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Chapter 1: What was Trump's major announcement about the Middle East?
Donald Trump's giving a press conference with Bibi Netanyahu. And I'm not kidding. Guys, right? The word bombshell is typically over you. I don't know how else to describe what happened last night. Donald Trump says the United States is going to take over Gaza, which would...
When he said it, I'm sitting up there in the chair in my office watching it, and it was one of those, the ex-chair, I almost fell off the chair. I'm like, did he just say that? It would only be the biggest public policy pronouncement about Middle East foreign policy, I don't know, since the 50s? I don't even know how to describe it. I'm going to tell you what's going on.
All I'm asking everyone, I have one request, okay? Please, I'm begging you as a friend. As they used to say on the mustard deck of the police academy, stand easy. Just stand easy for a minute. Nobody freak out. You have the pro-Palestinian crowd. You're talking about genocide. You've got the Zionist crowd on the other side. This is great. We're going to... Everybody just...
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So last night, like many of you, I'm sitting at my office. I'm watching Fox News. Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, of course, is giving a press conference with Donald Trump in the White House. And Donald Trump, rather matter-of-factly, drops the biggest public policy, foreign policy announcement in modern U.S. history about Israel.
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Chapter 2: How did the media react to Trump's Gaza announcement?
Ladies and gentlemen, cue automatic media liberal progressive meltdown. People were losing their minds. Nobody knew what to do. Folks in the chat, how many of you were watching it live and responded how I did? He said that so matter-of-factly, and if you're going to make a major foreign policy announcement, typically what they do in the past is they tee it up.
You know, tune in at 8, whatever, big announcement. Nobody said anything. This thing was delayed for, I think, an hour and 37 minutes or something like that. And now I think you know why. Here's what I think happened. He's sitting there in the Oval Office with Netanyahu. He's obviously telling Netanyahu he's going to say this. And Netanyahu's got to be looking at him like, what?
You're going to say that now? Are you right? He's like, he probably laughed the first time. I'm like, no. Really? Like, is this real? Cube media meltdown immediately. Everyone lost their minds. Folks, Joy Reid didn't even know what to say. They were on MSNBC like, is this real? Do we react? Are we being played? Listen to me, okay? I'm going to help everyone out here.
I can't say this enough to media people who constantly misinterpret and overreact this guy. This is the largest MAGA show out there, period. We're always ahead of it. We always drop Ws because we don't overreact and we know Donald Trump's debating and negotiating strategy. What is it? He does this all the time, folks. He drops a bomb maximalist position. In other words, 1 to 100, he drops 99.6.
Chapter 3: Why does Dan Bongino think Trump is playing the media?
He's actually thinking 55.7, but he understands that even though he's thinking 55.7, that if he drops freaking 99.6 and he gets 75.2, he's about 20 points ahead of where he was at 55.6. About. You get it? He does this all the time. 25% tariffs on Canada. Okay, we're going to shut the Fendel off. Okay, we'll delay them. He does it all the time. How many times are you guys going to get played?
Holy shit, watching the media overreact is freaking hilarious. Every time. What do you think he's doing? You think he's going to drop the 101st Airborne into Gaza tomorrow? I'm sorry, man. It's just comical watching these people after now four years and two weeks of Trump, the 2016 term, and two weeks so far. He does this over and over, and he always drops W's to Abraham Accords.
And people, they just keep falling for it. I'm sorry, I didn't finish my thought before. I've been so excited about today's show because I just, I feel like if people would just watch this show, they would stop overreacting and have a better lick their finger feel for politics where the wind is blowing. My gosh. Did you guys respond like I did last night?
I was telling the boys this morning when I came in. I hear this thing, and it was like he said it so matter-of-factly, I had to rewind the thing. And I'm like, did he just say what I think he said, that the U.S. is going to take over Gaza? And I think the media was so surprised. If you guys missed it, the first question wasn't even about
This major foreign policy statement prescription he put out, the first question was totally unrelated. And then Kelly O'Donnell from NBC, who's no friend of ours, by the way, but I think was the first one who got it, basically grabs the mic and is like, did you just say we're going to take over Gaza? Like she was the first one I think who caught it. Folks, he stakes out a maximalist position.
