Speaker 1: Welcome everybody, Tuesday edition of Play and Buck and it's
Speaker 1: one hundred days of Trump into this second term. One
Speaker 1: hundred days of Trump, absolutely fantastic stuff to talk about here.
Speaker 2: We will dive.
Speaker 1: Into all of the latest with the Trump administration, but
Speaker 1: also take a look at what has gone on so far.
Speaker 1: It has been transformative, it has been fast and furious,
Speaker 1: and it is just the beginning. So we want to
Speaker 1: take a moment year to see how it has been
Speaker 1: and will be on Trump two point zero and we'll
Speaker 1: take your calls on this obviously and have a free
Speaker 1: flowing conversation about the wins and the challenges left to
Speaker 1: be tackled. We've also got JD Vance, Vice President Advance.
Speaker 1: Clay and I both will have to try not to
Speaker 1: call him JD because we've known him as JD for years,
Speaker 1: but now he is Vice president Vance.
Speaker 2: He will be with us.
Speaker 1: We did an interview with him second hour of the program,
Speaker 1: so definitely want to tune in talking about all the
Speaker 1: big stuff going on right now, everything from men and
Speaker 1: women in sports, to tariffs to the border to Trump
Speaker 1: two point zero, So definitely second hour diving into that,
Speaker 1: looking forward to that conversation for all of you, and
Speaker 1: we have more to look at here on the sports
Speaker 1: side of things, Clay, the Philadelphia Eagles went to the
Speaker 1: White House, which is very nice. They had a nice time.
Speaker 1: From what I understand, the Canadian election didn't exactly go
Speaker 1: the way we wanted to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney,
Speaker 1: we won't spend too much time on this because well,
Speaker 1: very few of you live in Canada, so not really
Speaker 1: our problem. There are some we have some Canadian listeners,
Speaker 1: but generally I don't know anything about Canadian politics. We
Speaker 1: talked some about Pierre Polyev because he had a couple
Speaker 1: of viral videos, but once Trump won, I gotta be
Speaker 1: honest with you, my interest in what happened in America's
Speaker 1: top hat really kind of vanished. I feel bad for
Speaker 1: Canadians stuck behind enemy lines, but we're kind of rolling here,
Speaker 1: so it's hard for me to get too worked up
Speaker 1: about what happens in Canada. I think that's probably the
Speaker 1: general perspective. But we do have empathy for those of
Speaker 1: you a that are stuck above the border dealing with chaos,
Speaker 1: and they say leadership. They didn't learn the lessons of
Speaker 1: Trudeau painfully enough. This is what you see in microcosm
Speaker 1: in places well, actually I think California has more people
Speaker 1: than Canada. But this is what you see in places
Speaker 1: like California, where even when there's tremendous mismanagement, you have
Speaker 1: Democrats who double and triple down on the madness. Well,
Speaker 1: the liberals, the leftists in Canada doubling and tripling down
Speaker 1: on the madness. They want everything to be dysfunctional. They
Speaker 1: want to have sky high housing prices and a in
Speaker 1: anemic economy and all these things. Okay, they want to
Speaker 1: have bad healthcare that they tell themselves is great because
Speaker 1: it's free, but actually it's not free at all. It's
Speaker 1: very expensive when you add the time and the cost
Speaker 1: and the inability to get care. But like I said,
Speaker 1: Canada not our problem. Not going to be the fifty
Speaker 1: first state either. So who cares? Well, we care a
Speaker 1: little bit, but we don't care that much. Now, one
Speaker 1: hundred days of Trump and some exciting things going on.
Speaker 1: Let's take it first too. This cut to Caroline Levitt
Speaker 1: talking about what the some of the top line numbers
Speaker 1: are for this first one hundred days of Trump. Two
Speaker 1: point zero play it so far.
Speaker 3: Total investment commitments under the Trump administration have reached more
Speaker 3: than five trillion dollars, including five hundred billion from Apple
Speaker 3: and US based manufacturing and training, five hundred billion from
Speaker 3: Navidia and AI infrastructure, one hundred billion from TSMC and
Speaker 3: US hips manufacturing, and the five hundred billion dollar private
Speaker 3: investment by Open Ai Oracle in soft bank and AI
Speaker 3: infrastructure as well. All of these investment commitments are estimated
Speaker 3: to generate at least four hundred and fifty one thousand
Speaker 3: new high paying jobs for American workers and families. At
Speaker 3: this point, President Trump has secured more investments in the
Speaker 3: United States of America in one hundred days than Joe
Speaker 3: Biden did in four years.
Speaker 1: Trump is a deal maker, as we know, Clay, and
Speaker 1: we'll talk more about tariffs wat jd vance about that too.
Speaker 1: But in terms of the economy being open for business
Speaker 1: in this country, and particularly look at things like going
Speaker 1: to maximize trying to maximize energy production, going after our
Speaker 1: own resources, a lot to be proud of so far
Speaker 1: in one hundred.
Speaker 2: Days, totally.
Speaker 4: And some people are going to say because the negative,
Speaker 4: given that we're at a one hundred day is going
Speaker 4: to be Hey, let's look at the polling numbers. Here's
Speaker 4: what I would say about the polls. First of all,
Speaker 4: I don't really care, and you might say, Okay, what
Speaker 4: do you mean by that Trump is not going to
Speaker 4: be eligible to run for reelection. So I suspect that
Speaker 4: by the time Trump's term is coming near an end,
Speaker 4: that he will be on a popularity upswing, like we
Speaker 4: saw with Barack Obama and with Bill Clinton. By and large,
Speaker 4: did you sign on to this, Buck that the only
Speaker 4: two two term presidents that could have been reelected if
Speaker 4: they had been able to run, would have been Bill
Speaker 4: Clinton in two thousand U and Barack Obama I think
Speaker 4: would have won in two thousand and sixteen, now maybe not.
Speaker 4: I also think Ronald Reagan, if he had been able
Speaker 4: to run in nineteen eighty eight, even with his advanced age,
Speaker 4: would have likely won two. I think Trump will be
Speaker 4: at his peak popularity. Here's a three year in advance prediction.
Speaker 4: Trump in the fall of twenty twenty eight will be
Speaker 4: at peak popularity because the impact of his trade agreements
Speaker 4: and of his economic policies will be flourishing at a
Speaker 4: high level. I think we will have peace, and I
Speaker 4: think that if Trump were eligible to run for a
Speaker 4: third term that he would win again in.
