Ahead of his First 100 Days interview with President Trump, Glenn gives an exclusive tour of the Roosevelt Room: Theodore Roosevelt’s Nobel Peace Prize and Medal of Honor, Barack Obama’s private papers, and the legendary doorknobs that Trump installed in the White House.
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GLENN: Thank you. Interesting week.
STU: I bet it was.
GLENN: Interesting week.
STU: Yeah.
GLENN: Learned an awful lot. I've got to go up at least a quarter. Every quarter. There is so much going on. It is moving so fast. And you get a -- you get a completely different perspective when you're actually there talking to the people that are moving the pieces. And I had a lot of conversations that I can't divulge on the air.
I can't say, unfortunately -- I was with the president yesterday.
And it was an incredible, absolutely incredible -- and the thing I was most excited to share was his heart. He -- it was amazing.
Did the interview. Went into the Oval Office. And he left me alone with my wife in the Oval Office for like five minutes. Now, I'm like.
He was lucky, I didn't go through the drawers.
You know, I look -- where is that little hidden puzzle piece, that I saw on national archive.
But, I mean, he left us alone for five minutes. Nobody is left alone in the Oval for five minutes.
And he walks in five minutes later. Tania was so uncomfortable. Like, I don't know what to say.
What do I do?
And I'm like, they said, make yourself comfortable.
So have a seat, wherever you want. You know, probably not behind the desk. But have a seat. So we just go around. And I was alone with the Declaration of Independence. I mean, it was incredible in the Oval Office!
STU: Any part of you think, maybe I just kind of put -- fold it up. Put it in my pocket. Nobody notices. None of that?
GLENN: No. Uh-uh.
STU: Darn it.
GLENN: This is the first time I've been in the Oval Office. The first time you're overwhelmed. The first time you're like -- because it's a magical place. It really is a magical place.
STU: Sure.
GLENN: And so he said, he walks in. And he's like, you know, nobody -- I'm like.
STU: He said, what?
GLENN: Nobody sits in here without the president. Or, you know, without somebody else.
STU: Right. Yeah, that's really rare.
GLENN: And I said, I'm aware of that. He said, but I knew you would want to look at everything. So I thought you would be more comfortable if you were here by yourself. Oh, it was fantastic.
So we sit down. We talk. We go do the interview. And while we were talking in the Oval, we were conversing about a few things. And he said, and Abraham Lincoln came up. We were talking -- he is well-versed on the presidents. He is becoming a historian. He really is! He's really done his homework.
And he said, are you a fan of Abraham Lincoln? I said, yeah. And he said, you ever been to the Lincoln bedroom? I said, no. Want to go?
I'm like, wait. Of course I do. Yes. Let's do this interview.
So we do the interview. And he -- I'm told, he only has 40 minutes. Now we've just eaten ten.
And so we go. We do the interview. And his aides are cutting us off. And I'm like, I've got at least ten more minutes of questions.
And so we're getting cut off. And as we stop. His aide says, sir, the National Security Council is waiting for you.
And he says, right. I'm going to take them to the Lincoln bedroom first.
And they're like, the security counsel is meeting right now. They're waiting for you.
He said, let them wait. I'm going to take -- so he takes us, the longest way possible. He takes us through the entire White House, room by room.
Shows us all of the meanings behind things. All of the amazing, amazing -- like nobody knows about the White House. Takes us to the -- takes us to the basement, which is not really the basement. You know, it's the actual first floor where all of the guests come in. And they come up the grand staircase and everything else.
But it's the basement. And he's walking through. And he's showing me a troll, first of all.
I have to show you these paintings. I just see this painting of Laura Bush. And Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton. Up on a wall. He said, I walk by them every day.
And I say, this is not right. And he said, and then I got this painting of me. And, you know, it's me, with the flag face. Looking kind of tough.
And he said, I thought I put them between the two. And it had just gone viral. Just released a picture of him. And just gone viral.
It was a troll. The guy is just trolling. And he said, yeah. Don't you love it?
I just think it works. This trio really works. And I said, can I get a snap of them?
So we did this picture, the two of us, you know, on the ground floor of the White House. The tour goes by this every day.
Okay?
And all of a sudden, this thing goes viral. And they start -- memes start to be made, with J.D. Vance. In the pictures, they change -- people just started changing all the pictures behind us.
This is a meme before -- you know, going off before we finished.
And then he takes us upstairs. Takes us through all these things.
And the -- the aides keep gathering. There's like 20 of them now, following us. And I keep hearing, sir, the national security is waiting. He's like, I know. I know.
And so we got up to the executive residence. And the reason why he had to give us -- the reason why he had to do this tour, is because you're not allowed in the residence. And you're not allowed into the Lincoln bedroom, without the president of the United States.
It's the only one that can do it.
Melania cannot come down and do the tour.
It has to be the president. He's telling them. I'm sorry. But rules are rules. And so he takes us up, into the Lincoln bedroom.
