The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1454 - Trump Does It Again

00:00:00.000 Just when they thought they had him, just when the Wile E. Coyote libs thought they finally had roadrunner Donald Trump and New York Attorney General Letitia James was bragging about how she was about to take one of Trump's buildings from him to pay off a ridiculous civil judgment.

00:00:19.280 Just when all hope looked lost, President Covfefe scored a major legal win. An appeals court just lowered the impossible $464 million bond that Trump was supposed to come up with to a still insane, but actually doable if you're Donald Trump, $175 million bond.

00:00:44.060 The court also ruled that Trump can continue to run his business in New York, and it gave him extra time to come up with that money.

00:00:52.260 For what is, by my count, the, I don't know, 5,358th time, I'm approximating here, that Trump has evaded the schemes of the liberals, he took the opportunity to celebrate.

00:01:06.620 And that was done by Biden and his thugs also, because they can't win an election because of the borders, because of energy prices, because of inflation, because of Afghanistan, the worst and most embarrassing day in the history of our country.

00:01:22.560 He can't win because of Russia, because of Ukraine, because of Ukraine, because of Ukraine being attacked by Russia, and he can't win because of the October 7th attack of Israel, which he should have never allowed to happen, would have never happened if I were president.

00:01:39.660 Ukraine would have never been attacked if I was president.

00:01:42.020 And you wouldn't have inflation if I was president, we didn't have inflation.

00:01:47.400 So all of these things, so what they do is they do election interference, which is court cases, and let's try and tie him up and let's take as much of his money as possible.

00:01:56.880 I respect the appellate division for substantially reducing that ridiculous amount of money that was put on by a corrupt judge.

00:02:04.060 Election interference, that's the key phrase.

00:02:08.280 He took a great opportunity here to just punch Biden, and they knew all the cameras would be on Trump.

00:02:14.620 So instead of just talking about the judgment, he just kind of throws it away as an aside.

00:02:18.840 And I want to thank that judge.

00:02:20.220 You know, I appreciate what he did there.

00:02:21.680 But anyway, the inflation, Gaza, Ukraine.

00:02:24.880 And so he's just taking all the cameras, all the attention that he attracts like a light attracts moths.

00:02:30.600 He is just using that opportunity to bash Biden.

00:02:35.020 But the key phrase here, and I think the phrase that will resonate with a lot of people, is election interference.

00:02:44.260 All the prosecutions.

00:02:46.460 All the civil rulings.

00:02:48.840 The liberals think that all of those things are going to really hurt Trump's campaign.

00:02:52.280 What he's saying is, no, they're going to help my campaign.

00:02:55.740 Because people know it's unfair.

00:02:57.520 They know that all this is really about is election interference.

00:03:01.020 All the spying.

00:03:02.340 All the investigations.

00:03:03.820 All the voting rule changes.

00:03:05.100 All the attempts to bankrupt him.

00:03:07.040 All of it is about stopping Trump from getting elected.

00:03:10.720 If this guy weren't running for president, again, if this guy had not run for president the first time.

00:03:16.440 If this guy were not the kind of Republican that the liberal establishment hates in particular.

00:03:23.740 None of this would be happening.

00:03:25.080 So they throw everything in the kitchen sink at him.

00:03:29.460 Some of their efforts have been more successful than others.

00:03:32.620 But this tactic, at least, has failed.

00:03:35.520 And it failed spectacularly.

00:03:37.180 Because on the same day that they lowered Trump's bond to a manageable amount,

00:03:44.300 Trump also received some more good news.

00:03:47.720 Within 24 hours, his net worth is expected to increase by $3 billion.

00:03:53.280 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:03:53.980 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:04:14.220 Welcome back to the show.

00:04:16.020 Some really horrifying news breaking right now, which is that the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after a cargo ship hit one of the supports.

00:04:29.760 We haven't seen anything like this.

00:04:31.860 I mean, the last incident that comes to mind is around 9-11.

00:04:38.760 Obviously, that involves buildings and airplanes, not bridges and ships.

00:04:42.040 I don't think it's an exaggeration to say we haven't seen an incident like this.

00:04:48.240 Just a totally unexpected incident where a vessel was moving and knocked down a major piece of the skyline.

00:04:56.200 There are numbers coming in all over the place as to how many are injured, how many are killed.

00:05:02.560 Anyway, we'll get to it in just a moment.

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00:05:29.740 Trump's net worth is increasing by about $3 billion within the next 24 hours.

00:05:39.880 How is that possible?

00:05:40.860 Because Truth Social, which is Trump's Twitter alternative, starts trading today.

00:05:46.780 If you're looking for the stock price and how the thing is going, it's a little confusing because Truth Social is going public through a SPAC, this special purpose acquisition company, which is a holding company, a shell company that was able to raise money, but it didn't have any underlying company.

00:06:07.080 The whole point of the SPAC is to just go and acquire another company.

00:06:10.360 So they're acquiring Truth Social.

00:06:13.140 And shares of that holding company have been all over the place.

00:06:18.080 On Friday, after this merger was approved, the stock fell.

00:06:23.220 It fell 13.7%.

00:06:24.860 But then in afternoon trading yesterday, the stock jumped up 22%, jumped up to over $45 per share.

00:06:33.320 And then I don't know where it ended.

00:06:34.960 I mean, it was kind of all over the place.

00:06:36.220 But at one point yesterday afternoon, it was about $51 per share.

00:06:40.740 So in any case, Trump's net worth is going to be fluctuating wildly.

00:06:44.820 But Trump's shares could be worth $3 billion or more.

