The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 165 - Boyz To Men： DeNiro, Trudeau, Trump

00:00:00.480 Aloha hoa. I am bronzed, bound, and back from my honeymoon in Hawaii after marrying sweet little Elisa last week.

00:00:08.600 That's right, I'm sorry ladies, but I am now Mr. Sweet Little Elisa. Take a look at the ring.

00:00:13.600 My bachelor party, my wedding, my now full week of experience as a married man has got me thinking about manliness.

00:00:20.700 At a time when the culture encourages boys to become girls, we will discuss boys to men. 0.61

00:00:25.940 From little boys like Robert De Niro and Justin Trudeau, all the way to Donald Trump, good old men.

00:00:32.400 With a word also on Charles Krauthammer and his manliness to boot.

00:00:36.680 Then, why IHOP's rebranding to the International House of Burgers is a brilliant marketing strategy directly influenced by the Trump phenomenon.

00:00:45.140 Finally, it is pride all the time. Let's all celebrate. Let's celebrate pride all the time.

00:00:50.920 During this all the time, it's the time to celebrate pride.

00:00:53.120 We will celebrate superbia with an historical retrospective on pride from man's earliest days.

00:00:58.980 I'm Michael Knowles and this is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:07.380 I have so much to talk to you about. I have missed you so much.

00:01:11.300 And I have so much, I can't believe. Did anything happen while I was gone?

00:01:14.460 Oh yeah, everything. We'll get to it.

00:01:15.840 Before we get to that, gotta keep the lights on over here.

00:01:18.160 I'm shocked Ben let me come back.

00:01:19.620 I figured I'd come back to this place and it would just be rubble.

00:01:22.700 This entire broom closet that I broadcast from would be pure rubble.

00:01:25.940 And they'd be putting up, I don't know, the Ben Shapiro 2 show or something.

00:01:29.040 And they'd get me out of here.

00:01:30.020 But thankfully I'm still here.

00:01:31.520 And one of the people we have to thank for that is Blue Apron.

00:01:34.780 This is very fitting.

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00:01:45.320 And Blue Apron is really good.

00:01:46.740 It is basically all I eat at home these days.

00:01:50.720 Obviously I was on my honeymoon.

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00:03:32.300 I've missed you guys.

00:03:34.960 I've really missed you.

00:03:35.740 I actually have, because I was sunning on beautiful Waikiki, and it was really nice.

00:03:42.140 Made some friends there.

00:03:43.440 Met a great Daily Wire listener there, a very cool guy.

00:03:47.240 I won't say his name because he'll lose his job.

00:03:49.160 But it's really good.

00:03:50.800 And so I'm floating around there in Waikiki, and I got to tell you something.

00:03:53.960 I actually sort of missed work.

00:03:58.000 Not immediately, and not that much, you know.

00:04:00.720 But after a while, bobbing along on the ocean, it feels really nice.

00:04:04.400 But you do miss purpose after a while.

00:04:07.380 George Bernard Shaw said that hell is the place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

00:04:11.700 And so it is actually good to be back.

00:04:14.400 I could have used another few days, maybe, of just amusing myself.

00:04:18.060 But that's okay.

00:04:18.820 It's nice to be back.

00:04:19.700 I'm also, as you can see, transracial.

00:04:21.300 For those of you who are just listening, I'm a little bit crispy after my time there.

00:04:25.520 We have finally solved the age-old question, are Sicilians white?

00:04:28.760 The answer is not much of the time, and not after being on the beach.

00:04:32.940 This is, by the way, after slathering myself in, like, 60 SPF constantly.

00:04:38.740 And so, somehow, still pretty crispy.

00:04:43.180 I will give you my thoughts on marriage, what I've learned in my vast time as a married man,

00:04:48.640 all of the wisdom I've acquired.

00:04:50.180 It turns out marriage is mostly people giving you a lot of presents and then eating dinner

00:04:55.200 in tuxedos and then sunning yourself on a beach.

00:04:57.220 I didn't know that.

00:04:58.000 I didn't know any of that before I got married.

00:04:59.940 I assume it'll keep up like this.

00:05:02.000 So we'll see how that goes.

00:05:05.300 Marriage has me thinking a lot about manliness.

00:05:08.860 Because, you know, look, I'm not exactly a hulking mass of masculinity.

00:05:13.880 I'm not a great Adonis of a man or something like that.

00:05:17.260 I'm not Conan the Barbarian.

00:05:18.920 But in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, I've noticed. 0.98

00:05:22.620 And so it has me thinking about that.

00:05:25.020 In the early 80s, there were a lot more people getting married.

00:05:29.000 Two and a half million marriages happened in the United States every single year.

00:05:33.100 That number is down.

00:05:34.280 Even though the population has grown tremendously over that time by 100 million people or something

00:05:38.800 like that, now just over 2 million people, 2 million marriages happen every year.

00:05:44.120 So there's a 40% increase in population and yet half a million fewer marriages happen every

00:05:49.920 single year.

00:05:50.520 Right now the median age for marriage is 29.

00:05:53.020 So I got in just under that.

00:05:54.380 I'm just under the median, which is good.

00:05:56.700 But a lot of people just don't get married at all.

00:05:59.640 So the median might be 29, but a lot of people just aren't getting married.

00:06:02.860 The Urban Institute reports that the marriage rate might drop among millennials to 70% or

00:06:08.880 lower.

00:06:09.660 That is way, way down from previous generations.

00:06:12.740 The baby boomers got married at a rate of 91%.

00:06:15.760 The late boomers who came in the late stage of the baby boom, 87%.

00:06:20.700 Gen X, 82%. 0.97

00:06:22.380 That number drops precipitously for millennials if the present trends continue.

00:06:28.100 So what's that about?

00:06:28.780 I think it's about a crisis of manliness and all these attacks on the toxic masculinity and

00:06:35.940 these bad images we have of what manliness really is.

00:06:38.180 We've totally lost the sense of manliness in that Harvey Mansfield kind of way, the Aristotelian

00:06:43.360 kind of way, being a gentleman, being a virtuous guy.