It was the most incredible thing I have -- I mean, it's like -- it's a time capsule. It's really his bed. Which is about 6 inches longer than like the big king-size bed. It might have been longer than a California queen. It was very narrow.
Like, obviously, you know, he's not like Hugh Hefner. It's a very narrow bed.
But very, very long.
The mirror on one hand was extended to, you know, for somebody who is like six-nine, I think. Barron could use that mirror.
And then on the other side of the room is a writing desk.
And on this one table, all these things about his son. Lincoln's son who had died. And this really eerie picture of Lincoln. This painting.
And the president said, that was his favorite painting of himself. And it's really. It was spooky almost.
STU: Hmm.
GLENN: And I couldn't take a picture. You're not allowed to take any photos in the Lincoln bedroom.
And I was so bummed because I couldn't wait to show them we. But they're in his writing desk. And on it, is the Gettysburg address. One of four of the Gettysburg addresses. He gave -- Lincoln was at Gettysburg. And said, Mr. President. That was a great speech.
Do you have a copy of it? And he said, sure. And hands him a speech.
And says, here. This is a New York reporter. Takes it. Types it up, and then throws it away.
So during the war, Lincoln writes four copies of the Gettysburg address.
In the four copies, only two of them say, this nation under God. Two of them don't say that. And we don't know why.
But the one there says, this nation under God. So it was just almost like a spiritual thing. We come down, and we're ending the tour.
And I said, I have to ask. I said, I know you're Donald J. Trump. But -- now, what do you think I'm going to ask. Because he cuts me off right there, and he tries to answer. And I was amazed that he knew what I was even going to ask. Where do you think I'm at? I know you're Donald J. Trump, but --
STU: I mean, it could be anything obviously.
GLENN: He said every day, and that's the right answer! But I didn't still know if he knew what I was talking. And I say, every day?
And he said every day, Glenn. I wake up every day, and I -- I say to myself, I can't believe I'm in this house.
STU: Hmm.
GLENN: I mean, he's still humble about it. He's still -- he respects that place. I mean, a lot of the -- well, he didn't tell me this. So I don't think I signed anything about it.
He didn't tell me this.
So the -- the word is, that Hillary stole a lot of the glass door knobs at the White House. Okay. That's the word.
Don't if it's true.
But stole them. He came in, and he redid all of the doorknobs, and they are beautiful. This guy has put serious money into the White House.
And he's never going to get any credit. And the rumor was, on those doorknobs, that they were going to take them out. I don't know if they did on Biden. But they don't want any of the Trump stuff in there. And took out the doorknobs.
But he's -- he's poured a ton of money upgrading that house, and he'll never get credit for it.
But he deserves it. All right. I'm going to talk to you a little bit about what we talked about on the important stuff here in just a second.
STU: So you were able to go through all of this, and look at all these incredible documents.
This is kind of like your fantasy league life, right?
GLENN: Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh.
STU: Every document you could ever want. Every piece of history you could ever look at.
You would spend no time actually being president, if you were president.
GLENN: I don't know when this guy has time. I really don't.
Some of the Secret Service guys said, he's here, in the middle of the night, working on stuff.
He'll do full day.
Then he's there. Who is up at this hour?
It's him.
STU: That's not the way the media presents him.
They say, he's watching TV.
Watching Fox news all day.
GLENN: Oh, there's no way.
This guy has learned so much.
There's no way I had a conversation with him, five, six years ago. No way.
STU: You notice a difference?
GLENN: Oh, huge. His learning curve is straight-up.
Absolutely straight-up.
And in the interview. There's nothing. I could have said things.
Remember the nuclear triad question that he was hit with?
Where he didn't really -- there's not a question I could ask him, where he doesn't know the answer.
Literally. Literally.
I mean, everything I ask him off-air or on-air, he's there. He knows it. If it's happening in the world, he knows it. I don't know how he keeps up like this.
STU: It is -- I mean, his energy level is impressive. There's no doubt about that.
I don't know. The bar was set pretty low the last four years. But his -- that's been one of the things, I don't think there's ever been really much at -- disagreement on.
The fact that we -- we did, years ago, went around with candidates, around Iowa, for example. Just in campaigning, and it was like, oh, gosh. By the end of the weekend, I wanted to sleep for a week.
Because it was just so much.
Running around. Doing -- can't imagine being president of the United States. He's always energized.
GLENN: He's always energized. I mean, and I saw him. When I got on to the plane last night. Because I know, he went from -- he went from my interview, directly to the National Security Council.
And then by the time I'm sitting at the airport, there's a video of him meeting with the people that were in the lobby, waiting for him all of these veterans.
And he's doing stuff with veterans on TV.
I mean, the guy is just boom, boom, boom.
Remember Joe Biden was like, he'll have -- he'll have some pudding.
STU: Oh, yeah. The pudding and the lid.
GLENN: And the lid. And that's it.
