Team 47 - 100 Days of Trump

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Podcast Summary: The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Episode: Team 47 - 100 Days of Trump
Release Date: May 4, 2025
Host: Clay Travis and Buck Sexton
Guest Speakers: Vice President J.D. Vance and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller

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1. Introduction

In this episode of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, hosts Clay Travis and Buck Sexton delve into the first 100 days of the Trump administration's second term, focusing on key areas such as border security, judicial challenges, government spending reforms, and economic policies. The episode features in-depth interviews with Vice President J.D. Vance and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who provide insights into the administration's strategies and achievements.

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2. Interview with Vice President J.D. Vance

A. Balancing Official Duties and Personal Interests

Timestamp [03:33] - [04:43]
Clay Travis opens the conversation with Vance by referencing the Ohio State Buckeyes' national championship win coinciding with his inauguration. Vance shares how he managed to balance his official responsibilities with his passion for watching the game:

Vance (04:11): "We turned the big hotel room into a sports bar. So I was able to watch the first quarter before the first ball... I sat in a room with a 19-inch TV and watched the Buckeyes put it away."

B. Border Security Achievements and Future Plans

Timestamp [04:43] - [07:10]
Vance highlights a significant 95% reduction in illegal border crossings compared to the previous administration, attributing this success to Trump's policies:

Vance (05:23): "The good news is you can sit here and tell us, but Clay and I have been telling everybody about this. So far the border is secure, a 95% drop. The stats speak for themselves."

He outlines plans to build on these successes by ramping up deportations and combating illegal immigration, despite facing resistance from "far-left judges."

C. Judicial Resistance and Legal Strategies

Timestamp [07:10] - [09:44]
Discussing the antagonistic stance of approximately 600 district court judges who are blocking executive actions, Vance explains the administration's approach:

Vance (07:36): "We're fighting it legally, of course, we're taking some of these cases to the Supreme Court. We're finding alternative methods to do what we need to do in compliance with the law."

He emphasizes the need to persistently challenge judicial obstacles to implement immigration policies effectively.

D. Government Waste, Fraud, and DOGE's Role

Timestamp [09:44] - [12:00]
Vance addresses efforts to identify and eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse within the government through initiatives like DOGE (assumed to be an acronym for a government reform entity):

Vance (10:18): "DOGE is making a lot of progress, but it's not done. We're shutting down the border traffic and dealing with what Biden left us simultaneously."

He acknowledges the role of Congress in rescissions and the necessity of continual effort to combat entrenched governmental inefficiencies.

E. Protecting Women's Sports and Cultural Issues

Timestamp [12:00] - [14:38]
Vance discusses the administration's stance on preventing men from competing in women's sports, framing it as a protection of women's rights and safety:

Vance (12:44): "It's basic common sense... people don't want women competing against grown men in sports, especially in some of these contact sports where the women could get injured."

He criticizes corporate involvement in transgender issues, exemplified by studies funded by companies like Nike, and underscores a broader cultural rebellion against progressive policies.

F. Economic Policies and Tariffs

Timestamp [14:38] - [17:33]
Vance defends Trump's tariff policies as essential for economic independence and security:

Vance (15:12): "We don't have enough manufacturing in our own country... President Trump is exactly right that we have to get out of it."

He argues that reducing reliance on China through tariffs will not only create jobs but also safeguard critical industries and supplies.

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3. Interview with Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller

A. Supporting Secretary Rubio and Multipronged Leadership

Timestamp [22:14] - [23:43]
Miller discusses Secretary Rubio's expanded roles, highlighting his effectiveness in managing multiple high-stakes positions:

Miller (23:29): "Marco is that rare combination of talent where he has the soft skills, the diplomacy and the ability to forge deals, but also the hard skills."

He praises Rubio's handling of migration and international negotiations, attributing the administration's strength to such capable leadership.

B. First 100 Days Achievements and Battling the Deep State

Timestamp [22:52] - [29:27]
Miller elaborates on the administration's achievements in its first 100 days, focusing on dismantling agencies like USAID, which he refers to as a "communist slush fund":

Miller (26:14): "President Trump inherited a historic mandate... he's moving with such force, intention and speed to fulfill his mandate and his promise to the American people."

He emphasizes the strategy of "shock and awe" to confront entrenched bureaucratic resistance and the importance of swift action to prevent opposition from organizing effective resistance.

C. Government Spending Cuts and Rescissions

Timestamp [29:55] - [32:31]
Addressing government waste, Miller outlines the methods for reducing unnecessary spending through executive actions and the role of Congress in rescissions:

Miller (30:30): "A lot of these savings are self-executing automatic... you don't need to go to Congress. That all happens automatically."

He details how eliminating federal positions and repealing unauthorized programs will lead to substantial long-term savings for taxpayers.

