The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1615 - Trump's New Administration Picks, Guess Who Made The List？

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00:00:23.500 President Trump is staffing his administration fast. Who made the cut? Who's setting the policy?

00:00:29.420 Who's deporting all of those illegals? We have at least some of the answers. 1.00

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00:02:46.520 moving fast to staff this administration. And the top roles are being filled, it seems, several per day.

00:02:55.280 The most exciting one, I think, came to us yesterday afternoon, and that would be the borders are.

00:03:02.940 You know, for Biden, Kamala Harris has been the borders are, even though she denied being the borders are

00:03:07.080 because we've had the worst border crisis in our history on her watch after she was given

00:03:11.300 presidential authority from Joe Biden. So there are a lot of eyes on the border. President Trump has picked

00:03:16.680 a guy named Tom Homan. He is the former director of ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

00:03:24.960 Mr. Homan went viral about five years ago during his tenure as ICE director.

00:03:29.980 For this exchange with one of the more insufferable Democrat members of Congress,

00:03:37.780 that would be Pramila Jayapal.

00:03:40.980 Please respect the chair's authority.

00:03:43.600 I respect the chair's authority, but the chair...

00:03:45.460 Mr. Homan!

00:03:46.240 You work for me. I'm a taxpayer.

00:03:50.500 I'm a taxpayer. You work for me.

00:03:52.260 The witness will suspend.

00:04:00.060 That is exactly the guy I want handling the deportations. I don't know much of anything else

00:04:06.340 about Tom Homan. I know he worked, okay, he worked under Trump. It seemed good. Immigration 0.90

00:04:12.600 was good under Trump. But even if I didn't know any of that, that's the guy I want handling the

00:04:18.620 deportations. The deportations are going to be very difficult. And they're going to be very

00:04:23.000 difficult because the left is going to focus a giant spotlight every single day to try to expose

00:04:31.700 or even just contrive, even make up out of thin air, heart-wrenching stories about poor dreamers

00:04:38.120 who have come here for a better life, innocent grandmothers whose worst crime was baking pies for 0.85

00:04:43.740 the neighbors and how they're being heartlessly deported by that evil Mr. Trump. Even if 99.99...

00:04:51.400 Forget about that. Even if 100% of the deportations are face-tattooed, Satan-worshiping, MS-13 gang

00:04:58.620 members, serial killers and rapists, even if that is all the deportations, you know that the left is

00:05:04.900 going to gin up a bunch of stories about the poor, innocent, illegal aliens who just came to America 0.99

00:05:11.040 to look for a better life, to expand their cartel, to try to hang a shingle on their mom-and-pop

00:05:18.540 human trafficking network. And so they're going to make this seem politically totally unacceptable.

00:05:26.140 You need a guy who is tough as nails to handle that. You need a guy who's not going to be easily

00:05:33.460 manipulated by Democrat members of Congress or Democrats in the press. You need a guy who looks

00:05:37.840 at Pramila Jayapal and says, hey, I'm a taxpayer. You work for me. Don't you bang your gavel at me.

00:05:45.300 You don't... Put that gavel down. That gavel's not going to shut me up. You work for me. Don't you

00:05:50.860 talk to me that way. That's the guy you need in the office. Really, really good pick. I love it.

00:05:57.360 Can we get him to do other jobs in the administration? I don't know. Maybe he can be a rotating

00:06:01.200 secretary of state. I don't know. Maybe he could be DOD maybe. I don't know. He's good. Now we have

00:06:08.280 other picks. The UN ambassador has been selected. Elise Stefanik. Elise Stefanik is a Republican member

00:06:14.580 of Congress in New York who has defended Trump on many occasions. Not the most right-wing member

00:06:20.200 of Congress. Doesn't have the highest conservative review score. However, I don't think that really

00:06:27.460 matters in this case. I'll get through the other picks and then explain why I think even some of the

00:06:31.720 more moderate or more centrist Republicans ideologically are actually not such a bad

00:06:39.480 pick for some of these jobs. Lee Zeldin, another New York Republican, has been tapped to head the EPA.

00:06:45.380 Stephen Miller, who came to fame for his staunch immigration restrictionist stance,

00:06:51.500 he is the deputy chief of staff for policy. He is one of those who is pretty right-wing. He's a

00:06:56.600 rock-ribbed kind of guy in the admin. Representative Mike Waltz, another more moderate, more liberal

00:07:03.900 Republican member of Congress, has been tapped for the National Security Advisor. And then there's

00:07:08.760 a rumor. I don't think this has been formally announced yet, but there's a rumor that Marco

00:07:12.380 Rubio is getting secretary of state. So what do I think about these picks? Some of you are not going

00:07:19.700 to be as familiar with all of these names. Let's start with Elise, because as I mentioned, Elise is not

00:07:26.380 the most rock-ribbed right-wing, to the right of Genghis Khan kind of Republican. So is that a bad

00:07:31.460 pick, therefore, for her to be at the UN? I don't think so. I think it's actually a very smart pick.

00:07:37.160 But let's not forget, Donald Trump picked Nikki Haley to be the UN ambassador during his first term.

