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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
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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 angry. You don't want to live your life like that. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty. We're Armstrong And Getty, we try to bring you the truth and help you figure out this crazy modern world. How about something about a comedic tone? We have a winner. Yes. Listen to Armstrong. You get it on Demand on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show podcast. Welcome in Clay Travis, Buck Sexton Show. Buck is out. We'll be back together in D.C. next week. I am told that I have a tan. You may have seen me on such programs as Jesse Watters on Fox News where I was described as looking like, I believe, bacon with a beard, which was a heck of a line by him. Some of you are watching right now on video. I think my tan is amazing. I think it somewhat resembles John F. Kennedy back in the 1960s, not me, but the tan before he was assassinated. So I'm hoping that my beautiful tan will not be followed by an assassination. I'm not going to be riding around in any convertibles without rooftops anytime soon in Dealey Plaza. But we have got all sorts of chaos to dive into with you. And as I know, Buck was addressing yesterday right in the final hour when the Donald Trump versus Elon Musk fireworks started. I have got deep dive psychological analysis, also some humor that I hope to pepper with all of you as we roll through the Friday edition of the program here and head you into the weekend. Little bit of housekeeping. Newt Gingrich will be with us in the third hour and outkick reporter Dan Zach Chesky is scheduled to join us in second hour and certainly we will take your calls and your reactions to everything that is going on. I met a lot of you. I have been out. My kids got out of school on Tuesday and so I was on the road with them as a result doing dad related travel. Someone told me and I think, do you think there's a lot of truth to it, that once you have kids you no longer take vacations, you take family trips? And that is a very different thing, particularly when your kids are young, although my kids are now 17, 14 and 10. And so they are aging up there. And so we went to amusement parks. I think you guys played my Tom Cruise Mission Impossible analysis last week with, with Buck, which was as usual, Buck doesn't like fun things. He would have been miserable. It's a super crowded, hot amusement park. But we went to the new Universal Studios Amusement park that opened in Orlando, took the boys there, met many of you all over the place. And then I'd never been to Atlantis in the Bahamas. We'll have some fun talking about that maybe a little bit later in the program. But I met a lot of you all over the place and I appreciate everybody who comes up and says hi. When you were also on your vacations, often with your own families, I was also with Buck. We had an amazing I heart event in West Palm beach for all of our advertisers. I got to meet Buck's brand new baby James for the first time. I think there are pictures. Ali's more on top of these things than I am on social media. I'm not very good at taking photos. I can send messages, but I am not a photo guy. But I believe there are pictures up of the baby. We had an awesome time. We met with a lot of our great advertisers over the past several days. I am now back at home in Nashville and looking forward by the way, next week just texting, we are set up to to be meeting a lot of people in D.C. next week. We're going to be at the Pentagon with Pete Hegseth. We're going to be at the White House with Donald Trump. We are hopefully going to be able to meet up with Marco Rubio and and many others. We will have quite a few senators in and representatives in our D.C. studios next week. So we literally as I sat down, we are texting to get a bunch of those details ironed out with you for all of next week when we should have a lot of in person guests and should be pretty fantastic. So all that coming on the horizon, but the fallout from yesterday's Elon Musk, Donald Trump big breakup over the big beautiful bill is what is continuing to resonate all over the political universe, all over the business universe. Basically the number one can't miss story conflict between Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and Donald Trump, the most powerful man in the world. What's my take? First, we told you that this would likely happen because Elon Musk I'm going to psychoanalyze these guys and explain why this is likely to happen. Why I think it also is not indicative of a long term breach but is I think been building for some time and I think there were a lot of sort of signposts that you could point to. So let's start on the side of Elon Musk because it seems to me that he is by far the angriest over the over the situation right now. Elon is used to having complete and total control. He is a dictator at every company that he runs. And he has been a very benevolent, benevolent and successful dictator at all of those companies. They are wildly successful. I believe that Elon Musk is the most successful capitalist who has ever existed in the history of capitalism. I don't think that's hyperbole. When you consider what he has done with Tesla, when you consider what he has done with SpaceX, what he has done with Twitter, slash X now with xai, what he has done with the boring company, what he has done with. I was on the golf course with The LifeLock so CEO and founder Todd Davis and he was talking about that, how impressed he is with neuralink and what Musk has done there. And it is receiving a small amount, amount of attention. I think. Elon Musk is the CEO basically of five different public companies simultaneously, all of which are fabulously successful. We truly have never seen anything like what he has been able to do. And these companies are doing things that many other people