In this engaging episode, we dig into Trump’s latest proposal to share financial dividends with citizens, sparking debates among different political factions. Hear firsthand accounts from a day in Washington, revealing the inner workings of Capitol Hill and candid conversations with influential individuals, including Seb Gorka’s inspiring career path.
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Mike Gallagher. Every day Mike visits with Mark Davis. Morning host on 660 AM The Answer in Dallas. Here’s today’s Eminem experience. Not a birthday.
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I often ask, was little two-year-old Mike Gallagher walking around with any awareness? Well, I was like five, and I didn’t have any awareness of it either. But I did grow into a life where I would have awareness of stuff that was happening on dates like this. Big day, Mike. February 20th, 1962. I usually throw you show tunes and Carol Channing’s birthday and stuff like that. This is me. This is me. It’s me. Feb 20, 1962.
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Something happened.
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We went to space. Yes, Mike. We went into space. Who in particular? Big name up front.
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1962.
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Think about it. John Glenn. Bam. There you go.
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Friendship 7.
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The first American to orbit the Earth this date. 1962. But speaking of travels, you are fresh back from Washington. How did your day go?
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Well, I mean, it wound up all right. It didn’t start out too hot. First of all, let me just pull the curtain back. I think I can speak for both of us. I’m not exactly a big fan of media roads. All right? They throw you into a room of a bunch of ambitious people, and it’s hard because everybody’s jockeying for position. If there’s a particular rude producer from Sinclair TV, oh, no, this is our corner. This is our part of the table. And everybody’s jockeying, and everybody’s jostling. And positioning, and everybody’s a try-hard.
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There’s posturing. It’s bleh.
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And I can’t get over that we’re actually in the Indian Treaty Room. That’s what fascinates me.
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They call it that. How in the world do they have that anymore?
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Exactly. So it’s in the executive building, which is an extension of the White House. It’s on the fourth floor. It started out very badly because my poor producer, Tracy, submitted the official paperwork to the White House as Mike Gallagher. Right. Uh-oh. Uh-huh. When you show up at the White House gate and they need to see your identification, Michael ain’t Mike. And they said, sorry, no can do. Now, I know it’s cold in North Texas, but it’s cold in D.C. And I’m out there for an hour cursing Tracy by name.
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Oh, no.
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For an hour.
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Her real name.
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Well, yeah, her real name. I got her name right. She didn’t get my name right. And, you know, who thinks about that? It’s kind of a new thing. I mean, but you would think they’d – I think the airlines would let you get on, wouldn’t they, if you had a boarding pass? Oh, man, I don’t know what kind of mood they’re in. I don’t know. I don’t know. These days, who knows? But anyway, so that took another hour, so we were late, and because we were late, then as a result, that’s why we didn’t get a… Anyway, it worked out fine. I mean, I got to talk to Caroline Levitt, because she’s a superstar. So great. I got to talk to the new Treasury Secretary, Scott Besson. Excellent. I got to talk to my buddy and my Alaska cruise partner, Seb Gorka. That was a blast. I got to talk to just a bunch of people, and we’ll share a lot of those interviews today on the show. And it is… You walk in, you see the official portraits of Trump and Vance in the White House. The Trump official portrait looks like his mugshot. It does. He’s lit from below.
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He’s scowling gloriously into the camera like, don’t mess with me.
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It’s like Darth Vader. It’s like Darth Vader of the White— I am your president. And now Vance is more traditional. He’s kind of smiling and everything. And I posted some pictures of those portraits on my X account. In fact, I stood between them looking a little bit, you know, bemused. So check that out. It’s at Gallagher Show, at Gallagher Show. At Gallagher Show on X. But, you know, it was great. It was kind of a quick visit and a… Every time I get to walk across that lawn and you walk in front of that row of TV cameras and reporters, you know, they have a whole media row in the front of the White House where people do all their stand-ups. And there’s a whole row of them and they have their little tents and their booths and everything. And you look at that historic building and you just think how lucky you are to get invited to go into that really important space. You think of all the decisions that have been made in the history of America and history It’s a great opportunity to kind of – and to reconnect. And they were so kind to us. The White House, very well aware of the Salem Media Group, certainly aware of our show, and they were very kind. And Caroline said, oh, yeah, yo, the big guy loves you. And I said, well, that’s really – we love the big guy, and we’re praying for him and praying for all of you. By the way, she’s 27 years old. It gives you hope about the new generations, doesn’t it? She’s incredible. And I asked her that. I said, what’s that like to face that pack of jackals every day? And she smiled. They all are walking around with this sort of sense of purpose. But I will tell you that the attitude at the White House is joy. They’re not down. Gorka, I’ve never seen Gorka so giddy in my life. He’s not a warm, fuzzy, giddy guy. He was euphoric. I mean, I said, what’s this like? He said, Mike, it’s 20-plus years of a dream come true. It’s an incredible opportunity to make a difference in the world, to serve my country. Because, look, we ain’t exactly coal miners doing talk shows. You know, he took a, he definitely, I don’t think it’s a secret, he took a pay cut to go in and work for the White House. But he’s giddy. He’s thrilled. He’s ecstatic.
