Team 47 - Trump’s Middle East Trip - The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
Why should you listen to Armstrong and Getty on Demand?
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Clay Travis
We're not boring. A lot of news is boring and tedious and depressing and makes you angry.
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Buck Sexton
You don't want to live your life like that. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty. We're Armstrong and Getty.
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Clay Travis
We try to bring you the truth.
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Buck Sexton
And help you figure out this crazy modern world.
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Clay Travis
How about something about a comedic tone?
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Buck Sexton
We have a winner.
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Clay Travis
Yes.
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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
Team 47 with Clay and Buck starts now.
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Clay Travis
Trump is not tired of winning. He is on a world tour, well, a Mideast tour, but a world tour of winning, if you will. And he's talking about a lot of things that are gonna be, I think, big wins for the country, which is the most important thing of all. So we got about $600 billion of Saudi investment, I think, that he says has been now committed to the US he's trying to pick up a trillion dollars of direct investment from foreign countries in the Mideast into the United States stock market. Oh, man, it's looking so good. All of a sudden, everyone their 401ks. I remember a few weeks ago, these are people's retirements you're destroying. Right? I mean, the whole thing and eggs.
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Buck Sexton
To Buck, like inflation, all of the things that they have tried to turn into, like, sort of things to weigh down the Trump presidency with. They've all collapsed. Eggs are coming back down. I saw this morning, I was reading this is the biggest drop in egg prices in a month since 1984. The stock market is now positive for the year, which is. Hey, what are you going to argue? There we go. We got to your point. Middle east, like everything they try to hit him with, it just blows back up in their face.
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Clay Travis
Yeah. I mean, and they're, they're talking so much about this, the jet gift thing, you know, it's. I'm just going to tell you, it's just hard for me to pretend to care enough about these things when they get. What about the emoluments clause? Ok, well, I remember when the Washington Post was writing stories about how the emoluments clause was in violation. Do you remember this Clay at the Trump Hotel? Because they did an analysis and there were foreign, basically embassy staff, ambassadors, whatever, who were eating and drinking at The Trump Hotel. And they were saying this is a violation because if the attache from Madagascar has a bacon cheeseburger, maybe he can get Trump to change foreign policy. Like, it was crazy stuff that they were pushing now. Yeah, a $300 million jet is, is a, is much, a much bigger gift than the, the profit margin on a cheeseburger. When you own a hotel and they have to pay the staff and everything. My, my point merely being it's just hard at this point. How much am I going to sit around and be like, oh, my gosh, you see what you Trump the hysteria stuff. I can't, I just, I can't do it right. I can't get myself to care about these things that they're trying to tell us to care so much about. But we should look at some of the other wins that Trump has racked up. You see, a federal judge has ruled in favor of the Alien Enemies. Alien Enemies act, deportation. The Milwaukee County Judge, Hannah Dugan. Remember her? The. I'm going to hide the illegal in my courtroom because federal law doesn't apply to me. As some, you know, rinky dink judge up in, up in Wisconsin, she is, she has been indicted by a grand jury for basically aiding and abetting a, you know, a person who's on the run in her courtroom. I think that's a win. So you've got all this. You got inflation lower than expected. I think we mentioned that yesterday, but it came in at what, like 2.4% or something? Inflation. Just imagine what this economy starts to look like as you get more trade deals, Clay, And a few basis points get dropped from this or, you know, they start dropping rates. Just put it, put it simply, I think these are all the kinds of wins that Trump is going to be able to rack up. And then there's also the drug price. Look, Trump was on with our friend Sean Hannity last night. Sean's traveling with him through the Middle East. I thought this was really interesting. He's talking about opening up China to US businesses. This is cut 13. Play it. One of the things I think that could be most exciting for us and also for China is that we're trying to open up China because, as you know, many years ago, we opened up the usa. Now it's time for China to open up, and that's part of our deal, and we're going to open up China. To me, that's the most exciting part. But, yeah, we made a deal. The relationship is very good. I've always had a good relationship with President Xi it was interrupted because of COVID obviously. But outside of that, I've always had a great relationship, a lot of respect for him and we'll see how that all works out. But we have the confines of a very, very strong deal with China Clay. As we get more details about this, we're very, we don't really have any details right now, but they're going to have to provide something. We're going to hear more about this. I think that, look, I don't want to get ahead of things, but it just feels like the Trump team is simultaneously firing on all cylinders and also keeping things pretty much on schedule. You know, they're moving at the pace that they said they'd be moving and getting things done the way they said they would from the start.
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Buck Sexton
Let's just think about this. Because you worked in the CIA, you've spent a lot of time overseas. One of the big criticisms of Trump for much of his political career is that he isn't able to handle foreign affairs. That that's probably one of the. We're going to get into World War Three. He has no idea what he's doing. Let's just think, Buck, in the last week, what he has helped to accomplish. First of all, Marco Rubio is doing an amazing job. He has 48 different jobs inside of the government right now. But it didn't get very much attention. You mentioned it on the show quite a lot last week. But I do think it's significant that India and Pakistan, not really great historic friends, they, they were in danger of having a conflict spiral out of control. Trump engaged in some form of mediation to help settle that situation down in potentially tomorrow in Istanbul, we may have the first face to face meeting between Zelensky and Putin since Putin invaded Ukraine in what, February or March of 2022, whenever that initial invasion started, if I remember correctly. And they are only meeting there according to reports, if Trump will show up. So they're begging Trump to go to Istanbul. We also have Trump normalizing relations with Syria, which is being seen even by Trump critics as a potential stroke of genius that could massively aid stabilization in the Middle east by cutting off the long term relationship of Iran, which was basically using Syria as a proxy terror state and helping along with Russia to prop up Assad, the dictator who has now been removed. Okay, I'm just kind of giving people a little bit of a rundown here. You get the final American terrorist who's been held for something like 580 days. Alexander, hostage, sorry, held by terrorists. Eden. Alexander, the Final American innocent back. And you also potentially get the trade deal done with China. Any one of those that I just ran through would be typically huge, monumental, one week or more stories. Trump has done them all. Not to mention getting trillions of dollars potentially in aid and commitment from Middle Eastern countries like the uae, like Qatar, like Saudi Arabia to invest in American business. That seems like a pretty good. Pretty good few days.
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Clay Travis
And I do think as well, you can already lay out more initiatives, conversations, ideas that have. Some of it has already. I mean, I view the border is actually a international relations issue, right? We think of it very much as it's so much tied in. It's the economy, it's domestic and national security. It's. It's all these different things, but especially when you have a border clay that had almost 200 nations people arriving at illegally. I think the final number from border patrol I saw was like 180 something, right? I mean, there's not that many countries in the world. So you got illegals from all over the world, and now they're trying to figure out how to get them back. And that requires foreign relations and that requires using pressure, carrots and sticks. And that has already been a massive success. That alone is more than I can attest to for four years of the Biden administration sending the Absolutely hapless and professionally worthless. Maybe he's a nice man. Professionally worthless. Anthony Blinken, as Secretary of State. To do what? I mean, if you. We sit here and we talk so much about Biden's dementia, it's worth remembering everyone, this, this team was president for four years. What is the one win that you can point to on foreign policy? And I know some of you are already shouting, look at the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, how they did that. No, we all know that. I'm saying you find me the one win that they have on the world stage that you can point what getting us embroiled in the endless supplying of a war between Russia and Ukraine that Russia is slowly winning and choking off Ukraine and killing a generation of Ukrainian fighters. Like, what exactly was Biden able to accomplish? And I mean, his team, really, because we all know about Biden himself. And then you see what Trump has claimed. We're 100 and, I don't know, 120 or something days into the administration or less than that. And already you're talking about a true strategic shift in our relationship with China, which is, I mean, the EU is the largest economy in the world, right? But if we break it down, it's us, and then It's China by nation state. That's a big deal. And we're not even talking about this stuff from the Mideast and the trillion dollars of investment that he's gonna be bringing in from there.
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Buck Sexton
I also think, and it has not been recognized, and probably that's because a lot of people are morons. He's also now strategically really isolated Iran and given himself substantial leeway when it comes to negotiating this new deal. And let me explain in basically one minute what I mean by this. Syria is now going to be viewing Trump as a hero. They certainly view Saudi Arabia as heroic for helping to get them off of the sanctions list.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, I was gonna say he pulled off the sanctions, which means Syria now has a chance. Let's see what this country can do. Let's see what the new leadership of Syria can do. There's been a big opening here for them. You know, you want to do good things, Trump's gonna bring good things to you. You wanna play stupid games, you're gonna win stupid prizes.
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Buck Sexton
Great relationship, even better maybe than it's ever been with Saudi Arabia, the uae, Qatar, Syria. We know that historically Israel is an ally of the United States. I would submit to you that Trump has now given himself the leeway, if necessary, to have strikes against Iran and not have other parts of the Middle east react and say, oh my goodness, what in the world is Trump doing? Iran is really, really isolated now because Syria is not going to care. Certainly Saudi Arabia doesn't want a nuclear powered Iran. The UAE doesn't want that. Qatar doesn't want that. Israel, Israel doesn't want that. They may be coming from different perspectives, but they're all aligned now with the United States in the Middle East. We have managed to, to kind of, in the Ghostbusters analogy, Buck, bring cats and dogs together to marshal them against Iran. And you've been over there. When's the last time you even heard a story about Iraq? Yeah, I mean, what did. I don't. I mean, I'm going to be honest, you used to read 20 stories a day about what was going on in Iraq when we were spending, wasting, unfortunately, trillions of dollars on Iraq. I can't even tell you what is going on in Iraq. Do you have any. I don't really have any clue. Remember when we killed Soleimani, it was, oh, my God, World War Three is going to happen. I don't remember the last time Iraq had any sort of major say on the larger geopolitical stage.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, I mean, you haven't seen an Iraq story in quite some time. I think it's kind of limping along as a country, but it has certainly, yeah, it's dropped out of the headlines. I can't even think of the last story that we talked about on this show about Iraq, but on the Iran isolation from the world. I mean, the problem, and I think you can see this very clearly, the Obama administration essentially gave up all other possible wins in the Middle east and created a disaster. I mean, Clay, I could do a three hour show right now off the top of my head on what a disaster Obama's foreign policy, which Biden was in charge of, by the way, allegedly what a disaster Obama's foreign policy was. And even Democrats, some of them were like, this is just. I can't. This is so indefensible and on so many levels. It was atrocious. But it was all to get Iran further enmeshed in the international system, give them essentially inducements for better behavior. It did not work. Iran did not behave better. And I know people say, oh, well, Trump got us out of it. Yeah, because he saw where this was going. He saw what the inducements got us, which is, this is a corrupt and evil regime. There's no turning it around with them now. This is who the mullahs are, so to speak. It's who the IRGC is. And there, I think, is just the understanding that Trump has on foreign policy of who are our friends, who are enemies, how do we treat them, do they know the difference? And the answer with Trump to those questions is quite clear, I think.