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1: I think it very lot of history early, a lot
Speaker 1: of we can't test the thesis one way or the other.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Bill Clinton is incredibly lucky as
Speaker 1: a politician, the luck that that guy had on a
Speaker 1: whole range of things. But if you had been in
Speaker 1: office when nine to eleven actually happened, the straight line
Speaker 1: between him being an imbecile on foreign policy and missing
Speaker 1: every chance and US getting hit with the worst attacks
Speaker 1: in Pearl Harbor would have been irrefutable, even for Democrats. Also,
Speaker 1: the stock market crash also a lot of things this
Speaker 1: guy got out, But justin.
Speaker 4: You disagree that he would have won. I think he
Speaker 4: would have beaten George W.
Speaker 2: Bush.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I think he would have won. I think Reagan would
Speaker 4: have won an eighty eight. This is an argument in
Speaker 4: favor Regan. Reagan would have been too Reagan would have
Speaker 4: been too old at that point. That would have been
Speaker 4: a problem for him. I think he would have won
Speaker 4: because the only reason that George Bush Senior one was
Speaker 4: because Reagan was so beloved, and obviously Ducaucus was not
Speaker 4: a candidate. You don't think Ronald Reagan would have beaten
Speaker 4: Doucacas in eighty eight. Reagan, he would have won.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're throwing in the mix, like who
Speaker 1: he's going up against, you know, Barack Obama though running
Speaker 1: Barack Obama running against Donald Trump. Actually don't think Barack
Speaker 1: Obama would have won. I think Trump, I think I
Speaker 1: think I think he would have won that election. I
Speaker 1: think that Obama would have beaten Trump in sixteen.
Speaker 2: Well remember not. You and I disagree vociferously on Remember Hillary.
Speaker 4: First of all, I don't think Trump would have been
Speaker 4: the nominee necessarily, but Hillary came within whatever it was
Speaker 4: eighty five. Hillary was an awful candidate right off, full candidate.
Speaker 5: She was.
Speaker 4: I mean, even Democrats looking back, they're like, man, you
Speaker 4: know she just I don't know who she would have
Speaker 4: been able to beat. I think Trump was a great
Speaker 4: candidate against her. Ran a phenomenal campaign. But I actually
Speaker 4: think the best campaign Trump ran was twenty four. Of
Speaker 4: his three election campaigns, sixteen was phenomenal. I think he
Speaker 4: was so well schooled by twenty four. Sixteen was more haphazard.
Speaker 4: I think that this one was great. Again, were sixteen
Speaker 4: was was insurgency. He was the insurgency against the machine,
Speaker 4: and just like happened sometimes in real life, the insurgency
Speaker 4: overcame the superior force in terms of battlefield operations. And
Speaker 4: then in twenty four it was the comeback campaign, so
Speaker 4: the Great American Comeback, which so the narratives I think
Speaker 4: were pretty clear in both of those. And then twenty
Speaker 4: twenty was the COVID you know, freak show what the
Speaker 4: hell is going on? Campaign for everybody, and I know
Speaker 4: all the other stuff quote unquote shenanigans.
Speaker 1: We won't talk about it right now, but anyway, Clay,
Speaker 1: I think that Trump's first one hundred days, here's what
Speaker 1: we have to remember about it. We wanted him to
Speaker 1: do the things we want him to do, the things
Speaker 1: that he promised to do, and some of those things
Speaker 1: are disruptive, and disruptive things can be a little bit
Speaker 1: off putting sometimes to the markets. It can feel a
Speaker 1: little bit you can create a little bit of anxiety
Speaker 1: among people because oh wait, it's not exactly status quo
Speaker 1: is comfortable. This is why so often, and particularly in politics,
Speaker 1: I think people get into inertia. Well, this is the
Speaker 1: way it is, so, this is the way it will be,
Speaker 1: This is the way We've done things, so let's keep
Speaker 1: doing it that way. Trump isn't running again. I know
Speaker 1: he jokes about the third term. That's the troll Libs.
Speaker 1: It's like the fifty first state Canada. That's the troll.
Speaker 1: You know, Canada and Trudeau and the rest of them. Clay,
Speaker 1: he's not running again. We need him to do the
Speaker 1: things that a politician who's obsessed with his next election
Speaker 1: won't do. Yes, And this is what is so key.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm saying the polling I'm not focused on.
Speaker 1: If he were trying to run for reelection, I think
Speaker 1: you'll look at polling and you think about how that's
Speaker 1: going to play out. He is uniquely liberated to do
Speaker 1: what he thinks the right results are without having to
Speaker 1: worry about the day to day polling. And by the way,
Speaker 1: that is.
Speaker 4: Potentially going to run out in twenty twenty six, when
Speaker 4: they're likely going to impeach Trump again. If Democrats take
Speaker 4: back control of the House, they don't have anything new
Speaker 4: to hit him with, so expect for them to go
Speaker 4: back to the tried and true, failed methods of the past.
Speaker 4: We've already seen it with them trying to broadcast and
Speaker 4: attack him by saying he's hitler. I think where we
Speaker 4: are likely headed is Trump has got to get everything
Speaker 4: done between now and the summer of twenty twenty six,
Speaker 4: and then we will see the House come down to
Speaker 4: five or six different rent really close races, and Democrats
Speaker 4: are either going to have a tiny minority or Republicans
Speaker 4: are going to have a tiny majority. Right, tiny leadership.
Speaker 4: I think that we're going to see in the Senate
Speaker 4: good stuff. Republicans are going to maintain control of the Senate.
Speaker 4: So for judges things like that, Trump is going to
Speaker 4: have four years to get his view of the judiciary through,
Speaker 4: get as many different judges confirmed. But in order to
Speaker 4: have both control of the House and the Senate, he's
Speaker 4: got to be fast. He's got to be decisive, and
Speaker 4: I think that's what you're seeing right now, and sometimes
Speaker 4: that's going to make people a little bit upset. So
Speaker 4: that's why I'm not concerned about any of the polling
Speaker 4: to the extent it's accurate as we sit here at
Speaker 4: one hundred days, because he's making decisions that are multi
Speaker 4: years in nature. Well, yes, and this is why I
Speaker 4: want Trump to not care about the polls right now,
Speaker 4: because the polls in a year as they pertain to
Speaker 4: the midterms and the Republican Party in its future will matter.
Speaker 4: The polls right now now do not matter at all.
Speaker 4: In fact, all the polls really do is give a
Speaker 4: talking point to anti Trump media and the Democrat Party
Speaker 4: that want to create a perception of.