00:06:47.480 And just to underscore the difference between boys and men, little boys becoming men, you know,

00:06:53.140 it's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday.

00:06:54.780 Here is Robert De Niro.

00:06:56.900 I think he really sums up that little boy very well.

00:06:59.780 I'm going to say one thing. 1.00

00:07:01.060 F*** Trump. 0.99

00:07:13.360 It's no longer down with Trump. 1.00

00:07:15.620 It's F*** Trump. 0.99

00:07:19.840 That's so brave. 0.99

00:07:21.320 Oh, wow.

00:07:22.180 Wow, sir.

00:07:23.340 That is so brave.

00:07:24.680 You sit in a room of Hollywood and New York actors.

00:07:28.560 You attacked a Republican president.

00:07:31.000 Used a naughty word.

00:07:31.780 Wow.

00:07:32.220 Oh, wow.

00:07:32.960 Good.

00:07:33.180 Mm.

00:07:33.640 Gosh.

00:07:34.200 Finally, an actor behaving like a child.

00:07:36.300 This is what Stanislavski created his system for.

00:07:38.940 This is the American method. 0.97

00:07:40.440 It's ridiculous. 0.99

00:07:41.700 But this is a caricature of manliness. 0.96

00:07:43.740 What Robert De Niro is doing is actually what little boys do, but it's a caricature of

00:07:48.000 what manliness is.

00:07:49.000 It's a performance of manliness.

00:07:50.600 Because Robert De Niro is not a manly guy.

00:07:52.680 He just plays manliness in movies.

00:07:55.040 He plays tough guys in movies.

00:07:57.340 In reality, he behaves like a little boy.

00:07:59.180 This is the least courageous thing he could do, to get out there and say the thing that

00:08:03.120 everybody wants to hear and be just as vulgar as everybody wants to be and not add anything

00:08:07.700 to the conversation.

00:08:08.460 If he had come out and supported Donald Trump, that would have required some courage, right?

00:08:14.180 He could be blackballed from Hollywood, as a lot of our friends have been.

00:08:18.200 He could have his show canceled, as some of our friends have had their shows canceled.

00:08:23.100 You know, that would have real ramifications.

00:08:25.600 Instead, he gets a standing ovation.

00:08:27.160 These people gave him a standing ovation.

00:08:28.660 They applauded him.

00:08:29.360 It was so, oh, wow.

00:08:30.800 Oh, my gosh.

00:08:32.960 I like to start on this one because it really shows that difference.

00:08:36.420 Are you the real thing or are you just part of the show?

00:08:40.440 Are you really going to be the tough guy?

00:08:42.480 Are you really going to be a man?

00:08:43.580 Or are you just going to play act it?

00:08:45.700 Are you just going to try to pretend and be one on TV?

00:08:48.860 I'm not really a doctor.

00:08:49.740 I just play one on TV.

00:08:51.220 I'm not really.

00:08:52.320 Robert De Niro is not really a man.

00:08:53.900 He just plays one on TV.

00:08:56.300 One of my favorite news stories that came out while I was still on my honeymoon is this

00:09:01.780 Justin Trudeau story.

00:09:04.560 Speaking of little boys.

00:09:05.820 If Justin Trudeau did not exist, we would have to invent him, of course, the wonderful

00:09:10.760 prime minister of Canada who runs around in little rainbow booty shorts waving flags

00:09:15.380 and says that we have to call criminals and terrorists and things nice names and all of that.

00:09:21.960 So Justin Trudeau hosted the G7 summit.

00:09:27.060 And the G7, this group of seven countries, basically went well.

00:09:31.560 The thing doesn't mean anything.

00:09:33.160 The G7 is this group of countries, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom

00:09:39.860 and the U.S.

00:09:40.560 Those are the seven countries in it.

00:09:42.540 And we're all sort of allies.

00:09:44.040 And it was founded in the 70s to work on these big economic initiatives because in the 70s,

00:09:50.420 you had the collapse of the exchange rate, the energy crisis, recession, stagflation, right?

00:09:55.620 So there were all these economic issues.

00:09:57.660 And so they decided to bring them, bring all the finance ministers together and they would

00:10:02.480 talk about it.

00:10:03.160 And it's blown into this big Hollywood fest, basically.

00:10:07.640 But now the heads of state go and they have a lot of warm and fuzzy virtue signaling.

00:10:12.980 And it has really veered far away from its original purpose.

00:10:16.880 And it's mostly just a show for the cameras and to get nice photo ops.

00:10:22.040 Here's some evidence of this.

00:10:23.360 Justin Trudeau, the first female prime minister of Canada, I think, hosted a...

00:10:28.800 I don't even know.

00:10:29.420 I think they probably have had female prime ministers. 1.00

00:10:32.160 Maybe I'll Google that.

00:10:33.060 We'll have a producer Google that in the meantime.

00:10:35.460 Justin Trudeau hosted a conference on feminism at the G7.

00:10:40.440 I don't know what that conference on feminism is going to do for the global economy or whatever, 0.96

00:10:46.040 you know, but that's what it...

00:10:47.600 It's just this virtue signaling, right?

00:10:49.260 So he hosts this women's empowerment feminism conference.

00:10:54.600 And right out of Hollywood scripting, right out of central casting,

00:10:58.800 President Trump shows up late.

00:11:02.800 Because of course he does.

00:11:04.520 Because how can he show up on time?

00:11:06.160 He walks in, oh, yeah, sorry, I'm late.

00:11:08.020 Sits next to Christine Lagarde and Angela Merkel.

00:11:11.880 Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund,

00:11:15.080 and Angela Merkel, the woman who single-handedly destroyed Europe.

00:11:19.180 And she's also the chancellor of Germany.

00:11:22.160 And so he's right there.

00:11:23.800 And by the way, there was this picture that went around,

00:11:26.520 and it's very funny because he comes in late, you know,

00:11:28.940 and Merkel's all angry and Christine Lagarde is being pretty charming and talking to him.

