the bargain as well, or more openness to that, which is certainly a good thing. So we need some of that. But progress, Clay, on this, which we had been told all along, oh my gosh, Trump is going to run the global economy into a ditch. That's the opposite of what is happening.
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Buck Sexton
Yes.
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Host
Not a surprise to us.
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Buck Sexton
We are approaching all time record highs in the stock market. Those record highs set in February. And so they are probably going to be challenged in the near future. We are very close. Which means basically, as we told you, even if you bought stocks for the first time in your life in February, that is, you had never purchased stocks before in the history of your life, you had never had a retirement account, no 401k, no stock ownership, even buck. If you bought at the absolute apex, you could not have bought at a worse time. You bought on the day and the hour that the all time S&P 500 height of all time was hit, you have lost about 1%. So if you just didn't pay attention at all to stock market prices and you bought on the worst day the all time high was set, you would lost about 1% on paper.
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Host
Yeah, that's going to be very few people, most of, of all of us. The market, the way it most immediately affects you has to do with your 401k, your IRA, your retirement accounts. So you're probably invested in the market in those accounts. If you're in mutual funds for a long period of time. And, and if you've just let the money sit, it's doing what it's supposed to do. Getting rich slowly or being wealthy slowly is the only sure way to do it. And investing in and believing in the US Economy, there are other ways. I know there are quick ways, but I'm just saying if you're looking for a strategy, you want to do it slow and steady. That wins the race. Clay, there's also, I think just victory in the air so far on the protests, which is a major, a major win for the administrations. You got the good economic data, the China trade, trade movement. Let's say it's not, you know, not a done deal, but there's certainly discussions. I think he had a 90 minute phone call with Xi Jinping a few days back. So Trump is very much. And he's. Isn't it amazing he's doing the phone call?
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Buck Sexton
Yeah.
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Host
We just had an administration, we just had a President of the United States who had people around him having to do everything for him and make sure that he had enough applesauce and nap time throughout the day. Now we have a president who is going up against the most powerful premier in the world who is not the President of the United States. So, number two, and doing, I think, a very good job of it. There's supposed to be some protests elsewhere. We're watching this pretty closely. Texas Governor Abbott, for example, saying Clay, exactly what should be said. Same thing with Governor DeSantis in Florida, I might add. Protest all you want. Protest is great. You want to say that this is horrible, that they're enforcing the law against illegals, you know, subtext, you're nuts. But okay, fine, you know, you're, you're allowed to say that. You start hurting people or breaking property or breaking laws. Can't, can't block roadways, you're going to get arrested, you're going to be held responsible. Just think about what a difference it is, a vibe shift, as the kids say, from 2020 with BLM riots to now National Guard deployed. We'll get into some of what Gavin Newsom is saying. He clearly is positioning himself as the leader of the nationwide Democrat resistance to Trump. I think he is from Ghostbusters. If we were choosing the form of the destructor, I think Gavin Newsom as the leader of the Democrats is to our benefit, actually. I don't think that he is going to be able to be as effective on this as he certainly thinks he will be. But the fact that they're able to largely, so far, could break out and get crazy tomorrow, but largely meet and contain this anarchy on the streets of LA is really encouraging.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah. And I think it, as we said yesterday, is a lesson that Trump learned in the first term. Now, that doesn't mean that there may not be some chaos in blue states and blue cities. But to your point, I don't think anyone who runs a red state, big red states, Florida with DeSantis, Texas with Abbott. I don't think they're going Brian Kemp in Georgia, Billy in Tennessee, decent population, red states that might have blue cities of a decent population inside of them. I don't think they're going to allow this to get out of control. Now, could this get out of control in some blue cities in blue states? Do I think that Tim Walls is going to stop people from rioting in Minneapolis? Sadly, no. And I bet a lot of you who are listening to us in Minneapolis understand Chicago. I don't have a lot of faith in Pritzker or Brandon Johnson.