D. Immigration Enforcement and Deportations

Timestamp [32:31] - [38:13]
Miller discusses the administration's intensified efforts to enforce immigration laws, including mass deportations and collaboration with state and local law enforcement:

Miller (35:47): "We're ramping up many other efforts... enrolling state and local law enforcement nationwide in assisting and supporting the deportation effort."

He highlights the anticipated increase in removal numbers as strategies come into full effect and underscores the ongoing legal battles to facilitate these actions.

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4. Economic Impact and Future Projections

A. Investment Commitments and Job Creation

Timestamp [39:26] - [42:15]
The hosts and guests discuss the administration's successful acquisition of over $5 trillion in investment commitments from major corporations like Apple, Nvidia, TSMC, OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank. These investments are projected to generate approximately 451,000 new high-paying jobs, surpassing the investment achievements of the previous Biden administration.

B. Polling and Political Strategy

Timestamp [42:19] - [46:50]
The conversation shifts to polling and political strategy, with Vance and Miller expressing confidence that focusing on long-term policies rather than short-term polling will benefit the administration. They anticipate sustained or increased popularity for Trump, citing economic successes and effective policy implementations as driving factors.

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5. Notable Quotes

• Vance on Border Security:
  "[05:23] "So far the border is secure, a 95% drop. The stats speak for themselves."

• Vance on Judicial Challenges:
  "[07:36] We're fighting it legally... we're taking some of these cases to the Supreme Court."

• Vance on Women's Sports:
  "[12:44] "It's basic common sense... people don't want women competing against grown men in sports."

• Miller on Government Waste:
  "[30:30] "A lot of these savings are self-executing automatic... you don't need to go to Congress."

• Miller on Deep State Strategy:
  "[26:14] "President Trump inherited a historic mandate... fulfilling his promise to the American people."

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6. Conclusion

The episode provides a comprehensive overview of the Trump administration's first 100 days, highlighting significant strides in border security, economic policy, and government reform. Vice President J.D. Vance and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller offer detailed accounts of the strategies employed to overcome bureaucratic resistance and implement key policies. The discussion underscores a commitment to long-term national interests over immediate political considerations, positioning the administration to achieve its broader objectives in the coming months.

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Note: This summary excludes non-content segments such as advertisements, intros, and outros to focus solely on the substantive discussions and insights shared by the guests.

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Team 47 with clay and Buck starts now. Hundred days of the Trump Vance administration. And we are joined now by Vice President J.D. vance. And we're gonna get into all the successes, the border and more. But, J.D. i don't know if you've answered this question, but on the first day of your administration, Ohio State won the national championship against Notre Dame, but you had a ton of obligations as the newly inaugurated vice president. Do you have, like an official Buckeye guy who was following you around that day, giving you updates during the course of the game? I know you're a big fan. I've actually, I wondered about it that night. I don't know if you've answered it. I would have. If my University of Tennessee ever gets back in the. In the title game, I would be terrified to miss any of it. What was your play there for national title game day as a Buckeye?

[J.D. Vance]

Yes. There are a couple different things going on. So first, I actually talked to my team about whether it would be possible to skip the inaugural balls so that I would be able to go to the game and actually, you know, I guess we'd get inaugurated, we'd go to a few parties, and then I'd be able to watch the game while the president took care of the inaugural balls. The team was not a huge fan of that. Apparently it would have been unprecedented for the vice president to skip the inaugural balls the night of the inauguration. What we were able to do, though, is before the first ball, I actually had all of my friends and family. We got. Basically we turned the big hotel room into a sports bar.

[Clay Travis]

And.

[J.D. Vance]

And so I was able to watch the first quarter before the first ball. And then I think it was either right after the second or the third ball, Notre Dame started to come back a little bit. And so I sat in a room with like a 19 inch TV and just sort of watched the Buckeyes put it away. So I got to see a little bit of it, man. But yeah, it's, it's, it's on the one hand, like, what a cool day for an Ohio State fan to be inaugurated as a vice president and have your team win the national championship. On the other hand, was sad to miss most of the game, but, you know, official duties come first.

[Clay Travis]

JD I was also happy to see Vice President Vance, very happy to see my beloved Buckeyes do so well. I want to ask you, I want to ask you about the, about the border if I can, and what's going on with the administration on. Well, let's, let's get into the next steps. The good news is you can sit here and tell us, but Clay and I have been telling everybody about this. So far the border is secure, a 95% drop. The stats speak for themselves. Biden kicked the border wide open. It was a choice. Trump has actually secured the border. Fantastic. We still have millions and millions of illegals who came in under Biden. What should we expect from the perspective of building on the border successes so far in the next six to 12 months?

