Last night was not referendum on the Trump presidency. But it should be a wakeup call for the GOP

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Again, that's 901-260-5926. I want to hear from you today. What a day of news. I mean, there is a stack of stuff a mile high today, just to recap everything that's going on. And I got to say, the media losing their minds over last night, focusing on one, one particular item.

Now, the Trump team themselves. Overall, I think did relatively well last night. Today is, by the way, Liberation Day, so happy Liberation Day to you. We'll get to all that in just a moment. But the elections last night, man, the media, Donald Trump, and Elon Musk lost the Wisconsin Supreme Court seat.

But is it really as bad as what they say? Let's be honest. I mean, at the end of the day, We need to tally it up. And Donald Trump ended up winning three out of the four races that happened last night. Two special races for the congressional seats in Florida.

They weren't too terribly concerning, although the media, and I'll read some headlines, man, they were losing their minds of Donald Trump could be shaken up. Democrats could turn this. There is a blue wave coming to start disrupting the Elon Musk Donald Trump agenda. People don't like them any longer. Did it happen?

No, that was a major failure on their part. And even in Wisconsin, while we lost the Supreme Court seat, we did end up winning the voter ID law out of the state of Wisconsin as well.

So, overall, pat yourself on the back wherever you may be. I mean, that was a big win for three out of four. I'll take those odds. I'll take it. And that's where we start off with the program today for the Todd Stearns Radio Show, just so you're aware.

According to the New York Times, the final election results, with roughly 95% reporting in, because of course those trickle-in-mail in ballots, that's kind of a pesky issue. Susan Crawford ended up beating Brad Schimmel for the Supreme Court of the state of Wisconsin by a 55 to 45 votes. That's not bad.

Now, obviously, the implication of that could be. could be relatively harming to the state long term. Especially with the focus that they've had on social issues like the issue of abortion. And for whatever reason, Democrats, progressives, they have not learned their lesson from the November elections. That guess what?

The wokeness, the social issues, that whole mindset of wanting to tell people how to live their lives and why these social issues are the most important thing on the face of the earth. They haven't learned their lesson that that mindset is going away. It's a dying breed. People don't want that any longer. But nonetheless, they won.

And they won with that type of mindset last night. And Susan Crawford making a statement for her victory speech last night, really trying to make this into a bigger deal than I believe at least what it is. As a little girl growing up in Chippewa Falls, I never could have imagined. That I'd be taking on the richest man in the world. For justice in Wisconsin and we won.

Okay. All right.

So that's your big feet. That's your 15 minutes in the limelight. You're going to be on the Supreme Court now. And that's where the media is hyping this up: that Elon Musk himself invested near $25 million in this race. And this was the end-all-be-all on whether people support Elon Musk in the Trump agenda.

For Supreme Court that already had a Democrat on the seat with a 4-3 majority for the Democrats, I don't know why this is the mass shake-up.

Now, is it concerning for abortion policy? Sure, and we'll get to that in a minute. But at the end of the day, outside of that race, the Trump team, the conservative mindset, won every other race last night.

So, I don't know why that's as big of a deal. According to, again, the New York Times, the voter ID requirement, which piggybacks onto the SAVE Act that we're working on in Washington, D.C., the voter ID requirement. Passed with a wider margin than even the Supreme Court race with a 62 to 37 victory. And that's good news for us. Making sure that, I don't know, you have to show some form of identification when you go and vote, which is a wild concept that we would even consider not to have in the first place.

But that's a big victory for us on that.

So, is Wisconsin starting to swing back to the purple? I don't know that they necessarily are. It was it's always difficult to Upend and turnover Supreme Court. Here in Kansas, where I'm from, we're battling that ourselves. We have a really crazy, weird system to where we're trying to get to actually voting on Supreme Court justices.

But I don't know if that was going to be the end-all-be-all and what the Trump agenda actually looked like. That being said, moving down into Florida, we saw two major victories for Republicans.

Now, granted, they were relatively red districts as well, but at the same time, Republicans won. And I want to read the headlines to you of what we've seen the last couple of days. This was all throughout, according to Politico, D-Day for Musk, Democrats in special elections, target Trump's Doge Chief. This one from BBC. Republicans fear that Florida election upset could threaten Trump's agenda.

And yet They didn't. And yet, we still won them by a pretty wide margin. This headline or this story from NBC, where they were at the Democrats election party last night giving their secession speech because of how badly things went. We heard a lot of applause. You can hear it now because one of the things that everyone here is so focused on is that narrowed margin because they always knew this was an uphill battle, Ellison.

And the messaging has been clear from the start. When it comes to these deeply Republican districts, everyone knew how well that President Trump had performed. And of course, how well these politicians whose seats were left vacant, Michael Waltz and Matt Gates, they had also performed very well in these districts.

Okay, so yeah, we still won. Of course, they have to, I smell the desperation. I think that they were trying to really kind of polish the you know what that was on the ground there because they still lost and they still lost by overwhelming margins, but they narrowed the margin in these races, that kind of, I guess, if that's what you want to call it. But we still won by overwhelming margins. Randy Fine from District Number six in Florida won 56 to 42, and Jimmy Petranas won 56 to 42 as well in district number one.

Relatively decent margins, I would think, in the congressional race for Republicans, even in deep-red districts. You need to remember. We're coming off a major election in November. And majoritarian voters aren't as necessarily engaged in special elections after that, especially just months after, because they've already done their deal. They step back, they just watch everything fall into place, they're watching and observing, but sometimes they forget there's another election around the corner.

And even with. Even with the Democrats that are overly engaged because they're so angry of what's going on for a two-month term of the Trump administration, and Republicans that are relishing and sitting back and enjoying it, which means we're probably a little more laxedated on these issues than what we normally would be, we still kick their butts.

So, of course, the media is not going to report it that way, but remember, we won three to four on all these races last night. And to me, that's another victory.

So, pat yourself on the back. Do you agree with that, or is there a bigger concern about the Supreme Court justice? I want to hear from you. 901-260-5926. On the abortion issue, that is a concern, but yet we need to remember that Republicans, at least in my opinion, need to do a bit better job of.

Setting the talking points and creating a narrative on the abortion issue. That is one of the thorns in the side of the Republican Party. And I'm not ashamed to announce that and say that Republicans need to do a better job of talking about that issue because we haven't been. We've been all over the place. We wanted Roe v.

Wade reversed, which we made happen under the first Trump administration. And then it was after that, it was kind of like chaos, it was anarchy.

Some people are like, hey, we did our job. We can let states make their own decisions now. This is exactly where we want it to be. We want the federal government's hands off of this issue. And then others were then like, no, no, now we want to go the other way and make it a federal ban on abortion and actually use the government in our way as well.

And Republicans themselves have had a horrible time creating a narrative, a singular collective narrative of what this issue is and where we stand on it.

So we've been all over the place.

So of course we're not going to do the best on a race that's been focused primarily on that.

So we could have flipped the Supreme Court in Wisconsin. We didn't. we can work on it moving forward. But I don't know that, that necessarily is an indication that going into midterms next year is going to be a loss for the Trump team and for Republicans in the state of Wisconsin. Wisconsin is always going to be a swing state, but this doesn't to me tell that we're losing momentum.

We would have lost momentum if if if in a deep blue state Or a deep red, I'm sorry, a deep red district like the state of Florida with the district number one and district number six. If we would have seen Democrats take them over, like the media tried to scare us with. If they would have taken those and it was a deep red area, and Matt Gates was one and Mike Waltz was the other, and we would have lost those, that would have been concerning. And we'd be like, oh, all right, now we need to regather here and we need to kind of refigure out what's going on. But that's not the case.

What the media fails to tell you is that CNN is still running polls right now showing that Donald Trump and Elon Musk with Doge still have a 54% of approval within the nation, even within their CNN left-wing hack type of mainstream polling that they're reporting, and they're shocked and awed by it. While we continue to see these protests, I don't know if you were aware of it or not, but this past weekend was the Elon Musk Tesla Day of Awareness, where they had more than 200 protests across the country at Tesla The dealerships for the Tesla cars and I don't know what they did. I don't know exactly what was coming out of it, but at least they made their statement heard, by golly, with these protests. And yet, the majority of Americans still support them. And yet, We still think that what they're doing is a good job.

So, Democrats are in the minority here, and they haven't quite figured that out. They're still trying to do their whole rebranding. We need to find ourselves. And in order until they do that. They're going to be on the losing end.

We didn't lose last night. We made some major gains, and we're going to get some insight on some of those throughout the show today with some great guests on the program. 901-260-5926. I want to hear your thoughts on this. The elections.

Also, we apparently broke a record for a filibuster yesterday with Spartacus himself standing on the Senate floor. Was that Again, productive? Did it actually do anything, or was that another failed attempt of trying to rise to power for the Democrats? There's a lot of stuff going on, and of course, the Liberation Day that's going on. We'll get to all that and more.

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It is the Todd Stearns Radio program. Andy Hoosier sitting in for Todd Stearns today. Although, I think he'll be joining us here in just a little bit. We'll pick his brain on the election results from last night. Overall, three out of four, not too bad.

I think that is the eternal optimist here on the program. I think that we did pretty good last night.

So, well done. I can deal with that. And you know what? We will deal with the Supreme Court issue in Wisconsin. We will deal with the abortion issue in like as it comes up.

But you know what? We are moving in the right direction. The Trump momentum is not dying off. In fact, we still continue to grow. And the activism, the engagement, the excitement from the Republican Party, I think is still compared to none out there right now.

The MAGA movement is still strong. And even though we had an election in November, people usually kind of die off and just kind of sit back and disengage. That hasn't been the case. There's been so much going on. It's been wild to watch.

People's heads are spinning.

So hopefully, sometime you just need a reset, right? You got to kind of reset yourself a little bit and watch what's happening because it's been a whirlwind so far. On the abortion issue. As I mentioned, we need to have a collective mindset for this issue before we move forward. And we're not going to win on that issue until we actually have a basic understanding of where Republicans stand on it.

Are we supporting these states to allow them to do their issues themselves? As coming from a state like Kansas, where we have the most amount of abortions in the entire Mid-America region right now because of our Supreme Court that's been radically left-leaning, we have some work to do on that front. I don't want to see that. I want to see abortions go away in the state of Kansas. At the same time, We need to first change how we make the decisions of abortion.

And that right now is through our Supreme Court in the state. And we need to transfer it over to the legislature. I know in Wisconsin now it's going to be the same issue. But for the long-term effects in Wisconsin, you are still in good shape. And as long as you stay engaged, you're going to be just fine.

