SOMBRERO-GATE! | Episode 137

21:46Oh, isn't that great? I love how, you know, you can tell. I call Hakeem Jeffries the dial-up Democrat. He's still operating on a 56K modem. You can tell that he started that sentence thinking, like, I'm going to sound real tough. But he didn't actually know how to end it. So he wandered his way through it. He finally got to the end. Say it to my face. Say it to my face. Well, be careful what you wish for, because I'm pretty sure he will say it to your face if that's what you want. I think the president will deliver that. What is that, by the way? Are you bowing up now against the president of the United States?

22:21Are you going to beat him up, Hakeem Jeffries? So stupid. Say it to my face. Yeah, somebody in the chat says, Cisco says violence is all they know. Yeah. Yeah, he's going right back to, you know, his instincts. What about violence? How about we use some violence? We've had enough violence. Why don't you just why don't you just open the government again? How about you just, you know, vote for sanity for once? See how that give that a try. Just do something a little different. So that's Hakeem Jeffries trying to get tough. Chuck Schumer stepped out the the the elderly United States senator to let everybody know that he didn't really say that that nobody likes Democrats, that that was just so you know, it was a I.

23:03It wasn't actually Chuck Schumer. Here's Chuck Schumer. Take a look. Yesterday, the president posted an offensive deep fake AI video of Leader Jeffries and me. With sombreros, fake music, impersonating my voice through AI, it wasn't me. Talking even more lies about health care and immigration. Listen to this, America. Hours away from a shutdown, which we don't want. The American people don't want. The president is busy trolling away on the Internet like a 10 year old. He just voted. And that's exactly why Americans are going to blame him if the government shuts down. That's another proof point.

23:48Meanwhile, Americans are blaming Democrats for the shutdown. And rightfully so. And Chuck Schumer, who's like, you're going to shut the government down. Chuck Schumer just shut the government down. So in case you're wondering, those were those lies were authentic. No deep fake lies. Those are regular lies. Those are the, you know, the regular Chuck Schumer lies that he tells every day. There he is doing it yet again. That was fake. I never said Democrats suck. Yeah, well, with every other action, you prove it. So that's that's Chuck Schumer's reaction to this. MSNBC was in an all out butt pucker panic yesterday.

24:21They they they could have turned coal into diamonds with those cheeks. Listen to the MSNBC freak out yesterday. Cut five. I also asked him what he thought of the tweet last night. After the meeting in the Oval Office with our leadership and Senate leadership, what he thought of the tweet that the president put forward with our leader in a sombrero, nodding with a mustache, and Schumer saying things, of course, that he never said. The speaker said that was not his style. I said, did you call it out? You should call it out for the racist, bigoted thing that it was. And he questioned whether or not it was racist.

25:05Let me just drill down on that. Mike Johnson doesn't know if a picture of Leader Hakeem Jeffries donning a sombrero and a mustache is or is not racist? I said that very thing. I said an African-American leader of the House donning a sombrero and mustache. You don't see the bigotry in that? You don't see the racism in that? That's a problem, Nicole. I love it so much. How funny is that? So two women with resting Democrat face on television just nodding gravely about how awful. That's so bigoted. That's so racist. First of all, what do they have against sombreros? Come on. What's a good Mexican restaurant birthday party without a sombrero?

25:51Huh? Huh? That's the key. and then you have to sneak off and tell the waiter like, hey, my buddy, it's his birthday, even if it's not his birthday, as long as they drop a sombrero on his head and drop a little cake in front of him and put a candle in it. Worth it. Totally worth it. But but this this is so funny. So that's that's Congresswoman Madeline Dean and and Nicole Wallace, of course, and both, you know, both have resting Democrat face. And and they're so angry. And I don't know what this is. And I know it's probably juvenile of me, but there's something about it. It's just

26:22Dan Bongino:It's like the more angry they get, the more I enjoy it. Like, right. Have you ever been at a point in your life where you knew that something was really funny and then somebody starts scolding you for it? Probably when you were like high school or something. I'll be honest, but whatever. I'm enjoying this moment. I have so little regard for these Democrats that I can't help but enjoy it. And the more they scold you, the more it cracks you up. It's the funniest thing ever. And it just makes me want to see, you know, the Trump administration do it even more. Do it even more. and uh they're not the only ones so we get the uh the all-out panic on uh from the two bitter uh democrat ladies we also have um who is this re melber we got oh yeah here's here's cut five take a look here here's uh this is re melber sitting with don leman i think and they they too were whining yesterday about this they can't they can't even believe donald trump is this funny this is trump ai attack it's a video i'm not gonna play the whole video because we don't find it meets our standards or is newsworthy.