[J.D. Vance]

Yeah, well, obviously we know we have to ramp up, deport deportations. And the president talks about this all the time, both in public and private. It's something that I'm very focused on. And a lot of this comes down to. I mean, it turns out we've got to do some battle with some really crazy far left judges in order to allow the administration to do what it actually needs to do. And I will say to great credit, the president expected this. When we came in, he said, you know, we're going to start deporting people and a lot of these far left judges are going to stop us and there's no way out of it but through it. And we're just going to have to battle. We're going to have to win the court cases, we're going to have to take some of this stuff all the way to the Supreme Court and we're going to have to find alternative ways to deport people. When the judges say, you can't do this method, we're going to have to find another method. So we recognize that we're dealing battle here or doing battle with basically a massive bureaucracy that has decided that it rules the country rather than the American people. And I think one of the biggest takeaways of the 100 days is, yes, we've got a lot of successes. We've also revealed ways in which this deeply entrenched bureaucracy tries to fight the will of the American people. And thank God we've got a vice president and a president who are pushing back against it. And that's exactly what we told the American people we would do. That's exactly what we're doing. But I think that is really the biggest focal point of immigration policy over the next six to 12 months is to empower all of the people in the administration, from Tom Homan and Kristi Noem to the Border Patrol agents on the ground to do their job and to Get a lot of these people out of our country. Now, that said, we have had great success, but we're not resting on our laurels here. We're shutting down the border traffic coming into the country, and we're dealing with what Biden left us simultaneously. That's exactly what we have to do.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You're not only an Ohio State grad, you're also a Yale Law grad. And you just talked about where the Resistance 2.0, I would say, is coming from, largely the 600 some odd district court judges who are regularly putting in place nationwide injunctions. What's a fix to that? And are even you surprised by how aggressive the judiciary has been to try to strip the president's executive authority?

[J.D. Vance]

You know, I'm not surprised by it because, again, the president actually expected this. He told us this would happen. You know, he felt, and I think he was right about this, that, you know, the left felt defeated in a certain way, that there were a lot of, you know, grassroots activists that just weren't nearly as fired up in 2024 as they were in 2016. And he's talking about people on the far left, but he said that, look, the courts are going to try to stop everything that we do. And it's actually not just immigration. I mean, the courts have tried to stop Pete Hegseth from not allowing, you know, transgender military personnel to continue serving. They've done a lot. I mean, which goes to the heart of military readiness, right? The Secretary of Defense saying that, you know, if you're dealing with a serious mental health issue, our compassion goes with you, but you can't be deployed to the battlefield. Like, that is the heart of the President and the Secretary of Defense's authorities. And so you have these district courts who really want to run the country and have decided that they are actually in charge of the United States of America. There's this very funny, I think, headline from the Babylon Bee that was, you know, something like, donald Trump considers resigning to become a very powerful district court judge. But it's one of these jokes with a colonel of truth, which is that the district courts in this country have tried to take upon themselves powers that belong to the President, United States. And it's funny, guys. You know, you hear the media and they'll say, well, this is a constitutional crisis. And the constitutional crisis is not Donald Trump refusing to allow the district courts to govern the country. The crisis is the district courts trying to govern the country. And our approach is we're fighting it legally, of course, we're taking some of these cases to the Supreme Court. And we think we're going to get success there. We're finding alternative methods to do what we need to do in compliance with the law. And we're just going to have to keep on fighting this, you know, day by day, figuring out where the district courts. And it's to be clear, it's not all district courts, it's the far left crazies. But when these far left crazies stop in and try to prevent the president from doing his job, we've got to do it through alternative means. And that's what we're trying to do.

[Clay Travis]

We're speaking of Vice President Vance and Mr. Vice President, let me ask you about how, how things are going at this stage with not just identifying the waste, fraud and abuse within the government, a big mission that DOGE has taken upon itself, but what we can expect. Now, how much of this do you think has been completed when it look, when you look at Elon and Doge's mission, does Congress have to play a major role with rescissions? Essentially, we know there's a lot of shenanigans going on, but how do we actually get the shenanigans in government spending to stop? Where are we on that?

[J.D. Vance]

Yeah, I think we're making a lot of progress. I wouldn't say that it's done by any means. And yes, Congress has a role because here's what happens if Doge and Elon find $10 billion of spending. That's just ridiculous. That's not consistent with the law or with the administration's policy priorities. That money just kind of sits there. And so it's still been taxed from the American people. And if we want to use it to pay down debt or to give it back to the American people through tax relief, then that does require an act of Congress. And I think Congress is very willing to do it. But I don't know if you saw I think it was today or maybe yesterday, a report came out that treasury actually is borrowing less money than they expected to borrow. And I think that's because of the success of doge. You're seeing them make meaningful cuts in some of these crazy foreign aid programs. But I also think they're finding a lot of fraud in programs that are meant for American citizens that are going either to illegal aliens or to complete fraudsters. And so I think Doge is making a lot of progress, but it's not done. And I don't think it's ever going to be truly done. Right. This is One of these problems that we have to continually fight against, and the reason why it was such a shock to the system is we had allowed the waste and the fraud to become so endemic in the way that we did government in this country. And I don't think we should ever go back. And I actually do think, and maybe this is too optimistic, that when all the political controversy is cleared, we look back on this, a few years from now, we're going to realize that Doge saved the American people a lot of money, that it cut a lot of fraud out of our government, and that even some Democrats are going to say, well, we have to keep doing this because we can't just let hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud every single year become part of how the U.S. government functions.

