Candace Candace is joined by Milo to talk about the Trump administration, immigration, and Trump's return to the White House. Candace and Milo talk about how they met, how they became friends, and what it means to be a MAGA.
00:00:00.000All right, you guys. Happy Tuesday. I am joined by Milo Yiannopoulos. Do you want to know why? Because it feels like a MAGA funeral. We are both wearing black. A lot has happened in the last 24 hours, really, honestly, since Trump reassumed office. And it's time to talk about it. And at the end, you do kind of want to go back to the beginning. Welcome back to Candace.
00:00:30.000No, he didn't. He was fantastic. All right, you guys. So there's a long backstory. We have so much we actually need to talk about, but I want to suspend that for a later episode because I actually contacted you weeks ago saying, Milo, I want to have you on. Wanted to go through the history. Yay.
00:00:47.460But for my audience, my newer audience, and these are people that are on the left. And now I think we're all kind of coming towards the middle and realizing that everything is corrupt and fake and gay. I want to let them know you're actually kind of a piece of my backstory. I didn't know you. But when I was a liberal and on the left and found myself falling down the hole, meaning I realized actually I agree with conservatism and I kind of like Donald Trump. And I was kind of scared to say that as a black person in America. I found your writings.
00:01:16.280You were a Breitbart and your writing was excellent and you were talking about the ills of modern feminism. You absolutely blew up. And I would say that you are original MAGA, meaning I think of you. I think of Steve Bannon. I think of all of these people when the whole world was like, Donald Trump will never become president of the United States. You guys.
00:02:24.860But what I think he was getting at was that at a time when even Americans were afraid to admit who they were voting for, although they did in huge numbers, there were, you know, seven or eight or nine of us or whatever who were out there every day.
00:03:14.960And at that time, you know, if he was sort of vaguely somehow connected to the Trump organization or maybe whatever, people kind of had an idea that Trump was going to do something, right?
00:03:25.240Because he'd been trailing for many years that he was going to run for president.
00:03:27.860And people sort of, he's going to make an announcement of some kind, either that he is or he isn't.
00:03:32.300And so a friend of mine invited me and said, you probably want to be here for this.
00:03:34.900And it was the kind of person that only says it when they mean it.
00:03:37.100So when he started to speak in that unfiltered, extraordinary way about immigration, and in that announcement, when he right out of the gate said something along the lines, you know, they're not saying they're best, the Mexicans are rapists.
00:03:53.020They're like, oh, this is the guy that people have been waiting for that is going to speak like they do.
00:04:00.000This is the guy that they've been waiting for that is going to speak directly, plainly, honestly, persuasively, and in that demotic mode, in the manner in which we speak to each other over the kitchen table about the things that are freaking them out.
00:04:22.520And I think that's definitely what drove me toward him.
00:04:25.800I liked the fact that he spoke what felt like he was being very honest.
00:04:29.040He understood how to speak to a blue collar worker to say, look around you, look at the roads, you've got immigrants coming in, your jobs are being taken, and I'm going to fix it.
00:05:01.000And I, you know, a lot of people who supported him and did a lot for him weren't necessarily recognized for it in the first administration.
00:05:08.700But I think that the supporters like me, you might say, more colorful, hard to handle, maybe, kind of supporters fall into two brackets.
00:05:17.100You've got the people who are just desperate to be next to him at all costs, even if it's not the right thing for him.
00:05:21.620And then those of us who are content with the victory and happy to chill.
00:05:26.520So I never really made much of an effort to kind of engage with the administration the first time around.
00:05:30.080By the same token, they didn't really, you know, whatever.
00:07:30.620The president himself was, you know, when he was spotted, was looking like he just wanted to get the evening over and done with and go home.
00:07:38.600When he won, I think everybody sort of caught up to the excitement and realized that actually, oh, maybe my vote did make a difference, you know, back at home.
00:07:49.760But then the administration, it didn't seem to deliver on any of the promises.
