In hour 3 of The Armstrong & Getty Show at The Republican National Convention:
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty arm Strong and Jack Katie.
And now He Armstrong and Yetdy.
Live from Milwaukee Republican National Convention. Though, seriously, because this happened, Katie, I want your opinion on this too.
I'm in the bathroom and Lee Greenwood is in there.
If I had started humming, you think you'd like, let's start singing a little bit. You think you had joined in with me and we'd have had like a little bathroom singing thing going. The reverb is great in the bathroom, right you guys would have sounded terrific.
No, we just had this conversation like a couple of weeks ago about humming and singing in the bathroom is bizarre.
Don't do that. Greenwood's in there.
Does it?
Matt probably creaked him out more, probably happens to him all the time.
You know, one of the great and mailed them. Kittie. You may not be available.
Aware of this is that there's talks to the guy in the next general guy, and there's the police.
Don't talk to me guy.
That is all true, But this is a different sort of brush with greatness. You can try to make Lee Greenwood break in a song as he pease, Lee, I really like You're na sureth wow, so lame.
So that is that is a hallmark of this show.
Conversations at the very highest level, like we had with Lanhitchen just a few minutes ago about pulling data and whatnot, and then that dumb joke there. Yeah, well anyway with you guys, nobody else on the media, Oh thank you, mister president. We've got more of Joe Biden and Lester Holt, which if you didn't see it, so Biden did that interview with ABC News, it was bad.
His interview with Lester Holt was ten times worse.
And he's not getting talked about much as far as I can tell, because of the shooting and the convention and everything else that's going on. Or everybody's just like, yeah, we know his brain don't work. Yeah, we factored that in. Well, let's you know, the most astounding thing about the revelations they're not revelations if you've been paying attention, but the quote unquote revelations of the president's declining mental faculties is how little it has changed the poles it's baked in.
I saw. Oh, here's a tip for you, Katie.
Well, you're married, Nan, you're you're you're faithfully married and stuff like that, so you don't care about this sort of thing anymore. Here's how you tell if a guy's got big arms, because I've noticed this with some of the Secret Service dudes. If your arms fill out your suit jacket like you, if the sleeves on your suit jacket are tight on your arms, you have got big arms.
I've seen lady.
The ladies call that a nice build.
I've seen a couple of Secret Service guys where you can tell their suit jackets are tight on their arms. Even Yeah, I would have to get mine custom made. Wait a minute, Wait a minute. You want the body to be extra large, but the sleeves to the extra what from arms to legs? I saw the harriest legged women yesterday I've ever seen in my life. Do tell the protesters outside the building were it's some sort of hippie strip club or oh no, no protest? It was some of the uh various groups protesting on behalf of Hamas. Yeah, up with Hamas, Down with America, go to hell, scumbags, and uh, I wish my legs were that.
Hairy about Harry legs.
That's all right, mister prisider. Yeah, I saw a big marches.
I was heading back to the hotel for a while, and it was the usual kafias and geeks and losers and the idiots. But my favorite, my favorite sign was ban bombs, not books. I'd like to engage that person conversation for a second. Okay, so you're gonna ban bombs, Well, that is a delightful notion if you're eight years old, But for the rest of us, what's national security going.
To look like? Please?
The mic is open? Explain? And then the not banned books? How about porn for children?
Are we? Are we okay?
Banning pornography for children in the school library?
Again, Mike is yours explained?
Well? Also the signs that that's say because I saw him yesterday transfer Palestine. I mean, I assume they know this, but I'd like to hear their explanation or their answer. If you were in Palestine right now, they would murder you before the day was.
Over, right. Yeah.
When I hear stuff like that, and I haven't run personally into somebody saying that anytime recently. But I mean it's akin to saying to me, my dog told me yesterday. I did not know exactly how to respond. I suppose I would, but I would be ready for inane babbling. So we have some breaking media news that is actually more important than just the media. Yeah, nobody gives a damn about Mourning Joe, really except inside the Beltway, where everybody cares intensely about.
What Morning Joe has to say.
