Trump’s Ballroom Sparks Liberal Meltdown — Carson Torches the Hypocrisy!

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Rob Carson Show

Episode: Trump’s Ballroom Sparks Liberal Meltdown — Carson Torches the Hypocrisy!
Date: October 23, 2025
Host: Rob Carson (with Rob Finnerty, Caroline Levitt, Zoe, and guests)
Podcast: Newsmax Podcasts

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Rob Carson Show centers on the political and media frenzy surrounding Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project, highlighting what Carson calls the “liberal meltdown” and “media hypocrisy.” The show uses humor, pointed political commentary, and parody music to critique Democratic reactions, draw historical comparisons, and discuss broader issues such as government shutdowns, border policy, and partisan double standards.

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Major Discussion Points & Insights

1. White House Ballroom Controversy

• Trump’s Ballroom: Carson lampoons the “outrage” over Trump privately funding a new White House ballroom, comparing it to past renovations under Democratic presidents.
  • "Of all things you could whine about, this is it. You're just noise. You're just noise at this point." (Rob Carson, 12:37)
• Historical Context:
  • Points to Obama’s costly and opaque White House renovations (including building a bunker / basketball court) and Nixon’s bowling alley, to underscore the routine nature of White House improvements (05:29, 07:25).
  • Notes that a White House ballroom has been desired for decades.
• Hypocrisy: The show critiques Democrats for raising alarms only when Trump leads such projects, despite their silence under previous administrations.
  • "If Joe Biden were doing this exact same thing and paying for it himself, Joe Biden would be celebrating." (Rob Finnerty, 06:08)
• Parody Segment: Carson and cast perform a satirical protest song about “taking the jackhammer to the White House ballroom” (11:31–12:37), lampooning liberal overreaction.

2. Media and Political Response

• Accusations Against Trump:
  • Cites Democratic claims that the ballroom project is a "pay-to-play scheme" (03:06).
  • Comments on ongoing calls for Trump’s impeachment over this and other actions (04:01).
• Transparency: Trump’s on-air responses assert he’s been open about the project, inviting media to review plans and stressing pride in the development.
  • "I've shown this to everybody that would listen...third rate reporters didn’t see it because they didn’t look." (Donald Trump via Zoe, 08:16)
• Democratic Objections: Guests and co-hosts (Rob Finnerty, Caroline Levitt) dramatize and exaggerate liberal reactions, mocking their stated historic concerns for the East Wing and alleged “destruction of the rule of law” (09:46–10:27).

3. Government Shutdown as Political Leverage

• Shutdown Debate:
  • Carson and guests highlight Democratic admission (via Minority Whip Catherine Clark) that shutdowns are used for political leverage, despite harmful effects on families (18:22–19:41).
  • "It is one of the few things, the leverage times that we have to make people suffer so we can use it for our political gain." (Rob Carson, 18:44)
• Republican Response: The episode claims Republicans support a “clean continuing resolution,” while Democrats insert benefits for illegal immigrants into budget proposals (26:04–27:10).
  • "What the Republicans want...is a clean continuing resolution to fund the United States government. What did the Democrats want?...Medicaid to pay more for emergency care provided to illegal aliens than...American patients..." (Caroline Levitt, 26:04)

4. Border Security, ICE, and Immigration

• Trump’s Immigration Win: The show applauds a Ninth Circuit ruling enabling Trump to federalize California National Guard for immigration enforcement, casting this as a devastating blow to Gavin Newsom and Democratic sanctuary policies (29:17–34:40).
  • "Trump can federalize California National Guard to enforce immigration law. Oh my God. This is fantastic." (Rob Carson, 29:17)
• Democratic ‘Psy-Op’ Against ICE: Emphasizes coordinated Democratic efforts to villainize ICE, comparing these tactics to "Gestapo" rhetoric and referencing antifa (30:49–32:30).
• Anti-ICE Tech & Doxing: Discusses a new Democratic initiative to crowdsource ICE agent locations, described as insurrectionist and dangerous (38:31–40:03).
• Undermining Immigration Enforcement: Claims from the show state the left organizes activists (antifa, etc.) into “soldiers” against law enforcement, compared to brownshirts from the Third Reich (40:31).

5. Voter Rolls and Illegal Immigrants

• Benefit Abuse Claims: Carson and guests cite reports of millions of illegal immigrants accessing Medicaid, public benefits, and being registered to vote — presented as systematic support for Democratic power (27:00–28:52).
  • "We found in the benefit programs that every benefit looked at was being accessed by these people…thousands of them registered to vote." (Rob Finnerty, 28:30)

6. Parody, Mockery, and Personal Style

• Tone: The show freely blends comedy, sarcasm, and over-the-top characterization of Democratic politicians and media figures.
• Parody Performance: Rob Carson and cast hijack a 1960s protest song to satirize liberal reactions to the ballroom (11:31–12:37).
• Personal Asides: Carson sprinkles in birthday jokes, HGTV references, and own experiences with handyman work to relate to listeners (22:04–23:20).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Carson on Democrat Outrage:
  "I'm so bloody done with this nonsense. I mean, you got every—Everything is an outrage. Everything that Donald Trump does is an outrage. It's been this way for 10 years." (Rob Carson, 03:42)

