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And I got a lot of news to talk to you all about. Here we have. Oh, boy. Few things. First of all, let's start with the happy. We mentioned this. Top of the show, U.S. men's hockey team gold medal in the Olympics. Yay. Very exciting. A lot of patriotism, a lot of usa. The player who had his tooth broken by the stick and stayed in the game. And I think he did. He scored the winning goal too, didn't he? It's a crazy story with half of his tooth missing front tooth as well. Like, there's different. Some. Some teeth you can. You can get chipped or knocked out and you're like, that's not great. But the front teeth, it's that. That's the. But he stayed in there. Those hockey guys are tough, I gotta say. You don't want to fight hockey guys that, that I know even if they're retired or whatever, you don't wanna mess with the hockey guys. And then you got. What else happening over the weekend? The. We talked about the military operation that took out El Mencho. The Jalisco cartel. Jalisco New generation cartel guy. And yep, that happened. Let me see. Jack Hughes, they're saying, yeah, Jack Hughes, that's a. Guy's a tough dude. So anyway, there's a cartel guy got taken out of the weekend. $15 million bounty on his head. I guess the Mexican military doesn't get to collect that. But they really wanted him. They took him out. A gunman at Mar a Lago, about an hour from where I am here, up north. Gunman from Mar a Lago shot and killed, entered the grounds had a shotgun. Assuming Secret Service said halt, he didn't halt. And that was all. That was all that went down there. And so we've got that another threat against President Trump, something that I thought was. Was worth revisiting, though, from last week. So we got those big news stories about the gold medal shooting at Mar A Lago, Mexican cartel leader taken out. But then last week we had that Supreme Court decision, and Trump was, to put it mildly, unhappy with the 6:3 decision that went against him in the Supreme Court. Learning Resources Incorporated v. Trump International Emergency Powers act, ieepa, as we call it, does not authorize him to impose these tariffs, they said. Well, Trump, in a press conference shortly afterward, said that this was deeply disappointing. He said he was ashamed of certain members of the court, ashamed for not having the courage to do what's right for our country. He thanked the justices in. He thanked the justices or sorry, he personally attacked some of the justices, said that they were disloyal and unpatriotic fools and lap dogs. Whoa. And said the ruling was terrible and ridiculous. But he announced that he would work around the ruling using other legal authorities. He signed off on a new temporary 10% global tariff under section 122 of the Trade act of 1974. Just went to a different statute, a different authority for this. He posted about this on Truth Social, by the way, you can read some of this off of Truth Social if you want. Then the next day, he raised the tariff to the global tariff to 15%, called the Supreme Court's opinion ridiculous, poorly written and extraordinarily anti American. He praised dissenting Justices Kavanaugh, Thomas and Alito for wanting to make America great again. So Trump was annoyed by it, but he's not stopping and he's not stopping the tariffs either. And Scott Besant, his very capable Secretary of the treasury, who I think has become one of the most impressive members of the Trump cabinet. I think that Bessen has really shown, first of all, just look at the way the economy and people can say, oh, it's not like the treasury secretary is responsible for it all, okay? But if the economy was trash, don't you think we'd all be hearing about how terrible Scott Besant was? If inflation was going through the roof, don't you think we'd be hearing about how terrible Trump and Bessant were on this? So maybe you get more credit when the things are good and you get more blame when things are bad, but that's the way it goes. Besant has presided over a Very strong economy, very rapidly growing economy. But on the Supreme Court ruling, he had some, some very straightforward analysis of all this. This is cut 22, and here's what he had to say. Play 22.

Scott Bessant (8:18)

It's very interesting that the Supreme Court said that the president can't raise $1 of revenue with tariffs, but he can't put on a full embargo. So they reaffirmed his ability to block all trade. He just cannot accept $1 for the trade. And I will tell you, like the tariff revenues, they have come into the Treasury. But more importantly, the ultimate goal of tariffs is rebalancing trade and bringing our trade deficits into balance. We've seen our goods sector, the deficit with our trading partners, drop by 17%. We've seen our bilateral deficit with China drop substantially. And we are seeing trillions of investments and factories coming back to the US because of the tariffs.

