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Have you seen the news from some.
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Dan Bongino
Dan Bongino, welcome to the Bongino Brief.
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I'm Dan Bongino.
Dan Bongino
So last night, like many of you, I'm sitting at my, my, my office. I'm watching Fox News. Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, of course, is giving a press conference with Donald Trump in the White House. And Donald Trump rather matter of factly drops the biggest public policy, foreign policy announcement in modern US History about Israel. He says, you know, let me just.
Unnamed Co-host
Let'S listen what he said.
Dan Bongino
I mean, this happened. Play the cut, if you would.
Donald Trump
We'll take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it, too. We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site. Level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings. Level it out. Create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area. Do a real job. Do something different. Just can't go back. If you go back, it's going to end up the same way it has.
Dan Bongino
For 100 years, ladies and gentlemen. Q. Automatic media liberal progressive meltdown. People were losing their minds. Nobody knew what to do. Folks in the chat, how many of you were watching it live and responded how I did. He said that so matter of factly. And there was if you're going to make a major foreign policy announcement, typically what they do in the past is they tee it up, you know, tune in at 8, whatever, big announcement. Nobody said anything. This thing was delayed for I think an hour and 37 minutes or something like that. And now I think you know why. Here's what I think happened. He's sitting there in the Oval Office with Netanyahu. He's obviously telling Netanyahu he's going to say this. And Netanyahu's got to be looking at him like, what, you're going to say that now? You're right. He's like, he probably laughed the first time like, no, really, like, is this real? Q media meltdown. Immediately everyone lost their minds, folks. Joy Reid didn't even know what to say. They were on msnbc. Like, is this real? Do we react? Are we being played? Listen to me, okay? I'm going to help everyone out here. I can't say this enough to media people who constantly misinterpret and overreact. This guy, this is the largest MAGA.
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Show out there, period. We're always ahead of it.
Dan Bongino
We always drop W's because we don't overreact and we know Donald Trump's debating and negotiating strategy.
Unnamed Co-host
What is it?
Dan Bongino
He does this all the time, folks. He drops a bomb maximalist position. In other words, 1 to 100. He drops 99.6. He's actually thinking 55.7. But he understands that even though he's thinking 55.7, that if he drops freaking 99.6 and he gets 75.2, he's about 20 points ahead of where he was at 55.6. About. You get it? He does this all the time. 25% terrorists on Canada. OK, we're going to shut the fennel off. OK, we'll delay him. He does it all the time. How many times you guys are going to get played? Holy shit. Watching the media overreact is freaking hilarious every time. What do you think he's doing? You think he's going to drop the 101st Airborne into Gaza tomorrow? I'm sorry, man. It's just comical watching these people after now four years and two weeks of Trump, the 2016 term and two weeks so far that this, he does this over and over and. You got any. Always drops W's to Abraham Accords and people think it, they just keep falling for it. I'm sorry, I didn't finish my thought before. I've been so excited about today's show because I just, I feel like if people would just watch this show, they would stop overreacting and have a better lick their finger. Feel for politics where the wind is blowing. My gosh. Did you guys respond like I did last night? I was telling the boys this morning when I came in, I hear this thing and it was like he said it so matter of factly I had to like rewind the thing and I'm like, did he just say what I think he said? That the US going to take over Gaza. And I think the media was so surprised if you guys missed it. The first question wasn't even about this major foreign policy statement prescription he put out the first question was totally unrelated and then Kelly O'Donnell from NBC, who's no friend of ours by the way, but I think was the first one who got it, basically grabs the mic and is like did you say we're going to take over Gaza? Like she was the first one, I think who caught in more in a minute. But first, have you seen the news.
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Dan Bongino
He stakes out a maximalist position. Here's what's going on in Donald Trump's head and I want you to think about this in context of the Abraham Accords. We don't cover a ton of foreign policy on this show. This is important because it's not just about foreign policy. It's about you are this is going to happen for four years. The Trump people I know have assured me and other people that the pace of change is not slowing down. This isn't a two week thing. This is a four year thing. So you better get used to it. And if you're not watching this show and you're going to overreact to every single thing, your freaking blood pressure is going to be through the roof and your pulse rate is going to be 122 at rest. Everybody chill. Not you out there. You guys are awesome. You get it to the crazies. Joe.
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I saw Jonah Goldberg on Twitter.
