Highlights of Trump's victory lap (03-05-2025--Hour3)

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[00:00:31] Before I get to the audio from last night, I pulled a couple of clips here. But Mary has been sitting on hold for a while, so I want to get Mary on. Hello, Mary, welcome to the program. Thank you. Love your show. Thank you. Love it. Thank you. And so, yeah, the last hour, I think the guy's name was Robert, and he was talking about, oh, you know, just how lowbrow they went.

[00:00:56] And I was, I just wanted to say, when the Republicans started to say, sing, hey, hey, goodbye, like Democrats had fouled out, I was yelling at the TV, like, don't, don't go low like this. Yeah. No, I didn't like them doing that. When they kicked out Al Green, then you could hear Republicans sing that stupid song. I've always hated it in every venue I've ever heard it. And it was even worse last night. I did not, I did not like the Republicans doing that.

[00:01:27] Right. Because then, like my mother taught me, then you just stoop to their level and you're no better than they are. Yeah. Right. And it gives the media something else to then focus on and ignore the original infraction. It's almost like, you know, in a football game where they always penalize the second guy, like you get hit bad and then you hit back and you get the penalty.

[00:01:53] Right. Right. And those, all those people that are not clapping and holding the signs, they think they're heroes. Yeah. They think they are absolutely heroic and like martyring themselves for the cause. Right. Well, while literally doing like the least possible thing to protest, like they're not even, at least Al Green got himself thrown out.

[00:02:16] I mean, it was completely intentional. You know, that was the plan. But yeah, but, but the people with the little signs, like you're not affecting any change. Right. If that were the case, then, you know, Hitler would have never risen to power if people just held signs at his speeches. It's just stupid. So, but it's all performative. That's the point. It's just performative for their base. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, it was so performative. Yeah. Yeah. Mary, I appreciate the call. Thanks for, uh, thanks for calling. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you. Bye bye.

[00:02:45] All right. Take care. Um, all right. So let's start with some clips here. Let's get some audio going. Cause I sat there listening to the speech twice and dead gum and I'm going to play this audio. Okay. So here is, um, this is the way it started with Trump saying America is back baby. Six weeks ago, I stood beneath the dome of this Capitol and proclaimed the dawn of the golden age of America.

[00:03:14] From that moment on, it has been nothing but swift and unrelenting action to usher in the greatest and most successful era in the history of our country. We have accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations accomplished in four years or eight years. And we are just getting started.

[00:03:42] I can understand why Democrats would not like this. By the way, I do edit some of the applause in some of these clips. I returned to this chamber tonight to report that America's momentum is back. Our spirit is back. Our pride is back. Our confidence is back.

[00:04:08] And the American dream is surging bigger and better than ever before. The American dream is unstoppable. And our country is on the verge of a comeback, the likes of which the world has never witnessed and perhaps will never witness again. It's never been anything like that.

[00:04:37] The presidential election of November 5th was a mandate like has not been seen in many decades. We won all seven swing states, giving us an electoral college victory of 312 votes. Right. So this is the part where. Al Green, congressman from Houston, Texas, started yelling.

[00:05:07] There's this belief on the left that Trump didn't win a mandate because he only won by like one and a half percent of the popular vote, which, by the way, does not actually get you elected. It's the electoral college vote. But when you look at the shifts that he had from the last time he ran to this time he ran. And you look at he just said seven swing states all went for him.

[00:05:30] Massive movements in like all of these counties all over the country and all these different racial demographics like. Yeah, the people have rejected what the Democrats were pushing. And so it was at this point that Democrats began their middle school performative resistance by heckling. We won the popular vote by big numbers and won counties in our country.

[00:06:10] So they're chanting in order to drown out Congressman Green. Won counties in our country. Two thousand seven hundred to five twenty five. On a map that reads almost completely red for Republican.

[00:06:42] Now, for the first time in modern history, more Americans believe that our country is headed in the right direction than the wrong direction. In fact, it's an astonishing record. Twenty seven point swing the most ever. So, again, they don't like what they're hearing. They don't like the guy who's saying it.

[00:07:07] So they're just going to keep on screaming and heckling and holding up signs and not applauding for even good things that all Americans should applaud. Because we'll show him. I don't know what you're showing him. He just feeds off of that. You realize that.

[00:07:26] And you're so predictable that they wrote the speech in order to maximize the political damage to you by your behavior. Because Democrats were talking about all the ways they were going to resist. I mean, when he walked in, when Trump was walking in and, you know, everybody always crowds along the aisle to shake his hand.

[00:07:52] And Democrats, they lined up on that aisle and then they all like turned their back on him. And they held up signs and stuff, refusing to shake his hand. And he made a comment on the way in. He looked over and he was like, oh, I can't, whatever. You know, and I kind of shrugged it off like, well, you know, those people. And he would prefer that everybody like him. But he's not going to try to make you like him anymore.