00:07:41.540 Nikki Haley, also a more moderate, more centrist kind of Republican. And she did a great job there. 1.00

00:07:46.420 Because the UN ambassador doesn't have any say over controversial domestic policies, where the

00:07:54.980 moderates and the conservatives are always at loggerheads. The UN ambassador basically just has

00:08:01.680 to be a real tough guy, has to be loyal to Trump, has to raise her hand defiantly in New York. And so

00:08:08.460 Elise Stefanik can do that well. And it's a position that's based in New York, so I guess it makes sense

00:08:12.020 to pick a New York Republican. I don't know. She's good. And she's demonstrated real loyalty to

00:08:17.940 President Trump on the crucial matters when it counts. Not always on every single vote in Congress.

00:08:24.800 But when the Democrats are coming after Trump, when they're unjustly impeaching Trump,

00:08:28.560 Elise Stefanik has exercised very, very good judgment. And so I think this is a great role for

00:08:35.060 her. Same thing, Lee Zeldin. Lee Zeldin was on this show not that long ago, a few weeks ago.

00:08:39.260 He's been tapped ahead to EPA. Lee Zeldin, another New York Republican,

00:08:43.500 not totally focused on the social issues, but a real fiscal hawk. Well, that makes a lot of sense

00:08:48.740 to me. If you want someone to help to reform the EPA, you want someone to bring a more conservative

00:08:54.840 view to the EPA, probably it makes sense to pick a guy who's reliable on deregulation.

00:09:01.080 We didn't elect Trump so that he could add bureaucrats to the EPA who can create many, 0.60

00:09:07.100 many more regulations. We want to reduce those regulations because the libs use the threat of 1.00

00:09:12.080 climate change and the sun monster destroying the whole world to take away many of our rights

00:09:16.780 and traditions and ways of life. So you want a deregulator there. I think Lee Zeldin is a great

00:09:21.440 pick for that. Then you get down to Stephen Miller. This is good. This is where you're going to need

00:09:26.220 a little bit more of an ideologically thorough sort of fellow here because he's deputy chief of staff.

00:09:35.060 He's one of the top figures in the White House touching lots of different aspects of policy,

00:09:39.300 not just fighting with diplomats at the UN, not just deregulating at the EPA, but you're going to

00:09:43.520 touch a lot of stuff. And we know immigration is going to be a top policy. It's one of the reasons

00:09:46.840 Trump was elected both in 16 and in 2024, because mass deportations, believe it or not,

00:09:53.220 is a popular political issue, at least according to polls. We'll see what happens when they're

00:09:57.500 actually put into practice. But as of right now, that's a major policy. So you're going to want

00:10:01.600 an immigration hardliner in that position. You're going to want a restrictionist in that position. 1.00

00:10:05.640 Good stuff. We got with Stephen Miller. Now, how about Representative Mike Waltz for the NSA?

00:10:10.860 Of the names I've mentioned, Mike Waltz is probably the most liberal Republican member of Congress

00:10:18.420 to be tapped. He's got a more moderate record. There's no question about it. But here again,

00:10:25.440 we're talking about the National Security Advisor. Do I care particularly that Representative Mike

00:10:34.240 Waltz voted for the, what did they call it? It's not the Defense of Marriage Act. It was like the

00:10:39.160 slightly more Republican Equality Act. I forget the name of it totally escapes me, but it was a

00:10:46.160 liberalizing act. It was a law for the Republicans to have their own version of a pro-LGBT law. It was

00:10:54.440 not good law. It was certainly not conservative. Mike Waltz was one of 45, 46 Republicans who voted

00:11:01.460 for that. Okay, he's the National Security Director. What do I care about that? His view on a controversial

00:11:07.420 domestic policy matter has absolutely nothing to do with national security and his performance in that

00:11:12.440 role as NSA. If anything, it seems to me that's a good pick. We're now focusing on a real strength

00:11:18.000 where he's really in line with the Trump agenda, where he's really in line with the conservatives.

00:11:22.140 To me, that makes sense. Now, how about Marco Rubio for Secretary of State? You have three options for

00:11:27.260 Secretary of State. Trump had previously said Pompeo is not going to be in the administration. That was

00:11:32.960 his former Secretary of State. And he said that Nikki Haley is not going to be in the administration.

00:11:36.640 She, I think, was probably looking at that Secretary of State position and would have liked it. Well,

00:11:42.600 they're both out. So who are the candidates? Bill Haggerty was floated. Rick Grinnell was floated.

