The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1720 - RFK Throws Out Food Dyes And The Stale GOP

00:00:00.000 Major changes are coming to your food, which is definitive proof that major changes are coming to both American political parties, which is why major changes are coming to your stock portfolio, all while major changes are coming to the most important institution in our civilization.

00:00:17.860 It's a big week. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 Welcome back to the show. Huge news from the government regulation front, from the political order front, on economics, on religion.

00:00:47.580 Obviously, the political ground is shifting all underneath us. Also, Kanye West has just admitted to an incestuous relationship with his male cousin.

00:00:55.740 So, we'll get to it a little bit later. It's a family show. I'll try to speak around this in euphemism as best I can.

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00:02:17.140 You might be wondering, if you're watching this show right now instead of just listening to it, why I'm in these new digs, nice, fancy, cool new digs, why I have this mug that says The Book Club.

00:02:25.960 It's because I'm here at PragerU, and I'm filming a bunch of episodes of my show, The Book Club, with lots of really, really good books right now.

00:02:34.760 But it has been a whirlwind tour. I was on the road from Easter, then I went up to the White House for the Easter egg roll.

00:02:40.380 Then I had to drop my wife and kids off. Then I came straight out to L.A., and I figure, well, look, it's Easter time.

00:02:46.940 There's not going to be a ton in the news, so it doesn't matter if I'm not actively in the studio.

00:02:51.820 And then everything happens. Everything is going. The Pope dies. The government is in tumult.

00:02:58.820 The markets, I think, are about to recover a lot, and I think Trump is about to settle a lot of these trade disputes.

00:03:05.200 And Bobby Kennedy Jr. just announced, a big part of the Maha, Make America Healthy Again agenda, that he is going to ban a bunch of food dyes from all of our food.

00:03:17.840 When I met with, and I want to commend the food companies for working with us to achieve this agreement or this settlement,

00:03:29.600 and when I went in a few months or about a month ago to meet with a few food companies,

00:03:35.400 I was talking with my staff about these petroleum-based dyes, and I said, if they want to add petroleum,

00:03:42.800 if they want to eat petroleum, they ought to add it themselves at home.

00:03:46.880 But they shouldn't be feeding it to the rest of us.

00:03:49.500 Without our knowledge or consent, and unfortunately, one of the, and we are going to, we're going to get rid of the dyes,

00:04:03.540 and then one by one, we're going to get rid of every ingredient and additive in the school, in food that we can legally address.

00:04:12.580 This is a huge deal.

00:04:17.240 Someone reacted to this news on social media, pointed out that Froot Loops are now just going to have to be white loops, I guess.

00:04:23.300 This is actually going to change our food, because in America, we use a lot of food dyes,

00:04:27.940 which we've been told for decades now might be toxic, might be causing cancer and other diseases,

00:04:35.060 and yet they've remained in our food.

00:04:36.500 Bobby Kennedy comes in here after Trump is elected on the Make America Healthy Again agenda,

00:04:40.800 and he says, we're going to get rid of a lot of these food dyes, and I don't really care about the food dyes.

00:04:47.500 I care a lot about this story.

00:04:49.240 I think this is a really important political story, but I don't actually care about the food dyes that much,

00:04:54.200 because I'm not a 25 to 35-year-old white woman, so I'll go along with it.

00:04:59.700 Let's get the seed oils out of the food, and let's get the plastics out of our kitchen,

00:05:04.800 and we need to get red dye 40. 1.00

00:05:07.120 Is that the one that's bad?

00:05:08.060 Red dye 40, and fethylates?

00:05:11.580 Are they lecithin?

00:05:13.200 Is that, I don't know, whatever it is.

00:05:14.540 Whatever sweet little Elisa tells me about the food, I believe it.

00:05:18.920 Whatever all the trad, crunchy, zoomer, millennial chicks say, I believe it. 1.00

00:05:23.900 That's not that interesting to me, because I'll also stuff my face with Twinkies. 0.96

00:05:28.120 I don't, I'm not, what I'm interested in is what this means for the political order,

00:05:32.900 because with that little press conference yesterday, Bobby Kennedy has just provided definitive proof

00:05:39.840 that this is not the Republican Party of your father or your grandfather.

00:05:43.840 Republicans are cheering on a Kennedy, a lifelong Democrat, for regulating businesses.

00:05:55.940 That's what this is.

00:05:57.120 Republicans, the right-wing, cool, populist Republicans, are cheering on massive new government regulation.

00:06:06.060 And I'm not criticizing them for it.

00:06:07.580 I'm cheering this on, too.

00:06:08.400 I think this probably is a good thing.

00:06:09.780 I trust the science, I trust the Trump administration when it comes to regulating food,

00:06:14.420 and it's probably better that we're not having all these dubious chemicals in our food.