believed were impossible. No one thought that you could replace the internal combustion engine with electric vehicles. No one thought, by and large, hey, it's possible to be better at designing spaceships than NASA, even though NASA has a 70 year head start. What Elon Musk has done is amazing. Here's the problem. It requires a skill set that is massively risk taking, moves rapidly and breaks things. It is entrepreneurial in nature. It is by and large not a management job. Founders think and behave differently than people who are in management. That's oftentimes why the number of founders that can transition from creating a company to building it into a huge vibrant entity is rare. Because the skill set to create something new and then the skill set to manage something new is oftentimes very different. And so I have said and Buck has said on this program, we told you this was coming, that Elon Musk was going to get hyper frustrated over how slow government moves. I am a pin prick as successful as Elon Musk. The reason I didn't want to practice lawful time was it moved way too slow for me. I'm a young litigator. You pinpoint the issues at play. You say, hey, this is what needs to be resolved. This is what needs to be fixed. This is the answer to the question. And then, and many of you are lawyers listening right now. It is basically a procedural battle as a litigator for years. And to me it was boring plotting. It didn't move fast enough. I was frustrated. I am somewhat impatient. Government is that times a thousand. So you have this uniquely talented builder of businesses the likes of which we have never seen, who is coming into the government, looks around, says, man, this is being run in a shabby, unsuccessful fashion. These are the things that need to be done. I'm going to bring in my brilliant financial engineers. We're going to dive into the federal government books. We're going to recognize all of these different things that are inefficient, outdated, where the taxpayer is not getting best value for his dollars. And even though we recognize all these things, government is going to move slowly to. To address them. And in the meantime, I'm going to get ripped to the high heavens because I am disrupting government. And all of the businesses that I have created, I'm talking for Elon, are going to suddenly become Persona non grata. I mean, we had left wingers firebombing electric vehicles because they were angry that Elon Musk was trying to bring more financial discipline to the government. And so I think Elon was terribly frustrated. Remember, he said he wanted to erase around $2 trillion in spending. It looks like the number's going to end up being around $160 billion. I don't think he was able to accomplish what he wanted to and what he probably should have been able to accomplish if he had the same power that he has as the leader of all his companies. And so I think his anger had been building for some time. And then Trump yesterday in the Oval Office said, hey, I basically, I'm paraphrasing, appreciate what Elon was gonna do, but we would have won the election even without his involvement. Argue that or not. And Elon decided that that was ungrateful. And you combine it with the fact that Trump had not decided to elevate the guy that he wanted to be in charge, Ellen, of NASA. And you also add up that he was frustrated over some of the AI decisions that were being made by Trump. And all of those compounding frustrations led to Elon Musk going off yesterday on Twitter. And my thoughts on social media in general are it can be both the best and the worst thing, because what it does give you is a direct view into the emotions of the moment. But the emotions of the moment aren't always the healthiest. And I'm going to go old school here legitimately and tell you an example. Abraham Lincoln, when he was president, would get so frustrated that he would write entire angry letters to subordinates. He would then wait 24 hours before he would send the letter. Now, letter by mail is very different than tweets, but Lincoln understood That the passions of the moment and the way he felt as he wrote the article, as he wrote his letter might not exist 24 hours from now. It's a brilliant strategy. Put it in your desk, wait 24 hours, reread it. He would then decide oftentimes whether he wanted that letter sent to his subordinates. Most of the time he said he did not. The cathartic nature of writing the letter allowed for his anger to be expressed and for it to then diminish. I have said for some time imagine what tweets would be sent if there were 24 hour waiting period before the tweet could be sent. Same thing could be said for you if you don't tweet for the text that you send. What if you could only send 10 texts in a week? You would make sure that they were really, really well crafted. You would also make sure that they weren't particularly emotional. My wife says that I don't have to worry about any of this because the reason why I will never need any form of therapy is because I have the unique job where I get to sit down on live radio every single day, tell you guys every single word I think, and then when I'm done after three hours, I have no weight on my shoulders at all. I just step right out of the radio studio. My therapy is I said exactly what I wanted to say for three hours. Everybody out there could hear it. You could like it, you could not like it. I got no weight on my shoulders. There's a lot of truth to that. I think this had been building for a long time with Elon. I think it was a mountain of frustration. I think that yesterday that was the tipping point. It wasn't any one thing, as most issues are when people lose their temperature. It was a, hey, this happened, then this happened, then this happened. And if you are a founder, if you are an entrepreneur, you know that feeling where you wake up and you don't control your day. And basically people just put, if you're a small business owner, 20 different things pile up, all of which you