The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 President Trump has officially followed through on a promise to levy steep tariffs on Mexico, China, and Canada for sending fentanyl, which kills 200 Americans per day, across the U.S. border.

00:00:12.040 Here is Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer's response.

00:00:17.140 Let's just take Super Bowl Sunday, okay?

00:00:21.380 It's going to affect beer, okay?

00:00:25.340 Most of it, corona here, comes from Mexico.

00:00:27.840 It's going to affect your guac, because what is guacamole made of?

00:00:33.980 Avocados, both from Mexico.

00:00:37.620 I want to make sure I have this straight.

00:00:40.500 President Trump campaigns on punishing the countries that poison our citizens, one of which sends face-tattooed, raping, murdering gangsters into our country, along with the poison.

00:00:53.060 The American people then elect him in a landslide.

00:00:56.340 Trump then follows through on his promise.

00:01:00.080 And the Democrats' best rebuttal, their best argument against protecting our citizens from being poisoned and raped and murdered is guacamole.

00:01:13.700 Guacamole and mediocre beer.

00:01:17.380 Ay caramba.

00:01:18.560 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:19.280 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:39.600 Welcome back to the show.

00:01:40.700 Just when you think that the Democrats cannot shoot themselves in the foot anymore, they've shot themselves in the foot so many times they've run out of foot.

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00:02:39.320 The Chuck Schumer guac video, it calls to mind a fellow New Yorker, a fellow New York politician of Chuck Schumer's,

00:02:49.540 that would be Bill de Blasio, the communist mayor of New York, who ran for president briefly,

00:02:54.660 who tried to get all of his fellow New Yorkers to take the Fauci ouchie, the old clot shot, by pushing French fries and hamburgers on them.

00:03:06.700 Free fries when you get vaccinated?

00:03:09.740 I got vaccinated.

00:03:11.500 You're saying I could get this, eat delicious fries?

00:03:18.380 Wait a minute.

00:03:19.640 But there's also a burger element to this?

00:03:24.040 Let me check with Bill Neatart.

00:03:25.640 Is it too early in the day to eat a burger?

00:03:27.420 I think you're good to go.

00:03:28.220 This could be breakfast?

00:03:28.960 You're good to go.

00:03:29.680 Okay.

00:03:29.940 I want you to look at this and think about, again, some people love hamburgers, some don't,

00:03:37.720 really want to respect all ways of life.

00:03:39.960 But if this is appealing to you, just think of this when you think of vaccination.

00:03:44.540 Mmm.

00:03:45.840 Ugh.

00:03:46.920 Vaccination.

00:03:48.080 Mmm.

00:03:50.320 I'm getting a very good feeling about vaccination right this moment.

00:03:55.380 The irony of that little campaign pitch, of course, was that it made vaccination much less

00:04:02.140 appealing because Bill de Blasio eating a hamburger was just a disgusting image.

00:04:06.480 What is it with the New Yorkers and food?

00:04:08.760 It makes sense in that New Yorkers think disproportionately about food.

00:04:14.160 So I get that.

00:04:15.360 But how cheap, how disgusting.

00:04:16.900 And in fact, the Bill de Blasio pitch, get the shot and we'll give you a cheeseburger,

00:04:22.060 was more understandable because with the Fauci ouchie, all you were risking was a fatal

00:04:28.780 blood clot or a heart attack for a shot that didn't actually prevent transmission of the

00:04:34.380 virus and wouldn't actually stop you from getting the virus and for young and healthy people

00:04:38.860 was basically totally useless.

00:04:41.360 At least in that case, that's all you were risking.

00:04:44.920 With Schumer, though, he's saying, hey, if Trump levies these tariffs and really gets

00:04:50.600 tough on the countries that are sending poison into our country and criminals, then, okay,

00:04:57.100 sure, your sons might not be poisoned.

00:05:00.620 They might not overdose on fentanyl.

00:05:02.080 And sure, we might not have actual Satan worshiping MS-13 gangsters going around marauding,

00:05:07.720 robbing, looting, raping, pillaging, and burning.

00:05:10.200 And yeah, sure, that's all true.

00:05:12.660 But what about your guac?

00:05:14.520 Who even likes avocados?

00:05:16.080 Avocados don't even taste like anything.

00:05:18.660 And Modela, was it Modela?

00:05:19.900 Corona.

00:05:20.920 Corona's fine.

00:05:22.340 It's not even that good.

00:05:25.260 Ha ha.

00:05:26.420 I know you love your children, but if you consider this cheap beer, ha ha ha ha.

00:05:31.240 Who wrote that?

00:05:33.020 Someone wrote that for him.

00:05:33.820 That's a bit.

00:05:34.460 He did a bit there.

00:05:35.300 He needed props.

00:05:36.380 That is a carrot top politician act.

00:05:39.540 What Democrat thought?

00:05:40.860 Well, I'll tell you, the same Democrats that just elected one of the least popular people

00:05:45.040 in the country to help run their party.

00:05:46.540 Which we'll get to first, though, before we get to the Democrats losing for the entirety

00:05:50.900 of this show.

00:05:51.580 I do want to get to a little bit of Trump winning.

00:05:55.180 What is this all about?

00:05:56.200 It's that Trump levied massive tariffs on Mexico and Canada and China.

00:06:04.600 Trump has declared an economic emergency to place 10 percent tariffs on all imports from

00:06:10.360 China, which is massive.

00:06:12.400 We get a lot of imports from China.

00:06:14.260 25 percent tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada.

00:06:17.620 Energy imported from Canada, including oil, natural gas and electricity, will be taxed at

00:06:22.760 10 percent.

00:06:23.340 However, there's also a feature within these tariffs that will allow him to automatically

00:06:29.800 raise the tariffs if we get, as we probably will, retaliatory tariffs from Mexico, Canada

00:06:36.260 and China.

00:06:37.780 None of this should be a surprise to anyone.

00:06:40.760 None of this should be viewed as Trump shooting from the hip.

00:06:43.420 He promised this repeatedly on the campaign trail.

00:06:46.020 And here is here is the pitch for these specific tariffs.

00:06:49.300 We're going to tell Mexico you're killing tremendous numbers of our people by allowing

00:06:56.400 China to send their fentanyl through your system and through your country.

00:07:03.400 And we're going to give them a little period of time.

00:07:06.120 But we don't want drugs coming across our border or any border.

00:07:10.780 And whether it's Mexico or Canada or wherever, because they're starting now in Canada, they're

00:07:15.920 starting to go up north.

00:07:18.240 But whether it's Mexico or Canada, we're going to explain to them quickly that if you allow

00:07:25.220 fentanyl and these drugs to come through through your country, we're going to charge you

00:07:30.880 large scale tariffs on everything you send into the United States.

00:07:35.420 That was the pitch, the pitch from the beginning that this is about public safety.

00:07:43.980 OK, these countries in particular, especially Mexico, but the fentanyl is coming from China

00:07:48.960 and increasingly it's coming across the Canadian border as well.

00:07:52.080 They're poisoning our our country.

00:07:54.320 But 75,000 people or more are dying per year of this in America every year.

00:07:58.720 This is a major crisis.

00:08:00.400 It's also about national security, though.

00:08:02.760 And this is what we learned during COVID.

00:08:04.160 This ties us back to Bill de Blasio, I guess, and the Fauci, ouchie, and the cheeseburger.

00:08:08.180 During COVID, we realized that being totally reliant on a foreign power, especially a hostile

00:08:14.740 foreign power for all of our stuff is bad national policy.

00:08:19.980 Because the minute something goes wrong, I'm not even talking about the outbreak of a war.

00:08:23.340 I'm talking about a virus leaks out of a lab in Wuhan.

00:08:26.140 The minute something goes wrong, we can't get our stuff anymore.

00:08:29.840 We can't get our consumer goods.

00:08:31.440 We can't get some of our food.

00:08:32.720 We can't get our medicine.

00:08:33.660 We are totally beholden to another country.

