Josh Holmes
Appearances
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, look, there's something to be said about
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
having a frame of reference in knowing what you would do differently and i i think you said it really well if this is a much better outcome in many ways than a straight eight because you can't like reset midterm right if he's elected to a second term this way i mean not only did you get the separation of four years of people like stephen miller spent the last four years
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
you know, thinking about how you would do all of these things a lot more constructively. It also extends to Trump himself. Look, that stuff that he was talking about on the campaign trail, he didn't overpromise. He talked about a whole bunch of things that he knew he could do with the power of the executive order because he was there before.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
So when he talks about shutting down the border or ending DEI or all the various things that he's done over the last 48 hours, he knew he alone in his administration, if competently executed, could do it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
It's amazing. It's perfect because he deeply understands it. Right. I mean, it's one thing if you're some politician who's told this is very popular amongst the American people and you're just trying to figure, you know, OK, I had to check this box because I said I would. Now, the way he explains it, he deeply understands it. It is not only divisive, it's racist. Right.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Yeah. Right, right.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, look, it's really well said, really well put together. I think, you know, there's there's one sort of lasting lesson that I think, you know, anybody who's interested in running for president any time in the future should learn a lot from from Donald Trump is that in order to be a leader, you actually need to do all those things.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
It's not enough to just sort of check boxes on a poll of what issues are above 50 and I'm for that. You actually need to move people. You need to create atmosphere in the American democracy where people identify with it and want to get on board with it. There's no way to make substantial change whatsoever unless you build a movement that moves a block of voters who you think are here.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
to here because then the lesson is for people who were in opposition category is, well, you gotta wrap your mind around that too. And that's how change is made in this country. It's intentionally very difficult, but Donald Trump has really led a movement to take a look at China, to take a look at DEI.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
I mean, look, we're four years removed from people being terrified to even say the letters DEI in a negative connotation for fear that they would be canceled. And now you got a president of the United States signing an executive order, banning it, saying this is racist. Well, it's been racist all along, but it's everybody was afraid to talk about it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Yeah, they definitely covered those riots. Remember the Chiron, mostly peaceful? Yeah. Police was on fire behind the guy.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
God, it just, you know, I don't think I'd be truly happy until Acosta is like selling cubic zirconiums on QVC.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
it's true, but you know, but even if he didn't, you know, maybe it's a good rule of thumb for journos when somebody is wearing a P hat and it's got your name, uh, that they're celebrating, that's probably not fair.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Guys, welcome back. Oh, Megan. So good to be back. It's just a good day. Golden era here in America. Golden age.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Yeah. Yeah. And hats off to Katie Britt and others who are the champion of that bill for the last couple of months. I can't believe there was opposition to I mean, it just shows you how crazy people are.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Totally. It's like Christmas presents each and every day. And his first full day. I mean, what a jarring culture change just in D.C. and the way the government works. Right. I mean, we heard eight good words out of Joe Biden for six months. You never saw the guy. If you did, he was kind of like shuffling or stammering around. They were hiding him from press. First full day Trump's there.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
This is underpants gnome logic. You know what I mean? Like, imagine sitting there and being like, well, if you're even a Q, you may not have even done something wrong. Except for the fact that you're illegally here in the first place. That's the crime, right? I don't care if you mean shoplifted. Sure. Now we know who you are. Get the hell out of here. That was the whole point of everything.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
The crime, the underlying crime is that you're here illegally.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
He does not one, but two totally free, unwielding press conferences where he's asked and asked and answered literally every question anybody could come up with. It was incredible.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Bad news for old Newscum.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
