In this riveting episode, we dissect a high-octane press conference from none other than President-elect Donald Trump. Amidst relentless media upheaval, Trump unveils his intention to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and discusses his aspirations of acquiring Greenland for national security interests. Our host, Mike, anchors a lively discussion on these bold propositions, inviting listeners to weigh in on whether this big-picture thinking is strategically sound.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here’s Mike Geller.
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I don’t know about you, but I think Gulf of America has a pretty nice ring to it. Yesterday, Donald Trump, the incoming president, the president-elect, 47 and 45, held an epic press conference at Mar-a-Lago, and the media went bonkers. Although, interestingly enough, despite him… intimating military force to conquer Greenland, despite economic pressure to make Canada our 51st state, despite calling Jack Smith a moron, and despite suggesting that we rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, yeah, they did react kind of badly. Wildly, but not as bad as it could have been. It’s almost like they are coming to terms with the incoming Trump administration. Welcome in. Boy, do we have a lot to cover today. The governor of California has declared a state of emergency. These catastrophic fires in Los Angeles are burning uncontained. Many, many people, thousands of people have fled. They’ve lost their homes. It’s not just the wealthy. People of all income categories are being impacted. We hope to check in with Hugh Hewitt, who is in Orange County, California. I was a guest with him yesterday on a lighter topic. He wanted to hear all about ABBA Voyage in London, and I shared that and also wanted to congratulate him on his new time slot. Because Monday, on some of our stations around the country who carry both of us, Hugh is moving from mornings to afternoons. He’s going to replace Seb Gorka on the Salem lineup. And the great Chris Stegall is going to go into Hugh’s slot beginning Monday. So we hope to talk to Hugh, but it’s awful. I mean, it’s like… apocalyptic right now in California. And we’ll talk to Hugh Hewitt in about 20 minutes to find out what the latest is. Hopefully, we’ll also have a way for you to help these poor people who have lost so much. More on that in just a moment. But back to yesterday’s press conference. My word. I was ecstatic. I thought, we are back. We are so back. The golden era is here. I mean, and look nationally. Do you know that statewide Republicans dominate the legislatures in the country two to one over the Democrats? There’s Republican control in double the amount of states of Democrat control in America. It’s as if America did a collective reset and we just said enough. No more. Enough already. We’re not… The Democrat way of doing things isn’t working anymore. And so here’s Trump yesterday making it very clear the Gulf of Mexico is in for a name change.
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We’re going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory, the Gulf of America. What a beautiful name.
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Now, I mean, I love it. Good. I love it. I’m not going to have a problem with that. But he also talked about the need to acquire Greenland. Yesterday, Don Jr. and our own Charlie Kirk got on board Trump Force One and flew to Greenland. It’s not all that terribly far, but kind of fun. I wish I could have gone along. I got a bone to pick with Charlie. Come on, Charlie. I could have carried your bags for you. I would have loved to have gone with all of you to Greenland. But yesterday, President Trump explained why the U.S. needs Greenland.
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We need Greenland for national security purposes. I’ve been told that for a long time, long before I even ran. I mean, people have been talking about it for a long time. You have approximately 45,000 people there. People really don’t even know if Denmark has any legal right there. But if they do, they should give it up because we need it for national security. That’s for the free world. I’m talking about protecting the free world. You look at you don’t even need binoculars. You look outside. You have China ships all over the place. You have Russian ships all over the place. We’re not letting that happen. We’re not letting it happen. And if Denmark wants to get to a conclusion, but nobody knows if they even have any right title or interest, the people are going to probably vote for independence or to come into the United States. But if they did do that, then I would tariff Denmark at a very high level.
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So he was asked then, this is what the media hyperventilated about, would we use military force to acquire Greenland? Here’s what he said.
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Can you assure the world that as you try to get control of these areas, you are not going to use military or economic coercion? No. Can you tell us a little bit about what your plan is? Are you going to negotiate a new treaty? Are you going to ask the Canadians to hold a vote? What is the strategy?
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I can’t assure you. You’re talking about Panama and Greenland. No, I can’t assure you on either of those two. But I can say this. We need them for economic security.
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This is amazing to me. I mean, now, I want to get your reaction to it. Let me open up the phone lines, 800-655-MIKE. It’s Wednesday, January the 8th. We’re a week away, almost a little more than a week away from the Trump inauguration. Big things are happening. Let’s dive in together to the question about whether or not it’s a good idea for Trump to go big like this. And this is big. Okay? Greenland, Canada 51st state, Gulf of Mexico becomes Gulf of America. I happen to agree with the The Scott Jennings philosophy of what Trump is doing. Now, Scott Jennings is the lone conservative on CNN. He guest-hosted my show a couple months ago. He’s terrific. He’s a breath of fresh air. Obviously, I think he’s the only guy on CNN who makes sense, but I believe that he makes sense on the issue of of Trump going big. Keep in mind, there’s no re-election. This is his final term. He’s served two terms. He’s got no worries about political ramifications here. Here’s what’s… This is… Scott Jennings perfectly… captures how I feel about Trump’s press conference yesterday, but I’m not sure if it’s how you feel, and I want to find out. I want you to give me your genuine heartfelt reaction to him going big like this with all of these bold pronouncements days before he even gets inaugurated. Here was Scott’s take on CNN.