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Host
The overall feeling around this, though, the zeitgeist, the, the, the, the sense of the national emotions on the illegal immigration issue is very different as a percentage, I think, than what it was during The BLM riots, Covid. It was just. It was just this crazy time. And people felt. I think there was just like a mass anxiety disorder that a lot of people were suffering through at that time. And so they were very susceptible to emotional manipulation. That's my belief. I think we saw that play out. And that's not the hardcore left. I just mean a lot of people, all of a sudden, I even just some conservatives. Look, there were some Republicans who were like, you know, we need to do police reforms. This does not mean we have to do police reform.
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Buck Sexton
Yes.
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Host
Different now, though, Clay, because 10 plus million illegals come in under Biden. The exploitation of the kindness and decency of the American people. Very clear for all to see. The lawlessness, the destruction of sovereignty and those numbers. We talked about this yesterday, that you have legal immigrants moving 40 points toward get these illegals out of here. It is very hard for them to run. The usual playbook of this is racist, this is xenophobic. I mean, you have black Americans, Latino Americans, any American, basically, at this point, any group, any is saying, we actually need to have a secure border. A majority of that group is saying, we need to have a secure border. And so when it's all Americans by majority saying what the administration's doing is good, this is why this resistance movement is. Is crumbling. We knew this would be it by the way, the deportations. We said this from the very beginning of Trump's victory. This would be how they try to consolidate. They don't have it yet, but they may get some incident somewhere. They're looking. They want some grandma who seems kindly and elderly to, you know, have an incident where she falls and hits her head during an ICE raid. And then all of a sudden, the protest will take on some different emotional dimension.
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Buck Sexton
I think they are struggling because the overwhelming majority of Americans are on the side of the deportation. And I think they're also struggling because they whiffed in the early days of characterizing this by focusing on guys like Abreu Garcia who are clearly bad dudes and making them the Maryland man, the Maryland father, who actually, according to indictment in my home state of Tennessee, was a human trafficker. It gets harder to make a case when you pick the wrong people to represent the case that you're going to.
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Host
This is really important, what you're hitting on. And it is the Democrats, the one thing that even under the Obama years, and even at least verbally, verbally and openly during the Biden years, when it came to border enforcement, it was always, we can agree that Violent criminals should be sent out of the country. Now, they didn't actually agree in terms of what they did, but they would say that now they're in a position where it's very clear to anyone paying attention, you guys, meaning the Democrats, the party overall, you don't believe that you actually want them all to stay. You want everyone to stay, including people who are preying on their fellow human beings and fellow Americans, or rather Americans, not fellow Americans here who are illegals and doing things that any other country would expel them as quickly as they possibly could as a foreign national committing crimes on their soil. So this is a big, this is a big change in perception.
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Buck Sexton
I do think that they are using Los Angeles as a test case and we'll see on Saturday. There is an expectation that they're going to have an all day protest. I think they are trying to create social unrest in the country. Here's the challenge that I think they're going to have. One, overwhelmingly the American public are saying no. Two, what's the end goal? Do you think there's anything they can do that's going to make Trump stop trying to deport people? I just don't think that Trump was susceptible because that was an election year. He was worried about what the optics were. I don't think he's worried about the optics at all because I think he believes he's 100% right.