[Ryan Seacrest]

We're talking to Vice President J.D. vance. You guys have made tremendous strides with young men. The data continues to reflect that young men are breaking for both you and Donald Trump in big numbers. I think a big part of that is because young men are over this idea of men being able to play women's sports. I can't believe this is even a thing. Um, Nike, you may have seen, recently paid for a study on minors to, to study trans drugs and how it might impact athletics. How did the world get so broken here? What are companies like Nike even trying to accomplish? And this feels like an 80, 20, 90, 10 issue for Americans. Do you feel that when you're out and about?

[J.D. Vance]

I do feel that. I definitely think it's a winning political issue for the Republican Party because it's just basic common sense, right? I mean, people don't want women competing against grown men in sports, especially in some of these contact sports where the women could get injured. You know, I'm the father of a three year old daughter. I'd like her to play sports. I think it teaches valuable life lessons. But I don't want her competing against grown men when she does it. This is just, again, it's basic common sense. I think it's the basic masculine instinct to protect young women. And one of the ways you do that is to not let a male boxer in the room with a female boxer. Just things like that I think have turned it into a 9010 issue, that basic common sense. But man, I think that so many of these companies, Nike or otherwise, they got caught up in this cultural zeitgeist of 2020, 2021, and it's like, I don't know, maybe they just thought the progressives were going to win and so they decided to fund this stuff to the hilt, not realizing that the American people would have a rebellion against the craziness. I think that rebellion on the trans issue in particular, I mean, think about this. Giving hormonal therapies to 12 year old kids, causing irreversible damage to their bodies, forcing young girls to compete against boys in sports, sometimes causing serious injury in the process. I think this issue is such a bad loser among the American people that even some of the true believers have dropped it as a political issue. But I think it's our job to remind the American people this is what they've tried to do, this is what they're promising to do. The trans issue hasn't gone away. You just had some Democrats who are smart enough to recognize it's a political loser. But yeah, they're going to try to force 12 year olds to take cross sex hormones and they're going to try to force young girls to compete against young boys. If we give these guys power. The craziness, in other words, hasn't gotten away. They've just gotten a little bit better at hiding it.

[Clay Travis]

Mr. Vice President, one more for you. Appreciate you making the time for us today. The tariffs issue is something that has gotten a lot of attention on this show across the country for obvious reasons. People are very attuned to what the Trump negotiations with these countries and his approach to China is doing to the economy, the market, prices, everything. Wall Street Journal being a little salty about it today on their front page. What do you say to anyone who is trying to steer Donald Trump away from this course because they're a little nervous about the tariff situation?

[J.D. Vance]

So I've had so many conversations, guys, in private with the President about this and I think his public statements, I mean, going Back to the 1980s, this is an issue that he feels very deeply about. I happen to think that he's right. He campaigned on it, the American people elected him on it. And there's a lot of misinformation out there. There's a lot of people saying, well, Donald Trump doesn't know what he's actually doing. Look, I promise you, I've spent many hours discussing these issues with Donald Trump. You can disagree with him, but he knows exactly what he's doing. And here's the fundamental problem. America doesn't produce enough of its own stuff. That is the issue. We don't have enough manufacturing in our own country. We're too reliant on sometimes hostile foreign powers to make the things that we need. And that's true in electronics. It's true in technology. It's true. And God forbid we've had shortages of critical pharmaceuticals in this country over the last few years. We cannot have a real successful, prosperous country if we're dependent on the communist Chinese for the drugs that we put into the bodies of our children. And so what the President has said here is, yes, this is going to be disruptive, yes, this is going to require some transition. But he's fundamentally committed to the basic process of manufacturing more in the United States, creating good paying jobs in the process, but more fundamentally making America more self reliant. And, and I think the problem is that we had a bipartisan consensus in this country for 40 years that we could just ship all of our heavy industry overseas, that we could ship a lot of our good jobs overseas, a lot of our factories, and that somehow that would make the United States more prosperous. I think the reality is that it's made us weaker, it's made us more dependent on the communist Chinese. And when you see, for example, the Chinese respond to the President's trade policy by saying, well, we're going to cut off the United States from critical supplies that are necessary for the American people, doesn't that just prove that Donald Trump was right? How did we ever get into the position where the People's Republic of China could threaten the American people with the loss of critical supplies? And given that we are in that position, Donald Trump is exactly right that we have to get out of it. I'm not going to tell you it's going to be easy because it's not. But it's necessary. And I think the President recognizes he is a once in a generation opportunity to do it.

[Ryan Seacrest]

J.D. vance, Vice President of the United States, congratulations on the first hundred days and your Ohio State Buckeyes being the national champs. We hope to talk to you again soon. Keep up the good work.

[J.D. Vance]

Thanks guys. Take care.