00:06:48.900 It's really unclear.

00:06:50.140 We'll wait to see where the price finally settles.

00:06:54.220 It's just a rabbit out of a hat for Trump, though.

00:06:56.960 He already had the backup plan, which is the judge reduced that civil fraud settlement.

00:07:02.800 You've got the four prosecutions where the Democrats are trying to throw Trump in prison.

00:07:07.500 But then there was also this civil judgment, which said that a million years ago, Trump didn't fill out Form 57B totally correctly when he was getting a loan.

00:07:16.860 And because he may have misvalued his properties, he now owes almost half a billion dollars to the New York attorney general who campaigned for office specifically on destroying Donald Trump. 0.90

00:07:29.880 It's so totally ridiculous. 0.50

00:07:32.160 So an appeals court judge came in and said, all right, we're substantially reducing this fee that the corrupt AG in New York is trying to charge him. 0.65

00:07:40.100 But even if that judgment had not come in, which now allows Trump to pay the bond, which then prevents the New York attorney general from seizing one of his properties, such as Trump Tower, such as his building on Wall Street, which you know the New York attorney general wants to do.

00:07:55.780 She openly talked about it.

00:07:57.120 But even if that had not happened, Trump just pulls this rabbit out of the hat, which is he sells his social media company for a substantial amount of money and increases his net worth by three billion bucks.

00:08:09.840 How is Joe Biden responding to this news?

00:08:12.740 That just when they think they've got Trump, that dastardly Trump got away from us again.

00:08:18.500 The way Biden is responding is by trying to come up with a new nickname for him.

00:08:26.740 That's it.

00:08:27.380 That's about all he's got left.

00:08:29.600 Biden tested out this nickname.

00:08:31.480 Not that Biden even really knows what this nickname is.

00:08:33.760 Not that Biden knows what his own name is anymore.

00:08:36.580 But the Biden campaign tried this out.

00:08:38.500 They sent out an email referring to Trump as Broke Don.

00:08:41.900 It's kind of funny, too.

00:08:43.980 Biden can't win for losing.

00:08:45.320 They try out this new nickname, Broke Don, and then five seconds later, Trump doubles his net worth, well more than doubles his net worth.

00:08:54.740 What is he worth now?

00:08:55.820 Probably half a billion dollars, at least according to him in cash, plus all of the properties.

00:09:02.100 But right when it looks like Trump is all out of money, his wealth increases a lot.

00:09:08.580 Broke Don was the name that they use in this Biden-Harris fundraiser email.

00:09:14.360 Now, it's so cringe.

00:09:16.820 It's so obviously not true.

00:09:20.000 And even if the nickname were apt, Biden is not the kind of guy to do it.

00:09:25.540 This has never worked.

00:09:28.280 Trump is good at nicknames.

00:09:30.900 Low Energy Jeb, Lion Ted, Little Marco.

00:09:34.880 He's got a nickname for everybody.

00:09:37.840 Trump's very good at them.

00:09:40.200 They tend to be evocative.

00:09:41.480 They tend to stick.

00:09:42.880 Then his opponents try to slap him with a nickname.

00:09:45.380 They try to do the comedy routine with him.

00:09:48.160 You remember Marco Rubio did this whole Don Rickles bit, basically, in the 2016 race where he was insinuating that President Trump is not well endowed because his hands are small or something.

00:10:00.780 And it just flopped.

00:10:01.840 It doesn't work.

00:10:02.660 You can't.

00:10:06.040 Never get into a debate with a comedian is a lesson that I've learned in show business and politics.

00:10:11.380 Not because the comedian is necessarily smarter.

00:10:14.280 Maybe the comedian isn't.

00:10:15.620 Not because the comedian is better educated.

00:10:17.740 Often, he would not be.

00:10:19.180 But because you can't beat a comedian, man.

00:10:21.820 You know, he's going to be funnier.

00:10:23.020 He's going to have the audience more on his side.

00:10:24.780 And Trump is the best living comedian in the United States.

00:10:28.140 So, and certainly don't try to play his game.

00:10:30.480 It's not just me saying this, by the way.

00:10:31.920 Obviously, I have a great deal of affection for President Trump.

00:10:34.260 There's even an anonymous, wishes to remain anonymous, Democrat strategist told The Hill that this is a terrible strategy.

00:10:41.940 Said, mimicking Trump has been done before has never really worked.

00:10:45.280 You can't out-Trump Trump because he's the original version.

00:10:48.400 I would say they need to be more creative in producing their own original and unique strategy to bring him down a peg that shocks and awes.

00:10:55.720 Very true.

00:10:56.240 This is the kind of thing I've been saying for years now and especially said during the Republican primary.

00:11:02.400 You can't out-Trump Trump.

00:11:04.720 If you're running to be, I'm the better, bigger, faster Trump.

00:11:07.740 I'm the more disciplined Trump.

00:11:09.240 I'm the Trump without the baggage.

00:11:10.860 It's not going to work.

00:11:12.620 Or if you're a Democrat, you say, yeah, I'm going to be just as nasty and tough and funny as Trump.

00:11:17.440 No, you're not.

00:11:18.200 Especially not if you're Joe Biden and you can barely walk anymore.

00:11:20.920 No, it's not going to happen.

00:11:22.600 So you need to come up with your own original strategy.

00:11:24.640 But you can't because you have nothing to sell because the country is falling apart around you.

00:11:29.060 So what are you going to do?

00:11:30.100 You just have to try to get this guy to just grab him by the cuff of his trousers and just hold him down.

00:11:36.480 But you can't.

