President Trump is federalizing the police in Washington DC and calling in the National Guard. White Boomers have taken over Columbus, Ohio to protest President Trump and his administration. Why do they hate Trump so much?
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He’s the happy conservative warrior, Mike Gallagher, broadcasting across hundreds of radio stations nationwide and seen on your trusted conservative TV network, Salem News Channel. Here’s Mike.
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I just glanced at somebody on social media on X on this Monday as we kick things off. Bad Ombre is one of the accounts I follow. And he posted video of the folks who formed an eight-mile-long chain of protest. They’re all holding hands, eight miles long. They’re all white boomers, every one of them. They’re all white boomers. In fact, Kristen, can you pull the report from Bad Hombre? I’ll send it off to you because I got to send this to you because we have to play this. We got to figure out this epidemic of bored white boomers. And that’s what Bad Hombre said. So picture this. You got all these white boomers standing there holding hands eight miles long to protest the mass deportation. We need to do something about the bored white liberal boomer epidemic, Bad Hombre said. Perhaps involuntary confinement in locked senior facilities. Now, he’s kidding, I think. Then again, maybe it’s not a bad idea. Is there anything that would cause you to take to the streets and spend half a day or a day doing something like that, like standing and locking arms with fellow boomers to protest something? Is there anything that could happen that would compel you to run and do that? The white boomers are on the march. This report is really, really funny. We’ll play this for you as soon as Christian turns it around. A lot of breaking news. This weekend, President Trump headed to Alaska to meet with Vladimir Putin. Maybe Volodymyr Zelensky. I’m sure I’m butchering his first name. You got Vladimir, you got Volodymyr. Where’s Voldemort? Where’s Voldemort? Oh, Voldemort is outside Hogwarts. But they’re going to get together and perhaps come up with some peace between Russia and Ukraine. Russia wants part of the land. Ukraine didn’t want to give them part of the land, but now Zelensky is signaling maybe he does. Can you imagine if Trump brokered a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine? And then they’ll try not to get him to get the Nobel Peace Prize. How many wars has he ended already? Countries I can barely pronounce. They’ve been at war forever. And suddenly Trump is brokering peace. Countries that have been fighting for decades and decades. And the Trump administration comes along. What is it? Uzbekistan or Azerbaijan or… Akraba? Is that a country? Oh no, I think that’s from Aladdin. I think that’s a mythical country. But he’s brokering peace in Akraba. Everywhere you go. It seems like around the world, Trump’s putting out fires. And meanwhile, the bored white boomers are standing out on a street corner, linking arms, an eight-mile-long chain. And as I look at the video on X that Bad Hombre posted, if you want to see it before we play it for you, you can get a sneak peek on my X account at Gallagher Show. And Bad Hombre is right. There is an epidemic in America of bored, white, liberal boomers. All of these protests have the exact same makeup. They’re my age. These are people in their 50s and 60s and 70s. They’re all white. And they got nothing better to do than to stand around holding hands and singing kumbaya because they’re mad at Trump and ICE. What exactly do we do about these folks? Check out this little video clip. I haven’t seen it or heard it yet, but Christian just turned it around for me because he’s quick and he’s good and he’s on the ball. Here’s what Bad Ombre just posted.
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An eight-mile human chain stretched down High Street from Worthington to downtown Columbus today. A show of solidarity and peace, connecting people of all ages and all backgrounds. Thanks for being with us this evening for NBC4 at 6. I’m Kyle Beachy. Organizers say this demonstration today, not a stand against any one issue, but welcomed anyone who feels isolated by our government’s actions. The cars honked and people cheered as they passed by. Over an eight-mile stretch, the demonstrators put down their signs and held hands for a moment of silence at 3 o’clock this afternoon. One of the organizers, Maxine Irvin, says the Trump administration’s actions on immigration are a major reason for the protest, but everyone involved has a different reason for showing up.
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Everyone has different reasons why they are unhappy. We’re just all out here together to show our dissatisfaction and to join together and hold hands to make a statement that we see what’s going on and we want change.
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Our crew out there today did not see any counter-protesters along High Street this afternoon. That peaceful assembly was not part of a nationwide effort and was locally organized.