Speaker 1: Oh, this isn't working, Oh this is failing. Trump should
Speaker 1: not be doing the things that he's doing. He's doing
Speaker 1: what he promised to do when he ran. He said
Speaker 1: he would take on the terif issue. He said he
Speaker 1: would get a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. He
Speaker 1: said he'd secure the border. You know, I could go
Speaker 1: down the whole list. He's doing the things he said
Speaker 1: he would do. Some of these things are, as we've said,
Speaker 1: a departure from the status quo. They are disruptive and
Speaker 1: so clay by their very nature, they're going to create
Speaker 1: a little bit of friction and a little bit of uncertainty.
Speaker 1: If you don't want that, you don't want change, you
Speaker 1: don't want someone to fix anything. You just want more
Speaker 1: of the same. I think we all need to remember
Speaker 1: that the first one hundred days has been a plus. Overall.
Speaker 1: It's not perfect, nothing ever will be, and there's no certainties,
Speaker 1: there's no guarantees in life. But he's doing what he
Speaker 1: said he would do, and he I think he should
Speaker 1: have our full support as he continues to pursue that mandate.
Speaker 1: If he had veered off into nonsense, I'd be saying,
Speaker 1: why did he veer off into nonsense? That's not what
Speaker 1: has happened.
Speaker 4: I also think, and we'll talk about this more, the
Speaker 4: next one hundred days or so are set up to
Speaker 4: be incredibly consequential. Hopefully we get some form of resolution
Speaker 4: in Ukraine, more resolution in Gaza, and again inflation, which
Speaker 4: to me, I'll hit you when we come back, Buck
Speaker 4: with what the American public from an economic perspective is
Speaker 4: most focused on, and inflation is at four year lows.
Speaker 4: To me, that is the number one laser focus. After
Speaker 4: Biden took us over nine percent, people still feel like
Speaker 4: things cost more than they should. Tomorrow, evening Israel begins
Speaker 4: celebrating their own Independence day seventy seventh anniversary. Is a
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Speaker 6: Saving America, one thought at a time. Clay Travis and
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Speaker 6: hundred days of the Trump Vance administration, and we are
Speaker 6: joined now by Vice President JD. Vance, and we're going
Speaker 6: to get into all the successes the border and more.
Speaker 2: But JD.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you've answered this question, But on
Speaker 4: the first day of your administration, Ohio State won the
Speaker 4: National Championship against Notre Dame. But you had a ton
Speaker 4: of obligations as the newly inaugurated vice president. Do you
Speaker 4: have like an official Buckeye guy who was following you
Speaker 4: around that day giving you updates during the course.
Speaker 2: Of the game.
Speaker 4: I know you're a big fan. I've actually I wondered
Speaker 4: about it that night. I don't know if you've answered it.
Speaker 4: I would have if my University of Tennessee ever gets
Speaker 4: back in the in the idle game, I would be
Speaker 4: terrified to miss any of it. What was your play
Speaker 4: there for National Title Game day as a Buckeye.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there are a couple of different things going on.
Speaker 7: So first I actually talked to my team about whether
Speaker 7: it would be possible to skip the inaugural balls so
Speaker 7: that I would be able to go to the game.
Speaker 7: And actually, you know, I guess we'd get inaugurated, we'd
Speaker 7: go to a few parties, and then I'd be able
Speaker 7: to watch the game while the president took care of
Speaker 7: the inaugural balls. The team was not a huge fan
Speaker 7: of that. Apparently it would have been unprecedent for vice
Speaker 7: president to skip the inaugural balls the night of the inauguration.
Speaker 7: What we were able to do, though, is before the
Speaker 7: first ball, I actually had all of my friends and
Speaker 7: family we got basically we turned a big hotel room
Speaker 7: into a sports bar, and so I was able to
Speaker 7: watch the first quarter before the first ball, and I
Speaker 7: think it was either right after the second or the
Speaker 7: third ball, Notre Dame started to come back a little bit,
Speaker 7: and so I sat in a room with like a
Speaker 7: nineteen inch TV and just sort of watch the Buckeyes
Speaker 7: put it away. So I got to see a little
Speaker 7: bit of it. Man. But yeah, it's it's on the
Speaker 7: one hand, like, what a cool day for an Ohio
Speaker 7: State fan to be inaugurated as the vice president have
Speaker 7: your team win a national championship. On the other hand,
Speaker 7: was sad to miss most of the game, but you know,
Speaker 7: official duties come first.
Speaker 3: Jennie.
Speaker 1: I was also happy to see Vice president of Vance,
Speaker 1: very happy to see my beloved Buckeyes do so well.
Speaker 2: I want to ask you.
Speaker 1: I want to ask you about a border if I can,
Speaker 1: and what's going on with the administration on Well, let's
Speaker 1: get into the next steps. The good news is you
Speaker 1: can sit here and tell us. But Clay and I've
Speaker 1: been telling everybody about this. So far, the border is
Speaker 1: secure ninety five percent drop. The stats speak for themselves.
Speaker 1: Biden kicked the border wide open, it was a choice.
Speaker 1: Trump has actually secured the border. Fantastic. We still have
Speaker 1: millions and millions of illegals who came in under Biden.
Speaker 1: What should we expect from the perspective of building on
Speaker 1: the border successes so far in the next six to
Speaker 1: twelve months.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, obviously we know we have to ramp up
Speaker 7: to porche deportations, and the President talks about this all
Speaker 7: the time, both in public and private. It's something that
Speaker 7: I'm very focused on. And a lot of this comes
Speaker 7: down to, I mean, it turns out we've got to
Speaker 7: do some battle with some really crazy, far left judges
Speaker 7: in order to allow the administration to do what it
Speaker 7: actually needs to do. And I will say to great credit.
Speaker 7: The President expected this when we came in. He said,
Speaker 7: you know, we're gonna start deporting people, and a lot
Speaker 7: of these far left judges are going to stop us,
Speaker 7: and there's no way out of it but through it,
Speaker 7: and we're just gonna have to battle. We're gonna have
Speaker 7: to win the court cases. We're gonna have to take
Speaker 7: some of this stuff all the way to the Supreme Court,
Speaker 7: and we're going to have to find alternative ways to
Speaker 7: deport people. When the judges say you can't do this method,
Speaker 7: we're gonna have to find another method. So we recognize
Speaker 7: that we're dealing battle here, or doing battle with basically
Speaker 7: a massive bureaucracy that has decided that it rules the
Speaker 7: country rather than the American people. And I think one
Speaker 7: of the biggest takeaways of one hundred days is, yes,
Speaker 7: we've got a lot of successes. We've also revealed old
Speaker 7: ways in which this deeply entrenched bureocracy tries to fight
Speaker 7: the will of the American people. And thank god, we've
Speaker 7: got a vice president and a president who are pushing
Speaker 7: back against him. And that's exactly what we told the
Speaker 7: American people we would do. That's exactly what we're doing.
