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Clay Travis
Welcome in. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us here on this President's Day 2025. I know many of you are working, but also many of you have the day off no matter where you are. It's a good sign to go. Sign up for the Clay Travis Buck Sexton show podcast. Spring break coming up soon. Maybe some midwinter breaks also taking place. That's a new thing. I don't remember that existing when I was school. But you have the midwinter break now before the spring break. Uh, maybe you're gonna be traveling, maybe you're just busy running around. You can listen to the show, catch up whenever you have it, fit your schedule. All you have to do is search out Clay Travis or Buck Sexton. You can also listen on the iHeartRadio app, which does a fabulous job of also updating you with unbiased news that is out there. If you're just interested in actually being able to know what is going on in the world and you're not looking for a super bias, iHeartRadio's app does a great job of that as well. And we wanted to make sure that we said it is the fourth anniversary of a date that I know has been very hard for many of you. Rush Limbaugh died four years ago today and we wanted to make sure that we honored his memory. 33 years of radio excellence, the like of which has never existed in American history. And there is a longer form clip from Rush that is up in our podcast channel for those of you who want to hear it. Uh, but we did want to honor the legacy, the memory of the man behind the golden microphone by acknowledging this four year anniversary of his passing. This is from January 9th of 2020. Rush talking about Trump versus the process oriented people of Washington D.C. a conflict that is certain continuing to play itself out in the present moment. Listen to this from five years ago.
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Buck Sexton
The American people have gotten used to the snail's pace of whatever objectives government or Washington has. Trump is not of that world.
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Clay Travis
Trump is a results oriented guy and.
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Buck Sexton
He'S up against a bunch of process people. Now, if both parties are engaged in process as part of a campaign and trying to win the day on who's the better at process, then you've got.
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Clay Travis
A dull, boring campaign here.
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Buck Sexton
But when you've got somebody demonstrably able to get results up against process people, the process people don't have a prayer. And that's what they know.
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Clay Travis
That was rush in the 2020 era. January of 2020, more Rush legacy memory up As a part of the Clay and Buck Podcast Network, we certainly want to acknowledge four years ago, his passing and the tremendous impact that he had in the world of this arena and want to reiterate as we have done and said for years, I can't believe, Buck, it's been almost four years that you and I have been talking every single day with this audience. We do not take it for granted. We feel immense gratitude and privilege to be able to continue to fight many of the battles that Rush fought. And we appreciate the fact that so many of you have continued to listen to us and also that younger people out there have continued to come into the fray as Rush would have wanted the case to be. In fact, I imagine that Rush, boy, would he be excited about how many young people in particular are taking up the American flag and advancing it behind the arguments that Trump is winning with right now. He would be ecstatic to see exactly what is happening. I'm sure he is watching down and seeing it. But it is pretty incredible to think about the legacy and its growth as Trump has taken back in for 2.0. Buck.
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Buck Sexton
Yes. And so we are gratified and deeply honored to be trying to continue on the fights that Rush engaged in for decades. And we've got more up atclay and buck.com and also in the Clay, Clay and Buck podcast feed, we've pulled together special kind of a just a memory of Rush in podcast form on the four year passing. So please go check that out in the Clay and Buck podcast network.
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Clay Travis
So all of, all of that. Certainly wanted to be on top of. We've been discussing the battle for free speech. I wanted to play this cut for you, Buck, because last night was the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live and I wanted to watch it. I thought, hey, you know what? They've got a huge, incredible number of celebrities that are coming out. Maybe they will put together a really well done show. I, I gave them the benefit of the doubt. I watched for about an hour and a half. I turned to my wife, I said, I can't watch any more of this. Tell me if anything actually funny happens. I'm gonna go and read and be doing prep for this show. I was reading, I think, catching up with the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times weekend editions. And I did see, however, in the part that I was watching this skit which was Tom Hanks suddenly shows up and he is a Trump supporter. He's wearing a Make America Great Again hat. And you need to watch the video because it was Intentionally insulting to Trump voters. But I will play that audio for you. Saturday Night Live wonders why its ratings have collapsed and it does not have the cultural cachet that it used to. I would submit to you. It's because they continue to alienate over half of the country right now. Listen, well, thank you.