00:08:36.340 That's not good for any nation, especially if you are supposedly the world's superpower.

00:08:41.960 If the world's superpower is totally dependent on some other country,

00:08:46.300 guess what?

00:08:47.240 That other country is about to become the world's superpower.

00:08:49.840 So there's a big national security reason here.

00:08:52.560 And there is a long-term economic reason

00:08:54.560 to reshore some of our manufacturing.

00:08:58.180 The critics of the tariffs are going to say it's going to cause short-term economic pain.

00:09:02.340 That's probably true.

00:09:03.840 I mean, that's how tariffs work.

00:09:04.840 Tariffs work by raising the prices of certain things.

00:09:08.220 Now, Trump isn't slapping tariffs on every imported good from every country in the world.

00:09:11.700 So it's not that it's going to raise the price of all consumer goods.

00:09:13.800 But tariffs work by raising the cost of certain consumer goods.

00:09:17.780 And in tariff theory, it's not exactly a one-to-one of you smack the tariff and that's the amount the prices go up

00:09:24.400 because the currency adjusts and it's all very complicated and there are all sorts of numbers.

00:09:28.660 And I don't know, I didn't really pay attention to math class in college.

00:09:30.620 But regardless of the nuances of tariff theory, yes, prices will go up on certain goods.

00:09:38.340 That is how tariffs work.

00:09:40.180 That can have a long-term economic benefit.

00:09:45.440 With Joe Biden, Joe Biden just gave away money frivolously.

00:09:49.120 And then Joe Biden mismanaged the economy and prices spun out of his control through inflation

00:09:54.960 that was reckless and needless and did not have any economic advantages.

00:09:57.760 In this case, however, Trump is making the public health argument and the national security argument

00:10:03.020 in part because he believes in the economic argument that we need to protect American industries

00:10:09.860 because a nation that doesn't have its own industries is no nation at all.

00:10:13.740 Or at the very least, it won't remain a nation for very long.

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00:11:34.360 What about these tariffs?

00:11:36.520 Is Chuck Schumer's doomsday prediction going to come true?

00:11:39.080 Are we all just, are we never going to eat guacamole again?

00:11:41.580 I don't know.

00:11:41.840 I don't care about guacamole.

00:11:43.060 We're never going to drink Corona again?

00:11:44.720 Again, I don't really care about Corona.

00:11:46.920 No, I think probably the tariffs are going to work out pretty well in this case.

00:11:51.180 Certainly in this case.

00:11:54.040 The U.S. and Mexico are not the same.

00:11:56.300 I know we pretend in the liberal international order that all the nations are the same and

00:12:00.820 America is on the same level as some random island nation in the South Pacific and we all

00:12:05.560 get a seat at the U.N.

00:12:06.760 But no, we're not the same.

00:12:08.940 The U.S. economy is $30 trillion.

00:12:10.820 The economy of Mexico is less than $2 trillion.

00:12:13.880 Okay.

00:12:14.020 America is the global hegemon.

00:12:19.680 Mexico is much more reliant on the U.S. than we are reliant on Mexico.

00:12:23.880 We're a big act.

00:12:25.520 I remember when the Beatles broke up, there's this story about Paul McCartney trying to bring

00:12:29.900 the band together to stop a bad business deal that was going through.

00:12:33.020 And his argument to them was, guys, we're a big act.

00:12:36.280 You know, we're a big act.

00:12:37.260 We don't need you to take whatever bad deal they're going to give us.

00:12:40.740 We're a big act, guys.

00:12:41.860 That's what Trump is saying.

00:12:42.680 We're a big act.

00:12:43.560 We don't need to just sit back and take the fentanyl.

00:12:46.140 We don't need to just sit back and take the face tattooed gangsters.

00:12:49.340 We don't need to just sit back and take the poison from China.

00:12:51.740 We're a big act.

00:12:52.820 We can throw our weight around.

00:12:54.300 All right.

00:12:54.560 The way most people were taught tariffs in school was that we used to have tariffs, but then

00:13:01.560 we realized tariffs are really stupid.

00:13:03.020 So then we had free trade and that was great.

00:13:05.560 There are advantages to trade.

00:13:07.080 We like free trade in certain cases.

00:13:09.000 But to quote Trump in 2016, if tariffs are uniformly and always and forever bad, why does every

00:13:16.660 other country have them?

00:13:18.260 Okay.

00:13:18.640 He's using them to good practical effect.

00:13:22.220 Politically and economically.

00:13:23.720 Now, turning to domestic affairs, Trump is also purging the FBI.

00:13:27.880 The Hill is reporting.

00:13:29.140 The Trump administration forced out a number of FBI officials Friday, removing agents who

00:13:33.420 worked on the criminal cases into President Trump, as well as the heads of various field

00:13:38.500 offices.

00:13:39.380 A source familiar said agents who worked on the Mar-a-Lago and January 6th investigations

00:13:44.020 were escorted out of the Washington field office.

00:13:46.200 The same source said officials in charge of the D.C., Miami, Seattle, New Orleans, and Las

00:13:54.340 Vegas field offices were removed.

00:13:56.660 Now, this on top of what CNN is reporting, Acting Attorney General James McHenry said.

00:14:04.300 McHenry wrote to these field offices and said, given your significant role in prosecuting the

00:14:10.700 president, I do not believe that the leadership of the department can trust you to assist in

00:14:15.900 implementing the president's agenda faithfully.

00:14:18.340 There it is.

00:14:19.520 Mass purge at the FBI, the DOJ.

00:14:22.500 Sorry.

00:14:23.260 See you guys.

00:14:25.040 And they're really upset now.

00:14:27.740 A lot of these bureaucrats, a lot of these FBI and DOJ guys are really upset that they're

00:14:33.160 losing their jobs.

00:14:35.740 They probably should have thought about that before they raided the opposition leader's

00:14:40.200 bedroom.

00:14:41.260 Just a thought.

00:14:42.180 If they didn't want to lose their jobs, they probably should have considered that before

00:14:49.060 they raided Trump's wife's closet, upending centuries of American tradition.

00:14:57.620 Well, they were just following orders.

00:14:59.360 Okay.

00:15:00.480 Well, they followed the wrong orders then.

00:15:02.460 You know, they probably should have had more integrity in their jobs.

00:15:06.300 They probably should have done more to defend the constitution and our political order than

00:15:12.520 they did.

00:15:13.620 And unfortunately, they decided that they were going to go be jackbooted thugs for Joe Biden

00:15:17.760 and a bunch of crooks who thought that they were never going to leave power.

00:15:21.420 But they did get booted out by the majority of the American people.

00:15:24.800 And so, sorry, guys, learn to code.

00:15:28.000 You're out of a job.

00:15:29.900 Sorry.

00:15:32.060 But what about our traditional constitutional way of life?

00:15:38.280 Yeah, I don't know, man.

00:15:39.160 I liked that too.

00:15:40.260 But then you started prosecuting the former president and the opposition leader.

00:15:43.700 And then you justified his assassination and he almost got murdered twice.

00:15:47.140 And you tried to kick him off the ballot and you investigated him and you did this and

00:15:51.360 you did that.

00:15:51.900 So, yeah, all right.

00:15:53.660 That was bad.

00:15:55.360 You played very stupid games, Democrats.

00:15:58.160 And now you get your prizes.

00:15:59.980 The Dems are absolutely furious about this.

00:16:01.800 Adam Schiff, one of Trump's favorite targets now in the U.S. Senate.

00:16:06.680 He tweets out, FBI director nominee Kash Patel promised no retribution.

00:16:12.260 The next day, we have this grotesque purge at the FBI.

00:16:15.680 FBI, Bondi, President Trump's attorney general nominee, said she would examine pardons on a

00:16:21.580 case-by-case basis.

00:16:23.180 Then Trump gave 1,550 pardons overnight.

00:16:29.260 Joe Biden gave that 8,000, by the way, 8,000 pardons, commutations.