00:11:32.880 And I actually have personal experience of this

00:11:36.000 because I've mentioned before that I was a sommelier at George Soros' wedding.

00:11:41.420 This is a bizarre experience in my life.

00:11:44.220 As an actor, I was cast to be a sommelier at George Soros' wedding.

00:11:48.540 I only found out it was Soros' wedding after the fact, after I was cast in it.

00:11:52.680 And so I ended up pouring wine for Christine Lagarde.

00:11:56.080 And she was extremely charming and lovely,

00:11:58.520 and she's just a wonderful politician and really good. 1.00

00:12:02.360 So she sits down and she's charming with Trump and they seem to be getting along.

00:12:06.180 And then you just see Angela Merkel in the corner, like, scowling at him and all angry.

00:12:10.320 Anyway, these little bumps aside,

00:12:14.880 the G7 went pretty well.

00:12:16.060 It's a silly thing. It's not really that important.

00:12:19.120 All in all, it went well.

00:12:20.580 And so at the end, they all agreed that they would sign on to this joint statement,

00:12:25.080 this communique on how great everything was.

00:12:28.540 And it was boilerplate. It was the sort of leftist, whatever.

00:12:32.620 But they said they'd all sign on.

00:12:35.180 And then everything fell apart.

00:12:37.660 Why? Why did everything fall apart?

00:12:39.480 For comment, we turn to Mrs. Broflowski.

00:12:42.020 I had it all. I had it all.

00:12:45.100 For their beady little eyes, a flapping head so warm will rise.

00:12:48.660 Play Canada! Play Canada!

00:12:51.460 We need to form a full assault.

00:12:53.140 We need to form a full assault.

00:12:54.100 Play Canada! Play Canada!

00:12:56.940 It seems that everything's gone wrong since Canada came along.

00:13:00.400 Play Canada! Play Canada!

00:13:03.280 They're not even a real country anyway.

00:13:05.480 They're not even a real country anyway.

00:13:10.100 America's hat, Canada.

00:13:11.760 We will explain how Justin Trudeau blew this thing up.

00:13:15.040 Hint, spoiler alert, it's because he's not a man.

00:13:17.780 We'll get back into that.

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00:15:27.520 So Justin Trudeau blew up this G7 summit, and he blew it up because he's not a man.

00:15:35.460 That's why.

00:15:36.100 Manliness is actually the issue here.

00:15:38.400 It wasn't really the tariffs.

00:15:39.900 It wasn't really sniping over trade.

00:15:41.960 It's because Justin Trudeau is a little boy because he's a little girly man.

00:15:45.520 Everything was fine.

00:15:46.580 Everyone had agreed.

00:15:48.440 Donald Trump has been trying to negotiate with tariffs that Canada is putting on the United States,

00:15:54.100 and the United States could put on Canada for a long time now.

00:15:56.480 Larry Kudlow, Trump economic advisor, negotiated with Trudeau personally.

00:16:02.500 And then Justin Trudeau holds this press conference and makes this statement.

00:16:07.340 I have made it very clear to the president that it is not something we relish doing,

00:16:12.660 but it is something that we absolutely will do because Canadians, we're polite, we're reasonable,

00:16:18.440 but we also will not be pushed around.

00:16:21.540 Okay.

00:16:22.440 Now, I kind of get if you see this, you'd say, oh, that's not so bad.

00:16:26.480 He's saying Trump can't push him around.

00:16:28.760 Oh, why is this so bad?

00:16:30.000 Why is this so bad? 0.98

00:16:31.640 Because it's this catty, bratty, mean girl, backstabbing deception. 0.53

00:16:37.100 This is not the way allies behave. 0.62

00:16:39.280 You know, people are saying about Donald Trump, they're saying, Trump is being mean to our allies.

00:16:43.860 That's not how allies should behave.

00:16:45.320 Justin Trudeau is not how allies should behave.

00:16:47.820 They had come to an agreement.

00:16:49.140 They were at the G7.

00:16:50.920 They had negotiated about reducing certain tariffs that Canada is imposing on U.S. goods

00:16:55.440 and in exchange for concessions from the United States on trade.

00:17:00.240 And they agreed.

00:17:01.300 And then they're going to go out and have this nice communique and everything's all hunky-dory.

00:17:05.140 And then he comes out and he says, but you're not going to push us around, Donald Trump.

00:17:08.540 You're not going to push us around.

00:17:10.320 I bet he didn't say that to Donald Trump's face.

00:17:12.840 I bet he didn't say that to Larry Kudlow's face, did he?

00:17:14.980 No, I bet to his face he said, oh, hey, how about we all go out and sign this communique, eh?

00:17:19.280 I bet that's what he said to his face. 0.98

00:17:20.800 And then he goes out because he's a little boy and stabs him in the back. 0.89

00:17:26.520 It really, this is not, some conservatives right now are saying, oh, come on.

00:17:31.040 We want free trade.

00:17:32.140 Nobody wants tariffs.

00:17:33.260 It wasn't that bad.

00:17:34.660 Yada, yada, yada.

00:17:35.500 Don't be so harsh on him.

00:17:36.920 Because, of course, the Trump aides came out and they said, Peter Navarro at Trump Aides said 0.90

00:17:42.280 that there's a special place in hell reserved for Justin Trudeau for stabbing him in the back,

00:17:48.120 you know, and Kudlow came out and attacked him. 0.72

00:17:51.840 So they're saying, oh, it's not that bad.

00:17:53.320 Come on, stop it.

00:17:54.200 No, that is bad.

00:17:55.840 That is really bad.

00:17:57.140 The United States should not be pushed around by Justin Trudeau.

00:18:02.100 That is, and we're not going to tolerate that.

00:18:04.340 That's absurd.

00:18:06.100 Because, by the way, Donald Trump is in the right here, in the negotiation.

00:18:09.800 Nobody wants a trade war.

00:18:12.600 Nobody wants massive tariffs.

