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That's us, that's right. I love this American ride. Todd Starr. Oh, it is going to be a great day in America. Hello, everybody.

I hope you're doing well today. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. And I've caused a little bit of a dust-up in America, everybody.

So we're going to get to the – we've got a lot to cover today. 5 o'clock Eastern, DEI and the federal government will officially DIE. President Trump announcing 5 o'clock Eastern, all DEI staffers and agencies will be furloughed. Right now, they're still going to get their paycheck, but by the end of the month, everybody's going to lose their job. And that, again, is another promise made, promise kept from the Trump administration.

So yesterday, during the program, there was an event at the National Cathedral, and it was the inaugural prayer service.

So this is a part of the tradition, National Cathedral there in Washington. It's an Episcopalian joint, and they are radical leftist. But you would think that even if they were in fact, they are in fact radical leftist, they would have at least a morsel of decorum when it came to the traditional inaugural prayer and the sermon.

so they had a they had the the bishop of washington again an episcopalian and episcopalians are barely a religion these days it is a radical woke they pledge allegiance to the rainbow flag all that kind of nonsense so anyway one of their bishops was in in charge of the program. And her name is Booty, Marianne Booty.

So Bishop Booty is the person we're going to be talking about. She was on The View, or she is currently on The View, even as you and I speak, and we're going to be pulling that audio in just a few moments. But she is defending how she behaved yesterday, which was absolutely appalling.

So Bishop Booty, who is a blasphemous woman, and quite frankly, the National Cathedral is a sanctuary of Satan in my estimation. And by the way, that phrase right there has caused the dust up.

So over 4 million people have now responded to my tweet about this, and all the leftists are coming after yours truly for calling out this blasphemous bishop booty and i will say this and i stand by every single word i wrote i truly do believe that that that cathedral is now a sanctuary of satan and here's the reason why because that preacher is a false prophet that's all she is a false prophet she was spewing her hatred at president trump yesterday and president trump god loved this man he sat there and he was dignified He was respectful, and he should have stood up and rebuked the woman in the name of Jesus Christ. And I'm just surprised a lightning bolt didn't come down from the heavens. I'm very surprised.

So there you have President Trump in the front row, and I want to play this audio. This is what the preacherette or the bishopette, the lady bishop, I don't know what they call them, this is what she had to say. I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families.

Some who fear for their lives. and the people, the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meat packing plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals. They may not be citizens or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors. They are faithful members of our churches and mosques, synagogues, wadara, and temples.

I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away. and that you help those who are fleeing war zones and persecution in their own lands to find compassion and welcome here. Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger, for we were all once strangers in this land. Oh, my word.

Folks, that was a 90-second clip. Could you imagine having to sit through an entire sermon from that chick? She's a loo. What a horrible delivery. She is certainly no pulpiteer, I'll tell you that much.

Good Lord, man.

So a couple of things here to unravel. First of all, she's asking about mercy. All right, where's the mercy for the people like the family of Lake and Riley? Where's the mercy? She's talking about mercy.

What about all the people that have been killed, raped, shot, beaten, stabbed by the illegals. What about the mercy for those folks? Where did they go for that? You want to talk about mercy for the transgender kids? What about all the kids that have been medically mutilated in the name of the rainbow flag?

What about the mercy for those people? This woman's insane. And by the way, may I just say this? God bless you, President Trump, because if that had been Joe Biden, he would have been literally passed out on the floor. He would have been sound asleep, sawing logs.

That's how bad that sermon was. And by the way, Trump actually writes about it. Trump was really upset about this, and it finally hit him in the wee hours of the morning. And Trump pointed out that this was an absolutely boring sermon. And it was.

You know, yesterday we had Franklin Graham on. Franklin Graham was talking about it. But this is what he wrote. Apart from her inappropriate statements, the service was a very boring and uninspiring one. She is not very good at her job.

She and her church owe the public an apology. I'm going to take it a step further. Guess what they do? Every time a Republican shows up at a church, they're threatening, we've got to revoke their tax-exempt status.

Well, I say they need to revoke the tax-exempt status of the National Cathedral. That woman delivered a political speech in the pulpit. She deserves to go, and so does their tax-exempt status. That's what I say.

So we're going to be talking to Pastor Robert Jeffress in just a little while. He was actually there. He was in the room when it all happened. There were other ministers there. I got a couple of text messages.

There were other ministers in the back of the room, and everybody's really fired up about this. President Trump, again, being very gracious, but now, Ben Dieter, now the left is coming after yours truly. And this is what the Daily Beast, all of these woke religious groups. That's your lawyer on standby, Todd. That Christian nationalist, Todd Starnes.

So here's what the Wonkette wrote. They quoted Franklin Graham from my show yesterday, and they said that last one is longtime little Trump fluffer and minor MAGA media personality, blank hole Todd Starnes. What? Did I get that on a card? Wow.

I love that. That needs to be the intro of the show. What a title. And then they actually linked to another story I allegedly wrote back from 2015. Todd Starnes writes a love letter to Donald Trump's penis.

Yes, I got to go back and read that. I don't recall that happening, but. Todd, my grandma's listening. Pardon me. Manhood.

So this is great.

So anyway, yes, they're calling yours truly a little Trump fluffer and minor MAGA media personality. What are you, like a marshmallow peep? A little duffer? I'm just a wee little lad. Duffer Todd star is on the microphone.

A wee little lad.

So you got that. And these people are very despicable. But you know what? That goes with the territory, and it's okay. These people, they're really irrelevant.

But I will say that was sort of clever. I don't remember talking about Trump's penis, though. No. It doesn't sound like something I would talk about on a regular basis. Not even just casually.

I'm glad. I'm glad. I just want to put that out there for you, folks. But again, I mean, folks, when you go into a church, especially something like the National Cathedral, there is a bit of decorum. And, you know, you're respectful.

There was no respect there. This woman is a hateful person. And by the way, I want to know who invited her. This was a great big setup. Because back in 2020, this little chick, and her middle name is Edgar, so you can kind of figure out.

Is her last name really booty? I'm getting calls, Todd. Everybody's asking, is this just Todd? doing parody no no her real name her name is marianne edgar booty b-u-d-d-e i could say booty but that sounds weirder but i yeah marianne it's marianne without an e edgar booty b-u-d-d-e i don't make this stuff up so anyway we're going to take your calls on this do you do you believe that this church ought to lose its tax-exempt status?

Well, she's now on The View, and she's saying she did all of this for unity. Oh, yeah. And now she's accusing everybody else of playing politics. Of course. I find that very hard to believe.

She is the victim. And she kind of looks like a Subaru driver. I'm getting that vibe. Did you see J.D. Vance and his face?

Oh, yeah. The eyebrows were raised. Oh, and Donald Trump's children, they look like they were about ready to come out of the pews. Ivanka, she seems meek and mild. She wasn't having it.

Was not having it. I'm just going to say this. There's something going on inside the Trump administration. I think we've got some secret woke plans. Because if you remember, they invited a pro-Hamas Muslim to pray at the inauguration ceremony.

Don't forget about Snoop Dogg.

Well, Snoop Dogg, too. And then you've got this. It just smells like something's going on. I want to bring in Mike from Maine listening to us on KWAM. Mike, good to have you with us.

So what do you think? Was this a setup, sir? Absolutely. Absolutely. I've worked security all my life.

Look, let me tell you something. Who vetted this church for the president? Anyone?

Now, you had plenty of time to do this. You could have sat in on a couple of the church services, and I'm sure you would have heard all this woke agenda going on. And they let him walk right into it. You know, this is what we went through in the first administration, okay? They need to get these weasels that are in there out of there.

And this is, you got, I think you're exactly right. You have a problem from within. No one would let the president, knowing this bishop was as radical as she is, you're not going to direct the president to attend a service there. You're going to advise him to go to another church. Number one, for its safety.

Number two, because of what you're looking at right now, it was a total setup. Why do you think she's on a view today? Mike, Mike, it's, I mean, you're preaching here. man and and it's so true and just just think about this all somebody had to do was and i get it it's national cathedral all of that's that's where all of the major national you know the funerals everything is held there at national cathedral that's america's cathedral so knowing that they were going to be there the white house had to have known they had to have gotten a list of who was going to be speaking somebody all they had to do was google the woman and they would have immediately come up with the fact that in 2020 she literally called for trump's removal from office they could have requested another pastor exactly that simple it's that simple yeah something's not right we've got there's a bad egg there's a weasel in the administration and there may be a couple of more but we got to root these people out whoever was responsible for having the president at that event and that going down they need to be moved out of the moved out of the white house mike it's good hearing from you my friend and we miss our friends at wlob yeah they're listening to you i know they are yeah it's good all right mike give us a holler back it's great to hear your voice again my friend yeah you too brother all right we're gonna take a quick break here we've got Susie in Georgia, Rich in Jackson, phone lines lighting up 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926.