27:21But I want to show, before I show Jeffrey's response, what he put up. It's basically this ridiculous, hateful, kind of bigoted, doctored image. In the video, he has the politicians saying things they don't really say. So we're the news. We're not going to tell you what it is, because it's false. We have that standard. We have standards here. We wouldn't let lies appear on television. Meanwhile, they let Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer just lie with every genuine word that comes out of their mouth on their networks. We've got standards here. But the best part of that segment was that they literally, they didn't show the video, but they put the image up on screen, just a still frame of Hakeem Jeffries wearing a superimposed sombrero and a mustache.

28:10And it said on the on the image it said AI generated post, which is so funny. And it's like that these people, these humorless scolds are the best. I just, I am, I'm loving this so much. And then we get this Democrat congresswoman who, who you ever see this where like, especially Democrats do this, where they'll be speaking in a perfect English accent, normal American English accent. And then all of a sudden they'll drop a Spanish word in and they'll put some sort of like like accent flair on it to prove that they can speak Spanish or that they can pronounce that word. Yeah, Kamala was the queen of that, or at least she tried to anyway.

28:50Kamala tried to like, you know, pretend she had a French accent when she was in France. Yeah, no, they call it. Yeah, that's right. Justin's pointing out they call it code switching, which is another word for insecurity. Here is. Here's listen to this Democrat congresswoman put some flourish on the word sombrero yesterday. Cut seven. Look at this. And then what does that shameful man do? After a meeting where you're supposed to be working out details, where you're supposed to be negotiating a deal, you post something that draws a sombrero and a mustache on the leader with whom you're supposed to be.

29:31A sombrero and a mustache? A sombrero? Okay. So she's raging about that yesterday. And so we got, was that an image, fellas, or did we get a video out of that after she was freaking out? Oh, we got a photo. This is from the Trump war room. Check this. Oh, you do have the photo? Put the photo up on screen. I actually think that this photo, for those of you on rumble.com slash fans watching us right now,

29:58Dan Bongino:this photo is one of my favorite memes to come out of this. Just because of how well it's done. This is Congresswoman Teresa Fernandez, who's melting down. And they put a mustache. Somebody photoshopped a mustache onto her. A really good mustache, by the way. It's well-groomed. It might be AI, but it's very well done. A perfectly placed sombrero. She just looks phenomenal. She looks great. And then right behind her, another Democrat congresswoman, now with a purple sombrero on her head. This is the kind of stuff. This is the high-quality stuff I've been looking for. I think we're winning the meme wars, fellas.

30:35I think it's so good. And then the Trump administration followed up with this banger yesterday. Take a look. Cut eight. Watch this. It's a disgusting video, and we're going to continue to make clear. Bigotry will get you nowhere. We are fighting to protect the health care of the American people in the face of an unprecedented Republican assault.

31:05a full-blown mariachi band. Just four Donald Trumps show up wielding mariachi instruments playing behind Hakeem Jeffries. So, I'm a... What's the old... Does McDonald's still say I'm loving it? Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba? I'm loving it. I'm loving it. McDonald's, they've changed that slogan, by the way, like a million times since I was a kid. What was it? Yeah, have you had your break today? You remember that? Have you had your break today? It was a long time ago. That's it. That's a fun drinking game just to go back and remember old McDonald's jingles. Yeah, my drinking games are lame. I'll admit. But anyway, thanks to the president.

31:48Thanks for giving us a good time. As always, I just, you know, he is the single funniest president that we've ever had as a country. And don't you ever forget it. I don't know how you could. It's really good. All right, coming up, I've got some news for you. We're going to talk about E.J. Antony, BLS nominee.