This guy is going non-stop.
STU: Obviously, we're just setting up the main course here.
Which is your interview with him.
That airs on Blaze TV tonight.
GLENN: It was on last night.
STU: I watched it on Blaze TV last night. It airs on YouTube tonight.
But, you know, you guys went into -- every -- every topic. Any questions he didn't -- you know, he didn't think he wanted to go to or wasn't comfortable with. Is there anything that he was off-limits? Anything like that?
No. He was joking with me. He was going across the hallway. He said, after the interview, he said no. Try to be kind to me.
Well, if you don't, I'll just say, he's over. He's worthless. He'll do whatever you want.
(laughter)
But, no. There was nothing. In fact, we didn't -- you know, we wouldn't. And we didn't give him any indication. Other than it was about the 100 days. And everything that's gone down the last 100 days and were coming.
So that's pretty broad. He said a few things.
And I want to give I one of them here. We were talking about the tariffs.
STU: Uh-huh.
GLENN: And I said, you know, how do you negotiate, when you have a group of elites like the WEF. When you have China who is against you.
And the world trade -- or, the World Economic Forum.
All the elites in England.
That are -- they're fine with the great, Great Reset. How do you negotiate with people who don't mind blowing the whole thing up?
Listen to this.
DONALD: I don't have to negotiate. I don't have to negotiate. I'm talking to people out of respect. But I don't have to. So we're this giant store that people want to come in and buy bye from. We're the United States. We have the richest consumer, et cetera, et cetera. Right?
But we're not going to be that way for long if we do something. But we're this giant store, and they all want to come in and take our product. But to take our product, they are going to have to pay.
And we will either make a deal with them, or we will just set a price. Because some countries are worse than others. Some countries have ripped us off really badly, and some countries have just ripped us off a little bit, but almost all of them have ripped us off. Because we've had really poor leadership. And what's going to happen, is we're going to negotiate -- we are negotiating with 70 different countries. But we're negotiating. We're showing great respect. But in the end, we may make deals. But either that, or I just set a price. I said, here's what you will pay for the privilege of servicing the United States of America.
And they have an option. They can maybe talk to me a little bit. Or they can not jump.
You know, they don't have to shop at this big store. Or they can shop.
But in any event, they will have to pay. Look, we owe 36 trillion for a reason.
The reason is: The trade. Also, the endless wars, the stupid wars that we fought. We're going to the Middle East. We blow up. We leave. We don't get anything.
And you're a big fan of exactly what I'm saying. I mean, let's not do this. Let's not do that.
It's stupid. Endless wars. Endless wars. That they don't even want us. You know, we got into wars. They didn't even want us.
So all of that stuff. You know, when I left four years ago, you know, we had no wars. We had no Israel and Hamas. And, by the way, it would have never happened. Because their enemies were broke.
They were broke.
I have sanctions so strong on Iran.
They were totally broke. They had no money for Hamas and Hezbollah. We didn't have Russia-Ukraine. That would have never happened by the way. We didn't have the Afghanistan embarrassment. One of the great embarrassments in the history of our country.
We didn't have any inflation. Don't forget, I charged China hundreds of billions worth of tariffs. They talk about inflation. We had no inflation.
Because that doesn't cause inflation.
Stupidity causes inflation. High energy causes inflation. When they took over my energy -- we were making it like nobody has ever seen.
GLENN: I know.
DONALD: And then the prices doubled. By the way, because of that, Putin went in. You see what's going on now. It's going down.
GLENN: Yeah, I do.
DONALD: It makes it much harder for Putin to prosecute the war.
GLENN: It was fascinating.
We talked about a few things.
Judicial insurrection. Was one of them!
Another pretty strong response on that one, as well.
April 25, 2025
The Most SHOCKING Moments of Glenn's White House Visit with Trump
Glenn shares behind-the-scenes stories from his incredible trip to Washington, DC, and the White House. When Glenn sat down for an exclusive interview with President Trump, he didn’t think Trump would also give him a personal tour of the White House, including the Oval Office, his latest troll of Hillary Clinton, and even his personal residence and the Lincoln Bedroom. Glenn describes the historic treasures Trump showed him, like a copy of the Gettysburg Address. But Glenn can’t tell his favorite parts of the day because of an NDA. But he gives a hint: Trump is NOT at all who the media portrays him as.
Transcript
Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors
STU: Welcome back, Glenn. Back from DC.GLENN: Thank you. Interesting week.
STU: I bet it was.
GLENN: Interesting week.
STU: Yeah.
GLENN: Learned an awful lot. I've got to go up at least a quarter. Every quarter. There is so much going on. It is moving so fast. And you get a -- you get a completely different perspective when you're actually there talking to the people that are moving the pieces. And I had a lot of conversations that I can't divulge on the air.
I can't say, unfortunately -- I was with the president yesterday.
