The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1770 - Ilhan Omar Hits Rock Bottom With Her Dumbest Remarks Yet. Trump DELIVERS His BEST Speech Ever.

00:00:00.000 One of the universal experiences of parenthood is that sooner rather than later, your child will say something that's simultaneously very dumb, but also endearing because it reflects a view of the world that is very innocent, a view that no adult could possibly have.

00:00:15.320 A child might assume that his teacher lives at school, for example, and then he'll express utter shock and horror when he sees one of the teachers at the grocery store.

00:00:23.820 maybe he'll wonder why the moon is following him around at night or why people don't just

00:00:28.920 use ATMs to withdraw unlimited money. Unless you're a chronic marijuana user, these are not

00:00:35.420 the kind of thoughts you typically have as an adult. It's a simplistic, off-kilter way of

00:00:41.020 thinking, but you give it a pass and find it charming when it's coming from your five-year-old.

00:00:47.020 When you're scrolling through videos on your phone, though, and you hear something like this

00:00:52.860 from a sitting member of Congress, on the other hand, all of the charm is lost. You see, in order

00:00:59.380 to be a member of Congress, you have to be 25 years old at a minimum. So your frontal cortex

00:01:04.320 has to be relatively well-developed, at least in theory. We have this restriction as minimal as it

00:01:10.220 is because we don't want legislators introducing bills that guarantee, you know, I don't know,

00:01:15.300 mandatory birthday parties every month. And we also don't want members of Congress to stand in

00:01:19.940 a podium and deliver moments like this one live on national television watch the last time the

00:01:28.180 alien enemies act was invoked it was used to detain and deport german japanese italian immigrants

00:01:36.900 doing world war 11 2. the phrase jaw dropping is overused these days but there's really no better

00:01:46.740 way to describe that footage. She tells us, without hesitating at all, that this particular law

00:01:52.980 has not been invoked since World War XI. Yes, World War XI. Whoever wrote this script for

00:02:00.900 Ilhan Omar, needless to say, badly overestimated her intelligence in at least two different ways.

00:02:06.600 First of all, of course, she read the Roman numeral II as XI, which means that she somehow

00:02:11.620 has no familiarity with the concept of a Roman numeral, we can deduce that she's never opened

00:02:17.800 a history book at any point in her life or watched a movie sequel or read an outline or

00:02:23.500 paid any attention to the Super Bowl or seen one of those old-fashioned clock faces or met anyone

00:02:29.660 who's named after his father or anything like that. But even if for some reason you're inclined

00:02:35.100 to give Ilhan Omar a pass for not understanding Roman numerals, there's an even bigger problem

00:02:40.060 here, which is that she thinks it's plausible that there were 11 different world wars. It's

00:02:46.820 one of those moments, no matter how much you want to give somebody the benefit of the doubt,

00:02:49.920 it's simply impossible to defend. The words World War 11 should not come out of your mouth

00:02:55.940 under any circumstances. Instinctively, you should know something's wrong at that point and hit the

00:03:02.460 brakes before you say anything. Now, people are giving her credit for catching her mistake a

00:03:07.860 couple seconds later, but this is one of those errors that just should not happen to begin with.

00:03:13.780 The brain needs to intercept that particular thought immediately and neutralize it before

00:03:20.160 anyone knows you had it. Now, I'm the first to admit that someone who speaks publicly all the

00:03:25.980 time might commit a flub here or there, a gaffe, might mispronounce a name on occasion, or in my

00:03:33.280 case mispronounced basically every name, every time. These things are understandable, but the

00:03:37.980 term World War XI is so jarring, so wrong, so divorced from reality that it simply should not

00:03:46.320 leave your lips. And if it does, then that's evidence of much deeper intellectual deficiencies.

00:03:52.020 So in this case, we can assume one of two things. The first possibility, which admittedly is very

00:03:56.600 remote is that maybe Ilhan Omar might have an extremely low IQ, and she spent a non-zero

00:04:04.200 amount of time after watching The Godfather Part II wondering where the other 10 Godfather

00:04:09.700 movies are. She knows she can't find them on Netflix, but she's pretty sure they're

00:04:13.920 out there somewhere. She's been searching. Maybe she's done the same thing with Back

00:04:17.600 to the Future Part II and Star Wars Episode II and Rocky II. That'd be worst-case scenario

00:04:23.740 by far, at least for Ilhan Omar. The other possibility is that she's right and everyone 0.99

00:04:27.780 else is wrong. Maybe there really have been 11 world wars, and we've just been undercounting

00:04:32.420 this whole time. And if that's the case, then effective immediately, I'm calling for one more

00:04:37.480 world war. I mean, I'm skeptical of foreign intervention, as everyone knows. And yes, 0.61

00:04:43.560 there'd be a lot of casualties in World War XII, but if there's already been 11 of them, 0.84

00:04:47.080 then I think we might as well do one more, make it an even dozen. 11 is a weird number to end on.