00:06:18.500 What I really love about this is that the Republican Party is no longer the party that

00:06:26.040 the Democrats caricature.

00:06:28.500 You know how the Democrats caricature the Republicans?

00:06:30.620 Sometimes we live up to the caricature.

00:06:32.400 They say, you just want to end all regulation.

00:06:35.380 You want to abolish the government.

00:06:37.500 And then you have the Republicans sometimes will say, yeah, we're the party of small government.

00:06:42.280 We want to deregulate everything, baby.

00:06:44.140 We need the free market to control everything.

00:06:46.980 But that's not really what we believe.

00:06:49.180 That's not what I believe.

00:06:50.520 That's not what Republicans believe today.

00:06:52.240 That's not what the president believes.

00:06:54.920 It never made sense for the Republican Party to be the party of small government,

00:06:59.040 because we're a big country with a lot of people.

00:07:01.860 You can't have small government in a country of 300 million plus people.

00:07:06.620 What you can have is a limited government.

00:07:09.280 That is to say, a government that respects its proper limits and is strong and effective

00:07:15.040 in the areas in which it is competent and which it has authority.

00:07:18.780 And a government which respects the limits that have been put on it by the people,

00:07:23.860 by the Constitution, by the natural law.

00:07:26.800 That's what we want, limited government.

00:07:31.320 We're going to have a big government.

00:07:32.500 It's a big country.

00:07:33.420 But the libs want that government to do all sorts of things that it shouldn't do. 0.60

00:07:37.580 We want the government to do the things that it should do and not the things that it shouldn't do.

00:07:41.040 Same thing when it comes to regulation.

00:07:43.520 I'm for regulation.

00:07:46.040 I don't want the Republican Party to be the party of no regulation.

00:07:49.720 We do have a state, and the state is here for our own good,

00:07:52.840 and the civil authority is supposed to conduce to the common good.

00:07:57.360 I like some regulations.

00:07:59.080 I just want them to be prudent regulations.

00:08:01.880 I want them to be good regulations.

00:08:05.780 The libs want all sorts of insane regulations that are really bad.

00:08:09.680 Regulations that say that schools need to teach you about weird sex stuff 0.99

00:08:12.640 and to hate whitey and Christianity.

00:08:15.080 That's an example of a bad regulation, okay? 0.70

00:08:18.540 Regulations that tell me that I have to pay zillions of dollars in taxes

00:08:22.800 to have a beautiful, delicious premium Mayflower cigar.

00:08:25.060 That's a story I'm going to try to get to in a little bit, too,

00:08:27.240 because there's a related topic that the Trump administration should look at. 0.99

00:08:30.920 I don't want stupid regulations. 0.98

00:08:33.200 I want good regulation. 1.00

00:08:35.800 Get the poison out of our food.

00:08:36.920 That's a good regulation.

00:08:38.180 And what that means politically for us, too,

00:08:40.120 is that we now look like the reasonable ones.

00:08:43.600 The Democrats are the party of opposing reasonable regulations.

00:08:50.240 So now Democrats are the party of demanding that we have poisons in our food?

00:08:53.920 I guess so.

00:08:54.700 Now Democrats are the party of demanding that we outsource the political authority to corporations?

00:09:01.100 Yeah, that has happened in my lifetime.

00:09:03.180 When I grew up, I was told that the parties switched in the 1960s.

00:09:07.280 And the exact timeline kept changing a little bit,

00:09:10.520 but it was always that the parties switched at whatever point was most convenient for Democrats.

00:09:15.440 And then one day, all the Democrats said, you're Republicans now,

00:09:18.480 and the Republicans said, you're Democrats now.

00:09:19.740 And okay, that didn't seem really credible to me.

00:09:23.900 But the parties are developing, and they have switched in at least one important political respect.

00:09:30.860 Democrats are now the party of corporate oligarchs,

00:09:33.540 and Republicans are the party of the people.

00:09:39.060 Even the Democrats admit it.

00:09:40.240 When they say the Trump movement is populist, that's what you're saying.

00:09:42.380 You're saying it's the party of the people.

00:09:43.420 All right, fine by me.

00:09:46.720 Now, what are the Democrats doing about it?

00:09:48.840 How are they going to change their political fortunes?

00:09:50.660 For that, we turn from RFK to RFK's wife's former TV husband, Larry David,

00:09:58.380 who has a really incisive op-ed out in the New York Times.

00:10:03.380 Bill Maher just went to visit the White House.

00:10:06.280 He had dinner with Trump.

00:10:08.760 I don't know if they actually sat down for dinner.

00:10:10.840 I don't know if he got the nice Big Mac special, but they had a lengthy meeting.

00:10:15.720 And Bill Maher came out afterward, and he said, this dinner surprised me.

