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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And I think Trump has decided he's going to be probably the most consequential president other than Washington and Lincoln that we've had in American history. And he's certainly working at it pretty hard the first week.
Well, you know, I think a couple of things. First of all, his nine year project to get back here is unlike anything in American history. They did everything they could to stop him, and he's here. And maybe the most iconic moment was when he was shot and stood up with his fist up in the air, yelling, fight, fight, fight.
I think it took something out of his opponents to realize that you're dealing here not with a normal politician. You're dealing with a citizen who has become a juggernaut of history. Second, the fact that he won by more than 2 million votes and that he carried every single swing state, all seven of them, I think demoralized the left.
Here they had thrown everything they could at him, and here he is standing triumphant. And then they're watching, you know, to go back to General Thompson's phrase, they're watching shock and awe. I mean, he's hitting them from so many different angles every day. They're getting 20 or 30 things to be outraged about daily. And I think they're just mystified.
And I think the elite media knows that they're in deep trouble. They're declining economically. They're getting people laid off. Frankly, programs like yours or like Joe Rogan or like Fox News, all of these have become dramatically more important than the traditional elite media. And The result is that their revenue is going down. Their employment is going down.
You look at the layoffs at places like the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times. This is a different world. Now, let me be very clear, and you sort of said this at the beginning. All we got so far is a ticket to the dance. We haven't realigned America. We haven't won massive majorities like Franklin Roosevelt. And so we've got to perform. We've got to do well enough to keep the House in 26.
We've got to do well enough to elect another Republican president in 28. And until we've done that, I think we're still in a gray zone where Trump's personality is carrying us, but we haven't yet quite solidified the country as a new MAGA-oriented traditional American country, which is where Trump is taking us.
Well, I think Washington and Lincoln will always be preeminent. Washington and and essentially created the country. Lincoln held the country together through a four-year civil war. So they're in a little different class.
But if you go one layer below to Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Franklin Roosevelt, I have no doubt that Trump is going to end up, if he continues at this pace for four years and keeps the House and elects a successor, I have no doubt he will end up in a zone just below Washington and Lincoln and above Washington. people we've historically thought of as great presidents.
And I think that if you watch his authenticity, I watched him the other night on Hannity, and they've known each other for 30 years. He's so calm. He's so relaxed. He's so much comfortable with himself that I think this is a very important moment.
You know, Cliss and I made two movies, one about John Paul II called Nine Days That Changed the World, where he went back to Poland, and the other movie about Reagan called Rendezvous with Destiny. And Reagan and John Paul II meet for the first time, and they've both been shot. And part of their conversation is, why did God spare us?
And they concluded that God had spared them from the assassins so they could defeat the Soviet empire. And they agreed on an alliance which worked to defeat the Soviet empire. I think President Trump thought very deeply. I know Speaker Mike Johnson said after the second assassin was captured, Trump realized how really deep a problem threat this was.
And he and Trump went off to a room and prayed for two hours. Now, I think you're seeing a man who has been profoundly shaped by realizing that God saved him and that therefore he owes a different quality of duty than he would have thought a year ago. And I've known Trump a long time. This is a more sober, more serious, more considerate person than he was before these assassination attempts.
Journey to America, you can find it on PBS.org. It's a great portrait of nine people who have made America a much better country.
Well, look, I think, first of all, you have to have a certain level of humility. President Kennedy had a sign on his desk that said, oh, Lord, your ocean is so big and my boat is so small. And even if you're as big as President Donald Trump, the world is much, much bigger. So you have to be cautious. You have to worry about not starting a nuclear war with Russia.
You have to worry about what North Korea is going to do. the Taiwan Straits. You've got to worry about the Iranians who are religious fanatics and try to help the Iranian people who are not religious fanatics. I mean, there are a lot of things out there that make the world complicated. We're undertaking a brand new struggle where we have defined
criminal organizations like the cartels as terrorist groups. That involves a whole series of decisions. And Mexico is a big country. And it's a country that has large sections of it being run by criminal gangs. So that's going to be a major concern. The biggest concern for I think for the president, the thing he has to focus on is the economy.
It's vital to him to keep the House in 2026, and it's going to be a real fight. If the economy is growing, if there's a sense of a Trump boom, then I think he's got a good chance of keeping the House. If the economy is still floundering,
then I think there's a real likelihood we'll lose the House and you'll end up with a Nancy Pelosi environment of Democrats obstructing, blocking, investigating, and possibly impeaching. So this is the central decision point, and that requires, in my judgment, passing a very, very strong bill.
I think by Memorial Day, as Speaker Johnson said, or certainly no later than July the 4th, because it's got to go into effect. Now, the early reports, $500 billion committed for artificial intelligence, the Saudis committing $600 billion. These are great things. But to get the average American on board, they've got to see the taxes change, the regulations change, the economy growing.
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