And it was an incredible, absolutely incredible -- and the thing I was most excited to share was his heart. He -- it was amazing.
Did the interview. Went into the Oval Office. And he left me alone with my wife in the Oval Office for like five minutes. Now, I'm like.
He was lucky, I didn't go through the drawers.
You know, I look -- where is that little hidden puzzle piece, that I saw on national archive.
But, I mean, he left us alone for five minutes. Nobody is left alone in the Oval for five minutes.
And he walks in five minutes later. Tania was so uncomfortable. Like, I don't know what to say.
What do I do?
And I'm like, they said, make yourself comfortable.
So have a seat, wherever you want. You know, probably not behind the desk. But have a seat. So we just go around. And I was alone with the Declaration of Independence. I mean, it was incredible in the Oval Office!
STU: Any part of you think, maybe I just kind of put -- fold it up. Put it in my pocket. Nobody notices. None of that?
GLENN: No. Uh-uh.
STU: Darn it.
GLENN: This is the first time I've been in the Oval Office. The first time you're overwhelmed. The first time you're like -- because it's a magical place. It really is a magical place.
STU: Sure.
GLENN: And so he said, he walks in. And he's like, you know, nobody -- I'm like.
STU: He said, what?
GLENN: Nobody sits in here without the president. Or, you know, without somebody else.
STU: Right. Yeah, that's really rare.
GLENN: And I said, I'm aware of that. He said, but I knew you would want to look at everything. So I thought you would be more comfortable if you were here by yourself. Oh, it was fantastic.
So we sit down. We talk. We go do the interview. And while we were talking in the Oval, we were conversing about a few things. And he said, and Abraham Lincoln came up. We were talking -- he is well-versed on the presidents. He is becoming a historian. He really is! He's really done his homework.
And he said, are you a fan of Abraham Lincoln? I said, yeah. And he said, you ever been to the Lincoln bedroom? I said, no. Want to go?
I'm like, wait. Of course I do. Yes. Let's do this interview.
So we do the interview. And he -- I'm told, he only has 40 minutes. Now we've just eaten ten.
And so we go. We do the interview. And his aides are cutting us off. And I'm like, I've got at least ten more minutes of questions.
And so we're getting cut off. And as we stop. His aide says, sir, the National Security Council is waiting for you.
And he says, right. I'm going to take them to the Lincoln bedroom first.
And they're like, the security counsel is meeting right now. They're waiting for you.
He said, let them wait. I'm going to take -- so he takes us, the longest way possible. He takes us through the entire White House, room by room.
Shows us all of the meanings behind things. All of the amazing, amazing -- like nobody knows about the White House. Takes us to the -- takes us to the basement, which is not really the basement. You know, it's the actual first floor where all of the guests come in. And they come up the grand staircase and everything else.
But it's the basement. And he's walking through. And he's showing me a troll, first of all.
I have to show you these paintings. I just see this painting of Laura Bush. And Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton. Up on a wall. He said, I walk by them every day.
And I say, this is not right. And he said, and then I got this painting of me. And, you know, it's me, with the flag face. Looking kind of tough.
And he said, I thought I put them between the two. And it had just gone viral. Just released a picture of him. And just gone viral.
It was a troll. The guy is just trolling. And he said, yeah. Don't you love it?
I just think it works. This trio really works. And I said, can I get a snap of them?
So we did this picture, the two of us, you know, on the ground floor of the White House. The tour goes by this every day.
Okay?
And all of a sudden, this thing goes viral. And they start -- memes start to be made, with J.D. Vance. In the pictures, they change -- people just started changing all the pictures behind us.
This is a meme before -- you know, going off before we finished.
And then he takes us upstairs. Takes us through all these things.
And the -- the aides keep gathering. There's like 20 of them now, following us. And I keep hearing, sir, the national security is waiting. He's like, I know. I know.
And so we got up to the executive residence. And the reason why he had to give us -- the reason why he had to do this tour, is because you're not allowed in the residence. And you're not allowed into the Lincoln bedroom, without the president of the United States.
It's the only one that can do it.
Melania cannot come down and do the tour.
It has to be the president. He's telling them. I'm sorry. But rules are rules. And so he takes us up, into the Lincoln bedroom.
It was the most incredible thing I have -- I mean, it's like -- it's a time capsule. It's really his bed. Which is about 6 inches longer than like the big king-size bed. It might have been longer than a California queen. It was very narrow.
Like, obviously, you know, he's not like Hugh Hefner. It's a very narrow bed.
But very, very long.
The mirror on one hand was extended to, you know, for somebody who is like six-nine, I think. Barron could use that mirror.
And then on the other side of the room is a writing desk.
And on this one table, all these things about his son. Lincoln's son who had died. And this really eerie picture of Lincoln. This painting.
And the president said, that was his favorite painting of himself. And it's really. It was spooky almost.
STU: Hmm.
GLENN: And I couldn't take a picture. You're not allowed to take any photos in the Lincoln bedroom.