00:10:20.700 Trump is really genial in person, and he's not what you think he is if you only consume the media.

00:10:27.260 And he had positive things to say about Trump.

00:10:28.840 So Larry David comes out with this essay in the New York Times.

00:10:33.100 My dinner with Adolf.

00:10:37.100 Do you get it?

00:10:37.980 And then he goes on, and he says, imagine my surprise when in the spring of 1939,

00:10:41.580 a letter arrived at my house inviting me to dinner at the old chancellery with the world's most reviled man, Adolf Hitler.

00:10:48.140 I'd been a critic of him, but I found out he was really genial, and he was kind of funny, and whatever.

00:10:53.480 It goes on.

00:10:54.740 Do you get it?

00:10:55.520 Hey, do you get it?

00:10:59.300 Larry David in the New York Times is saying that Trump is like Hitler.

00:11:06.500 Do you get it?

00:11:09.080 Wow.

00:11:09.980 Wow, Larry.

00:11:11.080 This is really making me think about President Trump in a new and interesting way.

00:11:14.480 You've really shown me something that hadn't been presented to me before.

00:11:17.720 Oh, it's just all so tedious.

00:11:20.040 And Larry David is funny.

00:11:22.440 He's funny.

00:11:23.640 Seinfeld is funny.

00:11:24.360 It's not as funny as people say it was, but it's funny.

00:11:26.500 It's a good show.

00:11:27.720 And Curb Your Enthusiasm is funny.

00:11:30.100 Kind of hard to watch.

00:11:30.840 You have to have a particular style of humor, but it's funny.

00:11:32.720 It's a good show.

00:11:34.220 This essay is not funny.

00:11:36.360 And the reason that it is not funny is because it is so hackneyed.

00:11:42.460 It is so painfully unoriginal.

00:11:48.200 It is so profoundly predictable.

00:11:54.420 To be funny, you have to subvert expectations.

00:11:57.820 That is one of the keys to comedy.

00:12:01.160 Incongruity, the subversion of your expectations, sometimes absurdity.

00:12:05.660 And you don't get any of that.

00:12:07.820 I mean, Larry David's essay is absurd, but he doesn't know it's absurd.

00:12:11.640 And it's not supposed to be received as absurd. 0.93

00:12:15.260 You're supposed to say, wow, Trump is Hitler.

00:12:17.840 That doesn't land.

00:12:20.240 Even the people who are responding positively to this op-ed, it's just libs who are responding

00:12:25.180 positively by saying, yeah, stick it to Bill Maher.

00:12:27.580 You know, it's the claps, not laugh style of comedy.

00:12:30.420 No one's laughing at this, really.

00:12:33.240 It doesn't land.

00:12:35.920 None of this lands for the libs.

00:12:38.880 Trump and Bobby Kennedy and Elon Musk and the right-wing coalition that Trump managed to assemble,

00:12:46.400 they're all running laps around the Democrats right now.

00:12:49.420 And the Democrats have no idea what to do about it.

00:12:51.740 And you have people like the governor of this state that I find myself in right now,

00:12:55.240 Gavin Newsom, who is flailing at the wind, trying to create a presidential campaign out

00:13:00.440 of this political party, which is lying in ruins.

00:13:03.240 So what does he do?

00:13:03.720 He starts a podcast and invites right-wing podcast bros onto his podcast to try anything.

00:13:10.520 That is how this new coalition has revolutionized the GOP.

00:13:17.000 Ain't your grandpa's GOP.

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00:14:28.380 It's not just in America that you're seeing the left collapsing.

00:14:32.620 Keir Starmer, extremely liberal prime minister of the United Kingdom, extremely liberal prime

00:14:38.820 minister.

00:14:39.140 He was in an interview with Constantine Kislin, and he made the argument that you don't have

00:14:44.880 to be English to be English.

00:14:46.800 He said that a person could be from Timbuktu, could be black as the Congo, you know, the

00:14:52.480 heart of darkness, and could be, I don't know, from Tahiti, and could arrive in the UK, get

00:15:01.080 his citizenship, and instantly become an Englishman, more English than Winston Churchill.

00:15:06.580 This is the kind of liberal PM we're talking about here.

00:15:11.060 And yet, Keir Starmer just came out, and he said that he no longer believes that trans

00:15:16.840 women are women. 1.00

00:15:19.080 This, after the UK Supreme Court ruled that the Equality Act, gender and sex law that was

00:15:25.400 passed in the UK some years ago, does not mean that trans women, quote unquote, are women.

00:15:32.760 That defines sex as biological, innate, immutable.

00:15:37.200 So the prime minister said that the decision answered the question about sex and gender,

00:15:42.100 and then Downing Street had to later confirm and say, no, the Supreme Court judgment has

00:15:47.920 made clear that when looking at the Equality Act, a woman is a biological woman.

