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I want to warn everybody there is some Trump content on today's program.
Donald Trump, after being essentially out of the public eye for the last two months
of his presidency and since leaving the White House, did a bunch of interviews yesterday.
In a sense, he did four, if you include his bizarre call in to eulogize Rush Limbaugh
on Fox News, which we'll talk about a little bit later.
He did announce another late night interview on Fox News with Sean Hannity, which we'll
cover tomorrow.
He did an interview with Owen, which I won't cover it all, but he did a Newsmax interview,
which is where I want to start today.
And the big picture of this interview is that Donald Trump has learned absolutely nothing
from being president.
He has learned nothing from losing in November.
He has just decided to continue making his false claims that he won the election, that
Joe Biden stole it.
Now, let's see if we can learn anything from this interview.
Let's jump right in.
The topic of Rush Limbaugh's death came up.
Donald Trump took it as an opportunity to tell the big lie once again that he won the
election and that Rush Limbaugh believed it as well.
You know, just got he just got a bad a bad deal.
It was what he had was something that was not going to be there, was not going to be
there.
And he understood that.
But he wanted to get past the election and he made it easily and he thought we won the
election.
We did win the election.
As far as I'm concerned, it was disgraceful what happened, totally disgraceful.
But Rush wanted to get by the election and he did it and he was proud of that.
The casual nature with with with which Donald Trump still says after causing the riot that
he won, confirms he learned absolutely nothing.
And then Donald Trump, just like he used to, bragging about fake polls in which he is supposedly
now beloved.
He was asking the big question.
He was asked the big question about running in 2024.
He didn't commit, but he had many other things to say.
See if you can make sense out of any of them.
But we have tremendous support.
I won't say yet, but we have tremendous support.
And I'm looking at poll numbers that are through the roof.
You saw what happened yesterday.
We went up.
We get a the guy get some pizza.
My numbers go up and I figure that one out.
Let's say somebody gets impeached.
Typically, your numbers would go down.
They would go down like like a dead balloon.
But the numbers are very good.
They're very high.
I think they're higher than they were before the election and they were high at the election.
And they like the job.
Look, we did a great job.
We built rebuilt our military.
Think of it.
We lowered taxes, got rid of regulations.
How about spaceports?
Just spaceports.
Force alone would be a big achievement at first time in 74 years, a new branch of the
U.S. military.
So and all of the things we've done, what on earth is Donald Trump talking about?
His numbers are good and high.
He lost the election by a record number of votes.
And while, yes, the majority of the Republican electorate still is behind Trump, even those
numbers have tapered off a little bit.
Also, it's not like there are that many examples of approval ratings during impeachment, he
says, oh, typically approval ratings are down.
During impeachment, mine were up.
Bill Clinton did fine in approval while being impeached.
Before that, it was before the polling error.
So on the basic facts, as usual, Donald Trump is just wrong or clueless.
This same type of verbal Rorschach tests that we've become accustomed to during Trump's
presidency, we're continuing as we are left to try to kind of unravel and decipher what
Trump is talking about.
Listen to this.
And the border.
We built the wall.
Mexico is getting ready to pay for the war.
We're going to judge him at the border, small thing, and Mexico would have paid for the
war.
They were all set.
They gave us 28000 troops to police it before it got built.
And now you see what's happening.
The president of Mexico is a great gentleman, by the way, but he put 28000 troops on our
border at my request.
And we didn't pay for that.
And he we kept we kept the border beautiful.
And now you take a look at what's going on at the border.
It's a disgrace.
Hundreds of thousands of people are going to be pouring in.
Mexico was never going to pay for the wall.
That lie won't die.
Trump now wants us to believe that he was just seconds away from putting in place some
kind of a border tax on people coming in from Mexico to indirectly pay for the wall.
He was never going to do it.
He's been talking about it for years.
It didn't matter if he got a second term or not.
He just won't stop telling that lie.
But it's simply a lie.
And just all over the place.
And if you were watching there, you might have seen when the camera cut back to the
host, Greg Kelly, on Newsmax, he looked sort of exasperated and looking around and thinking
of how he might be able to get control back of the interview, something that's pretty
tough to do.
Donald Trump then asked about being suspended from Twitter, and this got really weird.
Trump sort of listed the number of followers he believed he had on on various networks
and claims that Twitter very is very boring now without him.
I mean, just the opposite.
They really wanted me manpower, power.
And, you know, I had 89 million, but that was because they held it back.
And then on top of that, I had 36 million or 39 million on BOTUS and we had other sites
where we had millions and millions of people.
So we have, I guess, about as big as it gets and likewise on on Facebook.
And they all want that.
And part of the problem is mechanically, they can't handle it because it's too many people.
It's bigger than they are by many times and they want to.
And I'll tell you, it's not the same if you look at what's going on with if you look at
what's going on with Twitter, I understand it's become very boring and millions of people
are leaving.
They're leaving it because it's not the same.
And I can understand that.
And so we'll see what happens.
We're negotiating with a number of people.
And there's also the other option of building your own.
I mean, you can literally build your own set, but we were being really harassed on Twitter.
Did you notice that?
He said there that part of the problem is that his following is too big, I guess, for
Facebook to handle on a technical level, it's just such a ridiculous thing to say mechanically.
They can't handle what is he talking about?
And it doesn't matter how obviously untrue these things are, Donald Trump has a unique
ability to tell laughable, obvious, provable lies, as if there is nothing to it just so
casually telling them.
And that was the Newsmax interview.
Greg Kelly visibly struggling to get control of it.
Tomorrow, we're going to look at the Hannity interview, which is a whole other level to
look at.
I want to I don't even have time today to devote to it.
I'm going to save it for tomorrow.
But we'll take a break later.
We will talk about Rush Limbaugh.
And I have I have quite a few things I want to go over with Rush Limbaugh and we'll have
some clips of Trump calling into Fox during the daytime to you eulogize Rush in a way
that is completely self-serving and narcissistic.
What else would you expect?
So Trump out of the bunker, back on media.
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