There it is. Oh, there we are.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Oh, yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Yeah, well, I keep going back. I mean, remember at the beginning of the Biden administration when Biden appointed the intellectual heft of Kamala Harris to identify the root causes of illegal immigration and like, you know, you never got any answers. She didn't even go to the border for like three years.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
And then you think about it and it's like what you said about the flow and all this gets easier once people know you can't come and you don't get stuff. I'll tell you what, if you're going to look for a root cause, it's when you put a green light at the border and you tell people you're going to fly them to up to the northeast and resettle them.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
It's a green light to the cartels, by the way, to traffic humans all the way up from Central America in order to do it. And they make a ton of money doing it with drugs, with human trafficking, all kinds of different things. By putting these things in place, remain in Mexico, solidifying the border, all this other stuff that he's doing. I think we're going to find out. People are like.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Well, maybe we can't go there anymore.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
A federal government app to tell you how you can get here illegally.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Megan, you like that Smuggles did the math on all that? Yeah, he did that quickly. It was well done. I'm glad somebody else did it. It's just like, you're going to give me the number.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Yeah. I can't even imagine the justification for it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Oh, this is a beautiful one. People have been asking about this one for years.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Seriously, you could get pretty deep blue in some of those districts with that kind of take. I just don't understand.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Post Malone, very concerned.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Yeah. Well, and, you know, not only is he plain spoken about it, but but I think he gains power by the outrage. So after that clip aired, there was a whole bunch, you know, take to X, the journos and everybody saying he can tell by somebody is a criminal by looking at them. He's racist. You know, this, that and the other thing. But like that only builds power with Trump.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
And I think increasingly what we saw through his political prosecutions and all of these things, every time somebody just sort of winds up against Trump and tries to explain how he's a racist, a degenerate, a criminal, all these things, more and more of America is like, no, I heard what he said.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
That's the wildest part, right? You're doing it. It's one thing to do the American press corps, but you're like three days into a new administration. You're like, you know what? Let's take the world's biggest economic leaders. What you got?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
It's immoral. It's intentionally deceitful. They know the facts. It's in the story. So they know the material facts about the alleged victim of the abuse, denying the claim that's made by, you know, brother's ex-wife. I mean, it's just it's absurd. It's it's Kavanaugh all over.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
I mean, look, I'm hesitant to give Democrats advice on this because what they're doing and what the media does is the best whip operation a Republican leader could ever have. Right. I mean, there are more. Look, Pete's going to get confirmed. I don't know if there's going to be those last three senators that vote for him or vote against him, but I think he's got 50 in the bank.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
He's going to get confirmed. Had Democrats run a real confirmation hearing, keeping this nonsense out of the public discussion about the job of Secretary of Defense, about his view of our status of forces agreements, about what are we to do with Ukraine and American military and
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Taiwan and American, you can get into a scenario where Pete would have a bipartisan concern if you ask the right questions and he was unable to answer it. This is not it. I mean, if those three didn't vote for him, I can promise you it's not because of a story like that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
You know, so like by going back to that, well, time and time again, all they've done is make Republicans react to everything that comes out like this in a way that you circle the wagons. Yep. You know, no more questions. I don't need to hear any more. I know what you're trying to do to him. You did it to Brett Kavanaugh.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Sorry. Right here. No, like she's somehow got greater expertise than a prosecutor, detective in a sheriff's office. You know, they decided that this was in fact a false claim. They weren't going to pursue charges. I mean, it's so it's unbelievable. It's immoral.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
It is immoral. And I don't but I don't think it's going to stop anytime soon. I just don't. If they haven't learned the lesson in November of doing all of this, what would lead them to believe that they're not going to just keep on doing it?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