00:18:14.640 The left and the Trump critics on the right are trying to pretend like Donald Trump and

00:18:20.300 his supporters want massive tariffs on goods to hike everybody's taxes.

00:18:24.600 Nobody wants that.

00:18:25.680 Nobody wants that.

00:18:26.780 But right now, as the president pointed out, as Larry Kudlow pointed out, Canada has dairy

00:18:32.160 tariffs on United States dairy, upwards of 270 percent, possibly upwards of 295 percent.

00:18:40.540 That is, those are huge tariffs.

00:18:42.180 We can't tolerate that.

00:18:43.560 And then the minute that we say that we're going to retaliate, they say you're starting

00:18:46.680 a trade war.

00:18:47.420 You started the trade war.

00:18:48.500 Or maybe there isn't a trade war, and maybe we're just negotiating on trade, as nations

00:18:54.040 tend to do.

00:18:55.260 Of course.

00:18:56.160 But what Justin Trudeau does is he says, I'm going to get my last minute snipe in when

00:19:00.100 it's too late for Donald Trump to respond.

00:19:02.260 Yeah, I'm going to get the, you know, it's like when you're arguing with a child, and

00:19:06.380 they just have to get the last word.

00:19:08.220 You say, okay, all right, we've resolved this.

00:19:09.780 They say, yeah, yeah, you, mm, mm.

00:19:12.340 You say, well, why'd you have to do that at the end?

00:19:14.260 That's not how adults behave.

00:19:15.520 And it's really awful.

00:19:16.560 The timing is really awful, because we're going into this Kim summit.

00:19:21.020 We're going into the Kim Jong-un North Korea summit, and he gets this last minute snipe

00:19:25.060 in at the president.

00:19:26.100 And I'm really glad that Trump responded in the way he did.

00:19:28.700 He said, okay, you want to get your little snipe in?

00:19:30.460 We're not going to sign on to the communique.

00:19:32.080 I hope you enjoyed your vacation in Canada.

00:19:35.360 I hope you enjoyed the G7, but we're not going to tolerate this.

00:19:38.060 Good.

00:19:38.300 We absolutely shouldn't tolerate this.

00:19:39.720 It's an important point about manliness, because people think that we just need everyone

00:19:47.000 to like us.

00:19:48.080 That's what men want. 0.81

00:19:49.740 But that's what little boys want.

00:19:51.100 Going into this summit.

00:19:54.280 So look at Angela Merkel for a second.

00:19:56.660 We've got Angela Merkel leaning over the chancellor of Germany, single-handed destroyer of Europe. 1.00

00:20:02.040 She's leaning over, angry at Trump.

00:20:04.340 And then in that same photo, you've got Trump and Bolton and Abe of Japan, just arms crossed,

00:20:12.700 not budging, just not Trump staring her right back in her face.

00:20:17.600 Merkel, Angela Merkel flooded Europe with millions of lightly vetted or totally unvetted Muslim immigrants. 0.59

00:20:25.000 Meanwhile, crimes, rapes, terror attacks are surging all across Europe.

00:20:28.900 They're covering it up.

00:20:29.740 And Merkel allowed them to flood.

00:20:32.520 She has no credibility here.

00:20:33.660 She's not going to tell us how to run our country, how to run global trade and globalization. 1.00

00:20:38.720 She's used globalization to help destroy her continent. 1.00

00:20:41.600 And I'm glad, thank goodness, that we have a president who's going to say, no, you've done

00:20:45.880 a terrible job leading your continent.

00:20:47.900 And maybe my predecessor let you do it, but I'm not going to let you do it.

00:20:52.080 You know, it was going around Twitter.

00:20:53.560 That photo alone is basically worth the Trump presidency.

00:20:57.240 We've gotten a lot of other good stuff too.

00:20:58.620 But I love it, just staring Europe in the face, the face of mass migration, open borders,

00:21:04.720 Europe, and saying, no, no more.

00:21:08.860 This gets to the central premise here.

00:21:11.980 How the left sees the world, how the right sees the world, and specifically how they see

00:21:15.700 manliness.

00:21:16.120 We'll explain why the right is right.

00:21:18.040 Before we do that, I couldn't do that if I didn't have shiny teeth, could I?

00:21:21.980 I couldn't.

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00:23:44.060 So, okay, we got to, I've got more to talk about, but I do want to wrap up this manliness

00:23:48.460 point, because it's really embodied here in Mr. Trudeau.

00:23:51.700 So, the left is looking at this G7 summit and President Trump's handling of Justin Trudeau

00:23:57.680 in particular.

00:23:58.420 They're saying, oh no, our friends hate us.

00:24:00.540 Oh no, because little boys are desperate for the affirmation of others.

00:24:04.080 And grown men just do the right thing.

00:24:05.820 They just do what needs to be done and they don't need to be affirmed constantly in whatever

00:24:10.360 they're doing, right?

00:24:11.920 Which isn't to say that we want to be despised.

00:24:14.100 Men don't want to like be hated or something like that.

00:24:17.420 But men, which is something we should aspire to be, men, don't care about affirmation

00:24:24.000 as the number one goal.

00:24:25.500 The left keeps saying that the U.S. is isolating itself from the world.

00:24:30.140 It's probably because they're watching CNN, so they only see that fantasy.

00:24:33.600 That's absurd.

00:24:34.740 Right now, around the world, ISIS has been defeated militarily.

00:24:38.480 Israel is building train stations dedicated to the President and the United States.

00:24:42.440 Iran's path to nuclear weapons have been slowed down.

00:24:45.640 Even France likes us.

00:24:47.120 Even France, for goodness sake, the flag of the French army, Emmanuel Macron, likes Donald

00:24:52.600 Trump, likes our president, comes on over here and says nice things about us.

00:24:56.180 You know, little boys, they can't say no, but grown men have to say no sometimes.

00:25:00.060 And sometimes we have to say no to our partners.

00:25:02.640 Donald Trump ran on getting NATO allies to start paying anything for protection, you know,

00:25:08.260 for our military protection.