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brazinski and we talked briefly yesterday about the fact that they weren't on the area yesterday.
Instead, they just went with like NBC news calls.
I wanted to tune them in right away, having learned that the morning show on MSNBC sets the.
Tone for the Biden White House.
They all watch it every single day and they take their cues from what are the important issues of the day. And also I wanted to see Scarborough's take on the shooting, since they've had some really divisive rhetoric about Trump for a long long time. He's a threat to democracy and we'll ever have another election again if this guy's elected, which is we keep pointing out justifies any behavior. I mean including violent action. And they weren't on the area yesterday and I thought, how convenient. Well, the rumor was throughout the day that NBC pulled them off the air because they were worried what they or some of their guests, because they got a panel like six people with them every day, what some of the people on the show might say.
NBC was worried about what.
Some of the people on the show might say. There was pushback from the Scarborough camp saying no, no, no, no, we just took the day off or something.
Oh you had it for us, Katie.
There was a claim that it was just their extended convention coverage, NBC's extended convention coverage, including not having Scarborough, and I called BS on that right away. I mean, you don't take off the number one show on your network, most profitable, most influential. They could cover the convention. You don't need different conventional government of course, Yeah yeah, I mean, in fact, any other choice but them is bizarre on MSNBC, as you're saying, so. Scarborough and his coast co host Little Mika address situation today accused MSNBC of lying to them about replacing the show with breaking news coverage of the fallout from the Trump assassination. If MSNBC does that again, Scarborough said he is a quitting He said we were told to know on certain terms that Sunday evening, that on Sunday evening that there was going to be one news feed across all NBC news channels yesterday.
That did not happen.
In other words, they just foed them off and put something else on. Wow, I'm surprised he didn't fight that anyway. Wait a second, you're taking us off to have the same cover jummer every channel. We're the most popular thing on NBC. So evidently on air today, Mika tried to shift the conversation after they addressed the situation, said we weren't on yesterday, blah blah blah. I'll tell you one thing Mika knows is that he once he gets going, you can't stop it.
Oh she understands that complete Yeah.
So anyway, but Scarborough cut her off as he always does, and she puts up with that as his wife on television, and.
He threatened to quit.
The network of executive has canceled the program on false grounds, pointing out the network did not cancel all commentary on Monday, blah blah blah.
Wow.
You know again the significance of this, the ultimate significance is but in terms of disarray and dissolution of democratic and liberal politics. I mean, everybody's mad at everybody. I'd just say inside media if we were taken off the air after a major historical event because they're worried about what we might say, I thank goodbye, seriously pissed.
Off, right, yeah, yeah, indeed tell me if I'm wrong.
It's like if you and your spouse significant other are getting a really nasty argument and then your guests who are coming over come over, and every conversation is just fraught with tension. I feel like every conversation is fraught with tension among Democrats at this point, and how could it not be.
As we were discussing with lanhi Chen, the.
Biden hanging in the race situation is just brutal and will continue to get worse again because of the inevitable one direction of how these neurological difficulties go. While at the same time, as lnhe Chen pointed out, the Republicans have not been more together since George W. Bush first term. You have Tucker Carlson and Nicki Haley at same conventions.
What the hell?
Well it's and again if you missed Lon He's conversation with us last hour Gravitfia podcast, Armstrong and Getdy on demand our two Right, I've got too many times ones in my head. But he was talking about how interesting it is the way coalitions come together, whether the Reagan coalition or the Obama coalition or what have you, throughout history, and how they hang together for a while and they never last forever.
Some are stronger than others.
But that there is absolutely, undoubtedly a Trump coalition coming together, and it is not exclusively Trumpy at all.
It has a good deal of overlap.
But like any political coalition, there are some somewhat surprising bedfellows. Wait a second, are you wearing a different sports jacket today than yesterday? I am You brought more than one sports jacket?
Did?
I packed incredibly efficiently? How many did you bring?
It was eleven down two.
I'm wearing the same jacket every day. I that's a good jacket. My inshirt and underwear I brought. Lord Now, I brought different shirts, but I wear in the same jacket every single day.