00:11:50.540 And Marco Rubio was floated. Now, I like all of those guys. I like Pompeo and Haley too. But for the

00:11:57.380 three that were actually up for it this time, Bill Haggerty is my senator in Tennessee. He was Trump's

00:12:01.960 ambassador to Japan. He did a very good job. He's more of a business Republican, which can be very

00:12:09.920 good. It was very helpful in negotiating trade deals. And it could be very good in a diplomatic

00:12:14.780 role. I thought Bill Haggerty would be a really good choice. Rick Grinnell, obviously former acting

00:12:18.820 DNI for Trump, very, very close to Trump, former ambassador to Germany, has a really, really solid

00:12:24.580 pedigree in diplomacy. He could have been a very good choice, very loyal to Trump. And then Marco Rubio,

00:12:30.840 of the three, Marco Rubio probably has a more thoroughgoing kind of conservatism in as much as

00:12:40.060 he has embraced certain aspects of the new right. He's inclined himself toward things like family

00:12:46.500 policy, toward a little bit more of a social conservatism. So in that way, I guess he would

00:12:51.920 be the more right wing figure. But again, I think any of these guys would have been good choices in

00:12:57.820 state. So here you can't really go wrong. There's no outlier candidate where I think,

00:13:01.880 oh no, I really hope that person does not end up in state. We'll wait to see if that becomes

00:13:06.420 official. But so far, this is a really, really great aspect of Trump's political skill.

00:13:15.200 Trump recognizes that politics is the art of inclusion. It's bringing in people who don't

00:13:18.560 agree on everything, who have disparate views, conservatives. You get a hundred conservatives

00:13:22.040 into a room, you're going to get a hundred different types of conservatism. They're all going to

00:13:25.260 find the one thing they disagree on. But here, it seems to me that Trump is picking people who

00:13:30.100 are loyal, who have demonstrated good judgment in the partisan fights, and crucially, he's playing

00:13:35.760 to their strengths. He's playing to their strengths in a way that's going to bring a lot of conservatives

00:13:41.700 together behind them. So far, I think, so good. There's so much more to say. First, though,

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00:14:36.080 dailywire.com slash shop today. Speaking of swapping out personnel, the libs are terrified right now

00:14:43.980 because the Republicans have unified government. Republicans have officially held the House.

00:14:50.520 We've flipped the Senate. We have the White House. And because of Trump's excellent Supreme Court picks,

00:14:55.460 we have a conservative Supreme Court, even though sometimes the conservatives go squishy. Justice

00:15:01.860 Gorsuch enshrines transgenderism into our civil rights law in the Bostock case. That's not good.

00:15:07.240 Or John Roberts is a swing vote. He upheld Obamacare. So it's a conservative court,

00:15:12.520 but it's a little bit shaky. I wouldn't mind another vote or two to make our conservative

00:15:16.780 majority not just five or six, but seven or eight. Well, some Democrats are really, really fearful that

00:15:24.480 that might happen. So they are calling on left-wing Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step down before Trump

00:15:31.240 enters into office, which would allow the still Democrat Senate to install a left-wing justice on the 1.00

00:15:39.120 order of Ketanji Jackson or Sonia Sotomayor, a very left-wing justice. And that way, Trump won't

00:15:45.740 have a chance to shift the balance of the court even more. So NBC asks Bernie Sanders, one of the

00:15:51.860 most far-left members of the U.S. Senate, what he thinks about this plan. And Bernie gives a surprising

00:15:56.440 answer. Before I let you go, I do want to ask you about the Supreme Court. Some Democrats behind the 0.88

00:16:02.100 scenes quietly talking about the possibility, should Justice Sotomayor step down to allow

00:16:08.560 President Biden to appoint someone who's younger? She's only 70 years old. Is that something that you 0.83

00:16:14.820 would support? Do you think she should step down? No, I don't. Have you heard any talk of this?

00:16:25.320 A little bit, yes. I don't think it's a sensible approach.

00:16:28.840 And you don't think it's a sensible approach? Correct. All right.

00:16:36.340 Since when is Bernie Sanders a man of few words? This is a man beaten down by a Tuesday landslide.

00:16:42.300 So what do you think? This reminds me of the coverage in 2016, two months after the election.

00:16:47.500 Here's one weird way Bernie might still win the election. No, I'm not going to win. It is over.

00:16:52.740 We have totally lost. She says, what do you think about this plan?

00:16:56.120 Do you think that Sotomayor should step down? No. You've heard about it though. Yeah. But you think

00:17:04.600 it's bad. Correct. I, for one, not that Bernie's listening to my opinion, not that Chuck Schumer's

00:17:11.160 listening to my opinion or Sonia Sotomayor for that matter. I think it would be a great idea for

00:17:16.780 Democrats right now to pressure Sotomayor to step down and then for her to step down and for Joe Biden

00:17:25.280 to pick a really far left-wing Supreme Court nominee. Look, they still got, what is it? It's

00:17:31.300 November. So you got December into a little bit of January. You got two months to ram this nominee

00:17:35.740 through. So I think it would be great. You get that far left nominee who believes all sorts of crazy

00:17:41.400 stuff after a landslide election that gave Republicans unified government with a, a bare majority

00:17:47.960 in the U.S. Senate for the Democrats. And then try to get that nominee through. Please,

00:17:51.220 please. Oh boy, would I love that? Because then you could have Joe Manchin come out. He's not running

00:17:58.760 for re-election. He's out. He's out in two months. Get that Joe Manchin over there to see if he wants

00:18:04.840 to vote for that far left nominee. How about Kyrsten Sinema? She's out too. Let's get Kyrsten Sinema. 0.97

00:18:10.380 She, does she want to vote for that far left nominee? Who knows? I don't know. Get Angus King. Get any of

00:18:14.340 the Dems or independents who caucus with Dems to see if they're going to vote. You have to pry off

00:18:20.360 like two votes. And then what would happen? Then the nominee would go down.

