Brian Mudd (19:34)
Will govern expansively and audaciously. We may not always succeed, but never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try. The one thing you might have missed is we will never actually succeed, but we're gonna do it anyway, because this just in. Socialism has never worked anywhere, responsible for killing over 100 million people. But, you know, it's always just. It's not been tried the right way. If we just tweak it a little bit, it's going to be great. We're not going to run out of other people's money. You're not going to have the tax base of anybody who is a contributor to New York City's society leaving. No, it's. It's all going to be just fantastic. Hey there. Brian Mudd in for Clay and Buck. And I do think we're set for unprecedented success this year and we all have a role in it. And that might include you needing to flee New York City if you are there. It may include you needing to get out of California if you happen to be there. When I was kind of working through where we stand at this point in American history and Trump's second term, and also how analogous it is to a lot of what we went through the 80s, but also a lot of what we lived through just back in 2018. This year can go one of two ways. This can be the year that we. We sit back and we're like, all right, you know, Trump's president, so we've got that going for us. Things aren't going to be nuts and we just don't pay attention to what's going on around us. Or we stay committed, we stay committed to the cause and we do our part to make it, which doesn't necessarily have to require a lot of effort, but we make sure we don't repeat the mistakes of the past. Because just like socialism always fails, we can't all be our own version of Mandanis and do what we did in 2018 and allow Democrats to come back into power in Congress and to go ahead and pretty much ruin everything from their impeachments and. And all the like. So I'm going to pick up with some additional food for thought on this line of thinking. You know, I was mentioning the first segment. You know, the 80s were a great decade in part because of, you know, things like the, the awesome music, but also Reagan's policy. You can think about why, you know, like the 90s, for example, turned out to be a particularly good decade. It was, of course, because Al Gore had invented the Internet. So we had that going. By the way, is anybody asked Al Gore if he's responsible for AI too? Haven't. Haven't heard him comment on that. Get his word there. But why did the first three years of President Trump's first term lead to unprecedented success for this country? Only for it to get away from us. So that is what we need to combat Brian Mudd in for Clay and Buck. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. On the front lines of truth, If your landlord does not responsibly steward your home, city government will step in. It's gonna be terrific. We're gonna step in. Everything private sector said, big government in New York City, it is here. You just, you, you show us your landlord and they're done. Who isn't going to want to do business in New York City is. Is all I'm saying. It's going to be absolutely fantastic. Mandani and the, the commie dream team in place. And you got to give the guy credit. He is. He's all in. You know, he doesn't play the games. He doesn't pretend to be something he's not. He's not an Obama. He's just, he's out there. He's like the burn. He's out there and just loving every minute of it. And yeah, it's gonna, gonna work out and be great. This time never worked in human history, but this time in New York City. Awesome. Hey there. Brian Mudd in for clean buck. Fear not. By the way, the guys back with you on Monday. I do broadcast from my home station WJNO in West Palm beach, the Brian Mudd Show. You can check out my podcast anywhere. You get your podcasts and also socially at Brian Mudd Radio, talking about how we are set up for unprecedented success this year, provided that we do, like, just some very intentional things this year that we didn't do back in 2018 and so pose some questions to you. Some of the thoughts about even times gone by that were pretty good and what had to happen. One of the things that was so incredibly frustrating and I'm sure you remember this well how well things were going in this country just prior to the nonsense of the pandemic. And you got to take a step back and go, okay, well, why did the first three years of President Trump's first term lead to, at that point, unprecedented success for this country. Unprecedented success that included record low unemployment for every single minority group, low crime, record high wages, strong wage growth, nearly non existent inflation prior to the impact of the pandemic. Why did all that happen? Well, it was pretty much due to almost exactly the same reasons that we had the kind of success that we ended up having in the 80s. But at the same time, wasn't almost all the success that we ended up enjoying during that first three year period wasn't all that pretty much underappreciated by the average American. After Trump's first 11 plus months in office in 2017, I was taking a look back where we stood as we seek not to repeat the midterms of 2018, as we look to take advantage of the unprecedented success that we are set up for on this date in 2018. If you take a look at the real clear politics average of polls, Trump's approval rating just sitting at 40%. Now, I say he did not enter that second year of his presidency and in good shape from a point of public approval, just 40% approval. And by the way, that's pretty darn close to where it was when we hit the midterm elections in 2018. Okay, and what ended up happening? Well, obviously Republicans waxed and Democrats spent the remainder of his term and impeaching him and just trying to screw over Trump and this country. Right. So, but still, despite that nonsense, the policy impact of what Trump had achieved through those first two years in office, that ended up being felt in a huge way. Right. By that third year, everything just kind of kicked in. The impact of the tax cuts, trade deals, everything was just moving in a great direction. And by the way, in the third year, his approval rating reflected that too, eventually ended up rising by about seven points before all the pandemic nonsense. So people began to realize that, and you'll probably recall that he was the overwhelming favorite to be reelected prior to all the pandemic nonsense, because things were going so well in this country. Okay, so that was then. Now you consider this as we are into this critical midterm election year. You got Trump, you got his incredible accomplishments from his first 11 plus months. It's better than what he did in his first go round by a lot. His accomplishments are massive and they're still really underappreciated by the average person at this point. They're also, when you put it all together, going to have us on a trajectory that is just unlike anything we had seen before if we just do our part and give it a chance to work. So on Wednesday's show, I really broke down so many of the