And I think you're going to be all right. Speaking of, by the way, I had a message over the break regarding the protests against Tesla. And the weekend of activism, the Tesla Day of Awareness, because they want to harm Tesla. I've been trying to rack my brain on what it actually tried to accomplish. And apparently, there were some people on the street doing the man on the street interviews from these protesters.

To try and understand it because it's not just hurting Elon Musk. I mean, this is like Tim Malls that's out there saying, I love seeing the stock of Tim Malls go down. Which doesn't make any sense because even his state Is invested in Tesla as a state government to actually see profits.

So that only hurts his state as well, which he doesn't really care about, but it hurts the workers, it hurts the economy, it hurts their benefit, it hurts everything. But by golly, they're sticking it to Elon Musk, right? This is a peaceful movement to educate people and to cause Elon Musk a little bit of economic pain. I have to. Resist with every fiber of my being not peeing a Tesla when I see one.

I would like to scare Elon Musk so that he gets out of our government, out of our confidential data. If he can lose a little bit of money, maybe he can understand how the rest of us feel. What are they talking about? Say woo! What are they talking about?

It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. But this was their big victory.

So they've patted themselves on the back. They've celebrated throughout the night that this win for the Supreme Court was a victory against Elon Musk. And that's what the media narrative is going to run with, saying that this was a statement against Donald Trump. It was a statement against Elon Musk after him personally investing $25 million in this race, making it, by the way, the most expensive state Supreme Court race in history across the nation. which was absolutely insane.

And now they've said that they've beaten the richest man and the most powerful man on the face of the earth with Donald Trump and Elon Musk. The fact that a Democrat was already in that race, I don't know that that narrative is going to hold. I know they're going to cling on to it. But I don't know if it's going to hold because we've won literally everything else. If that was the case, then they would have also rejected Donald Trump's agenda with voter ID laws, which they passed overwhelmingly in the state of Wisconsin with over 63% of the vote.

If that were the case, they would have rejected it across the board. But looking at the numbers, not only did they lose the case for voter ID, there were just for an example, there were 1.3 million voters that voted for Susan Crawford for the Supreme Court. Do you know how many voted against the voter ID requirement? Because I would think that there would be close to 1.3 million Democrats as well that would vote against the voter ID laws to say we're going to stick it to Trump and Elon Musk, right? 1.3 million voters voted for Susan.

A total of 852,000 voted for or voted against the voter ID laws. Even if they did get their 1.3 million, by the way, it still wouldn't have been enough because the yes votes got 1.4.

So it wouldn't have done anything anyways, but it would have been a closer race. It was a massive defeat for them.

So sorry.

Sorry. Didn't quite work out the way that you wanted it to. And you can cling on to your win for the Supreme Court, but having a Democrat already in that place, judges and changing up the judge mindset for a Supreme Court is very difficult to do. And could we have done better maybe with grassroots? Maybe.

But I honestly think it was the abortion topic that she made priority number one, by the way. and that Republicans are ununified on To win Either direction, either at a federal level or focusing on it at a statewide level.

So don't let that hang you up. We still won three out of four. And I'm totally okay with that. The next. Agenda item that Democrats have are trying to see who can yell the loudest against Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

And they're going to use the momentum from the Supreme Court race in Wisconsin to go up to Washington, D.C., for their next great leader, whoever that may be, that's going to carry the mantle, pick up the torch away from the establishment of the Nancy Pelosi, of the Chuck Schumer, of the Harry Reid, although he's not there anymore, the Dianne Feinstein that passed away a little while ago, the old guard Democrats that are starting to phase out because they literally can't stand up any longer. Nancy Pelosi being wheeled down into the House floor to vote on issues. I mean, that's a problem. Who's going to be that next mantle carrier for the Democrats? And I think it's really going to come down to who screams the loudest against Donald Trump.

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Obviously, today's Liberation Day. Happy Liberation Day to you. It's going to be a new federal holiday, I think. And of course, the election recaps that we had seen from the night prior, which I don't want to waste any time because, I mean, this guy needs no introduction because, well, you hear him on this program every day, but we have to bring him on here going to the Old Glory Bank Newsmaker hotlines. For those that don't know, of course, he is a best-selling author.

He's an award-winning journalist and broadcaster. He's the host of a Newsmax show, and he's the host of this program as well with the Todd Starnes Radio Show, the man himself, Todd Starnes, hanging out and joining us today. Todd, how are you, my friend? Andy, always good hanging out with you. Great job today.

And greetings from Newsmax headquarters in New York City. Yeah, moving out to New York and to the Newsmax headquarters there. That's always exciting to see you in studio out there for sure. But in Todd, obviously there is so much going on that our brain hurts, I think, sometimes with how quickly the first two months of the Trump administration has been. The elections last night, we ended up polling three out of the four with winning the voter ID in Wisconsin, winning the two special elections for the congressional seats in Florida.

The only one we lost was the Supreme Court in Wisconsin. Overall, is that still a victory, do you think, for the Trump agenda?

Well, I do. I certainly don't think it was a referendum, and we'll be talking more about this on my Newsmax show tonight at five o'clock Eastern time. Look, the reality is it was a good night for the Republicans. Was it a great night? No, not necessarily.

I mean, wins are wins. But I think what we were really looking at was whether or not Republican voters would come out to the polls if Donald Trump was not on the ballot. And unfortunately, I think the Republicans failed in that effort.

So, you know, the reality is, we've got to get this figured out. There's got to be a way to get the Republican voters. Engaged and enthused about the candidates. And that is a conversation the Republican Party needs to have. before the midterms.

Of course, we've got a couple of other elections between now and then that could actually serve as bellwethers, and that would be the the gubernatorial race in Virginia as well as the race in New Jersey. It's a great point.

So do you think it's just complacency by Republican voters of like, yeah, we did our job in November, don't have to worry about things any longer. We're just going to sit back and watch it all happen? Or is it just the lack of maybe the grassroots efforts because the RNC is still trying to figure out what they're doing moving forward?

Well, I mean, it's really not a Republican Party in the sense of the old school establishment country club Chamber of Commerce Republicans. There's really been a a sort of a it's a it's a a Fusion of populism that's sort of taken over the party. And this is Trump's Republican Party, his version of it.

So the question is, can all the different factions get get along. Can they agree on messaging and can they unite around a common core of values? And if they can, they're going to win elections. They proved that in November. But if they don't, if there's this infighting, then I think we're going to have problems.

And Andy, I'm hearing reports. I was talking to somebody last night from Georgia where they're having issues, inter party squabbles there. In Tennessee, the same thing is happening and even at the local Republican level.

So this is a party wide issue that they're going to have to come to terms with. Yeah, it's a great point.

Now, on the Supreme Court election for Wisconsin, obviously the main topic, the main talking point that Susan Crawford had focused on was the social issues and was abortion. I know you and I have talked about this in the past before as well. Are Republicans unified in a messaging campaign for abortion? Because the whole message before was we need to reverse Roe v. Wade so it's not protected at the federal level.

We did that under Trump admin number one.

Now we're kind of torn and people are like, either some are like, let's keep it at the state levels for them to make the decisions. Others are saying, now let's keep it and actually have a federally protected ban against abortions. And the Republican Party's torn. Do you think that's one of the reasons why we lost that race? It's because right now we're not unified on abortion messaging to the voters.

Yeah, that was the weird thing.

So you had a landslide victory when it came to voter ID. All right, that was a huge win for the Republicans, a huge one for Donald Trump. And then you had a landslide loss. On the Supreme Court. And the reason why, and this is the story from Wisconsin.

the the issue really was the abortion issue, and the Liberals hit that super hard. And look, there's a very long track record littered with Republican losses when it comes to the abortion issue post Roe v. Wade. Look at Keynes as one of the most pro-life States in the nation, and we have lots of listeners on KQAM, they're the big talker. Even in Kansas, it went down in a landslide losses because of the messaging.

And if I were, you know, again, it goes back to the states. But the reality is, Andy, if we are going to campaign on that issue, Republicans will lose at the ballot box. Yeah, it's a great point.

We're talking about Todd Starnes, host of this program, the Todd Starns Radio Program, ToddStarnes.com, broadcasting actually out in New York for Newsmax, which you got to talk about. I mean, there's a reason as well going out to the studios there in Newsmax, not only for your program, but you're also doing some cool stuff out there this week. What are you doing?

Well, it's a big celebration for News, Max, and rightfully so. I mean, the numbers are off the charts, of course. Trading started this week and the stock was traded initially at $10. And it was upwards of 200 the last I saw. And so it's a huge celebration.

We're going to get together for a big celebration this evening, and then tomorrow. Our founder and CEO, Chris Reddy, is going to be ringing the bell on Wall Street. I've been invited down there, and it's going to be a lot of fun to celebrate. Haven't been back to Wall Street since my days over at Fox News when I had used they used to send me down whenever things were looking very bad in the markets. Yeah, that's really cool.

I can't wait to see that and see the bell being rung by Newsmax and what you guys are doing out there. That's really cool. Todd, before we let you go, and I appreciate your time stepping aside with us here, I have to ask you, the breaking of the record of Spartacus Corey Booker on the Senate floor to try and filibuster this Trump agenda. I'm not quite sure what the whole agenda or what the purpose of that was, just to stop any type of progress in the Senate. But any thoughts?

Is he the new rising star of the Democrats? Because he can stand on his feet for like 21 hours, 24 hours, whatever it was, for him to break that record. Yeah, that guy kind of creeps me out. I'm not quite sure. I'm just getting weird vibes.

when it comes to Corey Booker. I was watching him on CNN last night and he broke down. He was like getting all weepy and everything and talking about how he could feel the energy coming from people watching. I'm not sure anybody was watching last night. Yeah, I don't know that he was.

I mean, he definitely grandstanded to some degree, and I'm sure that by that time you probably break down and get a little emotional. But golly, I don't know exactly what the whole purpose and intent of that was. And you're right, he's just a little odd out there. And I wonder what type of man diapers he was wearing to be able to stand up there for 25 hours straight. Nonetheless, Todd Starns, ToddStarns.com.

It's an honor to be able to fill in for you, my friend, on this program. It's always a pleasure to do so. Have fun in New York and have fun at the Stock Exchange tomorrow. All right, thanks for watching, Andy. Hey, you betcha.

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Is there an ongoing battle? The four-way civil war within the Democrat Party. Is abortion one of those top issues for the Democrats? And what other focuses are they going to have moving forward? It's going to be really fun to watch.

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So we mentioned in that last segment, I had to bring up, but I had to get his thoughts with the record-breaking, what is it, 25 hours and five minutes of Corey Booker grandstanding on the Senate floor to do what? I'm not really quite sure, but he did it, and he was up there for 25 hours.