Buck Sexton (9:02)

So the policy overall seems to have worked very well. If you look at it from the perspective of what will benefit the American economy and looking at what they wanted to have happen once they put these in place in calendar year 2025, tariffs were $264 billion. That's some real money, friends. Some say it's actually more like $287 billion in customs duty, taxes and fees altogether. So this is a lot of money that came in. And yet the economy was still strong. Unemployment, inflation, growth, all these things, wages, things are going well. Now, the one place where people have been citing challenges is on affordability and high prices. High prices, as we know, were kicked into place by the worst economic decision making imaginable during COVID some of which occurred on Trump's watch, but would have very quickly been turned around. But then Biden came in and did a whole lot of crazy stuff, spending trillions of dollars completely unnecessarily, after we had already seen that Covid was not something we should have shut down the economy for, shut down schools for, and everything else. But, yeah, if you're going to just tell people not to work and print trillions of dollars, you're going to inflate your currency and you're going to have problems. So none of that was, was a surprise. I think all of that exactly lined up the way that we would have assumed. But Trump inherited those high prices. As president, he's trying to deal with it. He doesn't sit around whining about it, but he's trying to deal with it. And that is going to take some time. But in the meantime, there are a lot of things That I think are going exactly the way that he would like them to with regard to the economy. And the Supreme Court ruling to me seemed very much like the justices in the majority. Well, there are a few justices who just hate Trump and anything that he does, they're going to oppose. Pretty much, we know who they are. And then there are a few other justices, notably Roberts, but also Kagan and in this case, I'm sorry, Gorsuch and Coney Barrett, who are institutionalists for the court at some level, they believe in keeping the public's, whatever that means to them, view of the court favorable. And I think that they stepped in here and I think they make political decisions. They go, well, we're going to knock him down on this one because some of the other ones that are coming down the pipeline, Clay and I talked about this last week. I think it's correct, I think it's true. Some of the other ones coming down the pipeline are going to go Trump's way and there are going to be people who are very unhappy, very unhappy about that. But on this tariff issue, they are saying, yes, he can embargo, he can shut down all trade, but he cannot. He can regulate it, but he can't take a dollar. Isn't that interesting? The interstate commerce clause has been used in so many abusive ways for government overreach, all under the idea that regulate means, you know, you can do like whatever you want. Regulate means, oh, it's crossing state lines, we can do whatever we want. And yet on this one, regulate cannot mean imposing any kind of a tariff, import duty, whatever you want to call it. Scott Bessant spoke about this. Again, this is cut 23 and he talked more about the plan continues, just like Trump's view of this. They're not stopping, they're not slowing this down. Play 23.

Scott Bessant (12:58)

I want to point to what we're doing. The president, the administration remains undeterred in reshoring American factories and getting rid of these massive trade imbalances. That's the big story here, is that we are immediately going to go to Section 122 tariffs and that the revenue for the U.S. treasury for 2026, the projections are unchanged.

Buck Sexton (13:26)