Speaker 7: But I think that is really the biggest focal point
Speaker 7: of immigration policy over the next six to twelve months,
Speaker 7: is to empower all of the people in the administration,
Speaker 7: from Tom Homer and Christynome to the border patrol agents
Speaker 7: on the ground to do their job and to get
Speaker 7: a lot of these people out of our country. Now
Speaker 7: that said, we have had great success, but we're not
Speaker 7: resting on our laurels here. We're shutting down the border
Speaker 7: traffic coming into the country and we're dealing with what
Speaker 7: Biden left us simultaneously. That's exactly what we have to do.
Speaker 4: You're not only an Ohio State grad, you're also a
Speaker 4: Yale law grad. And you just talked about where the
Speaker 4: resistance two point zero, I would say is coming from,
Speaker 4: largely the six hundred and some odd district court judges
Speaker 4: who are regularly putting in place nationwide in junctions.
Speaker 2: What's a fix to that?
Speaker 4: And are even you surprised by how aggressive the judiciary
Speaker 4: has been to try to strip the president's executive authority?
Speaker 7: You know, I'm not surprised by it, because again, the president.
Speaker 2: Actually expected this.
Speaker 7: He told us this would happen, you know, he felt
Speaker 7: and I think he was right about this that you know,
Speaker 7: the left felt defeated in a certain way, that there
Speaker 7: were a lot of you know, grassroots activists that just
Speaker 7: weren't nearly as fired up in twenty twenty four as
Speaker 7: they were in twenty sixteen. And he's talking about people
Speaker 7: on the far left. But he said that, look, the
Speaker 7: courts are going to try to stop everything that we do.
Speaker 7: And it's actually not just immigration. I mean, the courts
Speaker 7: have tried to stop Pete Hegseth from not allowing you know,
Speaker 7: transgender military personnel to continue serving. They've done a lot
Speaker 7: I mean, which goes to the heart of military readiness,
Speaker 7: right the Secretary of Defense saying that, you know, if
Speaker 7: you're dealing with a serious mental health issue, our compassion
Speaker 7: goes with you, but you can't be deployed to the
Speaker 7: battlefield like that. That is the heart of the president
Speaker 7: and the Secretary of Defense's authorities. And so you have
Speaker 7: these district courts who really want to run the country
Speaker 7: and have decided that they are actually in charge of
Speaker 7: the United States of America. There's this very funny I
Speaker 7: think headline from the Babylon be that was, you know,
Speaker 7: something like Donald Trump considers resigning to become a very
Speaker 7: powerful district court judge. But it's one of these jokes
Speaker 7: with a kernel of truth, which is that the district
Speaker 7: courts in this country have tried to take upon themselves
Speaker 7: powers that belong to the President of the United States.
Speaker 7: And it's funny, guys, you know, you hear the media
Speaker 7: and they'll say, well, this is a constitutional crisis. And
Speaker 7: the constitutional crisis is not Donald Trump refusing to allow
Speaker 7: the district courts to govern the country. The crisis is
Speaker 7: the district courts trying to govern the country, and our approaches.
Speaker 7: We're fighting it legally, of course, we're taking some of
Speaker 7: these cases to the Supreme Court and we think we're
Speaker 7: going to get success there. We're finding alternative methods to
Speaker 7: do what we need to do in compliance with the law.
Speaker 7: And we're just going to have to keep on fighting this,
Speaker 7: you know, day by day, figuring out where the district courts.
Speaker 7: And it's to be clear, it's not all district courts,
Speaker 7: it's the far left crazies. But when these far left
Speaker 7: crazies stop and try to prevent the president from doing
Speaker 7: his job, we've got to do it through alternative means,
Speaker 7: and that's what we're trying to do.
Speaker 1: We're speaking of Vice President Vance, and mister Vice President,
Speaker 1: let me ask you about how things are going at
Speaker 1: this stage with not just identifying the waste, fraud and
Speaker 1: abuse within the government, a big mission that DOGE has
Speaker 1: taken upon itself. But what we can expect now, how
Speaker 1: much of this do you think has been completed when
Speaker 1: you look at Elon and Doje's mission. Does Congress have
Speaker 1: to play a major role with recisions? Essentially, we know
Speaker 1: there's a lot of shenanigans going on, but how do
Speaker 1: we actually get the shenanigans in government spending to stop?
Speaker 2: Where are we on that?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think we're making a lot of progress. I
Speaker 7: wouldn't say that it's done by any means. And yes,
Speaker 7: Congress has a role because here, here's what happens. If
Speaker 7: DOGE and Elon find ten billion dollars of spending, that's
Speaker 7: just ridiculous. That's not consistent with the law or with
Speaker 7: the administration's policy priorities. That money just kind of sits there,
Speaker 7: and so it's still been taxed from the American people.
Speaker 7: And if we want to use it to pay down
Speaker 7: debt or to give it back to the American people
Speaker 7: through tax relief. Then that does require an Act of Congress,
Speaker 7: and I think Congress is very willing to do it.
Speaker 7: But I don't know if you saw. I think it
Speaker 7: was today or maybe yesterday, a report came out that
Speaker 7: Treasury actually is borrowing less money than they expected to borrow.
Speaker 7: And I think that's because of the success of DOGE.
Speaker 7: You're seeing them make meaningful cuts in some of these
Speaker 7: crazy foreign aid programs. But I also think they're finding
Speaker 7: a lot of fraud in programs that are meant for
Speaker 7: American citizens that are going either to illegal aliens or
Speaker 7: to complete fraudsters. And so I think DOGE is making
Speaker 7: a lot of progress, but it's not done, and I
Speaker 7: don't think it's ever going to be truly done right.
Speaker 7: This is one of these problems that we have to
Speaker 7: continually fight against. And the reason why it was such
Speaker 7: a shock to the systems. We had allowed the waste
Speaker 7: and the fraud to become so endemic in the way
Speaker 7: that we did government in this country, and I don't
Speaker 7: think we should ever go back. And I actually do think,
Speaker 7: and maybe this is too optimistic, that when all the
Speaker 7: political controversy is cleared, we look back on this a
Speaker 7: few years from now, we're going to realize that doges
Speaker 7: saved the American people a lot of money, that cut
Speaker 7: a lot of fraud out of our government, and that
Speaker 7: even some Democrats are going to say, well, we have
Speaker 7: to keep doing this because we can't just let hundreds
Speaker 7: of billions of dollars of fraud every single year become
Speaker 7: part of how the US government functions.