Here's what's going on in Donald Trump's head, and I want you to think about this in context of the Abraham Accords. We don't cover a ton of foreign policy on this show. This is important, because it's not just about... foreign policy. It's about you are, this is going to happen for four years. The Trump people I know have assured me and other people that the pace of change is not slowing down.
This isn't a two week thing. This is a four year thing. So you better get used to it. And if you're not watching this show and you're going to overreact to every single thing, your freaking blood pressure is going to be through the roof and your pulse rate is going to be 122 at rest. Everybody chill. Not you out there. You guys are awesome. You get it. To the crazies.
I saw Jonah Goldberg on Twitter. Things are getting dumber. No, you're getting dumber because you keep getting played. Here's what's going on. Think about it in context of the Abraham Accords. You know what? Can you guys pull this? I'm sorry. Michael, look this up.
John Kerry, there's a clip of him saying that there will be no solution to the peace in the Arab world without fixing the Palestinian problem. You have to understand with the Abraham Accords, Donald Trump, who does listen to me, everyone, clearly, everyone put the horse blinkers on right now. Donald Trump does not give a shit about how you did things in the past. Let me say that again.
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of the Abraham Accords?
Chill. Donald Trump is looking at Gaza, this little strip of land, tiny little strip of land. And Donald Trump, this waterfront, beautiful property that was, by the way, only handed over not that long ago to the Palestinians. So anyone telling you, oh, my gosh, the Palestinians have been there forever is full of shit. What was it, 2005 they handed it over? 2005, not 1905.
So let's not pretend this is some generational thing. OK, that's just the hard facts. You don't have to believe it. I don't care. It's reality. Donald Trump's been told, hey, man, the foreign policy intelligentsia said, you got to let the Palestinians and the Israelis work this thing out. Eventually, they'll figure it out. And Donald Trump's like, but they haven't. but they haven't.
The Israelis gave the land back to the Palestinians who then used the land to bomb Israel. Whatever side you're on, you know where I stand on this. I've been very clear about my position, about who the good guy and bad guy is in this fight. Wherever you stand, can we both agree that's true? Did it happen or did it not? End the story in the chat. I don't care how you feel.
Just can we agree on the facts? Israel, whatever, they gave them back the land. Did it happen? Okay, yes, thank you. What happened? Attacks were then launched into Israel. Whatever position you have, that happened. Trump's like, clearly no one's fixing it. So here's what he said. He probably walked into Netanyahu, probably totally blindsided him and said, hey- I'm going to really language alert.
I'm sorry. I'm really, but it's important here because he, this is probably the language used. So I don't mean this for effect. I can almost guarantee you. He walked in there and said something to this effect and probably use the language. He said, guys, you guys fuck this place up. I'm going to unfuck this right now.
I'm coming in there with the big stick, and I'm going to fix this place if I got to develop the damn thing myself, if you guys don't unscrew it. I'm telling you that's what happened. You can believe it or you can laugh. I've been right about everything. You media people are always wrong. Here, you doubt me? Here's Politico playbook.
I mean, these are like outright communists over at Politico this morning. They talked to some off-the-record guy. The official argued it's in the interest of other Arab powers, like Saudi Arabia, to find a solution to the conflict. Bongino's right again. Thank you. And that Trump throwing his ideas out there might inspire others to counter. As the source said himself, we'll see. Somebody gets it.
Whoever Politico spoke to, shockingly, even a blind squirrel gets a nut, is 100% correct. He's telling the Saudis. He's telling UAE. He's telling the Kuwaitis, the Jordanians. He's telling everyone in the region. You guys have not on this problem in a hundred years. Fix it. Or I'm coming in there to do it. A couple other thoughts here. Trump is tired of the perma-war, okay?
The permanent war status of the Middle East. Israel, Palestinians, Israel, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Israel, Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Israel, the Golan. He's tired of it. He is the commander-in-chief of the most powerful military force in the cosmos. He's tired of it. He's telling them, un-F this situation, or I'm telling you, we're going to go and take it. He doesn't want the perma-war anymore.
