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Dive deeper into the complexities of Medicare and governmental transparency, with Mike clarifying widespread misconceptions. Discover why enrolling in Part B might be unnecessary for employed individuals and hear candid thoughts on why President Trump’s policies and Elon Musk’s social media presence resonate with many. Mike passionately discusses political dynamics with metaphors and humor, while Marjorie Taylor Greene emphasizes the importance of addressing national debt. This episode ensures listeners leave informed, entertained, and eagerly anticipating more.
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The Mike Gallagher Show.
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We’re going back to plastics because these things don’t work. I’ve had them many times, and on occasion they break, they explode. If something’s hot, they don’t last very long, like a matter of minutes, sometimes a matter of seconds. It’s a ridiculous situation. So we’re going back to plastic straws. I think it’s okay.
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In the ReliefFactor.com studios, here’s Mike.
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That’s my president. No more paper straws. No more pennies. Now, can he fix UPS? Look, I’ve got access to the White House. It may come as a shock to you, but I know people. I think I’ll be back. I think we’re going to get to go to the White House Christmas party for the first time in four years at least. I’ve actually got some people on speed dial. But they can’t help me find my UPS package. And incidentally, many thanks. Remember the limo driver we interviewed who was the limo driver for an event featuring Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, who was assassinated in the streets of New York, shot in the back. And the limo driver was on our show, and he was a great guy. And he said that Brian Thompson was a great guy, was kind and generous and warm and kind. Well, I guess he’s in Jacksonville, right, Tracy? So he heard that, according to UPS… my package is apparently somewhere between Tampa and Jacksonville, and the limo driver, Keith Davis, offered to go to the UPS location in Jacksonville and drive it to Tampa. How wonderful of a gesture is that? How nice is that? How could I be in a bad mood when I’ve got so many wonderful people in my life? Thank you, Keith Davis. You’re a good man. Look, if I know where it was, I may take you up on it, but I don’t have a clue. They don’t have a clue. They can’t tell me. Who knows? Meanwhile, I got poor David, my trusted handyman and electrician and plumber and all that. He does everything for me. He’s on hold waiting to receive this package so that we can get some work done. Just, you know, but again, I can’t get down. Incidentally, lots of confusion about Medicare. Isn’t that interesting? And look, my whole life, I knew the day would come when I would, well, I hoped the day would come when I turned 65 and I’d have to deal with it. So I had a great visit yesterday with John Ruhlman, who’s a friend of Chris DeGaulle’s. Chris advertises his company on his show in the morning. And John was great, gave me a lot of great advice. And he clarified a lot of things because, for example, Louisville, Kentucky. Part A should be given automatically if you paid 10 years, 40 quarters into Social Security. It’s Part B you want to apply for. Wrong. Not according to John. The problem is if you sign up for Part B and you’re employed like I am, you wind up paying way more. Part A is hospitalization. Part B is like the doctor’s office. And Part B, I don’t need because I have current insurance. And the Part B through Medicare would be like double what I pay right now. So that’s incorrect. And again, there’s a lot of just confusion about what to do with Medicare. Here’s Shelly in California. I turned 65 in March. Yes, I learned the same thing. You must sign up or you’ll have penalties. It’s free. Part A is free. There are inpatient deductibles. Shelley says for Part B, I screwed up. I enrolled, but I’m working. Well, see, that’s what John told me yesterday. Don’t do that. Don’t sign up for Part B, because if you have insurance and you’re working, you’ll have to pay more. So Shelley is saying, big tip, I’ll enroll only when I finish work or when I turn 70, not before. And John told me, do it when I retire. At this point, I’ll retire when I’m dead. I got no plans to retire. I’m having too much fun. Look, you want to know the great metaphor with the Democrats and the Republicans right now? I keep thinking about Lucy and Charlie Brown with the football, but it’s Wile E. Coyote. Wile E. Coyote. Atlanta just pointed this out. Wile E. Coyote is the Democrats. The Acme Tool Company is their judicial tool, which leaves the Roadrunner as President Trump. And how does it ever turn out for the Coyote, for Wile E. Coyote? That’s the metaphor. I mean, do we play the Dana Bash clip? Do I have to warn everybody again? Mom’s in the minivans? Let me give you another. This will only be a 30-second warning. But Elon Musk, he too is the roadrunner. Trump and Elon are roadrunners. Dana Bash is Wile E. Coyote. Dana Bash at CNN is trying to catch Trump. The Roadrunner. Beep, beep. And Elon Musk changed his handle, his name, on X. Now, I don’t want to say the name because it’s, you know, kind of vulgar. But it wasn’t, and that’s not spelled the way you think it’s spelled. It’s got a Z in there. But one would think Dana Bash wouldn’t be stupid enough to take the bait. One would think she wouldn’t read the name on CNN. But again, Wile E. Coyote was never particularly smart. So let me again warn the soccer moms. Use discretion for the next 30 seconds, come back after 30 seconds, but I just have to play what Dana Bash actually said looking into a camera, reading a teleprompter with a pained expression on her face.
