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Clay Travis (0:00)
This is an iHeart podcast. All right, welcome back in to Clay and Buck. Second hour kicks off now. And just want you know if you were trying to listen to the interview yesterday with the president, Taiwan, if you happen to miss any of was up at it is up@clay and buck.com or you can listen on the podcast. I think it is well worth going to check it out because things are heating up in that part of the world. China is definitely gearing up for an invasion of Taiwan. It's just a question of when and if they pull the trigger. When they pull the trigger. So very important part of the world and a really interesting series of conversations there, most notably with the president of Taiwan. So you can see that@clayandbuck.com and please go and check that out. Now. President Trump just in the Oval Office a few moments ago. He's down the street. He's not far off from where I'm doing the show. And here he is on the Democrat Party. What he thinks of their leadership.
Donald Trump (1:05)
34 and I really think that these are people that I think they have nothing to lose. They have a party that's out of control. They have no leader. Nobody knows who the leader is. I look at people with very low IQs, like Crockett, this woman Crockett, I never met her, but she's a low IQ individual. I look at talking about how if they want to negotiate, they can come to my office. She's not in that position to do that. And who the hell is she to say that? And then I watch Nancy Pelosi not knowing what to do. I watch, I watch their leadership. Look, Schumer is petrified of primary because he's not going to win probably against anybody in a primary. You know, Schumer did the right thing, but he handled it badly. Originally, a year ago, he did probably the right thing, but he handled it badly. I think Schumer is incapable of making a deal. They are a mess. They're a party that has no leadership. They have. And they have no policy. You know, we have great, we have great, I think we have great leadership, but we also have great policy. Their leadership. Look, Schumer is petrified of primary because he's not going to win probably against anybody in a primary. You know, Schumer did the right thing, but he handled it badly. Originally, a year ago, he did probably the right thing, but he handled it badly. I think Schumer is incapable of making a deal. They are a mess. Yes, they're a party that has no leadership. They have and they have no policy. You know, we have great. We have great. I think we have great leadership, but we also have great policy.
Clay Travis (2:38)
I think he's right. But let's unpack this for a second. The claim from the president that the Democrats don't have leadership right now, I think you'd have to agree with that. To the degree that it is possible for me to be objective on this, which I know is. That's a challenge. Right. Because I am a Republican and don't agree with the Democrats. I understand all that. But trying to take a step back and look at this as honestly as possible. If the Democrats had a day fat like to Taiwan. But the brutal experience of reading Kamala's 107 Days, and it felt like it took 107 days to read. So the title is apt. And really, I think she did not endear herself to anyone in the Democrat Party or the reader. I came away from it thinking this is a person who has never really been tested, has been elevated by the system for superficial characteristics all along. And you have somebody who's just not a talented politician, got way beyond her skill set. And so I don't think that she's going anywhere in politics. Meaning I don't think she's going somewhere. It's off the stage. You have Gavin Newsom. Oh, you've got Pritzker. He's really trying to make a go of things these days. He really believes that he's a big deal. And this is what. This is, the kind of leadership this is. Cut 10. This kind of leadership you get from this guy. He's a jerk. Play it. Donald Trump is using our service members as political props and as pawns in his illegal effort to militarize our nation's cities. For weeks now, Donald Trump, Kristi Noem, and Gregory Bevino have brought their militarized CBP and ICE agents to the streets of Chicago to cause violence and chaos in this city. They need to stop inciting our city's residents. Since the beginning of this invasion, families have been snatched up off the streets or removed from their homes, zip tied and detained for hours, including especially US Citizens and legal residents of our state inciting the people of Chicago. Think about the framing from the governor here, who certainly thinks of himself as a heavyweight. Think of the way that he discusses this. The problem isn't the riots. The problem isn't the lawlessness and the disrespect shown to federal officers. It's that they're there. And Democrats in Chicago are having some kind of collective nervous breakdown in response to it. And so they can't be held accountable for their actions. The real problem here, the real issue is the deployment in the first place. That's a pretty crazy point of view, isn't it? And yet this is the governor of Illinois who certainly thinks of himself as a contender for the Democrat. The mantle of Democrat leadership. Chuck Schumer, as Trump and others have been discussing, he's just trying to hold on because the Democrat party that he has managed to sit atop in different ways for a long time now. He's been involved in this longer than I. That was funny, actually. Funny yesterday we're talking to speaker of the House. He's like, Buck, He's. He's been doing this for almost as long. I'm like, no, dude. Longer than I've been alive, actually. Chuck Schumer. Chuck Schumer has been in the Senate longer than I have been on this earth. So that tells you something. But this is where we are now. Chuck Schumer running for cover. He knows the radical left fringe of his party is ascendant and they can't stop it. There's no. This is the thing. They can't reason with their left wing base any more than we can because they're lunatics. And so by definition, there's no way. There's no common ground to have with them. The only thing that they can do is try to keep them at bay long enough to fool enough voters to. To keep the Democrat seats in more purplish areas and to try this. This is the game every election cycle. Democrats, to win enough votes, to have power, have to pretend that they're not actually Democrats. It's certainly what's going on with Alison, whatever her name is in Virginia. And by the way, it might as well be whatever her name is, her last name, because her whole game is nobody knows anything about this lady. Really. Like, what does she stand for? Me, I don't know. Democrat lady. That's about all we know. You know, Spanberger. Spanberger. What does span burger stand for? Well, if you really were to dig into it, it would be probably abortion all nine months of a pregnancy and DEI and transgender stuff and all the. But she doesn't talk about that. The whole game is, I'm so boring and lacking in charisma. How dangerous can I be? And that's what a lot of these Democrats do. They, they put forward this, this trojan horse in the purple states of, well, I'm not one of those AOC Mamdani Democrats. I'm something else. And unfortunately, because a lot of people spend time thinking about their lives and not politics. And I can, I can respect that. I don't, I don't really cast stones. I wish everybody was very informed on these things, but you know, you got lives to lead. And so they, they just, whatever's on the tv, they go, okay, this person seems pretty moderate. And what is a moderate Democrat these days? Chuck Schumer is starting to look like a moderate Democrat these days. Just cuz he's not insane. I mean, he's bad news, but he's not as loony as some of these others and he's maybe gonna lose his job because of it. So we go back to the initial question or the initial premise by President Trump, who is the leader of the Democrat Party. This is the first time in a long time there has not been an. Nobody would have asked that question, obviously for the eight years of Obama. And if it wasn't Obama, the answer was Clinton. And somehow, believe it or not, when the answer wasn't Clinton, the answer became Biden. So there has been a leader of the Democrat Party for a long time now. And I would argue that in the Bush years, even the answer was still Clinton for a lot of people. That's why that show the West Wing where that half wit Martin Sheen plays the like brilliant scholar president. It was really just this stealth presidency for libs during the Bush years. And I remember I was in the CIA at the time. And so yeah, I would flip this thing on sometimes. I'm like, oh, this is where the, where the libs get to feel safe and warm. Oh, look at this president. He has a PhD in economics and he likes baseball just like all the Democrats. These, you know, that was, it was their fantasy land, their Aaron Sorkin provided fantasy land presidency. But we've always known who the leader is. We've always known who the, who the top dog is in the Democrat Party until now because there isn't one. And Trump is just pointing that out. He's. Wait, what did I say? Yeah, Abigail Spanberg. I got her name right, didn't I? It took me a minute. Oh, did I? Oh, I said, there you go. That's how memorable she is. Allison Abigail. Potato, potato, whatever. Yeah, Abigail Spanberger. Man, she really stands for a lot, you know. No, no idea. She's just hoping that enough Virginians get their politics from having like the drone of CNN on in the background. And then, you know, when they're watching who Wants to be a Millionaire and there's some political ads running that say oh, she's going to do great things for the schools and she's going to help working families. Just the pablum, the milk toast. Like, the way the Democrats win in purple states is like, it's like they smother you with a boring pillow of. It'll be fine. You know, she's not going to do anything crazy and you just go, oh, okay, how bad can it be? And at some level, by the way, this was the, the Biden play in 2020. Good old Joe. He's so old. He's so old and, and, and kind of feeble. How dangerous can he be? Well, very, as we saw, because he wasn't calling the shots. The left wing activists around him were the ones calling the shots. So in a sense, the answer to the part, the question, who's the leader of the Democrat Party? Is. Well, because they're leftists and increasingly commies, it's really a collective, you could say there is no one leader. There are a bunch of different people who adhere to an ideology of collectivism and they like the committee, if you will. They're like the Committee for the Undermining and Destruction of America. That's what the, that's the leader of the Democrat Party. Other than that, you can put in a bunch of different names. You know, you can look at narcissistic individuals like Newsom and Pritzker. And you know, the thing about someone like Pritzker is I know people say, oh, he's a billionaire. Guys like, has he ever had a. I know he's the governor now, but let's be honest, anybody can do these jobs, right? This is one thing that we've learned in this new era of politics. It's hard to get some of these jobs. You need a lot of money, you need a lot of name recognition. But doing it, I don't know. And look at some of these people who have had these jobs. Has Pritzker ever done a hard day's work? Is really the question. And no, I don't mean like in the gym. I mean in general, has he ever done a hard day's work? I don't think so. Does he have any understanding whatsoever? Oh, people will say, but how dare you. Look at Trump. He grew up also very privileged. Everything else. Yeah, but people who do hard days work like him, and he seems to understand them and have a kinship with them. And you can't fake that because the people who do the hard days work can tell. They know John Kerry tried it. A lot of others have tried it. Oh, I'M just like you. I'm like, hello, fellow working class people. Look at my Carhartt jacket. Like it doesn't work. It doesn't work. Somehow Trump is different and we all know that. Look, I'll take your calls here, 800-282-2882. Do you think who is the leader of the Democrat Party? I put that question out to you. Trump says there isn't one. I tend to agree with him. I think right now, if we were ranking them, I go, wow, this is like, this isn't, this is not a fun list. You know, this is like ranking painful medical procedures or something. I go, gavin Newsom, number one slot. I go, I might put AOC at number two. And I know she's not senior in that, but she's power. She's more powerful than these other Democrats. She just is. Please, you think if Pritzker and AOC go head to head, I mean, she's gonna, she's gonna smoke that guy. So, yeah, we'll see. Let me know what you think. 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