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Chapter 5: How is Trump handling the situation with Hamas and the Arab world?
We got to really take care of the Palestinians. So take them in. You got a whole shit ton of land. Oh, we don't want to. Trump says, you don't want to? I'm emptying the place out. We're going to clean it out, clean up the ordinance. We're going to get, by the way, I don't want any taxpayer dollars paying for this. This has to be a regional thing.
All you people say you want to help the Palestinians? Here's my opening offer. I'm clearing everybody out of there. You're all going to put in billions of dollars. You're going to rebuild the place, and then you can move the Palestinians and others back in. There you go. What's your counteroffer? Do you not see what's going on? He's sick of the perma war, man.
Stop falling for every single maximalist position. By the way, I'm going to get to this in a second. Got to take a quick break. As you can tell, I came in today fired up for this show for obvious reasons. Something came out yesterday with the CIA. The Central Intelligence Agency, almost the entire workforce was offered a buyout.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm not so sure these two stories are unrelated. I'll show you what I mean in a minute. Really? Speculating a bit, to be fair, but we haven't been wrong about anything. Not lately. Not in a long time. Hey, is your risk high that an IRS agent is about to show up at your door over unpaid taxes or unfollowed returns? Or that the IRS is about to freeze your bank accounts?
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I'm not sure if you're going to hear this anywhere else. You may. I'm pretty sure we're going to be first on this. But let me play, you know, let me do this. Let me play John Kerry first. There is a story that broke yesterday about CIA officials and employees being offered buyouts, like a lot of them. And of course, the media freaked out again. What's Trump trying to do? This is crazy.
Why would we be getting the CIA? Why would we be looking to get rid of some of these old school people? I mean, they've been right about everything. Winky, winky, nod, nod. I'm going to play this John Kerry clip, and I'll explain why I think these stories are related. Here is John Kerry speaking, by the way, for old-school swampy Republicans, too, who always said this.
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Chapter 6: Why is the CIA offering a buyout to its workforce?
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The winning is so much and so voluminous that the left doesn't know how to respond. You know, self-praise stinks, but I don't really care at this point. I told you after the election in November when we won every single swing state that the next day that they were going to do the rock them, sock them robots. OK, you got the Trump face on. It's still not broken, by the way.
I told you that was going to happen. If you talk to people on the inside of the Trump orbit, they said, this is it. We learned from the first term. We are not going to stop. We are going to hit them with everything all at once, and they don't know how to respond. And that's why you see this chaos on the left, and you're seeing all these Ws. Bill Malujan, Fox. Look at this tweet.
446.
He notes, that's unheard of. There were 11,000 plus in one day. during Biden in December of 2023. Biden's final week of office, remember where they were bragging about the border? Because they were flying everyone in? We're still 1,200 to 1,400 a day. Malugia notes, basically, we haven't even passed any legislation yet.
This was all done by executive action that I'd like to note Joe Biden said what? He couldn't do. Because he's full of crap. Folks, the deportation flights have begun to Gitmo as well. You come here, you break the law, you become a hardcore criminal and are in the country illegally, you are not going to find your ass here. You're going to find your ass over in Guantanamo Bay. You don't like it?
There's an easy way to not be in Guantanamo Bay. Don't enter the United States illegally. You doubt me? Here it is from the administration themselves. Check this out.
not messing around and he's no longer going to allow America to be a dumping ground for illegal criminals from nations all over this world. And so El Salvador has not just agreed to the repatriation of their own citizens, but also illegal criminals from other nations who will then be sent to their prisons. Venezuela as well has agreed to repatriation flights and Colombia
also agreed to cooperate with the repatriation of illegal Colombian nationals that we have found in the interior of our country. And I can also confirm that today, the first flights from the United States to Guantanamo Bay with illegal migrants are underway.
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Chapter 7: What role does the intelligence community play in Trump's strategy?
