Hour 1 - How Could They Not Stand?
2/25/202637 mincomplete
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0:09My friends, it was the best State of the Union speech I've ever seen.
0:14I'm just going to come right out and say it.
0:16A little bit of a mea culpa, actually, because I'm a little salty about State
0:21of the Unions. Most of them are boring because they go too long.
0:25I watched every minute of this one, as I tend to always do, because this
0:28is our job, but it was not boring.
0:30It was soaring. It was majestic.
0:33It was pageantry. It was fantastic, honestly.
0:37I feel like a movie reviewer.
0:38I laughed. I cried. I felt my heart soar.
0:42It was fantastic. I mean, it was the best.
0:44I could not say enough good things about Trump's State of the Union.
0:48He was absolutely dialed in, locked in, en fuego, all of the above.
0:53Now, we will dive into some of the policy, of course, as well as the
0:58very well -deserved victory lap that was the bulk of the opening, certainly, of the
1:05speech. And the Democrat responses, oh, my gosh.
1:09This Democrat party is nuts.
1:11In fact, I think one of the most powerful moments, Clay, of the entire...
1:17Now, look, before I get into the Democrats, actually, I want to focus on the
1:22positive here because many of you are probably familiar with Internet terminology and, for example,
1:28the red pill, which comes from The Matrix, which I've been saying for a long
1:32time. Actually, I used to say this on my show, Clay, when I was doing
1:35a Saturday show for, like, five people on the Internet.
1:38I would say, guys, you know, we've got to take the red pill here.
1:40And it became very popular because of the movie The Matrix.
1:44And it means to see things as they truly are.
1:46But now there are different pills with corresponding colors.
1:50And there are people on the right...
1:52There are people that will say you're taking a...
1:55A white pill means you're seeing things in a very sort of benevolent light.
2:00A red pill is you're seeing things as they are.
2:02A blue pill is you're part of the normies, or you still have the world
2:08sort of shrouded and presented to you without seeing with clarity, which is from The
2:14Matrix. And then the black pill is I'm just...
2:17Everything is bad. We're never going to win.
2:19Everything is terrible. There's some black pilling that happens sometimes on the right where people
2:24just want to get down.
2:25And I saw a little of this in the commentary of, but what about this?
2:29And Trump didn't do that.
2:30Clay, I just want to set this marker.
2:32Because I don't know, I don't say that every State of the Union address is
2:35great. In fact, most of them I think are a waste of time.
2:37Most of them I do because it's my job.
2:39Not only was this the best State of the Union speech, that was a marker,
2:43a high point, I think, for looking back at what has been, in its totality,
2:50an unbelievable first year of Trump's second term.
2:53And I'm somebody who was there in the trenches with the fighting back against the
2:58Russia collusion stuff, which was totally messing Trump up in the first term, and sandbagging
3:04and undermining everything he was doing and dealing with the bad picks that he had
3:09in that first administration. I'm not a, oh, rose -colored glasses guy, everything is awesome.
3:14Clay, before we get into anything else, I think it's worth taking this moment of,
3:20this administration has delivered enormously on securing the border, on bringing down the crime rate
3:27nationally, on a booming economy.
3:31We can go through this piece by piece.
3:33The data speaks to it.
3:35Everyone needs to take a moment.
3:37Enjoy the win. Enjoy the victory.
3:40Because, unfortunately, this too shall pass.
3:43He will not be president forever.
3:45He might not even have the House for more than another year.
3:48And the Democrats will get into this, Clay.
3:51They're insane. They are a wacko party.
3:55Well, I mean, I think that, to me, is everything comes down to a couple
4:00of moments, even more so in a social media age.
4:04Most people did not watch a two -hour speech.
4:08And you loved it. I've got to be honest with you.
4:10It would have been better if it were an hour 15 instead of nearly two
4:15hours. So, I was watching.
4:18I was also doing what a lot of other people are doing, probably.
4:21I was watching a basketball game simultaneously on a second screen.
4:25Okay, this is the most Clay thing ever.
4:26You're watching a basketball. We're switching roles here.
4:29Usually, you're the one that loved the movie, so to speak, and I trashed it.
4:32You're not trashing it, but you're saying it was too long, which is what I
4:35was worried was going to happen.