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Now, the disruptor in chief, Elon Musk, who apparently has adopted the alias, at least he changed his social media handle to Harry Balls, tweeted this morning, democracy in America is being destroyed by judicial coup. An activist judge is not a real judge.
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This is what I’ve come to. This is what this show has come to. We have to have meetings with very important people about what we can air. This is Elon Musk. And Elon Musk, of course, is having a field day just laughing all the way to the Doge office and back. Dana Bash did it. She read his new screen name. I mean, what’s she going to do if his new screen name at X is at Danabash is an imbecile? I guess she’ll have to read that. That should be his name for tomorrow. Change it to Danabash is a moron. At Danabash. He’s a moron. Oh, my goodness gracious. How much fun can we have? We’ll be celebrating together on the Alaska cruise in August. And I’m telling you, these state rooms are being snatched up quickly. Larry Elder and I will be your co-hosts, the second annual Patriots Alaska cruise, August 16th through the 23rd. We’ll sail through Alaska. We’ll sightsee. We’ll gather on the ship together. We’ll have great events. Travelwithsalem.com. Travelwithsalem.com to get all the details of this spectacular summer vacation we’re all going to get to take together. I hope you can join us. Travelwithsalem.com. Or you can text the keyword Alaska to our MyPillow text line, which is 800-655-MIKE. Here’s Kelly in Iowa. How much snow you got in Iowa, Kelly? Oh, not much.
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Good. We’ve got more coming today.
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I hear it. There’s a big snowstorm on the way. Stay warm. Be careful.
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Oh, yeah. I’m a truck driver. I’m used to it.
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You got it. You got it. So what’s up, Kelly?
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I’ve been listening for days, everybody talking about the Democrats freaking out. And it hit me that during Trump’s first campaign, when he was running against Hillary— And she was freaking out with big eyes when they showed her on tape talking about if Trump wins, we’re all going to hang. And I think now we’re seeing it.
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She knew what he was going to find. She knew what he was going to uncover. And that’s why they’re freaking out. I mean, think about it, Kelly. Could they seriously make the case that trimming excessive taxpayer expense is worthy of this kind of a meltdown? It can’t be. It can’t be. No. That’s not what it is.
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It’s a laundering machine.
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It’s a laundry.
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And it’s going to be… And they don’t have any other choice. They have to defend it because… you know, they can’t stand by quietly and just have their names start rolling out.
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That’s right. They’re going to start being exposed. Governor Ron DeSantis here in Florida had a reaction to the collective meltdown by the Democrats over what Elon Musk and his whiz kids are finding through Doge, finding over USAID, finding out about FEMA. The Pentagon is next. And incidentally, Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, is all about it. He’s like, yes, please, let’s trim the fat. Let’s stop gouging the American taxpayer. Here was Governor DeSantis yesterday, Fox News Channel.
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Donald Trump ran on Elon Musk. This was something that he promised the voters. So he’s just following through. The president’s the only one in the executive branch elected. Everyone else is a delegate that he picks to be able to do things. I’ll tell you, you mentioned watching this for many years. We’ve seen the administrative state in this permanent bureaucracy spiral out of control. It seems like it gets worse all the time. What Elon’s doing is he is highlighting this in a way that’s really resonating with with the American people. So I think this doge has a lot of momentum. I think what they’re doing has been very positive. I think the key is going to be, is Congress going to wake up from its slumber, start taking the power of the purse seriously, and discipline these bureaucracies. We should not be run by unaccountable bureaucrats. The founders provided the tools to Congress. They just haven’t been willing to use it. But I think what Elon’s done has been a public service. You know, it’s like he’s the richest guy in the world. It’s not like he needs to be doing this. He’s doing pretty good. But I think he really cares about constitutional government, and he’s seen it spiral out of control like the rest of us.
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Spot-on analysis from the governor of Florida. And you know, it’s a two-fold thing. The reason the American people are loving it, it’s two parts. It’s the effectiveness of what Trump is accomplishing. with Doge, and the Democrat meltdown. They’re too stupid to realize that their extremism is being exposed. They’re too dumb to even put two and two together. They can’t figure it out. They think it’s normal to meltdown over government efficiency. I’ve never seen anything like this in my life. I always had a hunch they were a bunch of dummies. I didn’t think it was this bad. 800-655-MIKE. Put socks in the bag.
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He just keeps on trying. And he smiles when he feels like crying on and on.
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Your detractors, Mr. Mosley, including a lot of Democrats… I have detractors? You do, sir.
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I don’t believe it.
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…say that you’re orchestrating a hostile takeover of government and doing it in a non-transparent way.