I did.
Why you packed a Jack, How do you pack a jacket without it being all wrinkled up? Fold it neatly, then roll it. Okay, yeah, it's all about the rolling. This is a pricey jacket. I don't think I would ever roll it up. What It doesn't look that pricey where you're concerned. People would say, yeah, isn't that the same jacket you were yesterday? You know, my beautiful bride was somewhat concerned because it's a fairly distinctive jacket.
Yeah sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yea, yeah, I'm looking jacket. Thank you. It might be nice to mix it up a little bit.
So yeah, and again it was my most efficient packing of my travel career.
As a guy who cares about how he dresses. That is the problem with bold.
If you go bold, it leaves an impression and people notice it when you wear it again, right, and you know that, don't you care?
Anyway?
We accidentally both wore pink shirts today, canne Oh yeah? I was going to claim we were like the log Cabin Republican show, which is the prominent gay Republican group, where both were in pink today. We got to go be on some gay show somewhere.
They just have to be and why not? And why not? I'd be fine. I don't care.
It strikes me a theme we've hit many times. One of the great things about being a conservative is we're allowed to disagree with each other.
And there is a.
Pretty broad spectrum of people that come together, not in a quest for raw power, which I think not everybody, but a lot of folks on the democratic side ought to hate each other.
They don't just for power.
I think among conservatives there is a fairly broad swath of limited government, although with the new populace Trump wing that's changing a little bit. But limited government, phone regulations, lower taxes, that sort of thing. And look, if I disagree with you about Ukraine, let's talk about it.
I don't know where JD. Vance is on a whole bunch of different.
Topics actually, so that that will be interesting to see how that plays off. Of course, what the Vice president thinks about stuff doesn't really matter. As JD. Vance said yesterday in a great interview with Hannity. Yeah, man, we've got a lot of great audio we haven't played today. Maybe we'll hit that on the way back. And JD's Vance's well, there's a bunch of positions that the Left claims he has that he doesn't actually have. Right, So there's that whole angle too, And we need to talk at some point more about the moment last night when Donald Trump came in the arena, bandage on his ear, crowd chanting and singing, and Donald Trump looking seriously emotionally affected by it, and he just had an aura of calm and wisdom. I don't know how else to describe it about him. If you saw it, you know what I'm talking about. If you don't, you're probably scratching your head. But speaking Trump and Vance when we come back, if you have not heard JD. Vance's story of what happened when Trump called him to offer him the VP slot, Oh, yeah, to hear this will play it in moments. Yeah, that's a side of Trump that the left never wants you to hear about.
That's all.
On the way Live from Milwaukee, Armstrong.
And Donald Trump officially becoming the Republican presidential.
Nominee for the third time.
It came just minutes after Trump announced his running mate, first term Ohio Senator JD.
Vance.
Trump both the news to Vance just twenty minutes before he told the world, Hey.
At thirty nine years old.
Vance would be one of the youngest vice presidents in American history. Elected to his first term in the Senate just two years ago. A Marine who served in Iraq, Dvance then graduating from Yale Law School. Vance once had tough words for Trump, but the senator says Trump's performance in office proved him wrong.
That's an understatement. He once had tough words for Trump. He called Trump Americas Hitler, Wow, what are you gonna do? It's a rash moment. That was a surprisingly even handed report from ABC News.
I appreciate that. Yeah, we need to get more into JD.
Vance's life story, which, if you're not familiar with it, is truly amazing and truly American. In the limited time we have, though, I want to dive right into a couple of clips. JD talked to Hannity very shortly after he was named the veep. First beard at the time of the ticket since ween Jack eighteen ninety two. It's a great moment for beards. Anyway, Roll forty two. This is so charming.
When the President called me today, it actually formally offered me to become, you know, the vice president's nominee, which just sounds crazy. My son, my seven year old son will sort of making noise in the background, and you know, I've getten so embarrassed.
It's like, oh my god, Donald Trump's asking me to Be's vice.
