After a long awaited and beautiful ceremony inaugurating President Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States, we had an even better evening, with the signing of every executive order he promised and some. In this episode, I'll celebrate the win, digest with you what all happened yesterday, and (so predictably) cover the media nonsense about this incredible day. Trump signs flurry of executive actions and memos on Day 1 Migrants weep in Mexico as Trump admin cancels all appointments for Biden’s CBP One app immediately after swearing-in Senate Armed Services Committee advances Pete Hegseth's nomination to lead the Pentagon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What happened during Trump's inauguration?
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Chapter 2: What executive orders did Trump sign on his first day?
Because, folks, I promise you, not to be like a virtue signaling asshole, but this is not about money or anything like that. I had to be here with you guys. It's not. We can move sponsors around to another day. It's not about any of that.
If you guys, the Bongino Army, are going to rep the cause like you did and make us a top ten show yesterday on the most important day in American history, I think we were number eight. then I'm not letting you down today. I had to be here because it means a lot to me. I got a loaded show for you today. A lot to talk about.
Let's get right to it, including a recap of a very, very important meeting we had last night. Me and Chris Pavlovsky, the CEO of Rumble, where you're watching right now. The ultimate sleep refresh for the new year. Beam stream powder, get up to 45% off for a limited time at shopbeam.com slash Bongino. Use code Bongino at checkout. And show today brought to you by American Financing.
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It's a .net address. AmericanFinancing.net, NMLS, 1-833-24, NMLS, ConsumerAccess.org. Fellas, let me hear that glorious sound, if you would. Yes, sir. So, you know, I can't fake it. And this is the same shirt I had on yesterday. You're such a slob. I may be a slob, but I'm not a liar. Okay? I'm not going to fake it. Why? Because I went to the inauguration yesterday. Huge update.
I did my show from there. Went to a couple of the gatherings, parties, galas. I don't know what you call them. I'm not like a foo-foo type guy. It doesn't really matter. People get together. Hey, let's have some food, whatever. You want pigs in a blanket? Have a beer. Whatever it may be.
But I was up there and obviously at these events, I had to put a tie on, which frankly is about as unusual as Haley's Comet. It happens once every 72 years. I'm not even 72 yet. I don't wear ties ever. If you'd like to see the picture, it's slightly embarrassing. You're going to put it up on the screen. Of course, Justin's got to violate every rule of the damn bunch.
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Chapter 3: How did the media cover Trump's inauguration?
Now, again, the understandable, especially with me, given what happened with me and my history of Facebook bitterness towards the fact checking, you know, communist era there is definitely understandable. We get it. But again, I'm not going to be a fraud, folks. I'm not going to tell you guys, don't get emotional. And I know I'm going to get emotional. I need an outcome.
The outcome I need is Trump, shamefully Biden, Trump, Vance Vance. OK, that's what I need. Or Trump Jr., Trump Jr. I need these platforms. I need our side to be heard. If they want to talk to me, I'm not going to turn it down. Some of you may object. That's cool, man. This isn't a tyranny. You don't have to believe everything I say because I say it.
And you certainly don't have to believe every opinion I have. That's why they're opinions. I thought it was a good opportunity. So we went to the event. I'm just going to tell you straight. They couldn't have been nicer. They treated me and Chris very nicely. Doesn't matter. I don't get emotional either way. I still need an outcome, but treated us very nice.
They really wanted to talk to Chris, which was a good thing because, you know, Chris from Rumble who had protected free speech when all these other companies bailed. I want you to remember folks, just one thing, please. And don't ever forget this. The guy who platformed President Trump after he was deplatformed and said, you're welcome here, was Chris at Rumble. And you can look that up.
When he was banned from Facebook and everywhere else, there was one person who stood with him, and that was Chris. And we took a lot of flack for that. And we didn't care because it's the right thing to do. So we were there, and it was interesting that they wanted to talk to him. So you can see the picture. We spent some time with Zuckerberg.
He spent about 10 minutes with us and started talking a little bit about Brazilian jiu-jitsu in the beginning, which I'm always fascinated with. But I made my case. So did Chris. I was very nice to us. And we'll see what happens. And one thing at least I appreciated is he said to us at the end, he said, I want you guys to watch the outcome, which it's almost like he must have.