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You can think small if you want to. I think Trump’s thinking big, and he’s thinking about U.S. interests. There are U.S. interests in Greenland. They have rare earth minerals. We already have some kind of space facility there, and it would help fortify us against the Russians. The Panama Canal is, of course, of interest when you consider the Chinese incursions and influence in this hemisphere. What Donald Trump is saying to the world is… We are not a shrinking violet anymore. We are the United States of America. We are the preeminent superpower. And reporters keep asking him to rule things out and take things off the table. And it would be the height of stupidity to do so now or to anything else before he takes office. Why would he tell the rest of the world what he may or may not do? Here’s one reason.
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Now, isn’t that the right approach? Let me find out. Let me again turn it over to you. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453, 15 past the hour. Happy Wednesday. It’s hump day. We’ve got a lot of breaking news. News out of California. These wind-fueled fires are erupting, and it’s bad. It’s really, really bad. Thousands of acres burned. Many, many homes lost. We’ll check in with Hugh Hewitt at the bottom of the hour, who is in Orange County, California. But first, I want to check in with you. I want to find out what you think about Trump going big like this. Is it too much? Too big? Too fast? He’s not even in office yet. Or do you love Trump? As Scott Jennings put it, the big picture thinking of our 47th president of the United States. Let’s burn up our phone lines with your reaction to this. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. I hope you join us. I wanna welcome some brand new partners to the Mike Gallagher Show, like Equity Protect, and this is a big, big deal. Your home’s title is often the most valuable thing you own. Next generation criminal technology is more advanced than ever. I’ve been an identity theft victim, it is no fun. You gotta have Equity Protect in your corner. If you own your home mortgage-free, or you got a lot of equity, you gotta have Equity Protect so that scammers do not steal your equity or title. For a limited time, Equity Protect is offering you a tremendous deal, 30% off your first year, giving you one year of protection for less than $12 a month. Just go to EquityProtect.com. Use the discount code Mike30. That’s EquityProtect.com. Use the promo code Mike30. Once you have Equity Protect, you don’t need to check. Trust the team at Equity Protect. Go to EquityProtect.com and use the promo code Mike30.
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Mike Gallagher.
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We are in a golden era. Here’s Florida text message, Jacksonville. I agree with Scott Jennings a thousand percent. I couldn’t be more proud of President Trump and America. Here’s California text message. Hey, Mike, it’s Trump time. Huge moves are going to be made. But here’s the other argument. And this is the flip side of it that I want you to kind of analyze with me. Let me be devil’s advocate and share with you the counter argument. Oregon sent me a text. that said, look, I’m about America first. Here’s the text, and I quote, hell no, what happened to MAGA and America first? We can barely take care of ourselves, let alone newly acquired nations. What the blank. So that’s how Oregon received Trump’s going big yesterday. And I’m not going to shoot down Oregon’s argument. I get it. I’m America first, too. But can America be even greater by acquiring strategically for national security purposes? Wouldn’t the whole tariffs and taxes situation change if Canada and the United States were one big continent together, a country? Anything wrong with the Gulf of America? No, I’m loving everything he’s saying, and I’m not just saying that. I get it. I’m a little nervous about Canada as our 51st state, but I’ve also come to trust this guy. And, hey, read The Art of the Deal. Good time to get his book out. Guy’s a master negotiator. And he’s a big-picture visionary. Not to say he can’t make mistakes. He’s fallible. We all are. But I’m all on board. Let’s see what you think. 800-655-MIKE. We’ll start with Steve here in Florida. Hey, Steve, welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show.
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Great show, Mike. You’re doing a terrific job there, and you’re informing the people. Thank you. Great thing. Listen, I really appreciate President-elect Trump, and his ideas are tremendous. We can make Canada into the 51st state. We can reclaim the Panama Canal, which should have never been given away in the first place. to see what the hell we can rename the Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of America. I love it, man. I love it all. The greatest visionary president coming into office for the second time we’ve ever had.
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Amen, amen. Thank you, Steve, and thanks for your kind words. 800-655-MIKE, one open line. And again, if you disagree, it’s okay. Let me know. 800-655-MIKE. Alice in New York. Hello, Alice.
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Hey, hello.
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Hi.
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I’m up here where it’s going to be a high of 10 degrees.
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I’ll tell you what.
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Are you enjoying yourself?
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You need some MyPillow flannel sheets, Alice.
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I do.
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I’ve got to get you some flannel sheets.
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Well, I’m a Trump supporter in the Democratic state. Yes, ma’am. We’ve got Queen Hunkle here. But anyway, I love Trump. I think he’s got the world’s attention. And I think it’s time for us to laugh again over the media’s nonsense and how they just buy right into it. And, you know, be it great if it happened, and even if it doesn’t, it makes us laugh again, and when do we laugh?
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I love it. I love that so much. It’s time to just be able to laugh again and smile again. And laugh them a while. Look, they’re clowns. That’s Sonny Hostin comparing January 6th to the Holocaust? To chattel slavery? All you have to do is laugh at a clown like that. Incidentally, some news about her. Did you see her husband has been indicted on some kind of RICO charges, some terrible crime in New York? Sonny Hostin’s husband. Yikes. Yikes. Williams in Michigan. Hey, William, how are you?
