SPEAKER 03 : 0:05

Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. It’s Friday, April 4th. This week, the left vandalizes Teslas, California honors an alleged assassin, and President Trump floats a possible third term. We begin with the story everyone wants to talk about, tariffs on the stuff we buy every day. It’s a big day for the country and the world with tariffs. the so-called Liberation Day finally arriving, the day when Trump is, after the markets close, will reveal what the tariff position is going to look like. Israel yesterday announced no tariffs on the United States, which is big, but perhaps even bigger is what the Ontario premier said, Doug Ford, on an interview earlier today on CNBC.

SPEAKER 02 : 0:57

He believes he’s supporting Americans. He said he was going to create jobs, create wealth, reduce inflation. It’s worth the total opposite. But do you think it’s fair that you have tariffs on a whole number of products? That’s right. And we’d be willing to take those off tomorrow if he took all the tariffs off. We are not the problem, Andrew. Do you know what the problem is? China’s the problem. And he’s taking a blind eye to China as they continue to build their critical mineral mass. We have all the critical minerals that our great neighbors need. We have the energy that our great neighbors need. Did you hear what he said?

SPEAKER 03 : 1:35

We will take the tariffs off, all tariffs off, if Trump will take the tariffs off of Canada. That’s, of course, what Trump wants. Trump wants an even playing field. Fair trade. Not us. Shouldering the majority. Well, Liberation Day continues in what’s being described as a stunning move. The president of Mexico, Claudia Scheinbaum, has conceded to the United States and President Trump, declaring she won’t retaliate with tariffs against President Trump’s trade measures. Somebody just pointed out, How Scheinbaum just played a high stakes game and she blinked first. It’s a big story. Real big story. It’s a real big story. First, Israel. Canada’s Doug Ford said, we’ll lift the tariffs. Mexico. China is left, but this is… This is the golden era. This is where Trump’s agenda comes into play mightily. I love the quote, all we needed was a new president. Republicans may have won big in November, but as Democrats proved this week, the fight is far from over. The GOP would do well to remember that. So I don’t know that name-calling and I don’t know that denouncing our political opponent, I don’t know that Violence? I know that violence isn’t the answer. But I wonder what you think about my belief that maybe last night’s election win for the Supreme Court justice, this liberal Susan Crawford, will lower the temperature a little bit. I guarantee you Charlie Kirk doesn’t agree with me. I don’t think he does. But who knows? I just have enormous respect for him. You’ve seen these videos that are going viral, and they’ve been going viral, where he goes one-on-one with college students on college campuses all over America. That is a thing to behold. This young man is beyond brilliant and has emerged as one of the most important voices in America. Here’s what he wrote about Wisconsin. We did a lot in Wisconsin, but we fell short. We must realize and appreciate that we are the low-propensity party now. The party has been remade. Special elections and off-cycle elections will continue to be a problem without a change of strategy. We’re the party of welders, waiters, and plumbers. We’re the party of people who work with their hands, who shower before and after work. Politics is an afterthought for many of our supporters. They have common sense and American values, but they’re voters who must be chased and Democrats have become the college indoctrinated, institutionalized, and government dependent high propensity party. They live for politics. It’s their religion. You may hate Trump, but he resurrected a dead GOP back to life. Voters who weren’t on anyone’s data rolls came out of the woodwork to vote for Donald Trump. Charlie goes on to write, our movement must begin to fully fund the infrastructure to match the Democrat machine. Our ideas are better. They’re actually popular. But we need to match like for like. We need to out-organize Democrats. We need to match their fundraising advantage. Let Wisconsin be a wake-up call. Let it be a call to return to the front lines. We won in November, but to save the republic, we must string together multiple victories. And that starts in 2026. It’s a great message from Charlie Kirk. I hope you check it out. Again, I posted it on my ex-account. Follow me, at Gallagher Show. Interact there, and let me see what you think. We’ve been hearing about angry Americans vandalizing Teslas to protest Elon. Here’s an example of one such criminal confronted by the vehicle’s owner. There’s a lot of insanity. Take, for example, the guy caught drawing a swastika on a man’s car. And my question to you is, what would you do? Here’s what this guy did. He took out his cell phone camera and he taped the exchange. The way the guy responded, the guy who was caught red-handed defacing another man’s property is classic. Free service.

