The Dan Bongino Show
America Is Back In The World Stage, And We Love To See It (Ep. 2433)
Fri, 28 Feb 2025
After four years of shameful posturing, the U.S. is back with a bang in the international stage. In this episode, I cover Trump's latest moves concerning the U.K. and Europe, Mexico, Ukraine and more. Trump Would-be Assassin May Have Had an Accomplice Attorney General Bondi Releases First Phase of Declassified Epstein Files Amy Klobuchar Blames Trump for High Egg Prices, Has No Idea What Eggs Cost When Asked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is Dan Bongino's approach to the podcast and his new role?
I got the white shirt on again because I'm going out with Paula tonight and she likes the white shirt. So if you like the white shirt in the chat, let us know if you want to vote it down. We'll throw it in the dustbin for the next two weeks while we're with each other. Ladies and gentlemen, before I even get started, I'm obviously not in the FBI yet. I do not start for another two weeks.
Those are two completely distinct and different roles. They are separate. I am still a political opinion host on this podcast. I've treated it as such. I will treat my FBI position the exact opposite way. I am a not a partisan individual in that job. There is going to be a, it's not a fine line. It is a bold line. I am not there yet. I appreciate the comments in the chat. I've been watching them.
But Bongino rule, please. I am not there. I have not been just the Bongino rule applies. I'm not there. I am still the humble host of the damn Bongino show while we wind down the business. I didn't want to leave you cold. There are two separate enterprises. Do you guys get where I'm going with this? Bongino. I saw someone in the chat. I thank you, Anita, the best there.
Say, I'm not there yet till the 17th. Cash has got it. Attorney General Bondi have got it. Bongino rule. That's all I'm asking. And I say that as a commentator, not as the soon-to-be FBI deputy director. I want to be clear on that. Those are two separate roles. All right? Bongino rule. Applies to Bongino, too. Bongino rule. Today's show is sponsored by Lumen.
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I mean,
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Chapter 2: How does Dan Bongino view Trump's political strategies?
He tried. He was working hard, I'll tell you that. He earned whatever the hell they pay him over there. But he tried. I think there's a very good chance that in the case of these two great, friendly countries, I think we could very well end up with a real trade deal. where the tariffs wouldn't be necessary. We'll see. But he earned whatever they pay him here and today.
He was working hard at lunch.
Thank you, Sean Cash. Love the white shirt. Someone asked, is it date night? Of course, it's one of our last ones. So, of course it is. That's why. Do you get why this clip is so important to open up the show? Folks, we don't cover a ton of foreign policy on the show. Why? Because there's so much going on domestically I'd like to take care of issues in the United States first.
However, listen to me, beam in. This segment is not about foreign policy. It's about Donald Trump, the negotiator. The left wants you to believe and tell you a story that Donald Trump is some unhinged negotiating lunatic who fires off ridiculous things and doesn't mean anything. No, I promise you, he means a lot of it. He is very seriously considering a bold tariff agenda as a negotiating tool.
I'm not a huge fan of tariffs. I've said that over and over. But if we can use it to reduce tariffs as a negotiating tool, which I believe in the end we're going to get to, they can be effective. But did you notice when he's got Keir Starmer in front of him, who is, by the way, a... pretty devout left-leaning guy. He's not one of us in the MAGA movement.
He's certainly not a conservative populist by any respect. But do you see how the guy who's supposedly an unhinged lunatic is out there and right in front of the media and the United Kingdom press that's watching this, he manages to kind of dial down the temperature just enough that they know he's serious about tariffs, but that he's a negotiator too? Does that make sense?
I'm telling you the truth. I'm telling you... The terrorists may not happen. It's up to him. It's not up to us. And he's going to work that out with the U.S. trade rep and everyone else. Howard Letnick over at Commerce. Besant over at Treasury.
But don't fall in this leftist trap where you get caught every single time falling for every true social post as if he isn't using it as a tactical negotiating tactic. I'm going to leave that part there. Here's Donald Trump again yesterday at the meeting, echoing words of Ronald Reagan, one of my favorite presidents, the trust but verify front. Again, I thought Donald Trump is an unhinged lunatic.
