CLAY: President Trump may be soon to be President Trump again, because I feel, like many of you do, that he is likely to run in 2024. You saw the crowd that he produced in Alabama on a random Saturday in August three years until an election actually takes place. And there was still a massive crowd there, and Trump really — as he often does, Buck — summed up things (laughing) really well when he talked about the woke virus that is spreading throughout America. Let’s play cut 28. This is Trump at his best cutting to the essence of the stupidity.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: You know what “woke” means? It means you’re a loser.

CROWD: (laughter)

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Everything woke…

CROWD: (applause and applause)

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Everything woke… It’s true! Everything woke turns to (bleep), okay?

CLAY: How awesome is that?

BUCK: I miss him. Right?

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: I mean, I know a lot of people listening miss him too. I feel like the two breakthrough things about Trump, Clay, from the very beginning of the campaign that led to his 2016 win that of course the Democrat-aligned media said was impossible, all that stuff, there was the border issue.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: He was in really a place by himself on the GOP, the wall, the border. But also his not just standing up to political correctness, but his decision very clearly to punch political correctness in the nose and laugh in its face afterwards. It was refreshing beyond one’s ability to verbalize. It just felt so good.

CLAY: There are so many Republicans who are desperate to be liked by the New York Times and the Washington Post and CNN and MSNBC. They are desperate to be beloved by those organizations, even though those organizations — as John McCain found out with some of the coverage that he got in the tail end of his career — will cut your throat in a moment if they get the opportunity to do so because deep down, they hate you.

Trump just said, “Screw ’em! I don’t care about ’em at all. They aren’t that impactful,” and I think that’s one of the great legacies that I believe he may have left, is instead of Mitt Romney-style sort of crawling around on your knees begging for likability there, he just said, “Screw ’em.”

And I think his innate gift is to be able — as you just heard on that clip — to cut through all of the noise and get to the essence of why this woke universe is so stupid. And, Buck, you were talking about this earlier in the show. Jeopardy, which is as beloved and I would say typically apolitical as a game show could be… I don’t think we want to see a woke version of Price is Right or a woke version of Jeopardy.

They didn’t pick the woke candidates, evidently, or not the woke-enough candidates. So they now have fired the would-be host because of jokes that he made on a podcast eight years ago or whatever the heck it was. And now they’re going after Blossom. I don’t even know how you pronounce her name. Mayim Bialik or however you pronounce her name. Blossom is how I will know her from the old television show Blossom. Because years ago, Buck, she said she wasn’t that excited about vaccinating her kids, and now they don’t want her to be a host.

BUCK: Oh, of course, because vaccines are no longer really, for a lot of people, first foremost about science or about safety, even. For a lot of people, the vaccine is a virtue-signaling, political allegiance mechanism which is why they really judge people. I was at a wedding over the weekend. The wedding was fantastic, by the way.

CLAY: Yeah, how was the wedding?

BUCK: It was great. First thing when I arrived, they check ID, vax passport at the door.

CLAY: I was wondering about that.

BUCK: They absolutely did.

CLAY: Who checked it?

BUCK: Staff.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: On Friday, they were checking vaccine and ID. They’re doing this in restaurants. They’re doing this in bars now.

CLAY: Now, how do you have you the vaccine in New York? Do you have it on your phone? Is it a card? What is the vaccine passport?

BUCK: You have a card. You can take a photo of the card and then there’s also this pass to New York. I don’t have this. I don’t know what it is.

CLAY: The Empire Pass or something? Yes.

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BUCK: Remember New York is the laboratory of insanity for what’s coming everywhere else, and that’s why one of the big challenges, Clay — and I felt was gonna talk about fun wedding things.

CLAY: (laughing) Yeah.

BUCK: Can you remind me to talk about fun wedding things from over the weekend? Because now I got totally diverted. But what I saw happening over the weekend here in New York City is they’re gonna try to replicate this elsewhere, and for people who think, “Oh, I’m safe from this. I live in Texas,” or Florida or… I don’t even know what they’re doing in Nebraska these days with covid restrictions.

But the federal government is now lining up to make this the same way you have to on a plane… I don’t care if you fly from Dallas to Miami, they’re gonna mask you up or they’re gonna arrest you. They’re going to do this for vaccines in different ways across the country. That’s what I see happening unless people finally say, “Enough is enough.”

CLAY: That’s what I’m terrified of. And that’s what they’re trying to do is, the government is using their bully pulpit to, literally the bully part of it, to try to get companies and organizations to mandate the vaccines themselves when they legally don’t have the ability to do it. So all of this is rolling together, and it’s going to be hard, I think, for people to stand up against it.

I’m hopeful that Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott and Bill Lee and Brian Kemp and other governors… I think there are nine states right now that are prohibiting a mask mandate on kids in schools, and I think that’s an important battle to fight, because if you lose that one, if you lose masks in schools, I think you’re right, Buck. I think the next thing up is, “Hey, you gotta wear a mask to go on an airplane.”

BUCK: We never beat this lockdown monster by feeding it more of our freedom. It doesn’t work. It just gets hungrier. It’s just a hippo that keeps growing. Remember Hungry Hippos when you were a kid?

CLAY: Oh, yeah. A great game.

BUCK: It was a pretty fun game, actually, back in the day, I gotta say.