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[00:01:00] Not on Saturday night, not on this radio network. Welcome everybody, James Edwards and Keith Alexander. We are going to be grading President Trump's first 100 days tonight with a man who can give the grade. A guy who knows politics. Lou Moore, of course, our good friend, served for years in Washington as a congressional chief of staff.
[00:01:26] He was Ron Paul's national campaign manager during his historic presidential run in 2008. You know, Lou, there was a newspaper interview that we did that referred to you as a Washington insider. You said, you know what? I spent my whole career trying to avoid that label. But I think it was done. Indeed. Certainly done in a complimentary way. You have been there. You have done that. And welcome back tonight. How are you doing, sir? I'm doing great. Thanks, James. Keith, great to be with you. Good to have you.
[00:01:54] Well, Lou, I mentioned this last week and I've mentioned it a couple of times as we have approached this 100-day milestone. And I looked back to that show that you and I did with Steve King. You and Congressman King were paired together on January the 18th, just two days shy of Inauguration Day. And during that particular show, we were sort of casting our dreams upon this blank canvas that would become the second Trump administration. And it was a great, great show.
[00:02:23] You fast forward 100 days. And, of course, we've been covering the first 100 days, the last 100 days. We've been covering it in progress every week. Too much to cover in one night of radio. So I would just say, where do we begin? Lou, what is your grade, your take on Trump 2.0 so far? Well, I kind of divided a little bit, James. I give Trump an A. I mean, I'm sorry. I'm supposed to be more subtle or something. But because this is my thing, James.
[00:02:52] We have an opportunity. We have an electorate that is basically with us now. We need to put the pedal to the metal. We don't have a moment to lose on these, whether you're talking about deportations, whether you're talking about locking up people who were locking our people up and censoring our people and debanking our people. We need justice, and we need it right away because we don't have a lot of time. I don't know how long we're going to have this kind of political capital. So I look at...
[00:03:23] We don't have a lot of time to waste. That is exactly right, Keith. And so I'm in urgency mode. So anything that is in that mode, I like. And Trump is on it. He is on it. And, you know, I don't agree with him on everything. He's being pulled a lot of different directions, as all public officials are. But basically, I cannot fault his priorities, and, you know, and I cannot fault his approach to them.
[00:03:51] And not quite as uncritical of the people around him, but, you know, that's a case-by-case thing. Let me tell you this, though, Lou. It's this Agenda 25 that we're talking about. Project 2025. Project 2025. Uh-huh. I mean, that is for real. He was staffed up and ready to go, man. And, you know, he hit the ground running. He was a little coy about that leading up to the election, but... I don't think coy is the word. He sat there scattering.
[00:04:24] Keith, you were right on the money. I mean, he fooled me completely. I'm on my show saying, oh, Trump, he's selling us out, all these great people. He says he doesn't want anything to do with them, doesn't know who they are. This was all just to get past the election. I mean, you know, Trump is unbelievable. And usually in a good way. But, no, you're absolutely right. Four or 5,000, I think about 5,000 shock troops hit the ground running. And a lot of great young people.
[00:04:52] This is completely different than the first administration. Completely different. And you put your finger on why it is different. Because personnel is policy. That's it. That's how it works back there. Hey, there you go. And you would know. I mean, because you staffed your office with people when you were there with the great and good Jack Metcalf. And you go back again. And right out of the gate, Lou. Right out of the gate. I mean, so much.
[00:05:21] I mean, sitting there in Capital One Arena, signing all of these executive orders. One after another. Just had the Democrats completely flat-footed. Not even flat-footed. Just on their heels. But you start out by pardoning every J6-er. Everyone. And then you have this executive order on South Africa that we've talked about. Then you fast-forward to the last few days. This thing on disparate impact, which we talked about last week. Just huge.
[00:05:46] I mean, trying to bring the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to heal. And then now you have this. What basically happened today, Keith? That they're taking in. Well, this is a headline from The Hill. The Hill, and it reads, if I can pull up my photo gallery here, it reads the headline, U.S. to begin admitting white South African refugees. And I believe those are the only refugees they're allowing right now. Are we wrong about that?
[00:06:10] He's put a quietus on other refugee applications except for whites from South Africa. Let me tell you, this is something that came to mind. I don't know if you've ever seen that series on Trump in the beginning. I mean, this is like he always got, you know, soldiered up and lawyered up and everything else. That's, you know, like when he did the Commodore Hotel in New York, when he did the Taj Mahal.
[00:06:38] You know, this is something that basically his first term was atypical. I think he thought that somehow politics was a different animal. But it's not. He thinks that if he paid somebody, then they would automatically be loyal. But that's not the way it is in government. And I don't know what it was, Lou, if this bullet was a come-to-Jesus moment in Butler, Pennsylvania last year, or if he has truly just been turned as a result of all of the attempts to put him in prison and to indict him, or what. But it doesn't matter because this is what we've got and here's where we are.