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Buck Sexton
Now, speaking of church, can I say something? If more folks went to church, we wouldn't be in this mess we're in now. You know what? I agree with you, Doug. I'd like to shake your hand, sir. Here we go.
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Clay Travis
Oh, no, no.
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Buck Sexton
Oh, no, no. It's just, it's just a handshake.
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Clay Travis
Yeah.
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Buck Sexton
All right. You're welcome in Black Jeopardy.
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Clay Travis
Anytime.
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Buck Sexton
All right, well, thank you, my.
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Clay Travis
My brother.
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Buck Sexton
You know, maybe I'll start a show for you to come on and we'll call it White Jeopardy. No, we don't need it. We don't need it.
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Clay Travis
Okay. So not.
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Buck Sexton
Not funny and mean spirited Clay. The original version of that sketch was actually funny. It aired years ago. I, I don't know exactly when, but they had. Black Jeopardy. Was the, was the, you know, the title of the sketch. Tom Hanks was the, the white guy. And there were a couple of other, you know, black snl. It was. I forget the guy. Who's the, what's the guy? Who's the, who's playing the, the host there. I forget his name. And Kenan Thompson.
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Clay Travis
Kenan Thompson. He's been on the show for like a decade or more. He's been there forever.
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Buck Sexton
So. So he was on and a couple of other black actors were on. And the original one was actually funny because it wasn't mean spirited. And really what it was, you know, they asked some, you know, this Black Jeopardy. They asked some questions and the Trump supporter answer was something that the black community or members of the black community on the stage also agreed with. So it was things like they would say, you know, what happens if so. And so wins this election? He goes, it doesn't matter because the unit party runs it anyway. And then all the, you know, the black contestants are like. That's correct. Like, you know, and it actually was meant to be funny. I think for everyone. That was one of the more pop. That's what's so disappointing. That was one of the more popular recent black. Recent SNL sketches, Black Jeopardy. And so to take it and then just do this kind of nasty punching down thing and make it seem like the guy is clearly supposed to be a racist. I mean, that's where, you know, the dance floor is supposed to be A racist. It's hard to. It's hard to understand the mindset of some of these people who are supposed to be comedians at this point. You've basically taken most of the major comedy platforms that existed for, you know, your life and my life. I'm not talking about, you know, new Netflix specials and stuff. That's a new thing, right? And like, Nate Burgazzi is blowing up everywhere. He's fantastic. And there's all these new comedians who actually are funny and are doing great stuff. But you look at, you know, snl, the Letterman show, the. Well, what's the. The Daily show with Trevor Noah, least funny man that could have Polear.
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Clay Travis
God forbid, Colbert.
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Buck Sexton
They've destroyed all of these legacy comedy platforms, including snl. SNL has been trash for the entirety of the Trump era and really before that, but certainly for the last 10 years, just trash. I'm actually surprised you watch it, but good for you on stomaching through some of it or stomaching some of it. And it's just a shame because they. Even when the market speaks to them, they don't change, they don't care.
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Clay Travis
And it's not only profoundly insulting. And let's also not give Tom Hanks a pass here. Tom Hanks is supposed to be this avuncular, incredibly likable everyman actor, and yet he feels comfortable ridiculing every Trump supporter as a racist. And this is actually the data. This was. The media doesn't want to tell you, by and large, certainly not in the legacy media, but this is important. The 2024 election was the least racially polarized election in America since 1964. White, black, Asian, Hispanic people have never voted more similarly than we did in 2024. Trump has the least racially polarized electoral majority since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Pre civil rights era. So for most of you out there that are listening to us right now, you have never lived in a less racially polarized America than right now as it pertains to the presidential election.
