‘i Can Speak My Mind Again’: Voters Celebrate America Under Trump

I’m Dr Frank Luntz, and invited to nan past latest installment of America speaks correct present connected consecutive arrow news this week, Donald Trump’s America, arsenic described by Trump voters. So let’s get correct to nan conversation.
Give maine a connection aliases building aliases sentence, but thing much to picture wherever America is astatine correct now.
And Chrissy, I’m going to commencement with
you looking forward.
I’d opportunity that looking forward. Patrick from Nevada, make it a comeback. United States is backmost connected nan rise. Mary from West Virginia,
we’re halfway stage.
Kathy from Louisiana,
America’s number one.
Louis from North Carolina, sky’s nan limit.
Craig from Virginia, bully to spot America backmost connected nan shape wherever it needs to be
front of everybody getting our activity done.
Vlada from Florida, America is backmost together united.
John from Colorado,
President Trump is reinstilling nan tone of America. David from Ohio, it’s improving.
Joe from Missouri, prosperous. Mike from Pennsylvania, America is back, and nan early looks very bright. Serena from New York,
optimistic.
Susan from Florida, President Trump is bringing america back. Pat from Oklahoma, Make America Great Again, again.
Michael from Texas, America’s Golden Age and fresh to elite nan president Vance successful 4 years.
Y’all truthful positive.
I cognize you didn’t consciousness this measurement 100 days ago, but you’re truthful positive.
What is happening successful America that makes you this optimistic?
Hope we person an big successful nan White House.
Everything you tin spot it
honestly, pinch nan group like,
yeah, you tin spot pinch group for illustration Bill Maher and different folks who are coming around. I We’re not location yet, but they’re coming around. A batch of our friends and family are changing nan measurement they talk astir authorities and are coming around
Absolutely. Craig from Virginia, why are you truthful optimistic now?
Well, for nan past 4 years, we saw America conscionable descent disconnected nan disconnected nan defender rails, correct down nan hill. It’s astir apt personification who’s bringing backmost America’s values, things that failing first and putting America first, and that’s wherever our state thrives nan most, is erstwhile we support everything successful present and we activity together, get America make America first, make America awesome again. Susan, why are you truthful affirmative astir nan state and its direction? Well,
it’s much than conscionable seeing it
like I consciousness it. A batch of people, you know, successful my family, astir me, we we consciousness it. The changes are, I mean, almost daily.
And you know, it’s just
President Trump is giving america results for illustration he promised. Okay, I want to instrumentality to nan state alternatively than nan politicians. Mike from Pennsylvania,
how is America different coming than it was, let’s opportunity three, 4 months ago? Well,
we person an big successful nan White House, we’re getting things done, and astatine nan extremity of nan day, he’s putting America first, but he’s,
he’s, he’s act. He’s moving nan state for illustration a business. Serena, what’s different astir America coming that did not beryllium 100 days ago.
There was a emotion of oppression pinch Biden, it was palpable.
The crime was rising. Everything was rising. You had to interest astir pronouns. You had to interest astir a batch of woke schedule that, look, I don’t attraction if you place arsenic a tree, that’s your prerogative, but you don’t person to unit it connected maine and group felt things were being forced connected them, and it’s not that doesn’t beryllium correct now. Cathy, really is America different coming than it was 100 days ago? I want to piggyback on.
What Serena’s saying is I consciousness for illustration now I tin speak freely. I don’t consciousness for illustration I americium not allowed to opportunity what I consciousness astir wherever our state is going. I tin talk astir my pridefulness successful my country, and I conscionable consciousness for illustration prices are getting better. I spot nan money, I spot nan gas, what I walk connected gas, is getting better. I spot groceries are still high, but eggs are less. I’m seeing prices successful definite places are going down. I tin person conversations pinch group now and not beryllium acrophobic that I’m going to telephone them nan incorrect gender, and if I do, if they get upset pinch me, that’s their prerogative. Like you were saying, Sabrina, that’s that’s up to them. That’s not connected me. John from Colorado, really is America different coming than it was 100 days ago? I deliberation there’s a mates things successful location benignant of tied together. Um, everybody’s benignant of dancing astir nan the answer, which is, I deliberation there’s a batch little fear. There’s a batch little fearfulness astir what to say, a batch little fearfulness astir what to think, and truthful on. But portion of that is we’ve each looked astatine these, what are called nan 8020 issues, right? Well, we went done a agelong clip erstwhile you had to beryllium connected nan broadside of nan 20 aliases you were a bad person. Now everybody is starting to coalesce astir nan 80% SIDE. LET’S GET men retired of women’s sports and each nan remainder of it, right? And that’s, that’s what’s happening.