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Good morning.
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Hi.
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I want to say, do we ever forget to remember the Alamo? I hope not. They said that so we never had to fight a border war over Texas again called Ukraine 2. Yep. It’s South America like South Dakota. If we eradicate the cartels on the ocean and sink their boats and pay $5 more an hour minimum wage to further south you go in America, we don’t have a border problem anymore.
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All righty. Thank you. Rogers in San Antonio. Hey, Roger.
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Hey, Mike, thanks for taking my call. You bet. Just a quick comment on the people from Oregon. People are just kind of against this. If we don’t acquire Canada and Greenland, China’s going to. Amen. There it is.
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Yes, sir. There it is. And that’s his point, Roger, about this is a national security matter. There’s a genius, there’s a brilliance to what he said yesterday. All right, good to hear. Somebody picked him up. What happened to line two? Boy, we are having a day on the phones here, so I hope the wildfires aren’t getting involved with some of our phone lines because somebody picked up line two right in the middle of that caller. But hang in there. Everybody take a breath. We’ll regroup and check in with our buddy Hugh Hewitt, who’s in Southern California, because this is apocalyptic, these wildfires. That and more next here on the Mike Gallagher Show. There’s no better time than right now to call my friends at PhD Weight Loss and Nutrition to start your journey to a healthier you. As I hear from you about how PhD Weight Loss and Nutrition has changed your life, I know that each one of us has had our own reasons for starting. I started my journey because I gained enough weight and was ready to make a change. I sat down with Dr. Ashley Lucas, and like they say, the rest was history. I lost 53 pounds, and I’ve kept it off. We all have different reasons for starting. Maybe you got a discouraging diagnosis from your doctor. You needed to make a lifestyle change. One grandmother I talked to couldn’t chase her toddler grandson and was afraid he might get hurt in her care. Another gentleman had lower back and hip pain, which forced him to give up golf. He wanted his life back. You want your life back? Do what I did. Start the PhD journey. Make 2024 your year to say goodbye and let go of all those unwanted pounds. Call PhD Weight Loss and Nutrition today to schedule your consultation. Call 864-644-1900, 864-644-1900, or just go to MyPhDWeightLoss.com, MyPhDWeightLoss.com.
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The Mike Gallagher Show. I think before we canonize St. Kamala here on the high holy day of January 6th, let’s remember the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022 makes it perfectly clear that the vice president has nothing but purely ministerial duties on this day. She didn’t actually certify the results of the election. That’s done by the voters.
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In the ReliefFactor.com studios, here’s Mike.
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I love that. St. Kamala on the high holy day of January 6th. How much do you love that? It’s a little bit like Justin Trudeau. He tweeted out last night on social media, oh, there’s no way that Canada will become America’s 51st state. And Elon Musk immediately slapped him down and said, hey, sit this one out. You’re stepping down. You’re not the governor of Canada anymore. Boy, this is a time to be alive. And nobody’s happier than Hugh Hewitt. I mean, obviously, we’re devastated by the news out of Southern California, and I want to check in with Hugh in Orange County. But on a happier note, this is a guy who just got relieved of a prison sentence for years. He has been waking up at – think about this. Hugh is often on the West Coast doing a morning drive show, which means – when I say this, it makes my teeth ache – He’s on from 3 to 6 a.m. when he’s in California. That’s an overnight shift. So let’s welcome my colleague and friend Hugh Hewitt from Orange County, California, who’s got a big smile on his face. I can’t hear you loud and clear. How happy are you to be bumped to afternoons next week, huh?
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Well, I’m glad it’s next week because at least I was able to do a service to the early risers in California this morning and tell them where not to go, which is Sylmar, Pasadena, or Pacific Palisades. But you’re right, I’m coming to the end of my three-hour shift, and I’m looking forward to moving to the afternoon drive in Washington, D.C. next week and following you. But I’ve been carrying you for years, Mike. You know, I put you on my back every morning to let you use this audience. This morning, all I can talk about You have never seen anything like this. And I doubt, although you’ve been in hurricanes, I think, the wind at 90 miles an hour is something new to me in Southern California. So it’s going to be a very long day out here.
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Well, let’s talk a little bit about what’s happening. Over 30,000 people have been ordered to evacuate. I know we’ve been talking a little bit and getting reports from you, and of course I was glued to your show today as you were going through all the details. I mean, these are catastrophic fires, and a lot of people have an image, well, it’s Malibu, Pacific Palisades, just a bunch of rich people, they’ll be okay. There’s people of all walks of life, of all income levels, who are being impacted by these catastrophic fires, correct?
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Correct, and although Pacific Palisades is about as Tony a district as you get, and there will be celebrities who have lost their home. My friend Leslie Marshall, who I do… Brett Baer special report with her house is gone people that you see in LA they will have lost their houses but there are fires in Glendale Glendale is not too far from KRL I mean the mothership KRL is in Glendale I’m hoping the fire stays north of the freeway up there but out in Riverside that’s the working class and there’s a fire there and we will do this for 24 hours Mike This is going to go for another 24 hours. What is going to be the scandal? Everyone predicted it. Everybody knew it was coming. But nobody appears to have prepared anything special. And Karen Bass, the mayor of L.A., isn’t in the country. Where’s she? Africa. West Africa.