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So let me ask you this. You seem to have more fearlessness than anyone in Congress right now, ma'am. What made you decide to use that opportunity for this message or didn't you have any apprehension about it?

So thank you, first of all, for allowing me to be with you today. My responsibility that morning, yesterday morning, was to reflect, to pray with the nation for unity. And as I was pondering what are the foundations of unity, I wanted to emphasize respecting the honor and dignity of every human being, basic honesty and humility. And then I also realized that unity requires a certain degree of mercy, mercy and compassion and understanding. and um and so knowing that um a lot of people as i said in our country right now are really scared i wanted to take the opportunity in the context of that of service for unity to say we um we need to treat everyone with dignity and we need to be merciful and to i was trying to counter the narrative that is so divisive and polarizing and in which people, real people, are being harmed.

Who's being harmed? We're just sending people back to their home countries, and we're also saving children from these irreversible medical mutilation surgeries.

So I want to know, what is she talking about? And by the way, this whole idea that Donald Trump is anti-gay give me a break the guy was dancing with the guy in buttless leather champs during the inauguration right oh no they were not butless he had jeans they were butless but he had they were leather they were leather champs thank you they were in fact butless but he did have some denim on my apologies let's go to the phone lines let's go let's go to suzy in gainesville georgia Hi, Susie. Hey, Todd. Listen. Yes.

When I heard that person, I watched everything, Wendy. When that person got up there, I thought, is this a man that thinks she's a woman because of her hair, Todd? And I was just, and as a lawyer listened, and I thought, if you're a woman, you're completely out of line with the Bible because God says a woman is not to have authority over a man. And I said, and here you are standing up here running your mouth the president of the united states the most powerful man in the world and she was just so out of line todd i just wanted to go up there and bother on her but anyway she's just despicable todd whatever she is and i won't tell you this you sickle boy all right you just you just go get them and don't you get discouraged todd you are right oh suzy god bless you and i'll i'll do my best yeah i don't look this stuff doesn't bother me i think it's kind of funny but you know they always say oh sterns is irrelevant everybody listens to me everybody and we know that so and we take we wear that as a badge of honor because suzy ultimately they're attacking all of us and that's what this radio program is for we're gonna we're gonna stay in together suzy i gotta run uh we're late for a break and we love our friends over at wdun as well all of our great affiliates I hope the folks in Houston at Patriot Talk are doing okay. You know, they got a lot of snow yesterday, 10 inches of snow.

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Our good friend, Pastor Robert Jeffress, we caught him in the airport. And Dr. Jeffress, I know your time is short, but I wanted to get your reaction to what happened at National Cathedral.

Well, it was an absolute travesty. The president, instead of being encouraged, was insulted by this so-called pastor. And, you know, Todd, it wasn't just what she said, but it was what she didn't say. There were no words of encouragement for the president, no semblance of understanding what a great victory this had been and talking about the future of our country. And you know, about eight years ago at the first inauguration, I had the opportunity to preach the sermon for the St.

John's Sermon for President Trump when he was getting ready for his first term. And I used the story of Nehemiah and how God used Nehemiah for his glory. And it wasn't a suck-up sermon, but it was a sermon filled with encouragement for the president, not one that was meant to insult the president. It was way too political, and I do think she owes the president an apology for what he did.

Well, that's not going to happen. She's doubling down on it, what she did in the New York Times today. Also, she's going to be on The View today.

So she's becoming something of a celebrity now. She knew she would be by doing this. And by the way, there's a long history here between her and the president. She's been a constant critic, said we need to get rid of him. I mean, this didn't happen in a vacuum.

But let me just say, without saying too much, I've been in contact with the president, and he's taken all of this in good stride. He's much more focused on the future than he is what happened yesterday. Oh, I think so, too. It was just really a cheap shot, I guess. You know, you're in a church house, and I will say this.

So I was more impressed with President Trump's reaction in real time inside the cathedral.

Well, I tell you, we were seated in such a way as he had a straight-on view of me, and I had one of him. And let me just say, the president gets the award for sitting through that yesterday for two hours.

So you were there in the National Cathedral? Yes, yes. What was the reaction from folks afterwards? I know there were a lot of other pastors there.

Well, there actually weren't that many pastors there, but there were a lot of his supporters there. And as I said in my tweet, the disgust was palpable among the audience in what she was saying. Unbelievable. I'm surprised somebody didn't get to stand up and rebuke the lady, but you can't wish for everything. I thought about it for a few moments, but with the Secret Service there, you don't want anybody standing unexpectedly.

You would have been, well, fair enough, but you would have been a national hero, Dr. Jeffress. You already are, but your stature would have increased greatly. Real quick, before we let you go, Dr. Jeffress, you were hobnobbing, sir.

You were hobnobbing over the weekend, and we saw the photos of you and Mrs. Jeffress with Carrie Underwood. How did that happen?

Well, I was honored to lead the prayer at the pre-inaugural dinner Sunday night honoring President and Mrs. Trump. And it was just a great affair for about 1,800 of his most generous supporters through the years. And we were just seated at the table next to Carrie Underwood.

So we went up and had a nice conversation, and she posed for a picture. And, you know, it's interesting. She was so nice and gracious, and she said, Pastor, say a prayer for me tomorrow at the inauguration. And little did I know the challenge she was going to have at the inauguration with the soundtrack not working. But she's a great performer, and she pulled it off.

She sure did. She sure did. Well, Pastor Jeffress, we always appreciate you. And I know a lot of folks are praying for our president, and it's good to know that he still has your great counsel as well.

Well, he doesn't need my counsel, but I count him as a great friend. And let me assure everybody listening, he's got his focus on the future, not on what happened yesterday. You're right about that. All right, Dr. Jeffers, safe travels to you.

Thanks so much. Talk to you soon, Todd. Thank you. All right, our telephone number, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926.

So I want to talk about the J6 pardons and President Trump issuing some pretty expansive pardons to just about everybody. More than 1,500 people were charged in the attack, those people getting pardons. And the media is calling Trump out, and they're accusing Trump of hating cops because some of the people who were accused of attacking the police officers are among those who were set free.

So look, here's my take on it. These people are political prisoners. We know now that whatever happened on J6 was organized, planned, carried out through the auspices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and probably some other government agencies as well. We know for a fact that the J6 committee intentionally destroyed evidence and documents. They had no right to do that.

Now, from day one, I mean the riots started out during my show. And during my show, in real time, I was offering my analysis and critique and saying everybody was out of line. Everybody. And I still believe to this day that if you broke a window, you broke a door, you stole something, you caused graffiti, then you deserve to be charged. I got no problem with that.

But here's the problem. Most people are still in jail. Most people serving time in jail for crimes where you would either get probation or you would get, I don't know, six months in jail or a suspended sentence. these people were were overcharged and over punished for their crimes and that's just a few the overwhelming number just happened to be walking in because a police officer a capital police officer literally moved aside police barricades and welcomed people in a building how do you know that how do you know that todd starns are you just making that up you mega person you little mega person no i'm i'm not making it up i'm telling you because there's video of all of that there's literal video of police officers moving aside barricades and welcoming people into the building when that happens those people are officially guessed and yet many of them are accused of of trespassing and and many of them were being forced to do a hard time. Not only were these people thrown in jail, their lives were destroyed, they lost their jobs, many of them lost their homes, they're financially ruined.

All of these people paid a price. And I got no problem with what President Trump did. And I'm curious, what about you, ladies and gentlemen? Do you have a problem that President Trump pardoned all these people? 901-260-5926 is our number.

That's 901-260-5926. Let's go to Patty in North Carolina. Just got home. Patty, what say you on these pardons? He should pardon You know what It was such a joke I want to know about the FBI informant Why are we bringing that up He didn you know Joe Biden didn he didn you know Ray is still under, he can still go in front of the courts, right?

Well, I suppose so.

Well, I want to know about, what was it, 26 or 27 FBI informants.

So what about the guy with the two bombs or something? Whatever happened to that guy? What about Ray X? How come they're not going after Ray X? They're going after Denny Terrio from the Proud Boys, and he wasn't even there.

He wasn't even there, Todd. And he had 25 years. Yeah, this is what gets me. I want to know, are the FBI agents who planned all of this and who organized all of this and who egged on the crowd, are they going to face charges as well? Because they should.

And we need to, those investigations need to continue. I know what the media is saying about all of this, Patty, but at the end of the day, at the end of the day, we need to know beyond a shadow of a doubt, good or bad, what happened on that day.

Well, an insurrection to me, when I seen them walking through the Capitol, none of them had guns. none of them had a insurrection no no there was no gun no no there were no guns no weapons were confiscated except but the and the only person who got killed was one of the protesters who was who was shot and killed by one of the capital law enforcement and that guy had a bad track record and that guy was never charged right the only one that got killed there and i wear her shirt all thomas ashley babbitt that's it all right gotta run patty good to have you back and uh glad you're able to get up there and celebrate the inauguration of donald j trump let's go to bruce in buford georgia wdun our great station there hi bruce what's on your mind uh just want to talk about the j6 and the pardons and the pre-pardons that biden did did anybody did he he pre-pardon nancy Pelosi? Can she not be brought up for what she failed to do beforehand to avoid all this? Theoretically, yes, that's correct. That's why Biden did that, so that none of those people could be punished.