[00:07:07] He started a lot longer than last July. You know, he had that Project 2025 humming a long time ago. Let's go to the guest. So, Lou, finish this segment up and then a lot more from you in the three to come. I mean, again, where do you start? Where do you want to go? What do you want to focus on? Well, you know, I focus on the four crises that I think any one of them could destroy this country.
[00:07:32] You know, whether you're talking about this crisis of the First Amendment that we had, that he's now put all of these agencies on a leash. We haven't dispensed justice yet, but he's put them on a leash. We have the border crisis, which the border situation has been alleviated. But the 40 million illegal aliens we have and the probably 15 to 20 million we got from Joe Biden are still running around loose.
[00:07:57] We have the dollar crisis and, you know, Bricks, meeting July, the Rio reset is coming. And, you know, that's the third crisis Trump has to deal with and flawlessly. And the fourth one is the possibility of World War Three with the three flashpoints in Taiwan, the Mideast and the Ukraine. And, you know, he's on it. Yeah, he's got on it.
[00:08:23] And he's, you know, his people are all ready. They're prepped. He knows who they are. They've got the talent. Elon Musk was a big wild card in the deck. And, I mean, he's been the most important part of it as far as I'm concerned, really. You know, he found the Achilles heel of the Democrats. The Democratic Party enforces their loyalty on their minions through money. And if you can cut off the money, that's their Achilles heel. And that's what he's been doing. All right.
[00:08:51] Well, Lou, you'd be a great one to ask about this, this going after these public employees, which are basically just a nasty greeting ground of left wing activists through Doge and other things. This was a big thing that Congressman Paul was interested in. What's your take on all that and how effective it may be and long lasting it may be? Well, I'm not quite as high on everything Mr. Musk has done than others are.
[00:09:19] I mean, he did promise us $2 trillion in cuts. Then he promised us $1 trillion in cuts. And now we're looking at about $150 billion in cuts. And I'm not even sure that's all in one year. And that's starting next year. So I've been kind of disappointed that way. But, no, you're right. I mean, the war has commenced with the bureaucracy.
[00:09:41] And, you know, there are three entities in D.C. that are all parts of the government that are Trump's mortal enemies. There is the judiciary, most of them. There is the bureaucracy, most of them. And then there's the Congress, most of them, too. And the Congress is a separate case. But anyway, Trump is, I mean, it's a frontal assault on these people. USAID was not a small thing.
[00:10:07] I mean, people have been trying to get into that agency and clean it out or get rid of it forever. I mean, this is not new at all. And, you know, what Trump has done right there was more than a shot across the bow at the deep state or the bureaucracy overall. So, no, I mean, he's sincere. He's on it. It's very tough because everybody who is a Calvary riding to the rescue of the deep state. It's the judiciary.
[00:10:35] Any particular district court judge anywhere in Podunk or whatnot or Bug Tussle or whatnot can step in here and apparently bring things to a grinding halt. And you can't govern like that. That's ridiculous. Well, this is actually something I was going to get to in just a moment with you, Lou. But let's go to it right now since Keith has prompted it. And that is, I mean, these executive orders, almost every single one has been something that I am either in favor of or very much in favor of.
[00:11:04] I can't think of any I've seen that I outright disagree with. I mean, maybe a couple on Israel or anti-Semitism. But that's all he can do. He's only the president. So you'd say, well, we would rather have it codified through legislation. But you can't make Congress work, right, Lou? I mean, you know that. I mean, half of the Congress exists to oppose anything that Trump is doing. And so you've got these judges. And as Stephen Miller said, you've got to have all 600-plus of them agree with you before you can get anything done.
[00:11:33] So how does that work? I mean, how can you deal with that? Well, I mean, the first problem we have is when the left is in charge, you know, your attorney general is a wingman and your president's a deity. And he can do whatever he wants. But when the right is making any progress and, oh, my goodness, we just have to restrain this president. He's turning into a king, blah, blah, blah. We've got to separate the Justice Department. We've got to separate this and that.
[00:12:03] And we can't interfere with labor agreements. And, you know, I mean, the fact is he was elected president. He's the chief executive officer of the executive branch. And every one of these executive orders are trained on the executive branch and what they're supposed to be doing. And I agree with you, James. It's one of the big challenges. I mean, they've been great. And we need every one of them. But, yeah, no, these judges, we've got a ton of Marxists.
[00:12:27] We got almost every Democrat appointee is some form of Marxist, you know, for many years back. And then too many of the Republican appointees are weasels. I mean, I don't know how else to say it. They're weak. And I don't mean to talk about Amy Coney Barrett right away. But, I mean, a lot of these folks are weak. And I don't care. You know, they have a good conservative resume. They have a good interview. Then they appoint these people. And, you know, they don't come across. So this is a real problem.
