"This is conservative HEAVEN!" The BEST Trump era decision EVER?

What this episode is about

The discussion centers on a significant deregulation decision announced during the Trump era, which is touted as the largest in U.S. history, amounting to $1.3 trillion. Key points include a critique of previous environmental regulations deemed overreaching and a call for Congress to have a greater role in environmental policy rather than leaving such decisions to unelected officials.

Key takeaways

• Deregulation frenzy: $1.3 trillion savings may please wallets, but what about the air quality?
• An executive order bonanza: When Congress stalls, Trump's pen forges ahead—legally dubious or savvy strategy?
• The end of the 'Obama switch': Goodbye to pesky car features, but at what cost to environmental progress?
• Supreme Court shows its teeth: Loperbrite and West Virginia cases reshape regulatory landscape; brace for impact!
• A sea of sameness in car design? Over-regulation leads to bland vehicles—talk about a dull drive!

Who speaks in this episode?

• Lee Zeldin (Guest) · 8 min speaking
• Glenn Beck (Guest) · 5 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: Clean Air Act, Donald Trump, Loperbrite, Obama administration
2. 3:00 – 6:00: Clean Air Act, Loperbrite, Obama administration, West Virginia v. EPA
3. 6:00 – 9:00: Clean Air Act, Donald Trump, Ford F-150, Loperbrite
4. 9:00 – 12:00: Donald Trump

Notable quotes from ""This is conservative HEAVEN!" The BEST Trump era decision EVER?"

• I referenced Loperbrite a second ago, the Supreme Court case overturning the Chevron doctrine. When the 2009 endangerment finding was done, the Obama administration, the EPA.

  about Loperbrite · at 3:43

• Regardless of where anyone is on their opinion or the fact on the science debate, the reality is the Clean Air Act does not authorize this. that Congress would have to pass a…

  about Clean Air Act · at 6:16

• Cuz they've gone full-fledged insane. right now, Ford F-150s, I don't think a single Ford F-150, bestselling car in America, has been sold in Europe. and it's not just the size of it. it's all of the regulations and.

  about Ford F-150 · at 7:49

• And just look back at the last few weeks, the temperatures across this entire country. Thank God President Trump has been unleashing energy dominance. Thank God we have base…

  about Donald Trump · at 11:26

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Lee Zeldon — Person · Main guest / primary speaker (interviewee) · 2 mentions
  Explains and defends the administration’s rollback of the 2009 EPA endangerment finding and broader deregulation, citing Supreme Court precedents and projected consumer savings.
• Donald Trump — Person · Referenced political leader / policy driver · 5 mentions · first at 0:15
  Discussed as the president whose administration pursued major deregulation and signed actions affecting EPA authority, vehicle rules, and energy policy.
• Obama administration — Person · Referenced prior administration (policy origin being criticized) · 3 mentions · first at 2:37
  Cited as the administration that created the 2009 EPA 'endangerment finding' via an interpretation of the Clean Air Act; used as the contrast case to justify the current rollback.
  Overturning the Chevron doctrine. When the 2009 endangerment finding was done, the Obama administration, the EPA administrator was creatively interpreting the Clean Air Act to…

Products & tech

• Ford F-150 — Product · Case study · 2 mentions · first at 7:54
  Used as an example of how deregulation could impact the automotive industry and consumer choice.

Concepts & topics

• Clean Air Act — Concept · Key argument · 6 mentions · first at 0:48
  Central to the discussion about deregulation and the interpretation of environmental laws by the EPA.

Places & events

• Loperbrite — Event · Legal precedent · 4 mentions · first at 1:13
  Cited as a Supreme Court case that overturned the Chevron doctrine, impacting regulatory interpretations.
• West Virginia v. EPA — Event · Legal precedent · 1 mention · first at 4:11
  Mentioned as a case that established the major policies doctrine, limiting EPA's regulatory power.
  Court said in Loperbrite, that's not how it works. You have to follow the best reading of the law. And then I also referenced West Virginia versus EPA as an example, the major policies doctrine.
• G7 Energy and Environment Ministers meeting — Event · Setting · 1 mention · first at 8:30
  Mentioned as a context where European countries' environmental policies were discussed.
  Sit on dealership lots and remaining unsold. Good. Now, I it was a couple months ago, I was at the G7 Energy and Environment Ministers meeting that was in Toronto, Canada, and…

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 Lee Zelden, I've never had the desire, nor have I ever made out with a man, but today I would consider it. You are you are the greatest man alive today. Uh thank you. Thank you. Thank you for everything that you and Donald Trump have done and announced yesterday.