00:04:53.240 We're so close to a nice round number, and it's about time our leaders did something for the benefit of the OCD community.

00:04:59.560 Now, all things considered, though, Occam's razor probably wins here, and that's a sobering realization. 0.99

00:05:05.900 As I said on X, our founding fathers never even considered the possibility that illiterate, moronic, third-world women would one day be shipped into this country, first of all, and then elected to Congress. 0.99

00:05:22.680 we are discovering a method of national suicide that never entered the minds of the founders, 1.00

00:05:27.760 or at least to the extent that it did enter their minds or some version of it.

00:05:31.840 They warned us repeatedly not to succumb to it.

00:05:35.440 And they didn't mince words. More on that in a second.

00:05:38.440 But first, it's important to understand or to underscore the extent of the contrast

00:05:43.540 between what Ilhan Omar represents on the one hand

00:05:47.360 and the America First leadership that currently sits in the White House on the other. 0.51

00:05:52.680 What Ilhan Omar represents, although she's too dumb to realize it, is the notion that America is a propositional nation, which is to say a nation that's nothing more than a set of ideas.

00:06:03.260 And in particular, she represents the fiction that America is open to everybody, that diversity is our strength, and that everybody who sets foot inside our borders is just as American as anybody else. 0.64

00:06:14.920 Or maybe they don't even need to be in our borders because if they subscribe to the vague idea of America, whatever that is, then they can be American.

00:06:23.920 Why do they even need to be here?

00:06:26.060 That's what she represents. 0.80

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00:07:29.620 Now, yesterday, Donald Trump hosted King Charles III at the White House, or as Ilhan Omar calls him, King Charles 111.

00:07:37.820 And Trump delivered one of the best speeches of his political career, without question.

00:07:41.880 It was a great speech.

00:07:43.920 It was not just a rejection of Democrat Party orthodoxy or the suggestion that America is a propositional nation.

00:07:51.640 We're not defined by any Supreme Court decision or even solely by the Constitution.

00:07:58.640 Instead, Trump made it clear that America is defined by shared culture, religion, language, territory, ancestry, and yes, ethnicity.

00:08:09.760 One cannot simply identify as an American.

00:08:13.400 As a country, we are successful because of our Anglo-Saxon heritage. 0.95

00:08:18.200 Watch. 0.75

00:08:18.480 Here in the shadows of monuments to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, honoring the British king, might seem an ironic beginning to our celebration of 250 years of American independence.

00:08:34.740 But in fact, no tribute could be more appropriate.

00:08:39.260 Long before Americans had a nation or a constitution, we first had a culture, a character and a creed.

00:08:47.300 Before we ever proclaimed our independence, Americans carried within us the rarest of gifts, moral courage, and it came from a small but mighty kingdom from across the sea. 0.64

00:09:01.140 for nearly two centuries before the revolution this land was settled and forged by men women

00:09:07.940 who bore in their souls the blood and noble spirit of the british here on a wild and untamed

00:09:16.040 continent they set loose the ancient english love of liberty and the great britain's distinctive

00:09:23.080 sense of glory destiny and pride and that's what it is glory destiny and pride the american

00:09:31.080 patriots who pledged their lives to independence in 1776 were the heirs to this majestic

00:09:39.220 inheritance. Their veins ran with Anglo-Saxon courage. Their hearts beat with an English

00:09:46.180 faith in standing firm for what is right, good, and true. The American patriots who pledged their

00:09:54.460 lives to independence in 1776 were the heirs to this majestic inheritance. Their veins ran

00:09:59.660 with Anglo-Saxon courage. Every single time they say Trump is equivalent to Hitler and every single

00:10:06.960 time they call MAGA supporters Nazis, they're trying to deprogram you so that you don't think

00:10:12.780 along these lines. They're trying to imply that if you think heritage matters, then you must be a

00:10:18.360 horrible person. But the truth is there's nothing hateful or genocidal or authoritarian about

00:10:24.340 believing something that happens to be true. And it's true demonstrably so that your heritage

00:10:29.480 matters, your genetics matter, your culture matters. You know, the reason Somalia looks 1.00

00:10:34.880 the way it does, and we all know it, has nothing to do with systemic racism or oppression or

00:10:40.660 colonialism. There are plenty of other formerly colonized countries from South Korea to Botswana

00:10:46.160 that aren't anywhere near as dysfunctional. Now, for decades in Somalia, they've been fighting

00:10:52.120 among themselves. Believe it or not, they just passed a law making sexual assault a crime a few

00:10:57.100 years ago. That's when they got around to it. That's when it occurred to them that that should

00:11:02.940 be a crime. That's the kind of thing that happens when you don't have any common law tradition or,

00:11:08.000 you know, a basic sense of morality. At the state dinner last night, Trump hammered the same point.