00:25:10.600 Past presidents have demanded that too.

00:25:12.040 They've begged for it.

00:25:13.180 Donald Trump is the only one who accomplished it.

00:25:14.900 He accomplished it by being firm.

00:25:17.300 We're having a summit with North Korea now.

00:25:20.140 We're having the summit.

00:25:20.640 Remember that summit was off.

00:25:21.740 We're never going to get it.

00:25:22.580 Trump's going to blow up the world.

00:25:23.680 And now we've got it.

00:25:24.940 And by the way, you know, I've been gone a long time, so maybe I missed this.

00:25:29.000 Has the mainstream media apologized for its coverage of the Kim summit?

00:25:32.640 And with the on-again, off-again summit between President Trump and Kim Jong-un on the rocks,

00:25:38.200 at least for now, what happens to that commemorative coin minted in preparation here in the United States?

00:25:45.860 There you see it.

00:25:46.780 You see the president and Kim Jong-un, the North Korean flag, the U.S. flag.

00:25:51.060 That's the coin that was all ready for the summit.

00:25:53.540 What happens to it now?

00:25:54.800 We have details.

00:25:55.640 When news broke today that President Trump had canceled the summit with Kim Jong-un,

00:26:00.980 there was a mad rush to a White House website, not for more information about Trump's decision,

00:26:05.280 but, of course, to the gift shop for the commemorative summit coins,

00:26:09.200 where, lo and behold, the coins had been designated the deal of the day,

00:26:13.660 selling for the low, low price of just $19.95.

00:26:16.180 And, thank goodness, the shop had posted a disclaimer to dispel any concerns about the fate of the coins.

00:26:21.580 In true Trump fashion, written with almost but not quite all the words unnecessarily capitalized

00:26:26.760 and missing some punctuation, saying,

00:26:28.840 the coin will be made whether or not the summit occurs as scheduled

00:26:34.360 because the theme is coming closer to peace

00:26:36.620 and celebrates the act of communication among countries.

00:26:39.740 If summit does not occur, you can request a refund.

00:26:43.080 But most supporters have said they want this heirloom of political history regardless of outcome.

00:26:49.600 I cannot believe someone wrote that.

00:26:51.680 And then, for the piece de resistance,

00:26:53.900 the page couldn't handle the volume of visitors and crashed,

00:26:57.240 remaining down for several hours.

00:27:00.340 Ha ha ha ha.

00:27:01.600 Oh, isn't that funny?

00:27:03.500 Isn't that so funny?

00:27:04.460 Isn't that, you know what's really funny about that whole segment is it's entirely fake news

00:27:08.580 because there is no such thing as a White House gift shop.

00:27:11.940 That's why.

00:27:12.860 That's why it's fake news.

00:27:14.180 Well, there is a White House gift shop.

00:27:15.720 There is a company called the White House gift shop that has no connection to the current White House.

00:27:21.160 But they're giddy, aren't they?

00:27:22.360 They're so giddy on CNN and MSNBC.

00:27:24.520 It's so funny.

00:27:25.200 Ha ha ha.

00:27:26.000 It's funny for two reasons, the mainstream media reaction to this.

00:27:29.180 Because they say,

00:27:30.640 oh, you know, the White House gift shop made this coin,

00:27:34.080 and then the summit got canceled.

00:27:36.120 So now the coin is pointless.

00:27:38.060 Ha ha ha.

00:27:38.620 Isn't it so funny that we won't have a denuclearization summit now

00:27:43.160 and hopefully bring more stability and peace to the world?

00:27:45.860 Ha ha ha.

00:27:46.600 That'll show Trump.

00:27:47.860 Ha ha ha.

00:27:48.620 Right.

00:27:49.040 So, and now it's funny because, you know, it's happening,

00:27:52.380 and they were totally wrong,

00:27:53.780 and they were so excited that we might not denuclearize North Korea.

00:27:57.600 They were praying that North Korea would still get to keep their nuclear weapons, 0.98

00:28:00.500 and then the summit's back on.

00:28:02.920 But two, the other reason why it's really funny is that the White House never issued a coin.

00:28:07.460 It never issued a coin at all.

00:28:09.080 This is like 100% manufactured fake news.

00:28:12.680 There is a company called the White House gift shop, which is located in Littitz, Pennsylvania.

00:28:17.480 It is a private, for-profit company.

00:28:19.620 It's owned by some guy named Anthony Giannini.

00:28:22.880 Just some guy.

00:28:23.640 He's not a White House official.

00:28:25.200 He's just a dude.

00:28:26.120 There did used to be a gift shop associated with the White House,

00:28:29.660 but for at least the last seven years,

00:28:32.040 there's just this private company with a website run out of Pennsylvania.

00:28:36.200 Actual fake news.

00:28:37.400 So little boys like Chris Hayes, little mean girls,

00:28:40.080 so desperate to attack Donald Trump that they'd make up a story, whole cloth.

00:28:44.260 They celebrate canceling this denuclearization summit, even though it's still on.

00:28:50.760 What's the point of all this?

00:28:52.100 What's the goal?

00:28:52.720 This is another big difference between the little boys and men, adults, grown-ups.

00:28:57.820 What's the goal here?

00:28:58.660 What's the point of all this stuff?

00:29:00.160 Little boys are motivated disproportionately by base impulses.

00:29:04.700 Sex, drugs, and rock and roll.

00:29:06.540 Fame, power, and money.

00:29:07.660 It's all the same thing.

00:29:08.520 These base, fleshy impulses.

00:29:11.380 Men are after something higher than that.

00:29:13.760 Something more long-lasting than that, which is accomplishment.

00:29:17.120 Something beyond just pleasing the senses for a little bit of time,

00:29:21.140 for an actual accomplishment.

00:29:22.660 Donald Trump was asked, you know, are you going to get the Nobel Peace Prize if you denuclearize Korea?

00:29:27.300 And he joked about it.

00:29:28.240 He said, oh, you know, a lot of people are saying I should, but I don't care about that.

00:29:31.380 What's more important is getting it done.