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You know what your crew also didn’t see when you were out there scouring the eight miles of protesters? Any people of color or young people. It’s all aging, white, bored liberals. Why is this? Do you have a theory? Anybody want to take a guess as to why no people of color are out there protesting? Eddie from Columbus, which is where this protest took place, said, these are just hippies of the 60s trying to relive their glory days. That sounds kind of sensible to me. That makes a little bit of sense. Are these just hippies? What’s the problem with these anti-deportation protesters? that they’re so bored that they take their Saturday or Sunday or whenever this was, and they all got straw hats on. I mean, they look like they just came from a Jimmy Buffett concert. They’re all white boomers. This fascinates me. I can promise you, I’ve spent time in Columbus, Ohio. There are people of color in Columbus. There are black people in Columbus. There are Hispanic people in Columbus. These are all white people. Why? And all white boomers. Why? I mean, Josh just wrote for Minnesota, Mike, I can’t imagine doing anything like that. I’m too busy minding my business, mowing my lawn, washing the dishes, cleaning the house, building my fence and deck. I’ve got no time to waste on protesting. What in the world is behind this very narrow, specific demographic of protesters? PhD weight loss has changed my life. And I’ve got a little secret for you. You know Big Pharma and semaglutide and the shots in the belly. You’ve seen the story recently about the study that shows that a lot of people that are getting this are going blind. You don’t want to do this. You want a program to lose weight that’s centered around science and nutrition, a proven roadmap that has helped over 8,000 clients lose weight and keep it off. Like me, I lost 53 pounds a few years ago, and I’ve kept it off. I know what to eat and when. I know how to quiet any of the cravings I might get and finally release that unhealthy belly fat that I carried along for so long. Make the phone call that can change your life in the way it changed mine. It’s called PhD Weight Loss. PhD Weight Loss, Dr. Ashley Lucas’ program is brilliant. And how do I know? Well, 53 pounds later, here I am. 864-644-1900 is their number. Call and schedule your consultation. You can do this program from anywhere in America. Call 864-644-1900, 864-644-1900, or visit MyPhDWeightLoss.com.
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Live shot of Stowe, Vermont on the Salem News Channel live cam. If you’re watching us on Salem News Channel today, we appreciate you doing so. Go to snc.tv, your antidote to the mainstream media 24-7. On the eve of this historic summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, I wonder what you make of the boomer epidemic in America. As Bad Hombre puts it on X, we got a bored… liberal, boomer, white American epidemic in America. What do we do about it? Where do we go with this? And why is it always just… We’re showing video in the Columbus, Ohio area of an eight-mile-long chain of protesters. And it’s all white, middle or older Americans. And I wonder if the light ever goes on in their minds, in their little pea brains, wonder why we don’t have any black people with us. Hmm. Why don’t we have anybody under 50 standing out here with these stupid signs, impeach Trump and F ICE and all this other crap? Why is it just us white boomers out here demanding an end to the mass deportations? Christopher is in Pittsburgh. Hey, Christopher, welcome back. How are you?
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Christopher, are you there? I just want to say, if you want to break up that eight-mile-long line of white people, real fast, all you’ve got to do is just tell them you’ve got a caravan of illegal aliens coming through. That’ll part like the Red Sea.
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They’ll roll out the red carpet. They’ll throw confetti on them. It’ll be like a ticker tape parade. But, Christopher, why is it only white boomers? What do you think is behind this specific kind of protest?
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Oh, they’ve been completely programmed to fully embrace their white guilt. They’ve just absorbed themselves in mainstream media for way too long. That’s all they listen to.
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I got you. All right. Columbus, Ohio, calling. James, is that a big story there locally, the eight-mile line of white liberal boomers, James?
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Not at all. I accidentally turned into High Street, and I thought I was in the middle of a parade for a second. Then I realized what was going on and started laughing. I think they all realized they missed the boat on important things in their life, so they’re just trying to be relevant for the last 11 minutes that they’re alive.
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Easy, easy. You’re talking to somebody in that category. Don’t be that morbid. I got some time left.
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I also think the last caller was right. I think they’re guilty. They realize what they’ve done to kind of rob the nation blind as far as making home prices unaffordable and a whole bunch of other things. And so to not be the bad guy, they’re trying to be like, look, young people, we’re not that bad. Yeah, you are.
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You’re terrible. They’re awful people, and you’re right. It’s the white guilt, isn’t it? You’re so right, James. I’m starting to get a theme here from our callers. It’s white guilt. It’s the guilt, oh, look how privileged I am. Here I am living in Columbus, Ohio, and I’ve lived a good life, and I’m white, and I’m comfortable. So what am I going to do on a Saturday morning? I’m going to link arms with an eight-mile-long chain along High Street in downtown Columbus. to protest the mass deportations. Look, protest is okay, and I don’t want to beat up on these people too badly. It is what it is. I mean, you want to go out and protest peacefully? At least they’re not burning down McDonald’s because of a police shooting. On the other hand, I am just obsessed with wondering why these are all out of central casting. Like 62, 65, 70-year-old white people. And it’s all over the country. It’s not just Columbus. I wish I could figure it out. So I’m turning to you to see if you can help me. 800-655-MIKE. Nancy’s back from Philadelphia. Hello, Nancy.
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Hi, Mike. I love your show. Thank you, Nancy. By the way, you know, my mom is 98, so you got more than just a couple more seconds to live.
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You’ve given me hope, Nancy. You’ve made my day. You gave me a little bit of burst of inspiration.