00:16:34.600 Trump's got some catching up to do as far as I'm concerned.

00:16:37.160 But then Schiff concludes, their confirmation commitments mean nothing.

00:16:42.620 Yeah.

00:16:43.400 Okay, whatever, man.

00:16:44.560 Keep trying.

00:16:45.680 A little reminder to Adam Schiff.

00:16:48.500 Kash Patel has not been confirmed yet as the FBI director.

00:16:52.060 Pam Bondi has not been confirmed yet as the attorney general.

00:16:54.660 He's whining about promises that Kash Patel and Pam Bondi made.

00:16:58.080 They're not even in office yet.

00:16:59.460 And I think Adam Schiff knows this.

00:17:00.860 I don't think Adam Schiff is a stupid person.

00:17:04.000 I think he knows it.

00:17:05.200 I think he's lying.

00:17:05.920 I think he's real upset that all the scheming that the Democrats undertook, all of the corruption,

00:17:12.200 all of the backhanded, duplicitous actions of the last four years, last 40 years or more, but especially the last four years, it's all coming back to haunt them.

00:17:23.420 The Democrats, while they were sowing, they were so happy.

00:17:29.240 Yeah, we're going to raid Trump.

00:17:31.520 We're going to try to boot him off the ballot.

00:17:33.680 We're going to imprison pro-lifers.

00:17:35.640 We're going to make them political prisoners.

00:17:37.240 Yeah.

00:17:37.800 Ooh, this is fun.

00:17:40.000 But that was great when they were sowing.

00:17:42.040 But now that they are reaping, now you see they have the misfortune of reaping that which they have sown.

00:17:48.900 And they're much less happy as they do the reaping.

00:17:52.660 As a general rule, if you are sowing bad things, the reaping will be unpleasant for you.

00:17:59.220 And that is what Adam Schiff and all of the Democrats are learning.

00:18:02.840 Now, speaking of giving to people what they deserve, I mentioned this on the show last week.

00:18:09.220 J.D. Vance is, I had high expectations for him already, and he's blown them out of the water.

00:18:15.260 J.D. Vance is in real hot water because he was on national television and articulated a classical concept,

00:18:25.900 a concept that comes from classical philosophy and Christian theology,

00:18:30.260 specifically the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas, about something called the Ordo Amoris.

00:18:39.220 We call it the order of charity or the order of love.

00:18:41.960 J.D. referred to it as even a hierarchy of love.

00:18:44.040 Here, just to refresh your memory, here's what he said.

00:18:46.680 But there's this old school, and I think it's a very Christian concept, by the way,

00:18:50.640 that you love your family, and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community,

00:18:54.900 and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country, and then after that,

00:19:00.460 you can focus and prioritize the rest of the world.

00:19:03.520 Okay, so that's what J.D. Vance said.

00:19:06.920 Imagine my surprise when a Yale professor, a guy who was a minister, a politician in the UK,

00:19:12.900 who's now a Yale professor, Rory Stewart, tweets this out.

00:19:16.820 A bizarre take on John 15, 12, 13, less Christian and more pagan tribal.

00:19:23.500 We should start worrying when politicians become theologians, assume to speak for Jesus,

00:19:28.700 and tell us in which order to love.

00:19:32.380 So this is, for those who don't know what John 12, 13 is,

00:19:35.900 this is my commandment that you love one another as I have loved you.

00:19:38.980 Greater love than this hath no man than a man lay down his life for his friends.

00:19:43.820 Okay, J.D. responds to this UK politician and Yale professor.

00:19:48.820 He says, just Google Ordo Amoris.

00:19:51.200 Aside from that, the idea that there isn't a hierarchy of obligations violates basic common sense.

00:19:56.200 Does Rory really think his moral duties to his own children are the same as his duties to a stranger

00:20:00.320 who lives thousands of miles away?

00:20:02.200 Does anyone?

00:20:02.880 Actually, J.D. is making a point that I made on the show last week,

00:20:06.360 which was that you're walking by a swimming pool,

00:20:09.060 you see a little kid that you don't know drowning,

00:20:11.780 you jump in and save the kid.

00:20:13.820 But if you're walking by a big swimming pool,

00:20:15.560 and there are two kids drowning at the opposite ends of the pool,

00:20:18.080 God forbid one of those is your kid,

00:20:20.000 you have an obligation to save your kid first.

00:20:24.660 It would be, it's good to save the other kid,

00:20:26.600 but people would look at you as a little bit weird.

00:20:28.760 It would seem like you're violating a natural obligation

00:20:31.120 if you prefer to save the stranger kid to your own kid.

00:20:35.400 So anyway, then this other Yale guy gets involved.

00:20:38.120 This other Yale guy comes out and he's the,

00:20:43.400 one of the editors, I think he's the editor of the Yale Review.

00:20:46.660 And he starts attacking J.D. over this.

00:20:49.480 And I don't know, I just, I'm beginning to wonder

00:20:51.860 if anyone presently associated with Yale even owns a Bible.

00:20:57.380 Because, oh, this other Yale guy said,

00:21:00.080 you know, it's not really a Christian concept.

00:21:01.840 St. Thomas cleverly, if unconvincingly,

00:21:05.440 smuggles this Aristotelian idea into Christian theology.

00:21:09.620 So first of all, it's broadly Aristotelian.

00:21:11.440 It's not even specifically Aristotelian,

00:21:13.080 but it is broadly an idea that Aristotle sort of talks about.

00:21:15.980 St. Thomas Aquinas talks about the Ordo Amoris

00:21:18.780 specifically, explicitly, but also it is scriptural.

00:21:22.900 There are many scriptural examples,

00:21:24.160 but just to use a really prominent one, 1 Timothy 5.8.

00:21:26.640 If any man have not care of his own,

00:21:29.860 and especially of those of his house,

00:21:32.920 he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.

00:21:36.580 So that's all I'll say about this again.

00:21:38.360 I just really love this story.

00:21:41.620 Not just specifically for the substance of this or that saying that's come about,

00:21:49.380 but because we are now talking about the hierarchy of love

00:21:56.020 as a matter of national politics, okay?

00:21:59.900 We are, and we're doing it in Latin.

00:22:02.700 Like when I voted for Trump,

00:22:05.020 when I voted for Trump in 2016,

00:22:07.060 people said, Michael, he's not a real conservative.

00:22:11.400 Michael, you're betraying your principles.

00:22:13.340 Trump, you're being deceived maybe.

00:22:15.180 He's not a real conservative.

00:22:19.080 Man, Trump is, his VP is going on national television

00:22:24.020 giving lectures about Thomistic philosophy in Latin, okay?

00:22:30.340 I think he's pretty conservative.

00:22:32.680 This is about as good as it gets, man.

00:22:35.700 This is a depth of conservatism

00:22:37.540 that I did not think it was possible to reach

00:22:40.060 at this stage in American public life.

00:22:43.400 Just love it.

00:22:44.100 It makes me feel so good.

00:22:46.300 Even beyond all the great stuff

00:22:48.040 that the admin is doing on immigration,

00:22:50.020 on foreign policy,

00:22:51.280 and on social issues like abortion.

00:22:53.520 There's so much more to say.

00:22:54.440 First, though, go to preborn.com slash Knowles.

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00:22:59.280 now represents over 60% of all abortions in the U.S.?

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00:23:08.880 I shouldn't even call them medications.

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00:24:01.620 Folks, we released an interview over the weekend

00:24:04.720 that has generated lots of controversy

00:24:07.640 among eccentric people.

00:24:10.920 You might remember one year ago,

00:24:13.380 I interviewed a gal who had

00:24:15.580 a multi-million dollar lifestyle.

00:24:17.340 She was one of the most prominent porn performers

00:24:19.640 in the world, Nala Ray.

00:24:21.940 And she all of a sudden said,

00:24:23.680 hey, I'm giving up porn,

00:24:25.040 and I'm turning my life over to Christ,

00:24:27.080 and I'm giving it all up,

00:24:28.140 and I just realized this is all terrible.

