ear, right? I'm not giving him a pass. I'm just saying that it's a hoax that he invited him. And that's, you know, what the Rob Reiner's are saying today. How could you invite him? Well, he didn't. It was a trick.

But Trump made a statement, and I think Trump's statement fixed everything. Because you know how Trump is good at smoothing things over. You know, you take a provocative situation and you can count on Trump to say something that'll just completely take the energy out of it and make you not care about it anymore. So here's the beginning of his statement. He said, quote, "So I helped a seriously troubled man who just happens to be black, Ye, Kanye West, who has been decimated in his business and virtually everything else, who has always been good to me, by allowing his request for a meeting at Mar-a-Lago, alone." And then he goes on to say some other stuff.

So do you think Grandpa Trump could have sounded any more like your racist grandpa? A man who just happens to be black. Was there somebody out there who didn't know that Kanye was black? Holy, are you telling me Ye is black? That changes everything. Yeah, you know, you always joke, people always joke when people say I have a black friend, you know, say, oh great, you have one black friend, you racist. And Trump does the most grandfatherly sounding thing. Oh, I was helping this guy who just happens to be black. Like I'm not saying I'm not racist, but I helped a guy who just happens to be black. It just happens to be black. I don't think you could have said that any worse. Yeah, I'm black too. I just happened to not look it. I identified that way though.

So I'm not sure that made anything better, but of course the way the Democrats are playing it is they're playing it hard. You know, Republicans would have done the same thing if some Democrat did something awkward. And so now the play is to see if you can make the Republicans disavow that dinner with Trump. And if they don't disavow it quickly enough and aggressively enough, then they're racist too. So now because DeSantis has not disavowed it strongly enough, or I don't think he's commented, then he must be part of it. And then McCarthy hasn't said anything about Marjorie Taylor Greene, who once attended some Nick Fuentes event and spoke at it. So that's the game, is to make everybody respond. Now eventually those people will have to respond, won't they? Because the journalists will just peck them to death until they say something. And then once they respond, what will the journalists say? Well, not until we force them to respond. So that was a pretty weak response. So basically they just get another bite of the apple no matter what these guys say.

So that's the play, and it's a good play politically. Politically it's pretty powerful. So I thought the best comment about this came from Ben Shapiro, who said of Trump, the best way to make sure you don't accidentally have an anti-Semite attend your dinner is to not invite somebody that you already know is an anti-Semite. Now it's not my claim necessarily that Ye is an anti-Semite, but clearly he said things which Jewish people say, nope, that's anti-Semitic. So Ben can play that team. He's got all the credentials he needs. That wasn't a bad comment. If you invite somebody who's already nationally accused of being anti-Semitic, you can't be too surprised if he brings a friend. I think he nailed it.

All right, now here's the layout. You know, Fox News is trying to freeze Trump out by not talking about him, right? So Fox News is not going to back him, which means other Rupert Murdoch properties probably won't back him. You know that Breitbart went hard at this situation, so Breitbart seems anti-Trump. And now the Daily Wire, if we can judge from Ben Shapiro's point, so are those the three biggest conservative news outlets? Who's left? I would say they are the most influential and also the biggest. How in the world would Trump win without Fox News, without Breitbart, and without the Daily Wire? Like how does he win? We shall see. We shall see.

Yeah. Now remember my idea that Trump, instead of doing a normal campaign, he should just create his own podcast and then he should ask people to be on it. So instead of being the guest, you should be interviewing the guests. Imagine Trump hosting his own podcast and inviting Ye and Fuentes to be on after Trump knows that they screwed him. After Trump knows that they screwed him, invite them on to explain themselves. Would you watch that? How would you watch anything else? Are you kidding me? Because do you think Trump is happy about either of those guys? If there's one thing that Trump doesn't like, it's somebody who pretends to be his friend and then stabs him in the back in public, which is what Ye just did, stabbed him in the back. How much do you think Trump thinks of Ye when Trump has been pro-Ye from the beginning and Ye just stabs him in the back? I would love to see that interview. I think Trump would just rip his head off, you know, verbally. And Ye wouldn't back down. What would happen? I mean, it would be the most interesting thing I'd ever seen in my life.

So I don't know that Trump can become president under this cloud and other clouds, but he could have the best podcast anybody ever had. It would be the biggest thing ever. Am I right? Does anybody disagree with me that if you started a podcast where he interviews the most provocative people, you would have to watch it? You couldn't not watch it. Yeah, he could fund his entire campaign with a pay-per-view. Oh my God. Pay-per-view. Pay-per-view Trump interviews Kanye and Fuentes at the same time. Pay-per-view. I would pay for that. I would totally pay for that.