[00:12:57] Now, Keith, didn't you go to school with Amy? Or, wait, she's a lot younger than you. Or did she go to the same school you did? What was that? She went to the same school. And she's weak as grandma's iced tea. Okay? That's a – there's no other way to put it. She is a typical woman. Why do you want women – why do you want to waste a Supreme Court slot on somebody who's weak as grandma's iced tea? And that's it. But, I mean, she makes, you know, John Roberts – Mr. Rogers look like Mick Jagger. Yeah.
[00:13:27] That's a good one. That's Robin Williams and Mrs. Doubtfire. That's a line for that movie. But, anyway. Unlike Dr. King, I give attribution when I plagiarize. But I don't choke to death first. But, anyway. Okay. So the Supreme Court. So they did actually uphold this movement the Trump administration has put forward to keep mentally ill, so-called transgendered people out of the Army, which I thought was probably one of the ones that they would almost be guaranteed to rule against. It's really a mixed bag.
[00:13:56] It's almost schizophrenic. I mean, it's win some, lose some, to be sure. They're only there for the purpose of getting free medical care. They have incredible medical bills. That's why they're in the military. Okay. All right. All right. But that's a good point. That's a good point. But that's not the point right now. I mean, the point is Supreme Court and how much Trump can expect something that he – one of these issues that rises to that level to go his way when he has stacked most of the court now. I mean, so, Lou, your take on the Supreme Court and the direction it may take this summer?
[00:14:26] Yeah. I mean, I'm worried about the Supreme Court. I mean, I really thought – I mean, Kavanaugh was known to be a very strong advocate for executive power. He hasn't been – he's been a bit of a mixed bag. Gorsuch is supposed to be this brainiac legal type. And, you know, he's been okay. And then Barrett has been terrible. And Roberts is just a politician with a robe on. And no one knows.
[00:14:56] You know, the wind direction has changed. So you never know what Roberts is going to do. All from an error but never in doubt. Yeah, yeah. And, no, in June we're going to have a big confrontation over these deportations. I mean, it's been predicted by others, the timing of the court and whatnot.
[00:15:11] Probably going to be in June when the Supreme Court is going to – I'm sure they don't even want to – but they're going to have to take on this issue of whether Trump has the executive authority to deport these illegal aliens, illegal aliens, particularly criminal illegal aliens, or not. And this may be a constitutional crisis that we haven't really seen, you know, at least since the New Deal era.
[00:15:39] Well, why should it be – It may be earlier. Well, this is – I mean, again, you know, why would not – why would the president not have the authority to deport illegal aliens? I mean, we could sit here and convince ourselves of it all day long. We don't – I mean, we're on the same – we're in the same choir.
[00:16:04] But if that should happen, Lou, I mean, are we ever going to get to the point – because I think we have already surpassed any expectations we could have had for what Trump was intending to do going back to early January or even when we talk today. They know that it is a spurious argument. Look, lawfare began before Brown v. Board of Education. The idea that we need to bow and genuflect towards the judiciary is, you know, a 20th century phenomenon.
[00:16:31] All right, so that's the thing, Lou, just to cut right to it. I mean, is there any chance – and again, he's exceeded odds. He's exceeded any odds I would have given him in that show we did with – I'll tell you, James, we have to have – we've got to have a lot more out of him. I am just so worried about these four crises I've identified. And honestly, you know, I've thought through this, and it's been suggested by others. It's not my idea. We need to suspend habeas corpus for – Yes, yes, period.
[00:17:00] I saw there was some type of initiative for doing that. All right, let's let Lou talk about it. It's just arisen. I saw something about that in the news today, Lou. What's going on? Yeah, it's in – the president has those powers in an invasion, and this is an invasion. And, you know, this might even further the confrontation coming with the court, but he's in a very strong position to do that. But, you know – Well, look, they did the same thing with these.
[00:17:28] Even Trump may not have the cojones to do it, but he needs to do it because we will never get these people out of here without some very strong executive action to push the court back. And then that's only the beginning. I mean, we've got to get the sheriffs involved. There's a lot of things have to happen to seriously even deport the 1.6 million who have deportation orders right now. I mean, 1.6 million people have already been ordered to leave.
[00:17:55] What about all the people, though, that they did – you know, they suspended habeas corpus on all the J6 people? So it's not like it's without precedent. Yeah, fair point, Keith. Fair point. Anyhow, that's what needs to – in my opinion, on that issue, that is exactly what needs to happen. So is there any odds that you would give that Trump will absolutely justify either the U.S. district courts or the Supreme Court itself?
[00:18:25] Well, it would be through a mechanism like this. It wouldn't just be I'm defying you. I'm doing it anyway. He's taking a different power to do this, to suspend habeas corpus. And I do think it's possible that he'll do it because – This is the difference between the first term and this term because in the first term he didn't have the legal backup to come up with all the weapons that's coming out. He's changed a lot. I mean, this is a different Trump. This is a different man, and you can argue the reasons why.