[00:08:22] That Trump, gone. This is a different Trump. And Democrats don't seem to understand. They've never seemed to understand how to interact with the guy. Had they, I said this from the very beginning in 2016 when he won. If Democrats actually wanted to get stuff from him, all they had to do was flatter him. That's all they had to do. Just walk in there and been like, dude, you're awesome. Man, you're such a great president. Hey, can we get some open borders? And be like, oh yeah, maybe. Okay, you know, whatever.

[00:08:52] Like, you could have probably got so much stuff from him. Had you taken a different approach. But you could not stomach the fact that he beat Hillary Clinton. You just couldn't get over that. He was so repulsive to you that you couldn't do what was politically expedient for you to do. And get stuff that you actually want. Get your agenda satisfied. And you just couldn't bring yourself to do it. And that Trump, I think, would have helped you.

[00:09:22] That Trump wanted to be like, that's why Trump still talks to Maggie Haberman at the New York Times. After all of the hit pieces she does, he still talks to these people. He wants people, he wants to be the best president. He wants everybody to like him. He wants to go down in history as the best president. And, like, not that others don't. I think every president wants to go down as the best president. And we all know there can only be one. That being, you know, Joe Biden. Right? I'm just kidding.

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[00:11:18] When, in fact, so many of them are just simply immature, impotent, frustrated clowns. Right? Throughout the speech, Democrats would make a show of walking out. Right? Which then makes me wonder, why are you even there in the first place? If that is the plan? Because that's like, look at me! I'm so outraged, I'm leaving. Well, if you were so outraged, you shouldn't even have shown up. Right? But you wanted to create some sort of a spectacle.

[00:11:45] And this is what Trump was dealing with during the entire speech. People holding signs. You know, waving them around. They were screaming out. They were heckling. They had the directive, no applauding anything. Right? Which, by the way, I'm fine with these new rules. Because these are the new rules now, Democrats. Not sure you're aware of what you've done, which you've done repeatedly.

[00:12:12] So that makes me pretty confident you don't know what you've done. Because you don't seem to learn from these mistakes. That when you blow up standards, then those standards no longer protect you. So next time you guys have the floor at one of these speeches, game on. Right? Game on. And it's just going to get worse, I would imagine. Trump said, the people elected me to do a job, and I am doing it.

[00:12:42] This is my fifth such speech to Congress. And once again, I look at the Democrats in front of me, and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud. Nothing I can do. I could find a cure to the most devastating disease, a disease that would wipe out entire

[00:13:07] nations, or announce the answers to the greatest economy in history, or the stoppage of crime to the lowest levels ever recorded. And these people sitting right here will not clap, will not stand, and certainly will not cheer for these astronomical achievements. They won't do it, no matter what. Five, five times I've been up here. It's very sad. And it just shouldn't be this way.

[00:13:35] So Democrats sitting before me, for just this one night, why not join us in celebrating so many incredible wins for America? For the good of our nation, let's work together and let's truly make America great again. No, we're not going to do that. No, we're not going to do that.

[00:14:05] Like, Trump woke up this morning, well, yesterday morning. And, you know, just like the Sopranos theme song, he came for the fight. Like I said, this is a different Donald Trump. He has no problem looking right at you and calling you out. And that's what he did. And that's why people who love Trump love him. He proceeded to then recap his executive orders.

[00:14:35] He went through listing them like a freeze on federal hiring, foreign aid, new federal regulations, terminated what he called the ridiculous Green News scam, withdrew from the unfair Paris Accord, withdrew from the corrupt World Health Organization and the anti-American UN Human Rights Council. And he ended Joe Biden's insane EV mandate. And we've ended weaponized government where, as an example, a sitting president is allowed

[00:15:04] to viciously prosecute his political opponent like me. How did that work out? Not too good. Not too good. Not too good. Yeah. See, that's what I mean. He's taking a victory lap. He's spiking the football, whatever sports analogy you want to say. But he has earned it. He mentioned ending critical race theory in schools, DEI in hiring, making English the

[00:15:31] official language, renaming the Gulf of Mexico and Mount McKinley, and setting the government policy that there are only two genders. Three years ago, Peyton McNabb was an all-star high school athlete, one of the best, preparing for a future in college sports. But when her girls' volleyball match was invaded by a male, he smashed the ball so hard in Peyton's

[00:15:57] face, causing traumatic brain injury, partially paralyzing her right side and ending her athletic career. It was a shot like she's never seen before. She's never seen anything like it. Peyton is here tonight in the gallery, and Peyton, from now on, schools will kick the men off the girls' team, or they will lose all federal funding.