So we'll see how he feels and recovers from that one. I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able. Good for you. I rise tonight because I believe sincerely that our country is in crisis. We are not solving the deficit in what they're proposing here.

You're cutting and cutting and cutting things that make no sense to cut. And they're doing it for a tax breaks which disproportionately go to the wealthiest. Placing tariffs on our biggest trade partners is beyond unfair. This drives the cost of goods up, and the consumer is the one who ends up paying the increase. Even with universities got too woke, And had two excesses.

The antidote to that. Isn't to try to shut down the thought of the left. It's to try to make a fairer, more competitive marketplace for ideas from all around the political spectrum. Am I hearing that right? Did I hear that right?

So that was just kind of a montage of the 25 hours of absolute nonsense that we heard from Corey Booker.

Now, during that time, he can also take questions, which is just like calling on another Democrat to grandstand for like five minutes or so, five, ten minutes to speak, and then ask him a softball question so he can continue on just to give him a break. But he retains the authority to stay on the floor as long as he can until he actually falls off. But did I hear that right? That he was like, well, if you're tired of wokeness, it's not to silence the speech. No, it's to end the wokeness at universities, like the ending of the Department of Education and higher education in this country.

I don't know why that's a bad thing. And there's so much wokeness that the wokeness won't let you have speech because the wokeness is what's canceled the speech from other people, right? I was. Pretty sure. But that's my mindset, of course, to them.

They're justified in silencing conservative speech because we are the totalitarians. We're the fascists. We're the Nazis. We're literally Hitler. Donald Trump was literally going to throw people in Guantanamo Bay from the members of the media.

Literally execute his political opponents.

Now we're two months in, so I guess we still have like over three and three quarters of a year left to do that. But it hasn't happened yet.

So I'm still waiting for when he actually executes his political opponents and throws the media in Guantanamo Bay and silences free speech in the nation because what I've seen so far is that they've actually brought more people into the White House press briefing rooms so we can have more of a dialogue and have different opinions, which they don't necessarily like. It's the same conversation we've heard with Doge, right? The Democrats, when we heard about the Department of Education being ended and the investigations on these corrupt agencies and programs, the Democrat-elected officials were like, well, if you really wanted an audit with these programs, you should have just told us and we totally would have done it. Why you've been in office for like 30 years and it hasn't happened yet.

So, to them, this is again, it's just grandstanding. It doesn't mean anything else. But what it is, is it means it's a race. To the Democrat leadership. And we've been having fun on the program talking about the race.

And it's almost like a reality TV show of the Democrats, the process of elimination. It's a game show, a reality TV show with the process of elimination. And you have a four-way civil war within the Democrat Party right now. You have the, I guess you want to call it more rational, which kind of blows my mind because I didn't really think that this would be the rational guy. But you have the John Fetterman out there that's like, hey, if my state went towards Donald Trump, then I'm going to represent my state, and therefore I'm going to work with the Trump agenda, and I'm going to represent them because that's the direction they want to go.

And if that's the case, then I'm going to represent them properly.

So you have the kind of rational, semi-rational individual like John Fetterman, that refuses to wear a suit. You have the now Corey Bookers that are out there. You have the Jasmine Crocketts. That lady, she's taking things to a whole nother level. If you heard her, with she's trying to play the whole race baiting card because that's somehow going to be popular for her.

And if we continue to put people into office, and that even means some of our skinfolk, who definitely are not our skolk, such as Byron Donalds, who are going to continue to say that, like, I mean, the fact that you're sitting around talking about life was better under Jim Crow, like, is this because you don't understand history? Or literally, it's because you married a white woman and so you think that they're whitewashed you. I'm not really sure what it is. You shouldn't even be married to a white woman under correct. Correct.

And it took Joy to call him out.

So I'm like, bro, like, what is he talking about? Like, what do you think? Like, he just out here. You know, I feel like they give him his stocking points and he's like, yes, Massa, I got it. Wow.

I mean, talk about the race being, that takes the stupid level to an entirely different level on the stupid meter there. Get your brake working so you can stop something. I mean, that takes it to a whole new level.

So you have those two. Then, of course, you had the fight oligarchy tour from AOC and Bernie Sanders, our favorite people here on the program. That's the low-hanging fruit for us. I am told this is a garbage disposal. Yeah, so you have right now this massive three, four-way battle for the leadership for the Democrats, and it's going to be interesting to see who actually rises to the top.

And right now, what it seems like is it's a battle of who can scream against Donald Trump the loudest. And again, reinforcing what we have seen with the elections is that while we have seen a little bit of complacency in the Republican Party, the CNN polls and all the other national polls show that overwhelmingly Donald Trump's still popular, that overwhelmingly J.D. Vance is still popular, that overwhelmingly Elon Musk is still insanely popular with Doge. They like what's going on and they like what's happening right now.

So, for Corey Booker to be like, I'm sitting here to represent my people and fight and just stop all business of action happening on the Senate floor, what does that do? I've never been one to protest because I don't see the point. I see, like, actually doing something productive, activism, calling your elected official, going out, knocking on doors and talking to people, communicating through mediums like this with radio and with podcasting and whatever else is out there. Like, that is doing stuff productively. Going out and screaming at a Tesla dealership with a sign.

I mean, you can feel better about yourself, but it doesn't really do a whole lot. Standing and grandstanding on the Senate floor, just stopping all business for the longest time. I guess to them, that's a little bit productive because that way, if they're not passing any bills, they're not advocating for Trump's agenda because they're in the minority, so that's all they have right now. I guess in a level, that's some type of productivity. I don't really know.

But this whole let's just be angry, we saw that in the first round, and that's why Donald Trump became more popular with the Black Lives Matter movement and the Antifa movement. It's starting up again. And the people who have the crowd, the side, the political ideology that has been run by emotion for so long, eventually the emotion gets exhausted, right? Eventually, you start losing steam because you just get emotionally fatigued. I don't know, and maybe someone can explain it to me.

I don't really know how someone can stay angry all the time and wake up in the middle of the night or wake up first thing in the morning and be like, gee, I am just angry at the world and I need to find a way to express that so where everybody else can tell how angry I am at the world. That's a bad place to live, man. And I feel really bad for you. And I guess if that's what you want to do, that's what you want to do. Cool.

But the battle for the Democrat leadership begins, and what direction they're going to go, just my prediction. Here are the Todd Starns Radio program. I have a prediction that the Democrats are going to go radically farther left. They're going to rebrand themselves essentially as a near like socialist party. And I think that at the end of the day, it's going to hurt them more than it helps them.

And it will be the ultimate battle in the midterms next year or in the general election again in 2028. The ultimate battle between freedom and capitalism and left-wing socialism and oppression. And that's where this nation's going to be. And it's going to take another emotional turn, even more so than what we saw in 2024. Our number two around the corner.

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I love this American. Yes, it is. It is the Todd Starns Radio program. What is up, my friends? Welcome into it for a midweek celebration, man.

I'm telling you, we are just rolling right on through. And today, the holiday, the celebration, happy Liberation Day to you here. I can only imagine the anger and the offensiveness that the Certain radical identity politics crowd of the other side of the aisle, like how I said that nice and PC-wise, that they're very angry about calling it Liberation Day because of the identity politics they like to play. But nonetheless, it is the Todd Starnes radio program. What's up?

So great to have you here. My name is Andy Hoosier, filling in for Todd Starnes. We talked with Todd. If I can speak, thank you in the last hour. He is in New York.

He is hanging out with Newsmax. They're getting ready to ring the bell tomorrow morning at the New York Stock Exchange with Newsmax officially going on to the public trading, which is exciting. He is broadcasting his Newsmax TV program out there today and tomorrow as well. Todd will be back behind the microphone on Friday. But until then, you have yours truly, and so such an honor and so great to be with you.

On the show, here's how you can call into us at 901-260-5926. 901-260-5926. If you want to jump on the program, I want to hear from you from the election results from yesterday. And today, the big grand day as we continue to doing live. Yeah, and we have the celebration of Liberation Day 2025, the Trump tariffs officially taking effect today, the mass panic in the stock market, the mass panic from the media, and the mass hysteria from Democrats with the 25-hour record-breaking grandstanding of Spartacus himself, aka Corey Booker, senator on the chamber floors that just went off and just apparently talked about whatever he could to stay out there as long as possible.

But outside of that, yesterday, Caroline Levitt, the press secretary for the White House, ended up making the statement of what today really means for the nation. Those days of America, beginning tomorrow. being ripped off are over. American workers and businesses will be put first under President Trump. just as he promised on the campaign trail.

The president's historic action tomorrow will improve American competitiveness in every area of industry, reduce our massive trade deficits, and ultimately protect our economic and national security. Seems like a win-win to me, right? What I don't understand is that you would think after a four-year term with the Trump administration, while he has a slightly different angle on issues, he's well more prepped and prepared for the way Washington, D.C. works. He's got a better team behind him with his massive cabinet that is really running at a record pace right now, changing, hitting that reset button in the United States.

What blows my mind is that. Even with all of that, we still have a generalized understanding of the direction Donald Trump wants to go in how he negotiates and how he actually approaches certain issues from administration number one, you know, from the first time he got elected. And tariffs have always been. A negotiation tool to bring other nations to the table. It's to help offset the ridiculous tariffs that have been put on us with some of our exports into their nations.

And it's to try and maybe generate some revenue for the country, or it's at least at the minimum. To get the other nations to the table to say, hey, whoa, wait a second. We don't want all these tariffs on our imports into your country. We want to make sure that things are fair. And then Donald Trump talks to them, and then they renegotiate, and then he drops off the tariffs, and everything's hunky-dory, and everybody's all happy.

And why they don't understand that yet, I don't quite understand. Apparently, with the announcement as of yesterday, hat tip to Breitbart news for this one, is that apparently the nation of Israel has already dropped all the tariffs on the U.S., which was kind of weird in the first place with how close of an ally we are with them, why they'd be having tariffs on us at all, and with what we've been doing to, I don't know, help them with the ongoing battle in the Middle East. But they announced theirs. I believe, and I need to look again, I believe Ireland has made an announcement that they were at least cutting some of their tariffs on the United States imports too, as we have a closer, I think, relationship with the nation of Ireland. And, you know, like Conor McGregor announcing his run for president, which is super awesome.

I'm really excited about that one, man. That could be a big one. But nonetheless, another nations are already starting to respond. And some of them are not happy and they want to try and play chicken with Donald Trump, which is a really dumb thing to do. If we are, which I believe we still are for the most part, but if we are the powerhouse of the world, then why would you want to play chicken with the United States when we just want to make things fair?

