Donald Trump in Bussin' With The Boys  |  October 15, 2024

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Summary by ChatGPT- Football Ownership and Bidding: Trump shared his experience with bidding on an NFL team, discussing a $1 billion offer he made and the winning bid of $1.45 billion, emphasizing the competitiveness in the ownership process.- Quarterback Evaluation: He reflected on the unpredictability of NFL draft decisions, using examples of quarterbacks and discussing how perceptions can change based on their public statements or actions.Wally Pipp and Lou Gehrig StoryTrump recounted the historical anecdote of Wally Pipp being replaced by Lou Gehrig, highlighting the potential consequences of taking time off and how it can lead to unexpected career changes.- Campaigning and Scheduling: Trump discussed his rigorous campaign schedule, expressing that he finds little time for rest while preparing for the upcoming election, contrasting his approach to that of other politicians.- Social Media Engagement: He talked about his initial experiences with social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram, noting his large following and his interactions with figures like Mark Zuckerberg during his presidency.

[00:00:00]  Will Compton 
 49 ers are up 130 right now, if you're wondering. 

[00:00:03]  Donald Trump 
 That sounds okay. 

[00:00:04]  Will Compton 
 I got the under. 

[00:00:06]  Donald Trump 
 Quarterback is a great story, right? Yeah. He's like the last drafted and he. They put him in and he just moved the team. He's really good. 

[00:00:15]  Taylor Lewan 
 He's handling business. 

[00:00:16]  Donald Trump 
 Never know, right? 

[00:00:16]  Taylor Lewan 
 Never know. 

[00:00:17]  Donald Trump 
 Then you take the best player that anyone's ever seen out of college, and he turns out to be not so good. But, uh, no, the St. Louis quarterback, the, uh, San Francisco quarterback, I found to be very, very interesting how he's been so good and he was just about the last draft pick. 

[00:00:32]  Will Compton 
 Yeah, I think he was. He. Mister irrelevant. 

[00:00:34]  Donald Trump 
 Yeah. 

[00:00:34]  Taylor Lewan 
 Ah, he was Mister irrelevant. 

[00:00:35]  Donald Trump 
 He was mister irrelevant. 

[00:00:37]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yeah. 

[00:00:37]  Donald Trump 
 He's not irrelevant anymore. 

[00:00:39]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yeah. Have you, uh. If you. If you'd like to. Yeah, we're rolling right now. 

[00:00:45]  Donald Trump 
 Let me. Haven't seen one of these. 

[00:00:46]  Will Compton 
 Some high quality mics. 

[00:00:47]  Donald Trump 
 That's pretty cool. 

[00:00:48]  Taylor Lewan 
 We walked in on the other side. Their production is a little bit different than ours, so we like to keep it tight around here, too. 

[00:00:53]  Donald Trump 
 That was, you know, that was. Right, maria? 

[00:00:55]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yeah. 

[00:00:56]  Donald Trump 
 Good, good person. Yeah. 

[00:00:58]  Taylor Lewan 
 How, um. Um, first off, boys, let's give a round of applause. Donald trump, taking the time out of his day to come meet with bustling with the boys. Want to give a quick shout to alex as well, setting this whole thing up. Alex, outstanding work. We were talking about brock, uh, uh, brock purdy before. 

[00:01:14]  Donald Trump 
 Yeah. 

[00:01:14]  Taylor Lewan 
 And mister irrelevant. Are you aware of what they do for mister irrelevant? 

[00:01:18]  Donald Trump 
 No, I know that he was, I think mister, uh. But not anymore. He's not irrelevant any longer. But he's just a great quarterback, and it shows you there's a little luck in sports. And actually, he wouldn't have played except that everybody got hurt in front of him. 

[00:01:32]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yeah. 

[00:01:32]  Donald Trump 
 And then they put him in and he moved the ball. Right. And that was the end of that. That's happened before. Happened with tom brady. 

[00:01:38]  Will Compton 
 Don't they throw a parade? 

[00:01:39]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yeah. So with mister irrelevant, you, when you get picked, they put like one number 264 out there or whatever. And then after otas, which is organized team activities, they fly you out to San Diego and they have a parade for Mister irrelevant. 

[00:01:51]  Donald Trump 
 Oh, that's so great. Yeah. 

[00:01:52]  Taylor Lewan 
 So that's. That's a fun time. 

[00:01:54]  Donald Trump 
 He's done a great job, though. 

[00:01:56]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yeah. He's been outstanding. 

[00:01:57]  Donald Trump 
 Yeah. And they're leading now, right? Yep. 

[00:01:59]  Taylor Lewan 
 130. 

[00:02:00]  Will Compton 
 As you guys are watching, it is 130. Thursday night football. I have the under. It's looking healthy. It's in the second quarter, so that's great. Yeah. 

[00:02:07]  Donald Trump 
 So are you on live now? In addition to everything else? Cause, you know, congratulations. Your show. My son is saying, dude, you gotta do those guys. Those guys are great. You know, I have a son who's six nine. 

[00:02:16]  Taylor Lewan 
 Oh, for real? 

[00:02:17]  Donald Trump 
 How tall are you? 

[00:02:18]  Taylor Lewan 
 Six seven. He's got me by a couple. I saw the little look, too, like, he's got you. 

[00:02:22]  Donald Trump 
 He's like everybody. I say, how tall are you? I'm just curious now. He's, uh, tall, and he's a good boy. He's a good student. Very good student. 

[00:02:31]  Taylor Lewan 
 Well, we would not be here today without, uh, Dana White. We've established relationship with him. We've met you at UFC a couple of times. 

[00:02:38]  Donald Trump 
 Nobody like him. 

[00:02:39]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yeah, he's incredible. 

[00:02:41]  Donald Trump 
 Um, you always say that everybody's replaceable, right? I don't think anybody could do what he does. He's done that and, you know, built billions of dollars of value just because there's nobody that can. There's nobody like this guy. He's just a fantastic person, and he's so loyal, and I've known him a long time. 

[00:03:01]   
 I've known him a long time, and he's never changed. He's just an incredible guy, and he really understands that business. But I think he could probably do something else. Although his enthusiasm is so. I mean, he's going to a fight. It's like the first fight he's ever gone to. He's so enthusiastic. 

[00:03:17]  Will Compton 
 The energy he has is insane. 

[00:03:19]  Donald Trump 
 He's just. He's really. And he's, uh. He's called high quality. Right. There aren't too many around. He's high quality. 

[00:03:26]  Taylor Lewan 
 No doubt he is. He's a high functioning individual, and you two have similar traits in the sense that you guys are both willing to stand in the batter's box and stand up for what you believe is right. 

[00:03:34]  Will Compton 
 Ah. 

[00:03:35]  Taylor Lewan 
 At all times. So you guys have had a cool relationship. You had UFc, was on essentially life support, right? 

[00:03:40]  Donald Trump 
 Yeah. 

[00:03:41]  Taylor Lewan 
 And you were able to open the gates for him. 

[00:03:43]  Donald Trump 
 He, uh. They had a hard time, and the fertittas are great people. They had a hard time at the beginning because nobody would allow it because they thought it was so dangerous. And somehow I met Dana. I don't know. He called me, and he wanted. I have a great site. I have a site that was, uh, fantastic, actually. 

[00:04:05]   
 And Mike said, I didn't know much about it, and I said, let's see what it's all about. And I'm telling you, they were the most brutal fights I've ever seen. I said, you know, they may be right, it might be too dangerous. But they were unbelievable fights. And I stayed right till the end. 

[00:04:23]   
 I thought I'd go in for 15 minutes and watch and just pay my respects. Good luck, have a good time. Play sold out in 2 seconds. And, uh, I ended up doing, you know, numerous with them. I did like five or six of them, and then they got it going, and then it became just amazing. 

[00:04:38]   
 And then they got the ESPN deal, which I assume was a great deal. That was a great deal. And, uh. But the job he does. But at the beginning, I guess they had a hard time getting an arena. Nobody would take it because of the danger fact, and it has to be dangerous. 