• On Media Double Standards:
  "CNN didn't care about any of that because it was not Donald Trump." (Rob Finnerty, 05:51)

• On Demolition & History:
  "We love the destruction part. That's the best part. When you watch those HGTV shows, that's the part you wait for." (Rob Carson, 10:07)

• On Dems' Voter Strategy:
  "There are so many reasons why they love those illegal aliens...they need to be able to jack up the number of representatives in those states and get the money from those states and all of that while being able to be completely funded for their socialism." (Rob Carson, 27:10)

• On Political Leverage:
  "It is one of the few things, the leverage times that we have to make people suffer so we can use it for our political gain." (Rob Carson, 18:44)

• Parody Lyric:
  "Took the jackhammer to the White House ball…We're gonna make it bigger than it's ever been." (Zoe, 11:31–12:37)

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Key Timestamps

• 01:02 — Show proper begins (“the most interesting, informative, thought provoking and funny show”)
• 01:32–02:00 — White House renovation history; first references to cost/historical context
• 03:06 — Hakeem Jeffries on “pay-to-play” accusations
• 05:29 — White House renovations under Obama and lack of media outrage
• 06:08 — If Biden did same thing, he'd be celebrated
• 07:25 — Discussion: Trump as a private builder and legacy
• 08:16–08:45 — Trump's response to transparency accusations
• 09:32–10:27 — Democrats' visceral reaction to East Wing demolition
• 11:31–12:37 — Parody protest song about the new ballroom
• 14:45 — Whoopi Goldberg misunderstanding on funding
• 16:01–16:45 — Trump elaborates on architectural changes, historic restoration
• 18:22–19:41 — Catherine Clark, Democrats’ government shutdown leverage
• 26:04–27:10 — Debate: Medicaid/benefits for illegal immigrants in Dem budget proposal
• 28:30–28:52 — Illegal immigrants on benefits, registered to vote
• 29:17–34:40 — Ninth Circuit ruling: Trump’s win over California/immigration
• 30:49–32:30 — “Gestapo” comparisons and rhetoric about ICE
• 38:31–40:03 — Tech, doxing, and anti-ICE tracking app; call to "just shut up"

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Episode Tone and Style

• Irreverent, comedic, sometimes abrasive; regularly lampoons Democrats and ‘liberal media’
• Satirical songs and humor break up intense political discussion
• Frequent use of sarcasm, hyperbole, and pop culture references (HGTV, Led Zeppelin, etc.)

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For Listeners New to the Show

This episode is a quintessential mix of political commentary, humor, and media criticism. It provides a conservative, often satirical take on current political stories—especially the uproar over Trump’s White House ballroom—and takes aim at what Carson sees as the left’s performative outrage and double standards. The show deconstructs these narratives through historical context, parody, and pointed debate, all delivered in Carson’s signature entertaining, provocative style.

Transcript

[Rob Carson]

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[Caroline Levitt]

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[Zoe]

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[Caroline Levitt]

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[Rob Carson]

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[Zoe]

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[Rob Carson]

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[Rob Finnerty]

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[Rob Carson]

Hold it. Now. You are about to hear the most interesting, informative, thought provoking and funny show.

[Zoe]

In America on air and on the World Wide web.

[Rob Finnerty]

This is the Rob Carson Show. Sounds like you're building another wing to the White House, but we appreciate you keeping your foot.

[Caroline Levitt]

Imagine tj, it's gonna happen for the next two years. All the banging, the jackhammering, the dust, the confusion, the.

[Rob Carson]

No.

[Caroline Levitt]

Of all places to do construction is happening right here. The front lawn of the White house. It's a four year renovation project. Estimated cost $376 million.

[Rob Carson]

Unbelievable, honestly, that Donald Trump is such a. This. You know what this is? This is a big. He's just a big payoff to his cronies and. Oh, I'm sorry, that was what. Oh, that was. Ooh, that was 2010 when Barack Obama was. Okay, that's. That was Barack Obama when he was the president. That's what that happened. Oh my God. I had no idea. Yeah, yeah, that happened when Barack Obama. Obama was the president. But apparently a lot of people who have Trump ballroom whatever derangement syndrome, because Donald Trump the one of the premier real estate developers in the world who's built countless beautiful palaces, buildings and, and of course golf courses around the world, known for revitalizing the New York skyline. He is going to gather money from individual investors and build a beautiful ballroom which people have Been begging for, for decades. Jack was going to have a ballroom. Not for John Kennedy, by the way. No, no, this was just for. This is for everybody to use. You know, it's where you dance and stuff. But anyway, she had planned on it, man. She was going to do it. She said that's what the, that's what the, the White House needed. And then, of course, a communist killed her husband, so that stopped it, you see. But the Democrat Party needs something to bitch and whine about. I'll just be honest. They need something to complain about. It's got to be something. Everything's got to be a crisis. Everything's got to be awful. This is what they do. Hakeem Jeffries, yesterday.

[Rob Finnerty]

More likely, this is part of what Donald Trump has been doing since day one of his presidency. Running the largest pay to play scheme in the history of the country and probably soliciting donations from people who've got business before the United States government. And all of this is going to have to be investigated. It will. All of this will have to be uncovered. It will.

[Rob Carson]

And he lost a billion dollars in value when he was the president the last time.