00:24:30.160 So I said, oh, I should interview her.

00:24:31.220 So I interviewed her,

00:24:32.480 and we had a nice long chat.

00:24:34.520 And this drove some people totally crazy.

00:24:37.840 They really, really didn't like it.

00:24:40.040 And so I said, okay.

00:24:42.100 They were still people,

00:24:43.060 still talking about it,

00:24:43.860 some of these people, a year later.

00:24:45.160 So I said, all right, well, it's been a year.

00:24:47.360 Let's check back in.

00:24:48.540 Let's see how she's doing.

00:24:49.860 I don't know, maybe her critics were right.

00:24:51.840 Maybe, I don't know, maybe they weren't right.

00:24:52.980 So we sat back down with her,

00:24:55.020 and some people are still upset about it, I guess.

00:24:58.220 So anyway, this time,

00:24:59.260 Nala has joined with her husband

00:25:01.520 to address the rumors,

00:25:03.500 some lies, perhaps,

00:25:05.180 and the truth behind her journey.

00:25:07.460 Check out this teaser.

00:25:08.100 Really shook the internet the first time you came on.

00:25:10.940 I got in so much trouble for talking to you.

00:25:13.060 I know you haven't.

00:25:14.280 I appreciate that.

00:25:15.380 They say very nasty things about you.

00:25:17.160 Oh, yeah.

00:25:17.540 Oh, we know.

00:25:18.160 You were a lying, deceiving prostitute.

00:25:20.260 You said that you lied about everything.

00:25:22.660 People were tagging me on social media,

00:25:24.560 and they said, see, Michael,

00:25:25.460 here's proof that she lied to you.

00:25:27.800 Everything I've said on podcasts is complete clickbait.

00:25:31.080 Why do you think people want you to be lying?

00:25:34.320 That happened to her.

00:25:35.540 I can't believe that it's real.

00:25:37.180 Because then that means I can change my ways and still get saved.

00:25:41.140 She was brought up in the church.

00:25:42.600 Is this mental illness?

00:25:43.880 People have criticized you because they say,

00:25:46.060 you made all this money.

00:25:47.140 Where's the penance?

00:25:47.780 They say you should give all your money away.

00:25:56.840 Watch the episode now on the Michael and all's YouTube channel.

00:25:59.440 Watch the uncensored ad-free version.

00:26:01.820 Subscribe and watch on Daily Wire Plus.

00:26:07.680 Now, just when you think things cannot get any better,

00:26:13.440 I think there's so much winning going on.

00:26:15.200 Wow, on domestic issues, foreign issues,

00:26:19.340 J.D. Vance, Aquinas pilling the American public.

00:26:22.900 This is great.

00:26:23.520 Just when you think it can't get any better,

00:26:25.700 the Democrats decide to elect

00:26:28.340 one of the least likable figures in the country,

00:26:33.240 maybe the single least likable figure in their own party,

00:26:36.340 to be their vice chairman.

00:26:38.740 David Hogg.

00:26:40.560 David Hogg has been elected vice chairman

00:26:44.340 of the Democrat National Committee.

00:26:47.340 For those who do not remember who David Hogg is,

00:26:50.560 he was this kid, was this kid.

00:26:52.660 Now he's a grown man.

00:26:54.320 He looks a little bit like a kid still,

00:26:55.860 but, you know, some of us have baby faces.

00:26:57.760 He was a kid who was at a high school

00:27:00.520 where there was a school shooting.

00:27:02.600 And David Hogg made it his mission

00:27:04.760 to go on as many TV shows as possible

00:27:07.080 to talk about this school shooting.

00:27:08.560 And as a result of his celebrity

00:27:11.600 going on TV to talk about a shooting at his school,

00:27:15.780 he became a kind of Democrat celebrity.

00:27:18.940 And he ran with it.

00:27:20.160 This kid decided he was going to make gun control

00:27:23.620 his big issue,

00:27:24.340 because that obviously fit with the way

00:27:25.660 that he found a little bit of notoriety.

00:27:27.620 And so he went around and he screeched and he screamed.

00:27:30.240 He made all these preposterous arguments

00:27:31.700 about gun control

00:27:32.540 that would not have stopped the school shooting

00:27:34.400 or any other school shooting or, you know,

00:27:36.340 he just did what he could

00:27:39.020 to extend his 15 minutes of fame.

00:27:40.400 And it actually did work.

00:27:41.520 It ended up getting him admission to Harvard,

00:27:43.460 even though some were skeptical

00:27:44.840 of his scholarly credentials to get in.

00:27:48.560 And he's now extended that 15 minutes.

00:27:52.960 You got to give the kid credit.

00:27:53.880 What's it been now?

00:27:54.560 Like five years of, more than that,

00:27:56.040 probably six or seven years of fame

00:27:57.520 to become the vice chairman

00:28:00.420 of the Democrat National Committee.

00:28:04.400 Beautiful, great.

00:28:06.820 A rich white kid

00:28:08.980 who is frequently wrong,

00:28:11.440 but never in doubt,

00:28:13.020 who spouts off on the most limousine,

00:28:17.760 latte, liberal, luxurious kind of left

00:28:21.140 political issues available to the party,

00:28:24.680 who has basically nothing in common

00:28:28.760 with the core voters

00:28:31.440 that the Democrats are trying to reach.

00:28:33.060 As the Democrats preen about

00:28:36.100 entitlement and privilege,

00:28:38.840 they pick one of the most entitled

00:28:40.740 and privileged kids in his age group

00:28:43.840 to become the vice chairman.

00:28:45.840 Great.

00:28:47.180 Great.

00:28:47.640 I couldn't have asked for more.

00:28:53.020 No, the one thing I could have asked for

00:28:54.520 would be for him to be the chairman

00:28:55.720 and maybe for that other guy,

00:28:57.940 Harry Sisson,

00:28:59.640 the kind of the new David Hogg,

00:29:00.900 for that guy to be the vice chairman

00:29:02.880 or flipped.

00:29:03.900 I don't know,

00:29:04.280 but I'll take what I can get.

00:29:06.680 This shows you the Democrats

00:29:08.920 have learned precisely nothing

00:29:12.760 from the 2024 election

00:29:14.880 and the electoral beatings will continue

00:29:17.480 until morale improves.

00:29:18.780 Now, speaking of Democrat leaders,

00:29:20.080 this was a doozy as well.

00:29:23.360 Al Sharpton,

00:29:24.920 longtime racial shakedown artist,

00:29:27.460 longtime huckster going back.

00:29:30.340 I mean,

00:29:30.600 I don't remember a time

00:29:32.520 when Al Sharpton was not prominent,

00:29:34.020 especially having grown up in New York.

00:29:35.860 This guy was always shaking down

00:29:37.360 some business for money.

00:29:38.780 This guy was always threatening

00:29:39.920 to call you racist

00:29:40.980 or starting a race war

00:29:42.300 in Brooklyn or something.

00:29:44.160 This guy,

00:29:44.720 he's been at it a long time

00:29:46.080 with his nice expensive suits,

00:29:48.580 his slick bagged hair,

00:29:50.380 and he's just picking up

00:29:51.700 corporate America by the ankles

00:29:52.920 and shaking all their pennies out.

00:29:54.220 But Al Sharpton decided

00:29:56.400 to do something different.

00:29:59.400 Instead of launching a boycott,

00:30:02.080 Al Sharpton decided

00:30:02.960 he was going to launch a buycott,

00:30:05.520 B-U-Y-cott of Costco.

00:30:08.680 Because while all of corporate America

00:30:10.120 got the lesson from the election

00:30:12.020 and from the past four or five years,

00:30:15.340 while the rest of corporate America

00:30:16.780 is ending their DEI programs,

00:30:18.860 well, the government is now forcing them

00:30:20.980 at the federal and state level

00:30:22.140 to end their DEI programs

00:30:23.940 because it's racial discrimination

00:30:25.100 and it's stupid

00:30:26.040 and it's illegal

00:30:27.000 and everyone hates it,

00:30:29.660 Costco decided.