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35:01Dan Bongino:Now's the perfect time to plant. Use Vince to save today. Offer is valid for a limited time. Terms and conditions may apply. All right. I want to get into something that I care a lot about, and I think you should care a lot about as well. For those of you who have been with me and with Dan Bongino now for years, you will be familiar with a guy called E.J. Antony. And Justin, if we could put E.J.'s picture up on screen, if you can find the picture of him with President Trump in the Oval Office, I just want a frame of reference for those guys watching the video. So, but here's what we're dealing with.

35:44A short while ago, the Bureau of Labor Statistics,

35:49Dan Bongino:they had a woman who was at the top of it called Erica McIntyre, and it was being run really poorly. They kept producing data that was garbage, just garbage, unusable. And, you know, normally for most of us, like your financial situation is not something you need the government to tell you about. You know, this data, it's always backwards looking. It's like, OK, whatever. I know that my finances suck. I know that I have credit card debt. I know that I need to try and make ends meet and that my paycheck isn't going the distance. These are things that Americans know about themselves. They know what they're dealing with.

36:23Dan Bongino:But the reason that this data matters so much and getting it right matters so much is because the Federal Reserve sets our entire economy's interest rates on the basis of that data. So if the data comes out and it's wrong and it says that actually the jobs reports were great during the Biden era, which they did, they got that completely wrong. the effect of that is that well then we don't need to lower interest rates they're waiting for the jobs to suffer before they lower rates so we get these rosy delusional reports from the biden era from the bureau of labor statistics they were complete garbage and that means that it's harder for people to buy a home it's harder for people to get the auto loan that they might be looking for It's harder for them to get a loan to start a business, to invest in their business.

37:17Dan Bongino:Everything about the economy is more difficult, and the data are a lie. They're a lie. So the president has been upset about this. He hates that that data has been inaccurate. So what did he do? He turned to E.J. Antony. He turned to a renowned economist with a brilliant understanding of our economy, who is a wise, conservative numbers guy who has an amazing ability to not just sort through data and assess it and project it, but also an amazing ability to explain it. Which is why when I said that you're familiar with him if you've been with me for a while or if you've been with Dan for a while, it's because that's my economist.

38:03Dan Bongino:That's Dan's economist. He's the best economist on the right for a bunch of us to be able to present this data in an understandable way. And so the president made a wise choice to nominate him for that job. So what has happened since? Well, in the United States Senate, you've got to go through committee first. If you're a nominee, you've got to go through the relevant committee. And in the Senate, they've got the HELP committee. Now, that's the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. They call it the HELP committee. But it's not helping the rest of us because here's what happened. That committee has an obligation to meet with the president's nominees in order to assess whether or not they would like to vote to confirm that person.

38:55Dan Bongino:Guess what happened in EJ's nomination? Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski refused to meet with him. Susan Collins of Maine, Republican, and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Republican, refused to ever once have an appointment with the president's well-qualified nominee to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics, E.J. Antony. In other words, if you can't even get the Republicans to take the meeting in that committee, and they're delaying it, they're forestalling it, what you're doing is you're hurting the country. You're stopping the president from having a BLS commissioner so that you can get the data right, so that we can bring the interest rates down, so that people can afford to buy a home.

39:50You are clogging up the entire economy for whatever cruel purposes you have in mind.

39:58Dan Bongino:Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski have betrayed this country. they've betrayed their job responsibilities and they've betrayed the president of the united states and the voters who put him there by refusing to have a meeting with such a well-qualified nominee to do the job yesterday president trump must have determined that he was left with no choice given all of the political fights that he's currently engaged in but to withdraw e.j.'s nomination from consideration by the Senate. So what that means for the rest of us is we get E.J. back. E.J. goes back out now into the public. He's able to reengage.

40:39Dan Bongino:He's able to be the economist that we've all relied on to help sort through the data. But this has further forestalled our ability to get our economy on track. Those two senators, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski. Now, I could include the Democrats in my assessment, the Democrats who this has never been a partisan issue before. All of a sudden, in lockstep, they're just voting completely against anybody the president wants in any of these jobs. In particular, a job like the Bureau of Labor Statistics, you're turning this into a partisan operation? This is about data accuracy. EJ's the best. He should be doing that right now.