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We are joined by Deputy White House Chief Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, one of the sharpest minds in this White House, the policy maestro extraordinaire. Stephen, great to have you back on the program.

[N/A]

Thank you. Appreciate that very generous introduction. I promise I'm not paying him anything for those kind words.

[Clay Travis]

Well, we know that a man who loves the movie Bloodsport as much as you do has fantastic taste and and is a wise fellow. So let's start with this.

[N/A]

Bloodsport is a metaphor for life. If you want to understand how to succeed in life, just watch that movie and you'll get it.

[Clay Travis]

I totally agree. Van Damme's Finest. No question about that. There's some reporting out there, Stephen, that you may also be taking on wearing another hat, so to speak, with National Security Advisor. Can you give us any preview of that or is it still tbd?

[N/A]

Right now we're all just focused on supporting Secretary of State Rubio, who is a very good and close friend of mine in his role right now, dual hatted as Secretary of State and is the head of the National Security Council. And so all of our energy here in this building and across the administration is focused on supporting Secretary Rubio again. Someone who not only have I become very close friends with, but I've had a chance to see him working up close and personal these last 100 days and also even before then. And he's really phenomenal. And the President made absolutely the right choice by giving him this responsibility.

[Clay Travis]

He is Secretary Rubio as well as, I believe, Interim National Security Adviser and also acting administrator of usaid, I think, at this point. Right. So he's taken on a bunch.

[N/A]

Don't forget he's in charge of the National Archives, too.

[Clay Travis]

Oh, that's right. Yeah.

[N/A]

Yes.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That is a lot.

[N/A]

It's. It's a testament to the fact that Marco deeply understands and believes in the President's agenda and what President Trump is trying to accomplish. And everyone in this building, everyone across the administration over these last 100 days has developed a deep admiration for Marco and what he's done at State Department and what he's done in the other roles he's been tapped to do. I mean, for example, as you mentioned, the dismantlement of the communist slush fund known as usaid. And so Marco is that rare combination of talent where he has the soft skills, the diplomacy and the ability to forge deals, but also the hard skills. And we've seen that, and I've seen it very directly in terms of Marco's work on migration and his ability to drive really hard negotiations with foreign countries to bend them into submission on cooperation that we need. So the President has made a tremendous choice with Marco. And altogether, the President's team across the board is the strongest team we've ever had in this White House.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Stephen, appreciate you coming on. Appreciate all the work you're doing, and we want you to come back on the program when you're officially named nsa. But in the future, that might.

[N/A]

Well, the only job I'm looking at right now is I want to take over Marco's job at the National Archives. I think. I think I could do some great things there.

[Ryan Seacrest]

You know, I would actually love to get a behind the scenes tour of the archives because I got to do the World War II Museum. They took me behind the scenes. And as good as the actual things that you get to see in the museum is, the things that they have in the archives that are not actually publicly visible are some of the coolest things, I bet, at almost every museum, because they only get to show you a small pin prick of whatever their overall collection is. So that would actually be super cool as well. Let's go into the first hundred days. Buck and I have been ecstatic with everything that we have seen. How much of the first hundred days just flood the zone strategy do you think has worked and how do you keep that pace up as we move into the next hundred days and everybody is trying to run as fast as they possibly can?

[N/A]

Yes. Well, the zone strategy has worked exactly as President Trump intended it to, which is shock and Awe against the forces of corruption that have been bleeding this country of its wealth, its security, its prestige. You know, the worst mistake you can make is when you are fighting the deep state, the radical left and their outside supporters, the communists, the NGOs, the crazy judges, is to spend a year debating and deliberating and discussing a decision that everyone knows needs to get made, that everyone understands has to happen. Because all you're doing is giving the opposition time to develop a resistance battle plan in time to engage in asymmetric bureaucratic warfare through leaks, through manipulation, feeding information to the aclu, feeding information to crazy judges, feeding information to radical Democrats on Capitol Hill. This is an unfortunate situation that our country has found itself in, to put it in mild terms, that over the years, over the decades that we have developed this deep state that is so committed to the destruction of America as we know it. You know, the, one of the, one of the ways I illustrate, by the way, to, you know, to newer hires, how the deep state works is I give this example. If you had good news and you emailed it to 1,000 federal career bureaucrats, the odds of it leaking are zero percent. Like, it would never go out anywhere. Total operational security and secrecy. If you sent an email that contained one thread that could be used to say, get an injunction against the policy by the aclu, it would leak in literally one second. So, in other words, you are running an operation of federal bureaucrats that in many cases are trying to do everything they can to slow you down and halt your progress. And all the things that that bureaucracy has been working on, all the things that President Trump ran against, censorship, radical gender ideology, critical race theory, the weaponization of the justice system, the weaponization of the intelligence system, of course, most notably the policy of open borders and mass resettlement and mass migration, all of which was made possible by the full complicit participation of vast swaths of the fellow bureaucracy that was implementing those policies, that was advancing those policies, that was defending those policies, and not to mention the war state and the push to constantly try to perpetuate conflict around the world instead of solving conflict around the world. So President Trump inherited a historic mandate, a battleground landslide the likes of which we have never seen before, to implement all these programs that he campaigned on. And that is why he has moved with such force, intention and, and speed to fulfill his mandate and his obligation and his promise to the American people.