So he's saying they march along as expected on this one and they're going to keep pushing in the same direction because despite what everyone in the so called economic or economist intelligentsia had said, it did not destroy the economy, it did not create out of control prices. All these things. The parade of horribles that we were told would result from this did not happen. And so you would think that would be indicative of, well, maybe Trump's onto something here. And he has been on so many of these things. I remember in the first Trump administration the desire that Trump had not only to change trade with China, but to renegotiate nafta. And all these people who were supposedly experts were saying, that's crazy, that's crazy. Of course it's not crazy. NAFTA was negotiated in the 90s. The Internet was barely a thing. Plenty of reason to look at the trade agreements that we have with neighboring countries and redo them. And so he was fundamentally correct on that. And in dealing with China, there was the collective wisdom, communist wisdom. The general consensus was if you do anything to China on trade, you're going to antagonize them and cause all these problems for the United States. Meanwhile, they were antagonizing us. We were in a trade war. It was just a one way trade war, China against us. And we were sitting here like, we're free trade. We don't do that. Well, hold on a second. It's not free trade. If they're not free trade, it just means that they're taking advantage of us. Trump fundamentally understood that power dynamic and took the necessary action to deal with it. So, so effectively, I might add, that the Biden administration pretty much continued on with Trump policies on China on trade. So not that Biden was really awake long enough to know what was going on. Point is, I think that he earned the leeway to let him cook, as they say, as the kids say these days, let him cook, let Trump cook. And I think that he's doing a good job with this specifically. And he knows what's going to be to our benefit. And fine. They don't like the authority he was using. Now he's using a different authority. He's pointing. They've already cited what the statute is. They're going to use that statute and they're going to keep going. And I think that it's going to be to the benefit of this country. You're not alone if you're continuing to think the people of Israel, think about the people of Israel and how they've adapted to life after all the attacks in their communities these past few years. We as a nation care about the Israeli people. They are our steadfast allies in the Middle east. And many of our families have direct connections to people living in Israel. Today, even outside of Israel, we see anti Semitic sentiment on the rise of at a time when Jewish communities are experiencing more hostility more threats and more violence than ever. Christians have a powerful opportunity to say you are not alone. When Christians choose to bless Israel, you're not taking a political stand, you're honoring the root of your faith and standing against hatred. Supporting Israel is more than a belief, and by partnering with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, the ifcj, an organization doing so much for so many Israeli Israelis in need, you're empowering the IFCJ to help those in Israel. Go online today. Visit ifcj.org again. That's ifcj.org you'll be amazed at all they are accomplishing with our donations.