00:11:37.940 He just keeps slipping away from you.

00:11:39.700 And that is causing the libs to collapse.

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00:12:58.140 Speaking of attacking Republicans, the former chairman of the RNC, Ronna McDaniel, is out.

00:13:05.400 Trump replaced her with people who are more tightly associated with his campaign, even though Ronna was something of an ally to him when he was in the White House.

00:13:13.500 She's out.

00:13:15.400 She needs a new job. 1.00

00:13:17.140 And there are a few ways that former top-ranking political staffers can go when they leave office.

00:13:24.440 They can either go to a think tank.

00:13:26.540 That's not usually what the operatives do, though, because the operatives are not scholars.

00:13:30.500 They're not policy wonks.

00:13:31.500 They're, you know, they're campaign guys.

00:13:34.380 So think tanks are probably not the main spot.

00:13:36.420 They can become lobbyists if they have enough pull.

00:13:39.660 But, again, if you're just working for the committee, if you're a former member of Congress or something, maybe you do that.

00:13:46.080 Even if you're a top staffer for Congress, maybe you do that.

00:13:49.460 If you're just working for the committee, if you're working more on the campaign side, that's probably not going to work.

00:13:54.820 So then you can become a commentator.

00:13:57.420 You can either become a media consultant.

00:13:59.860 Sometimes they do that.

00:14:00.820 Or you become a political commentator.

00:14:02.620 That's the more tried-and-true route.

00:14:04.540 And if you're going to become a Republican political commentator, you have to make a choice early on.

00:14:10.640 Are you going to be a commentator among your fellow Republican and conservative outlets?

00:14:18.600 Or are you going to be the token Republican on the liberal outlets?

00:14:23.940 And it's just totally different routes.

00:14:25.680 It kind of depends on your perspective of politics, what you hope to accomplish in politics.

00:14:29.600 Obviously, in as much as I am in conservative and Republican politics, I'm more the conservative's conservative.

00:14:38.460 I'm more the Republican's Republican.

00:14:39.960 I'm kind of with my own team.

00:14:42.320 I would be more than happy to go on CNN.

00:14:44.480 I would be more than happy to go on NBC and shed a little light on things that they seem to be confused by.

00:14:51.260 But they don't invite me on.

00:14:52.860 They don't want a conservative to come on and articulate the conservative point of view in a way that can't be mocked or dismissed or invade against.

00:15:01.780 So there's a different type of conservative who goes on those channels.

00:15:05.920 That's the squishy kind, the one who can go on there and say, well, look, I'm a conservative, but I totally hate Donald Trump. 0.79

00:15:11.900 And I hate all the elected Republicans.

00:15:13.300 And I'm totally in favor of abortion and redefining marriage and opening up our borders and on and on and on and on. 0.97

00:15:19.660 And so they're really just fake Republicans.

00:15:22.560 They're the court jesters in the kingdom of liberalism.

00:15:25.140 And that can work.

00:15:26.000 Joe Scarborough does that.

00:15:27.940 Anna Navarro does that on The View.

00:15:30.200 You know, they pretend to be conservatives, Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney, but they always just agree with the liberal hosts.

00:15:37.020 Where things get really messy is when a conservative goes on, as a conservative, says, no, I support Trump.

00:15:46.280 You know, I like when Republicans win.

00:15:49.740 I want the party to become more conservative.

00:15:51.420 And when the conservatives go on the liberal networks, the networks lose their minds.

00:15:57.220 It usually doesn't work.

00:15:58.080 That's what happened to Ronna McDaniel, who took a job at NBC. 1.00

00:16:01.260 And in her first day of appearances, she gets absolutely grilled.

00:16:05.480 I mean, I won't even show you the clip because it's not even in the top three most interesting clips probably that came out of that day, her first time at NBC.

00:16:16.600 But she goes on, the host of Meet the Press is very, very rude to Ronna, asks for an apology to the American people.

00:16:23.160 And then if that were not enough, Chuck Todd, who used to host Meet the Press, comes on as a guest to continue attacking his new colleague at NBC, Ronna McDaniel.

00:16:32.200 Let me deal with the elephant in the room.

00:16:35.420 Yeah.

00:16:35.760 I think our bosses owe you an apology for putting you in this situation because I don't know what to believe.

00:16:41.360 She is now a paid contributor by NBC News.

00:16:44.480 I have no idea whether any answer she gave to you was because she didn't want to mess up her contract.

00:16:51.940 She wants us to believe that she was speaking for the RNC when the RNC was paying for it.

00:16:55.740 So she has credibility issues that she still has to deal with.

00:17:00.940 Yeah.

00:17:01.360 Is she speaking for herself or is she speaking on behalf of who's paying her?

00:17:05.560 Once at the RNC, she did say that, hey, I'm speaking for the party.

00:17:09.380 I get that.

00:17:10.240 That's part of the job.

00:17:12.320 So what about here?

00:17:14.580 I will say this.

00:17:15.400 I think your interview-

00:17:17.020 Put a pause here.

00:17:17.620 I'm sorry.

00:17:18.060 You have to put a pause here.

00:17:18.960 I was going to wait until the end of the clip, but what is this man saying?

00:17:23.640 He's saying she has real credibility issues here because she's being paid to speak on television.

00:17:29.740 So how do we know she's not parroting the views of her employer?

00:17:33.740 Yeah, Chuck, so are you.

00:17:35.460 So is that lady who took your show who's currently hosting Meet the Press. 1.00

00:17:39.400 So is Michael Steele, the former head of the RNC who had Ronna McDaniel's job.