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He gave all the credit to his wife.
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I’m as excited as a little girl. I’m sorry. Thanks, Seb. That’s close. That’s close. And he gives all the credit to his beautiful wife, Katie, because he said, she’s the reason I’m here. And I said, explain that. He said, look, on the morning of 9-11, she turned to me and she said, you know a thing or two about terrorism. Call one of the TV studios. He goes, I don’t know how to call it. She goes, call. And he called, and that led to kind of a higher prominent role for him in the national landscape. He wrote a book.
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First time I met Seb was on his book tour of a book he wrote called Defeating Jihad, I want to say. And I was like, wow, this guy has got something. Little did I know that he would then go on to government and then the talk show world and then back into government.
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I’m so proud of him, and I’m so excited for him, and I’m happy for all of them. So let’s dive into some of the—let’s sling this around, as you would like to say, because you threw out a conversation starter. Trump is floating the idea of giving everybody a $5,000 dividend from the savings from Doge. Now, I would submit, I would opine that there’s a litmus test going on here. If you’re an establishment Republican who likes things the way they’ve always been, you don’t like the idea at all. You push back. You’re worried about it. Oh, no. We should pay down the deficit. Oh, we should look at the national spending. Oh, oh, oh. And, of course, ironically, those same establishment Republicans had no problem with our country spending like drunken sailors for decades. So spare me that. But if you’re MAGA— You think it’s the greatest thing going because what’s Trump promised to do? Make everybody’s life a little better. Do you know what $5,000 in the wallet or the purse of millions of Americans?
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does absolutely and it endeared a caller told you this earlier and i agree with the caller completely it endears the republican party in a way that i mean come on nothing speaks like cash nothing communicates like money And nobody knows cash like Donald Trump, who’s got a lot of it.
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So I want to find this right, because I was trying because I’ve got a Twitter poll out right now. But I think it was edging toward like fifty five, forty five pay down the debt because we’ve all been beaten to death. We’re going to be down the debt, be down the debt. And I know that we do. I think you’re also right that the establishment go along to get along the fiscal dorks. I like the idea of paying down the debt while real people like the idea of getting five thousand dollars. There is another community that doesn’t like the giving the money back. And it’s the kind of the I think sort of the Rand Paul, Greg Gutfeld, libertarian fiscal hawk. that says we ought to pay down the debt. I think that’s part of that voice as well. And it’s not like it’s a terrible idea. What even is the national debt? It’s a promise made to a computer. $5,000 is real money for real people to energize the economy and sign me up for Team Doge Dividend.
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No, I’m all on board with that, and you and I are on the same page. Let’s look right now at the state of today’s Democrat Party. I want to give you a couple of examples. Because it’s incredible. Their approval rating is as low as it’s ever been. While, meanwhile, Congress’s approval rating is going up. People are starting to like what they’re seeing in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats are powerless to stop this. But their approval rating is below a whale’s belly at the bottom of the ocean. And let me give you two prominent examples. Mm-hmm. Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, has announced they’re going to start it. She wants to have an investigation about why she decided to go to Ghana during the wildfires.
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For those that don’t know, Los Angeles is on fire, and she was in this West African nation. And if a mayor goes to another country, fine, whatever. She said she wouldn’t do that, but she did. But go ahead and finish the delicious story.
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Well, she left, right? And she left as the wildfires were all on the radar. They knew it was happening, and she got on a plane. Well, now she announces with great fanfare, I will commence an investigation about why I was allowed to go to Ghana. Like she had no control.
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Couldn’t she have said, look, city’s on fire. City’s on flame, as Bloyster Cult once said. I can’t go to Ghana, but no, she was apparently powerless.
