Tony Kinnett Joins!

**SPEAKER_2** (0:04)
Keep listening to The Hammer and Nigel Show.

**Jason Hammer** (0:06)
That's right, my name is Nigel, Jason Hammer, right over there with a very special guest on the hotline.

**Nigel** (0:10)
He looks like JD Vance, but he speaks like a god. He's Tony Kinnett from The Daily Signal and the Tony Kinnett cast, Weeknights at 7, here on 93WIBC. Tonus, my man, how are you?

**Tony Kinnett** (0:25)
I am very great, I want to see England lose. I also really enjoy watching really stupid people make videos because then I get show content. It's a good time, guys.

**Nigel** (0:35)
That's called social media. That's exactly what you're on, I'm assuming right now.
Let's focus on this Thursday, tomorrow, nine o'clock, the big bad orange man, Donald Trump's going to waddle up there in front of the nation. What are you expecting to hear? Because I keep hearing people say, well, it might be about the 2020 election, could be about Iran, could be about other stuff. You're the guy that's connected. Are you hearing anything?

**SPEAKER_2** (1:05)
We're going to get in front of the country and tell them all about the new Brokeback Bound remake. But this time, it's with Sidney Sweeney and Alexandra Daddario.

**Nigel** (1:15)
Hey, that's something we can get behind.

**SPEAKER_2** (1:18)
Presidential address to remember.

**Tony Kinnett** (1:20)
That's kind of what I'm thinking. If not, and they actually talk about Georgia, I'm going to be disappointed. Unfortunately, I'm probably going to be disappointed. I guess he wants to get up there. I'm told maybe talk about Rafael Warnock and John Ossoff and tell us all about how they may have fraudulently done some things with the election. I've also heard that he's going to talk about economic stuff regarding inflation. I mean, I don't even think his entire team knows yet. I think he just wants to get up and do a little address. And I think when he gets up there, it'll probably be a mixed bag and he'll just do what Trump does, talk and kind of look at the camera and tilt the head to the side, jut the jaw forward a little, tilt like it is.

**Nigel** (2:00)
And it just feels like that's a waste of a big opportunity though, right? Like this isn't just some speech you're doing in the Rose Garden at five o'clock. This is a nationally televised 9 p.m. address, kind of feels like there should be some order to this thing. And you better have some juice. You know what I'm saying?

**Tony Kinnett** (2:19)
I do. And I think that there was actually something to the president's last couple of addresses he's made to the country where he is very clear about certain things that he has aims on, whether it's foreign policy, whether it's the economy, whether it's international trade, whether it's manufacturing. I'm sure that the kind of the speech writing crew who is brought in for the big national addresses is kind of giving all the details. It's a national address, so it's not like you'll have kind of the crowd to riff off of. So I expect him to be a lot more on point than perhaps like the State of the Union.
And to be fair, he was pretty to the letter for the transcript, which is unusual for President Trump then in January. So, I mean, I know that we're kind of ramping it up, but I feel like it's more we're having an address to have an address. And if that's not the most American thing ever, this address probably could have been an email. All right, that's the way it is.

**Jason Hammer** (3:05)
And I'm betting he mentioned the Save America Act, the voter ID bill in there as well somewhere.

**Tony Kinnett** (3:11)
Very likely. And by the way, I think that would be the good move. I think that he should use, and I talked to Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, who is a close friend of Lindsey Graham's, that if there is one thing to push forward out of his death, out of his passing here, it's to essentially make the Save America Act, the Lindsey Graham Memorial Act, and kind of force the more establishment Republican senators to get the bill through. And there's a likelihood he might do that. Do I think that's exactly how he's going to do it now?

**Nigel** (3:37)
Before we move on to some other things, you bring up Lindsey Graham.
What does his passing mean for the US. Senate right now? The Republicans had the majority, but due to the unfortunate passing of Lindsey Graham, they've lost another usually pretty consistent vote for President Trump's agenda. I know he and Trump have bumped heads in the past, but it's not like we're talking about, you know, Collins or Murkowski here. Graham Nasty usually played ball. From a US. Senate perspective, what does this mean?