This is what the left wants you to believe. He sounds very Reagan-esque here, talking about, hey, listen, I'm willing to negotiate with Russia. Hey, guys, who in the chat? You guys have a 50 or above or 40 or above. Do you remember this president called Ronald Reagan, double R? You do. Pretty popular guy. Won two massive elections. You think he negotiated with the Soviet Union at the time? No, no.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of Trump's trade negotiations with the UK?
You know, it's trust and verify. Let's call it that. And I think we both can be that way. You have to verify because you never know what's going to happen. I know a lot of people that you would say no chance that they would ever deceive you. And they're the worst people in the world. I know others that you would guarantee they would deceive you. And you know what? They're 100 percent honorable.
So you never know what you're getting. No, I have confidence that if we make a deal, it's going to hold.
I want to listen. I was two points and takeaways from this. Number one. Donald Trump understands that we need certain things from people. One of them are rare earth minerals. This deal in Ukraine over rare earths is a huge W for us. We need those rare earths, folks. We cannot function as an advanced economy without them. You want them from China or you want them from Ukraine?
He also knows Vladimir Putin does not want this deal. Why does Vladimir Putin, folks in the chat, not want us to do a business deal with Ukraine? I told you this yesterday because some of these minds are in areas that Russia would like to get their hands on.
They're going to have a really hard time taking these areas if we have an interest in the economic production of rare earths because I can guarantee you Donald Trump is going to defend that. Do you get where I'm going with this? I have never seen a human being more underestimated in my life for his political skills than president Trump ever. And I get it.
You had lefties out there, folks in the swampy right that don't like Donald Trump. Oh, look at Dan budget. No president Trump. And I've disagreed on a lot of issues. Some on the show. He's not the type of guy. When you disagree with him, you're out of his inner circle. Obviously, he's the one who selected me as the deputy director of the FBI. You don't have to agree with the guy and everything.
I just ask that you go into it with a clear head and don't take the other approach either. Oh, this guy's crazy. How crazy is he? How crazy is a deal where we say... Ukraine, you got something we need, rare earths. We have something you need, weapons. Russia does not like this deal. We don't like that Russia's keeping this war ongoing.
I've got a bargaining chip against Putin, this rare earth deal in Ukraine, and I'm going to use it. And then I'm going to go to Putin, and Putin may say, well, you got to deal with Ukraine. Well, we have rare earths too. Maybe we can do a deal with you. Good trade, ladies and gentlemen, makes good partners.
It's really hard to enter into World War III with a country you have a significant economic interest in. It's one of the reasons China, by the way, I'm not telling you we're not going to, I hope we don't, but it's one of the reasons China is going to have to think twice about starting a conflict with us. They have trillions of dollars of U.S. assets that would collapse if they start World War III.
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Chapter 4: How does Trump handle negotiations with Russia and Ukraine?
I don't mean make it out of prison like they're going to be dead. I mean, they will be locked up and not free to commit to their criminal enterprises again. This is the folks, the guy's only been in office. We had six weeks now. It almost feels like dog years. And I mean, as a compliment, does it not? Guys, it feels like he's been in office five, six years at this point.
Do you even have, by the way, one quick thing before I take a break. Have you ever seen a former president fall off the map as quickly as Joe Biden? Have you heard a word from this guy? I mean, I get they do the former president thing, but it's almost like the presidency never happened. Yeah, he said I'm weird. Folks, Trump is about results. This is what he wants. He doesn't want talk.
He wants do. He's telling Mexico this is what has to get done. Do it or this is going to happen. He's not kidding. Don't mistake maximalist rhetoric. I hate the line and you should too. Take Trump seriously but not literally. No, I promise. Take him literally sometimes or you are going to get your negotiating caboose kicked. There are times he is literally serious when he says tariffs.
He means it. It's not an effective negotiating tool if you don't mean it. Quick break, and we're going to get back to, gosh, the Alinsky principle here that they're using to just go after Elon Musk because they are so afraid of just turning over this rock and looking at what government's been doing with your money.