[00:18:55] I do not believe this is the same Trump we saw 16 to 20. But continue on, Lou. Yeah, and the other thing that I'm calling for, and I'm not unique – actually, it was Tom Fitton that kind of put this – brought this into the public arena, I think, from Judicial Watch –
[00:19:10] is we need to have Trump appoint a special prosecutor who reports directly to him, not even through DOJ, directly to him, staffed up and financed to the degree needed and go after every one of these deep state actors, as we call them, that were involved with all of it. With the censorship involved with all the prosecution, persecution of Trump involved with the steel of the 2020 election.
[00:19:39] And I'm deadly serious about this because, again, we don't have a lot of time. I think Trump has a political capital now that he could do that, and there's a lot of precedent for it. This whole idea that the president has to be walled off from the Department of Justice is just a lie. It's just a lie the Democrats conducted after Watergate. Well, that's true enough. But anyway, I mean, going back in history, I mean, the president takes an oath.
[00:20:05] He takes an oath to defend the nation against enemies, foreign and domestic. And we've got a lot of domestic enemies running around. The judiciary is a domestic enemy. Pardon me? I said the judiciary is a domestic enemy.
[00:20:21] This is obviously a very flawed system, am I right, Lou, where you could have an appointed judge, a partisan judge, overruling a man who was elected by the entirety of the voting public. It just doesn't seem to be that that is the way that it was intended to work. Well, you know, they're just pretty much lawless.
[00:20:46] Listen, this whole trend started around the turn of the 20th century at Harvard Law School with Felix Frankfurter and Morris Cohen and all these guys that figured out, all Marxists, figured out how to introduce sociology, ideology, foreign religions, and everything else under the sun into their legal decisions. And, you know, and it also creates a typical Marxist lawlessness.
[00:21:11] I mean, you just had this judge in San Francisco who put this nationwide lockdown on, what, 20 different agency, you know, agency personnel issues, saying that Trump can't get rid of anybody in these 20 agencies. The unions brought this to the judge.
[00:21:30] And when you bring this kind of action, you have to file a bond because if you were going to stop an executive action like this, you're costing the government billions, potentially billions of dollars if it's not ultimately upheld. But the judge just said, oh, you don't have to file a bond. That's illegal. That's not even legal.
[00:21:51] Well, I was going to say Trump needs to put take a page out of Andrew Jackson's book and say that Justice Marshall has made his decision. Now, let me force all of these ones. I'm with you. I'm with you. I love it. Hey, let me tell you, folks, if you're enjoying this conversation, I just glanced at the clock. How are we 30 minutes into this show already? Is that even real? But I will. You can continue this. We will continue this after the break in just a moment.
[00:22:20] But I just want to be sure to work this in very quickly. Go to Lumore.com. That is L-E-W-M-O-O-R-E. Lumore.com. There you can learn a little more about our guest right now and see a pretty snazzy picture of Lou with Ron Paul on that campaign trail in the 2000s. But be sure to catch his Hour of Decision podcast. This is great. It is can't miss content. You know what that name is?
[00:22:50] Lou, where that came from? Well, I don't know. I think it was the name of Billy Graham's radio shows that was sponsored by Sarnoff of NBC. Yeah, I'm aware of that. But it's older than that. There's a man named Spangler who wrote a book here a while back. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Spangler's book. Yeah, that's right. But it wasn't a program. Well, I mean, Hour of Decision doesn't necessarily. I mean, it's just a damn good name is what it is.
[00:23:17] But I doubted that Lou siphoned it from Billy Graham. But nevertheless, the Hour of Decision that we care about is Lou Moore's Hour of Decision at loumoore.com. So, 77 episodes in. And it is airing also every Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. on right here on the Liberty News Radio Network as part of the Saturday lineup. And we've got an ad that I was just actually working on before we went on air tonight that's going to start running. Well, I was thinking of another thing. And the American Free Press as well.
[00:23:47] In light of what Lou said, I was thinking of another historical precedent. I remember when Abraham Lincoln set out a detachment of soldiers to arrest Chief Justice Roger Taney at the beginning of the Civil War. I think cooler has prevailed. But, you know, this is not new, this conflict between the executive and the judiciary. It is not. Well, it's going to be, it's just going to come down to, as Lou said, is Trump going to have the will to power to just do what is necessary?
[00:24:16] Because, again, Lou, I mean, this pivot point that we're at right now was not expected. It was not expected that a guy like Trump would just come in out of nowhere and assume this position and then come back again. We're not going to have opportunities like this. Yeah, if this is wasted, as Louis said, we just, we have to have more. What we've got in the last 100 days. We'll continue the conversation about the first 100 days. But the last 100 days has been, has defied belief. It has been so good on almost all fronts. Almost.