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And by the way, she made a campaign promise she would never do this. She wasn’t going to go overseas. Okay, let me give you another example. New York City and the New York governor, Kathy Hochul, the state of New York, they’ve introduced a little doozy called congestion pricing. Yes. Now, it’s never been tried in America before. This is unprecedented. Just to drive into New York City, into Manhattan, on top of the tolls that you’ve got to pay on the bridges and the tunnels, which is a lot. Like from Jersey or from Brooklyn or— Long Island, whatever. You go across the—you’ve got to already pay a toll. To go onto the island of Manhattan, you’re going to get hit. You’re going to get hit. Well, now they’re going to hit you again. The Democrats have come up with a scheme because there’s too much traffic in Manhattan. So here’s how they’re going to fix it. They’re going to tax you an additional $9 just to drive into Manhattan. And it’s a, I forget, it’s south of 100, what is it, Eric? South of 90th, I think, or 80th. And what street? What street is it? 60th. It’s south of 60th and above. All right. So you could drive into Harlem. You could drive into the Bronx, but just not to Midtown. Yeah. To Midtown, where there’s a lot of traffic. All right, well, people are getting hit by this. People who travel. People, you know, it’s awful for the working class. And Trump is like, this is preposterous. I’m going to get rid of it. So now he’s in a war with Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York. So awesome. And here’s what she said to great fanfare. It’s right in the Karen Bass category, and it proves why these people are so unpopular. She makes this big announcement. She goes, you know what? And we’re going to play this clip a lot on the show. Yeah. We were going to do $15 for congestion pricing. Well, you know what we’re going to do? We’re going to help the New Yorker, the hardworking middle class. We’re going to make it $9. There you go. We’re going to put $6 back into the pockets. Now, first of all, has there ever been congestion pricing before? They’re acting like going from $15 to $9 is doing them a favor.
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Do you know what this is like? Do you know exactly what this is like? It’s like Doge. Right now, we’re actually looking to reduce the size of government forever and ever and ever, Mike. Democrats and Republicans have tried to make us feel great about government growing, but only more slowly. Like, yeah, government is getting bigger, but instead of being bigger by 5 percent, it’s only bigger by 3. So that’s like 2 percent better. Aren’t we great?
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Aren’t we great? Look at us, Pat. Because they think we’re that stupid. And maybe Democrats are. I have to say, maybe they are. I mean, if they go down this… This path? I mean, look, you have an ability. Your clarity is always something I crave. Ukraine was never going to defeat Russia. I mean, that’s preposterous. And the Lindsey Graham wing of the Republican Party that believes that somehow Zelensky was going to conquer Vladimir Putin? And you knew that. You’ve said that. I’ve listened to you from day one. Mark, you’ve been right all along. Many of us are right. And it’s time to stop the gravy train. You’ve got to cut it off. Slava Ukraine, all that. Okay, good for you. Let’s slava America, huh? Let’s slobber over Americans who need help, not Ukraine. Goodbye. It’s over. You know, I’m tired of this. And Trump is too. And that’s why Trump has taken on Zelensky, calling him a dick. And you said it earlier. There ain’t no real white or black hats in any of this. You think there’s any corruption in Ukraine? Everybody’s complicated. You think there’s any corruption in Ukraine? Oh, complicated? Okay, Lindsey, is that what we’re going to call it? There’s a lot of corruption in Ukraine. Trump’s right. They suspended the election. And people say, well, that’s only because of the… Oh, no, no. You suspended the election. We get it. There’s the war. But, you know, he wants to continue to reign. So spare me all the righteous indignation and good to be back home. It’s been a rough week. Man, I went out to Pueblo, Colorado. And then I… Oh, yeah. I went to a funeral with a friend. And then I went from Pueblo to D.C. And then I froze my… Shoulders off.
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30 seconds since you are where it’s like 60 degrees right now in Florida. There’s a story, and DeSantis replied to it, and you can give us firsthand intel. The story is that Canadians are so frosted, no pun intended, are so angry at Trump’s attitudes toward Canada that, doggone it, they’re just not coming to Florida anymore. I don’t believe it for a minute. My dad was swimming. He retired in Largo, not far from you, and you’re down there, too. You are swimming in snowbirds with Canadian license plates every day, aren’t you?
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As a Floridian, I have a simple message to any Canadian who doesn’t want to come here because you’re mad at us. We’ll miss you. We’ll miss you.
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My dad, he didn’t hate anybody. Oh, he hated the Snowbirds. These were people. And it’s funny. And there’s a theory that on the eastern coast of Florida, all the Canadians are like from Montreal because they come down 95. And on the western coast of Florida, everybody is from Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Florida. you know, et cetera, et cetera, from the central part of Canada because they come down 75. And, oh, that was just. Oh, I know.
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Well, my condo building.
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You couldn’t get into restaurants. You couldn’t get into.
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No. I mean, my condo building, I’m in a high-rise condo, and it’s packed in the winter months. And then in the summer, no problem. It’s like a ghost town, which is fine with me. So, all right. All right. Happy Thursday. I love you. Take care.
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