t. Whatever you're experiencing now is about America and it's not about the team. Now there's team elements that have to come into play of course, but this is bigger and you can feel it, can't you? There's something bigger than anything we've ever felt that's happening right now. It's happening in every way. It's happening everywhere. It's happening in other countries. It's happening in the economy, the military. You're seeing the leaders completely change their stance on things. We'll talk about that. Everything's different.

And I remind you of my most weird prediction from 2015, might have been 2016 but I think it was 15, and I told you and nobody knew what I was talking about in 2015. I told you that Trump would change more than politics. I said he would change reality itself. Here we are. My best prediction of all time and I got absolutely no love for that because nobody had any idea what I was talking about. But I could see this coming from a mile away because of who he is and how he operates. I knew that our brains couldn't handle that and that it would just break everything.

And I also, I'll say this a million times because I just love saying it, America has one superpower that is unmatched. We can break what we have before we build the new one. Other countries can't do that. They're a little too risk-averse, right? But we will say we don't care how much you loved it yesterday. All right, doesn't matter how much you loved it yesterday. If you got to do it, you got to do it. We'll change it all. We'll rip it down to the studs, rebuild it.

Now the Democrats have their slogan and it's called build back bitter. It used to be build back better but then they lost. Now they'd like to build back their party but they're bitter. So the Democrat slogan build back bitter is making them completely irrelevant to anything. So they will remain bitter, I guess, just the politically active people.

I'm also enjoying watching the B story of Barron Trump. Are you watching that? And the next generation of the Trumps like Kai Trump, Don Jr.'s daughter. So both of them seem to be now in the Trump machine, the machine that knows how to turn you into a celebrity basically. So Barron, I saw a post on social media that he has an IQ of 170 and he's the secret genius behind Trump's success with young people. Now how much of that do you think is true? Do you think first of all that he has an IQ of 170 and second of all that he's really the secret magic behind the Trump success with the young? It's possible. It's possible. I think that as a recreational belief I'm going to accept it. I'm not going to question it. I think I'm just going to recreationally say it.

Now if somebody just came up with that number and they were doing what I did, which is I just put on the internet that I have an IQ of 185 and if I say it enough it was sort of an experiment I started several years ago, an experiment to see if I said it enough and people repeated it if the internet would come to believe that I have an IQ of 185. And if any of you have been following it you know that it worked for a long time. If you did a search it would come up with well we're not sure but a lot of people say he's got a 180 or 185 so it might be. Which would be hilarious. But I love the fact that if he's really smart and he's raised well, looks like he is, and he's six foot whatever he is, that he's like an improved Donald Trump, which is the most hilarious thing. As soon as the Democrats think finally the elder Trump has aged out, finally we don't have to worry about this Donald Trump, and then there's going to be the improved clone, the one that looks way too much like him except way taller, way more athletic, way better looking just by being young. Trump was handsome when he was young. And maybe a rumor that he has a really high IQ. Trump actually found a way to clone himself. If you think you're done with Trump after four years, nope, Barron's coming on strong anyway.

And Kai Trump is becoming a social media star. Looks like she has all the support in the world to do that and she also has the goods. If there's one thing that can make you feel good about the future it's seeing a young person who has the goods. Do you know anybody like that? There aren't that many. Like it just in general there aren't many people who have the goods. But if you watch Kai Trump for like five minutes, well not even one minute, in one minute you say to yourself oh she's got the goods. She's got the whole package. Like what would ever stop her? She's got the backing, the brains, the looks, the personality, the charisma. What's going to stop that? And we don't know as much about Barron yet but maybe, maybe so. I would say that Kai Trump makes me feel good about the future just because there are people like her, people like her in the future.

Meanwhile there's a CIA official who's been charged with leaking documents to Israel and the documents were about Israel's plans to retaliate against Iran. So that violated the Espionage Act. New York Times is reporting on that. So I guess there's not much more to say about that except that our distrust of our intelligence units takes another hit, or our trust then takes another hit.

Elon Musk is predicting this. He said this before but it's interesting that he's doubling down on it. Solar power will be the vast majority of power generation in the future. Now I so want him to have a public debate on that question versus let's say nuclear. He might be right and I could see the argument for it because if you had enough battery power then you wouldn't worry as much about cloudy days and what happens at night. And there might be big breakthroughs in how efficient things are. I mean we could build houses that needed very little power to heat and cool them. We just don't do it yet. So you could imagine that he'd be right about this and you could imagine that every house the solar panels would be the roof. So he's already making that, the roof tiles that are basically solar panels. So yeah I could see that. But I'd love to have the public debate because I think the argument for nuclear becoming the thing is pretty strong. So let's battle it down.