SPEAKER 06 : 6:28

How about you pay for the repairs? Write a check. You just bought a Tesla. I can wipe it off with a towel. No, no. It’s not a key. It is a hate crime, sir. It was a crayon. It is a hate crime. Did you write a swastika on there?

SPEAKER 07 : 6:40

I’m sorry you’re upset. Did you write a swastika? It didn’t even work.

SPEAKER 06 : 6:44

Apparently it doesn’t work. Did you write a swastika on the… It’s a key, sir. We see it on the video.

SPEAKER 07 : 6:48

It’s not a key.

SPEAKER 06 : 6:49

Is it a swastika? I was probably putting my keys in my pocket. Is it a swastika? Have you looked at your car? Is there a key mark? Yes. is it a swastika it’s at the police right now it’s being fingerprinted there what do you mean it’s being fingerprinted because they they’re trying to track you down thankfully facebook tracked you down so your business your freaking livelihood everything now because you chose to write a uh so to tell facebook that you’re sorry for writing a swastika on a tesla listen

SPEAKER 07 : 7:18

I said, I’m sorry. For what?

SPEAKER 06 : 7:21

And I apologize. For what?

SPEAKER 07 : 7:22

I have nothing against your car, and I have nothing against you.

SPEAKER 06 : 7:25

So why would you write a swastika on a Tesla?

SPEAKER 07 : 7:28

Obviously, I have something against Elon Musk, but that’s not the way to show my… So Elon Musk owns that car?

SPEAKER 06 : 7:34

No, he owns the company. It was bought and paid for a long time ago.

SPEAKER 07 : 7:37

That’s why it’s misguided, and obviously, I did not intend to do this.

SPEAKER 03 : 7:42

Oh, you didn’t intend? I didn’t intend to draw a swastika on a car. And I don’t want to put this guy in harm’s way, the guy caught, but I want to know about him. I mean, normal-looking guy, well-groomed. I mean, he’s got, like, his little vest on. He’s got his little jacket vest on. Looks like a professional. This guy’s a 45-, 50-year-old man defacing somebody’s car because he’s mad at Elon Musk. I want to know about that guy. Who is he? What does he do for a living? Not, again, to cause him any harm. I want to know how these people get to where they are psychologically. Aren’t you kind of intrigued by this? I wonder if that guy’s a husband, a father? Is he an executive somewhere? What does he do for a living? How do you interact with people who are thrilled that the Trump administration is trying to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse of our taxpayer dollars? How will you treat that person if you’re going to go up and draw a swastika of all things? You know how many Jews in America have immediate family members who died in the Holocaust? You think that’s funny? You think that’s cute? You think it’s clever? You think you’re making a statement? Well, obviously I have something against Elon Musk. Well, take it up with Elon Musk. Go try to draw a swastika on his car and see what happens to you. You big coward. These people are nuts. And if you talk to anybody who’s agreeing with that guy, they’re nuts. And nuts is on the line. All Elon Musk did was volunteer to make our government and our country better. We all worry about the future of Social Security, right? Listen to what Elon’s Doge team is doing to fix it. This is important. Elon went to Wisconsin. He’s supporting, of course, Brad Schimel. And he introduced one of his Doge engineers. This guy’s one of these venture equity capital guys, a guy named Antonio Gracias, who explains what’s going on. with the Social Security Administration and what they are uncovering through Doge. Check this out. And this is like four minutes, but I want you to hear the whole thing because it’s really, really important. Everybody needs to know what’s at stake. Look, in Wisconsin, they want the radical progressive woman to win the Supreme Court race so that Democrats can control the House of Representatives. That’s the real plan. That’s the endgame. With Social Security, check out the connection to illegals.

