If Abraham Lincoln was the Great Emancipator and Ronald Reagan was the Great Communicator, then President Donald Trump is the Great Disruptor, according to Publius PR CEO A.J. Rice.
Looking at Trump's cabinet picks and appointments in his second term, Rice said Trump isn't just building a team but is "casting a movie" full of fellow disruptors to bring the major overhaul America needs to get back on track.
"Trump is the Great Disruptor. And unlike the first term, he knows now you can't just lop the head off of each of these departments. You have to drop a bunker buster 10 levels down," Rice said on last week's episode of "1819 News: The Podcast."
"That's why you got Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, and Pete Hegseth, who's one of ours, and Tulsi Gabbard is one of ours, and Scott Bessent, who's one of ours, and many, many others. Many others. Dan Bongino is one of ours. He's over at the FBI with Kash," he continued.
Rice has gained valuable insight into D.C. and the political world as a brand manager, publicist and producer working with some of the biggest names in conservative political media, including Laura Ingraham, Charles Krauthammer, Alan Dershowitz and Judge Jeanine Pirro, whom Trump recently appointed as the interim U.S. Attorney for D.C.
Rice said Trump and his team are locked in together like the Spartan soldiers of "300," fighting against the "Siamese twins, the Geminis of evil" of wokeism and globalism, much like Rice explains in his two books, "The White Privilege Album: Bringing Racial Harmony to Very Fine People…on Both Sides" and "The Woking Dead: How Society's Vogue Virus Destroys Our Culture."
"I have always been pushing back against political correctness. The idea, though, of what wokeism is, where it comes from, and its roots in cultural Marxism fascinated me," he said. "Controlling the language fascinates me. Someone once said that once the comedians are afraid, you know authoritarianism has arrived."
He continued, "Any type of authoritarian jackboot that wants to control speech, in particular jokes, whether it's the Me Too movement or those Taliban firing those RPGs at those Buddhist statues, these are all about erasing something. And in particular, not just free speech or freedom of expression, or controlling jokes or controlling music or controlling film or theater or radio hosts or TV hosts or whatever it is, it's controlling thoughts, and in particular, reigning in Western civilization. What is that? Well, it's four legs of the stool, the Greco-Roman Judeo-Christian civilization. And someone's always been after it, always. Could be Genghis Khan, could be the ACLU. They've been after it."
Rice said that's partly why politics have reached a "fever pitch" in the first 100 days of Trump's second term as the Democratic party moves even further left.
"Who have the Democrats been telling us in the last 100 days that they are? And if they are telling us this, then we should believe them. Well, they're telling us that they are the party of turning planes around filled with MS-13, coming to a kindergarten near you, cul-de-sac near you. They're the party of assassinating health care executives on the streets," he said. "… They're the party of going on vacation in El Salvador, bringing back 'Maryland dads,' right? We got Luigi [Mangione], we got Kilmar [Abrego Garcia]. Then we got Mahmoud [Khalil] on Columbia's campus, hunting Jews down. That's the new national sport for the Democrat Party… Then you got the Tesla burners, right? You got AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] and Bernie Sanders at Coachella. Bernie Sanders is leading the youth movement. He's 83 years old, right? You got people upset that they can't send men into Nancy Mace's bathroom on Capitol Hill."
"That's what we're dealing with. This is the first 100 days. And as a marketing guy that wants to increase our majorities for the GOP in Congress next year and the midterm elections, I say, keep it up, guys. But this is not a serious party. This is the crap they're rallying around… They're going to lose big. They're going to lose big next year in the midterms if they keep it up," Rice added.
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