00:17:43.720 He became an NBC contributor after that.

00:17:46.320 But he's a liberal Republican, so you never really hear too much about his credibility.

00:17:51.220 So is every commentator and host on this network.

00:17:54.880 They're all being paid by NBC.

00:17:56.800 So do they all have the same credibility issues?

00:17:58.700 Well, he says, no, no, no, but you don't understand.

00:18:00.540 Yeah, sure, okay, now she's being paid by NBC. 0.96

00:18:03.240 But before, she was being paid by the Republican National Committee.

00:18:08.440 Yeah, right.

00:18:09.520 Doesn't Jen Psaki host a show for you guys? 1.00

00:18:12.300 Jen Psaki, the former White House press secretary, the spokesman for Joe Biden?

00:18:16.320 She hosts a show.

00:18:17.280 We don't hear about her credibility issues.

00:18:19.080 But you all do.

00:18:20.700 Everybody gets, if you work a job, you get paid by somebody.

00:18:25.160 Ironically, what Chuck Todd is really upset about here is that Ronna McDaniel is not just parroting the views of the people who pay her.

00:18:32.780 She's doing the opposite.

00:18:33.620 She's contradicting the views of the people who pay her.

00:18:35.480 The people who pay her hate Donald Trump and want to banish him to St. Helena so he can die in exile.

00:18:41.060 Ronna McDaniel likes Donald Trump and worked with Donald Trump and wants to see him reelected again this year.

00:18:46.140 And you can't stand that. 1.00

00:18:47.680 So you, I can't tell if he's playing dumb or if he is dumb. 0.99

00:18:51.020 I guess the, and I don't know what the more charitable view is. 1.00

00:18:53.620 Is he a liar or is he just that dense that he doesn't understand what a political commentator does?

00:19:02.580 He doesn't understand what a TV presenter does. 0.90

00:19:07.780 Does he, really?

00:19:08.600 That's been his whole career.

00:19:09.640 Or is he just being obtuse?

00:19:13.240 Or is he, does he just hate Ronna McDaniel because she's just a stand-in for Trump and the Republican Party that Trump leads?

00:19:19.700 And, and so he's just very disingenuously attacking her for doing her job in a, in a much more credible way than he does his job.

00:19:29.980 Keep going.

00:19:31.280 Did a good job of exposing, I think, many of the contradictions.

00:19:34.240 And, and look, there's a reason why there's a lot of journalists at NBC News uncomfortable with this because many of our professional dealings with the RNC over the last six years have been met with gaslighting, have been met with character assassination.

00:19:47.020 So it is, you know, that's where you begin here.

00:19:51.380 Well, there, he's almost being honest there.

00:19:53.380 It's really rich to hear an NBC News propagandist accuse others of gaslighting, these people who pushed every ridiculous hoax about Trump and the Republicans of the last eight years, every hoax cooked up by the intelligence agencies or the Hillary Clinton campaign or actual foreign intelligence like the Russians that they accused Trump of colluding with.

00:20:16.660 It was actually they who colluded with them of him to, to, to accuse others of gaslighting.

00:20:22.600 It's very, very rich, but he, he does get a little bit to, to his real problem with Ron McDaniel, which is, he says, I hate the Republican Party.

00:20:32.000 I hate, I've had to, we, we dealt with the RNC and the RNC pushed back on us and the RNC didn't just roll over and the RNC had the audacity occasionally to win.

00:20:41.260 And so we, we here, we journalists at NBC, we hate that because we hate the Republican Party because we hate Trump and Republican voters and we, we want them to shut up and you're not only are they not shutting up, but now we're paying them to speak and that we can't have that.

00:20:57.700 We cannot have an actual Republican, whatever you think of Rhonda McDaniel, I think she did her best. 0.94

00:21:02.720 She tried, she wants Republicans to win.

00:21:04.360 We can't have an actual Republican trying to win and articulate their views and persuade people on our network.

00:21:15.140 This is a journalistic outlet for goodness sakes.

00:21:17.480 This is a news channel.

00:21:18.740 We can't have Republicans speaking on here.

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00:23:39.300 Boston race hustlers are now shaking down the city and specifically white churches for $15 billion.

00:23:49.540 Here's why.

00:23:51.100 We call on the white church in Boston to join us in supporting a black reparations movement.

00:24:00.000 Standing in solidarity, clergy leaders from across the city of Boston gathered for an interfaith, multiracial meeting at the Resurrection Lutheran Church in Roxbury, Nubian Square.

00:24:09.680 They're here to ask the religious community to atone for black Boston suffering and support black reparations.

00:24:16.480 And we are coming, as Dr. King said, to get our check.

00:24:21.620 Organizers from the Boston People's Reparation Commission say they're also following up on their demand on the city of Boston for a $15 billion initial payout to begin the process towards repair and reconciliation to the city's black community.

00:24:35.660 $5 billion as initial payment around cash payouts, $5 billion around strengthening our financial institutions, creating a new black bank, $5 billion in terms of addressing issues of the education achievement gap between blacks and whites.

00:24:56.080 In 2022, the Boston City Council and Mayor Michelle Wu offered an official apology for the city's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade.

00:25:04.020 Wow. Wow. Wow. Boy, oh boy. I guess they got some accountant in there.

00:25:09.520 They said, OK, because of the transatlantic slave trade of 300 years ago, you owe and you carry the interest rate.

00:25:20.300 This is some like New York Letitia James kind of math.

