Tomorrow morning before cspans live coverage of the president ial inauguration. A three minutes past 9 00, joining the stecvve deace show from iowa. Your srn program will begin 34, this is steve deace. People should not be afraid of her government. Confidence should be afraid of their people. Our rights are inherent and essential, derived from our maker. Berty willberty will rein in am. Steve greetings, good evening. Happy thursday. Together when you counting down to the end of western civilization as we know it, or leaving your at the dawn of its rebirth. Is america really as divided as we are being told . I want to find out today. Im can open up the phone lines because we have the cspan audience. They cannot to Middle America from washington dc to our humble abode in suburban des moines to help simulcast our radio show powered by consumer powered by the conservative Radio Network across the country. Not what yound out thought on Election Night but now that we are on the brink of taking the red pill, of finding out how far the rabbit hole g oes. Many of you listening were not alive the last time someone who never Held Elected Office was about to take the oath of highest office, dwight d eisenhower. Now donald j. Trump. These two men in terms of temperament and persona could not be much different. Based on how you have seen trumps Transition Team perform since the election, are you more or less optimistic about the dawn of the trump era . We want to know what you think. The number is 884 3223. You can also email less steve stevedeace. Com. If you like us on facebook, we have a post on her facebook wall. We are asking the opinions there. Are you more optimistic or pessimistic know that we are on the brink of a trump era . An era that almost none of us predicted when he announced his candidacy. I remember laughing out loud. Maybe the greatest Campaign Announcement speech i have seen. Simply because the whole premise for why donald said he was running is hey, i tried to buy off a bunch of these politicians, in they wouldnt buy my money. What they wouldnt do what i told them to do. I figure, if i cant buy these politicians off, i have to become one gentleman. It was like watching the movie bullworth came to life. Who really believed we would be here the night before january the2017, about two usher in era of trump . Pretty much nobody that is what im doing for a living. Mr. Trump im officially running for president of the United States. There are no words. How do you have a straight face right now . There are no words to describe what just happened. [laughter] do you have any doubts this is more than just a carnival show . You watch that speech today. I am sitting here laughing out loud for the entire front part of the show as we talk about it. It was a rambling mess of a speech. That said, it was very entertaining. I was howling. You have a lot of recognition, a lot of money, and he just became the 12th ended for the Republican Party. Trump fashion, or is it hilarity run amok . Some are worried that donald trump will turn the campaign into a circus. Some are worried that trumps presence will turn the primary into a joke. A Latino Organization called donald trump and exceedingly silly man. Hell froze over and we are stuck in the eyes with donald trump. For real . S candidacy will it be significant . I cant tell if this is politics, or just pr from a celebrity. From the National Press corps and other elites, Donald Trumps campaign is a pure vanity exercise and the target for outright mockery or lowlevel derision. On the one hand, he is a latenight joke. On the other, he is the proverbial skunk at the garden party. How does the Republican Party handle a political streaker who knows how to get attention . Trump. To take donald consider the newspapers this morning, at least the tabloids. The daily news considers trump a clown, the New York Post considers trump a rich guy who could make it to the white house . I do not taken seriously. I thought everything that was garish and ridiculous list about him was on full display. Unconventional . Yeah. But will it get in close to becoming the nominee of United States . I think not. There is a vein for him to tap. He cant win. While no one expects trump to getting close to womens nomination, that doesnt mean they are happy he is in. Of course he is not going to win. He will be one of the top 10 vote enters because of name recognition and our obsession with stardom. He is going to be a flamethrower. He has nothing to lose. Please is the most provocative things he says the most provocative things, like people from mexico being rapists and bringing drugs. You cant get president by saying things like that. Can we say that donald trump will be never president of the United States. Steve that is absolutely amazing to hear that. Especially because we are on the brink tomorrow, of launching donald trump take the oval office. I have to tell you on a personal note, as someone who was one of the first people he tried to lobby to support him because of where i live in iowa, i remember sitting at a steakhouse in manhattan with one of trumps First Political advisers. This was three years ago, i think. He said, what is trump decided to run for president . I thought, sam is buying me a nice steak, so lets play this one out. I didnt think it would happen. I gave him some names of people to consider hiring, which they eventually did. I remember the very first event we had during the caucasus. Todd, you are there. It was steve kings iowa freedom summit. The entire trump act it was an act. It was a risk on jeb bush riff on jeb bush. It was clear that trump viewed his candidacy to stop jeb bush to clear the election for someone else. And at the time the crowd was cracking up. It was riproaring funny. A puma flitter around june, when he began to touch on the immigration issue, and saw this zeitgeist, that there was a real issue that could catapult him from vanity to a serious candidate, that is where the transition took place. I say this as somebody who knows him. He is serious about doing this. He may be a joke as a candidate. It may not work. I was telling media people 2 years ago, i