Hour 1 - Trade War Territory

Summary

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show: Hour 1 - Trade War Territory Release Date: April 8, 2025

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1. Opening and Sports Update

The episode kicks off with Clay Travis congratulating the Florida Gators on their NCAA Tournament victory. He reflects on their accurate prediction, mentioning, "Buck Sexton and I both nailed it, said the Florida Gators are going to win the NCAA Tournament. They did in a really fun game last night" (00:31). Clay also touches on upcoming sports events, including March Madness and local youth sports, setting an energetic tone for the show.

2. Stock Market Surge and Media Critique

Clay provides a comprehensive update on the stock market, highlighting significant gains: "the Dow is up roughly a thousand points today," "S&P 500 up about two and a half percent," and "Nasdaq up about 2 and a half percent" (00:31). He emphasizes the market's resilience, stating, "stock market is bouncing back quite a lot as we told you it was likely to do" (00:31).

The hosts critique CNN's inconsistent portrayal of the market, accusing the network of using stock fluctuations to attack President Trump. Clay remarks, "They are going to use whatever they can to attack Trump. The stock market is gonna go up and it's gonna go down" (01:40). He argues that the media selectively highlights negative aspects to undermine Trump's leadership.

3. Buck Sexton's Personal Update

Buck Sexton shares personal news about his impending fatherhood, explaining, "Buck's wife Carrie is a Florida Gator alum and ... the doctors would like us to induce" (03:54). He reassures listeners that he will still be present on the show, even mentioning a live segment from the hospital during the baby's delivery (04:21).

4. Media's Declining Credibility and Trump's Legal Battles

Buck discusses the diminishing credibility of the media, noting, "their credibility in the public's mind, and I mean that broadly, I mean that even for Trump voters, right, it's just evaporated" (06:15). He highlights how the media's anti-Trump agenda is faltering, stating, "they are purposely stepping up their anti-Trump operations" (06:15).

Clay and Buck delve into Trump's ongoing legal battles, particularly focusing on Supreme Court victories that bolster his executive authority. Clay cites a recent ruling: "Supreme Court lets Trump Fire federal employees... organizations that claim they were harmed lack legal standing to challenge the layoffs" (20:47). Buck adds, "left wing judges are trying to thwart the Trump agenda" (25:36), emphasizing the judiciary's role in supporting Trump's actions.

5. Supreme Court Rulings Favoring Trump

Clay breaks down recent Supreme Court decisions that favor the Trump administration. He explains, "The Supreme Court is reinforcing Trump's executive authority, telling federal district courts to lift injunctions" (20:47). This includes rulings on deportations under the Alien Enemies Act and the dismissal of injunctions blocking federal employee layoffs.

Buck critiques the judiciary, asserting, "left wing judges are trying to thwart the Trump agenda," and highlights instances where judges have overstepped, such as Judge Boasberg's controversial decisions (25:36). The hosts argue that these rulings confirm Trump's rightful use of executive power.

6. Escalation of Trade War with China

A significant portion of the discussion centers on the intensifying trade war with China. Clay announces, "the White House has now imposed 104% tariffs on China, effective immediately" (32:42). Both hosts agree that this marks a full-scale trade war, with Buck stating, "This is now a trade war" (33:10). They discuss the strategic implications, suggesting that large tariffs are a negotiation tactic designed to bring China to the bargaining table.

Listener Ray reinforces this point, mentioning, "Trump's tariffs aren't about protectionism. They're a negotiation tactic... over 50 countries plus already have said, all right, let's get a deal going here" (39:15).

7. Economic Predictions and Market Stability

Clay offers an optimistic outlook on the economy, advising listeners not to panic over stock market fluctuations. He analogizes stock investments to real estate, stating, "Most people do well on their houses because there is a significant cost associated with selling a home" (12:02). Buck complements this by emphasizing the administration's understanding of economic fundamentals, including manufacturing, trade, and employment (10:32).

Both hosts predict continued market growth, with Clay noting, "I believe that we will soon continue that upswing in the Trump era over the next couple of years" (09:23). They encourage listeners to maintain confidence in their financial decisions despite media-induced anxieties.

8. Upcoming Guests and Final Thoughts

Clay mentions an upcoming segment with Selena Zito, a reporter who provided insightful coverage during the 2016 election. He states, "she was the one who said that people in the media and the Democrats took Trump literally but not seriously when they should have taken him seriously, but not literally" (13:30). This interview promises to offer a reflection on Trump's enduring influence eight years later.

The episode concludes with Clay and Buck reiterating their commitment to providing unfiltered commentary on current events, emphasizing their focus on Trump's administration and the broader political landscape.

