Team 47 - No Kings Disconnect

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

Episode: Team 47 - No Kings Disconnect
Date: October 26, 2025
Main Theme:
Clay Travis and Buck Sexton analyze the recent "No Kings" protests aimed at President Trump, contextualizing the motivations, effectiveness, and cultural meaning of modern protest movements. They cover the ongoing government shutdown, Trump’s enduring popularity, the nature of opposition, and the psyche of today’s political activists, weaving their insights with humor and a critical eye on media narratives.

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Main Discussion Points & Insights

1. The "No Kings" Protest – Dissecting the Motive and Impact

[02:13–07:42]

• Clay opens by satirically congratulating protesters for ensuring Trump is not a king and humorously notes America “kicked the king to the curb” in 1783 ([02:13]).
• Both hosts question the purpose and effectiveness of the protest, noting its lack of clear goals and emotional instability.
  • Buck: “They are really ineffective at coming up with something that sounds cool and has teeth behind it... You ask yourself immediately, what is the point of this?” ([04:39])
  • Clay mocks the aging demographic, describing the scene as “mostly old white people... looked frankly quite pathetic and bedraggled” ([03:23]).

Key Insights:

• The hosts repeatedly emphasize that anti-Trump protests are increasingly performative and lack resonance with broader America.
• The protest is compared to previous mass movements (“the women’s march, hashtag resistance, Black Lives Matter”), and found lacking in both purpose and energy ([05:58–06:42]).
  • Buck: “This is, to me, Clay, the expansion of what we saw at the anti-inauguration protest, which was a bunch of people that don't even really know why they're there. They're just upset and they want to be around other upset people. It was really a loser fest.” ([06:42])

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2. Protest Demographics and Culture

[07:42–11:41]

• Observations about the participants:
  • Older (primarily over 65, many “boomers” reliving the ‘60s protest era).
  • Protests are seen as cultural rituals, disconnected from present-day youth activism.
    • Buck: “The left has a protest culture... they really feel the need... being a, quote, part of something like this is some profound statement of their own worth and importance.” ([09:10])
  • Acknowledgment that these actions are more about personal validation than effecting real change.

Notable Quote:

• Clay: “I do think there's an element... these people picked their team in the 1960s, and they don't even realize that they now are the opposite of the protests that they were having in the 1960s. They are now protesting in favor of big government and... censorship.” ([10:09])

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3. Public and Presidential Response

[11:06–13:32]

• Integration of Joe Rogan’s satirical take, painting the protestors as “99% losers... the other ones work for the Fed. FBI agents and losers” ([11:06]).
• Trump’s dismissive response, shared on Air Force One:
  • “I looked at the people. They're not representative of this country... The demonstrations were very small, very ineffective, and the people were whacked out.” ([11:58])
  • On the king accusation: “I'm not a king. I work my ass off to make our country great.” ([12:25])
• Hosts interpret the protest as an implicit admission by opponents of Trump’s political dominance:
  • Buck: “They're recognizing that they did everything they could to stop Donald Trump... and they failed. So... now our great cause... is to stop him from being president for life.” ([12:44])

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4. The Failure of Modern Protest Messaging

[15:48–19:32]

• Hosts analyze the insufficient and outdated nature of protest messaging.
  • Protest seen more as social media branding than activism: “Now I think protest is just brand extension for people who already hate Trump to take photos of themselves and post... showing how much they hate Trump.” ([21:09])
  • Statistical point: Even if protest numbers are accurate, “90% of the people who voted against Trump had something better to do than show up... and continue to protest Trump.” ([21:49])
• Critique of opposition leaders and media figures (Nicole Wallace) who frame the protest as a populist resurgence:
  • Nicole Wallace: “The no Kings protest clearly getting deep under Donald Trump's skin... show[s] the contours of a new opposition in America.” ([19:52])
  • The hosts counter that Trump is indifferent, dismissing claims that these protests unsettle him ([20:33]).

Notable Moment:

• Buck: “You remember when you were a kid and you would say... 'you're not the boss of me'?... The no kings thing... is coming at this from a position of weakness.” ([22:55])
• Clay: Traces evolution of negative Trump descriptors— “They tried to move and say, he’s a fascist... now they’ve moved on to 'no kings.' But I don't think king has a super negative connotation... their messaging is really bad.” ([24:50])

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5. Implications for Trump and Political Trajectory

[13:32 & 24:45–27:10]

• Hosts credit Trump for his resilience and suggest that ongoing, ill-conceived protests only strengthen his support.
• Clay claims that Trump’s approval is at an all-time high as the first anniversary of his (2024 re-)election approaches, touts his presidency as “one of the most... effective... ever” ([13:32], [14:42]).
• Biden opposition is characterized as increasingly desperate and out of touch.