00:30:30.820 This pains me to say

00:30:31.740 because I love Costco.

00:30:33.220 Costco decided

00:30:33.860 they were going to keep up

00:30:34.600 their DEI program.

00:30:36.360 And this was in part

00:30:37.140 because of a weird shareholder vote

00:30:38.520 that was opposed

00:30:39.260 by other shareholders

00:30:40.120 in Costco.

00:30:40.940 I don't want to beat up

00:30:41.880 on Costco corporate too much.

00:30:43.500 I love Costco.

00:30:45.160 I cannot overstate

00:30:46.820 how much I love Costco

00:30:47.960 and the $1.50 hot dog

00:30:49.420 in particular,

00:30:50.040 but just everything

00:30:50.680 about the shopping experience.

00:30:51.740 I love Costco.

00:30:53.600 But when Costco votes

00:30:54.940 to keep DEI,

00:30:55.880 this is what they're inviting

00:30:56.800 into their shop.

00:30:58.400 Al Sharpton

00:30:58.940 leading a mob

00:31:00.880 of ne'er-do-wells.

00:31:02.400 Shop at Costco!

00:31:04.320 Shop at Costco!

00:31:05.800 Footage thanks to TimCast.

00:31:07.380 Costco!

00:31:08.220 You hear what they're saying?

00:31:08.980 Shop at Costco.

00:31:12.300 Big mob of people.

00:31:14.700 Far as the eye can see.

00:31:16.780 This is at a Costco

00:31:17.540 in New Jersey.

00:31:18.260 I don't know that I've been

00:31:19.040 to that Costco in particular.

00:31:20.300 We used to go

00:31:20.780 on the other side of New York.

00:31:21.960 We'd go to the one

00:31:22.560 in Danbury, Connecticut.

00:31:25.320 But all Costco's

00:31:26.400 look exactly the same.

00:31:28.500 This big mob

00:31:29.260 walking through the store.

00:31:30.680 Okay, shop at Costco.

00:31:32.240 And then what happens?

00:31:33.920 You couldn't have scripted this.

00:31:37.120 They walk out of the store

00:31:38.240 without buying anything.

00:31:39.980 Play the footage, please.

00:31:41.080 Thank you to TimCast

00:31:42.060 for capturing this

00:31:42.740 beautiful footage.

00:31:45.380 There they go.

00:31:45.960 They're walking right past

00:31:46.920 the self-checkout.

00:31:48.420 And you got the customers,

00:31:50.020 customers of all races,

00:31:51.700 all types,

00:31:53.520 saying,

00:31:53.900 hey, get out of here.

00:31:54.460 We don't want you here.

00:31:55.240 Get out.

00:31:58.380 And they're all,

00:31:59.520 these,

00:31:59.960 these miscreants

00:32:01.980 are just

00:32:02.940 walking through,

00:32:05.220 shop at Costco.

00:32:06.160 I mean,

00:32:06.300 we're not going to do it.

00:32:07.600 But hey,

00:32:08.280 we'll at least disrupt

00:32:09.300 your shopping experience.

00:32:11.220 I don't know,

00:32:11.520 maybe pocket a thing

00:32:12.220 or do along the way.

00:32:15.820 The hot dog's $1.50

00:32:17.240 and you get a drink

00:32:18.080 with free refills.

00:32:18.780 They wouldn't even buy that.

00:32:19.960 These cheap,

00:32:20.900 these cheap losers.

00:32:23.100 Oh my goodness gracious.

00:32:25.540 I don't,

00:32:26.780 you don't have to show up.

00:32:30.320 You don't,

00:32:31.120 I'm not saying

00:32:31.700 not everyone needs

00:32:32.360 to go shop at Costco.

00:32:33.560 You should.

00:32:34.020 It's great.

00:32:35.040 And most everyone

00:32:36.040 can afford the $1.50 hot dog.

00:32:38.660 It's probably

00:32:39.360 the best nutritional value

00:32:40.500 in the entire country.

00:32:42.140 But you didn't have to show,

00:32:43.160 the whole point,

00:32:44.100 the whole point

00:32:45.140 to showing up

00:32:45.800 with Al Sharpton that day

00:32:46.800 was to support the business.

00:32:49.280 But this should be a message

00:32:50.600 to all of corporate America

00:32:51.840 and especially to Costco.

00:32:53.900 These people

00:32:54.800 don't support your business.

00:32:57.000 These shakedown artists,

00:32:58.780 these extortionists,

00:33:00.100 these grievance mongers,

00:33:02.420 these radical left agitators,

00:33:04.900 they don't support your business.

00:33:06.560 You know who supports

00:33:07.240 your business?

00:33:07.880 The paying customers.

00:33:09.520 Of all races,

00:33:10.480 of all ages,

00:33:11.780 you could see them

00:33:12.580 on that video.

00:33:13.420 There were people there

00:33:14.160 at the cash registers

00:33:15.500 actually buying stuff.

00:33:17.860 And they,

00:33:18.440 much like the Trump electorate,

00:33:20.280 you couldn't identify them

00:33:22.200 by their race

00:33:23.180 or their age

00:33:23.840 or their geography

00:33:24.600 or their this

00:33:25.240 or their that.

00:33:26.360 But they were

00:33:27.200 like normal good people.

00:33:29.280 Those people

00:33:30.000 don't want DEI.

00:33:32.660 Those scam artists

00:33:33.880 who just walked

00:33:34.460 through your store,

00:33:35.460 they're the ones

00:33:36.180 who want DEI.

00:33:38.020 DEI is going to ruin

00:33:39.060 your business.

00:33:40.620 Okay?

00:33:41.080 The American people

00:33:41.720 don't want it.

00:33:42.880 The state attorneys general

00:33:44.300 don't want it.

00:33:45.140 The federal government

00:33:45.820 doesn't want it.

00:33:47.480 Get rid of it, man.

00:33:50.020 You are known

00:33:50.740 by the friends you keep.

00:33:51.540 You want to be known

00:33:52.000 by Al Sharpton?

00:33:53.760 This is just a little

00:33:54.500 personal anecdote.

00:33:56.640 There are three places

00:33:57.700 that I am most frequently recognized,

00:33:59.520 maybe outside of the airport.

00:34:00.880 The three places

00:34:01.800 where people are most likely

00:34:03.340 to come up to me

00:34:04.060 and say hello,

00:34:05.620 mention that they're on the team,

00:34:06.920 and, you know,

00:34:07.600 give me a little attaboy.

00:34:10.160 Cigar lounges,

00:34:12.220 the traditional Latin mass,

00:34:14.460 and Costco.

00:34:15.240 Okay?

00:34:15.800 The Costco shopper

00:34:17.380 is conservative

00:34:18.740 because Costco,

00:34:20.480 you get really good values.

00:34:21.980 It's not like you got to be rich

00:34:22.920 to shop at Costco.

00:34:23.960 But to be a Costco shopper,

00:34:26.500 you have to plan ahead.

00:34:28.320 You have to go

00:34:29.120 purchase a membership.

00:34:30.460 You have to be willing

00:34:31.300 to invest a little bit of money

00:34:32.940 to save money down the line.

00:34:35.200 You have to be prudent

00:34:37.680 and responsible.

00:34:40.120 You need to buy in bulk,

00:34:41.360 plan your meals,

00:34:42.400 maybe cook a little bit.

00:34:44.120 You have to,

00:34:45.040 you got to do

00:34:45.760 all those kind of things.

00:34:47.960 Okay?

00:34:48.440 Those are conservative behaviors.

00:34:50.980 It's not rich guy behavior,

00:34:51.800 it's conservative behaviors.

00:34:53.060 All right?

00:34:53.640 Costco, know your audience.