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Transcript

[Jeremy Scott]

Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley Season one.

[Gilbert King]

Every time I hear about my dad is, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.

[Jeremy Scott]

I was becoming the bridge between Jeremy Scott and the son he'd never known.

[Gilbert King]

At the end of the day, I'm literally a son of a killer.

[Jeremy Scott]

Listen to new episodes of bone Valley Season 2 starting April 9th on the iHeartRadio app app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Clay Travis]

Welcome in Tuesday EDITION Clay Travis. BUCK SEXTON SHOW Congratulations to the Florida Gators. Buck Sexton and I both nailed it, said the Florida Gators are going to win the NCAA Tournament. They did in a really fun game last night. We'll maybe have a little bit of fun with that. Buck's wife Carrie is a Florida Gator alum and I know many of you out there listening across the country, our Gator fans as well, Houston Cougar fans, probably great season, probably not going to be as angry at me today. And the talkbacks as they were yesterday since Florida 1 covered, as I told you they were going to do, we'll have some fun with that. We also will continue to be CNBC and FOX Business. Since everybody is suddenly obsessed with what the day to day movement of the stock market is, let me go ahead and tell you right off the top, it is the Dow is up roughly a thousand points today for those of you who have been obsessively following the stock market during the Trump battle, S&P 500 up about two and a half points, two and a half percent, that is, and the Nasdaq up about 2 and a half percent. So I am your business, a business beat writer here, giving you the absolute latest on the stock market. In all seriousness, stock market is bouncing back quite a lot as we told you it was likely to do. And I saw Buck something that I thought kind of perfectly epitomized the way the market is being used to attack Trump right now. CNN yesterday when the stock market was down, had the stock market ticker on their screen constantly all day long. Hey, it's down this, it's down that. Today the stock market is surging, gonna have one of its best days in probably months, maybe years. And CNN at the time that I was watching it did not have the ticker showing that it was back up substantially. But again, general lesson here, they are going to use whatever they can to attack Trump. The stock market is gonna go up and it's gonna go down. I told you if it's below where it is today, 18 months from now. And if the inflation is up, I'll come on and I'll wear a clown costume and I'll tell you, hey, you know what? I was totally wrong. I think it's going to resolve itself. I think by the summer, many of these trade disputes will be decided. The battle with China is going to be longer lasting because China has been for decades now taking advantage of the global free trade marketplace to rig it game in its favor. And, and it will take a long time, I think, to potentially get a resolution there. But we told you at some point water is going to find its level. The markets have seemingly adjusted to this trade war that is now underway. Big drops Thursday, Friday, big bounce back today, and we will see kind of how this plays out. But I think you should know that the main attack here is just find anything that is negative and decide to use it as a cudgel against Trump. Other news today, Buck's last radio show as tomorrow. You're going to be on tomorrow, too.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah, yeah.

[Clay Travis]

Oh, I thought you were, I thought you were out.

[Buck Sexton]

It's my last full day. And for those of you who are saying, like, how do you know it could happen. Yes, it could happen like in five minutes. Let's, let's hope not, because I'm the middle of a show, but I would go with my wife to the hospital, but because the baby's gotten a little big, the doctors would like us to induce. So that's why you are inducing tomorrow.

[Clay Travis]

But you're going to be on the show tomorrow.

[Buck Sexton]

I'm going to be on the show. I'm finishing the show tomorrow, grabbing my go bag with the wifey, going to the hospital.

[Clay Travis]

Okay. I thought you were at the hospital tomorrow. Okay, so Buck has one more show.

[Buck Sexton]

I'm actually going to do a live segment from the hospital during the be like, yes, Clay, here I am at seven floor of the Miami, the sideline.

[Clay Travis]