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What’s your response to that criticism? Well, first of all, you couldn’t ask for a stronger mandate from the public. The public voted… We have a majority of the public voting for President Trump. We’ve won the House. We’ve won the Senate. The people voted for major government reform. There should be no doubt about that. That was on the campaign. The president spoke about that at every rally. The people voted for major government reform, and that’s what people are going to get. They’re going to get what they voted for. And a lot of times, people, they don’t get what they voted for. But in this presidency, they are going to get what they voted for. And that’s what democracy is all about.
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I mean, you’re going to complain about this? Lack of transparency? What haven’t they answered? You know, at one point in that Oval Office press conference last night, somebody brought up the fact that evidently it was incorrect that $50 million were being fed or channeled to buy condoms for I forget what country. And Musk said, I was wrong on that. And he says, when I’m wrong, you need to call me out. He said, we’re not going to bat a thousand. And when I’m wrong, we need to make sure it gets corrected. How much more do you want from him? How much more transparency do you need? But They’re so desperate, and they’re freaking out so badly. Listen to this lunatic, Jamie Raskin, calling for the impeachment of Elon Musk. Impeachment!
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does not like the idea that a guy who would not even be constitutionally eligible to run for president is acting as president. A guy who, if he were president, would be impeached immediately because he’s taking billions of dollars in foreign government emoluments from all over the world. And some people have actually been talking about impeaching President Elon Musk right now, you know, on the theory that he’s usurped the powers of the presidency.
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I’m not sure if that’s an attempt at humor or if he’s really that stupid. I suspect it’s the latter rather than the former. Welcome in to a Wednesday, February 12th episode of The Mike Gallagher Show. 800-655-MIKE. One phone call does it all. You can text or call 800-655-6453. We’re in the Relief Factor studios watching the winning, watching the success, and yet you got to hear a little bit of the fireworks from the Doge subcommittee hearing taking place right now as Marjorie Taylor Greene beautifully laid out why Doge exists. and listen to the Democrat freakout and why they’re complaining. You don’t want to miss that. It’s all coming up. Portions of our show brought to you by MyPillow. And I do want to tell you, I got a message from Mike Lindell himself today. This is an amazing offer. Free shipping on everything. So if you’ve thought about getting the mattress topper, which comes in a big box, and that mattress topper is like three inches of heaven. You take it and put it on any mattress, turn it into the most comfortable bed in the world. And it comes in a big box. You unfold it and everything. You unpack it. Well, guess what? For a limited time, free shipping on anything you order. Mike Lindell is so grateful to this audience for your constant support of MyPillow. They’ve tried to cancel him, too, just like they’re trying to cancel RFK Jr. and everybody else. It isn’t working because you’re standing in the breach. You’re defending this great American company. And for a limited time, not only can you get the classic standard MyPillow for only $14.98, limit $10, please, because that’s a crazy low price, the MySlippers, the doggy beds, the flannel sheets, even the mattress itself. You can get a MyPillow mattress, which has thousands of cooling points. It has the patented technology from MyPillow in the mattress. And best part of all, free shipping. Free shipping as a thank you for your support for a limited time. So go to MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher Specials Square. Click on that box. And with anything you order, enter the promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. Or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. Like we love to sing.
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Promo code MikeG. You’ve got to hear Marjorie Taylor Greene. This is so good. She’s, of course, the chair of the House Oversight Doge Subcommittee. Now, you’ve got the Democrats melting down, but Marjorie Taylor Greene, Congresswoman Greene, Chairwoman Greene, explaining why Doge exists in the first place.
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This committee will be laser focused on bringing full transparency to waste, fraud, and abuse within the federal government and presenting the plans to fix the tremendous problems we expose. We as a country are $36 trillion in debt. That is such a stunning amount of money. It’s absolutely staggering to even comprehend how we as a people, we as a country, found ourselves here. This is not a Democrat problem. This is not a Republican problem. This is an American problem. To make it clear for everyone, not only are we $36 trillion in debt, but the compounding interest on our debt is also growing out of control. Even if we decided to defund the entire federal government, we cannot escape our debt and the compounding interest owed on our debt, which grows bigger and bigger every year. In 2025, interest payments are projected to be $952 billion, which is more than our entire military budget. In 2026, it will be $1 trillion. And by 2035, $1.8 trillion. Over the next decade, total interest payments are projected to be $13.8 trillion. These interest payments don’t serve a single American. They don’t build a bridge, a road, provide disaster relief, or fund a single part of the behemoth that is the federal government. These interest payments pay our masters who own our debt, and the American people are in debt slavery to everyone who owns our debt. Our crippling national debt and massively growing interest on our debt will destroy us, not destroy one political party or the other. It will destroy all of us together. It drives inflation, making life unaffordable for Americans struggling to financially survive. It is crippling small businesses struggling to be successful. Our massively growing debt and interest are the chains and shackles harnessed to every American and their children and every generation to come.