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Host
I think it was last week I said here, the number one thing that I hear from friends of mine, not in the media, but friends of mine who voted Trump is a version of I voted for this. I'm watching the things happen that made me vote for Trump, in my case, for the third time. You know, some of the people I know, certainly many of them, third time Trump, it's kind of amazing. Think about third time Trump. Voters haven't voted for Republican, is not Trump in, in, in over a decade at least for president. And, and here we are watching how the Democrats are scrambling for some kind of relevancy in opposition to him. And they're forced to do things that I think put them in an even weaker political position going forward. You know, and with these protests, it's not hard for people to see. Hold on a second. You're telling us that illegal aliens are like the fabric of this nation, better than Americans, harder working than Americans, even though they broke the law to be here and all that. And then we see people on the streets by the thousands in Los Angeles and people waving Mexican flags and breaking laws and waving other, you know, Flags of other countries, particularly Latin American countries, and breaking our laws. Yeah, that's why we want illegals deported. Right. I mean, this is the optics of this. What people were seeing, and you mentioned this on X, was supportive of their perception that we have a problem that needs to be solved with illegals who have developed political power in places like Los Angeles. Think about this. Illegal aliens are an important, an important constituency of Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles and of Governor Gavin Newsom of California, people that aren't even supposed to be in the country in the first place. And that's a slap in the face, that's an outrage to Americans who do have nothing but allegiance and fealty and love for this place. And increasingly, it's just, it's all Americans, all colors, races, creeds, all people who are actually supposed to be here. More and more of them. I know there are Democrats who are still insane, but they're saying we don't have a country if we can't determine who's here. That's pretty obvious.
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
He's Joe Getty.
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Clay Travis
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Host
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Clay Travis
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Clay Travis
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Host
Was the the world of spies and espionage everything that you had hoped for?
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Buck Sexton
I had no idea what to expect at Langley. I think maybe what stood out the most to me was just how big that place is.
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Host
I told you, it's like arriving to a sports arena every day and there are so many lots that people change into sneakers for the long walk from their car to the building.
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Buck Sexton
Well, I mean, what I, what I said, and, and OB is the worst intelligence failure of, of any of our lives.
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Host
That, like, it's kind of a bummer claim.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah, well, but you know, 9 11, when you think that there's 10,000 or more people whose only job is to stop terror attacks.
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Host
Oh, it's way more than 10,000 people. Just to be clear. It's hundreds of thousands of people and.
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Buck Sexton
None of them were able to be aware of what was going to happen on 9 11.
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Host
I don't know if we're going to give you a Tour of the museum again, sir. Excuse me.
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Buck Sexton
Like, you know, just learned it just thinks. It makes me think about the counter insurgency, of all of facets of life. I was thinking about this when we were driving back and from a business perspective, how hard it is to move any bureaucracy. And I was thinking about it in the context of Elon Musk, because if you wants to make a decision at Tesla or at space, he's a dictator.
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Host
And you're not, you're not a dictator in the government. Even if you're the president, it doesn't matter. There's so many checks and balances that are still within.
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Buck Sexton
And so I think it was just, you know, when you go, we're doing a lot of meetings around here, but you walk in and you just see how multifaceted and massive the government is. Elon's frustration makes so much more sense. And then the fact that he basically flipped out and now is apologizing.
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Host
Well, here we go. Let's dive into this. We'll talk more about it. Also, a revelation from Trump, courtesy of Miranda Devine, that we will get to. It's going to be an interesting day for Clay. And the mentions on X, I can tell you that. We got Trump, we got flute playing. This is a real thing that we'll get to in a little bit. But first off, Trump put this out on Truth Social. I'm open to reconciling with Elon after seeing his latest post. Elon knows I love him. J.D. knows this, too. I give the biggest and best reconciliations. Is that real or is this a fake Truth Social post? Because people are saying that there's, there's an opening here and the Trump is being very forgiving. But this one I have to actually check and see. It has been shared by some big accounts. But there is talk of reconciliation already. That's the, you know, there's talk of things calming down between those two. So that is real. I'm just seeing this Truth Social post in real time.
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Buck Sexton
Late last night, Elon posted that he apologized.
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Host
Right. That we know. That's confirmed.
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Buck Sexton
He said, quote, I regret some of my posts about President Trump last week. They went too far. That came up in the middle of the night. And we come back, we'll dive into a Wall Street Journal report saying JD Vance and Susie Wiles are to credit for that because they basically talked Elon off the led.
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Host
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Buck Sexton
Miranda Devine gonna join us in the next hour. She sat down with President Trump in the Oval Office. Tomorrow Buck and I will be with President Trump in the Oval Office. That should not be bad, should be a lot of fun.