41:15Dan Bongino:But he's not because of Democrats and because of their collaborators in Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins. Shame on both of you for your failure to the country in this. Shame on you.

41:30Dan Bongino:So that's where we are right now. That's what happened. And look, I expressed it last night on Twitter as this news was breaking. And I'll say it again here that E.J. Antony is a brilliant economist and a deeply patriotic American. He adores this country. he truly believes in doing everything he can to make it better and i'm grateful that we have him anywhere on this battlefield anywhere on this battlefield so if they think that in any way they're going to diminish his effectiveness by trying to stiff arm him from an important job like that they're not they're not in fact through this process but more of the country became aware of EJ and how great he is.

42:20Dan Bongino:That's true. And now I can't wait to see what he does next. No doubt we'll be having conversations with him imminently on air. We'll have EJ. He's been on ice, of course, because of this whole process. But just to be clear, one of the great economists of our time, EJ Antony, blocked by two idiots, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, were not serving their country well right now. In fact, who've betrayed the rest of us by not even meeting with him. Look, ladies, if you had problems with this guy, you are United States senators. Be adults, sit down with him, ask him questions, and resolve whatever disputes you have.

43:03Dan Bongino:Come to your own conclusions at the end of those conversations. But if you don't even have the conversation, that's an act of cowardice. It's disgusting. That brought us to where we are today. So I just wanted you to know what is happening, what has happened as E.J. and Tony, again, considered for that role. And lots of support. Lots of great people came out. Mark Wayne Mullen and Tommy Tuberville. And there's a big list. Mike Lee, who are all enthusiastic. Scott Besson, the United States Treasury Secretary, just kept on going out on television and trying to tell everybody he could possibly get a hold of, E.J.

43:37Dan Bongino:is my guy. I need E.J. in this role. And Murkowski and Collins, they said no. but they didn't even say no. They did it in the most passive-aggressive, feline, pathetic way. They just refused to take a meeting and they hoped the rest of us wouldn't notice. Sorry, ladies. We did. We noticed. All right. We'll definitely address that more. I'll have more to say about that on the big national radio show today, 12 to 3 Eastern time today. Before I get to the rest of that, well, not before, before I get to the radio show, Let me cover some other issues with you today. I've got some illegal alien stuff to get to.

44:21And this one comes to us by way of our friend Dan Bongino, the aforementioned Dan Bongino, who tweeted out something yesterday.

44:29Dan Bongino:It was actually Dan who called my attention to this when I saw his tweet on the subject. He tweeted yesterday, we are not slowing down. We are not slowing down. Fellas, let's put a Dan Bongino tweet up on screen, shall we? and he posted this, and I was like, what are you not slowing down over? What's the thing that you are accelerating into? What is this? And, well, it's exciting. Take a look. Here's Fox's covers. This is what Dan tweeted of what was happening in Chicago yesterday. Watch. Here we go. Take a look. They say these individuals are responsible for dealing in guns. Long guns and handguns as well as drugs.

45:18The helicopter has now just taken off. This is really an unprecedented show of federal force. They detained about two dozen people searching only apartments where no rent was being paid.

45:29Dan Bongino:Amazing. So as a part of the operation, they had helicopters hovering above the building and they had snipers fast roping down off the helicopters into Chicago. And I'm telling you, you know who's upset about this? the least popular BJ in America, Brandon Johnson. That guy is furious that this is happening in his city. How dare you enforce immigration law in my city? How dare you? And these idiots, they keep saying stuff like, oh, Chicago's the safest big city in America. We're so safe. Really? Because we just cracked down on an apartment complex loaded up with violent Trendy Aragua members, a violent gang from Venezuela.

46:09Dan Bongino:So you tell me again how this makes Chicago safe. It doesn't. But the FBI is doing it. But DHS is doing it. And that's why Dan tweeted about this, because you have FBI agents who are in on this operation. It's a massive multi-agency operation on an apartment complex in Chicago. A great scene as these guys crack down on these illegal aliens. Really just wonderful to see. So that part of it, that's not ending. This continues. And, okay, the media broadly are not going to cover it. You'll get Mike Tobin out with a Fox hit. You'll get Dan Bongino tweeting about it. The legacy press are going to ignore it.