00:07:53.140We didn't really get any movement on borders or great victories against universities.
00:08:02.140At that time, remember that we would all been talking a lot about campus rape culture and the gender pay gap.
00:08:10.200These are the sorts of things that people were talking about then, all of which had been exploded and exposed and discredited.
00:08:16.880But all those people still seem to remain in power and all those institutions didn't seem to be losing very much by the fact of Trump being president.
00:08:24.940In fact, if anything, they seemed to be doing quite well fundraising while he was in and he wasn't really stacking up the victories that we were expecting.
00:08:31.460So I think, I don't think I'm alone in saying that first Trump administration was something that left us all feeling deflated.
00:08:41.300I would say when I examined that, I always thought it was so unfair because he was constantly fighting.
00:08:49.880I mean, I just every single day, I think most people assumed that, OK, you fight, you win.
00:08:55.380Now you're the president. Now the media is going to want to applaud you and want you to do well because you're the leader of the free world.
00:09:01.640And that wasn't the case. I think for the first time ever, it was every day they kept the pressure on new scandal, this scandal, this person's coming up, this person's saying this.
00:09:09.080And I think that probably surprised him before he could even properly become accustomed to being the president of the United States.
00:09:14.640He was constantly having to fight everywhere. So I was able to excuse that because I feel that we were very much a part of fighting that.
00:09:21.740We were fighting the media with him, fighting the fake news media with him.
00:09:25.000This time, though, fast forwarding to today.
00:09:28.120He kind of disproved that with the second administration, right?
00:09:30.300Because he came in all guns blazing with a team of crack troops.
00:09:34.620You know, he came in with his Praetorian guard and it was something that some of us had been saying, you know, we saw it in action.
00:09:41.300You can just turn around and say, you know, get on with it.
00:09:45.620And he did. And so that, you know, if anything, left us feeling a little bit more robbed about the first administration because it's like we do this hard work to get him in the first time.
00:09:56.080It was not easy to persuade Americans that this was a realistic proposition.
00:10:00.760I mean, I mentioned I had to persuade Anne. I mean, I really had to persuade her.
00:10:04.620She was very upset by what Trump said about Ted Cruz's wife, for instance.
00:10:10.540And now we would kind of barely think twice about a comment like that from Trump.
00:10:14.660But at the time, it was just not the sort of thing people expected to hear from a presidential candidate.
00:10:18.720So, you know, those of us who were out giving speeches and the rest of it, we were doing a lot of work behind the scenes as well.
00:10:23.360Doing the best that we could to kind of get the people we knew had a lot of firepower, you know, behind this.
00:10:28.260But we sort of robbed of progress there and then robbed of a whole election after that.
00:10:34.640Thank goodness we thought at the beginning of this administration, things now seem to be happening.
00:10:40.800Things are getting done now in a way that, you know, they should have been the last two times.
00:10:47.340I don't even I genuinely am trying to process what's happening with this administration.
00:10:52.360Obviously, this is Israel. We have been infiltrated by Israel.
00:10:55.420I'm wondering if maybe we were always infiltrated by Israel and we just weren't paying attention.
00:10:58.680But the first remarkable fumble and this was shocking to me because Trump, generally speaking, has good social skills and is able to read a room correctly.
00:11:07.740I would say that right for him to come out and say, why are we still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?
00:11:13.300And if you're still on it, I don't want you as supporters.
00:11:16.200That I just go, is somebody tweeting for him? Do they have something on him? Is he actually sweating bullets?
00:11:21.080Because the Trump that I know is smarter than to try to gaslight his supporters.
00:11:26.820So what did you what is your read on that when he did that?
00:11:29.080When he said, so here's the thing. The grand, you know, pedo theory or whatever, this this idea that there are elites wielding extraordinary power in the shadows using evidence against each other of whatever who have wisdom.
00:11:48.840This is not a conspiracy theory. This is how every civilization in human history has become at the end, at the late decadent period, just before things collapse.