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She’s never been better. And I defy you to tell me that you object to one thing she said. What did she say that you could find fault with? What did she say there? Elon Musk is right. The people voted for major government reform. That’s what Trump promised, and that’s what he’s delivering. And they are absolutely out of their minds. I mean, they’re cursing. Yeah, look at this goofy Oregon congresswoman. She’s a mom, and she’s embarrassed. It’s like they told her, it was almost like a hostage video. They said, now look, Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, you’ve got to say F. Trump. Well, but I’m a mom. No, you’ve got to do it, because we’re all doing it. Al Green’s waving the cane, and Pocahontas is hopping up and down mad. You’ve got to say F. Trump. Well, but I’m a mom. Nope, you’ve got to do it, Maxine. So what did Maxine do? She did it. I don’t swear in public very well, but we have Trump.
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Please don’t tell my children that I just did that.
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Oh, well, guess what? Too late. Your kids know that mommy has a filthy mouth and stands at a microphone with a bunch of raving lunatics and says F Trump. It’s astounding. President Musk. Oh, yeah, they’re going to impeach President Musk. How about saluting the Department of Government officials? Efficiency. How in the world do you find fault with that? Do you have anybody yet, Tracy? Do we have any Democrats objecting? I mean, I saw this other Democrat who gave some statements right after Marjorie Taylor Greene. I mean, what in the world could they say to that? There’s nothing. F Trump. That’s all you got. You got Anderson Cooper on CNN with vulgarities last night. I mean, this is classic. Now, I’m going to warn you because we’ve got the mom in the minivan rule. I never want mom in the minivan to have to be embarrassed with their kids. So I’m going to give you a heads up. For the next 90 seconds, we’re going to play a clip that is adult. Anderson Cooper, heir to the Vanderbilt fortune, the guy who’s the rock solid, he’s the rock of CNN, he’s the legitimate journalist. Listen to former New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu getting insulted by the schoolyard bully Anderson Cooper because he got so exasperated.
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These guys are saving $2.3 billion a day. It’s incredible. That’s what they’re saying. But where’s the proof? You’re not going to be satisfied until he shows up with 10,000 pages. He’s giving very specific things, but he’s not actually giving any evidence of that. It’s all going to come because what they also said was if we have to go to Congress, we’ll go to Congress. Right.
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But we’ll show where some of the details that have come out, like the, you know, fifty nine million dollars spent on luxury hotels. It’s actually not the female money that was used for migrants. That was. Yeah. FEMA money for migrants, that’s okay now? No, I’m not saying it’s okay. Don’t put words in my mouth.
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So would you stop that?
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Would you stop that process? Don’t be a dick. What I’m saying is the portrayal by him is just not factually accurate. He’s talking about luxury hotels. Look, I was in a hurricane. I saw what FEMA does.
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See, Anderson Cooper lives in New York, and he knows damn well, pardon my language, I guess it’s contagious, that millions and millions of dollars of taxpayer money are going to these luxury hotels to house migrants. Cooper knows that. Anderson Cooper knows that. He’s playing dumb, and he’s telling Chris Sununu, don’t be a Richard. Smooth move, Anderson. Classy. Classy. 800-655-MIKE.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor studios, here’s Mike Geller.
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Headline over at Yahoo News, this has to stop. House Democrat facing backlash for promoting physical violence and an anti-Doge protest. I mean, right now, Americans are coming to a full realization. of how insane the 2025 Democrat Party is. I remember years ago, Ben Shapiro used to say, all they have to do is stop acting crazy. All they’ve got to do is be a little bit more normal, and they’d be more successful, and they don’t know how to do that. They don’t know how to be normal. Americans are cheering Doge. What are you angry about? And, you know, I ask that question, but then I have to internally correct myself. Because I’m getting to a point where I don’t care about the resistance. Let me give you a perfect example. Last night, President Trump hosted Elon Musk and Elon’s little son in the Oval Office. And there was this little boy, cute little kid. hanging on the Resolute Desk and picking his nose and upstaging his dad and upstaging President Trump. And it was a wonderful, amazing snapshot of where we are. In other words, there’s Elon Musk with his dark MAGA hat on and his dark coat, and President Trump seated at the Resolute Desk, and Elon’s taking questions. And he’s just one by one. Ask me what you want to ask. Tell me what you want to know. Here was an example of that press event, which was one of the most refreshing, inspiring things I’ve ever seen. Unconventional? You bet. Very unique? Here’s Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, standing next to the Resolute desk and the president allowing Elon to answer questions about Doge. In fact, here’s Elon giving an explanation about Doge’s work.