00:25:22.900 You owe $15 billion and it's got to come out of the taxpayers of Boston for some reason and specifically out of white churches. 0.96

00:25:30.900 So says Reverend so-and-so, that young guy, I guess he's the new black race hustler. 1.00

00:25:38.000 I don't know his name, but I saw he reverend something.

00:25:41.380 So he's the new Jesse Jackson.

00:25:43.040 He's the new Al Sharpton.

00:25:44.420 He's it's a pretty lucrative job.

00:25:46.780 I think it's undignified work, but it's it can definitely be lucrative.

00:25:51.020 Al Sharpton's worn a lot of nice suits for many years now just trying to stir the pot on race relations and demand endless money.

00:25:58.900 In this case now from from white churches and it's sad to me as a mackerel snapping papist myself, a member of a church that is called the universal church, the Catholic church. 0.62

00:26:12.380 It's very sad to see these terms like white churches, black churches, because, you know, for the Catholic church, we don't we don't really view things that way.

00:26:22.560 I guess with some of the immigrant groups in America, you'd say, oh, it's an Irish parish.

00:26:25.780 That's an Italian parish.

00:26:26.840 But the church broadly, you know, encompasses all races.

00:26:31.380 You go to mass, you'll see people of all different races and they're all kind of mixed up together.

00:26:37.940 The churches had white saints and black saints and Asian saints and all sorts of saints for a very long time.

00:26:43.840 But the fact that certain sects can divvy themselves up and say, we're the black church and you're the white church.

00:26:50.480 And so the white church has to give us 15 billion dollars that that opens the door to a lot of really terrible actions, politically terrible, spiritually damaging, just just ultimately wrong.

00:27:04.820 The reason I bring it up, though, is not because some race hustler guy who calls himself a reverend is, you know, running a racket that's been going on for many decades.

00:27:13.640 It's to remind people for even these, you know, the black activists demanding this who call themselves reverend or the white churches who might acquiesce and just give money to black people as part of some kind of shakedown scheme. 0.75

00:27:26.760 The greatest saints could have been the worst sinners and the worst sinners could could be the greatest saints.

00:27:39.600 This is a fact observed by many religious people over the years that.

00:27:45.400 People have a great capacity.

00:27:50.600 Some people have the capacity for for acts of more acts of greatness and greater acts of greatness than others.

00:27:58.000 And they can turn this to good ends or they can turn this to evil ends.

00:28:03.060 So when when the church does what it's supposed to do.

00:28:07.560 It's really, really great.

00:28:09.060 And society flourishes and souls are saved and people live in accord with reason and all of that leads to the flourishing of the common good.

00:28:21.900 When the church goes wrong, when the church splinters up into a lot of pieces, when the church promotes vice, when the church even promotes one virtue to the exclusion of the other virtues, which is probably an even better definition of heresy.

00:28:35.160 When the church falls into the trap of the fashions of the age and the racial ideologies that are so popular today.

00:28:43.100 And when the church marries herself to the spirit of the age, which will leave her a widow in the next, you know, not the not the church church, but all these little splinter groups.

00:28:50.980 When all of that happens, the churches can be real, real bad, can go really, really bad.

00:28:57.340 And they lose their salt loses its saltiness and it's good for nothing.

00:29:00.900 Something to watch out for.

00:29:03.080 I mentioned yesterday, we're in Holy Week.

00:29:05.820 This is when the devil's working overtime.

00:29:08.220 This is when you got to watch out and pray that you fall not into temptation.

00:29:14.140 Very easy to do.

00:29:15.580 And then then the church has become absolute caricatures.

00:29:19.440 Speaking of sinners and saints and religion.

00:29:22.740 Some sad news, but it's interesting and maybe provides a little hint of what the solution can be.

00:29:28.600 Church attendance is way down.

00:29:31.680 Over the past 20 years, it has declined in most U.S. religious groups.

00:29:36.720 The most religious groups in America in terms of regular attendance at religious services, the Mormons.

00:29:44.520 The Mormons have kind of kept it together.

00:29:46.220 67% of Mormons regularly attend religious services.

00:29:52.340 We have a few charts here.

00:29:54.480 Oh, apparently none of my charts printed out.

00:29:56.000 That's cool.

00:29:56.400 Well, in any case, I'll just kind of do it from memory.

00:30:02.600 You see a big division between the Jews and the Christians.

00:30:06.740 And then even within the Christians, the Catholics and the Protestants.

00:30:09.360 And the Muslims and the Mormons. 0.87

00:30:12.760 Jewish attendance at religious services was pretty low.

00:30:18.500 It was lower than other groups 20 years ago.

00:30:21.660 But it's increasing.

00:30:24.160 And it's increasing by a lot.

00:30:27.880 The Muslim attendance at religious services was somewhat higher than the Jews.

00:30:34.420 And it's increasing by a little bit.

00:30:38.740 Basically, every other group is decreasing.

00:30:40.660 Mormon church attendance was very, very high.

00:30:45.000 And it has decreased, but barely.

00:30:48.860 I think by like one point.

00:30:50.260 Catholic regular church attendance has collapsed.

00:30:55.920 Protestants have declined too, but the Catholic church attendance has collapsed.

00:30:59.840 It went from something like 45% to 25%.

00:31:03.080 I'm getting the numbers a little bit off, but it's been brutal.

00:31:06.600 So what's the determining factor here?

00:31:08.820 Because we're not just focused on Christian groups.

00:31:11.200 We're not just focused on the Catholics or the Protestants or the Mormons who would call themselves Christian probably.

00:31:19.140 Some Christians would say they are not Christian.

00:31:21.260 Not even wading into that.

00:31:24.020 We're also talking about the Jews and the Muslims.

