From Florida’s controversial detention center, whimsically dubbed Alligator Alcatraz, to the vibrant yet polarizing political landscape in Minneapolis and New York City, this episode doesn’t shy away from the hard-hitting topics. As New Yorkers grapple with socialist ideologies threatening their city’s economic fabric, listeners are invited to explore diverse perspectives on the challenges of governance, unity, and progress in contemporary America.
Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. It’s Friday, July 4th, 2025. Happy Independence Day. I’m Eric Hansen, and this week, the tech titan and the chief executive trade barbs, while a capitalist and a communist square off in New York City. Let’s begin with the war of words between Elon Musk and President Trump.
SPEAKER 05 :
Elon’s ticked supposedly about the Big Beautiful Bill. A lot of people suspect he’s really mad that there’s not going to be an EV mandate. That he believes that Tesla is being dramatically impacted in a negative way by the Big Beautiful Bill. That’s what Trump is insisting. That’s the real reason for Elon’s animus. I’ll tell you what. When people turn against Donald Trump, they turn. It’s never, like, mild. You go from loving the guy and jumping up and down and thrusting your fists in the air on stage with him, admiring him. He’s a warrior. He got shot. Look at him. I mean, Elon loved Donald Trump before he hated him. Now they’re back at it again. And Elon is threatening to start a third party. Elon is promising to support Thomas Massey because Trump is promising to support a primary challenge to the Kentucky representative no, the guy that votes no on everything, Thomas Massey. Now Trump is talking about deporting Elon. Here we go. Let’s check out what Trump said about looking into the possibility of deporting Elon Musk.
SPEAKER 08 :
You’re going to deport Elon Musk? I don’t know. We’ll have to take a look. We might have to put Doge on Elon. You know what Doge is? Doge is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn’t that be terrible? He gets a lot of subsidies, Peter. But Elon’s very upset that the EV mandate is going to be terminated and you know what when you look at it who wants not everybody wants an electric car i don’t want an electric car i want to have baby gasoline maybe electric maybe a hybrid maybe someday a hydrogen if you have a hydrogen car it has one problem it blows up you know so i’m going to give that one to peter we’ll let peter
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, boy. Incidentally, President Trump unveiling a new hat. He’s got a new red baseball cap on today for his trip to Florida. It says Gulf of America. Love it. Love that hat. Speaking of hats, Eric, I need a timpani roll because I keep telling you to trust Trump, and I know that we should trust Trump. We should trust Trump on the big, beautiful bill. We should trust Trump on alligator Alcatraz. We should trust Trump on the economy. We should trust the guy. Well, you can now express that with your very own coffee mug, T-shirt, or baseball cap. We are proud to announce Trust Trump Swag. The great team at the Mike Gallagher Show put together great looking coffee mugs, t-shirts, and baseball caps with that simple yet definitive declaration, Trust Trump. All you have to do to order is go to MikeOnline.com. Go to our website and you’ll see where you can order your very own Trust Trump Swag. Great-looking coffee mug, great-looking T-shirt, great-looking baseball cap. I already ordered. First thing I did when I got up this morning and I saw that it was on our site, I already ordered a bunch. I’ll be sending gifts to family members. Well, one family member. There’s only one family member who would gratefully accept such a gift. But yes, the Trust Trump swag from the Mike Gallagher Show has arrived. And you can order at MikeOnline.com. Just go to MikeOnline.com. If you’d like to text a keyword, I believe Tracy set up the keyword store to 800-655-MIKE. And if you text that, but the safest thing to do, the quickest way to do is go to MikeOnline.com.
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Florida stepped into the spotlight this week as they welcomed the president to tour their new illegal immigration detention facility, informally known as Alligator Alcatraz.
SPEAKER 05 :
Benny Johnson just posted he’s there. He’s being swarmed by the thousands with mosquitoes. And he says there are millions of gators. He calls it he calls Alligator Alcatraz hell on earth, Roger.