So the phone rings and he calls you, and you're like, Okay, this is the call, or maybe not.
The call, or maybe it's a bad call. Right, it's the call.
Who knows whether it's good or bad. But then he actually has me put my seven year old son on the phone. You think about this, everything that's happened. Guy just got shot at a couple of days ago, and he takes the time to talk to my seven year old.
It's a moment I'll never forget. That is something handed. He almost stepped on the best part of the story.
But that is.
A side of Trump that definitely the left doesn't appreciate or understand well.
And some of us on the right too. It's funny.
We had a listener write in email the other day, shoe, we get that your ambivalent about Trump.
You don't have to say that all the time.
And the truth is we have new listeners all the time, thank god, And so I'm kind of setting it up for them that were not like just trumpy right down the line anti.
Trump, oh nor anti Trump right exactly.
I have run into so many people who know him personally who say, seriously, man, everybody in his orbit likes him a lot. The Trump behind the scenes is a guy you would like and admire.
So much, and I believe it. I don't doubt that a bit. But he's a complicated human being.
He's also a guy that sat in the White House while they were storming the Capitol and beating down cops, did nothing and trying to hang Mike Pence. I mean, so yeah, unforgivable. What are you gonna do?
One more? Jdvans Club?
I think the experience that maybe most Americans would care about. It's not that I spent two years in the Senate, and I think I've had a.
Very successful two years in the Senate.
It's like came from nothing, became a United States Marine and succeeded in business. That's the experience that I think gives you a fresh perspective.
Why do you think Trump picked JD. Vance because he likes him and respects him and wants to work with him. It's not an electoral consideration. You know, nearly the worst consideration if you take that sort of thing seriously at all.
I had somebody bring up to me yesterday.
People usually pick a Canada that is going to balance the ticket with elector bring you a state that I'm like, what are you talking about?
What year is this? Yeah?
Yeah, I just thought, you know, for suburbs and folks who are still uncomfortable with Trump, they get somebody who's a little more establishment, a little more That's what I thought, polite, et cetera. Although JD. Vance again, he is a brilliant man. He will strike the tone that needs to be struck. Goodness knows, and again we'll get to his life story in full. But he has adapted to difficult circumstances.
He can adapt to this.
We've got more of Joe Biden the Lester Holt interview, which was ten times worse than the Stephanopolis interview.
If you haven't heard it, stay tuned, Armstrong and Geeddy to go back and.
Listen to these things JD. Man said about Trump. Wait, he said something about you. Yeah, Oh he said something that I meane. But see what he said about Trump. That's with you guys.
Come on, man, Biden has had enough with the right wing bias of mainstream media. He's not gonna put up with it anymore, always covering up for Donald Trump as they've done since twenty fifteen. Right, right, guys of Trump conservative messaging. That's what NBC is known for.
Howcome you guys never cover this stuff?
Saturday Night Live did like five seasons worth of shows mocking it.
Right But anyway, so we've got Joe Biden being interviewed by Lester Hold of NBC News. It was significantly worse than Biden's performance with Stephanopoulos is getting covered up, which is helpful for Biden by the convention.
In the in the assassination attempt.
You mentioned it earlier, the body language was you don't hear it in the audio, but it was terrible. It was an angry old man on the edge of his seat, looking like he wanted to leap up and ring down blows.
He found a veteran newsman. He also had that.
And I don't want to sound like I'm joking about this or mocking it because he can't help, but it's horrible. But he also had that Parkinson's mask thing happening. That happened that he had at the debate. The waxy expressionless face and yeah, yeah, boy, it's measure how desperate the Democrats are that they're hanging onto this guy instead of making the switch. But anyway, having said that, we have more clips, Yeah, let's roll.
Why don't you guys ever talk about the eighteen to twenty eight lies? He told? Where are you from? This whind?
The presser talk about that? I had a bad, bad night. I wasn't feeling well at all. Day man, I had been making I screwed up.
But I mean, I just asked a question because the idea that you may or may not have seen what some of these other folks have seen.
You're not on the same line.
I'd have to say I was there. I had to see it. I was there.
