Newt Gingrich
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148 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jun 2025
Newt Gingrich’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If you look at who he's been picking for key jobs, starting with Vice President Vance, he has a clear sense of the entrepreneurial energy and drive and toughness that he wants throughout the whole government and of the kind of America that he thinks we have to become if we're going to be great again. So I've never seen anything like it.
I think if he can continue it for four years and if he can win the 2026 election, then I think he's going to be in a league just below Washington and Lincoln and maybe slightly above Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who created a majority that lasted for 90 years. Trump is doing stuff I wouldn't have thought possible.
Well, I think historians will look back and say the greatest mistake the left ever made was taking the election away from Trump in 2020. Because what it did is it allowed him to spend four years thinking about what had gone wrong, thinking about lessons he'd learned as president.
And at the same time, the left misunderstood the election, thought they had a mandate to go further and further left to be truly weird. And the net effect was that you ended up, I think, with a country that was madder, sicker of the left, more ready for change. And thanks in part to the America First Policy Institute,
and the remarkable work of Linda McMahon and Brooke Rollins, there were some 400 people from the Trump administration who were actively preparing for a second administration. So when he got elected on the 7th, of November, they already had, I think, 600 executive orders. They knew what they wanted to do. They knew who they trusted. It was totally different.
Remember, in 2016, Trump had never run for public office. There was no Trump organization. MAGA was a movement, but it wasn't a structure. Now MAGA, all across America, there are huge numbers of people who think of themselves as MAGA and who are prepared to go out and work and help elect candidates who belong to Make America Great Again. Totally different world than the world of 2016.
Well, I just did a newsletter for Gingrich 360. My background, I'm a PhD in European history. I've lived in France, Germany, Belgium, and Rome. So I have some general interest in Europe. I think what J.D. Vance did is sort of like your next-door neighbor being an alcoholic, and you go over and you do an intervention. He went to the Europeans, and what I think was an intervention.
Their system is failing. Their elites are so isolated from the world and so isolated from their own people that they maintain power by cheating every day. And Vance, I mean, has a very courageous speech. They actually made two speeches, one in Paris on artificial intelligence and then a speech in Munich. And they both had a similar pattern. You know, I just did some numbers a while ago.
There are 15 trillion dollar companies that are American, four that are Chinese, and then Saudi Aramco. There are no European companies that are trillion dollar companies. Well, the Europeans chose regulation rather than innovation, and it's now destroying the continent.
Well, we shouldn't. It's actually quite ironic. The Weimar Republic, which people always say, well, that's what free speech gets you to. The Weimar Republic had very strict laws. There are 200 legal actions against the Nazis. Hitler at one point is barred from speaking in Bavaria. So it's not like the Weimar Republic was this wonderful world of free speech.
In fact, they were trying to find ways to restrict communists and to restrict Nazis. And in the long run, it failed. But it failed because the economy failed. because the world had failed from the standpoint of the average everyday German. These rules in Europe and Britain, by the way, in some ways is the worst.
I mean, the British have had a grooming crisis of Pakistani males raping young girls and nothing being done, because if you report it, it's considered Islamophobia. So the parents get in trouble for trying to protect their 13 or 14-year-old girl. I mean, this stuff is crazy. And, of course, the American elites, who are all still in a state of shock from the election,
I mean, the performance on CBS the other morning with Marco Rubio was a disgrace, and the moderator should be fired for pure incompetence. I agree. The things she said are just false. And I think this is a real crisis. The 60-minute speech is pure propaganda. And, of course, what you've seen is, as Jim Clifton and Gallup told me today, for the first time, the news media now ranks below Congress.
As an institution, people don't trust. And as a general rule now, I think the average American knows that if you're watching CBS or NBC or ABC or you're watching or you're reading The New York Times, The Washington Post, it's probably a lie. It's probably fake.
I mean, you're going to say you're part of this. I mean, the fact is the country's turning to podcasts. I mean, going on Joe Rogan beat anything that Trump could have gained by going on the old networks.
In terms of sheer believability and in terms of penetration. You've done the same thing. I think a big part of the rise in younger people supporting Trump comes directly from you. And so in a sense, the old media is killing itself and driving people to places like your podcast.
since before he was Speaker of the House in Florida. We are old friends. He is a brilliant political leader. He was a great Speaker of the House in Florida. You know, and I think had Trump not overwhelmed him, he would have been a very good president. I think he's very talented. Plus, as somebody with a background as a Cuban American, he has a deep instinct for Latin America.
He's thought a great deal about communism because he's dealt with Castro and the Cubans. And I think you're going to find, and he and I chatted about this the other day, he is going to remake the State Department. into an institution that actually serves American interests rather than the elitist interests of the sort of Davos world gentry.
And I think he does it well, he's articulate, he's smart, he knows an immense amount. I mean, these reporters don't know anything. That's one of the things you have to remember. Not only are they biased, they don't know anything. People like Marco know a great deal. Witkoff, by the way, has been a huge surprise. I know Steve, but I knew him as a realtor. I had no idea his negotiating talents.
And, of course, we have a great national security advisor with a real record of being realistic about the world. It's going to be interesting to see what they can accomplish in talking with the Russians and trying to get the Russians to understand that the war is over, period. I think that's Trump's position. This war is over. We're now down to details.
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