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Buck Sexton
This is. This is also when. When the data, I think, speaks so clearly on what happened versus what the narrative is. The usage of the. You've seen this Elon, actually a while ago, I think, even before he owns Twitter X, I remember him commenting on this that the explosion in the usage of the terms racism, white supremacy, all this coincided with Obama's election. The media, the media, all of a sudden, New York Times goes from using white supremacy like once a year because I've never even met a white supremacist, never seen A white supremacist. Never met a white supremacist. I mean an actual white supremacist. And it goes from, you know, once a year they'll have some article to like every day. I mean an absolute explosion. Clearly intentional and really used to manipulate the public and use narratives about racism so that there couldn't be opposition to Obama early on in the Obama administration, criticism of Obama. And I mean I remember because I was one of those people criticizing Obama was racist and that was that. They were happy to just leave it at that. Oh, you don't like Obama. Hmm. I wonder why. You know, they would play that game a lot. Clay, things have changed now. People have seen that those who would use those tactics are always arguing in bad faith and actually don't even care what the government, what the results are from an administration. They just want their team and they want to silence the other team. Kind of like the German people knocking on the doors.
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Clay Travis
It's also on an SNL front, incredibly lazy humor. To your point, the pointing out that people who are look different actually have many of the same opinions is actually somewhat of a unique take, at least from a comedic perspective, I. E. That Trump supporters and black voters back in 2015 actually overlapped on a lot of opinions, but they didn't necessarily vote like it. By 2024, you are seeing Hispanic, black, Asian and white voters. I recognizing that we actually have more in common than we do apart. And this is where the real panic is setting in. Buck, some of these Trump approval numbers are starting to be eye opening even to me. I saw buck a plus 12 Trump approval numbers coming out recently and I think that's because much of what he's doing is not partisan in nature. It's a lot of common sense.
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Buck Sexton
It's common sense. It's sane versus insane as we often talk about. I think that's one of the guiding principles of this show. Sanity versus insane insanity in public policy and in the way that we view things in day to day life. And Clay, this also goes to the sense of what is the opposition. They refuse to course correct. You would see it if they, if they were doing it. They refuse to look at what happened in this election and say, you know what we need to change messaging on because they've gotten so deep on some. It's kind of like the Margaret Brennan thing. This is what I. You're, you're. You look at Margaret Brennan, Clay, with the sane versus insane paradigm and you go, the Nazis weren't pro free speech, you lunatic. Right. She looks at it and goes, this is. I am mouthing the preferred slogan. This is the narrative. The narrative is mean words from the disapproved people. From the disapproved. Right. Causes genocide. That's all that. That's. She just. Those are the orders. She's orders to say that kind of crap.
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Clay Travis
Which is why I think it's a great question. Is she brainwashed or a moron? I don't think there's any. Maybe she could be a brainwashed moron. I guess she could be both. But we'll take some of your calls, react to that. I just wanted to share that clip with you because I do think it's going viral. And last night was the 50th anniversary of SNL, and I was hoping they would maybe be a little bit funny. Instead they decided to tell you, hey, if you voted for Trump, you're a racist and you hate black people, that's snl.
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Buck Sexton
You know, Margaret Brennan, I mean, to go to this point, she's. She went to uva, which for somebody not from Virginia is even more impressive. Great school no matter what. But I mean, if you get into UVA from outside of. I know this because a lot of New Yorkers wanted to go there. It's incredibly like getting to U. Michigan, out of state. Incredibly hard. She was a Fulbright scholar. She speaks fluent Arabic. And yeah, I mean, I don't think she's dumb. I just think she's just too deep into the machine to see what the heck's really going on.
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Clay Travis
Remember, she was one of the moderators of one of the debates, too. Right. This isn't just. I mean, this is where on a bigger, larger front, Republicans have to be smarter about who they allow to moderate going forward.