[00:04:54]   
 But interestingly, they've never lost anybody in terms of death, and yet in boxing, you have quite a bit of it. And I asked Dana, why is that? I guess it's a little bit different in that sense. You know, it's not all to the head, but they've never lost anybody. Uh, nobody died in the UFC, which is shocking because when you look at some of it, when you look at. 

[00:05:16]  Will Compton 
 It, it has way more violent. 

[00:05:18]  Donald Trump 
 You'd say they have to like one a night should, you know, probably will no longer be with us. Right. But, uh, it's pretty good. But they really, they make it as safe as they can make it. But it is really something. It's great to watch. And we do the walk on sometimes, you know, where we walk into the arena together and it's crazy. 

[00:05:39]   
 That place goes. Those places go crazy. 

[00:05:41]  Taylor Lewan 
 The place does erupt. 

[00:05:42]  Donald Trump 
 Yeah, it does. 

[00:05:43]  Taylor Lewan 
 It does go absolutely wild. 

[00:05:44]  Donald Trump 
 It's pretty good. It's pretty good. Now, he's a. And I know he's a friend of yours, but he's very much into this. He's like a young person. He's so into this world, you know, you're into a world that's much different. I'm into the old world of like television, etcetera, etcetera. Uh, you get views. 

[00:06:02]   
 I looked at your numbers. Congratulations. That's a great success. You've done a fantastic job. 

[00:06:07]  Taylor Lewan 
 We do appreciate it. 

[00:06:07]  Donald Trump 
 But you're like a young person, you know, it's like, this is young person's. 

[00:06:10]  Will Compton 
 Television, but you've been, uh, you've been doing it for a while. Like, you've done podcasting, you've done streaming. You had an incredible episode on Andrew Scholl. Shout out to boy, Andrew. 

[00:06:18]  Donald Trump 
 I heard it was good. Tell me about it. It did very well. Yeah, it was really. 

[00:06:22]  Will Compton 
 It's still climbing. It's still. 

[00:06:24]  Taylor Lewan 
 I think in 12 hours, it was right around a million. 

[00:06:26]  Donald Trump 
 I said, that's all. 

[00:06:28]  Taylor Lewan 
 I mean, and it just seemed like you enjoyed yourself on that, too. 

[00:06:31]  Donald Trump 
 He did. He was very nice. Uh, every one of the guys, you know, they're young guys, and they're very different in some cases. And I said, what about these guys? Great athletes. They said, professional football players at one point, and great athletes, which I like. I respect that. I respect great athletes a lot. 

[00:06:47]   
 There's a reason you. It's not only the muscle. Right. We know that. So congratulations. Thank you. 

[00:06:53]  Taylor Lewan 
 The thing that's so cool about Schultz and these comedians is there the level of creativity you obviously did with Theo Vaughn, uh, as well. Have you, have you been able. Do you know about Shane Gillis? 

[00:07:03]  Donald Trump 
 No. 

[00:07:04]  Taylor Lewan 
 So, Shane Gillis, he's probably on a boy's probably the biggest community in the world right now. 

[00:07:09]  Will Compton 
 Yeah, he's up there, and he does. 

[00:07:11]  Taylor Lewan 
 A, ah, Donald Trump impression impersonation, and he's pretty fantastic at it. Well, does a great job. 

[00:07:16]  Donald Trump 
 Uh, I've heard great. No, I've heard great. I have heard great. 

[00:07:23]  Will Compton 
 Uh, why do you go the podcasting route? I feel like it's something you've leaned into again, all the pods and strings. 

[00:07:29]  Donald Trump 
 So it started off, and it may be a little bit to do with all of my sons. You know, they're young, and, uh, two are less young, but I have one that's very young, and this is a young world. You're in a young world. Right. And I've done a few of them, and they've done well. 

[00:07:44]   
 I did one with Elon. You know Elon. And I did one, uh, they call it, I don't know, they have some special names. But I did. Did you know I did a one on one with Elon Musk? 

[00:07:55]  Will Compton 
 It was on x, right? 

[00:07:57]  Donald Trump 
 It was on x, and it was unbelievable, actually. I think he had 750 million people with billions of hits. It was a crazy, it was just a. I don't know if it could be done again. But, uh, we did it. It was just him and I talk, and we went for about two and a half hours, and it got, uh, you know, world record stuff. 

[00:08:18]   
 I did one with Tucker. We did fantastically. We did one, um, I think he had that night. He had 281 million. We did it the night of a debate. We had a, uh, debate, republican party debate. And I didn't want to do it. I said, I'm not going to do it. I'm leading these guys by 70 points and 60 points. 

[00:08:36]   
 Why should I debate? I'm not a stupid person. Why would I debate six or seven guys that aren't stupid? They're not. They're professional politicians for the most part. And why would I stand there and do that if I have a 70 point lead? And so I did, uh, something with Tucker that same night, went against a debate, and he had almost 300 million people. 

[00:08:58]   
 Tucker Carlson, good guy. And, um, so, but this is a new world. It's, uh, changing, you know? Yeah, it changes very fast. 

[00:09:08]  Taylor Lewan 
 It seems like the world of, like, mainstream media is like, slowly kind of going away. There's so many different ways to access your information, whether it be TikTok or Instagram. And now it seems like more than ever, X Elon Musk is such a unique, uh, relationship that you guys have to me, because I think in 2020, he voted for, uh, biden, and now he's really done the 180. 

[00:09:28]   
 And you see a lot of these kind of bigger name celebrities doing a 180 and kind of being more supportive on your end. What is your guys relationship? 

[00:09:35]  Donald Trump 
 Great support. That's great. I mean, he feels that this is the most important election ever. He thinks the other side is bad. Bad people probably, uh, feels in many ways they're not competent. But he also feels that, you know, it's for democracy, et cetera, et cetera, and feels very strong. I mean, I'm not sure I've heard, and he said, I've heard him before I knew him, that he said he voted for Biden. 

[00:09:59]   
 I'm not sure that that's so, you know, I just find it hard to believe it. But he's an incredible guy. He's a brilliant guy. Uh, we had something the other night in Butler, Pennsylvania. You probably heard about it. We had 101,000 people show up, and Elon was there and he got up and he gave a great speech. 

[00:10:19]   
 And, uh, hes got a lot of things going. Hes got rockets, hes got cars, hes got the whole thing. Hes got everything. Hes got starlink, uh, which was very helpful in North Carolina. Biden, uh, reallyi mean Biden and kamala, if you can believe Kamala. How about the thing with CB's? Okay, tell me you heard about CB's, where they changed your answer and everything. 

[00:10:40]   
 Did you hear about, is this what. 

[00:10:42]  Taylor Lewan 
 You see outside the place? 

[00:10:43]  Donald Trump 
 It's the biggest scandal in broadcast. I've never heard. She did a very bad interview with them. It was taped and going live, but it was essentially taped. Like, if you tape a show and you put it on that night or the next day, and she gave some really stupid answers. And what they did is they cut those answers out and they put other answers in. 

[00:11:08]   
 And I think it's really, uh. I, uh, think it's a very bad act, probably a criminal act, but it's certainly election interference and license threatening. You know, they have licenses. And I just think it's one of the worst things I've heard. Think of it, she's on things. It's a news organization too. And I think 60 minutes is under the news umbrella. 

[00:11:33]   
 And they do an interview and she gives a bad answer and they give her. They take it out entirely. It's not like they did a little. I mean, they took the whole thing out and they put another answer from another question in there, which didn't make sense either. I mean, that was a lousy answer also. 

[00:11:49]   
 But nobody's ever heard of something like that. Mhm. 

[00:11:52]  Will Compton 
 That's why I think there's, uh, like the positives of you doing more long form stuff. People get to see you in a different light compared to how everybody clips up, tries to get the clickbait, tries to get the headlining stuff in the mainstream media. 

[00:12:04]  Donald Trump 
 I like doing stuff like this. You know, I like it. I like conversation. Uh, I don't seem to get myself in much trouble when she does it. Every time she does it, they say she's stupid. She's stupid. I mean, this is a. They tried to, uh, get away with her not doing it, which is always a bad sign, frankly. 

[00:12:23]   
 And, well, they did it with Biden. They kept him in a basement, but they were able to do that because of COVID You know, they could say, oh, he wanted to protect the. Then when I debated him, we had a debate that. Did you watch a debate with Biden? 