00:11:14.060 Watch. From English towns and Scottish hills, from Welch mountains and Irish villages,

00:11:20.500 A people unique in history sailed across the mighty Atlantic to settle and civilize this continent in the name of God, king and country.

00:11:33.180 So beautiful. They called it New England and meant that very, very literally.

00:11:39.240 The first Americans saw themselves as free men carrying the forward and central liberties and ancient rights of the Anglo-Saxons into this new and beautiful world.

00:11:54.120 In the eyes of America's founders, our war of independence was fought not to reject this heritage, but to reclaim it and perfect it.

00:12:05.420 As the founding father, George Mason, wrote, we claim nothing but the liberty and privileges of Englishmen in the same degree as we had still continued among our brethren when we were in Great Britain.

00:12:20.300 I was making the point that contrary to what many historians want you to think, the American Revolution wasn't actually a seismic split from Europe.

00:12:28.720 It wasn't a complete reset. It wasn't a new order of the ages, at least not initially.

00:12:33.120 Really, it was a continuation of a common tradition and heritage in many ways, and that's why we were successful.

00:12:41.240 Does anyone seriously doubt that if Somalians had somehow descended from the British and Germanic tribes, Somalia would be in a much better place today?

00:12:49.500 Well, unfortunately, the answer is yes, people do doubt that.

00:12:51.900 The reason we're in so much trouble right now is that, indeed, millions of people genuinely believe that Somalia would look exactly the same if it had been a product of Anglo-Saxon tradition.

00:13:04.800 One such true believer, we can surmise, is King Charles himself.

00:13:09.420 Watch what he told Congress yesterday afternoon.

00:13:12.480 The founding fathers were bold and imaginative rebels with a cause.

00:13:21.900 Two hundred and fifty years ago, or as we say in the United Kingdom, just the other day,

00:13:39.300 they declared independence.

00:13:42.060 By balancing contending forces and drawing strength in diversity, they united thirteen

00:13:49.220 disparate colonies to forge a nation on the revolutionary idea of life, liberty and the

00:13:56.440 pursuit of happiness. They carried with them and carried forward the great inheritance of the

00:14:04.480 British Enlightenment, as well as the ideals which had an even deeper history in English common law

00:14:11.660 and Magna Carta. Now, somehow all the Democrats who had a problem with kings to the point that

00:14:18.120 they literally attended rallies where they called for no kings, were applauding throughout this

00:14:23.660 speech. It really makes you wonder. But the important part of that clip was, quote,

00:14:28.800 they declared independence by balancing contending forces and in drawing strength in diversity,

00:14:34.060 they united 13 disparate colonies to forge a nation on the revolutionary idea of life, liberty,

00:14:42.220 and the pursuit of happiness. Now, ironically, during the Revolutionary War, the British army

00:14:50.480 hired between 20,000 and 100,000 Africans and African-Americans. They really did put their

00:14:57.660 money where their mouth was in terms of the whole diversity is our strength argument, and it didn't

00:15:01.500 work out for them, to put it mildly. But the king doesn't want you to ponder any of that. He just

00:15:06.180 repeats the mantra from the modern day HR department, which is that diversity is our strength

00:15:10.460 and that American colonists believed, you know, the same mantra as that.

00:15:15.820 And we briefly talked about this kind of thinking when we dismantled Ken Burns' documentary

00:15:19.240 on the American Revolution a few months ago.

00:15:22.040 No, the founders did not draw on strength and diversity, as leftists love to use the word today.

00:15:28.460 The colonists were overwhelmingly white and British.

00:15:32.220 Some were Dutch or German.

00:15:34.640 That's an indisputable fact.

00:15:36.820 The colonists spoke the same language.

00:15:38.480 They shared similar ancestry.

00:15:41.020 What King Charles is implying is that the diversity of the colonists was comparable in some way to the diversity that the left talks about today, but it wasn't remotely comparable.

00:15:52.900 Especially because when the left says diversity, they mean most of the time not white is what they're talking about, which is why they might refer to a diverse person.

00:16:01.400 How could one person be diverse all on their own? Well, because they're not white.