And I was so bummed because I couldn't wait to show them we. But they're in his writing desk. And on it, is the Gettysburg address. One of four of the Gettysburg addresses. He gave -- Lincoln was at Gettysburg. And said, Mr. President. That was a great speech.
Do you have a copy of it? And he said, sure. And hands him a speech.
And says, here. This is a New York reporter. Takes it. Types it up, and then throws it away.
So during the war, Lincoln writes four copies of the Gettysburg address.
In the four copies, only two of them say, this nation under God. Two of them don't say that. And we don't know why.
But the one there says, this nation under God. So it was just almost like a spiritual thing. We come down, and we're ending the tour.
And I said, I have to ask. I said, I know you're Donald J. Trump. But -- now, what do you think I'm going to ask. Because he cuts me off right there, and he tries to answer. And I was amazed that he knew what I was even going to ask. Where do you think I'm at? I know you're Donald J. Trump, but --
STU: I mean, it could be anything obviously.
GLENN: He said every day, and that's the right answer! But I didn't still know if he knew what I was talking. And I say, every day?
And he said every day, Glenn. I wake up every day, and I -- I say to myself, I can't believe I'm in this house.
STU: Hmm.
GLENN: I mean, he's still humble about it. He's still -- he respects that place. I mean, a lot of the -- well, he didn't tell me this. So I don't think I signed anything about it.
He didn't tell me this.
So the -- the word is, that Hillary stole a lot of the glass door knobs at the White House. Okay. That's the word.
Don't if it's true.
But stole them. He came in, and he redid all of the doorknobs, and they are beautiful. This guy has put serious money into the White House.
And he's never going to get any credit. And the rumor was, on those doorknobs, that they were going to take them out. I don't know if they did on Biden. But they don't want any of the Trump stuff in there. And took out the doorknobs.
But he's -- he's poured a ton of money upgrading that house, and he'll never get credit for it.
But he deserves it. All right. I'm going to talk to you a little bit about what we talked about on the important stuff here in just a second.
STU: So you were able to go through all of this, and look at all these incredible documents.
This is kind of like your fantasy league life, right?
GLENN: Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh.
STU: Every document you could ever want. Every piece of history you could ever look at.
You would spend no time actually being president, if you were president.
GLENN: I don't know when this guy has time. I really don't.
Some of the Secret Service guys said, he's here, in the middle of the night, working on stuff.
He'll do full day.
Then he's there. Who is up at this hour?
It's him.
STU: That's not the way the media presents him.
They say, he's watching TV.
Watching Fox news all day.
GLENN: Oh, there's no way.
This guy has learned so much.
There's no way I had a conversation with him, five, six years ago. No way.
STU: You notice a difference?
GLENN: Oh, huge. His learning curve is straight-up.
Absolutely straight-up.
And in the interview. There's nothing. I could have said things.
Remember the nuclear triad question that he was hit with?
Where he didn't really -- there's not a question I could ask him, where he doesn't know the answer.
Literally. Literally.
I mean, everything I ask him off-air or on-air, he's there. He knows it. If it's happening in the world, he knows it. I don't know how he keeps up like this.
STU: It is -- I mean, his energy level is impressive. There's no doubt about that.
I don't know. The bar was set pretty low the last four years. But his -- that's been one of the things, I don't think there's ever been really much at -- disagreement on.
The fact that we -- we did, years ago, went around with candidates, around Iowa, for example. Just in campaigning, and it was like, oh, gosh. By the end of the weekend, I wanted to sleep for a week.
Because it was just so much.
Running around. Doing -- can't imagine being president of the United States. He's always energized.
GLENN: He's always energized. I mean, and I saw him. When I got on to the plane last night. Because I know, he went from -- he went from my interview, directly to the National Security Council.
And then by the time I'm sitting at the airport, there's a video of him meeting with the people that were in the lobby, waiting for him all of these veterans.
And he's doing stuff with veterans on TV.
I mean, the guy is just boom, boom, boom.
Remember Joe Biden was like, he'll have -- he'll have some pudding.
STU: Oh, yeah. The pudding and the lid.
GLENN: And the lid. And that's it.
This guy is going non-stop.
STU: Obviously, we're just setting up the main course here.
Which is your interview with him.
That airs on Blaze TV tonight.
GLENN: It was on last night.
STU: I watched it on Blaze TV last night. It airs on YouTube tonight.
But, you know, you guys went into -- every -- every topic. Any questions he didn't -- you know, he didn't think he wanted to go to or wasn't comfortable with. Is there anything that he was off-limits? Anything like that?
No. He was joking with me. He was going across the hallway. He said, after the interview, he said no. Try to be kind to me.
Well, if you don't, I'll just say, he's over. He's worthless. He'll do whatever you want.
(laughter)
But, no. There was nothing. In fact, we didn't -- you know, we wouldn't. And we didn't give him any indication. Other than it was about the 100 days. And everything that's gone down the last 100 days and were coming.