Dan Bongino
Things are getting dumber. No, you're getting dumber because you keep getting played. Here's what's going on. Think about it in context of The Abraham Accords. You know what? Can you guys pull this?
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I'm sorry, I don't. Michael, look this up.
Dan Bongino
John Kerry, there's a clip of him saying that there will be no solution to the, to the peace in the Arab world without fixing the Palestinian problem. You have to understand, with the Abraham Accords. Donald Trump, who does. Listen to me. Everyone, clearly everyone. Put the horse blinkers on right now. Donald Trump does not give a shit about how you did things in the past. Let me say that again. He doesn't give a shit. All he cares about is fixing problems. When the Abraham Accords came around, where we had the Bahrain deal and the other deals over there, you know, fly with the air traffic and everything, they were great deals. Everyone told him, do not bother. You will never get any kind of a peace or cooperation deal, however you want to frame it with Middle Eastern countries until you solve the Palestinian problem. Everybody said that. If we can find the John Kerry thing, I'll play. But folks, it wasn't just lurch. John Kerry, everybody said that guy. Did everybody not say that? You don't fix the Palestinian problem. Don't bother. Donald Trump's like, why? I'm just going to cut a deal and I'm not. I don't buy any of that shit. And you know what? He did and everybody thought he was crazy. So keep. Hold that. Hold that thought. You can't do that. You're never going to cut a deal. Abraham Accords ain't going to happen. Fix the Palestinian problem. No, that's good. We'll fix that later. I'm doing this first. What it does. What else did they tell him? Remember when he moved the embassy to Jerusalem? What did they say? World War Three. It's going to be over. The Arab world will never accept it. The whole place will get nuked. Did that happen? No, it didn't. It send me the. Send me the World War three articles you have that happened in the Middle. They didn't happen. It didn't happen. World War Three didn't break out until Trump left office and October 7th happened when he wasn't in office. Everything these foreign policy experts. This is important, man. Listen to this, you dumb ass media morons. Everything the foreign policy intelligentsia has told Donald Trump about the Middle east has turned out to be bullshit. How does this apply to yesterday? Everybody freaking out, going to occupy the Gaza, the Middle East. Donald Trump is looking at Gaza, this little strip of land, tiny little strip.
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Of land.
Dan Bongino
And Donald Trump, this waterfront, beautiful property that was, by the way, only handed over not that long ago to the Palestinians. So anyone telling you, oh, my gosh, the Palestinians, been there forever is full of shit. What was it, 2005? They handed it over 2005, not 1905. So let's not pretend this is some generational thing, OK? That's just the hard facts. You don't have to believe it. I don't care.
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It's reality.
Dan Bongino
Donald Trump's been told, hey, man, the foreign policy intelligentsia said, you got to let the Palestinians and the Israelis work this thing out. Eventually they'll figure it out. And Donald Trump's like, but they haven't. But they haven't. The Israelis gave the land back to the Palestinians, who then used the land to bomb Israel. Whatever side you're on, you know where I stand on this. I've been very clear about my position, about who the good guy and bad guy is in this fight. Wherever you stand, can we both agree that's true? Did it happen or did it not end the story in the chat? I don't, I don't, I don't care how you feel. Just can we agree on the facts? Israel, whatever, they gave them back the land. Did it happen? Ok, yes. Thank you. What happened? Attacks were then launched into Israel. Whatever position you have that happened, Trump's like, clearly no one's fixing it. So here's what he said. He probably walked into Netanyahu, probably totally blindsided him and said, hey, I, I'm going to really. Language alert. I'm sorry, I'm really. But it's important here because this is probably the language used. So I don't mean this for effect. I can almost guarantee you he walked in there and said something to this effect and probably used the language too. He said, guys, you guys fuck this place up. I'm going to unfuck this right now. I'm coming in there with the big stick and I'm going to fix this place if I got to develop the damn thing myself. If you guys don't unscrew it, I'm telling you, that's what happened. You can believe it or you can laugh. I've been right about everything. You media people are always wrong here. You doubt me. Here's Politico playbook. I mean, these are like outright communists over at Politico. This morning they talked to some off the record guy. The official argued it's in the interest of other Arab powers, like Saudi Arabia, to find a solution to the conflict. Bongino's right again. Thank you. And that Trump throwing his ideas out there might inspire others to counter. As the source said himself, we'll see somebody gets it. Whoever