00:34:55.220 I love that you've kept

00:34:56.020 my $1.50 hot dog

00:34:57.000 for literally my entire life.

00:34:59.280 But get Al Sharpton

00:35:00.920 out of your store.

00:35:01.500 Nobody needs that.

00:35:02.360 Trump's war on wokeness

00:35:05.840 does not stop there.

00:35:07.520 We'll get to more

00:35:08.100 in just a moment.

00:35:08.740 There's a great,

00:35:09.760 great exchange

00:35:10.520 in the White House briefing room

00:35:11.540 between Caroline Levitt,

00:35:13.320 the White House press secretary,

00:35:14.380 and Daily Wire's very own

00:35:15.420 Mary Margaret Olihan.

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00:35:52.040 Join the fight right now.

00:35:53.160 My favorite comment

00:35:54.540 yesterday,

00:35:55.320 or Friday, I guess,

00:35:56.320 is from

00:35:56.700 LoveOneAnother4812

00:35:58.060 who says,

00:35:58.940 severely intellectually,

00:35:59.780 mentally incapacitated disabled

00:36:01.300 is how we all remember

00:36:02.400 the entire Biden administration.

00:36:03.820 That's so true.

00:36:05.000 It's not just

00:36:05.900 a Biden initiative

00:36:07.600 in FAA hiring

00:36:10.260 as reported by news outlets

00:36:12.760 and then repeated

00:36:13.800 by President Trump.

00:36:14.840 That was actually

00:36:15.700 probably a description

00:36:16.400 of the whole Biden administration.

00:36:20.620 Trump's assault

00:36:21.840 on leftism continues

00:36:24.660 as we saw

00:36:26.440 in Caroline Levitt's

00:36:27.840 second

00:36:28.820 daily press beating,

00:36:31.380 though she had a question

00:36:32.680 from one of the

00:36:33.620 excellent journalists

00:36:34.460 in the room,

00:36:35.060 that would be

00:36:35.560 Daily Wire's very own

00:36:36.400 Mary Margaret Olihan,

00:36:38.380 on what

00:36:38.960 President Trump

00:36:39.960 is doing

00:36:40.520 to enforce

00:36:41.460 some of his

00:36:42.420 executive orders,

00:36:43.160 notably

00:36:43.460 the executive order

00:36:44.680 prohibiting

00:36:45.720 transing the kids.

00:36:46.720 Thank you for having us.

00:36:49.040 So I wanted to follow up

00:36:50.040 on the gender

00:36:50.760 executive orders

00:36:51.680 you mentioned.

00:36:52.420 First of all,

00:36:53.360 we know that

00:36:53.940 President Trump

00:36:54.480 has taken a bunch

00:36:55.180 of steps

00:36:55.540 to protect children

00:36:56.280 from irreversible

00:36:57.160 transgender procedures.

00:36:58.680 Is he interested

00:36:59.500 in backing

00:37:00.100 congressional legislation

00:37:01.380 on this point?

00:37:02.400 And does the

00:37:03.240 Trump administration

00:37:03.840 have interest

00:37:04.640 in investigating

00:37:05.420 doctors

00:37:06.000 who perform

00:37:06.920 these irreversible

00:37:07.760 procedures on kids,

00:37:08.980 such as

00:37:09.600 a double vasectomy

00:37:10.880 on a minor girl?

00:37:12.140 Well, the President

00:37:12.740 has already taken

00:37:13.600 a very strong stance

00:37:14.760 on this issue

00:37:15.300 this week

00:37:15.740 with the signing

00:37:16.380 of his executive order,

00:37:18.060 a few executive orders

00:37:19.280 in this space.

00:37:20.040 First, he made it

00:37:20.760 the official policy

00:37:21.620 of the federal government

00:37:22.500 that there are

00:37:23.540 only two sexes,

00:37:24.660 male and female,

00:37:25.800 and we have directed

00:37:26.700 all federal agencies

00:37:27.740 to comply

00:37:28.420 with that policy.

00:37:29.440 As for congressional

00:37:30.700 legislation

00:37:31.900 to support

00:37:32.720 the President's agenda

00:37:33.640 in this space,

00:37:34.720 and certainly

00:37:35.300 ending the mutilation

00:37:36.940 of young children,

00:37:38.240 the chemical castration

00:37:39.320 of young children,

00:37:40.160 which is a barbaric practice

00:37:41.740 that the vast majority

00:37:43.200 of Americans

00:37:43.680 do not support

00:37:44.600 for young minor children,

00:37:46.220 certainly the President

00:37:47.120 would support

00:37:48.320 Congress's efforts

00:37:49.220 as he has already

00:37:50.040 made that very clear

00:37:50.720 this week.

00:37:51.780 This is really important,

00:37:52.920 and I hope Congress

00:37:53.600 hears this.

00:37:54.840 I really hope Congress

00:37:56.140 hears this answer,

00:37:57.360 and I hope they hear

00:37:57.980 this segment

00:37:58.540 that I'm giving

00:37:59.220 on this answer.

00:38:00.640 Trump is doing a great job

00:38:01.900 with the executive orders.

00:38:03.440 He needs Congress

00:38:04.380 to act.

00:38:06.200 Trump can't actually

00:38:07.120 just ban

00:38:07.700 transing the kids

00:38:08.420 with an executive order.

00:38:09.880 He can threaten

00:38:10.620 certain funding,

00:38:11.620 and that's all

00:38:12.380 well and good,

00:38:12.940 and the White House

00:38:13.400 has some discretion

00:38:14.100 over that,

00:38:14.840 but Congress

00:38:15.500 really needs to act.

00:38:16.620 And because this

00:38:18.220 will largely be

00:38:19.000 a state's issue,

00:38:21.200 Congress needs to act

00:38:22.320 with the purse strings

00:38:23.940 in particular.

00:38:25.520 Okay?

00:38:25.920 This is all

00:38:26.900 about funding.

00:38:28.960 The way that Congress,

00:38:30.720 from the federal level,

00:38:31.820 can stop states

00:38:32.840 from mutilating,

00:38:34.120 castrating little kids,

00:38:35.800 setting them on

00:38:36.480 a horrible course

00:38:37.660 for their lives,

00:38:38.380 and probably sending them

00:38:39.480 to an early death,

00:38:40.420 the way that the Congress

00:38:41.660 can do that

00:38:42.540 is by withholding

00:38:44.880 precious funds

00:38:46.600 from the states.

00:38:49.880 This is something

00:38:51.000 that Congress

00:38:51.640 should do

00:38:52.320 as a moral issue,

00:38:53.740 but even if morality

00:38:55.280 is not the most persuasive

00:38:56.480 to members of Congress,

00:38:57.800 this is something

00:38:58.420 that Congress

00:38:59.120 absolutely must do

00:39:01.020 as a political issue.

00:39:02.600 This issue

00:39:03.340 is a complete

00:39:04.780 winner

00:39:05.500 for Republicans.

00:39:06.700 I don't know

00:39:08.040 that I've ever seen

00:39:08.760 a bigger winner issue

00:39:10.060 for Republicans

00:39:10.920 other than maybe

00:39:12.260 invading Afghanistan

00:39:13.280 after 9-11.

00:39:15.780 Maybe.

00:39:16.720 The country is all on board

00:39:18.560 with stopping

00:39:19.280 trancing the kids.

00:39:21.840 Huge swaths

00:39:22.840 of every voter demographic.

00:39:24.080 It is a vast majority issue.

00:39:27.020 Push heavily on this

00:39:28.700 right now.

00:39:29.940 If you're not doing it

00:39:31.080 for morality or justice,

00:39:32.060 at least do it

00:39:32.980 for your own

00:39:33.620 political self-interest.

00:39:34.720 Congress,

00:39:35.240 move on it, baby.

00:39:35.940 Congress is prioritizing

00:39:38.640 some of the easiest wins

00:39:41.340 that it can possibly manage

00:39:42.940 because it's so hard

00:39:44.780 to wrangle

00:39:45.440 the congressional Republicans.