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Okay. I don’t know why L.A.
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may even feel obliged. She might want to come home in a hurry. Rick Caruso, if you can get the tape of him talking to Channel 11 last night, he is ballistic. He ran in the mayoral race against Dan Bass. And Rick is upset because Pacific Palisades, they’ve lost their water pressure. So there’s no ability to fight the inferno. And if people remember the Oakland Hills fire in 1991, 300 homes destroyed. burned to the ground, 25 people dead. This is that exponentially. It’s much bigger. And when the sun comes up, it’s still dark in California. We don’t have any pictures yet. People are going to be stunned, absolutely stunned.
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And, you know, Hugh, there’s a debate that has already begun, and this is something President Trump has brought up in the past. Environmentalists don’t want to do this clear-cutting. They want to save every tree. They want to preserve every acre. I’m of the mindset, look, people are devastated. People are without everything. I don’t know that today is the day to have that debate. But do you want to put your toe in the water and talk a little bit about that? some of these environmental policies and how it can contribute to this kind of devastation and loss?
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Oh, absolutely. For the last 30-plus years, I’ve been doing broadcasts, but I’ve also been a practicing lawyer and law professor, and I practice land use. And the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act have handcuffed the local authorities, the state authorities, and often private landowners on what they can do on their property to clear sage scrub. And sage scrub is our dominant ecosystem in Southern California. We now have trees. We got some palm trees at the beach, but it’s mostly coastal sage crop. Well, that stuff burns like kindling. And if you don’t clear it, your home is going to burn down. And there have been many controversies over many decades about what the environmentalists have done to retard the ability of firefighters and homeowners and landowners. to protect their property against just this sort of disaster. Now, today may be different. This is where, when you get to Pacific Palisades, people are building their houses right up to the edge of the Santa Monica Mountains, and it’s inevitable that fire will come down. What’s not inevitable is that the water reservoirs are low and the water pressure fails. That’s human error. And this, I point out to a number of people, New York, your home, has got a blue city domination and a collapse of civil society and safety. Chicago schools and safety have collapsed. And now California’s infrastructure. These are all blue areas, right? Blue New York, blue Chicago, California. They don’t know how to do the basics. They spend too much time on the absurdities, and the absurdities get people killed and their homes destroyed.
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Visiting with Hugh Hewitt, our longtime morning host who moves to afternoons, replacing the Seb Gorka slot as Dr. G goes into the Trump administration next week. Chris Stegall takes over mornings beginning Monday. Of course, we’re going to be in D.C. for the inauguration. Hugh, and you mentioned my home. That’s my former home. Now I’m a Floridian. And I do want to ask you, this is a real naive question because I don’t know wildfires. You guys know this in California. Here in Florida… We have hurricane shutters. We have hurricane-resistant windows. We have generators for our homes when the power goes out. Every time these wildfires occur, especially for some of these more upper-income folks in these neighborhoods, I wonder, is there not any kind of fire-resistant system that people can have in their yards, around their homes? I see people out there with garden hoses. I mean, a wildfire, sure, it’s fast-moving, but it’s not instantaneous. Is there no way to keep the flames off somebody’s house as the flames are approaching?
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This is a unique event. Now, I live on a hillside, and so I’ve got my eye on the hillside because with 60 to 90 mile-per-hour winds, the fires in L.A. can set embers a long way, and idiots go out, firebugs go out, and they start fires. So I’ll be alert. all day long and all night long. And our city is also built up in the sage scrub area. So I’ll be able to learn all day long. You can do a lot, and I’ve done a lot, and a lot of homeowners do a lot. But if you do not clear the coastal sage scrub from mountains, and for example, the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, and you get a fire there in a Santa Ana event, that is a foreseeable event. And I do believe a lot of insurers are just going to leave California. Like Florida, it’s hurricane insurance. I just don’t know that insurers are going to – you can’t get earthquake insurance except through the state authority here because the cost of Northridge was so high. I think we’re going to run into a fire problem now. This is going to be such a catastrophic hit for the insurance industry.
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All right. Break a leg Monday. We’re excited for your move. I hope you’ll at least now start to get at least close to me in our donor campaigns because this time – I mean, December, it wasn’t even – that was a rout, my friend. friend that was a route we are always going to deliver you the people who have been so generous for years and now they’re going to be generous to me in the afternoon tonight so i’m going to be out there for the last thing now i’m back in the game with a level playing level playing field now i’m your lead and i’ll be delivering my listen if my audience goes to you i’m in big trouble so all right hugh great seeing you and keep fighting the good fight we’ll talk to you All right. Take care. Hugh Hewitt joining us from Southern California. Again, over 200,000 people without fires. I mean, without power. They’re calling it a worst case scenario. Mass evacuations in Los Angeles. It’s awful. It is absolutely awful. Somebody just texted from Ohio. Hey, Mike, I’m wondering if now Biden will give people in California $750 apiece like Maui and the Carolinas. Now, what’s FEMA going to do? Well, we’ve got to pray for these people right now and pray that the loss of life is nonexistent. I always say this to people who experience a property loss. Homes can be replaced. Cars can be replaced. You can’t replace human beings. You can’t replace your pets. You can’t replace life. So hang in there. California, we’re praying for you. 800-655-MIKE. Mike in Forest City, North Carolina, texts, I love Trump’s big ideas. The only way to turn this country around is to make big plans. Removing everyone’s gas water heater isn’t going to do it. That’s right, Grandpa Joe Biden. What a dumb move that is. 17 before the hour. A lot more coming up on a busy Wednesday. Stay with us.