Speaker 4: We're talking to Vice President jd Vance. You guys have
Speaker 4: made tremendous strides with young men. The data continues to
Speaker 4: reflect that young men are breaking for both you and
Speaker 4: Donald Trump in big numbers. I think a big part
Speaker 4: of that is because young men are over this idea
Speaker 4: of men being able to play women's sports. I can't
Speaker 4: believe this is even a thing. Nike, you may have seen,
Speaker 4: recently paid for a study all minors to study trans
Speaker 4: drugs and how it might impact athletics. How did the
Speaker 4: world get so broken here? What are companies like Nike
Speaker 4: even trying to accomplish? And this feels like an eighty
Speaker 4: twenty ninety ten issue for Americans. Do you feel that
Speaker 4: when you're out and about I.
Speaker 7: Do feel that. I definitely think it's a winning political
Speaker 7: issue for the Republican Party, because it's just basic common sense, right.
Speaker 7: I mean, people don't want women competing against grown men
Speaker 7: and sports, especially in some of these contact sports where
Speaker 7: the women could get injured. You know, I'm the father
Speaker 7: of a three year old daughter. I'd like her to
Speaker 7: play sports. I think it teaches valuable life lessons, but
Speaker 7: I don't want her competing against grown men when she
Speaker 7: does it. This is just, again, it's basic common sense.
Speaker 7: I think it's the basic masculine instinct to protect young women.
Speaker 7: And one of the ways you do that is to
Speaker 7: not let, you know, a male boxer in the room
Speaker 7: with a female boxer. Just things like that I think
Speaker 7: have turned it into a ninety ten issue, that basic
Speaker 7: common sense. But man, I think that so many of
Speaker 7: these companies, Nike or otherwise, they got caught up in
Speaker 7: this cultural zeitgeist of twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, and
Speaker 7: it's like, I don't know, maybe they just thought the
Speaker 7: progressors were going to win, and so they decided to
Speaker 7: fund this stuff to the hilt, not realizing that the
Speaker 7: American people would have a rebellion against the craziness. I
Speaker 7: think that rebellion on the trans issue in particular, I mean,
Speaker 7: think about this, giving hormonal therapies to twelve year old kids,
Speaker 7: causing irreversible damage to their bodies, forcing young girls to
Speaker 7: compete against boys in sports, sometimes causing serious injury in
Speaker 7: the process. I think this issue is such a bad
Speaker 7: loser among the American people that even some of the
Speaker 7: true believers have dropped it as a political issue. But
Speaker 7: I think it's our job to remind the American people
Speaker 7: this is what they've tried to do, this is what
Speaker 7: they're promising to do. The trans issue hasn't gone away.
Speaker 7: You just had some Democrats who are smart enough to
Speaker 7: recognize it as a political loser. But yeah, they're going
Speaker 7: to try to force twelve year olds to take cross
Speaker 7: sex hormones, and they're going to try to force young
Speaker 7: girls to compete against young boys if we give these
Speaker 7: guys power. The craziness, in other words, hasn't gotten away.
Speaker 7: They've just gotten a little bit better at hiding it.
Speaker 1: Mister Vice President, one war for you. Appreciate you making
Speaker 1: the time for us today. The tariff's issue is something
Speaker 1: that has gotten a lot of attension on this show
Speaker 1: across the country. For obvious reasons. People are very attuned
Speaker 1: to what the Trump negotiations with these countries and his
Speaker 1: approach to China is doing to the economy, the market
Speaker 1: prices everything. Wall Street Journal being a little salty about
Speaker 1: it today on their front page. What do you say
Speaker 1: to anyone who is trying to steer Donald Trump away
Speaker 1: from this course because they're a little nervous about the
Speaker 1: tariff situation.
Speaker 7: So I've had so many conversations guys in private with
Speaker 7: the President about this, and I think his public statements,
Speaker 7: I mean, going back to the nineteen eighties, this is
Speaker 7: an issue that he feels very deeply about. I happen
Speaker 7: to think that he's right. He can'paiged on it. The
Speaker 7: American people elected him on it. And there's a lot
Speaker 7: of misinformation out there. There's a lot of people saying, well,
Speaker 7: Donald Trump doesn't know what he's actually doing. Look, I
Speaker 7: promise you I've spent many hours discussing these issues with
Speaker 7: Donald Trump. You can disagree with him, but he knows
Speaker 7: exactly what he's doing. And here's the fundamental problem. America
Speaker 7: doesn't produce enough of its own stuff. That is the issue.
Speaker 7: We don't have enough manufacturing in our own country. We're
Speaker 7: too reliant on sometimes hostile foreign powers to make the
Speaker 7: things that we need. And that's true in electronics, it's
Speaker 7: true in technology, it's true in God forbid. You know,
Speaker 7: we've had shortages of critical pharmaceuticals in this country over
Speaker 7: the last few years. We cannot have a real successful,
Speaker 7: prosperous country if we're dependent on the communist Chinese for
Speaker 7: the drugs that we put into the bodies of our children.
Speaker 7: And so what the President has said here is, yes,
Speaker 7: this is going to be disruptive, Yes this is going
Speaker 7: to require some transition, but he's fundamentally to the basic
Speaker 7: process of manufacturing more in the United States, creating good
Speaker 7: paying jobs in the process, but more fundamentally making America
Speaker 7: more self reliant. And I think the problem is that
Speaker 7: we had a bipartisan consensus in this country for forty
Speaker 7: years that we could just ship all of our heavy
Speaker 7: industry overseas, that we could ship a lot of our
Speaker 7: good jobs overseas, a lot of our factories, and that
Speaker 7: somehow that would make the United States more prosperous. I
Speaker 7: think the reality is that it's made us weaker. It's
Speaker 7: made us more dependent on the communists Chinese. And when
Speaker 7: you see, for example, the Chinese respond to the President's
Speaker 7: trade policy by saying, well, we're going to cut off
Speaker 7: the United States from critical supplies that are necessary for
Speaker 7: the American people. Doesn't that just prove that Donald Trump
Speaker 7: was right? How did we ever get into the position
Speaker 7: where the People's Republic of China could threaten the American
Speaker 7: people with the loss of critical supplies? And given that
Speaker 7: we are in that position, Donald Trump is exactly right
Speaker 7: that we have to get out of it. I'm not
Speaker 7: going to tell you it's going to be easy, because
Speaker 7: it's not, but it's necessary, and I think the President
Speaker 7: recognizes he is a once in a generation opportunity to
Speaker 7: do it.