Because apparently things have not been fair for a while. And in fact, Caroline Levitt made that comment with the fact that the U.S. tariffs on products have been absolutely insane. 400% tariffs on goods going into like Japan. Like why we've allowed that for as long as we have, I don't know.

Government's just like, meh, it's cool. We'll just go ahead and pay those. We'll just let you make A couple coins on our products going into your nation or just banning it outright to where it's too expensive and it hasn't gone in there in forever.

So we're just resetting the way that the economy is done, and there's nothing wrong with that. Canada and Mexico, however, are not too happy with the announcement of Liberation Day 2025. As I made clear to President Trump in our call last week, I will reject, I will reject all attempts to weaken Canada. all attempts to wear us down. to break us down.

so that America can own us. That will never Ever happen. We do not believe in an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. because that always leads to a bad situation. Of course, measures are taken in Mexico because measures are taken on the other side.

But the dialogue has to continue. All right, so that was both the Prime Minister of Canada and the President of Mexico responding that we don't want this trade war. We're not going to do reciprocal tariffs on top of that because we could. And Donald Trump's totally open to doing reciprocal tariffs on anybody. If you raise them on us, we're just going to raise it the same amount on you.

And we will be at the top one at the end of the day.

Now, if you come to us and you want to renegotiate and you want to bring everything back down, let's do it, baby. These aren't set in stone. And that does create a little bit of uncertainty in the markets. But the bigger question is, what's it going to do to the economy in the United States? I know it's a foreign concept now because going all the way back to I want to say what, like Bush Sr., when we started talking about globalism, he started talking about the New World Order, not in the sense of like the conspiratorial, like, you know, tin hat foil-wearing type of guys with the New World Order in that sense, but just in the globalization of more trade.

We're connecting with the interweb at that time. We were starting to communicate with other nations on a greater basis. We're starting way better trade programs. It was actually cheaper to start manufacturing things overseas and then import them back into the United States. That's when all that started was during the Bush Sr.

days. Then we got into Clinton, Bush Jr., Obama, so on and so forth, and it just boomed. And now, while we are still massive producers of many goods, we export so many of them that we never actually utilize a lot of them here in the United States. There's a multiple different factors for that, including the prices of unions that have completely screwed up the entire private sector, and that's another conversation for another time, or whether it's because it was just too expensive with raw materials, because of imports that we had with tariffs that others have been putting onto us, and whatever the case may be, that we're finally saying we've had enough. And mark my words, even though Caroline Levitt said it, Donald Trump said it, other Republicans have said this as well, everybody's on pins and needles to see where this is going to play out.

Mark my words. What is today? April 2nd, 2025. Liberation Day, which I think is going to be probably a federal holiday at the end of it because Donald Trump likes to do that.

So I bet by next year it's going to be a federal holiday where the stock market's even going to be closed, which would be hilarious to watch. But Today, Liberation Day is going to be a monumental day. And by my count, I've seen at least three monumental days in the first two months of the Trump administration. And I mean, like, ones that will probably be mentioned at some point in the history books in some fashion. And that is number one, Trump's inauguration day on January 20th.

Number two would be the day that Donald Trump signed the second or the official, I guess you want to say, executive order that is minimizing or essentially just making the Department of Education null and void. And then number three would be today with Liberation Day. And the reason I say that is because obviously the Donald Trump inauguration is what it is. It's Trump's inauguration with the guy that's doing more in D.C. than any president has done in their entire tenure of being president of the United States.

That's already going to be a monumental moment. The Department of Education removal through that executive order is going to be a historical day as well, because for the first time that I can ever remember. We had the federal government, a large, probably the largest government institution on the face of the earth, outside of like the UN. In a global government. Finally, begin to decrease and actually downsize itself willingly.

Now, of course, Congress still needs to act to officially end the Department of Education. Congressman Thomas Massey is working on that one. But. For the government to openly say, we're too big, we're regulating too much, we've had enough. That's the first time that I think it's probably ever happened in a government institution, which is monumental.

And I think that will go down in history as one of the most monumental times ever in American history because for the first time we've openly acknowledged to ourselves we have a failed government program. We are the government. We recognize it's a failed program and we're not going to do it any longer. We're going to do something different. And that's why, again, the Democrats, the progressives, the establishment from both sides of the aisle, even.

Don't know how to handle it. Because it's never been done before. It's an entirely different mindset for them to think about that we're going to actually lose and relinquish our own power. Kind of a weird concept for them. And that's why they're melting down with a 25-hour grandstanding from Spartacus himself on the Senate floor.

And number three today with Deliberation Day, officially acknowledging. that we need to actually make trade deals fair. that we have the power to encourage or shall we say strongly encourage other nations to actually come to the table uh table to renegotiate and to do something different to change up this entire economy for a long-term golden age in the nation.

Now, I've been one, I'll be the first to admit, that in the first Trump administration, I was kind of critical of the tariffs. And what Donald Trump was doing.

So I'm like, I kind of like the conversation between the carrot and the stick, incentivizing versus punishing. I'm kind of more of a carrot incentivizing kind of guy. And I was critical of when, if you remember back in the day, when he was putting tariffs, like 25% tariffs on automobiles that were being shipped down to Mexico to be manufactured and then being imported back into the country by American companies. And Trump was like, yeah, we're going to put a 25% tariff on those. I was kind of critical because I said, well, hey, maybe we should just incentivize them to want to stay here as opposed to punishing them for actually leaving.

This round, Donald Trump is taking an entirely different approach. And he's doing it from both ends. He's bringing the carrot and the stick at the same time. The announcement last week, if you missed it, was that Donald Trump made the announcement. He's working to try and write off.

The interest payments of your new vehicle if you purchase a vehicle that was made here in the United States.

So in other words, we're going to put a massive tariff on the imported cars coming into the country. And if you purchase a car that was made here in the United States, then you're going to be able to write off the interest payments of that on your taxes in the next year. That's kind of genius, man. Like that's that takes things to a whole nother level. And I'm kind of excited about to see where that goes.

But he's bringing the carrot and the stick at the same time, and he's bringing the negotiation to where it's already starting to work. That being said, there are some in the Senate, especially that are working to try and end the tariff punishment on Canada because they don't think that we necessarily need that. Donald Trump pushing back on that with a Truth Social post just a little while ago, earlier today, which we'll comment on when we come back around the corner. But I want to get your thoughts at 901-260-5926, 901-260-5926. Do you think Liberation Day, will this go down in the history books as a complete reformation of the U.S.

economy and our trade deals and negotiations and relationship with foreign nations? Yeah. Or Is this going to be disastrous and we start seeing prices skyrocket in the nation because the lack of investment in the U.S.? And we're so dependent on foreign products that it's not going to change anything, but just bring back inflation in the country. I want to get your thoughts on that right around the corner.

Andy, who's your filling in for the great Todd Starns on the Todd Starnes radio program? Lots more coming up. Stay here. Welcome back to it. It is the Tap Search Radio program, Andy Hoosier sitting in today on Liberation Day.

Happy Liberation Day. To you, I'm telling you, it's going to be a federal holiday relatively soon. And the other side, they're going to get angry at the fact that we're using that term with liberation day, because remember, that's got to be focused solely on identity politics or something, which is kind of fun. But the days of being taken advantage of by other nations, of just us willy-nilly saying, okay, you can tax our stuff at whatever you want to. We'll just go ahead and pay it.

And having these trade deficits in the nation, why we've allowed that for so long is absolutely insane. And Caroline Levitt rocked it last night, not only after the press conference that she did, but then while she was outside of the White House as well, reading some of these numbers have been mind-blowing. Look at the unfair trade practices that we have: 50% from the European Union on American dairy. You have a 700% tariff from Japan on American rice. You have a 100% tariff from India on American agricultural products.

You have nearly a 300% tariff from Canada on American butter and American cheese. This makes it virtually impossible for American products to be impacted. into these markets, and it has put a lot of Americans out of business and out of work over the past several decades.

So it's time for reciprocity and it's time for a president to take historic change to do what's right for the American people. Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that.

So by the way, coming from where I'm based out of out of Wichita, Kansas, there's a lot of agriculture around the Mid-America region here, obviously. And many of the farm bureaus and other agricultural organizations have been concerned about some of these tariffs. But at the same time, Reading these numbers, a 100% tariff on agricultural products going into the nation of India. We love India. We're great partners with them.

Why would they place that on there? And I would think. That if we start pushing back, we call their bluff, we flex our muscles just a little bit as a nation, as arguably the most powerful nation on the face of the earth. I would think that when we start doing that, we're going to see those tariffs get lowered or eliminated from these other nations, opening up new markets for the agricultural sector to be able to trade their goods into these countries that we haven't been able to or have been limited in the past because of how bad those tariffs have actually been.

So, why would we not do this? We're done being taken advantage of. The reset's happening, and it's a reset of what Donald Trump calls the golden age. And it's hard to put into words, but we are seeing a complete change in how this economy is going to work. With lowering taxes, getting rid of taxes on, you know, the no tax on tips, overtime, social security, all the stuff that he wants to do, eventually saying no taxes, federal income tax on anyone making less than $150,000.

That's a whole nother conversation and a head scratcher that people did not expect. Because for every Democrat that comes up with their talking points, it's only tax cut for the millionaires and billionaires, which is what Corey Booker, aka Spartacus, had argued for the last 25 hours on the Senate floor. That's completely out the window. When Trump's like, fine, we're just going to cut federal income tax on anyone making less than $150,000. All the quote-unquote lower income across the nation won't even pay for federal income tax, which I don't even know necessarily that I agree with.

Because I think every unless we get rid of all federal income tax across the board, I think everybody needs to pay like something to contribute. You have to be somewhat invested for you to appreciate the programs that you're receiving.

So I'm kind of on that boat there. But that's worth a conversation, is it not? The reinvestment, it is an entirely different view of the country that Trump's advocating for. And I really hope that Congress starts working with him to get this done, to work on the reconciliation bill and to actually support Donald Trump. But that's not necessarily the case because, according to the Associated Press, there is a bill that could be voted on today with the Liberation Day of Tariff implementation, where there are some Republicans that are on board and supporting a Democrat bill that would end the tariffs that Trump has placed on Canadian imports, saying that there's no need for them to be there.

Now, Donald Trump has made the case that the nation of Canada, aka the 51st state of the United States, is one that needs to have tariffs on them because they have not slowed down the influx of immigration from them or even the fentanyl and the drugs and everything else coming across the northern border that no one wants to pay attention to, and therefore they deserve it. Whether that's true or not, I mean, obviously he makes that case, and I believe that we need to address something because if we have locked down the southern border, it would only make logical sense that other countries or criminals or gang members or whoever would want to do it from the northern border because no one seems to want to talk about that.

