Violent Mobs of “Teens” Cause Mayhem Nationwide

**SPEAKER_2** (0:10)
Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's conservative blowtorch. Todd starts.

**Todd Starnes** (0:30)
You know, ladies and gentlemen, all I could think of, as I was watching all of the really remarkable, incredible, and dare I say, festive 4th of July celebrations. Thank God Kamala Harris was not our president. That's all. You know, I'm sitting there watching all of this patriotism, just oozing and flowing out of my TV screen over the weekend. And from President Trump giving that remarkable speech in South Dakota at the foot of Mount Rushmore to the spectacular fireworks display in Washington DC. By the way, the libs have lost their ever-loving minds. The libtards of America are going bonkers right now, and it is a beautiful thing. But all I can tell you is this, as I observed all of the celebrations across the fruited plain, that it is very clear to me, ladies and gentlemen, that there are more people in this country who love America than hate America. By the way, welcome to the Todd Starnes radio show. What an honor to have you with us today. Thank you for being here at Noon to Three Eastern. We broadcast conservative commentary and have a great conversation. By the way, we're going to be taking your calls today as well.
What did you do over the weekend? And what did you think about how President Trump commemorated America's 250th birthday?
901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.
Here's how great it was. Even Almighty God got in on the action. I mean, there were some... I mean, you talk about the Lord's fireworks displays. Wow, pretty remarkable. But these severe storms caused all sorts of mayhem. And you know what? The people stuck... They stuck around. Now, what Trump said, almost a half a million people showed up at the Washington Mall. And when you... And I know I was getting a lot of blowback over this because the numbers... Everybody plays the numbers games. Nobody showed up, Todd. Nobody showed up. There was just nobody there. We all saw the images. Now, what you saw was about a half a mile swath of the Washington Mall. That's a lot of land. It's a lot of territory. They had thousands of people there.
And I know that because we reached out to folks that were running a lot of the boots there at the Great American State Fair, and they were talking about... They said the lines were insane.
People were having a great time. And again, yes, the heat was incredibly oppressive. And here's what gets me.
In one breath, the media is saying nobody's there. In the next minute, they're saying everybody's dropping dead of heat stroke, and Trump is killing thousands of Americans. You can't have it both ways. I mean, well, we don't want anybody having heat stroke, but again, it was hot. What are you gonna do? It's summertime.
It's July for crying out loud.
So anyway, a little bit later on, we're gonna be talking to Andy Gibson. He is the Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce. He has the coolest southern voice. And I caused a little bit of a kerfuffle with our good friend Kat Kamig, the congresswoman from Florida. She and I were hate tweeting each other over the weekend. It was ugly.
It was ugly, Dillon. But I said hands down, and I'm from Tennessee, so this was a lot for me to say. Hands down, Mississippi won the best booth of the Great American State Fair. And you want to know why, Dillon?
Why? They were serving homemade, hot, fresh, out of the oven, buttermilk biscuits.

**Betsy Brantner Smith** (4:28)
Yeah, you really can't beat that, honestly.

**Todd Starnes** (4:30)
No, they brought the game. They brought their game, Mississippi did.
And I thought you were going to say catfish. No. Well, that, hey, now.

**Steve Toth** (4:37)
That would kind of be hard to bring to...

**Todd Starnes** (4:40)
It was too hot for the grease. You know, it's just a lot. There was a lot going on. But I will say this, buttermilk biscuits beats whatever Florida was giving them. What, oranges? Is that what they got? Come on.
It's...

**Parker** (4:53)
It could have been Gator.

**Todd Starnes** (4:54)
I don't know. What were we giving away in Tennessee as well? We should have been giving away like a little... Oh, I know. Yes, Tennessee sipping whiskey. Yeah. But they were giving away the goo goo clusters.

**SPEAKER_2** (5:06)
Okay.

**Todd Starnes** (5:06)
Not bad. Not bad, but it was like 300 degrees. You're going to have like a goo goo blob is what you're going to have.
Yeah.

**SPEAKER_2** (5:16)