Speaker 2: JD.
Speaker 4: Van's, Vice President of the United States. Congratulations on the
Speaker 4: first hundred days and your Ohio State Buckeyes being the
Speaker 4: national champs.
Speaker 2: We hope to talk to you again soon. Keep up
Speaker 2: the good work.
Speaker 7: Thanks guys. Stick here.
Speaker 2: That's Vice President JD.
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Speaker 8: He is the most consequential American leader of the twenty
Speaker 8: first century. And that's an understatement.
Speaker 2: A President Trump has. Here's a list.
Speaker 8: Removement from women's sports into dei in the federal government,
Speaker 8: in the US military, expanded oil and gas extraction to
Speaker 8: lower prices, taking steps to end unfair trade practices, secure
Speaker 8: trillions of dollars in new investments in American manufacturing. Deported
Speaker 8: criminal illegal aliens, stood up religious liberty and rooted out
Speaker 8: anti Christian bias, Combated virulent anti semitism on college campuses.
Speaker 2: The list goes on and on and on.
Speaker 8: That's just barely scratching the service.
Speaker 2: That's in one hundred days. We're just getting started, just
Speaker 2: getting started.
Speaker 1: That was Speaker Mike Johnson talking about Trump's first hundred days.
Speaker 1: We are at that mark right now. The time is
Speaker 1: flying by, but certainly a lot already for the Trump
Speaker 1: administration to tout in terms of accomplishments, and.
Speaker 2: A lot more on the way.
Speaker 1: And Clay, I don't know if you saw this, but
Speaker 1: our friend Senator Tommy Tubberville, he went full A plus
Speaker 1: in his grading here so I scaled mine down to
Speaker 1: an A because I think you can't really give an
Speaker 1: A plus. But Senator Tubberville he thinks you can play six.
Speaker 2: One hundred days.
Speaker 9: What do you think a plus?
Speaker 2: What else can he do? Larry?
Speaker 9: They left it in a total mess. I was up
Speaker 9: here for four years of Joe Biden. They did not
Speaker 9: do one thing for the American people or for this country.
Speaker 9: They actually try to destroy it and everything went down.
Speaker 9: Now President Trump has got foreign wars, he's got deportations,
Speaker 9: you know, the border, the tax cuts, he's trying to
Speaker 9: save the economy. What a total disaster the Democrats created.
Speaker 9: And they're on the steps of the of the capital,
Speaker 9: you know, Kumbai Yah and all this kind of stuff
Speaker 9: going on, and they make absolutely no sense of what's happened,
Speaker 9: and they don't know how to They don't have a
Speaker 9: clue how to fix anything, So they're just trying to
Speaker 9: create problems.
Speaker 1: I think that's certainly the case. Democrats are just an
Speaker 1: opposition party or a party of no. Now that when
Speaker 1: you're out of power is always somewhat true. But you
Speaker 1: can also say I don't like what he's doing, here's
Speaker 1: what should be done. Democrats just still chant about Hitler
Speaker 1: and all kinds of exaggerated, crazy nonsense to oppose Trump.
Speaker 1: But Clay, here's one area where they're going after him
Speaker 1: using numbers. This has cut sixteen. CNN's Harry Engine yesterday
Speaker 1: on the one hundred day mark saying, or just before
Speaker 1: the hundred day mark, saying that the poll numbers aren't
Speaker 1: in his favor.
Speaker 2: Play that one. These numbers are just horrible.
Speaker 5: There's no way to sugarcoat it. And the first way
Speaker 5: we'll sort of point that out is we'll look at
Speaker 5: where Donald Trump is now versus where he was one
Speaker 5: hundred days into his first presidency. And you see it here.
Speaker 5: You don't have to be a mathematical genius. Forty one
Speaker 5: percent approve of him now. It was forty four percent
Speaker 5: back in twenty seventeen around.
Speaker 7: The one hundred day mark.
Speaker 5: And what's so notable here is that throughout his second
Speaker 5: term as president, he tended to be running ahead of
Speaker 5: where he was in his first term. No longer is
Speaker 5: that the case. He has fallen below where he was
Speaker 5: at this point in his first term. Of course, this
Speaker 5: is just Trump. Let's compare him to other presidents. And
Speaker 5: I really think this kind of puts a bow on it,
Speaker 5: and you can see it here. You see the forty
Speaker 5: one percent. That is twelve points below Joe Biden. That's
Speaker 5: three points below where he was in his first term.
Speaker 1: Shouldn't that tell us Clay that it doesn't matter If
Speaker 1: Biden was to twelve points ahead of where Trump is now,
Speaker 1: he had a failed presidency, he was a disaster, and
Speaker 1: he was hiding dementia from the American people. That's just
Speaker 1: one example of or one data point toward. I don't
Speaker 1: care what Trump's pull numbers are right now. I care
Speaker 1: that Trump is pursuing the agenda. That's what he's supposed
Speaker 1: to do, and people who are getting weak knees over
Speaker 1: tariffs need to stiffen their spines a little bit.
Speaker 4: I also think that poll numbers for presidents only matter
Speaker 4: if they can run for reelection. We talked to jd.
Speaker 4: Vance at the top of the last hour. Jd Vance,
Speaker 4: I imagine would like to be the successor of Trump.
Speaker 4: He is the person who would be running in some
Speaker 4: way more than anyone on what the legacy of Trump is.
Speaker 4: If Trump has, as I think he will, a very
Speaker 4: popular legacy in twenty twenty eight, then I think JD.
Speaker 4: Vance will win the presidency because I would expect that
Speaker 4: JD will be the favorite in twenty twenty eight, and
Speaker 4: as the vice president, he will be running on the
Speaker 4: legacy of the president to some extent. Obviously, you try
Speaker 4: to also put your own spin forward on things. But look,
Speaker 4: I mean, this is the challenge that Kamala Harris had.
Speaker 4: And whatever you think of Kamala Harris, and I think
Speaker 4: she was a very weak candidate. The reason she lost,
Speaker 4: in addition to being a weak candidate herself, was because
Speaker 4: she said there wasn't anything that she would do that
Speaker 4: was different than what Joe Biden had done. And when
Speaker 4: you have a profoundly unpopular sitting president and your answer
Speaker 4: is hey, more of the same, it's unlikely that the
Speaker 4: American public is going to respond favorably to you. But Buck,
Speaker 4: here's what I think from the pole perspective, to the
Speaker 4: point you said weak need, I think that Trump came
Speaker 4: in and said, we have major, huge, systemic issues that
Speaker 4: need to be solved. The border, I would argue, Buck,
Speaker 4: is pretty much solved now. Deportation is a challenge, but
Speaker 4: in terms of allowing things to get worse, he solved
Speaker 4: it in the first hundred days the global trade imbalance
Speaker 4: and says this is a major battle that's going to
Speaker 4: continue for a long time.