00:29:32.860 And I think he meant that earnestly.

00:29:34.800 And part of the reason I think he meant that is that getting a Nobel Peace Prize is absolutely meaningless.

00:29:39.360 I mean, you know, Obama got one after being president for 50 seconds or something.

00:29:43.780 It doesn't mean anything.

00:29:45.300 So, you know, I really am pleased that we have an administration that is focused on accomplishment.

00:29:53.460 And all these little boys who want to tee-hee-hee, tee-hee-hee and spread fake news, that's fine.

00:29:58.840 You can keep it up.

00:29:59.460 But in the meantime, the real men are going to go do work in the world and actually make America great again.

00:30:04.540 Little boys can't make America great again. 1.00

00:30:06.520 Only real grown-up men can.

00:30:08.900 Okay.

00:30:10.220 We have got to get to the International House of Breakfast.

00:30:13.500 Do I have to sign off?

00:30:14.120 I've got to sign off.

00:30:15.360 Oh, man.

00:30:16.320 Oh, that's too bad because the International House of Breakfast is one of the most brilliant marketing strategies in a long time.

00:30:22.740 And it actually is downstream of this exuberance on the right and this Trump phenomenon.

00:30:26.840 We'll explain how.

00:30:27.860 We'll also talk about pride.

00:30:29.160 And I'll say a little bit on Charles Krauthammer, whom I admire immensely.

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00:31:42.200 You know, I was sipping a lot of drinks out of coconuts and pineapples last week,

00:31:45.800 but this is the most delicious one of all.

00:31:51.380 Oh, how I have missed you, Leftist Tears Tumbler.

00:31:54.080 That tastes a little bit like, who was that guy in Casino and Goodfellas?

00:31:58.760 Oh, yeah, the Robert De Niro vintage.

00:32:01.980 Delish, delish.

00:32:03.660 Okay, we only have a little bit of time left, so I want to get to International House of Pancakes

00:32:07.560 becoming International House of Burgers.

00:32:10.120 IHOP is I-Hob.

00:32:11.980 This is a marketing reaction to the Trump phenomenon, and it is really great.

00:32:15.940 Even the reaction to it mirrors what's happening in politics. 1.00

00:32:18.680 The consensus view of this IHOP thing is that it's crazy and terrible, and it's so stupid and awful. 1.00

00:32:26.480 In reality, it's working quite well, because the consensus view is almost always wrong. 0.99

00:32:32.300 This is, you know, you can, this is how people make money in the stock market, right?

00:32:36.060 The consensus view is almost always wrong, and people who see how it's wrong can succeed.

00:32:40.260 So, here's the consensus view.

00:32:44.480 Whenever companies and people stop doing the thing that made them successful, and they start

00:32:48.080 pretending to be something else, that never works out well.

00:32:50.720 You know, you've got New Coke and Crystal Pepsi, and do you remember Arby's tried to be a

00:32:56.340 healthy sandwich place for like five seconds, and that was just terrible, and then they went

00:33:00.220 back to, we have the meats, and now it's good again.

00:33:02.780 Rubio pretended to be Donald Trump in 2016.

00:33:05.220 He did that Rickles shtick, it didn't work.

00:33:07.640 John Kerry pretended to be cool that time, you know, and also we're hearing now that reports

00:33:13.000 are coming out all the time that authenticity matters in marketing, and so what is IHOP doing?

00:33:18.200 They're not a burger place.

00:33:19.680 Have you ever eaten a burger at IHOP?

00:33:22.400 No.

00:33:23.860 So, the consensus view is that this is a terrible idea.

00:33:27.980 This is a great strategy.

00:33:29.600 That view is totally wrong.

00:33:31.200 You probably can't remember the last time you had a burger at IHOP.

00:33:34.060 You also probably can't remember the last time you ate at IHOP, and you certainly can't

00:33:37.920 remember the last time you talked at IHOP, talked about IHOP, rather.

00:33:42.380 You probably can't remember the last time you talked at it either, because it's like

00:33:45.220 primo drunk end-of-night food, so things get a little blurry at that point.

00:33:50.040 So, it's a gimmick, right?

00:33:52.020 IHOP serves breakfast and lunch.

00:33:54.360 People only know of it as a pancake place, and they want to let people know that they also

00:33:58.580 serve lunch.

00:33:59.120 This is a fun, light, and apparently crazy marketing stunt.

00:34:04.560 They're not actually going to remain IHOP.

00:34:06.540 That's just a marketing thing.

00:34:08.300 We have been talking about IHOP for days.

00:34:11.460 It has been a top trend on Twitter for days at this point.

00:34:15.320 This is a shrewd marketing advisor watching our culture, and it's a big shift in how marketing

00:34:19.640 is happening.

00:34:20.520 In the Obama days, marketing was all about virtue signaling, right?

00:34:24.020 You remember the famously Target changing its bathroom policies.

00:34:27.480 That was really about marketing, saying we're a progressive company.

00:34:30.580 Come to, we're progressive.

00:34:31.580 We're really nice.

00:34:32.340 Chipotle, the food, the restaurant Chipotle, would, they'd always say, oh, we use organic,

00:34:37.440 local, high-quality rice or whatever, right?

00:34:40.540 That was their marketing gimmick.

00:34:41.840 It's all sustainable, good for the world, social entrepreneurship.

00:34:46.200 Tom's Shoes, you know, they make cheap shoes, and they donate a pair of shoes to charity when

00:34:50.660 you overpay for these shoes, and that, right?

00:34:53.280 And it's so tedious.

00:34:54.700 It's so tedious, that virtue signaling.

00:34:56.380 The Obama model of politics is so tedious, all that, mm, to be a good person, you have

00:35:02.220 to, mm, and, mm, right?

00:35:04.140 And then the Trump model of politics is act wild, break things, and have fun, and that's

00:35:09.020 what IHOP is doing.

00:35:09.980 It's really smart.

00:35:11.020 It's a lot of fun.

00:35:12.360 I mean, that's a pretty wild thing to say.