00:11:59.120It is not unusual or crazy or right wing or lunatic to say, I kind of think there might be a secret cabal of like powerful pedophiles running the world.
00:12:10.820That's exactly what happens in every empire in history. It's what happened in Rome. It happens in all of them.
00:12:17.440So it isn't weird or strange that people would imagine that might be happening now as our civilization looks as though it may be crumbling.
00:12:25.840It's just not weird to think that. It was also a central plank of Marga.
00:12:31.360It's why it's why 2016 happened. It's one of the three or four things that made 2016 happen.
00:12:36.840This idea that the Democrats in particular, although probably we didn't want to know too much, but, you know, or maybe we did, but, you know, probably some people are on the side too.
00:12:44.740But but most of the Democrats, celebrities, politicians, the rest of it, were in cahoots with people like Jeffrey Epstein.
00:12:52.020Doing backdoor deals, not passing laws or not running institutions for the people, but rather for their own enrichment, engorgement and power.
00:13:03.340And they all also happen to be wrapped up, if not in outright pedophilia, at least in sexual degeneracy and so on and so forth.
00:13:09.900And this is kind of a rump of people at the top of society, the elites, who live basically beyond consequence, who live free from worry about the terrible things they do, things that would end the life of anybody else because they are insulated by this, you know, by the world in which they live and everybody looking out for everybody.
00:13:30.820That strikes me as a demonstrable fact of reality and not necessarily anything too great.
00:13:35.020So this is this is this is this is a plank along with the border and a few other things, free speech that become the motivating social energies behind 2016, why it happens, right?
00:13:51.280Why Trump is possible at that moment, why people are open to voting for somebody so unusual in politics, why people were prepared to take the risk.
00:14:00.560Like Epstein is the key that unlocks the secrets, the secret architecture of our world, the way in which power is structured and operates over all of us and over and for its own benefit and for the enrichment and engorgement and protection of a couple of people.
00:14:18.460He represents in one person everything that we worry about, that we fear, that we strongly suspect is happening and that we're probably right about.
00:14:26.880He's a symbol for all of it. And for Donald Trump, who we had previously assumed was somebody who just got us when nobody else did, to turn around and say, I don't understand why people are going on about this.
00:14:40.520I think it's just bad people. My former supporters. If you if you're if you're if you're into this, I don't want your support.
00:14:47.540Oh, when I heard that, my response was very simple.
00:15:11.940I would appreciate the honesty. But gaslighting us, like going back to this Sigmund Freud technique, pretending he doesn't know, pretending he doesn't know why we're upset.
00:15:20.640You fully know why we're upset. You fully know why this matters.
00:15:23.760In fact, it was your administration that you've now put in your administration who have communicated the importance of Jeffrey Epstein.
00:15:30.640Whether we're talking about you did it, you did it.
00:15:34.640And so there was just this moment where I wasn't just frustrated. I was angry. I was actually angry.
00:15:41.220And then the stupidity, which is required for supporters to believe when Pam Bondi then looks over and says, we don't know if he was working.
00:15:57.040It's more respectful to just say F you.
00:15:58.880It is. And at least with F you, you can say, well, there must be a lot going on. I'll talk to you when you calm down.
00:16:07.420At least there's an opportunity to circle back and to forgive and to assume that something must be going.
00:16:15.920It's like you're going for a lot. You know, something, something.
00:16:19.300Give us something to cling to. But no, cold, calculated, repeated. I don't want you. Okay.
00:16:24.720Um, this was a betrayal, not just of his supporters, their priorities and, um, uh, and his own promises, but it was, it was an attempt to deny one of the reasons that he got elected in the first place and pretend that it didn't exist.
00:16:41.860And this is a level of lie, a level of audacity that is so disrespectful and so outrageous and so extraordinary that it leaves you wondering, all right, what have they got on you? What's going on?
00:16:57.800There was something about the gaslighting too, that for me felt very academic. And what I mean by that is just in my life and my experience, you find these people who believe so much in their degrees, right?