4:36I actually sat through the whole thing and thought that he really pulled the whole
4:40thing off without it. I mean, look, I think all city unions should be 30
4:43minutes, but that's me. I'm crazy.
4:46I thought that it went on too long.
4:50With that in as my criticism, because I think it just dragged to me, I
4:57thought it was the most optimistic, patriotic speech that Trump may have ever given.
5:04And if you were just a reasonable person, right, not someone who is a Trump
5:10-deranged psychopath, and you just watched that, I think the results would be somewhat similar
5:17to what CNN actually showed, which was 64 % of the speech viewers really liked
5:24it. Mm. Ho. I would say there's about 35 % of people.
5:27Trump could have come out last night and said, I cured cancer, all of your
5:32grandmas and grandpas are now going to be resurrected because of massive technological advantages and
5:39you're going to get to hang out with your family again.
5:41And they still would complain, right?
5:43Whatever the greatest thing, and I balance the budget, and whatever the greatest accomplishment that
5:49you think a president could render, there's about 35 % of the population that would
5:55hate it just because Trump has broken their brains.
5:57And I thought there were two things that really stood out, Buck.
6:01One was when Trump said, they're insane.
6:04And the second one was when they're not willing to stand for things that are
6:09completely non -political in nature.
6:12And I think this is going to bounce back in Democrats' disfavor in a fairly
6:17substantial way because being retro, sort of retroactively opposed to whatever Trump is in favor
6:25of, it is working against them.
6:28And I thought Trump did a good job of making a case.
6:30If I were giving advice, I would have said, do it in 115 instead of
6:34145. I think 30 minutes of that speech could have been cleaned up.
6:38But so much of it was just a spectacularly optimistic story about America and how
6:45our lives intersect with the 250 -year -old history of the country.
6:49And in that way, I thought it was very well done and the most optimistic,
6:53probable speech that Trump has maybe ever given in his presidency.
6:57You noted two of the most important policy, which I think pretty universally people felt
7:04like the Democrats not standing for, we want to put citizens above foreigners, basically.
7:11Like Americans matter more to the American government.
7:14Their future and their well -being matters more to the American government than other people.
7:19Democrats just fundamentally don't believe that, actually.
7:22Democrats view anyone from anywhere in the world, no matter what their background, their language,
7:29their politics, their credo, whatever, as, well, maybe that could be a voter, you know?
7:35I want to just start giving them welfare and turn them into a voter.
7:38That's how they view anyone from anywhere.
7:40Anyone is as American as any of you, as long as that person is going
7:44to be on the government dole and vote Democrat.
7:48That is truly how they feel and how they think of this country, which I
7:51think is a huge vulnerability for them politically.
7:54It should be, or else we're just on a slow glide path into the side
7:57of the mountain and our sovereignty is done.
8:00But, Clay, the two moments for me that were particularly just powerful, the USA hockey
8:06team thing. I'm not a hockey guy.
8:10I admit that. I got so many thoughts on this, too, that we can dive
8:13into eventually. But that moment was pure cinematic gold.
8:17It was, you know, Ronald Reagan high -fiving Hulk Hogan on the back of a
8:25Triceratops with American flags fluttering in the background, you know, flanked by eagles.
8:32Like, I mean, it was amazing.
8:34All right? It was an absolutely beautiful moment for the country.
8:39It was just so cool, all those young guys there, you know, the big win.
8:43And it really is about America.
8:45And I think, I would hope that even somebody that despises every aspect of Trump's
8:51policy at least had their moment, you know, they smiled and looked at those guys
8:58and said, they're our boys and they did a great job.
9:02And our gals, they weren't there last night, but, you know, the gals team did
9:06a great job, too. And I just think that that national pride is something that
9:10I want to see in everybody, irrespective of who they vote for or, unfortunately, Democrats,
9:14a lot of them, not all of them, it's not fair to say all of
9:16them, but a lot of them don't.
9:17And, Clay, the other moment for me was when he told the story of the
9:21pilot, Chief Warrant Officer Slover, going into Venezuela, getting his legs, I mean, I'm assuming
9:28it was probably getting hit by 7 .62 rounds.
