The port workers strike that threatened the supply chain right before the 2024 election has been postponed. And the announcement came right after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis threatened to send in the National Guard. Coincidence? Glenn doesn't believe so. DeSantis has also stepped in where FEMA hasn't and offered plenty of aide to Hurricane Helene victims in North Carolina. With all that in mind, Glenn explains why he believes former President Donald Trump should offer DeSantis a seat in his administration if he wins ... and Glenn has the perfect department for him to reform.
Transcript
Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors
GLENN: All right. Let me start with -- let me start with the name of the person, that is responsible for breaking the back of the strike.
Now, I'm glad they moved it down. You know, they just held it off. All right. We will hold off, until after the election.
And just about five days before the swearing in of the -- this is going to work out well.
So -- but we don't have that on the plate, to add to the stress of America. At least right now. And that is because of one man and one man only, Ron DeSantis.
Ron DeSantis came out yesterday, and said, yeah.
I'm going to call out the National Guard.
Because we're not going to be held hostage. So national guard is going to go in, and we'll open the ports. We'll open the ports in Florida. So we can get things and supplies in here.
National Guard will loan -- oh, my gosh. I love you.
I mean, if it wasn't for the icky sex, Ron, I mean, I would be gay in a heartbeat. Seriously, I just love you.
STU: Look how accepting you are. You want to talk about diversity on this show.
GLENN: Right. I don't.
STU: A gay Radio Hall of Fame member right there, I've got it.
GLENN: If it wasn't for the icky sex. Yes. Yes. Yes.
So, anyway, I'm sorry. I've -- I've got an appointment later on this afternoon, to burn some books in a hood. But this guy is amazing.
I think Donald Trump should announce a few members of a cabinet.
And he should do it right now.
He should announce, that Elon Musk has agreed to be, you know, the -- cost had much cutting czar.
STU: It seems like they floated that one. It's been discussed.
It's not official.
GLENN: He needs to announce that RFK, Tulsi Gabbard.
Elon Musk, and I've extended the invitation, to run FEMA, and close FEMA down. And give the state, the ability, the states ability to actually keep that money itself, and prepare for disaster. I would like Ron DeSantis to run FEMA. I think he would be unbelievable.
His term is up in '26. I mean, I would wait for that. Would you wait for that?
STU: Some of those ideas are great. That you just mentioned. So, yeah. I agree.
GLENN: You just can't get past your hatred for RFK, can't you?
You just hate him so much.
Because he jilted you. He said, I'm not interested in that icky gay sex with Stu.
STU: Okay. Please stop talking. Not even just about this topic. All topics. If we're going to put a lifelong Democrat into the administration, in some way, I would far prefer Tulsi Gabbard.
That would be my stance to that particular issue.
Just God forbid, for the wives of the other people.
GLENN: Okay. All right.
STU: God, please.
GLENN: We all know he's a Kennedy. So we all know.
STU: But I will say, is -- I mean, I don't know, honestly.
To be honest about it. Really, really love Ron DeSantis.
Really think I would like him to do something more important than -- than --
GLENN: That's fine. Whatever. I'm just saying -- I'm just saying.
STU: I think his job right now is great.
And I could see him with higher office, certainly down the road.
GLENN: Right. And I would give him any job.
STU: I wouldn't want to pull him out of Florida.
GLENN: No, no, no, no. I said, his term is up in 2026. When you're done with governor, what do you want to run? And involve him. But he is -- when it comes to disasters -- that guy, excuse the expression -- is an ass kicker. He's amazing.
GLENN: And used to be, something we really prized that crossed partisan lines.
Just the general competence in times of stress, used to be the thing that -- I mean, I think that was one of the things that happened with Bush.
Where like, he was seen. And I think largely unfairly for botching the Katrina stuff.
And it was more damaging to him, not because liberals against him.
They were all calling him a terrorist the whole phylum they said he was responsible for 9/11.
Right?
GLENN: Yeah. And he hated black people. He was letting people die.
STU: That's right.
GLENN: I mean, if you want to make that case, we can make that case about white people. But I'm not going to.
STU: George Bush does not care about black people, if you remember that from Kanye West, who has quite a journey since that particular statement.
GLENN: Yes, he has.
STU: When the media loved him back then, when he was saying those things.
But what happened with Bush, with Katrina, and a couple of other things in that area of time.
Was that -- it felt like he was incompetent. And his own supporters and moderates.
Kind of independent voters.
Started to bail on him. Right?
And then, of course, the war going poorly. Sort of added on to that.
But that was -- a really central thing of what we expected and wanted out of politicians.
Just, you know, yeah. You have opinions. We may have opinions. You may not like those policies.
In those moments. Are you going to be the person who steps up and gets the job done? DeSantis has done that every single time. Every time.
GLENN: Every time. Every time.
I wish I would have snapped a picture of him. You know, he was holding a press conference.
And behind him were what appeared to be miles of utility trucks.
And he's like, we're ready.
Yeah. You are.
You are.
You know, and he believes in the tenth amendment.
Oh. Oh.
So the unions are going to shut down our ports.
Well, no. I'm the governor of Florida. And if the federal government won't do anything, I'm calling out our National Guard.
And we'll keep those ports open.
That's the reason they folded. They lost all of their power.
In negotiation. They lost all of it.