Politico spoke to, shockingly, even a blind squirrel gets a nut is 100% correct. He's telling the Saudis, he's telling UAE, he's telling the Kuwaitis, the Jordanians, he's telling everyone in the region. You guys have not on this problem in 100 years, fix it or I'm coming in there to do it. A couple other thoughts here. Trump is tired of the perma war, the permanent war status of the Middle East, Israel, Palestinians, Israel, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Israel, Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Israel, the Golan. He's tired of it. He is the commander in chief of the most powerful military force in the cosmos. He's tired of it. He's telling them, un f this situation, or I'm telling you, we're going to go and take it. He doesn't want the perma war anymore. So for those of you out there saying, and by the way, I don't blindly defend anyone, and I hope you understand that President Trump and I have a lot of agreements on a lot of issues. That's why I support him. We don't agree on everything. But don't tell me this guy's a warmonger. He's doing the exact opposite. He's tired of this situation. Perma war is over. He's saying, number two, fix it or I will. Third, he is trying to refocus the Hamas demon savages who just continuously go to the table and renegotiate on terror. We'll release a hostage. We change our mind. It'll be tomorrow, it'll be the next day. We're going to hold a few more. Now he's like, OK, I'll tell you what. You guys attacked on October 7th and you thought you were going to establish like some new Hamas level caliphate in the area and Israel was going to be wiped out and abandoned. Trump's like, he's telling both sides, you guys better work this out because Hamas now you will have nothing. You will have absolutely nothing. I will take everything from you. He is telling these Hamas clowns, you better get out. We gave you a shot, you effed it up. It's time to go or you will have nothing. We will take everything from you. He is also trying to refocus the Arab world. He has repeatedly asked the Arab world, who claimed to be for the Palestinians, why won't you take the Palestinians in? Remember from, what is it, 48 to 67 who controlled the west bank, that area. Judea and Samaria, the Jordanians. Why didn't they create a Palestinian state? Has anybody asked that question? Anyone? Jordan? No, we don't want to take in Palestinians. You're the ones advocating for the go take them in. Egypt's the same way. Egypt closing, Philadelphia. No, no, no, don't come here. We got to really take care of the Palestinians. So take them in. You got a whole shit ton of land. Oh, we don't want to. Trump says you don't want to. I'm emptying the place out. We're going to clean it out. Clean up the ordinance. We're going to get. By the way, he didn't. There's no. I don't want any taxpayer dollars paying for this. There's got. This has to be a regional thing. All you people say you want to help the Palestinians. Here's my opening offer. I'm clearing everybody out of there. You're all going to put in billions of dollars. You're going to rebuild the place, and then you can move the Palestinians and others back in. There you go. Here's what your counteroffer the Dan Bongino Show.
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Summary of "The Dan Bongino Show" Episode: The Bongino Brief - Trump Shocks The Left With This New Strategy
Release Date: February 8, 2025
In this engaging episode of The Dan Bongino Show, host Dan Bongino delves into former President Donald Trump's latest strategic maneuvers in the Middle East, specifically focusing on his bold announcement to take control of the Gaza Strip. Bongino dissects the implications of this move, contrasts it with traditional foreign policy approaches, and critiques the media's response to Trump's actions.
Timestamp: [00:30] - [03:12]
Dan Bongino kicks off the episode by recounting a significant press conference attended by Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. During this event, Trump made an unprecedented declaration:
Donald Trump: "We'll take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too. ... Create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area."
[01:04]
Bongino emphasizes the groundbreaking nature of this announcement, labeling it "the biggest public policy, foreign policy announcement in modern US History." He expresses surprise at the media's delayed coverage of the announcement, noting that it took nearly an hour and a half for the news to break widely.
Timestamp: [03:01] - [07:32]
Bongino critiques the media's immediate and exaggerated reaction to Trump's announcement, describing it as an "automatic media liberal progressive meltdown." He points out that prominent media figures, such as Joy Reid on MSNBC, struggled to respond coherently, questioning whether the announcement was genuine or a media ploy.
Dan Bongino: "If you're going to make a major foreign policy announcement, typically what they do in the past is they tee it up, you know, tune in at 8, whatever, big announcement. Nobody said anything."
[02:00]
He argues that Trump's straightforward delivery often leads to confusion and overreaction among liberal media outlets, which are unprepared for his unconventional strategies.