9:31I mean, I don't know, they didn't talk about this, but getting hit by, you
9:35know, getting hit in the legs and in the hip and continuing as a Chinook
9:40pilot to make sure that that bird came down and the mission was completed, and
9:45that guy, you could tell, he's still recovering, there's still probably a lot of pain
9:48he's dealing with and immobility issues from, you know, you get hit with those kind
9:53of rounds, especially talking about hip stuff, that's very, point is, man, that guy's just
9:58an American hero and American badass and be able to give him the Medal of
10:00Honor. I know there are other Medal of Honor winners, too, and they had amazing
10:03stories, but this guy, it just happened?
10:06I just, that wasn't about Trump, right?
10:10Yes, no, totally. It's about the country, truly, so how can they not love that?
10:16How can you be an American and not say, you know, this is one of
10:20the best of ours right here, this guy who put it on the line and
10:23got the mission done? Eric Slover is his name, and what, first of all, he
10:29looked uncomfortable being there because I guarantee you if they had given him a mic,
10:35he would say, well, I was just one of insert number of guys that were
10:39on that raid. I was just doing my job.
10:40That's how those guys are.
10:41At the highest level, the operators, that's how they are.
10:44But as he stood there and he was still, as you said, recovering, he had
10:48aid, I think, crutches, basically, to help him walk.
10:52he looked like an American badass monster in a good way, right?
10:58Just huge. I don't know how many reps on 315 that guy can do, but
11:03I would go for a high number.
11:05I mean, he looks like a guy who had committed his heart and soul to
11:10defending America to such an extent that he was there to get the utmost of
11:16his body and give the utmost of his body on behalf of the country.
11:21And that, to your point, they had 200 -year -old, a World War II veteran,
11:26a guy who flew missions, I think they said, in World War II Korea and
11:31Vietnam. I mean, both of whom were getting the awards.
11:35I thought it was the most patriotic pro -American speech that Trump may have ever
11:39given. And here's what stood out to me, Buck.
11:41And I think this ties in with the U .S.
11:43men. I've got so many thoughts on a deep level about this.
11:46You can argue, as we have said on this program, about what the tax rate
11:49should be on corporations. And you can argue about what policy should be in place
11:55when it comes to ICE raids and all these other different things.
11:59But really, what I think President Trump distilled with this address is, there is one
12:05party that is proud of this country and proud of the United States and feels
12:09intense patriotic loyalty to America, and that is Republicans.
12:14And then there is a party that is ashamed of America and everything that it
12:18represents, and that is Democrats.
12:21And that is a big, major issue writ large that doesn't have anything to do
12:26direct with policy. And I thought Trump's address was delivered right at that intersection of
12:33conflict over the existential and super important question of, is America a good and just
12:43country or not? Republicans say yes, Democrats say no, and I think that goes to
12:48the very essence of our political battles in this day and age.
12:52And I thought that address really focused on it.
12:56Also, Trump, just taking a moment for him here, because there was a lot of
13:00stuff that really was about the country, and it was beautiful.
13:02And all of the victory laps that he started out with are just factual, too.
13:08This isn't, when Biden says things like, oh, you know, we were American jobs, we
13:13brought back the economy. It's like, you mean you Democrat maniacs allowed people to go
13:17back to work because they had already gotten a nasty cold that they weren't going
13:21to die from in the first place because they weren't, you know, at high risk?
13:25Like, that's your great economic contribution to stop ruining everything and spending us into oblivion?
13:30Again, the accomplishments that Trump was laying out last night are just that, they're accomplishments.
13:36No matter how you slice it, the reality is he's done incredible things.
13:40But the other part of this, Clay, is he's just a showman, man.
13:43I mean, when he goes out with the Democrats, or, you know, oh, they're shrieking
13:48and howling, and they're all so upset, and they're acting like, really acting like the
13:53unruly children in the school auditorium that the dean has to go and give a
13:58talking to. You know, Trump is just like, yeah, you're crazy.
14:01You know, he's shouting them down.
14:03The guy just puts on a show.
14:05There's nothing else like it.
14:07We have seen nothing else like it.
14:09And I thought it was phenomenal.
14:11Do I always think that a speech could be short or short?