I love that they engage in just full-on character assassination at the same time they act like they're dismounting the boats at D-Day. It's like, oh my gosh, what we go through to cover this guy. And by the way, that guy's a rapist.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
They're going to try. They're going to try, Megan. But we said it during the hearings. Once they presented the way that they did, they were so underprepared to know what it was that would divide Republicans and imperil this nomination. I mean, Johnny and I used to do this for a living.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
We would put together strategies and plans to try to figure out how to kill Obama nominees that we thought were just wholly unfit to hold cabinet positions. And to do that, you have to do some examination of your targets. And what would drive a Republican away from doing that? What they did in terms of executing a strategy was unify Republicans. And the only thing was unify Republican.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
And so like, you know, they want to take out Pete. Sure. They want to take out Pete. They're not going to get them. And the reason they're not going to get them is because of the strategy that they have executed upon. They only have themselves to blame.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Oh, my God. Well, she's on to a wrong target. She she she figured it out. She finally got it. And, you know, sadly, she's going to have to register her menstrual cycles here soon with the Office of Management and Budget. That's right.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Yeah. Yeah. I think that's right. I mean, clearly it has to be. And their little echo chamber. Yeah. Right. I mean, you listen to MSNBC and this is all they're talking about and all of their C4s and make work fail sons. Yeah. Not they're pushing papers their way, saying character assassination is the only way to go. Right. And Project 2025 alive and well.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Yeah. Informed counsel. You're going to get informed counsel. All right. I mean, what? And this is so overdue. Yes. Because a couple of things. It's not just that they signed that letter. That was egregious in and of itself. Should have been enough right away. In fact, if you were being fair in a in a Democratic administration, you found out something was that wrong. much of a lie.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
You couldn't trust them with America's secrets, right? So you'd have to do it, but of course they didn't. The bigger problem here is that there is a cottage industry that both CNN and MSNBC and those three networks, which is why Margaret Brennan is upset about this,
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
engage in, in that they put all of these folks under contract to talk about, quote unquote, national security issues, except for the fact that they have security clearances. And so they can give you sort of half truths and knowing nods. And well, you know, this is the case all through Russiagate. It was like, well, we've seen information that compels us to take action.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
And I think that the right thing to do is to go through with a Mueller report and all of this and the other. when they hadn't seen shit. And this was all a partisan charade right from the very beginning. But you, the viewer, are watching this as a former CIA director, clearly still has his national security clearances. You're looking at, like, of course, he can't tell me the whole thing.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
They can't give up America's secrets. But he's giving me that knowing nod, saying that this guy is guilty of all sorts of treason. So... You know, what choice do I have to believe him?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
You're saying, well, the CIA director said it bears the hallmark. He surely knows what the hallmarks look like. Nonsense. It turned out to be all bullshit. But if you watch, if you really watch these people on the air, it is so much more sadistic than that. Yeah, because they take it into each and every little thing that they disagree with. Trump is obviously the target.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
But even like foreign policy discussions where Trump is immaterial to the conversation, they give you information right up to the point where you're like, all right, we'll show us information. And they kind of give you the wink and they're like, we can't talk about all of it. Yeah, yeah. You know, because they're pushing the agenda. It is deeply, deeply problematic. I'm really glad he did it.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Yeah, I think there's two separate questions that your last point is is right. And I think that all of that requires review. Look, we know Mike Pompeo, the reason that he had and typically secretaries of state don't. But the reason he had Secret Service protection is that they were very credible agents. very realistic threats on his life from Iran.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
And given the role that he played in the first Trump administration with a very aggressive posture towards Iran, those were real. And we don't know anything that's at all classified, but I can tell you that it was a thing. Now, whether it's no longer a thing, I don't know. And I don't know what would cause them to pull it. I honestly don't know that he was...