Patrick, explicate nan alteration American enthusiasm. Um, I tin now speak my mind connected societal media without getting blackballed. It seems for illustration communal consciousness is coming back. I’m you’re talking to personification who’s been banned from x from erstwhile I went aft Pelosi. So, I mean, it’s amazing. We tin speak our mind. Um, we’re not. We’re not bad for speaking our mind. The American enthusiasm and what’s going connected successful in nan state is incredible, and it seems for illustration communal consciousness is coming back. So nan group are happier than they were six months ago. Christy, really do you reply that question? Well, I wide hope, but from personification who was astatine j6
I’m not acrophobic to opportunity I was astatine j6 anymore, because I could person perchance been pulled in. Now, I wasn’t anyplace adjacent nan nonstop spaces wherever each that was, but I was there,
so I’m not excessively frightened astir saying that I was location anymore.
Is nan American dream much live coming than it was 100 days ago? Yes, absolutely,
yes. What is it astir nan changes of nan past 100 days gives you much religion and assurance successful achieving nan American dream.
This is going to really happen, because we person yet personification that is for nan American group alternatively against them.
Mike from Pennsylvania,
I concur pinch Joe is that
the American tone is back, nan energy, nan synergy that President Trump has brought back, nan occurrence successful nan belly, nan fire, you know, I remember, you know, nan aged Reagan commercialized that This nan sparkling metropolis connected a elevation America’s back, and I deliberation pinch his resiliency and his vision,
the American Dream is going to beryllium possible. I firmly judge that, John, really tin I spot aliases tin I consciousness this American tone that Mike speaks of?
Well, I deliberation it’s a mobility of whether you judge it’s possible, right? So for a agelong time, group didn’t judge it was imaginable to execute nan American dream. We’ve gone done that now for really much than much than 4 years. It was really starting pinch COVID and truthful on, and group conscionable thought we were shutting down. And I deliberation that’s President Trump’s top gift. It’s, it’s Ronald Reagan’s top gift is he made group judge that nan American dream was possible, and erstwhile group person that belief instilled successful them, they person singular capacity to spell retired and execute it. Mary, attraction connected nan American dream and nan American spirit. But really do I spot it? How do I consciousness it? Or really tin nan American group consciousness it? Based connected your experience,
I americium now hopeful. When I was hopeless, this past 4 years, he’s fixed america hope. He’s for illustration a candle that has been lit successful full darkness, he has fixed america light, and that is really I feel. I’m very hopeful for this country. I’m very hopeful for nan young folks and nan younger generations,
because it was a scary clip these past 4 years, and moreover arsenic nan different attendees said, you know.
Went moreover earlier that, but I’m conscionable hopeful now, and it’s been a agelong clip since I’ve been hopeful.
Okay, I gotta inquire you, I don’t mean to pry, but you’re affectional complete this. I am. Why are you truthful emotional?
I am.
I’ve been connected nan receiving extremity of being canceled,
and it is an affectional time. People tin rip this wokeness. Can rip people’s livelihood. They could destruct people’s lives. And I’ve, I’ve knowledgeable that, and it’s a very acheronian spot to beryllium successful that spot nan ray now, and I’m, for nan first clip successful respective years, I’d person hope.
So let’s spell to nan system now.
You each voted for Trump,
so I understand you support his policies.
How do we see
and acquisition a amended economy
over nan past 100 days? I’m really asking you to exemplify it, alternatively than conscionable to, alternatively than conscionable to state it.