[00:12:35]  Taylor Lewan 
 We did. 

[00:12:35]  Donald Trump 
 Did you think he did well? 

[00:12:37]  Taylor Lewan 
 No, I would say the most. The world would agree he did not do well. Yeah. 

[00:12:42]  Donald Trump 
 So anyway, so they forced him out. It was like a coup. And then, uh, this is like, Dana would have a fighter, and the fighter's getting. Doing badly and they say, let's take him out and put a new one. And this never happened before. So they got him out and they put this one in and she was number 13 online because she failed already. 

[00:13:03]   
 She had, you know, she tried to get the nomination and she failed. There were 22 people and she came in last. She never made it to Iowa. And now all of a sudden, this can only happen to me, fellas. I have won. I spent $150 million to beat him, and I was leading by a lot. 

[00:13:22]   
 And then they take him out and they give me another one. That's never happened before. It was like a palace coup. And he doesn't like her. He hates her. I think he hates her as much as he hates. Yeah, I think Biden hates me. He hates me a lot, but I think he hates her maybe as much or more than he hates me. 

[00:13:39]   
 Is that possible? I don't know. Hard to believe, right? He can't stand her. 

[00:13:43]  Will Compton 
 Why are they just able to slide in a different candidate? Like, usually they're, well, I don't know. 

[00:13:48]  Donald Trump 
 They were politically correct. Uh, they wanted to do it that way. They were afraid not to do it that way. Um, they were catering to maybe something other than competence, and, uh, maybe they just wanted to do it. They wanted to be politically correct, and they did it. And then they said she'd have a six week honeymoon period, and that's what turned out. 

[00:14:13]   
 I mean, they had a little bit of a honeymoon period. And now she's falling badly because she's been doing interviews. She's falling because she's doing interviews. And the interviews have not been good. They have not been good. So we'll see what happens. But we're leading in all of the, uh, swing states right now. 

[00:14:30]   
 We're leading pretty good in all of the swing states, and we'll see. I think it's going to be a very successful campaign, I hope. 

[00:14:38]  Will Compton 
 Do you ever get, uh, like, now that it's getting closer, like, do you ever get nervous for when the day does come and all the votes start piling in? 

[00:14:46]  Taylor Lewan 
 The pre game jitters? 

[00:14:47]  Will Compton 
 Yeah, like the. 

[00:14:50]  Taylor Lewan 
 Last five minutes, and it's like we're playing music in the corner, we're a little nervous. 

[00:14:54]  Will Compton 
 Preparation. You've game planned, you've done the campaigning, and you start to get there and, you know, the national anthem's going. You start to get a little jitters. 

[00:15:00]  Donald Trump 
 In some ways, you don't want to think of it, right? Yeah, you know, I don't want to really even think about it. I don't. I just do. I go from day to day. I do what I have to do. I work hard. I'm a hard worker. Always been, uh, so I've gone, like, 36 days in a row with no rest, and I have, what do we have, 23, 24 days left, right. 

[00:15:21]   
 And I don't intend to take, like, a day off or two days off. You're running for the president. This is like, you're running for the Super bowl times ten. Right. And you're sort of all by yourself, but you have some good people you have some very professional people sitting over there, and I just feel a lot of people say, oh, sir, you should take a couple of days off. 

[00:15:43]   
 I can't take days off. I want to be in Wisconsin, or I want to be in Michigan. Today I was in Michigan. I did the, uh, economic club of Detroit. Detroit economic Club. And it was great how to bring back the automobile business, which has been stolen from the country. We can do it. 

[00:16:01]   
 We're going to do it easily. We're going to have a lot of automobile business, factories open and plants. We're going to open up a lot of them. So, I don't know. I find it very interesting. Uh, it's an all out run. It's an all, you would say it's an all out sprint, and it is. 

[00:16:18]   
 It's an all out sprint. We're sprinting to the finish line, and we're almost there. But we did great. In 2020. We did great, and it was a bad thing. Look, we had the COVID all over the place, and even people, officials were afraid to come. They didn't want to catch COVID You know, the whole thing was crazy. 

[00:16:37]   
 But, uh, I think. I think this, uh, time, I think we're actually doing better than we did in 2020. 

[00:16:42]  Will Compton 
 Something we like to ask, like coaches and players, when they get, like, a second opportunity in their career, in their profession, what do you feel like you've learned? How do you feel like you've grown from your first term? And also, what are some things that you look back on? Maybe there's situations to where you think, I could have done a better job with that. 

[00:16:58]  Donald Trump 
 Um, I think the biggest thing is I got to know a lot of people. So I was elected. If you look at presidents over the United States, over the history of our country, 92% have been politicians and 8% have been generals. So I was told, well, you got to be a general. You got to be a politician. 

[00:17:17]   
 You know, it makes sense, I guess. But I said, but I'm not a general. I'm not a politician. So I won, and I went to number one. You know, when I announced, because I was very well known as a business guy, people knew me. I did. I've done a great job in business, did a lot of great jobs, a lot of great deals, made a lot of money. 

[00:17:34]   
 But, um, I was known as a business guy, and I was known for the apprentice. I did a show called the Apprentice, which was a very successful show, and I had a lot of best sellers, some real big number one bestsellers, the art of the deal and others. So I was known, but I went, and as soon as I ran, I went to number one in the republican thing and did that and won. 

[00:17:58]   
 And then I went against a woman known as crooked Hillary, and she is one crooked son. Uh, and she was a professional, married to a president, popular president, a good president. And then, uh, I ran, and the COVID made, uh, things tougher because it was much tougher. But I did phenomenally. Otherwise I wouldn't have run this time. 

[00:18:29]   
 So I've won three republican nominations in a row. And, uh, now we have this final thing. And I think if it happens, it'll be the biggest victory in the history of the country. You know, I mean, it's a big thing because I think the country has to have it. We've gone through four years of hardship and, you know, they were asking me, fellas, what's the biggest problem? 

[00:18:53]   
 I really, you know, they say inflation and they say the economy and all that. I really think that in terms of the voters, inflation is a very big deal. But in terms of the voters, I think the biggest thing is the border. In terms of the election, I think it's the most important thing. 

[00:19:07]   
 I think women don't want to have, uh, migrant killers running around their backyard. You know? Uh, it's pretty simple to me. Yeah. 

[00:19:16]  Taylor Lewan 
 People obviously want to feel safe in their backyards. You mentioned all the, uh, amount of success you've had, whether in real estate, your best selling books, um, the apprentice, the show that was top of the charts for a very long time. What was. And there was an interview you did with Oprah. I believe it was like there was 89. 

[00:19:34]   
 Or she asked you, like, would you ever run for president? And you said, essentially, no, I wouldn't because it's a mean and nasty world. And I would only do that if it was in extreme circumstances. Uh, obviously, you end up running even three, uh, republican nominees. What is, what was the straw that broke the camel's back for you to be like, I've really got to put my name in the hat for America. 

[00:19:55]  Donald Trump 
 Two things. Trade. Because I saw as a businessman, I think I'm a natural, very natural businessman. Like, you guys are natural athletes. You're always the best at your sport, and you did well. I mean, in high school, you guys were dominant, right? And even in college, you were dominant always nobody. 

[00:20:11]  Taylor Lewan 
 You could say that. 

[00:20:12]  Donald Trump 
 You take a player at your level, in high school, you're in a different level. You know, you're just much better. You're much, much better. Okay. You could run right through that line, guys wouldn't even. Right. 

[00:20:23]  Will Compton 
 Allstate. 

[00:20:24]  Donald Trump 
 Yeah, no, I understand. I know how it works. And then it gets tougher and tougher as you go up. Right? 

[00:20:28]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yeah. 

[00:20:29]  Donald Trump 
 Then all of a sudden, they get bigger and faster. 

[00:20:31]  Taylor Lewan 
 And you say this ultimate equalizer. 

[00:20:33]  Donald Trump 
 Let me go back to high school. But, uh, no, you were always dominant in what you did. Um, and I was a good businessman, and I'm an athlete, too. I was always good at sports. I was always really good. Good. Golfer, good. Baseball player, good. I love sports. I always love sports. And, uh, it's sort of a microcosm of life. 