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He’s the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor Studios, here’s Mike Geller.
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We have a ton of breaking news today and we want to welcome you in. Of course, California is under a state of emergency in Southern California. The Los Angeles firefighters are working feverishly to try to contain these blazes. More than 1,400 firefighters are trying to push them back. 30,000 people have been ordered to evacuate. Look. President Trump weighed in on these California wildfires years ago. I’ve got the receipts for you coming up. And it’s, you know, I’m very, very reluctant to dive into politicization in the middle of such a catastrophe. But look, the grownups have to get in charge here. And we’ve got to turn a whole lot of things around. We’ve got people on Capitol Hill. and we’ve got a lot to uncover for you and unwind today. We’ve got a lot to unpack. Trump’s press conference yesterday at Mar-a-Lago, boy, he’s going big or going home. That’s his philosophy, clearly. Let’s rename the Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of America. Let’s acquire Greenland. Let’s make Canada the 51st state. Let’s get back the Panama Canal. Big, bold… And that’s days before he’s even inaugurated. I think Gulf of America has a pretty nice ring to it. But also in Washington, D.C., as the stands are being built to house the people who are going to be watching the inauguration, and we’re going to be right there in the middle of it broadcasting from D.C. for the January 20th inauguration. Yesterday, I watched in absolute shock as 159 Democrats voted against deporting illegal immigrants who commit crimes against American citizens. I’m going to repeat that. 159 Democrats voted against the Lake and Riley Act. Yesterday was the first… official act of the U.S. Congress in 2025. The first House bill passed, not really close, it was 264 to 159, and kudos to the 48 Democrats who joined Republicans in voting for the bill that was named after murdered Georgia student Lakin Riley. What a concept to detain and deport illegals who commit crimes against American citizens. How can you be against that? 159 Democrats voted no. And this is why they lost. And look, obviously I’m glad Democrats lost. I’m glad that Republicans are in control. I’m glad Republicans now are running the show. And make no mistake, Republicans are. The GOP is dominating the states. Republicans this year are going to control the legislative process in nearly twice the number of states as Democrats. There’s Republican control of 24 states to the Democrats’ 15 per the Cook Political Report. And the process is split in 10 others. Republicans have the White House, the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, most of the states. And Democrats are looking at their navel. They’re gazing at their navel saying, why did we lose? How about, let’s start with why you could vote against the Lake and Riley Act. John Fetterman, of all people, Senator John Fetterman, a guy who ran for office, got elected somehow, despite being practically catatonic. And I’m not saying that as a criticism of him, because right now, he’s one of the few bright spots of the Democrat Party. It’s like something happened to him. I could not believe the voters of Pennsylvania put him into office. But I have to admit, I’m glad they did. Because this is the kind of logic coming from this guy, the Democrat senator from Pennsylvania, yesterday on Fox News Channel.
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And I’d like to remind everybody that we have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of migrants here illegally that have convicted of crimes. And I don’t know why. Who wants to defend to allow them to remain in our nation after that? And now if you’re here illegally and you’re committing crimes and those things, I don’t know why anybody thinks that it’s controversial that they all need to go.
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Do you think that this was one of, if not the biggest issue for this election?
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Well, I think if we can’t, you know, there’s 47 of us in the Senate. And if we can’t pull up with with seven votes, if we can’t get at least seven out of 47, if we can’t, then that’s the reason why we lost. That’s one of them. That’s one of why we lost in part. That’s amazing.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s a Democrat. He gets it. These people are lost on the left. Democrats are gone. You want to know the New York Times headline? Are you ready for this? Here’s the New York Times headline after the Lake and Riley Act was passed. And the Lake and Riley Act, it’s simple. It would require detention of migrants who commit crimes. How can you vote against that? 149 of them did. But you want to know why they did? Because they’re reading the New York Times, their holy grail. You know what their Bible said? I kid you not, this is not a made-up headline. Actual headline in the New York Times. House passes bill to deport unauthorized immigrants charged with minor crimes. That’s the New York Times spin and why 149 bleeding-heart Democrats in the House yesterday voted no. well, we’re deporting unauthorized immigrants. I love that use. That’s a new one. Normally they use undocumented. Now the New York Times is pivoting to unauthorized. So if you come across the Rio Grande in a banana boat, you swim across the river and sneak into this country in the middle of the night, and you go wind up living in South Carolina, well, you’re unauthorized. You weren’t authorized to live and work and take the resources of South Carolina. You’re not illegal. You’re unauthorized. When you rob a bank, you’re not a bank robber. You made an unauthorized use of funds. You made an unauthorized withdrawal. Withdrawal. That’s all you did. My gosh. 48 Democrats joined Republicans yesterday, but 149 voted no. And that’s the New York Times takeaway. House passes the bill, the Lake and Riley Act, and will deport unauthorized immigrants charged with minor crimes. Cry some more, New York Times, because the adults are in control now. Weep some more, because a lot of us find your tears… 1-800-655-MIKE. Welcome aboard. It is a breaking news Wednesday in the Relief Factor studios. I want to get your reaction to all of this. I want you to go ahead. You defend and explain. and the House of Representatives thinking it’s a bad idea to detain and deport illegals who’ve committed crimes against the American citizenry. You go ahead and tell me. I want to hear all about the unauthorized illegals who are going to be deported for minor crimes. It’s just a minor crime. You know, bumping off a 7-Eleven, hitting somebody over the head, a minor crime. Let them stay. Enjoy the benefits of South Carolina while you’re here. Please, have fun. They’re lost. And thank goodness the golden era is here. Thank goodness we’re going to get to enjoy and relish. the Republicans in charge of America once again. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Join us.