[Rob Finnerty]

These people are going to be held accountable no matter how long it takes. That's going to be the reality of the situation. And that's our warning to all of these people.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, my God. It just. I'm so done. I'm so bloody done with this nonsense. I mean, you got every, Every. Everything is an outrage. Everything that Donald Trump does is an outrage. It's been this way for 10 years.

[Rob Finnerty]

There is no doubt that this president's conduct has already exceeded any prior standard for impeachment. It's impeachable misconduct.

[Zoe]

This isn't leadership is tyranny. Donald J. Trump must be impeached.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, yeah. So, yeah, Donald J. Trump. Everything has been this way for a decade. And honestly, I'm just so bloody stinking tired of it. They are just being contrarian to be contrarian. Everything they do, everything they've ever touched is crap, by the way. Everything the Democrat Party has ever touched has turned to crap. They've never done a damn thing for the country. We've got a guy in the office right now who is making history happen. He has brought in $17 trillion in investment, closed the southern border after the Democrats said it couldn't be closed. There was no way. You had to spend a lot of money. You had to do it all that you had to, you know, come up with Bill. And then what did Donald Trump did? He closed it just Boop. Hey, shut the damn border down. How about that? Okay, so I go over and close the window, for God's sake. Instead of sitting around and whining about how it being cold in here, how about get up and close the windows? The Democrats have to be like, oh, no, we gotta pass legislation. We're gonna spend billions of dollars to close the window. Donald Trump just did it. I mean, you know, it's just ridiculous. He's got now seven peace deals, including peace in the Middle east, yet seven Arab states coming together. He got peace between India and Pakistan. Could have been a nuclear war. And yet the Democrats are complaining that Donald Trump is going to build a beautiful ballroom that has been desired by countless presidents. What did Barack Obama do? Well, we don't know exactly what the hell he did with a couple hundred million dollars when he was the president, because nobody bothered to ask what Donald Trump was or what. What Barack Obama was doing at the White House during his rehabilitation of the White House. Here's Rob. Rob Finnerty talking about it last night.

[Rob Finnerty]

There was a giant hole at the White House right in front of the West Wing during the Obama administration, but nobody seemed to care. Certainly not cnn. Barack Obama spent unknown millions to build a bunker under the West Wing, or.

[Rob Carson]

At least that he also put in a basketball court because, you know, so many world leaders want to come to the White House and play basketball.

[Rob Finnerty]

That's what we think it was. Because the public to this day has never been told what it was. CNN didn't care about any of that because it was not Donald Trump.

[Rob Carson]

I'll bet it was for growing some serious hydroponic weed.

[Rob Finnerty]

If Joe Biden were doing this exact same thing and paying for it himself, Joe Biden would be celebrating.

[Rob Carson]

Trust me. Everywhere you go in D.C. you smell weed, for God's sake. You can be in a traffic intersection and all of a sudden you'll just smell weed. You know where it's coming from. It's just there.

[Zoe]

Daily.

[Rob Finnerty]

For being the first president to privately fund a major project, a major project at the White House, I know, but.

[Rob Carson]

Because it's going to be around after all these damn Democrats are long gone, people will be dancing. 100 years from now, you'll be flying in flying cars to go to big events at. At the White House, and they'll go, dang, this. This ballroom that Donald Trump, the greatest president in history built sure is neat.

[Rob Finnerty]

This is a Donald Trump project. Donald Trump, by the way, that was.

[Rob Carson]

Back with the Democrat Party, still existed before they spiraled into hell, before he.

[Rob Finnerty]

Got into politics, was a builder because it's a Trump project. Everything Trump does has to be controversial because Trump sells.

[Rob Carson]

Trump did it.

[Rob Finnerty]

Two things are now happening. One, CNN is a national punchline. It's not becoming a national punchline. They are a national punchline. The second, Donald Trump is having the most successful start to a second term maybe in American history. And Melania are going to be toasting opening night in that ballroom when it does open up.

[Rob Carson]

And I'm going to be there, too. I might be serving hors d', oeuvres, but I'm going to be there. I am going to be there. Here is Donald Trump going after another reporter. They never went after Barack Obama when he did a couple hundred million dollars in building a shroom room in the ground or so. I don't even know what the hell it was on a basketball court. Richard Nixon put in a damn bowling alley. And then, I don't know. It's been, it's been an ongoing rehab project for 100 years, for God's sake. You know why? Because it's an old building. I hate to tell you this. Sometimes you got to fix old billings. My God, you Democrats. You ever watch HGTV? I had to watch it for 20 years. Every night. You should know this by now. Here is Donald Trump. I just want a quick follow up on that question.

[Rob Finnerty]

Your response to people who said that.

[Caroline Levitt]

You haven't been transparent enough.

[Zoe]

I haven't been transparent.

[Rob Carson]

Here we go.

[Zoe]

I've shown this to everybody that would listen. Third rate reporters didn't see it because they didn't look. You're a third rate reporter, always have been. So third rate reporters, wow.

[Rob Carson]

He's demolishing part of the White House and this reporter in the same day.

[Zoe]

Look. But anybody that asks these, these pictures have been in newspapers. They've been all over the place. And you know, we're very proud of it. It's gotten great reviews. It's gotten really great reviews. I think we've been more transparent than anybody, you know.