00:15:50.980 Again, that is set out clearly by the court judgment.

00:15:54.900 What this means is that liberals throughout the West have concluded that the trans thing

00:16:00.740 is a losing issue. 0.73

00:16:02.240 And when I spoke at CPAC a couple years ago, and I said transgenderism must be eradicated 1.00

00:16:05.880 from public life entirely for everyone's good.

00:16:09.500 Transgenderism doesn't help anyone. 1.00

00:16:11.140 It's totally absurd. 0.85

00:16:12.640 It's not grounded in reality.

00:16:13.760 That is now happening in real time.

00:16:17.600 Transgenderism is being eradicated from public life entirely, not even just in America, also

00:16:23.360 in the UK, not just the conservatives pushing it, even the liberals concluding it.

00:16:28.200 The most immediate cause, I don't want to take too much credit for that happening.

00:16:32.560 You could give a lot of credit to Matt Walsh, obviously, with what is a woman really changing 1.00

00:16:36.940 the conversation.

00:16:37.900 You could give a lot of credit to many other conservatives who have been strong on the

00:16:42.980 transgender issue.

00:16:44.000 You could give a lot of credit to radical feminists who have been talking about this 1.00

00:16:47.140 issue for a long time, too.

00:16:48.400 It's not even just people who would call themselves on the right.

00:16:50.500 It's even people who would consider themselves more on the far part of the left.

00:16:55.200 But the most immediate cause of this shift on transgenderism and the broader surrender of

00:17:02.300 the Western left, it's Trump's election.

00:17:06.440 And specifically, it's Trump's election by the popular vote or with the popular vote because

00:17:12.320 the popular vote doesn't decide the election, but it's politically really, really significant.

00:17:16.520 That was it.

00:17:17.940 All sorts of cultural causes there.

00:17:20.720 That was it.

00:17:21.640 That was the shift. 1.00

00:17:22.760 It's a loser. 0.98

00:17:24.040 It's that issue's done. 0.99

00:17:26.140 Now the left has to move on to something else.

00:17:28.540 But what are they going to move on to?

00:17:30.040 What's their issue?

00:17:30.780 They don't seem to have much.

00:17:31.800 So they keep just trying to nip at Trump's heels.

00:17:34.980 They keep trying to do whatever they can to stick a stick in the spokes of the Trump bicycle.

00:17:41.800 How many metaphors can I mix here?

00:17:43.120 I don't know.

00:17:43.720 But they're not really succeeding.

00:17:46.680 So the latest move, this is from the Washington Post, one of the most swampy establishment

00:17:51.880 papers out there historically, is to try to take down Pete Hegseth as the defense secretary.

00:17:58.520 Headline, Pete Hegseth, isolated and defiant, has Trump's backing for now because the White

00:18:10.080 House keeps going out and saying, no, no, no, we're not firing Hegseth.

00:18:12.620 We support Hegseth.

00:18:13.540 They've been saying this since the confirmation hearings.

00:18:16.300 And so the liberal media can't just say, yeah, Trump supports Hegseth.

00:18:20.500 He's going to be the secretary of defense.

00:18:21.600 They have to say, well, okay, he has Trump's support for now.

00:18:26.980 No, but he's isolated and defiant and I hate him and he's terrible and I wish he could 0.90

00:18:35.300 be banned to St. Helena. 0.99

00:18:37.500 But I think it's all pretty silly.

00:18:42.700 This is nothing new.

00:18:44.300 They're going to pretend that there's this new scandal, which is that Pete Hegseth used

00:18:49.000 Telegram to talk about government work.

00:18:52.100 Like every single person in politics of both parties does.

00:18:57.100 But Pete Hegseth, he did it in a group chat where there was a liberal journalist added to

00:19:02.400 it.

00:19:03.800 And even though Pete Hegseth isn't the guy who added the liberal journalist to the chat,

00:19:06.940 it was actually some other Trump administration official.

00:19:09.180 Pete needs to resign.

00:19:11.840 Why?

00:19:12.660 Well, because Pete talked about his very successful military operation.

00:19:17.260 Wait, what did you just say?

00:19:18.340 Well, yeah, Pete talked about the military operation.

00:19:20.540 Now, before that, what did you, oh, the really successful military operation he carried out

00:19:24.200 against the Houthis.

00:19:25.280 He mentioned that in an encrypted chat.

00:19:28.100 And then news of that got out a little bit later.

00:19:30.580 And obviously after the Houthis were bombed.

00:19:33.400 And why is he supposed to resign?

00:19:36.660 Because some other guy added a liberal journalist to, hold on, I'm scratching my head here.