[Clay Travis]

We're speaking to Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of staff. And Stephen, we know that because of his status as a special government employee. The plan all along has been for Elon Musk to phase out of the sort of day to day of Doge. And I believe that's coming up late later this month. There's been a lot that Doge has unearthed uncovered in terms of just crazy stuff. I mean, you mentioned the communist slush fund known as usaid. Can we borrow that, by the way? Can I use that? Can I use that phrase?

[N/A]

Please do.

[Clay Travis]

We're attributing it to Stephen Miller, but I want to say it going forward because it is a communist slush fund. But there's also been this question about rescission from Congress, meaning that does Congress also now have to do a lot or else none of the spending cuts actually happen? Can you just give us some visibility into what happens next with Doge? And is Congress in a place where because it's budgetary, they can actually do some of the things that Doge recommends? And you know, irrespective of how some of these judges have inflicted themselves on this too?

[N/A]

Well, like so many things, the answer is all of the above in the sense that the a lot of these savings are self executing automatic. So for example, when federal employees resign or retire and take the payout, you know, the so called fork in the road email that went out, all of those savings are accrued automatically. You don't need to go to Congress. That all happens automatically. You fire federal workers or federal workers are. It's called the Reduction in force. The acronym for that is rif. All of those reforms deliver both immediate and long term savings to the American people. Congress has never established a floor of federal employees. It just grew and grew and grew and grew on its own. And so those are going to be enormous and immense savings for the American people. When you have agencies or functions of government that were created through executive action and that can therefore be terminated by executive action. Again, those are all savings that are going to be immediate, that are going to be automatic, they're going to be long lasting. The a lot of the discretionary grant spending to diversity, equity and inclusion policies, for example, Congress never authorized any of that spending in the first place. So you can save an enormous amount of money just through administrative and executive action. Now there are additional programs that were created through previous bills that are going to be rescinded both in the reconciliation bill. So for example, the reconciliation bill is going to cut a lot of the wasteful Biden spending. And so you're going to see a lot of permanent savings as a result of that. And then there's also opportunities. You mentioned resistance packages. And that's something that OMB is actively looking at in terms of what are the packages of cuts that you can send to Congress that would get privileged considerations, they wouldn't be subject to the filibuster and could get cut with a Republican vote. So we're looking at everything to lock in these savings and make them permanent.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Stephen, are even you surprised sometimes at the moronic positions that Democrats take? And I just want to give two to you that I can't even believe are still real. Abreu Garcia now is we're going to play the audio. We haven't yet. Wife is on audio begging for a Maryland judge to protect her from him. And there is a report out there in the courts that she said he could kill her and get away with it. The video from the Tennessee Highway Patrol just went public of him being a human trafficker. That was up on FOX News last night. You have Democrats going down to El Salvador to visit him. The last time I think I saw you in person, Stephen, was at the University of Alabama where Trump spoke, where he was going to the Georgia game. And then absolutely everybody goes insane last night when he says, hey, as long as I'm president, there aren't going to be men competing in women's sports. It's not only they're wrong on issues. Are you astounded by the ways that they choose to fight on issues? I still can't get over it.

[N/A]

Well, the Democrat Party is so deep in the throes of Trump derangement syndrome that even if President Trump, he talked about this in his in his State of the Union address or his address to Congress, even if he came out with a cure for cancer, the Democrats would say we are in favor of cancer and oppose your cure. So they are. They're so disconnected from the needs of the American people, they're so disconnected from the oath they took upon assuming office or their obligations to serve the American people that when President Trump deports an illegal alien gang banger in MS.13 who is a wife beater, human trafficker, they leap to the defense of that alien and demand his return and freedom in the United States as though this is the highest priority for the Democrat Party is the freedom of foreign terrorists on American soil. Again, men and women sports, another great example where they are fighting tooth and nail all over the country in our schools, in our courtrooms, in Congress to protect the so called right of men to compete against women in athletics, to use women's locker rooms, to use women's Restrooms. The civil rights cause of our time, according to Democrats, is the right of all biological males in this country to use every single facility that has historically been reserved for women and to enter every single women's sporting league. So this is what the Democratic Party is today. I mean, it's. It's a ship of lunatics.

[Clay Travis]

Yes, absolutely. And they can't walk away from this, which is even more. Even more remarkable. Stephen, we've only got about a minute before we're going to be running into a break. I just wanted you to lay out to the degree you can, deportations. We've seen a lot of the borders secure, and I don't. We should never be ungrateful for what an amazing job this administration has done. It just happened so fast. I feel like people can't even believe it. 95% reduction, that's amazing. But getting the Biden, millions and millions, beginning to turn that around and deport them en masse, is there a plan for this? Is this going to happen?