[00:20:51]   
 Okay? It's great. Athletes have something very special, and it's true like that in life, you have people. Some people win, some people don't win. It's very interesting. But I always looked at sports as a microcosm. And the nice part, it's fast. You know, you win or you lose with other things, like what I do, it takes years to determine is somebody a winner or not. 

[00:21:15]   
 And it takes a long time with sports. You, uh, win the game or you don't. And, uh, it's, uh, very interesting. Uh, but I really have always equated it very much with life, what you do, what you do as an athlete very much. And maybe it's why you show successful. Actually, people see it, and then you have people that like watching athletes on television, because I do. 

[00:21:39]   
 I do. 

[00:21:40]  Taylor Lewan 
 No doubt about it. 

[00:21:41]  Will Compton 
 You, on Andrew Scholz's podcast, you guys were talking about the art of the weave weaving in and out of, uh, conversations. What. What was the. The straw that broke the camel's back that got you in the game for politics? 

[00:21:53]  Donald Trump 
 Um, okay, so you were talking about trade things. I think trade, and I think the border, uh, the border was real bad, but nothing like this. The border was, by the way, the border was like 10% of this. Nothing like this. There's never been a. A border in history, in the history of our country. 

[00:22:09]   
 There's never been a border like this in trade, because I saw China and I saw other countries just ripping us off so badly. We have these massive deficits. We're not going to have them that long, because I'm going, um, to turn it around. We're going to turn it around. They've taken advantage of us, and oftentimes, it's our friends that took the biggest advantage, which is true in life, too. 

[00:22:31]   
 But I, uh, would say those two things. I would look at the trade, and I'd see these deals. That was so bad. And it actually started a long time ago with Japan. Japan. Before you guys were born, um, Japan was brutal to us in trade. And then they had a little explosion and they went away. 

[00:22:52]   
 They had a very. They had a real problem economically, and all of a sudden they were gone. Uh, other countries came in, but China came in in a big way. And, you know, to this day, and I had them pay billions of dollars in taxes and tariffs. They call them tariffs. And we did a good job. 

[00:23:12]   
 We had the greatest economy in history. We had the greatest, uh, we had the greatest job numbers in history. You know, we had the most jobs. And whether you were a high school student that didn't graduate, no diploma, or you went to MIT, Harvard, the Wharton school of finance, Stanford, no matter what school you went to, um, and no matter what degree you did well, including if you didn't have a degree, if you were a woman, if you were a man, if you were black or asian or hispanic. 

[00:23:44]   
 Everybody, every single group was doing better than they had ever done. And, uh, so I think we're going to do it again. But I think, ah, again, as I say, I really believe it's going to be the most important election in the history of the country. Important election, because we're a failing nation. 

[00:24:02]   
 We're a nation that's in decline. It's a very serious decline, and it's got to be fixed. And if it's not fixed, we're not going to have this country any longer. 

[00:24:13]  Taylor Lewan 
 You talked about, uh, your love for sports, your love for athletes, and obviously, uh, you pride yourself on your golf game. What other sports growing up were you heavily invested into? 

[00:24:24]  Donald Trump 
 So I was a very good, uh, baseball player, actually, in high school. 

[00:24:28]  Taylor Lewan 
 What position were you playing? 

[00:24:29]  Donald Trump 
 First base and sometimes catch it, but basically first place, first base, good field, a good hitter. And don't forget, it wasn't like your stuff. You know, it was high school, but we played very good teams. We had a lot of good, very good players, and we did well. Um, I was, uh, you know, it's very interesting. 

[00:24:50]   
 Anything with a ball and it's hand eye, right? If you told me gymnastics, we had a class, gym, I was the worst. I was the worst. You know, it's funny, I had friends that were great, and yet, if you threw a ball, it would hit him in the face. You'd say, yeah, they couldn't catch a ball, but they could do circles. 

[00:25:10]   
 Uh, that was the craziest thing. Do you understand that? 

[00:25:12]  Taylor Lewan 
 Isn't it wild how some athletes are so great at one thing, but you tell them to do something different and it just. 

[00:25:17]  Donald Trump 
 Well, I see it even in golf. I'll play with somebody that's a star athlete. Like, great. Even some of them with the ball eye hand type coordination, and they won't be good golfers at all, and they never will be. 

[00:25:32]  Will Compton 
 That's us. 

[00:25:33]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yeah. I'll tell you, you see my practice swing, though? You're like, man, this. This guy can maybe really hit it. 

[00:25:39]  Donald Trump 
 And that thing is, see, you have a good practice. I know. 

[00:25:42]  Taylor Lewan 
 And every golfer ever golf with is always like, listen, man, you get better clubs, you get longer clubs, you'll be just fine. And it's like, no, it's nothing. 

[00:25:48]  Donald Trump 
 You know, you can't go more than an inch. 

[00:25:50]  Taylor Lewan 
 Oh, really? 

[00:25:51]  Donald Trump 
 Yeah, yeah. If, um, you go more than an inch, you're very tall, but, uh, if you go more than an inch, it's too tough to control. Believe it or not, you can go an inch, but you don't want to go much more than that. It's interesting, but, um. Do you hit a long ball? 

[00:26:06]  Taylor Lewan 
 If I hit it right? 

[00:26:07]  Donald Trump 
 Yeah. 

[00:26:07]  Taylor Lewan 
 But usually it's just like, that's taking me out. No problem. 

[00:26:12]  Donald Trump 
 Who's the longer hitter? 

[00:26:12]  Will Compton 
 I honestly, I don't think we played enough, but I think I would give it to myself. 

[00:26:16]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

[00:26:18]  Will Compton 
 Probably hit at 230, if you will. 

[00:26:21]  Taylor Lewan 
 Can have golf. I'll take every other sport. 

[00:26:22]  Donald Trump 
 Yeah. It's funny, though, but I meet people that are unbelievable athletes, but they can't play golf. I meet baseball players that could hit a hundred year, hundred mile an hour fastball, but they can't hit a golf ball that's sitting on the grass all teed up and ready to go. Ah. 

[00:26:37]  Taylor Lewan 
 Just waiting for them. 

[00:26:38]  Will Compton 
 Being an avid sports fan, you made a run at the bills in 2014. 

[00:26:42]  Donald Trump 
 I did, I did. 

[00:26:43]  Will Compton 
 How close. 

[00:26:43]  Donald Trump 
 How close were you to the owner who got it? Is a very good man. I think he's done a great job. Well, he made a great pick. He picked a great quarterback. Right, Josh? But, um. No. I bid a billion dollars, and I put up a letter of credit, and I thought I might get it because it was in Buffalo, which was having some troubles in terms of a place, and he bid 1,000,000,004 or a billion 450. 

[00:27:11]   
 So it was $400 million more. It wasn't. I don't think it was a very serious room, but I gave him a guarantee of a billion, so that's always serious. 

[00:27:19]  Taylor Lewan 
 That sounds quite serious to me. 

[00:27:21]  Donald Trump 
 And, um, he paid a billion for. And he was in the oil business, and he's got a daughter who's a great tennis player. You know, it's very unusual that that happens. He owns a team, but his daughter's a top three or four or five tennis player. She went to the finals of the last major, whatever that major was. 

[00:27:37]   
 I watched so many majors. But, uh, and he's a very nice guy. I think he's terrific. I think he's done a great job with that team. Um, he drafted a quarterback who was going to be the number one draft pick, and then he said things on the Internet that weren't good. You understand that? 

[00:27:56]   
 And he said, and they passed him. I don't know what. He got drafted maybe number eight or nine or something. 

[00:28:02]  Taylor Lewan 
 I think he might have been eight, nine or ten. 

[00:28:04]  Donald Trump 
 What do you think? Do you have a fact checker over there? 

[00:28:06]  Taylor Lewan 
 What was, we don't deal with what was Josh. 

[00:28:09]  Donald Trump 
 We kind of, was he number eight or nine or something like that? And seven. Uh, so there are six teams that are saying, ah, you know, they fire their scouting system. Right. But he's a great. Do you rate him as a great quarterback? 

[00:28:25]  Taylor Lewan 
 Oh, he's very good. 