By the way, seriously, you won't answer the question, but why did the press talk about all the lies you.
Told about that?
We have We have reported many of the issues that you had debate.
No, you hadn't. It will provide you with them. God love you.
Okay, wow, wow you believe that? I mean that is unbelievable. Yeah, we've reported on what you're doing. No you haven't, No you haven't, No you haven't.
I'll provide them for you, you crazy old fart, and he's thinking, wow, just the concept that the mainstream media has been soft on Trump is right?
Are you serious?
And that was not political spin, that was no, you haven't, No, you haven't, which is an absurd allegation.
It's as absurd if you're left you.
There is not a liberal in America who is thinking, yeah, he's right, they've really given trumpet pass for the last ten years.
Holy crap.
Really, And one reference Biden made in there is because Lester Holt asked brought up the Stephanopolis interview and said, George Stephanopolis asked you if you had watched the debate and you said you weren't sure.
Have you watched it since then?
I mean, that was a hell of a thing because Lester Holt didn't have to bring that up again.
He could have phrased it differently.
Right, yeah, but I've watched clips of it. I think you missed the point of the question, which kind of answers the question.
Right, All right, we got one more? Right, yep.
He talks about to be a blood bat if he loses, talking about how he's gonna forgive all the actually, I guess to spend the sentences of all those who were arrested and sentenced to go to jail because of what happened is in the capitol. I'm not out there making fun of like remember the picture of Donald Trump one Nancy Pelosi's husbands hip of the hammer going talking about joking about it.
This doesn't sound like you're turning down the heat though you've talked about it.
No, no, no, no, look when I'm turning down we have to stop the whole notion.
Okay, So we've brought this up several times today to make sure because not all you maybe understand this, uh, because you don't spend your life watching the news like we do.
So that whole bloodbath thing.
Donald Trump was in a conversation about the electric car industry in our competition with China, and he used a common economic term that if we do certain things, it will be a bloodbath economically for.
The car business. Common expression.
Bring it up, you know, look it up, google it, whatever you want to do, common expression. The fact that Joe Biden is pretending that Donald Trump was threatening political violence if he loses is an outright lie. And now he's saying it after an assassination attempt when he's claiming, he's trying to call him the rhetoric I mean, that is as disingenuous and unpatriotic, as awful as anything I can imagine out of a sitting president of.
The United States.
That's Joe Getty's number one rule of socio political thermodynamics. People don't make crappy arguments because they're saving the good ones for later. That's all he's got is crumb will cause a bloodbath. But given the fact that we just had an assassination within forty eight hours, that that is outrageous. Yeah, I can't be offended because the guy's senile. It is outrageous, it's horrible, and it's stupid politics.
So you got too options.
He either understands it, which is outrageous and just all the things I said, or he doesn't understand it. Shouldn't be president right now. So here's our favorite clip for dessert. You know what, one more course before we get to dessert. Michael, that sounds like me, let's have another helping.
Of will with you.
It's another dessert before you have dessert. Man's got a problem anyway. Clip thirty is the one I wanted, Michael. Here is and I'm going to set it up in advance so you can kind of appreciate it. Lester Holl's asking him about his whole bullseye comment, and Biden keeps referring to you. I didn't say crosshairs, which is a very strange and inexplicable response. I would be willing to bet heavily that his advisor said, Look, they're going to ask you about that. You've got to say we got to put these districts in the crosshairs.
Is worse.
You've got to make it clear that those crosshairs comments. But Joe Biden, because he's senile, bungles it completely.
On a call a week ago, you said it's time to put Trump in the bulls eye. There's some dispute about the context, but I think you appreciate.
What I did say, cross hairs.
I was talking him focus on Look, the truth of the matter was well, I guess I was talking about as the time was, there's very little focus on Trump.
Yeah, the term bullseye, it was a mistake to you. I didn't. I didn't say crosshairs.
I've been bulls I'm focus on it, focus on what he's doing.