SPEAKER 01 : 10:49

Antonio’s helping out with Social Security. So just trying to review Social Security, where you may have heard that we found 20 million dead people mocked as alive in the Social Security database. This is so crazy. And then you’ll notice there’s a strange trend here. where how many social security numbers were issued? Do you want to?

SPEAKER 08 : 11:16

Yeah, so let me tell you what happened here. We started at the top of the system. You want to talk about a lot of it? We started at the top of the system, mapping the whole system of social security to understand where all the fraud was. And there’s a lot of great people there that showed us really a lot of waste. And so that came with a big list of stuff they’re working on. You’ve heard some of that already. But this is what jumped out at us. When we saw these numbers, we were like, what is this? In 21, you see 270,000 people. It goes all the way to 2.1 million in 24. These are non-citizens that are getting Social Security numbers. Yeah, this is a mind-blowing chart. Yeah, this literally blew us away. We went there to find fraud, and we found this by accident. And this isn’t political, by the way. My parents are immigrants. Yeah, this country’s been great to us. My brother and sister are all born in Spain. I’m pro-legal immigration. This is not political. This is not political. This is about America and the future of America. And there are a lot of good people in the system that pointed this in this direction. I want to honor them right now that work in the government today who took risks to show us these numbers and tell us what’s going on. So I want to stop for a minute. I want to honor those people today. Very good people. Very good people. I have been from D.C. to social security offices to the border to track this down, and very good people have helped us along the way. I want to thank them. This number, what this is, is when you come in the country, if you’re illegal, there’s a couple ways to come in. You come in through a port of entry, and you can tell them you’re afraid. They’ll give you an asylum case. You’ll get an interview. Then you get in. That’s one way to do it. Another way to do it is to just go to the border. Literally, this happened. I talked to Border Patrol myself. Elon was there, too. I went to Laredo and I went to Bronzeville. Elon went to Eagle Pass. You walk up to Border Patrol officer and you tell him you want to come in. They have a couple of choices. They could charge you with a misdemeanor or a felony under 1325, or they can make an administrative offense, like a parking ticket, basically. They were told to do that, make an administrative offense under the last administration. And then you could walk across the border. They do what’s called a… Release your recognizance and they give you an NTA notice to appear which to appear at a judge The wait times on judges are like average six years. Look at grok. You’ll see it on immigration judges There’s only 700 of them. This is 5.5 million people Okay, so what happens then once you’re in the country and you’ve got asylum do one of these pathways we map the whole thing out and You can apply for a work document. You file a 765. It’s the work form. You get this form called the 766. That’s the authorization. And then Social Security Administration automatically sends you in the mail your Social Security number. No interview.

SPEAKER 01 : 14:11

No idea. This is worth just reiterating. People sometimes think that under the Biden administration that he was simply asleep at the switch. He wasn’t asleep. They weren’t asleep at the switch. It was a massive, large-scale program to import as many illegals as possible, ultimately to change the entire voting map of the United States and disenfranchise the American people and make it a permanent, deep blue, one-party state from which there would be no escape.

SPEAKER 08 : 14:39

Look, if I hadn’t seen this myself, I’m not sure I’d have believed it. I went through it myself and mapped it, and Elon is right. This is true. The defaults in the system from Social Security to all of the benefit programs have been set to max inclusion, max pay for these people, and minimum collection. That’s what’s happening. We found 1.3 million of them already on Medicaid, as an example. On every benefit program we went through, we found groups from this particular group of people, this 5.5 million people, in those benefit programs. And then what was really, really disturbing us was why. We’re asking ourselves why. And so we actually just took a sample and looked at voter registration records. And we found people here registered to vote in this population, yes. And who did vote. And we found some by sampling that actually did vote. And we have referred them to prosecution at the Homeland Security Investigation Service. Already. Already. That has already happened.