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in here to play and Buck. Just as I was talking to you in the last half hour or so about the escalation from the Trump administration in the fight against the cartels and everything going on to our south with stopping the importation of drugs, mostly fentanyl but also cocaine, heroin and others into this country, there has been another strike, another narco terrorist boat blown up in the Caribbean. Today, the US Southern Command put out the following oh, there's a video of it here too. I'm gonna watch the video while I tell you about this. On February 23rd at the direction of Southcom commander General Donovan. Whoa. That boat is gone. Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by designated terrorist organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was. Let me see what it says here. Transiting along no narco trafficking routes in the Caribbean, was engaged in narco trafficking operations. Three male narco terrorists were killed in this action. No US Military were harmed. Yeah, I've got a video if you can see the strike. Yep. That just. So that just. We just blew up another narco boat. I was talking about that, that just happened today. So we are very much. The US Government and the Secretary of War are very much continuing on with this war on drugs. I'm just going to tell you something. If a Democrat wins the next election, just get ready for this, they're going to switch it back to secretary of defense 100% and then it'll be this thing that kind of the next, you know, do we, do we switch it back? Do we switch it back? The next administration, if it's a Democrat administration, will say we're back to Secretary of Defense. I, I can almost guarantee you now, I don't, I hope we won't have the next administration be Democrats, but I can tell, I've started to see more in articles, too. They'll say Pentagon Chief Hegseth, who refers to himself as the Secretary of War. You know, they just see, they don't like, they don't like that there's been a change in, in the nomenclature of our military. They, they very much are bothered by this and they're bothered by the fact that the military is not focused on DEI and on trans surgeries and all this other stuff that had become really an oppressive part of the HR culture in the Pentagon. I can tell you it wasn't the CIA. My friends in the CIA, all the, all the DEI woke stuff was all over that, that building, too. Anyway, back to the strike here. We blew up another narco boat. We're going to keep doing this, it seems. Oh, something else also. I mean, President Trump is going to have to pardon his. He's got to pardon a number of senior military officials, not because they've broken law or done anything wrong, but I think the next administration would come in and possibly try them over some of this. Just saying what I think is likely to happen. So you're going to see a whole range, I would assume, before Trump leaves office of Pardons for senior officials in the Pentagon because they are very hell bent on convincing people that these are, these are unlawful targets that are being hit and that these are war crimes. So just get ready for that. Too. They really tried very hard to take Pete Hegset down before his, during the confirmation and after his confirmation, they have been unsuccessful. And I can tell you something. New York Times, Washington Post, these kinds of entities, whatever's left of them now, it just burns them up that they have not been able to, to, to ruin the Secretary of War, take him, take him out of his job in some capacity. But he's gonna stay on it. He's gonna stay on the war against these narco traffickers. Most of us don't realize how much sleep quality is affected by something as simple as our sheets. Temperature, softness, breathability. 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For Trump and his co defendants in a case that did not result in guilty Verdicts. The ruling can be appealed. Trump and the Justice Department oppose the public release. First Amendment advocacy groups and media outlets pushed in Cannons Court for release. Yeah, no surprise there. Smith charged Trump in 2023 with 40 counts. Little trip down memory lane. 40 counts of illegally retaining classified defense information and obstructing government efforts to retrieve the materials. Two of Trump's personal aides were charged with obstruction alongside him. 40 counts of illegally. I mean, I. It's almost hard to. You go back in time, you think about what they tried to do to Trump and all the stuff they did. You say 40 counts, and that's just that one case, the 35 or 36 counts of the nonsense in New York, all these different judges, rather prosecutors, just completely abdicating their most basic ethical responsibilities, all in the service of politics. And the craziest part of it all is that it helped propel Trump to be president again. The whole thing backfired. I mean, I think that is very clear now. The whole thing backfired on them, thank heavens. I mean, thankfully, that's the way it went. But it is, in retrospect, just stunning that we went through this, that Trump went through this. You know, a lot of people get indicted for minor stuff and they can't sleep at night. You know, they're a wreck, they look gaunt, they lose weight. What's going to happen to me? Trump took four criminal cases in four different criminal cases, all bogus, but he took them in stride. That is pretty amazing. And he took a bullet through the ear, and he took that in stride, too. This guy is. He said that he is built different. There is something very different about him. He is able to keep going and keep pushing forward. Maybe there is something to drinking 15 Diet Cokes a day. I don't know. I like Diet Coke. Trump's got some secret that he could share with all the rest of us. Gavin Newsom, on the other hand. Gavin Newsom, oh, boy. We're going to be talking about him a lot. We're not going to have a choice because he's going to run and he is going to make a lot of noise while he's running. And I think he's probably going to be the Democrat nominee, maybe some other options that come up, but I still think that Gavin Newsom ends up winning. This thing tells you a lot. There's 350 million people in this country, give or take. The best the Democrats can do is this guy. Just so you know, I'm just like all of you. I got a 960 on the SAT and I can't read. Whoa, Gavin. Whoa, buddy. Here he is on cnn. Another issue that he likes to weigh in on. Talking with Dana Bash about the trans athlete issue. This is 29, hit it.

Gavin Newsom (29:51)

There's no doubt that the Democratic Party needs to be, dare I say, more culturally normal. I believe that. Less prone to spending disproportionate amount of time on pronouns, identity politics, more focused on tabletop issues. But I think if you can't hold the line on, on competitive sports, again, sports, it's a, there's some nuance in this larger conversation. But competitive metal sports, if we can't find that nuance, I think we're going to lose a lot of people that aren't. We're not going to get invited into a larger conversation. So I do think we have to be more sensitive in that respect.

Buck Sexton (30:32)