I mean, that doesn't mean we can't investigate them, but as it now stands, they cannot be charged. Yeah, but was Nancy Pelosi part of his pre-pardon? yes she was part of the j6 committee okay well i i thought she was separated out okay well but way long overdue perfect example of the double system of justice in this country in this country all those people should have been out a long time ago bruce i'm with you there and again you talk about term limits yeah we're kind of looking at it right now my friend we we're gonna have to do something it's a it is a corrupt nursing home up there on capitol hill bruce gotta run thank you for that 901-260-5926 that's 901-260-5926 you know it's interesting uh ben deter are you because you're a young guy i don't have gray hair yet do you have you started thinking about all right maybe one day i'm gonna want to retire i gotta do something to start you know do you have a plan in place i don't know do you have a plan in place for me you're my boss where how how's my 401k looking we we take pretty good care of our staff i can confirm we take good care of our staff here but one of the things you ought to consider doing aside for you can't just rely on a 401k oh darn you can't rely on all that so what you need to do is you need to figure out ways that you can you know grow and protect your retirement and you're a young guy and it makes a lot of sense if you're young to start investing in gold right now gold gold silver platinum i need a gold bar you know my my grandparents have this i feel like this is very generational where young people they don't they're thinking bitcoin but bitcoin is not safe cryptocurrency what is cryptocurrency it's not tangible with gold it's physical you can touch it You can feel it. You can store it away in your safety deposit box down at the First National Bank. Under your bed.

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Well, this is interesting. Liberal parents are very upset. This is according to the New York Times. They're saying that they don't know what to do. They're struggling.

And the reason why they're struggling is that their teenage sons are all Trump supporters. Dieter, this is fascinating because we've seen a groundswell of support among young people in America who are now embracing the Trump agenda, the America First agenda. And so here you have these parents in New York City, and the New York Times doing a big story about it. I want to read this to you from Lindsay Comick. When Eli brought a Make America Great Again hat home from college this summer, Alex Baer threw it in the corner of her son's bedroom.

They argued about guns, immigration, and abortion. struggling to do so without permanently damaging their relationship. It continued the story. Facts don't matter to you. Alex Baer wrote in a moment of frustration about one text exchange.

Love you. Have a good day. These parents. I can't imagine having a leftist parent.

Well, it's interesting because I think we're seeing a lot of young people revolt and these parents are confused by this because you get these kids, they go to their four-year degree, they go to their college programs and they come out a piping liberal and a lot of these parents are actually okay with that. But I do think there is a tide that's turning and we saw that President Trump has been talking about that, the margins that we gained with young people.

So you have a lot of people not used to young people that are free thinkers. Young men. 53% of young male voters between 18 and 44 voted for Donald Trump. Yeah. Young men.

That's the key here. And I think Trump knows that, which is why he's stepping in and saving the TikTok. And I think that is why there is so much resistance for Trump to not do that. But Trump was able to speak to young men on TikTok. You know that President Trump was the most followed account on that platform.

most of those followers young men i love this um according to the story some liberal parents aren't so sure they should try to intervene plenty see their son's embrace of mr trump as an expected act of rebellion or a choice made by an independent young adult that they should respect for others it feels like a painful rejection of the values they've tried to instill in their kids yeah it is a rejection of the values and i and i will say this again we're looking at the conservative movement becoming really counterculture now. It really is the counterculture movement in America, which I think is yet another reason why it's so enticing to young people. What values do they not like that it's within the president that they wouldn't like to see in their sons? Genuinely. Mrs.

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Again, 5 o'clock Eastern, all DEI employees are placed on leave. And this is pretty exciting because President Trump is delivering on a major campaign promise. From now on, people are going to be hired in our federal government based on merit and not their preferred pronouns. That is a great thing for all of us, ladies and gentlemen, all of us. Then, by the end of the month, every government agency must have a plan presented to permanently fire.

So right now, they're all being sent home. They're going to be on paid leave. They're shutting down all of the DEI offices permanently by the end of the month. Everybody's going to be unemployed. They're getting rid of all the social media pages, all the websites.

It all goes away. This is exciting. But again, this is a president who is moving very, very quickly. By the way, the immigration raids have already started. Borders are Tom Holman announcing on Fox yesterday, well over 300 very dangerous illegals have already been rounded up.

And I just saw a note from CBS News that they are sending even more troops to the border. Here we go. A U.S. official telling CBS News Radio, approximately 1,000 active duty forces are preparing to go to the southern border, beefing up the U.S. military presence on the border.

Now, ladies and gentlemen, there has been some controversy about the deportation of illegal families. And some people are saying, well, if you have a child, you should be allowed to stay with your child. And the Trump administration's policy is very simple. If you've got a child and the child's illegal, everybody goes. Everybody goes.

The entire family unit, you don't get separated. but we send you and your family back to wherever you came from. Really, it's that simple. And people have got a problem with that. That's just, it's just inhumane.

No, inhumane would be separating the children, which is what the Biden administration did. And even worse than that, losing the children.

So Trump is doing whatever he can humanely to keep families intact and to send them back to wherever they came from. You got a problem with that, ladies and gentlemen? But I'm really hoping that we're just getting started here, right? I want to see thousands and thousands of people being deported on a daily basis. I want to see the lines of people with their backpacks and their fancy tennis shoes and the designer t-shirts all of these impoverished illegals i want to see the line heading due south that's what i want to see all right let's go to the phone lines here real quick um want to talk to nathan in georgia who wants to weigh in on the j6 pardons nathan good to have you with us thank you sir um i'll tell you what frustrates me todd is you know if you're on the left and you want to you know protest you can set cities on fire and stuff and that's all right and the media praises them and everybody just praises them for burning down cities but you're if you're republican they just throw you on in prison and that be done with it well it's a fair point yeah i mean when you look at what has happened here um over the past four years go back to the george floyd riots for example they they literally tried to burn down the entire city of minneapolis police officers getting beaten in the streets.

Nobody was charged. Go back to the inauguration. President Trump, they literally had the White House on lockdown because people were trying to storm the White House gates. Dozens of Secret Service agents got hurt. Dozens.

Nobody got arrested. Nobody got charged for that. All right, Nathan. That was better, Seth. Thank you, sir.

All right, thank you very much, Nathan. Appreciate you calling in. Let's go to Mike in Memphis, Tennessee. Mike, what's on your mind? Greetings, Todd.

I've got a suggestion for President Trump. He should immediately pardon his entire cabinet in perpetuity, let the Democrats pull their hair out and go crazy. They'll file a lawsuit. The Supreme Court will rule that, yes, no one can preemptively pardon anyone, so that will eliminate Biden's pardons. Yeah, look, I like that.

Just go ahead and preemptively pardon. look the pardon thing is getting way out of control but it's it's biden did this the democrats did this and until things change mike then i say we play by the rules that have been presented to us we need to restore the constitution and the constitution allows for pardons once you've been indicted or convicted or sentenced not prior to being charged well there you go all right mike thank you for that thanks for calling in 901-260-5926 that's 901-260-5926 so here is mark wayne mullen on cnn last night explaining the sheer hypocrisy of all of this president biden changed all this remember the 37 murderers that he commuted their sentences uh remember two One that he pardoned killed two FBI agents. Another one literally beat an officer to death with a hammer. And another one literally tied up a woman who had accused him of rape, tied her up in duct tape, put a center block around her, and threw her over a bridge live. And so you remember that the violence that he pardoned, and I'm just saying you've got to compare both of them.

Aaron, if you're going to cover the story, cover both stories. Exactly. But they don't want to hear that. Aaron Burnett over at CNN.

Well, let's just move on.

Okay, I think you've made your point. No, he's pointing out the hypocrisy of all of this. And he ought to. Again, let's go back to what happened at the White House. This was May 30th, and this was late on a Saturday going all the way into early Sunday morning when the Secret Service came under attack outside the White House gates.

The rioters tried to knock over security barriers. I'm reading from the official government website of the Secret Service. They vandalized six Secret Service vehicles. More than 60 Secret Service agents and officers sustained multiple injuries. The mob threw bricks and rocks and bottles and fireworks and other items at the Secret Service.

Also, Secret Service agents were directly physically beaten. They were kicked. They were punched. And even more disgusting, they were exposed to bodily fluids. Ben Dieter, they were literally hurling bottles filled with urine at the Secret Service agents.

at least 11 of the injured so 60 of these agents were injured at least 11 had to be taken to the hospital now do you do you remember cnn going wall to wall with their coverage of that no you know what cnn was doing they were mocking president trump you know why because they had the secret service was afraid that the building was going to be breached and they had to send president trump to a secure location oh look at that coward donald trump he's just running away from the peaceful protesters just running away like a little coward. That's what they were doing on national television. Why isn't that a national news story? Anybody want to talk about that? And by the way, so I just explained to you what they were doing, right?