00:18:28.780 It'd be, look, it'd be kind of close because the Democrats nuked the filibuster on most judicial

00:18:35.000 nominees. And then in response, the Republicans nuked the filibuster on the Supreme Court nominees.

00:18:40.860 So you no longer need 60 votes. All you need is a bare majority, but the Democrats only have a

00:18:46.280 bare majority. And they got at least a couple of people, two or three who are not going to go for

00:18:51.280 far leftism and who got the message from Tuesday. So then in that situation, you have Sotomayor steps

00:18:56.800 down. Biden can't get his Supreme Court nominee through the Senate. The Supreme Court nominee goes

00:19:02.800 down in flames. And then Trump comes into office. First thing he does is replaces Sotomayor. Sounds

00:19:07.040 great to me. Where do I sign up? I thought that we couldn't win any more decisively than we did last

00:19:13.920 Tuesday. But if, if we get what the Democrats are calling for here, we could have a seven seat

00:19:19.360 conservative majority on the court with a couple of squishes in there, but whatever. I'll take it.

00:19:23.660 I'll take it, baby. Ooh, man. Could we, that might actually get me tired of winning. I don't,

00:19:30.420 I, I, I don't think there's a limit, but that would be so astounding. Some Democrats,

00:19:38.160 unlike NBC are getting a little bit more serious. They're getting a little bit more introspective.

00:19:44.280 People like Chris Murphy, Democrat Senator from Connecticut, who had this to say about the election.

00:19:51.500 So Tuesday was a cataclysm. Let's not kid ourselves. An electoral map wipe out in the Senate.

00:19:58.040 Our effective ceiling for Democrats is now 52 seats. The ceiling for Republicans is 62 seats.

00:20:04.760 That's unacceptable. And while nobody has all the answers right now, I certainly don't.

00:20:10.880 What I think is most important is that we not kid ourselves. This is not a moment for small changes

00:20:15.740 or reforms. This is a moment for a fundamental rebuild of the left. Just a couple decades ago,

00:20:24.000 we could win races in Missouri and Florida and Ohio. Today, we get clobbered in all of those states.

00:20:33.480 That's unsustainable for us and for this country. So here are a few thoughts that I have at the outset

00:20:39.600 about the conversation we need to be having. First of all, we are not listening to the people

00:20:45.580 we claim to represent. We claim to be the party of the working class, the party of poor people.

00:20:51.120 And yet we let interest groups and think tanks tell us what those people need.

00:21:00.020 He's sitting there. If you're just listening, he's got his baseball cap on. He's got his hoodie.

00:21:06.160 It looks like it's drizzling. This is the dark night of the soul here for Chris Murphy. Oh boy.

00:21:11.280 What happened? What a cataclysm. What a horrible, horrible night. We claim to be the party of the

00:21:19.020 poor, but we're the party of limousine liberals. We're the party of the rich. And they all wiped

00:21:23.680 us out. States we used to be competitive in, we're losing. What are we going to do? What does Chris

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00:22:32.700 Chris Murphy, really upset. Tuesday was a cataclysm. It's a complete disaster. He says,

00:22:37.940 Democrats need to make a firm break with neoliberalism. Democrats need to become the

00:22:43.240 party of the poor again and speak to working class economic interests. That's the only way that they're

00:22:48.740 going to be competitive in the Rust Belt. It's the only way they're going to be competitive in others,

00:22:52.360 plenty of other states. Neoliberalism, the global free trade regime, it's all the tax cuts. It's all

00:23:01.860 served the plutocrats and it's alienated the Democrat base, what used to be the Democrat base.

00:23:10.160 And this has been going on really since Bill Clinton. So they got their work cut out for him.

00:23:14.500 That's Chris Murphy's view. Okay. Okay. There were plenty of critiques of neoliberalism. There are

00:23:21.060 plenty of critiques of free trade and markets. President Trump has made many of those critiques.

00:23:24.740 He ran on tariffs just as Abraham Lincoln ran on tariffs in the early days of the Republican Party

00:23:29.300 and it worked. So sure, Chris Murphy and the Democrats are willing to take down the economic

00:23:35.880 order of neoliberalism. Okay. Is he willing to limit migration too? That's a big part of it.

00:23:43.640 That's a big part of this globalist neoliberal regime is these open borders. A lot of the anxiety

00:23:49.400 felt by working class Americans, even because of their economic interests, because mass migration

00:23:53.660 cuts wages for the working class. But even beyond that, it also creates all sorts of social disorder

00:24:01.160 and introduces crime to communities and creates problems of assimilation. So, okay, you're willing 1.00

00:24:06.640 to raise taxes and limit trade. Okay, Chris, that's great. Are you willing to cut migration?