00:16:04.540 now the diversity of 2026 means that we get somali daycare centers in minneapolis where 0.99

00:16:13.200 they can't even spell the word learning on the sign it means we get hordes of hispanic gang 0.94

00:16:17.480 members in los angeles waving the mexican flag as they set fire to police cars and waymos and 0.99

00:16:22.460 small businesses the moment the federal government attempts to enforce immigration law it means the 0.96

00:16:26.940 descendants of kenyans who score in the 50th percentile in the sat can walk into harvard no 0.94

00:16:32.260 questions asked. That's the diversity we're told to celebrate today. And it's a sick joke

00:16:37.340 to compare this practice in any way to the unification of the 13 colonies to create the

00:16:43.980 United States of America. The colonies were created by men with a shared heritage.

00:16:50.320 Modern proponents of diversity explicitly want to destroy that heritage. And that's why when

00:16:56.060 he announced that he was running for president seven years ago, Joe Biden read a script in which

00:17:02.100 he declared that America is an idea. This is the same video where he repeated the Charlottesville

00:17:09.360 very fine people hoax. Watch. Our standing in the world, our very democracy, everything that has

00:17:17.180 made America, America is at stake. That's why today I'm announcing my candidacy for president

00:17:24.000 of the United States. Folks, America is an idea, an idea that's stronger than any army, bigger than

00:17:30.820 in the ocean more powerful than any dictator or tyrant. It gives hope to the most desperate

00:17:36.280 people on earth. It guarantees that everyone is treated with dignity and gives hate no safe

00:17:42.900 harbor. It instills in every person in this country the belief that no matter where you start

00:17:47.940 in life, there's nothing you can't achieve if you work at it. That's what we believe.

00:17:55.380 America guarantees that everyone is treated with dignity. America gives hope to the most

00:18:00.620 desperate people on earth. He's not simply repeating vapid slogans here, although he's

00:18:06.660 certainly doing that. Really, Joe Biden and his handlers, what they're doing is that they're

00:18:12.980 trying to do the exact same thing they did with gender. They want to destroy the entire concept

00:18:16.920 by making it completely subjective. Now, there's no limiting principle here. Joe Biden's definition

00:18:22.760 of America is meaningless. We have no identity. We have no objective characteristics at all.

00:18:30.620 were simply a concept. 0.99

00:18:33.400 The concept that foreigners should never, under any circumstances,

00:18:36.580 have to think bad thoughts or feel bad feelings.

00:18:40.740 Now, at the White House, with King Charles watching,

00:18:42.840 Donald Trump went out of his way to reject this orthodoxy.

00:18:45.360 He called it out by name.

00:18:47.800 Watch.

00:18:48.620 In recent years, we've often heard it said that America is merely an idea,

00:18:53.960 But the cause of freedom did not simply appear as an intellectual invention of 1776.

00:19:04.080 The American founding was the culmination of hundreds of years of thought, struggle, sweat, blood, and sacrifice on both sides of the Atlantic.

00:19:15.180 Fate drew a long arc from the meadow at Runnymede to the streets of Philadelphia that ran through the lives of people born and bred on the British code that no man should be denied either justice or right.

00:19:32.520 Now, it's worth keeping in mind, once again, how different this scene would look if Kamala Harris had been elected president.

00:19:40.220 It'd be the exact opposite.

00:19:41.760 She'd turn the 250th anniversary of this country's founding into an apology to her,

00:19:45.720 and she certainly wouldn't affirm that America is the product of Anglo-Saxon tradition. 0.96

00:19:51.260 She'd tell us that Somalis and Haitian gangbangers built this country.

00:19:56.700 So whenever we're frustrated with this administration, and there are plenty of reasons to be frustrated, 1.00

00:20:00.360 it helps to remind yourself of the alternative that we have avoided, at least for now.

00:20:07.200 The other thing you have to keep in mind is that before the left used Donald Trump as a pretext to lose their minds,

00:20:12.900 none of this used to be controversial.

00:20:15.460 The founding fathers went out of their way to criticize foreigners and to emphasize American exceptionalism.

00:20:21.180 Ben Franklin famously called German swarthy.

00:20:24.020 Thomas Jefferson warned of the dangers of mass migration, saying he preferred the population to grow naturally.

00:20:29.280 Alexander Hamilton emphasized the importance of a common national sentiment and cautioned

00:20:34.420 against corrupting the national spirit by importing a population with divided loyalties.

