Never Count Trump Out‼️
Those reporting the end of Trump's presidency should remember January 6
Memorial Day 🎖️: On Memorial Day a few years ago, I asked a Gold Star family what their son would have thought about the “celebrations” (barbecues, trips, sales) that seem to totally miss the point of honoring and visiting our war dead.
He would have wanted to be remembered, they said, but then, everybody celebrates the freedoms he died for. That has always stuck with me.
Fitting‼️: On Memorial Day, flags fly at half staff till noon — then are raised.
What I am thinking💭: Memorial Day, we remember those who gave “the last full measure of devotion.” Just ask those who served — they are thinking about the buddies who didn’t come home.
❗If you are a Gold Star family, it’s easy to get depressed watching and reading the news — there has never been a time to be more proud of America than right now.
❗If you know a Gold Star family, never miss the opportunity to remember their loved one out loud.
Long after the 21-gun salute, families are left with empty bedrooms, a folded flag and old photos. Knowing their dearly departed are still alive in YOUR memory proves the sacrifice is worth it.
Look forward⏩: On this Memorial Day weekend, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is overseas at the NATO meetings.
Today’s fight✊: NATO is based on shared values justifying shared sacrifices
Sad👎: Much of NATO no longer shares our values
Tough🤦: In today’s NATO, Americans will fight and die for countries where people are arrested for flying the British flag because it offends Muslims. Police also pay visits to veterans who post anti-Muslim memes on Facebook.
Watch tonight📺: Retired General Philip Breedlove on if the values we say we are fighting for are still alive in Europe
Watch Monday📺: “America’s Greatest Sailors” debuts Monday night — we reveal the men (and women) who turned America’s Navy from a bunch of patriotic seamen into the tip of America’s spear that controls the world’s oceans.
Personal note🎂: A very happy birthday to my dear wife.
👋I am off Monday, but will be back with you Tuesday.
BREAKING🚨: Tulsi Gabbard just resigned as director of national intelligence
‼️It’s been a long time coming — she says it’s to take care of her husband, who is battling cancer.
🙏We wish her husband well
Reality🤷: America is safer with Tulsi Gabbard FAR away from national security decisions
Zoom out 🌎: A new attorney general. A new director of national intelligence. Funding for the Department of Homeland Security. Funding for his ballroom. Possible Supreme Court vacancies. Any additional Cabinet shake-up.
👀Those are just a few of the many things Trump needs a skeptical and razor-thin Republican majority to approve in the Senate before the midterms
Prediction 🤔: It’s going to be a LONG summer for the White House legislative affairs team and their boss.
Unlimited Political Lives♾️
📉By every objective measure, Trump’s presidency is in what pilots call a death spiral — abysmal poll numbers, costs that keep going up and a leader badly out of touch with America.
👀Trump has been here before in business and politics — just think about Trump after January 6.
🤷He was finished — and came back to win the presidency.
Why❓: Trump is always willing to pivot — when it’s in his best interests.
📺We will leave all giggling over Trump’s failures to CNN and The New York Times.
Hypothesis🧠: Trump is forgetting what got him elected.
🤔Remember the “Kamala is for they them and Donald Trump is for you” ad
🤷That’s how Trump’s presidency started
⚽Ending boys in girls sports
🔐Securing the border
💸Even tariffs were designed to help Americans
🏭Supporting domestic energy production
❌Cutting government waste and fraud
Theme: The call centered around the American people
Now📅: Trump is obsessed with himself
🪩The ballroom
🔨Building an arch in DC
💸A “Anti-Weaponization Fund” that sends nearly 1.8 billion dollars largely to his supporters and protects his family from the IRS
Doesn’t help📰: Axios headlines, “Behind the Curtain: Trump’s unprecedented profit and protection”
Result: Donald Trump is for himself, not the American people.
Split screen📺: Today, I looked up at the TVs in my office — Fox News and MS NOW both had reporters at airports highlighting high prices for airline tickets
➗Normally, the split screen of cable news shows the divide in America; today, it shows the common gripe — things cost too damn much.