00:24:13.140 Are you willing to close up the border? Are you willing to cut it out with all the weird LGBT 1.00

00:24:17.920 stuff? That's another one of those limousine liberal issues. They want all the LGBT stuff. 1.00

00:24:23.020 They want to trans your kids. Ordinary Americans don't want their kids to be trans. Don't want 1.00

00:24:27.260 weird pride parades with people wearing leather harnesses in Main Street. That's another component

00:24:32.460 of neoliberalism. What is neoliberalism? It's a word that's bandied about and means many things to

00:24:37.260 many people. It's a term that came about in the early to mid-20th century to refer to a return

00:24:43.000 to markets, to a return to deregulation, to try to give new life. It really took off in the Reagan

00:24:50.120 administration some decades after it was introduced. To breathe new life into markets and deregulation.

00:24:59.520 Okay. Well, part of deregulation has been the radical social policies that pushed the LGBT 1.00

00:25:07.960 LMNOP agenda. A lot of working class Americans, ordinary Americans, guys in the Rust Belt, people

00:25:12.800 who have left the liberals, left the Democrat Party to become part of the MAGA coalition.

00:25:16.700 They don't want the trans stuff. The trans stuff is a big issue for them. Are you willing to give 1.00

00:25:21.000 that up, Chris Murphy? The Democrats talk a good game here. I don't think they're really going to do it.

00:25:28.000 I think that the political realignment is a little bit more enduring. As Chris Murphy says,

00:25:32.440 Democrats have a lot of sticks and carrots to stick by their liberal, wealthy donors.

00:25:36.320 You sometimes hear this criticism of the right. Oh, the right talks a good game on family policy,

00:25:40.780 but are they really going to help working families? Are they really going to

00:25:46.300 disregard their big donors? Are they really going to institute tariffs, for instance,

00:25:51.380 which would be tough for big corporations? Are they really going to do this? Are they really

00:25:54.160 going to do that? I don't know. Trump seems to be demonstrating willingness to shake things up,

00:25:58.220 and he's won politically as a result of that. Are Democrats really going to, they're not going to

00:26:03.380 give up open borders. They're not going to give up the weird LGBT stuff. They're probably not going 1.00

00:26:08.880 to even give up the economic order that serves their donors' interests. So Chris Murphy is going

00:26:13.420 to keep crying in the rain, whining about how they lose elections. And if it keeps up, they're going to

00:26:17.940 keep losing elections. Now, speaking of this realignment, President Trump, it is now reported,

00:26:23.280 won some 50,000 votes from Muslim towns that voted for Biden in 2020. We're talking about Michigan.

00:26:32.560 Michigan, which is now a rather Muslim state as a result of the mass migration that the Democrats 0.94

00:26:37.940 have pushed. Okay, the Democrats brought them all in, but then Trump won 50,000 votes from them

00:26:43.680 in places that voted for Biden. Arab American voters may well have pushed Trump over the finish

00:26:50.980 line. More than 100,000 Michigan voters picked uncommitted instead of Biden during the Democrat

00:26:58.420 primary. And then Trump won Michigan in the general by 80,618 votes. That's with 95% of the

00:27:05.200 vote counted thus far because the Arabs didn't want to vote for Kamala Harris for maybe a number 0.69

00:27:12.220 of reasons, but probably because of the Biden-Harris administration's handling of the Gaza war.

00:27:15.640 So a lot of people are going to be scratching their heads. They're going to say, how is it that Trump,

00:27:19.140 who is the most pro-Israel president that we have ever had, by a long shot,

00:27:23.280 Israel has a town named after him? How is it that the most pro-Israel candidate

00:27:28.960 got all these Arab and Muslim votes? The answer is because politics is the art of inclusion.

00:27:38.340 It is the art of the possible. It is the art of the second best.

00:27:43.740 It's not just that Trump appealed, as the Democrats say, to some base passions that are

00:27:49.260 totally irrational in voters. He appealed to bigotry and hatred. That's what the Democrats

00:27:54.820 say. No, no. It was rational for the Arabs and the Muslims to vote for Trump. There would not be 0.98

00:28:01.340 a war in Gaza today if Trump had remained president after 2020. There just wouldn't be. Hamas would not

00:28:08.540 have attacked on October 7th. Israel would not have had justification to invade Gaza. Hezbollah would 0.98

00:28:15.720 not have kicked off in the North as it has. Iran would not have the cash and resources and political 0.85

00:28:22.700 freedom to create problems in the Middle East. It just wouldn't happen. My evidence of this is 0.98

00:28:28.880 that President Trump brought peace to the Middle East. He brought us the Abraham Accords, and the

00:28:33.600 world was at relative peace when he was president. So if you're an Arab, you say, okay, the guy really 1.00

00:28:39.080 supports Israel. I don't really support Israel, but things were peaceful when he was president.

00:28:42.880 The countries that I do support, maybe family members even that I have over in these countries,

00:28:49.680 their lives were better when Trump was president, when he was leading the global empire. Huh. Maybe

00:28:53.780 we should go back to him. Under Harris and Biden, the instability has gotten so bad that many, many

00:29:00.120 Arabs and Muslims have been killed. Maybe we need a new course. That's how you get, I was at the Trump

00:29:05.480 MSG rally, and I see a guy in a yarmulke waving a giant Israel flag, and then not far away from him,

00:29:10.840 I see a woman in an abaya or a niqab. I don't remember exactly how full the facial coverings

00:29:16.720 were, but you think, how are these two people go together? Well, because Trump can bring those

00:29:21.320 kinds of people together. You think about the staffing of the administration. He can bring

00:29:25.620 together Republicans who are not necessarily the most rock-ribbed, the most religious right,

00:29:30.540 the most socially conservative, but he can put them in positions where they'll really shine,

00:29:34.860 where it doesn't really matter, where it's not going to irk the extreme right-wingers.