How is it happening retired there? Kathy, tin you spot it and consciousness it erstwhile I spell to nan state pump? I acquisition it lately. It costs a batch little to capable my motortruck and my car erstwhile I spell to nan market a batch of my groceries are a batch little costly than they were. Not each of them. There’s still a batch much to go.
Utilities are down somewhat. I’d for illustration to cognize wherever Susan gets her homeowners insurance. I’m making notes because I americium successful Louisiana, not acold from you, and I’d for illustration excavation to spell down 1000 $2,000
but I americium seeing, I americium seeing
a small spot more
flex successful nan economy, for my individual finances, for my family finances. Louis, really do you spot and acquisition nan American system complete nan past 100 days, prices are starting to spell down, and power accumulation is going up, which is going to bring prices down moreover lower. I precocious had, I precocious had immoderate surveying activity done astir my house, and I was up talking to nan survey, and I was like, how’s business going for you. He goes surprisingly, and since nan predetermination is going up, group are much confident. They’re consenting to spell retired and walk a small spot of money now, because they person an thought that system is going to get amended successful nan future. So they’re going and getting their their spot surveyed, aliases they’re getting fresh to waste a house, aliases they’re getting they’re engaging pinch a surveyor, and he’s seeing his activity really increase. He’s busier now than he was
now. I request to inquire we’re seeing, if I may, we’re seeing overseas finance successful nan United States, alternatively than United States, finance successful overseas countries building worldly location correct Ford is not building their cars successful Mexico. Now they’re building them successful America. They’re starting to revitalize places. And nan different point is, I, yeah, I’m a erstwhile Republican Party Chairman present successful Colorado, I will show you that that Democrats are making a unspeakable tactical correction by jumping astatine each opportunity to knock nan president, oh, nan value of eggs and this and that and everything. And it conscionable keeps bringing to ray that everything is going successful nan correct direction, and you tin spot that successful nan polls. Frank, I presume you’re seeing it successful your successful your activity that you do. I request to inquire you an rumor that nary one’s brought up,
and that has collapsed your 401 case, astir of you to tariffs.
Stock marketplace is measurement down.
It needed to a correction. Oh, truthful you support it? Yes, you bet, yep. And I person to show you, really galore my 401, K wasn’t impacted astatine all. How many, first off, really galore of you did not suffer immoderate money complete nan drop, complete nan clang of nan banal market?
One individual, 2 people. So
my ain administration, I mislaid much money than nan Trump management by far, 2020, by 2022,
yeah,
for nan full year. No one’s upset complete this. No, nope, no. But there’s not a play successful nan history of nan banal marketplace wherever nan banal marketplace hasn’t appreciated astatine an mean complaint of astir 7%
it’s truthful yeah, there’s ups and downs and corrections, and sometimes group are foolish and they jump out. You know, bargain high, waste low, and.
Um, but if group conscionable get successful and enactment nan course, they’ll beryllium conscionable fine, yeah, and I was astir to say, I’m not a time trader. I effort not to look astatine it very often, which is, I think, a bully thing. But I also, I besides spot that Trump and each of his advisors that are progressive pinch nan tariff rumor cognize what they’re doing. So I’m conscionable going to bent on. I cognize it’ll correct astatine immoderate point. Yeah, I’m not really worried astir it. Thank you. How overmuch much are you consenting to salary for products and services that travel retired of China? How overmuch do prices person to spell up earlier you say, this is not that great. Not bargain from China. I’d alternatively salary much money and bargain American saying, and prices only spell up if, if request is inelastic and if there’s nary replacement supplies. And they’re doing a superb job, they’re surrounding China pinch countries that want to manufacture worldly arsenic well, and we do request to bring nan worldly back, nan strategical stuff, for sure, but, but China is going to beryllium successful nan crockery if they don’t sound it off. Every article of clothing I person connected is astir apt made successful China, Malaysia aliases location else.
Okay? Retailers springiness maine thing made successful America, I’d gladly bargain it, but it’s not there. Go to Walmart. You ain’t gonna find Jack brace of socks and underwears Made successful America, maybe.
But you know, shoes
Nikes humans, they’re each rated, they’re astir apt each made overseas.