46:50Dan Bongino:They're just going to keep pretending like ICE agents are doing nothing but, you know, terrorizing Americans. They lie to you. All they do is lie to you. Real media coverage. We are fighting to protect the health care of the American people in the face of an unprecedented... Thanks for calming me down with that. But it's true, though. They do lie to you. And, you know, that's it's just outrageous. It's just completely outrageous. Meanwhile, like real media coverage, you know what that would look like? It'd be like another victory, another victory, more illegal aliens. I mean, if you want it, if you want it, you know, in the press, there's been kind of an old adage.

47:29Dan Bongino:If it bleeds, it leads. If, you know, in other words, like crisis and chaos is the thing that leads in the headlines. And that makes sense. People, they turn they turn to the drama. But you notice what the left is doing. Instead of telling you about the crisis that exists within our cities, hey, we've got an entire building loaded with Trende de Aragua over here. We've got other apartment buildings being taken over by gangsters over here. We've got Americans who are being killed over here. More rapes are happening over here. Instead of saying that, the way the media are covering this is they're lying to you.

48:00Dan Bongino:They're acting like ICE agents of the Gestapo and the Nazis. so it's not like they don't have a crisis to tell you about they do it was created by the left it's it's it's not one of these things where i was just bearing the good news because nobody really reads the good news no they're not telling you about the underlying predicate for why these guys need to go in on fast ropes to begin with with snipers god bless the men and women of law enforcement god bless dan god bless the fbi thank you for being all over it and uh no i didn't say ICE is a function of the FBI. Somebody said that in the chat.

48:32Dan Bongino:I'm saying it's a multi-agency effort. It's a multi-agency effort. This is when they work together. It's great. This is great news. This is what we need. Meanwhile, Des Moines, Iowa, that's where that idiot school board. It's so funny. Truly, the excuse that the school board is coming up with right now for why they hired an illegal alien superintendent to run their operation is we are just too stupid to know he was an illegal alien. Because, right, there are only two options here for why they hired this guy. Either they're totally corrupt or they're total morons. Those are your options. And right now, in an effort to avoid any sort of criminal consequences for their behavior, they're going with we're total morons.

49:19We're idiots.

49:21Dan Bongino:Here's the chairwoman of the Des Moines, Iowa School Board. I'll remind you, she was Michelle Obama's chief of staff. And now she's claiming we were too stupid to realize we hired an illegal alien. Cut 11. Take a look. The individual who was leading our district with energy and enthusiasm was detained by ICE agents. Since that time, this district, the Iowa Department of Education, the Department of Homeland Security, and others have learned that his citizenship and status and eligibility to work in the United States is not what we were led to believe. For all of us, this is not what we anticipated when we welcomed Dr.

50:01Ian Roberts into central Iowa and the Des Moines School District a little more than two years ago. DMPS reviewed Dr. Roberts' I-9 where he stated he was a U.S. citizen and provided two forms of ID, a driver's license and a social security card, and Denton's Davis Brown determined the information submitted was consistent with his claim that he was a US citizen. In accordance with due process, we gave Dr. Roberts an opportunity through his attorney to provide any information that would substantiate his claims by answering a set of questions regarding citizenship he did not provide the board with the information we requested instead he submitted a letter of resignation through his attorney and the board will vote to accept his resignation as each board member votes please know that the school board made the difficult but right decision given the circumstances uh-huh uh-huh uh i'm calling sombreros on this chick i'm calling complete bull sombrero on this.

51:10Yeah, we just had no idea. We had no idea. What? An illegal alien?

51:17Dan Bongino:In 2024, the Biden administration, the Biden administration went through a court process with this dude and they had a final order of deportation for him in absentia, meaning he was skipping his court dates. He refused to show up and they said, yeah, we're deporting you. So this has long been a settled matter, and yet they were playing dumb there in Des Moines. What? That guy? You mean the incredible superintendent of Des Moines schools? Yeah, that guy. That guy. That guy's an illegal alien with a loaded Glock 19 in his car. He's been registered to vote in Maryland. They keep sending ballots to his house over and over and over again for years.