00:17:09.060They're, they, we rule over you because I have a master's degree in this and I'm smarter than you.
00:17:15.260Yes. Credentialism without question. And I will tell you right now, the blue collar people are smarter than them. Okay. These people would die if they had to go out and hitch a, hitch a tent in the forest. Literally, they wouldn't be able to survive on basic skills.
00:17:27.620Or even do a middle-class job, be a travel agent.
00:17:29.900They wouldn't be able to do any of this stuff, right? Common sense is so much more admirable.
00:17:34.220And when he said that, he basically looked at people who have common sense, right? Who recognize what's happening.
00:17:40.520They maybe don't hold the degrees of, you know, your ilk people that graduate to, you know, from UPenn and their sons go to UPenn, but they know what Jeffrey Epstein is and they know what Jeffrey Epstein was.
00:17:53.360They know he didn't kill himself. And so he lost something that was almost magical about him.
00:17:58.720Again, like the ability to be a person that comes from this class of people, but to be able to speak to the blue collar worker, to the middle class.
00:18:07.340He lost that. He suddenly became one of them in that moment.
00:18:10.500I agree. And in a sense, he took a steaming pile of, you know what, on his legacy, on his supporters and on the underpinning assumptions that he was voted in office on the basis of.
00:19:07.980Interesting leap to make, but not really.
00:19:11.280Because the last 48 hours, the last 56 hours have been the worst, you know, to the extent that I've had a life in public life,
00:19:22.880the worst couple of days of my life to see somebody who, you know, and I had a bit of a wobble in 20, whenever it was, you know, I'm not going to lie about that.
00:19:30.140But, you know, and I've even served other candidates for high office, you know, in the meantime.
00:19:35.660But, you know, I began and thought that I would end my political life, or at least, you know, the extent to which I'm in public life, with Trump.
00:19:45.180And certainly, you know, I was excited about that.
00:19:47.020You know, you see people like Stephen Miller on TV and you're like, yeah.
00:19:49.460But to hear him in the last few days, and so I think you're maybe right about that country, to hear him say in the last few days that, you know,
00:20:04.540or to get the message that his administration was going to deny disaster relief funds to states that don't do whatever, you know, to take, you know, to insufficiently obsequious.
00:20:21.280Yes, if you're boycotting Israel and you get hit by a hurricane.
00:20:25.220If you've got Haagen-Dazs in the fridge instead of Ben and Jerry's, you know, you're screwed.
00:20:28.160And then the same day, after having, you know, committed treason in the morning, to commit genocide in the afternoon,
00:20:36.500by saying, by giving an indication that Israel would be fine to go and just annex Gaza, a place where they have been.
00:20:42.540Which is what Miriam, and by the way, just so everybody's clear, they're also going to take the West Bank.
00:20:47.920Miriam Adelson came to him and said, no, we're not taking Gaza, we're also taking the West Bank and we want you to look the other way and here's $100 million.
00:20:52.980So they're currently going door to door and traumatizing people that live in the West Bank, right?
00:20:58.740Palestinians that live in the West Bank.
00:21:00.480And Trump is pretending he doesn't know that's going on and now penalizing Americans who should rightfully be outraged that we pretend we were the leaders of the free world.
00:21:16.560It's so we have so much high morality.
00:21:18.600And yet you look at what's happening in Gaza and all of our politicians do not have the stomach to say what is so obviously true.
00:21:28.020And what is obviously true is that by the time this is over, Netanyahu's Israel will have eclipsed Hitler's Germany by many, many, many, many counts, morally speaking, and probably by the numbers, too.
00:21:40.320Because the way that that country is behaving, you know, it's the kind of thing that, you know, people are like, all right, come on, calm down.
00:21:54.260Somebody showed that they were using this measure, like, you know, Israel and their propaganda was using this measure for October 7th, saying this is the equivalent of this would be like by rate killing this many people.
00:22:03.620Oh, well, you get Mark Levin go on TV and say, yeah.