00:29:39.940 And furthermore, he can put the real rock-ribbed right-wingers into positions where it's not 0.92

00:29:44.880 necessarily going to irk the more moderate wing of the party. He's done a good job at taking over

00:29:49.820 the Republican Party, which he did successfully over 16, 17 candidates in 2016, and then of expanding

00:29:56.960 the Republican Party to include a lot of voters who are not voting down ticket for other Republicans

00:30:01.040 and who had not voted for Republicans before. So what are the Democrats going to do? They can

00:30:09.660 ditch neoliberalism, as Chris Murphy suggests, or they can ditch their families, as MSNBC's

00:30:17.500 Jonathan Capehart suggests. The thing that I'm grappling with is that someone was elected who ran

00:30:26.880 a campaign that was openly hostile, openly racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, transphobic,

00:30:35.980 everything. And yet now, the election's over, folks accept the results, but now how do we move forward

00:30:45.440 when we know there are people in, you have people in their families who voted for him? They work with

00:30:51.160 people who voted for him. They live next to people who voted for him. What do you, how do we, how should

00:31:00.180 we deal with those neighbors, co-workers, family members? Well, first of all, we have to remain

00:31:06.160 passionate about protecting these most vulnerable people. You're absolutely right. If this new

00:31:13.360 president does half of what he says, there will be so many of them in danger. I love this, this guy,

00:31:20.200 Jonathan Capehart, he says, how can we even look at our disgusting mothers and fathers and brothers

00:31:25.660 and sisters and children who voted for Trump? And he's speaking to an Episcopalian bishop and the,

00:31:31.580 in the Episcopal church, you know, let us, some of my best friends are Episcopalian or were, but

00:31:36.260 they're pretty lib. They've gone pretty lib in recent decades. And so the Episcopalian bishop,

00:31:42.020 he says, well, the most important thing is we have to remain huge libs. We have, we can't for even one

00:31:49.680 second consider not being huge libs. We have to remain passionate in our leftism. And then he goes

00:31:58.880 on to try to answer the question. But what's the answer? I think that there are people, maybe

00:32:04.640 including Jonathan Capehart, who are asking this question sincerely. I have family members. Maybe I

00:32:11.000 live with someone who voted for Hitler, for super duper Hitler, the threat to our Republic, 0.88

00:32:17.120 who hates the Muslims, even though the Muslims voted for him and who hates black people, even

00:32:20.920 though one in five black men voted for him and who hates Hispanics, even though roughly half of

00:32:25.140 Hispanics voted for him and who hates women, even though most married women voted for him and 40%

00:32:28.820 of women under 30 voted for him and even single women moved in his direction. Who hates all these

00:32:34.020 people? How can I live with these family members? And I guess the answer is maybe you should try to

00:32:43.000 understand them. Some on the left are going to say, I do understand them. They're, they're idiots.

00:32:49.360 They're uneducated and they're filled with hatred. And so they're going to say, I understand why people

00:32:54.720 voted for Trump because they're bitter clinging, Bible thumping, gun loving, rube idiots filled with 0.99

00:33:01.760 hatred. That's what they're going to say. Many people, that's the Obama explanation.

00:33:05.460 You know, times of crisis people, they cling to their guns and religion. That's, that's such a

00:33:11.020 stupid answer. It's so uncharitable and it's just wrong. You don't think, okay, fine. You hate the

00:33:19.900 caricature you have of a Republican. You hate the white people. You hate the man. You're okay. Well,

00:33:23.600 why did, why did a lot of Hispanic women vote for Trump? Why did, why did black men vote for Trump? 1.00

00:33:30.060 Why did young women, why did women under 30, why did 40% of them vote for Trump? Why did, 0.76

00:33:36.300 why did the Arabs vote for Trump? Why did the Muslims vote for Trump? Can you, how about you explain that?

00:33:41.240 Some Democrats have, they've come out and said, well, yeah, because Hispanics are evil now and black

00:33:45.440 men are, are misogynistic and Hispanics are racist. And they just apply the usual playbook to now 1.00

00:33:52.040 their previously favored racial groups. However, I think there's maybe another answer.

00:33:58.780 Maybe it's that the left's understanding of Trump, the left's understanding of the Biden-Harris

00:34:05.320 administration, the left's understanding of the state of the country is just wrong.

00:34:09.940 And maybe that's just because they believe the press and the press has been caught in many,

00:34:13.760 many lies. Maybe that's why, maybe this is why I said personnel is policy. It's the most important

00:34:19.980 thing that Trump can really focus on because there's no, you know, the president himself

00:34:24.220 doesn't have time to do everything in the administration, doesn't have time to do very,

00:34:28.000 very much of anything at all. It's a huge job. So you got to get good people into those positions.