00:31:26.660 So what is the common factor here that leads to increased attendance at religious services?

00:31:33.800 Or at least is correlated with it.

00:31:36.320 Seems to me it's community cohesion.

00:31:38.500 For the Jews, it started out low.

00:31:43.980 It's increasing significantly.

00:31:46.920 The Jews have a lot of social cohesion.

00:31:51.260 Especially during periods where they perceive a threat or even an existential threat.

00:31:57.800 The cohesion comes back in.

00:31:59.140 There are all sorts of Jews who believe all sorts of things.

00:32:02.880 Very often you see the caricature of the self-hating Jew.

00:32:05.820 Who wants to disassociate from being Jewish or anything like that. 0.57

00:32:09.340 But during periods where they're perceived to be persecuted, you get more social cohesion.

00:32:14.180 The Jews refer to themselves as a tribe, as the tribe.

00:32:17.660 So obviously you have a lot of community cohesion there.

00:32:20.340 You have a similar degree, though, a little bit less of community cohesion among Muslims.

00:32:24.480 Particularly in the United States, because Muslims in the United States tend to be relatively recent immigrants.

00:32:29.540 Or first generation, maybe second generation immigrants.

00:32:32.640 So there, still, you have a ton of community cohesion.

00:32:37.420 The Mormons, obviously, you have a ton of community cohesion.

00:32:40.620 They all descend from this one particular religious movement that moved out west.

00:32:44.160 They descend from the same families.

00:32:45.960 They look very similar.

00:32:48.120 They talk very similar.

00:32:49.160 They behave very similarly.

00:32:51.060 For the Catholics, not so much. 0.75

00:32:53.920 For the Catholics, especially recently because you've got the influx of mass migration, there's not a ton of community cohesion.

00:33:01.160 There's been a lot of upending of Catholic norms and practices in recent years, particularly in the wake of the Second Vatican Council.

00:33:11.100 That community cohesion is kind of collapsing.

00:33:13.660 This is a broader point, even just for politics, putting religious questions aside for a second.

00:33:20.480 We have this phrase that has crept into our politics because of an offhand comment by Vice President Dan Quayle to a reporter in Japan in the early 90s, you know, which said, diversity is our strength.

00:33:33.940 That isn't true.

00:33:35.220 That's never been true.

00:33:38.480 Variety might be the spice of life, but diversity is not strength.

00:33:41.520 Strength comes from unity.

00:33:42.500 This doesn't mean that we have to kick out people who are of different races or different religions or whatever, but it means that we need to find something that unifies us nationally.

00:33:51.460 We have to share some kind of unity.

00:33:54.660 If we don't, as in recent years we do not, it's actually been discouraged to find any unity, then it's going to collapse.

00:34:03.860 The country's going to collapse.

00:34:04.840 Even beyond the question of, are you regularly attending church, which is related to national strength, by the way, but even putting that aside, if you don't have social cohesion, strong bonds that begin with the family, which is the bedrock unit of society, and expand outward in priorities of charity from there all the way up to the national level, which is an extension of filial piety, the love that you have for your parents, for your family.

00:34:29.140 If you don't have that, the country's going to collapse, and when we then pair that, not only with loosening those bonds of social cohesion, but actually intentionally attacking the family, then you're in trouble.

00:34:44.740 The church attendance declining is troubling to me because I care about people's souls, and I think it's just the most important thing in life is obviously to have a relationship with God because God is the source and summit of all being, and you're maker, and love himself, and he sends his only begotten son to die such that whoever believes in him might not perish but have eternal life.

00:35:10.200 Obviously, obviously, we're in holy week right now, so I mean that as an intrinsic matter, this headline really bothers me, but also, even if it didn't, even if I never went to church, as a political matter, the trend lines are not great here, and it shows us that other national trends are a real danger.

00:35:32.080 Now, you want to talk about community cohesion. Sometimes, communities come together in the face of a political threat to do things that are very good.

00:35:42.740 You're seeing this now throughout the United States, most recently in Wyoming.

00:35:47.380 If there's one political issue that I think has united all sorts of people, certainly the conservatives, but even a lot of independents, even liberals in recent years, it's the observation that transing the kids is bad. 1.00

00:36:04.100 It's just bad. Castrating little children, putting them on drugs that will probably reduce the length of their lives, that mess up their bones, that sterilize them, that lead to all sorts of problems, including depression, anxiety, and suicidality.

00:36:20.000 That is bad, and we shouldn't do it.

00:36:21.420 So now, Wyoming has just passed a law banning it, which makes Wyoming the 38th state to outlaw transing the kids.

00:36:34.060 We were told that the transgender issue, this is just a thorny social issue, and you conservatives should lay off.

00:36:42.800 The transgender issue might be the single most effective political issue for conservatives in the country today.

00:36:51.180 Maybe it might be more powerful and lead to greater unity and political persuasiveness, even than immigration.

00:37:01.880 We'll get to that in one second.

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00:37:46.100 My favorite comment yesterday is from MK Bubblehead.

00:37:49.300 It's an interesting name.

00:37:50.580 He says, can an ecosexual be a mine-attracted person?

00:37:59.700 Wow, man.

00:38:00.680 That is deep.

00:38:03.600 That is calling on other crazy terms.

00:38:07.340 It's got some pun to it.

00:38:09.440 It's really, that's a chef's kiss favorite comment for yesterday.

00:38:18.060 Wyoming, not Wisconsin.

00:38:19.440 I sometimes confuse those two.

00:38:20.920 Wyoming becomes the 38th state to ban transing the kids.