[Rob Carson]

You know, if, if the, say, for instance, the government wanted to do a new ballroom at the White House, they put out bids and Donald Trump's, maybe one of his sundry companies would be in the running because they do great work. And now we've got a guy who actually has done this for a living with a track record that is impeccable and they get things done on time, unlike Barack Obama's library and on budget, unlike Barack Obama's, you know, library and unlike high speed rail in California. And now The Democrats are actually whining because the perfect person to actually do this is actually doing it, and it's not costing the taxpayers anything. Here is the awful Democrat Chris Murphy whining about it. But I wonder if you had the same. I just have encountered for myself and.

[Rob Finnerty]

Other people, there was really something visceral about those images.

[Rob Carson]

It was visceral. It was just visceral. They were just tearing down that building with a backhoe that landed.

[Rob Finnerty]

I wonder if you or other colleagues or other people you're talking to.

[Rob Carson]

I'm not talking about funny. Willis either, had that same reaction.

[Rob Finnerty]

Listen, there's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing, and it was just destroyed without any conversation in the American public.

[Rob Carson]

Public.

[Rob Finnerty]

Without any consent of Congress. It was absolutely illegal.

[Rob Carson]

No, no, it was absolutely legal.

[Rob Finnerty]

Yeah, that. That visual is powerful because you.

[Rob Carson]

I know. Because we love the destruction part. That's the best part. When you watch those HGTV shows, that's the part you wait for. You don't care about the middle of the show. You don't even care about them bringing in this and arguing about paint colors and all that. You like the demo and you like the reveal. That's it.

[Rob Finnerty]

Essentially, watching the destruction of the rule of law happen.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, yes. The destruction of. Of love. Here's Josh Hawley giving another reporter a little. What fur.

[Rob Finnerty]

What about just uprooting the. You know, this is an iconic building.

[Rob Carson]

I will just say iconic building.

[Rob Finnerty]

I made this point yesterday that I hear all of a sudden from my liberal friends that they're very concerned about our history.

[Rob Carson]

Really?

[Rob Finnerty]

These are the same people who tore down every statue they could get their hands on in the last four years. Christopher Columbus, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt. They didn't have any concern for history then. Now all of a sudden, I go, the. The facade of the East Wing is iconic. Oh, give me a break.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, yeah. They also tried to burn down St. John's historic church right near the White House. A bunch of radical leftist antifa members, even though James Carbill says they don't exist, but also, you know, a good share of his brain doesn't exist anymore either. So you know how we'll wrap up this segment? We will take a classic song from the 60s, a kind of a protest song from the 1960s, and we're going to hijack it, and we're going to do it to support Donald Trump, just to piss off the boomer crybabies out there complaining about the White House.

[Zoe]

Took the jackhammer. Took the jackhammer to the White House ball.

[Rob Carson]

To the White House ball.

[Zoe]

We're gonna make it bigger than it's ever been. Increase the square footage. Footage will be three times larger.

[Rob Finnerty]

Larger.

[Zoe]

It will seat 600 people from all over this land.

[Rob Carson]

Better than a bowling alley or a basketball court.

[Zoe]

With my own in White House improvements. Unlike the Clintons, who robbed the place blind.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah. The power washing.

[Zoe]

They took a pair of soap buzz. They even stole some tape pulls.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, yeah. The silverware.

[Zoe]

I will upgrade the White House.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah. It's gonna be cool.

[Zoe]

It's part of my plan. Rose garden. I made nicer.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[Zoe]

People say they love it's pre. Wait till they see this ballroom. Oh, my. It's gonna be grand.

[Rob Carson]

And you're not gonna be invited to the grand opening. Thank you very much. Yeah. You know, honestly, of all the things you could. You could whine about, this is it. You just. Honestly, you're just noise. You're just noise. At this point, coming up, we've got some. Some new news on the. The shutdown. Oh, did you hear about this big old 31 arrested in NBA gambling cabal. I guess a massive, you know. And Pete Rose is looking down from heaven going, what the hell? Really? Really? And I didn't get into until after I died. I didn't get into the hall of fame, for God's sake. So we got that. We got your phone calls at 800-922-6680 on this Thursday edition of the Rob Carson Show.

[Zoe]

The Rob Carson show podcast is everywhere. Go to newsmax.com listen for details. You know, there's a relative. Nobody's actually seen anything quite like it. I think it'll be one of the great ballrooms anywhere in the world.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, it's a pretty cool ballroom.

[Zoe]

It's about $300 million. It's set to do many, many things, including meetings of foreign leaders, including the honoring of foreign leaders. You can see this. This is a plan. If it's got tables so that you honor a foreign leader, we have a proper space. Right now, we have a space that, with tables, holds about 79 people.

[Rob Carson]

There you go. Yeah, that's not. That's not good enough. So you got all that land over there, and, you know, it's something that they've wanted forever at the White House, but because Donald Trump is doing it, and he's an incredibly successful real estate developer and builder, which makes perfect sense. The Democrats are whining about it because they are. Honestly. My father had a. An expression was, you would be if you was hung with a new rope that's what he'd say about that. And that was an old timey expression from like World War II and the west and the old west, by the way. But that's what the Democrats are doing right now. And honestly, it's just noise. It's just noise after a while. Here's Whoopi Goldberg lying about the funding of the ban.