14:14But I actually, last night was the first time that I wasn't like, this has
14:16gotten brutal. That was kind of my meeting got way too long.
14:21So overall, I thought it was his best State of the Union speech, and I
14:24go into these things pretty, with low expectations.
14:28So we'll talk about some of the Democrat stuff, some of the big policy moments.
14:31Also, Clay, I think we're discussing this setting aside money for American children in accounts,
14:38understand, like, basically putting everybody in a place where they will benefit from the American
14:44economy and the financial system.
14:46There's some big things about this that I think really matter and we should discuss
14:51because this is a way.
14:53You want to deal with, like, the wealth gap and you want to deal with
14:56quality of life and all these things.
14:58There's a lot to this.
15:00By the way, we should have taken George W.
15:03Bush's advice a long time ago and indexed Social Security to S &P 500 index
15:08funds. If we had, the country would be on much sounder financial shape instead of
15:12you giving all your money and getting back 3 % returns or whatever the heck
15:17it is 40 years later, Social Security, the way it's set up, it's a joke.
15:22Throughout the State of the Union speech, President Trump honored our military, old and young,
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18:52Here with us tonight is a group of winners who just made the entire nation
18:56proud. The men's gold medal Olympic hockey team.
19:02Come on in. USA! USA!
19:19USA! USA! USA! USA! Clay, I think the chant of USA, USA was, in essence,
19:32what the speech was last night yes um that that really you know if you're
19:37looking for an encapsulation it's just a room full of people cheering american heroes shouting
19:42usa usa i mean let's really take a moment i know that there were people
19:46on the democrat side there who looked like they were sucking on lemons the whole
19:51you know who was particularly actually well i mean it's tough to compare to ilhan
19:56omar and uh rashida talib who truly if they were in like a college auditorium
20:02they would have been you know they would have been removed by security okay they're
20:05completely they're they're classless they're grotesque they're they're horrible okay but mark kelly the idea
20:12that this guy is a presidential contender he's such a surly little fuddy -duddy you
20:18know i don't get it oh we're all supposed to be so impressed by him
20:20i'm not impressed by him at all i don't care he sits there with this
20:24scowl on his face and you say what is there like like look around in
20:29america today i know the democrats some of their favorite toys have been taken away
20:33i know that all dei is taking a big hit and we don't have to
20:37use the preferred pronouns and we don't have to leave the borders wide open and
20:41pretend that somebody who came here illegally yesterday is just as american as people who
20:45have been here for you know hundreds of years with their families um you know
20:49just the same it's all the same we don't have to do that anymore but
20:52really look at the day -to -day in the country right now um unemployment inflation
20:57overall uh economic growth gdp per capita uh wages uh now i know prices are
21:06high yes i'm not saying everything's perfect yes there's still a housing issue but uh
21:10you look at the borders being secure you look at the the murder rate nationally
21:14coming down to effectively an all -time low and uh then you add to this
21:20where's the are we in some horrible war right right now with our um our
21:24you know bravest american men and women coming back in body bags and the solemnity
21:29of having no we aren't thank god we are not are we in the midst
21:32of some terrible war we are not are we in the midst of some uh
21:35economic depression or great recession no we are not are we what is the what
21:40is there to be so upset about clay this is really the thing i think
21:44is so funny they're they're they're just oh it's so bad i mean so bad
21:47i mean Spamburger, who is a total Trojan horse, she is absolutely out of the
21:52Democrat playbook of like, oh, I'm sort of just a boring mom, just like all
21:57of you, and then the lunatic communists just, you know, with their purple hair and
22:01their earplugs and their nose rings in the background, like Marxism, you know, like, that's
22:06what she's, she's going to unleash them on America the second she's in power, which
22:10she's done to Virginia already, what are these people, I really like that, this is
22:14why when Trump called them crazy, they're crazy, they're actually nuts, like, I don't have
22:19to sit here and get into some in -depth conversation about their view of Keynesian
22:23economics, they can't even spell Keynesian economics, do you think Rashida Tlaib knows who Keynes
22:28was, do you think she knows what country he's from, or what, I mean, these
22:31people are imbeciles, and all they do is just, just show what malcontents they are,
22:37they just spew rage and envy and, yeah, all over the country, that's what I
22:42felt like last night, um, I love what Trump has done on crime, and I
22:49hope that he punched through on this, we should be talking all the time about
22:55the fact that murders are at 125 year low, and I went and did research
23:01this morning, Buck, you can go look it up, Washington DC in particular, where Trump
23:06spoke last night, 250th anniversary of the country, no one is talking about this, I
23:12feel sometimes like I'm screaming into a void, but I think it is so incredibly
23:15important, murders are down 67 % in Washington DC since last year, Buck, 27 murders
23:25between January and February occurred in 2025 last year, which was already beginning a dramatic
23:33decline from the past with Trump coming into office, there's only been nine murders in
23:38Washington DC in January and February of 2026 so far, 67%, okay, we talked about
23:48this when it happened, we said, okay, maybe Trump's gonna surge resources in Washington DC,
23:54and it's just not gonna work, that would stink, because we would prefer that there
23:59was less violent crime, murders instead are down 67%, what if we have just, and
24:08I think it's becoming clear, grown to accept a certain level of crime that is
24:13absolutely unnecessary to accept, and by surging resources in crime ridden communities, we can actually
24:22make everybody infinitely safer, wouldn't that be a great thing?