So it was -- thank you, Ron DeSantis for saving the country on that one.
STU: Can I ask you, Glenn, about -- and this is lower priority, than the stuff you have been talking about.
When it comes to your trip to North Carolina, yesterday in this whole region.
But there is a political concern here. Right?
We have an election that is a month away.
GLENN: I have to tell you.
May I tell you a quick story on this? A couple days ago, we rescued a woman who was up -- two women that were up on a mountain.
And they were flagging the helicopter. And we were taking somebody else to the hospital, I think. And so the other helicopter was called. And they came.
And they picked him up. They brought him down, from the mountain.
They were out of food and everything.
And one of the first things they said was, before we go back up, we need to vote.
Can you -- can you take us?
I mean, these people are pissed.
They are pissed.
If -- if North Carolina does not go hard for Trump. I would be shocked.
STU: Really?
GLENN: Oh, they're pissed. They are pissed.
STU: That's a big part of the reason I'm asking.
Because, you know, this is a key swing state.
I -- I think Donald Trump, if he doesn't win North Carolina. I don't think he could win.
GLENN: Yeah.
STU: I mean, there's a path. It's possible.
But I think it's super unlikely if he doesn't win North Carolina.
GLENN: I mean, the very, very cynical part of me. Which is almost all of me at this point.
Says, one of the reasons they're not helping there.
You've just taken out a swath of Trump supporters. Okay.
This is -- this is --
STU: Some have died.
But also some have -- totally --
GLENN: That's what I mean. You can't get two polls.
These people. They don't have cars. Their bridges are washed out.
It will be tough. But I'll tell you, I -- I met several people.
The old lady?
Who we rescued. She's like 80 years old.
She's fantastic.
And she didn't know who I was. Or who Cory Mills was.
We were just helping her get into the -- and as she's being put into the Life Flight, she's just this, damn Biden, he doesn't give a flying crap. And she was colorful.
And I thought, hmm. I think I know who she's voting for.
You know. And this used to be Democratic country.
STU: Oh, really?
Because I think of that part of it is seen as more red.
GLENN: You do now.
These were tobacco farmers. Okay?
And, you know, they don't have health care.
They don't. These are poor, poor people.
And so, you know, they've been for government assistance. Because they've needed government assistance.
But now they see what this government assistance really means. No. They're not interested.
This has turned people, at least in that area, I think this has made them generational Republicans.
STU: Just because of how bad this response has been.
GLENN: Everybody I -- everybody I talk to, was pissed at the federal government.
They were pissed.
I heard -- I can't tell you how many times I heard, yesterday.
Really.
How much money are they giving to these illegal immigrants?
And we've got nothing. No one is on the ground.
I'm telling you, I didn't see National Guard. I know the National Guard is there.
They've been there for four or five days.
But I didn't see any of them.
And I was in, really, some of the hardest hit areas.
I didn't -- there was no federal anything, except the satellite truck for FEMA.
Which wasn't working at the time, but they're going to -- they are where the people are. No, they weren't. They're out in the middle of nowhere.
Signing people up. So they can get their paperwork in. And start the system, to help chug along.
And there was -- they were helping one person.
It was despicable. Then there was another place, where FEMA was at another center, where they were -- they put up showers. So people could take showers.
Which I thought was really nice. Until they said, no. Not for the people.
But for the volunteers. So the volunteers could take showers. Not the people! Anybody could go and take a shower.
It was -- it's obscene! It's obscene!
When -- when Mercury One is the one that is providing all of the O2 for all of the ambulances and one of the hospitals, because they can't get it. When that's happening.
Excuse me, federal government, when there are people, literally, we're saving their lives.
Because we're providing insulin and life-saving drugs, that they can't. That nobody else has.
Government is not there, handing out these drugs.
I mean, you can go into the cities. You can go into homeless areas. You know, they'll hand you drugs there.
You know, lots of drugs.
You need heroin. They'll help you out on this.
But insulin. They're not there.
It is -- it is shameful.
I started telling you earlier today off the air.
I asked you. Do you remember the day I came in. When we were air vacking people out of Afghanistan? I should say, trying to.
We had an Air Force there, of 737s. And 747s on the ground in Iraq. Sorry, Afghanistan. And the State Department was blocking us. And then something happened that day, where they mocked us. They mocked us.
The State Department, we said, okay. It's been three days. We got all the paperwork. That you told us, we had to have. Everybody on paperwork.
Oh, no. You need form 117B. What is that form? It's a new form. Okay. Where do we get that form?
Well, you can only get it at the embassy in Afghanistan or Kabul.
You closed the embassy three days ago. Yeah. Well, how do we get that?
Well, it's just something you're going to have to figure out. Click.
I walked right on to your stage. And I was so mad. I said, I will renounce my citizenship, if this is who we are.
This is evil!
I was that close yesterday.
This country is so good, so good, the people are so good, and it's the government that has gone very dark.
They don't care!
I know we have the most compassionate politically correct people who just want the whole rainbow to come together.
They despise. They despise great swaths of people.
San Francisco goes down. And they need help.
You damn right, Mercury One will be down on the ground.
And we won't be saying, who did you vote for?
We will help them.
Appalachia goes down. We're all out of money.
Oh, my gosh.
You print money!
You print money!
I can't take it.