[Caroline Levitt]

So this will also be decided.

[Rob Finnerty]

The part that really tickles me. It's going to be.

[Rob Carson]

That is not a visual I want to even think about here.

[Caroline Levitt]

Decided by some of the same Justice.

[Rob Carson]

Department lawyers who worked with him on these past cases.

[Caroline Levitt]

So, Americans, the question is, are you on board with all of this? This is like a cash grab and your taxes are probably gonna be paying for.

[Rob Carson]

No, no, you're. You're absolutely wrong. It's completely covered by corporate sponsorship and Donald Trump's gonna throw some money in too. So. Wow. Honestly. Dear God, just listening to her voice, my God, she used to, she used to be a funny person for you guys. Maybe Gen Zers. Don't know. Whoopi Goldberg was a come actress or an actor somewhere in there. Not sure anymore. Not even sure. But yeah, she, she used to be kind of funny. She had a show called. Or a movie called Sister act where she, she pretended to be a nun to evade the law. I don't think I've ever seen that movie. I loved her in Ghost, though. She was damn good. And Ghost, man, she was really, really good in Ghost. Absolutely. Absolutely amazing. Here's Donald Trump talking about the best ballroom ever. And it will be, by the way.

[Zoe]

Certain, certain areas are being left. We determined that after really a tremendous amount of study with some of the best architects in the world.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah. Because that's what he does, you see.

[Zoe]

We determined that. Really knocking it down, trying to use a little section, you know, the east wing was not much. It was not much left from the original. It was. Over the course of 100 years, it was changed. The columns were removed.

[Rob Carson]

Plus when Joe Biden was there and Hunter Biden was there, there's a lot of, just a lot of damage caused by moisture.

[Zoe]

It was a much different building than a story was added on. In 1948, 1949, there was a story added on which was not particularly nice.

[Rob Carson]

No.

[Zoe]

And the building was very, very much changed from what it was originally.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, that's true.

[Zoe]

It was never thought of as being much. It was a very small building.

[Rob Carson]

What if they'll find some bags of cocaine while they're destroying the. That area of the building rather than.

[Zoe]

Allowing that to hurt.

[Rob Carson]

I got another bag of cocaine over here.

[Zoe]

A very expensive, beautiful building that frankly, they've been after for years. You have that. I brought these along so people could see, but it's, you know, there's.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, when the, when the ballroom is open, I'm not sure when the ball is going to be open. It'll be under time and under budget, though. Certainly if it were a Democrat thing, it would be done in about 40 years, way over budget. You know, that sort of stuff. A lot of probably a DEI hires that put it together so it'd be crumbling on its foundation. GOP is floating a funding extension to December of 2026amid the shutdown drama, Republicans at Capitol Hill discussing extending current government funding levels until December 2026 as debate heats up about the length of a potential stopgap funding bill to reopen the government. I hate reading this stuff sometimes, don't you? It's just like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So they're basically saying, you know what? Screw Democrats. We'll go past the midterm election with our own little spending bill and won't even have to worry about talking about it until next December. How that you want to. You want to fafo. Let's fafo. All right, here is. Oh, this is Catherine Clark. She's the minority whip, which is probably somehow racist. Not even if she was a Republican, it would be racist. But anyway, here is minority whip Catherine Clark saying that the, the whole, this whole shutdown is leveraged for the Democrat Party, which we know it is. It's an attempt to extort more money out of us, another $1.5 trillion out of us. And she gave it up.

[Rob Finnerty]

No, no responsibility on the Democrats. Or at least you don't think, who perceives that the Democrats are responsible.

[Caroline Levitt]

Shutdowns are terrible. And of course there will be, you know, families that are going to suffer. We take that responsibility very seriously. But it is one of the few leveraged times we have.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, it is one of the few things, the leverage times that we have to make people suffer so we can use it for our political gain. And that's exactly what she said. She actually did an evil laugh right after that and she rubbed her hands together. She was really weird. You should have seen it. Here she is walking back her comments on cnn, of course, because CNN had to give her the opportunity to walk back the comments.

[Caroline Levitt]

White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt just posted a clip of an interview that you did on Fox last week. You were answering a question from Fox's Chad Pergrim, about blame for the shutdown. I want to.

[Rob Carson]

Which is all on you, by the way. It's all on you.

[Caroline Levitt]

I mean, shutdowns are terrible. And of course there will be, you know, families that are going to suffer. We take that responsibility very seriously. But it is one of the few leveraged times we have.

[Rob Carson]

Yes, here she goes. Love it is the evil laugh out again.

[Caroline Levitt]

Looking especially at that last bit you said they're saying that Democrats, quote, are now admitting that they are intentionally causing American families to suffer. They are with their reckless government shutdown. What's your response to that? Well, that is right.

[Rob Carson]

It's ridiculous.

[Caroline Levitt]

Out of her playbook of half truths, taking things out of context and not being straight with the American people.

[Rob Carson]

That's the Democrat.

[Caroline Levitt]

She knows what I said.