00:38:24.540 This legislation was signed by Governor Mark Gordon.

00:38:29.840 It prohibits, quote, physicians from performing procedures for children related to gender transitioning and gender reassignment.

00:38:35.220 This is just happening.

00:38:37.400 This is happening not only in the red states.

00:38:40.240 It's happening around the country.

00:38:41.280 Not only around the country, but around the West.

00:38:43.280 Remember, a week or two ago, the NHS, National Health Service in the United Kingdom, somewhat quietly stopped transing the kids.

00:38:51.100 They said, we're not, after reviewing this, we're not going to trans the kids anymore.

00:38:54.260 That's over.

00:38:55.720 France is moving toward that now. 0.97

00:38:57.460 Even France, which is crazy and revolutionary and chops people's heads off, 0.99

00:39:00.240 they want to stop chopping things off children because they realize it's totally gross and evil. 0.99

00:39:05.220 And America, too.

00:39:06.560 The left has lost this issue.

00:39:10.940 Period.

00:39:12.020 It's amazing how it happened, too.

00:39:13.980 Because this is a little bit of the secret story of this, but apt during Holy Week.

00:39:18.060 A friend of mine discovered that the Vanderbilt gender clinic here, whatever, Vanderbilt Hospital, was transing kids.

00:39:26.880 And he mentioned this to me.

00:39:29.080 And he said, yeah, I've been going.

00:39:30.780 I just pray a weekly rosary over there.

00:39:33.060 Because I discovered this is really bad.

00:39:34.760 And I said, we've got to shut this down.

00:39:36.580 We've got to stop this.

00:39:37.180 He goes, yeah, yeah, no, we do.

00:39:38.040 We need all political action.

00:39:39.060 And so the first thing I'm doing, though, is I'm going with some friends of mine.

00:39:41.800 We're praying a weekly rosary to shut down the Vanderbilt gender clinic.

00:39:47.400 I said, oh, man, okay.

00:39:48.620 And then we're chatting.

00:39:52.120 He might have said it directly to Matt, who at the time was doing the big what is a woman movie and all this.

00:39:57.140 Maybe I mentioned it.

00:39:59.280 But in any case, we all start to get to talking.

00:40:02.140 And then Matt starts digging into it a little more, finding that stuff about it.

00:40:06.440 And then there's a, he posts a big, big thread about it.

00:40:09.740 It becomes a little bit of a national political issue.

00:40:12.180 Matt holds a rally for it.

00:40:13.860 So suddenly governors, state legislators are getting involved.

00:40:18.320 And in no time, it was actually not that difficult.

00:40:21.780 Because the people were on our side to shut that down.

00:40:24.620 And then they're being shut down all around the country.

00:40:26.300 Libs of TikTok, Kaya Raychik was on this issue.

00:40:29.400 And it just spread very, very quickly.

00:40:31.500 I love the kind of secret part of the story that people haven't talked about.

00:40:35.320 Is it kind of began with a relatively private person just praying a rosary.

00:40:40.720 It's just really great.

00:40:42.440 And then, but it becomes a big political issue.

00:40:43.980 And it's a total winner.

00:40:45.840 It's a total winner.

00:40:46.940 And it's over.

00:40:48.500 On a lot of political issues, I would say, you never know if we're going to win.

00:40:52.320 These are eternal questions.

00:40:53.280 No, castrating children is not really one of the eternal recurring things.

00:40:58.240 I guess it pops up every so often over time.

00:41:01.240 But it's one where we actually can win.

00:41:03.420 And on this issue, we have one.

00:41:04.920 And that is very good.

00:41:07.260 You see it in France now.

00:41:08.320 I mean, there was just, when I say it's already starting to happen in France.

00:41:10.760 I mean, a group of senators has reacted to a report that shows how awful transing the kids is. 1.00

00:41:19.660 It's not even the far right group of senators.

00:41:21.600 It's the center right group.

00:41:23.260 It's not the Front National, which I think is called National Rally now.

00:41:26.680 That's the one led by Le Pen that's considered far right.

00:41:30.980 You know, I think a ridiculous term, but that's what it's called in the press.

00:41:33.660 This is just the Republicans, which is more the center right party in France.

00:41:37.240 This is a centrist issue, and it's a total winner.

00:41:40.060 Speaking of protecting kids, beyond the trans stuff, Florida, under Governor Ron DeSantis, just passed a law banning social media for kids.

00:41:52.380 I love this story.

00:41:55.040 I love it.

00:41:55.960 This is a great law.

00:41:57.300 This is a great idea.

00:41:58.700 Every Republican in the country should follow it.

00:42:00.700 Florida will now have one of the country's most restrictive social media bans for minors.

00:42:08.300 DeSantis just signed it yesterday.

00:42:09.600 It will ban social media accounts for children under 14, and it will require parental permission for 15- and 16-year-olds.

00:42:16.040 DeSantis actually had a—there was a proposal that DeSantis vetoed earlier this month.

00:42:23.480 It was a little tougher, but this is still pretty tough.

00:42:26.400 No social media if you're under 14 and parental permission if you're under 17.

00:42:32.400 It was the top priority for the Republican Speaker Paul Renner.

00:42:35.940 It takes effect January 1st of next year.

00:42:38.140 This is totally right.

00:42:39.200 This is great legislation, and it will separate the conservatives from the libertarians.

00:42:44.320 It's the libertarians will say that, you know, we just need individual rights.

00:42:51.740 We don't need the big government passing any more restrictions.

00:42:54.260 Oh, sure, big tech might be against us, but, you know, what's the—if we empower the government to restrict them, then, you know, what's the limit?