Reporter of the baby delivery. Okay. I thought today was the last day. You'll be in tomorrow and then the baby is scheduled to arrive. So Buck in his final moments of getting ready for a baby to arrive. All right, what's your take as we sit here and the stock market does, as the stock market does bounce back, how many days in a row do you think it would need to bounce back for the latest? Oh, my goodness, the world is burning down. Remember when it was the first term, everything Trump did, World War 3 would trend. You know he would. When he killed Soleimani, it was immediately every decision that he made was in some way going to lead to imminent catastrophe. And then, by and large, none of that occurred. And the one thing that actually caused the biggest calamity was something he was not responsible for at all, which was Covid escaping from a Chinese lab in, you know, January of 2020. And that sort of set the whole world on fire. But Trump had nothing at all to do with having caused it in any way. Unless you want to say, hey, Fauci had something to do with it from years and years ago, which I think is fair based on gain of function research. But you would think that people would have learned their lesson, but they just have to run around these left wingers and many of their legacy media allies as if we are in the midst of an unprecedented catastrophe over and over again. And the catastrophe is constantly shifting. The signal leaked. Jeffrey Goldberg, Atlantic story was gonna burn everything down. Now that's completely gone. And the new thing is, oh, Trump's tariff battle is going to destroy the world. That's the new calamity.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, they've had to come to grips with something in the anti Trump media, which is that their credibility in the public's mind, and I mean that broadly, I mean that even for Trump voters, right, it's just evaporated. It's. We're in a totally different world now. Just the front page of the New York Times is not enough to convince someone of anything's truth anymore. Broadly, everyone recognizes, I think, much more clearly than ever before that the media is running anti Trump ops on a regular basis, choosing what to cover, how they cover it, everything. And so, Clay, they no longer have the ability, they no longer have the ability to induce. There's that word again. To induce panic across the country the same way. Now, their audience still demands it and wants it at some level, but even they, I think, have become a little bit numb to Trump panic syndrome. The synapses are kind of fried for the libs. They can't get themselves quite as freaked out now because we were told, even a matter of, what, six months ago, that he would be Hitler. And now we're seeing. No, it's actually fine. It's all fine, libs. You know, this was the one thing when I was with Bill Maher on his show, and, you know, he just had dinner with Trump recently. Yes, I tried. The one thing that I tried to convince him of that I thought I might make a little ground is I said, I promise you, Trump is not Hitler and it's all going to be fine. And he, he refused. He said I disagree. I think, I think the country's over if he wins. Well, now we just went and had dinner with him. So put that one, put one in the column for the Buckster was speaking truth to Mr. Bill Maher on that, obviously. So, Clay, this is the administration continuing to keep promises and also I think to be very focused on what the agenda is, irrespective of whatever the media says. And that's the Trump doesn't give a, you know, what about what they say is actually a powerful political tool right now or it's a powerful political reality. And I think he should continue to do this. They also, we haven't mentioned it. We'll get into it more later. Supreme Court just came down 5, 4 on the alien Enemies act deportations. And the White House is going to be able to continue to do that. And I know there's a change of venue. We can get into some of those specifics, but it is not, in fact the case that this was open and shut. Trump can't do this. No, actually Trump can. So we should continue to look at that as well. But I think on the economic side of things, they're really running out of stuff to tell us is going to cause the depression because of Trump. Right. They're running out of levers to pull here on this one. Because if this was supposed to be Black Monday, as they were saying, as Kramer said, the to whatever degree anyone thinks that guy should be listened to, I think the answer should be almost not at all. But what are they going to keep saying this? Is this going to be the walls are closing in with the impeachments all over again. You know, I think that they still are completely ineffectual at their efforts to derail this administration, which is to the benefit of the American people.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, I think that's totally true and I think it's important. Again, I'm pulling up since I'm the stock market reporter right now, you know, your stocks are basically the exact same price as they were in May of last year. So 11 months ago, if you did not feel as I would imagine most of you did not 11 months ago, if you did not feel like you were on the verge of imploding, then stocks go up, they go down. And I believe that we will soon, you know, continue that, that up upswing in the Trump era over the next couple of years. But you don't know when the average stock market price, you know, in every year on average goes up 8 or 9%. But there's a wide range of how that can go. And I would just say look at prices back in May of last year, if you weren't panicked, if you weren't sitting around staring at the walls, thinking to yourself, oh my goodness, how am I going to live? Probably take a breath and realize that you're okay.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah. Well, Clay, beyond that though, you know, the stock market is just an indicator. Let's talk about America and the economy as well here. They said, meaning the people that are freaked out about Trump as a, as a profession.

[Clay Travis]

Yes.

[Buck Sexton]

They said that he was going to crash the stock market with this. He didn't. Ok. It didn't happen. And this is probably the moment of maximum disruption as it relates to market perception because, and we'll get into some of these specifics. There's negotiations ongoing. This country's come forward, said, hey, let's figure this out. 50 countries plus already have said, all right, let's get a deal going here. So there will be a greater degree of market certainty and a greater degree of the economy is ok. Right. The perception of stability will create additional stability with this, which, which I think also Clay goes to Trump and his team. Understand these fundamental currents within the economy, not just the stock market, about manufacturing, about trade, about employment, about the price of gas, the price of eggs, the price of mortgages, all of these things are in consideration. And this team knows what they are doing and is trying to achieve something. You know, and you can just tell the Democrats were hope, they were hoping for the stock market to go down 40% yesterday.

[Clay Travis]

Yes.

