The Dan Bongino Show
Former FBI Director Threatens Trump - And Now The Secret Service Is Involved - Ft. Joe Concha | Episode 45
Fri, 16 May 2025
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Chapter 1: What did James Comey post that caused controversy?
Well, that's the key, isn't it? So what's the future of that industry? I mean, of the media industry, especially among sort of the establishment left-wing legacy press, because you follow these numbers. CNN is not improving in viewer MSNBC is not improving in viewership. They're hitting rock bottom.
I'm not even really fundamentally sure what their business model is unless it's some sort of like insane loss leader for establishment talking points that really, they don't even really have a big audience for this, Joe.
They don't. Could you imagine, Vince, if Kamala Harris and Goofy Tim Walz had won, what the ratings would look like? They're only barely afloat. You could say they're underwater, but they're not completely drowning because of Donald Trump and just how he creates news every hour.
We saw this Middle Eastern trip where, you know, that's probably the best two weeks that we've seen in terms of Donald Trump's presidency, this trip and then all the numbers that have been coming in as far as tariff deals, inflation numbers going down, gas prices going down. unemployment, where we're seeing more manufacturing jobs than government jobs.
I could go on in terms of what Trump has done. Eggs. Eggs, thank you. That's not a thing anymore. Pete Buttigieg's not tweeting about that. So Trump is the only thing that's keeping him at, again, to your point, CNN averages about 500,000 viewers in primetime. Now let's put that in perspective. That means 10,000 people on average per state are watching CNN.
That's not a lot when you're in 100 million homes. Fox, on the other hand, shows at 5 o'clock, 2 o'clock in the West Coast, getting nearly 5 million viewers. So, yeah, we're doing just fine because we actually have a news division. And I think that's the problem with the CNNs, the MSNBCs, even the New York Times, Washington Post.
they say they have news divisions but really it's all opinion disguised as news and then they try to present that as fact and no one believes them anymore and since they don't people have left or the independent model like the joe rogan's like the vince colonies that that's the future right where you don't need a big newsroom you don't need the fax machine and the conference room to run a news organization or to have a show like yours
You just need a decent production crew, a great production crew in your case. And the content basically writes itself with Donald Trump in office. So, yeah, you could do this again. I'm joining you from home and I'll be on Fox later with Jesse Waters from here in my own home. You wouldn't know the difference between me or being in New York. So that's the future.
Independent media and folks going out and making their own case and their own money on their own.
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Chapter 3: What does '86' mean in the context of Comey's post?
And then the beast, you know, the beast, the presidential limo, which they've got to fly overseas too. It gets a camel escort in Saudi Arabia. Actually, no, that's a horseback escort. There's no camels there. I was, my label was off. There are camels in this sequence. They're somewhere in here, but not there. Those are the horses. And then here we go, cut four. This is what happened in Qatar.
So he leaves Saudi, goes to Qatar, and here is Air Force One getting another fighter jet escort. And apparently each country started adding more and more jets to the escort. And you know that when you have jets riding alongside of Air Force One, that takes an immense amount of trust on the part. That's the president green lighting. Yeah, yeah. Have their military jets come up with us.
You don't normally get planes flying that closely to Air Force One, but that's how they welcomed them to the country. And then in Qatar also, here are the camels, cut five, the camels all standing, welcoming the president of the United States as he comes in. These are great images. I love this. And then in cut six, where we have in the UAE, he goes from Qatar to the United Arab Emirates.
Once again, a fighter jet escort, each country welcoming the president this way, flying him in. And then here's another one. At the United Arab Emirates, there's apparently some traditional hair waving exercise that goes on. And look at all these women spinning their hair around as President Trump comes in. This is one of my favorite images from the whole trip. And I love it. He's just clapping.
He's looking along. He's like, man, isn't that cool? What are they doing? I have no idea. But they've got great hair, though. They've got very impressive hair. So there's President Trump walking as the women shake their hair around at him, which I think is a gesture of welcome. That's nice. So there you go. So President Trump does all that. Now, he's coming back with Whitehall, actually.
He announced that they had a massive amount of money is now being invested in the United States of America. Now the estimates are kind of a little bit all over the place because it really comes down to how much of this money is actually gonna come into the country. But CNBC is reporting that we're looking at the vicinity of $3 trillion of investment here.
talking about all of the things that took place on this trip. They point out that the numbers are historic. Qatar and the United States have agreed on a $1.2 trillion economic exchange. Saudi Arabia has promised to invest $600 billion in the United States.
And major projects have been signed with the United Arab Emirates after Abu Dhabi in March committed to a 10-year, $1.4 trillion investment framework. That's huge. So 1.4 plus 1.2, that's 2.6 plus another 600 billion, that's 3.2. That's $3.2 trillion of economic activity that the president has just secured from his trip overseas with all of these countries.
so that that's um massive it's massive one thing i want to point out to you look to this next paragraph is these countries are also making commitments to buying boeing jets massive amounts cutter wants to order 210 boeing jets now let me place that in context president trump has been talking about taking one boeing jet potentially from Qatar, one.
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