Robbie Starbuck
Appearances
Morning Wire
Meta Curbs Censorship & Trump's Second Term Plans | 1.8.25
The fact that everybody has some sort of connection to McDonald's means that when you see them do something, it feels like there's some extra power behind it.
Morning Wire
Meta Curbs Censorship & Trump's Second Term Plans | 1.8.25
McDonald's is a huge win because obviously when you look out at the marketplace in the world, there's certain brands that are just so noticeable. Everybody knows what it is and they have a feeling associated to it. You've got these other corporations out there that are trying to decide what they're going to do next.
Morning Wire
Meta Curbs Censorship & Trump's Second Term Plans | 1.8.25
And the more we get these cultural icon brands to change, the more likely it is that other companies change.
Morning Wire
Meta Curbs Censorship & Trump's Second Term Plans | 1.8.25
This election and before it was really the beginning of an awakening among the silent majority that being a silent majority is actually kind of a stupid thing to do. You need to be a majority that speaks up or else you cede ground to this tiny minority of people who are frankly just really crazy Marxists.
Morning Wire
Meta Curbs Censorship & Trump's Second Term Plans | 1.8.25
I think what you're going to see is companies go into multiple boxes. One will be a total elimination of DEI and the other box will be an attempt to try to save it by renaming it and things along those lines. But we're going to sniff that out and we are going to make things very difficult for companies to do that.
Morning Wire
Willis Disqualified & Israel Strikes Houthis | Afternoon Update | 12.19.24
normal everyday people, they're very acutely aware of their buying power and how they can vote with their dollar now. And so we've made that point very clear to these companies at this point where many companies just fear being next and they don't want to be next. So I think we're going to continue to see a cascade of these policies being removed from major companies.