So that's pretty broad. He said a few things.
And I want to give I one of them here. We were talking about the tariffs.
STU: Uh-huh.
GLENN: And I said, you know, how do you negotiate, when you have a group of elites like the WEF. When you have China who is against you.
And the world trade -- or, the World Economic Forum.
All the elites in England.
That are -- they're fine with the great, Great Reset. How do you negotiate with people who don't mind blowing the whole thing up?
Listen to this.
DONALD: I don't have to negotiate. I don't have to negotiate. I'm talking to people out of respect. But I don't have to. So we're this giant store that people want to come in and buy bye from. We're the United States. We have the richest consumer, et cetera, et cetera. Right?
But we're not going to be that way for long if we do something. But we're this giant store, and they all want to come in and take our product. But to take our product, they are going to have to pay.
And we will either make a deal with them, or we will just set a price. Because some countries are worse than others. Some countries have ripped us off really badly, and some countries have just ripped us off a little bit, but almost all of them have ripped us off. Because we've had really poor leadership. And what's going to happen, is we're going to negotiate -- we are negotiating with 70 different countries. But we're negotiating. We're showing great respect. But in the end, we may make deals. But either that, or I just set a price. I said, here's what you will pay for the privilege of servicing the United States of America.
And they have an option. They can maybe talk to me a little bit. Or they can not jump.
You know, they don't have to shop at this big store. Or they can shop.
But in any event, they will have to pay. Look, we owe 36 trillion for a reason.
The reason is: The trade. Also, the endless wars, the stupid wars that we fought. We're going to the Middle East. We blow up. We leave. We don't get anything.
And you're a big fan of exactly what I'm saying. I mean, let's not do this. Let's not do that.
It's stupid. Endless wars. Endless wars. That they don't even want us. You know, we got into wars. They didn't even want us.
So all of that stuff. You know, when I left four years ago, you know, we had no wars. We had no Israel and Hamas. And, by the way, it would have never happened. Because their enemies were broke.
They were broke.
I have sanctions so strong on Iran.
They were totally broke. They had no money for Hamas and Hezbollah. We didn't have Russia-Ukraine. That would have never happened by the way. We didn't have the Afghanistan embarrassment. One of the great embarrassments in the history of our country.
We didn't have any inflation. Don't forget, I charged China hundreds of billions worth of tariffs. They talk about inflation. We had no inflation.
Because that doesn't cause inflation.
Stupidity causes inflation. High energy causes inflation. When they took over my energy -- we were making it like nobody has ever seen.
GLENN: I know.
DONALD: And then the prices doubled. By the way, because of that, Putin went in. You see what's going on now. It's going down.
GLENN: Yeah, I do.
DONALD: It makes it much harder for Putin to prosecute the war.
GLENN: It was fascinating.
We talked about a few things.
Judicial insurrection. Was one of them!
Another pretty strong response on that one, as well.
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April 25, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Tells the INCREDIBLE Story of Elon Musk, Nikola Tesla, and His Uncle
Immediately after his First 100 Days interview with President Trump, Glenn knew he had to ask one more question, even if it was off the record: How incredible is it that Trump is working with today’s Nikola Tesla, Elon Musk, when Trump's uncle was the man put in charge of sifting through Tesla’s files when he died?! But instead of having a private conversation, Trump decided to let Glenn’s audience hear the story too …
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April 25, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: President Trump on 'Judicial Insurrection,' Tariffs, and 100 Days in Office | Ep 429
In just his first 100 days in office, President Trump has moved faster to fix America than anyone expected. He created the DOGE, shut the border down, dismantled USAID and its wasteful spending, and put the world on notice that it can’t take advantage of America any more. But there’s still much more to do, and Americans have questions about what’s next. Glenn sits down with the president in the Roosevelt Room of the White House for his first one-on-one interview about his first 100 days. Glenn asks Trump what the real goal of his tariffs is, whether Elon Musk is really stepping back from the DOGE, whether Mexico is a failed narco-state, what his plans are for the cartels, and how he may react to the “judicial insurrection” of judges blocking his deportation orders. Trump also reveals his game-changing plans for AI and American energy, why he’s not “negotiating” with Europe or the world, whether Putin or Zelenskyy has been easier to deal with, and why he believes Glenn will “be surprised” by congressional Republicans soon.
►BONUS CONTENT: See my exclusive tour of the Roosevelt Room and don’t miss President Trump’s extended interview, where he shares how his uncle—once the government’s go-to expert on Nikola Tesla’s files—is now connected to today’s Tesla, Elon Musk. These are must-see moments you won’t find anywhere else. Watch now at BlazeTV.com/Glenn.
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April 24, 2025
America’s Power Grid Crisis Exposed: Can Trump Stop China’s AI Domination?