So, is there a conversation to have there? Yeah, I think there is. The problem is that there are four Republicans right now in the Senate that are supporting this bill to try and end the tariff implementation onto the nation of Canada, showing the continued divide within the Republican Party and that lack of unity, which is a cause for concern. We'll do some more of that when we come back around the corner for the Todd Starns radio program on a Wednesday. Stay here.

Welcome back to it. It is the Todd Starns Radio Program. Andy Hoosier sitting in here moving the Liberty University studios out to Wichita, Kansas, with my flagship station, KQAM, a great affiliate of the Todd Starns Radio Show.

So great to have you along for the ride today as we continue to do the thing, baby. That's right. It's what we're all about here on the show. It's always an honor to fill in for the great Todd Starn.

So happy Liberation Day to you as we continue to resettle the scores and balance things out in the universe, man. Look at the unfair trade practices that we have: 50% from the European Union on American dairy. You have a 700% tariff from Japan on American rice. You have a 100% tariff from India on American agricultural products. You have nearly a 300% tariff from Canada on American butter and American cheese.

This makes it virtually impossible for American products to. Be imported into these markets. And it has put a lot of Americans out of business and out of work over the past several decades.

So it's time for reciprocity, and it's time for a president to take historic change to do what's right for the American people. And that historical change is happening today with the Donald Trump post and the tweet, or the truth, I guess, that he made on Happy Liberation Day today. To talk about some of that, happy to go back to the Old Glory Bank Newsmaker Hotlines, a great friend to the program, regular guest here with Todd Starnes, former congressman from the 7th Congressional District of the great state of Virginia. Happy to have on here David Brett. Dave, how are you, my friend?

Hey, doing great. You sounds like you got high energy like Todd. Hey, we try to. We try to have fun on the program. And there's obviously a lot going on.

I think it's a day of celebration today, isn't it? Today's going to go down in history. Yeah, no, absolutely. Re rekindle our American cities and manufacturing and Research and development and innovation, everything that goes along with it, give middle class jobs a raise finally. It's going to take a year or two, but it's coming.

Yeah, well, that's the thing. I mean, we're in such a weird world today where we want that instant gratification that, you know, Democrats like a week into the Trump administration blamed him for still high egg prices, which was hilarious. They say that right now we're going to disrupt the economy and the stock market, you know, waffling to wonder what's going to happen with these trade deals. This is part of the ongoing long-term negotiations. And at the end of the day, if we can bring down the tariffs that are on American products going out of the country and we can have better relationships with nations around the world, that's a good thing long-term, isn't it?

Yes, I know, it's a great thing. I was just talking with one of the admirals here at Liberty University on China policy, et cetera, And Trump people act like this is just tariff policy. And the tariffs are bad enough, right? Light eyes are. Trump's trade guy He gave a great talk on Tucker Carlson.

So, everybody ought to go listen to that if you want to know really what's going on. But roughly speaking, he made two points. The trade deficits Are skyrocketing, right? They used to be 100 billion, now they're over a trillion with all the country on the planet. And then in addition to the trade deficits, and the deficits mean everybody else is exporting, sending us goods And we're importing, right?

And so they get all the nice properties that go along with manufacturing, like research and development and all that.

So that helps their growth. And our growth is down to 1.7 right now, according to the Fed. And that is no surprise, like you said, right? The the productivity stats in this country have been going down for seventy years in a row. No one will ever cover that little detail, right?

So we got 2% productivity. Back 70 years ago, it used to be 5%, 6%, 7% productivity, and that's what our growth was. And then the second point Lighthizer makes is it's not just the trade deficits, but the tariff barrier and the non tariff barrier It's not just here and there, right, like on food or milk or eggs or whatever. It's on everything. Every country in the G twenty, the rich countries, have double or triple.

Right, that means two hundred percent or three hundred percent of your tariffs and non-tariff barriers in the United States. And so what we're trying to do is we're trying to get Europe to come along and do their fair share. They need to help us out now, not just be independent. They need to help us out with China. It's not enough for them to just like, okay, go extinct.

No, we need you guys, right?

So wake up and get your act together. Yeah, it's a great point, Dave. How in the world did we get to that point and allow that to happen and allow our federal government, our foreign policy negotiators, our ambassadors to these nations saying, hey, you can totally put a 100, 200, 400% tariff on our imports of our goods to either block it from being allowed in there altogether because they don't want it for whatever reason, or to say, yeah, we're totally fine with paying that in the country. Like, do we just not have that good of business deal negotiators in there? What the heck happened to allow this to happen in the first place?

Yeah, well, it's a bunch. The War Room yesterday we had Natalie Winters on on Bannon's show. And she's shown the corruption at Harvard. China is in the Harvard Kennedy School, which. Harvard is, you know, top notch, and then the Kennedy schools, their government schools, top notch.

It's all being funded by Communist China. To the tunes of tens of billions of dollars. And so all this is coming out now under Doge. And go look it up, right? You can't believe this is true.

And then there's a list of 100 foundations and the rich people and companies. Bloomberg, et cetera, that are funding this. And then they're training in Democrat members of Congress to run quasi-revolutions against the current regime. Right. And they're talking about and they're and they're talking about democracy.

Uh and that the the current regime is autocracy, right? You know, totalitarian. Trump's the only guy that's trying to reduce the size of government. I've never seen a Caesar. Or a Napoleon come along and want to reduce the size of their empire.

That's what Trump's doing.

So it's just it's just complete media spin But Harvard, that's one reason we're in this mess. The other mess is we got a bunch of CEOs and Fortune five hundred leaders Who are no longer patriots and don't love their country. And they'll do anything to make a fuck, and they'll trade up to China till the last day before this bubble pops. Yeah, ain't that the truth? We're talking about Dave Brad.

He is a former congressman from the 7th congressional district for the state of Virginia. But remember, I mean, the fight oligarchy tour of AOC and Bernie Sanders, that's going to be the save-all, end-all, be-all because it's the millionaires and billionaires that are taking advantage of the working class, right? Those guys, they have it going on, they know how to fix this. They're all Democrat. The only one that's not is the one who flipped, and that's Elon.

And that's why they're having palpitations. They they if you're not telling the truth, That's when you need to be a totalitarian. Right? Because you need to overcome.

Now we're finding out about all these wars. The New York Times just ran a piece on. Shocker. Total infiltration of the U.S. intelligence state, hiding everything about the Ukraine war.

including the fact that we our generals have been running that war for the past four years. And it wasn't to keep it from China. China knows everything that's going on, so does Russia. The thing they were keeping it from was the American people. This is the New York Times a day or two ago.

Right. That's what the American people Need to wake up. It's not the politicians' fault. To a lot of extent, it's the American people's fault. for electing these same people over and over and over who are not representing your interests.

Yeah. That's a really great point. Let's look at the economy now. Like you said, I mean, our manufacturing and production has been down dramatically and it's been happening progressively over the years because of how easy it's been to just export everything, have it manufactured elsewhere. We're already starting to see reinvestment in the country.

Like the first week of the Trump team, they announced like the largest AI investment with like Project Stargate. Then we had all these auto industries start to reinvest as well and create manufacturing plants by the tens of millions of dollars. I mean, we're not even seeing the full scale of. of what Trump's been wanting to do with the economy yet, and we're starting to see the results. Is this truly going to lead us to what he's calling the golden age of America and bring this economy back on track?

Yeah, I I think it will. The uh that you know I mean, just monetary policy, right? The Federal Reserve has a six-month lag. When it's instant, when you print the money, there's a six-month lag. fiscal policy, government spending has a year and a half lagged.

Right, from the time you allocate the money to the time you build stuff. the manufacturing is similar like that, right?

So it's like what you were saying. This isn't going to happen tomorrow, but yeah, it's in the hundreds of billions of dollars just. starting Taiwan with one hundred billion chips, Apple, I think, is five hundred billion, half a trillion capital investment. But I'll just give you the two numbers right now. You can go Google this, right?

But China has a hundred trillion dollars in capital in the hands of their workers. The United States of America only has seventy trillion. We're a bigger, richer economy, an older economy. We should be crushing them. but they're smarter and more disciplined and more manufacturing.

They have double the manufacturing we do. They have five trillion, we got two and a half trillion in manufacturing. And that's why they're clobbering us, and that's why they were grown at ten percent for a decade. Thank God they're a communist totalitarian regime. Their system will crack.

It's already cracking because of that, right? But you can fake it for a couple of decades as a communist country, like Russia did. and get rich. In it, but uh sooner or later the it it uh It comes home and they fall apart. No, no, it's really true.

On the inflation side, we've started to see inflation already slowly begin to come down. At least it's getting back into like normal margins. We're not seeing 8% inflation. We're seeing like 2.5% inflation, which I guess is semi-normal. But at the same time, we're still seeing egg prices relatively high.

We're still seeing gas prices begin to climb again. I think that's really because it's springtime and people are driving more.

So it's like it's getting warmer outside. But timeframe-wise, with this ongoing battle, you mentioned these investments, they actually take time. Like usually, the first year almost of an administration is not their economy. Could we see in a year, or even with just the massive reduction of Doge and the regulations and the spending cuts we are doing? Do you think that maybe we could see the full effect of Trump actually happen a little bit sooner?

Yeah, well, and I'll just hit the inflation. Part, first of all, is not Trump, right? And so none of those things cause inflation. Milton Friedman, University of Chicago, Nobel Prize winner on inflation. Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.

That all hangs on how much money the Federal Reserve prints.

So they printed way too much money. They know we're in a bubble right now. Right then getting ready to pop. I I thought it was going to pop four years ago. But no one could comprehend Uh they print ten trillion dollars worth of money on the Fed balance sheet's down to seven trillion now.

and two trillion dollar deficit. Those are Just the deficits, right? You were borrowing from the kids. And then it all went into government spending and government jobs. And that's not productive.

So we're digging ourselves out of a hole that's just a disaster, right? And we're $36 trillion in debt, and the interest on the debt is a trillion a year. And then they blame this on Trump? He's trying to fix it. And he's the only one.

And I got to say, my Republican friends, the Republicans weren't doing anything on any of this. Right, all this fraud and abuse and waste. our my congressional buddies up there on the House and Senate side The Democrats way worse. They want more of all of it. Sure.

But the the Republicans didn't call it out and we weren't doing anything on the budget. I was yelling my lungs out and I got fired. For being too caustic on the deficit. And so now Trump's standing alone and he's doing it. Yeah.

