Stephanie Ruhle
Appearances
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
And I'll tell you one other example. The day after Donald Trump had that crazy rally at Madison Square Garden, I rolled the dice and I called him on the phone. And he answered!
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
And I wasn't calling to chitchat. I said, Mr. President, this is Stephanie Ruhle. You made a lot of comments last night, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it was not an on-the-record conversation. Long story, so I'm not going to get into what he said. But I called for one reason. I said, you just said a whole bunch of public things. I'd like to sit down for an interview with you.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
We got five days before the election. So we didn't get into anything. There's nothing for me to report. I called him and said, I want an interview with you. Obviously he said no. But my point is, I was able to get to him by dialing his phone. Now that might be completely apeshit and you're like, I can't believe people know this guy's phone number.
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
But the reverse of that, if I were to want to connect with VP Harris or President Biden, there's 50 people Between me and that, I could write a note that maybe could get to somebody to get somebody, then through Pony Express and a pigeon, something might end up in a mailbox near them. And I called DJT to say, yo, can I have an interview?
The Dan Bongino Show
Things Have Changed, It's Trump's GOP Now (Ep. 2390)
He told me to go fuck myself, but I still was able to connect with him.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Special coverage of Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress
But the USAID list. was perfect for his culture warriors because he picked program after program that he deems, and he didn't call it woke there, woke. He found programs that he thought had extreme titles in foreign countries and saying, we're cutting them. But even if they cut them legally or illegally, that's not enough money to balance the budget. Just like if Elon Musk fires every single
The Rachel Maddow Show
Special coverage of Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress
federal worker. That's three million workers, the same number of workers we had in the federal government in 1980. So when he says we ballooned the government, not when it comes to our federal workers, that's five percent of our budget. Again, chump change.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Special coverage of Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress
But people will think. cut that program. It's so much money. It's not. It's chump change. And if he really wanted to go after the deficit, it's Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, which he's potentially coming for.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Special coverage of Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress
Let's check back in with our own Jacob Soboroff, who has been speaking with four fired federal workers in Washington, D.C. Jacob, I'm guessing tonight those workers had a different experiencing watching the president than they have in previous speeches.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Special coverage of Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress
Jacob, thank you so much. What an impressive group of people. And just juxtapose that with the way both the president and Elon Musk talk in such derogatory terms about just the general federal government workforce.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Special coverage of Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress
with their expertise, could make more money in the private sector and have chosen not to.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Special coverage of Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress
No competition.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Special coverage of Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress
Well, the last two hour speech given by a president about Social Security was Elon Musk four days ago to Joe Rogan when he called it a Ponzi scheme.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Special coverage of Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress
He did tell a lie about it. Can you indulge me?
The Rachel Maddow Show
Special coverage of Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress
This has to do with Doge. Doge's report card, Elon Musk would say, is Treasury rates going down. And Donald Trump tonight said rates went down today. They didn't go down because Doge is reducing the deficit. Rates went down today because of tariffs.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Special coverage of Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress
Because the stock market tanked. Right. Right. You know what people do? They rush to buy treasuries. And when you buy treasuries, the price goes up and the yield goes down. So, yes, Doge got their wish. The Doge report card, when 10-year treasury yields go down, we're winning. Uh-uh. Doge didn't reduce the deficit and the stock market lost. Fact check.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Special coverage of Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress
Are you not going to mention drill, baby, drill the line that you you are? You saddled us as a people with that line. Energy emergency that we're not in.