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Another crazy thing, so… You know, one of the things is, like, we are trying to sort of right-size the federal bureaucracy, just make sure that this… Obviously, there needs to be a lot of people working for the federal government, but not as many as currently. So we’re saying, well, OK, well, let’s… If people can retire, you know, with full benefits and everything, that would be good. They can retire, get their retirement payments, everything. And then we were told… This is actually, I think, a great anecdote, because we were told that the most number of people that could retire possibly in a month is 10,000. We’re like, well, why is that? Well, because all the retirement paperwork is manual on paper. It’s manually calculated, then written down on a piece of paper. Then it goes down a mine. And like, what do you mean a mine? Like, yeah, there’s a limestone mine where we store all the retirement paperwork. And you look at a picture of this mine. We’ll post some pictures afterwards. And this mine looks like something out of the 50s because it was started in 1955. It looks like it’s like a time warp. And then the speed, the limiting factor is the speed at which the mine shaft elevator can move determines how many people can retire from the federal government. And the elevator breaks down sometimes and then nobody can retire.
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And Trump is just clearly… clearly ecstatic about his decision to place Doge under the auspices of this brilliant guy, Elon Musk. And, you know, Elon’s message was really clear. This is what the American people demanded by electing Donald Trump. Donald Trump should have never won. They… impeached him, they convicted him, they tried to bankrupt him, they tried to kill him. No way should November 5th have happened. But it did. The American people put Donald Trump in the Oval Office again. And here was what Elon Musk said about the people’s choice.
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So we’ve got… A $2 trillion deficit. And if we don’t do something about this deficit, the country’s going bankrupt. I mean, it’s really astounding that the interest payments alone on national debt exceed the Defense Department budget, which is shocking. Because we spend a lot of money on defense. And if that just keeps going, we’re essentially going to bankrupt the country. So what I really want to say is it’s not optional for us to reduce the federal expenses. It’s essential. It’s essential for America to remain solvent as a country, and it’s essential for America to have the resources necessary to provide things to its citizens and not simply be servicing vast amounts of debt.
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Now, you know what also came up? I think Christian is scrambling to find this clip. There was a humble… moment when they called Elon, one of the reporters called him out over the claim that there were millions being used to provide condoms to, was it Gaza? I think it was Gaza. And Elon Musk responded humbly with full transparency. And it was such an astounding moment because politicians never talk this way. Politicians never say, yep, I got that one wrong. When it’s wrong, you’ve got to call me out. And when you call me out, we need to correct it. Do you know how great that is? Now, I want you to hear this. This, to me, was maybe the most powerful moment of that extraordinary event last night in the Oval Office with Trump at the Resolute Desk, hands folded, Elon and little X to his right. And check out this exchange over the issue of the millions being spent to provide condoms to Gaza.
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Mr. Musk, you said on X that an example of the fraud that you have cited was $50 million of condoms were sent to Gaza. But after fact-check this, apparently Gaza in Mozambique, and the program was to protect them against HIV. So can you correct the statements that it wasn’t sent to Hamas, actually? It was sent to Mozambique, which makes sense why condoms were sent there. And how can we make sure that all the statements that you said were correct so we can trust what you say?
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Well, first of all, some of the things that I say will be incorrect and should be corrected. So nobody’s going to bat a thousand. I mean, we will make mistakes, but we’ll act quickly to correct any mistakes. So, you know, I’m not sure we should be sending $50 million worth of condoms to anywhere, frankly. I’m not sure that’s something Americans would be really excited about. And that is really an enormous number of condoms, if you think about it. But, you know, if it went to Mozambique instead of Gaza, I’m like, okay, that’s not as bad, but still, you know, why are we doing that?
SPEAKER 19 :
Now, what a refreshing – okay, so apparently they were going to Mozambique rather than Gaza. And as he pointed out, okay, well, I’m still not sure we’ve got to be sending $50 million worth of condoms anywhere. That’s a lot of condoms. But he said to her, if you were listening, I’m not always going to get it right. I’m not going to bat 1,000. And when I’m wrong, I need to be corrected. When’s the last time you ever heard a politician, Republican or Democrat, say that? They never say that. Ever. Yes, I know what you’re screaming, including Trump. I don’t know that I’ve ever heard Trump admit he’s wrong. It’s not in his DNA. It’s not who he is. But it’s who Elon Musk is. It’s who this brilliant… guy, maybe the Albert Einstein of our time, is willing to do, hey, I’m not going to bat a thousand. Now, you would think that even his critics would say, well, that was nice. That was a good moment. That was important. You want to know what the takeaway was over on MSNBC? And I’m only going to say this one time because I’m at a point right now where I don’t care anymore what these lunatics are doing. They can sing their songs. They can dance their dances. They can light their hair on fire. They can curse out each other. I’m at a point where all they’re doing is futile. They’re spitting in the wind. But I do want to share with you the difference between right and wrong. It’s right to say, gosh, that was a good moment, and that was a great event, and there’s Trump with Elon and the little boy in the Oval Office explaining Doge. You can’t complain about that, right? Well, MSNBC did. Lawrence O’Donnell went on air and said that Elon Musk humiliated President Donald Trump making Trump look like the most powerless U.S. president ever caught on camera. That’s Lawrence O’Donnell’s takeaway on MSNBC. And, of course, the Daily Beast ran with that. That’s their takeaway. Headline, Trump humiliated in the most powerless image ever. That’s what desperation looks like. That’s what pathetic desperation sounds like. That’s what defeat looks like. Lawrence O’Donnell, he is the ultimate loser in this. MSNBC is coming up short. Anderson Cooper is falling on his face, insulting Chris Sununu last night with a schoolyard taunt. They’re losing. The Democrats are on Capitol Hill singing, We will beat Doge. We will… I mean, my kid just chewed me out. My brave MAGA warrior son said, Dad, thanks for playing that. Now I can’t get that stupid song out of my head. But son, you got to know what they’re… You got to at least hear them. This is what losing sounds like. This is what… This is what Wile E. Coyote sounds like. While Trump and Elon are saying beep beep, these Democrats are on Capitol Hill going over the side of the cliff.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, which side are you on? Which side are you on? Tell me which side are you on? Which side are you on? We’ll fight against Doge. We’ll fight Elon Musk. No way let’s get within our walls. We’ll fight from dawn to dusk. There you go.