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Buck Sexton
See, for me, one of the compone. One of the complicated. And I know we got. We got to take a. Take a pause here, but someone like Rachel Maddow, also not dumb. Is she actually brainwashed or she just pretending for the paycheck? That's what. That's. I can't determine that with some of these libs in the media at this point who are not dumb, but who say dumb things.
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
Welcome back in, my friends. We're gonna dive in a bit more here with some of this free speech issues. Also over the Daily Wire, Michael Knowles had a really interesting exchange with some LGBTQ+ activists. I don't know if this was recent or if this is just an old clip that's resurfaced, but it goes to what Clay and I were talking about when it comes to people who it doesn't matter what the it doesn't matter what's true. They've been told they must believe something and so they will believe it and you can't convince them otherwise. We're talking about policy issues here, right? We're not talking about what the outer, outer edge of the universe may be. So we will dive into some of that also. More on Doge. So we shall discuss. But last week's news on January inflation figures told us the news we didn't want to hear. Inflation's up again. More than any time in the past year. Trump's administration focused on it, of course yours. Is it going to be fixed overnight? No. This is a decades long problem that's going to take years to get under control. And that's why you need to Take the long view and get some gold and silver in your portfolio. A portion of your savings invested in gold just makes sense. And Birch Gold Group can help you with this. Their team at Birch Gold has all the information you need to walk you through the steps of investing in gold. We trust Birch Gold Gold, same company that's got a new study on how gold will fare in the Trump era with a forward by Donald Trump Jr. I've just bought some more gold from Birch Gold recently because I'm trying to build up a little bit of my reserves to prepare for an uncertain future. Text my name Buck to 9898 98. That's Buck to 9898 98. Or go online to birchgold.com buck for your free copy of the Ultimate Guide for Gold in the Trump Era.
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Clay Travis
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show. Appreciate all of you hanging out with us us we were talking about Trump's overall approval ratings skyrocketing. I saw him buck over the weekend and I'm going to pull this up to, to, to make sure that I get it right because it even made me like do a double take. We mentioned Super Bowl Sunday. CBS came out with a poll that showed Trump +6 nationwide +20 with men. And we had a lot of discussion last week about why Democrats are struggling in such fashion when it came to, to, to male voters. But I saw this over the weekend and it just made me kind of go, wow, this is from RMG Research and it's a fairly highly regarded poll. You know, they value the polls to try to determine whether or not they're right wing or left wing leaning. This is a, a solid, a solid poll. Trump plus 12 job approval 55% approve, 43% disapprove. We've never seen anything like these numbers for Trump in his entire political career. He's never been this positive. Buck and I understand people are like nervous about polls and everything else, but I do think the storyline is consistent here.
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Buck Sexton
Now, just as a thought exercise, throwing this out to you and to everyone right now, what would be the thing if you're going to disapprove of Trump based on something he has done since becoming president, what would that thing be? When you look at what the focus has been, these are at least 60, 40 issues, you know, give or take a few points. But these are solid majority issues. And for the people who see it that way, I absolutely do not care how much they scream like banshees in D.C. when people from Doge are finding the waste, fraud and abuse Right. You just. It's not like they have a point of view and I have a point of view. It is like, no, if you think wasting hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money is a good thing, I don't care what you think on the issue. You're crazy.
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Clay Travis
I. The only thing I can think of buck that Trump has really done in a month that could be a 50, 50 or maybe even under 50, 50 proposition is birthright citizenship. And to a large extent, I think that's because most people have just not considered birthright citizenship. In other words, the Overton window has been opened up in many ways, and people are saying, well, why do we do this? For me, you know, I did research and wrote about it, my most recent book. And so I think most people have really not thought about it. But to your point, that's the only one, and that's traditional politics. I don't have a problem. We got. Sometimes you need to advocate for things, for things that the majority doesn't believe in because you're right. And you think you can convince them of the rightness of your right.