SPEAKER 03 : 15:34

That’s what I voted for. And that guy, this Antonio Gracias, he’s an equity venture capital guy. He doesn’t need this. Elon doesn’t need to do any of this. They’re doing it because they love the country. And they want to make it better. Spring is here, and my pillow is ready to meet the moment with the Spring Sheet Sale. Got to be careful with the way I say that. The Spring Sheet Sale. Say that three times fast. You know the Giza Dream Sheets that I’ve been telling you about? These and the percale sheets, holy cow, check out this offer. Just in time for spring, you can get your very own set of Queen Giza Dream bed sheets from MyPillow. You’ll save 50% or more. You can get the queen size. Queen-sized Giza Dream or percale bedsheets for as low as $29.98 with the promo code MikeG. That’s an extraordinary offer. And when you go to the website, check out the pillows, the slippers, the doggy beds, the loungewear. and more. MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher Special Square. 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It had something to do with tax funding and I forget. It was a financial impropriety. But she’s only one of many. Look at these four European countries where candidates like Marine Le Pen and the party itself that represents supposed far right. I always get cynical when somebody says far right. You hardly ever hear the media talk about far left. Check out, though, the Romanian far-right frontrunner. has been blocked from the Romanian presidential race. Moldova has banned a pro-Russian party member from running for election. Germany’s far-right party expelled from the European Parliament group. And finally, Marine Le Pen, not only was she sentenced to, I think, four years in prison for some kind of tax or financial impropriety, but she was banned from running for president. And she’s the favorite in the polls. Sound familiar? Sound like something you recognize? Oh, surely no government would gin up charges against a politician in order to prevent the people from getting to vote for who they want to vote for, right? That can’t happen in this world. It’s 2025. Nobody would use the courts to do that, would they? That’s not possible. No, no way. J.D. was right. He was absolutely correct to criticize what Europe is doing. In four European countries, candidates and parties, sometimes even after winning the first round decisively, France is the latest example of banning people who the people want from running for president. Wow. The California legislature proposed a new ballot measure about access to health care. Sounds good, right? Wait till you hear what they named it. The California ballot measure that would be a new health care law that would make it harder for insurance companies to deny coverage is called the Luigi Mangione Access to Health Care Act. I’m not kidding you. They’re actually advancing a ballot initiative in the state of California named… for the young man who is charged with brutally slaughtering a young husband and father whose crime, whose sin, whose fate was to be the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. The Luigi Mangione Access to Healthcare Act in California was put forward by attorney Paul Eisner. It would make it illegal for an insurance company to delay, deny, or modify any medical procedure. Now, delay, deny, that’s important. You remember those terms. Because that, of course, was allegedly Luigi’s mantra. He even had those words on the bullets that he put forward. used to slaughter Brian Thompson. Delay-deny was the subject of a book blasting the healthcare industry. So the ballot initiative not only glorifies this alleged assassin and monster and coward putting bullets in the back of a young man, stalking up behind him while the guy’s walking to a conference, But it also glorifies the book that Luigi Mangione allegedly used as the basis for his cold-blooded killing. Now, I can’t dismiss California. It’s a prominent state. It’s a big state. Millions of people, many of whom are listening and watching me right now. How sick have we become when something like this can happen. How sick a society are we when this kind of thing happens? With all the serious issues for the Trump administration to manage right now, it’s easy to forget that the President has a great sense of humor. He had a tremendous time trolling the media this week about running for a third term in office. If I should make MAGA world mad at me when I express a little discomfort with Trump’s trolling. Once again, President Trump is on the prowl with infuriating his critics by suggesting he could run for a third term. Wouldn’t really run for a third term, he says. J.D. would run as president. Trump would be his vice presidential running mate. And then on day one, J.D. would resign and Trump would become president for the third term. Now, none of that can happen. None of that’s going to happen. None of that will happen. But he says it anyway. He says he’s serious. And when he says he’s serious, then, of course, the media dutifully says, well, he’s serious. And he’s got his tongue firmly planted in cheek. He’s not serious. At least I don’t think he is. He doesn’t mean it. He just wants the media to take the bait. And they always do. They always sit around and they thump their chest and they fret and they whine. I mean, listen to them. Let’s take a peek into MSNBC and how they reacted to Trump. He was on Air Force One. He said, well, you know, I’m serious about this. Now we’ve got to give this some thought about what we could do. And then somebody suggested, well, how would this happen? Would J.D. run and then you’re his VP? And then he’d go, well, it could happen. And that led to the predictable meltdown on MSNBC. Quick reaction, guys, to that Trump comment entertaining a third term. You first, David.