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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 M&M experience.
SPEAKER 14 :
I mean, I know of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice, who are the great musical musicians. Stephen Sondheim. Stephen Sondheim. Lionel Bart is the guy behind Oliver. And you’ve got that. And the catalyst here, the great Ron Moody is Fagin in the movie. And he was born 101 years ago today. It’s his birthday. And lived a long life all the way to 2015. But food, glorious food, where is love?
SPEAKER 12 :
Consider yourself. Well, I’m more of a Mr. Bumble than I am Fagin. I play Bumble as well. I play Bumble in Dallas. That was one of my first big roles at Lyric Stage in Dallas. And the joke was, I can’t do accents. And so the director, Cheryl Denson, who’s one of the great theater directors in the country. She’s wonderful. She’s magnificent. And she would roll her eyes every time because I had to do an English accent. In fact, I was up for a part in My Fair Lady at Lyric Stage, and I know the reason I didn’t get the part, because I’m getting married in the morning. That great role. I didn’t get the role because I can’t do an English accent. But you have to in Mr. Bumble. Yeah, please, sir. I want some more. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
They gave me a winding stairway without any banister, which will throw him down and feed him on cockroaches.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, my gosh. Well, I’m sorry. You ought to be on stage. We ought to do a production. You and I ought to do the producers. I’ll be Max Bialystock.
SPEAKER 04 :
You’ll be Leo Bloom. We’ll do Springtime for Hitler. I’m ready. I’m ready.
SPEAKER 12 :
You would be great. You would actually be great. Have you ever done a production on stage like that?
SPEAKER 14 :
A couple of plays. I was in Calamity Jane when I was in ninth grade. There you go. We can get you out there. Which is another great work of musical theater.
SPEAKER 12 :
And you also picked up the scab a little bit about my London trip. You know, they’re doing a production. Of Oliver right now on the West End. Whoa. And front row seat, Mike, couldn’t get any tickets. I tried. I tried. I couldn’t get seats. You? I know.
SPEAKER 14 :
Didn’t you throw down any, you know, do you know who I am credit?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, they didn’t even have any, they didn’t even have any like scalper tickets that, I mean, I couldn’t get into that theater. It’s a big hot seat.
SPEAKER 14 :
The secondary market didn’t even, because we know you will shell out if you want something back.
SPEAKER 12 :
I’d have shelled out for Oliver, because I love that show.
SPEAKER 14 :
Speaking of theater, is it real life or is it political theater? As Trump goes out and says, let’s do Greenland, let’s do Canada, let’s do the Canada. Just how much of that is real, real? My take is, does he mean it, mean it literally? I don’t think so, but it’s designed to make a point. Let me just hand you the baton and see what you think.
SPEAKER 12 :
Let me just ask you and our audience if you are fully capable of recognizing the golden era that we are now in. We are back. We are back. And, of course, rinse, repeat. He holds a press conference. The mainstream media, their hair catches on fire. They flip out. Oh, we’re going to use military force to conquer Greenland. We’re not going to conquer Greenland. We’re not going to. He wants back. Good things to happen. But, you know, I watched every word and carried a lot of it on my show because a lot of it aired when I was on yesterday. And I just watched every word of it. And I thought, this is why he’s the people’s president. Take, for example, him railing against the water regulations and restrictions that the Biden administration has come up with. I mean, Biden, in an 11-hour effort, is trying to ban gas water heaters. Now, Trump went on, he did this funny riff about how, you know the difference between a gas heater and electric? When it’s electric, you’re itchy. You’re itch. And when a gas heater, it’s nice and warm. But he relates to people that way. And then he talked about the water regulations. Now, all these restrictions with all of this crap that the federal government has imposed upon us, Trump is like, you know what? Get the water. Get as much water as you want. Water comes from the sky. We have water. We have the resources. And then he started talking about how all the dishwashers and all of the toilets, they all have all these water restrictions. Yeah. They don’t do the job. They don’t get things cleaned. They don’t get the job. So you know what Trump said? You know what people do with the dishwasher with the little drip, drip, drip of water in there? They run it seven times. They run it seven times. So you’re using more water anyway. And that’s the kind of common sense every man perspective that Trump brings to the table that makes him so wildly popular with Americans. And these elitists that are so goofy. I mean, the poll came out the other day. Five. Five percent. You know, I talked about it yesterday. Five percent of Americans think that January 6th, 2021 was a significant event. Five percent. I mean, he and look, he’s going to go. He’s going to look at clemency and pardon for a whole bunch of those folks as well. As well, he should, Mark. So, you know, I don’t know. No, we’re not going to invade Greenland. Although, did you see that Don Jr. and our Charlie Kirk? Went running off to Greenland yesterday?