SPEAKER 04 :
He’s absolutely right. I’ve been in some of these swamps, and it is absolutely unlivable down there. It is a horrible place. It is filled with bugs. The bugs are the worst, actually. Just standing around in the heat, you’ve got the humidity, you’ve got the sunlight beaming down on you. If you’re a prisoner there, you’re going to be wearing a T-shirt, some pants, and some light shoes. And if you try and go into this, first the bugs are going to get you. By the millions, he’s right. Then you’re going to be in the water. It’s nasty. You’ve got plants that’ll cut you. And then you’ve got the snakes and the alligators. So it is not a good place to be. I wanted to actually go down there and experience it a little bit and see how far I could get before something stopped me. But it is really a very…
SPEAKER 05 :
I had no desire of going because I kind of like my creature comforts, but I don’t know why we didn’t send you today. We should have sent you because there’s got to be a contingent of media. I just saw, like I said, Benny Johnson, who’s a big social media influencer, he’s there. We should have sent you down there, put your shorts on, put on a big straw hat, and brave the elements. You would have done that on behalf of the Mike Gallagher Show. You’re pretty loyal.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I would do it. In fact, we could do it in the future. There’s going to be a lot of media coverage of this thing as it goes on. I mean, they’re going to have 5,000 people down there in the air conditioning, and they’re not going to want to escape because it is a vile place, particularly in the summer with the sun beating down.
SPEAKER 05 :
Now, all kidding aside, I mean, we’re joking a lot about the alligators with the MAGA hats on and the memes and all that. People are having a lot of fun with this. But to the left and to the Trump critics, they think it’s cruel and unusual to have them there in the Everglades. Make no mistake, these, as Governor DeSantis pointed out, these facilities are going to be air conditioned. They’re going to be protected from the elements. The only time they would get in trouble, the only time that they would be at risk is if they tried to escape, right? If the illegals who are scheduled for deportation tried to scale the fence and escape, that’s when the problems begin, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
That is exactly when the problems begin. They’re going to be in a pretty nice facility. It is air-conditioned. They’re going to be fed well. They’re spending $450 million on this to keep these folks there, these 5,000 people or so that it’s going to be able to hold. And interestingly, this idea came from our Attorney General James Uthmeyer in Florida on the 19th. They got it together in two weeks, and it is ready to go with the president coming around 10 this morning. It’s amazing.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, and that to me is a testament to the ingenuity of not only the state of Florida, but of course the entire Trump administration. Now, there’s a lot. What are people saying in terms of polling? Because I get confused by the polling. I know that, admittedly, we’re in a bit of a bubble here with our show. We’ve got a lot of Trump supporters. We have a lot of people who believe in the big, beautiful bill. According to the legacy media, the polling… shows that people are strongly opposed to the Big Beautiful Bill. I don’t know that I agree with that. But what are you getting, at least anecdotally, from fellow Floridians about Alligator Alcatraz?
SPEAKER 04 :
Pretty positive. Pretty positive. In fact, I took a little trip to Georgia over the weekend and just coming all the way down. People are happier than they have been in the past. People are enjoying the Trump presidency from what I can see. There’s the usual malcontents who are never happy with anything, but there’s a lot more smiling going on in this country. And I think people are for it because they’re tired of having the illegal aliens creating crime, crowding of hospitals, and the other disruptions. I think people are with Trump on this. They did elect him for it, and he’s doing it and doing a good job.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, let’s plan on going. We’ll load up the station wagon. We’ll get plenty of the suntan lotion out. We’ll put on the mosquito nets and wear our beekeeper suits, and we’ll go to Alligator Alcatraz. I mean, how do you get there from here? We’re in Tampa Bay. How do you get from point A to point B?
SPEAKER 04 :
There’s one road, and we’d have to go down, I think, to Alligator Alley and then up. But the easy way would be to fly down there. It’s on an airstrip. Oh, that’s right. We’ll charter a helicopter.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, no, no, no, no. Captain Will Smith from Will Smith Aviation. My buddy Captain Will might take us down there. I’ll bet he’d love to see Alligator Alcatraz.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, we could be down there in about 45 minutes, and there’s a huge landing strip, two of them down there, over 10,000 feet. We could just pull right up, and there we’d be. We’re on to something here.
SPEAKER 05 :
Then we just got to figure out bandwidth and Internet and lighting and Salem News Channel cameras. And, of course, we have to bring a hair and makeup person. So it might be a bit of a production, but we could pull it off. We could pull it off.
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I think you’d be hard pressed to find another presidency in recent history that has moved faster or done more to improve our nation than the current one. So just imagine how lucky we are that we are not talking about President Kamala Harris.