[Buck Sexton]

Because that would, in their minds that would be ok. We're back, baby. The end of the Trump presidency, it didn't happen. And now we're going to see who's right and who's wrong.

[Clay Travis]

And I definitely think again, for all of you out there, just trust, to the extent you trust us on anything, 8 or 9% a year, every 10 years, the S&P 500 is going to double. If you really significantly get sick to your stomach watching the stock market, then don't pay a lot of attention to the stock market and recognize that whatever is not going a little bit perfectly, they are going to immediately weaponize against Trump. And you don't make decisions typically in your own life on a day to day basis. You would never, I think this analogy is so good. You would never look at what Zillow says the value of your house is and be like, oh my goodness, I've got to sell my house right now. Your house is constantly fluctuating in price. You have no idea what it's going to be worth. Most people do well on their houses because there is a significant cost associated with selling a home, with moving. Most people move into a house and they stay there for years. And if you do that, if you make a solid decision, the best financial decision most people make is buying a house and holding onto it. Same thing's true also of stocks. We'll take some of your calls. By the way, we're also scheduled to be joined by Selena Zito, who does a good job of reporting from out in the Midwest, kind of the middle part of the country, about what she's seeing on the road and what she's seeing in all these different communities.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, her, her calling card for a lot of us who remember the 2016 election is she was the one who said that people in the media and the Democrats took Trump literally but not seriously when they should have taken him seriously, but not literally. And also was reporting from Rust Belt flyover, whatever you want to call them, you know, de industrialized areas of the country, and said, no, this, I'm talking about 2016 now, right when this was still a shock to a lot of people. She was doing that reporting, saying, no, people are really it. This is a movement. This is real. So she's got an update now, eight years later on that for us that I think Clay will be really interesting to hear.

[Clay Travis]

No doubt. In the meantime, if you're feeling a little bit draggy right now, maybe you're sitting around and coming out of a little bit late night with the Houston and Florida game. Maybe coming out of the weekend with a lot of March madness going on. A lot of kids hitting the fields for little league baseball, soccer. I know my kids are running around like crazy. Maybe you need a little bit more energy. I got a lacrosse game to get to this afternoon. A lot of different things going on right now. And Chalk can hook you up. They will make a great benefit to your overall energy regimen. Chalk's Mill Vitality stack will help guys replenish a diminished level of testosterone. Happens naturally as we age. You take it for three months, you can get a 20% increase, which will help to fuel more energy for you. Buck has been using it to work out, get himself back in shape as the baby gets ready to come. You can get hooked up [e-mail] Chalk my name Clay. For a massive discount on any subscription for life, you can cancel your subscription anytime without any penalties. All you have to do is go to chalk.com again choq.com my name Clay. Massive discount on any subscription for life chalk.com my name C L A Y Saving America One thought at a time Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Jeremy Scott]

Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley Season one.

[Buck Sexton]

I just knew him as a kid.

[Jeremy Scott]

Long silent voices from his past came.

[Gilbert King]

Forward and he was just staring at me.

[Jeremy Scott]

And they had secrets of their own to share.

[Gilbert King]

Gilbert King I'm the son of Jeremy Lynn Scott.

[Jeremy Scott]

I was no longer just telling the story. I was part of it.

[Gilbert King]

Every time I hear about my dad is, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.

[Jeremy Scott]

I was becoming the bridge between a killer and the son he'd never known.

[Gilbert King]

If the cops and everything would have done their job properly, my dad would have been in jail. I would have never existed.

[Jeremy Scott]

I never expected to find myself in this place. Now I need to tell you how I got here.

[Gilbert King]

At the end of the day, I'm literally a son of a killer.

[Jeremy Scott]

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[Buck Sexton]

Want to tell you something.

[Jeremy Scott]

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[Buck Sexton]

Welcome back into Clay and Buck. Trump getting another win from the Supreme Court today. A couple of big moves from the courts going in Trump's favor. Here we will discuss one having to do with those Alien Enemy act deportations. And now we have another one on the firings from the federal government. Clay is going to, he's going to lawyer hat it up in a moment. Yes, we're going to break down some of these. But first I think you can tell that Trump is, he's not going to do this thing where he allows the media to push a narrative. Well, he never allowed them to do this, but I think he knows, like he's in the, he's in the YOLO phase of his presidency already and I'm here for it. This is cut to when a reporter was asking Trump about tariffs. Play it. You said it could take two years to get American manufacturing fully up to speed in response to these tariffs. What happens in the meantime? Should Americans be prepared potential for years?