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Host
Not bad, not bad.
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Buck Sexton
Tomorrow we'll also have Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the program. He's going to spend a decent amount of time with us up here in D.C. just FYI so should be pretty great there. And in the third hour of the program today, we're going to Talk with Trisha McLaughlin from inside of the White House about the latest on the situation with LA and other cities out there as it pertains to all of those decisions. But there was a great deal of drama as you may have heard last week about Elon Musk and Trump and the flare up and everything else associated with it. We have talked about it.
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Host
I was, I wasn't worried. You weren't worried. People were all freaking out about this one. This is just, you know, little speed bump.
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Buck Sexton
And the Wall Street Journal right as we, right as we started this program released a story came out literally as we started headline Musk retreats on Trump attacks after call from J.D. vance, Susie Wiles and just right here off the top, Buck, let me hit you with this JD Vance and Susie Wiles reminder. Of course, Susie Wiles, Chief of staff in the Trump White House 2.0 pushed Elon Musk to repair his relationship with President Trump after the Tech billionaire blew up at the President. Dramatic public falling out. In a call last Friday, the Vice President and the White House Chief of Staff urged Musk to put an end to the feud. Musk deescalated early Wednesday with his post. JD Vance has by and large stayed out of the fray. And we told you that this was likely to happen. And again, I was kind of hinting at this because we spent the morning at Langley. I think that Elon sees the government debt as a major threat to American exceptionalism and to our ability to continue to dominate the world. And if you study Elon at all, and I think he's the greatest capitalist that has ever existed in the history of capitalism with this pretty bold.
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Host
I mean the Rockefellers, there's some big.
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Buck Sexton
My 17 year old got into this discussion with me too, and he specifically started Rockefeller. But I think if you look at what he's done at Tesla, what he's done at SpaceX, and then layer in XAI, you add in Neuralink, you add in the boring company. I don't think anybody has ever had the level of capitalistic success that he has. And he is clearly the richest man in the world right now, which would reflect that the market has agreed with him in many ways. But his management strategy, and I think this is a great management strategy and I am not a very good manager. So, so full, full disclosure there. I get frustrated a lot when things don't move rapidly or as rapidly as I would like. So I think I have some level of sympathy here and I think a lot of you who have small businesses and have engaged in entrepreneurship will understand this. Elon Musk says he finds what is the most broken. His management style is find what is the most broken important part of a business and pour all your energy into fixing it. And so I think he looked at the United States government as a whole and said our expenditures are broken. The national debt is a problem. I want to solve it. I think in his mind he solved it. But the problem is when you are CEO and you control the company, you say do it and people have to do it. When you're in government. That's not how it works.
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Host
Well, it isn't how it works. You know, last week I put the day, the day, the hours this came out, Clay, a fellow on X Fisher King, wrote, we got through four years with a POTUS who suffered from dementia and a VP with a room temperature iq. This will be fine. We'll survive this too. About the Elon Trump. And I responded to him, indeed, I don't think anyone's gonna care much. By next week, the bill will pass, and Elon will be having dinner with Trump at Mar a Lago by Christmas. It's all going to be fine. So I might have, by the way, I might have extended the reconciliation timeline too far, but these two guys, ultimately, it's. It's about results. It's about bigger issues and things. Elon's a volatile and emotional fellow. That's not a surprise. He shouldn't have said what he said, and that's clear. He's apologized for it. What he said was actually so out of line, and when I say said what he wrote publicly was so out of line and absurd that I think it was just clear. He. Look, he had a tantrum. And he's a guy who's used to having tantrums and having everybody say, sir, yes, sir, whatever you want. Doesn't work with Trump, doesn't work in the government in general. No one's really able to make those kind of declarative, you will do this or else statements. And so now he's come back into the fold, and he's there to do what? Well, I shouldn't say he's not in the government anymore, but he's back in MAGA world, I think, slowly but surely with his apology, it's a clear apology to Trump. He crossed the line. And look, we want Elon for what he can do and what his skill set is, and he's also the richest guy on the planet. We want him to stay on the team, so to speak. And I just think he had a tough day, and that can happen. People can have a tough day.