24:28That's happening right now in Washington DC, it's happening in my home state, Buck, Memphis,
24:34Tennessee, and it's happening in New Orleans, Louisiana, which I think is such an incredible
24:39story that it's impossible to attack Trump for, and it should be screamed louder, I'm
24:44glad he addressed it last night, but I think a lot of people still have
24:47no clue how much safer, and by the way, do you know whose lives are
24:51being saved? Overwhelmingly minority lives, because murder rates are not evenly distributed per capita, black
25:00and Hispanic people are far more likely to kill each other than white and Asian
25:05people are, and Trump is saving tons of lives, I mean, this is a real
25:09tangible thing. It is, and it reminds me, Clay, of there are a number of
25:14things where there was a binary, like, should we deport illegals or not for the
25:22future of this country is something that is, I think it should be obvious to
25:27anybody, but there's a deep and long running philosophical, okay, is it better, you know,
25:35if we deported X amount in the next five years, what's it like in 10
25:40years? These are things where you can keep arguing about it, is my point.
25:43I think it's very clear what's best for the country, but you keep arguing about
25:46it. There are other things, though, where there's just, there's a final declaration of what
25:53is, who was right and who was wrong.
25:55I mean, you're, you love betting, you like predictions, you're into this stuff, and sometimes
26:01it's, you get it wrong, you get it right, you know?
26:04Sometimes we can't tell. Sometimes the outcome is unclear, and you just argue, hey, what,
26:09what could have happened here?
26:10What caused this? That's fair.
26:11But with Democrats on a number of important issues with Trump, the experiment has been
26:18run, and we have seen the result, and they were wrong, and they don't care.
26:26They don't change their tune, they don't change their mind, they certainly don't say, I'm
26:32sorry, and this is what we're dealing with now.
26:36Clay, there was an article in the New York Times by not a right winger,
26:41and it's something you may want to talk about.
26:42I know you had a detransitioner on last week, just saying ideology was pushing this
26:46trans care for kids stuff.
26:48There was no, there were no studies, there was no benefit analysis, really.
26:52It was just, gotta trans them, gotta trans them as fast, gotta trans as many
26:56of them as we can, as fast as we can.
26:59Put them, Clay, testosterone is a controlled substance that is hard for adult males to
27:04get without, you have to get a doctor's prescription, and some places they want to
27:07know, you know, I have a ton of friends here in Miami who are, they
27:10call it, you know, pinning TRT, ton of friends here.
27:13And if... You go in and you're like a teenage girl, they're going to give
27:18you testosterone as quickly as they can in a lot of these places, right?
27:21So it's controlled substance for men, but my point on this is...
27:24That's a great point. That's the story that she told us, which was a lot
27:27of people still reacting to it.
27:28At 17 years old, they just start pumping this little girl, young girl, completely full
27:34of testosterone. It's in clay.
27:37And what they have to understand is there's no...
27:39If you're a man and they're doing that for you, there's a completely clear medical
27:44basis, which is, what is the optimum range for a man to be in?