[Donald Trump]

I'll tell you what happens. We have now $7 trillion. Think of this. 7 trillion of commitments from companies wanting to go in from Apple to many, many companies, many from Taiwan. What? It takes time. Are you asking me a question? Are you telling me, yeah, it takes time. You know, you got to build a thing called a factory. You have to build your energy. You have to do a lot of things.

[Buck Sexton]

I like that. Are you asking, are you telling? Because that's what's going on there. They're trying to get the sound bite they want. So it could be, oh, Trump is.

[Clay Travis]

Saying it's going to take so long, no doubt. And it is true. Like that is what is important for everybody to recognize, whether it's the border, whether it's the budget, whether it's negotiating trade deals. Trump isn't doing things like normal presidents would to kind of cut around the edges and try to have some sort of minor victory that he can acknowledge. He's going directly at the failed issues that have piled up for decades. And that is why this. There is going to be some short term pain as they try to put things back into a winning perspective. We'll get into some of this when we come back. The courts, thankfully, and I'll break down, I'll put on my lawyer hat for you. The courts have now issued another win for Trump in terms of his executive authority and his ability to take actions that he believes are necessary in the wake of the election, as he has been been opposed by a lot of federal district court judges. We'll tell you about that news coming down just in the last 20 minutes or so.

[Buck Sexton]

It's so weird too, because a fascist, as they say, who somehow is right when it comes to the Constitution and law over and over again and goes to the courts to get that stamp of approval. I don't know, Clay. You know, I don't think that's how the dictators do it. I don't think they say, okay, I'll see you in court. And all the courts say, hey, the quote dictator was correct. We'll talk more about this here in a moment. You know, everybody has a fire extinguisher or should at home to protect from the unlikely event of a fire. That's a no brainer. But what are you going to do if there's a home intruder? Look, we want you to be safe in your home. Build, protect yourself and your family. And this is where Sabre comes in. For 50 years now, Saber is the company that has been manufacturing the best non lethal self protection tools in the market. Speaking for myself and for Clay, we've got Sabre products in our homes. Our wives really like having access to these and being able to carry the pepper sprays outside. The home. Having the pepper launcher for inside or outside the home, I'm telling you, Sabre has the best in class products in the non lethal realm. It's really, really good to have these on hand. Plus a whole bunch of other home protection tools. Sabre is spelled S A B R e. Go to saberradio.com that's the website. S a b r e saberradio.com and save 15 when you go there today. Or call 844-824-safe.

[Clay Travis]

Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show okay, I understand. And it feels like getting a law degree was actually a good, good decision solely based on being in media because there are so many court decisions that are constantly coming down, not only when Trump was running for office, but now as a part of the Trump era. So let me hit you with the latest ruling that just came down in the last, what am I looking at this in the last 20 minutes or so? The Supreme Court headline at the Wall Street Journal, supreme Court lets Trump Fire federal employees. Uh, the Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted a lower court order that blocked the Trump administration from firing 16,000 federal employees, saying that these organizations that claim they were harmed lack legal standing to challenge the layoffs. Order was unsigned, but two liberal justices opposed it, suggesting that it was it would have otherwise been a 7 to 2 decision. This was to overturn an injunction put in place by the U.S. district Court Judge Allsup in San Francisco, requiring the reinstatement of all of these employees that the Trump administration was seeking to dismiss. Okay, so what's going on There also was the decision that came down relating to Trump's executive power to deport individuals from this Trinderagua gang. Basically, the Supreme Court is coming in and slapping down these federal nationwide injunctions that are being put in place by these district court judges. So Trump's executive authority and power is being reinforced by the Supreme Court, which is telling these federal district court judges, you have to lift these injunctions. Now, we talked about this. The Trump 2.0 resistance is not coming from the legacy media. It's not even coming from the Democrat Party. It's coming from left wing judges at the district court level that are deciding to try to enjoin, that is stop basically Trump from undertaking his executive authority. And we talked about it within the context. Historically, Trump has more nationwide injunctions than Biden had in four years already, than Obama had in four years already. These judges are trying to throw themselves to thwart the Trump agenda and forcing the Supreme Court to come in and say, hey, you can't do this.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, I think it's also important context that not only the number that you laid out shows that something is clearly amiss here. Right. Four years versus 60 days and he already has more injunctions. But also, Clay, in both cases of Obama and Biden, those were presidents who said openly, I don't have the authority to do this thing, and then did the thing. So those are, those are presidents who were reckless about the use of executive power. Just, just flagrantly making stuff up, doing, you know, when you're talking about, oh, is it the administrative look, look at what they use against Trump. It's the Administrative Procedures Act. Was all due notice given and all the forms checked before you can fire a single federal employee. With, with Obama or with Biden, it was, yeah, you don't owe money to the student loans anymore. You know, we're just going to make that go away for you. Right. We're talking about big things that they had clearly no authority to do whatsoever. So I just think that when you keep it in, when you have it in that context, clearly, you know, right leaning judges are like, look, you know, I may not like what's going on here, but unless they violate the law, clearly I'm not going to try to step in. Left wing judges are, I don't like Trump. I'm going to find a way to stop him. Perfect example of this Judge Boasberg, who has really become the pinnacle of the resistance, you know, that he wasn't supposed to get the case. I just heard this the other day. It was amazing. He wasn't the judge on duty for the flight leaving. You know, remember, first of all, this is in D.C. and why is this falling under the D.C. jurisdiction? There's all these questions, but Clay, he stepped in and was like, oh no, I want this one. That's not how that, that's not how that's supposed to work. The, the judge that hates the president isn't supposed to shove aside other judges in the rotation. Think about this, Clay. You know, if somebody was charged with murder and some judge shoved another judge out of the way, oh no, I want this case because everybody knows I hate this defendant. Nobody would think that was okay. It's exactly what Boasberg did.