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Buck Sexton
I think Trump understand, I mean, emotionally, a tough day. Elon. Well, and I think Trump deserves a great deal of credit here. He fired back a little bit, but as Trump goes, Trump's response was very muted to Elon, when.
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Host
When you've taken a five, five, six, bullet through your ear and it missed your base of your skull by an inch, and I truly mean this, I think at your head with what Trump has been through with a stupid, almost.
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Buck Sexton
Schoolyard insult, I think tomorrow again, we'll. We'll talk probably with Trump about this a little bit in the Oval Office. But Trump, I believe, sees Ellen as a. As like one of his kids. And I think he feels like. I mean, there's reports out there that Trump. So I'm not speaking out of turn. I don't think that basically, Trump has described Elon as 50% genius, 50% boy, meaning Elon doesn't necessarily have the social skills that you would expect someone who has had the success in life to have that he has had. And he's basically an engineer. And I think we had a caller on Friday of last week, if I remember who, or an email that was really good just talking about the fact that engineers and I mean really great builders are often so logical in the way that they think that they miss emotional cues because they are so focused on the framework of math and building. And there are a lot of men, some women, but a lot of men who are particularly geared that way in their thought. And I think Trump sees that with Elon. And what's Trump's unique is, yes, he's a builder, but he's a building.
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Host
He's a people guy. He's a people guy who also pulls together the construction crews to make the thing. But he actually isn't the guy who's hammering anything, obviously. So he's. He's a people guy. And by the way, your thing about the Met about numbers, this is the knock on a lot of doctors is that they're really good at the MCATs and but sometimes they lack a certain personal touch. This is a very generic thing. This is what people brain is that in that direction.
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Buck Sexton
And you know what? The number one sign, because I did this as practicing lawyer, the number one likelihood that you're going to get sued if you're a doctor is not actually don't like you. Yeah. It's not actually your failure as a doctor. Bedside manner. If they love you, even if you screw up as a doctor, they're less likely to sue you. If you are brusque and kind of you treat yourself as if you are God's gift to the medicine, then your patients feel it and they're more likely to hold it against you. And so I think, look, there is a brusqueness probably that comes with Elon that I think Trump gets to your point on building. In order to get, you know, better than anybody in New York City, you have to go through so many procedural hoops to get anything built that it is a political job in many ways to build a skyscraper in New York City.
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Host
Until Rudy Giuliani came along, you also had to maneuver through the mob demanding all kinds of payoffs and things. The mob was deeply entrenched in the building of, you know, building in New York City, carding, construction, all of that. So, yes, that's absolutely true. Look, I think the Elon thing is going to be fine. It's. It's good that he's back to focusing on what he does, which is Space X and Tesla and the Boring company and X. And all in all, he's made enormously positive contributions to the Trump administration and I would, I would say to the country, clearly, since he has been red pilled. So he's a, he's a volatile guy and things got a little crazy there. Look, look at some of, we're going to talk to Secretary of State Rubio tomorrow and Clay, that's a guy who went toe to toe with Trump in a primary and things got a little, things got a little nasty. Same thing with Senator Ted Cruz and Trump. Things get a little nasty and now everyone's hugged it out and they're on the same team and they're trying to save the country.
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Buck Sexton
J.D.
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Host
Vance, 2016. You go back and see what he said about Trump. It was not complimentary. And now he's his vp. I think this is one of Trump's great attributes or one of the superpower. One of the superpowers that he has is that he is always willing to overlook past squabbles and differences to bring you on board the MAGA train and the, you know, the Trump team, I think that's something that's very, especially for, for a politician and really a leader of a movement, which is what he is. That has been to his tremendous credit. Whereas people like, I mean, Hillary Clinton, infamous for holding grudges forever in politics.