[Rob Carson]

That's the Democrat playbook. He knows. That's the Democrat playbook. My God. And this is what they're doing. They always do this. They do it every single time. They've done it with shutdowns. When Barack Obama was the president, there was a shutdown and he blamed it on the Republicans. You can't go see the Vietnam Memorial. Fault two bad veterans. Oh, you World War II veterans gonna have to die without seeing the getting an honor flight. It's what they've been doing for decades. Nobody is fooled by this at all. Let's take a break and come back, shall we? This is the Rob Carson Show. Hey, guys, it's Carson. Not proud member of the 4:00am Club. You know what that is? Well, that's the time that I usually wake up every night and can't get back to sleep. Then I found Beam's Dream Powder. Now Beam's Dream Powder is made with a powerful blend of all natural ingredients including reishi, magnesium, L theanine, apigenin and melatonin. It's designed to help you fall asleep, stay asleep and wake up feeling amazing. And unlike other sleep aids, there's no next day grogginess, just great restful sleep. Plus, dream tastes incredible. And it's become a part of my nightly routine. Simple, easy, effective dream is made right here in America, supporting jobs, quality and the principles we stand for in America. Thank you very much. Beam is going to give my listeners the ultimate patriot Discount. Up to 40%. Try their best selling Dream Powder. Get up to 40% off for a limited time. So with my discount code, Newsmax, you can get their best selling dream powder for just $39. Go to shopbeam.com newsmax that's shopbeam.com newsmax Again, use the code newsmax at checkout. That's beam.com newsma Use code word newsmax for up to 40% off. There's always room for Zeppelin. Come on. You know, you can tell I have a bachelor pad now because I ordered a Led Zeppelin print for one of the walls. That's kind of cool. It's kind of fun to do that, you know, and it's not like your typical bachelor pad. Right. You know, because, you know, I've been 20 years of HGTV watching experience and, you know, also grown up. So I don't have like milk cartons holding up plywood to put speakers on it like in the old days, you know, So I got some cool stuff going on in the, in the apartment. It's kind of. It's kind of fun. It's kind of fun to do your own place. I'm the best renter ever, right? Because I've got my tools with me, including my, my. All my saws and all of my stud finders and everything. Obviously, when I. You got to be careful with the stud finder because whenever I hold it, it goes off. So there is that. But anyway, I put up like a floating shelves and a hanging pot rack in the kitchen. I hang up a hanging pot rack with cordless LED lights that are motion controlled. So I just walk into the kitchen and bing, it shows up. I'm going to tell you it is. They're going to. When I leave this apartment, I'm leaving it so much better than when I. When I got there because it was just an apartment, so. And I'm the kind of guy who I won't even get bothered to call. Like when the toilet is clogged, it's like, really?

[Rob Finnerty]

No.

[Rob Carson]

Or when the sink is. What? It's no, I'll fix it. I'm like, Schneider, remember the One day at a time, you Gen Xers and boomers. One day. I'm like Schneider from, From One Day at a Time. But I got my own apartment, so there is that. John Fetterman did an interview yesterday on Fox, and John Fetterman is one of the. I mean, he had a complete brain reboot when he had his stroke. I mean, I'm not kidding. Something happened. Something happened. I don't know if it was a near death experience or actually if his brain just went down, came back up and started working properly. But he's saying things that make a lot of sense. Here he is talking about the government shutdown, how many people it's hurting in Pennsylvania.

[Rob Finnerty]

Yeah, I Mean, you know like I just said that I just put that on my social like 2 million Pennsylvanians depend on SNAP for to helping feed themselves in that food stamps family. 2 million. And now that's going to be suspended because our government is shut.

[Rob Carson]

Then there's the food stamps for transgendered individuals called oh snap down.

[Rob Finnerty]

I can't ever vote for that kind of mass food insecurity like that. And now I also. I'm going to be a county. I'm a country, I'm a country over party guy. I'm always going to vote to that.

[Rob Carson]

Is a Democrat talking. You know used to be that most politicians talked like that.

[Rob Finnerty]

They are military over the party. I'm always going to vote to pay the Capitol police here versus over the party. I mean I'm always going to vote country over my party. And if I pay a price within my base, you know I, that that's, that's something I'm willing to do because I happen to believe it's very true. And that's what's honest where we are right now.

[Rob Carson]

It's unbelievable. I mean that's, that's like that used to just be how people thought. Now we've got people in Washington D.C. who intentionally shut down the government. They can vote to do a clean crowd, clean continuing resolution until all of these things are. We have a group of people in Washington D.C. who want to extort another $1.5 trillion out of us. And that includes health care for illegals that they value as voters and for the census above American citizens. Don't believe me? Look at how they were treated as Joe Biden flooded the country with unvetted illegals to the tune of about 20 million people. No vetting for crime or disease or anything while we suffered. Our schools were closed down and our businesses were shuttered. So honestly, it is utterly, utterly ridiculous. Here is Caroline Levitt shredding the Democrat party on that.

[Caroline Levitt]

I'm asking you if you can explain the disconnect in the message. I most certainly can. The Democrats proposal their continuing resolution. Let me just reiterate. The Republicans continuing resolution was a clean continuing resolution. There was no partisan politics injected into it. There were no conservative wish lists injected to it. What the Republicans want and still want to this very second is a clean continuing resolution to fund the United States government. What did the Democrats want in their continuing resolution? They inserted a provision to undo a provision in the working families tax cut. The one big beautiful bill that ended taxpayer funded health care illegal benefits for legal aliens. Democrats proposal would require Medicaid to pay more for emergency care provided to illegal aliens than Medicaid does for American patients who are disabled, elderly or children.