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Thank you. Donald Trump is also a white, wealthy, relatively liberal boomer, except maybe he’s going to actually implement what the boomers always claimed they wanted, peace, love, and harmony. Think about the songs, The Age of Aquarius, Crystal Blue Persuasion. That’s what’s on my mind.
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That’s an interesting way of looking at it. I mean, I don’t know. I think to most liberals, they wouldn’t consider him somewhat liberal. But I get your point. I understand what you’re saying. And he’s a white guy who came from a life of privilege, clearly, or achieved a life of privilege, I should say, and doing it successfully. And he knows what’s right and what’s wrong. And there’s going to be a lot of people who are going to be held accountable. There’s Democrats. Democrats are falling completely apart at the seams. And the one bit of justice I’m hoping for, the one bit of justice I hope is achieved, is justice from Letitia James. For some reason, that arrogant shrew who sat there in the courtroom every day smirking when they humiliated Trump in a New York City courtroom over those bogus charges, Here’s an MSNBC legal analyst, Danny Cavallos, saying that the New York Attorney General, considering the charges or the investigation that has begun over her and her life, she ought to be afraid. She ought to be very afraid.
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There is nothing scarier for a citizen to get a subpoena or find out that they’re being investigated by a federal criminal grand jury. It’s terrifying. And here’s why. Grand jury investigations sweep broadly. They gather terabytes of information and they’re very efficient at going through it. And the problem there for people is that they may be investigating issue number one and then stumble across information. Never before known issue number two when going through all those documents. That is why if somebody is the subject, the target of a grand jury investigation, that is not a good sign. So given that the federal government has such tremendous power to investigate, Letitia James should be very concerned.
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Yeah, she should be concerned all right. She should be very concerned. She should be shaking in her boots. And there’s a lot of Democrats, I think, who should be deeply concerned. Adam Schiff, Brennan, Comer, I mean Comey, Clapper, not Comer, not Jamie Comer. I think he’s all right. I mean, all of these guys. All of these guys need to be real concerned about what’s coming next. Is there finally going to be accountability for some of these guys? who abused their positions of authority so dreadfully. Every single day, it’s a joy to remind you that portions of our show are sponsored by MyPillow. As you know, our friend Mike Lindell, big legal victory last week. He’s been in a ton of hot water, as you know, because he believes in election integrity. Of course, due to his friendship with President Trump. Well, last week, there was a $5 million vote. judgment against Mike that was overturned by the courts. Good news for MyPillow. So you keep praying for MyPillow and you keep supporting this great American company. The premium MyPillow, limited time, great price, $18.98. If you go to MyPillow.com, this pillow is a godsend. Look, I bring the MyPillow products with me when I’m on the road. Here at the hotel in Washington State, I’ve got the MySlippers with me. Those unbelievable slippers because I pat around in the hotel room. I don’t know what’s on that rug. I bring the MyPillow with me. I roll it up into the suitcase. I’ve even got my MyPillow loungewear. Tons of great products. If you haven’t been to the site in a while, go check it out. Go to MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher specials. Click on that box. And with anything you order, enter the promo code MikeG. You’re going to save big. The slippers, the doggy beds, and the Giza dream sheets. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. Or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. Like we love to sing.
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Meanwhile, we’re still waiting for accountability on the whole Russia collusion made-up story. Now that DNI, Tulsi Gabbard, has released all of those classified documents, we’re actually seeing who was behind all of this. Do you want to see indictments?
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I absolutely want to see indictments, Maria. Look, of course, you’ve got to have the law follow the facts here. You don’t just indict people to indict people. You indict people because they broke the law. But if you look at what Tulsi and Kash Patel have revealed in the last couple of weeks, I don’t know how anybody can look at that and say that there wasn’t aggressive violations of the law. What they basically did is they defrauded the American people in order to take Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign talking points and turn them into intelligence by defrauding the American people, defrauding the intelligence agencies, lying about what the intel said, they would take something that supported a Hillary Clinton campaign talking point and they would overemphasize it and exaggerate it. They took anything that actually contradicted that narrative and they buried it deep. And through that, they actually laundered Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign talking points through the American intelligence services. That’s a violation of the people’s trust. That’s a violation of what our intelligence services should be doing. And I absolutely think they broke the law. You’re going to see a lot of people get indicted for that.