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Buck Sexton
I think that's 100% right.
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Clay Travis
You know what I mean? You know, Trump knows who the good guys are, who the bad guys are. That sounds so simple. But Democrats don't. They're like, oh, I don't know, so bad.
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Buck Sexton
Why should you listen to Armstrong and Getty on demand?
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Clay Travis
We're not boring. A lot of news is boring and tedious and depressing and makes you angry.
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Buck Sexton
You don't want to live your life like that. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty. We're Armstrong and Getty.
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Clay Travis
We try to bring you the truth.
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Buck Sexton
And help you figure out this crazy modern world.
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Clay Travis
Something about a comedic tone.
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Buck Sexton
We have a winner.
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Clay Travis
Yes. Listen to Armstrong. You get it on Demand on the.
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Buck Sexton
Iheartradio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
You're listening to team 47 with Clay and Buck.
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Clay Travis
Hey, how's your 401k looking? Clay over there with his French cuff shirts with the monograms and the stuff. Stock ticker behind him, I can just see it right now. We gotta get like a separate set for you on radio where Clay's like, all right, guys, we're talking stocks. He said, don't sell. If anything, buy. It was good advice. It was good advice and I will.
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Buck Sexton
Tell you, great advice.
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Clay Travis
I actually, I, I did buy the dip and, and it was a good move.
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Buck Sexton
Stocks are up for the year. That, that's the thing you need to know. And you know, things have gotten a lot better because they don't put the stock ticker up on cnn. They don't put the stock ticker up on msnbc. It is such a dishonest thing that when stocks were going down, that was the lead story. Price of eggs. Let me hit you with this, Buck. Price of gas, nobody talking about it. Last night I went to an MLS game. $2.65. I drove past a Nashville area gas station. $2.65. It is continuing to come down even as we typically. Gas prices go up in the summer, people drive more. That's a general rule. It's down by half compared to what it was in the summer of 2022 with Joe Biden. Virtually zero media discussion. That's how most people recognize what the price of goods is. That's the thing. They see and adjust and see price changing constantly. Gas prices, four year lows, you know.
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Clay Travis
And part of this, I think, is whether you're, when you're reporting on the news, you have to focus on what is important and you look for what is in conflict in those important areas. Right? So the economy, should we be spending more or how's the market going or where's unemployment and what can be done to change this and what Are the policies. The opposition to Trump on these things right now is so weak as to be not even really worthy of. Of time. That's just the truth that they, they're not mounting any real arguments against it. So we're updating you on what he's doing at some level because that's the only show in town and it's going well. Right. If it was and when, when things were rough, what do we say? Ok, the market's down, it's going to be choppy. This is going to require a reset. But we think he knows what he's doing. Trust in this. And sure enough, here we are. So I just give you all that because we're watching, trust me, all Clay and I do is read the news pretty much all day long and set up stories to talk about. Because, because I know there can be a little bit of pushback on. Why are we talking about the Biden thing? Because we're just finding out the full extent of how dishonest and disgraceful it was. Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
And by the way, to people out there who say, well, we know he was bad. We know. Did you see what they did on January 6? They spent four years marinating in January six. They had prime time hearings. They came out and told all of us it was the worst day since the Civil War. I would submit to you, this is way worse. And the media is going to cover it. And the Democrat brand, it's a big left wing conspiracy. If Republicans do their job and they hold all these people's feet to the fire, this will make January 6th look like a random BLM riot, which is basically what it was. And we saw hundreds of those we've never seen before. And I remember this in our lives.
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Clay Travis
I remember this. Tapper Publicly, Mr. Jake Tapper, who's co authored this book that is rightly being. Unfortunately, they're going to sell a ton of copies. So it is a smart financial decision. But the premise of it, which is we're the good guys for telling you the truth now, is absurd and just, just an affront to our intelligence and to the dignity of public discourse. But we're watching all the.
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Buck Sexton
But I do think that building on what you just said is important and why this is such a huge deal. They have to cover it to make themselves cleansed from their complicity.
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Clay Travis
Yes. There's no way around this. That's right. That's why they want control of the narrative to the greatest possible degree. And you've almost started to see some of them, maybe with the beginnings of some contrition insofar as they would rather be thought dumb than dishonest. Just remember that they cuz they know dishonesty means you're never listening to them again. Dumb means oh I'll do better next time. That's what they're going for here. But it actually was not that it was that they were dishonest. They are clever. Tapper I just wanted to point out and you can go go check on Twitter public He was of the oh, you said that people shouldn't attack cops on January 6th. And I mean on the day and right after you're all complicit. You get no credit for it. Everybody who is speaking out against violence that day, you know blood is on your he was one of those guys. He was a blood is on all your hands guys. And as we know, the only like substantial injury or rather the only fatal injury was to a woman who was shot by a police officer as Capitol Hill cop in the neck. Anyway, Ashley Babbitt, which is still a stain on this country that that happened. But ok, so here we are now, Clay and they're going to have to try to explain this to their own side. Wolf Blitzer, the most milquetoast of the CNN right. I think I nailed that one. Thank you.
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Buck Sexton
I think that's perfectly safe.
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Clay Travis
Yes. The most milquetoast of the CNN anchor stable over there. He starts with Hakeem Jeffries on ok, what did we know about this decline? Let's walk through this together, friends. This just happened in the last 24 hours. Play 2 President Biden didn't even recognize George Clooney at a fundraiser. Why should voters trust Democrats when it's clear so many in your party went to great lengths to keep Biden's condition hidden hidden from the public. I can't tell you what happened between George Clooney and President Biden that wasn't at that event.
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Buck Sexton
What I can say is that we're not looking back.
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Clay Travis
We're going to continue to look forward.
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Buck Sexton
Because at this moment we've got real problems that need to be addressed on.
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Clay Travis
Behalf of the American people, including the Republican effort to snatch away health care.
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Buck Sexton
Snatch away food assistance and hurt federates.
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Clay Travis
That's not going to work. The the old Potomac pivot. It's not it's not going to work the we're just looking forward now. No, actually this is in many ways, Clay. I think the for the honor and integrity such as it is of a political party in America. I've never seen anything like this Before. I've never seen anything that is this. Because it wasn't. And I don't want to get it all. The January six was a different thing. You know, there was a whole lot of. There was a lot of rigging that went on in that election. There was a whole lot of reason for concern. It was mostly a. It was a mostly peaceful protest. It was mostly a protest and everything else. This was a. All the king's horses and all the king's men multi year conspiracy at the very top of the government day in and day out. It wasn't a protest that got too rowdy and that then was treated like it was, you know, Pearl harbor bombing.
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Buck Sexton
I think.
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Clay Travis
And I think we need to see this for what it is.
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Buck Sexton
Yeah. And that's why I think we need to have primetime congressional hearings. I just, I don't. If Republicans do not do this, they are incompetent because one, it's super important for the country. We can never have this situation occur again. Say whatever you want about Barack Obama. Say whatever you want about Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush. Did anybody doubt that they had the mental faculties to make whatever choices they wanted to make? Of course not. I think, heck, I'd like to see Obama under oath. Why did Obama not pick Joe Biden in 2016? It's a real question that Biden has never really answered. I think it's because they could see already that he was in the early stages of dementia in 2016 and that's why he went to Hillary. Think about that. He didn't let his VP that was there for eight years take over. Now, I know they tried to say, well, Joe, you're just not doing well enough because your son died. I'm sure that was debilitating to Biden and probably did not help his descent into dementia. But was the death of his son partly what they used as a cover to explain his descent into dementia? Maybe it accelerated it. 2019, he didn't recognize the guy who had been his top Advisor since the 1980s. And I hate to say this, but you all know how dementia works. Some days you can have good days and you can think, hey, maybe it's not so bad.
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Clay Travis
I thought they, I. This is where you and I see this a little differently. I think they thought they could thread the needle with a good day on debate night. And I don't know how they thought that. I don't know what the nap schedule.
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Buck Sexton
Was or whatever, or the drugs that they were likely shooting him up with right before he went out And I, you know, you could look at his eyes. Remember us talking about how he would wear the sunglasses. But if you zoomed in on his eyes, the man looked hopped up on stuff like crazy. When he was given some of these speeches. Remember how angry he looked? Remember how. I mean, I'm. There is zero doubt that they were shooting him up like crazy. Remember when he finished the State of the Union and he read, go get him? Do you remember that? And remember when he went to Ukraine and at the end he ad libbed and they were so angry at him about what he said at the end, like, we've got to tear down Putin or whatever it was they. The guy could barely read off a prompter. But like an old ball player who's been doing something for a long time, he could be as good as he was for short periods of time, depending on day and time.
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Clay Travis
I'm going to tell you this right now. If it was really about what was good for the country and going forward being more accurate and doing a better job. Where's your invitation? Where's my invitation to go on Morning Joe and explain why we knew this the whole time?
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Buck Sexton
Yeah.
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Clay Travis
When is the View going to say, hey, Buck, I want you to come on and just walk us through why you and Clay. And they could have both of us. It'd be fun. Why? You and Clay were right about this for years, to the point where it was almost like the mockery felt hackneyed after a while. It's like we've just done this joke day in and day out, day in and day out, because we're left with no choice. Why? Did you guys get it right? No. Instead, we're still some. We were right, they were wrong, but somehow they still feel morally superior in the situation. This is what you have to remember about Democrats. It doesn't matter that they look like absolute, well, liars and buffoons.
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Buck Sexton
It's.
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Clay Travis
They did this to stop the bad team. The bad people were the bad people. Nothing else matters. Which is, by the way, their entire ethos when it comes to dealing with Donald Trump. So is it surprising, Clay, that they would do this, given that they say, I, you know, they have me on Laura's show last night just to kind of laugh. There's these professors at Yale, as if that's supposed to impress anybody, it should not impress anybody. These professors at Yale who are leaving the country because they're experts in fascism and they can't handle all the fascism that's going on. So they're idiots and cowards. Cuz they're just abandoning their country instead of standing and, you know, no surprise there, right? Gotta go find a tenured position somewhere else. But at what point do they just realize, you guys are wrong, you're insane, grow up and calm down.
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Buck Sexton
By the way, we got another bit of breaking news that's another conspiracy theory I think, that we've shared on this show that now looks like it's true. Jim Jordan is investigating, and it appears he has found smoking gun evidence that Pfizer hid the results of their Covid shot to avoid it coming out before the 2020 election. So in addition to all the other rig jobs that were going on, the Wall Street Journal just published lawmakers investigating whether Pfizer waited to share results. And Jim Jordan just shared some tweets and emails that suggest that Pfizer's top execs intentionally prevented that from occurring, which obviously, given how close that was. And Jim Jordan now is going to come on the show with us tomorrow to be talking about that. Buck. So conspiracy theorists are on a hell of a run. You know, they're like a baseball team that's going like 162 and, oh, everything they told you was a conspiracy. You wait a few months and. Or in this case, a few years, and it ends up being true. Hey, Buck, one of my kids called me an unk the other day.
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Clay Travis
An unk?
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Buck Sexton
Yep. Slaying, evidently, for not being hip, being an old dude.
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Clay Travis
So how do we un unk you?
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Buck Sexton
Get more people to subscribe to our YouTube channel. At least that's what my kids tell me.
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Clay Travis
That's simple enough. Just search the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show and hit the subscribe button.
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Buck Sexton
Takes less than five seconds to help un unk me.
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Clay Travis
Do it for Clay, do it for freedom. And get great content while you're there. The Clay Travis and buck sexton show. YouTube channel foreign.
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Buck Sexton
You're listening to team 47 with Clay and Buck. This morning, I read about Trump's trip to the Middle East. These are top Democrat officials. This is Axios this morning. I want you to listen. That speech that Trump gave in Saudi Arabia, it was really pretty incredible. This is what top Democrat officials told Axios. Listen to this, Buck. Quote, gosh, I wish I could work for an administration that could move that quickly. These are top Democrat officials. Listen to these quotes. He does all of this, and it's kind of silence. It's met with a shrug, said Ned Price, a former senior State Department official. He has the ability to do things politically that previous presidents did not because he has complete unquestioned authority over the Republican caucus. Another quote. It's hard not.
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Clay Travis
Ned and I work together at the CIA, by the way.
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Buck Sexton
Oh, wow.
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Clay Travis
I knew Ned.
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Buck Sexton
Okay.
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Clay Travis
Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
Here's the third quote. It's hard not to be simultaneously terrified at the thought of the damage he can cause with such power and awed by his willingness to brazenly shatter so many harmful taboos, said Rob Malley, relating to what Trump is doing in the Middle East. Did you hear the speech? Yeah, I did. It was incredible.
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Clay Travis
I listened to the whole thing as I was incredible carry eggs and watching the baby double tasking like a dad does. And Clay, it was a phenomenal speech, truly.
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Buck Sexton
Yes. And, but what I thought was interesting is it was such a good speech that even Democrats who hate Trump are kind of in awe of how this trip has gone. And I do think, and you'll really appreciate this, obviously with the CIA background, how challenging what he has managed to pull off is he's got the uae, Qatar and Saudi Arabia all competing to see who can show throw him the best state visit party. He's got Syria celebrating America in the streets. And he has isolated Iran now to the point where other than Russia and maybe China, which we know already were traditional allies, who in the Middle east has even got Iran's back? Now, I know some people in Israel are upset about Trump's closeness to the uae, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. But I would suggest that that has led to, to Trump being able to put more pressure on Iran than maybe any president in modern history has ever been able to do.
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Clay Travis
Trump says that as of today, he is very close to a deal with Iran that was as part of this, part of this trip. That's what's going on there. And when he was speaking at that Qatari roundtable, he said Iran can't have a nuclear weapon. They're get it. But they're very, they're getting very close to doing maybe a deal. I just want to say we've made this joke for about a decade now, Clay, that if Trump came out and said, guys, we've got great news, we have managed the administration's project to cure cancer is a success, there would be some way the Democrat, first of all, the Democrats wouldn't believe it. And then they would say, you know, what funding did he use for this? And they would have all of these objections. Whether it's process objections or whatever, doesn't matter what it is, they'll find a way to not be happy for whatever Trump does. If he gets a nuclear deal, which has been a Democrat dream. I know they'd say, oh, we got one with Obama, wasn't a very good deal. If Trump gets a deal, are they going to say, well, I guess they'll just say it's not a good deal. Right. We kind of know there's nothing he can do that will make them say, you know what, this guy's actually got something, even though he can't run again and everything else, they will just oppose him to oppose. And this is, I think, what you see with the whole trip and also with a lot of what the not everything, but a lot of what the administration is doing so far. You just say these are just objectively good things to be trying to accomplish and there's objectively real progress happening on them and all. And you get people that are still saying that this is like fascism or something. I mean, there's this delusion they live in.
[34:31]
Buck Sexton
Well, and I think this is why the putting them on the defense with the Joe Biden aspect is so important. You and I think it was ludicrous that the 2022 election in any way turned on January 6th. Whatever you think about Dobbs, at least that was a tangible political action that people felt compelled to respond to. But the idea that anybody in November of 2022 reacted in their voting patterns based on what happened on January 6th is frankly crazy. But the media made it seem like such a big deal that I think some people were motivated by that. I think what I jotted this down during one of the breaks. I'm going to give Jake Tapper a small measure of praise here, Buck. And I just, I see your face. I understand that many of you out there also, he likes football.
[35:28]
Clay Travis
Clay likes football. I knew this was going to happen.
[35:31]
Buck Sexton
I'm telling you why Jake Tapper writing this book is going to be impossible for Democrats to avoid because it's one of their own writing it. If there are lots of very talented, quote unquote, right wing authors who could write a book about Biden's dementia and they would forswear it, they would ignore it, just like they have ignored you and me and Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck and all the other people on the Premier Network, Jesse Kelly, pointing this out for years, just like they have ignored many of the people on Fox News, just like they have ignored, frankly, even the Wall Street Journal when the Wall Street Journal had a big piece about Biden's clear lack of cognitive ability. They can't ignore Jake Tapper. It's like if Rachel Maddow suddenly sits down and says, we got major problems. Joe Biden has dementia, which she knew, but which she covered up and pretended she didn't. They have to cover it on cnn. They have to cover it on msnbc. They have to cover it in the New Yorker, at abc, at cbs, at NBC. It's one of their own telling the story. And that is the only praise I can give Jake Tapper. If Jesse Waters writes this book, they just say, oh, yeah, of course, that Fox News host. If you or I write this book, they're like, oh, of course. The guys who sit where Rush used to, they're just. Jake Tapper is one of their own and he is holding up the dementia. And they feel compelled to have to cover it now is partly to your point. The fact that they don't. They'd rather be dumb than be seen as dishonest. Yes. Are they going to claim that they got lied to? Yes. Which is why I liked your tweet yesterday that you brought up yesterday. Why don't you tell us who lied? What about Karine Jean Pierre? You know, has there ever been a more public liar in the history of the United States than Karine Jean Pierre? Jen Psaki, who has her own show on msnbc, she didn't know. She didn't know when. When Jake Sullivan, when Biden can't remember his name. They didn't talk about it inside of the. They all knew. They all knew.
[37:57]
Clay Travis
I wish they would come forward, actually, and just say, yeah, we knew he had dementia, but we figured that was a better outcome for the country than the fascist Donald Trump. And that was the decision we made. That would show how, at some level, craven they are. But at least I could respect that. Like, at least I could say, all right, you guys are ruthless and you're liars.
[38:20]
Buck Sexton
That is. That is also honest. At least it's honest.
[38:23]
Clay Travis
Yes. At least it is honest. At least they would be telling us what really happened. Which let me just be clear. That is what happened. It's not. I think that's what happened. That is what happened. We all know it. The same way we knew Biden had dementia. We know that they knew and they knew that we knew. Everybody knows. And now the hubris to try to pretend like nobody knew. This is really a.
[38:50]
Buck Sexton
But you get my point on the Tapper thing. Tapper is one of them. It would be like if Joe Scarborough wrote, Biden has dementia, he wouldn't do it.
[38:59]
Clay Travis
Also, why couldn't Alex Thompson do this himself, though, is what I would.
[39:01]
Buck Sexton
Well, that's my question that I'VE had from the start, right?
[39:04]
Clay Travis
If he's the one that people say, but he was more honest about it, it's like, well, why do I think he had. He's adding Tapper. Because Tapper's whole thing within the Democrats is like, that is, first of all, if he came on which who knows if you will or not, or if we want to have him or not, he would still claim that he's an objective reporter and does not actually he's, I mean, he's a clear Democrat activist, but he would say he's an objective reporter. He would hold to that. And he is the last gasp of the Democrats clinging to that fiction. So he has a lot of power within the Democrat media ranks because of that. Because if everyone just. And when I say everybody, everyone on the right already knows, but if the country by sort of overwhelming consensus that that pays attention to news, a lot of you are fortunate. You don't even care about this crap. But the country that pays attention to, you know, news media is all like, you know what? Jake Tapper was a big partisan fraud too. It's all over for them now. It's just, it's MSNBC and it's Fox. It's two different teams. We all know it, we all get it. There's no more of the pretense because the pretense has been a built in advantage. The pretense of journalism as an objective thing instead of journalism is really just the term given to left wing activists who write stories for left wing news organizations. If that goes away, they lose something that they've been able to rely on for a long time and it's been going away. But I think this is the death throes of it.
[40:26]
Buck Sexton
I do think there's a small realization dawning in a lot of people's minds that they thought they were the good guys and they're actually going to be the bad guys of history. They got everything wrong on Covid. They covered up dementia from Joe Biden. I think slowly they are thinking, oh, I always said this, Buck, if you are a history guy or a history gal, be very, very nervous when people say, oh, I'm sure we're on the right side of history, because history has a way of revealing sometimes things that people did not see in the moment. And my, my argument for a long time has been they are going to be. Everyone who thinks they're the hero of this era is actually going to be the villains of history. Foushee, Biden, everyone who held them up and protected them. If history does its job. Those guys 100 years from now are going to be seen as the biggest villains in America. I really believe, and I think that's where we're headed. And I think Dr. Jill Biden may end up being one of the greatest villainesses. Is that a right word? I think that's the right word. She's the Cruella Deville of American politics, and she's headed there in a real hurry. Why should you listen to Armstrong and Get on Demand?
[41:52]
Clay Travis
We're not boring.
[41:53]
Buck Sexton
Lot of news is boring and tedious and depressing and makes you angry. You don't want to live your life like that. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty. We're Armstrong and Getty.
[42:02]
Clay Travis
We try to bring you the truth.
[42:03]
Buck Sexton
And help you figure out this crazy modern world.
[42:06]
Clay Travis
How about something about a comedic tone?
[42:10]
Buck Sexton
We have a winner.
[42:12]
Clay Travis
Yes.
[42:13]
Buck Sexton
Listen to Armstrong and Getty on Demand on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
[42:19]
Clay Travis
You're listening to an iHeart podcast.

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Detailed Summary of "Team 47 - Trump’s Middle East Trip"

Release Date: May 18, 2025
Podcast: The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
Host/Author: iHeartPodcasts

Introduction

In the "Team 47 - Trump’s Middle East Trip" episode of The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, hosts Clay Travis and Buck Sexton delve into former President Donald Trump's latest initiatives in the Middle East. They present a comprehensive analysis of Trump's strategies, highlighting significant economic investments and foreign policy maneuvers that they argue are yielding substantial benefits for the United States. The conversation juxtaposes Trump's achievements against critiques of the current Biden administration, emphasizing media biases and alleged governmental shortcomings.

1. Trump's Middle East Tour and Economic Initiatives [00:48 - 05:56]

Clay Travis opens the discussion by celebrating Trump's Middle East tour, framing it as a "world tour of winning." He emphasizes the substantial economic commitments secured during the trip, including:

Saudi Investment: Approximately $600 billion from Saudi Arabia committed to the U.S. market.
Foreign Direct Investment: An ambitious goal to attract $1 trillion in direct investment from Middle Eastern countries into the U.S. stock market.

Clay remarks on the positive indicators of these initiatives, humorously noting the surge in individual 401(k) accounts and the decline in egg prices, stating, "I saw this morning, I was reading this is the biggest drop in egg prices in a month since 1984" (01:32). He connects these economic trends to broader market positivity, asserting, "The stock market is now positive for the year, which is... hey, what are you going to argue?" (01:32).

Buck Sexton corroborates these points, highlighting the collapse of traditional arguments used by Democrats to undermine Trump's presidency, such as concerns over inflation and economic instability. He underscores that Trump's strategies in the Middle East are proving effective, with tangible economic benefits being realized.

2. Foreign Policy Successes and Critique of Biden [05:56 - 14:47]

Buck Sexton transitions the conversation to Trump's foreign policy achievements, emphasizing:

Mediation Efforts: Trump's role in mediating tensions between India and Pakistan, preventing potential conflicts.
Ukraine Relations: Facilitating a potential face-to-face meeting between Ukrainian President Zelensky and Russian President Putin in Istanbul.
Normalization with Syria: Establishing normalized relations with Syria, which Buck views as a strategic move to isolate Iran by cutting off Syria's role as an Iranian proxy.

Clay adds depth to this analysis by critiquing the Biden administration's foreign policy track record. He points out the "disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan" and the ongoing conflict involving Russia and Ukraine, questioning, "What is the one win that they can point to on foreign policy?" (14:47). The hosts argue that Trump's efforts to isolate Iran and stabilize the Middle East contrast sharply with Biden's perceived failures.

3. Media Bias and Handling of Biden’s Administration [14:47 - 40:25]

A significant portion of the episode critiques mainstream media's portrayal of the Biden administration. Clay and Buck allege that media outlets have either downplayed or concealed critical issues, including:

Biden’s Cognitive Abilities: Speculation about President Biden's possible dementia, with Clay stating, "It's like we knew Biden had dementia. We know that they knew and they knew that we knew" (38:49).
Media Figures' Complicity: Targeting journalists like Jake Tapper, whom they accuse of recognizing Biden’s shortcomings but being compelled to report on them due to media pressures. Buck notes, "Jake Tapper ... is holding up the dementia. And they feel compelled to have to cover it now" (37:57).

The hosts argue that media outlets are biased, favoring Democratic narratives while undermining or ignoring Trump's successes. They express frustration over perceived double standards, such as extensive coverage of January 6th while minimizing economic improvements under Trump.

4. Latest Developments and Future Implications [40:25 - 42:18]

In the concluding segments, Clay and Buck discuss recent developments stemming from Trump's Middle East trip:

Democratic Leaders’ Acknowledgment: Quoting Axios, Buck highlights positive remarks from Democratic officials like Ned Price, who expressed admiration for Trump's swift actions: "It's hard not... to be simultaneously terrified... and awed by his willingness to brazenly shatter so many harmful taboos" (31:22).
Isolation of Iran: Both hosts emphasize Trump's success in isolating Iran, thereby uniting Middle Eastern allies against a common adversary.

They also touch upon a burgeoning narrative where Trump's actions are garnering even respect from some Democrats who traditionally oppose him, suggesting a reluctant acknowledgment of his strategic prowess.

Clay and Buck conclude by reinforcing their stance on media bias and advocating for continued support of Trump's policies, suggesting that historical perspectives will eventually vindicate their viewpoints.

Notable Quotes with Timestamps

Clay Travis [00:48]: "Trump is not tired of winning. He is on a world tour, well, a Mideast tour, but a world tour of winning, if you will."
Buck Sexton [01:32]: "The stock market is now positive for the year, which is... hey, what are you going to argue?"
Clay Travis [14:47]: "Anthony Blinken, as Secretary of State. To do what? I mean, if you..."
Buck Sexton [23:36]: "This was all about January sixth... It was treated like it was, you know, Pearl harbor bombing."
Buck Sexton [29:54]: "Jim Jordan is investigating, and it appears he has found smoking gun evidence that Pfizer hid the results of their Covid shot to avoid it coming out before the 2020 election."

Conclusion

In this episode, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton present a strong defense of Donald Trump's recent activities in the Middle East, highlighting significant economic and foreign policy achievements. They critically assess the Biden administration’s performance, emphasizing alleged shortcomings and media biases that, in their view, favor Democratic narratives over Trump's successes. The hosts argue that Trump's strategies are delivering tangible benefits for the United States, positioning them as pivotal in shaping future national and international policies.

Through a combination of economic data points, foreign policy analysis, and media critique, Travis and Sexton aim to provide listeners with a perspective that underscores Trump’s impact and the challenges faced by the current administration. The episode concludes with an optimistic outlook on Trump's continued influence and a call to action for listeners to support their viewpoints.

Note: Timestamps correspond to the moments in the transcript where the quotes occur.

#a timestamp key:

[00:48] – Start of main content
[01:32] – Economic indicators
[14:47] – Critique of Biden's foreign policy
[23:36] – Media handling of January 6th
[29:54] – Pfizer investigation
[31:22] – Democratic officials' remarks
[37:57] – Media bias and Jake Tapper
[38:49] – Biden's cognitive abilities allegation
[40:25] – Latest developments and future implications