The Alinsky principle, I'm going to show it to you because once you see it, you can never unsee it. You'll see how it's in effect now. The left is, this is the hill they're going to die on. They know this Elon effort to clean up government can't continue. Hey, if you're a gun owner who thinks the battle's over because Donald Trump won, think again. The threats haven't disappeared.
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Empower yourself, prepare for the worst and pray for the best. Sign up today at uscca.com slash class. Oh man, I'm telling you, sorry guys, but, uh, Every show, you know, I keep saying this bittersweet thing. And if I'm overusing it, just say shut up and get back to the content. But I'm really going to miss you guys a lot. I so enjoy doing this.
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Chapter 5: What is the impact of extraditing cartel leaders to the US?
You know, once in a while, Guy just, don't be suing me. Okay, look, see, she's already worried about it. Guy just nailed it. Guy said, Dan, if you are in the legal profession and you really want to make money, like you are a hustler and an entrepreneur, Guy said, what do you think the best job is? And I was confused. I'm like, where's he going with this? He's like, the view.
He goes, can you imagine the billable hours over there? There's probably a 24-hour shift of people. There's like an 8 to 4, 4 to 12, midnight shift, 12 to 8. Then you've got a training shift on the back end, like training to reinforce the guy so if anyone goes down sick. Can you imagine the billable hours out of the view? How many corrections did Sonny Hostin have to issue on that show?
Was it like five or six? And it's just endless. Here's what's going on over there. In my opinion, having done a TV show and doing content creation here like they do, they just don't do their homework. They just don't do their homework. So they go in and they spout off and then the lawyer goes, where did you get that? I don't know. I saw it from a Twitter account. I hate Elon.X or whatever.
And I just repeated it. Why? Why did you do that? You got to be careful, man. You better bring receipts on your show. It's another reason I highly recommend the Dan Bongino rule, which is just wait a couple days before you draw a conclusion. Talk about whatever you want. I'm not here to tell you what to talk about.
But if you just let the facts come out, you're seeing it with this Gene Hackman case. Him and his wife and the dog died. Initially, all was carbon monoxide. Why did we not report that yesterday as a fact? And I tell you that was just out there because right now the gas company is saying, we don't have any problems.
And all of a sudden the local police department is like, well, there may be some signs here that are causing us to investigate. Just wait. You want to be effective in this business? Just report what you know. Hey, a famous Hollywood actor, Gene Hackman, Crimson Tide, great movie. Unforgiven, best movie ever, played Little Bill. Guy died with his wife.
They were found by some guy working around the house with the dog. You don't have to get into all kinds of theories. I know it's crazy because everybody wants to be first, but this is what happens when Elon is pro-apartheid. Do you have any evidence of that at all? Here was the five yesterday.
You know, one of my favorite things to watch is Jesse Waters and Greg Gutfeld fighting back against Jessica Tarloff. I love the five. I'm like obsessed with the show. It's one of the rare shows I will make appointment viewing. This happened yesterday too. Check this out.
is a positive sign for Democrats, though, is there seems to be a bit of coalescing around a message that is resonating. So, Hakeem Jeffries gave a press conference today. He had up two signs, and one of them says, Elon Musk is making $8 million a day in government contracts. The average Medicaid recipient gets $65 a day.
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Chapter 6: What is Saul Alinsky's Rule 13 and how is it applied?
This is a restoration of common sense above everything else. And I think the American people are going to remain in favor of what's happening here.
Okay, I was just, those lawmakers do also represent Democrats. That doesn't mean they were paid to show up if they're upset about this.
Okay, receipts incoming in a second, but stand by. You notice what she does there, Caitlin Collins. Speaker Johnson says there are paid protesters. She then changes the argument to what? Did you catch it? I'll get into the chat. She says... Well, they're not all paid. That's not what he said. He did not say every person there is a paid protester. You're switching the argument.