Listen, the way he kind of speaks about the issue, but also dances around the issue. Dudes have an advantage over chicks in sports, ok? That's what we're talking about here. That's obvious. We all know this. And that there is a lunatic 20% of the country, all Democrats who want to pretend like that's not the case is a huge problem for Democrats, at least in national elections. And there's a whole chapter in my book Manufacturing Dilution about this, where we talk about this issue where rather where I write about this issue and, and how it's not a fringe issue to Democrats, it's a critical issue to Democrats because first of all, they have invested so much in this. You have to remember they can't just walk away from this now. They can't just say, oh, yeah, we were wrong about that. Think of all the damage, all the wreckage that has been left as a result of their lunacy. No, they want to keep, they want to keep fighting on this. They want to keep pushing forward on this because they also want to make people bend the knee to whatever madness is mandated. They want to make you agree. They want to make you nod and mouth the preferred slogans whenever they tell you to, however they tell you to, because they know they've got you. Then if they can make you say that a man is a woman or that a man can compete against a woman in sports and there's no disadvantage for the woman. They can get you to say everything, anything, however they want to. And that's the real power that they see. There's also a huge apparatus behind this, this trans agenda stuff of, you know, what happens to like the gay rights movement, for example, all these Entities that were supporting that. Well, then you had Obergefell and then that sort of was that. And now what do all these organizations, entities do? Oh, it has to be on the trans issue. Now, where does a. How does a progressive progress in the realm of gender and race and these things in an America that has gay marriage in all 50 states? And in which, if you actually look at the data on race, there's. There is no. Oh, here we go. There is no legalized systemic racism against non white, non Asian minorities in America. In fact, there are legalized racial benefits for those groups in this country. That's the truth. That's what the Supreme Court just found, which I know also contrary to what we have been told for a very long time, another manufactured delusion out there that the only racism that we could speak about was the kind of ephemeral or, you know, in the ether racism, the bigotry of broad perception all. What about like minority contracting out of D.C. in the government where people pretend that there's some like Alaskan Inuit that is running their contracting company and really it's just a bunch of rich guys who run this thing as. It's just a mess, okay? The whole thing, it's a racial spoil system and it must stop and it's madness. So, yeah, that's another component. That's another component of all this. But Gavin Newsom is. Is going to be out there making his case to the American people and doing everything that he can to appeal to anyone and everyone. And that means he's going to do the, you know, hey, like, I'm cool just like you, and I'm gonna kind of. I'm even gonna change the way I talk a little bit and all of a sudden be a little more street, you know, a little more down to earth. And again, I could tell you that this is going to backfire on him. I don't think it is. I think if anything, Gavin Newsom is. He's willing to say whatever he needs to say to any audience in the moment. And that's what Democrats expect. Actually, this is not. There's a. We often talk about the different

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Buck Sexton (35:06)