00:43:02.880 They're going to go and, I don't know, they're going to take your guns and, I don't know, they're going to say the government can do anything.

00:43:07.460 No. No, this is a conservative wielding political power in Florida with a targeted piece of legislation to stop kids from using social media, social media which can poison their minds.

00:43:17.480 There have been plenty of studies on this.

00:43:22.380 Social media use can lead to increased anxiety, depression, suicidality even in kids.

00:43:29.920 The left pretends to care about this when it comes to the sexual confusion that they implant in the children often, but when it comes to social media, they don't want to do it.

00:43:37.920 They don't want to touch it because social media is a great vessel for indoctrinating kids in all of the crazy theories that the left promotes.

00:43:45.280 So the Republican governor comes in, he says, nope, not doing it, kids, sorry.

00:43:51.100 I mean, I totally—the thought of giving your kid a smartphone seems to me so crazy.

00:43:55.080 My kids are very little right now, maybe I'll cave when the time comes, but I don't think I will because those smartphones are like portals to hell, and you need to be able to have some discipline whatsoever.

00:44:03.860 13-year-olds sure don't have that.

00:44:05.580 This is great stuff.

00:44:06.380 The conservatives will say, yeah, social media, very bad, children not capable of using their reason in its totality, not particularly disciplined.

00:44:13.900 And we need to restrict that.

00:44:16.380 Love it.

00:44:16.940 I'm getting breaking news now.

00:44:18.180 I mentioned earlier, I said yesterday in afternoon trading, that Trump's Truth Social company was trading around $45 a share.

00:44:25.400 It was insane.

00:44:26.040 I mean, that was an amazing story in itself because some analysts thought it would hit at like $14 to $17 a share.

00:44:32.440 Wow, $45, that's crazy.

00:44:33.940 Then at one point in the afternoon, it was trading at about $51 a share, but still that was way too high.

00:44:38.560 It was obviously going to come down, right?

00:44:39.700 No, the new company, which is trading as DJT, Donald Trump's initials for the Trump media group, it just opened up at about $78 a share.

00:44:51.780 So, as the libs are doing their best to bankrupt Trump, broke Don, Biden says two days ago, Trump is now richer maybe than he's ever been in his whole life.

00:45:12.680 This guy's been a billionaire playboy for many decades now, and just when they think they steal all his money because he had the audacity to be a Republican president, he's now richer potentially than ever before.

00:45:27.560 Okay, that's a great story.

00:45:29.180 I do have to get to a really, really sad story because it's also a lot of breaking news, I guess, today, and really, really disturbing news, which is that the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has tumbled down.

00:45:42.500 The water is, I think, about 47 degrees last that it was checked, and it's unclear, according to the rescue operations, how many people are in the water, how many people have been rescued, how many people died.

00:45:55.240 And then beyond the human tragedy, which is so awful, you've got this major piece of the Baltimore skyline and infrastructure just collapsing.

00:46:05.680 We don't really know the cause.

00:46:07.540 I've got some news here that was updated this morning.

00:46:11.820 It's a cargo ship, a very large cargo ship.

00:46:14.680 It hit around 1.30 in the morning, and then the bridge just collapsed.

00:46:18.540 I mean, the ship started smoking, and then the bridge just went straight down.

00:46:21.720 And the mayor said it looked like something out of an action movie, which some will say is a kind of callous way to talk about it.

00:46:31.220 But I'm sure he was just saying that from pure shock, and it's obviously true. 1.00

00:46:34.320 A dire emergency.

00:46:36.700 The ship was headed from Baltimore to Sri Lanka, and it was flying under a Singapore flag.

00:46:44.220 So I know there are going to be all sorts of theories about, was this a terror attack?

00:46:48.320 Was the ship hacked?

00:46:49.580 Was it sabotaged in some other ways?

00:46:52.480 And I don't know.

00:46:53.360 I mean, I'm sure there will be an investigation, and I'm not counting that out.

00:46:56.640 I guess that could be possible.

00:47:00.320 Also, unexpected things just happen.

00:47:04.380 Unexpected major events like the collapse of this very famous bridge just, it just happens.

00:47:11.780 Sometimes a ship crashes into a bridge.

00:47:15.520 And when that happens, sometimes it's sabotage or conspiracy, and sometimes it just happens.

00:47:19.540 Unexpected political events just happen.

00:47:23.280 Because one problem with falling into, you know, conspiratorial thinking.

00:47:31.420 I know these days that the difference between a conspiracy theory and reality is about six months.

00:47:35.440 But not all of them are true.

00:47:36.620 A lot of them aren't true.

00:47:37.620 The impulse to believe in all those things comes a little bit from the comfort of believing that everything's predictable.

00:47:47.160 Everything's in control.

00:47:48.460 Even if we personally are not in control, someone's in control.

00:47:51.480 But that really isn't the case.

00:47:53.040 We human beings, much as we flatter ourselves otherwise, much as our pride would like to tell us otherwise,

00:47:57.900 we don't control everything.

00:47:59.440 And crazy unforeseen events just happen.

00:48:02.060 And as the election year heats up, those unforeseen events, with or without the cooperation of human free will,

00:48:12.040 can happen more frequently.

00:48:15.040 And the only thing to expect in a life where we do not ultimately have control,

00:48:20.300 ultimately is going to be the unexpected.

00:48:25.020 You can count on that with certainty.

00:48:27.420 So, anyway, praying for everybody involved.

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The Michael Knowles Show - March 26, 2024

Ep. 1454 - Trump Does It Again

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