SPEAKER 05 : 24:48

Believe him. I think the biggest mistake of the last eight years is we somehow fail to give credibility to Donald Trump’s whims and his impulses. But we know it’s true. And January 6th was a perfect example. If he says that he’s not ruling it out, he’s not ruling it out. And we consider we should consider it a constitutional threat.

SPEAKER 03 : 25:04

They’re very serious about this is a constitutional threat. We have another constitutional crisis. Impeach him. Impeaching for talking about a third term. He’s shredding the Constitution. And the reason I’m going to get in trouble, and I’m ready, I’m okay, hey, what am I, a big mouth, old man talk show host, and I’m an old man, going to take vacation next week to pretend that a milestone is not being reached. I’m pretending I’m 49 years old. I think I feel 49, maybe 50, 51. There’s no way I could ever be 65. There’s just no way. It doesn’t happen. Couldn’t happen. How did it get here this quick? So, look, let me just throw caution to the wind. This is not my favorite thing for President Trump to do. I don’t love it. And you’re going to get mad at me. That’s okay. Hey, let’s open up the floodgates. 800-655-MIKE. 800-655-6453. Yell at me. Be mad at me. Stick a pin in a voodoo doll of Mike Gallagher. Get you one of those Mike Gallagher bobbleheads. We tried to do that, but they’re too expensive. Those bobbleheads. And finally, all kinds of people call our show to contribute their insights about the day’s event. Lamar called as well, and it was one of the highlights of the week. Lamar, it says downtown New York. Might be a troll alert. Hi, Lamar.

SPEAKER 04 : 26:40

Sir, it has been said with great justification that no nation can be greater than than the people who reside within her borders. President Donald John Trump, the greatest man alive in the world today, has said he wants to make America great again. How is that possible when the American people have demonstrated time and again that they are a reprobate, depraved people, as exemplified by the woman you had on your program a few minutes ago who said she voted for this judge in Wisconsin because it would assure the continuity the continued abortion laws in that state. We fought a civil war in this country to end southern slavery, but there’s an evil going on in this country today, many times more wicked, demonic in fact, From sea to shining sea, American babies being killed, up until the due delivery date in certain states, such as in Minnesota, thanks to the man who would have been vice president if Kamala Harris had won the last election. The founding fathers, the men who carved this nation out of a wilderness, said that in order for a people to be free, they must first be moral. The American people are not a moral people.

SPEAKER 03 : 27:47

They are a reprobate, depraved people. Okay. Thank you, Lamar. Appreciate it. Have a good day. 13 before the hour. More coming up. Look, I could have taken a lot of different career paths. I could have sold insurance. I think I’d have been a great monorail driver, captain of the monorail at Walt Disney World. But look, I would have missed an opportunity to talk to Lamar and share his passion with you. It’s what we do. We’re givers here at Team Gallagher. 800-655-MIKE. That wraps up the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast for Friday, April 4th. Be sure to subscribe to all our podcasts and follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like the show, be sure to share it with a friend. We’ll see you back here next week on the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast.