In this week’s episode of the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review, we delve into the political controversies shaking Washington D.C. J.D. Vance’s recent tweet has sent shockwaves throughout the political landscape, sparking debates across news networks. We explore the implications this has for the balance of power between branches of government. Plus, President Trump’s bold move to stop minting pennies becomes a topic of national discourse. Is it a step towards efficiency or just another political maneuver? Tune in to find out more. Additionally, we uncover a scrapped plan to dedicate a museum to Dr. Fauci, admire the
Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. It’s Friday, February 14th, 2025. Happy Valentine’s Day. I’m Eric Hansen. This week, there’s no love for doge among Democrats. Plus, the crowd at the Super Bowl greeted the president with a huge ovation. But first, the entirety of the Democrat Party has melted down over the Department of Government Efficiency. So what’s their problem?
SPEAKER 08 :
The tweet, the post that J.D. Vance put up the other day is what has sent shockwaves through the beast. The beast is roaring its disapproval over these words. Let me read it to you. J.D. Vance wrote, If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the Attorney General in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that’s also illegal. Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power. Now, that’s, again, sending shockwaves throughout the Beltway. Oh, Washington, D.C., they’re losing their mind. They’re flipping their lids. Big debate about this last night on CNN. Here was Scott Jennings with Abby Phillips and Gretchen Carlson, of all people. I don’t know, Gretchen was evidently, you know, she’s the former Fox News host who sued successfully Fox News for what she claimed was sexual harassment. And got a lot of money. I forget how many millions of dollars she got. But she used to host a daytime show. I think she was also on Fox and Friends first. Then she got a daytime show. Anyhow, now she pops up once in a while on CNN or MSNBC as the loyal opposition to MAGA and Trump and Trump supporters. So Gretchen has gone from center-right to hard-left. And she found herself in the unenviable position of debating the great Scott Jennings over this issue last night on CNN.
SPEAKER 09 :
It is the executive branch’s job to figure out how to spend money once it is appropriated by Congress. And sometimes they spend money that’s not been appropriated. But the correct political control is between the executive and the Congress, not some random federal judge.
SPEAKER 05 :
I want to return to that because that is also a major legal question. Do you really think that J.D. Vance’s tweet is only about these district judges? I think this is about no, this is a slippery slope because they’re going to move on to what the next ruling is. They’re setting the stage so that they can say that executive branch has control now over the judicial branch. They’re setting the stage. And for people who think for people who think that President Trump has not planned all of this, he pushes the envelope constantly. There was January 6th. He has a myriad of people out there that would support him. The executive branch being able to rule over the judicial branch because there have been no repercussions. And when there are not consequences and when there are not repercussions, you get away.
SPEAKER 09 :
I get it. You want you want individual federal judges who hate Donald Trump. No, I don’t. To tie him up for four years.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, I don’t.
SPEAKER 09 :
If you want a big policy questions decided, let the Supreme Court do it. But in the interim, the executive has to be allowed to go.
SPEAKER 08 :
Point is, the delay is everything. Scott Jennings’ argument is the point is the delay. That’s all they’re trying to do. They’re trying to handcuff Trump for as long as they can. That’s all it is. That’s all it is. And ultimately, the Supreme Court will prevail, but it might take a year or two or three. They’re trying to run out the clock. And I am really intrigued by Gretchen’s question, do you really think that’s what J.D. Vance meant? Again, I’ll read the post from J.D. Vance. If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that’s illegal. If a judge tried to tell an attorney general how to use their discretion, that’s illegal. Judges are not allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power. There are now judges like the one in Rhode Island, like the one in California. There are judges who are insanely overstepping the lower federal courts. Yesterday, a judge in Rhode Island. Rhode Island! I think this radio station or TV studio I’m sitting in is bigger than Rhode Island. Ruled that the Trump administration… violated a temporary restraining order and is now ordering the end of all the spending freezes initiated by the White House. A judge in Rhode Island is telling the executive branch what it can and cannot do with regards to the federal budget. All these crazy grants that were given out by USAID… to organizations promoting DEI and inclusion initiatives in foreign countries? A left-wing judge in a left-wing state just told American taxpayers they have to keep paying them and that the executive branch has no discretion in how federal bureaucracies operate. As Bunchy puts it over at Red State… It’s hard to see this as anything other than a soft coup. This is a soft coup. This is an attempt, again, at lawfare.
SPEAKER 10 :
Now let me ask you, if you or your company spent $40 to make a product that you sold for $4, how long do you think you’d stay in business? That’s why Trump wants to stop making the penny.
SPEAKER 08 :
Apparently, President Trump was so bored at the Super Bowl that while he was there, he tweeted out that we’re going to get rid of producing pennies purging pennies in order to cut waste. And I thought, well, let me look at liberal media. Let me see what the New York Times is saying about it. Headline, Trump orders Treasury to halt minting new pennies to cut waste. Since taking office, President Trump has set his sights on big targets like Greenland, but he’s also taken aim at small ones like paper straws and pennies. Sunday night, Trump said he ordered the Treasury Secretary to stop producing new pennies. Now, during… On his post, Trump himself wrote, let’s rip the waste out of our great nation’s budget, even if it’s a penny at a time. Adding that pennies literally cost us more than two cents. Well, with all due respect, Mr. President, according to the New York Times, you’re wrong. It costs 3.69 cents to produce and distribute one penny. according to the 2024 U.S. Mint annual report. That means, accounting for face value, each penny cost the American taxpayer a loss of 2.69 cents. Now remember, I’m reading from the New York Times. Last year, the Mint issued over 3 billion pennies, according to its annual report. Now, why would we not get rid of pennies? Who in the heck cares about keeping pennies when we’re wasting millions and millions and millions of dollars on the minting and distribution of pennies? It’s the same with USAID, with USAID. I’ve lost track. Do we say USAID, guys, or is it USAID? It’s my poor brain circulation. I am. I’m having some memory issues. Anybody remember what it was? It’s AID, right? I mean, I think the colloquial, you say it, abbreviate USAID, but it’s really USAID. I got a note from somebody who finds it horrifying, just an absolute abomination that Trump’s doge is going in and uncovering all this waste at USAID. And as I said from day one, there are good things that that government agency does. It’s not a charity. It was signed into law by an executive order from JFK in the early 60s. It’s gotten turned into some bloated, bureaucratic boondoggle. Sesame Street in Iraq and all this other crap. But you can’t throw the baby out with the bathwater, as I’ve said repeatedly. Let’s not let people die because they’ve been counting on food supplies and medicine and other righteous services that that organization provided. I think, as I understand it, Trump’s vision is to put it under the auspices of the State Department and keep the life-saving materials and services flowing. And that’s as it should be. Look, what do the defenders of USAID have to say about all the goofy, crazy things that have been uncovered about it? Do you just ignore it? Nothing to see here? Oh, nothing? Don’t pay no attention to funding PBS or the BBC or Politico? No, no, no, no, don’t pay attention to that. We’re sending food to starving kids. All right, but what about all the other stuff? Does it matter? No, no, no, no, no. It’s horrifying, somebody told me this morning. Horrifying that the cruelty of Trump would be to dismantle this agency that I love so much. Oh, really? You love taxpayers being forced to pay for things that the vast majority of taxpayers object to? See, it matters.
SPEAKER 10 :
There are some angry voices speaking out against the president, but there are many more that love what he’s been doing for the country in his first three weeks. They let him know how they felt about him at the Super Bowl this past weekend.
SPEAKER 08 :
There’s a lot of really good things. Look at this poll that just came out from CBS. I mean, 53%? You would think, with all the weeping and gnashing of teeth… that Trump haters are doing right now, then his approval rating would be in the toilet. He should be underwater, right? Not according to CBS News.
SPEAKER 04 :
Our CBS poll finds that a majority of Americans, 53%, approve of the job he’s doing. That’s a better approval number than he ever reached during his first term in the White House. Joining us with more is our executive director of elections and surveys, Anthony Salvato. Good to see you, Anthony. What’s driving this?
SPEAKER 02 :
I will keep it simple, Margaret. He’s doing in the eyes of the public what he said he would do in the campaign. There’s political value in that. In fact, 70 percent of people say he’s doing what he promised. That’s whether they approve of him or not. Now, there’s another part of this that continues over from the campaign. There were words that he was described as being tough, being energetic. And he still is today in big majority numbers. So as people take a look in these first few weeks, there’s been a lot of activity. They’re getting that general sense of governance, and that’s being reflected in these early numbers. So that’s perception. What about the actual policies? Well, let’s start with the ones that are popular. And again, these echo a lot of what we saw in the campaign. The idea of deporting those in the country illegally continues to be popular. We saw that in the campaign. Sending troops to the U.S.-Mexico border. Again, majority in favor. We’d seen that in the campaign. For his supporters in particular, the focus on ending DEI is popular. We had seen in the campaign a lot of them thought those processes had gone too far.
SPEAKER 08 :
Do you know how hard that had to be for CBS? CBS! That wasn’t Newsmax. That wasn’t the Greg Kelly show. That wasn’t The Five. That’s Margaret Brennan on CBS looking constipated, having to report, oh, wow, the American people robustly approve of what he’s doing. So when you have a Trump hater in your life who acts out towards you, understand, it’s the country that they resent. It’s not one man. It’s not Donald Trump. And looking at the – I love this headline. President Trump booed by the crowd. We ought to – what is the spun? Does anybody know what the spun is? I’m afraid to ask. With my luck, it’s like watching a Kanye tweet. With my luck. I mean, it’s – and here’s what Florida just texted me. Hey, Mike, how about drunk and delusional at the not-so-Super Bowl? See you on the cruise. Well, it’s gaslighting. Does that mean the crowd roaring its approval of Donald Trump was drunk and delusional? Maybe that’s how you feel. I hope not, especially if you’re going to go on the Alaska cruise with us. We want to get along. I don’t want you to push me overboard. Arkansas. Mike, I think it’s like those experiments where someone says a word and some people think it’s one thing and another thinks it’s something entirely different. People hear what they want to hear. Or they’re just lying. I wish I knew the answer to it. Again, play the clip 15. This is the moment the second Trump appears on the Jumbotron during the Star Spangled Banner when John Batiste is singing this beautiful rendition of our national anthem. And for just a few brief seconds, for just a couple of seconds, They put Trump on. They minimized his appearance there. You know that if a Democrat sitting president had made history by attending the Super Bowl, it’s all we would have seen. Oh, my goodness. Look at this. First time a president has ever attended. With Trump, it was just little drips and drips, little bits and pieces, a little tiny few seconds here, a few seconds there. And I’m grateful. to the production staff that decided to put Trump on the screen for just three or four seconds during the Star Spangled Banner, resulting in this reaction.
SPEAKER 01 :
Broad stripes and bright stars Through the perilous fight For the Reds
SPEAKER 08 :
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SPEAKER 10 :
Promo code MikeG. This is the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. I’m Eric Hansen. I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was a plan to honor Dr. Fauci with his own museum in Washington, D.C. But thanks to the Trump administration, that’s not happening anymore.
SPEAKER 08 :
Do you realize they were going to spend hundreds of thousands on an Anthony Fauci museum at the National Institutes of Health? Oh, nothing to see. How does that sit with you? I saw this on social media. In fact, the reason I saw it is because Elon Musk himself reposted this. This is just a citizen activist, a citizen journalist, somebody posting content on social media. Reading what we’re reading, learning what we’re learning about monies that the taxpayers were supporting and projects like a museum dedicated to Fauci at the NIH.
SPEAKER 06 :
This just in from the Department of Government Efficiency. In the past 48 hours, Health and Human Services has canceled 62 contracts worth $182 million. The contracts were entirely for administrative expenses. to include $168,000 contract for an Anthony Fauci exhibit at the National Institute of Health Museum. I would like all of the income taxes that I’ve paid since I’ve been alive and working to be returned to me ASAP.