Yeah, you say it's a non-story, but you don't get to say that because the press decides what's the story. It's not your interest. There are plenty of interesting things that are not in the news because the news decided that's not a story for you. So what do you say it's not a story? That means nothing. You're not in charge of making a story there, and they made it a story, so it is a story because the people who make stories say this is.

All right. Is it true that McCarthy is considering Marjorie Taylor Greene as Speaker of the House? I'm seeing that on social media, but that doesn't sound true. That's not true, is it? I haven't seen a news story on it. That sounds like just something that Dems are saying to scare the country, right? Yeah, it doesn't sound right.

All right. How many of you think that Ye and Fuentes set up Trump and that the purpose of it was to sabotage Trump? How many of you think that? You don't think it was sabotage? You think that Ye thought that bringing Fuentes to Mar-a-Lago would be perfectly non-controversial? No, of course he knew what he was doing. How could he not? Ye isn't mentally incompetent. Like he knows how to address himself and he knows how the world works and stuff. He's not crazy in that way. He knows how the world works. Of course it was. I don't think there's any question about that.

And if, by the way, if Trump doesn't destroy Ye for this, then he's not Trump, don't you think? I think Trump is going to absolutely destroy Ye. I think he's just going to completely destroy him. Do you think so? I think he should. He should. If anybody ever had it coming. And you know, maybe that's the fight that Ye wants. Ye might want that fight. Maybe that helps him, more energy. Who knows? So this will get interesting.

But you did not see Trump forcefully disavow Fuentes, because I assume because there are too many people who vote for Trump who like Fuentes. So now that's consistent. Trump does not typically criticize people who support him. Now there's some question about whether Fuentes really supports DeSantis or Trump. I don't know. I think maybe that's an open question.

Somebody says who's Fuentes? Let me explain him. Nick Fuentes is a Hispanic white supremacist. He's a Hispanic white supremacist. It's just a weird thing that you can say that in public and that everybody's okay with one of those Hispanic white supremacists. Does that even make sense? I think his father's Mexican descent. That's why his name is Fuentes. But I wonder how many of his followers even understand that the whole white supremacy thing is not exactly what you think it is.

Now I was reading up a little bit on Fuentes, and the funniest thing that he says, because here's the main thing. I think you have to treat Fuentes as an entertainer but also a political force. So a little bit like Trump in that sense. Within the entertainment part, one of the things he says is that women shouldn't have the vote and he doesn't want women working. You know, that it's more like you should go back to the old days where the women stay home and they raise babies. And he says that out loud and completely without any reservations. And I'm seeing somebody here saying well I agree. And I'm saying even Erica is saying I don't disagree. Yeah, there are in fact women who say that women shouldn't have the vote. I don't think anybody should have the vote. It's not like men are nailing it. Yeah. If you took women out of the vote, do you think you'd get a better result? Doubt it. You'd get a different result probably, but would it be better? I don't know. Who knows?

So this whole thing worked really, really well for whoever was behind it. Now here's the first question I think you need to answer. How do Ye and Fuentes know each other? Wouldn't you like to know that story? Do you think they just ran into each other? Do you think that Ye was just a fan or vice versa? Or that Milo did it? Do you think that? Oh, you think it was Milo then? Do you think Milo was trying to destroy Ye? Because could you imagine Milo sort of wouldn't know how this would turn out? Of course he would know. Of course he would. Both free agents.

All right, let me just throw a little conspiracy theory juice into the mix. You like your conspiracy theories, don't you? In 2017, Chuck Schumer said of Trump it's the dumbest thing in the world to insult the intelligence community because they have a thousand ways from Sunday to get back at you. So Chuck Schumer, who definitely knows how things work behind the curtains, said the intelligence agencies are going to come for Trump. And then we saw that 50 former and current intel people signed a thing that said that Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation, which probably had a big impact on the election. They came for Trump, no question about it. They came for Trump.

Now let me ask you this. Were you surprised that those Whitmer kidnap people, that there were FBI informants in that extremist group? Were you surprised by that? Probably not, because they try to infiltrate any extremist group. How about the Proud Boys? I guess the number one or maybe the number two people in the Proud Boys might have been an FBI informant or something. I forget what the details are. Was that surprising? Big surprise. You shouldn't be surprised, because that's exactly who the intelligence people would want to co-opt.

Right now, how about Nick Fuentes? Do you think Nick Fuentes works for himself and has no contact whatsoever with the groups who have a great incentive to contact him and co-opt him? Do you think that t