[00:24:46] But we will continue this conversation with Lou Moore right after this. Your daily Liberty Newswire. You're listening to Liberty News Radio. News this hour from townhall.com. I'm Jason Walker. Honeycombing America this Mother's Day weekend. House Speaker Mike Johnson says Americans that he meets are enthusiastic about a president's accomplishments so far in his second term in the White House.
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[00:26:14] The new trade deal with Britain will cut tariffs on U.K. cars from more than 27 percent to 10 percent. And the president says the baseline 10 percent tariff for the U.K. will not be a template for future trade deals with other nations. That's a low number. They made a good deal. Many, some will be much higher because they have massive trade surpluses. The president said the U.K. agreement is the first of many more trade deals to come with U.S. trading partners. Greg Plugston, The White House.
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[00:29:58] All right, everybody. Well, you heard the ad. Believe it or not, our crack production team and our engineers at the network studio, I connected about 15 minutes early to the studio here from the local station
[00:30:21] and read my couple of lines there for that spot for Lou's show, Hour of Decision, which you can get at LouMoore.com or LibertyNewsRadio.com, and then it airs live every Saturday at 2. It's replayed Sundays at 2 Eastern, and, of course, you can get it in the archives. But they put that together in like 30 minutes with music and everything, and that's just – it makes you glad, as I say sometimes. It makes you glad you live this long. You can have this stuff happen almost in real time.
[00:30:51] So be sure to check it out. And it is great. I have learned so much. I listen to it. I enjoy it. Lou actually texted this one before I had actually listened to this one, and it's just a wonderful show from a guy who has actually been there. It's easy to be a pundit, to be a commentator, but to be a guy who actually knows how these things work and did this as a career, as a profession, it gives you an insight, the likes of which most shows don't have. Exactly.
[00:31:21] Anyway, so, Lou, speaking of media and speaking of new media taking center stage, speaking of Hour of Decision and Lou Moore now with this program and how the new media continues to expand, this was something I wanted to cover with you. And this was actually sent to me by our engineer, Jay. A study by the Media Research Center concluded that 92% of media coverage of President Trump's first 100 days in office was negative.
[00:31:49] And I'm just going to read a couple of lines here. A recent analysis by the Media Research Center has revealed that 92% of the major network media coverage of President Donald Trump during his first 100 days in office was negative. The study examined 1,841 statements made by journalists, anchors, reporters, and experts on ABC, CBS, and NBC dismissing any nonpartisan guests.
[00:32:13] And in each case, the networks repeatedly showcased opposition to President Trump's positions and policies. If you wanted to know the contrast, the contrast is that during Joe Biden's first 100 days, the coverage was 59% positive. So it would seem as though, Lou, that first of all, that's not a surprise. I was surprised that it was as low as 92%. It was actually 8% that was favorable. But the media has not learned anything, have they not?
[00:32:42] I mean, they were completely eviscerated. And Trump wins in spite of this entire array and constellation of their efforts being against him. And yet they still continue. Yeah, well, the media, the establishment, the corporate media has a smaller and smaller audience. But the core of the audience they still have are the people that run this world. And so they are not going to change. There's going to be no changes in the establishment media.
[00:33:12] I don't see it, and I wouldn't believe it. You know, there was some talk about, oh, CNN's going to be bringing in some more balance. And, you know, they got rid of that one off the charts. Don't hold your breath. Don't hold your breath. Well, I'm saying they got rid of that one gal that was off the charts at MSNBC, the one black gal. But, you know, seriously, nothing is changing. Nothing's going to change there. But the opportunity. More things change more than they stay the same with the mainstream media. And these people live in a bubble up in blue state America.
[00:33:42] They have no conception of what is going on in red state America. Well, what does it tell you, Lou, that 92% continues to be in opposition and yet he still won? I mean, what does that say about their power, that the power of the media has to be waning? Yeah, well, the media's power has been waning for a long time. I mean, even when, you know, I'll date myself here, when Spiro Agnew at the direction of Richard Nixon made a speech about the press
[00:34:07] and called them in the feet core of imputant snobs, even then their favorables were like 25%, 30% in the polls. I mean, they were not high. The nattering nabobs of negativism was another one. That's what happened that he came up with. Yeah, yeah. What happened to Spiro? But anyway, so, you know, this is a long time. He wrote all his best lines. Yes, he did. So this has been a long time coming.
[00:34:35] And the difference is it's not so much that people tend not to believe the corporate media. It's that they have an alternative source of information now that is growing, you know, by leaps and bounds. You know, everything on Rumble, which is pretty much a free fire zone. And, you know, and Musk definitely helped us with X. There's True Social. There's Gab, one that I happen to like because it is a free speed zone. There's all that social media.