60 officers injured, 11 had to be taken to the hospital. They were throwing bricks and rocks and bottles at people. Only one person was arrested. they had hundreds if not thousands of people only one person was arrested why didn't they call that an insurrection they were literally trying to get trump they wanted to drag trump out on the front lawn of the white house and string him up that's what was going down so you want to have a conversation about j6 okay let's have that conversation but we also have to talk about what happened on may 30th 2020 nobody wants to talk about that i'm just saying folks we call them all out but there's something going on here and i will say this that the fbi the reason why the reason why they destroyed all the evidence the j6 committee is because they know it implicates a lot of those alphabet agencies, including possibly one that's not allowed to do what they do on American soil.

So we can have those conversations if you want to, but let's get real here. Whenever the left goes out and tries to protest something, they burn down buildings, they beat up police officers, nobody ever gets arrested, and then to make matters worse, the federal government has to come in and they use our tax money to rebuild everything. All right, got to take a break. 901-260-5926. Remember, that's 901-260-5926.

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That's 833-880-0600 for a free consultation. Redballoon.org. all right welcome back everybody good to have you with us you know one of the things that that we love to uh highlight are these crazy stories happening around the country and here lately we've been having one of those in memphis tennessee and it involves our school district which is actually one of the largest in in america the memphis shelby county school system and it is completely controlled by democrats it is a majority a super majority black school board only one white chick on the school board and it's mostly made up of women there are only two dudes on the um on the school board that's correct all right so it's basically that they went in and they hired a school superintendent who is pretty well qualified and she's got great credentials she herself is black and we are now looking at radical on radical black on black political violence in memphis tennessee and it all went down last night now keep in mind it's my understanding over 70 of the kids in memphis schools cannot read at grade level yeah we're talking one of the largest school districts in America. You've got over 110,000 students, roughly. Seven out of 10 of these kids, think of this, cannot read.

Half of them, five out of 10, think of these kids, don't even go to school. 50% of these kids are at home.

So they hired this new superintendent. Her name is Dr. Marie Fagans, and they hired her not even a year ago, she comes in and she immediately starts turning things around. She does three things. She starts making these kids show up to school.

She eliminates a ton of union member jobs, essentially. That was number two crime. And then number three, you have a lot of nonprofits that are making millions of dollars. And she eliminated them on day one. that's what she did and enraged the school board because a lot of those folks are they have some very suspect things going on in their private lives this is bureaucracy it doesn't matter if it's at the federal government or your local school there is bureaucracy and a lot of kickbacks and that school gets operates on a two billion dollar a year budget two billion dollars It's insanity how much money is being spent.

It's the largest investment in the state of Tennessee. Nothing even comes close. And instead of churning out lawyers and doctors and nurses, I mean, the kids can't even read and write. And it's tragic. And parents are enraged.

So moms and dads, they had a big meeting last night to determine whether or not they were going to fire the school superintendent. And Ben Dieter, you were there. Right. Right. And that hearing you say that that coming out of your mouth, Todd, is so crazy.

They're firing who? Wait, they're going to fire the woman who is cleaning house, fixing things in the district. She should not only not be fired, she should be given medals. But no, they they actually fired her last night. And you had every person in the city of Memphis show up at a school board meeting, not just parents.

You had former mayors, former school board members. You had Democratic city council members, state representatives, state senators. They all were there. And so was yours truly. And it was must see television.

Todd, when I take you inside what this sounded like, it's unbelievable. We actually have some of this audio. This was the interactions between the school board members. Take a listen and cut 10. That Dr.

Fagans failed to encumber and obligate a federal grant for over $300,000. That is a fact. It is also a fact that... Get her out, please. We're not going to have this.

Get her out. Get her out. Chair Chair Chair This is a public meeting Chair and what is happening here is this is our board attorney is acting like a court room You know what? You're out of water. Michelle, you're out of water.

Chair, I'm talking to the Chair, not the board member who's been here three months. chair this is not a courtroom and the board hired attorney is acting as if he is in a court and what you're not hearing that's the live mic in the background they had law enforcement tossing out it was crazy todd people were fighting every parent in the city wants the school board superintendent to stay because their kids are finally learning how to read to read and they said nope we're not you your opinion doesn't count you know the takeaway here is i think a lot of voters learned a really tough lesson last night which is elections have consequences yeah and when you vote in morons that can't read and write themselves and instead of i don't know working on their own proficiencies and that they're writing songs like booty jigging and that you detailed on your show yesterday, some of these vile lyrics, it's a shame. It's a crying shame what happened yesterday. What was the name of it? Yeah, one of the school board members is an aspiring, what, musical artist?

And is it, Who's Cat You Be Kissin' or something of that nature? Yeah. It's felt, exactly, exactly. And then she's jiggling her booty and another, this jiggle to the left and jiggle to the... I mean, Todd, you were watching it.

I was there in person. We were corresponding responding back and forth. Todd's like, are you sure you don't need security? I needed security, but I made it out alive. And the new interim superintendent was there, and they started yelling at him, and he threatened parents, these ladies sitting there, and this is all on video.

And the guy said, be careful. Don't you be playing with me. Don't you be playing with me. Wit, it's W-I-T-H, sir. You're the freaking superintendent now.

Get some phonics. All right, hang tight, everybody. We're going to be taking some calls on that as well coming up next. I don't really like working. I'm going to need a priority parking space.

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Tony is listening to us in Memphis, Tennessee. Tony, sounds like you guys have quite the mess there in your local school board.

Well, Todd, I think it's kind of your local school board, too, but it's not because you're in German town. But, yeah, we do have a mess. I have never liked the term George Coleman. She was over my son's school in his district, and I just moved him completely out of the school and out of the district because I didn't want to be a brother of her. She's not for parents.

In fact, to be honest with you, the whole Mississippi school system, including the principals and the teachers, don't care about the students. They feel like they're kids and they want to do what they want to do instead of helping out the parents. I had a sentiment in sitting here. My son is in the third grade. They want him to tell me that he got homework.

Look, he should, but this is new for him. It's something they just started.

So I'm like, can y'all tell me as well? And he's like, no, this is their responsibility. We want to make them responsible.

So then I ask them, so what happens if they start failing? Who's responsible? But I think their pay needs to be tied to those who pass the next grade instead of they just get raises for whatever reason and not because of the production of their students.

Well, Tony, I will say this, that the school board has been messing around. The kids are not learning. This is costing all of the taxpayers big, big money. and it looks as though the state is going to have to step in and nobody wants the government to step in like that but i i just don't see any other alternative especially when the guy that they're selecting to replace the outgoing superintendent is himself something of a nefarious character whose wife is something of a nefarious character so all very um all very scandalous i will say that But, Tony, I thank you for the call today, and thank you for listening to our flagship station, KWAM. Interesting story out of the State Department, where Marco Rubio, now officially Secretary of State, we can tell you that the State Department has officially blocked gay pride flags and Black Lives Matter flags from every embassy and outpost.

The State Department adopting a new policy under the Trump administration, the Washington Free Beacon first reported on this. It's called the One Flag Policy, and it only allows the American flag to be flown at U.S. facilities at home and abroad. There are two notable exceptions, the Prisoner of War Missing in Action flag and the Wrongful Detainees flag. The memorandum reading from the Washington Free Beacon, starting immediately, only the United States of America flag is authorized to be flown or displayed at U.S.

facilities. The flag of the United States of America united all Americans under the universal principles of justice, liberty, and democracy. These values are the bedrocks of our great country and shared by all American citizens past and present. I like this. You know, one of the things that always concerned me, and again, I don't want to disparage the rainbow flag for those of you that fly that flag and pledge your allegiance to that flag and whatnot i i my concern was always the the muslim countries where they consider that to be a crime punishable by death and you just you were hoping and praying that they weren't flying the flag and that was like a clue for these islamic radicals to go and try to blow something up i mean it's you know troubling because that's what they do.

So anyway, good for you, Marco Rubio, and certainly appreciate yet another promise made, promise kept by the Trump administration. Ben Deter, I'm getting worn out. I just, it is hard to keep up with all of this winning. I think that we are seeing an emboldened party. I've noticed that.

I've listened to a lot of your interviews on your Newsmax show and radio show, and I think 2025 is so different than 2016, and I think our Republicans are getting it. I know they're not perfect, but you look at Trump's nominees. I mean, have we been the biggest fan of a Marco Rubio? Has he been the strongest conservative ever? No, but I think what the election showed all of us, all Republicans and conservatives, is that it's actually okay to take a stand.

And a lot of these weak-kneed, spineless Republicans that we've been frustrated with for years and years and years are finally catching up with maybe Trump's playbook. Maybe they're taking a page out of it and reading it for the first time. But some Republican lawmakers and legislators that have been kind of on the sidelines or tepid to weigh in on some of these controversies like gay pride flags outside of State Department buildings are now finally taking a stand. Thanks for joining the rest of us, but better late than never. They're growing a pair.

it's it's pretty remarkable um congressman carlos yemenes was on fox business just a few moments ago and the other big story is that the trump administration they're now declaring or designating these drug cartels as terrorist organizations and the congressman says now let's go wipe these people off the face of the earth and steward varney asked him do you mean attack the cartels inside mexico and he said that's absolutely what i am saying so there will be an argument now, and just think about this, there's going to be an argument that our fight against the cartels should stop at our southern border, and that any sort of an incursion inside Mexico would be constituted, or construed rather, as an act of war. But I sort of like this idea of going in and going after the cartels, because folks, the The cartels are basically small militaries. That's all they are. They are very dangerous.

So I say, why not go after them? They're coming into our country. They're attacking our country with their drugs. Why can't we attack them on their territory? What's wrong with that?

901-260-5926. I want to play some audio here. This is great. Ben Dieter, do you know who? This is great.

You know who's really upset about the illegals? Yeah. It's the black Americans. Yeah. Because they don't like being replaced.

And there was a lot of hullabaloo when Tucker Carlson was talking about the replacement theory, which is a real thing. And you got folks in Chicago's south side, and they realized right away, holy crap, we're being replaced. Literally, they were literally moving the illegals into their towns and communities.

So now you have a lot of black Americans that have become strong border security fanatics. We have some audio from a young lady in Atlanta, Georgia. And she's actually posting videos and tagging ICE because she's telling ICE where they can find the illegals in Atlanta, Georgia. Take a listen to Cut Six. Um, ICE, they over there on Shambly and Beaufort.

Um, they always be at the farmer's market over there on the south side at the big farmer's market. Uh, yeah, but Shambly, that's Little Mexico, Shambly, Beaufort side, all that right there. Oh, they always be at the gas stations too. All the gas stations. QT, they be at the QT when you get off on, is that Turner Hill, the one that's over there by the Six Flags, what exit is that, them all the Mexicans be outside, what, what, what them, huh, Riverside Drive, like right before you get to Six Flags, you get off on that exit and that QT, when you turn to right and the QT on your left hand side, oh, they over there too all the time and then on the east side you get off on um south harrison north harrison and you go over there to the gas station like almost to the highway oh they had that gas station right there too always on the corner always on the corner always on the corner all right well thank you ma'am i i mean i appreciate this is what we need is you have average citizens that are rising up now and saying oh look we've got the illegals in our neighborhood and here's where they are At the QT.

At the QT. On the sidewalk and at the farmer's market. You know what I love is because it's coming from another quote-unquote minority in this country, a minority group, they're allowed to say things that maybe you're not allowed to say, Todd. They could say it how it is. When I'm not allowed to say things?

Well, media and all of these newsbusters will be knocking down your door. That Todd Starnes back at it again with that racist, bigoted talk about illegals in this country. They can't with the folks in Chicago. Have you noticed that? They could get away with everything.

It's true. And they are. And they're saying. Maybe it's just the way you say it. You know, that's being a southerner.

We're allowed to say things that other parts of the country couldn't say because we say it with an accent, with a little drawl. I don't encourage or suggest you start trying it, Todd. Oh, please, please don't deport me. Please, senor. This gets us in so much trouble.

Senorita. Stop. Stop it. Oh, no. He told me to go home.

Ma'am, come here legally. That's all I'm asking. What's interesting, and this is going to be the thing that all of your listeners and viewers need to watch, is if the media starts covering the minority voice in this country. Because they're about ready to start speaking out. When these mass deportations start in a place like Chicago, Washington, D.C., and a lot of people are actually celebrating it, Will they cover those types of stories?

I haven't seen anybody do a deep dive on this, and I'm not even sure this was on the radar of the pollsters and the analysts. But what was it that compelled minority voters to vote for Donald Trump? I would be willing to say more than anything else, it was this issue because this was impacting their communities in ways that it wasn't impacting other areas. I'll give you a great example. Remember early on when they started sending the buses up to Martha's Vineyard and the outrage that happened?

Well, that was happening every single day in Chicago's South Side and other predominantly black communities. And why didn't we know about it until it started at Martha's Vineyard? There was never an issue with illegal immigration until they dropped them out in front of Obama's mansion. Exactly. And at first, there wasn't much hullabaloo because everybody just thought, oh, the new long guys are here.

but once they figured out what was going on it was on like donkey kong i'm just saying all right gotta take a break 901-260-5926 that's 901-260-5926 this is the ton stern show you know i was thinking about this uh dylan i know you're the big sports Sky here you know the the biggest loser here is the NCAA college football championship everybody forgot that was actually going on yeah it was on Monday Ohio State Notre Dame yeah wow that was you know here's the thing I'm not a big Ohio State fan I'm not a big Notre Dame fan and I'm not only did I not have skin in the game I really didn't want either team to win Yeah, I do like the beef, though. Do you know about the Irish and the Notre Dame beef? No, what's the beef? Yeah, the coach, Lou Holtz, said, I think like last year, he said that all the Ohio State players are weaker than Notre Dame players, and Ryan Day, the head coach of Ohio State, took that really personally. And so he made a comment after he won the game, of course.

But, yeah, it was just interesting. They have a rivalry, I guess.

So, also, NFL. And I know this is like sacrilege, because I think if you're a follower of Christ, you have to support the Kansas City Chiefs. It's like in the New Testament or something now. But it's like they're really, really, really trying to make sure the Chiefs make it to the Super Bowl. Oh, my gosh.

Some of these calls. You're not wrong about that. I mean, really? That's insane. Everybody loves Patrick Mahomes, I guess, if you're an NFL commentator.

And I don't get it. I don't either. Anyway, the Eagles, of course, I love the Eagles only because they have the most awful, wonderful fans in all of football. I mean, if you've got fans that are booing Santa Claus as they did back in the day, those are good fans. Yeah.

So anyway, Eagles fans are just a different, they're cut from a different cloth.

So the mayor is out there and I guess she's what, they're having a big rally for the Eagles. Is that right? Yeah, they have their NFC championship game on Sunday against the Commanders. All right. And here's how all of that went.

Let's listen to the mayor. This is Sherelle Parker. Let me hear you all say E-L-G-L-E-S-E-G-O-S. Let's go, birds. Wait, can we play that?

I just want to make sure I heard what I thought I heard. Let me hear you all say E-L-G-L-E-S-E-G-O-S. did she did she get her high school diploma from memphis schools yeah that's what i want to know and gliss and gliss and the the video is hilarious because everybody's like what is she spelling we don't know what she's doing here everybody around her was spelling it right that's brilliant all right uh thank you again this is another diversity hire there in philadelphia the city of brotherly love oh my word all right uh let's go to the phone lines rich in jackson tennessee listening to us on wtjs hi rich what's on your mind yes sir i don't want to wear my welcome out but thank you i've got a few things if i could just hit on them and not take too much time rich you got about 60 seconds here my friend we're on the clock gotcha uh elon i looked at that uh first of all elon came from basically apartheid south africa he would or was or would have been friends with the one-legged uh runner that was not just a narcissistic deal he did in the face with anyway he's a i say he's a brilliant rich genius and uh I'm not going to be able to hit it all up. All right. Well, Rich, give us a call when you get it all down, and give us a holler back because we are kind of coming up on the top of the hour here.

But we appreciate you listening to WTJS. I have called into a radio show. I feel rich. You've got to put it down on bullet points. I've done it before.

Get those bullet points down. Flashcards. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. You know, Gorka was really tough on callers. Gorka and Hugh Hewitt.

and he hewitt would actually yell at you you know if you're it was very intimidating you're not like that no we tried that's why we have a screening process it's i would i would encourage every listener to screen a caller it is a interesting job you learn a lot all right let's go to rutherford tennessee karen is listening to us on kwam hi karen what's on your mind hi there todd uh i when i was listening to you talking about the cartel let's face it the mexicans if they wanted them gone they'd be gone so i think they would welcome us to come in there and get rid of the cartel karen this is a great thought and and you know i would even say the illegals i mean mexico is allowing them to breach their southern borders to get to our southern border right yeah so so karen you don't have a problem if trump says you know what we got to go new mexico to get these guys you're good with that oh yes all right well karen and by the way how do you feel about the uh the new trump administration so far i love it i love it it's awesome i'm telling you and of course you're listening to the trump station in the mid-south by kwam so uh you're uh you're listening to the right radio station i'll tell you that much karen i got to run but thank you for calling in and it's a great point that karen brings up you know you're if Mexico wanted to put a stop to all of this, they would. I'm not sure they could, though. And that's where the U.S. military needs to come in. We've got to go to war with these guys, and we've got to take them out.

Yeah. It really is that simple. These are terrorists, if you think about it. And if you identify them as terrorists, you must treat them like terrorists. The fentanyl deaths, it's a genocide.

Yeah. That's what's going on here. All right. We've got to take a break, another full hour coming your way. We're going to be checking with Congressman Michael Cloud up on Capitol Hill.

We have a Doge update. Also, our good buddy, Scott Coburn from Patriot Mobile. And head over to our live show blog right now and check out all the great new Trump merch we have. You're going to love that. All right, hang tight, everybody.

Hour three of the big show coming right up. Live from the Liberty University studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's conservative blowtorch. That's us, that's right. I love this American ride. Todd Starns.

Well, hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starns Radio Program.

So very happy to have you with us today. So can we talk about AOC for just a moment? And, guys, I forgot to tell you, I know a lot of times when we do the Congress people audio, you just assume they're being very polite and well-mannered and at least PG-13. Did you guys clip the, did you know AOC dropped a naughty word? We got that.

All right, good. I just want to protect our radio affiliates so nobody gets in trouble with the FCC. That's all.

So anyway, AOC is very upset with all of you folks. I mean, she is like level, I don't know, seven right now on the Trump derangement syndrome scale. At least level seven. She is very upset because Elon Musk, they're all now alleging that Elon Musk went out there and he did the Hitler salute.

Now, we all know that's not true. And if they want to play this game where they're publishing these videos or the photographs of people doing the Hitler salute, fine.

Well, you know, we can do that too. We've got video of AOC doing that. We've got Kamala Harris doing it. We've got that creep, the pervy, what's his guy's name, her VP guy, Tim, what's his guy's name? Waltz, I forgot.

He's a very forgettable guy. I mean, there are plenty of Democrats doing that salute. Come on, man. Anyway, here's a O.C. I, like, you're going to do a Sig Hale?

You're going to do a Hale Hitler or their rebrand a Roman salute from behind the presidential seal of the United States of America? It's on. It's on. And what is so important for us to understand is that as long as we don't give up, it's not over. It's not over.

It is not over. uh libs of tiktok started crying because because i said over the weekend that donald trump is a rapist and they went on twitter and they went oh boo hoo hoo and i said basically f you cry more i don't give a like you want to support a rapist that's on you that's on you but i don't and they wanted to call in all of these threats into my office and all this other stuff i don't give a damn i don't give a damn i don't give a damn language ma'am language so anyway aoc is really upset about all of this and this is what we're going to we're we're going to have coming our way for the next four years and you just have to laugh at it uh the reality is we're going to call these people out. Oh, it's not. Oh, she has ED. My apologies.

I thought she had TDS, but no, she has ED. That's not. No, that's the guy thing. No, this is something else. This is Elon derangement syndrome, EDS.

But in all honesty, if you're in a relationship with AOC and that voice, you're probably going to be suffering.

Well, I want to go down that path. terrible all right um wolf blitzer wow wolf blitzer here's what here's what terrifies the media the new crop so this is this is like crop number three of america first conservative lawmakers and they have been through the trump school of media training and they have no problem going toe-to-toe with people like Wolf Blitzer. And the folks in the media, they can't understand that. They can't handle that. This is Congressman John James, and he's going after Wolf Blitzer.

I want you to take a listen to the conversation here. What kind of message, Congressman, do these pardons and commutations send to law enforcement? You support law enforcement, yet these people who attacked law enforcement on January 6th are now going to be free. You know, leftists weren't too concerned with attacks on law enforcement when we saw them getting cold-cocked in New York Street cities during BLM riots a couple years ago. If you're going to be upset with one, you've got to be upset with the other.

We call that, what, hypocrisy. Right now, we're focused on moving forward and not making the same mistakes of the past, and that's what we're going to be doing right here. Let me just press you, Congressman. Was President Trump right in commuting the sentences of these rioters who wound up with bats and with sticks and beat police officers, some of whom were very seriously injured, and a few actually died? Wolf, were the BLM rioters right when they went across the country and burned?

I'm asking you about what happened on January 6th. I'm not asking about Black Lives Matter. I'm asking about January 6th, Congressman. And this is a part of your problem. Part of the reason that people feel disconnected from pundits and politicians is because you don't understand where people are coming from.

People see chaos all over the country, and they're seeing where one part gets punished and the other part doesn't. The fact of the matter is there are people who are truly hurting out there. They don't see what's going on. And President Trump is doing his best to move our country forward, unlike what President Biden did. And so we're moving our country forward, and we're focused on the future.

I support our police. There's no excuse for hitting, hurting police officers. I applaud our law enforcement officers. But we need to move forward in the future and make sure it never happens again. Yeah, well said, Congressman John James.

And by the way, it wasn't mean, it wasn't nasty. It was just very matter-of-fact. And that's how you can deal with these people. That's how you win the argument with these people, ladies and gentlemen.

So good for you, Congressman John James. All right, coming up this evening on Newsmax, and by the way, you can actually watch the Todd Stern Show on your laptop. You can go to Newsmax.com and look over on the right-hand side. You'll see my show, 5 o'clock Eastern, and we have a great lineup. We're going to be continuing our conversation about what happened inside National Cathedral.

We're going to be talking to Congresswoman Diana Harshbarger. She's going to be joining us. Carol Swain is going to drop by talking about this DEI executive order. Also, Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaefer is going to give us an update. We're now understanding Trump is sending thousands of U.S.

troops to the border to stop the illegals from crossing. This is an exciting – it's just going to be an exciting week in America. There's a lot going on. We're doing our very best to bring it all to you, but there's just a lot happening. All right, we're going to take a quick break.

When we come back we going to the phone lines 901 That 901 Also before we head out I want you to go to our website, toddstarns.com. We have a brand new item up. It's called Check Out Todd's Awesome New Trump Merch. And we have some pretty spectacular Trump merchandise, and you're going to love this. We have covers for your smartphones.

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And the senator was just livid and had a chance to talk to the senator on Newsmax yesterday. And we started out with a very simple question. Senator, what do you make of what happened at that service yesterday? You think you've seen it all. Of course, I've been up here in this clown show for four years in Congress and and watch the radical left just spew hate all over the place and push agenda that I don't even recognize.

But for this bishop to do this to President Trump after a weekend of, as you said, talking about God more than ever, talking about how he was spared to give an opportunity maybe to change this country back to something that it should be. It just absolutely amazes me how far these people go. And it's not just this bishop. It's up here today. We've got the mainstream media.

They have absolutely lost their mind over all these executive orders. and the January the 6th protesters being pardoned. They don't say anything about Joe Biden pardoning his family or the 8,000 other people, but it's just, it is going to be four years of just listening to them just spew hate all over the place, and we just got to keep fighting back at the end of the day.

Well, Senator, not only that, Joe Biden pardoned two men who were responsible for killing a Virginia cop. You had a guy responsible for killing FBI agents. He was set free by Joe Biden. And by the way, not a word, not a word, Senator, from the mainstream media over that. No.

The most crooked family, political family in Washington, D.C., I thought the Clintons couldn't be topped.

Well, they've been topped by the Bidens. The whole entire family. You don't pardon somebody for something they did right. You pardon somebody for something they did wrong. And the entire family obviously was in on this.

Joe Biden's been in on it for 50 years. He's lived off the federal government. He's lived off the taxpayers. He made no good decisions for our country the last four years. It was about him and his family and a little bit about the Democratic Party.

But he has absolutely sunk the Democratic Party by his actions the last 24 hours of what he did before he walked out the door. Senator, a lot of executive orders coming out yesterday, last night. I had a guy call in from Florida on my radio show today, and he says those executive orders are great, But we need to make sure that some of those are actually implemented into law. Is there a plan in Congress to try to implement some of those executive orders as law? Amen.

And we've got to do that because you know what they'll do. If they ever get it back again, they'll change them all back. I've got the Women, Protect Women and Girls in the Sports Act that we're going to put on the floor, hopefully in about a month after we get all these confirmations with President Trump's, all of his team. That basically is just what President Trump said. There's only two genders.

Keep women or biological boys and men out of women's sports. We've got to do it. We've got to make it a law. If we don't do it, they'll go back on it. And not just participate, showering with girls, dressing with girls.

This group's absolutely lost their minds. And they said, well, everybody needs an opportunity. No, they don't. If you're a boy, you play in men's sports. If you're a woman, you play in women's sports.

That's the way it's supposed to be. That's the way it's fair. We need to keep it safe. Yeah, we do. And the senator weighing in on the executive orders, I'm just curious here, and this is going to be a bit of a challenge, I think, for the Republicans, but what we need to do is take all of these executive orders, and we have to codify every single one of them.

Otherwise, God forbid a Democrat gets elected in four years, and you're going to have the Democrat doing every single thing that Trump is doing, reversing the decisions of the previous president. That's what's going on here. So it's great that Trump is stepping in, and it's almost like a mass unit. He's putting a stop to a lot of these woke policies, and now it's going to be up to Congress to codify all of this. And the fact that we've got to codify God made male and female just shows you how insanely crazy this country has gotten.

Is that a House bill? House bill MF. Male, female. That came out as a different thing than I want. We hereby, as Congress, want to create a law that there are two genders.

I mean, that's crazy that we're even talking about it. But keep in mind, Todd, and this is a question I have had for you. we had the house and the senate and the executive eight years ago what got done in those two years while we had all the power do you think we've learned our lessons do you think that 2025 is different than 2016 17 you know i i think so and and i think the reason why it's changed i don't know if they've actually had a change of heart over they're just terrified of Donald Trump and being primaried. And that really could be it, is that Trump has sent out the notices. You will do what I tell you to do, or there will be consequences.

And I don't have a single problem with that. Yeah. I think a lot of people look at the quote-unquote rhinos as the problems. Like, who is going to hold up President Trump's MAGA agenda? Is it going to be moderate Republicans in the conference?

I don't think so. I think it's going to be those Chip Roys out there, and he's a good friend of the show, Tim Burchett, the people, Thomas Massey, another Republican, and a strong conservative.

Well, Thomas Massey is a libertarian that are going to be the wrenches in this agenda. Will the true socials bend a person like a Chip Roy? That's going to be the big question here, and I think you will see a Thomas Massey. You'll see Chip Roy. And they will be those principled conservatives.

And their philosophy is it's our way or nothing at all. That's it. You're either going to do it our way or we will shut you down. It's a razor-thin majority. I mean, they can't lose more than two votes.

So while everybody is worried about, let's face it, we all have rhinos in our states, in our delegations across, even here in Tennessee, we have some. Those aren't going to be the problem children, if you want to call them that. I think it's going to be those hard-nosed Republicans like Chip Roy. And I have no issue with, a lot of times they're very principled. But is it going to be principle over party?

That's the question we'll be following. And there are a lot of things, and I will tell you this, the religious rights in this, and these are all people that I elevated and brought up and gave them some legitimacy in the conservative news world back during my years at Fox. And now a lot of these organizations have let the power go to their heads. And they're going to be among some of the fiercest critics, I'm afraid, of Donald Trump because of Trump's position on some of the big culture issues. They don't like the fact that he's appointing a lot of LGBT people to his administration.

But again, that goes back to something we talk about on this program all the time. I don't care what you do in the privacy of your home. That is not my concern. That is not my business. I'm hiring the best and the brightest.

I don't care if you're gay or straight. I don't care. I just want the best and the brightest. And that's what Donald Trump is saying. He wants the best and the brightest.

Donald Trump on the abortion issue.

Well, you know what? He delivered on the abortion issue, and it should be over, right? That was moved back to the states, and that's where all of these pro-life groups need to be fighting those battles. But they're not doing that, and they're going to blame Donald Trump.

So you're right. I think you're right here, Ben. He's going to have some problems from these hard-right lawmakers and the conservative Christians. Yeah. It was all fun and games over the weekend, and we should celebrate the wins, and we should go to the balls.

Party. Party like it's the 4th of July. But the real work begins as we look at some of these spending packages. Are they going to put it all in a big bill? Immigration?

some of these big topics, funding for natural disasters, California, North Carolina, with these outrageous spending packages, that's where the party ends and the real work begins. Will they be able to coalesce and move the agenda forward? Can I ask you a question about your Senator Fetterman? Yeah. Doesn't he have a pair of pants?

Can he not wear pants? It's touching. The people of Pennsylvania, my parents are avid listeners of your show. They love you. But they also love Senator Fetterman.

I don't know what's going on. They have no issue that he's wearing shorts. It's the inauguration. I know. Wear some pants.

He's a Zionist. He's just a pantsless Zionist. He is one of those people that believes that Israel should have a state. And in a place like Pennsylvania, you don't always get those Republican or conservative senators. and who knew that John Fetterman was going to be common sense.

I get it. You can be pro-Israel, but you can also be pro-pants too, right? I think there's room for both. All right, 901-260-5926. Did you have a problem with Fetterman and Jeff Bezos' wife?

Megan Kelly called her a hooker. She's a loo. We'll be right back.

All right, coming up tonight, 5 o'clock on the Todd Stern Show on Newsmax TV, Congresswoman Diana Harshbarger is going to be joining us. Also, Dr. Carol Swain. We have got a lot of ground to cover tonight, so be sure to watch us on Newsmax, 5 o'clock Eastern. I want to go right away to our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line and say hello to our good friend, Congressman Michael Cloud.

Congressman, I hope you're doing well today.

Well, thank you. Yeah, doing good. It's been quite a week so far. Awesome seeing so many Americans up here celebrating President Trump being sworn in. Yeah, it's been a good week.

Well, Congressman, I saw your tweet about what happened yesterday at the National Cathedral. We had Pastor Robert Jefferson. He was in the auditorium when all of that happened. What was your take on what the bishop said?

well it's sad but you know as a person of faith it's sad to see anyone take the podium and speak things from a podium that are just not scripturally accurate and untrue and then to use that for political posturing for something that's been really the traditional part of of our Americana swearing in, and, you know, we've all looked to the National Cathedral as a place we can kind of look to as representative of that portion of faith that is a big portion of our history, and, you know, where they've taken the National Cathedral makes you begin to wonder about the role it should play in our ceremonial activity.

Well, it does, or at least move it to, you know, a church that doesn't blaspheme the Almighty. That might be a recommendation. Yeah, exactly. Congressman, a lot happening. Of course, we know 5 o'clock Eastern East Standard Time today.

Big exciting news, diversity, equity, and inclusion staffers going on paid administrative leave. And we understand those jobs will be eventually eliminated. Is that what you're hearing? I believe so. This has been the goal all along.

I mean, they're a dead weight on the American people, and actually not even a dead weight. That would be a step up from where they are. They've been working against the American people, counterproductive to fostering a great economy, to creating any sort of sense of unity in our country. And so it's important to see this go. We had worked with, at the time, Senator J.D.

Vance in introducing the dismantle of the EI bill, so we knew it would be an important part of this administration. But it's great to see them moving on it so quickly and not being tippet, not just having all the courage and fortitude in the world to take on these big issues so quickly right away on day one. You know, Congressman, it's really almost double dipping for you because being a member of the DOGE subcommittee, again, eliminating all this DEI stuff is certainly going to save the American taxpayers a boatload of money, I have to imagine. Oh, yeah, very much so. And again, not only is the dollars we're spending, the taxpayer dollars we're spending on it going to waste, but they're actually counterproductive to our values and to any sort of productivity that's going on.

So in some cases, it's been downright dangerous. We're promoting people into positions where life and death is in the balance and they're not qualified for the job. And so this has been a big deal, and it's awesome to see President Trump taking it on. Not only that, I mean, we can – this week, as part of the inauguration, we celebrated Martin Luther King's dream, right? And to get back to a society where it's merit-based, character-driven, is exactly where we want to be.

Congressman Michael Cloud is joining us from the great state of Texas, representing District 27. Congressman, we understand that President Trump's sending thousands of troops to the border. I'm curious, what are folks here in the Lone Star State saying about the roundup? We understand what over 300 illegals have been already captured by the border czar, and it looks like the border is finally being fortified. Oh, my gosh, yeah, it's a long time coming.

all too long time coming. And of course, with the Biden administration in my office, it wasn't just negligence. It was willful disobedience of the law to completely open our borders, to devastate our communities and families, and to see President Trump again step in and take the border seriously. We're not going to kowtow to cartels. We're not going to let the left shame us through arguments that are just completely unreal and unbiased.

It is not compassionate to let these cartels ruin communities, to destroy families, to get them all into our streets, to create havens of crime throughout the country. That is not compassionate at all. And so to secure our borders is a compassionate thing. President Trump gets it, understands it, and is willing to do what is necessary to secure our borders. How important is it for the president to designate those cartels as terrorist organizations?

I believe it's pretty important. It allows us to begin to collect intelligence on them, to set the stage, to go after the cartels when necessary. And these aren't like, you know, the 1980 street games when you think of, you know, they're very sophisticated, militarized, extra governmental units on the other side of our border. If Al-Qaeda was on the other side of our border, I think we would take it seriously. Yet these cartels have filtered fentanyl on the way to kill tens of thousands of people in our country and have done devastating harm to communities, killed, murdered, maimed, raped people throughout our country.

We should take that threat seriously for exactly what it is and be willing to go after them with every full force that we need to to eliminate the threat.

So just earlier today, one of your colleagues, Congressman Carlos Jimenez, was on Fox Business doing an interview with Stuart Varney. He believes that if we need to, we should be sending the military across the border into Mexico to wipe out the cartels. How do you feel about that? Very much so. and this would be of a great benefit to Mexico as well, because right now you have Mexico trying to develop as a country, and they've become, for almost all practical purposes, a narco state, to where if you have somebody who steps out of line of the cartels, you know, you have good people who get elected to office, want to do the right thing, they're murdered within a week.

And this isn't a one-time incident. You see this time and time again, to where, you know, if they're going to ever have the kind of stability they need to as a growing country, and certainly as a partner, we've got to do what we can to first, I mean, the motivation, of course, is to secure our borders, to eliminate the threat to our country. But it would be a benefit to them as well. Look, I'm all supportive of this. I think the cartels have invaded our country, and I think the argument could be made that Mexico could have stopped them, didn't stop them uh and we need to go in and we need to take care of the problem eradicate the cartels and to your point it's going to help out mexico as much as it is going to help out us yeah and there's no doubt that the current mexican government's been complicit too in the trafficking of people into our country uh you know through busing them to our border to get them through and the like um so you know they have some culpability in this as well and the president addressed it and we'll continue to address it all right well congressman we're going to leave it there we appreciate the great work you're doing uh congrats i know you're on house appropriations you're on gop oversight you look like you're going to have a busy term in congress sir we'll have a lot to do but that's okay that's what it's about all right uh congressman thank you again and it was good to see you on newsmax the other day as well oh thank you yeah appreciate what y'all do all right there you go congressman michael cloud from texas you know jeter it's i I know you're a busy guy.

You handle, in addition to executive producing the show, you handle all the guest bookings. And then we're doing the show at Newsmax. We got a lot of people coming through our shows every day. You interview, I think, nine, ten people every single day. Yeah, it's fun.

In totality. Yeah, it's a lot of people. And the great thing is your team at Newsmax, can I give a shout out to Beth? Go, Beth! We double book a lot, so it helps.

But, yeah, it's a busy, busy time as we set up the new government. A lot to talk about. But you know who I, as much as I love talking to all of these great newsmakers and celebrities and Fox people and Newsmax people, my favorite thing is talking to our great audience. And when we started this show many years ago, it was I made the decision early on that we would be a caller-driven show. And you say, well, what do you mean by that?

Well, the reality is that there are a lot of talk show hosts, and they just want to hear themselves talk. And I'm just not one of those guys. And we need a platform. And one of the things I loved about Rush Limbaugh is the callers were a part of the show. And I love that.

And we try to emulate that here on this program. And I just want to take a moment and say thank you, because there have been a lot of people taking credit for what happened on Inauguration Day. and in reality it's our audience you guys were out there we have one of the most politically active audiences we have actually one of the most diverse audiences and it's not like we go out there and say asian person listen to the Todd Starr show black person listen no that's we don't do that it's all organic and as a result of that we got people from all different persuasions listening to the show uh black white gay straight i mean we got a large lesbian contention i don't know i'm i'm the lesbians like me i don't know what to say benditer and i'm honored yeah you appeal to all i guess i guess so everybody's flavor it's true so anyway i just want to say thank you and i i don't say it enough but i really do appreciate you guys and the way we're growing the show it's tough We go up against the big corporate giants, and they've got a lot of power, and we're one of the little guys. And so we fight for every single radio station, and we take no one for granted. I don't care if we are in a radio station of a town of 100.

We treat you guys the same way we treat Patriot Talk in Houston, Texas, market number four in this country.

So I just want to say thank you. And you guys are amazing, and I'm excited about the new year. We're really focusing on growing the show. And, Ben, that's going to be a lot of fun, adding new cities, adding new towns. And one of the ways we're able to do that is our listeners calling local radio stations and saying, Hey, we want you to carry the Todd Stern Show.

Booth them off air and carry Todd. Absolutely. Well, we always say the nice way. Todd says, I say you call them and say get the Todd Stern Show airing 12 to 3 p.m. We'll take the lunch spot.

But I got to give a shout out. And again, props where props is due. And a lot of people say, Todd, don't do this. Do not mention other radio hosts in your time slot. But the big three are Clay and Buck over at iHeart.

And iHeart owns all these radio stations, so they're forced to carry Clay and Buck. And then Dan Bongino, which is owned by Cumulus. And they've got to carry Dan on all their stations. But I will say this. all those those three guys i just mentioned when i have a book that comes out they're good to have me on their show to talk about the book and you know dan and i we're back and forth on on x um seeing how we can be of help to each other they're good guys is what i'm trying to tell you and and i appreciate that i appreciate that clay and buck would have me on to talk about you know the book that just twilight's last gleaming you know that doesn't happen a lot in the radio industry so Very competitive place.

I'll say that. It is competitive. If Todd would only write a book. Maybe you will. When you're winding down in 50 years, Todd, and you're ready to write your tell-all, you need to leak the secrets of the trade.

I don't know if I'm going to do that. You'll be gone. It will be fine. You'll be in heaven. I will say this.

And the rest of us want to read. As much as we love Clay and Buck and Dan, we want you off the air, man. global dominance. And they're doing the same thing to me, too.

So it's a fun, all that to say, it's a fun rivalry. But we're better. But we are, yeah. That's pretty much, yeah. All right, we've got to take a break here.

Jeez, Lou. 901-260-5926 or whatever. That's 901-260-5926. We'll be right back.

Oh, Lord. I just, you know, what is going on here?

Someone just sent me a text. Dieter, you got it. This is at the UT Medical, University of Tennessee Medical Center. And is this here in Memphis or is this in Knoxville? This is in Memphis.

All right. So. Yeah. Shout out to Joanne, one of our great listeners that sent us the story. And so the information here is that they've got the men's rooms stocked with tampons and pads.

The reason I believe this is I have seen this exact story play out in a couple big libs of TikTok. I've seen this exact thing. And I'm not shocked at all these medical facilities across the country, this case in Tennessee. and a lot of people think, oh, it's Tennessee, it's UT. Oh, no.

It's the healthcare system, and I'm looking at the photo. It's an immense bathroom, and Todd, I don't know. I don't use these feminine hygiene products. That's good to know, actually. I'm investigating.

Well, I do know what those are. How much can I say on air?

So there's a poster, and it says, out of menstrual products? Yes. I'm a dude. And so they've got, wow, they've got the full, yeah. The full complement.

All sorts of items there. Very courteous. Unfortunately, it's the wrong bathroom, UT. Yes, it is. That's what concerns me.

These are health professionals. They should know. Unbelievable. Anyway, we're trying to figure out. We'll look into it.

But at the same time, you've got to think a lot of these places, those bathrooms are either unisex or you can choose whatever bathroom you want.

So you get a dude who is actually a chick. She wants to use the men's bathroom. She's a biological female. She walks in there. She's going to need those products.

So maybe they're just being polite. I don't know. Maybe. We'll reach out. We're going to find out.

So very disappointing there. UT Medical Center, University of Tennessee Medical Center, now stocking the men's rooms with lady products. Unbelievable. Oh, I went to Whole Foods yesterday. I'm not sure why I'm segueing there.

that's a that's a disturbing pivot but go i know i would anyway i was at whole foods and uh i i have no idea i had a hankering for tuna fish oh wow last time it was curry i know you are really diversifying the palate from your chick-fil-a sandwiches i know i i was in a rut new year new time i knew i was in a chick-fil-a rut when the the lady at the you know they do the outdoor drive-thru, double drive-thru. And the lady said, oh, hi, Mr. Starnes. Would you like your regular? And I'm like, wow, I got to really cut back on the Chick-fil-A.

You turning Chick-fil-A into your diner? It's terrible. Wow. I do like it. But if you get the grilled nuggets, I guess that's healthy.

The problem is it's so expensive now. It's a lot of money, so it's cheaper to cook at home. The bird flu.

So I'm thinking about doing some. I shouldn't say this. Are you being a pescatarian? That's not a being. Are you going pescatarian?

No, I'm not a pre-tripper. No, I'm not a Presbyterian. I'm a Baptist.

Okay. No, where you only eat fish. Is that the confession? No, no, no. I'm not doing that.

You just wanted tuna one night. I'm not a vegan. Oh.

So anyway, I'm. No, I was thinking about doing some cooking segments. I've been doing a lot of cooking and showing people how to cook good Southern food. All right, Bobby Flay. You think I should?

Maybe. I don't know. We'll think about it. I could wear like an apron. Can Paula Deen be your co-host for those?

Nothing for really Paula Deen. Oh, my God. Could you imagine? God and Paula doing a cooking segment on the show. The most politically incorrect cooking show in America.

She was at the inauguration, by the way. She lost some weight. Yeah. Have you noticed it? But now she's wearing the...

Somebody actually called out her glasses. They're like, you're wearing man glasses. It's not either the blue contacts. I don't blame her. Anyway, Paula Deen, yeah, anyway, she's back in good graces.

She's mainstream now. You know, she gave me a hug once at Fox News. We got to know each other a little bit at Fox. She smells like a butter cookie. I don't know if that's a cologne or that's just her natural fragrance.

You didn't sniffer like Biden, did you? Yes, she smells good. Paula, you smell good. All right, you got to get out of here. Hey, 5 o'clock Eastern.

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