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
ever at a point where he was sort of anti-Trump. So maybe this is a security.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
That's the right question. Those are the right questions. And I think, you know, given what we saw over the summer, threats on President Trump, I mean, getting shot and all the failures of all of that, it does require an open review of all. And I don't know the answers to those questions, right? I mean, we don't have any idea.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
about what Secret Service details are out there and on whom and how far it goes back. Clearly, former presidents need something. But beyond that, you've got to make a justification. What I hope, Megan, is that the decision on the Pompeo Secret Service was based on an assessment of the security situation and nothing else. Because if it's nothing else, it's tough.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
And like through the crystal ball, it's like, I'll be there for you. Jennifer Aniston. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Well, no, no, no. The way it works is you take the photo, you show it to the wife, you retake the photo and then, and then you get, and then you, and then there's always a couple of, you got to get the principal to sign off. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
No. So here's the thing. And this is one of the theory of the case. Maybe Jennifer Aniston is is the Biden's answer to George Clooney here. Right. I mean, maybe this because I'll be honest, I have heard this sort of thing around in D.C. And there's some connections there with the like people what you would call reputable people because they served in an administration.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Maybe they served in the Obama administration. They certainly served in the Biden administration.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
But I'll tell you what. next level.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
It was jarring. All alone.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Yeah, yeah. I mean, just the spectacle of it all and then seeing him alone. I mean, it really did. Like, as a viewer, you knew she wasn't coming, but then you saw the visual of it and you're like, hmm. And then the Clintons were there together.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Oh my gosh. Well, we do know Dougie Emhoff's got a bit of a temper, right? I mean, there's some stuff that was problematic. I also think like this is a guy who is so used to running his own world for so long. And then all of a sudden he's just sort of like, basically a bag boy during the course of the six month election. I can't imagine that went over terribly well.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Well, as you know, we take works of film very seriously here on the Ruthless Variety program.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
And we exhibit most of our expertise through our resident thespian, Michael Duncan. So, Michael, I'd be curious as to your take – on the arts writ large and whether it is comporting itself with the electorate that is now seemingly unwelcome to their advances.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
This is genuine. This is a genuine review.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Yes, yes, yes. Sure aside, Jesus is coming.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Well, John is one of the few and rare journalists, kind of the old school, who observationally understand, right? They don't deny reality, right? The sky is blue. And I think if you talk to the people who covered Trump for a long time, they kind of all come to a similar conclusion, which is this guy won a popular vote. Everybody knows who he is.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
It couldn't happen to a better group. We were pontificating between the breaks, Megan, about whether or not this was just like the best joke of all time. Like whether or not this entire project was- Keep going home, sorry. Whether or not this project was financed by like Leonard Leo or something like that, where they're like, I bet we can get the Academy to say- It's conservative. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Yeah, like maybe they will recognize what is, of course, an entirely ironic presentation. Like that song in and of itself really did look like a Matt Stone, South Park-like production.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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It like definitively breaks the Academy Awards because they've just like fallen for the... Okay, so I'm not done.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
It's incredible, right? They're just so predictable. Also, it seems to be a prerequisite, the unwatched movie. Yep. Like, it seems like the last, I grew up, you know, when you grew up, you'd watch the Academy Awards with your parents. You know, I remember doing that and you'd see all the movies and be like, oh, we need to see this. We need to see that.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
I mean, there's not a single American wandering around who doesn't have an opinion on Donald Trump one way or another. And the majority of this country wants him. Right. So the fluke is gone. And that did burden him, I think, for the first four years. What a very different path.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
It's been like, basically my entire adult life where like, I never watch it, but if I ever like stumble through it and you see it on TV, you look at the nominees, you know, I have no idea what any of that is.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
Tom Hanks would have had to transition midway through in order to get a nomination. Yeah.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
And the thing that I find so interesting about this one is his lack of fear and his lack of hesitation to pursue exactly what it is that he said himself.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
he would do there's no nuance there's no sort of sanding the edges to try to make things a little bit more politically nice for some edges of the of the electorate he's just doing his stuff and he's doing what he said he was going to do and like there's a confidence that exudes from that and you know with all of those executive orders and we can talk about you know them specifically but they all just basically are what the american people wanted to have happen yes
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
And so, you know, if you're a journalist, what's not to understand about it?
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
He's really a... a testimony to that old adage that the only way to lose is to quit trying. Yeah. You know, I mean, he really, I mean, if you think about it that way and in context of everybody's lives, I mean, this guy had every reason in the world to walk away.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
You know? Yeah. You give me that option to play 18 at Mar-a-Lago every day. I'm not sure I'm walking back into 1600.
The Megyn Kelly Show
Trump's Instant Action on Illegal Immigration, CNN Cuts, and Obama Divorce Rumblings, with Ruthless Podcast Hosts | Ep. 990
There's no question about it.