[00:16:23] Democrats did not applaud that either, because, as we saw the other day, where they voted to block a piece of legislation in the U.S. Senate that would prohibit men from playing on women's sports teams. They want men to continue to be on women's sports teams. And this issue is not a winning issue for them as a political party. But they refuse, this goes back to one of the earlier calls, right?

[00:16:52] They can't move away from these positions because their base is so invested in those issues. And you've got people inside that party who have, you know, taken the steps in transing their kids. And to admit that that was a mistake is to admit something horrible. They can't. They can't move off the position. Here's a great idea.

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[00:18:43] I just wanted to say, looking at the television last night and seeing those folks on the Democratic side's faces, they're absolutely miserable. You could see it. Yeah. On everybody's face. What's the guy, Bernie Sanders and all those women sitting there. And I mean, just like Trump said, he could see it too.

[00:19:13] No matter what he does, those type people really need to go. I pray that the people that put them in office will, God will open their eyes and get those people out. Because they clearly don't want to work with us. Yeah. They don't. Well, that's why I keep saying, everything we saw last night was performative. Except, I would point out, for Bernie Sanders.

[00:19:41] Just a slight difference of opinion on Bernie. He always looks miserable. He does. Like, that's his resting face. That's just normal, you know? But yeah, they're not happy unless they're miserable. And the people that they rely on to return them to office want them to perform exactly as they performed last night. Their incentives are aligned to do what they did.

[00:20:09] Just like Al Green, yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I'm so glad. I think, I really believe that Mike Johnson stood up. Yep. Because J.D. was sitting there beside him. And remember, the first time J.D. moved his arm and hand and said, get him out of here. Mm-hmm. You know, like that. And then Mike Johnson kind of got a little bit braver, if you want to say that.

[00:20:36] And so, I think J.D. helped him, actually. And I think there's always, you want to give some latitude to your colleagues, right? You don't want to just be the iron fist and all. So, they gave Green an opportunity to shut up and sit down, and he refused to do it. And then at that point, it's like, okay, now you're out, right? Like, he said, this is the only warning. He gave everybody the warning, and then Green wouldn't stop. And so, that was his butt. You're out.

[00:21:06] So, yeah. Yep. And I am so glad. I almost jumped up off my bed. That's right. Katie, thanks for the call. I appreciate it. You're welcome. Thank you. All right. Take care. Bye, Pete. Yes. This is a clip here from the speech last night. This is Trump recognizing the family of Lake and Riley, and he directly blamed the failed Joe Biden presidency for her death.

[00:21:36] Since taking office, my administration has launched the most sweeping border and immigration crackdown in American history, and we quickly achieved the lowest numbers of illegal border crossers ever recorded. Thank you. Seems like that's a good thing. No? I think it is. I mean, even the Biden administration said that, you know, don't come.

[00:22:06] Remember? The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation. We must have legislation to secure the border. But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president. And boom goes the dynamite. I said that. I said that. Not quite that way. He delivered it better. But I said the same thing.

[00:22:32] Like, there's been no new law passed that would allow Trump to do what he's doing now. Nothing has changed except the president. That's it. He then goaded Elizabeth Warren, Senator Warren, into applauding for more death in Ukraine. Simply by saying he wants to end the war and that requires he talked to both sides.

[00:23:00] I'm also working tirelessly to end the savage conflict in Ukraine. Millions of Ukrainians and Russians have been needlessly killed or wounded in this horrific and brutal conflict with no end in sight. The United States has sent hundreds of billions of dollars to support Ukraine's defense with no security, with no anything.

[00:23:39] Do you want to keep it going for another five years? Yeah. Yeah. You would say Pocahontas says yes. Like, he looked right at her and said, you want to keep it going? Because they wouldn't. They weren't applauding. The fact. I think about that. He's like, we've given them all of this aid and he's trying to end the war. And Democrats refuse to applaud that portion. They could have applauded that portion, but they refused.

[00:24:08] And so their lack of applause now plays into his zinger, which is, oh, what do you want it? Do you want the war to last for five years? And then he says, which it's not Pocahontas. It's Pocahontas. Because she's not a real Indian Native American. Right. That's not. That's the joke anyway. Which now I saw like today, though. I can't believe he made some racist. No, it's not.

[00:24:38] It's not. He didn't make a racist slur. He's mocking her for using somebody else's ethnicity in order to gain professional advancement. That should be the thing you're most offended by. But of course, they're not because it's different when Democrats do it. All right. If you're listening to this show, you know, I try to keep up with all sorts of current events. And I know you do, too.

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[00:25:57] Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports Ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. I have a Pete mail from Mark who says, I really don't understand why people keep caterwalling. That's an underused word nowadays. Caterwalling. Um, especially on Fox News about Democrats actions, especially last night. Of course, they can't clap and tragedy at tragedies that resulted.

