Raheem Kassam
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I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
Thanks for having me. Thanks for having me back.
Thanks for having me. Thanks for having me back.
Well, look, they've clearly hit the ground running. And that was one of the most important things that we were all concerned about on the run up to January 20th was how much can you get done? How quickly? How many roadblocks are there going to be from the deep state, the holdovers, so on and so forth?
Well, look, they've clearly hit the ground running. And that was one of the most important things that we were all concerned about on the run up to January 20th was how much can you get done? How quickly? How many roadblocks are there going to be from the deep state, the holdovers, so on and so forth?
We lived that life in 2016 and saw the massive Sisyphean task fought by all of the people who went to, in good faith, work inside the White House, work inside the government departments. And after the election, after the victory, after that enormous victory,
We lived that life in 2016 and saw the massive Sisyphean task fought by all of the people who went to, in good faith, work inside the White House, work inside the government departments. And after the election, after the victory, after that enormous victory,
um victory uh the entire attention span flipped to how do we actually make these first few days weeks and months as um as rewarding as they can be for the american public so it's great to see uh i think you know minute upon minute i seem to be getting notifications from the white house communications office which is great because we were banned from the white house communications list under the biden regime
um victory uh the entire attention span flipped to how do we actually make these first few days weeks and months as um as rewarding as they can be for the american public so it's great to see uh i think you know minute upon minute i seem to be getting notifications from the white house communications office which is great because we were banned from the white house communications list under the biden regime
So they've reinstated us over at the National Post. I know they're putting so many other, including your guys' reporters, in the press briefing room. And I think that is a sign of major amounts of transparency coming out of this administration too.
So they've reinstated us over at the National Post. I know they're putting so many other, including your guys' reporters, in the press briefing room. And I think that is a sign of major amounts of transparency coming out of this administration too.
Yeah, it is. I mean, I think, again, eight years ago, people were really getting to grips with how do these processes operate? And I think within the last four or five years, really, there's become ingrained institutional knowledge in MAGA world that says the processes will work however we want them to work, actually. That's how the left approaches government.
Yeah, it is. I mean, I think, again, eight years ago, people were really getting to grips with how do these processes operate? And I think within the last four or five years, really, there's become ingrained institutional knowledge in MAGA world that says the processes will work however we want them to work, actually. That's how the left approaches government.
And that is how MAGA needs to approach government, too. There has been predominantly, traditionally, too much appeasement on the Republican side of cutesy little processes and bureaucratic backstops. Well, those times are over.
And that is how MAGA needs to approach government, too. There has been predominantly, traditionally, too much appeasement on the Republican side of cutesy little processes and bureaucratic backstops. Well, those times are over.
And when you have the yoke, when you have the mantle, when you have the momentum and the wind at your back, a mandate from the public like Donald J. Trump got, then you have to use every single tool in your arsenal to carry out your campaign pledges. So I'm ecstatic, frankly, with the speed and the ferocity with which they're operating.
And when you have the yoke, when you have the mantle, when you have the momentum and the wind at your back, a mandate from the public like Donald J. Trump got, then you have to use every single tool in your arsenal to carry out your campaign pledges. So I'm ecstatic, frankly, with the speed and the ferocity with which they're operating.
Have you looked at the mayoral's police and crime report from December the 12th? You look at that, almost every single measure out of 42, only four of them, in four categories, did crime go down. In every single other area, double-digit rises in crime across London. So you know what? To borrow a phrase from Donald Trump, London's turning into a shithole under Sadiq Khan.
Have you looked at the mayoral's police and crime report from December the 12th? You look at that, almost every single measure out of 42, only four of them, in four categories, did crime go down. In every single other area, double-digit rises in crime across London. So you know what? To borrow a phrase from Donald Trump, London's turning into a shithole under Sadiq Khan.