[Rob Carson]

It's a giant racket. It's a giant money making racket in places like California.

[Caroline Levitt]

And this bill would have also allowed California to continue a gimmick that funds its Medicaid for illegals program. Those are things that we ended, the Trump administration ended with the passage.

[Rob Carson]

And the Democrat Party, they love those illegal aliens. There are so many reasons why they love those illegal aliens because they know that their policies are causing people to leave states where they are in control. And they need to be able to jack up the number of representatives in those states and get the money from those states and all of that while being able to be completely funded for their socialism. That's what it's really all about, guys. That's what it's really all about. That's what it has always been all about. And they continue to, they continue to do this. They continue to do it. So, you know, we'll see what happens. It's not gonna work, though. It's not going to work. Not one little bit. I had a piece of audio I wanted to play from you. If I can find it here real quick with regard to the amount of money that goes to illegals, I'll find it here. I had something that was kind of interesting that I was reminded of earlier today about how people, the Democrat Party uses illegals, but they do, they, they essentially replaced us. Oh, the great replacement theory. Well, it's absolutely true, by the way. Absolutely true. Oh yeah, here he is, this guy who was a member of the DOGE team and he did some digging and this is why they did all the. Elon Musk is a Nazi protest. Because a lot of things were discovered about how much money was used by different departments. For instance, hundreds of thousands of illegals were given Social Security numbers, given free benefits. So they could do what? So they could vote.

[Rob Finnerty]

We found in the benefit programs that every benefit looked at was being accessed by these people. You know, 1.3 million of them are on Medicaid right now today. And by the way, it's just ramping it, just starting. And we looked at voter rolls and we found that thousands of them registered to vote in a handful of states. And then we went any further with those friendly states and found that many of those people had actually voted. It was shocking to us. And if I hadn't seen it my own eyes, I wouldn't believe it.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, this is why they decided to burn Down Tesla dealerships and. And for some reason Elon Musk was a Nazi. And then all that all went away. It's like they turned off the switch and he suddenly wasn't a Nazi anymore. You people are so ridiculous. Ridiculous. By the way, I'm getting notes on the social media. This is the second day of my birthday, by the way. I have a two day birthday and the only person in the history of the media to have a two day birthday, reason being the birth certificate when I was born said October 23rd. The birth certificate when I was adopted at age 11 says October 22nd. I just said, hell with it. I'm gonna go ahead and celebrate both of them. I legally recognize the 22nd just cause it's on so many documents that I have to go with that. But the 23rd, my, my sister called me last night. She goes, robert? I said, yeah, because she's my mother. They called me Robert. Robert. Yes. Today is not your birthday. Tomorrow is your birthday. I said, okay, all right. It is. October 23rd is really the birthday because it makes me a Scorpio and I am a Scorpio. If you want to believe those things about. I'm not. I'm so not a library. Libras are balanced. Not a Libra. So there you go. There you go. That's what it's all about. Let's move on. Let's move on, shall we? Other things. The ninth Circuit hands President Trump a sweeping win over Gavin Newsom. Trump can federalize California National Guard to enforce immigration law. Oh, my God. This is fantastic. This is fantastic. So they can't do anything about it. I've got more details on this. And the left's heads are exploding about this across the country. I just explained to you why Democrats want illegals here. They don't care about you, obviously. They're willing to shut down the government to open it and give illegals free health care. Do you see? See what that does? See what that does? Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show.

[Rob Finnerty]

Every single ICE agent who's engaged in this aggressive, massive overreach, no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, will of course be identified. This is not the 1930s secret police who are masked, who are intimidating, who are scaring people. These Gestapo like tactics. This is Gestapo like behavior. Donald Trump's modern day Gestapo is scooping folks up off the streets. When you compare the old films of the Gestapo group grabbing, grabbing people off.

[Rob Carson]

The streets of Poland, it does look like a Gestapo operation. Yeah. This has been going on for a while. It's a. It's a psyop by the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party did the same thing to the police back in 2020. Remember that? They did the same thing to the police back in 2020, which is something that the Third Reich did. They got rid of law enforcement so the brown shirts can come in. Yeah, really, you know, antifa. But James Carville said Antifa doesn't exist, by the way. James Carville. Oh, my God. Just go. Just. Just sit on your porch and tell people to get off your lawn. There is no such such thing as antifa.

[Zoe]

It's like attacking vapor.

[Rob Carson]

There is no. There is no. And who caused the 20. The $2 billion in damage and the hundreds of police officers injuries and the burning down of St. John's Church and, and the murder of 30 people. So I'm defending air.

[Zoe]

It's the same thing.

[Rob Carson]

Why do they have a logo? Why do they have a flag? Why are they a worldwide movement when with tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of members, you old fart. Are attacking air? I mean, what dust in. He must have break and win again.

[Zoe]

I mean, that's not antifa.

[Rob Carson]

Another cloud of dust coming out of James.