[00:28:27]  Donald Trump 
 And he's not like, he's an exciting quarterback, too, but he's a great one. And, um, so he was going to be number one, and then they found things that they didn't like, and people passed on him for that. And then, so number seven was the bills. Pretty sure it's number seven, right? And number seven was the bills. 

[00:28:47]   
 And he picked him and he took him around on an apology tour for a day, and he ends up with one of the best quarterbacks, which is pretty good. The funny thing is, you never know how a quarterback's going to turn out, though, because you see people that have a zero chance of failure and they don't do well, and then you see, like we're talking about with San Francisco, right? 

[00:29:06]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yeah. 

[00:29:06]  Donald Trump 
 Was he very good in college? Was he rock birdie? 

[00:29:10]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yeah, he was good. 

[00:29:11]  Donald Trump 
 He was good. 

[00:29:12]  Taylor Lewan 
 But Iowa State? Yeah. I think he just had, it was kind of like a Tom Brady situation where he, there was a lot of guys that were people thought were better than him, and he just, like, didn't have the arm or didn't have the speed or didn't have the accuracy. It's always, I think, when you get into the sport of the NFL and the scouts, they tend to nitpick way too much and they'll talk themselves in or out of anything. 

[00:29:32]   
 That's when you see, like, influence from the draft as it goes. Like, some guys may be a top 15 pick and all of a sudden, two weeks before, it's like this guy might go one overall and he ends up going one overall. So you just see people talking themselves in and out of things. 

[00:29:44]   
 But obviously the kids got incredible talent. 

[00:29:46]  Donald Trump 
 The, uh, all time great of that was the great Lou Gehrig, right? You know, was it Wally Pip? Wally Pip. 

[00:29:52]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yep. Came out just a little bit. 

[00:29:55]  Donald Trump 
 Wally pip, right? So Wally Pip said a long time ago, it's a long time since I've told this story, but Wally Pip Washington, a very good first baseman. He batted like 280. Great fielder. And one day he wasn't feeling well. He said, coach, I just don't feel well. I'm not feeling well. I won't be able to make it today, coach. 

[00:30:16]   
 The coach looks over at the bench. Takes an 18 year old kid who actually came out of college. He went to Columbia, takes an 18 year old kid who's sitting there and he said, louise, take over first base. And okay, coach. He goes out and he got like, first game, two home runs, a single and a double or something. 

[00:30:39]   
 The next game, you know, just. He ripped the hell out of it for three or four games. 

[00:30:43]  Taylor Lewan 
 Cleared out of his mind. 

[00:30:44]  Donald Trump 
 He had like five or six home runs. The coach said, well, I've never seen anything like this anyway. Well, he gets better. Said, coach, I'm ready. 

[00:30:54]  Will Compton 
 Job wasn't there. 

[00:30:55]  Donald Trump 
 He looked at him. He said, I'm sorry, Wally. You know what Wally said? I thought you'd say that. 

[00:31:03]  Taylor Lewan 
 Really? 

[00:31:04]  Donald Trump 
 He understood. Yeah. I mean, it was Lou Gehrig, but who knew, right? But it was Lou Gehrig. It was just a young guy out of college. He didn't. I don't think he played in the minor leagues. He came out of college. It was a little different. It was a long time ago. But I always say to people that, like, uh, people that, uh, give up their position for a day or two to somebody else because they have to be at a wedding or they have to be somewhere. 

[00:31:30]   
 I say, remember the story of Wally Pip? 

[00:31:33]  Will Compton 
 Because even injury, too, it's like a saying is your best ability is availability because you could be injured. And then the next time you come back, the guy behind you never know. 

[00:31:44]  Donald Trump 
 The ultimate example of that was, didn't he play like 2900? He, he played the most games ever or something. And, you know, he was. And then he got, then he got sick. Very sick. 

[00:31:53]  Taylor Lewan 
 You talk about guys, obviously, you know, stepping out of the game for a moment and their job being taken. You're talking about this long strip, this, this sprint. You have to the election. How are you finding time to rest when you can? Because it seems like, I mean, talking to Dana, he tells me about your schedule, how you're, you know, three in the morning, you're here, and then you're going over here. 

[00:32:12]   
 You're just, you're jumping all over the place. Where do you find time to rest? 

[00:32:15]  Donald Trump 
 Um, I really don't find too much time to rest. Look, the way I look at it is that. And you have two opinions on this. Some people would. She rests. Kamala rests. In fact, she's almost resting all the time. She does very little. She takes days off. And I'm not knocking that. You know, that's another, I guess you. 

[00:32:36]  Taylor Lewan 
 Gotta get your 8 hours. I'm an 8 hours guy myself. 

[00:32:38]  Donald Trump 
 He is cranky. 

[00:32:39]  Taylor Lewan 
 I get moody. 

[00:32:40]  Donald Trump 
 I'm less than 8 hours. But, um, you can't, you know, you got, what do we have, 23 days? But I've been going for, like, a lot. You know, I haven't, I don't know what it is, but 30 something days, and I, um, don't intend, I was telling the guys, I said, you guys already, because we're gonna, this is a sprint. 

[00:33:04]   
 And it's amazing because you start off at four years and then you have to run and you have to go through primaries and stuff, and you have to get that. And it's a big deal. I've gotten three in a row, right. That's never been done before, you know, three primaries in a row. 

[00:33:20]   
 It's never been done before by anybody but FDR. Right. I guess FDR did the four time thing, but that was before they had the cap. 

[00:33:29]  Taylor Lewan 
 I get my information off Instagram, but they were saying, like, it takes like, $98,000 a year. 

[00:33:35]  Donald Trump 
 Yeah. 

[00:33:35]  Taylor Lewan 
 Just to live a, ah, you know, middle class life. 

[00:33:39]  Donald Trump 
 Do you like Instagram? 

[00:33:40]  Taylor Lewan 
 I do. I enjoy it. Yeah. I like to, I like to scroll, click a couple hearts, put some likes out there and stuff like that. It'll just consume you, though. There's, there's, there's a lot going on there. 

[00:33:51]  Donald Trump 
 When I first saw I was president and I got to be president, I had a lot. I started with Twitter, and then I, uh, sort of liked it. I didn't even do it. I sort of dictated it, you know? Then I said to the guy, like, how do you do this? And he showed me, and I sort of liked it. 

[00:34:09]   
 I liked the little, whole thing, and I got sort of good at it, and I put it out, and all of a sudden, I had, like, 190 million people. And then on Facebook, I did even better. And then I was on Instagram, too, and, you know, and I was. I had hundreds of millions of people. 

[00:34:30]   
 And Mark Zuckerberg came to the White House, who I like much better now. I actually believe he's staying out of the election, which is, you know, nice. But he called me up after I was shot, and he said, uh, that was so brave, which was nice. I didn't feel it was brave. I felt like, you know, I just wanted to get off the ground. 

[00:34:50]   
 I didn't like it. I knew I was shot in the ear. A lot of the Secret Service didn't think so. They thought I was shot all over because there was blood all over the place. The ear bleeds more. Did you ever get a cut in the ear? 

[00:35:00]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yeah. 

[00:35:01]  Donald Trump 
 It doesn't stop. I will tell you from personal experience, and I do, actually, I have respect for Elon a lot, because Elon, and by the way, he's another one that respects Dana white a lot. He respects him a lot. But Elon is a different kind of a guy. What he did is he bought something that was run by the radical left lunatics, and he opened it up. 

[00:35:26]   
 You know, he made it for people, not necessarily conservative. He opened it up. He made it fair, because I'll tell you, it wasn't fair when we were there, they didn't even want a, uh, conservative voice on. I don't know if you guys. How you feel about that. I don't know your politics too well. 

[00:35:44]   
 I know your sports better than you. 

[00:35:45]  Taylor Lewan 
 Feel like having the ability to speak how you want is important. 

[00:35:48]  Donald Trump 
 Yeah. It's free. And he did that. And what he did is a great. I don't know how it works out financially for him. He's rich, and he can do what he wants to do, but he opened it up, and, you know, that's such an important thing that he did. You got to hand it to him. 

[00:36:05]   
 He's really an incredible. He's like this incredible guy. He said today, uh, that he's actually campaigning for me in Pennsylvania. 

