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EPISODE · Jul 6, 2026 · 8 MIN

Frady notes that being MAGA does not mean hero worshipping Donald Trump.

from Straight Talk With Bill Frady

In this audio clip, host Bill Frady emphasizes that while he is staunchly aligned with the MAGA movement and views Donald Trump as a great and clever president, supporters should expect and accept internal dissent rather than treating the movement as a blind personality cult. He clarifies that an America First, patriotic populist stance does not require hero worship or complete agreement with every presidential action, nor does questioning certain decisions warrant being labeled an "infidel" or kicked off the "Trump train." Frady highlights that effective government requires active, educated citizenship where critical questioning is vital, drawing a distinction between loyal political support and unwavering silence. Transitioning to foreign policy, he also touches upon a aggressive, long-term approach to Iran, arguing for the complete eradication of fundamentalist leadership to empower the everyday Iranian population, while noting that even the strongest leaders are fully deserving of scrutiny from time to time.

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Bill Frady: Now, let me just be clear on something. If we were to build a—or construct, or carve a Mount Rushmore today, there'd only be two guys on it. Reagan and Trump. I think Trump is a good president, a great president. He—he's a clever president. I don't agree with everything he says. I don't agree with everything he does. That doesn't mean that within the MAGA community, I should be considered an infidel. That doesn't mean you get to push me off the Trump train. And despite all this, I'm still MAGA. I'm not conservative, I'm an America First, patriot, populist, MAGA guy. And I still ride on the Trump train, and you don't get my ticket back. And all of you that are out there that are MAGA, you should expect and accept some dissent from time to time. Because we're supporters of President Trump, but we are not members of a cult. And some circles, you know, if you get out there and say, "I don't understand why he just said it that way, the way he said it." This would mean that we get rebuffed, and we get sent a detailed list of Trump's achievements. Don't need it. I'm good to go. I'm an educated voter, I don't need your help. Thank you very much. Focusing on past achievements though, and ignoring what's going on, sort of reminds me of things I did when I was six years old. Because I was trying, you know, I would try to be a good boy during the year to get that, you know, that—that bike with the banana seat on it, and the sissy bar on the back, and the high—high handlebars. I wanted that stuff. So, I'd fold laundry and, you know, pick up my little sister's stuff. But then, if I was doing that, if I did something just out of exuberance for being a six-year-old kid... well, you know, it really becomes a matter of what have you done for me lately, right? It boils down to one thing. None of these people are worthy, including President Donald J. Trump, are worthy of hero worship. Support, yes. Hero worship, no. Now, do I say anything negative about Trump? Very rarely. Very rarely. Because I'm always waiting for that to—whatever he was doing, I'm waiting to see—I'm waiting to gather all the facts on what he just did. Then maybe, I don't know. But as far as Iran is concerned, for example, the—you know, right—if he's said it, I've missed it. The solution—the short-term solution is the same as the long-term solution to Iran, which means we have to beat all of the mullahs. We have to eradicate Iran of all of the mullahs, and all of the Shiite fundamentalists, and let the Iranian normal people be in charge if they can handle that. And then once we do that, then we got to watch it like a hawk. Because that will be—that will create a vacuum. There's plenty of Shiites out there that would love to say, "Oh, well, we could do it so much better." So, while I—I disagree with some things, that just comes from an understanding that you're not going to win a war unless you're willing to go out there and take real estate. Now, Trump should get a standing ovation for his overall body of work. But you don't have to be, you know... it doesn't require silence. Supporting the president does not remove my right to question or disagree with something, or anything that he does or says. And I earned that, just like you earned that when you got on top of that train, the Trump train. When he won in 2016, I was quite happy. I was quite happy that worked out. Most people that I knew around here were split between Carson and Cruz, and uh my problem here was this: they—they sounded the same, and nobody was talking about the stuff that Trump was talking about, which Trump was talking about the stuff that we were talking about. Then when he was, you know, sworn in, we—we got a great, although sometimes frustrating, train wreck. Then we had the—the fraudulent pause to have this old man roll in. And uh, you know, history's going to remember the Biden administration as a dash between Trump 45 and Trump 47. So, by the second inauguration in January of ...

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