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Buck Sexton
To be fair, I think most politicians are grudge guys and gals. They remember what's written about them, they remember what's said about them forever. Trump, I think it's very unique that he will forgive any insult and by the way, he'll give any insult and also give it up, which is why I think you're right, Trump and Elon Musk are going to be breaking bread sooner rather than.
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Host
There was never a moment where I thought that this was going to result. People were like, oh no, he's going to fund all the left. Oh, they've already got billionaires funding all these crappy left wing sites that no one reads anyway. It's not like that's going to be some game changer. He's not going to do that. He understands what needs to happen here for the country. And I just think that when you're, when you're running, when you're pulling all nighters and you're sleeping on a cot in whatever building he's been in D.C. and you're trying to deal with the vast bureaucracy and inefficiencies of United States government. It can drive yourself a little crazy. And if you're somebody who runs on high emotion and isn't used to dealing with the kinds of challenges that is really unique to the federal government in terms of how just inefficient the whole thing is. It's almost. It really is meant to be inefficient in a lot of ways. And so I think that that's what we saw come down, but I'm not worried about it. I think we can pretty much move past it now. They're gonna. They're gonna reconcile. I'm sorry. That truth social post was fake. This is. I'm. I'm pretty sure it was fake at least. And the tell was that I have the best. The best reconciling or something. At the end, I was like, oh, there we go. So I saw that one in real time. It looked like it was from a real account. It had been shared. But the. But the truth is that there's already rapprochement underway between Elon and Trump. And so that's very good. And I think there's gonna be also some rapprochement between Clay and the flute playing community. We have something. We have a very. We have a very important announcement for all of you. I want. I want to hold you through here because we want to spend a couple minutes on this one. But I don't know. I don't know if Clay's ever apologized for things that he has said or anything that he has said before in media, and we're going to push him today and see. I think you might have to owe some folks an apology, Clay, about the masculinity of their instruments and the beautiful notes and sounds that come out of a certain woodwind instrument. And it involves a very famous person who played them.
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Buck Sexton
I will tell you this. I'm not going to apologize at all.
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Host
Okay, well, we're going to see. We're going to see. He's doubling down on it. All the flute players, you're going to be so excited when you hear this. Stay with me here. Look to the small business owners out there. You can stay connected anytime, anywhere you are. When you've got a rapid radio in your hand, wouldn't it be great to just pick up a walkie talkie, push a button, and instantly talk to your team, no matter where they are. With rapid radios, you get nationwide LTE coverage, connecting up to 200 units on a single feed with 100% private, secure communication. Imagine being able to connect with a team as big that big as they're on the go. No setup, no contracts, no hassle, just instant push to talk simplicity combined with today's technology. Clay and I have a Rapid radios. Took them out of the box, turned them on and boom. Started talking. You can do this to manage an event, staff, security team, a fleet of delivery drivers. Rapid radio is the ultimate communication solution and as part of your preparation for when things go wrong and disaster can hit, you want to have rapid radios and have members of your family or friends or people you need to be in contact with to have their rapid radios ready to go. Just like my in laws after the hurricane in North Carolina. I was talking to them the next day on their rapid radios with all kinds of power line outages and crazy stuff going on. Go to rapidradios.com save up to 60% at 60% off plus get free UPS shipping from Michigan. Use code radio for an extra 5% off and a free EMP protection bag. Don't wait. Order today at rapidradios.com that's rapidradios.com and use code Radio.
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Clay Travis
Why should you listen to Armstrong and Getty on demand? We're not boring. Lotta news is boring and tedious and depressing and makes you angry. You don't wanna live your life like that. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong.
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Buck Sexton
He's Joe Getty.
- [39:36]
Clay Travis
We're Armstrong, Armstrong and Getting. We try to bring you the truth and help you figure out this crazy.