Truth☑️: No American family sits around unable to buy plane tickets, and one looks to the other and says — well, honey, it’s OK because Trump is building a ballroom.
Full circle 🔄: Trump came back from January 6 because he stopped claiming he won the election and started talking about what Americans care about.
Vacuum: President Biden and then Harris’ open border and near-Marxist social policies helped him
Present day📅: Democrats still have the same problems.
Opportunity👀: Can Trump pivot back to understanding and focusing on what Americans care about?
Watch tonight📺: Steve Cortes, who long ago warned of Trump’s economic vulnerability, plus Lauren Wright on where Trump needs to pivot.
A Year Ago
We looked back at our show before Memorial Day last year — the sentiment is still true.
☀️ Memorial Day marks the start of summer; Labor Day, the end of summer; and the Christmas holidays mark the end of the year.
During those three times, we collectively take stock of where we are as a country and how we feel.
⛱️ We are with family and friends, relaxed with extra days off.
☀️ On Memorial Day specifically, we are excited about the summer ahead, the long days and the warm evenings.
🎉 It’s the time of graduations, weddings, coming summer vacations and more.
It’s only fair we do the same thing this year.
So, where are we? 🗓️
⛽️ Gas prices are higher than last year
Today’s national average: $4.56
One year ago: $3.19
🛒 Prices of groceries rose 2.9% in April
Today’s beef: $6.90 per pound
One year ago: $5.98 per pound
📈 The stock market is significantly higher, up 10% from 2024 to 2025 and 28.26% in the last year.
🎤 Two years ago, former President Biden was one month away from his disastrous debate
Last year, the big Trump story was still how tariffs would tank your 401(k)
🗳️ Today, Trump’s approval rating is minus-18
This time in 2024, Biden’s approval rating was minus -15%
📉In 2024, only 24% of Americans said the country was on the right track
📈 2025, it’s nearly doubled that: 43%
📉Now it’s down to 34%
The percentage of Americans who said the country is on the wrong track is up from 50.9% last year to over 60% this year.
Looking at the “right track” versus “wrong track” perspective feels better to me than looking at the strictly political views in presidential approval ratings.
📺 How much of that is because of the media coverage?
💰 Last year, the media told us how great the economy was, but this year, they tell us President Trump is driving us off a fiscal cliff.
Watch tonight📺: Biden economics guru Ryan Cummings and Trump economic cheerleader Steve Moore on why both men are now plagued by the same problems.
Pratt/Brat Energy‼️
👀Democrats need Spencer Pratt energy — someone to take on the sacred cows of their party.
‼️That said, the insurgent LA mayor candidate is starting to bring a little brat energy — it’s a fine line
Pratt: “Everyone’s missing who’s voting for me — the only people that aren’t are the socialists, the lunatics and the communists! Any normal functioning brain that doesn’t want to step in human poop when they get their matcha is voting for me, which is a lot of people. It’s a lot of people.”
Zoom out🗣️: Calling out the NGOs and grift machines is a fertile hunting ground for Republicans if they could get out of their own way.
Local politics🏚️: Pratt’s plans to deal with the homeless are impressive and deliver where Mayor Karen Bass and Governor Gavin Newsom spent billions to make the problem worse
Pratt: “If that addict on your street were your own son, what would you do? That is the defining question that guides my 5 step plan to fix the homelessness problem in LA. We *must* end this evil racket of corrupt politicians and NGOs who profit off the misery of these poor souls. They launder money and feed them more drugs, so they can keep their customers locked in this hell on our streets. We have a moral obligation from God to help them and make our city safe and clean for everyone.”
Zoom out🌎: Democrats could learn a lot from Pratt — practical solutions to real problems
Tonight📺: Host of “The Morning Answer” on Salem Radio in L.A. Jennifer Horn and Former California Senate Candidate Christina Pascucci.