0:19 Well, listen, it was uh a big deal and we were excited to be there in the the Roosevelt room to announce it. as you pointed out, the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States, $1.3 trillion. And a smart guy like you who's been following Supreme Court cases, and you know the timeline, this has been a long time coming. The the left,

0:42 they created this endangerment finding to hoard power in a very unique interpretation of the Clean Air Act that is not allowed under any best reading of it. and they they did trillions of dollars of regulation on mobile sources, airplanes, stationary sources, oil and gas. Uh there's so much control that they hoarded and we just went out went right for the root. The endangerment finding the best reading of the Clean Air Act. Uh we know that that this is a durable uh decision that I signed yesterday after Loperbrite and West Virginia verse EPA and Michigan verse EPA. If you want the law to say that EPA should be regulating the heck out of greenhouse gas emissions, that is a topic for a debate and a vote in Congress, not a rogue unelected bureaucrat at a federal agency.

1:33 Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. I mean, I was just talking to the insiders, you know, in during the break and I said, you know, one reason why a Kia uh looks like a Genesis and a Genesis looks like a Bentley and the Bentley looks like the Mercedes is that is that cars can't design you can't design cars to look any different because the regulations are so heavy you you can't add any drag to any cars, you know? So, everything starts to look meh. Uh, and that's just that's one of the things that I don't think even people even think about, let alone, you know, your lighting, your shower head, uh, your water pressure, uh, the money that you're going to save just because trucks are not going to have to spend as much money, so trucking goes down. Any idea how much money we're looking at possible savings for the American people?

2:23 Yes, a new vehicle is going to cost over $2,400 less on average. now that this decision has been signed. And on top of it all, as an added bonus, we got rid of the Obama switch, the climate participation trophy for manufacturers of adding that annoying start stop feature in vehicles that make your car die at red light and stop sign. Uh that offcycle, all offcycle credits are gone.

2:53 I mean, you're talking sexy talk with when you're talking about getting that thing out of my car. You you had me at hello. Um Amen. Uh the how long before we start to see those savings

3:08 immediately? I mean everything takes time. The Yeah. The president came in uh January of 2025. This was a day one executive order. So as far as you know signaling to auto manufacturers that the president was focused on it, that was a day one message that was sent. uh we announced on March 12th uh that we were going to be pursuing this effort. We did the public comment. We followed all of the rules of the Administrative Procedures Act. Uh I read the the final uh decision before signing it uh yesterday and this thing is airtight.

3:43 You know, I referenced Loperbrite a second ago, the Supreme Court case overturning the Chevron doctrine. When the 2009 endangerment finding was done, the Obama administration, the EPA administrator was was creatively interpreting the Clean Air Act to say, well, if it doesn't say I can't, I guess that means we can. Well, the Supreme Court said in Loperbrite, that's not how it works. You have to follow the best reading of the law. And then I also referenced West Virginia versus EPA as an example, the major policies doctrine.

4:15 If you're going to do trillions of dollars of regulation, that is something that is for Congress. And as far as this decision itself, it was loaded with so many mental leaps, uh they said that when carbon dioxide was mixed with five other well-mixed gases, some of them not even admitted from vehicles, that it contributes, not causes, contributes to global climate change that you won't find that in section 202, the Clean Air Act. And they say global climate change endangers public health and welfare without analyzing the local and regional impacts, which is the way that it was always done for decades. Um, you know, when you actually dig into what the law says, the Obama administration decided, well, I guess we have to change the law.

5:03 They tried to get the votes in Congress, and then when they couldn't get the votes, they said, well, I guess we're just going to have to do it anyway. Well, fast forward to 2026. Game over. the endangerment finding is gone.

5:16 So, um, with a lot of the stuff that Trump has done because we can't seem to get Congress to really do anything, um, he's had to do it through executive order, etc., etc., and then I worry about codifying things. But this one is different because this one's all based on the Supreme Court wins. Right.

5:34 Right. And it's also based off of what the law doesn't allow. You know, this is this is a best reading of the Clean Air Act, which does not say that we should be regulating uh an emission to combat global climate change. And and you know, you could ignore all of all of the the the bad guesses of Al Gore and John Kerry and and others. um you can replace all of the the bad flawed assumptions on science that were made in 2009 with the most pessimistic predictions that didn't bear out as we look at facts in 2026. Regardless of of where anyone is on their opinion or the fact on the science debate, the reality is the Clean Air Act does not authorize this. that Congress would have to pass a new law in order to have uh the trillions of dollars of regulation. So yeah, no, it doesn't have to be codified. And quite frankly, because of the Supreme Court president uh you know the if the pendulum swung