You have one way to get rid of him, impeachment, and you don't have the numbers. I'll get to that story tomorrow, by the way. It's already in the works by the left. Of course, like I said. Here's Tom Holman, our border czar, who's been a gift to this country. What a patriot. Talking about the New Jersey governor saying, you know what, we're harboring an illegal or something like that.
And Holman's like, really? Folks, they're not kidding. Check this out.
Let me read a headline to you. Chicago leaders encourage residents to exercise their rights in resisting Trump's deportation policies. The governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy, basically admitted that he knew somebody that didn't have full documentation, that he was hiding over his garage.
But there's someone in our broader universe whose immigration status is not yet at the point that they are trying to get it to. And we said, you know what? Let's have her live at our house above our garage. And good luck to the feds coming in to try to get her.
Your comment on all of that?
Well, I think the government's pretty foolish saying what he said because I've gotten old of it. Won't let it go. We'll look into it. And if he's gnarly, gnarly, harboring, concealing an illegal alien, that's a violation of Title VIII United States Code 1324, I will seek prosecution, or the Secretary will seek prosecution.
Folks, cutesy time is freaking over. He's not kidding. I don't know what the governor thinks he's doing. When you're the governor of a major state, you are not immune from federal law. The Democrats just made a huge argument about Donald Trump should be locked up for actual official acts.
Governor Murphy appeared to just admit to committing a crime completely outside his job scope on a public interview. That's how stupid they are. But again, the maximalist position, because Homan and Donald Trump are obviously working. If you just submitted to a crime, they're going to investigate. If you think he's kidding, good luck.
I don't know how many times you guys are going to get burned by this. Folks, there is big money for the left in illegal immigration. I've already told you how they use the demographics of illegal immigration because they talk about it all the time. Just put in a search engine, Democrats, demographic destiny, you'll see a thousand soundbites.
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Chapter 8: How does Dan Bongino view the future of Trump's presidency?
The personal data of tens of, you mean like the OPM hack that happened under Obama or the hack of our infrastructure system under Biden? So you've got an American citizen, by the way, subject to the same rules everyone else are doing nothing illegal, going in and looking at payment systems that have paid off terrorists and everyone else. And Joy Reid's freaking out about it. Why?
Because when the money dries up, so does the censorship. And then idiots like Joy Reid, if they can't censor you, are forced to defend their own stupidity. That's why they're freaking out. Have you ever seen anything like this? I know you haven't. Because I'm 50, so I'm going to guess, 50 years old, that about half my audience is above and below my age.
I have never, ever in my 50 years on this planet seen anything like the last two weeks. Ever. I don't know how I'm going to recover from this show after four years. I'm going to have to start taking blood pressure medication. Here's a USAID employee. This is an ABC segment. Talking about how Elon and his crew of mini-brainiacs came in to look at the USAID system.
And all of a sudden, they started putting away the pride flags. And all of a sudden, it's a workplace. It's not an activist zone. You want to put all that stuff up? Fine. You have these beliefs? Fine. Put them up in your own house. It's a constitutional republic. Notice how that's the first thing they focus on in their government jobs, by the way. Check this out.
It was late last week that the Doge team showed up at USAID offices in Washington and demanded access. USAID employee Christina Dry described the scene.
Doge was in the building. We started, we took down our pride flags. We took down, I took out any books I felt would be incriminating. No one was talking. We heard they started taking transcripts automatically of all of our Google Meets. They unplugged the news in the little kitchen galleys.
It didn't feel good and then Saturday all of the websites went down and then I lost complete access to my computer.
Notice the sense of entitlement with these employees as if that this job is somehow their own personal business, not a taxpayer funded enterprise that's been working against U.S. interests. Ladies and gentlemen, USAID is a huge deal. It is the biggest fight right now. That's why. Always measure the effectiveness of what you're doing by your opponent's response.
They are freaking out at about a level 8.5 out of 10 because when the money trained to all these left-wing organizations dries up, then they stop ginning up voter support. They stop knocking on doors for Democrats. If you're like, oh, it's only $40 billion, their budget. Do you have any idea? Folks, the Donald Trump presidential campaign was about a billion dollars.
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