Meanwhile over in Italy the government of Giorgia Meloni, so her government, the court ruled that she can't deport illegal aliens. So apparently they're stuck with them. And the reason they can't deport them is that the country they would go back to has poor human rights records. Uh oh. Uh oh. So apparently Italy has progressive or leftist courts and they say you can't get rid of people who came in illegally because the place they came from is so bad. Now that doesn't mean they have an asylum process per se like we do in the United States. It just means that they just feel like that's the right thing to do. Now if your courts are operating on their feelings instead of something like the law you've got kind of a big problem.

And here's my question. I believe that we have now demonstrated in the United States that the Constitution of the United States plus the character and culture of Americans is self-correcting. Now we can go pretty far before we correct to the point of being scary but we do and we're in a self-correcting phase right now which is just unbelievably powerful. But do other countries have that? In other words do they have a history, a culture, a constitution, set of laws that allows them to correct if they go off the rails? I don't know. But Italy's got this problem where the courts are apparently going to do something that would clearly destroy the entire country and I don't know what you do about that. Does Giorgia Meloni have the power to appoint enough judges to outnumber them or replace them or impeach them? I don't know how their system works. But I just want to brag a little bit that over 200 years ago some people who were pooping in holes and had no idea that the internet was coming made a constitution that still works because it was exquisitely focused on human motivation. That's why the Constitution works. It doesn't work because they came up with some good rules. Here's some good rules. No, it's because those rules were perfectly crafted around human nature. Nobody thought of that before apparently. Nobody thought of that. And so once it was done it became the most powerful document in the world as we clearly see.

All right, what else is going on? So Sunny Hostin on The View, she made some news because she was agreeing with a psychologist who said that maybe it would be a good idea to stay away from family members who are angry about the political stuff. And Sunny Hostin agreed. She said many people feel quote someone voted not only against their families but against them. Okay, what does that sound like? Do you think I can tie this into something I've already mentioned? Yes I can. This is narcissism. If I were to go to a family event, which I'm not, but if I were and some of the family members voted differently, you know what I would think that was about? I would think that's about politics. I wouldn't think it's about me. It's narcissism. It's not about me. They didn't vote against me. They voted against some external thing. So I would go there as the happy warrior. Oh this isn't about me. But apparently the Democrats would feel like it's about them because that's what they think about. They think about themselves. So yeah if you've got somebody in your family who can't get out of the mode of thinking about themselves and everything's about them, oh the wind is blowing that's about me. No it's not. Oh the vote is about me. Not really. Not really. Weren't even thinking about you. So once again we see that the narcissism of the Democrats come into play and destroy families as well as politics.

Speaking of things that are being destroyed, MSNBC might be for sale. Their ratings are so bad. The ratings are like extra bad. I think for Stephanie Ruhle I think she's down over 70% but she's also up against Gutfeld with an exclamation. So it might be that MSNBC is imploding on its own. It might be they just have better competition in some of the hours. But here's my take. I think DEI is what's killing MSNBC and there's nothing they can do about it. If you become the DEI channel it's like your main thing is identity. You will have the same fate as the Democrat Party. And I'll say this a million times. If you drew it up on paper ahead of time and said Scott take a look at this we're thinking of having a TV news-like network where we're really going to focus on the identity stuff, really drive that home, we're going to craft all of our stories around identity, etc. How do you think this will do? And I would say you mean the identity as Americans right because that works really well. There's an organization that does that. It's called Fox News and they identify as Americans. And I'd say that's a great idea. Is that what you're suggesting? No no no we were thinking that the identity would not be Americans it would be everything else. It would be race and religion and education level. It would be your sexuality. Then I would say huh do all of those people have the same interests? No they all have their own set of interests. Huh. Well this is going to fail in the long run. In the short run it's going to make everybody feel good because you're saying feel-good things. In the long run your interests will diverge because you've created essentially a set of adversaries instead of a set of Americans working on the same team. So you can skip the entire experiment. You could just ask Scott. Yes if your plan is to make everybody hate everybody else for their identity because you're fighting for your identity to get the most stuff that will fail. It will fail in the news business. It will fail in the military. It will fail in your corporation. It will fail in your family. It will fail in every context in which it is used. Guaranteed. Because it's designed to fail. It's designed to destroy. It's sort of like Scott I've developed this cluster bomb. Uh-huh. And what do you plan to do with it? Well I'm going to drop the cluster bomb in a big crowd of people and explode it. How do you think that'll go? Well you said it's a cluster bomb. Yes I think that's going to kill a bunch of people. Oh really we thought this was such a good idea. Are you sure? Because I think people would just love cluster bombs. No no no matter how much you love cluster bombs you can't kill a bunch of people with it. That's my bad analogy for the day.