[00:35:04] There's Liberty News Radio. Real America's Voice. There's all these different voices now. It's a different game. So people not only can say, yeah, I don't think I believe Walter Cronkite or believe, you know, whoever the current one is. But they have talking points. They can, you know, talk to the friend there at the water crew. Hey, did you know A, B, C, D? You know, it's powerful. And it's happening. It's happening. This is. Go ahead.
[00:35:30] Well, I was just going to say, Lou, that and of course, Trump has done some work in limiting the access that they have to the White House press room or at the very least, expanding the access that alternative media has to the White House press room. And as Sam Bushman just wrote today, our friend, I'm going to applaud the White House and you should, too.
[00:35:49] And this is a story about how the WhiteHouse.gov, if you go to WhiteHouse.gov slash wire, you can explore an official White House news feed that set up very much, very much modeled after alternative media platforms like the Drudge Report that gives Americans direct access to the administration's narrative without the filter of the mainstream press. So that's just I think come online here recently. WhiteHouse.gov slash wire.
[00:36:15] It's very interesting what they're doing to circumvent and just really run through the media, although he had no problem doing that in November either. And the other thing I wouldn't overlook, though, the culture that Trump has brought to the White House. I mean, we've had Republicans that were a little bit conservative or whatever, and they got bad media coverage and all that, and they kind of, you know, made their points.
[00:36:36] But the people around Trump, they're warriors, and they're not afraid of eviscerating the media right in front of them. I mean, this young gal he's got as a press secretary right now, holy crap. I mean, I can't believe it.
[00:36:53] And this is true all through his administration, that, you know, there's an awareness that you need to set your own narrative and you need to come up with your own talking points that are simple, easy to understand, but on a constant basis, and to completely confront at every turn the corporate media. So it's a different world for those people now. They're not trying to pacify the media, the mainstream media.
[00:37:23] They're going at them, you know, right for the jugular. Yeah, I mean, it's – and the difference is while the media's favorability ratings might have been low even during Spiro Agnew's time, there was nowhere else to go. And now there are places to go, and the media is not able to control, as we have seen now twice with Trump, who is elected now. You know, Hillary Clinton was certainly not supposed to lose. And as far as the culture goes, Lou, I mean, this is really something.
[00:37:53] And this is a headline. Elijah Schaefer, I'm not saying this is a good or bad thing. I'm just reading the headline here. And this is just – and I believe it. I believe it. I don't think this is a really hyperbole because this is how much the establishment media, with their promotion of everything disgusting, has turned the younger generations away from them to the point where they are going way in the other direction.
[00:38:23] Elijah Schaefer, who is – he used to be a host with Glenn Beck's The Blaze Network, Blaze TV, said everyone under 25 at CPAC was telling me how much they admired Adolf Hitler. And so I think you are going to have a cultural shift in the – but I'm just saying, you know, the thing is, though, you are going to have a cultural shift that is radically different than what we have seen now. There are no graven images anymore. Everything is on the table.
[00:38:51] And so if they're wanting to go that far, you know, what we're talking about here is not going to be very much for the American public to accept in terms of, you know, immigration control, for goodness sake. So anyway, go ahead. We've got about a minute before that. Well, I was just going to say, James, I mean, well, we used to talk about this in the 90s. I mean, my old boss was an immigration warrior and was a – I'm talking about Jack Metcalf now and the congressman.
[00:39:18] And, you know, we actually talked about deport – you know, could we actually deport these people? It just was not considered even conceivable that that could happen back then. And now the public is saying, how come you haven't already done it? I mean, that's the difference. Well, what we need to understand, though, Lou, is that if it's not done now, it's not going to be done later. Well, I mean, that brings up the question of who's going to succeed Trump and where does it go?
[00:39:44] But my point of bringing up what Eliza Schaefer said he witnessed at CPAC is to say that if that is really where people in their 20s are now, then this stuff shouldn't really be much to get past. 100%. And, you know, we have a potentially very bright future because of the youth and the direction they seem to be going. But, you know, we are going to have to get past a couple of more elections because I'm telling you, if the other side comes back in, it's going to be Katie Bar the door.
[00:40:13] I mean, it was pretty close to that the last time. So that's why I have an urgency about this. But I am – and, James, we've talked about this, I know, a little bit before, you know, in the past. But there's a lot of reason to be very optimistic about the future long range. Yes. But, see, I'm a little longer in the tooth than either of you guys. And this is the first time in my life that the conservatives really have the upper hand. Well, Lou is right. And I've even given a speech the last couple of years when I get invited to go to different places.
[00:40:43] And we've been to quite a few places just in the last few weeks. But reasons for optimism. There are – Lou, there is a lot of reasons for optimism. But we've got to take advantage. We've got to make hay while the sun shines. We can't let them get back in because if they had been distracted by putting Trump in prison or killing him the last four years, they would have come after us. And if he's out of the way, that's exactly what they'll do. We'll be right back. Find your inner rebel at Dixie Republic, the world's largest Confederate store, located in Traveler's Rest, South Carolina.