[Zoe]

That's one thing. My phone rings, you know, it's me. But yeah, I'm serious. We just keep in a loop into this and they keep repeating it and it doesn't exist.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, it doesn't exist. Even though there's, you know, tens of thousands of people who wear the A for Antifa on their uniforms with their masks on their faces. And they've been doing it for. My God, man, Just shut up. Just shut up. He also said the Trump administration would collapse in 30 days. I mean, he's terrible at what he does. He wrote a book midway through Obama's second term saying the Democrats would be in power for another 40 years. And Obama lost both houses of Congress in the midterms. Honestly, how could you do this for a living and be so bloody wrong? Although he's retired, I guess. Isn't he retired? Retarded? Retired. Retarded. He's retiring. He's retired. What? He is. He's retired. Ah, real quick. I want to talk. You can't say that. Yeah, I did. I did. You know why? Because it's okay to be offensive. Now. Being offensive is okay again. You know why? Because we have this thing called the First Amendment. You can say things that are mildly offensive without people getting butthurt about it. It's kind of amazing. It's really Amazing, the things you can say now that you couldn't just a year or two ago. It's. It's a remarkable time that we live in. And I don't. I've never been one to exist for bombast, you know, I don't do a bombast for bombast sake. But at the same time, I just, I'm not gonna, you know, I'm not gonna be filtered so much, you know, I mean, I'm. You have to admit, I don't. I don't push it too far. Hey, you lucked out. Due to overwhelming demand for free silver from Birch Gold, they've extended their current promotion through Veterans Day, November 15th. Here's the deal. You buy gold, you get free silver, which happens to be surging in price. I've got this gorgeous coin that they're giving you when you. For every $5,000 purchase from Birch Gold by Veterans Day, they will send you this free 1oz patriotic round that features the Gasden and American flags. I'm showing you guys who we're streaming right now. There you go. I'm looking s. Oh, s. Because you kind of, you know, anyway you can, you can get this coin now. The gold is up 60% this year.

[Rob Finnerty]

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[Rob Carson]

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[Rob Finnerty]

Someone threw a Molotov cocktail at a Tesla service center. At least five Teslas blew up. When you pull out a chainsaw to celebrate firing thousands of people, they get mad. It's just that, you know, let's send these techno fascist rolig archs and old fashioned Nazis a message loud and clear.

[Caroline Levitt]

The vandalism really shows the, the outright anger and rage that people are feeling about what Elon Musk is doing.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, that was with Elon Musk was a Nazi about like six months ago. Wasn't he a Nazi or was it seven months ago he was a Nazi and now they accomplished what they did and they got him off a doge and they got to believe the government. Government. So they don't care that he's a Nazi. I guess you guys are, honestly, you ever see these antifa protesters, I just want to say those mouthy little, little females just, you know, when they get in Your face and they spin at you. Just take the open, open palm of your and just right on the forehead and give them a shove. That's what I want to do. I want to see more of that. Just, you know, shut up. Get out of my face. I'm so done with this nonsense. Representative Robert Garcia, he's. He's introducing an app for tracking ice. This is how desperate the Democrats are. This is illegal by. And this is also insurance insurrectionist. I shared this with the mayor.

[Rob Finnerty]

Over the course of the next couple of weeks, the oversight committee will be launching on their website a master ice tracker where we can.

[Rob Carson]

We're going to be essentially tracking every.

[Rob Finnerty]

Single instance that we can verify that the community will send. Be able to send us information.

[Rob Carson]

They're doing everything they can. Just shy of civil war, they are. Donald Trump has thrown a wrench into their plans. They opened the southern border. They never expected Donald Trump to be president again. They thought all the, all the lawfare, all of the 91 indictments, all of the 34 felonies, all of the trying to get him off the ballot and then ultimately trying to murder him. They thought he would never be the president. And now they're just. They're bleeped. They're just bleeped. And so the Department of Homeland Security is ripping into a plan by California Democrats to launch an online tracker to docs, ICE and Customs Enforcement. None of this is going to work, by the way. And ultimately you're going to get your arse in a little bit of hot water. Here's Rob Schmidt last night with some of the anti ICE nonsense in New York City. And this is what the Democrats have done. They whip their soldiers into a frenzy to command acts of violence. It is a proxy civil war. There are paid soldiers, antifa and other groups. They are paid soldiers. And there is plausible d deniability for the violence that is being caused by Democrats. What are you scared about? What the are you scared about? Open palm right on the forehead and just shove you right to the ground. I want to see.

[Caroline Levitt]

Get the out of my face.

[Rob Carson]

We're so.

[Caroline Levitt]

They're abducting people from their homes and.

[Rob Carson]

Their schools and their jobs. And they know what they're doing is wrong. Shut up. And they don't give a.

[Rob Finnerty]

They're heartless, Karen.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, they're all white people. Here's Rob. What do you think about that?

[Rob Finnerty]

That's how their voters now react to immigration enforcement again, something that 15 years ago was not controversial at all.

[Rob Carson]

No, because they are. They are soldiers. They are brown shirts of the Democrat Party. They will do anything. Put a mask on, okay? You know, shut the churches down. Okay. Go after ice. Okay. Defund the police. Okay. Burn down the country. Yabol. But let's take a break and come back. Hour number two of the Rob Carson show is. And don't go anywhere.