SPEAKER 14 :
Did you see him in the cockpit of the plane? Yes. Shooting video out of Trump Force One as they lift off from Greenland. And he pivots it around. And there’s Don Jr. going, hey, great visit.
SPEAKER 12 :
And there’s flipping Charlie Kirk sitting right next to him. I got a bone to pick with Charlie. Why didn’t I get to go?
SPEAKER 14 :
I’d have loved to have gone to Greenland. They got seats. Seats in that thing.
SPEAKER 12 :
There’s a lot of seats on that plane. You know, Charlie, of course, just renewed his deal with Salem Media Group. We’re thrilled to continue with that young man. And Salem, behind the curtain, some inside baseball news. Brad Parcell has been named Salem’s chief strategy officer. Now, Brad, you remember him. He was the digital guru for Trump World, big in Trump World. He’s also big. He was big with Kylie Jenner launching her big billion dollar beauty line. He helped, you know, I know Candace Owens is a controversial figure, but. He helped launch her into the stratosphere with her digital presence. And so Brad Parcell, who’s really one of the best digital marketing and online strategy folks in the world, he’s joining Salem as our chief strategy officer. They know who to hang with. They know the dog to follow. Monday, Chris DeGaulle starts before you and me. He replaces Hugh. Hugh moves into afternoons. Seb Gorka goes to the White House. Did you see that CBS News did a hit piece on Seb Gorka last night? Oh, what? What’d they do? Oh, they just drudged up old stuff. You know, he had a falling out the first time he was in the Trump administration, and it was with John Kelly. So make no mistake. And enough said, right? I mean, what more do you need to know? And so Kelly didn’t like the Seb Gorkas and the Bannons of the world. And, you know, he was trying to be Mr. Mr. Military and kick everybody out. That was the whole backstory. I mean, Seb has told me about it on and off the air.
SPEAKER 14 :
And Kelly and Kelly was a troublemaker from day one. He went in with his own agenda, his own priorities. He thought he could leave his stamp on Trump world. And the people who thought that learned otherwise really quickly.
SPEAKER 12 :
And Seb knew it, and Kelly knew that Seb knew it, and I truly believe that Seb is right. That’s why he got pushed out. Well, CBS did this whole hit piece, oh, Seb Gorka, he was pushed out the first time. And here’s the great news about this. He doesn’t need Senate confirmation for the position he’s going to be in. He is in a very important role in counterterrorism. You know, and a key, key figure in combating and even recommending strikes and all kinds of, you know, and they’ll have access to all kinds of sensitive. It’s one of the highest ranking people in that world, in that sphere of counterterrorism in the country. And so we’re so proud of Sebastian. You know, but there’s CBS doing what CBS does. Media doing what the media does. But it’s changing, Mark. It’s changing. Did you see McDonald’s is throwing out their DEI initiatives? Done.
SPEAKER 14 :
They’re done. You bet. They’re done. Trump effect. Hashtag Trump effect. Meta. Mark Zuckerberg saying we’re stopping with the stupid biased fact checkers. We’re going to have community notes. Let people weigh in more free speech. And he called it in his video yesterday. He said we may, as with many human systems and so many things, they’re going to be mistakes. These were not mistakes. It was 1000 percent intentional. They did it for ideological reasons. They got caught. They got torched to their credit. They learned the lesson from that and are now improving their behavior. That’s good. But it was not a mistake. Do not know.
SPEAKER 12 :
It wasn’t. There’s not. There was no accident. And look, and it’s it. But we are back to this theme of a golden era. Axios this week over at Mike Allen’s site. Republicans this year will control the legislative process in nearly twice the number of states as Democrats. Well, the GOP is dominating the states. I mean, 24 states for the Republicans to the Democrats, 15. And the process is split in 10 others. This is what people have had it. They’re just fed up. They’re fed up with. I talked to an old friend of mine. I reconnected with a buddy of mine that I haven’t talked to in 30 years. And it’s so strange to talk to somebody 30 years later. What you what you went up to. How’s that? Three decades worked out for you. And we were kids. In fact, even 30 years ago, we only hold over friends from when we were really teenagers. And he and his wife… had to get the phone call that their precious son was in a horrific accident. An illegal immigrant pulled out in front of their son on a motorcycle, and he ultimately died of those injuries. And he said, it’s got to stop. He said, she’s still driving a car. She’s still living where they lived. And, I mean, do you know that 159 Democrats this week voted against deporting illegals who commit crimes? Yep. Now, think about it. Let that sink in. Now, the good news is I think it was 43 or either 43 or 49 Democrats voted with the Republicans. Oh, did you catch Fetterman?