00:39:46.740 It's like herding cats.

00:39:48.640 Well, all right,

00:39:49.180 this is an easy one then.

00:39:50.180 You've passed

00:39:50.480 the Lake and Riley Act.

00:39:51.500 That was a big

00:39:52.100 political winner.

00:39:53.480 Matter of justice too,

00:39:54.440 but a big political winner.

00:39:55.580 Well, this one

00:39:56.080 should come in

00:39:56.800 right behind it.

00:39:57.760 Press hard.

00:39:59.080 Now, turning from

00:39:59.760 the war on wokeness

00:40:01.160 to the war on terrorists,

00:40:02.680 President Trump

00:40:03.440 has just hit ISIS

00:40:06.620 in Somalia.

00:40:08.480 He posts,

00:40:09.620 these are his own words

00:40:10.380 on Truth Social.

00:40:11.160 This morning,

00:40:11.560 I ordered precision

00:40:12.220 military airstrikes

00:40:13.060 on the senior ISIS

00:40:13.820 attack planner

00:40:14.400 and other terrorists

00:40:15.200 he recruited

00:40:15.720 and led in Somalia.

00:40:17.000 These killers

00:40:17.480 who were found

00:40:18.020 hiding in caves

00:40:18.840 threatened the United States

00:40:20.140 and our allies.

00:40:21.000 The strikes destroyed

00:40:21.880 the caves they live in

00:40:22.760 and killed many terrorists

00:40:23.780 without in any way

00:40:24.760 harming civilians.

00:40:26.000 Our military has targeted

00:40:27.240 this ISIS attack planner

00:40:28.480 for years,

00:40:29.140 but Biden and his cronies

00:40:30.540 wouldn't act quickly enough

00:40:31.540 to get the job done.

00:40:32.340 I did.

00:40:33.300 The message to ISIS

00:40:34.260 and all others

00:40:35.160 who would attack Americans

00:40:36.740 is that,

00:40:37.420 all caps,

00:40:38.200 we will find you

00:40:39.080 and we will kill you.

00:40:43.860 I was told,

00:40:45.980 remember how I was told

00:40:47.180 in 2016

00:40:48.520 that Trump's not

00:40:49.340 a true conservative

00:40:50.020 and then his VP

00:40:50.720 ends up giving lectures

00:40:52.020 on tumistic philosophy,

00:40:53.720 probably a deeper

00:40:55.340 degree of conservatism

00:40:56.680 than we've maybe

00:40:57.400 ever seen

00:40:57.940 in the United States.

00:40:59.120 Remember I was told that?

00:41:00.140 Well, I was also told

00:41:01.120 around the same time

00:41:02.380 that Trump is an isolationist

00:41:04.340 and he's going to withdraw

00:41:05.660 from everywhere

00:41:06.880 around the world

00:41:07.580 and he was going to

00:41:08.660 roll back American

00:41:09.380 global leadership

00:41:10.060 and the world

00:41:10.700 was going to fall

00:41:11.100 into chaos

00:41:11.560 and he's an isolationist.

00:41:14.600 I don't know.

00:41:15.000 He just blew up

00:41:15.700 a cave in Somalia

00:41:16.700 and took out

00:41:17.300 a major ISIS leader.

00:41:20.300 Doesn't sound

00:41:20.940 very isolationist-y

00:41:22.140 to me.

00:41:24.660 Actually,

00:41:25.140 these two stories relate.

00:41:26.760 J.D. Vance

00:41:27.280 on the Ordo Amoris

00:41:28.200 and Trump

00:41:29.220 blowing up a cave

00:41:30.060 in Somalia

00:41:30.540 even while he focuses

00:41:31.340 on America first.

00:41:32.620 Trump is not

00:41:33.140 an isolationist.

00:41:34.380 He just believes

00:41:35.320 that we need to get

00:41:35.960 our priorities

00:41:36.680 in the right order.

00:41:38.900 That's it.

00:41:39.540 It's simple.

00:41:40.140 It's not an either-or.

00:41:42.080 We can

00:41:42.800 lead the world.

00:41:45.540 We don't need

00:41:46.260 to surrender

00:41:47.180 our global leadership

00:41:48.100 to China

00:41:48.660 or someone like that.

00:41:49.660 We can lead the world.

00:41:51.240 We just have to

00:41:51.960 take care of

00:41:52.500 our own country.

00:41:54.040 We just need to

00:41:55.260 put ourselves first

00:41:58.000 when that is appropriate.

00:41:59.880 That's the problem.

00:42:01.380 The left wants

00:42:02.300 to put the rest

00:42:03.000 of the world first.

00:42:04.280 They want to put

00:42:04.800 Americans last.

00:42:06.620 And while they're

00:42:08.580 doing that,

00:42:09.860 paradoxically,

00:42:10.520 what that means is

00:42:11.220 they are surrendering

00:42:12.620 American global leadership

00:42:13.600 and they're surrendering

00:42:14.300 our own nation.

00:42:15.600 That's the problem.

00:42:16.540 But actually,

00:42:16.980 we can do both.

00:42:18.540 I'll draw the point

00:42:19.420 even more precisely.

00:42:21.420 Trump has just

00:42:23.360 gone off

00:42:23.940 on social media

00:42:24.680 on Truth Social

00:42:25.600 about South Africa.

00:42:26.680 South Africa?

00:42:28.000 We have a big focus

00:42:28.880 on Africa

00:42:29.340 for an isolationist.

00:42:31.760 He tweeted out

00:42:32.760 or posted

00:42:33.440 rather to Truth Social,

00:42:35.060 South Africa

00:42:35.520 is confiscating land

00:42:36.480 and treating certain

00:42:37.140 classes of people

00:42:37.820 very badly.

00:42:39.100 It is a bad situation

00:42:40.240 that the radical left media

00:42:41.460 doesn't want

00:42:42.280 to so much as mention.

00:42:44.060 A massive human rights

00:42:45.060 violation at a minimum

00:42:46.160 is happening

00:42:47.000 for all to see.

00:42:48.280 The United States

00:42:48.880 won't stand for it.

00:42:49.740 We will act.

00:42:50.420 Also,

00:42:51.380 I will be cutting off

00:42:52.480 all future funding

00:42:53.500 to South Africa

00:42:54.200 until a full investigation

00:42:56.200 of this situation

00:42:57.200 has been completed.

00:43:00.220 Wow.

00:43:01.740 Why does Trump

00:43:02.640 care about South Africa?

00:43:03.800 Is he saying

00:43:04.320 it's because South Africa

00:43:05.300 is harming

00:43:07.280 American national interest?

00:43:08.780 No.

00:43:09.600 He's not saying that.

00:43:10.500 At least when Trump

00:43:11.200 is attacking Canada

00:43:12.260 or Mexico

00:43:12.980 or China,

00:43:14.820 he can say,

00:43:15.220 well,

00:43:15.300 it's because they're

00:43:15.680 directly harming Americans

00:43:17.400 and so I'm going

00:43:18.380 to interfere

00:43:18.860 with their countries

00:43:19.560 to stop them

00:43:20.080 from harming Americans.

00:43:20.800 That's not what's going on

00:43:21.860 with the South Africa tweet.

00:43:23.040 When he's threatening

00:43:23.660 to withhold aid

00:43:24.220 from South Africa,

00:43:25.020 he's saying he's doing it

00:43:26.000 specifically for justice

00:43:28.300 in South Africa

00:43:29.360 because South Africa

00:43:30.500 is treating certain

00:43:31.360 classes of people,

00:43:32.080 namely white farmers,

00:43:33.180 very badly,

00:43:34.200 like their top

00:43:35.280 national leaders

00:43:36.040 chant,

00:43:36.840 kill the Boer,

00:43:37.780 kill the white guys,

00:43:39.820 kill the farmers.