SPEAKER 05 :
People like Joe Biden say, I’m going to pick somebody based on the color of their skin. And he does. What else would you call that higher other than a diversity, equity and inclusion higher? Why wouldn’t you celebrate it? So Biden said, I’m going to pick a black woman to be my VP. And he picked Kamala Harris. And then as soon as somebody like Charlie Kirk or any of us say that’s a DEI hire, people call us racist. Trish Regan, who’s our great podcaster, part of the Salem Podcast Network, had a clip pointing out that no matter what we’re facing challenge-wise, We sure dodged a bullet in missing the chance to elect Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Trish Regan pointed it out beautifully.
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No matter how bad it gets, always remember it could be worse.
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We did it. We did it, Joe. You’re going to be the next president of the United States. I don’t know what’s wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? You exist in the context. of all in which you live and what came before you. Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So basically that’s wrong. Who doesn’t love a yellow school bus, right? Can you raise your hand if you love a yellow school bus, right? There’s something about… And most of us, many of us went to school on the yellow school bus. Imagine what can be and be unburdened by what has been. You know? What can be unburdened by what has been. What can be unburdened by what has been.
SPEAKER 09 :
I feel unburdened by not watching you anymore.
SPEAKER 05 :
You’re right, Trish. Can you imagine her in the White House right now? Do you realize… Just think about what this country would be going through if she was elected president, if we had that imbecile as the commander-in-chief. But look, I want to ask you a very sincere question. When Biden promised to pick a black woman, and he did, she’s only there because she’s a black woman, right? When Joe Biden said, I’ll only consider a black woman for SCOTUS, Supreme Court, right? And Charlie Kirk says, she’s only there because she’s a black woman, right? How is he racist? And if you want to challenge that, please do. 800-655-MIKE. Again, Joe Biden says, I’ll only consider a black woman for SCOTUS. Charlie Kirk, she’s only there because she’s a black woman. And the left loses its mind and says, Charlie Kirk’s a racist. He’s terrible. What a bigot. What a monster. No, no, no. You should own it. I don’t think it’s a secret or you’re unaware of the many, many personal and professional challenges that our friend Mike Lindell of MyPillow fame has been facing. And his opponents and his critics and people who don’t like his support of President Trump probably don’t care that he has, in his words, lost everything financially. He hasn’t lost the company. They’ve tried, but Mike has not lost MyPillow. And that’s because they… this audience and people all over the country continue to support this great American company. Whatever you think of Mike Lindell, he is a guy who loves America. And, you know, with all of that said, it’s also, these are great products. I’ve met people over the years who say, you know, you talk a lot about Mike Lindell and you talk about my pillow and all that, but I didn’t really appreciate how great the products were until I ordered them. But if you haven’t been to the MyPillow site in a while, and you haven’t gone to the Mike Gallagher Specials Square, and you’ve got to click on that box, do yourself a favor and check out all the products that are there. Because there’s a ton of products. Go to MyPillow.com. Be sure to find the Mike Gallagher Specials. There’s a box. Picture of Mike and Mike. Click on that square, and then when you place your order, you’ll see after you enter the promo code MikeG how much you’ll save on everything. MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG, MyPillow.com, promo code MikeG, or call 800-928-6034, 800-928-6034, promo code MikeG, like we love to sing. For the best night’s sleep in the whole wide world, visit MyPillow.com.
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Promo code Mike G. This is the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. I’m Eric Hansen. As divided as our nation can be right now, it’s still worthwhile to try and find common ground with our fellow Americans, right? But boy, oh boy, do Democrats make it difficult.
SPEAKER 05 :
Common ground, huh? Okay. Give me common ground with Jacob Frye waving a Somali flag on a stage in Minneapolis day before yesterday. This is from, I believe, the… Oh, this is Somali TV of Minnesota. A vibrant celebration of culture, heritage, and community spirit unfolded on Lake Street in Minneapolis this weekend as People in Action, a Twin Cities-based nonprofit, hosted a successful Somali Independence Day Festival. It marked Somalia’s 65th Independence anniversary. Now, do you think… People in Somalia are waving Old Glory on our Independence Day? I wonder if people in Somalia, like a mayor of a city in Somalia, waves the red, white, and blue, waves the American flag on our Independence Day. And if you’re watching right now on Salem News Channel, this is the video that triggered poor Tracy. She came running into the studio, all wide-eyed, saying, the mayor of Minneapolis is on stage this weekend waving a flag of Somalia. And he really did.