Well, and I and we praise you for that and thank you for what you did because that's what needs. When we go from 20% spending of the national GDP to 120% of the GDP and we raise our deficit to $36 trillion in national debt and all that happens within like a 20-year span, you know something crazy is going on up there and we have to do a drastic reset of it, which leads me to my last question, Dave. And I appreciate your time very much is going into, we have the CR that gets us through the funding until the end of this year. We're working on the reconciliation bill with the one big beautiful bill that Trump wants, but we're also working on a federal budget for next year. Are you optimistic that we could eventually get to a time where we could actually have, I don't know, the 12 appropriation bills being passed in a federal budget, in a legitimate federal budget?

And a federal budget that actually sees a decrease in spending as in like the numbers going down, not just slowing the growth of the federal government. Could we actually see a world like that? Way to burst that bottle. I would then. I was in with the groupies, right?

And if I ever went up and said anything remotely like that, I got more stink guy from my Republican caucus, right? Wow. There's a blob of about one hundred fifty Republicans sitting in the middle of the room And if we were in the Freedom Call could sit in the back, forty or fifty of us, And we were just like, you guys, you do know we're bankrupting the country. It's bad for the kids. It's bad for K12 education, what we're doing.

It's bad for national defense. It's bad for China. policy. And they just you guys gotta learn how to compromise.

So we've been compromising for so long that now we're in a hole. Right. And that that no one wants to hear you got to cut. Right, but that's what you got to do. And then you're competing against Santa Claus on the Democrat side, all political views are my own.

But it's like you're competing with Santa Claus.

So who wants to be told the right thing to do is eat your spinach and read books, kids? Get down, get off your phone, read books. No one wants to hear that. But if the adults in the room and the parents in this country doesn't rise up and do that, The politicians are not going to do that, right? Let me just guarantee you that one.

So it's up to you people. Right? You you got sense down there in Memphis or where we are in the you know coming out of these conservative. uh radio stations and territory.

So you got great, you know, people in the Judeo-Christian West with values still. Sure. But we need to we need to spread the faith and and spread this fiscal stance or word we're toast. Yeah. We have a lot of work to do.

I'm still optimistic. We can slowly work our way that way, but like you said, the system is so ingrained, it's going to be a battle for sure to see whether we can start seeing some movement or not. Dave, we appreciate the time very much, my friend. We got to get you back on here on the Todd Starn show. Yeah, you can, brother.

Thanks. Hey, appreciate it very much. Dave Bratt, former congressman from the 7th Congressional District of the great state of Virginia. Got to take a break. Lots more coming up to wrap up this hour of the Todd Starns radio program.

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So we have some breaking news, and I want to say this with a grain of salt because I don't know exactly what's going on here. And I'm really, really, really, really hoping that this is not some type of emotional knee-jerk reaction to the elections from last night, especially in the state of Wisconsin, where apparently the Democrats have really embraced the idea that the winning of the state Supreme Court seat. Was in contrast to a Donald Trump and Elon Musk agenda. We still won three out of the four major things that were on the ballot yesterday with two congressional races and the voter ID laws in the state. But apparently, this is now maybe concerning to the Republican Party and to the Trump agenda with Susan Crawford winning.

But the headline that we're seeing now that came out just about an hour ago. Is that according to the inner circle of the Trump administration? That Elon Musk is stepping down from Doge in a quote-unquote shock move that's expressing concerns, doubts, and political liability for the Trump team. Come on, man. I cannot.

I mean, being look, I mean, for those that don't know, I recently, a few weeks ago, got elected as the vice chair for the state Republican Party in the state of Kansas. We've talked to RNC leaders, we've talked to the Trump team. The polls nationwide show that Elon Musk has still been extremely popular among most voters, except for the crazy left-wing radicals that just yell and scream their heads off across the nation. And the protests that we saw at the 200 Tesla dealerships last weekend. Outside of those, like people that are just the violent, angry, outspoken left.

Most people support him. But they're seeing this maybe as the potential shakeup of a political liability that Elon Musk is by being an unelected individual that's going in and just tearing through the federal government, which is what we've wanted. We've wanted that, but there's two headlines: one from the Daily Mail, and now one from Politico as well. That apparently, the Trump telling his inner circle that Musk will be leaving potentially in May and refocusing himself back on the private sector and his businesses to rebuild up his companies that are starting to take a hit, especially the company of Tesla and SpaceX and Neuralink. Where he wants to refocus on those.

I cannot. Again, this is the headline, the speculation right now is just up in the air. I have a really, really, really hard time. Coming to the conclusion that Elon Musk, knowing what's at stake with Doge, knowing what's at stake with our federal government, knowing that he was going to get pushback and threats and the deep state that was going to come after him, knowing that that was the case, that he would just willy-nilly say up and know, I'm a political liability. I need to step down, or that Trump would cower to the outspoken radical crazy left with what he's done for the first two months.

This doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but that's the headlines that we're seeing right now. We're going to look deeper into this when we come back. It's the Todd Starns radio program. Stay here. Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's conservative blowtorch.

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So as we went into the end of last hour, and we'll lead this right into our guest here, there was some quote-unquote breaking news of, and I'm starting to think this was like an accidental leak of a story that they were hoping to do after the election results from last night with Wisconsin, especially the $25 million that Elon Musk had invested into the Supreme Court race in Wisconsin that they ended up losing. The Democrats are really parading this as a great victory against the richest, most powerful man on the face of the earth. And I'm wondering if this was a bit of a leak that they shouldn't have done, or a story that was not supposed to be posted yet, or maybe it's just them in wishful hoping. But I'm calling Malarkey on this, man. There is a headline from Politico that's then been picked up by the Daily Mail out of the UK that said that Donald Trump has now told his inner circle.

that Elon Musk will be leaving Doge. And they say, according to the story, that after the races from last night and the not-so-big Republican turnout, which again, I mean, it's not really. We won three out of the four races last night with the voter ID in Wisconsin and the two congressional races. We didn't do bad last night, but you know, the Supreme Court was, I guess, the one that hinged it all. That according to the story, they say that Elon Musk has been now a quote-unquote political vulnerability for Donald Trump, and that by May, Elon Musk will be transitioning out of the Doge department.

I don't see it. I don't see this happening. Donald Trump is not one to cower when he makes up his mind and he doubles down. And so far, the national polls, even done by CNN, have showed that Doge is still very popular, even among CNN viewers, by a near 54% majority.

So it's been overwhelmingly successful. And Elon Musk, talking about it nonstop with all the interviews that he's done, recognizes the severity of the state that we're in as a nation and what he's doing to save this country. For him to be like, ah, my Tesla stock's going down. People protested at 200 dealerships last week. It's a little weird.

So let's get our next guest here on the program. Really happy to have on as we go to our Old Glory Bank Newsmaker Hotlines to get her thoughts on this and so much more with Liberation Day of 2025. Happy to have on from the 15th Congressional District of the state of Illinois, Congresswoman Mary Miller. Congresswoman, how are you, my friend?

Okay. Well, I'm great. It's a happy day. Another win. Thanks to our courageous.

reader who's working perilously. And he's actually brilliant. President Trump understands America's leverage on the world stage, and he's using it. Two Um Reverse the damage that's been done for decades to our country being sold out by unfair tariffs. allowing a manufacturing to leave and go overseas Allowing Uh Uh intellectual stuff.

And to let our opponents including our enemies, the CCP, to infiltrate all of our institutions. He is standing up for Americans, America first, and I couldn't be happier. Amen to that. It is so exciting to see a revitalization and a reinvestment in the nation. For so long, we've seen exports go out.

We've seen the outsourcing go out. We've seen the lack. I mean, we are such a heartland of ingenuity and of resources and of manpower and work power and innovation that we've just kind of let that go for so long and outsourced so much of it for it to come back, along with making trade deals better with foreign nations. I mean, by the end of this, we're going to see an entirely different country, I think, aren't we? We are.

And President Trump said for decades, we have been ripped off and abused by every nation in the world, both friend and foe. And I would like to add to that, we have been ripped off by politicians who have claimed that they cared about Americans, including our last President. Yeah. Yeah, that's a great point. When it comes to innovating, I mean, how much, I mean, I'm assuming we're going to see some more, but how much reinvestment have we already seen in the country?

The first week of the Trump administration, we saw the investment announcement of the Project Stargate, the artificial intelligence. We've seen auto dealerships and auto companies already start reinvesting in manufacturing plants here in the nation. I'm assuming, Congresswoman, this is only just the beginning of what we're going to see with businesses wanting to bring business back to the United States. Yes, well, it's been less than 100 days, maybe 75 days, and he has accomplished. Amazing things.

There's been five trillion dollars worth of investment from different Companies already promised to come back to our country. And the tariffs are working. In fact, in the last few hours, I believe the Mexican Pr yeah, the Mexican President conceded to President Trump's tariff.

So that's Israel, Canada, Mexico, and I know there's many others On the brink of competing, also.

So, like I say, President Trump is brilliant, plus, he loves our country. He's courageous. And he understands America's leverage. Yes. And we're finally able to flex that mushroom.

Congresswoman, how did we how in the world did we get to that state already? And we played the clip of Caroline Levitt yesterday talking about the one hundred percent tariff that India has on agricultural products from the United States. Up to four hundred percent tariffs that other nations have on our products. Is it just bad negotiating skills? Were we just totally cool with it at the time?

How did we get in such a crazy trade deficit with other countries, do you think? I think haven't held our elected officials. accountable like they should have been. And I think too many No, like I mean, you can I don't probably shouldn't be naming names here, but too many people have become personally enriched. by working deals out with China.

Um And I hope there's investigations into these members of Congress that which I have no problem if they come in rich, but if they come in with a net worth of Uh five hundred thousand and they leave with fifty million, I have a problem with that and should be investigated. And I think they've sold our country out. I read that book, Laptop from Hell. Did you read that? Yeah, yeah.

It's a keep a flow chart. To keep track of all the where all the bribes were coming from, to the to the Biden family, and then follow the bribes and look at the um deals they negotiated selling our country out. Yeah. No, absolutely. I mean, it is wild, and we've allowed this to go on for so long.

But you know what? I was always told growing up that the truth always comes out in the end. And now we're seeing the exposure, the transparency, and the truth coming out. And it's not going to shine lightly on their side for sure. We're talking with Congresswoman Mary Miller.

She's with the 15th Congressional District in the state of Illinois. Let's shift gears a little bit and let's bring it back down to the home front. We've seen the press briefing from the White House as well. Record low people coming across the border, which has been absolutely amazing. That ties right in as well with the Save Act that you guys have been working on pretty diligently of not allowing non-citizens to vote across the nation.

And even Wisconsin, even though we lost to the Supreme Court election last night. overwhelmingly, they voted for voter ID laws to be implemented in the state now, which is really encouraging to see. Where are we at with the SAVE Act? What's the conversation look like right now to make sure that, I don't know, U. S.

citizens can actually vote in U. S. elections? Right. I think we're going to vote on it next week.