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[00:00]
Clay Travis
You're listening to an iHeart podcast.
[00:05]
Buck Sexton
Why should you listen to Armstrong and Getty on Demand?
[00:09]
Clay Travis
We're not boring. A lot of news is boring and tedious and depressing and makes you angry.
[00:13]
Buck Sexton
You don't want to live your life like that. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty. We're Armstrong and Getty.
[00:19]
Clay Travis
We try to bring you the truth.
[00:20]
Buck Sexton
And help you figure out this crazy modern world.
[00:22]
Clay Travis
How about something about a comedic tone?
[00:27]
Buck Sexton
We have a winner.
[00:28]
Clay Travis
Yes.
[00:29]
Buck Sexton
Listen to Armstrong and Getty on Demand on the iHeartRadio at Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. The Team 47 podcast is sponsored by.
[00:38]
Clay Travis
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[00:43]
Buck Sexton
Team 47 with Clay and Buck starts now.
[00:49]
Clay Travis
Trump is not tired of winning. He is on a world tour, well, a Mideast tour, but a world tour of winning, if you will. And he's talking about a lot of things that are gonna be, I think, big wins for the country, which is the most important thing of all. So we got about $600 billion of Saudi investment, I think, that he says has been now committed to the US he's trying to pick up a trillion dollars of direct investment from foreign countries in the Mideast into the United States stock market. Oh, man, it's looking so good. All of a sudden, everyone their 401ks. I remember a few weeks ago, these are people's retirements you're destroying. Right? I mean, the whole thing and eggs.
[01:33]
Buck Sexton
To Buck, like inflation, all of the things that they have tried to turn into, like, sort of things to weigh down the Trump presidency with. They've all collapsed. Eggs are coming back down. I saw this morning, I was reading this is the biggest drop in egg prices in a month since 1984. The stock market is now positive for the year, which is. Hey, what are you going to argue? There we go. We got to your point. Middle east, like everything they try to hit him with, it just blows back up in their face.
[02:04]
Clay Travis
Yeah. I mean, and they're, they're talking so much about this, the jet gift thing, you know, it's. I'm just going to tell you, it's just hard for me to pretend to care enough about these things when they get. What about the emoluments clause? Ok, well, I remember when the Washington Post was writing stories about how the emoluments clause was in violation. Do you remember this Clay at the Trump Hotel? Because they did an analysis and there were foreign, basically embassy staff, ambassadors, whatever, who were eating and drinking at The Trump Hotel. And they were saying this is a violation because if the attache from Madagascar has a bacon cheeseburger, maybe he can get Trump to change foreign policy. Like, it was crazy stuff that they were pushing now. Yeah, a $300 million jet is, is a, is much, a much bigger gift than the, the profit margin on a cheeseburger. When you own a hotel and they have to pay the staff and everything. My, my point merely being it's just hard at this point. How much am I going to sit around and be like, oh, my gosh, you see what you Trump the hysteria stuff. I can't, I just, I can't do it right. I can't get myself to care about these things that they're trying to tell us to care so much about. But we should look at some of the other wins that Trump has racked up. You see, a federal judge has ruled in favor of the Alien Enemies. Alien Enemies act, deportation. The Milwaukee County Judge, Hannah Dugan. Remember her? The. I'm going to hide the illegal in my courtroom because federal law doesn't apply to me. As some, you know, rinky dink judge up in, up in Wisconsin, she is, she has been indicted by a grand jury for basically aiding and abetting a, you know, a person who's on the run in her courtroom. I think that's a win. So you've got all this. You got inflation lower than expected. I think we mentioned that yesterday, but it came in at what, like 2.4% or something? Inflation. Just imagine what this economy starts to look like as you get more trade deals, Clay, And a few basis points get dropped from this or, you know, they start dropping rates. Just put it, put it simply, I think these are all the kinds of wins that Trump is going to be able to rack up. And then there's also the drug price. Look, Trump was on with our friend Sean Hannity last night. Sean's traveling with him through the Middle East. I thought this was really interesting. He's talking about opening up China to US businesses. This is cut 13. Play it. One of the things I think that could be most exciting for us and also for China is that we're trying to open up China because, as you know, many years ago, we opened up the usa. Now it's time for China to open up, and that's part of our deal, and we're going to open up China. To me, that's the most exciting part. But, yeah, we made a deal. The relationship is very good. I've always had a good relationship with President Xi it was interrupted because of COVID obviously. But outside of that, I've always had a great relationship, a lot of respect for him and we'll see how that all works out. But we have the confines of a very, very strong deal with China Clay. As we get more details about this, we're very, we don't really have any details right now, but they're going to have to provide something. We're going to hear more about this. I think that, look, I don't want to get ahead of things, but it just feels like the Trump team is simultaneously firing on all cylinders and also keeping things pretty much on schedule. You know, they're moving at the pace that they said they'd be moving and getting things done the way they said they would from the start.
[05:57]
Buck Sexton
Let's just think about this. Because you worked in the CIA, you've spent a lot of time overseas. One of the big criticisms of Trump for much of his political career is that he isn't able to handle foreign affairs. That that's probably one of the. We're going to get into World War Three. He has no idea what he's doing. Let's just think, Buck, in the last week, what he has helped to accomplish. First of all, Marco Rubio is doing an amazing job. He has 48 different jobs inside of the government right now. But it didn't get very much attention. You mentioned it on the show quite a lot last week. But I do think it's significant that India and Pakistan, not really great historic friends, they, they were in danger of having a conflict spiral out of control. Trump engaged in some form of mediation to help settle that situation down in potentially tomorrow in Istanbul, we may have the first face to face meeting between Zelensky and Putin since Putin invaded Ukraine in what, February or March of 2022, whenever that initial invasion started, if I remember correctly. And they are only meeting there according to reports, if Trump will show up. So they're begging Trump to go to Istanbul. We also have Trump normalizing relations with Syria, which is being seen even by Trump critics as a potential stroke of genius that could massively aid stabilization in the Middle east by cutting off the long term relationship of Iran, which was basically using Syria as a proxy terror state and helping along with Russia to prop up Assad, the dictator who has now been removed. Okay, I'm just kind of giving people a little bit of a rundown here. You get the final American terrorist who's been held for something like 580 days. Alexander, hostage, sorry, held by terrorists. Eden. Alexander, the Final American innocent back. And you also potentially get the trade deal done with China. Any one of those that I just ran through would be typically huge, monumental, one week or more stories. Trump has done them all. Not to mention getting trillions of dollars potentially in aid and commitment from Middle Eastern countries like the uae, like Qatar, like Saudi Arabia to invest in American business. That seems like a pretty good. Pretty good few days.
[08:32]
Clay Travis
And I do think as well, you can already lay out more initiatives, conversations, ideas that have. Some of it has already. I mean, I view the border is actually a international relations issue, right? We think of it very much as it's so much tied in. It's the economy, it's domestic and national security. It's. It's all these different things, but especially when you have a border clay that had almost 200 nations people arriving at illegally. I think the final number from border patrol I saw was like 180 something, right? I mean, there's not that many countries in the world. So you got illegals from all over the world, and now they're trying to figure out how to get them back. And that requires foreign relations and that requires using pressure, carrots and sticks. And that has already been a massive success. That alone is more than I can attest to for four years of the Biden administration sending the Absolutely hapless and professionally worthless. Maybe he's a nice man. Professionally worthless. Anthony Blinken, as Secretary of State. To do what? I mean, if you. We sit here and we talk so much about Biden's dementia, it's worth remembering everyone, this, this team was president for four years. What is the one win that you can point to on foreign policy? And I know some of you are already shouting, look at the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, how they did that. No, we all know that. I'm saying you find me the one win that they have on the world stage that you can point what getting us embroiled in the endless supplying of a war between Russia and Ukraine that Russia is slowly winning and choking off Ukraine and killing a generation of Ukrainian fighters. Like, what exactly was Biden able to accomplish? And I mean, his team, really, because we all know about Biden himself. And then you see what Trump has claimed. We're 100 and, I don't know, 120 or something days into the administration or less than that. And already you're talking about a true strategic shift in our relationship with China, which is, I mean, the EU is the largest economy in the world, right? But if we break it down, it's us, and then It's China by nation state. That's a big deal. And we're not even talking about this stuff from the Mideast and the trillion dollars of investment that he's gonna be bringing in from there.
[10:50]
Buck Sexton
I also think, and it has not been recognized, and probably that's because a lot of people are morons. He's also now strategically really isolated Iran and given himself substantial leeway when it comes to negotiating this new deal. And let me explain in basically one minute what I mean by this. Syria is now going to be viewing Trump as a hero. They certainly view Saudi Arabia as heroic for helping to get them off of the sanctions list.
[11:23]
Clay Travis
Yeah, I was gonna say he pulled off the sanctions, which means Syria now has a chance. Let's see what this country can do. Let's see what the new leadership of Syria can do. There's been a big opening here for them. You know, you want to do good things, Trump's gonna bring good things to you. You wanna play stupid games, you're gonna win stupid prizes.
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Buck Sexton
Great relationship, even better maybe than it's ever been with Saudi Arabia, the uae, Qatar, Syria. We know that historically Israel is an ally of the United States. I would submit to you that Trump has now given himself the leeway, if necessary, to have strikes against Iran and not have other parts of the Middle east react and say, oh my goodness, what in the world is Trump doing? Iran is really, really isolated now because Syria is not going to care. Certainly Saudi Arabia doesn't want a nuclear powered Iran. The UAE doesn't want that. Qatar doesn't want that. Israel, Israel doesn't want that. They may be coming from different perspectives, but they're all aligned now with the United States in the Middle East. We have managed to, to kind of, in the Ghostbusters analogy, Buck, bring cats and dogs together to marshal them against Iran. And you've been over there. When's the last time you even heard a story about Iraq? Yeah, I mean, what did. I don't. I mean, I'm going to be honest, you used to read 20 stories a day about what was going on in Iraq when we were spending, wasting, unfortunately, trillions of dollars on Iraq. I can't even tell you what is going on in Iraq. Do you have any. I don't really have any clue. Remember when we killed Soleimani, it was, oh, my God, World War Three is going to happen. I don't remember the last time Iraq had any sort of major say on the larger geopolitical stage.
[13:13]
Clay Travis
Yeah, I mean, you haven't seen an Iraq story in quite some time. I think it's kind of limping along as a country, but it has certainly, yeah, it's dropped out of the headlines. I can't even think of the last story that we talked about on this show about Iraq, but on the Iran isolation from the world. I mean, the problem, and I think you can see this very clearly, the Obama administration essentially gave up all other possible wins in the Middle east and created a disaster. I mean, Clay, I could do a three hour show right now off the top of my head on what a disaster Obama's foreign policy, which Biden was in charge of, by the way, allegedly what a disaster Obama's foreign policy was. And even Democrats, some of them were like, this is just. I can't. This is so indefensible and on so many levels. It was atrocious. But it was all to get Iran further enmeshed in the international system, give them essentially inducements for better behavior. It did not work. Iran did not behave better. And I know people say, oh, well, Trump got us out of it. Yeah, because he saw where this was going. He saw what the inducements got us, which is, this is a corrupt and evil regime. There's no turning it around with them now. This is who the mullahs are, so to speak. It's who the IRGC is. And there, I think, is just the understanding that Trump has on foreign policy of who are our friends, who are enemies, how do we treat them, do they know the difference? And the answer with Trump to those questions is quite clear, I think.