I'm blest old At that point, I say, dude, you make no sense. I know you didn't effing say cross hairs, bulls. I've said that twice. Now I'm sorry, mister president beery incomprehensible. Yeah, wow, you didn't say target either, or one undred other words.
All right, can we focus? Focus?
With all due respect to mister president, I have no idea what you're saying. What's your point? It is so off the charts. Okay, now dessert, now dessert? Here he goes dessert.
What happens if you have another episode like we saw during the debate?
What happened?
What happened?
What happens if you have another performance on that par on that level.
I don't plan to have a lot for us.
I don't plan I'm having a forest on the level that first one though. First, what is that? That's like words tumbling down a hill? Can we hear that again?
What happens if you have another episode like we saw during the debate?
What happens?
What happens? Oh God?
For us? First he is it's like you stack words at the top of the stairs and you push him off and they roll down the stairs.
And what's funny is not an old man babbling.
It's that he's the president, which isn't really funny either.
Now.
That and the fact that he's the candidate.
For the presidency for the Democratic science hilarious. The fact that he's the sitting poetus is terrifying, or at least it should be.
It's like he's saying a word and then he just gives up right in the middle of it, doesn't want to finish it.
That is that might be his worst.
That might be his worst thirty seconds of all the crazy things he said so long, long time ago. Occasionally Jack and I would not exactly know how to end a segment, and we dwell in as a seminema. It was just our joke to each other that you could have ended that cleaner. He ended with a seminema. He actually threw a seminema out there. First part again, one more time, just the first part.
What happens if you have another episode like we saw during the debate?
What happened?
Whoa that makes him a bustin' wet?
Seemed coherent at least he announced true, but an international to pressure Oh my god, wow, Well that's what they were playing clips of this n CNN last night, and man Axelrod and Van Jones in that crowd and Jake Tapper were just like, this guy can't win, Oh right, so we can now serve this term. That is the part that is still left out. I wonder if some point we turned the corner from he can't win, shouldn't run, to he shouldn't be president.
Today you're hearing voices.
You know, on our side of the aisle saying that, but it is not yet spread like a wildfire.
If he has a I was gonna say, a worse moment.
I don't know how much worse you can get verbally, but he's only you know, a little ways away from I think then the left also saying he shouldn't be president now right, and we get Kamlin needs to be president, which I mean, politically speaking, is a one in one hundred shot. I would say getting the old man over the finish line is a one in three one hundred and fifty shot. So that might be a good idea to, you know, go purely cynical politics. Have the quote unquote incumbent for a cup of coffee be running. They were talking about at the beginning of the interview, having another debate. I mean Joe Biden seemed to imply that, yeah, there'll be that. That September debate's gonna happen. Really, Oh that reminds me. You gotta give me the horse clip. Lester Holt asked him if he wants to have another debate, does he want to get up on the horse, to get back on the horse.
Do you know which number that was? Yeah? Thirty one?
Is there is there a sense of wanting to getting back on the horse.
I'm on the horse.
Where are you?
Ben?
I've done twenty two major events, overwhelming crowds.
A lot's happening. I'm on the horse.
I'm on the horse.
Look at me, big leather saddle, I'm learned boots.
Where are you guys?
Been?
What are you doing?
I'm on a horse, four hoves, clip clop.
Nay, nay.
I'm on the horse at his head and gallonhead. Where are you?
A pin?
Jack?
Malarkey?
I'm wearing a fringe jacket.
Look, I'm on the horse's swanting away flies with his tail. I have the reins in my hands.
You guys wear are your pen? I didn't forty two offence on my horse?
Where are you?
I'm herding cattle. I'm jumping four wheel fences. I'm on my horse.
He's his notes. He'sinating when I sitting on him. I'm on the horse. Come on, he's sleep standing up on my horse.
Right, let's go to Bregg. Go on, get out of here.
What's with you guys?
Come on, man, we're right next to Clay and Buck, which they're the biggest thing in radio, right, all of radio, are you?
Yeah?