SPEAKER 14 :
Fetterman, I think, was on Special Report with Brett Baier last night or one of those Fox shows and said, listen, this is why we lose. When we can’t get on the right side of common sense stuff like this, this is how we lose. That’s it. Fetterman will be a Republican by 4th of July.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, I’m not kidding. You’re not kidding. I know. No, I don’t think you’re far from that. But 100, and let the world know, and I’m going to be bellowing it today, 149 Democrats voted against the Lake and Riley Act. 149 Democrats think it’s a bad idea to deport illegals who commit crimes in this country against American citizens. Now, what pot and then i started going on down the rabbit hole last night because i was and i’m watching this southern california situation the fourth wildfire has now flared up uh people are you know losing their homes left and right it’s horrific uh we’re going to try to help today on the mike gallagher show with food for the poor they’ve we hope to put something together in time to because there’s a lot of middle class and lower income people who are it’s not just hollywood stars it’s And not just Malibu that’s way beyond that. But it’s funny, I’m trying to watch all of that and I’m covering that. And I go down the rabbit hole about what’s their argument? What does a Democrat say in objecting? Do you know what the argument is?
SPEAKER 14 :
Ultimately, to go to root causes, the term of the decade. is that they don’t want to do anything to impede the arrival of people from south of the border illegally because even the occasional violent criminal is rehabilitatable and absorbable into the American fabric and legalizable and naturalizable and then a reliable Democrat voter.
SPEAKER 12 :
But that’s Mark Davis, the conservative talk show legend answer. What’s their answer? Give me their bust. What would they say? Because that’s what I was looking for last night.
SPEAKER 14 :
I thought… It’s going to be BS, but it would essentially be we believe in redemption. It would be overly broad. It would be weaponized. Evil racist conservatives would overgeneralize. There’d be people unfairly ejected in this nucleus of a good idea. It would be atomized out and would adversely affect and would disproportionately affect blah, blah, blah. So that would be.
SPEAKER 12 :
You’re right. You’re right. In fact, you’re close. The one big thing that I saw the pushback was the legislation would take teenage shoplifters who are illegals, or of course they call them, and deport them. And that would be horrible to have a teenage shoplifter deported. Really? That’s their big argument. That’s why they that’s why they voted against it. Hey, I got a newsflash for you. If you’re a teenager and you’re an illegal and you shouldn’t be in this country, don’t shop.
SPEAKER 14 :
I was going to say, thank you. I don’t get misty about speaking of no great loss and good riddance amid all this weird Canada stuff about, you know, maybe like annexing Canada, make Canada the 51st state, which we’re not going to do. Some Canadian reaction was interesting, and there was some Canadian parliamentary official of some sort. I don’t know what they have up there who said, well, what would you think if we just took California, Oregon and Washington state?
SPEAKER 12 :
And I thought I saw. Don’t threaten me with a good time.
SPEAKER 14 :
Speaking of only half kidding. Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 14 :
With our with our blessing, with our Republican presidents, as far as the eye can see, because the flip side of that coin, because I know you were paying attention. It was right. I guess it was right after you were on the air the day before yesterday where Kamala Harris had to. Do you join a lot of people in saying, look, she’s wrong on every issue, terrible candidate, mean woman, vicious, et cetera. I have very little good to say about her. But she did step into the strike zone, take one for the team and show up to lord over her own. I’m sorry.
SPEAKER 12 :
You’re a bigger man than I am.
SPEAKER 14 :
I didn’t say I was doing it. I was asking.
SPEAKER 12 :
I enjoyed it way too much.
SPEAKER 14 :
And there was the moment at which the Texas electoral vote was announced and a forty four. Oh, electoral votes went to Trump and J.D. Vance, which I think was the technical moment with it got us to 270 in that with Texas states. And just listen, you hear it a lot down here and just never, ever, ever forget. If we lose Texas, we will never elect a Republican president again. It’s an 80-vote swing. If you lose our 40, and everybody says, ooh, Texas is going to turn blue. And thank God that’s just not happening. But we’ve got to make sure we stay steadfast about that.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, we’ve got to stay on it. And as a texter from Dallas just pointed out, just take a gander at the cover of my favorite newspaper in America today, the New York Post. Yes. Big, bold headline, The Don Roe Doctrine. And it’s got a picture of Trump with a big pointy thing on the map. Canada is crossed out, and it says his vision of the hemisphere. Canada is crossed out, 51st state. Greenland is crossed out. It says, not Greenland, our land. Gulf of Mexico is crossed out to Gulf of America.
SPEAKER 01 :
He said that, too, by the way.
SPEAKER 12 :
Gulf of America. And the Panama Canal is crossed out. Now it’s the Panamaga Canal. Tremendous. I mean, golden era. Enjoy it.
SPEAKER 01 :
Savor it.
SPEAKER 12 :
And get ready for the inauguration. And we’ll be in D.C. broadcasting from our nation’s capital covering the 47th president’s inaugural proceedings. All right. Happy Wednesday, my friend. Happy Wednesday. We’re ready.
SPEAKER 15 :
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