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Buck Sexton
I think that's 100% right.
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Clay Travis
You know what I mean? You know, Trump knows who the good guys are, who the bad guys are. That sounds so simple. But Democrats don't. They're like, oh, I don't know, so bad.
[14:56]
Buck Sexton
Why should you listen to Armstrong and Getty on demand?
[15:00]
Clay Travis
We're not boring. A lot of news is boring and tedious and depressing and makes you angry.
[15:05]
Buck Sexton
You don't want to live your life like that. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty. We're Armstrong and Getty.
[15:10]
Clay Travis
We try to bring you the truth.
[15:11]
Buck Sexton
And help you figure out this crazy modern world.
[15:14]
Clay Travis
Something about a comedic tone.
[15:18]
Buck Sexton
We have a winner.
[15:19]
Clay Travis
Yes. Listen to Armstrong. You get it on Demand on the.
[15:22]
Buck Sexton
Iheartradio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
[15:27]
Clay Travis
In the fall of 1986, Ronald Reagan found himself at the center of a massive scandal that looked like it might bring down his presidency. Did you make a mistake in sending arms To Tehran, sir. No, no one was let go. It became known as the Iran Contra affair. And I'm not taking any more questions. In just a second, I am going to ask. I'm Leon Nayfak, co creator of Slow Burn. In my podcast, Fiasco Iran Contra, you'll hear all the unbelievable details of a scandal that captivated the nation nearly 40 years ago, but which few of us still remember today. The things that happened were so bizarre and insane, I can't begin to tell you. Please do. To hear the whole story. Listen to Iran Contra on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
[16:28]
Buck Sexton
You're listening to team 47 with Clay and Buck.
[16:32]
Clay Travis
Hey, how's your 401k looking? Clay over there with his French cuff shirts with the monograms and the stuff. Stock ticker behind him, I can just see it right now. We gotta get like a separate set for you on radio where Clay's like, all right, guys, we're talking stocks. He said, don't sell. If anything, buy. It was good advice. It was good advice and I will.
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Buck Sexton
Tell you, great advice.
[16:53]
Clay Travis
I actually, I, I did buy the dip and, and it was a good move.
[16:58]
Buck Sexton
Stocks are up for the year. That, that's the thing you need to know. And you know, things have gotten a lot better because they don't put the stock ticker up on cnn. They don't put the stock ticker up on msnbc. It is such a dishonest thing that when stocks were going down, that was the lead story. Price of eggs. Let me hit you with this, Buck. Price of gas, nobody talking about it. Last night I went to an MLS game. $2.65. I drove past a Nashville area gas station. $2.65. It is continuing to come down even as we typically. Gas prices go up in the summer, people drive more. That's a general rule. It's down by half compared to what it was in the summer of 2022 with Joe Biden. Virtually zero media discussion. That's how most people recognize what the price of goods is. That's the thing. They see and adjust and see price changing constantly. Gas prices, four year lows, you know.
[18:02]
Clay Travis
And part of this, I think, is whether you're, when you're reporting on the news, you have to focus on what is important and you look for what is in conflict in those important areas. Right? So the economy, should we be spending more or how's the market going or where's unemployment and what can be done to change this and what Are the policies. The opposition to Trump on these things right now is so weak as to be not even really worthy of. Of time. That's just the truth that they, they're not mounting any real arguments against it. So we're updating you on what he's doing at some level because that's the only show in town and it's going well. Right. If it was and when, when things were rough, what do we say? Ok, the market's down, it's going to be choppy. This is going to require a reset. But we think he knows what he's doing. Trust in this. And sure enough, here we are. So I just give you all that because we're watching, trust me, all Clay and I do is read the news pretty much all day long and set up stories to talk about. Because, because I know there can be a little bit of pushback on. Why are we talking about the Biden thing? Because we're just finding out the full extent of how dishonest and disgraceful it was. Yeah.
[19:05]
Buck Sexton
And by the way, to people out there who say, well, we know he was bad. We know. Did you see what they did on January 6? They spent four years marinating in January six. They had prime time hearings. They came out and told all of us it was the worst day since the Civil War. I would submit to you, this is way worse. And the media is going to cover it. And the Democrat brand, it's a big left wing conspiracy. If Republicans do their job and they hold all these people's feet to the fire, this will make January 6th look like a random BLM riot, which is basically what it was. And we saw hundreds of those we've never seen before. And I remember this in our lives.
[19:51]
Clay Travis
I remember this. Tapper Publicly, Mr. Jake Tapper, who's co authored this book that is rightly being. Unfortunately, they're going to sell a ton of copies. So it is a smart financial decision. But the premise of it, which is we're the good guys for telling you the truth now, is absurd and just, just an affront to our intelligence and to the dignity of public discourse. But we're watching all the.
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Buck Sexton
But I do think that building on what you just said is important and why this is such a huge deal. They have to cover it to make themselves cleansed from their complicity.
[20:27]
Clay Travis
Yes. There's no way around this. That's right. That's why they want control of the narrative to the greatest possible degree. And you've almost started to see some of them, maybe with the beginnings of some contrition insofar as they would rather be thought dumb than dishonest. Just remember that they cuz they know dishonesty means you're never listening to them again. Dumb means oh I'll do better next time. That's what they're going for here. But it actually was not that it was that they were dishonest. They are clever. Tapper I just wanted to point out and you can go go check on Twitter public He was of the oh, you said that people shouldn't attack cops on January 6th. And I mean on the day and right after you're all complicit. You get no credit for it. Everybody who is speaking out against violence that day, you know blood is on your he was one of those guys. He was a blood is on all your hands guys. And as we know, the only like substantial injury or rather the only fatal injury was to a woman who was shot by a police officer as Capitol Hill cop in the neck. Anyway, Ashley Babbitt, which is still a stain on this country that that happened. But ok, so here we are now, Clay and they're going to have to try to explain this to their own side. Wolf Blitzer, the most milquetoast of the CNN right. I think I nailed that one. Thank you.
[21:48]
Buck Sexton
I think that's perfectly safe.
[21:50]
Clay Travis
Yes. The most milquetoast of the CNN anchor stable over there. He starts with Hakeem Jeffries on ok, what did we know about this decline? Let's walk through this together, friends. This just happened in the last 24 hours. Play 2 President Biden didn't even recognize George Clooney at a fundraiser. Why should voters trust Democrats when it's clear so many in your party went to great lengths to keep Biden's condition hidden hidden from the public. I can't tell you what happened between George Clooney and President Biden that wasn't at that event.
[22:22]
Buck Sexton
What I can say is that we're not looking back.
[22:24]
Clay Travis
We're going to continue to look forward.
[22:26]
Buck Sexton
Because at this moment we've got real problems that need to be addressed on.
[22:30]
Clay Travis
Behalf of the American people, including the Republican effort to snatch away health care.
[22:34]
Buck Sexton
Snatch away food assistance and hurt federates.
[22:38]
Clay Travis
That's not going to work. The the old Potomac pivot. It's not it's not going to work the we're just looking forward now. No, actually this is in many ways, Clay. I think the for the honor and integrity such as it is of a political party in America. I've never seen anything like this Before. I've never seen anything that is this. Because it wasn't. And I don't want to get it all. The January six was a different thing. You know, there was a whole lot of. There was a lot of rigging that went on in that election. There was a whole lot of reason for concern. It was mostly a. It was a mostly peaceful protest. It was mostly a protest and everything else. This was a. All the king's horses and all the king's men multi year conspiracy at the very top of the government day in and day out. It wasn't a protest that got too rowdy and that then was treated like it was, you know, Pearl harbor bombing.
[23:36]
Buck Sexton
I think.
[23:37]
Clay Travis
And I think we need to see this for what it is.
[23:39]
Buck Sexton
Yeah. And that's why I think we need to have primetime congressional hearings. I just, I don't. If Republicans do not do this, they are incompetent because one, it's super important for the country. We can never have this situation occur again. Say whatever you want about Barack Obama. Say whatever you want about Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush. Did anybody doubt that they had the mental faculties to make whatever choices they wanted to make? Of course not. I think, heck, I'd like to see Obama under oath. Why did Obama not pick Joe Biden in 2016? It's a real question that Biden has never really answered. I think it's because they could see already that he was in the early stages of dementia in 2016 and that's why he went to Hillary. Think about that. He didn't let his VP that was there for eight years take over. Now, I know they tried to say, well, Joe, you're just not doing well enough because your son died. I'm sure that was debilitating to Biden and probably did not help his descent into dementia. But was the death of his son partly what they used as a cover to explain his descent into dementia? Maybe it accelerated it. 2019, he didn't recognize the guy who had been his top Advisor since the 1980s. And I hate to say this, but you all know how dementia works. Some days you can have good days and you can think, hey, maybe it's not so bad.
[25:26]
Clay Travis
I thought they, I. This is where you and I see this a little differently. I think they thought they could thread the needle with a good day on debate night. And I don't know how they thought that. I don't know what the nap schedule.
[25:37]
Buck Sexton
Was or whatever, or the drugs that they were likely shooting him up with right before he went out And I, you know, you could look at his eyes. Remember us talking about how he would wear the sunglasses. But if you zoomed in on his eyes, the man looked hopped up on stuff like crazy. When he was given some of these speeches. Remember how angry he looked? Remember how. I mean, I'm. There is zero doubt that they were shooting him up like crazy. Remember when he finished the State of the Union and he read, go get him? Do you remember that? And remember when he went to Ukraine and at the end he ad libbed and they were so angry at him about what he said at the end, like, we've got to tear down Putin or whatever it was they. The guy could barely read off a prompter. But like an old ball player who's been doing something for a long time, he could be as good as he was for short periods of time, depending on day and time.
[26:38]
Clay Travis
I'm going to tell you this right now. If it was really about what was good for the country and going forward being more accurate and doing a better job. Where's your invitation? Where's my invitation to go on Morning Joe and explain why we knew this the whole time?
[26:54]
Buck Sexton
Yeah.
[26:55]
Clay Travis
When is the View going to say, hey, Buck, I want you to come on and just walk us through why you and Clay. And they could have both of us. It'd be fun. Why? You and Clay were right about this for years, to the point where it was almost like the mockery felt hackneyed after a while. It's like we've just done this joke day in and day out, day in and day out, because we're left with no choice. Why? Did you guys get it right? No. Instead, we're still some. We were right, they were wrong, but somehow they still feel morally superior in the situation. This is what you have to remember about Democrats. It doesn't matter that they look like absolute, well, liars and buffoons.
[27:35]
Buck Sexton
It's.
[27:36]
Clay Travis
They did this to stop the bad team. The bad people were the bad people. Nothing else matters. Which is, by the way, their entire ethos when it comes to dealing with Donald Trump. So is it surprising, Clay, that they would do this, given that they say, I, you know, they have me on Laura's show last night just to kind of laugh. There's these professors at Yale, as if that's supposed to impress anybody, it should not impress anybody. These professors at Yale who are leaving the country because they're experts in fascism and they can't handle all the fascism that's going on. So they're idiots and cowards. Cuz they're just abandoning their country instead of standing and, you know, no surprise there, right? Gotta go find a tenured position somewhere else. But at what point do they just realize, you guys are wrong, you're insane, grow up and calm down.