have to manage because it's your responsibility. Elon has been able to bear an immense amount of weight. I think the NASA, NASA decision by Trump, I think the AI machinations, I think all of the pressure that has been brought to bear by the media, I think it finally just exploded. And I think he does not have Elon great impulse control. This is one reason perhaps he might have 14 different children by seven different women. There are goods and bads of many different aspects of life. Elon Musk, as I said, the greatest capitalist who's ever existed, may not have the greatest impulse control ever. And so he got angry and he decided to fire away at Trump. I actually think Trump has been remarkably fairly restrained in his response to Elon because I think Elon is more emotional than Trump is. I think Elon is more frustrated. We come back, I'll give you my thesis here on Trump, because these guys overlap and have a lot in common, and I think it's why they got along. But really, even though Trump is also an entrepreneur, Trump is a different kind of entrepreneur. Elon is a founder. You go out and you create something that never existed before. Trump is a builder in order to get buildings built as any of you out there that have ever been involved in real estate know. It is a monster of an issue. Zoning regulations, political pressures. Getting a building built in a city is more like being a politician than it is a founder. You got to shake hands, you got to deal with unions, you have to deal with local government, you might have to deal with state government, you might even have to deal with federal government, depending on the size of your project. That is a different skill set, and it's more similar to what a politician does. Trump is uniquely skilled at making everyone that he meets feel like they are the most important person in the room. That is not Elon's skill set. So this implosion, which I think was built up by the anger that Elon felt over not having the same control over the government that he has over his companies, felt to me like it was inevitable. The fact that Elon and Trump worked together for as long as they could is important and it was a tremendous success. I hope that they can continue to work together in the future. But remember, Elon voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. He voted for Joe Biden in 2020. He did not endorse Trump until July of 2024. I think Elon is the most fabulously successful capitalist of all time. I'm not sure that his political instincts are as finely tuned, and I don't say that as an insult. I think he's worked his way towards a smart position. I think his buying X was probably the most important thing for the full flourishment of the marketplace of ideas, but that maybe has happened in my entire life. But I also think he's susceptible to anger. Twitter is an emotional medium, and yesterday Elon just snapped. I think today he probably thinks, hey, maybe I wish I hadn't sent some of the things that I sent yesterday. 8. We will take your calls by the way. You guys can react. Tell me whether or not you buy into this. But I'll break down this a little bit more because I do think it's consequential. I think it's significant. So a lot of people focused on the Epstein sudden tweet. I'll tell you why I don't buy that and why I think that is totally a sham, that idea in general. But I also want to tell you in the meantime, maybe you do like to communicate through cell phones. We all pretty much do. I'm reading from a cell phone right now. Thanks to Pure Talk. I'm able to communicate with my 17 year old and my 14 year old sons all the time because they have Pure Talk phones and they save an absolute bundle for you. But they also stand up for what's right 81 years since the D Day invasion turned the tide of World War II. This month our sponsor PureTalk, founded by a veteran giving away a thousand American flags to military veterans to thank them for their service. To show gratitude version of the flag made here in America by Allegiance Flags. 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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
Quick turn here. I'm going to talk when I come back about why I think Elon Musk allegation about Trump and the Epstein files has no basis whatsoever in reality. We will dive into it when we come back and trust me, there's no basis. Fired up about the Trump Musk blow up yesterday afternoon that happened. That obviously is the talk of the town. You can weigh in 800-282-2882 if you would like to weigh in on your thoughts on this ridiculousness. But I laid out why I anticipated that Musk would get upset at some point at the slow pace of government based on his history as a founder and as a CEO who is able to move fast and break things, which many people out there who found businesses have that mindset. I discovered that I am not a very good employee for long term process. I'm pretty good here because I have a fabulous boss, Julie Talbot, and she just says hey, you and Buck go have the best radio show possible. She doesn't micromanage us. She has our back. That's fabulous. Actually rare. A lot of you probably have had some good bosses. Some of you probably have had awful bosses. I think Musk wants to be the boss in everything. And I don't think that he is happy when he's not able to make decisions that he sees as in the best interest of his company. And I think he treated the United States government like a company that he was in charge of. The problem is there's a lot of stakeholders in the United States government, and Musk could not do for the United States government what he believed was necessary in order to create the best version of the US Government as he could do with the companies that he has founded now. And as a result, I think he just had a temper tantrum. I think he lashed out. Now, I also think there are elements of this, probably this is me psychoanalyzing where Musk is putting so much responsibility on himself that he probably isn't sleeping