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Buck Sexton
Yes, sometimes. Sometimes there are issues. I mean, the one that everyone always jumps to is like, well, what should the federal. First of all, I think there should be no income tax. That's a crazy idea, isn't it? But Trump likes it, too. But, you know, there's going to be some things where you've just got to set a boundary. To set a boundary, you got to set the line and you can debate the line, and that's fine. There's no debate to be had on should violent gang members convicted of serious crimes who have no right to be in the United States continue to stay here and enjoy status as somebody who gets, you know, access to this beautiful, wonderful country of ours? Absolutely. Not that it's not a reasonable position to be like, you know what? I think the MS.13 hitman that's already served 15 years for manslaughter. I think we shouldn't deport him. If you think that you're unreasonable, you're crazy. I don't care what your opinion is. Same thing with the Doge fraud stuff. If you think that people who are dead should be getting Social Security payments. I don't know what to say to that person. Like, I don't know what. Why would that. Why does that make any sense?
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Clay Travis
I think that's 100% right. And the reason I gave that prelude is I wanted to play this. Our friend Michael Knowles over at the Daily Wire had a debate argument set up with LBGTQ plus activists in particular over whether men should be involved in women's sports, which buck is a great example of something that is a 8020 issue now nationwide, according to the New York Times polls, that much of public opinion has moved in, I would say, common sense direction. This is an argument I believe we have won this show outkick people like Riley Gaines, Paula Scanlon speaking out after the Leah Thomas ridiculousness of a man pretending to be a woman winning a women's NCAA championship, which, by the way, should be stripped from him and given to the woman who finished in second place. Uh, frankly, I don't even think that's a difficult call. But here they are arguing, and one of the things you'll hear, this happens all the time. That doesn't. That's what they argued with me for a long time over this. Well, that doesn't happen so much very often. I don't know why you care. Um, and then Michael Knowles immediately comes back with the hard data on how often it does happen. And you'll see the immediate pivot in the argument. It takes about 25 seconds.
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Buck Sexton
Listen, what is transgenderism in public look like to you?
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Clay Travis
It's allowing men to be treated for the purposes of the law as women. It's men taking 900 sports trophies from women in recent years. And they didn't take 900. They took 900. This report just came out from the United nations, actually. 890 trophies and medals across 600 women who were competing competitors across 29 different sports and 400 competitions that came out like yesterday.
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Buck Sexton
And they deserved them.
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Clay Travis
It didn't happen and they deserve them. Okay. That is the logic I hear from the pro trans crowd.
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Buck Sexton
I mean, that is they do deserve them. Knowles handled it perfectly. I just, I just want to say this, man, that is the Democrat mindset, that of the true believers distilled into one sound. Bite it. You're lying. It's not happening. And if it is happening, it's a good thing. It is happening. Oh, I'm glad. This is they approach. This is the approach to everything.
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Clay Travis
The why do you care? Is the number is the first argument, right? That why do you care? It's not happening. Why do you care? It's happening and it's a good thing. And my answer to that, because some of you may get this argument, my answer to that is I care because I believe in fairness of competition. That's the very foundation of competition in general.
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Buck Sexton
I'll just tell you, I actually, the way I see it on the Spectrum. We could sort of debate this, but I think it's flat denial, which is what that. That woman did. And I'm assuming. I'm assuming her gender. I think it's a woman. I don't know. But based on the.
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Clay Travis
That's accurate. It is a woman, so far as we can tell.
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Buck Sexton
As far as I know. Identify as a woman. It isn't happening. And then it goes to. It is. It is happening, but not that much. Why do you care? Yeah, right. Like.
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Clay Travis
Like you're exaggerating.
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Buck Sexton
Oh, it's. It's just a few. It's just a few trans athletes. It's just a few people. Why do you care so much? And then they transition to, yeah, it's happening all the time, and it's a good thing. And the same. It's not that the argument moves sort of in this vague sense. A person who will tell you the first thing will then tell you the second, will then tell you the third. And you can show them the clips of themselves and they're like, yeah, it's just like. It's just like what. What Communists always do, which is the argument is all in favor of what they want. It doesn't matter what's actually happening.