Timestamp: [03:05] - [07:36]
Bongino delves into Trump's negotiation style, describing it as "maximalist." He explains that Trump tends to present extreme positions during negotiations, often pushing for what appears to be an unattainable outcome. However, the reality is that Trump's underlying goal is more moderate.
Dan Bongino: "He drops a bomb maximalist position. ... he drops freaking 99.6 and he gets 75.2, he's about 20 points ahead of where he was at 55.6."
[03:13]
This strategy, according to Bongino, allows Trump to achieve significantly better outcomes than initially projected, catching both allies and adversaries off guard.
Timestamp: [06:41] - [11:13]
Bongino places Trump's Gaza strategy within the broader framework of the Abraham Accords, highlighting how Trump's approach deviates from traditional Middle Eastern diplomacy. Unlike previous administrations that prioritized resolving the Palestinian issue before fostering cooperation with Arab nations, Trump opted to proceed without addressing this long-standing conflict.
Dan Bongino: "Donald Trump does not give a shit about how you did things in the past. ... Let me say that again. He doesn't give a shit. All he cares about is fixing problems."
[07:49]
He underscores that Trump's disregard for the conventional emphasis on the Palestinian issue has previously led to significant breakthroughs, such as the normalization of relations between Israel and several Arab states.
Timestamp: [11:13] - [17:36]
Bongino challenges the media's skepticism regarding Trump's Middle East policies, citing instances where warnings of catastrophic outcomes (e.g., World War III following the embassy move to Jerusalem) failed to materialize.
Dan Bongino: "He didn't. ... World War Three didn't break out until Trump left office and October 7th happened when he wasn't in office."
[09:45]
He attributes the media's repeated miscalculations to a fundamental misunderstanding of Trump's objectives and strategies, positioning Trump as a pragmatic leader intent on ending perpetual conflicts in the region.
Timestamp: [13:00] - [17:36]
Bongino elaborates on Trump's overarching goal to terminate the continuous state of conflict ("perma-war") in the Middle East. He asserts that Trump, as commander-in-chief, has the resolve and capability to enforce stability and peace.
Dan Bongino: "He is trying to refocus the Arab world. ... Take them in. You got a whole shit ton of land."
[16:15]
Moreover, Trump is portrayed as holding Arab nations accountable for failing to provide refuge for Palestinians, thereby pressing them to take concrete actions rather than relying on traditional diplomatic assurances.
Timestamp: [15:30] - [17:36]
Bongino concludes by emphasizing the long-term nature of Trump's strategies, cautioning listeners that these are not fleeting policies but part of a sustained effort over his potential four-year term.
Dan Bongino: "This isn't a two week thing. It's a four year thing. So you better get used to it."
[06:41]
He reiterates his belief that Trump's actions are delivered with precision and foresight, contrasting sharply with media portrayals that often lack depth and understanding of the underlying strategies.
Throughout the episode, Dan Bongino consistently defends Trump's unconventional approaches, portraying them as deliberate and effective measures aimed at achieving lasting peace and stability in the Middle East. He criticizes the media for their inability to grasp the nuances of Trump's strategies, positioning the former president as a savvy leader whose actions are frequently misunderstood and misrepresented by mainstream outlets.
Bongino encourages listeners to view Trump's foreign policy moves within the larger context of ending entrenched conflicts and fostering genuine economic and social development in volatile regions. By doing so, he paints a picture of a leader committed to decisive action, countering the often pessimistic narratives presented by critics.
Notable Quotes with Timestamps:
Donald Trump on Gaza:
"We'll take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too. ... Create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area."
[01:04]
Dan Bongino on Media Reaction:
"This is the largest MAGA show out there, period. We're always ahead of it."
[03:01]
Dan on Trump's Maximalist Strategy:
"He drops a bomb maximalist position. ... he drops freaking 99.6 and he gets 75.2, he's about 20 points ahead of where he was at 55.6."
[03:13]
Dan on Trump's Approach to Abraham Accords:
"Donald Trump does not give a shit about how you did things in the past. ... He doesn't care. All he cares about is fixing problems."
[07:49]
Dan on Ending Perma-War:
"He is trying to refocus the Arab world. ... You got a whole shit ton of land."
[16:15]
This comprehensive analysis by Dan Bongino offers listeners a perspective that challenges mainstream media interpretations, advocating for a deeper understanding of Trump's strategies and their potential long-term benefits for U.S. foreign policy and global stability.