very much. He probably isn't eating consistently healthy meals. He is working all the time at all hours. And so what otherwise might have been a road bump, something that irritated him somewhat, built to the point where he felt compelled to lash out as extensively as he did on social media, which I believe Musk is using Twitter in many ways as his therapy, as his opportunity to vent and release rage that otherwise has built up inside him. I think Trump sometimes does that. But again, I think because Trump has built buildings, his entrepreneurial mindset is much different. In order to build something that is actually a physical structure, you can't be at the same kind. I don't think of dictator that Elon Musk has been for his companies, just based on the regulations, based on the unions, based on all of the different things that you have to go through to get approval to be able to do that. Now, all that in mind, I think Musk crossed the line when suddenly he said the reason the Epstein files haven't been released, and I'm paraphrasing, is because Trump is named in them. I don't believe this to be remotely true, and I just don't think it adds up. Logically. He might be named in him because Epstein lived in New York City and he knew everybody who's rich and famous in the entire city. Do you really believe that if Trump had done something that was considered to be criminal in nature by the United States in any way, that Democrats wouldn't have used that against Trump at any point in the last decade? It just doesn't add up. They've tried to bankrupt him, they've tried to imprison him for life, they've tried to kill him. They have done everything in their power to stop Trump from being able to be President of the United States. And you think they had a scarlet letter that connected Trump to Epstein and was criminal in nature based on what Trump did? And they just decided to argue that he mishandled classified documents. Instead of that, they had, pardon the pun, the ultimate trump card that would put Trump away forever, and they didn't use it. Instead, they manufactured the Steele dossier and claimed falsely that Trump was engaged in Russia collusion. And they had a smoking gun, a trump card, as it were, inside of the Epstein files for the last decade, that all they had to do to put Donald Trump in prison was pull out and play out of the deck. And you think they just decided, hey, we're not gonna do that. It doesn't add up. I think it's not true. And I think the sad reality is that much of the Epstein evidence, this is my opinion, is vanished. Okay. I think that Epstein was probably a intelligence agent. I think that he caught a lot of men. It's a high percentage of men that are interested in young, pretty girls and having access to young, pretty girls. And I think he used that sometimes to manipulate business relationships. Epstein did in his favor, and I think that's why he got the preferential treatment that he did. But there have been many men named, many of them, who basically did nothing, it appears, other than fly on Epstein's private jet or even engage in business transactions with him for their association to Epstein. And you're telling me that if Trump had substantial connections to Epstein, that they were hidden? And Democrats said, no, no, no, we're not going to focus on Trump and Epstein. Instead, we're going to argue that he kept classified documents at Mar A Lago. And we're going to argue that he got too favorable of loan treatments for the properties that he owned in New York and the big investment bank negotiations that he did. And also we're going to argue that he had sex with a porn star and paid her money and that somehow rigged the 2016 election and that he's buddies with Vladimir Putin. You'd think that Democrats drew the line at associating Trump with Epstein. I just don't think that makes sense. I think Elon knows that that is among the most savage accusations that he could make to a segment of the MAGA base that is obsessed with Epstein and keeps thinking, oh, we're going to get some amazing revelation from the Epstein files. And instead, when they've given new information about the Epstein related files, it's mostly blown up in the Trump administration's face. I mean, Pam Bondi had a bunch of people in for a White House meeting, gave them new information, and it basically was not that valuable. Now, look, I trust Dan Bongino. I trust Cash Patel. I think if they're at the FBI, if there is some sort of major revelation that still is out there about the Epstein files, I think they'll put it out. I just don't buy that it exists in a substantial way, and I certainly don't buy that somehow it implicates Trump. I just don't. I think that Elon knows that that's catnip and impossible to avoid, and among the most salacious accusations that he could make, and that's the reason that he went in that direction. I think that Trump has actually responded in the Elon fracas as the adult in the room, candidly, which is not always what you anticipate Trump doing, but I think he has a great deal of. Of. Of like, for. For Elon. And I'm gonna be honest with you. I think Trump sees Elon as childlike and a kid. And we have talked about this with you, Buck, and I have. I. Every time I've met Trump and I've interviewed Trump 11 times now. I am basically the same age as his kids. I'm telling you, Trump is almost 80 years old. I think he just had a 79th birthday. He sees people around my age as his kids. Trump has always. And as a grandfatherly and fatherly type figure, I think he sees Trump as a kid, thinks that there is a childlike glee in Ellen, which Trump likes and respects, but also recognizes that in pushing himself so far as Elon has, that there are consequences with that behavior. And I think Elon would even say it. You don't decide that you're better at sending rockets to the moon than NASA and that you're going to redesign the internal combustion engine. The effort and energy that that takes, there's consequences elsewhere. I think, again, Elon