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[00:42:58] One bright and guiding light that taught me wrong from right, I found in my mother's eyes.
[00:43:25] Tapways paved with gold, I found in my mother's eyes. Lest we forget and let us not take another moment forward. Before we wish all of the wonderful women in TPC's listening audience a very happy, a little bit early, but a very happy Mother's Day tomorrow.
[00:43:49] If you're listening live, if you're listening in the archives after the fact, we hope that you had a happy Mother's Day on May 11th. But I tell you one thing about mothers, none of us would be here without them. And I know my dad is listening right now. So, Dad, if Mom can hear in the background, I know you've got this show turned up real loud and you're listening to Lou Moore. The hand that rocks your cradle rules the rule. Happy Mother's Day, Mom. And, Keith, your mom's still around. At 98. She was an English war bride.
[00:44:17] She actually put out fires after the bombing raids and whatnot because all the men were in the armed services at the time. So, yeah, she's still going. And, you know, God bless her. I go see her every day and help feed her. If you don't do that, they will die like Mary Shivo. So if you have your mother or any loved one in a nursing home, be sure you visit them on a regular basis.
[00:44:45] Well, happy Mother's Day to all the incredible mothers out there. And that was My Mother's Eyes by Tom Jones. He's still on tour. Was he black Irish? I don't know if that's black Irish, but he sure had kinky hair. All right. Well, anyway, that's enough monkey shine. One of the best, though. Absolutely one of the best. Anyway, Lou, so, again, back to the first 100 days of Trump. Folks, loumoore.com, that's where you need to go. LibertyNewsRadio.com.
[00:45:14] You can also get his hour of decision every week in the archives and, of course, at 2 o'clock on Saturdays. We just heard during one of the commercial breaks, since you've been on, Lou, that Trump has fired the librarian of Congress for refusing to stop pushing this so-called trans agenda. And I wrote it down during the break. I said, well, that's another one we can talk about. We need to record that from Freddie Mercury. So every time he fires somebody, we'll play it. Another one bites the dust.
[00:45:43] Well, you know, we've been talking generally a lot about the first 100 days because when you talk about specifics, you just don't know where to start. But specifically speaking, again, what are you looking at right now, Lou, as the things that have been standout moments the last three-plus months? Well, I mean, I think you definitely have to start with the border. I mean, seriously. I mean, he sealed that thing off practically a hermetic seal.
[00:46:09] When even pretty smart people who are a little bit more in our direction on that issue thought it was going to be this humongous challenge and can we even meet the challenge? And, you know, he has these terrible governors in Arizona and New Mexico and California. He just sent in the military. I mean, people say, oh, can we send in the military? Oh, I don't know. We need to have a committee and think about it. He just did it. And it's a beautiful thing. I mean, so, you know, that's a great feather in his cap.
[00:46:38] But, you know, it's also an indicator. The man's all business. And so, you know, full speed ahead. Totally. And now, again, the heavier lift, the much heavier lift is this deportation issue. And we'll have to see. We'll have to see whether they can get organized on the scale they need to within the administration, whether they can get the funding from the Congress. And, you know, if they can deal with these judges, as we just said.
[00:47:05] So, you know, that is a big area right there. Secondly, they have to punish our enemies. I mean, punish them. Those who did wrong need to pay the price. And these Epstein files, you know, this isn't some salacious thing. Oh, there's sex editor or whatever.
[00:47:27] This could be the key that picks the lock in a huge way because of the people that I think the three of us know are probably on some of those tapes. And, you know, Bondi said, oh, I got him sitting on my desk. And then that wasn't the story. And, I mean, there's a problem there. We got a problem there. But, you know, are we really going to get the transparency that Trump promised? And what will that open up if we do?
[00:47:54] So, you know, that is a big area to be looking at. The whole issue of the economy. He's doing fantastic on energy. I went over and looked at a site that's about an hour from my house. I mean, in 30 days, gentlemen, they are opening up a mining project. It's huge. I mean, it's miles and miles. Is this coal? No, no. This is like an array of like nine different metals.
[00:48:23] But it includes gold, includes copper, includes silver. And it's near an old gold mining area in Utah. But they're looking at some of the rare earths and some of the more rare minerals. I mean, I saw this list. I don't even know the application of some of these minerals. But this was an order that was signed on 25th of March. And, you know, the D9s and the Komatsus came in like an army. I mean, they're digging core samples for miles.
[00:48:52] I mean, that's just one example. This is going on all over. Well, right in the first news break, they've just discovered a huge lithium deposit on the border between Oregon and Nevada. That was on the news break on the network here. I mean, so we're going to have this kind of stuff. Northern Nevada really needs to be looked at. That is a wilderness that hasn't been explored properly. Lou, I want to ask you an important question to end this hour on. But I want to quickly work this in because we haven't mentioned it.