Pretty damned arguably, especially based on their guest list that they got coming up. They got all the Trump kids coming on and they're right next to us. So if you don't know them, they're the inheritors of Rush Limboss network. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So they got the Rush Limbaugh Network and they're on all these stations and they're sitting right next to us, and they're gonna have all the Trump kids on this next hour, I guess. So we'll see them floating through and we're going to try to grab them if we can, but they'll be And so one of the I forget which one, but our executive producer Hanson got the card from.
One of the Trump kids.
Yeah, Eric yah, And the card has got the information on the front on the back.
It says please do not contact me.
I've never seen a business card that says please do not contact.
The Oh that's interesting. What the hell does that mean?
Hey Hanson, let's take one of our mics, stick it over there, and then we'll go Doug Stephan and edit our voices onto the conversations with the Trump kids for later in the week that.
We interviewed them. Yeah.
Hey, a couple of big things that we have not talked about today because we've had some great guests and frankly too much silliness. Elon Musk, shortly after the shooting came out full throat in the lay endorsing Donald Trump, which that alone is an amazing deal. Notable and nine runs the powerful platform that is Twitter and is the richest man in the world fully endorsing uh Donald Trump, and has committed forty five million dollars a month. If it was just forty five million dollars would be extortaine per month to a super pac that's back in Trump. I mean that is whoa well, is it Elon individually or Elon a couple other guys, It doesn't really matter, but yeah, forty million, forty five million dollars a month, for turnout, for the legal ballot harvesting, for fighting the you know, using the same weapons that the Democrats have been using. According to this is, several tech loguls are also contributing.
So Elon's portion is pretty five million.
Wow.
Yeah, I mean that's and that's its own interesting conversation. You know, if it's for the side that you want to win, you get excited. But if it were for the other side, you'd be thinking, Oh, Ian Brimmer is is talked about, you know, some of these tech giants and their ability to sway elections. You know, if Google decides to get full throatedly behind something, can you stop it?
Right?
Zuckerberg may have in twenty twenty and and and and had a big effect on that election. I mean, so now now Elon's doing the same for the other side. And is that good or bad? It's just free speech, I suppose. And Laura, what are you gonna do? So I mentioned Joe Lonsdale several days ago, I guess it was last week. Is he's a tech guy and an entrepreneur, and he is staunchly reasonably conservative and hates the way Silicon Valley has, for instance, tried to straddle the line between the United States and I know, and he's been preaching forcefully against that. Well, he's ponying up millions of dollars as well. As are the Winklevoss twins of the social network? Are they the two fat guys riding motorcycles from the Guinness books. No, that's the McCrary twins, I believe, as I recall from my childhood.
No, these are the red haired fellas.
Are the twins from the origin of Facebook, right, they were there at the beginning on the college campus. But this is something I mean, if the race were like Tide and Joe Biden was at his sharpest, which is admittedly not all that sharp anyway, this would be a game changer at least well yeah, game changer, not like completely, but significantly with the weakness of Biden at this point and the advantages of Trump and the unity of the Republican Party.
I mean, this almost feels like end Zone dancing to me. But the right.
So we've talked a little bit about the moment last night in the hall where Trump came out bandage deer Lee Greenwood singing crowd channing USA and then starts channing Fight, Fight, Fight, Trump seemed to have tears in his eyes and looked like a guy affected by the moment in a way I've never seen him ever. And this is not some sort of starry eyed Trump loving thing. I was sitting there as a bitter cynical media hack watching it unfold. He had a dignity about him that I have not seen me. I agree, And a friend of mine texted me last night who happens to be a religious fellow, and said, what if this is Trump's road to Damascus moment? What if he realizes how rough he's been to people, has had a genuine change of heart, and is now more humble and contrite.
Do you think that's possible. I've been saying for a long time.
I don't think Trump understands the power that he has as the potus, and that some of his rhetoric is out of line because he doesn't understand how it can move people in a way that it doesn't as a TV personality or developer. I think he might understand that better now. But we'll watch that unfold. Yeah, we'll certainly have an idea on the speech on Thursday, which we will definitely be in the hall for that one, because that is going to be something else. Armstrong and Getty show here all week for the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
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