With the AI race in full swing, America must face one of its biggest obstacles if we're going to beat adversaries like China: our current power grid, which hasn't been updated since FDR, is not sustainable. We need 99% power by 2027. We're at 3%. Of all energy usage, in the next three years, an additional 29 gigawatts will be needed by 2027, and 67 more gigawatts will be required by 2030. Glenn argues that this can only be done by building nuclear power plants. China is already ahead of us in power plant production, so we need to get the ball rolling: "This is something that Donald Trump could do. And it is time!
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GLENN: Tonight is an epic interview with the president at the White House. So don't -- don't miss it. I'm going to do that interview, later this afternoon. It will air 9:00 p.m. Eastern time. It will be unedited. And you will be able to see them.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's not like you're dealing with Joe Biden anymore.
No. Yeah. Because -- let's see what he says.
You know, I have a lot of things to talk about. Like one thing, that I would like to see, you know, that I don't -- I don't see anybody talking about.
You know, the president is changing the economy. He is changing -- he is getting away from this World War II nightmare.
That, you know, might have been right for 1948. But it's certainly not right for today. Where we were taking care of Europe. We were giving them all kinds of special breaks. We were paying for their defense. Yada, yada, yada.
Instead, now Americans take care of herself. And we all need to be self-sufficient. Well, you know, we're talking about AI a lot. But what people are not talking about is something that Eric Schmitt came to the White House -- sorry, to Capitol Hill and testified a couple of days ago, about the power usage. We have a significant problem with power. Now, I want you to understand.
Everyone will tell you, we cannot you lose the race for AI. Have you heard anyone say anything other than that? Stu.
STU: No. Anyone who talks about it. says, we can't just let China or someone else win it.
GLENN: It's 100 percent universal, we must, must win. Okay?
So where are we going to get all the power?
Here's what Eric said. Many people project demand for our industry go from 3 percent.
3 percent of total energy production. Right now.
We're at 3 percent.
For all of our server farms and everything else.
For Silicon Valley. Uses 3 percent.
He says, it's going to go from 3 percent to 99 percent!
Of all energy usage, in the next three years, an additional 29 gigawatts by 2027 and 67 more gigawatts by 2030.
He's now saying that we have to build hundreds of nuclear power plants.
He said, there were some plants. They will require, most plants will require one nuclear power plant, per server farm!
Some of them may require up to three nuclear power plants per server farm!
So this is really good in one way: Because we will have the electricity that we need. Assuming we start to build these things quickly. I mean, what's going to happen, Stu. It takes 25 years, to build a nuclear power plant. How is it we're expected at all to compete?
We have dismantled our coal-fired plants all over the country. We are still not digging up coal and -- and fuel, as much as we need to.
We need to be open and open on absolutely everything.
That's something that Eric Schmitt said yesterday too. Remember, this is the Silicon Valley guy. I'm sure he was green, green, green for a long time.
Now he's saying, we need absolutely every source of energy. Because we will need 99 percent by 2027.
2027.
What do you think -- what do you think your power price is going to be?
What do you think about rolling blackouts or brownouts?
We have got to be. And this would create so many jobs.
So many jobs. Good-paying jobs. Going out and building all these nuclear power plants.
STU: Is this an opportunity.
GLENN: But will we do it?
STU: For Trump and the Trump administration?
GLENN: Huge. Huge. Huge.
STU: Because it feels like talking about positives, going on offense, rather than being on defense. There's been a lot of defense talk lately.
GLENN: Yes. Yes.
STU: And going on offense and saying, hey, we can be the best place for your company to exist. Because we will be the only place on earth that has the power it needs.
GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.
The only other country is doing it is China. And they're building it like crazy. This is something that we have -- Donald Trump could surpass FDR in power generation.
Remember, most people in 1919, Woodrow Wilson, I think 1 percent of the population had a refrigerator. By 1930, I think that number was like 80 percent. Had refrigeration.
When -- when FDR came in, the only places that didn't have stuff. Was there was no electricity in these small little rural towns. So he went. And he started building power plants and dams.
And everything else, to generate all the power. And then started laying power lines. This is something that Donald Trump could do. And it is time!
I mean, our grid hasn't really been updated since FDR.
We're still using the same stuff. And, you know -- and a lot of it is just so outdated. And so bad.
Our grid is so incredibly unstable. And not built for what's coming next.
And I just don't know how he's going to get it done. But this is a big win for him. Big win for him.
You know how many jobs would be created if we introduced and said, we have to build them, in the next three years?
We would be enormous!
Enormous!
And exciting!
STU: Yeah. Yeah. Exciting. I mean, look, having a power is the basis of civilization. Like, this is not a -- it's not a small little thing.
It really is one of the foundational elements you need for a modern civilization.
And we sit here. And we talk about all the things that we can't do.
All of the natural resources that we have. We can't utilize.
All the things that we need to stop.
Right? We need to stop making gas-powered cars.
We need to stop getting our own coal and using it.