[N/A]

Yes, absolutely. And, you know, I wish we had more than a minute. So the job, number one for President Trump, obviously, was to end all illegal immigration across the southern border. And that was achieved, of course, in record time and to an unprecedented degree. Then the focus increasingly shift towards mobilizing the law enforcement resources that we need to expel those that are here illegally who need to go home. The biggest near term impediment to that goal, of course, are the courts and these radical leftist judges that are trying to shut down the machinery of immigration enforcement nationwide. So we are. So Department of Justice is pursuing a legal strategy with the hope that very soon the Supreme Court will swat away these injunctions so that we can get to the business of securing the American homeland in full force. If the Supreme Court doesn't provide that relief, there are many other options that I will not get into here in terms of what the President's inherent authorities and powers are. So this isn't. It isn't. We're only waiting on the Supreme Court. It is the Supreme Court hopefully, do the right thing or we have many other options at our disposal. At the same time, we're ramping up many other efforts that will be essential to achieving mass deportation. So that includes, for example, enrolling state and local law enforcement nationwide in assisting and supporting the deportation effort. And that's going to be an increasing feature and focus of what we're doing. We're going to get National Guard more engaged in putting them into immigration enforcement roles in a domestic law enforcement setting, which is allowable under the 287 program that's used for state and local law enforcement as well. And we're going to also be working, as we are right now with Congress, to pass legislation, the reconciliation bill that will more than double the number of deportation officers working in the federal government, more than double the number of deportation beds available to the federal government, and increase by leaps and bounds the number of deportation flights that are available to the federal government. So the reconciliation bill is also going to be essential in allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to do their job. We have a whole series of strategies as well to expand self deportation. I think you've already seen a lot of self deportation from this country based on all the reports that we've gotten. We're going to be putting that into hyperdrive as well too, and many more strategies that we'll talk about next time. But as all this begins to come online and gets put into effect, you are going to see the removal numbers begin to explode.

[Clay Travis]

Fantastic. Stephen Miller from the White House, thanks so much. We appreciate you being with us.

[N/A]

Thank you.

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[Clay Travis]

And Buck Caroline Levitt talking about what the some of the top line numbers are for this first 100 days of Trump 2.0. Play it.

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So far, total investment commitments under the Trump administration have reached more than $5 trillion, including 500 billion from Apple in US based manufacturing and training, 500 billion from Nvidia and AI infrastructure, 100 billion from TSMC and US based chips manufacturing, and the $500 billion private investment by OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank in AI infrastructure as well. All of these investment commitments are estimated to generate at least 451,000 new high paying jobs for American workers and families. At this point, President Trump has secured more investments in the United States of America in 100 days than Joe Biden did in four years.

[Clay Travis]

Trump is a dealmaker, as we know Clay, and we'll talk more about tariffs while JD Vance about that too. But in terms of the economy being open for business in this country, and particularly look at things like going to maximize, trying to maximize energy production, going after our own resources. A lot to be proud of so far in 100 days.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Totally. And some people are going to say because the negative, given that we're at 100 days going to be hey, let's look at the polling numbers. Here's what I would say about the polls. First of all, I don't really care and you might say, ok, what do you mean by that? Trump is not going to be eligible to run for reelection. So I suspect that by the time Trump's term is coming near an end that he will be on a popularity upswing like we saw with Barack Obama and with Bill Clinton. By and large, as you sign on to this buck, that the only two two term presidents that could have been reelected if they had been able to run would have been Bill Clinton in 2000 and Barack Obama I think would have won in 2016. Now maybe not. I also think Ronald Reagan, if he had been able to run in 1988, even with his advanced age, would have likely won two. I think Trump will be at his peak popularity. Here's a three year in advance prediction. Trump in the fall of 2028 will be at peak popularity because the impact of his trade agreements and of his economic policies will be flourishing at a high level. I think we will have peace. And I think that if Trump were eligible to run for a third term that he would win again in 2028. So I think it's very, very early. Very early.

[Clay Travis]

A lot of historical, A lot of. We can't test the thesis one way or the other. I mean, I think Bill Clinton is incredibly lucky as a politician in the luck that that guy had on a whole range of things. Clay, if he had been in office when 9, 11 actually happened, the straight line between him being an imbecile on foreign policy and missing every chance and us getting hit with the worst attack since Pearl harbor would have been irrefutable even for Democrats. Also the stock market crash, also a lot of things. This guy got out.

[Ryan Seacrest]

But don't you disagree that he would have won? I think he would have beaten George W. Bush.

[N/A]

I don't know.

[Clay Travis]

I don't know.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I think, I think he would have won. I think Reagan would have won in 88. This is an argument in favor of Reagan.