00:19:42.000 Well, he just needs to resign.

00:19:43.800 Why?

00:19:44.120 Well, because weren't you just saying a few months ago that he had to resign because he's

00:19:51.480 an alcoholic, a claim that you made without any evidence whatsoever, like not one scintilla

00:19:57.220 of evidence that Pete Hegseth has a drinking problem.

00:19:59.880 You had many people come out, like me, actually, coincidentally.

00:20:03.800 I personally attested to, it's not like I was on air with Pete Hegseth every day, but I

00:20:09.960 was on air with Pete Hegseth many mornings, very, very early in the morning, remote and

00:20:16.000 in person, in studio in New York when Pete was doing that morning show at Fox.

00:20:21.320 6 a.m., he didn't look bloodshot-eyed to me.

00:20:23.840 He didn't look hungover to me.

00:20:24.980 In fact, he had more energy than just about anybody in the building.

00:20:27.940 So they made up the alcoholic thing.

00:20:29.700 And they said, well, no, he's got to, he's got to resign because he dated a lot of women.

00:20:37.120 Oh, yeah.

00:20:38.420 Oh, oh, yeah, man.

00:20:40.560 Democrats really want to, the party of Bill Clinton really wants to bring up lady problems. 1.00

00:20:47.100 I don't, I don't think you'd want to do that.

00:20:49.060 So what, what is it about?

00:20:50.020 Some people are concluding they want Pete Hegseth to resign because his ideology is too disruptive

00:20:56.820 to the, the Washington establishment.

00:21:00.360 I don't know, Pete's great, he's a strong conservative, but I actually don't even think

00:21:03.780 it's that.

00:21:05.100 I don't, I don't think that Pete's ideological views are all that out of step with just, I

00:21:13.520 don't know, mainstream kind of views.

00:21:15.260 Certainly not out of step with mainstream conservative points of view.

00:21:18.400 He's a very mainstream figure.

00:21:20.500 Got a lot of qualifications, graduate of Princeton and Harvard, which used to be considered a

00:21:26.340 good thing.

00:21:26.700 These days, I guess it's more suspect, but the libs like it.

00:21:29.220 Princeton, Harvard served in the military honorably, articulate, sharp guy.

00:21:34.260 I don't know, seems like, seems like he's got a lot of qualifications.

00:21:37.880 I think the libs are going after Pete Hegseth so hard because they think he's the easiest 0.92

00:21:43.720 one to pick off.

00:21:45.000 They think that because they can portray him as just a pretty face on TV, that he's got a

00:21:50.000 that he'll be the easiest one to pick off.

00:21:51.720 What this is really all about is Trump, though.

00:21:53.800 They just hate Trump.

00:21:55.460 If they felt that Tulsi was more vulnerable than Pete Hegseth, they'd be going after Tulsi.

00:22:00.460 If they felt that, I don't know, Stephen Miller were more vulnerable than Pete Hegseth, they'd

00:22:05.360 be going after Miller.

00:22:05.980 They're just trying to get a scalp.

00:22:08.060 And thus far, Trump hasn't given them a scalp.

00:22:09.760 And I suspect he's not going to give him Pete Hegseth's scalp anytime soon.

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00:23:40.020 Treasury Secretary Scott Besson has told investors in a closed-door meeting arranged,

00:23:45.300 I think, by J.P. Morgan, that he thinks that there will soon be a de-escalation in the trade

00:23:51.880 war between the U.S. and China.

00:23:54.580 He says there will be a de-escalation, according to reports in CNBC.

00:23:59.520 It will be in the very near future.

00:24:02.280 He thinks no one believes the current status quo is sustainable, according to reporting.

00:24:08.100 And despite the U.S. levying a 145% tariff on China, China retaliating with a 125% tariff

00:24:17.860 on the U.S., Besson reportedly said the goal of Trump's trade policy is not to decouple

00:24:23.940 from China.

00:24:25.900 So, if all of that is true, if the goal is not to decouple, that means that the priority

00:24:34.780 in the trade war, the priority for all the tariffs on Liberation Day is not to reshore

00:24:41.160 American jobs.

00:24:43.060 And it's not to grab a lot of revenue from trade, from the tariffs that potentially, who

00:24:49.380 knows, could be used to get rid of the income tax or something.

00:24:51.960 If these comments are true, what that means is that the priority in the trade war is to

00:24:59.400 gain leverage, get better trade deals, and sell more American stuff overseas.

00:25:04.800 Which could have some effect in bringing back American manufacturing.

00:25:10.360 Not as much as if you say we're not importing stuff anymore, so you better make it here.

00:25:13.820 That's a much more aggressive way that could succeed, could fail.

00:25:19.260 You'll get more manufacturing jobs if we can sell more of our stuff overseas and we've got

00:25:24.320 more of a competitive edge in getting into those markets.