27:49And if they check, they'll check your hematocrit, they'll check your blood range, they'll check...
27:53Again, as part of my fitness journey, I've done peptides, and I'll talk about this
27:58another time. The only reason I don't talk about it more, by the way, is
28:00just because I don't want to be accused of giving medical advice.
28:03So that's why I'm a little, but I'm a huge believer in get to a
28:07performance doc, talk to that performance doc about MD, medical doctor, about peptides, and maybe
28:13one day we can have one on the show, Clay.
28:15I mean, I'll actually probably talk to Marty McCary about this tomorrow, because I think
28:19this is critical for health and a lot of things.
28:20My point is, what is the proper testosterone level for a girl who thinks she's
28:25a boy? There is no proper...
28:28Like, this doesn't exist. This is like, you know, you're crossing, you know, a hyena
28:34with a giraffe. Like, this is not supposed to happen.
28:37You're not supposed to do this.
28:39And they're finally now admitting that the science was not settled.
28:44The science was ideological. And that's just one incredibly important issue.
28:49But, Clay, on the issue of crime, which you just brought up, we were having
28:52this debate over at Morning Joe.
28:54They were coming off the croquet course, Mika and Joe, with the sweaters around their
29:00shoulders, to laugh at all the peasants about how they thought that they'd be safer
29:04if, you know, Donald Trump actually put federal resources to work to make people safer.
29:10He was right. The numbers show it.
29:13They were wrong. Why aren't there articles in the New York Times?
29:17Why aren't there Democrats who are saying, you know, I don't like Trump on this.
29:21I disagree with how he does that.
29:23I wish he didn't make such funny jokes about Ilhan Omar or whatever.
29:28But he was right on crime.
29:30Clay, you know what happens if you do that?
29:32They Eric Adams you. You get pushed out of the good graces of the party.
29:38And maybe you get a federal prosecution thrown at you if they're in power just
29:41to show you who the real boss is.
29:43These people, I keep coming back to it, these Democrats are nuts.
29:48They're nuts. They are unmoored from reality.
29:51I just look at it and say, murders going down.
29:56Anything we could do to make that happen.
29:59And you know this. There are so many, you know, downstream impacts from murders declining.
30:06Obviously, public safety is number one because everybody feels safer in their communities.
30:14But the impact psychologically of people who lose loved ones to violent crime, you never
30:22recover from it. Right now, there are thousands of people who will never experience that
30:30feeling because Trump and the people who work with him, the law enforcement, the National
30:36Guard, everybody out there that serves resources, ICE, yes, ICE, all of those people have
30:42made it such that thousands of people are walking the streets today who would have
30:46been dead. I don't know how you cannot make that a signature achievement.
30:52Buck, if you and I had come on, if we had said, hey, what's your
30:56prediction for 2024, 2025? What is year one of Trump going to make happen?
31:03If you or I had said in January of 2025, I think we're going to
31:07hit 125 -year low in murders, somebody would have clipped that and they would have
31:12said, this is the most crazy, pro -Trump, outlandish prediction that has ever existed.
31:18They would have laughed at us.
31:20Yes, absolutely. It happened. It happened.
31:24You and I wouldn't have even thought to predict it because it's such an unexpected
31:28outcome and it's like we're not even going to check the scoreboard.
31:33We're not even going to analyze basic data.
31:35I would put it on the other side, too, where, remember, Joe Biden, astutely, unfortunately,
31:41because he knew, because he's been in the game a long time, or at least
31:43his senior advisors knew, he never went full BLM with defund the police.
31:48He knew defund the police.
31:49Defund the police is a moron slogan, and politically, it's toxic.
31:54You can't women defund the police.
31:56He knew that, and so he stayed away from it.
31:59If Joe Biden had come into office and said, you know what, I know this
32:02is going to upset some communities, but the numbers are going to speak for themselves,
32:05and actually, particularly minority communities will benefit from the lives saved more than anybody else,
32:09we're going to go all in on crime.
32:11And Joe Biden delivered 120 -year low in the murder rate.
32:15We would be on here, and I'd be saying, and you'd be saying, wow, I
32:19didn't think he had it in him, but pretty remarkable.