Speaker 2: But he took it on.
Speaker 4: And then the other one is the fact that we
Speaker 4: have a thirty six trillion dollar national debt. He tried
Speaker 4: to take that on. Where do you think the negativity
Speaker 4: is coming from. Not the border where overwhelmingly people agree
Speaker 4: with him. It's taking big swings and big cuts at
Speaker 4: global trade and at the overall economic basis of our budget.
Speaker 4: He's taken some lumps there because he's trying to fix
Speaker 4: two really substantial issues.
Speaker 1: Well, this is where the psychology of propaganda also is
Speaker 1: so important, because they were talking about a Trump recession
Speaker 1: or even a Trump depression just a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: ago when there was a choppy week in the markets,
Speaker 1: up down, up down, and you could say, well, Buck,
Speaker 1: clearly we're not in market's up today. We're doing backflips
Speaker 1: over it. But the point is they can make people
Speaker 1: feel negatively about things, even when they're hoarding is premature
Speaker 1: or just flatly untrue. Right, So if you tell people
Speaker 1: enough things are about you know, they've done interesting, interesting
Speaker 1: studies about this. If you're a person who is just
Speaker 1: positive about other people in general, people view you more positively,
Speaker 1: which makes sense, right. And if you're somebody who's always
Speaker 1: talking smack, who's always saying that, you know, Sally from
Speaker 1: Accounting needs to, you know, work harder, or you know,
Speaker 1: Joe from Accounts Receivable needs to put in more time, whatever,
Speaker 1: if you're always the negative person, people tend to view
Speaker 1: you more negatively.
Speaker 2: Well. This is true of news reporting as well.
Speaker 1: If you're just talking negative stories endlessly, even if those
Speaker 1: stories are exaggerated or turn out not to be what
Speaker 1: you initially reported, you can make people think things are
Speaker 1: worse than they are. And this is why Democrats also
Speaker 1: rush with the and the Democrat aligned media rushes with
Speaker 1: the negative narrative as fast as they can. They don't
Speaker 1: want to wait for things to play out because they
Speaker 1: want to turn the per against the administration because this
Speaker 1: is politics, right, That's how they view it. They just
Speaker 1: want people to think things are bad. Remember when to
Speaker 1: Biden they had this in the opposite direction when for
Speaker 1: a while Biden's strategy, i think going into the midterms
Speaker 1: and then afterwards for a while Clay was the economy's great.
Speaker 1: People just don't know how great it is right.
Speaker 2: That was the Yeah, that was their argument. That was
Speaker 2: their argument.
Speaker 1: You don't even know how great things are for you
Speaker 1: right now, you just need to pay attention to how
Speaker 1: great they are. It's like, well, that did not exactly resonate.
Speaker 1: They're trying a different version of sure, you think things
Speaker 1: are pretty much okay and actually going pretty well. They're
Speaker 1: actually terrible though, and that's what they've been doing, certainly
Speaker 1: for the last month in the economy. So the long
Speaker 1: story short, I think the poll numbers don't matter. Why
Speaker 1: would they matter right now? No one's going to care
Speaker 1: what the polls were now, in six months or even
Speaker 1: in six weeks, So it's just an effort to try
Speaker 1: to create negative perception.
Speaker 4: I think they would matter maybe if there were a
Speaker 4: more popular politician in a Marria, and there isn't one, right, so,
Speaker 4: I mean if Democrats the Biden poll numbers always occurred
Speaker 4: with the shadow of a Trump presidency and a Trump
Speaker 4: reelection bid hanging out there. I know we talked about
Speaker 4: Wes Moore in the last hour and who the Democrat JB. Pritzker,
Speaker 4: Peter may or Pete that are trying to kind of
Speaker 4: set the agenda to try to be the nominee in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty eight. Who's a more popular politician right now
Speaker 4: than Trump? Is there any Democrat? I mean, the Democrat
Speaker 4: approval ratings in Congress make the Trump approval ratings look phenomenal.
Speaker 4: So I think you have to look at it in
Speaker 4: the context of is anyone else doing better? You also
Speaker 4: hit on something that I always thought was super fascinating.
Speaker 4: Do you know what the number one likelihood of who
Speaker 4: was going to get sued as a doctor was? You
Speaker 4: talked about how people are seen. Do you know what
Speaker 4: they've studied from.
Speaker 1: A if you don't like If you don't like the doctor,
Speaker 1: the chance of the doctor of you suing the doctor
Speaker 1: goes up like tens or.
Speaker 2: Something bedside manner.
Speaker 4: It's not does the doctor screw up a lot the
Speaker 4: If the doctor has a likable comportment, the odds of
Speaker 4: him being sued or her being sued much lower the
Speaker 4: bedside manor aspect there, And so I think that factors
Speaker 4: in on some level.
Speaker 2: Trump is now a known quantity.
Speaker 4: And the thing that Trump got right back in twenty
Speaker 4: sixteen when he said it is, Hey, I could shoot
Speaker 4: somebody on Fifth Avenue, and my base is not leaving me.
Speaker 4: And I'm paraphrasing him on that quote, but that was
Speaker 4: basically the quote. The Trump base is not leaving. Now,
Speaker 4: we've all we've talked about.
Speaker 2: This for some time. What is the Trump base?
Speaker 4: I think forty percent of America is died in the
Speaker 4: wall Trump team, and so he's gonna have that forty
Speaker 4: percent no matter what. He got a big percentage growth
Speaker 4: I think in the twenty twenty four election. And now
Speaker 4: the question is I think this is going to ultimately
Speaker 4: determine everything. What's the economy?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 4: This is what I told you, Buck. I think I
Speaker 4: said that I was going to tease this, and I'll
Speaker 4: I told you inflation was number one. I'll hit you
Speaker 4: with the other things, but it's inflation overwhelmingly. If the
Speaker 4: price of gas keeps coming down and if the price
Speaker 4: of groceries does not go up, the average American is
Speaker 4: going to consider Trump to have done a decent job.
Speaker 2: I'll also later.
Speaker 4: On foreign affairs, doesn't feel like we're very close to
Speaker 4: a war now. I hope I'm not jinxing it, but
Speaker 4: it feels like for Americans in terms of our stability
Speaker 4: and safety around the world, I feel pretty good about that.