I doubt he listens to my show. But in other words, I want you to watch what happens. Don't listen to what I'm telling you. I think he understands that the ill will there is significant. But again, I'm not getting emotional. I'm not. I'm not going to do it. If the outcome is bad, I can promise you they'll get filleted here on this show just like they did in the past.
If the outcome is good, there's no applause line necessary. It speaks for itself. So I thought it was important to make the case. And you have my word. Listen to me, brothers and sisters. The case was made. And not just to one person there, but multiple people who are interested in hearing this out. So we'll see what happens. Outcomes matter. It's not about emotions either way.
I'm not getting overly excited about anything. I'm not going to get down about anything. But it was an important night. I'm going to tell you this, too. At the event yesterday, the logistics were tough. If you were there and went up there, the crowds were pretty enormous. I don't care what Rachel Maddow tells you. They're talking about crowd size or something. Do we have it? Oh, we do.
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Chapter 4: What were the crowd dynamics at the inauguration?
It was amazing in a deep blue city to see this sea of red and everybody's so excited to be there. It was really an experience. All right, I'm going to get to this. Trump is back. The speech yesterday, a little snippet from it. I'm not going to play the whole thing.
You heard most of it, but I'm going to show you the speech and I'm going to talk about the media characterization of the speech to show you again how the media battle plan from 2016 argue about crowd sizes. Call it the American carnage speech. Call Trump and Elon Nazis. It's the exact same battle plan again, folks. The bad news, we're going to have to deal with it.
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This was just a snippet of the speech. Now, why am I playing this for you? Dan, we heard this yesterday. I know, I get it. This segment is not about the Trump speech. This segment is about the media liberal communist battle plan from 2016. That's failed because I believe we won three of the last three elections. You can say, too, you're never going to convince me we didn't win 2020.
Fine, whatever. Even if we won two out of three, we're still up two. We're still running a pretty high winning percentage, right? The same battle plan is going to apply now. They are not going to get away from the distractions. Number one, the crowd size thing is meant to distract you. Please don't fall into it. And second, we're going to see the Nazi stuff, which we're already seeing with Elon.
Elon's a Nazi, made the Nazi salute. And third, they repeated the exact same talking points they did in 2016 with his inaugural speech saying this was the dark American carnage speech. Does this sound dark to you? Check this out.
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Chapter 5: Why are Trump's pardons significant?
We'll get back to the show. Hey, man, this is a pretty damn good crowd considering we did the show at a totally different time. Guy's a little disappointed, though. He thinks if we would have hit the normal 11 o'clock time, we may have hit 200 today. Maybe. I don't know, but I'm pretty honored you guys are here now for this, given that this was totally out of left field. Oh, I did not catch that.
I didn't catch that. There he is again. I think he's in confession. He's like, is that my priest? Wait, did I have a female priest going on? He don't even know where he is. Dr. Jill in the background is thinking about her next neurosurgery, of course. Doug Emhoff's like, how do I kiss Dr. Jill again? Why are those two always kissing? Like, what is with those two weirdos? Right? You ever see them?
And they always kiss weird. Like, weird. You know what I mean? Like, I'm like, Ron, I didn't know each other a little too well. Hey, increase tariffs on our trade partners, tax cuts, and regulation changes. Learn why gold is a viable diversification tactic now more than ever.
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Chapter 6: What is the public's response to Trump's approval ratings?
But to get the information out there, I think is vital of exactly what Biden did to sell the country out and his role in the Ukraine impeachment quid pro quo nonsense. Remember, it was Biden who wanted to make that go away. So we still need to investigate in the House and hopefully on the Senate side. But we're not going to get a prosecution.
And there's really no political heat for Trump now to push for a DOJ full-blown investigation because you're not going to get a lot out of it. That's their theory. You ever see that movie, was it Tommy Boy with Chris Farley? That's your, what is it? Was it Tommy Boy? Hey, what do you call him, a fat guy? He's like, that's your theory. That's their theory. Whatevs.
Here's a little compilation video by the great Maze Moore of, of course, the freak out over this exact same thing, the pardon issue, proving again that these people don't give a rat's ass about looking like hypocrites at all. All they care about is hierarchy. Check this out.
Is that a thing? Preemptive blanket pardons? I mean, I haven't heard about this since, like, Monopoly with a get out of jail free card.
