Team 47 - Thank you, Veterans
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Clay and Buck highlight President Donald Trump's live remarks from Arlington National Cemetery, where he honored the U.S. military and announced the symbolic renaming of the Department of Defense back to the “Department of War,” emphasizing a renewed focus on military strength and victory.
Military recruitment trends are also discussed, with Clay noting a surge in enlistment under the Trump administration, attributing it to a shift away from “woke” policies and toward a warrior ethos. The hosts reflect on the importance of morale, historical military hardships like Valley Forge and the Battle of the Bulge, and the enduring legacy of American service members. They recommend war novels like Killer Angels and Gates of Fire to deepen appreciation for military history.
David “Rut” Rutherford, Former Navy SEAL and host of The David Rutherford Show on the C&B Podcast Network, talks about the uptick in enlistment under President Trump and Secretary of War Hegseth.
Dakota Meyer, Medal of Honor recipient and Founder of The BLUF on Substack, tells the incredible story of how he earned the medal in Afghanistan, his honest opinion on the pullout from the country — and his work to prevent “weak men” from playing women’s sports by joining XX-XY Athletics as ‘Ultimate Girl Dad’ brand ambassador.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | The Team 47 podcast is sponsored by Good Ranchers, making the American farm strong again. |
| 0:13.0 | Team 47 with Clay and Buck starts now. |
| 0:18.2 | President Trump at Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day, and we have a couple of cuts from what he had to say there. |
| 0:27.5 | And if we could play those now, that would be fantastic. |
| 0:33.0 | Everything we have, everything our country has achieved has been purchased by the muscle, spine, |
| 0:38.6 | and steel of the United States military. |
| 0:42.7 | We owe it all to the fierce and noble men and women of the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, Space |
| 0:48.2 | Force, Coast Guard, and the United States Marines is a guy. |
| 0:58.0 | Our service members, our own words, are the greatest possible tribute to their immortal valor. |
| 1:07.3 | Trump also, Buck, talked about the decision to switch back to the Department of War, and here is what he had to say about the necessity for that. |
| 1:18.6 | From now when we're going to be celebrating Victory Day for World War I, for World War II, and frankly for everything else. |
| 1:27.3 | Under the Trump administration, we're restoring the pride and the winning spirit of the United States military. |
| 1:33.7 | That's why we have officially renamed the Department of Defense back to the original name, Department of War. |
| 1:41.4 | And remember, we won World War I, we won World War II, we won everything in between, |
| 1:48.3 | we want everything that came before, and then we brilliantly decided to change the name of this great, |
| 1:56.1 | this great thing that we all created together, and we became politically correct. We don't like being |
| 2:02.1 | politically correct. So we're not going to be politically correct anymore. From now on, |
| 2:06.6 | when we fight a war, we only fight for one reason to win. We fight to win. |
| 2:13.2 | Okay, so that's President Trump Arlington National Cemetery. I will say, and I don't think |
| 2:19.2 | this has gotten enough attention, and certainly it should, because it's a very positive story |
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