52:02Just a reminder that that definitely happens, that illegal aliens are definitely getting ballots participating in elections that's happening in Maryland. So this guy is he's everything wrapped up into one.

52:13Dan Bongino:The point is, like, there he is. We've got all these pictures of him. He entered the United States in 1999. He overstayed a student visa. He's been here forever and he's been adjudicated, deportable. And he should have been out of the country a long time ago. Yet the Des Moines school system led by Democrats put him in charge. And one thing that I haven't pointed out about this story, but I do want to point out now is the fact is, to what extent do you think that the white libs who are on the Des Moines school board just gave him a pass and no scrutiny whatsoever because he's a black dude? To what extent do you think that that animated their lack of due diligence here?

52:50Dan Bongino:So insofar as like they didn't actually check anything, maybe they were like, this is a great thing. Maybe this is a great thing. Dr. Ian Roberts. He's a smart black guy. Let's bring him in. He's the superintendent now. Well, did you check his immigration status? Did you do a background check on him? Is he safe to be around children? Did you look at anything? You know, the kind of stuff you would look at for anybody who's going to have any job working in and around a school system. Did you do anything? Their answer is no. No. Well, he filled out the I-9 and it kind of looked right. So I guess we just kept them around what that's your system so here's what i want i want a full-blown federal investigation into the des moines school board you earned it you did it you sold out the taxpayers of that community you gave this guy three hundred thousand dollars a year and uh and of taxpayer money vince illegal aliens don't receive taxpayer money hello dr ian roberts is even a real doctor Nobody knows.

53:50Dan Bongino:But he's taking$300 ,000 cash from the taxpayers every year. And so now it's time for us to launch a full-blown investigation into Des Moines. On behalf of the people of Des Moines, let's do a full-blown investigation into the school board there. Let's haul in Michelle Obama's chief of staff. Let's get her answers in a deposition as to what exactly she's saying. You know, we need her under oath. You know, what did she actually know as they brought this guy in and they kept him there in the school system? If it's the Department of Education, the Department of Justice, whatever it takes, let's just make them suffer for what they've done.

54:32Dan Bongino:That's it. That's it. If there are no consequences, then more crap like this happens. And I'd like less crap like that to happen. So I'd like there to be consequences. That's the plan. One more thing on federal investigations and illegal aliens. This week we got a really big piece of news. It's not shocking, but it is appalling. We got a big piece of news this week from Governor Kevin Stitt, who determined that New York State has been handing out these crazy driver's licenses to illegal aliens to give them commercial driver's licenses with no name given. No name given. I was on Newsmax on Tuesday night talking about this with the great Rob Finnerty.

55:16Dan Bongino:It says no name given on the New York State driver's license. And as I pointed out to you when we first went over this, it's a real ID, meaning not just that it's a real driver's license that was handed out by New York. It's got a little star at the top right corner of it. You see that? Rumble.com slash Vince, you see the star that's up there? What that means is that, like, for the rest of us, you had to go through a whole process. You had to perform. You had to have two IDs. You had to go through, like, a full-blown rectal exam. And then they're like, okay, fine. The federal government confirms that you're the person you say you are.

55:48Dan Bongino:What is this? How are illegal aliens getting, quote, real IDs? And since this is a national system, let me make another recommendation to our great federal government. Investigate New York State immediately. In what world can they be using a national identification system, the real ID system, to give illegal aliens identification cards? And then pretending that they're, quote, real. It's not a real ID. That's a, quote, fake ID. We need a real criminal investigation into what the hell states like New York are doing and the way they're selling the rest of us out by trying to take advantage of a system that's designed to protect you.

56:31Dan Bongino:That's what it's designed for. And as always, the left figures that way to abuse it. It's happening. All right. The Big National Radio Show coming up today, 12 to 3 Eastern time. You can get your local listings, thevinceshow.com. You can watch us live, rumble.com slash Vince. Maybe we'll have some surprise guests stop by. We'll see. Working on things. And as always, great to have you with us. I'm back with you tomorrow on another great edition of Vince. We are fighting to protect the health care of the American people in the face of an unprecedented...