32:22Maybe he's getting more credit for it than he deserves, but it's a good thing,
32:26and if we had opposed it, I would have, well, I mean, I don't know
32:29how that would have happened, right?
32:29But I'm just saying, if we had doubted it, I would have been like, he
32:32proved us wrong. It's a good thing.
32:34Some people in the audience would be mad at us, because they're mad whenever I
32:37say anything nice about anything a Democrat does, and that's fine.
32:39But that's where we'd be.
32:41Democrats don't do that. They do.
32:43cheer Trump -saving lives because it's Trump.
32:46That's where they are. It's pretty crazy.
32:49I mean, again, I keep coming back to that word.
32:51They're crazy, guys. This is what we're up against, why we can't let these people
32:54back near the levers of power.
32:56All right, Israel continues to be in the news cycle.
32:58While there's a lot of focus on neighboring Iran, it's the safety of Israel's residents
33:02that a lot of Americans are thinking about these days.
33:04For those in this audience, that reference to the Bible in your daily lives, that
33:09reference to the Bible, rather, in your daily lives, you know the phrase from the
33:11book of Abraham, I will bless those who bless you.
33:14It reminds every Christian to look after those of the Jewish faith, and you will
33:18be blessed for doing so.
33:19And today, with anti -Semitism rising around the world, that calling is more urgent than
33:23ever. At a time when Jewish communities are experiencing more hostility, more threats, and more
33:27violence than ever, Christians have a powerful opportunity to say, we've got your back.
33:31When Christians choose to bless Israel's people, we're not taking a political stand.
33:36We're honoring the root of our faith and standing against hatred.
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34:12Welcome back into Clay and Buck.
34:14I want to remind you all, Manufacturing Delusion, my friends, was the number four book
34:17in the world last week, which was pretty good considering the top three books were
34:22like global, massive, massive, a couple in particular, global, massive, massive bestsellers selling millions of
34:28copies, which is really hard to do with a book.
34:30So from new releases, crushing it, only lost to the bunny.
34:35You know what? Props to the bunny.
34:36Now, I got to meet this Jelly Roll guy at some point and be like,
34:39dude, your wife's memoir was stiff competition.
34:42I don't know what else to say.
34:44People buying the memoir. But buy Manufacturing Delusion.
34:46And something else I want to tell you, I'm talking about how the Democrats are
34:48so crazy. This explains why and how they're made that way.
34:52That's why I think you really like the book.
34:54There's all these fake, I was telling Clay about this.
34:56This goes to something else that's in the book, which is how technology is going
34:59to affect perception management, information operations in really profound ways.
35:04Clay, there are people creating fake books.
35:07They go and they look on the bestseller list, and then they create fake versions
35:13of those books. Same title, but change a few things.
35:16AI lets them do this in a minute or two, and they just put it
35:20up. And then they hope that people just say, oh, that's the title.
35:23And they click, and they spend 20 bucks buying a fake AI book.
35:29And this has happened. It's happened to some of our people.
35:31I'm so sorry, by the way, guys.
35:32We're pulling them down as fast as we can.
35:35But this is just now the new, this is one of the new fraudster games
35:38that they play. It happens with all products.
35:41If you are going, this is just a PSA.
35:43If you are going on to buy something online now, the first several results are
35:50paid for. They're not what you would actually want to look for.
35:54Even on Amazon, if you look, you'll see sponsored beside it.
35:57Somebody is paying for that placement.
35:59Scroll down. Scroll down. You can't trust whatever the top result is when you're buying
36:05a product now. You can get scammed that way.
36:08Even hotels buy. You ever try to go on Google and just type in a
36:12specific hotel? You want to stay at, I don't know, we stay at the Thompson
36:17a lot of times, and right by iHeart.
36:19However, you type in Thompson Central Park, the top several are not the official hotel
36:25website, and they will not even give you the best rate because they're taking and
36:31booking and then going back and booking through the hotel.
36:34Anyway, it is broken, and it's something that needs to be addressed and you need
36:38to pay attention to. You cannot result, trust any more top results.
36:42This is what the book looks like.
36:43Manufacturing Delusion. This is the real book.
36:45Go buy it today. This is an iHeart Podcast.
36:50Guaranteed human.