00:20:38.260 And that view was consistent well into the 20th century. Louisiana was hit hard by English 0.55

00:20:44.440 language-only laws, for example. During World War I, the government stripped citizenship

00:20:48.680 from thousands of people. And more recently, it's hardly been controversial to highlight

00:20:54.140 the importance of our shared heritage. Here's Antonin Scalia in 2006, explaining that as an

00:21:02.220 Italian-American, he was surprised when he visited Britain for the first time and felt like he was

00:21:07.380 at home. He didn't recognize the influence of Britain and the Anglo-Saxon tradition

00:21:12.440 on the United States until that moment when it was illustrated for him so clearly. Watch.

00:21:18.860 It's part of our tradition that everybody can be an American,

00:21:22.640 But there has been a common culture.

00:21:27.280 You don't have to belong to it, but there has been that.

00:21:30.100 What is it? What is it?

00:21:31.760 Okay, you want to know what it is, number one?

00:21:34.400 Is there a bond? Is there a common culture?

00:21:36.100 I think, let me tell you a story.

00:21:39.460 My junior year of college, I studied in Switzerland,

00:21:42.280 and I used to get really annoyed when the French-Swiss professors I had

00:21:48.620 would refer constantly to les pays anglo-saxes, the Anglo-Saxon countries, meaning England,

00:21:58.800 the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada. I said, you know, hey, my name is Scalia,

00:22:06.600 and I'm as American as anybody. Look at this face. Is this an Anglo-Saxon face?

00:22:10.340 I had never been in England, but at the end of my year, I went to England and I felt at home.

00:22:21.280 There is no doubt that American culture, American common culture, which nobody has to belong to,

00:22:29.420 originates with English culture.

00:22:32.420 And that includes Shakespeare, it includes nursery rhymes that we all know and that we use as examples.

00:22:39.320 That's our common culture.

00:22:40.920 And I think the framers recognized that.

00:22:44.620 And diversity is fine, but diversity does not make a nation.

00:22:50.180 Now, you used to be able to make observations like this in public without having your life destroyed.

00:22:54.200 And just to illustrate that point a little more, remember when everyone lost their minds over the appeal to heaven pine tree flag that was flying outside of Samuel Alito's house a few years ago?

00:23:05.980 It was a whole news cycle.

00:23:06.980 leftists said that Alito was an insurrectionist because he was flying the same flag as some of

00:23:12.060 the protesters on January 6th. And then when conservatives pointed out that the appeal to

00:23:16.040 heaven flag is actually a well-established part of American history and that liberals used to

00:23:19.840 celebrate the flag themselves, the state of California flew the flag outside of government

00:23:24.200 buildings. It was featured in the intro to HBO's John Adams miniseries. The whole story completely

00:23:29.400 died. It was an embarrassing saga, one that clearly exposed the ignorance and the insane paranoia of

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00:24:09.100 happening with the anglo-saxon rhetoric that trump used here's a clip from that same john

00:24:14.980 adams miniseries from hbo it's an adaptation of remarks that john adams actually made in real

00:24:20.360 life when he met king george um after america's independence watch the united states of america

00:24:27.960 the United States of America

00:24:34.360 have appointed me

00:24:37.220 minister and potentially

00:24:38.740 to your majesty

00:24:40.440 I think myself

00:24:46.460 more fortunate than

00:24:49.360 all of my fellow citizens

00:24:51.300 in having the

00:24:52.900 the distinguishing

00:24:57.360 honor and to be the first to stand in your majesty's presence in a diplomatic character.

00:25:07.740 I shall esteem myself the happiest of men if I can be instrumental in restoring the

00:25:15.640 confidence and affection, or in better words, the good old nature and the good old humor,

00:25:25.360 Between peoples who, though separated by an ocean and under different governments, have the same language, similar religion, and kindred blood.

00:25:43.720 Quote, who, though separated by an ocean and under different governments, have the same language, a similar religion, and kindred blood.

00:25:52.700 Kindred blood

00:25:55.480 That's

00:25:57.320 That's controversial

00:25:59.820 You know, if he had heard that line today

00:26:03.360 Jake Tapper would accuse John Adams of being a Nazi

00:26:05.760 I mean, it's not even a joke

00:26:08.060 That's what he would say

00:26:08.860 The women of The View would never recover

00:26:12.060 But it was an uncontroversial line 0.97

00:26:15.360 When John Adams said it

00:26:16.700 And it was an uncontroversial line

00:26:18.700 When HBO made that miniseries in 2008

00:26:21.300 There was no controversy over that

00:26:22.680 Only in the last decade or so did it become outrageous

00:26:26.760 To talk about the benefits of our shared heritage

00:26:29.400 With the British and the Anglo-Saxons

00:26:32.200 And that brings up an important point

00:26:35.420 We talked about ethnicity earlier

00:26:38.400 Yes, we should recognize that we're the product of an Anglo-Saxon culture

00:26:42.520 And yes, we should recognize that this heritage is unique and valuable

00:26:45.420 But we should also recognize that we're not best defined

00:26:49.480 As descendants of the Anglo-Saxons anymore

00:26:53.000 We're not solely defined that way.

