On a recent episode of The Five, Greg Gutfeld talked about Trump’s rebranding of the Department of Defense as the Department of War and suggested that one of the mistakes that liberals make is not understanding that one of Trump’s superpowers is persuasion.
Gutfeld says this is why liberals so often fall into the trap of trying to psychoanalyze Trump.
He also talks about how what Trump is doing with the Department of War is a reaction to the Biden administration which, like the Obama administration, used the U.S. Military as a vehicle for social justice rather than its actual purpose.
Transcript via Real Clear Politics:
GUTFELD: I love the idea of changing names to represent the ideal, right? It’s pure persuasion. This is why a lot of the liberals like Jessica have to psychoanalyze him, because they don’t understand persuasion.
When you have somebody like Van Hollen who speaks like a lawyer, you’re never going to persuade anybody. They should do this with all the departments. The ATF, which is Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, just call it the Department of Fun, the IRS, the Department of Extortion, the Department of Indian Affairs, casinos, casinos. TSA just call it second base.
But Trump is the most antiwar president I’ve ever had the pleasure of being alive for, and all of his strikes, as you know, are highly specific, and you can only do that with a really, really powerful war machine.
We predicted that the taking out the narco terrorists, in a matter of time, the media and the Dems would side with the narco terrorists because Trump did it, and also because their problems, i.e. the bad guys, always seem to matter more than ours, Americans, whether it’s fentanyl, gangs, sex trafficking.
I’m sure one of those drug smugglers, we will find out through Van Hollen owned a puppy and used to read to his grandma late at night.
But we talk about the past, we don’t have to go that far for this distinction, Trump was making a distinction about the last four years, what did Biden do to the Department of Defense? He turned it into a laboratory for social experimentation. It wasn’t about protecting the country. We saw it. Everybody knew it. It was about making it an enlightened vehicle for the rainbow people.
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WATCH: Fox’s @greggutfeld on Trump restoring the Department of War: “They should do this with all the departments. The ATF (alcohol tobacco & firearms) should be the department of fun. The IRS could be the department of extortion!” pic.twitter.com/rhwpGfzwtz
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The only thing that can be added to what Greg said here, is that the Democrats also have no alternative to what Trump is doing. They still haven’t offered the American people a competing vision, just protests.
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