00:25:28.140 That's true.

00:25:28.660 But it means that that's not the priority.

00:25:30.220 Certainly the priority wouldn't be the revenue from the tariffs.

00:25:37.820 It means that as many fairly old school conservatives have been saying for a while,

00:25:45.020 Trump is just trying to get better trade deals.

00:25:47.540 He's just trying to stop the United States from being taken advantage of.

00:25:51.540 But he does want to sell more.

00:25:53.800 He's a businessman.

00:25:54.880 He wants to make more.

00:25:55.840 He wants to sell more.

00:25:56.860 He wants us to get more money.

00:25:58.280 He thinks the business of America is business and the businessman probably knows his business best.

00:26:02.240 To quote Calvin Coolidge, which means Trump is a moderate.

00:26:12.840 That's what it means.

00:26:13.320 And this is what the libs can't stand.

00:26:14.940 This is what they don't get.

00:26:15.840 It's what the Trump coalition understands.

00:26:19.300 That's how Trump was able to pull people from the center left.

00:26:21.760 That's how people, Trump was able to pull demographics that previously were not voting Republican.

00:26:27.060 That's how Trump has multiple Democrat presidential candidates in his administration.

00:26:32.180 He is a moderate.

00:26:33.420 Not in the squishy, give up, wimpy kind of way that we've come to associate that word in Republican politics.

00:26:40.740 But moderate in, I think, an Aristotelian way.

00:26:44.360 Moderation as being a virtue.

00:26:47.100 Trump is a moderate in that trying to get a better trade deal with China so that we can have more trade but on better terms

00:26:54.480 has been the standard GOP position for decades at this point.

00:26:59.860 Every GOP candidate running for president has said China needs to stop manipulating its currencies.

00:27:04.120 China needs to stop dumping steel and subsidizing its various industries.

00:27:07.300 China needs to stop doing blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 0.98

00:27:10.420 But then they don't, China needs to stop stealing our intellectual property. 0.98

00:27:13.120 China needs to stop this.

00:27:14.080 China needs to stop. 0.95

00:27:14.640 We got to get tough on trade with China.

00:27:15.860 It's just that none of them have done anything about it.

00:27:19.340 We basically just rolled over when Clinton brought China into the World Trade Organization.

00:27:24.480 And Trump is just doing something about it.

00:27:26.740 So much of the Trump administration is just Trump doing things that GOP politicians have been promising to do for decades.

00:27:34.200 And the fact that Trump actually fulfills those promises makes his presidency seem and actually be, I suppose,

00:27:41.080 transformative for the Republican Party and for the country.

00:27:44.500 But you shouldn't call him a radical.

00:27:46.040 In many, if not all ways, on immigration, on some parts of trade, in some ways, Trump is changing our trade view or restoring it to a century-old trade view.

00:27:57.260 But in many ways on trade, many ways on foreign policy, in most respects, I would say, Trump is just keeping the promises that past Republicans failed to keep.

00:28:08.340 And that is refreshing from my point of view.

00:28:10.800 But it can seem shocking and transformative from many other people's point of view.

00:28:14.840 One minor point I want to bring up.

00:28:16.360 It's a major point for me.

00:28:17.620 When it comes to these trade policies, I have an inside view on only one industry.

00:28:22.520 And that is the cigar industry because I'm an owner of Mayflower Cigars.

00:28:25.780 I'm the founder of this boutique cigar company.

00:28:28.360 And even though it's a very large cigar company, thanks to all of you who smoke Mayflower Cigars, but it's still a relatively new, relatively boutique company.

00:28:35.660 And cigar tobacco generally comes from Latin America, sometimes from Africa, sometimes from the South Pacific, sometimes from Connecticut and Pennsylvania,

00:28:48.500 as Mayflower is incorporating into maybe some new blends that we'll talk about later.

00:28:52.240 But the vast majority, virtually all the premium cigar tobacco comes from Latin America.

00:28:59.980 And there are these massive tariffs right now, relatively massive compared to other Latin American countries, on Nicaragua,

00:29:06.840 which has become the cigar capital of the world after the communists took over Cuba and messed up that cigar industry.

00:29:13.780 And it's where a lot of American investment is gone.

00:29:15.640 It's where a lot of American cigars come from.

00:29:19.000 And I think the tariffs are 18 or 19% right now.

00:29:22.620 I think that while Trump is creating exemptions, I'm not just asking this because, you know, it helps Mayflower Cigars.

00:29:28.960 I'm looking at it more from a political angle.

00:29:33.200 Premium cigar consumers, they're basically all Trump supporters.

00:29:37.780 Not all, 80% are Trump supporters.