00:34:32.320 You got to focus on important areas of policy, but you really got to focus on the press.

00:34:36.440 You really got to focus because the press, we all talk about how the press has no power anymore.

00:34:40.060 The press has a lot of power. Jonathan Capehart, the people who listen to him, and I think him

00:34:45.300 himself, he himself, they, they believe the press releases that they put out. They believe

00:34:51.820 all this. And, and for low information voters, they're just going to, they're going to turn on

00:34:56.560 the news maybe for five minutes, once a week. And they're good. Whatever they hear, that's what

00:35:01.180 they're going to believe. So you have to have people in the administration who know how to handle

00:35:05.320 the press, who understand the press's language, who know how to not get caught up in the lexical

00:35:12.200 prisons that the press sets out. You know, it's that great Trump tweet, despite the constant

00:35:17.000 negative press, covfefe. You know, the constant negative press is a big issue. It can divide

00:35:21.500 families. People are not going to come to Thanksgiving because of the lies of the press.

00:35:26.260 Good Trump policies could be stymied because of the lies of the press. You got to make sure you focus

00:35:30.340 on that. We've cracked their power. Elon has done a good job with that. The podcasters and the

00:35:34.360 streamers have done a good job with that as the New York times and the Washington post have given

00:35:38.020 us credit for, but you got to keep pushing. Got to get that through. Now, my favorite comment

00:35:43.080 yesterday is from Denise NYC 54, who says pretty soon you're going to call 9-1-1 and the dispatcher

00:35:50.920 is going to ask you who voted for, who you voted for before they send someone out. Yeah, probably

00:35:55.060 certainly if 9-1-1 were run by the federal government, if 9-1-1 were run by FEMA, they would.

00:36:00.160 Okay, sir. We're getting ready to get an ambulance out right away. Just one question. You,

00:36:04.360 you don't have a Trump flag in your yard, do you? Because if so, it's going to, those ambulances

00:36:10.160 are going to take a few days to dispatch. I mentioned just now this amazing statistic that

00:36:17.580 just came out of the Associated Press from exit polling. 40% of women under 30, according to the

00:36:24.860 exit polls, voted for Trump. 40% of women under 30. I know, the trains are as shocked as I am.

00:36:35.380 This is, I think I'm sitting in the middle of train tracks here in Iowa. I was here in Iowa last

00:36:39.660 night giving a speech. Two lots of young people, men and women, people of all sorts of races,

00:36:44.280 most of whom supported Trump. And that's because the people who didn't support Trump were standing

00:36:48.900 outside in great numbers screaming at me and yelling all sorts of things. I think we'll

00:36:52.280 probably have a video coming out on that too. But inside, I saw the same kind of thing that I saw

00:36:57.020 at Madison Square Garden, at the Trump rally, that I've seen in the whole MAGA movement.

00:37:02.880 A great diversity of people, people who are typically associated with Democrats,

00:37:07.220 supporting the conservative. 40% of women under 30, wow. How do you make sense of that?

00:37:14.880 That was one of the most rock solid groups for Democrats. Well, I think the way you make sense

00:37:20.360 of why 40% of women under 30 vote for Trump is the same way you make sense of why one in five black

00:37:25.960 men vote for Trump. Why almost half of Hispanics vote for Trump. Why an overwhelming number of

00:37:30.920 Arabs and Muslims in Michigan vote for Trump. Because they have not been served by the

00:37:37.020 Democrat Party. Because that has been clear. Because things have become so egregious.

00:37:44.260 Political circumstances have been so crazy. That was the subject of my speech last night in Iowa.

00:37:48.820 That the press was not even able to lie about it effectively. I think that's why. You think about

00:37:54.420 women in particular, young women in particular. How many young women are on depression drugs? 0.96

00:38:00.760 Huge swaths of American women, down to teenagers, up to women of a certain age, 0.99

00:38:05.240 but including women in their 20s and 30s, are prescribed very heavy depression drugs,

00:38:10.020 SSRIs, happy pills. Why? Because they're depressed. Because they're anxious. Because

00:38:15.700 they're stressed out. Why is that? Because women have been lied to since they were in 1.00

00:38:20.920 grade school. Because women have been told not to get married. Women have been told not to pursue

00:38:27.180 relationships. When they do pursue relationships, women have been told to only have casual sex, 0.99

00:38:31.480 promiscuous relationships. Women have been told to put career first, to the exclusion of anything 1.00

00:38:37.020 else. Women have been told to delay having kids. Then, when they really want kids, they realize 0.97

00:38:41.960 things are getting a little bit late. They've been told to go freeze their eggs. If they do get

00:38:45.520 pregnant, they've been told to abort their babies. They've been told to do all sorts of things that

00:38:49.660 make them really, really unhappy. Which might help to explain why in surveys of women's self-reported 0.86

00:38:56.680 happiness over the past 40, 50 years, women's happiness has declined in absolute terms and 0.93

00:39:03.380 relative to the happiness of men. Maybe because the women realize, young women in particular, realize 0.97

00:39:08.600 that liberalism isn't working for them. To say nothing of the kitchen table issues, they see that

00:39:15.000 their costs have increased 23% over the last three and a half years. They see that it's more dangerous

00:39:20.360 now for them to walk down the street in cities that were supposedly safe. They realize that if

00:39:26.640 they want to play a sport, they might get their skull cracked in by dudes who have been put into

00:39:30.460 that sport by Democrats and liberals. They realize liberalism isn't working for them. And so they've

00:39:36.680 changed course. Because contrary to what the libs and the Democrats would have you believe, women 1.00

00:39:41.660 possess reason. Black people possess reason. Arabs, Muslims possess reason. Hispanics possess reason. 1.00

00:39:48.420 They're not just NPCs. They're not just automatons who are owned wholesale by the Democrat Party.