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6. Government Shutdown and Political Strategy

[27:10–31:20]

• Clay shares the story of a $130 million donation from an anonymous pro-Trump donor to cover military salaries during the shutdown.
  • Trump (quoted): “…He doesn't really want the recognition... but he gave us a check for $130 million. And that's going to go... to the military.” ([28:08])
• Speculation about the donor’s identity (possibly Elon Musk).
• Criticism of Democratic strategy regarding the shutdown, arguing that it’s primarily motivated by local political calculations (e.g., impact on Virginia).
• Praise for bipartisan calls to end the shutdown— specifically Senators Dave McCormick and John Fetterman ([29:53]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Clay Travis: "If this is the best thing you have to do with your weekend, you should really think more about what you have to deal with your weekend." ([19:32])
• Buck Sexton: "Losers. Okay, take it. Take a calm down moment here. Take a chill pill, as we used to say in the 90s, relax." ([13:19])
• Joe Rogan (clip): "All those people that are protesting on the streets, 99% of them are losers. The other ones work for the Fed." ([11:06])
• Trump: “I'm not a king. I work my ass off to make our country great.” ([12:25])
• Nicole Wallace (MSNBC): “According to the organizers, 7 million people came out to protest Donald Trump on Saturday.” ([19:52])
• Bhatia Ungar Sargon (quoted by Nicole Wallace): “...what they are actually protesting is the absolute perfection of American democracy, where a person campaigned on an agenda, won the popular vote, and is now enacting that agenda. So it was actually a protest of democracy.” ([24:03])

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Segment Timestamps

| Segment | Timestamps | |------------------------------------------------------|---------------------| | Show intro and protest overview | 02:13–05:08 | | Protest effectiveness and culture | 05:08–10:01 | | Protest age/demographics, shifting left culture | 10:09–11:41 | | Rogan & Trump responses, protest purpose | 11:41–13:32 | | Judiciary focus and Trump’s strong approval | 13:32–14:42 | | Protest as social media branding, Wallace comments | 19:32–21:49 | | "No Kings" slogan; protest messaging critique | 22:55–24:50 | | Trump as political survivor; evolution of attacks | 24:50–27:10 | | $130M Trump donor, shutdown strategy | 27:10–31:20 |

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Conclusion

The episode delivers a thorough critique of the "No Kings" protests as symbolic of a fractured and aging opposition to Trump, which the hosts argue is more about self-validation than driving change. They contend that protest culture is out-of-touch, and that such demonstrations, paired with misfired media messaging, serve only to bolster Trump’s standing. The government shutdown is contextualized as more political theater, with bipartisan efforts seen as more meaningful than protest spectacle. The hosts’ trademark skepticism, humor, and media-savvy analysis make this episode a pointed commentary on the state of American protest and political polarization, capping with a discussion of Trump’s political durability and the waning influence of traditional activism.

Transcript

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Team 47 with Clay and Buck starts now. Everyone out there who spent their weekend wasting a beautiful fall Saturday to protest, you have had tremendous success. You have managed to ensure that President Trump is not in fact a king. And you have reiterated the fact that we won the Revolutionary War in 1783 and once and for all kicked the king to the curb. This is. I think we could have some fun with this right off the jump. Buck, I so let me give you a little bit. Remember I said I bet that the momentum to get the government shut down to the extent that people are worried about the government shutdown that it would drastically change as soon as the no Kings protest was over. There is now evidently a lot of momentum for the government shutdown to be ended. They may drag it on through the elections if they think they get some form of benefit in Virginia, New Jersey or New York City over the government shutdown. But there now is momentum that there may be a resolution there. And I think this was to a large extent just the Chuck Schumers and Hakeem Jeffries of the world knowing that a no Kings protest was coming. If they bent the knee to King Trump before the protest, it would have stripped whatever modicum of energy might still have existed in these mostly old white people protests. That looks frankly quite pathetic and bedraggled, as we said when we went to the drove through the protest in the cold rain in January of 2025 as Trump was preparing to be inaugurated. So all of this feels like a big nothing burger, so to speak. But they are arguing, oh, my goodness, this is amazing. What was your takeaway? We did Fox News together on Saturday morning right before the no Kings protest took off with, with our friend Kayleigh McEnany. But the whole thing is just, it just feels desperate. And every time they do one of these protests, they feel less efficient and less effective and just make me feel sad for the protesters more than anything else.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, this just shows you where the state of things currently lies. They are really ineffective at coming up with something that sounds cool and has teeth behind it. So much so that they're doing this thing that you, you ask yourself immediately, what is the point of this? If there was a no purple sky protest, you would say to yourself, right.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, big, big success.