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You’re going to see a lot of people get indicted for that. You know what fascinates me the most about the Democrats’ response to Letitia James and Brennan and Clapper and… a lot of these guys, what they might be facing, their reaction is to say it’s terrible to weaponize the government against people. You know that’s gaslighting, right? You know it’s impossible to say that with a straight face, considering what the Democrats have done to so many people. I wonder what Roger Stone, who had to stand out in front of his house in the middle of the night with his wife in his underwear, where there was a raid on his house, I wonder how he feels about the Democrats claiming that what’s happening right now is an unfair weaponization of the government. I wonder what my friend Mike Lindell thinks of that when he and his hunting buddy were swarmed by FBI agents outside a Hardee’s in Minnesota in the middle of the night as they were returning from a hunting trip and the FBI confiscated Mike’s cell phone. The pillow guy. The FBI. raining down on him because of his belief that elections should be secure. We ought to have paper ballots. And he’s a staunch defender of election integrity. And that gets you a visit, evidently, from the FBI. You know how terrifying that would be? To have the FBI confiscate your cell phone? And from Mike’s perspective, there was a purely pragmatic aspect to it. He did all of his business on that cell phone. Now, he had backups, and he had other systems in place, but how many of us could do without our cell phone? My whole life is in that thing. And for the federal government to swoop down on a businessman and an entrepreneur and a high-profile celebrity, a personality like Mike Lindell, And what Mike must be thinking when you hear these goofballs like Eric Swalwell and these others, oh, it’s terrible for Trump to be weaponizing the federal government. This is awful. Oh, it’s terrible, terrible. Unreal. How maddening. How infuriating. And again, it’s gaslighting. They know it. They know full well what they’re doing when they say that the Trump administration is weaponizing the federal government. Do they think we don’t remember what they did? Do they think we’re going to forget the Mar-a-Lago raid three years ago this week? Rifling through Melania Trump’s underwear drawers? Barging through Trump’s teenage son? His bedroom? A lot of people believe that the Mar-a-Lago raid is what got Trump re-elected. I think there’s some merit to that. I really do. Randy’s in Atlanta. Hey, Randy, welcome back. How are you?
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We’re doing fine. Good. One of the things that we should be concerned with and we already are concerned, all these far left-wing liberal judges, many of them appointed by Obama and Biden, and they’re foreigners. We have foreigners. What could possibly go wrong? But they could dismiss these cases. Whenever these people start getting indicted, couldn’t these federal judges just say, no, you don’t have standing, which would be ludicrous. You have no standing. Some legal president could just throw them out case by case.
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Well, you know, but then you know what we have, frankly, in our corner? The Supreme Court. So, yeah, the judges might try to prolong the inevitable, but I got to believe that the Supreme Court is going to come down on the rule of law and the Constitution. And if Letitia James broke the law by abusing her position of authority in persecuting and prosecuting Trump, she might go to jail, Randy.
SPEAKER 05 :
What if they have some of the Supreme Court justices… blackmailed by the chief justice who was on the flight logs going to… Yeah, I don’t know.
SPEAKER 18 :
I mean, look, that’s not true, by the way. That’s an urban legend, and that’s a myth that John Roberts was on the flight logs. There was another guy who was falsely identified as Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts involved in the whole Epstein scandal. That’s not John Roberts. But to your point about whether or not justices are compromised, we’ve got to hope and pray they’re not. Amy Coney Barrett has been hard to understand. Her rulings have been very difficult to decipher. She doesn’t seem like a conservative at all. But look, we’ve seen ruling after ruling. The left hates this court. The left is already promising to pack the Supreme Court if they get back into control. If they get power again… They’re going to try to pack the Supreme Court because they don’t like the makeup of this particular United States Supreme Court. So look, you’ve got to have faith. You’ve got to be positive. You’ve got to be optimistic. And you’ve got to have a lot of prayer here. You’ve got to pray for our country. We’ve got to pray that we get through all of this.
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President Donald Trump announcing the new census, what that would do is that would also potentially subtract 20 electoral votes from Democrats in the electoral college system as congressional seat appropriation is directly correlated with electoral college totals. Deeper than this, though, this is a new mentality. This is not a Republican Party that is just playing for neutrality or trying to protect broken norms. Instead… We are playing to win.
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That, of course, the great Charlie Kirk on Fox News Channel with Jesse Waters. Michigan just texted a couple of moments ago. It shows you why Charlie Kirk is 100% correct. We’re talking, of course, about this Chinese-American student who screeched F Trump and F ICE at the UCLA graduation ceremony. We played that clip for you, of course, edited. The texter says, Charlie is right when he says going to college is a waste of money and time. This young lady has no idea what the truth is. Maybe someone needs to explain to her that if she did that in China, not only would she be arrested, her whole family would be incarcerated. Imagine standing up in China and saying, F.G., F the Chinese Communist Party. Think about what would happen to her there. Yet she can feel emboldened to stand on stage at UCLA and say that garbage in America. A lot of people are sending me information about the guy they think This professor is sitting behind her enthusiastically nodding his head and clapping in agreement when she said F the Trump administration and F ICE. He’s a professor with the Department of Linguistics. Now, we’re not able to confirm that it’s the same guy, so I don’t want to announce his name. But it says he got his master’s in 69, his Ph.D. in 72. And it looks like him, looks like the same guy, from the Department of Linguistics. I wonder if that’s the same guy. It seems to be. Here’s Tom’s observation, which I understand his point from Connecticut. Unfortunately, this Chinese-American student baited you into granting her the 15 minutes of fame she covets. Her audience has increased from the guests at the commencement to a nationwide audience. The foul language, bait, you took the bait. Well, and there’s two ways of looking at this. Sure, ignore it, Tom, and maybe it’ll go away. Just let these people spout off. Let these people be in front of thousands of people at something as important and as significant as a college commencement address. And let’s just not pay them any mind. Let’s just ignore them. No, no, no, no. Sorry, Tom. I have to respectfully disagree with you. You’re wrong. You’ve got to make people like this famous. You’ve got to make sure every American knows what we are up against. You’ve got to remind a nationwide audience what passes for acceptable behavior from a college professor. And like I said when I played the clip – and let’s play it one more time, Christian, for those who are just joining us. The most important thing of this clip isn’t so much the brat student who thinks she can get away with it on a stage – But the professor, the bearded professor sitting behind her, clapping and nodding his head in agreement when she said this.