[Clay Travis]

And also, all these federal district court judges really do think that if they oppose Trump, they're also setting themselves up for promotion. Because again, for those of you out there, and I understand, sometimes your head rolls back into your head over this, there's the federal district court judge level, which is the lowest level of the district court judges, the. Then there's the circuit court and then there's the Supreme Court. So these lowest level judges are trying to put in place, like this guy from San Francisco is trying to put in place a ruling that applies nationwide and eventually it works its way into the Supreme Court. And they say no. And remember the precedent that they're putting in place about executive power and executive authority applies for all future presidents. So what they're trying to do is Trump Resistance 2.0 is almost exclusively the province so far of the judiciary. And to your point, Buck, it certainly is interesting that all these judges claiming that they are trying to defend the Constitution from an authoritarian dictator. Actually the Supreme Court is saying time after time, Trump has the right to be able to do what he's doing. And I think it's important to point out that Biden knew many times when he was taking action, for instance, when it came to the extension of the lack of evictions under FEMA authority, that he didn't have the ability to do that. And he even said, this will just buy a few more months for us to be able to keep this policy in place. He defied what he knew the law was.

[Buck Sexton]

Trump on so many of these, on so many of these legal issues when he gets up against these resistance judges. Clay, how many times have we been told. And all these people are like, I'm so, especially the former conservatives or former Republicans out there, you know who they are. I'm so, I'm so principled. What Trump is doing is flagrantly violating the Constitution. And then it turns out when real judges look at it, they go, no, this is, he has the power to do this time and again. Remember the so called Muslim ban? That wasn't a Muslim ban. It was a countries that can't vet and have a lot of terrorists coming out of them banned again. You know, they said he couldn't do that. He ended up being correct on that. The courts eventually upheld it. Right. They made some kind of a modification to the first order to clarify, but it wasn't some crazy idea. It was based on Obama administration designations of terror supporting countries. But they just, they have no ability. Trump derangement syndrome. It's so tiring, isn't it, Clay? They can't, they keep telling you they're objective. They can't be objective when it comes to this guy.

[Clay Travis]

What about crazily? Remember when the Colorado Supreme. I know everybody just tries to forget all this stuff happened. You don't hear it talked about very often, but the Colorado Supreme Court said Trump couldn't be on the ballot.

[Buck Sexton]

Yeah.

[Clay Travis]

And it went all the way to the United States Supreme Court. And all these people out there were saying, well, under the Confederate, you know, clause of the. Whatever it was, the 14th, 15th, 16th amendment. I don't even remember what the specific battle was, but it was one of those. They said, well, this is a really difficult legal issue. I think there's a very strong case that he shouldn't be able to be on the ballots at all. I remember reading all these editorials in the New York Times. And then the Supreme Court said, no, 9O you can't do this. And when you get slapped down. No. By the United States Supreme Court and trying to argue actually they have the right to do this, I think a lot of people. It was Lucy and Charlie Brown, you know, are you really. Is the football gonna get pulled? Football gonna get pulled? New York Times is saying, no, this is a really legitimate legal argument that they've made. And then the Supreme Court says, no, no, you can't do this. Colorado Clay.

[Buck Sexton]

It was the Democrat apparatus that was telling us just a year ago that you can prosecute a president criminally for decisions that he makes as president. Right. Think about that. I don't like the airstrike he did throw him in.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah.