until the way he was interacting with key iowans, he was serious about doing this. Whether you share his viewpoints or not, there is something refreshing about a guy they said everything not to do, and it worked. And even if he turns out not to be the president that his most ardent supporters hope he will be, or if he turns out to be the president s critics think that he will be, at the very least i hope a paradigm has been sent that you dont have to be bland. You can actually challenge conventional wisdom. You can challenge the paradigm. You can because you are, baggage theall, and be real with American People. He was really promising an end to globalism when he appoints Goldman Sachs executives i think that was a shthick. I hope others come forward and emulate some of his paradigm shift. I think this makes we just played this mix we just played was a zeitgeist in and of itself. It has been the underlying gift of most of this campaign. People have heard enough only over the campaign, but for years, for decades, the contempt. They want to be done with it. Phase i champion who would hit back and hit back hard. They saw a champion who would hit back and hit back hard. Steve they like someone who paints with bold colors. That is what attracted people to donald trump in the first was, that he always spoke his mind right or wrong. When we come back, we want to let you speak your mind. 3223. 83 your view on the age of the dawn of trump, next. Youre listening to steve deace. That montage, when he was into it again, especially because i was on some of those shows. [laughter] it is amazing to listen to that. And the trunk i trump i know just what is all of those shows in his office. And you know that he is belly laughing in his office. I am surprised. I wont be surprised if hes got himras so that we can watch watching them. Steve my wife said to me the other night after i got home from the show, its just us. With people that know me well, tell me what is really going on. I pretty much do that. My wife looks at me and says, lets be honest, what kind of president are you going to be really . And i am like honey, i dont know. I dont think anybody knows. I dont think he knows. Do you know . No clue. Steve history shows that when histake someone that has amount of talent, but lack of selfrestraint, then you give them more power and authority, about 90 of the time their weaknesses, with the amplified responsibility, their weaknesses come to the forefront all the more, and they bring everyone down around them. Around 10 of time they are winston churchill. They think to themselves, i dont get to be a reprobate anymore. Time to grow up. The fate of civilization is in my hands. I pray that you get the other 10 and not what happens in the other 90 . Razor, why would he be any different than the progressives . Steve shes been, we are big on occams razor, that the simplest explanation must be true. Applying that here, it must be want . The progressives has their ears turned up to 11, and donald trump has his ears turned up to 11. Than the whiteer house, something that the world stage demands. Trump the biggest thing has to navigate is how not to himextend the fact that playing off of these people is his greatest advantage to the point where he becomes a caricature or a substitution for government. He is a caricature. Steve agreed. But it is one thing to look at the end of the debate hall with rand paul insight, he should not be here tonight. That is not the substitution. Joking your campaign cant just be that. At some point he has to govern, dont you think . Undeniably. And it has to be quick. [commerical] wouldnt you like to know what is going through his mind right now . Steve hmm. [laughter] i was thinking that today. This show is dedicated to bacon. Every day. The steve deace show. Steve back here on the steve these show, powered by the salem Radio Network. I want to welcome the cspan cameras into our studios in suburban des moines, simulcasting our show. If you are a regular listener, you can go to the cspan main channel, or i think you have it online as well . You can watch us to the show, because life is not boring enough. Here is what we want to know tonight, are you more optimistic or pessimistic as we stand on the brink of the dawn of the trump era than you were based on how things have transpired, the way he has carried himself are you more or less optimistic than you are the morning after the election when he woke up and felt, what . Donald trump is going to be president of these United States . How did that happen . We will begin with joe in tampa. Are you more positive or negative than november 8 . Caller just positive positive. Steve completely positive. Theres nothing you are concerned about panel, nothing. Caller no, they are things him concerned about, but they are not negative things. Steve give us one thing that makes you the most optimistic. Caller optimistic about trump being in office . We are going to get our shit straightened out. Steve i think you meant to say were going to get our stuff straightened out. I think that is the proper english pronunciation. Could we have a more perfect first call . Cspan brings in the rest riff raff. Everyone says they are this highbrow channel for intellectuals, and look what happens the first time. This is america, after all. [laughter] steve lets try this again, even though i am doubting myself. Are you more optimistic or pessimistic after that tension breaker . I missed the tension breaker because i am on hold. I am a regular listener to your show. Todd is right. He does have a face for tv. [laughter] let me make a movie reference. I really admire your intellect rapist wit. Steve oh no. What movie is that from . Dumb and dumber. Based on his cabinet takes, and that he kept Hillary Clinton out of the white house, i guess i can say i am optimistic. Has shown hetrump is incapable of acting like an adult, and that we have no idea how he will fulfill his campaign promises, i am totally pessimistic. This sounds as ambiguous as trump himself. I like to think of my answer is more comprehensive than ambiguous. Steve 20 minutes before we went on the air tonight, the