00:29:40.120 The premium cigar industry, the actual manufacturers who are getting walloped, not only with these tariffs,

00:29:45.380 but with decades of horrible, burdensome regulation, going back to Obama with S-Chip,

00:29:49.960 hiking up all these taxes, all these different shakedowns to bring cigars into the country.

00:29:54.540 The cigar manufacturers are 90%, 95% probably Trump supporters.

00:29:59.340 This is a small industry.

00:30:01.040 It's an artisanal industry, handmade product, accessible luxury good.

00:30:04.960 It seems to me, while we're carving out all of these exemptions on the tariffs,

00:30:11.000 if we're not going to onshore cigar making, because that's not possible in the United States,

00:30:15.880 certainly not possible at scale, but it's just not, you can't, that's just not how cigars work.

00:30:20.080 If we're not going to get a lot of revenue, really, from the tariffs as a matter of our U.S. budget.

00:30:28.760 And if we want to maybe be a little nicer to our friends and a little tougher on some of our political opponents,

00:30:35.360 it seems to me a great carve-out for the Trump administration, anyone listening right now in the admin,

00:30:39.460 a great little carve-out, would be for all of the patriotic Americans who have been oppressed for too long,

00:30:47.760 who work in the premium cigar industry, and for all of the premium cigar smokers.

00:30:52.080 Just like the image that you have of the conservative man might be worth,

00:30:56.840 we're talking real politics here, folks, friends and enemies, okay?

00:31:01.480 Come on, come on. 0.99

00:31:03.260 All right, enough on that.

00:31:04.080 Speaking of incense, there's an amazing report out on the Pope's final hours.

00:31:09.480 And I know people have strong feelings about Pope Francis.

00:31:13.160 I'm a conservative.

00:31:14.940 I get it.

00:31:15.860 I love the traditional Latin mass, which was restricted under Pope Francis.

00:31:18.620 I understand there's a little confusion sometimes about this pontificate.

00:31:23.360 But this is really amazing.

00:31:25.400 According to the reporting, Pope Francis thanked his personal nurse for encouraging him to go out.

00:31:32.500 His last real action on earth was to go out and greet crowds in St. Peter's Square, in the Vatican, on Easter Sunday.

00:31:41.880 88 years old, he had been in ill health for a very, very long time.

00:31:47.340 And against the wishes of many doctors, he went out, had the urbi et urbi, gave an Easter blessing to the crowds, came back home and died.

00:31:59.440 And that's a good way to go.

00:32:05.080 Even apparently, when he got back in, in the early hours of the next morning, the first signs of illness reappeared.

00:32:14.120 More than an hour later, he waved.

00:32:15.400 The Pope waved to his personal nurse, who had encouraged him to go out to the crowd, sort of waved in a gesture of farewell, fell into a coma, was dead about two hours later.

00:32:24.900 However, this is what we call a good death.

00:32:30.060 Whatever you think of the guy's pontificate, this is a strong way to go, and it's a good death.

00:32:36.600 We now, in modernity, in our liberal society, we think a good death is a death that takes you totally by surprise.

00:32:44.120 You don't have to think about it, you don't need to worry.

00:32:46.900 Just, someone comes up with a, with a two by four and just clocks you in the head and takes you out without you even seeing it.

00:32:53.680 You know, Lenny going to, George going to Lenny and putting the pistol behind his head and just saying, think of the, think of the bunny rabbits, George.

00:33:00.780 You know, that's, that's the good death.

00:33:03.140 That is not what a good death has been understood to be traditionally in our civilization.

00:33:07.240 A good death is one that you know is coming so you can prepare your soul for it.

00:33:12.100 So you can make peace with your maker, confess your sins, receive the sacrament, viaticum, you know, to take it with you, and, and go on to your eternal reward.

00:33:25.700 That's what you want to do.

00:33:26.680 You don't want to be caught unawares.

00:33:28.080 You don't want to be caught outside of a state of grace.

00:33:29.500 So the Pope obviously was well-prepared for this, and then he gave out the last of his life to bless people as he's the, the supreme shepherd of the church, earthly shepherd of the church.

00:33:43.880 That, that has a cognizance of what life is for.

00:33:49.520 This is, this is what I, I love so much about this final recollection here of, of the Pope's last day.

00:33:56.140 He knew, he, look, he could have listened to doctor's orders and stayed at home and rested and not given out the Easter blessing and not, and on the holiest day of the Christian year.

00:34:08.560 And maybe he would have lived a few more days or a few more weeks or maybe even a few more months.

00:34:12.640 What's, what's, what's life for?

00:34:17.720 We, are you just living to stuff your face and drink good wine and, I don't know, amuse yourself?

00:34:26.740 Well, then you're, you're going to fail. 0.79

00:34:28.180 You're going to fail at that.