Now, I don’t claim to be an expert on Somalian culture. I don’t know what language that is. I don’t think that’s English. I’m not sure that’s the English language. And that’s the mayor of Minneapolis. Now, absolutely, there’s a big Somali population in Minneapolis. We get it. But again, these other countries, I can promise you, aren’t lifting up the United States the way leftist mayors like Jacob Fry salute their country. I mean, this is beyond parody. This is beyond satire. What you just heard was the mayor of Minneapolis. Just for emphasis, can you play it one more time, Christian, in case anybody thinks that I’m having a stroke? Again, my producer came in. She said, you’re not going to believe this. The mayor of Minneapolis is waving around a Somali flag and speaking a different language. I said, no, no, no, Tracy, come on. It’s early. You can’t be drinking so soon. There’s no way. Come on. Let’s play it one more time.
Look, if I lived in Minneapolis right now, I’d be saying, pack our things, let’s get the moving van, time to go.
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And while it may be hard to believe what’s happening in Minneapolis, that’s nothing compared to the rise of a communist in New York City.
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New York Mayor Eric Adams, who became persona non grata with the Democrats because he dared to agree with the Trump administration’s efforts to fix the illegal immigration crisis in New York City. Oh, you can’t do that. He’s a Trump lover. And so they kicked him out, basically. They tried to use lawfare, came up with a bunch of bogus charges against him. The Trump administration sort of bailed him out, but now… Eric Adams is facing a challenge from this Zoran Mamdani, who popped up on NBC’s Meet the Press. Even Kirsten Welker seemed shocked at the radicalism of this young 33-year-old wannabe mayor of New York.
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You are a self-described democratic socialist. Do you think that billionaires have a right to exist? No.
SPEAKER 02 :
I don’t think that we should have billionaires because, frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality. And ultimately, what we need more of is equality across our city and across our state and across our country. And I look forward to work with everyone, including billionaires, to make a city that is fairer for all of them.
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Well, he’ll work with them until they are no more because he doesn’t think there should be billionaires. How about globalize the intifada? Everyone knows what an intifada is, right? I don’t think Kirsten Welker had the nervous giggle when she asked him to condemn that awful, hateful, horrific expression. And I play these clips for you because I wonder, as the last caller said, can we find common ground? Can we get back to being unified again? Maybe this guy, Mamdani, is a one-off person. Maybe his 15 minutes of fame is about to come to an end and New Yorkers are going to come to their senses in November in the general election. There’s no way they could elect in America’s biggest and most prominent cities this far-left Marxist communist to be the mayor of the city, a guy who wants to have city-run grocery stores. Yeah, you know where else they have government-run grocery stores? North Korea. And I guarantee you that to Zoran, North Korea and Venezuela are probably, you know, good examples of how things can go. And I’m praying that this is a flash in the pan. How hard would it be to say you’re going to renounce the use of the expression intifada? This came up yesterday on Meet the Press.
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Do you condemn that phrase, globalize the intifada?
SPEAKER 02 :
That’s not language that I use. The language that I use and the language that I will continue to use to lead the city is that which speaks clearly to my intent, which is an intent grounded in a belief in universal human rights. And ultimately, that’s what is the foundation of so much of my politics, the belief that freedom and justice and safety are things that to have meaning have to be applied to all people. And that includes Israelis and Palestinians as well.
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But do you actually condemn it? I think that’s the question and the outstanding issue that a number of people, both of the Jewish faith and beyond, have. Do you condemn that phase, globalize the intifada, which a lot of people hear as a call to violence against Jews?
SPEAKER 02 :
I’ve heard from many Jewish New Yorkers who have shared their concerns with me. especially in light of the horrific attacks that we saw in Washington, D.C. and in Boulder, Colorado, about this moment of anti-Semitism in our country and in our city. And I’ve heard those fears and I’ve had those conversations, and ultimately they are part and parcel of why in my campaign I’ve put forward a commitment to increase funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800%. I don’t believe that the role of the mayor is to police speech in the manner, especially of that of Donald Trump, who has put one New Yorker in jail who’s just returned to his family, Mahmoud Khalil, for that very supposed crime of speech. Ultimately, what I think I need to show is. The ability to not only talk about something, but to tackle it and to make clear that there’s no room for anti-Semitism in the city. We have to root out that bigotry. And ultimately, we do that through the actions. And that is the mayor. I will be one that protects Jewish New Yorkers and lives up to that commitment through the work that I do.
SPEAKER 09 :
Very people quickly for the people who care about the language and who feel really concerned by that phrase. Why not just condemn it?