How galore American footwear companies person you seen spell capui? There utilized to beryllium 130 miles down nan road. Made stride, right? Made awesome shoes.
You don’t perceive from them. China, Malaysia. We request a correction. We conscionable request a correction. We’re consenting to return it out. You cognize that’s nan point. You know, it’s, of course, exactly. It’s been a unsmooth 2 weeks. But conjecture what? We sewage 3 and a half years to interest Exactly. And if it’s for illustration this, successful a year, I’ll person different discussion, maybe, but I don’t deliberation it’s going to be, I show you what, salary nan course, you know, I show you what I utilized to run. I utilized to tally a Trump stand, a popular up stand. I sold Trump chapeau shirts and stickers.
I sewage a fewer of them from nan campaign, which made successful America, but nan others I had to bargain from China. Customers will travel up to me. Is this Made successful America? You want American hats? Gonna beryllium 40 bucks. You want this Chinese hat, this Chinese mega hat? 25 bucks
supplying to me, Christie, had your manus up. Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to needfully person it up. But I cognize I deliberation nan aforesaid thing. I deliberation we’re gonna person to thrust this out. I mean, if we person to salary more, I mean, correct now, my location is worthy measurement beyond what it’s worth. I mean, like, a batch much than it’s worth. I americium wrong a half an hr of DC, truthful that’s a benignant of explainable, but we are really my location is measurement overpriced. It All this needs to travel down, and if it intends we suffer money, we suffer money. America first. So group going to beryllium listening to this and deliberation you guys are crazy, right? Maybe not. You cognize what’s funny? The near perpetually talks astir raising minimum wage. You recognize each of these awesome companies are buying aliases paying group successful China $500 a period yet for america to bargain their products. Why aren’t we manufacturing worldly here? The woody that we were we were making pinch NAF, North American Free Trade Agreement, and now nan different Trump put together is not helping Americans. You know, nan textile industry, we utilized to manufacture 94% of nan textiles successful nan United States. Bring it back, put those group to work. They’ll get bully paying jobs, and we’ll each beryllium happier. We’ll astir apt beryllium paying nan aforesaid value for apparel that we paid for nan Chinese worldly complete time. Greg, I presume your 401, K has gone down. Well, yes, I mean, nan banal marketplace has been up 20% nan past 2 years. See that anybody could look astatine that successful immoderate conception and opportunity that’s not going to hap 3 years successful a row. So travel January, I sold waiting for each this to happen. Fortunately, I turned I turned 60 this year. I person a longer clip horizon. This is fine. Six months from now. You wish you’d beryllium buying this marketplace correct now. I mean, that’s right, my woman conscionable rolled her 401 and 403 over, and we’re going to dollar costs mean into nan remainder of this year. Absolutely. And truthful it’s conscionable a process. You benignant of know. You knew this was coming. I moreover earlier you mentioned tariffs. Even if you look astatine nan banal market, 20% 1 twelvemonth triple, it’s not going to hap 3 years successful a row. If you deliberation it is, well.
Thing mightiness want to talk to your financial advisor. Pull back, psychiatrist,
whatever. Okay, I’m sitting here. I sewage powerfulness to burn. Bring it connected pile. Let’s go.
So fto maine inquire you, is what I americium seeing is simply a much divided country?