[00:26:28] From their policies and positions from the open borders to the culture war nonsense. My takeaway is high level. They are split. The anti-American young progressives that are unemployable going into politics is the new grift and the old ones who are still trying to cash out on the grift. My perfect favorite joke from Reagan, the boy selling baby kittens at the DNC saying they are Democrat kittens.

[00:26:54] The next week, a reporter sees the same boy selling kittens saying they are Republicans. And the reporter asked what changed. And the boy says they opened their eyes. Um, so here's the thing. Uh, like I understand that Democrats weren't going to applaud for certain things that were directly tied to, um, to Trump's or to Biden's policies.

[00:27:24] But on the ones that were not, and the kid, the 13 year old DJ Daniels, the, the, the kid, this, the brain cancer survivor that didn't have anything to do with Joe Biden had nothing to do with Donald Trump, nothing to do with policies or anything. That story was told in a, in a nonpartisan, you know, a political way, but they had their orders don't applaud anything. So they didn't. And the optics just look terrible.

[00:27:53] Tom, welcome to the show. Hello, Tom. All right. Good evening. Real quickly. Um, Trump never, according to what I saw, and then I watched ABC, NBC, uh, commentary. He never addressed the economy. Now he talked about a lot of humanitarian things like the little boy you're talking about and the, uh, the Haley's law, Katie's law, whatever, but he never addressed the economy. And the second thing he did. Yes, he did.

[00:28:22] Well, you need to talk it up, take that up with ABC, NBC. I don't need to take anything up with ABC or NBC. I just know I watched the thing. I mean, I watched it last night and then I listened to the entire thing again. He talked about tariffs. He talked about egg prices and Democrats scoffed at it. Well, anyway, okay. Let's, let me move on. Yeah, let's move on. Yeah. Okay. Number two, just because they didn't clap and they didn't do anything, he took it personal and he scolded them.

[00:28:51] These are legislative people that have been in Congress. Some of them career congressmen, some of them not. But you don't do stuff like that. He scolded them. And I agree. Last thing that Mr. Green, Congressman Green, should have been more decorum. But one wrong doesn't make a right. Marjorie Taylor. So it's okay when he did it. That's fine. No, no. I'm saying Marjorie Taylor Green did it and they didn't throw her out. So he should have sat down.

[00:29:17] But my point is, I just think Trump gave a messy, messy speech. Take care. Bye-bye. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I suspect that is, your opinion is informed by your prior bias. Right? Like people who watched it that hate Trump thought he did a terrible job. And people who love Trump that watched it probably thought he did a great job. So I thought he did a good job. I thought the speech had a lot of like good highlights.

[00:29:47] Things that all Americans should be supportive of as Americans. Stories that he pointed out that were good stories about, you know, good people that should have won support and applause from everybody. But I understand. Look, it's difficult to watch that if you are a Trump hater. That was difficult to watch.

[00:30:12] And it would be difficult to watch, you know, if you're a Democrat that has no rudder on the ship. And, you know, you're concern trolling over decorum. Yeah, I don't believe you anymore.

[00:30:33] Like, not Tom specifically, but like these calls for decorum, like they spent the entire speech screaming at him, heckling him, disrupting him, showing signs. They had signs. They were waving signs around like it's some freaking sporting event. They had organized to a disruptive proceeding ahead of time. And everybody on Capitol Hill knew it.

[00:30:59] That's why Speaker Mike Johnson had the language ready to go as soon as Al Green showed his ass. So that's how that happened. So, no, Donald Trump, he walked in that. He when he walked in the door and he turned to shake hands with Democrats and they literally turned their backs on him. So don't tell me that he's the one that scolded them and he needs to respect the fact that they have been there. He's the president.

[00:31:22] He deserves some respect, too, if that's what we're, you know, demanding of people that have occupied a certain position for any given period of time. So, yeah, I don't find the analysis to be legit. Chris, welcome to the show. Hey, Chris. I see. I got a minute or two left. Real quick. I would be vying, if you ever went national, I would be vying for the president of the Pete Callender. Oh.

[00:31:51] No, but anyway, let me really quick get to my point. In relation to wording and redefinition, it really grabs my gears that it happens. And sometimes societally, we should do that. But in the case of tariffs, Trump's using tariffs, I think the traditional understanding of tariffs is always for us to prop up an industry that might be losing ground, per se, right?

[00:32:16] And what I'm seeing, if I'm not right, correct me, what I'm seeing is kind of like more of a tactic of pushing countries to probably do more. Could you probably expound on that a little bit more? Yeah. Chris, I got 20 seconds, so I don't have time. But I appreciate the call. By the way, fans of the show are called Pete Nicks. So just a heads up on that. I mean, if you're going to be president of the club.

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