[00:49:20] And there was something you just said that triggered my thoughts on this with regard to the economy, drilling all of these things. The tariffs. We haven't mentioned tariffs. It's been a little bit schizophrenic there, you know, a little herky-jerky start and stop. But what do you think? And some federal judges said that he can't issue tariffs. Again, surprise, surprise. Your take on what he's done with that so far and what he should be doing. Well, I don't mean to shamelessly promote my show yet once again, but I did a whole show on this, James. I love the tariffs. I loved it.
[00:49:50] When your old boss talked about it back in the day when he wanted 25 percent across the board tariffs, he had those guys from Stanford working with him with Mr. Buchanan. And I am loving what Trump's doing on the tariffs. And it's going to be herky-jerky because Trump will jerk you around until he gets the deal he wants. And I think it's a beautiful thing. We cannot be dependent on these third world countries for anything vital in our economy, period. Or we're not an independent country.
[00:50:19] And so I'm loving the tariffs. We're the biggest country, and we can be. A lot of countries wish they could be, but we can be. All right. I love the answer on tariffs. Again, for more on that, go to Lumore.com, L-E-W-M-O-O-R-E.com. And you mentioned Pam Bondi, and I just got to say I know that she arrested one of the judges. That's a good start. But there was an arrest of a judge a few days ago. And then you just had – this is just breaking.
[00:50:47] The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, his name is Ross Baraka. I should give you an idea of what we're working with there. Sounds like a wrestler. But he was arrested for protesting at a so-called migrant center, and he said they're obviously targeting me. Well, yeah, they're targeting you because you're going over there to obstruct justice. But nevertheless, we hope to see more of that. Let me ask you this, Lou, the million-dollar question. You're in Stephen Miller's position.
[00:51:12] You're advising President Trump as you have advised congressmen and presidential candidates and others. What do you tell him? What are you whispering in his ear? I'm telling him to go forward. I think Stephen Miller is telling him that. Again, political capital is something very hard to acquire and very easy to lose. And our president has a lot of it right now. Use it every day. And that's what I would tell him in general. Put the pedal to the metal.
[00:51:42] 100% percent. This is not a time to be timid about anything. Well, and he doesn't seem to be this time. No, no, no. I mean, you could say that there have been – look, I don't like all the Monday morning quarterbacking. You know, there's an old saying my friend Sam has told me about, anybody can critique the matador, but they're not the ones in the ring with the bull. And so it's – he says it a lot more eloquently than I.
[00:52:11] I mean, we can all sit here and say, well, we would do this, we would do that. But you're not in that position. I think all in all it's been great. I know that there are some contrarians and some friends of ours who are only sort of looking at – Well, I think a bull in the china shop is better than, you know, following – Well, no, no. That's not the point. The point is, you know, people in the arena, you know, think that they can criticize the matador or, you know, but they've never been in his shoes. But so, yeah, overall, you know, it's an A. If you're looking at it only from the position of Gaza and Israel, then, you know, maybe not as much.
[00:52:40] But there's more to it than that, you know, as far as I'm concerned. And nevertheless, so final word to you, Lou Moore, loumoore.com, Hour of Decision. Check it out every week. You'll be glad you did. Lou, to you. Well, I just, you know, say that I'm kind of referring back to what Keith said a while ago. I mean, I'm 70 years old. I never thought I would see this day, James. I mean, you know, I've been in the conservative movement over 50 years. Over 50 years. Pretty frightening.
[00:53:09] And I haven't seen anything even approaching what we are talking about right now. Nothing even close in all that time. It's a beautiful thing. And I just hope we can keep the man alive and keep the momentum and keep the priorities straight. And we'll see. We'll see. This next 100 days is very critical. I can't believe you're 70. I've met you. You have the, you have the, you got the energy of a 40-year-old. I got four years on you, Lou.
[00:53:40] Okay. All right. But, yeah, no, that's hard to believe. But nevertheless, yes, so the next 100, well, and this is the thing, Lou. I mean, look at what's happened in the first 100 days. And you still got three and a half years to go. I mean, you got midterms coming up. And I know that, you know, election season's a perpetual thing here in the United States. But, you know, if the election, if the midterms go Trump's way, you're really cooking with grease then. And so, yeah, the pussyfooting around. First 100 days are the first 100 days.
[00:54:10] But this thing isn't coming to a close yet. As you said, a lot of political capital still riding a wave. The other side is still in mostly disarray. And we'll see where it goes. But thank you for helping us make sense of these first 100 days, Lou. It doesn't seem like it's been that long since you and Steve King were on together on January the 18th. That was the blink of an eye. It's a bull market for conservatism right now, folks. Well, thank you guys. I appreciate it. Thank you, Lou. We will talk to you again very soon. LouMoore.com, everybody. God bless you, Lou. God bless you, Lou.
[00:54:40] Take care.