[Clay Travis]

Reagan would have been too. Reagan would have been too old at that point. That would have been a problem for him.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I think he would have won because the only reason that George Bush senior one was because Reagan was so beloved and obviously Dukakis was not a candidate. You don't think Ronald Reagan would have beaten Dukakis in 88, even old Reagan.

[Clay Travis]

He would have won. I mean, if you're throwing in the mix like who he's going up against, you know, Barack Obama though, running. Barack Obama running against Donald Trump. I actually don't think Barack Obama would have won.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I think Trump, I think I Think he.

[Clay Travis]

I think he would have won that election.

[Ryan Seacrest]

I think that Obama would have beaten Trump in 16.

[Clay Travis]

Well, remember, you. And I disagree vociferously on that.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Remember Hillary, first of all, I don't think Trump would have been the nominee necessarily, but Hillary came within, whatever it was, 80,000. Hillary was an awful candidate, right? Awful candidate. She was. I mean, even Democrats, looking back, they're like, man, you know, she just. I don't know who she would have been able to beat. I think Trump was a great candidate against her, ran a phenomenal campaign. But I actually think the best campaign Trump ran was 24 of his three election campaigns. Sixteen was phenomenal. I think he was so well schooled by 24. 16 was more haphazard. I think that this one was great. Again, we're 100 days. 16 was.

[Clay Travis]

Was insurgency. He was the insurgency against the machine. And just like happens sometimes in real life, the insurgency overcame the superior force in terms of battlefield operations. And, and then in 24, it was the comeback campaign. So the great American comeback, which. So the narratives, I think, were pretty clear in both of those. And then 2020 was the COVID you know, freak show, what the hell is going on? Campaign for everybody. And, and, and I know all the other stuff, quote, unquote, shenanigans. We won't talk about it right now. But anyway, Clay, I think that Trump's first 100 days, here's the. Here's what we have to remember about it. We wanted him to do the things we want him to do, the things that he promised to do. And some of those things are disruptive. And disruptive things can be a little bit off putting sometimes to the markets. It can feel a little bit. Create a little bit of anxiety among people because, oh, wait, it's not exactly status quo, is comfortable. This is why so often, and particularly in politics, I think people get into inertia. Well, this is the way it is, so this is the way it will be. This is the way we've done things. So let's keep doing it that way. Trump isn't running again. I know he jokes about the third term. That's the troll, Libs. It's like the 51st state, Canada. That's the troll. You know, Canada and Trudeau and the rest of them. Clay, he's not running again. We need him to do the things that a politician who's obsessed with his next election won't do. Yes, and this is what is so key.

[Ryan Seacrest]

That's why I'm saying the polling. I'm not focused on if he were trying to run for reelection. I think you'll look at polling and you think about how that's going to play out. He is uniquely liberated to do what he thinks the right results are without having to worry about the day to day polling. And by the way, that is potentially going to run out in 2026 when they're likely going to impeach Trump again. If Democrats take back control of the House, they don't have anything new to hit him with. So expect for them to go back to the tried and true failed methods of the past. We've already seen it with them trying to broadcast and attack him by saying he's Hitler. I think where we are likely headed is Trump has got to get everything done between now and the summer of 2026 and then we will see the House come down to five or six different really close races and Democrats are either going to have a tiny minority or Republicans are going to have a tiny, tiny majority. Right. Tiny leadership I think that we're going to see in the Senate. Good stuff. Republicans are going to maintain control of the Senate. So for judges, things like that, Trump is going to have four years to get his, get his view of the judiciary through, get as many different judges confirmed. But in order to have both control of the House and the Senate, he's got to be fast, he's got to be decisive. And I think that's what you're seeing right now. And sometimes that's going to make people a little bit upset. So that's why I'm not concerned about any of the polling to the extent it's accurate as we sit here at 100 days. Because he's making decisions that are multi years in nature.

[Clay Travis]

Well, yes, and this is why I want Trump to not care about the polls right now. Because the polls in a year as they pertain to the midterms and the Republican Party in its future will matter. The polls right now do not matter at all. In fact, all the polls really do is give a talking point to anti Trump media and the Democrat Party that want to create a perception of oh, this isn't working. Oh, oh, this is failing. Trump should not be doing the things that he's doing. He's doing what he promised to do when he ran. He said he would take on the tariff issue. He said he would get a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. He said he'd secure the border. You know, I could go down the whole list. He's doing the things he said he would do. Some of These things are, as we've said, a departure from the status quo. They are disruptive and so clay, by their very nature, they're going to create a little bit of friction and a little bit of uncertainty. If you, if you don't want that, you don't want change, you don't want someone to fix anything. You just want more of the same. I think we all need to remember that the first 100 days has been a plus overall. It's not perfect. Nothing ever will be. And there's no certainties, there's no guarantees in life. But he's doing what he said he would do and he, I think he should have our full support as he continues to, to pursue that mandate. If he had veered off into nonsense, I'd be saying, why did he veer off into nonsense? That's not what has happened.

[Ryan Seacrest]

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