00:26:55.080 We are something distinct.

00:26:57.300 We're Americans.

00:26:58.680 We have our own identity.

00:27:00.700 We don't have to define ourselves exclusively as the descendants of Germans or Britons or Irishmen or anyone else.

00:27:08.080 Every nationality and ethnic group began when it achieved terminal velocity and became a distinct identity from the ones that preceded it.

00:27:15.940 And Americans have reached that point.

00:27:17.600 We are a distinct culture.

00:27:18.820 We are a distinct nation.

00:27:19.960 We are a distinct ethnicity.

00:27:22.040 We have our own shared traditions and heritage, and none of it is captured, at least not fully, by describing us as Italian-Americans or German-Americans or Anglo-Saxons or anything else.

00:27:33.260 We are Americans.

00:27:35.840 This is a post on X that I want to highlight because it captures exactly this idea.

00:27:39.920 Quote, America must be understood as its own ethnos. 0.50

00:27:43.800 You're not a mutt. You're not English, Irish, French, Italian, Polish, Scottish, German, because you've got fractions and percents of each. 0.72

00:27:50.820 You belong to your own ethnic group, unique to this continent, distinct from all others. 0.99

00:27:56.400 Theodore Roosevelt understood this well. 0.96

00:27:58.420 Quote, the children and grandchildren of the men who came here from England, Ireland, Germany, France, Scandinavia, and the rest of Europe have become Americans, a new race with a new ethnic type.

00:28:09.060 And there are no more Englishmen or Germans or Scandinavians than the descendants of the Norman invaders of England are Frenchmen. 0.81

00:28:15.120 The frontier conditions made a new race. The stern struggle with the wilderness and with wild men welded together the descendants of many European stocks into one people, the American. Out of the crucible of the wilderness came a new ethnic type, party, self-reliant, democratic and instinct, and with a continent for its inheritance. 0.62

00:28:34.640 not steady roosevelt now if you doubt any of that and all of it is just clearly true

00:28:44.320 doesn't really matter how it makes you feel it just is but if you doubt it look around today

00:28:49.340 we're the only country on the planet that still respects the freedom of speech even as countries

00:28:53.140 like britain and germany have abandoned it they arrest comedians in britain like graham linehan

00:28:58.680 for offending the cult of transgenderism we don't do that here we also have a unique system of

00:29:03.800 government, a unique way of electing our head of state. We create all the movies and television

00:29:08.480 shows worth watching, with very few exceptions. We make the most vitally important technology

00:29:13.500 products that everyone in the world uses or benefits from, from the phone to the search

00:29:17.840 engine to self-driving cars to reusable rockets. We innovate. And in general, we are civilized to

00:29:25.180 a much greater degree than most of the world. Just as one example to illustrate that last point,

00:29:30.260 one example of many that could be used. There's been a lot of talk, especially in recent years,

00:29:36.800 about pollution in the ocean. A few years ago, we went through, as you remember, the great

00:29:41.760 plastic straw panic, where every restaurant in the country switched over to paper straws

00:29:46.660 that melt in your Diet Coke while you're trying to use them. But as I said at the time, this panic

00:29:52.160 was always totally absurd, at least in our country, because almost none of the pollution in the ocean

00:29:56.600 is from the United States. Why? Because the United States, for the most part, we don't dump our trash

00:30:03.060 into the rivers, which then ferry it like a conveyor belt into the ocean. No, that is done

00:30:08.600 in Africa and Asia, which is why 95% of the plastic pollution in the ocean comes from those 0.89

00:30:13.880 two continents. That leaves only 5% of the ocean's plastic debris to be split between

00:30:19.020 the continents of Europe, North America, South America, and Australia. Brazil is the worst

00:30:23.800 plastic offender outside of Asia and Africa. 23 European countries collectively are 18th on the

00:30:29.120 list. The United States comes in 20th. America, with its population of 330 million, is dwarfed

00:30:35.740 on the plastic pollutant list by countries like Sri Lanka, with 310 million fewer people. 0.82

00:30:42.980 So we could collect all the straws in North America, bundle them together, and shoot them

00:30:46.740 into the sun, and the state of the ocean would hardly be improved at all. Indeed, we could stop

00:30:50.900 using plastic altogether. It would barely make a dent in the problem. And that's because, again,

00:30:55.000 we are a civilized country and we don't dump our trash into our rivers. That's exactly what they