SPEAKER 08 :
Hey, man, I’m with her. Karen Gallagher would like to speak to the manager. I want my money back. Oh, how are you with some of your tax? And again, not a lot of money, obviously. Obviously $162,000 in the scheme of things. But it’s the principle of the thing. Do you think most American taxpayers are okay with our money being used to fund a museum, an exhibit, a tribute to that guy, Anthony Fauci, knowing what we know now? About the things that he did to this country? About his knowledge of gain-of-function research? About Wuhan? About all the crap that he pulled? An exhibit? I’m old enough to remember libertarian Mark Cuban. Now, admittedly, I’m not really old enough to remember it. I saw this clip on social media as well. But this is from years ago. Check out what Mark Cuban in 2017 said about the size and scope of the federal government.
SPEAKER 01 :
As a libertarian, I think we can reduce employment in government by at least a third, reduce the overhead in administration by that much or more, so that we can offer more to services for our citizens. And so when it comes down to it, where I tend to disagree with everybody, and this is the libertarian in me, I’m happy to push down the size of government. And I’m happy to make work on making government more efficient because then more money can pass through and help the people who need it. And that’s what needs to change.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, really? But now you’re saying that what Trump is doing, which is exactly that, is a danger to democracy. As you lefties love to screech.
SPEAKER 10 :
Our friend and colleague Joe Piscopo, a star of stage and screen, visited the show this week to talk about his life as an entertainer and his new book, Average Joe.
SPEAKER 08 :
Your story, even with Saturday Night Live, is so riveting. A lot of people don’t realize that you really helped save the show from cancellation. You were one of the actors hired to replace one of the original cast members of Saturday Night Live. And you were on there for, I think, four or five years. But the behind-the-scenes that I happen to know about… is what I think people find so fascinating, because really, thanks to your… That show was on the verge… SNL was about to be canceled, right, Joe?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, man. Again, thank you for bringing that up, Mike. What I wrote about first is the comedy club. First, I talk about heritage. I talk about my Italian-American heritage and how great it is to be an American and how proud I am. And you can see me on the wide shot that you have. That’s my grandfather behind me, my great uncle behind me. That below here is the manifest that is from the freighter, the multi, the German freighter that my grandfather came to America on, you know. So so I appreciate I wrote that and I went to the comedy clubs. But making the transition to Saturday Night Live, don’t they were for some reason, Lorne and company, Lorne Michaels and company left and they had to bring in a whole new staff. So they hired a great gal by the name of Jean Domanian, who was Lorne’s right hand at the time. And she had to rebuild the show. And then we had the task of replacing Gilda Radner and John Belushi and Danny Aykroyd. Oh, it’s heavy. Oh, oh. It was impossible. No, it was a no win situation. Didn’t work out great for the first 10 shows. But you’re absolutely right. Talk about reinventing yourself, hanging in, staying with it, you know. And by the grace of God, it worked out when Eddie came on and Dick Ebersole came in. And no disrespect to anybody else, but it’s just work. But we glitched for a bit there. You’re absolutely right. Well, it’s not easy. I’ll tell you.