00:39:56.960 They are responding to changing circumstances. And Democrats have allowed circumstances to degrade

00:40:03.780 incredibly for lots and lots of people. Now, Charlemagne, he's the radio host of The Breakfast Club,

00:40:12.280 which is predominantly to a black audience. Charlemagne was just in an interview with ABC with Jonathan

00:40:19.520 Carl. And he was asked to venture his view on why one in three non-white voters went with Trump.

00:40:28.980 Most people, they just care about keeping food on their table and keeping a roof over their head. And I

00:40:34.980 think sometimes people forget about that. I think that they forget about, you know, the working class.

00:40:39.680 And for whatever reason, Donald Trump speaks to the grievances of the working class in a real way.

00:40:44.960 And I keep telling folks, people will forget what you did. They'll forget what you said. But

00:40:49.520 they'll never forget how you made them feel. Okay, hold on. He just said two things that

00:40:55.780 contradict each other. The first one, I think I agree with. The second one is undermines what the

00:41:03.960 first one. First one is, he says, Trump speaks to the grievances of the working class in a real way.

00:41:09.600 And then he says, they'll forget what you did. They'll never forget how you made them feel. So

00:41:15.320 in the first one, he's saying, no, Trump has a real connection to the grievances of the working

00:41:18.880 class. The second thing he says is, oh, Trump's just all boasting and he's all rhetoric and he's all

00:41:24.820 empty promises. And he's not really connected to the real grievances of the working class. He just 0.69

00:41:28.540 makes people feel good. Which is it? I think it's the former. Yes, when a politician can make you feel

00:41:38.860 good, that is helpful and it inclines you to vote for that politician. But if the politician doesn't

00:41:44.300 deliver the goods, that's not going to last very long. And Trump has been at the highest level of

00:41:48.180 politics for almost 10 years now. So I think that's a total cope from the libs. I think that's a total

00:41:53.700 cope from Charlemagne. Oh, Trump just makes these aggrieved people feel good. No, no, no. Go back

00:41:59.620 to what you said the first time. Trump has a real connection to the real grievances of the working

00:42:04.600 class. And I think Charlemagne here is saying this. I don't want to read too much psychobabble here. I

00:42:10.440 don't want to read his motivations and what he's saying. But I think the implication is that that's

00:42:14.180 somehow a bad thing. Grievances are these aggrieved people. He speaks to that. That's usually how

00:42:21.260 that term is used in politics. Trump is just playing on people's grievances. People voted

00:42:27.420 for him because they're aggrieved and they want to send their grievances all the way up to Washington,

00:42:32.300 D.C. It is good when politicians respond to people's grievances. That is their job.

00:42:41.320 We have a right in our constitution to redress our grievances. We have responsive government,

00:42:46.740 a Democratic-Republican government, so that the government is more responsive to our grievances.

00:42:54.040 And the working class, along with other groups, have legitimate grievances

00:42:59.020 under the Biden-Harris administration. And Trump has real responses to that. Here's one grievance.

00:43:06.480 Our borders open and illegal aliens who work with cartels and satanic gangs are pouring over the 1.00

00:43:12.280 border and committing crimes and raping people and murdering people. Trump wants to close up the

00:43:15.780 border. It's a real response to a grievance. We have out-of-control inflation because of Joe Biden's

00:43:21.240 stupid spending policies. Donald Trump wants to change that. Okay, that's a real response.

00:43:27.880 We have real, people are afraid that we're on the brink of World War III because two major

00:43:31.620 conflicts have popped off under Biden-Harris. Wouldn't have popped off under Trump and Trump's

00:43:35.540 already resolving those conflicts the day after Trump's elected. Hamas says, I want to end the war. 0.71

00:43:39.140 That's a real response to real grievances.

00:43:43.660 Now, the government is not dealing with any of that stuff. The government is instead focusing on

00:43:51.640 really, really important issues like 80,000 pounds of butter that have been recalled by Costco

00:43:59.080 for the dumbest reason imaginable. We will get to that tomorrow. We don't have time right now,

00:44:03.780 baby, because I'm about to get hit by a train wherever we are in the middle of Iowa.

00:44:07.180 It is Trans Tuesday. So we will get to that in the member room segmentum. The rest of the show

00:44:13.040 continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member. Use code NOLS, K-N-W-L-E-S,

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 12, 2024

Ep. 1615 - Trump's New Administration Picks, Guess Who Made The List？

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