00:31:01.140 do all across Asia and Africa. In fact, the problem is so bad in the most contaminated river

00:31:05.960 in the world, which is the River Saline in Southeast Asia, that local fishermen have

00:31:11.040 abandoned fishing, many of them, at least abandoned fishing for actual fish. And instead, they fish

00:31:17.100 for glass and plastic, which they can then sell. Fishermen are now catching trash in the river

00:31:23.720 rather than fish, because basic things like waste disposal and hygiene are not practiced

00:31:31.380 across wide swaths of the globe. That's the point. Well, Americans don't tolerate dysfunction like

00:31:39.960 that. Now, yes, there are cities within the United States, which are overrun with people

00:31:44.500 who aren't Americans, many of them, that are dysfunctional. But cities and towns that are 0.99

00:31:49.480 run by Americans are a different matter entirely. And if we want to eliminate any dysfunction for 0.99

00:31:54.120 good, we have no choice but to ensure that America is ruled by and for Americans.

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00:34:12.140 So, in the spirit of our Founding Fathers, I humbly present my proposal for what you might call a Heritage American Bill of Rights.

00:34:22.640 This is a series of rules that, if enforced, would ensure the future survival of the United States by protecting the culture and shared heritage that our president has correctly identified as fundamental to our existence as a nation. 1.00

00:34:36.060 Rule number one, first-generation immigrants should not be permitted to serve in Congress at all. 0.97

00:34:42.020 especially illiterate Somali ones, but also in general. 1.00

00:34:45.720 Like, if you just got here, then you have no business telling Americans how to live their lives. 0.99

00:34:51.200 You have no business spending their money.

00:34:53.660 You certainly have no business complaining all the time or defaming millions of people.

00:34:57.120 It's the height of humiliation for Americans to have to listen to a member of Congress talk about World War XI.

00:35:04.600 No self-respecting country would tolerate this. We shouldn't either.

00:35:07.580 We already require that presidents must be natural-born citizens, and that requirement

00:35:14.680 should simply be extended to Congress as well, for all the same reasons that we apply to the

00:35:18.460 presidency. Rule number two, foreigners who can't speak English or who cost taxpayers money 1.00

00:35:24.060 should be deported. And if they're citizens, they should be denaturalized and deported. 1.00

00:35:30.800 Anyone who doesn't speak our language is not an American. They can't participate in our society. 1.00

00:35:39.980 Communication is perhaps the fundamental requirement, number one, of participating in a society,

00:35:49.820 is being able to communicate. And if you can't do that, then you're not a participant in that

00:35:54.660 society, you're not a member of that society. So they can't assimilate. They can only wall

00:36:00.540 themselves off in ethnic enclaves, which breed resentment and fraud and poverty. And obviously, 1.00

00:36:05.480 if these people are drawing from welfare benefits, the situation is even less sustainable.

00:36:11.220 If you come to this country and you become a net drain on society,

00:36:14.920 then you need to go back. You cannot come to this country and then immediately become someone that

00:36:23.100 the rest of us have to take care of. That's not our responsibility, actually. It's not our

00:36:28.360 responsibility as Americans to take care of the entire world. I actually have my own kids. I take

00:36:34.920 care of them. You're coming here from Guatemala or something. Not my responsibility to take care of 1.00

00:36:40.940 you. Go talk to your own family. Go talk to your own countrymen. Figure it out at home.

00:36:46.540 Not my job. Sorry. We can't afford any other outcome. Even if we wanted to feed and educate

00:36:54.100 and pay the medical bills for all of the entire world, we can't. I mean, the money simply isn't

00:36:58.820 there. It's not a possibility. Rule number three, I've been very open that I think we should

00:37:04.860 drastically curtail the right to vote across the board. You should have some actual stake in this

00:37:11.060 country at a minimum if you want to vote. There has to be some legacy you want to protect.

00:37:16.280 And we can't measure the stakes solely through property ownership, especially since foreigners,

00:37:22.060 mainly from China, are buying a lot of our property. We also can't measure the stakes

00:37:25.980 solely through the number of children you have, since foreigners are having children at far higher

00:37:29.460 rates than the native population. I think a very moderate and extremely generous proposal, 0.78

00:37:34.660 like I said, this is very moderate, but immigrants should not be allowed to vote in our elections 1.00

00:37:39.760 until they've been legal citizens in this country for, say, 10 years. 1.00

00:37:44.300 So you have to become a legal citizen and then wait another 10 years before you can vote.

00:37:48.760 Voting is not or shouldn't be a universal right granted to everyone.

00:37:53.460 It's not already. We already have some minimal standards for voting.