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[00:37:15]   
 Back to the episode make America great again. Would you say that involves, um, the Nebraska Cornhuskers winning a national title? 

[00:37:24]  Donald Trump 
 Well, how are they doing so far? 

[00:37:26]  Will Compton 
 Ah, right now we are sitting with a good record of five and one week right now. We're getting well rested. We got Indiana next week. I think we can take care of business there. 

[00:37:34]  Taylor Lewan 
 Good ball club, Indiana. 

[00:37:36]  Donald Trump 
 You know, I love Nebraska. Great, um, people. I won the state, uh, by, I don't know, like, 20 points a lot. You had a great football coach for many years who was a silent person. Very unusual, right? You know who I'm talking about? 

[00:37:55]  Will Compton 
 Is that Tom Osborne? 

[00:37:55]  Donald Trump 
 Tom Osborne, yeah. So Tom Osborne was a great coach, and he was a silent coach. Uh, is he still living? 

[00:38:03]  Will Compton 
 Yeah. 

[00:38:04]  Donald Trump 
 That guy was a good coach for years and never not a rah rah coach, just a total professional coach. I wonder what he was like in real life, because, you know, it seems so unusual. Right? 

[00:38:17]  Will Compton 
 Yeah. 

[00:38:17]  Donald Trump 
 Uh, but they would just be brutal. And they had a good. And then all of a sudden, they went back. You know, they just. When he wasn't there, they didn't do so well. But now they've gotten, you know, they've gotten better. 

[00:38:29]  Will Compton 
 We did decent run from zero eight to 20, 1314. 

[00:38:32]  Donald Trump 
 Well, it's always going to be decent, right? 

[00:38:34]  Will Compton 
 Yeah. 

[00:38:35]  Donald Trump 
 But because it's sort of a natural. 

[00:38:37]  Taylor Lewan 
 To get the monkey off their back. Finally getting to a bowl game. 

[00:38:40]  Donald Trump 
 When did you guys play in college? 

[00:38:42]  Will Compton 
 2008 to 2013. 

[00:38:44]  Donald Trump 
 I was in Nebraska. Yeah. Oh, that's good. 

[00:38:47]  Taylor Lewan 
 I was zero nine to 13 at Michigan. 

[00:38:49]  Donald Trump 
 Wow. 

[00:38:50]  Taylor Lewan 
 But I was at Michigan in the dark days. 

[00:38:53]  Donald Trump 
 What position did you play? 

[00:38:54]  Taylor Lewan 
 Left tackle, offensive line. 

[00:38:55]  Donald Trump 
 Wow, that's great. So how much heavier were you then? 

[00:38:58]  Taylor Lewan 
 I was. I'm about 255. Five now is 310 then. 

[00:39:01]  Donald Trump 
 No kidding. Um, man, that's. Why. 

[00:39:04]  Taylor Lewan 
 Did you ever live? What's that? 

[00:39:06]  Donald Trump 
 You decided you wanted to live, right? 

[00:39:08]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yeah. Honestly, I didn't know. When you get. When you weigh that much, you don't realize how much you feel it in your knees and your back and everything like that. And then you start to. The weight starts to come off, and you're like, I had no idea. 

[00:39:19]  Donald Trump 
 You don't see that that often. Where. Cause I know a lot of linemen. I know a lot of lot of players. I know. What position did you play? 

[00:39:26]  Will Compton 
 Linebacker. 

[00:39:27]  Donald Trump 
 That's good. I bet he was good, right? 

[00:39:29]  Taylor Lewan 
 He was solid. I mean. Yeah. A classic white linebacker. Gritty, hardworking. 

[00:39:34]  Donald Trump 
 So you would say that Lawrence was the best. 

[00:39:37]  Will Compton 
 Uh, yeah. Especially rushing the passer on the inside, probably. Ray Lewis, Luke Keekley. 

[00:39:42]  Donald Trump 
 Yeah, Ray Lewis was good. 

[00:39:44]  Will Compton 
 How do you feel about the new Green Bay? 

[00:39:45]  Donald Trump 
 Had some great ones, right? 

[00:39:47]  Will Compton 
 Yeah. How do you feel about the, uh, new kickoff rule? 

[00:39:49]  Donald Trump 
 I think it's terrible. Yeah, I think it's terrible. What are they doing now? College hasn't done that. 

[00:39:56]  Will Compton 
 No. College is still the same. 

[00:39:57]  Donald Trump 
 And do you think they will do it? 

[00:39:59]  Taylor Lewan 
 I hope not. This is, to me, there's something about. 

[00:40:03]  Will Compton 
 To follow the NFL, I think feet. 

[00:40:07]  Taylor Lewan 
 They don't do 2ft on a catch. They. They have, like, different sets of rules. They have different overtime rules. They've had that for a long time. 

[00:40:13]  Donald Trump 
 I think the 1ft is a good idea. 

[00:40:15]  Taylor Lewan 
 I like the 1ft. 

[00:40:16]  Donald Trump 
 You know what? It's too complicated. The 2ft. I mean, if you didn't have slow motion, you, uh, know, replay where you see everything perfectly. I mean, yeah, it's amazing. In the old days, they didn't have that. Guys were they 2ft out, and they would go, it's sort of great to be able to do that, but. 

[00:40:31]   
 But 1ft is so much. It's so, so much simpler. Unless you have cameras, in which case it doesn't matter that much. Yeah, I like the 1ft much better. Would have 1ft in college, right? 

[00:40:41]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yeah. 1ft in college. Two in NFL. The thing that I love about, like, the old kickoff rule is, like, if you think about every Super bowl, the slow mo of them kicking the ball, of all the cameras going off and all the players running downfield, I feel like that's such an iconic move for the NFL. 

[00:40:55]   
 And now that's dead. 

[00:40:56]  Donald Trump 
 Uh, so, uh, I haven't been. I've been sort of busy. I haven't been able to watch too much football, in all fairness. And if I did, I'd be, you know, it would be a dereliction of duty. Do you understand? I'm supposed to be running. I can't watch too much football. But I just saw it the other day and I was amazed by it. 

[00:41:14]   
 To me, it's ugly. It's actually ugly. It's not football. Do you like it or do you like it? 

[00:41:19]  Taylor Lewan 
 No. 

[00:41:21]  Will Compton 
 Players. Because ultimately they're not doing a whole lot but for entertainment. And the old, same style of football. 

[00:41:28]  Donald Trump 
 They'Re saying it's dangerous because the hitting is pretty fierce when you're running that far. Right. You're running into. 

[00:41:32]  Will Compton 
 Right, right. So they're basically lining guys up five yards of. 

[00:41:35]  Donald Trump 
 Yeah. But somehow it's, you know, it's supposed to be football. And I played football too. I didn't particularly like it. 

[00:41:40]  Taylor Lewan 
 What position were you? 

[00:41:41]  Donald Trump 
 No, I didn't like it. I played tighten, tight end. 

[00:41:44]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yeah. Kim blocked. 

[00:41:46]  Will Compton 
 You had some hands. 

[00:41:47]  Taylor Lewan 
 We got Delaney Walker. 

[00:41:48]  Donald Trump 
 I could catch them all. Good. But I didn't particularly like having some guy that was lifting, uh, weights all day long and came from a bad neighborhood. 

[00:41:57]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yeah. 

[00:41:59]  Donald Trump 
 And he sees me and they were tackling hard, you know. And I had a quarterback without much of an arm throw the ball. It wasn't like, but, uh, this wasn't high quality football. But I didn't like it too much. I love baseball. 

[00:42:13]  Taylor Lewan 
 You talk about your, like your childhood. We are. This is the shirt I'm wearing right now. This is Spooktober. And it's like, for us, it's like the kickoff to the holiday season. Halloween, October, all that. And the Trump household. As a kid, was your family big on holidays? 

[00:42:27]  Donald Trump 
 Yeah, yeah, I was, uh, my father loved, my mother loved, they had a great marriage. They were married for many years. That's where he beat me. He beat me on that. I said, pop, I'm m not going to catch you. M, I'm not going to catch you all. 

[00:42:41]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yeah. 