SPEAKER 08 :
And you produced some memorable moments. I mean, I still see you and Eddie Murphy, Ebony and Ivory together. I mean, just some great, great, great moments. The great Joe Piscopo is with us. His book is on sale today, Average Joe. And I cannot wait to get my hands on it. This is a book that really… It has been years and years in the making, and I’m so honored to get to announce it to the world today that it’s on sale today wherever books are sold, Average Joe by Joe Piscopo. And Joe, you and I both will remember to our dying days The moment in the hallway at AM 970, The Answer, when Donald Trump came down the escalator and we sort of whispered almost like we were in a secret club together. Hey, this guy’s the real deal. The American people are going to go for this guy. And you and I were one of the only two. People were mocking us. I never forget being up on a panel with – And hey, I don’t mind name dropping Eric Metaxas. And he browbeat me in front of the crowd. Oh, there’s Donald Trump. Are you kidding me? He’s a clown. And now Eric, of course, like so many others, is a huge Trump supporter because Trump won people like Eric and Ted Cruz and others over. Joe, you saw it coming.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, well, we did it. Thank you. And just we talked about this on my morning show. And thank you for gracing the airwaves with us this morning, Mike Gallagher. You know, I love you. My mother always loved you, you know, but Mike, I went to Mike and I were talking about to your audience kind enough to watch and listen is that we talked when you were at the Empire State Building as we chatted this morning and I met Mike Gallagher. I said, I know the Democrat blue dog, but a Democrat, a diehard Democrat. And I talked to Mike Gallagher, walked out of that studio at the Empire State Building with the great Gallagher. And I said, this is a nice guy. I mean, he’s got all the outlook. He believes in God and country. He’s got a conservative view. And I’ll tell you, it started to turn my political outlook. So I thank you for that. And then me meeting Ronald, it was Mike Gallagher and Ronald Reagan that really kind of changed my whole political outset. I’m telling you something. But I appreciate it more than anything else, and I appreciate you always being there. But I wanted to say, too, and not to lose track of what we’re talking about, we chose the Mike Gallagher show to make the national break of the book.
SPEAKER 08 :
I’m so honored. Well, that means more to me than you’ll ever know. And I’m so honored. And I know our audience will love the book. Go to Amazon. Get it. Go to Barnes. Wherever you’ve got to go to get the book. Average Joe. And in the minute or so we have left, Joe, this summer, we’ve managed to talk you into joining us for the second annual Patriots Alaska Cruise. Now, obviously, you sing. I can hit a few notes. There’s a rumor that maybe we’re… And Larry Elder and I, along with you, Joe, and Jennifer Horn from L.A., who we love, is there any truth to the rumor that we might be able to do a buddy song together on the ship for our passengers?
SPEAKER 13 :
You know, worth the price of admission alone is just you and I singing on stage. Mike Gallagher is Broadway caliber. This guy on stage.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, yeah. I’m community theater caliber. I’m no, I’m dinner. I’m dinner. I’m dinner theater caliber. I’m dinner. I’m the La Comedia Dinner Club in Ohio. That’s what I am.
SPEAKER 13 :
When you looked at me in the hallway, you said he would win, and I looked back and said we were right, and I’m telling you we’re right about you and I doing a duet on the Patriots cruise. It’s called TravelWithSalem.com. Come on with us.
SPEAKER 10 :
Every day, Mike talks to Mark Davis, the morning legend at 660 AM, The Answer in Dallas. This week, it was all about Doge.
SPEAKER 03 :
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. They go, you’re trying to kill grandma. 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 08 :
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. Little X. Crawling around the Resolute desk. Hmm. And having a ball. And there was Trump smiling. And Elon Musk is answering every question. And 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.
SPEAKER 01 :
There was some aspect of that.
SPEAKER 08 :
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 err.
SPEAKER 03 :
Tell me when I do.
SPEAKER 08 :
Tell me when I do, and we’ll fix it. Again, I’ll correct it.
SPEAKER 03 :
My gosh, no politician talks that way. No, as opposed to… Let’s 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.
SPEAKER 08 :
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 Now, that’s how bad it got. That’s how runaway… And there are people on… 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’ve 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’ve 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? Oh, my. 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 03 :
Because he was sitting down. Yeah, sitting down and Elon standing.
SPEAKER 08 :
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. Right. They got nothing, Mark.
SPEAKER 03 :
And this is funny because doesn’t this run counter to the notion that Trump is an egomaniac and makes everything about him? 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 10 :
We’ve had a lot of good news coming out of the Trump administration over the last few weeks. The biggest? Even many of his detractors are starting to come around.