00:35:13.800 We're going to totally change our name, and we're going to make it this whimsical, bizarre,

00:35:18.340 apparently out-of-left-field name.

00:35:20.200 It's really big, and it's really bold, but what could go wrong?

00:35:22.920 We've been talking about them for days, and people are probably going to go to IHOP now,

00:35:25.920 and they're probably going to order pancakes.

00:35:27.460 They'll say, I want you to be the pancake house again, so I'm going to order pancakes

00:35:30.760 despite you.

00:35:31.440 And they'll say, oh, gosh, you're really showing us, counting the money, right, putting it in

00:35:35.040 the cash register.

00:35:35.940 Really good.

00:35:36.600 Speaking of bad marketing, let's talk about Pride Month. 0.63

00:35:40.380 To begin, is any month not Pride Month? 0.51

00:35:42.920 Now, I think June is technically Pride Month, but there are also major Pride Days and events

00:35:47.820 in January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November,

00:35:56.680 December.

00:35:57.860 Every single month.

00:35:59.360 There are major Pride events in the United States.

00:36:01.520 This began in 1968 when a gay activist created the slogan, Gay is Good.

00:36:07.080 And the idea here was it was mirroring Stokely Carmichael's black is beautiful, so gay is 1.00

00:36:12.860 good.

00:36:13.280 And that strategy makes sense to me, is the argument gay is good is much more compelling 1.00

00:36:19.800 than pride is good, right?

00:36:21.660 The argument gay is good basically says you have this moral structure from Judaism or Christianity

00:36:27.380 or Islam or the sort of traditions of the West, and you have this moral structure that

00:36:32.880 says that gay relationships broadly aren't good, gay sexual relationships, and we're

00:36:38.500 saying that it is good, and here's why. 0.76

00:36:40.960 And that you could follow.

00:36:42.060 That's a fair argument.

00:36:43.520 But the argument pride is good, I don't know that anyone actually makes that.

00:36:47.320 They're just saying it, but no one really believes that.

00:36:49.240 St. Thomas, following St. Gregory's lead, considered pride, pardon the pun, the queen of all sins.

00:36:56.780 So pride is the excessive love of one's own excellence.

00:37:01.520 It's the parent of all sins.

00:37:03.700 Eve eats the apple to be as a god.

00:37:05.660 Adam eats the apple too.

00:37:06.900 Pride does not turn out very well.

00:37:08.980 And how has pride turned out this Pride Month?

00:37:11.900 Recently, a CrossFit employee, Russell Berger, was fired for criticizing celebrations of pride.

00:37:17.860 Maybe he can get a job at IHOP.

00:37:20.080 Weak.

00:37:21.080 The CEO of CrossFit, Greg Glassman, he called Berger a zealot, and he said that he needs 0.98

00:37:28.300 to take a big dose of shut the F up.

00:37:31.780 That was what the CEO of CrossFit said about his fired employee. 0.85

00:37:35.300 Because his fired employee said, I don't support pride.

00:37:39.440 I think pride is a sin.

00:37:40.940 I'm a Christian.

00:37:42.160 And I think that the pride agenda has become very intolerant of other people's views.

00:37:48.000 And the CEO of that company said, what, you think it's intolerant?

00:37:51.460 Well, now you're fired.

00:37:52.520 That'll show you how tolerant we are.

00:37:53.900 There's Jack Phillips, that Colorado baker who had his livelihood destroyed for not wanting

00:38:00.400 to participate in something that he considers a perversion of marriage and a sin.

00:38:05.520 A Baronelle Stutzman in Washington, a florist, same thing.

00:38:09.860 Jack Dorsey, the head of Twitter.

00:38:11.360 Jack, no conservative, by the way, pretty left-wing guy.

00:38:14.400 He went to Chick-fil-A and he ate a chicken sandwich.

00:38:17.000 And he tweeted out a picture and he said this was a good chicken sandwich.

00:38:20.060 People attacked him viciously.

00:38:23.580 Soledad O'Brien said, oh, this is a pretty weird thing to tweet out on Pride Month.

00:38:28.500 And Jack said, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

00:38:29.940 I didn't mean to say I like the chicken sandwich.

00:38:32.040 It wasn't that good.

00:38:32.740 It was a little spicy.

00:38:34.240 It's just absurd.

00:38:35.660 There's a great irony here.

00:38:36.760 Because the gay pride movement began after gay people were having their bars raided and

00:38:43.060 were arrested for their sexual practices and all this.

00:38:49.300 And they were this oppressed group, right?

00:38:51.340 And now what's happened?

00:38:52.960 It's totally flipped.

00:38:54.340 The pride is the mainstream culture.

00:38:56.280 Every company is doing pride events.

00:38:57.940 If you don't toe the line, you're going to get fired.

00:38:59.720 You're going to have your reputation ruined.

00:39:00.980 And if people say, you know, my religion tells me that I shouldn't celebrate pride, the original

00:39:07.180 sin, you could have your livelihood ruined.

00:39:10.180 That's the underdog.

00:39:11.520 It's an amazing inversion.

00:39:13.100 And pride is very insidious.

00:39:14.440 People don't usually know when it's affecting them.

00:39:16.640 So, you know, these people who are pushing this agenda, the CEO of CrossFit who fires his

00:39:22.280 employee, he probably thinks he's the good guy.

00:39:24.440 But he isn't the good guy.

00:39:25.620 And so I never understood why pride became the title for the gay rights movement. 1.00

00:39:32.740 It's a stupid title. 0.99

00:39:34.140 They had a much better idea of an argument 50 years ago. 1.00

00:39:37.960 And as long as it's pride, it's hard to celebrate pride because pride is always terrible.

00:39:43.200 The last before we go, I know we're running a little on the later side, but I've got to

00:39:47.240 talk about Charles Krauthammer.

00:39:49.440 You saw that this actually really bummed me out on my honeymoon.

00:39:53.560 I was trying to avoid the news.

00:39:54.700 And this was such breaking news.