[Buck Sexton]

That was effectively the argument that they were making. The Supreme Court had to clarify. No. If he's acting within presidential capacity, you can't say that's a criminal matter. It's a. His discretion matter. But they needed that to be clarified.

[Clay Travis]

Right?

[Buck Sexton]

I mean, yeah. Think if we. We could run a tape, play the whole show of CNN legal experts and New York Times legal experts. They're just wrong over and over. And to your point, in some of these cases, they're wrong. Nine zero.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah.

[Buck Sexton]

Even Sotomayor has to be like, you guys are insane. Even Sotomayor, who is herself insane.

[Clay Travis]

Well, even this with the San Francisco District Judge, everybody's telling us, oh, we don't know whether the president has authority. We told you on this show. Yeah, this is the very province of presidential authority. Even this was seven, two. You know, even this order striking down what the San Francisco judge did was very clearly telling him, this is not within the province of your powers. The president has the ability to do this. And again, this is why so many of these rulings are not designed to win. They're designed to delay. It's. It's like if you're, if you're putting, you know, back in the day, somebody's on the train tracks, and you're trying to just put a bunch of burning logs on them. Your goal is not to end the ability of the train track to exist. It's just to slow everything down. It's all dilatory tactics. That's all that's going on here.

[Buck Sexton]

And you know, in this order about the. This is the one that just came down. That is. It's essentially saying, hey, you can't. The judge that said you have to rehire everybody needs to. Needs to slow his. Slow his roll here or slow. Slow the roll here, because the people that brought the suit to get them reinstated don't even have standing.

[Clay Travis]

Right.

[Buck Sexton]

Correct. So they have no right to be in court on this issue. And, you know, you can't just sue. You can't just go to a federal judge and say, hey, some federal employees somewhere else got fired. And I don't like that. So, hey, judge, I know you hate Trump. Can you make them hire them back? And the fact that a lower court, Judge Clay, went along with this sham, it just shows you how insane these people are. I mean, they don't care. They simply don't care. This is the federal judge in Baltimore that ordered the administration to reinstate thousands of fired probationary workers. One federal judge can say that you have to rehire thousands of people in the federal government because some nonprofit has brought a lawsuit in his court. Get out of here. This is.

[Clay Travis]

I mean, a judge tried to tell the president that he had to turn a plane around and return. Yeah, Ton. I mean, that's a pretty.

[Buck Sexton]

I'm actually glad. I'm glad that he did that because that really. That was. He overplayed his hand big time. And everyone saw that for what it.

[Clay Travis]

Was, by the way, because if he.

[Buck Sexton]

Can do that, he can say, hey, turn the F18 around. Not allowed to bomb the nuclear reactor. Turn it around.

[Clay Travis]

By the way, breaking news on the tariffs. The White House has now imposed 104% tariffs on China, effective immediately, in response to China's response to us. So we are.

[Buck Sexton]

This is now. This is a trade war. Just to be clear, this with China, we are entering trade war territory. The other countries are allies. We're going to figure out a nice deal. But China, Clay, wouldn't you agree? I mean, that's. This is trade war now.

[Clay Travis]

Oh, yeah, it's. The gloves are off with China right now. So we'll break into that in a little bit more details. In the meantime, we talked about. You maybe bet a lot of you last night. Stayed up and watched Houston, stayed up and watched Florida Gators. And I hope you had some fun with the Prize Picks app during the NCAA Tournament. But you can continue to have fun with the Prize Picks app because Major League Baseball is going on basically every day. NBA playoffs are starting in the next 10 days or so. Whatever sport you're into, the Masters are going on this weekend. If you like to watch the Masters, which for many people is like a hey, spring is back. Let's get ready for summer. It's an opportunity to celebrate everything. Get hooked up right now with Prize Picks. You can put in a $5 pick. You can play in Florida, you can play in Texas, you can play in California. You can play all over the country. You can play in Georgia if you're feeling left out. 40 states. Get hooked up right now. Prizepix.com code clay that is prizepix.com code Clay to get $50 instantly after you play your first $5 lineup. Again, that's code clay $50 instantly after you play your 1st $5 lineup. Price picks run your game pricepicks.com code clay Patriots radio hosts A couple of regular guys, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. Find them on the free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Jeremy Scott]

Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley Season one.

[Buck Sexton]

I just knew him as a kid.

[Jeremy Scott]

Long, silent voices from his past came.

[Gilbert King]

Forward and he was just staring at me.

[Jeremy Scott]

And they had secrets of their own to share.

[Gilbert King]

Gilbert King I'm the son of Jeremy Lynn Scott.

[Jeremy Scott]

I was no longer just telling the story. I was part of it.

[Gilbert King]

Every time I hear about my dad, it's, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.