[Buck Sexton]

We're, we're good. Like, we've got that covered. Trump is obviously not a king. This sounds very emotionally erratic and unstable, this whole notion of Donald Trump as a monarch. They have a guy here who is constantly having to go to court to deal with this federal judge or that federal judge. You got the government shut down because of what Congress is doing. There is no reason for people to act like this. Although I really do believe the only proper response to the no Kings protest would be to have Trump 20, 28 rallies. Not that I actually think Trump is going to run in 28, but it'll just really dig in more to these lunatics. This is, this is one of these times where they can't even find what the primary issue is or they can't come up with what they are most upset about. So they've just created this. You know, it reminds me like the women's march.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, right. Yeah.

[Buck Sexton]

The women's march was really just code for, like, abortion. And also like a lot of, like, feminists who hate Trump because he's clearly not, you know, Trump is not someone the feminists are going to be particularly fond of. And then there was a hashtag resistance for a while, but everyone stopped using hashtags. Really? You don't even really. I don't see them on social media anymore. They're too annoying. People don't use them. So hashtag resistance wasn't really good. Black Lives Matter was a statement of the obvious and true that was effective in its time because of the emotional manipulation that they were able to put behind it. But this just. It's just weak. It's sad. This is, to me, Clay, the expansion of what we saw at the anti inauguration protest, which was a bunch of people that don't even really know why they're there. They're just upset and they want to be around other upset people. It was really a loser fest.

[Clay Travis]

Yes.

[Buck Sexton]

And I. And actually a lot of sad exclamation point is what you feel when you see this. Because also, what's the great purpose of this mobilization? So that maybe they can take a midterm advantage and they'll be able to get the House and they'll probably impeach Trump for the third time. It'll be the third. Third time. That's it. I mean, Trump's not going to be president all that much longer. They should maybe come up with, why does the rational part of the country think that the Democrat Party is insane? And how can they stop being so crazy instead of these very silly and self indulgent protests? They're all very childish.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah. And frankly, I mean, you said what Joe Rogan said. And I'll play cut nine here in a sec. But you know what's interesting more than anything else is I think and I tweeted something because I just, I can't imagine. And I understand that not all of you are college football diehards like I am. But. But I do think it is a sign of where we are in America. Whatever your part of the country that you're listening to us or watching us in. Right now is mid October is maybe the greatest time of the year. The weather tends to be really good almost everywhere. We're getting close to Halloween. It's the fall season kind of starting to kick off in earnest to give up a beautiful Saturday to go walk around and protest a democratically elected president 11 months ago when he won the landslide election. I just, and I watched the videos because I was genuinely curious who's going to show up. There is just a segment, I would say, of people age 50 to 75, primarily who Trump is just broken.

[Buck Sexton]

Well, this, this is boomers, a lot of boomers who are trying to relive.

[Clay Travis]

The perceived glory of the 60s. Yes.

[Buck Sexton]

That's really what this is. And a lot of this stuff you see with this, the left has a protest culture.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah.

[Buck Sexton]

I've, I've been to many of these protests to cover them or to take photos and video of what they're doing. And they, they really feel the need. The same way that your annoying liberal aunt at Thanksgiving is going to feel the need to give you her very uninformed opinions on politics. Even when you just want to have some stuffing and, like, go home, you don't want to deal with it. These particular, these libs of the kind that we're talking about really think that showing up and being a, quote, part of something like this is some profound statement of their own worth and importance. And it's, it's actually just sad. They should have gone to a college. If I, I'm not even a big college football guy.

[Clay Travis]

Yes.

[Buck Sexton]

If I had the choice to go into any college football game in America or one of these protests, it's 100 times more fun, enjoyable, and worthwhile to go to a college football game.

