I’ve a weekday radio present – 4 hours each day.
So I’m all the time reserving any variety of friends, who’re pushing their books, causes, campaigns or no matter.
I will need to have interviewed hundreds of celebs and semi-celebs over time. However till final month, there was by no means a time after I would learn again and again in regards to the newest appointments to a brand new presidential administration and instantly notice:
“I’ve had that individual on my present!”
I perceive that I’m tooting my very own horn right here. But when I don’t do it, who will?
My Trump 47 visitor checklist begins with POTUS himself. I’ve been interviewing him on the air since 2015. A number of occasions. I’ve additionally had Donald Jr. on (marketing campaign and e book), in addition to his late mom Ivana. (She was likewise selling a e book; Ivana referred to as the second Mrs. Trump, Marla Maples, a “showgirl.”)
I’ve had on POTUS’ daughter-in-law Lara, Eric’s spouse. She was vice chair of the Republican Nationwide Committee and this yr helped cease the steal, made the landslide too large to rig.
The RNC chairman is Michael Whatley, like Lara a North Carolinian.
Whatley got here on my present too. He mentioned he was on good phrases with the president, however didn’t know if he nonetheless can be on Nov. 6. I believe it labored out okay – I noticed him at Mar-a-Lago Wednesday evening.
I’ve had my issues with the FBI over time. They investigated me in 1975 after I broke a narrative about their scandalous unlawful COINTELPRO program in Winston-Salem towards the Black Panther Get together.
Later, a crooked G-man in Boston gave Democrat serial killer Whitey Bulger some C-4 explosives to blow me up with as a result of… Democrats.
However now, I really feel like a brand new day is dawning on the FBI. There’s a brand new FBI director named Kash Patel.
I’ve had him on my present 5 occasions. I’ll guess if Kash had been the pinnacle G-man earlier, I wouldn’t have to attend 30 years to get the 302 report on the feds’ go to to my newsroom in 1975. (The native brokers lied to the superiors and mentioned they’d by no means tried to intimidate me in entrance of my bosses, however they did).
The brand new lawyer basic is Pam Bondi. I had her on my present on Dec. 6, 2019. I can’t even keep in mind the subject.
Final week, Bondi was sitting on the subsequent desk over from me at Mar-a-Lago. I thought of asking her for a private favor – that the DOJ once more enable U.S. attorneys to determine criminals by immigration standing of their press releases. However I figured that reform goes to occur anyway.
So I made a decision to get a selfie with the man Pam Bondi was sitting with – Child Rock.
He hasn’t been on my present. But.
That evening at Mar-a-Lago I used to be with Karoline Leavitt, the brand new press secretary, and her husband. Karoline goes to do a fantastic job. She labored on my radio community final yr. That evening, after dinner, I gave her a belated Worker of the Month award – considered one of my new tee shirts that claims, “Proud to Be Rubbish.”
The brand new assistant lawyer basic for civil rights is Harmeet Dhillon. You guessed it. She’s been a visitor 3 times.
Two days after the election, I advised my producer to get Tom Homan. He’s been on the present extra occasions than I can keep in mind to speak in regards to the illegal-alien invasion. Oddly, Homan was unavailable. That evening, Trump introduced he can be the brand new border czar.
Stunning!
On Wednesday, Homan went on failing CNN and was requested when the deportations will start.
“Day One,” he mentioned. “We need to arrest as many individuals as we are able to which are within the nation illegally. If you happen to’re right here illegally, you’re not off the desk.”
Are you able to see why he was such a fantastic visitor? However guess what – the nation wants him greater than the Howie Carr Present does.
One other of our regulars is Todd Lyons, now the sphere workplace director of Boston ICE’s Enforcement and Elimination Operations (ERO). He’s a fantastic man, and he’s achieved a outstanding job swimming towards the tide these previous couple of years. The rumor is he’s getting a giant promotion. I absolutely hope so.
Talking of mass deportations (and the extra mass, the higher), Stephen Miller is the brand new deputy chief of employees for coverage. He was a visitor in 2020.
I’ve Democrats on my present too, a minimum of among the ones who’re going to be within the new GOP administration. Like future DNI Tulsi Gabbard – she got here on final March to advertise an look in New Hampshire.
A month later Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stopped by my studio in Boca Raton. It was like having a rock star in the home. Individuals have been following him by the halls. After all, he had no actual safety – thanks, Joe Biden!
I’ve by no means had Elon Musk on, however I’ve interviewed his fellow DOGE boss, Vivek Ramaswamy, 4 occasions. He was operating for president.
Through the Panic, I preferred to speak to “COVID skeptics.” It used to get me tossed off YouTube. Certainly one of my friends was Dr. Marty Makary of Johns Hopkins. He was a fantastic visitor, 5 occasions. Now he’ll be a good higher commissioner of the Meals and Drug Administration.
I all the time like having Peter Navarro on the present. He’s a neighborhood man, born in Cambridge, went to Tufts, frolicked on the Jumbo Lounge. That’s my connection to him – the Jumbo, again within the day.
It may very well be a troublesome place, however not as gritty, I’m positive, because the federal jail in Miami the place the Democrats locked him up as a political prisoner after Jan. 6.
Throughout his transient bid, Navarro was visited by Donald Trump Jr. I puzzled in the event that they mentioned their respective appearances on the Howie Carr Present. Now Navarro will likely be again on the White Home, as commerce counselor.
These final 4 years, typically it appeared like we have been all down and out. Now we’re not. I’ll inform you what, this Christmas, if the Jumbo Lounge have been nonetheless open on Broadway, I’d purchase Navarro a drink to rejoice. As it’s, I assume I’ll must spring for a spherical at Mar-a-Lago.
God bless us, every body!
(Purchase Howie’s new tee shirt, “Proud to Be Rubbish,” at howiecarrshow.com.)