6:43 one day down the road that some far-left Democrat gets elected president and they have uh you know somebody running the the EPA and they're trying to go back to it. The problem is is that the Clean Air Act is still going to give them the same problem. And Loperbrite is on the books and it says you can't just make it up and now manufacturers can make vehicles that consumers actually want rather than what politicians demand. And when you combine this decision with the uh the resetting of the cafe standards with Secretary Duffy and DOT and the president, when you combine it with getting rid of the electric vehicle mandate with the three Congressional Review Act bills that Congress passed and President Trump signed, you add the the new investments that have been announced, billions of these different manufacturers, and then the jobs that come with it, it all adds up for a very positive one year for the US auto

7:38 industry. So, is it going to make the US auto um uh harder to sell in places like the EU? Cuz they've gone full-fledged insane. Uh right now, I mean, Ford F-150s, I don't think a single Ford F-150, bestselling car in America, uh has been sold in Europe. Um and it's not just the size of it. it it's all of the regulations and the tariffs that hopefully Donald Trump is is, you know, really making a real dent in. Um, but if we relax our regulations, will it be harder for us to sell something in Europe?

8:20 Well, I'm confident that there's going to be more F-150s that are going to get built and less electric vehicles that sit on dealership lots and remaining unsold. Good. Now, I it was a couple months ago, I was at the uh the G7 Energy and Environment Ministers meeting that was uh in Toronto, Canada, and I could tell that these European countries are really feeling the strain of uh how they have chosen to protect the environment over growing the economy. See, the the Trump administration believes that you could protect the environment and grow the economy. the economic cost of the climate goals that they were set are are you know it's coming home to to roost right now and these European countries are facing a reality where you know they'll make their decisions uh in the months and the years to come but they clearly are in a really bad place right now and they're and they're rethinking certain policies

9:19 now how much of that they say publicly verse privately I I don't know we'll see but when I was in that meeting and we were having these conversations. Clearly, they are feeling the economic pressure of their environmental policies.

9:32 I have to tell you, I think when America becomes more than competitive, I mean, when we're going in a different direction and it's cheaper and it's better, I I I just think the, you know, the the world needed leadership and the world now has leadership and I think these countries are going to they're just going to collapse on their own weight on things like this. Um, one last thing, Le, and you kind of addressed it, but I I want to make sure because I mean, this is conservative heaven right now. Um, but for um middle class, lowerass Democrats, this is really good for them as well.

10:11 Can you speak to somebody who didn't vote for Donald Trump and, you know, thinks that, oh, this is this this is going to, you know, you're not listening to science. This is about more consumer choice. This is about having more affordable vehicles. And by the way, when you make the trucks more affordable that deliver all of those consumer goods that you purchase in your daily lives, the cost of living across the board is able to go down $1.3 trillion. Now, too often when you start talking millions and billions and trillions, you know, a lot of people just uh kind of view it all as the same.

10:50 These are these are big numbers. $1.3 trillion is one massive number when you're talking about $2,400 to to purchase a new vehicle. $2,400 less. It's more mobility, more economic mobility. It's the ability to be able to get to work, to get to church. It's the uh it's the ability to have more money available for health care, uh for education, and the other costs of life. And you know, I was I was just asked about fossil fuels and and you know, the question was asked in a way as if you know, we we should be getting rid of it.

11:26 And I mean, just look back at the last few weeks, the temperatures across this entire country. Thank God President Trump has been unleashing energy dominance. Thank God we have base load power, reliable coal and natural gas and and oil that's kept our country warm. the person that you're talking about, that low-inccome, that middle inome family, that person who's been struggling. Imagine going through the last few weeks without heat. Uh the the president's policies, especially when you add them all up, and it's only been one year. We still have three more years of this. There's a lot that's been fixed, there's a lot more to fix, and I'm just really honored to have a part of it.

12:03 Well, I tell you, Lee, um, you were on the show, I don't know, about a year ago, and you said you were going to do this, and you said that, you know, the president was on it, and the president had told me he was going to do this, and it is nice to see politicians and and people in government actually do what they say they're going to do. Uh, congratulations and please congratulate the president on this as well. Great, great news. Thank you.

12:24 You bet, Lee.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in ""This is conservative HEAVEN!" The BEST Trump era decision EVER?"?

Lee Zeldin (Guest), Glenn Beck (Guest).

What is ""This is conservative HEAVEN!" The BEST Trump era decision EVER?" about?

The discussion centers on a significant deregulation decision announced during the Trump era, which is touted as the largest in U.S. history, amounting to $1.3 trillion. Key points include a critique of previous environmental regulations deemed overreaching and a call for Congress to have a greater role in environmental policy rather than leaving such decisions to unelected officials.

What is mentioned in this Glenn Beck episode?

8 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Lee Zeldon, Clean Air Act, Donald Trump, Loperbrite, West Virginia v. EPA, Obama administration. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is ""This is conservative HEAVEN!" The BEST Trump era decision EVER?"?

The episode runs 13 min; the transcript is about 2,132 words in 22 timestamped sections.

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