SPEAKER 02 :
My concern is to start to walk down the line of language and making clear what language I believe is permissible or impermissible takes me into a place similar to that of the president who is looking to do those very kinds of things, putting people in jail for writing an op-ed, putting them in jail for protesting. Ultimately, it’s not language that I use. It’s language I understand there are concerns about. And what I will do is showcase my vision for the city through my words and my actions.
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If you’re asked three times, why don’t you condemn something, the answer is very clear, because you don’t condemn it, because you agree with it. Clearly, he agrees with it. It would have been real easy to say, well, of course, I condemn advocating the destruction of the Jewish people. He couldn’t do it. Three times, three times, he was asked, why not condemn, globalize the Intifada, and he refused to do it. Are you paying attention, New York? Are you watching? Are you listening? Are you hearing? Are you seeing the clips that have been revealed? Look, the bottom line here is simple. If New York goes down the tubes, there’s a big part of me that says New York will get what they deserve.
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And now that you have a belly full of the socialist agenda, let’s hear from a great New York City capitalist and Gristiti’s owner, John Katsimatidis.
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And I know how worried you are about your beloved New York City. Can you believe this guy actually won the Democrat primary?
SPEAKER 06 :
Mike, I can’t believe it. The fact is that we’ve got a problem and we don’t know which way it’s going to go because we have too many people running. And the way the election is set up in November, that you can get 30 percent of the vote. And you can win and be the next mayor. And it’s a serious problem. I spoke to President Trump. He believes it’s a serious problem. And what we have to do, you know, you know what I’ve been saying all along. Now, I was in Havana in the 1990s when Castro was in charge. I think this guy wants to be the next Fidel Castro. And the fact is, he promises everything. Everything is promised. And guess what? At the end of the day, when I went to Havana the first time and met with Fidel Castro, and I met along with Congressman Charlie Rangel, because they were friendly from Harlem days. And he’s a guy that’s very friendly, great smile, looks great. But at the end of the day, he promised his people everything. And guess what? We were there. His people were starving. Me and Charlie Rangel went to one of the medical schools, and I found five from my high school, Brooklyn Tech High School, and I asked them, oh, great, I see you here, because they get a medical license that’s good in almost every country except the United States at that time. And I said, what can we do to help you? They said, send food. There is no food. The people are starving to death. And the same thing happened in Venezuela. Venezuela was the wealthiest country in South America, the wealthiest. And these socialists took over. What was his name? I don’t remember it, from Venezuela. Maduro. He promised everything. And guess what? Nothing. Venezuela is not the poorest country. Now, our country, Mike, is under attack. It’s under attack in so many ways. And the American people, I don’t care if you’re a Democrat, I don’t care if you’re a Republican, you have to recognize that our country is under attack. Well, the borders.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s right. And the city’s under attack. And as you said, he wants to be the Hugo Chavez, I think, is who we’re coming up with from Venezuela. Hugo Chavez, yes. You know, and ultimately, this guy makes no illusions. He doesn’t hold back on doubling down on his communist message. I mean, he talks about redistribution of the wealth. And to your business. He has white people. Of course he does. He wants to tax white neighborhoods. And doubled down on it, John. Didn’t even back off. Said, oh, yeah, that’s where the money is. It’s awful. For sure he hates. Yeah, you better believe it. He’s anti… Anti-Semite bigot. But in your business, Gristides, you’ve said, and I saw an interview with you a week or two ago, that if this guy gets in, you’d consider pulling Gristides out of the city. As I understand it, he wants to redirect revenues from corporate grocery stores to fund government-run grocery stores. John, the New York Post just moments ago posted an article saying, He wants to pay for government grocery stores with money that doesn’t even exist. He doesn’t even know how it works, John.
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Listen, it’s like taking this kid, 32 years old, and making him chairman of General Motors. As a state assemblyman, he has five employees. I know. Let’s make him CEO of General Motors. I know, I know. But what’s happening to the Democratic Party, Mike, and people around the country have to understand this, what’s happening to the Democratic Party is the liberals, I hate the word liberals, the socialists.
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Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
The socialists. The Marxists. The Marxists, the socialists have taken control of the Democratic primaries, especially.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
And they run their people. I’d rather have the days where the bosses picked out who’s going to run. I mean, it’s just crazy what’s going on in our country. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
And that wraps up the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast for Friday, July 4th, 2025. Be sure to subscribe to all of the podcasts and follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you like the show, be sure to share it with a friend. Happy Independence Day. I’m Eric Hansen. We’ll see you back here next week on the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast.
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