Is it angrier country? Is group going astatine each other? Yep. Why is burst off? Is that an meticulous assessment? And secondly, why is it happening, right? I deliberation it’s a smaller group of group who are much angry. I deliberation that there’s, I deliberation there’s a overmuch larger group of group who are unified and want to move forward, and past there’s a smaller group of group that can’t break done anymore, and nan only measurement they tin do it is to shriek astatine nan apical of their lungs each day. And really galore of them are paid precisely nan unit comes from nan left. It ne'er came from nan right. That’s nan that was nan that was nan falsehood, nan existent nan Anti Fascist are, are really fascist. They’re they’re socialist. I mean, look at, look, conscionable look, perceive to
people going down to Coachella. I mean, Bernie. I mean, it’s they want. They want. They don’t get their way. They’re violent. They’re angry. They’re carving up people’s cars. They’re doing precisely what nan KK did. KK did backmost 120 years ago, and they were nan Democrats, past they’re backmost successful action precisely so. Point I wanted to make Frank you were asking about, why does it look much volatile? We conscionable mentioned that
we arsenic conservatives are now speaking. We consciousness we consciousness emboldened, we consciousness impassioned, and we consciousness safe to speak out. And I deliberation that that’s infuriating those who person been successful nan who person been truthful vocal nan past 4 years. So I deliberation that that’s benignant of infuriating nan different side. And truthful there’s truthful overmuch clashing going connected pinch that. That’s conscionable my take. I think, if I mightiness opportunity that, you know, we have, we’ve had protests, we’ve had each of these angry folks, but I person to blasted it connected mainstream media, because, you know, I person been astatine rallies, and I’ve been at
events wherever you tin look connected CNN, and they’ll say, oh, location was 1000s of protesters. I was virtually opinionated there. It’s each astir nan camera angle. It’s each about, you know, getting astatine an perspective of nan camera that projects that. There’s a batch of group there. I cognize group are angry, but I deliberation it is simply a smaller percent of nan organization than it would for illustration for america to I work together completely.
Why do you agree?
Because astir group and I activity successful a very divers firm. I activity successful a immense building complex,
and cipher is angry,
okay? I mean, and I person immoderate beautiful acold near group that I’m moving with, and they there’s not anger, I deliberation a batch of it is 100%
being fed by nan media that they’re highlighting a bunch of lunatics. You know, there’s an aged saying there’s 10% of group that ruin it for 90% and I deliberation that nan media is giving sound to those 10%
and it’s been proven that a batch of these group going to these municipality halls are being paid. Okay? They don’t moreover cognize what’s going on.
So it, you know, they make this large splash, and nan media covers it, and astatine nan extremity of nan day, it’s for illustration asking assemblage students, you know, from nan stream to nan sea. Well, which River, which sea, I don’t know.
You know. I mean, it’s almost for illustration they’re parents and they’re not reasoning for themselves.
Louis,
my feeling, Frank, is it’s getting to nan constituent wherever I deliberation Trump is going to person to enactment and possibly get nan National Guard successful nan subject successful immoderate of these places earlier this really gets retired of control,
they’re honoring Luigi.
There we are. It’s
nuts, yeah, but it’s conscionable a few. It’s a mini number of group doing that, and that’s nan thing, right? They’re getting each nan attention. As you mentioned, you sewage an jock successful Texas who stands a kid he’s raised. They already sewage $400,000
they opportunity that ridiculous. It’s insanity, yep, and nan magnitude publicity has sewage to stop. I mean, it’s, it’s unbelievable pinch their journalism.
ABC, well.
I that, Frank, that’s what I was going to say, Patrick, I was conscionable going to bring that up. Look astatine what happened to that young, 17 twelvemonth aged kid successful Texas, and nan GoFundMe was like, 4 aliases $500,000
and you see, you know, did he bargain a caller Escalade? I don’t cognize what to believe, but you know, they’re enshrining that individual that, I mean, you cognize you’re guiltless until you’re guiltless until you’re proven guilty. I don’t cognize each nan merits of nan case, but nan kid, you know, stab stab them. I mean, for God’s sakes that pull me, and he’s getting more, you know, you know, glamorized, and that’s conscionable wrong. And that’s,
well, not nan repetition of Indianapolis. Yeah, exactly. They’re trying to walk different George Floyd, you
okay, we sewage 1 past question,
and I want you to put connected your strategical and tactical hats.
What does America request to do successful nan upcoming weeks aliases months to guarantee that nan optimism that almost each of you person comes to fruition, becomes reality. What does America request to
achieve that level of dream that you each look to have? Serena, I’m going to commencement pinch you, Congress. Congress has to get its enactment together and finally, put America first,
I think. And what does it request specifically to do? I deliberation it needs to walk nan taxation cuts. I deliberation it needs to
look astatine its ain house.
You know, pinch each nan corruption and worldly that goes on,
and nan manufacturing is coming back, Rome wasn’t built successful a day. So I deliberation successful nan next, you know, successful nan adjacent fewer months, to spot crushed breaking, to spot factories being built, to spot nan investments coming successful complete here, and that we commencement manufacturing, and that will move nan full system astir group who person jobs. Citizen, what does America request to do correct now to person nan impact, nan affirmative effect that you’re expecting?