00:22:06.200And they were like, that would be the equivalent of murdering 44 million Americans.
00:22:10.520If Mark Levin can go on television and say that losing, you know, 300 IDF soldiers is equivalent of 3,000 American soldiers, I think perhaps we'll take the same approach to mathematics.
00:22:21.080And now they're not doing that approach to mathematics anymore.
00:22:24.480But interesting, isn't it, the outcry to both and the one that Trump rolled back and the one he didn't.
00:22:29.860And he rolled back the Zionist virtue signaling, meaning, okay, fine, let's cut that bit out of the homeland FEMA terms, which they then tried to pretend.
00:22:50.980But they actually had the language on the DHS website where they, you were going to be denied the funds.
00:22:59.760And I'm just trying to see which line this is on.
00:23:01.940On the left-hand side, is that the Israel, oh, here it is.
00:23:05.040Yeah, it says, with companies doing business in or with Israel or authorized by, licensed by, organized under the laws of Israel to do business.
00:23:58.520That's the one that they rolled back because that's the one that actually doesn't really matter.
00:24:02.200It's offensive, and if it had been carried through, and if it had been honored, and there had been a disaster, and a state hadn't been ready, and it was because of this, I think maybe you could say, it's treason, bro.
00:24:34.520This is the closest I've been to saying, no, actually, if you were going to deny Americans in need supplies during a time of need because they are within their own free will deciding that—
00:24:48.000It's more than bad enough, and I think it probably is that, but it doesn't actually matter because—I mean, of course, it would matter to their lives if it happened, but it's based on a—the BDS thing, it's all virtue signaling, right?
00:25:00.080And if states are having sanctuary cities, something that you were elected to do, and you want to withhold funds—I wouldn't withhold disaster funds over that because that's mental.
00:25:40.440But that's the one—ultimately, it's kind of virtue signaling in the gesture, you know.
00:25:46.040But the one he caved on was that the one nobody has had a thing to say about was giving the nod to Israel to effectively move in and just take over.
00:25:56.700And how recently it was, think how recently it was, that Trump, irritated by disrespect and bad behavior from Netanyahu, was signaling when he was here that maybe America would have a presence in Gaza.
00:26:13.220That maybe there would be a Trump Tower in Gaza, not to Netanyahu's visible displeasure and surprise, saying some of this stuff, right?
00:26:23.060And how soon, how quickly, we got to the stage where Trump has said, yeah, just kidding, they can have it all.
00:26:32.360If you look at Jared Kushner's, the money that he's spending right now in Israel, I think that's what Trump is more concerned about, which is his family's legacy.
00:26:40.380Obviously, in my viewpoint, October 7th was planned.
00:26:52.840The fact that he's being investigated for that and they're keeping everything hush-hushing.
00:26:56.080It's a national security risk about how he was feeding talking points to—
00:27:00.020Your country's going through this and you're feeding talking points and you're being investigated for corruption pertaining to what happened on that day.
01:02:18.460And then they kind of, you know, phone in the rest of the trial, which is maybe their thank you for being such a good operative, you know, phoning in the rest of the trial.
01:02:25.120And, you know, frankly, the job that the Justice Department did, he should probably get a pardon.
01:06:48.180And it's not just one minute missing from the tape.
01:06:50.360It's actually three minutes from the tape has been over.
01:06:52.780Why do we have to hear him saying that's the most secure facility in the country?
01:06:56.260Well, that is just, yeah, I mean, and just, and just that alone, you have someone that everyone absolutely knows that if anything happens to him, is going to be, you're going to be accused of a gigantic cover-up.
01:09:02.440And I think that he, look, years ago, in a random interview, he was asked by somebody, I forget who, what's the thing you care about most in the world?
01:09:12.460And you think he's going to say his kids or he's going to say our Lord Jesus Christ or he's going to say the state of Israel.
01:09:56.340Not only is he bought and paid for, but he's also not up to the task that he has accepted.