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Excuse my language, but to that I say ice and the Trump administration.
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Yep. And then after she finished with her smug look on her face and the big smile. He smiles, nods his head enthusiastically, and claps. That guy should be dealt with. That guy should be punished. That guy should be given discipline from the school. That guy should have to face accountability because obviously that’s how he feels too. When you’re nodding your head and you’re clapping, and if the shoe was on the other foot, If a conservative said that about Biden or Kamala or Barack Obama or Hillary, all of the effort would be to expose and to have that professor nodding and clapping, have his life ruined. You know what the left would do to a conservative professor clapping and agreeing with that. You know what they would do. So sorry, Tom. Happy to take that bait and happy to make sure that this audience knows what passes for acceptable behavior on the campus of UCLA. 800-655-MIKE. We can’t get out of here without… sharing with you good old J.B. Pritzker. These Democrats continue to unravel, and I mean unravel in real time. This is one of the most extraordinary. First of all, the Democrats are upset with the Texas redistricting, right? So a bunch of them fled the state, and they’re hiding out in Illinois and in New York and in California. And J.B. Pritzker is very proud of this, so proud that he decided to show up on Meet the Press yesterday. And I imagine his surprise when even Kristen Welker wanted to have him explain, how is it that you guys are upset about redistricting when nobody has redistricted like you guys did? You don’t like gerrymandering? You essentially wrote the book, Democrats, on gerrymandering. This is so laughable to watch these Democrats make absolute fools out of themselves in trying to pretend that redistricting, which is completely legitimate, it’s a thoroughly legitimate practice. And it’s what a number of states are going to do right now to guarantee that we get more seats represented fairly in the House of Representatives. And, oh, yes, the nice bonus will be they won’t stand a chance of winning next year in the midterms. That’s just the nice icing on the cake. But I want you to hear J.B. Pritzker get completely upended by Kristen Welker of NBC’s Meet the Press when she has no problem pointing out the Democrats’ obvious and hysterical double standard.
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Every major group that grades the fairness of congressional maps gives your state an F. Common cause and nonpartisan government watchdog even says your map, and I’m going to quote, represents a nearly perfect model for everything that can go wrong with redistricting. And I guess the question is, you talk about preserving democracy. How do you preserve democracy if you’re using the same tactics that you’ve criticized Texas Republicans for?
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But as I say, what they’re talking about is a distraction. The reality is that the violation of people’s voting rights is what Texas is attempting to do. That’s what’s wrong with their efforts right now. And the fact that the president of the United States knows it and nevertheless is asking them to do it. That is what’s wrong with what we’re seeing right now. Democracy is at stake.
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That guy is going to be a presidential candidate. That big dummy whose answer to an obvious question, wait a minute, you’ve been graded an F for redistricting. Nobody has redistricted or gerrymandered more shamelessly than the state of Illinois. What say you, Governor Pritzker? What they’re doing is a distraction? And Kristen Welker, to her credit, she wasn’t satisfied with that answer, and she doubled down.
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I do want to look at the map of Illinois. Let’s take a look at this. Despite President Trump winning 44% of the statewide vote in 2024, Republicans hold only three of Illinois’ 17 districts. These districts seem to be designed to maximize Democratic advantage. What do you say to those who argue that it’s hypocritical for you to criticize Texas for partisanship when your state also drew maps to boost your party’s standing?
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Well, remember that what Texas is trying to do is, again, violate the Voting Rights Act. We didn’t. We held public hearings, legislative hearings. People attended them. They spoke out. There was a map that was put out. There were actually changes made to the map. And a map was passed. And it was done at the end of the census, the decennial census. So that’s how it’s done in this country.
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No, it’s not. That may be how you think it should be done. It can be done at the whim of the legislature in a state like Texas, in a state like Florida, in a state like Indiana, anytime they damn well please. And at least he’s not joking about it like he did on Colbert. It looks like we had kindergartners draw up our redistricting map because he’s mocking the criticism that he’s getting. It’s wild to see these Democrats look like sheer, utter fools on the subject of redistricting. Look at Obama’s attorney general. Look at Eric Holder. Also on the same program, this is a 52-second clip. This is extraordinary. He starts out insisting that gerrymandering is a threat to democracy and And in the same 52 seconds says, and we’re going to do it as Democrats.