Are you going to be a journalist or an opinion host? Because that's an opinion. He did not say that. Mostly unpaid. Right. Mostly paid. Now, if you ever want to read an interesting take on this, how the Democrats and liberal groups advance a narrative. Read the book revolt against the masses by Fred Siegel. It's a fascinating book. I have no, I didn't publish it or anything. It's a great book.
It's an older book. He talks about how the combination of media folks there, you saw that interest groups that pay people to do this stuff and congressional committees can advance an agenda and make it appear real. Like this is some kind of national groundswell for government waste and abuse. Well, that's not the case. Put up the stuff. Here are the headlines first.
You see how they settle on a message? Speaker of MSNBC, Speaker Mike Johnson, without evidence. Of course, you got to throw that in there. Whenever they say without evidence, by the way, it means what, Justin? There's a significant amount of evidence, right? Pans town hall critics as paid protesters. Here's the Hill. Johnson claims town hall protesters, quote, paid by Democrats. It goes on.
Daily Beast. Johnson tries to shrug off anti-Doge town halls as a work of paid protesters. One more. Mike Johnson, independent, claims paid protesters are GOP town halls. Then backtracks when asked for proof. He did no such thing. And then we have this article in the Washington Beacon. Red District Doge protests, cited as proof of broad Musk backlash, were organized by left-wing groups.
They know... They note that George Soros-funded groups, Indivisible and MoveOn, were at the center of the demonstrations. Both groups launched national, quote, mobilization efforts targeting the, quote, Trump-Musk agenda and Trump-Musk coup during the recess period. Again, this is called evidence. It's called receipts. This is what we do. I am not telling you.
I'm not telling you everyone there is funded by a George Soros group. I'm not telling you that. I, however, am telling you that their story, that, oh, this is all pure as the driven snow, no one's there, paid to be there, is likely BS. Here's the good news.
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Chapter 7: What are the controversial statements about Elon Musk on The View?
You literally spend zero dollars this coming Friday for a full 24 hours. Again, this is Friday, February 28th. There's going to be more of these, but this is the first major one. So I hope you'll be willing to participate because we do have power. The power is through our wallets.
Folks, we have power too. We have wallets. A lot of us work for a living too and have cash to spend. This backfires spectacularly nearly every single time they try this. I'm not here to give them political lessons on how to isolate and follow Alinsky's Rule 13. Some of them are figuring it out, nor do I want to. It's not my job. I'm just telling you, this is not a message.
What exactly are we boycotting again? Normal people, guys. Normal people. Democrats are in shambles. Again, many of them cannot seem to focus on a single message here. Therefore, they're all over the place. Play Gavin Newsom, would you? Did you see this one yesterday? Listen, Gav, the governor of California, I've had a podcast, very successful, with the number one live stream yesterday.
Yesterday, again, thank you very much for supporting the show in the final couple weeks here. We really appreciate it. You guys are the best. But Gavin Newsom, the radically far-left governor of California, is hell-bent on launching a podcast right now. Let's see how he does in the liberal space. And he's saying he's going to invite his opponents on. Hey! That would be a good thing.
If I was still wearing the public commentator hat and opinion, I'd go on the show. I'd love to debate this guy. California versus the Florida model. I'll do it anytime. I got to run the Santa's clip coming up next to to show you that. But check this out.
We need to change the conversation. And that's why I'm launching a new podcast. And this is going to be anything but the ordinary politician podcast. I'm going to be talking to people directly that I disagree with. as well as people I look up to. But more important than anything else, I'll be talking directly with you, the listener. Real conversations. What's going on with the cost of eggs?
What are the impacts, real impacts to you around tariffs? What power does an executive order really have? And what's really going on inside of Doge? Look, there's an onslaught of information that we take in. So let's take it to the sources without the typical political mumbo jumbo.
In the first few weeks, we're going to be sitting down with some of the biggest leaders and architects in the mega movement. This is Gavin Newsom.
Harley Glam Girl in the chat. Run your state, dude, right? I mean, imagine you're a California resident right now. You've got an illegal immigration crisis, a crime crisis, a government services crisis. You've had massive fires wipe out significant portions of one of America's most powerful cities. You've got residents who are taxed to death, businesses fleeing.
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