SPEAKER 19 :
Sorry. Which side are you on? We’re fighting Doge. Those are Democrats. Those are elected representatives making complete fools of themselves because they’ve lost. They know they’ve lost. They got nothing. And I’m a little surprised that they can’t do any better than this. But I’ll take it because I know what side I want to be on. How about you? 800-655-MIKE. 800-655-6453. Welcome aboard. What side are you on? We’re in the Relief Factor studios. I’m on your side. Hope you’re on mine. Let’s find out. 800-655-MIKE. Join us.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, what a strange magic. Oh, what a strange magic.
SPEAKER 05 :
Mike Gallagher. Every day Mike visits with Mark Davis. Morning host on 660 AM The Answer in Dallas. Here’s today’s Eminem experience.
SPEAKER 04 :
I begin, Mike, with an olive branch I need to extend. Uh-oh. Was I right and you were wrong? No, to this guy. The great Michael McDonald. I have mocked him forever. I keep forgetting all my songs sound the same. I’ve done this because here’s why I have. It’s 1976-ish. I’m a snarky 19-year-old. And this guy rolls in and changes the Doobie Brothers forever. The Doobie Brothers for me had been China Grove and, you know, Another Park, Another Sunday and albums like What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits, the Tom Johnston, Blackwater, the Tom Johnston, Pat Simmons. And then they kind of got turned into that. And ain’t nothing wrong with that. They took that to the bank for zillions of dollars. And it’s been kind of a fun journey. bit on the show that i have a grudge against michael mcdonald for changing the doobie brother i know he’s a genius and after watching that have you seen the yacht rock documentary no not yet oh dude you have to he listen there’s just it just reinforces what an amazing talented remarkable generational talent he is and he is uh 73 today michael mcdonald’s birthday so mike i love you man I love you, Michael McDonald.
SPEAKER 19 :
Happy B-Day. Well, look, I’m just devastated right now. I’m having a very bad day. Sorry. This ride was so, so exciting. This ride was so short-lived.
SPEAKER 04 :
What’s happened?
SPEAKER 19 :
This ride for Donald Trump has come to an end.
SPEAKER 04 :
Did I miss something?
SPEAKER 19 :
Is it over? Yeah. Oh, it’s big. I mean, you’re not watching the right media. You’re not seeing the right stuff.
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean, it’s so…
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, yeah, of course there’s a constitutional crisis. Yesterday, a group of Democrat lawmakers took to Capitol Hill.
SPEAKER 04 :
People who really care about the public and care about democracy.
SPEAKER 19 :
Of course they do. And, you know, you and I have been talking about how flat-footed they seem to have been. You know, I mean, they’re kind of flailing about.
SPEAKER 04 :
Have they discovered – is there wind in their sails? Have they hit their stride?
SPEAKER 19 :
They have found the magic bullet. There’s credible reporting that yesterday Donald Trump was cowering in the Oval Office with Pete Hegseth and with – With Elon, they are quivering in their boots. They have finally met their match. I give you Mark Davis, a band of warriors. I give you heroes. I give you truth seekers. I give you the effective counter to the Trump agenda. Let me take you now to Capitol Hill.
SPEAKER 08 :
Which side are you on? Which side are you on? Tell me, which side are you on? Which side are you on? We’ll fight against George. We’ll fight Elon Musk. No way let’s camp within our walls. We’ll fight from dawn to dusk.
SPEAKER 19 :
That’s it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Marcus, God, are you on?
SPEAKER 19 :
It’s catchy. I mean, I think I heard Donald Trump, according to the Daily Beast.
SPEAKER 04 :
Real quick, real quick. There’s a mix minus thing. I’ve been hearing myself.
SPEAKER 19 :
Got a mix minus, guys. We got some kind of echo. Can we fix it, please?
SPEAKER 04 :
It is now better. Thank you very much.