is an autistic genius. It allows him to focus in a way that regular humans cannot, but it also allows him to miss social cues that regular humans would not. And it is very rare in my experience that when someone has great talent in one particular arena, it is spread evenly everywhere. And this is kind of the way you think about from athletes, right? How often in your high school was the best athlete, also the best student, and also the best looking and also the kindest? Right. In baseball, they talk about five tool players because it's so rare to be excellent at everything. You don't have to be an expert in Silicon Valley geopolitics. To analyze Elon Musk, just go to your own high school. How often was the smartest person also the best athlete and also the kindest, the most honest, the most reliable? Usually extreme talents in any one particular area are not accompanied with extreme talents in other places, some as they are. Yeah, the prom king is also the kindest person on the planet and the greatest athlete, but usually that talent is not evenly distributed. Elon is off the charts, I think, when it comes to intelligence and building companies. As I said, I think he's the greatest capitalist who has ever lived in the history of capitalism. If you look at his accomplishments, I don't think that he's emotionally a savant. I think he still in many ways behaves in a childlike fashion. I think that's why he lashed out with the temper tantrum. I think Trump sees that. I think he wants to marshal the talents that Elon has in the direction of making the country better. And I actually think Trump has handled this again as the adult in the room. And I think Elon regrets his temper tantrum. Even by last evening, he was sharing Bill Ackman's comments like, hey, it's better for the country if we don't feud. This morning, he's been sharing again the big beautiful Bill. I'll talk a little bit about that where I think it's gone, but I think all of that is rooted together. And I think Elon is ultimately frustrated that he wasn't able to have the same level of success making the country's finances strong as he has been in making his own businesses and their finances strong. I'll take some of your calls. By the way, at the end of this hour, 800-282-2882. You can analyze this also, and I hope that Trump and Elon on some level can make up because I do think that Elon is a force for good, given his resources, given his purchase of Twitter, and just merely being open to the marketplace of ideas and seeing the best possible argument. I think and creating a business that is based on that is a profound gift that Elon has given to the country. And I hope that he can use those gifts going forward in an effective way with Trump and his administration. So that's my big take on what we saw yesterday and where I think it came from. If you purchased gold five years ago, smart investment price of gold, then just over $2,000 an ounce. Today, your gold now worth more than 30 $300. That is a 65 increase in value. 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Lisa Booth
2016 and he had to learn politics.
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Clay Travis
That's Elon. Elon has to learn how politics operate and this is how it operates.
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Lisa Booth
And he just needs to be patient.
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Clay Travis
With it and learn it. But America needs. Yep. Thank you for thank you for the call. I agree. I would love to have Elon's talents committed to the American government as much as he can. I think Elon committed those talents and feels like he didn't get the results that he does from capitalism when he commits his talents to the governments that he controls. And I think he's lashing out. I think he's frustrated. Brian in Kansas, what you got for us? Hey, Clay, I think there's a lot of similarities between Elon and then what Ross Perot would have faced had he gotten elected. And that was the reason I didn't vote for Ross Perot was because he would have gotten in there and he would have had no allies, wouldn't have had anything that he had on his infomercials. Get done. Thank you for the call. For those of you who remember Perot in 92 and 96, 92 in particular, he brought Bill Clinton into office. Perot's calling card was I'm a businessman and we need to run Washington more like a business. That is what Elon tried to do. The problem you run into is there's lots of people that don't understand basic business in Washington, D.C. and they aren't interested in actually fixing anything because they want to feed off the federal government. And inefficiency sometimes is the reason they make all their money. And I think that was incredibly frustrating to Elon. And I think what you saw yesterday was him lashing out. Carmen, Edgewater, Florida. Carmen, fire away. How are you doing?
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Lisa Booth
Clay, two things real quickly.
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Clay Travis
The first one is I agree with you about the whole.
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Lisa Booth
Thing that Elon said about upstate.
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Clay Travis
Obviously that would have been the Democrats, you know, gold mine to have found out he was involved in something like that. Second thing is I think Elon is trying to get back in the good grace with the Democrats to try to get his Teslas back up again in business. And I think that's really one of the goals that he has in mind. Good deal. That's an interesting argument. It does put the Democrat Molotov cocktail throwers in a funny position. Right? Because what do they do now? They hate Trump more than they hate Elon so they can stop burning Tesla's down. We'll talk about that a little bit more. Biggest story rolling into the weekend. Thanks for hanging with us on Clay and Buck.
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