[00:42:41]  Donald Trump 
 Great marriage, great wife, great husband. But, uh. No, it was, it's so funny. I see my guys going crazy over here. So I said to them, listen, I've been doing this stuff since 630 in the morning, so we'll do this one quick. I thought I'd be with you guys for maybe. I said, maybe we'll do it for four or five minutes. 

[00:42:59]   
 And I go, I found this. So this is great. This is what they call long form, right? 

[00:43:04]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yes, absolutely. 

[00:43:05]  Donald Trump 
 It's cool. It's better than like, you know, boom, boom, boom. And you go, but no, I thought, right, fellas? I thought I'd be here for just a short while. These guys are great. I could do it for hours. I could do it for hours with them. It's now a lot of people you meet, even for interviews, and you wouldn't feel this way, you know, you want to sort of get out of there, right? 

[00:43:28]   
 And I wasn't in the mood to do this. I've been, I just left the economic club of Detroit. I made a two hour speech, then I left Maria Bartiromo, she gave me a, what, 1 hour at least interview. And then I said, okay, is that it for the day? No, you're going to meet a couple of young, handsome athletes. 

[00:43:45]   
 They said, one of them is six foot seven and the other one's just a pure good athlete. 

[00:43:51]  Taylor Lewan 
 I said, I said the other one. 

[00:43:55]  Donald Trump 
 Let me ask you, I said, let me ask you, zero. We want to do it tomorrow or something. Anyway, no, this was, this was, uh, we had a lot of fun. I had a lot of fun with you guys. 

[00:44:04]  Will Compton 
 You know, we appreciate it. If I could ask one, if I could ask one more question, then I. 

[00:44:08]  Taylor Lewan 
 Will do one more as well and then we'll. 

[00:44:10]  Will Compton 
 Because the country feels very divided right now. Yeah, I know people are going to watch this episode. There's going to be a lot of people that love it. I know. Even personally, like, I'm going to have people that are going to be disappointed in it, which is unfortunate. 

[00:44:23]  Donald Trump 
 This episode. 

[00:44:24]  Will Compton 
 Yeah, I think majority will love this episode. 

[00:44:26]  Donald Trump 
 I think so. Vast majority. They're going to say he, he's such a nice guy. 

[00:44:30]  Will Compton 
 Yeah. 

[00:44:30]  Donald Trump 
 Everyone says when I do these things, they say he's so different than I thought. He's such a nice guy. I'm actually not a nice guy, but I'm actually, I, ah, think I am a nice guy, actually. But, uh, no, I think they'll think it'll be interesting. I'll tell you one thing, you know what you're going to do? 

[00:44:49]   
 You're going to get the highest ratings you've ever had. And I don't know why. I have no idea why, but that'll happen. You know, I did Gutfeld. He's great. He's a great guy. And he got his highest ratings in the history of his show and he had the number one show of the week. 

[00:45:04]   
 You're going to get high ratings and I don't know why. But you'll let me know what your ratings are, right? 

[00:45:09]  Will Compton 
 Absolutely. 

[00:45:09]  Donald Trump 
 Do you have a thing, is yours called ratings or is it called hits or numbers? It's like how many people are watching? 

[00:45:17]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yeah, absolutely. 

[00:45:18]  Will Compton 
 We interrupt this episode to bring you the locker room, our newest show this football season. If you're into the boys and you're into football talk, this is the show for you. We do all of our sports gambling, all of our sports talk to preview the weekend. Our first half of the episode is going to be NFL. 

[00:45:32]   
 Our back half of the episode is going to be college football. Here's a little spicy trailer to get you excited. They're favored by six and a half at home, the over unders, 49 and a half. I know they're both slow rowing offenses, but I'm telling you, I love the over this week. 

[00:45:45]  Taylor Lewan 
 Can I tell you something? You sound fucking stupid. 

[00:45:58]  Will Compton 
 Again. That comes out this Thursday at 06:00 a.m. every Thursday at 06:00 a.m. with myself, Delaney Walker, and Taylor Lawan, where we break down ball, we talk ball, we talk bets, we talk everything in between. But again, the locker room every Thursday at 06:00 a.m. back to the episode. But, uh, knowing that this division, it feels where it's at, the temperature in America, like, if you're elected in November, like, how will you look to unite everybody through your communication, your behavior? 

[00:46:24]  Donald Trump 
 That's a great question. That's a quick question. Um, so you want to see the country united, but we have, like, two very different. You have a very conservative side and a conservative side, and then you have people that want to see an open border and things. I mean, you know, I don't. A lot of it's so far out. 

[00:46:41]   
 Like, for instance, they want men playing in women's sports. I don't think I could ever say I'm thrilled about that. Okay. I've seen it. I've seen people really hurt. In the Olympics, you had two boxes that transitioned to women, and in the women's boxing, they both won gold medals. And you saw the one, the young italian girl got hit a couple of times. 

[00:46:59]   
 She said, oh, I'm bye bye. 

[00:47:02]  Will Compton 
 She should have stayed in the ring. 

[00:47:03]  Donald Trump 
 No, the whole thing. Huh uh. 

[00:47:04]  Will Compton 
 She should have stayed in the ring. 

[00:47:05]  Donald Trump 
 Well, it was sort of weird, right? 

[00:47:07]  Will Compton 
 Yeah. You fight your entire life for that moment. You know, going into it, you're probably gonna face. 

[00:47:12]  Donald Trump 
 It was a weird thing. I mean, she got hit very hard and only with lefts, you know, poom. And she then walked back to the corner. She said, I just got hit by a horse. I can't take it. And then she walked back. You're right about a little bit, right? But she's fighting a man. 

[00:47:28]  Will Compton 
 She is fighting Donald, you know? You know, like, if you train like all you think about, like there is no tomorrow. Like everything we train for. Doesn't matter what they throw at you. You're going in the ring. You're going to win. 

[00:47:39]  Donald Trump 
 Yeah. 

[00:47:39]  Will Compton 
 You get hit with just a couple jabs. Yeah, she might have been hit hard. I'm sure she's been hit harder since you see it. Yeah, yeah, I was watching. 

[00:47:44]  Donald Trump 
 She got hit. Beautiful girl. She got hit by two jabs was the end of. 

[00:47:48]  Will Compton 
 Yeah, she stepped out. 

[00:47:49]  Donald Trump 
 Uh, that's interesting. So, in other words, she should have gotten the shit knocked out of herself. 

[00:47:54]  Will Compton 
 No, she could have got in there and scrapped and go. 

[00:47:55]  Taylor Lewan 
 Will want to see blood. 

[00:48:03]  Donald Trump 
 And just get the hell beat out of her. 

[00:48:06]  Taylor Lewan 
 Will has seen the Italian. 

[00:48:09]  Will Compton 
 The italian stallion, but she had a beautiful face. 

[00:48:12]  Donald Trump 
 She wants her on the floor bleeding profusely. Broken nose. It'll never be the same again. Scar down the face. You're a tough guy. He's a tough guy. 

[00:48:21]  Taylor Lewan 
 You should hear some stories. 

[00:48:22]  Donald Trump 
 She might have done the right thing, and I'm not one that says that she might have, but anyway, so. No, but the two guys, there were two of them, and they both won a gold medal. How about the weightlifting? You know, records haven't been broken for, like, years, and they put an 8th of an ounce and another 8th on the. 

[00:48:37]   
 And, you know, the girl, uh, can't do the whole thing is ridiculous. Okay, let's get back to your question. Right? Yeah. 

[00:48:47]  Will Compton 
 Phenomenal. Weaver. 

[00:48:51]  Donald Trump 
 Hey. 

[00:48:51]  Taylor Lewan 
 Honestly, I didn't know you were gonna come back to it. 

[00:48:53]  Donald Trump 
 Yeah, but, uh, I have to do it. Otherwise they'll say, maybe, you know, you always have to come back. What happens is that, uh, I think that we have to have success. If I. When I was running the country, we had, uh, by the second and a half year, like, two and a half years, three years, just before COVID came, we had the most successful country in history ever. 

[00:49:21]   
 This country was doing the best, best numbers in every category, no matter what category, including employment and everything. And I was getting called by people on the radical left that I would never have ever thought wanting to see me because everybody they knew was working. Radical left people had jobs making more money than. 