cultural themes of being on the right or being on the left in this country. But there's different political cultures, too. Democrats going around. And remember Hillary did her thing when she went to a black church and she spoke and everyone was Democrats doing this thing where they pander. They're expected to pander. Now there are some Republicans who pander a bit, too. I get it. But we're a little more like, you know, slow down on that. And particularly pandering to minorities or different religious groups is something that I think Republicans have less of a, well, tolerance of. Yes, but also we don't, we don't demand it of our politicians. Democrats demand this. You have to play this game. And Gavin Newsom will certainly play it. But when he says that they're going to lose people unless they're willing to say that there's a fundamental issue of fairness in all of this. Yeah, there's also. It's a dude saying he's a chick. This is not right. This is not true. They're lying to you. It's a person with problems. They're lying to you. We all see the lie. And I'm sure you've seen these. This guy was like trying to compete in the Olympics. Powerlifting. It's a large man, says he's a woman, grows his hair out a little bit. Now he's going to compete against women. The whole point of sex segregated sports is we understand that there are massive biological differences. And look, any. Go ask any of your bodybuilder bro friends out there or you know, go online and just see what they have to say about this. You can run, you know, you can. As I say, you, you could pin testosterone at a certain level and it starts to function pretty similarly to steroids. It's not technically like the same as some of these big nasty steroids that bodybuilders will take and people will talk about, but just the hormone in super physiological levels. Testosterone will result in more muscle growth, more strength, these kinds of things. And men have a heck of a lot more testosterone naturally than women do. So it's also. I saw, I think it was. I'm trying to remember who it was shared online. They just finished this big study that found out that men overwhelmingly have a higher sex drive than women do. It's like, I can't believe we're still studying this stuff. It's like 75% of men are more interested in sex more of the time than, than women are. Yeah, that sounds about right. That sounds about right. I think that is, that is definitely the case. But the rejection of basic biology and the enforcement of a sameness over all of us that does not exist. This is also a dream of totalitarian regimes and has been for a long time. You'll notice something. Whether it's in the Soviet Union or in Maoist China, people are men and women dress far more similarly. It's very drab. Part of this is because they don't have the resources to like make nice clothing in those con in those places at the time. But there, there was a huge move toward women doing the same roles as men, women going to the factories alongside men, all of this kind of stuff. It's actually why the Soviet Union had a whole. I'm talking about the Soviet Union, not modern Russia, had a whole universal child care program. Oh yeah, you can read about it. You can check it out. Universal child care. You know, give your. Give your child into the local, you know, commissar facility and then go work in the factory for 10 hours, you and your wife. So there's something about being able to break down the gender differences between us that is really also a form of ultimate control. And also I think that they recognize that for really most people, your immediate and most intense loyalty is to your family and husbands, to wives. And there are gender roles that our society is built on. If they can break those down and replace it with some other framework, some other thing, they can recreate society entirely. That's like a much deeper philosophical view of the collectivist left. But that all comes into play as well with the gender discussion and why they're always doing this gender. And it's not even just the trans thing. It's now it's, you know, non gender, agender, bigender, trigender, whatever this stuff is. So they come up with new stuff every day. All right, Cell phone service is no longer expensive. $120 a month. Bills should be more like $25 a month. And this is where Pure Talk has your back. Switch your cell phone service to Pure Talk and save as much. And save as much as $70 or more a month. Your savings can add up to $800 or more per year. If your current cell phone company is AT and T T Mobile or Verizon. Make the switch and save money while not sacrificing any quality Pure Talk services on the same phone towers and network and has the exact same 5G nationwide service. For $25 a month, PureTalk gives you unlimited talk, text, and plenty of data. 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in here to Clay and Buck closing up the show for the day. Tomorrow Mr. Clay Travis will be back from whatever fun adventures he has been on. He'll be with us. So we'll have the duo doing their thing once again and that'll be great. I am proud of myself for getting through a full three hour radio show today thanks to Imodium, which is not a sponsor of the show but maybe should be. And Pedialyte, which I'm holding up here, which I have to say very good when you need it. When you need Pedialyte, let me tell you, whoo. Stuff comes through for you in a pinch. The cherry flavor, not bad. I mean not great. But when you need it, you need it. So definitely gets the job done. Team. Do we have any? I'm just pulling them up now. Send me if we have any emails or any, any of the talkbacks or any of that stuff. I was trying to get in the end of the show here but we will get to some of that tomorrow I guess with Clay because I did not pull them up in time and we are running short on time. And I will tell you something, you know, you know I'm a big dog guy, love dogs, love dogs. And last night I was like shaking under the covers, 102 fever and obviously told wife and baby, stay at the other end of the house, stay away from me, the whole thing. But Ginger Spice, because dogs and humans don't have the same. They can't catch the cold from you. You can't catch a cold from them. It's different. She usually sleeps right next to mommy, but last night she knew daddy was sick and she came. This little Australian labradoodle, she came and she came snuggled up next to me and was Nurse Ginger Spice. And it was really nice. I have to tell you. It was really nice. Dogs, dogs, brah. Especially when you're sick and your dog curls up to you, it's like, oh, dogs are the best. That's really the wisdom that I have here today. Dogs are amazing. Go, go hug your dog. Take your dog for a nice long walk. Sneak your dog some of his or her favorite treats today. You know, don't worry about, oh, you know, this, this. I'm spoiling my dog. You're never really spoiling the dog. They deserve it. We'll be back tomorrow. It's going to be an amazing show. Oh, go get Manufacturing Delusion. In the meantime, this fantastic book which we have to get on the New York Times bestseller list or else people will be sad, most notably me. And it is also a great book as people are finding out. Go give it a review on Amazon and I'm going to go hydrate and talk to you all tomorrow.

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