[Clay Travis]

Amen. Even though Alabama kicked Tennessee's ass, which is really unfortunate, I will say also, you hit on it in the 1960s. The energy for protests came from young people. And those of you who lived through the 1960s, remind, remember that, well, the vast majority of people at the no Kings protest were over the age of 65. And I do think there's an element of what you're saying, Buck, which is these people picked their team in the 1960s, and they don't even realize that they now are the opposite of the protests that they were having in the 1960s. They are now protesting in favor of big government and in favor of all of the things that. Censorship, censorship.

[Buck Sexton]

Favor of censorship.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah, that's right. And so that is an irony. Here is Joe Rogan pointing out that the no Kings protesters, 99% of them are losers.

[Buck Sexton]

All those people that are protesting on the streets, 99% of them are losers. The other ones work for the Fed. FBI agents and losers.

[Clay Travis]

That's all it is.

[Buck Sexton]

The whole every protest, dude, is FBI agents and losers. I talk about this all the time. I'm like, for me, you want me.

[Clay Travis]

To join a protest.

[Buck Sexton]

You want me to get out in the street? First of all, to make a sign out here, and then you don't have to make the sign. There's a guy with a van who's paid by George Soros, and he's got stacks of signs that were made at Kinko's. Okay? They're not homemade at all. And you just, just pass those bad boys out.

[Clay Travis]

It is very funny. They are complete losers and they wasted a fall Saturday. And here is President Trump, who was asked about it. Cut one. I'm not a king. I'm working my ass off to make our country great. This was on Air Force One yesterday.

I think it's a joke. I looked at the people. They're not representative of this country. And I looked at all the brand new signs paid for, I guess it was made for by Soros and other radical left lunatics. It looks like it was. We're checking it out. The demonstrations were very small, very ineffective, and the people were whacked out. When you look at those people, those are not representative of the people of our country.

Mr. President, besides San Francisco, I'm not a king.

I'm not a king. I work my ass off to make our country great. That's all it is. I'm not a king at all.

So Trump is not a king. They were successful if their goal was to stop a king from being in power.

[Buck Sexton]

Isn't this also really an admission, though, that Trump politically has defeated them?

[Clay Travis]

Yes.

[Buck Sexton]

If you're concerned with a president who has been elected twice, despite all of your efforts to stop both of those from happening, if your concern is this idea that now he's president for life and therefore more like a king, I think they're just. They're recognizing that they did everything they could to stop Donald Trump from being president for eight years, and they failed. So now they create this. It's like Don Quixote tilting at windmills. They create this fantasy in their minds of, well, now our great cause, Clay, is to stop him from being president for life.

[Clay Travis]

Yes.

[Buck Sexton]

He's not going to be president for life, you losers. Okay, take it. Take a calm down moment here. Take a chill pill. As we used to say in the 90s, relax. Well, they can't, because that would make them think about what they're actually doing with their lives.

[Clay Travis]

I think it also embodies the fact that the Trump resistance is effectively broken everywhere. But the judiciary. The judiciary is constantly making rulings to try to take away President Trump's power, and that's why much of the discussion that we have about what Trump can and cannot do is not about what the Democrat Party is trying to stop him from doing. It's what is some unelected federal district court judge doing when they're trying to say, hey, the President doesn't have power to order this or take that action. And it just kind of feels increasingly pathetic. And Trump, according to many different polls that I have seen out there, is at right now probably his strongest political position in terms of approval that he has had during the course of his presidency. We really haven't seen any weakening at all as we come up on the one year anniversary of his election in 2024 and he's having one of the most, I think, effective presidencies, first years that we've ever seen in the history of the country.

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Just something I wanted to close the loop on Clay on the on the no Kings protest situation. I I think that they're trying so hard but I think they're also realizing this just doesn't have punch this. This doesn't have the I Don't care how they can tell me that 7 million. They can tell me 70 million. I, I don't, doesn't matter how many individuals with nothing better to do. I think your take on this, which I saw went viral and I, I, I, I understand why I did, I liked it. I, I, I like it. It was a good take. If this is the best thing you have to do with your weekend, you should really think more about what you.

[Clay Travis]

Have to deal with your weekend.

[Buck Sexton]

You yes, this is not a, this is not a worthwhile usage of anyone's time. They're trying though, over at MSNBC, Nicole Wallace, this is cut 22 is trying to say that this is, Remember, former Republican Bush person Nicole Wallace says that this is the new opposition in America led by the people. Play 22.