[00:49:41]   
 And I'm telling you, the country was. Then we got hit by the COVID stuff, and we had to go back to work. But, uh, everybody was working. Everybody was successful. They had great jobs. They were making more money than they ever made. Everything was good. And I'm telling you, the country was coming together. 

[00:49:59]   
 Okay. Despite the fact that, you know, what we were saying before about the divisions? Like, how do you have open borders? Some people, I dont think a lot of people like it, but some people do. But the country was coming together. If you would have asked me that question before this, I would have said, uh, its sort of two countries and you just have to work it out. 

[00:50:22]   
 But ill tell you, I experienced unbelievable success leading the country just prior to Covid. Numbers at the stock market was at an all time. Everything was like perfect and the country was coming together. So now I can honestly answer that question, say, success will bring the country together, you know? 

[00:50:42]  Taylor Lewan 
 Um. Mhm. 

[00:50:43]  Donald Trump 
 Okay. See, we got right back to that. 

[00:50:45]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yeah, that was beautiful. 

[00:50:46]  Will Compton 
 Yeah. 

[00:50:47]  Taylor Lewan 
 Um, we have a, uh, guest question, and it comes from a gentleman named Jordan Roos. So Jordan played offensive line. I played with him at the Tennessee Titans. He's a massive fan. So this is a two part question for you. I'll let you hold that. You want to just press play on that? 

[00:51:01]  Donald Trump 
 Okay. Press the middle right. 

[00:51:03]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yep. 

[00:51:04]  Donald Trump 
 He's a handsome man. 

[00:51:05]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yeah. 

[00:51:07]  Donald Trump 
 President Trump, huge fan. My name is Jordan Roose and my question for you is, what has allowed you to be so resilient? Uh, considering all you've been through, whether it's the weaponization, uh, of the justice department, attacks on you, your family, censorship, uh, to assassination attempts, what has allowed you to be so resilient and to fight? 

[00:51:29]   
 And my guy, my other question, I gotta know, uh, what's the most amount of weight you've ever bench pressed? Well, bench press, you know, I don't want to tell him because, uh, if I tell it, it's not much. I don't think so. I don't think it's too much. I don't. It's never been my. 

[00:51:47]   
 I'd have to. Let's do it sometime. Next time we'll meet. We'll start lifting weights. 

[00:51:51]  Taylor Lewan 
 We'll bring a bench press. 

[00:51:52]  Donald Trump 
 Is he live right now? No. 

[00:51:53]  Taylor Lewan 
 That's good, because. 

[00:51:59]  Donald Trump 
 Thank you very much. I appreciate it. He could bench press a lot. 

[00:52:04]  Taylor Lewan 
 He's an absolute house, there's no doubt about it. He's a dense human being. 

[00:52:06]  Donald Trump 
 He was a great player. 

[00:52:07]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yeah. Gritty player. 

[00:52:09]  Donald Trump 
 Did he go to the NFL? 

[00:52:10]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yeah, he played for, uh, Purdue. Boilermakers went. Played for Seattle for a little bit. Uh, came to the titans. 

[00:52:16]  Donald Trump 
 Well, he looks like a great guy. So his question, essentially, you're very resilient. How do you basically take it? Because I have been through a lot more than, I think, more than any president, and tell him that it was always Andrew Jackson, they said was the one who was most, uh, abused Andrew Jackson. 

[00:52:33]   
 He was a good president, and he was a great general, but he was a good president, too. He, uh, was very abused. So much so that his wife died very, very young, and she died because of heartache, of what he went through and what they went through. And the second was Abraham Lincoln. 

[00:52:50]   
 But, you know, he was in a little thing called the civil war. Right. But he was very badly abused. And now I think they probably say Trump blows him away, if you want to know the truth. Um, I think the answer, because a lot of people do ask me this question. How do you take it? 

[00:53:07]   
 How do you take it? How do you get up in the morning? They actually say, how do you get up in the morning and go to work? They're always after you. They want to indict you. They want to put you in prison. They're animals, okay? They're animals. They're sick people. I have a guy named. 

[00:53:20]   
 I call him deranged Jack Smith. I mean, he was put out there. This was the weaponization of justice. And probably it's the first time it's happened. Uh, I don't think I'd be as popular if it didn't happen, okay? Because I explain it to the public. It's not pleasant, but I explain it to the public. 

[00:53:39]   
 And I said, here's what happened. And they know it's true. They go after me to try and hurt me politically so they can beat me in an election. And its actually had the opposite effect. Its made me more popular. Its actually made me more popular. And just tell Jordan. I try not to think about it, the way he phrased the question. 

[00:54:03]   
 I just say, screw it. Whatever happens, happens and do the right thing. You know, I see guys at golf who are in sports, but they want to drop a three putter. They try so hard, and in the end, it's like. It's really unattractive. Uh, and then you watch some other guys, like, do you ever see Lee Trevino play golf? 

[00:54:27]   
 He loses a goose or some other. Just bing goes. Um. I try to take it less seriously than I should. I should take it more seriously. But if I do, if I did that, I don't think I'd be with you guys today. I really don't. Uh. I, uh, fight very hard. And I'll also fight nasty, because you have to. 

[00:54:51]   
 Because these are sick people. These actually people. I think a lot of these people are sick. The people that do what Jordan is saying. And he's no fan of theirs, either. I can tell you I love him because he's like so many of our people. That's the attitude. There's spirit and there's tremendous love. 

[00:55:08]   
 But, um, I try to be very loose and just say, it doesn't matter. You got to do what's right. And I get through it pretty easily. Uh, I'll tell you, it also helps, I think that it's made me much more popular. I don't know that I'd be this popular. I mean, I'm leading. 

[00:55:27]   
 I beat all the republicans easily, very easily. I mean, in record time, right? Record fashion. M and the indictments came, and all the problems came from Biden and Harris. She was a prosecutor. She probably used whatever talent she has, which isnt much. And she would come after me over nothing, over documents that Biden turned out to have a problem. 

[00:55:55]   
 And I won the case. And come after me when I explained to the public, and I would have a news conference, and I would explain it in great detail, and they would believe me. They understand. It's not even a question of believing. They would believe me. But just tell him I really appreciate him because I have so many people that I respect that are just like him. 

[00:56:16]   
 Um. Um. You have to just fight your way through it, and you cannot let it get you down. You have to just fight like hell and don't let it get you down. And try not to take it. It's serious. It's very serious. Try not to take it so serious that you become immobilized, because I've had friends that have gone through far less, and they become basket cases. 

[00:56:41]   
 Uh, and you don't want that to happen. 

[00:56:43]  Taylor Lewan 
 We appreciate your time today. 

[00:56:45]  Donald Trump 
 Thank you very much. 

[00:56:45]  Taylor Lewan 
 Thank you for sitting down with us. As much as, uh, you've been traveling around and stuff like that, taking this hour, that has been awesome. We really do appreciate it. 

[00:56:53]  Donald Trump 
 A couple of boys with us. If these guys weren't driving me crazy over here, I'd stay for another 2 hours. You guys. Yeah, two interesting guys. And that's why you're doing so well. You're doing great. 

[00:57:03]  Taylor Lewan 
 I appreciate that. 

[00:57:03]  Donald Trump 
 And my son says hello. My six foot nine son says, yeah. 

[00:57:06]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yeah, just two inches taller. 

[00:57:08]  Donald Trump 
 You guys are two, uh, yeah, he's. 

[00:57:09]  Taylor Lewan 
 A little taller than business. 

[00:57:11]  Donald Trump 
 I'll look at some guy I say, my son's stolen. That's crazy. Have a good day. 

[00:57:15]  Taylor Lewan 
 We appreciate. Thank you so much. 

[00:57:16]  Donald Trump 
 Good luck with your lives. 

[00:57:17]  Taylor Lewan 
 Thank you. You as well. 

[00:57:18]  Donald Trump 
 Do it again sometime. 

[00:57:19]  Taylor Lewan 
 Yeah, absolutely. 

[00:57:20]  Donald Trump 
 That's great. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. 

[00:57:25]  Taylor Lewan 
 Do we want to, uh.