It will pass. This is not controversial. It's common sense. We do not want foreign influence in our elections, and I don't believe there's any other country that would allow it. Truly a threat to our sovereignty, just like having a border open.

And we're going to pass it, and it will help. um states like Illinois, because there's you know, we're known for our corruption. And we're a sanctuary state, and one of the goals, in my opinion, is for them to get as many illegal people signed up as possible. Yeah, it's been a push, which still blows my mind because the one stipulation constitutionally in order to vote is the fact that you're a U.S. citizen and you abide by the jurisdiction thereof.

Like, that's the only requirement the Constitution says that you have in order to vote. And then states can figure out however they want to to verify that, but they're not abiding by the one stipulation that our founding document actually says what we have to follow. Yes, and the state the SAVE Act will allow citizens to file lawsuits against officials who register noncitizens to vote. Which I think is a great idea. Yeah, it really is.

Congresswoman, I know you got to run here real quickly. Last question for you. We wrapped up Women's History Month on Monday for the end of March. Donald Trump signing multiple executive orders on protecting women, protecting women when it comes to athletics and the locker rooms and education, so on and so forth. A lot of education, higher education establishments pushing back with their DEI movements.

What can Congress do to continue to codify what Trump's been working on through the executive orders and executive actions to make sure that we don't go down this road of lunacy again moving forward? Yes, we need to get these bills on the floor. Last week, I. Um I presented the key. Keep Our Girls Safe Act.

to codify President Trump's executive order and then also that there's two sexes, male and female, but we need to get these to the floor and get them in law as soon as possible. Yeah, absolutely. I love it. Congresswoman Mary Miller, 15th District of Illinois. We appreciate the time very much, my friend.

Keep up this fight. Let's get you back on for another update soon. Thank you. Hey, appreciate it very much. That again, Congresswoman Mary Miller.

All right, let's take a break. We'll get your thoughts on some of this and more. There is a lot happening today for the middle of the week, and we'll do it all right here on the Todd Starns Radio program. Stay here. Welcome back to it.

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I got a question. It's a simple question. And it's actually going out to your previous call to Congresswoman uh to the members of the DOJ and everything else. These mayors that are trying to allow these illegals to vote, these governors and everybody else. Why hasn't the um Duh d Department of Justice have issue warrants to these different political officials in these different states For breaking federal law and then handcuffing them and doing the perp walk.

out their offices. I just I'm just really curious because if it were you or I trying to do something like that, they'd be doing a support walk between our house and the city hall.

So while it gets real frustrating for the voters like ourselves, that we're the informed electorate, and then you have the idiots and morons that are at the greatest danger to our republic, the uninformed electorate. But why hasn't the Department of Justice or the FBI Tried to have these people arrested. And hang up free listener replied: Great show. God bless you, and God bless America. Yeah, well, God bless America.

Thank you, John. I appreciate that. It's a really great question.

So my understanding is that the way that they've done this so far and they've tried to sneak around the rules because you're right, again, like we've mentioned, constitutionally there is one stipulation for you to vote. And that is to be a U.S. citizen and you're abiding by the jurisdiction.

So I guess that's two things, but that you have to be a U.S. citizen in order to vote and have a say in our elections. And the states can come up with whatever requirements or however they want to do that process to validate that one stipulation. From what I understand is that the majority of them have tried to not allow photo IDs or verification for local elections and not have them vote in the national election.

Now, that obviously would create a lot of gray area because if they're on, if they're going and taking a ballot, even some type of provisional ballot, it's going to have the federal stuff on there as well.

So I don't know how they can differentiate between the two, but they've tried to do that to where it wouldn't flag the federal government as a violation of federal law. That being said, I agree with you. I think that maybe Pam Bondi with the Department of Justice, that Cash Patel and Dan Bongino with the FBI, could start looking into more of these. And that's why Donald Trump is working on the SAVE Act. We're trying to pass voter ID laws, and most states have it on their state legislative ballots now to try and push these types of laws to move forward at a state-to-state level.

And Democrats are absolutely melting down and screaming on this issue because they don't want that to happen. But that would be my guess on why it hasn't been.

Well, outside of that, and of course, the politicalization of the Department of Justice and some of these law enforcement agencies like the FBI, the CIA, and the Department of Justice overall, they haven't wanted to look at it because they've agreed with that kind of mindset for a while as well. But you're right, we should probably start looking into these. And with concerns about a presidential race, which is why they've allowed so many illegal migrants to come into the country. to change the voter ID laws in their states. Then to try and make them citizens to allow them to vote.

Add on top of that, states like California, where you go to the DMV, you automatically get registered to vote while you're there because we've allowed you to start driving and get a state-issued ID as an illegal migrant. Because, well, you're not breaking any laws, really. You just need to get to work.

So you need to have some type of state ID in order to drive in case you get pulled over, that you can still show some type of state ID. And then we so just coincidentally want to get you registered to vote all at the same time. I'm assuming are the legal games that they've tried to play for a really long time. And with a Department of Justice and an FBI that's been focusing more towards like parents showing up to school board meetings and classifying them as domestic terrorists or someone who. Purchases a firearm online as a threat to democracy because they support the Second Amendment and they support Donald Trump.

That's where their focus has been, and that's changing now. I just saw a headline actually in this last break that we took that right now the FBI has set a record for the most amount done in a month under Cash Patel, a month since he's been the director. That includes finding three of the FBI's top 10 most wanted list. That also includes arresting the MS-13 gang member just this past week with a statement there as well, along with all the other investigation that they're working on. They've broken records for what they've done, which begs me the simple question: what have we done for the past four years?

What have we done for the past 10 years? What have we been doing with these agencies when they haven't done their job? If it took Cash Patel a single month to get all of this done already, where have they been and what have they been doing?

So I'm optimistic, John, and I appreciate that question because I'm optimistic that we're moving in the right direction and that we are going to start seeing some investigation to say, hey, if you're breaking federal law, you're done. We're not going to deal with it any longer. Donald Trump cutting off federal aid to the states that say they're going to continue to be sanctuary cities and sanctuary states. We're not going to tolerate that any longer. You're breaking federal immigration law and federal immigration code, and we're done.

We're not dealing with it.

So I think the voting issue is going to be. At the same time, right on top of that, hey, if you're allowing illegal migrants to vote when that's not allowed, you're done. And we're going to clamp down on this. We're not going to allow it to happen any longer. Great question.

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So I'm still trying to. Wrap my head around this. And I say this in air quotes here: the breaking news of the day from the election results from last night in the state of Wisconsin. And according to what these headlines are saying, is that because of the loss of the Wisconsin Supreme Court in this race, that now Elon Musk is somehow some like political liability. And I don't know if this is necessarily the case.

Elon Musk, by the way, did repost a tweet just a little while or an X, I guess, a while ago. Saying that even with his near $15 million, $25 million, whatever it was, investment in that Supreme Court race from Elon Musk himself, that George Soros and other crazy, radical, progressive, multi-billionaires outspent Musk by near 230%. Compared to what Elon Musk invested in that race, making it the most expensive judicial election in American history. And now we're seeing these headlines again. Whether they're true or not, I'm not really sure if Donald Trump is talking to his inner circle about Elon Musk potentially leaving Doge.

Is that really the case? Is that what's going on here? Let's get into it with our next guest with so much more to talk about with the election recaps from last night, what it means for the long term, and is the momentum of the MAGA movement slowing down. Happy to have on here. He's the CEO of the Daily Signal.

Really happy to have on Rob Louie. Rob, how are you, my friend? I'm doing great. Thanks for having me today. Yeah, appreciate you jumping on here with us on the Todd Starn show.

I got to speculate, I don't know if you've seen this headline or not, but now social media and other show hosts and influencers are talking about this. Is there a concern because of the election last night that there's a liability of Elon Musk associating with Donald Trump and him stepping down from Doge?

Well, there's two things I'll say on this. Number one is, as a special government employee, I believe that Elon Musk is technically only supposed to be on the payroll for a certain period of time. I believe that ends in sometime in May.

So I mean, there's a technicality that we could be talking about when it comes to his role with Doge. And I believe he was asked about this with Brett Baer last week on the interview when he was doing a sit-down with the other members of the Doge team. And Brett Baer said, are you going to be able to get everything done by the end of May? And Elon said, yeah, I'm fairly confident that we'll leave in pretty good shape.

So there could be that factor.

Now, when it comes to the Wisconsin election, I think we all have to remember that Wisconsin, this is not a state that has traditionally been friendly to Republicans or even Republican candidates. For the Supreme Court in recent years. And so I wouldn't pin the blame on Elon Musk for this. Elon Musk did provide a lot of the funding that went to the get-out-the-vote effort for the Republican-endorsed candidate in this particular case. But I do think it's largely unfair.

And then, how do you square that with the two big wins in Florida for the two congressional seats? You would think that if the Democrats really were going to make the case, they would have swept the board last night. And by the way, Wisconsin also approved that voter ID referendum last night.

So, I mean, it was a 60% margin.

So, there were more people who turned out in favor of that than the Democrat ranks on the Supreme Court. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, we went three for four last night, and I've been talking up as a pretty big victory for us outside of the Supreme Court issue. But the media, of course, trying to rally around this. Democrats saying that this has been an even with the winner last night for the Supreme Court victory, making this the case that she has taken on the most powerful, most financially savvy person in the world.

Said this last night. Take a listen. As a little girl growing up in Chippewa Falls, I never could have imagined that I'd be taking on the richest man in the world. for justice in Wisconsin. And we won.

All right, so that's what they're rallying around.

So the timing between being just an advisor or working with the White House, but not an actual federal employee, and then the election last night, essentially the story is we're going to tie these two together and say, well, the loss has now scared Elon Musk out and that Donald Trump's worried about political liability. That's the narrative you're saying they're trying to spin here, which would be a really hilarious narrative. It is. They left for whatever reason. I think probably because they realize that after 10 years of attacking Donald Trump, they've been unable to really put much of a dent in him.

In fact, his popularity continues to be above 50%. The work that he's doing on a number of issues remains very popular with the American people. And so what are they trying to do? Gravitate towards somebody else, in this case, Elon Musk, and try to blame him. I mean, you see that in the attacks on Tesla vehicles.

You see that in the criticism of Doge. And I'm grateful to someone who's. many programs like yours and others that are highlighting that it wasn't too long ago that Democrats and liberals not only were hailing Tesla because of the impact on the climate, and there were a great number of Democrats who actually occupied the White House who did care about government efficiency. In fact, so much of Bill Clinton's tenure was talking about reducing the bureaucracy in Washington, D.C. and getting Washington out of the lives of so many people.