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Let me ask you, how can gerrymandering both be a threat to democracy and also the way to save it?
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Well, there’s no question that gerrymandering is a threat to our democracy. It allows politicians to pick their voters as opposed to citizens choosing their representatives. But we are now in a situation where we find ourselves where authoritarian moves are being made by the White House through various states, Texas most prominent among them. And there has to be a response. to that. What I’ve said is that we have to protect our democracy now if we ultimately want to be able to save it. And so taking the reasonable steps that have been proposed in California, I think it makes a great deal of sense in this moment, a temporary way in which to respond to that which is happening in Texas with the thought that after this crisis has passed, we get back to the fight against gerrymandering by anybody.
SPEAKER 18 :
This way is a threat to democracy. So in this moment, we’re going to threaten democracy. We’re going to be authoritarian, too. That’s how we’re going to handle this. Hey, Democrats, you’re losing on this. You’re falling on your face. And in the District of Columbia, President Trump has taken a special interest. in the problem of runaway crime in the district. Well, right now, he’s at the White House announcing what’s going to happen with the federalization of law enforcement in the District of Columbia. Breaking news here on the Mike Gallagher Show. We’re going to take you to President Trump at the White House next.
SPEAKER 09 :
Mike makes your day. That he does. Certainly makes mine. And that, of course, is vintage from what show, Mike?
SPEAKER 18 :
I don’t have any idea. I’ve played this thing 10 times. I’ve tried to block it out of my mind.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, talk show. So it has a kind of a cheesy 80s feel. There you go. The Mike Douglas show. Now, why would I do that? Number one, I love you. Mike does make our day. It is Mike Douglas’s birthday. Do you remember catching the show at some point in your youth?
SPEAKER 18 :
I think I missed Mike Douglas. I remember Ruff Griffin.
SPEAKER 03 :
Mike Douglas was a big daytime player in the industry. Mike Douglas born this date 105 years ago. Mike was like in his 50s, 60s through his heyday. So Mike Douglas’ birthday, this date, 1920. I attended a taping. Did you ever in your ute, speaking of your ute, You ever get out to California? I mean, you’re showbiz, Mike. I did. To attend the taping of a TV show. Tonight’s show with Johnny Carson. Oh, well, you went on this story. Roughly when and who were the guests?
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, I don’t know. A hundred years ago, I was so fascinated by the mechanics of the show. I watched Carson. I watched Doc Severinsen. I just thought it was so cool how they all show… The thing that I remember before I distract from your story is that… I was fascinated by how quiet and businesslike they all were. They all just showed up. They sat down. And then once the red light went on and the music started, then they all came to life. And they were all on. But I thought, gosh, they really are performers. So they’re not really always using… They’re not always that jovial, you know, off air. And the story about Carson never talking to a guest on the commercial breaks is absolutely 100% true. I can confirm. I saw with my own eyes. They dimmed the lights. He said, we’ll be right back. And they go into the break. And he just sat there drumming his pencil and would never even look at the guest sitting three feet away from him. He didn’t like to talk to them on the breaks.
SPEAKER 03 :
Is that him being standoffish, which it probably is, because Johnny Carson, entertainment genius, unbelievable, life-changing. I can’t say enough about what Johnny Carson did. It was just him being standoffish and weird. Or I can almost see if there’s some magical moment that you have with a guest during the commercial breaks, you’ve wasted it.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, look how you and I will talk about stuff the night before a show, and we say, no, no, no, save it, save it, save it for 735. Yeah, so I think he didn’t want… Larry King never read a book because he wanted to be inquisitive.
SPEAKER 03 :
Kills me, kills me, kills me. And I obviously love Larry King, too. Grew up listening to him. If Larry King could make AM radio work at 3 o’clock in the morning, it meant all of us could. And before Rush shot an incredible… Vitamin B shot into our entire industry. Larry King was getting the talk radio thing going, I never read a book by the author. I never read a book because then I wouldn’t know what questions to ask. I love Larry. It’s the dumbest thing he ever said. Because if you do read a book, then you know, if you never read the book, you can never say, hey, author Joe Smith, why do you on page 212 say this, this, and this?
SPEAKER 18 :
I would have to, again, agree to disagree. I think he was a great interviewer. Oh, of course he was.
SPEAKER 03 :
Did you think he was a bad interviewer? Well, guess what? Well, that’s what he did to make it work, dummy. He made it work. Would have been better.
SPEAKER 18 :
He made it work. No, it wouldn’t have been. He was fantastic. You’re just jealous. You’re jealous of his success. He’s just lazy.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, I wasn’t lazy. It was his technique.