[Nicole Wallace]

It is the people's right to exercise free speech and to criticize their elected leaders at the top of their lungs. And that that very thing is what makes America great. That is what makes America America. It's what makes us special. All around the world until right now, Donald Trump showed the world what he thinks of the American people by literally broadcasting an image of himself pouring feces all over America and the American people. The no Kings protest clearly getting deep under Donald Trump's skin over the weekend. But more importantly, the protests show the contours of a new opposition in America, one led by the people. According to the organizers, 7 million people came out to protest Donald Trump on Saturday.

[Buck Sexton]

Clay notice how we're not even sure what they're protesting other than Trump, who's not going to be president beyond the next three years, not even running again. And the notion that they're getting under Trump's skin with this. No, actually, you want to. We know Trump both in the, from his work, but also as a guy. He thinks that these people are just sad. He actually thinks that they're sad and silly.

[Clay Travis]

Even so, I think there's several things here. One, I personally happen to believe if you wasted a beautiful fall Saturday protesting Donald Trump, you are a huge loser. I think most people out there saw this and saw the protesters and said, you're all huge losers, too. Here is a secondary part of this. What is the goal of a protest? To me, the goal of a protest is to bring attention to an issue and get people to recognize that you are correct. I don't think that's the goal of this protest because I think in a social media era, protest used to be about trying to persuade people to reconsider their position and join another one. Now I think protest is just brand extension for people who already hate Trump to take photos of themselves and post on Facebook or Instagram or Twitter or wherever they're active. Blue sky showing how much they hate Trump. Buck Around 70 million people voted against Trump in the 2024 election. Let's say that that number that they put out there is accurate. And 7 million people nationwide showed up to protest Trump. That would mean that 90% of the people who voted against Trump had something better to do than show up on Saturday and continue to protest Trump. That, to me, is what kind of stands out. And did those 7 million people persuade anyone that Trump was a king and that they should oppose him? No, I think they actually probably created more Trump supporters, which is why I come to. The purpose of this protest is about allowing the protesters to feel better about themselves, not to change any trajectory of the country.

[Buck Sexton]

You remember when you were a kid and you would say to somebody, maybe, or you would hear someone say, you're not the boss of me.

[Clay Travis]

Yes.

[Buck Sexton]

And I think that that's generally not a good way to approach things, because by saying it, the implication is that maybe somebody, including that person, could think they are the boss of you. Yeah. You know, like, you are getting bossed around the no kings thing. We're not. No one's saying that he's a king except for the people who hate him, which to me, is coming at this from a position of weakness. It's also coming at it from a position of absurdity. You know, it would be like if they said Trump's not like king of the, you know, emperor of the universe or, you know, master of the universe. Remember that? From the old he man days? No, he's not. But why are you taking it there? It's a strange place just psychologically to go. And Bhatia Unger Sargon, this is 23. She is. She's not having any of this either, because they're saying, the guy's not a king. He just won massively a free and fair election. So why are we even talking about him being a king? It's like the guy's the fastest one in the race, and you're saying, well, is he really the fastest? Yeah, he is. Play 23.

[Nicole Wallace]

He is a person who is enacting the exact agenda he promised he was going to enact while he was campaigning. And so what they are actually protesting is the absolute perfection of American democracy, where a person campaigned on an agenda, won the popular vote, and is now enacting that agenda. So it was actually a Protest of democracy. All of which is to say the only way to greet such a preposterous proposition calling this a no Kings rally when it's actually an anti democracy rally is to crap on it. I'm sorry. Is to basically make fun of it. And I think that that has been the Trump administration's approach. They didn't try to stop it, God forbid, because he's not a king. They allowed them to have their say. They allowed them to go out there and then they made fun of them.

[Buck Sexton]

I don't agree with the bathroom humor necessarily approach, but. But mocking it, absolutely.

[Clay Travis]