00:39:56.380 Charles Krauthammer wrote an incredible, beautiful note in which he said, my doctors have told

00:40:03.700 me I have weeks to leave, to live.

00:40:06.120 My fight is over.

00:40:08.260 I've lived the life I intended to live.

00:40:10.260 And I leave this life with no regrets.

00:40:12.440 Thank you to everyone who's given my life's work significance.

00:40:16.460 And see you next time, you know.

00:40:19.780 And it was really moving.

00:40:21.680 He obviously wrote it much better than I just paraphrased it because he's a brilliant writer

00:40:25.260 and thinker.

00:40:26.680 And it really bummed me out because I love Charles Krauthammer.

00:40:29.680 And Charles Krauthammer is not a conservative in a really ideological sense.

00:40:35.720 He was a speech writer for Walter Mondale.

00:40:37.340 He's an incredibly important writer, conservative intellectual.

00:40:41.480 But, you know, I don't think he toes the party line in many ways.

00:40:45.780 He was an incredible thinker.

00:40:46.960 He was such an important voice.

00:40:49.200 I would always read his columns.

00:40:50.660 And all of the memorials are coming out for Krauthammer now.

00:40:56.080 He lived a really good life.

00:40:57.620 He did what he wanted to do.

00:40:58.960 The thing I want to point out is one of his columns that really spoke to me and told me

00:41:05.800 what to think.

00:41:06.720 And it really made me understand what a sophisticated thinker he is.

00:41:10.140 And it was when they were going to build that mosque at Ground Zero. 0.99

00:41:13.100 This was happening, I think, around 2010.

00:41:14.960 Then there was this movement to build an Islamic center, is what it was called by the supporters

00:41:20.280 of it, and a mosque is what it was called in reality, at Ground Zero in the financial

00:41:25.660 district of New York.

00:41:27.480 And this was seen as just a horrible affront to people who saw Muslims in the name of Islam 0.94

00:41:34.080 knock down those twin towers and kill thousands of American civilians.

00:41:38.740 And you had people like Mike Bloomberg coming out, who was sort of a Republican, sort of a Democrat. 0.87

00:41:43.700 And he said, they should build the mosque, free speech, freedom of religion.

00:41:47.480 They should build a mosque right on the grave sites, basically.

00:41:50.380 You know, it's they should build it wherever they want.

00:41:52.400 And there was a good argument there because we have no establishment of religion.

00:41:56.080 It's a free country, you know.

00:41:57.400 But then there was this gut feeling where you felt, gosh, that just seems awful.

00:42:02.060 They just shouldn't do it.

00:42:04.160 And Charles Krauthammer was the guy who made me understand why it was not a good idea to

00:42:10.280 build that mosque there.

00:42:11.220 He made me understand how to articulate that.

00:42:13.320 But he wrote in his column on that center, quote, America's a free country where you

00:42:16.920 can build whatever you want, but not anywhere.

00:42:19.780 That's why we have zoning laws, no liquor store near a school, no strip malls where they 0.96

00:42:24.160 offend local sensibilities.

00:42:26.520 And if your house doesn't meet community architectural codes, you cannot build at all.

00:42:31.500 These restrictions are for reasons of aesthetics.

00:42:34.320 Others are for more profound reasons of common decency and respect for the sacred.

00:42:38.660 No commercial tower over Gettysburg, no convent at Auschwitz, and no mosque at Ground Zero.

00:42:44.060 Build it anywhere but there.

00:42:45.960 The governor of New York offered to help find land to build the mosque elsewhere.

00:42:49.800 A mosque really seeking to build bridges.

00:42:52.820 Raouf's ostensible hope for the structure would accept the offer.

00:42:57.260 But of course it wasn't trying to build bridges at all.

00:42:59.280 It was trying to be divisive and make a political statement and a very awful political statement.

00:43:04.380 Krauthammer, in talking about common decency and respect for the sacred, he really spoke

00:43:11.560 to something that I think the ideological conservatives miss out on sometimes, where they just basically

00:43:16.840 recite the Constitution in their sleep and they kind of forget where that Constitution springs

00:43:21.120 from.

00:43:21.720 But Charles Krauthammer is a man of deep learning and deep wisdom and thought.

00:43:26.580 He's, I think, vaguely agnostic.

00:43:29.240 He doesn't ascribe to any particular religion, but he also said that atheism is the least plausible

00:43:35.240 theology of them all.

00:43:36.800 I think he once said, I don't believe in God, but I fear him.

00:43:39.920 And I had the privilege of meeting him on two occasions.

00:43:42.920 And he was always graceful and funny and profound and thoughtful in what he was saying.

00:43:50.480 And we're really going to miss that.

00:43:51.960 I think he's basically without a peer in political commentary and political thought today.

00:43:57.900 And we're just really going to miss him.

00:44:00.040 He's a great thinker and writer.

00:44:03.240 And even as he prepares to meet his maker, and he does have a maker, and it's a good thing

00:44:09.580 that he fears that maker in holy fear and awe.

00:44:12.340 But even as he prepares to do that, he does it in such a manly way to talk about our main

00:44:19.300 theme from today's show.

00:44:20.860 He looks fate right in the eye and he says, I'm ready for this life to come to an end.

00:44:27.720 I didn't create this life for myself.

00:44:30.760 I've formed it how I want it to be formed and to develop.

00:44:34.600 And if this is what's coming now, I have no regrets.

00:44:37.760 It's a really, really beautiful thing.

00:44:39.500 And we're going to miss Charles Krauthammer, so read him while he's still here and send

00:44:44.080 out all your nice tweets to him because he's a really, really great thinker.

00:44:48.420 Okay, on that note, Drew was talking about this on his show, too, a little bit.

00:44:53.700 I don't care that much when celebrities die.

00:44:57.000 It's not, you know, I'm a part of humanity and all deaths diminish me and all that.

00:45:02.260 But Krauthammer in particular, he's really going to be missed.

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Ep. 165 - Boyz To Men： DeNiro, Trudeau, Trump

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