SPEAKER 18 :
It was his technique. That was the way he did it. And he came from a place of not… There’s somebody else that does something like that, and I can’t think of what it is, but it’s the same analogy.
SPEAKER 03 :
Slacks off on stuff and then tries to make it sound honorable.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, you should have slacked off. You slacked off when you didn’t know the facts about the death of the carriage horse in New York last week.
SPEAKER 03 :
Give me 60 seconds before you properly blister me about that, but it won’t matter because I’m still right. My friend Mark Gordon and I hopped in my 1976 Buick Century and drove out to California and then back. We just visited friends, blah, blah, blah. And we attended a taping. I’d never been to a TV show taping in my life. And it was Mike Douglas, May of 1979. Wow. And one of the guests was Ray Parker of Radio, R-A-Y-D-I-O, pre-Ghostbusters. Of course, he did Who You Gonna Call, a big hit film. Before that, they had a thing, think the world, think the whole world of you, and you can’t change that, can’t change that.
SPEAKER 01 :
Big hit.
SPEAKER 03 :
They came out, and of course, lip synced it, which of course, it’s daytime TV, and it was just the weirdest thing in the world, because I know what the record sounds like, and I know what live music sounds like. I didn’t necessarily expect it to be like the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, where they’re actually playing and singing, but it was so, so weird. The drummer not really drumming. How many sheets?
SPEAKER 18 :
How many shoots in the theater, in the TV studio? Not many, right?
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s the thing I wanted to ask you about Johnny Carson, is when people go to the Carson, what do they think? It’s an amphitheater with 5,000 people? It’s just a few hundred, right? Because with the Mike Douglas taping, it was about 200 people.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, that’s what it was. Well, Carson was about 500, I think, but it was not many. All those sitcoms, I mean, Denise got to watch a taping of either King of Queens or Everybody Loves Raymond.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, my.
SPEAKER 18 :
Which was gold for her.
SPEAKER 03 :
Live audience, three cameras, right? Yep. And who gave birth to that? Desi Arnaz. Who gave birth to that? Desi Arnaz. The book is called Desi Arnaz, The Man Who Invented Television. And this is before either of us were born. But we all grew up. Who didn’t grow up watching I Love Lucy? The story of that era of television, early 50s. And unlike your Beverly Hillbillies, Gilligan’s Island, I Dream of Jeannie, shows I love that are just campy and kind of shallow and really kind of silly, I Love Lucy is high art, high comedy to this day.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, let’s not put this off any longer. Headline, because last week, Mark Davis, oh, the poor horses in New York, they’re all dropping dead from heat exhaustion. It’s so terrible for these poor horses. Oh, we’ve got to put the horses out to pasture. I mean, Mr. PETA over here, Mark Davis, and because a horse died, which is very sad.
SPEAKER 03 :
On the streets of New York.
SPEAKER 18 :
Named lady crumpled to the ground in Hell’s Kitchen just a block away from her stable, sending Mark Davis into spasms of, oh, the poor horse, it’s so hot in New York, and the horns are honking. Oh, well, look at this. What do I see here?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, you said before you tell me what you see, you said Nostradamus once again. I’m sitting here lamenting the horse dropping dead because I’m just thinking twice about that industry, as is Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Lewa. And I thought, I just don’t know. And then you literally that day said, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You began to scoff and you scoffed in a very precious way. You said, did the horse have an aneurysm? Did the horse have a heart condition? And I learned something. You literally said, let’s see the autopsy. On an animal, it’s not an autopsy. It’s a necropsy.
SPEAKER 18 :
Necropsy.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, the necropsy revealed. And share those results, Dr. Mike.
SPEAKER 18 :
Dr. Mike was right. The poor horse had a small tumor in her adrenal gland that likely caused an aortic rupture.
SPEAKER 03 :
Would have died if it were on a farm in Kentucky.
SPEAKER 18 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 03 :
You are correct about that horse, and I’m still right.
SPEAKER 18 :
No, you’re not. Oh, yeah. Don’t let facts get in the way of your feelings.
SPEAKER 03 :
Did you literally say those horses are wonderfully taken care of?
SPEAKER 18 :
They’re better taken care of than most Americans. And you know why? Because of bleeding hearts like you, you force the carriage industry. I’ve been there. I’ve been into those stables. They are air conditioned. They’re heated. They are so taken care of. Those horses do just fine. Leave the industry alone. Let those poor Irish immigrants make a living. Irish.
SPEAKER 03 :
It’s 1930. Oh, Mr. Gallagher, would you like to be seen in Central Park today? Well, they are. They all have Irish accents. The guy who did mine was like combination Ukrainian-Lithuanian. Where do you want to go? I show you Times Square.