Barack Obama, despite all of the bad things that he did, talked about cutting spending and making the government run more effectively.

So I do think it's quite hypocritical that you now have those on the left who are taking some of these actions that they are, although I can't say that I'm particularly surprised given how they've behaved in recent years anyway. Yeah, that's a great point. By the way, Caroline Levitt, press secretary, releasing a tweet, Twitter, Twitter post, or a tweet or an X or whatever you want to call it now, confirming what you just mentioned that the scoop, quote unquote, is garbage. Elon Musk and President Trump have both publicly stated that Elon will depart from public service as a special government employee when his incredible work at Doge is complete.

So there it is, a short-lived thing. And now it's not the scoop, but it's what they've been talking about for the long haul, which is really hilarious.

So well done, media, trying to create that scare tactic for those. Let's focus and shift gears to the congressional races down in Florida last night as well. Overwhelmingly, Republicans won those. Wasn't a big surprise. The Democrats clinging on to that the margin was smaller between their losses, which I guess you got to grasp on to some kind of desperation, I guess.

But nonetheless, that's what they're clinging on to.

Now that we have a couple more votes in the House, is it going to be easier to start passing more legislation out of the House, work on the reconciliation packages and whatever else they need to right now? Will this make the job of Speaker Mike Johnson a bit easier? I think a bit easier to take either, yes. It still remains incredibly close. And you could have somebody who's out sick, and that provides the margin of victory or defeat for any particular piece of legislation.

So this remains a significant challenge for Speaker Johnson. You have a number of different constituencies in the House, whether it be the Freedom Caucus or moderates or even the New York delegation, frankly, that will want certain things when it comes to the reconciliation bill or just any given day, a piece of legislation that they might be able to demand. And you really only need a few people among that Republican caucus to serve as holdouts. And then all of a sudden, Speaker Johnson finds himself in a situation where he has to negotiate with members of his own party.

So it's not like when Newt Gingrich had a margin or even John Boehner had a margin where you could afford to lose a particular number of Republicans and still get things across. The finish line.

However, I will say this about Mike Johnson. He's gone three for three in the big votes that he's brought to the floor. And I think that there's an indication that he is really keeping that team together. And probably because President Trump is in the White House and he's helping to lean in on that. And having two more Republicans from the state of Florida will certainly be a boost that he didn't have before.

Yeah, we're talking with Rob Louie. He's the CEO of the Daily Signal here on the Old Glory Bank Newsmaker hotline. Let's shift it to the Senate for just a moment. Today is a big day. It's Liberation Day.

So happy Liberation Day to you.

Now that we're seeing this reset in tariffs and the economy, there is an ongoing push right now, apparently, with some in the House to try and end the tariffs on Canada, even though they're already starting to concede. Both Canada and Mexico working to concede and actually work with Trump closer to end these tariffs because they know how devastating that they are. That apparently, even four Republicans, including Senator Rand Paul, which I kind of understand on principle at the same time, he man, he just unwavering on certain particular issues, which is good and bad on many cases, wanting to pass a resolution. to actually reverse Trump's tariffs on Canada because they don't think that they're necessary right now. Is this a concern, do you think, Rob, of the unifying message of Republicans working together because we still have this interbickering that we have both in the House and the Senate making it difficult to get the Trump agenda done?

Yes. Well, again, the margins in the Senate are not very significant. You have 53 Republicans, and so obviously they can't afford to lose too many people in the Senate. Rand Paul has been somebody who's been willing to take a different tax than President Trump. And I think that that's not necessarily surprising, given that Rand Paul has libertarian or free market views.

And so I can't say that his decision on the Canadian tariffs comes as much of a shock to me.

However, there will be differences of opinion on this. I mean, there are Republicans who traditionally have fought very strongly against tariffs because they view them as a tax. And President Trump going down this path is certainly challenging some of the orthodoxies within the Republican Party.

Now, in this particular case, I think Trump had used tariffs effectively, not only as a form of statecraft, to try to negotiate better terms with other countries. And we've seen that play out just in the first couple of months of his presidency. But he's also used tariffs to try to bring back those important manufacturing jobs that the United States has lost to other countries. And I think there is one thing that you've heard consistently heard this President say over the course of the past decade, and that is that the U. S.

economy is better off when we have those jobs here in the United States than those jobs being shipped overseas. And so I don't think this President is going to rest until he starts to see more movement on manufacturing jobs. We've already seen some early indications that he's scored some wins with these investments in the United States, but he's not going to relent anytime soon. Yeah, that's a really great point. At the same time, like you said, we're already starting to see some of those investments.

The golden immigration card, he's also talked about with Howard Luttnick making that announcement of foreign businesses coming in and investing into the United States and having them being able to expedite their citizenship if they do so, if they bring in so much money, if they hire so many workers and they stimulate the economy. I mean, that's another step in this as well. It's kind of funny because I know we've already had a program that was semi-the same as well, but they've kind of revamped it a little bit for this golden card to come into the country.

So we're incentivizing U.S. businesses to reinvest again in the United States while incentivizing foreign businesses to bring their companies here to the United States. I mean, Rob, we're talking long-term here. This, what Donald Trump says, the golden age of America, we could see a massive boom in the U.S. economy soon, couldn't we?

Absolutely. And going back to your earlier question about budget reconciliation and the narrow margins in the House, this is why I think Trump has learned a lesson from his first term and why it's so important to get this done quickly. And you're going to have both Houses of Congress voting on the budget reconciliation soon.

So in addition to the investments that we were just talking about with the companies bringing jobs back to the United States, Remember, a key piece of that reconciliation bill is the tax cuts, which we saw in twenty eighteen, particularly twenty nineteen, really have a significant boost for the economy. Unfortunately, because they waited until December of twenty seventeen to pass that bill, a lot of the effects didn't start to happen until the latter part of twenty eighteen when American voters had started to sour on the Republican Party. They didn't think that Congress was moving quickly enough to enact Trump's agenda.

So that is why I think that both Speaker Johnson and Leader Soon are trying to get this thing done before Memorial Day so that they can make sure that the economic benefits are seen well in advance of the midterm election. Yeah, which leads me to my last question for you, Robin. I appreciate your time as well. Last night, talking about trying to get an agenda done, we wrapped up 25 hours and five minutes of Spartacus himself, Corey Booker, standing in grandstanding on the Senate floor, trying to slow down progress in the Senate. I'm not quite sure exactly what it did or if it really did any good whatsoever, but it's just the ongoing road of who's going to yell loudest against Donald Trump to become the potential future leader of the Democrat Party because they are leaderless right now and they don't know what direction they're going.

Did that do anything for Corey Booker? And is he in the running for the potential future leader of the Democrats?

Well, there's deep frustration with Chuck Schumer.

So I think that Corey Booker saw this as an opportunity to step up and try to appease that progressive wing of the party. Corey Booker clearly is running for president in twenty twenty eight. He knows that it's going to be a competitive field. I think he's trying to do things that may distinguish himself now that he is apparently this record holder, even though he was filibustering in his particular piece of legislation, right? It was kind of a weird moment because I don't think I don't know that in this case, like the American people really are paying that close attention to what he was doing.

Because again, he wasn't when Ted Cruz did this for twenty one hours, He was opposing Obamacare, and he was doing it for a particular cause. And Corey Booker was essentially doing it to oppose Donald Trump. And so I don't know if it'll stick. I will say this, though. The Democrats are leaderless right now.

And so anything that any member of that party does, I think will probably get them some attention and recognition. And that's what they're going for. Yeah, that's all they're going for. It's the self-investment to try and get their name out there. And yeah, I didn't even know he was doing it until I saw the headline of like 14 hours in.

I was like, oh, this is happening right now. And like you said, it wasn't even for or against a piece of legislation, it was just. There with no motive except for I hate Donald Trump, which seems to be the narrative of the Democrat Party right now. Rob, we appreciate your time, my friend. Go check them out, daily signal.com.

Go see all the great content they have on there. We appreciate it. Keep up this fight. Let's get you back on and do it again real soon. Thank you.

Have a great day. Hey, appreciate it very much. Again, Rob, Bluey, they're CEO of the Daily Signal. Check them out at daily signal.com. All right, got to take a break.

One more segment left here for a Wednesday on the Todd Starns radio program. Stay here. Welcome back to it. It is the Tot Stars Radio Show 901-260-5926. If you want to jump on the last couple of minutes of the program, we would love to hear from you.

Thanks again to Rob Bluey, CEO of the Daily Signal on the program, daily signal.com. You can go and check them out. Interesting conversation with the wins, with the losses last night, what it means moving forward, and the narrow, tight margins that we have with the Republican leadership in Congress moving forward. We still have optimism. We're still working.

We just need a little bit more unification, which is difficult. Unlike the DNC, we don't have marching orders. We don't tell people how and what to think and where to vote and what to do. We allow people to be the wicked, wild, free thinkers that they are. And that's why we do so well.

And the fact that we've expanded our umbrella for the populist movement. For more libertarians to slowly start working their way back into the realm for the J uh for the RFK Jr. styles, for the Tulsi Gabbard types, for these that formerly were independents or even Democrats to come on board. We are in a very great winning position. Even someone like Elon Musk, who the shenanigans, the dirty politics, man, sneaky, sneaky, that media trying to play on us today.

With the saying that Musk is out, when we knew he was going to expire at a short time, anyways. Which, speaking of, by the way, according to Newsweek, this is why it was really a head scratcher when they said that he's a political liability and they're going to try and twist this whatever way, and that Elon Musk is just out, gonna refocus on his businesses. There was a headline from, this came out yesterday, actually, from Newsweek, that Elon Musk says that the Institute of Peace. Deleted more than a terabyte of data and financial data, especially, to quote cover up their crimes. As he ended up sharing the story on his ex account, saying, Really, and this is really the summation that you and I all agree with, I believe, any government institution is most likely to be opposite of its name.

That's a winner right there.

Well done. Saying that Elon Musk is founding the Institute of Peace. Deleting terabyte, at least a terabyte or more of financial data, covering up the crimes as he continues to dive deep into where the shenanigans are going, where the corrupt spending is happening in the federal government, and how in the world politicians that make $150,000 a year are somehow walking out after a few years, being multi-millionaires, like I don't know, half of the DC swamp-like creatures that there are. and where they get all that money. Interesting stuff.

We're back at it again tomorrow. Such an honor to fill in for Todd Starnes. You can hear him on his Newsmax TV program today and tomorrow as well. Until then, everybody, have a great Wednesday. We'll see you on the radio tomorrow.

Bye.