[28:23]
Buck Sexton
By the way, we got another bit of breaking news that's another conspiracy theory I think, that we've shared on this show that now looks like it's true. Jim Jordan is investigating, and it appears he has found smoking gun evidence that Pfizer hid the results of their Covid shot to avoid it coming out before the 2020 election. So in addition to all the other rig jobs that were going on, the Wall Street Journal just published lawmakers investigating whether Pfizer waited to share results. And Jim Jordan just shared some tweets and emails that suggest that Pfizer's top execs intentionally prevented that from occurring, which obviously, given how close that was. And Jim Jordan now is going to come on the show with us tomorrow to be talking about that. Buck. So conspiracy theorists are on a hell of a run. You know, they're like a baseball team that's going like 162 and, oh, everything they told you was a conspiracy. You wait a few months and. Or in this case, a few years, and it ends up being true. Hey, Buck, one of my kids called me an unk the other day.
[29:28]
Clay Travis
An unk?
[29:29]
Buck Sexton
Yep. Slaying, evidently, for not being hip, being an old dude.
[29:33]
Clay Travis
So how do we un unk you?
[29:35]
Buck Sexton
Get more people to subscribe to our YouTube channel. At least that's what my kids tell me.
[29:39]
Clay Travis
That's simple enough. Just search the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show and hit the subscribe button.
[29:44]
Buck Sexton
Takes less than five seconds to help un unk me.
[29:47]
Clay Travis
Do it for Clay, do it for freedom. And get great content while you're there. The Clay Travis and buck sexton show. YouTube channel foreign.
[29:55]
Buck Sexton
You're listening to team 47 with Clay and Buck. This morning, I read about Trump's trip to the Middle East. These are top Democrat officials. This is Axios this morning. I want you to listen. That speech that Trump gave in Saudi Arabia, it was really pretty incredible. This is what top Democrat officials told Axios. Listen to this, Buck. Quote, gosh, I wish I could work for an administration that could move that quickly. These are top Democrat officials. Listen to these quotes. He does all of this, and it's kind of silence. It's met with a shrug, said Ned Price, a former senior State Department official. He has the ability to do things politically that previous presidents did not because he has complete unquestioned authority over the Republican caucus. Another quote. It's hard not.
[30:54]
Clay Travis
Ned and I work together at the CIA, by the way.
[30:57]
Buck Sexton
Oh, wow.
[30:57]
Clay Travis
I knew Ned.
[30:58]
Buck Sexton
Okay.
[30:58]
Clay Travis
Yeah.
[30:59]
Buck Sexton
Here's the third quote. It's hard not to be simultaneously terrified at the thought of the damage he can cause with such power and awed by his willingness to brazenly shatter so many harmful taboos, said Rob Malley, relating to what Trump is doing in the Middle East. Did you hear the speech? Yeah, I did. It was incredible.
[31:23]
Clay Travis
I listened to the whole thing as I was incredible carry eggs and watching the baby double tasking like a dad does. And Clay, it was a phenomenal speech, truly.
[31:33]
Buck Sexton
Yes. And, but what I thought was interesting is it was such a good speech that even Democrats who hate Trump are kind of in awe of how this trip has gone. And I do think, and you'll really appreciate this, obviously with the CIA background, how challenging what he has managed to pull off is he's got the uae, Qatar and Saudi Arabia all competing to see who can show throw him the best state visit party. He's got Syria celebrating America in the streets. And he has isolated Iran now to the point where other than Russia and maybe China, which we know already were traditional allies, who in the Middle east has even got Iran's back? Now, I know some people in Israel are upset about Trump's closeness to the uae, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. But I would suggest that that has led to, to Trump being able to put more pressure on Iran than maybe any president in modern history has ever been able to do.
[32:50]
Clay Travis
Trump says that as of today, he is very close to a deal with Iran that was as part of this, part of this trip. That's what's going on there. And when he was speaking at that Qatari roundtable, he said Iran can't have a nuclear weapon. They're get it. But they're very, they're getting very close to doing maybe a deal. I just want to say we've made this joke for about a decade now, Clay, that if Trump came out and said, guys, we've got great news, we have managed the administration's project to cure cancer is a success, there would be some way the Democrat, first of all, the Democrats wouldn't believe it. And then they would say, you know, what funding did he use for this? And they would have all of these objections. Whether it's process objections or whatever, doesn't matter what it is, they'll find a way to not be happy for whatever Trump does. If he gets a nuclear deal, which has been a Democrat dream. I know they'd say, oh, we got one with Obama, wasn't a very good deal. If Trump gets a deal, are they going to say, well, I guess they'll just say it's not a good deal. Right. We kind of know there's nothing he can do that will make them say, you know what, this guy's actually got something, even though he can't run again and everything else, they will just oppose him to oppose. And this is, I think, what you see with the whole trip and also with a lot of what the not everything, but a lot of what the administration is doing so far. You just say these are just objectively good things to be trying to accomplish and there's objectively real progress happening on them and all. And you get people that are still saying that this is like fascism or something. I mean, there's this delusion they live in.
[34:31]
Buck Sexton
Well, and I think this is why the putting them on the defense with the Joe Biden aspect is so important. You and I think it was ludicrous that the 2022 election in any way turned on January 6th. Whatever you think about Dobbs, at least that was a tangible political action that people felt compelled to respond to. But the idea that anybody in November of 2022 reacted in their voting patterns based on what happened on January 6th is frankly crazy. But the media made it seem like such a big deal that I think some people were motivated by that. I think what I jotted this down during one of the breaks. I'm going to give Jake Tapper a small measure of praise here, Buck. And I just, I see your face. I understand that many of you out there also, he likes football.
[35:28]
Clay Travis
Clay likes football. I knew this was going to happen.
[35:31]
Buck Sexton
I'm telling you why Jake Tapper writing this book is going to be impossible for Democrats to avoid because it's one of their own writing it. If there are lots of very talented, quote unquote, right wing authors who could write a book about Biden's dementia and they would forswear it, they would ignore it, just like they have ignored you and me and Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck and all the other people on the Premier Network, Jesse Kelly, pointing this out for years, just like they have ignored many of the people on Fox News, just like they have ignored, frankly, even the Wall Street Journal when the Wall Street Journal had a big piece about Biden's clear lack of cognitive ability. They can't ignore Jake Tapper. It's like if Rachel Maddow suddenly sits down and says, we got major problems. Joe Biden has dementia, which she knew, but which she covered up and pretended she didn't. They have to cover it on cnn. They have to cover it on msnbc. They have to cover it in the New Yorker, at abc, at cbs, at NBC. It's one of their own telling the story. And that is the only praise I can give Jake Tapper. If Jesse Waters writes this book, they just say, oh, yeah, of course, that Fox News host. If you or I write this book, they're like, oh, of course. The guys who sit where Rush used to, they're just. Jake Tapper is one of their own and he is holding up the dementia. And they feel compelled to have to cover it now is partly to your point. The fact that they don't. They'd rather be dumb than be seen as dishonest. Yes. Are they going to claim that they got lied to? Yes. Which is why I liked your tweet yesterday that you brought up yesterday. Why don't you tell us who lied? What about Karine Jean Pierre? You know, has there ever been a more public liar in the history of the United States than Karine Jean Pierre? Jen Psaki, who has her own show on msnbc, she didn't know. She didn't know when. When Jake Sullivan, when Biden can't remember his name. They didn't talk about it inside of the. They all knew. They all knew.
[37:57]
Clay Travis
I wish they would come forward, actually, and just say, yeah, we knew he had dementia, but we figured that was a better outcome for the country than the fascist Donald Trump. And that was the decision we made. That would show how, at some level, craven they are. But at least I could respect that. Like, at least I could say, all right, you guys are ruthless and you're liars.
[38:20]
Buck Sexton
That is. That is also honest. At least it's honest.
[38:23]
Clay Travis
Yes. At least it is honest. At least they would be telling us what really happened. Which let me just be clear. That is what happened. It's not. I think that's what happened. That is what happened. We all know it. The same way we knew Biden had dementia. We know that they knew and they knew that we knew. Everybody knows. And now the hubris to try to pretend like nobody knew. This is really a.
[38:50]
Buck Sexton
But you get my point on the Tapper thing. Tapper is one of them. It would be like if Joe Scarborough wrote, Biden has dementia, he wouldn't do it.
[38:59]
Clay Travis
Also, why couldn't Alex Thompson do this himself, though, is what I would.
[39:01]
Buck Sexton
Well, that's my question that I'VE had from the start, right?
[39:04]
Clay Travis
If he's the one that people say, but he was more honest about it, it's like, well, why do I think he had. He's adding Tapper. Because Tapper's whole thing within the Democrats is like, that is, first of all, if he came on which who knows if you will or not, or if we want to have him or not, he would still claim that he's an objective reporter and does not actually he's, I mean, he's a clear Democrat activist, but he would say he's an objective reporter. He would hold to that. And he is the last gasp of the Democrats clinging to that fiction. So he has a lot of power within the Democrat media ranks because of that. Because if everyone just. And when I say everybody, everyone on the right already knows, but if the country by sort of overwhelming consensus that that pays attention to news, a lot of you are fortunate. You don't even care about this crap. But the country that pays attention to, you know, news media is all like, you know what? Jake Tapper was a big partisan fraud too. It's all over for them now. It's just, it's MSNBC and it's Fox. It's two different teams. We all know it, we all get it. There's no more of the pretense because the pretense has been a built in advantage. The pretense of journalism as an objective thing instead of journalism is really just the term given to left wing activists who write stories for left wing news organizations. If that goes away, they lose something that they've been able to rely on for a long time and it's been going away. But I think this is the death throes of it.
[40:26]
Buck Sexton
I do think there's a small realization dawning in a lot of people's minds that they thought they were the good guys and they're actually going to be the bad guys of history. They got everything wrong on Covid. They covered up dementia from Joe Biden. I think slowly they are thinking, oh, I always said this, Buck, if you are a history guy or a history gal, be very, very nervous when people say, oh, I'm sure we're on the right side of history, because history has a way of revealing sometimes things that people did not see in the moment. And my, my argument for a long time has been they are going to be. Everyone who thinks they're the hero of this era is actually going to be the villains of history. Foushee, Biden, everyone who held them up and protected them. If history does its job. Those guys 100 years from now are going to be seen as the biggest villains in America. I really believe, and I think that's where we're headed. And I think Dr. Jill Biden may end up being one of the greatest villainesses. Is that a right word? I think that's the right word. She's the Cruella Deville of American politics, and she's headed there in a real hurry. Why should you listen to Armstrong and Get on Demand?
[41:52]
Clay Travis
We're not boring.
[41:53]
Buck Sexton
Lot of news is boring and tedious and depressing and makes you angry. You don't want to live your life like that. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty. We're Armstrong and Getty.
[42:02]
Clay Travis
We try to bring you the truth.
[42:03]
Buck Sexton
And help you figure out this crazy modern world.
[42:06]
Clay Travis
How about something about a comedic tone?
[42:10]
Buck Sexton
We have a winner.
[42:12]
Clay Travis
Yes.
[42:13]
Buck Sexton
Listen to Armstrong and Getty on Demand on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
[42:19]
Clay Travis
You're listening to an iHeart podcast.