SPEAKER 18 :
But Mark, isn’t it crazy how there are industries that are populated by a certain ethnicity or demographic? Look at the motel industry. Every motel manager in America is named Patel. Every one of them. They are all Indians. It’s true, though, and it’s kind of weird how that happens. I was going to go convenience stores for the Indians. But motels. Like motel, not necessarily, you know, I don’t mean to be, but yeah, like Motel 6 and Holiday Inns. The industry is run by the Indian people. Good for them. Good for them. But how does that happen? Is there a club? Do they all get together?
SPEAKER 03 :
You know what? Well, I’ll tell you. You know, the short answer is yes. And by that, I guess we mean, because I’ve talked to people about this. Yeah. As we get even further into this. Yeah. Our Jewish friends, why do they like own so much, run so much? It’s because unbelievable networking, incredible family and business connections and loyalty and long memories and business acumen. It’s because they work their butts off and it succeeds for them, creating in others envy at times.
SPEAKER 18 :
The appreciating comments from Mark Davis, D-A-V-I-S, at Mark Davis, at X, the Jewish people. Nothing but good things. Okay, that’s all good. It’s all positive. It’s not so positive with the Sunday morning shows. I love what you said about watching Kristen Welker. I mean, these Democrats are in such a pathetic position. Eric Holder went on one of them. Within 60 seconds, he said, gerrymandering is the worst possible thing that could possibly happen. It’s an end to the democracy. It’s terribly old. And then he turned around and said, we’re going to gerrymander. Exactly. The Democrat states are going to do it. If they think it’s so bad, why are they doing it? It’s hysterical. They’ve got, as you said last week perfectly, they’ve got nothing. It’s all they’ve got.
SPEAKER 03 :
It’s performative. I’m surprised. I’ll play this. I know you will, too. She has J.B. Pritzker on to say they’re in pontificate about everything. saving democracy, blah, blah, blah. And then she says, okay, Governor Pritzker, I got this report from whoever, whoever’s saying that your state is one of the worst gerrymandered. They said your state of Illinois is like an exhibit A of how not to do it. How can you get up on a high horse and talk about what others are doing when your state, when people are saying this about your state? And the Pritzker response was essentially, blah, blah.
SPEAKER 18 :
We’ve got to save democracy. What am I going to have for dinner? I mean, just change the subject. It was pathetic. Meanwhile, did you see the UCLA student at the graduation ceremony? F. Ice and F. Donald Trump.
SPEAKER 03 :
She gets up.
SPEAKER 18 :
Did you tell her to bring a speech?
SPEAKER 03 :
Like the valedictory or something?
SPEAKER 18 :
Valedictorian, whatever. She’s a Chinese-American actress. She wants our country basically destroyed by illegals, I guess. But here’s what’s fascinating. She stands up, as some college kids are apt to do, goes off script and says, F Donald Trump. And she didn’t say F. And F ICE. Right behind her is either a professor or an administrator. I posted the video on my ex-account.
SPEAKER 03 :
Drag her off stage with a hook?
SPEAKER 18 :
nodding his head in agreement and clapping for her. I mean, this is what they do. This is what our college kids are getting. You send your kid to UCLA, that’s what you’re going to get. It’s kind of pathetic in a very, very profound way. And I’ve decided to go to Alaska to catch up with President Trump.
SPEAKER 03 :
I’ll be there the day before he will be. There’s no question as to whether Putin or Zelensky will be there, but Mike Gallagher most surely will be.
SPEAKER 18 :
I will. The cruise leaves Saturday, and I guess the summit is Sunday, right? I think Friday. Or Friday, Saturday? And we take off from Seattle, and then we go to Sitka and Ketchikan, and it’s the Patriots Alaska cruise, and a whole bunch of us are going to be on the ship. We can’t wait for that, so I’ll be away. Should we do 735 from the ship? Oh, don’t tease me, man. What time would it be over there?
SPEAKER 03 :
Don’t tease me. What’s Alaska?
SPEAKER 18 :
Ask Siri, what time is it in Alaska?
SPEAKER 03 :
Alexa, what time is it in Juneau, Alaska?
SPEAKER 1 :
Just to pick a town.
SPEAKER 17 :
In Juneau.
SPEAKER 03 :
Three hours earlier than it is right now. Too early. No way. No way, Jose. Oh, you committed. Everybody heard him. Everybody heard him. Mike is committed to join us at 4.30 for what we call the 4.35 segment. Mike will be here. I will book it. I will tweet. I was woozy.
SPEAKER 18 :
I was woozy because I was basking in the glow of my victory over the dead carriage horse.
SPEAKER 03 :
Ambient. I mean, when I’m right. During your show. Well, no, during my show, where they sort of overlap. Trump’s going to make D.C. great again. He’s going to talk about crime in D.C., and that’s about crime in every city. Another great day for Trump coming up.
SPEAKER 18 :
It’s a great day in America. I love you. Happy Monday.
SPEAKER 03 :
Crying all of it. Wilbur. As he hits the ground. It is the Mike Gallagher Show. Ready to go as soon as we’re done at 10 on 660 AM. The answer. 660 AM.
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