I also think this goes to. We talked about during the 2024 election that calling somebody Hitler and calling somebody a Nazi wasn't working. So they tried to move and say, he's a fascist. And I said fascist is not going to work, because, frankly, it's a complicated word. People don't even know what it means. Certainly most people can't spell fascist, probably in America, and now they've moved on to no kings. But I don't think king has a super negative connotation. So even if you were trying to persuade people, no dictators, okay? I might say, hey, no dictators, no kings. I just. I think their messaging is really bad. Does that make sense? Like, if you tell me somebody's Hitler and then you move from their Hitler to, well, maybe not Hitler, but they're Nazis, to, well, maybe not Nazis, but fascist. Maybe not fascists, but kings. Every step down, actually the assault, the attack becomes less. Less inflammatory and less negative. Right. Like, if I had to say, hey, Hitler, Nazi, fascist, king, a king is not that awful. Right? There've been pretty good kings over the years, some kings, really good. Um, and so I, I just. They. They're failing at messaging. They don't really know. They're just kind of flailing around. This shutdown is a perfect example, because I can't even really figure out what they want, and I don't think they know what they want. And. And so all of this has just turned into, I think, a huge, ridiculous mess. And I think it ultimately benefits Trump, and I don't think that they're motivating or influencing anybody. Isn't that kind of interesting to think about? 90% of even the people who voted against Trump had something better to do on October 18th on a fine Saturday than show up and protest against Trump. They can't even get the people who voted against Trump to show up 10 months later and talk about how awful Trump is. So I think this is just yet Another failure. You're listening to Team 47 with clay and Buck.

[Buck Sexton]

This was quite a moment. President Trump revealing earlier today that for any troops who are going to be missing a paycheck, an anonymous, obviously pro Trump or Trump supporting donor has written a check to the government for a. Well, I'll let the president say it. Play 2.

[Clay Travis]

A friend of mine talking about donors. A friend of mine, a man. That's great. I'm not going to use his name unless he lets me do it. Susie, can tell you about this, but he was, he called us the other day and he said, I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have because of the Democrat shutdown. I'd like to contribute personally contribute any shortfall you have with the military, because I love the military and I love the country. And any shortfall, if there's a shortfall, I'll contribute it. And today he sent us a check for $130 million.

Can you share who that is?

I would love to tell you. He deserves, he doesn't really want the recognition, if you want to know the truth, but he gave us a check for $130 million. And that's going to go. Which was sort of a shortfall. Yeah. And that's going to go to the military. Yeah.

[Buck Sexton]

Clay, that's quite a check. Quite a check to stroke.

[Clay Travis]

There's not that many people who could stroke that check, so I think we could probably limit it. What do you think there? I mean, to actually be able to cut a check for $130 million? I would think there's probably, I don't know, a thousand people in the United States that could actually think it might.

[Buck Sexton]

Have been Elon Musk.

[Clay Travis]

Maybe.

[Buck Sexton]

Right. I mean, clearly has the money.

[Clay Travis]

Yeah. No, it would be, it would be a great move if it were Elon. I think it's a great move for anybody. And I think what Trump is pointing.

[Buck Sexton]

Out here, I could see Elon doing it, but not wanting the hubbub around him. That's why I thought maybe. But that's a. By the way, that's a total guess. I do not know.

[Clay Travis]

I do believe that this is where the Democrat shutdown is going to. Again. I think their only calculus is they're worried about Virginia and they believe Northern Virginia workers are going to show up because they bought the idea that this is Trump's fault. They couldn't do anything before the no Kings protest, I suspect after the election. So what are we talking at now? 10 days, basically, until the, the, the 2025 elections are taking place, I suspect they'll probably get a deal done. But I do at this point have a great deal of sympathy for the, the, the people out there that are living as much of us are and certainly as I have and you have before paycheck to paycheck. And so if your paycheck is being held up, even if you know you're going to eventually get it with your back pay, it can be very, very frustrating for mortgages, for car payments, for groceries, for general life experiences. Most people can't go a month without a paycheck. And now we're talking about that potentially being in holding pattern. And I get why that's very frustrating. I think Democrats are playing politics here and failing when it comes to being able to do their most basic job. And I give credit. I don't know if you saw this buck, maybe we can grab it and play it. Senator Dave McCormick, Republican of Pennsylvania, and Senator John Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania, did a statement on the steps of the Capitol saying, hey, this shouldn't be partisan in nature. Let's go ahead and open the government back up and continue to spend as we had agreed that we were going to spend. And frankly, there need to be other sane Democrats who come out alongside. I think there are three buck, if I'm not mistaken right now that have been willing to vote to reopen the government on the side of the Senate. You have to get to 60, which means there has to be seven Democrats that are willing to do it. And I think three have so far. One from New Hampshire, one from Michigan, I believe, and one from. Sorry, one from Georgia, one from Pennsylvania, I think. And I know there's been a lot of votes, so it's a little bit confusing. But we need seven Democrats essentially to be willing to do this, to open back up the government.

[Buck Sexton]

We'll see where it goes. It's gone on longer than I anticipated. A lot of people anticipated. So the pressure is certainly mounting.

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[Clay Travis]

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