SPEAKER 08 :
Trump is winning everybody over. Look at Meghan McCain. Now look, there’s no secret about the no love lost between the late John McCain and Donald Trump. They hated each other. No question about it. And many would argue that Trump was… disrespectful in some of the things he said about John McCain. And clearly his daughter, Megan, she loves her father, cherishes him, and hates Trump. He insulted her dad. And you get that on a purely personal level, right? We understand that. And look, I said it once or twice before, kind of mocking the prisoner of war status of John McCain, not my favorite thing. So be it, all right? It is what it is. Meghan McCain yesterday posted on X the following. Why couldn’t Joe Biden bring Mark Fogle home? Mark Fogle is the guy who went over to Russia, was imprisoned on some bogus trumped-up charge. He was falsely imprisoned, and Trump brought him home. Trump got him released. And here’s what Meghan McCain, who you know hates Donald Trump on a personal level for insulting her late father, here’s what she writes. 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. Why was Biden unable or unwilling to make it happen? I genuinely want the answer here. Meghan McCain, good on you. Good for you. Welcome to the party, Megan. And we get it. We understand family and we understand the way you reacted. But we also appreciate the fact that you’re putting your country and your president and what is truly right and just and righteous ahead of your own personal contempt and For Donald Trump, the man. And it’s happening all over the place. Chris Sununu? You think the former New Hampshire governor was a fan of Trump? He used to bag on Trump regularly. Last night, he’s getting insulted by Anderson Cooper. Called a schoolyard name. A juvenile schoolyard. Caustic vulgarity. That’s how flustered Anderson Cooper got. They don’t know what to do. They don’t know what to say. And they resort to childish antics. Here’s Anderson Cooper. Now, I want to warn you. I had to ask my boss, can I play what Anderson Cooper actually said on air for the benefit of showing how pathetic and unhinged the left is becoming? And I said, do I need to bleep it? He said, well, it’s a schoolyard taunt. It means jerk. But I always think of kids in the backseat of the car as mom might be driving around running errands. And we don’t want to offend mom. And I get that. So I said to Phil, I said, how about this compromise? How about if I warn mom in the front seat of the minivan that for the next 67 seconds, I’m going to play a clip from Anderson Cooper on CNN last night insulting Chris Sununu. You’re going to hear Anderson Cooper. The stoic, classy, elegant veteran journalist get reduced to a schoolyard bully because he’s getting bested by former New Hampshire governor Chris Sununu.
SPEAKER 11 :
These guys are saving $2.3 billion a day. Well, that means 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.
SPEAKER 12 :
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.
SPEAKER 11 :
It’s actually not the FEMA money that was used for migrants. That was.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
FEMA money for migrants? That’s OK now? No, I’m not saying it’s OK.
SPEAKER 12 :
I’m not saying it’s OK. Don’t put words in my mouth.
SPEAKER 11 :
So would you stop that? Would you stop that process?
SPEAKER 12 :
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.
SPEAKER 08 :
Talking about luxury hotels, that guy lives in New York City. He knows about the luxury hotels that have been converted to migrant shelters. He’s lying. He’s pretending he doesn’t understand the millions and millions of dollars that have been earmarked to convert luxury hotels in New York City to housing for illegals. He knows that, and he’s playing dumb. And moreover… He’s acting like a little schoolyard punk calling Chris Sununu a name. Incidentally, I’m told that Anderson Cooper later apologized. So there’s that. Good for him. Shouldn’t have done it in the first place. And did you hear the other voice on that set who was piling on with Chris Sununu? It was Jeffrey Toobin. Do you want to know about that guy? Google it.
SPEAKER 10 :
And finally, Elon Musk gave himself a new handle on X this week, and he’s having some fun with it at the media’s expense.
SPEAKER 08 :
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, Wiley 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.
SPEAKER 07 :
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.
SPEAKER 08 :
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 Dana Bash is an imbecile? I guess she’ll have to read that. That should be his name for tomorrow. Change it to Dana Bash is a moron. At Dana Bash is a moron. Oh, my goodness gracious. How much fun can we have?
SPEAKER 10 :
And that wraps up the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast for Friday, February 14th, 2025. I’m Eric Hansen. 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 Valentine’s Day. I’m Eric Hansen. We’ll see you back here next week on the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast.