01:10:03.240It is a matter of morality and character.
01:10:09.360When you're offered a job that you know you can't do, you should graciously and gratefully decline and maybe suggest something you'd like just as much.
01:10:18.260But when he was asked, do you want to be deputy director of the FBI?
01:10:36.520And it's a perfect example of some of the kind of person that I would never have trusted in a million years because he's always been a panderer.
01:10:44.660When he was on those podcasts, he would push explanations just a little bit beyond the facts.
01:10:50.440He would make statements that weren't quite supported by all the evidence.
01:10:54.800Or he would constantly gesture toward things he'd seen but couldn't tell you about.
01:11:00.900Or, you know, it was always pointing at something just out of reach and saying, well, if you'd seen what I've seen, you'd know I was right.
01:11:08.300And from that, constructing, you know, and telling people exactly what they wanted to hear.
01:11:22.300I think they're both foreseeable disasters.
01:11:25.600Pam, Bonnie is obviously a lightweight who's hopelessly inadequate to the task of being attorney general.
01:11:33.500The original excuse for why the Epstein files didn't come out when they were supposed to was that she wanted to do it as a surprise to the White House.
01:11:40.680Until, presumably, she saw the president's name plastered through the files and realized she couldn't.
01:12:42.860I know he's not in the administration, but I definitely have been looking at a lot of his stuff lately because, like I said, at the end, you start looking at the beginning.
01:12:48.680And Steve Bannon was so right about everything when MAGA.
01:12:55.160And now I'm just wondering, how do you perceive the relationship between him and Trump?
01:13:00.220Because Trump still speaks with him, but he doesn't seem to be doing anything that Steve Bannon is saying and the things that Steve Bannon is expressing.
01:13:05.860We don't speak as often as we used to, but I have great respect for Steve.
01:13:14.180I think his analyses of things are good.
01:13:16.780And the thing I think that Steve has, which I've always admired, which is something that you see in Great Priests, is you can go through hell.
01:13:23.340You can hear the worst that humanity has to offer.
01:13:25.380You know, you can be presented with the most pessimistic fact pattern in the world.
01:13:32.300Steve will find a way within minutes to chart a course to victory that sounds plausible, that's exciting, that you could think, okay, all right, okay, okay.
01:13:45.580And so I think he's very underrated as an orator, as well as being a great strategist.
01:13:50.520But more often than not, right of everything, and Steve was never like a, to the best of my recollection, I mean, we were at Breitbart together working very closely for years.
01:13:58.580But to the best of my recollection, he was never a big Israel nut, you know, I mean, he's a pragmatist, you know.
01:14:05.100So, I think he's seen the writing on the wall and said something about Trump that many of us are feeling.
01:14:11.460You know, Bannon is not the power that maybe he was once, but he remains one of the most intelligent and interesting and unusually correct commentators and strategists that I think we have.
01:14:25.600Who do you think has Trump's ear right now?
01:14:27.240That's kind of an interesting question, because you're just wondering, someone who hates him, clearly, obviously, right?
01:14:31.580I mean, someone who hates him has his ear and is telling him to do all the things that he shouldn't do, to tweet all the things that he shouldn't be tweeting.
01:17:00.340I mean, they're, they have, I personally don't think that people that in their own lives hold tradition or the nuclear family, that they should have positions of power because for them, they want to create things like, you know, we don't need women.
01:17:16.200We're going to create an artificial womb.
01:17:17.780The dad, we're going to have, it just scares me a bit.
01:17:19.540I was very unsettled by Peter Thiel's answers in that interview with the New York Times.
01:17:40.940They need the person that you believe in.
01:17:42.580And I will say that's the one thing that makes me, and I have not met J.D. Vance, so I'm usually a person that I like to meet someone in person before I enter in a judgment.
01:17:49.860But I will say that just looking at the story of J.D. Vance, there is, and this is something that Mark always says to me, that is this like the Obama thing where it's almost too good to be true.