Well, I benignant of echo what was said astir Congress. I think
we arsenic citizens request to promote Congress to to support Trump’s agenda, immoderate it is that he’s looking to accomplish. I mean, we person a mini majority, but we still person a majority. We can’t spell 3 aliases 4 years from now and say, Gosh, really do we negociate to messiness that up, Congress needs to enactment connected everything that Trump is giving them
that dovetails pinch his agenda. So immoderate we tin do to promote Congress to support his agenda, and you know, just
I deliberation would would thief america beryllium much of a success. Patrick from Nevada, what does America request to do correct now? Well, correct now, nan Republicans request to guidelines nan ground, enactment together and get things done. If they do that, and nan occurrence comes, we will each beryllium successful a greater, overmuch amended position. And I deliberation you’re going to spot a segue from nan group connected nan left, realizing, you cognize what, it’s clip to beryllium unified, but nan Republicans, for nan first time, are showing nan state that they are together. And I deliberation you’re going to spot much unification, and it will lead to much Democrats coming over. Maybe you’ll spot much John federmans retired there.
Mike, what is required? And past pat from Oklahoma, I’ll spell pinch you. But Mike, what does America request to do correct now to echo connected what Patrick said? We’ve sewage to enactment steadfast, and we sewage to enactment colony village. It we Congress needs to commencement acting and passing what Trump’s putting guardant truthful on, successful what, successful what nan tax, taxation cuts Trump’s agenda, and if we echo connected that and return that forward, I deliberation possibly we tin prime up much than our slim mostly successful nan House and you know, and going into nan midterms, you know, you know, and beforehand you cognize nan the Trump schedule moreover more. But I deliberation to get backmost to premise your question, we person to enactment diligent and steadfast. And don’t you know, you know, afloat velocity ahead
from Oklahoma and past Mary, we request to clasp an article 5 convention, Article Five referring to article 5 of nan United States Constitution, and instrumentality legislature word limits, moreover if we had congressional.
Term limits of only 30 years, moreover 30 years, that would beryllium amended than what we person now. And we request that, because erstwhile a Congress personnel gets successful office, you can’t get free of them, because they automatically get millions of dollars of donations. And we request to alteration that. And Congress is ne'er going to ballot for that for themselves. They’re ne'er going to instrumentality legislature word limits against himself.
Mary, what does America request to do correct now to execute that level of dream that you said of a fewer minutes ago?
Well, successful bid to group nan remainder of his word up to beryllium successful location and to beryllium vice president Vance up nan rhinos that are not going on pinch Trump’s schedule needs to beryllium put connected notice, conscionable for illustration he did pinch Liz Cheney. Those few, peculiarly successful nan Senate, those few, request to beryllium reminded that location are midterms coming up, location are elections coming up, and they tin suffer nan consequences connected it. And you know, I telephone perpetually to each these leaders, not moreover conscionable from my state, but from Kentucky, from each over, and conscionable show them to discontinue reasoning astir themselves and put America first. We person a president that’s doing that, and we request to person each nan senators and each nan representatives together, and if you don’t want to, if you can’t play nan game, past get out, and they request to beryllium put connected notice. This has been a fascinating conversation. It’s nan astir optimistic I’ve heard Republicans successful decades,
and I admit that a batch of that has to do pinch your support for Donald Trump, but I do admit that you’re speaking much positively and much hopefully astir America than astatine immoderate clip since Ronald Reagan was president. So I perceive it and I spot it, and I hopefully understand it, and hopefully nan group watching understand it arsenic well. This is nan intent of America speaks, is to put Americans for illustration you each successful beforehand of nan state truthful they tin understand really group who look for illustration them and sound for illustration them and unrecorded for illustration them, what they think, and you tin only get that present connected consecutive arrow news. So I’m Dr Frank Luntz, and convey you very overmuch for listening. We’ll beryllium backmost again adjacent week pinch different installment of America speaks you.