Batya Ungar-Sargon

He said that he was invested in protecting the dreamers, especially the ones who are older and middle aged and contributing a lot and have good jobs. And he said that he was not interested in any kind of retribution. He said, again, our success will be our retribution. He said he's not going to get involved in Pam Bondi's work or in Kash Patel's work. He's going to let them do their jobs.

I mean, these were real headlines that, of course, nobody pointed out. As to immigration, I think you're totally right. You know, the... Homan is so the perfect man for this job because he could care less what anybody thinks about him. He is an unbelievable patriot and feels that it is his job to protect the American people. And honestly, Megan, Trump is very sensitive to the headlines.

He's thinking ahead about how to sort of preempt them, how to protect himself from those accusations from the unfair media. But I got to say. He was given a mandate by the American people to do exactly this. And the media has lost all credibility because in opposing him in the most dishonest and vitriolic way, it was revealed on November 5th that they were opposing the American people.

Their hatred for Donald Trump was revealed for what it is, which is hatred for the American people. And so when the media stands up and says, look at this racism, look at this cruelty, how dare they try to deport these lovely families, the American people are going to say, hey, that's me you're calling racist. I voted for this.

And so I think we're going to see a really different relationship between the administration and the media. And if we don't, it is the media who's going to suffer, not the administration.

You know, I was struck by how succinctly the president-elect summed up his mandate.

Well, he didn't go after Hillary Clinton the first time around, right? We have a record. That's what's so insane about all the accusations against him. We were all there. It was four years ago. They act like that never happened. It's so ridiculous. I honestly think Donald Trump only cares about two things. He cares about no more wars. He hates war because he thinks it's wasteful.

And he wants an incredible economy that will lift up the working class, hardworking people who work and work and work and can't get ahead. He really, those are his priorities. That's what he cares about. He really wants the people in his cabinet to do what they view as the mandate given by the American people so that he can focus on those things.

The idea that he's on some sort of revenge tour is so, so ridiculous. And you know what, Megan, it's just a pure projection. Every accusation from the Democrats is a confession. They spent four years waging revenge against Donald Trump for beating Hillary Clinton. They tried to put this man in prison for the crime of trying to elevate the American working class.

It is they who are hellbent on revenge. It is they who have politicized the Justice Department. It is they who think that they are above the law. I don't know if you saw this, but Biden apparently is planning mass preemptive

pardons, meaning for people who have not even been yet accused of anything, suggesting that if you are elite enough in the Democratic Party, you cannot even be accused of a crime or indicted for a crime or investigated for a crime if you are close enough to the Biden family. I mean, it just it is this from the so-called defenders of democracy. So I think that this is all just pure projection.

And I really believe that Trump has no reason not to be this magnanimous version of himself going forward, given the support and the mandate that the American people have given him. He truly is a leader. He is a reflection of what Americans want. And he was that before they knew that in 2016, when we were a little bit more divided around these issues.

So I think it's going to be a great four years.

The reaction online is also just such a reinforcement of how much aesthetics, attractiveness, I mean, like the shallowness of the American people, the American people who are online, we'll say, is very much on display here. Part of, yes, there's absolutely a bubbling anger about the inequity in the country writ large and in the health care system, no question.

But so much of the clips we were watching at the top of this segment are driven by the fact that this is this is an attractive segment. We've got to drop the banner to show why. And it is deeply troubling that we are celebrating this person who's committed cold-blooded murder because, you know, he clearly went to the gym.