SPEAKER 19 :
Good, good. Hey, there’s a report. The Daily Beast is saying Trump broke down into tears when he heard that. I mean, it’s bad. This is bad, Mark. I was wondering when… Okay, okay. Good Lord.
SPEAKER 04 :
End of satire. End of satire.
SPEAKER 19 :
We’re starting… Well, I mean, they’re so pathetic. And how about them repeating the F word over and over again?
SPEAKER 04 :
I know. They think that’s effective. What? I mean, person after person after person said, I hope my child doesn’t hear me say this, but we just have to F Trump. It’s like, what?
SPEAKER 19 :
Guess what? Your child heard it, dummy. I mean, you’re all over the news. Although, on the other hand, now I have to admit, we’ve got some PG-13 stuff. They’re R-rated. We’re PG-13. I had to call my boss and say, look, Elon Musk changed his Twitter handle.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes, he did.
SPEAKER 19 :
And he forced Dana Bash and others at MSNBC to recite the name. And Phil said, well, look, my rule always is. You’re going to spell it? Well, I wouldn’t even spell it because here’s what he said.
SPEAKER 03 :
I will spell it. Elon changed his Twitter handle.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, spell it the way Elon spelled it. To a guy with the first name of Harry and the last name B-O-L-Z, right?
SPEAKER 19 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 04 :
And so one knows how that would be pronounced.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, it’s kind of the European pronunciation. We’ve got a booze. But that’s the sophisticated way. And Dana Bash read it. He got them to do it. He’s like Lucy with the football with Charlie Brown. He was trolling these dopes like Dana Bash. And she looks into the camera with this constipated look on her face. And she said, yesterday, Elon Musk. who changed his screen name. And it’s like, she read it. She said it out loud. Of course. I mean, then I had to ask Phil Boyce. Well, Anderson Cooper, the Vanderbilt heir, turns to Chris Sununu.
SPEAKER 04 :
Chris Sununu, mind you, who has been dragged slowly into Trump world. But go ahead.
SPEAKER 19 :
So he’s taken Anderson out to the woodshed pointing out, wait a minute, the Trump administration is so transparent, they’re answering every question. And Anderson Cooper said, well, they’re 91 million, you know, for migrants.
SPEAKER 03 :
It’s not confirmed.
SPEAKER 19 :
It didn’t really all go for, and so Chris Nunes says, oh, you mean the 91 million they discovered went to the hotel rooms for migrants in New York City? And Anderson Cooper got so flustered and says, don’t be a blank. Don’t be a D. Don’t be a D word. Yeah, the D word. All right, yeah, don’t be a Richard. That’s good. I can say that, I guess. I mean, these guys got nothing. Mark, I have to ask you something. Aren’t you astounded that they’ve got nothing right now, that they’ve got no concerted plan, that they’ve got no counterpunch, that they’ve got no effect? Is it possible that what Trump is doing is so overwhelmingly, epically effective that they just can’t keep up and they can’t stop it?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, and here’s the element that makes it possible. The left has been full of it for decades. Their ideas have been garbage for decades. We have had the occasional successful communication operation in conservatism that we’ve had. There’s never been anything like Trump. But you know what else we’re seeing for the very, very first time? First of all, his team, magnificent communicators. Look at Pam Bondi. Look at Pete Hegseth. Look at J.D. Vance up against these chortling idiots. So you have that. But you know what the X factor is? You know what the thing that’s been missing is? that we finally have the willingness of the American public. The American public seems to have come around. Even the public has said, yeah, I guess we don’t like wasteful Washington spending. But then somebody says, well, let’s cut it.
SPEAKER 03 :
They go, you’re trying to kill grandma.
SPEAKER 04 :
Stop it. For the first time in your life and mine, and we’ve been around for a while, the public finally seems ready to accept solutions like these.
SPEAKER 19 :
I think you’re right. I mean, I’m really watching this and thinking, I mean, yesterday was such an extraordinary moment where there was Elon with his little boy, little X, crawling around the Resolute desk and having a ball. Yep. And there was Trump smiling and Elon Musk is answering every question. And it was such a it was such a refreshing moment because at one point they called Elon Musk out. Apparently, it was technically incorrect. It wasn’t 50 million for condoms. Evidently, there was some aspect of that. And Elon Musk said, you know what? I’m going to make mistakes. We’re going to get things wrong. We’ve got so much going on. We’re going to we’re going to air me when we do. Tell me what I do and we’ll fix it. And then I’ll correct it.
SPEAKER 04 :
My gosh, no politician talks that way, as opposed to take a look at the Biden mistakes. Joe Biden comes out and says there are 37 genders. Anybody stepping in and saying that’s wrong would have been pilloried, vilified, condemned. I mean, Democrat lies go unchecked. And in fact, they get lifted and enabled by a willing media culture. So, yeah, this who?
SPEAKER 19 :
Who doesn’t love a public figure saying, yep, I got that one wrong. You got to call me out on it. They are all about transparency. How do you push back against eliminating government waste? Here’s the cover of the New York Post. The jihad bill. Here’s how bad USAID got. It once paid for a terrorist’s college tuition. USAID funded Anwar al-Awlaki’s Colorado State University education as part of the tuition program for foreigners. He went on, of course, to be killed. He’s one of the worst terrorists on the radar. USAID paid for him. Mm-hmm. Now, that’s how bad it got. That’s how runaway. And there are people and I know some people on the Beltway. Oh, this is terrible. Children are going to die. There’s going to be no more AIDS funding. You got to keep the philanthropic aspects of USAID. But my gosh, if you don’t see how broken a bureaucracy is that is funding terrorists. Supporting Hamas? And look, Victor Davis Hanson broke this down brilliantly last night. I’m going to play it on my show today, where he says, let’s get some basics here. John F. Kennedy signed USAID into existence with an executive order. Donald Trump signed Doge into existence with an executive order. They are perfectly constitutional, plausible, legal, legitimate things to do. They got nothing. And let me, you know, I’m at a point right now where I’m feeling like I got to avoid wallowing in the nastiness of the left. But I do think it bears repeating how desperate they are. Here’s this beautiful moment yesterday. Trump, Elon, little X in the Oval Office answering every reporter’s question, dealing with everything with transparency. You want to know what the MSNBC takeaway was of that press conference? You want to know what Lawrence O’Donnell called it? And the Daily Beast, of course, is excitedly running with this. Trump was humiliated in the most powerless image ever of a U.S. president. By what?
SPEAKER 04 :
Because he was sitting down.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yes, sitting down and Elon standing. And the little boy is running around. And Trump was, according to the Daily Beast and MSNBC, humiliated in the most powerless. Oh, yeah. Real humiliation. They got nothing, Mark.
SPEAKER 04 :
And this is funny because doesn’t this run counter to the notion that Trump is an egomaniac and makes everything about him? That’s right. He gladly steps aside and allows people whom he has wisely selected to enact his agenda to let them have the spotlight, let them have some glory, let them get some positive attention because it’s all to the good of what he wants to do to, one could say, make America great again.
SPEAKER 19 :
Rich Lowry on social media posted a picture of Trump smiling and gazing at Elon and little X. And Rich wrote… He captioned the picture, certainly looks like a self-coup or something equally sinister could be imminent. I mean, that’s how stupid. All we can do is laugh at the Lawrence O’Donnells, Mark. That’s all that’s left to do.
SPEAKER 04 :
And all I can do is notice a couple of other things because you’re totally right because you mentioned Rich Lowry with that wonderful bit of analysis there. You mentioned Chris Sununu defending Trump on that CNN panel. These are two guys who not so very long ago Hated Trump’s got that. That’s right. That hated Trump’s got were those Republican virtue signaling weasels who just could not get on board. Well, they’re on board now. And everybody that’s been late to the to the party. I just have one word. Welcome. I’m not going to badger anybody. Five years ago, you didn’t like him. Seven years ago, you didn’t like him. Glad they came around. Let me.
SPEAKER 19 :
Let me give you another example. Meghan McCain. Does anybody hate Trump more than the way? All right. Well, listen to what Meghan McCain wrote last night. More winning. Trump brought back Mark Fogle, a guy who was wrongfully detained in Russia for years. And last night in the Oval Office, there was a ceremony and Trump had promised the family, I’m going to get him home. Meghan McCain last night posted on X. Why couldn’t Biden bring Mark Fogle home? The man was in prison over three years and Trump took just three weeks to do it. She asks, why was Biden unable or unwilling to make it happen? I genuinely want the answer here. Well, Megan, it’s a new welcome to the party, a new world.
SPEAKER 04 :
Welcome to the party. It brings to mind, Mike, a question that I could ask you that I would ask the public and ask all of our listeners. I would ask everyone, every Republican, every Democrat, every listener. I would ask them in musical form. Which side are you on? Oh, I love it. Which side are you on? And I like it. Off key. And sing it a little bit off key, too.
SPEAKER 19 :
Oh, my gosh. Which side are you on? These guys are miserable. Oh, they’re just there. And throw in the F word a few times, and you’ll really get somewhere. And today, more winning, Tulsi Gabbard. uh uh uh cash patel senate vote right is she’s coming they’re getting confirmed mark they’re gonna get confirmed this is happening and they were the two that i was most worried about it looks now like all the votes are in the counted as far as everybody knows troublemakers not enough not enough troublemakers and they win this is what winning feels like which uh f you f you stop My name is Richard Harry.
SPEAKER 03 :
Don’t be a D. Harry B. Harry Testicles. Goodbye. Oh, great. He got it in. He went there, kids. He went there. Mike Gallagher, available. That’s a biological term. Of course it is. It’s medical. My doctor says that. It’s medical. It’s anatomy.
SPEAKER 19 :
It’s how the doctor says it. Here comes Mike. Goodbye.
SPEAKER 05 :
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