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Host
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Clay Travis
We have a winner.
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Host
Yes.
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Clay Travis
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Host
It's like a lightning bolt out of the clear blue sky. All of a sudden, the truth rains down. Courtesy not just of our friend Miranda Devine, who will be with us later on the show today. We're big Miranda Devine fans here, but also the one and only Donald J. Trump. There has been some controversy on this program for quite some time. Mr. Clay Travis out there spewing these absurd, absurd things about the lack of testosterone and masculinity of flute players, the players of flutes. Clay, no less. And here we have Donald Trump sitting down with Miranda Devine. Does anyone know what Donald Trump's childhood instrument was? Play it. Did you ever play an instrument?
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Unnamed Speaker
I played, like, for very short periods of time. The flute. Would you believe that?
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J.R. Martinez
Did you like it?
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Unnamed Speaker
I had flute lessons. It's the first person that's ever asked me that crazy question. Yeah, I had flute. Can you believe it? I could have been a flutist. And I didn't particularly like it. I don't know. It wasn't for me, but. And my mother had me with. I had instructors, an instructor coming to teach me how to play the flute. Can you believe that? I can't imagine an unusual instrument.
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Host
You could maybe still do it.
- [41:13]
Unnamed Speaker
I doubt it. I don't think so.
- [41:15]
Host
Make flute playing great again, Clay.
- [41:19]
Buck Sexton
Now, to be clear, I never said you couldn't try to play the flute and then abandoned it, as President Trump said, because it was not for him. Because he is a masculine man. And at some point in time, I guarantee you, he thought to himself, blowing into a phallic object that I hold in close proximity to my mouth is not something that I want to do for fun again. It's pride Month. I'm not saying that some people couldn't decide to do that. I'm just saying most choose not to. And so I'm not surprised that President Trump, as a As a great.
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Host
Cultural.
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Buck Sexton
Experiment may well have tried several of the wind based instruments but decided that the flute wasn't for him. Now, Kamala Harris, we know quite an adept flute player according to reports and there's nothing wrong with that. And I'm sure there are other Democrat men. I bet Tim Walls has played a mean flute back in the day. May still. But you know, it's not for me. It's not for most of us out there. I do understand for the flute community this is a huge.
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Host
They're coming for you right now. I'm just telling you, the actual woodwind orchestral flute players in our audience, they have had enough of your blasphemy.
- [42:40]
Buck Sexton
Clay.
- [42:41]
Host
Let's just, let's just check on the facts here, sir, before you run off and get into the commercial break here.
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Buck Sexton
I'm not going to.
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Host
Hold on a second. Hold on a second.
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Buck Sexton
For the show.
- [42:48]
Host
Donald J. Trump, president slash former flute player. A true statement and you now have to handle this, sir.
- [42:57]
Buck Sexton
I will say the key word there is former. He had tried it. It wasn't for him. He recognized that it would destroy. He wouldn't have been elected president. I'll tell you this. If he still played the oh my. And he abandoned it. He abandoned it for other things.
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Host
I bet he was pretty good. He's got a good ear, you know, he's very good, very quick on his feet. He probably picks up a tune fast. He was playing, you know, Danny Boy and all kinds of.
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Buck Sexton
I'm gonna ask him about this tomorrow. Why did his mom pick the flute? Why did she bring in flute instructor?
- [43:25]
Host
Because it's so masculine.
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J.R. Martinez
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- [44:36]
Clay Travis
Why should you listen to Armstrong and Getty on demand? We're not boring. A lot of news is boring and tedious and depressing and makes you ang you don't want to live your life like that. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong.
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Buck Sexton
He's Joe Getty.
- [44:48]
Clay Travis
We're Armstrong and Getty. We try to bring you the truth and help you figure out this crazy.
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Host
Modern world about something about a comedic tone.
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Clay Travis
We have a winner.
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Host
Yes.
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Clay Travis
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Host
This is an iHeart podcast.