00:43:41.220 It's a bad situation

00:43:42.460 and it's a violation

00:43:43.980 of human rights

00:43:45.020 at a minimum,

00:43:45.980 he says.

00:43:46.820 So he's talking

00:43:47.320 about abstract justice

00:43:48.460 in a far-flung place

00:43:49.840 on the other side

00:43:50.260 of the world.

00:43:51.520 What is this about?

00:43:52.800 I was told,

00:43:54.000 oh boy,

00:43:55.020 I was told Trump's

00:43:55.740 not conservative.

00:43:58.340 Okay,

00:43:58.780 that didn't turn out

00:43:59.480 to be true.

00:44:01.100 I was told Trump's

00:44:02.000 an isolationist.

00:44:02.680 That didn't turn out

00:44:03.200 to be true.

00:44:04.080 And I was told

00:44:05.020 that Trump

00:44:06.000 is a nationalist,

00:44:07.260 a hyper,

00:44:07.900 super-duper nationalist.

00:44:10.080 And I don't think

00:44:10.860 that turns out

00:44:11.440 to be true either.

00:44:12.160 I think Trump

00:44:14.980 is in many ways

00:44:16.020 more an imperialist

00:44:17.500 than a nationalist.

00:44:18.700 This vision

00:44:19.460 that he's articulating

00:44:20.420 here in the South Africa tweet,

00:44:22.180 that is a more

00:44:23.480 imperialistic vision

00:44:24.640 than a nationalistic vision.

00:44:27.900 And that's good

00:44:28.900 to quote Bernie Sanders.

00:44:31.300 And that's a good thing.

00:44:32.500 That's a good thing.

00:44:34.840 Especially,

00:44:35.740 you know,

00:44:35.960 I talk about some

00:44:36.880 of my favorite

00:44:37.660 political philosophers

00:44:38.680 and a lot of them

00:44:39.320 come from classical antiquity.

00:44:41.080 Some of them

00:44:41.400 come from the Middle Ages.

00:44:42.320 One of my favorite

00:44:43.020 political and artistic

00:44:45.340 poetic writers

00:44:46.680 of all time

00:44:47.180 is Dante.

00:44:48.060 Dante writes

00:44:48.680 a whole big,

00:44:49.500 beautiful political treatise

00:44:51.280 on why empire

00:44:52.800 is actually

00:44:53.360 the ideal form

00:44:54.420 of government.

00:44:55.760 Not like globalist,

00:44:57.500 liberal empire

00:44:58.260 that screws up

00:44:59.300 everybody's rights

00:45:00.040 and inverts the order of love

00:45:01.260 and does all these

00:45:01.960 terrible things.

00:45:02.980 But well-ordered empire.

00:45:05.980 Which is,

00:45:06.880 I think,

00:45:07.120 what Trump wants.

00:45:08.760 And maybe that's why

00:45:09.380 I like Trump so much.

00:45:10.140 He doesn't want,

00:45:11.980 the problem with

00:45:12.940 the liberal leftist

00:45:14.500 globalist empire

00:45:15.660 is that it just

00:45:16.480 inverts everyone's rights

00:45:17.760 and inverts

00:45:18.720 the proper order

00:45:20.100 of things

00:45:20.540 and it just

00:45:20.960 screws up everything.

00:45:22.720 But America

00:45:23.700 is the global hegemon.

00:45:26.480 Okay?

00:45:27.040 We have,

00:45:27.760 I first realized

00:45:28.940 America was a global empire

00:45:29.980 and I couldn't deny it anymore

00:45:31.100 when I realized

00:45:31.960 many years ago

00:45:32.780 that we have something

00:45:33.980 called AFRICOM.

00:45:35.840 African command.

00:45:36.960 Yeoman farmer

00:45:38.740 nation-state republics

00:45:40.600 don't have AFRICOM.

00:45:41.820 Okay?

00:45:42.240 I was driving around Hawaii

00:45:43.720 on my honeymoon.

00:45:44.600 I thought,

00:45:44.840 this is kind of silly

00:45:45.380 that this is part of America,

00:45:46.500 right?

00:45:47.120 I'm in the middle

00:45:47.920 of the Pacific Ocean.

00:45:48.900 This is kind of,

00:45:49.780 come on,

00:45:50.120 we have military bases

00:45:51.000 all over the world.

00:45:51.580 We are an empire.

00:45:52.960 So we can either

00:45:54.220 deny that

00:45:55.240 or surrender that

00:45:56.880 to China

00:45:57.340 or something like that.

00:45:57.960 I don't think

00:45:58.320 that's necessarily

00:45:58.980 a good idea.

00:46:00.120 Or we can

00:46:01.200 pervert that

00:46:03.840 like the leftists

00:46:04.700 and the globalists

00:46:05.480 and liberals

00:46:05.940 want to do.

00:46:06.560 Or we can just accept

00:46:07.980 that the ordinary

00:46:10.320 course of politics

00:46:11.280 is empire.

00:46:12.320 That the modern idea

00:46:13.200 of the nation-state

00:46:13.860 is actually just

00:46:14.660 a kind of

00:46:15.620 political contrivance

00:46:17.400 arising from

00:46:18.360 the Peace of Augsburg

00:46:19.280 and the Treaty of Westphalia.

00:46:20.740 It's basically

00:46:21.700 less than 400 years old.

00:46:24.320 And the modern

00:46:25.780 national order

00:46:26.580 really only comes

00:46:27.360 after World War II

00:46:28.160 and the post-World War II

00:46:29.040 order is fraying

00:46:29.720 and the election

00:46:30.220 of Donald Trump

00:46:30.780 is actually evidence

00:46:32.060 of the fraying

00:46:32.740 of that order.

00:46:33.360 And maybe

00:46:34.420 what we can have.

00:46:35.320 And this is what

00:46:35.780 I've wanted from Trump

00:46:36.740 from the beginning

00:46:37.420 and he's been delivering

00:46:38.660 it from the beginning

00:46:39.360 and sometimes people

00:46:40.480 didn't believe me

00:46:41.040 but I think

00:46:41.460 they believe me now.

00:46:42.580 What I told

00:46:43.280 to CBS News

00:46:44.300 when they

00:46:44.860 had me on

00:46:46.000 for a segment

00:46:46.420 for CBS News

00:46:47.140 mornings.

00:46:49.600 Paradoxically

00:46:50.160 people elected

00:46:51.680 Trump

00:46:52.220 because Trump

00:46:53.620 is a representative

00:46:55.220 of the normal.

00:46:57.500 He is promising

00:46:58.820 a return to normal.

00:46:59.960 But normal

00:47:00.340 in both senses

00:47:01.540 of that word.

00:47:02.420 Normal means

00:47:02.980 common behavior.

00:47:03.900 Normal also means

00:47:04.680 ideals.

00:47:05.340 And we want both.

00:47:06.440 We want the common

00:47:07.180 behavior to be brought

00:47:08.300 back into accord

00:47:09.520 with ideals.

00:47:10.740 We want to just live

00:47:11.800 in a well-governed world.

00:47:13.440 We don't want injustices

00:47:14.620 to occur everywhere

00:47:16.460 needlessly.

00:47:17.640 We don't want to

00:47:19.320 mistake the order

00:47:20.220 of love to mean

00:47:20.760 that we don't have

00:47:21.180 to care about

00:47:21.860 the stranger.

00:47:22.560 That's certainly

00:47:22.960 not the message

00:47:23.400 of Christianity.

00:47:24.300 But we just want

00:47:25.560 things in their

00:47:26.800 proper place.

00:47:27.820 We want to give

00:47:28.580 to people that

00:47:29.360 which they deserve

00:47:30.160 in the right ways

00:47:31.100 in the right amount

00:47:31.780 for the right reasons.

00:47:33.500 That's it.

00:47:36.420 I had high hopes

00:47:38.460 for the second

00:47:39.080 Trump term

00:47:39.740 and my wildest

00:47:41.200 expectations

00:47:41.820 are being

00:47:42.640 blown out of the water.

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