blaze published this story. When they publish this, we laughed out loud. This is the headline trump wanted to missile launchers dance tanks at his inauguration and tanks at his inauguration. The military said no. Is this a military parade 1978 . Can you imagine what our side will do with drudge sirens and breitbart type if hillary know,n won and said, you i want to have missile launchers and tanks go down pennsylvania avenue. Can you imagine the meltdown on our side if the request was reversed . When you say that, i have images of the soviet union or communist china, sticking their chest out. Steve right, the old mayday parades. Is that true . Did he really want that . Steve this is the thing you and i were talking about before we brought this up in the show. Trump has this built in failsafe because hes such a known troll, and he gets off on it. He said the day after the election, i want my kids to have National Security clearance. That. Anyone really asking because he is so mercurial and capricious i use big words with cspan here because he is so undrinkable and trollta stic, he can make requests like this. He can just be like, im just kidding, and you dont know the difference. He has done many things to assault the press. No he has taken away the concept of a gaffe. Steve we often say that a gaffe is is one of politician opens his mouth and the truth comes out. We cant say that is what a gaf fe is anymore. The truth is what it needs to be at a time. Are you more positive or negative about trumps the election . Caller i am positive. Steve ell us why. Caller i am more so than before. I live in the south. With the job terminally ill, and how unsatisfied they are with how things are going on with the country. I have this one elderly client who shattered hill, who askedred her pelvis, and to get out of the bed to go vote, because they were so sure they needed change. I never voted, but i voted fro trump. The things that he talked about, i feel it so wholeheartedly. Steve as you watch the transition, has there been anything that has given you cause for pause . Thinking maybe he wont keep that promise after all . Caller no, nothing at. I was disappointed saying that he would move forward with Hillary Clinton. We know the other networks. Hindsight, we in have to put that aside to keep moving forward. With obamacare, he is front runner on. One of the things he has not mentioned in his political run i s pharmaceuticals. Caps talking about putting on those, which is a plus, because i can see more people i can afford health care. She has not even been sworn in, and he has done so much more moving forward. I was just listening to this he wanted tanks and this and that. I want to debunk that. Taxpayers they saves 20 on the inauguration and put it back into the budget. If that was true, he wouldnt have said that. Steve just to clarify, it was the blaze, not those feet not buzzfeed. I would not acknowledge them as a source on our show, unless it was to ridicule. That was actually the blaze that have that story. More of your calls. Are you more so optimistic or pessimistic after the election in the days leading up to the inauguration . The steve deace show, howard by you are listening to steve deace. There is merit to that. To see people that passionate confusing r this time, there has been complacency. This is what we are now, it can be better again. I think you should respect that somewhat. Whether you are a progressive or not, i dont see what the incentive is. Let me put it this way. Level, ilieve on some dont see what the incentive is to undermine him. If he sucks, he will show it himself. To me, if you dont believe in traditional america, if your goal is existential o upheaval, which for some people, it is, you dont want to see any return to traditional americana at all. Then, that would be your enemy. You dont want people to think that these old values or traditions or slogans have weight or meaning. If they work again, that undermines the argument you are trying to make. These things dont work, they fail, they have left too many people behind and created too much any quality. Therefore, we need a new way. We have to reinvent ourselves. You want to see any harkening back to traditional americana. The problem with the crawling over broken glass crowd is they their stubborn that tendency will be to step away from the truth. You are right about that. Why, one of the main reasons i keep defaulting, if i have to choose between optimism and pessimism, i just choose estimate them. I would like to choose optimism. Far,less the callers so but from a worldview perspective , thats just untenable. The storyis like today that talked about the two bibles trump is getting sworn in on. One is abraham lincolns bible and the other is his mothers. The real story is how often he might open those bibles and read them after he is sworn in. That is the real story. When you are so thirsty for anything meaningful, he will take symbolism as solid food. Dont really care how these bibles are being sworn in. The steve deace show. Stevedeace. Com is the email address. Follow us on twitter. Taking your calls here for another few minutes and then we will go live to the seat, setting the scene on the eve of trumps inauguration. We are asking you, are you more optimistic or pessimistic about the dawn of the era of trump than you were the morning after the Election Results were certified. Rene in oregon. In are you more pessimistic or optimistic than you were right after the election . Caller there he optimistic. Steve tell us why the very. Caller i am so thrilled we do not have the same regime we had before. Nobody even noticed how he is running them out. He is trying to monopolize this country. He was expecting her to do the same thing. And she got so much polling that was false that everybody is so upset now. I was very upset when obama was elected, but i did not go out on the streets and burn buildings. Im optimistic because i feel like we have got something going now that we can accomplish. If he only does 10 of what he s he will do, that is 10 more like 100 of what we get from hillary. Steve thank you for the phone call. You can