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Clay Travis
That's so true. It's so true. And I think it goes to. Why is Trump's approval rating going up all over the country? Because most of what he's doing is not particularly partisan. In fact, do we have the audio of. I think it's worth playing the audio out there. Did you hear Obama and Biden saying, hey, we've got to go find all of the different. All of the different wasteful spending and fraud that exists in the United States government. Let me play this cut for you. We can react to it. And we come back in a little bit here, Buck. This is Obama and then Vice President Joe Biden talking about the need to cut the budget and find all the fraud there. This was just about a decade ago. Now, it's controversial when Elon does it, but back when Obama and Biden were in charge, it was just good governance.
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Buck Sexton
Listen, to cut a budget, reform is not an option. It's a necessity.
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Clay Travis
The American people are entitled to transparency.
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Buck Sexton
We can't sustain a system that bleeds billions of taxpayer dollars on programs that have outlived their usefulness or exist solely because of the power of politicians, lobbyists, or interest groups.
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Clay Travis
They're entitled to be able to figure out where their dollars are going, and.
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Buck Sexton
They'Re entitled to accountability to make sure that we're using the dollars for what.
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Clay Travis
We said it was for.
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Buck Sexton
We are going to go through our federal budget as I promised during the campaign, page by page, line by line, eliminating those programs we don't need and insisting that those that we do need operate in a sensible, cost effective way. What should be easy is getting rid of the pointless waste and stupid spending that doesn't benefit anybody. We hope to be instilling an entire.
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Clay Travis
New culture the next. Not only our administration, but every succeeding administration will in fact pursue.
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Buck Sexton
No amount of waste is acceptable. Not when it's your money.
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Clay Travis
Buck. This was a decade ago. Conventional wisdom, not considered to be remotely political. You could basically put those quotes in Elon Musk's mouth right now, and he is saying the exact same thing that Barack Obama and Joe Biden said just about a decade ago.
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Buck Sexton
Well, but this is also because it's, it's a clear majority issue, meaning even Democrats know that on those things, on things like just wasting taxpayers, straight up wasting taxpayer dollars. And we're not talking about the USAID thing of should we be funding. You know, I mean, I think that's a waste. But there's different degrees of waste, right? There's funding the transgender puppet shows in Ulanbaatar, and then there's sending hundreds of millions, maybe even billions of dollars to fraud rings in like the former Soviet Republic and in Southeast Asia for Medicare payments that never. Or Medicare Medicaid payments that never should have gone out. Like, it's not possible to make an argument in favor of that stuff, Clay. Right. No one would ever do that. However, Democrats also know that when Obama and Biden, when they say that stuff, it's just words. It's words to fool the normies. It's words to make the Democrats seem like normies when really they're going to pursue the objectives that we've seen over the last decade. Just like on the border, by the way, you listen to stuff that the deporter in chief, you listen to what Obama says on the border. And if you say that stuff now to a lot of Democrat, I mean basically any true believer Democrat, they say that you're like a xenophobic, racist maniac. I could take a transcript of Obama on the border from his first term, Clay. And if I went on, you know, I'm trying to. What left wing shows can I even go on these days? I don't know. If I went on. There we go. Thank you. If I went on the View, I don't think Sunny Hostin would like what I had to say about immigration Using Obama's exact words from a decade ago.