Trump has discussed with advisers whether to grant preemptive pardons. What does that say? That he wants to excuse them for things before anybody's even saying there's an investigation.
President Trump, as he winds down his last few weeks in office, is considering preemptive pardons. What a mess. More as we know.
Source saying that some of the president's inner circle, well, they're telling him that it would be perfectly fine to pardon his family and other associates preemptively, even though they haven't been charged with any crimes. How much damage could be done to this country? Can he do to this country on his way out?
Folks, the game plan is the exact same as 2016. They're going to argue on distractions. They are going to engage in unquestionably hypocritical arguments where they argued the exact opposite position in the past. So what do we do, Dan? We continue to plug away. What does plug away mean?
We continue to go on social media like we did with the bloodbath hoax and everything else and just post the truth. I'm not here to give you a complicated answer so I can sound like some architect-level political strategist. Oh, look what a genius, because the answers aren't complicated. Gaslighting, right?
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Chapter 7: What challenges does Trump face moving forward?
And talking about red waves and stuff is just counterproductive. I was pretty damn confident he was going to win. I had a lot of good inside sources from poll places I trusted that were like, this guy is going to smoke Kamala Harris. It's going to be good. Yes. Yeah. Yes. I agree. Well, let me just answer. I think yesterday felt better, too.
It just did, because I thought election night was kind of a fait accompli. I told the guy at the Stewart's Sandbar. A week before the election, I told my friend, Steve Adler, he's a doctor. I told his wife, Gigi. She was all nervous about the election. Maybe I'll get her on the show. She can attest to it. I said, dude, done deal. He's going to win. I'm telling you, he's going to win.
I just didn't want to say that because it doesn't make any sense. And I don't like talking about red wave stuff because it's stupid, right? And you're just going to dissuade people from voting. So tactically, I had to keep my feelings to myself. My job was to talk about facts and data, not talk about my opinions on that matter. So election night for me was kind of like a fait accompli.
I knew he was going to win. Yesterday, I wasn't convinced that there wasn't going to be chaos in this period between the election. I think we won overwhelmingly, so they ran out of gas. But yesterday, man, felt really, really good. And the fact that Donald Trump not only hit the ground running, but had a team. I mean, when you say hit the ground running, obviously a cliche, but they mean it.
Like, you don't hit the ground. You start, walk, speed up, jog. They were... Because he already had a solid team in place that knows the mechanisms of government that within moments of him swearing in had EO's executive orders ready to rock and roll. You know that dreadful CBP One app? Here's Bill Malugin, a great reporter from Fox, especially on the immigration issue. Breaking, it's official.
Trump admin is canceled. The CBP1 cell phone app parole program used by Biden to allow more than 900 migrants to enter the U.S. Existing appointments have been canceled. That is the notice on the CBP website. Term undocumented alien is used. What's that? 900,000 migrants to enter the U.S. have been canceled. They should be canceled. We have an immigration process.
There it is as a screenshot of what it looks like right now. It's called the immigration process. Now, what did I tell you before? The media sucks, folks. The media is going to use the 2016 playbook over again. It's up to you to flip them the double barrel and get the truth out there. What are they doing already? Look, we've got a mom waiting in Mexico who had this appointment who's crying.
You know what? We've got a lot of veterans here who've got moms who are taking care of them because they were overseas and got some PTSD or lost limbs and stuff. They're crying too. What about them? We've got a lot of moms working the checkout counter in a supermarket trying to feed their kids on one paycheck and struggling because of Joe Biden inflation. You know what? They're crying too.
I noticed the scum in the media didn't do a lot of reporting on that because it would make the Democrat Party look bad. So you guys can go yourself, okay? I don't... I'm sorry. I love people. I'm a believer, a firm believer in my faith in Jesus Christ. I love mankind, but I also love rules. We have rules. You want to be an immigrant to this country? You could do the process.
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Chapter 8: How does Trump's administration plan to address security concerns?
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You just heard the Dan Bongino show. I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear. I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear. That I will faithfully execute. That I will faithfully execute. The office of president of the United States. The office of President of the United States. And will, to the best of my ability. And will, to the best of my ability. Preserve, protect, and defend.
Preserve, protect, and defend. The Constitution of the United States. The Constitution of the United States. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations, Mr. President.