00:37:57.060 You have to be 18. Most states have restrictions on felons voting.

00:38:02.300 Our founding fathers obviously intended for the parameters to be much stricter.

00:38:06.840 now we can't prevent people from voting based on race and we shouldn't and no one is suggesting that

00:38:12.380 but we can protect our institutions by taking basic steps to make sure that voters are actual

00:38:17.920 adult citizens of the country who are assimilated into the culture and invested in it i also think

00:38:25.780 all voters should be required to complete and pass a fifth grade civics exam which will be

00:38:31.120 administered in english by the way that'll check off the you should be an english speaker box as

00:38:34.740 well. And we should disenfranchise everyone on welfare, even if they're American citizens. 0.56

00:38:42.440 You should not be able to vote yourself money from the public treasury. You shouldn't be allowed

00:38:46.280 to do that. If I'm paying into the system and you're not, you're taking from it, then your

00:38:51.120 vote should not count as much as mine. In fact, you shouldn't have a vote. But let's start with

00:38:56.120 the 10-year voting moratorium for new citizens and go from there. Very moderate places start,

00:39:00.960 baby steps. Now, will any of these proposals become law? Will any of them ever be enforced?

00:39:08.300 It's easy to conclude that no, they won't. And they probably won't. Nothing ever happens as

00:39:13.720 the saying goes. But if that's your attitude, consider this. Donald Trump yesterday became

00:39:17.940 the first president in probably half century to mention our Anglo-Saxon tradition in a positive

00:39:23.280 light. He did something that no other president in modern times has dared to do. And he did it

00:39:30.300 multiple times while standing right next to King Charles,

00:39:32.840 who was busy muttering about how diversity is our strength.

00:39:36.940 As far as contrasts go, it was pretty stark.

00:39:40.300 I feel like watching a member of Congress

00:39:41.720 who thinks there were 11 world wars

00:39:43.360 and then listening to a president

00:39:44.480 who understands what it takes to prevent World War III.

00:39:50.220 So who are we exactly?

00:39:52.000 We're the product of a distinct heritage.

00:39:54.020 We are the best innovators, lawmakers, scientists,

00:39:56.040 artists, athletes, thinkers, and fighters in the entire world.

00:40:00.300 We're not a melting pot or a mishmash of inferior squabbling cultures.

00:40:05.420 We're Americans.

00:40:08.920 And as soon as we evict anti-American invaders like Ilhan Omar from this country,

00:40:14.580 we'll become exactly what our founding fathers were 250 years ago,

00:40:18.420 an unstoppable force advancing the interests of civilization without apology.

00:40:24.040 All of the left's propaganda over the past few decades and all their slander

00:40:27.560 have been designed to prevent that outcome from becoming reality.

00:40:32.060 But on Tuesday, with this message delivered by our president

00:40:35.960 directly to the face of King Charles,

00:40:38.360 for the first time in memory,

00:40:39.980 these enemies of Western civilization finally have an enemy of their own.

00:40:44.380 Americans who understand their heritage

00:40:46.760 take pride in their identity, their ethnicity, their American ethnicity. 0.55

00:40:53.620 They're the single greatest imaginable threat to leftism

00:40:56.240 and all of its objectives.

00:40:57.180 And yesterday, in a couple of speeches that could have been merely ceremonial, those Americans were given their marching orders.

00:41:05.880 That'll do it for the show today.

00:41:06.880 Thanks for watching.

00:41:07.480 Thanks for listening.

00:41:08.100 Talk to you tomorrow.

00:41:09.360 Have a great day.

00:41:10.360 Godspeed.

00:41:18.560 I do believe that if people have committed treason against the United States of America,

00:41:23.660 Their statues should not be in the Capitol.

00:41:27.660 History is written by the victors.

00:41:29.660 And since the 1960s, we've been told mostly

00:41:31.660 by people whose ancestors didn't even live here

00:41:33.660 during the war that the South committed treason.

00:41:36.660 But if the Confederates were traitors,

00:41:41.660 then why was Jefferson Davis never put on trial for treason?

00:41:46.660 What were Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson afraid of?

00:41:49.660 Do they know something they're not allowed to say today?

00:41:53.660 It's time for the truth, so here it is.

00:41:56.420 Robert E. Lee was a military genius

00:41:58.340 and a man of immense honor.

00:41:59.980 He was beloved by Americans from the North and South

00:42:02.520 for a century after the war.

00:42:04.840 This is the real history of the Civil War.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 29, 2026

Ep. 1770 - Ilhan Omar Hits Rock Bottom With Her Dumbest Remarks Yet. Trump DELIVERS His BEST Speech Ever.

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