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Clay Travis
Would actually be a great test just to go on and just memorize exactly what he said. Say him back. There's probably video of her talking about how much common sense it was then. By the way, you mentioned that in the third hour, we should dive into the border completely shut down. Tom Homan is doing an incredible job. Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, everybody is get the border shut down. It's basically not a story already. You know, the talk about what has Trump done in less than a month. We're going to hit you with some of these numbers. We come back in the third hour here in a little bit. And I saw Bill Belugian, who, by the way, I said, should be, you know, down the border, shirtless swimsuit. I, I mean, I'm all about ratings. Put him in a swimsuit, let him stand there, maybe a knee deep in the, in the Rio Grande. And I think numbers would go up in a big way. He tweeted, you can't even find an illegal immigrant crossing the southern border right now. Remember, you used to be able to just take a camera and you could see the caravan coming right across the border. The border is completely shut down without any congressional act. One of the big lies they all told us, Buck, was and some Republicans went along with this, oh, yes, we can't solve the border without Congress acting. Trump got his pen, they got a paper, he signed all those executive orders, and suddenly the border is completely closed again. We'll talk about it in a little bit. But in Israel today, there's a peace. We hope the peace is going to last. But there is still a great demand for basic humanitarian aid. Given the disruption and displacement over the last year, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has continued to support those in the Holy Land facing the lingering horrors of war and those who are in desperate need right now. Your ongoing monthly gift of $45 will provide critically needed aid to communities in the north and south devastated by the ongoing war. The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews pays attention to those in need. I've seen it firsthand on my trip to Israel that I took in December. You can provide hope during a time of great uncertainty with your gift that will do so much to help the people in Israel. Bless Israel and her people by visiting supportifcj.org that's one word. Supportifcj.org you can also call 888-488ifcj. That's 888488 ifcj. Want to be in the know when you're on the go the Team 47 podcast, drop highlights from the week, Sundays at noon Eastern in the Clay and Buck podcast feed. Find it on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Buck Sexton
We got a great call. Marty in Texas. Marty, what's going on?
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C
Hey, so, Marty, we are. I'm Marty. I'm a little rattled here. Coming in off of a flight from Sydney, Australia. We are here to tell you that we. Trump has so many supporters, it's now fashionable. They can say it out loud, and they're out loud and proud. Trump is in the league because they know that in America, whatever goes on here, it trickles down to them and everybody.
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Buck Sexton
Marty, Marty, just so I'm clear, you're telling us that Trump is big in the land down under?
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C
Oh, yes, he is. There's a few haters, but, you know, you can't change their mind. They're going to hate. So we have to show them the other side. And that's what we do. We walk around like walking billboards. We have our Trump hat on. It's amazing, I'm telling you, Amazing.
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Clay Travis
So you. This is. This is great. I went to Australia about, what, a year and a half ago or so? Last. Last. I guess it was last Christmas, and I found that there were a lot of Trump supporters there. Marty, I'm curious. You said you went with a bunch of grandmothers. I hope your trip was fabulous because it is a beautiful country. But I have found that. And this is what we were talking about earlier, Buck, Many people in other countries, there's a lot of Canadians listening to us right now. There's a lot of Europeans that agree with a lot of what Trump is doing as well. They don't have political leaders that are saying what Trump is saying. And so to your point, Marty, they're actually looking to the United States as a great beacon of freedom because they can't find it in their own country.
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C
Excellent. That's a perfect description. Perfect. And I'm going to tell you, no. We go as snapping grannies. There's two of us. We've been doing this for nine years when it was not fashionable. Stand for Trump. We stand by that man. We stand by all that's going on. And we are so proud that, once again, maybe our voices can be heard again.
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Clay Travis
Thank you for the call. We're glad you made it back safe. It's a beautiful country. I loved my time in Australia. But, Buck, I hear from a lot of these Australians, I hear from a lot of Canadians, English language speakers, in particular in England, certainly, that their leadership won't advocate for them in a way that Trump is advocating for Americans here. And so so they look to him not only as a beacon of light for what he's doing in America, but as, hopefully, an inspiration to lead leaders in other Western speaking, Western civilized, English speaking countries to lead the charge.
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Buck Sexton
And we get a sense of how much that is needed right now, considering the hits that freedom is taking in Canada, in Australia, in Great Britain, a lot of places that need a reminder about the greatness and their role in the greatness of Western civilization. With freedom at the core of it all. We are going to dive into this and more on Doge. And Clay is going to talk about the Daytona 500 with Trump and other great things in the third hour, which is coming up.