[Jeremy Scott]

I was becoming the bridge between a killer and the son he'd never known.

[Gilbert King]

If the cops and everything would have done their job properly, my dad would have been in jail. I would have never existed.

[Jeremy Scott]

I never expected to find myself in this place. Now I need to tell you how I got here.

[Gilbert King]

At the end of the day, I'm literally a son of a killer.

[Jeremy Scott]

Bone Valley Season 2 Jeremy Jeremy, I.

[Buck Sexton]

Want to tell you something.

[Jeremy Scott]

Listen to new episodes of bone Valley Season 2 starting April 9 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And to hear the entire new season ad free with exclusive content starting April 9th. Subscribe to Lava for Good plus on Apple Podcasts.

[Buck Sexton]

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[Clay Travis]

No, correct.

[Buck Sexton]

It is based here in America celebrating Davy Crockett. It is not celebrating Mao Zedong. It is celebrating Davy Crockett. So get your coffee from us. None of that Starbucks nonsense either. All right, let's take some callbacks and some other good things here. An AA in Mesa, Arizona. Clay Buck Nixon out of Mesa, Arizona. 23. You'd actually be surprised how many people think the snakes are their friends.

[Clay Travis]

They.

[Buck Sexton]

I've known many people who have picked up snakes and gotten bit, specifically the diamondbacks. So they are not. Can I just want to say I'm sorry. That's our listener Nixon on. He listens on News Talk 550k. FYI Clay, I bet in the social media era, you co sign this. There have been plenty of people, you know, maybe in the. In the like low dozens who have tried to get close to a venomous, not poisonous, a venomous snake for social media clout purposes and maybe got bit. I bet it has happened probably a.

[Clay Travis]

Number of times, I bet with many animals. I mean, one of the craziest stories out there is the. It's mostly women. The number of women that have fallen to their deaths trying to get pictures like selfies on the edge of a cliff or the edge of some rock formation and the ground underneath them shifts or their balance fall. I mean this is. And on. Would you have ever believed people would be dying to get photos taken?

[Buck Sexton]

No. And it's, you know, ask someone to take the photo of you or just take a photo and you know, AI yourself into it later. It is never worth it. I'm pretty sure. And this is really sad story. I believe the woman survived. I think there was a woman in the Bahamas who tried to grab underwater a. A bull shark. Yeah.

[Clay Travis]

Not a good photo.

[Buck Sexton]

And lost both her hands because it's a bull shark, which I think has the highest. Speaking of testosterone, the highest testosterone of any animal of it on the planet. They're incredibly aggressive and they also can.

[Clay Travis]

Go into freshwater a ways, which is actually a little bit scary there.

[Buck Sexton]

It was a bull shark that did the. The deaths at Matawan Creek, New Jersey, or, you know that. That was involved in those attacks. Did those attacks. I should say alleged bull shark. No, it was a bull shark which led to the. The movie Jaw.

[Clay Travis]

That's unfair. You agree with me. If you jump into a fresh body of water and, yeah, killed by a shark like, that just doesn't seem like it should be allowed to happen.

[Buck Sexton]

No, that should. That should not. That's not a fair way to go for anyone ever. You know, it's. Anyway, yeah, don't hug the rattlesnakes. CC Podcast listener Ray, let's go.

[Ray]

Hey, Clay and Buck, longtime listener here. I've been listening to buck for over 14 years now. I just want to say that in my opinion, Trump's tariffs aren't about protectionism. They're a negotiation tactic. Straight out of the start of the deal, he's using big symbolic numbers to bring other countries the table. And now over 50 countries have come forward. This is just like when he'd bring John Bolton around a meeting saying, hey, if you don't listen to me, I'm going to start listening to this guy right now. His John Bolton is Howard Lutnick and his pompeo is Scott Besson. Thank you.

[Buck Sexton]

I think podcast listener Ray Clay, who has obviously been paying close attention all these years because he's brilliant, is spot on. I think he's absolutely right. It is art of the deal with Trump.

[Clay Travis]

I don't think there's any doubt at all. We'll give you the latest on that, plus we'll have some fun. How about the direwolf? Did you know that was real? From Game of Thrones?

[Buck Sexton]

Back to life Animals. Yes.

[Jeremy Scott]

Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley season one.

[Gilbert King]

Every time I hear about my dad is, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.

[Jeremy Scott]

I was becoming the bridge between Jeremy Scott and the son he'd never known.

[Gilbert King]

At the end of the day, I'm literally a son of a killer.

[Jeremy Scott]

Listen to new episodes of bone Valley Season 2, starting April 9 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.