We need to stop building nuclear plants. This is a way of saying, no. We're on offense.
We're America. You know, the left is trying to right now. They're in the middle of a rebrand.
And one of their -- as we talked about last hour. They're still seemingly stuck in a lot of these crazy woke stuff that burns them the last time. Hopefully, they stick with them forever.
One of the proposals being proposed bit left. It's this idea of abundance. That's the name of the book that kind of lays these concepts out.
And it's an idea of trying to take away what the right has always had. Which is this idea of saying, hey. We're looking to grow.
We want better things. We want the Americans to have a better, more fruitful. More wealthy.
More -- you know, having more. And we'll decide what we want to do, when we have more.
And the left was always saying, hey. No. We need to restrict. We need to calm that down. You don't need all this. You don't need the bigger house. You don't need the bigger car. And that's not the fundamental, number one thing you should care about. But it was always there for us to say, hey. All these shelves are stocked. Everything you need is right there. You make the decisions on what you want. You make the decisions on prioritize on what you will spend your money on. And what you will spend your time on. And the left is trying to take that back now. You're seeing an opportunity because of a lot of people on the right, who are saying, no. Actually, maybe we shouldn't have those things available. Maybe you don't need them. And I'm nervous. If they decide to go down this road, there is a real vulnerability to the conservative movement, if the left takes that away from us. And they want to.
GLENN: State it again, more succinctly. Your concern again?
STU: My concern is, and this is a real thing being talked about on the left. In sort of their higher level academic circles. Is the approach to say -- to take away, I don't know. It was a -- I would say, pretty consistent with that Reagan optimism. Right? The shining city on the hill.
GLENN: We can do it. We can do it.
STU: We can do it. We can accomplish all these incredible things. Not through government. Through you.
You can do it. We'll have all these things. And you should expect from your country, an abundance, not a scarcity.
GLENN: I'm trying to figure out, where are you seeing that on the left?
STU: There's a major best-seller that just came out, called abundance.
And it was from the left. It was from two guys on the left. And I don't know that they will win.
But, you know, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson. They're pretty well-known.
GLENN: That's really hard. That's really hard to sell. Barack Obama -- I know. Look at Barack Obama. He has how many houses? Three. Where he's building a seawall around one of his houses, where you can't build a seawall in Hawaii. But he's building a seawall around one of them. That's his part-time house. His other part-time house is in Nantucket, one foot above sea level. One. Count them. One foot above sea level.
STU: Right.
GLENN: And he has a third house someplace else. I think it's here in Washington.
And he's always talking about, hey. You know, there comes a time where enough is enough.
And you have too much.
When is that, Barack?
Because you're telling us, you shouldn't have an SUV.
You have three houses!
See, this whole abundance thing has never been aimed at them!
It's always been aimed at us.
They believe in abundance.
STU: Sure.
GLENN: For the right people. The right people get it.
And that is the biggest difference in abundance, is they've been saying that we all have to pinch back, but they don't actually mean it. At least the Republicans are like, yeah, I'm corrupt as hell and making all kinds of money on the side. But you can't do.
You know what I mean? It's just crazy.
STU: Yeah. No. I agree. I think, look, they've never actually believed any of these things. What was their approach. Forever, we heard the approach of, hey.
Your TVs are too big. Your cars. They're too -- they have too much of what you need.
The SUVs are too large.
Your homes are too large. You don't need the air-conditioning. You should turn it to 72 degrees.
Now, I can bet you at neither Martha's Vineyard or in Hawaii. Barack Obama never had his house set to some uncomfortable temperature he didn't like.
GLENN: Well, he might have.
Because he's right on the ocean. You can get that lovely ocean breeze that most of us don't get.
STU: That's true. That's true.
It was always something they tried to implement on the people. We get what we want.
But you need to sacrifice, for the greater good. And that's -- that's a thing that just doesn't connect exactly, with the American people.
Not because they're not charitable. Because they are. They want to do good things for other people.
They will come together, and do incredible -- accomplish incredible things which they have done.
But it was always this idea that you would be able -- it was part of the American deal, right?
We do these things. We work hard. Maybe we work harder. Maybe we work more hours.
Maybe we put up with more crap. The idea that we can shape our own future. The left is trying to take that messaging back.
Now, I'm with you. In that, I'm not confident, that viewpoint will not win out on the left. Because there's a bunch of insane people.
But it is a vulnerability on the right if we go down this road of trying to encourage the same type of scarcity talk that the left has been engaging in.
GLENN: Okay. Okay.
So let's -- let's take that. Next hour, I want to tell you a story that fits right in here, on what the leftists are doing in San Francisco.
Because it's very similar to what you're talking about.
This morning, when I read it. I thought, that will never work.
But maybe you're right. Maybe it will.
I don't know. But it's insane.
We'll talk about that and so much more. Coming up.
Don't forget, President Trump, an interview tonight at 9:00 with President Trump and I.