So as I was watching Megyn Kelly say that Joy Reid and their often guest Elie Mystal are flat out racists, I would agree. I would say that the way they act is flat out racism and very overt. I don't think it's subtle even in the least bit. And I don't think MSNBC has a way to get rid of the most DEI people who presumably are turning off the most number of viewers because they just go too far. And their hosts do appear also to have genuine mental illness. When I watch the clips of Joy Reid this week I didn't see a different opinion. I saw mental illness. Now how in the world do you operate if your stars are mentally ill and in a really over-obvious way clearly acting racist? Your ratings have dropped by over 50% per show and they're going to sell it. Sell it to who? Who would buy that? Who would buy that?

Well it might be Jack Posobiec. Jack Posobiec and I think his brother and they are talking to some investors and they're thinking about maybe making a run at buying MSNBC because it looks like it might be for sale. And I think they could pretty well fix things pretty quickly by getting rid of all the hosts and carving out using the assets but get rid of the hosts. So that might happen.

As PBD showed, PBD, does everybody know PBD when I talk about that? We're now at the point where the independent podcasters are all famous enough that I can just refer to them by their first handles. So PBD, one of the bigger podcasters, was pointing out, they had Charlie Kirk on, and pointing out that Charlie Kirk's TikTok account averaged 60 million views a day before the election. Just TikTok. Just Charlie Kirk. 60 million views per day. Now let's compare that to the entire MSNBC audience. Half a million viewers a night. What do you think my viewership was per day for just doing this live stream during the run-up? I don't know exactly but maybe on a good day 150,000 if you look across multiple platforms that I'm on. So even I was in the same at least zip code of traffic of this entire network. I don't know how much anyone would pay for MSNBC but I think it's got to go for a fire sale price because you can replace the whole operation with a laptop and a ring light anyway. So I think the legacy media is irrelevant forever.

CNN's looking to fire hundreds of employees according to Puck News. So Dylan Byers I guess has some kind of scoop on this. And the scoop says, I'm not ready to believe this yet by the way so I don't believe it yet, but it's being reported that they might get rid of some of the top paid talent because it's pointed out in the reporting here that Anderson Cooper makes 20 million a year while Kaitlan Collins makes 3 million a year. And if you ask me which one of them is doing a better job or is more interesting to watch I'd say I don't know looks like about a tie to me. Is one worth 20 million and one is worth 3 million? So maybe one of them needs a raise I don't know.

But there's a clip going around of CNN's Brian Stelter and Abby Phillip on a panel discussion and Phillip and Stelter decided that part of the reason that the legacy media is failing hard is because of Trump and America believing lies about the media. So the media did not destroy itself with its blindness, gaslighting and complete irrelevance. No it wasn't that. It wasn't that that we all noticed. No it was because someone pointed out that the news is fake and mistaken and gaslighting and propaganda. So it's not the fact that you are gaslighting fake news propaganda disguised as a news program. That's not the problem. The problem is that somebody pointed it out. I don't feel like the legacy news is close to solving their own problem. I feel like stage one has to be recognizing where that problem is coming from and I don't think it came from outside the house if you know what I mean. No it wasn't Trump although Trump did a great service by pointing it out.

Meanwhile the publication called The Guardian over in Great Britain says it's going to leave the X platform because it's quote a toxic media platform with quote far-right conspiracy theories and racism. Or is it the platform that most often points out that The Guardian is full of? Which one is it I wonder? Huh? What could it be?

Well here's my, we're going to talk about all the Trump's appointments. So one of the things that I think Trump actually said this or maybe a member of his campaign said this that he would be driving the Overton win