successes that Trump had last year. That first year, the man worked every single day, including the years that he was out of office, working on the agenda that he enacted right away. That's why we saw a record amount of activity last year. As you have the Wall Street Journal today, Trump seems tired. You know, he closes his eyes on occasion. He might even blink. Go fly a guide, people. You guys suck at life. You, anybody at the Wall street try to keep up with Trump for a day. You won't make it. You won't make it. And you certainly won't accomplish anything that the man has accomplished while he's been in office. It is just such a, such a joke. But anyway, I shared Trump's receipts from, from last year with you, and I'm not going to go through the whole ball of wax again. But in case you, you missed that full breakdown or you could use a bit of refresher, I just want to hit on some of these things because it really is exceptional in context. So the first thing is you talk about less government while you have Mandani, he's like, oh, more government than we've ever seen in New York City this year. The promise of a more limited government in this country. We have approximately 271,000 fewer federal government employees compared to when Trump took office. The federal bureaucracy has shrunk by nearly 10%, by more than 9%. A decline of nearly 1% in the size of the federal government per month. Huge. A lot of people are like, oh, you know, once Doge was gone, at least with Musk, it's all over. We're not really trying to shrink up or. No, it's still been going. President Trump was using the partial government shutdown, for that matter, to try to continue to exact that outcome. 20% of companies have eliminated DEI programs completely this year. That's big. Yet another 10% of companies with DEI programs that reduce the spending influence of those programs. That's also big, right? You've seen culturally the huge shift that's happened this year. Over the past year, he had 432 colleges and universities across 47 states that eliminated DEI programs. That's a big first year move. You know, you got the College Football Playoff that is playing out. It'll be interesting to hear Clay's thoughts about all that as you continue to see that only Indiana, a, a team with a buy that has ended up winning to advance to the the Final Four in the NCAA playoff. But anyway, yeah, the NCAA said, you know what? We're, we're not going to continue to allow guys who wake up one day and, and go, you know what? I'm feeling like a chick. I think I'm gonna compete with women. You no more of that. We're not going to allow that. It's crazy that the NCAA ever did. But, you know, they, they stopped that. And that was Trump talked about the massive leadership changes at major news organizations From CBS to NPR, NBC and even the BBC after their, you know, their, their January 6th editing scandal. All these massive changes that have been impacts of Trump over the first year mentioned that Trump has had an enormous amount of success in the courts for the record number of lawsuits that have been filed against Trump, which have averaged in the neighborhood of a couple per day, new lawsuits that have been filed against him. By the time things reach the Supreme Court, he has an incredible amount of success. You know, he's won on 21 or received favorable rulings on 21 of the 24 cases that have made it be before the Supreme Court over the past year. Total illegal border crossings. Of course, the biggest story of last year, including got aways lowest level in recorded history. One of the one of my favorite stats from, from last year and I'm, you know, a data wonk so, you know, I like that kind of thing. My one of my favorites is that you would you had more illegal immigrants, more illegal border crossers in a typical day under Biden than we had the last year. At least from January 20th on, you had the record number of deportations taking place. Two and a half million of them that took place. Again, these are all things that have a profound impact in our lives and will continue to wash through. You know, and one of the big things about deportations as well, it plays into inflation. So one of the big impacts over the past year is, yeah, things are still pretty expensive. Yeah. You know, unfortunately, the Biden inflation is, is baked in, but the rate of inflation is lower than it was. But the most important thing is that you're actually getting ahead again. The average American by the time you take a look at wage growth is getting ahead by greater than 1% compared to falling behind progressively when Biden was president. And one of the other really big points on that, the deportations help too. When you had all those illegal immigrants, those two and a half million plus that were here, where were they living? Not on the streets. They're again, government assistance programs and all kinds of stuff. And you take a look at that and okay, well, if they're not in the affordable housing, who can use the affordable housing? People that are here illegally that actually should. And then that ends up having an impact in the housing market, the single biggest cost. You don't have the same level of demand on goods. And so the impact has already started to be felt, but it's going to be felt a lot more this year. It's one of the big things is so much of this happened last year, we're just going to start to see and feel the impact of so many of these things going forward. And so there's so much here that can be, that can be a real positive. There's so much more to, to continue to break down from this. Do want to see about working. Adam in here, Adam in my neck of the woods in South Florida joining us. Welcome to the show. Okay, so don't have them. All right, so when you take a look at, you take a look at the economics, the growth that we've seen, it's been surging, surging, the inflation rate falling. You take a look at the economic growth that over the past two quarters has, has been over 4%. I mean, people said that kind of stuff couldn't be done. Right. Said it in his first term, saying it again. We've had total domestic energy production that's reached record levels this year. That's going to continue to bring lower prices. You take a look at how much you're paying for gas, a lot lower than what you were paying previously. And so then you know that's, that's going to be another benefit going forward. Lower rate of inflation. You take a look at manufacturing companies and how many manufacturing companies that do business in the United States have increased manufacturing activity. Nearly 6 in 10 of them. We have over 244,000 more manufacturing jobs now than we did on January 20th. So the tariff policies have been effective in helping bring jobs into this country, and they're continuing to grow. All of these things act as a tailwind and it's just the tip of the iceberg. And so we've got to make sure that we're doing our part to continue the success of Trump. And that means every election, every opportunity, we get out there and vote. Pick up there next. I'm Brian Mudd in for Klein Buck. Two guys walk up to a mic, anything goes.