Speaker 1: As we If Canada decides to just get it together
Speaker 1: and invade us, I am going to blame you for
Speaker 1: this now.
Speaker 2: And this will be on me.
Speaker 4: If Canada or Mexico, Canada or Mexico Costa Rica decides
Speaker 4: to finally get an army and decides to try to invade,
Speaker 4: this will be on me.
Speaker 1: Because I just said I feel very safe, but in general,
Speaker 1: I feel like we're a long way from any wars. Also,
Speaker 1: I would just say, what would people want Trump to
Speaker 1: be working on right now? Who voted for him? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that he's not doing. I think that's an import question
Speaker 1: to ask if this is what is the thing that
Speaker 1: Trump said I will in the first hundred days do
Speaker 1: the following, start to do the following.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying the results are all in or that
Speaker 1: everything has been accomplished, far from it. But what is
Speaker 1: the area of focus where Trump has not focused and
Speaker 1: we were told he would. I cannot think of it
Speaker 1: because I don't think it exists. I think he has
Speaker 1: come out and started going after everything he said he
Speaker 1: would go after. Deportations are in the early phase, but
Speaker 1: it is happening. The border is secure. It happened even
Speaker 1: faster than I anticipated that it would. He's getting the
Speaker 1: negotiations going on tariffs, he has the negotiations going on
Speaker 1: Russia Ukraine, he is looking at Iran and Israel, and
Speaker 1: you know mid EA's peace, et cetera.
Speaker 2: What is he not doing that he said he would do.
Speaker 1: That's I think in a lot of ways, the real
Speaker 1: test of the first hundred days is that, you know,
Speaker 1: promises made, promises kept goes a little bit too far
Speaker 1: because well, have we gotten the results yet that we
Speaker 1: need know? But what focus is important? And the focus
Speaker 1: has been on what he said it would be, And
Speaker 1: I think in the first hundred days of an administration,
Speaker 1: that's about the best you can ask for. Is you're
Speaker 1: actually doing this stuff right. You're trying to do this
Speaker 1: stuff actively. You're not delaying, you're not prevaricating, You're not saying, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't want to go as hard in this direction
Speaker 1: as I said, I wull that was just a fool
Speaker 1: you idiots to vote for me.
Speaker 2: He said, no, Okay, let's go.
Speaker 1: And so I think that there's a lot of credit
Speaker 1: that should be given to him on that and the
Speaker 1: other stuff Clay that we're talking about. With the loss
Speaker 1: of some support in the polls. A lot of that's
Speaker 1: media perception. A lot of that is people freak out quickly. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know, they hear that there's a recession coming.
Speaker 2: They go, oh, my gosh, the recession.
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Speaker 4: Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show. I mentioned
Speaker 4: this poll earlier, and I do think it's interesting. This
Speaker 4: is from NBC News. They say they surveyed nearly twenty
Speaker 4: thousand adults and asked top economic issue for you and
Speaker 4: your family. Forty four percent, Buck said inflation. So if
Speaker 4: I were giving advice to anyone in the Trump team
Speaker 4: over the next one hundred days, I would say manighacally
Speaker 4: focus on bringing the cost of goods down, because I
Speaker 4: think that's the number one way that people tend to
Speaker 4: react right now to the economy. Second is taxes. We know,
Speaker 4: Buck that the bill is rolling through, the big beautiful
Speaker 4: bill that will enshrine the tax cuts. We'll take some
Speaker 4: of your calls on that. Third is the national debt. Again,
Speaker 4: these are big, major systemic issues, and then you get
Speaker 4: into housing, the stock market, which is in many ways
Speaker 4: a snapshot of whatever the economy is at any given time.
Speaker 4: Those are things that I think Trump gets. But if
Speaker 4: I were saying, if you could focus on one thing
Speaker 4: and solve one thing, inflation is down. But I think
Speaker 4: if you could change the idea that Biden built in
Speaker 4: that things are going to cost far too much, that
Speaker 4: would be the most helpful in the next one hundred days.
Speaker 4: It's what I would say to Trump, Hey, if you
Speaker 4: were going to be judged on something, what would you
Speaker 4: want to be judged on? Bringing inflation down and cost
Speaker 4: of goods being not a massive thing that everybody's obsessed with.
Speaker 1: It would be nice, though, at some point to get
Speaker 1: a reduction in rates here. That could be You know,
Speaker 1: Trump has been very vocal about that. I think he's
Speaker 1: right about that too. Free up a little bit of
Speaker 1: liquidity in our economy would be a good thing. I
Speaker 1: think people are waiting to make moves based upon this
Speaker 1: that could be very helpful overall.
Speaker 2: So we shall see.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the main thing is you don't want overspending
Speaker 1: like we saw under Biden, because that is what creates inflation,
Speaker 1: and it really is a tax on the working class
Speaker 1: and those who are trying to pay bills and maybe
Speaker 1: even get ahead of bills. That is what ends up happening.
Speaker 1: This is your dollars are worthless. You have to pay
Speaker 1: more for the things that you need. Asset holders do fine.
Speaker 1: People that have big stock accounts, you know, multiple homes,
Speaker 1: own businesses.
Speaker 2: Et cetera.
Speaker 1: They generally do much better when inflation is high, or
Speaker 1: rather they can weather the inflation much better. But you know,
Speaker 1: the Treasury Department is going to borrow five hundred and
Speaker 1: fourteen billion dollars this quarter. According to Bloomberg Clay. This
Speaker 1: is a three hundred and twenty percent increase from its
Speaker 1: previous estimate. We're still spending too much money, everybody. But
Speaker 1: I guess this is the problem, is that the biggest
Speaker 1: challenge I think for Doje all long has been so
Speaker 1: we can't touch seventy percent of spending, Let's see we
Speaker 1: can do to make the other thirty percent of spending
Speaker 1: not so crazy.
Speaker 2: That's not good.
Speaker 1: Enough, but nobody wants to hear it.
Speaker 2: Nobody wants to hear it all.
Speaker 4: I mean, this is the thing that we're speeding at
Speaker 4: rapidly is frankly, if you don't address the thirty six
Speaker 4: trillion dollars in debt sooner or later, the bill is
Speaker 4: going to get paid, maybe by your grandkids, but economic
Speaker 4: reality doesn't disappear. We can't continue to live on borrowed money.
Speaker 1: And yet we're going to try. Yes, this is unfortunately,
Speaker 1: this is what we're doing. So yeah, great, no doubt.
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