00:34:29.000 Because one day, the food's going to run out, the wine's going to run out, the amusements are going to run out.

00:34:33.220 And if they don't run out, you're going to run out.

00:34:34.980 And you're not going to get to do that anymore.

00:34:36.200 You're going to fail.

00:34:36.840 That's, you're setting, if, if your view of life is that life is for receiving as much pleasure as possible for as long as possible.

00:34:44.220 If you, if your view of life is that you, you want to minimize suffering, you want to get rid of suffering and pain.

00:34:49.600 You're going to fail because eventually all of that is going to find you.

00:34:54.420 In order for you to have a successful life, your life has to be about something more.

00:34:58.320 And there is a goal to life and a purpose to it.

00:35:01.340 And we can know what that is.

00:35:02.280 And that is to know God, to serve him on earth, and to enjoy him forever in heaven.

00:35:07.600 If that's your goal, you can succeed.

00:35:09.500 If you recognize that you have particular purposes here on earth and they all tend toward your grand purpose.

00:35:17.100 Then what the Pope did, I don't care what you think of his pontificate.

00:35:19.860 I know it was a rough one in many respects.

00:35:23.400 Beautiful way to go.

00:35:24.280 It's a model.

00:35:24.900 That's a model for how you should shuffle off this mortal coil.

00:35:27.680 Well, now, speaking of religion, if you're a fan of my longer form series, Michael Ann, do not miss the fastest growing and most popular episode.

00:35:34.520 Yet, the face of God, Michael Ann, the Shroud of Turin. 0.88

00:35:38.200 In this episode, I also want to thank people who have written in.

00:35:40.400 A lot of friends have said that they really liked the episode.

00:35:43.800 I'm glad we could get it out in time for Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday.

00:35:47.920 Now we're in Easter week, so go check it out.

00:35:49.920 I sat down with scholar Dr. Jeremiah Johnston to explore one of the most mysterious and controversial artifacts, relics in Christian history, the Shroud of Turin.

00:36:01.520 Is it the burial cloth of Christ, or is it something else entirely?

00:36:05.480 Check out this teaser.

00:36:07.100 The Shroud is an image of a crucified man with wounds that correspond to the brutality that Jesus of Nazareth experienced.

00:36:16.520 So, why do you think it's real?

00:36:18.240 They cannot explain how the image is in the Shroud.

00:36:22.740 This is brand new for your program.

00:36:24.240 I'm publishing right now with an archaeologist on what I'm about to share.

00:36:27.500 Do you have your phone with you by chance?

00:36:29.440 Yes, I do.

00:36:30.260 I want you to do an exercise on camera with me, if you don't mind.

00:36:33.240 Okay.

00:36:33.720 Look at the face of the Shroud right here.

00:36:35.660 Thank you.

00:36:37.140 Oh.

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00:36:47.460 or stream the uncensored ad-free version exclusively, Daily Wire Plus.

00:36:51.780 If you're listening to this, you're probably tired of being lied to.

00:36:54.500 Hold on.

00:36:54.720 What does that mean?

00:36:55.280 Why do they say that?

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00:36:59.120 They meant that you're tired of being lied to by the establishment media.

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00:37:26.440 My favorite comment yesterday is from Jess Hallock, 5346, who says,

00:37:31.960 I think an African pope would be pretty rockin'. 1.00

00:37:36.900 Yeah, well, people think it'd be great because the libs who don't know anything about the church 0.99

00:37:42.100 would cheer on the first black pope out of their racial ideology. 0.81

00:37:47.700 But then they'd find out that the African popes are all extremely right-wing. 1.00

00:37:53.040 Why are you gay? 0.99

00:37:54.400 You are gay. 1.00

00:37:55.680 You are transgender. 0.99

00:37:56.880 I actually think that guy's Catholic, right? 0.64

00:37:58.700 The guy who went viral for that.

00:37:59.840 Anyway, I don't think he's up for pope, but there are some marvelous African prelates who are up for pope.

00:38:04.960 But no one knows.

00:38:06.960 No one knows.

00:38:07.780 The betting markets are terrible when it comes to figuring out who the next pope is going to be.

00:38:11.920 Most people don't even really know what the day-to-day of being a pope is.

00:38:15.700 Most people don't really know what the cardinals do, what they would desire in electing a pope.

00:38:19.660 So, you know, it's fun to guess.

00:38:22.840 I'll probably keep guessing.

00:38:24.520 A lot of people keep guessing Cardinal Pizzaballa because he has a funny name.

00:38:28.300 I think that's the main reason they keep saying, I'm pretty sure.

00:38:32.400 You get these guys who could not name three living cardinals.

00:38:35.560 So, you know, I'm pretty sure.

00:38:36.520 I think actually the next pope, it's going to be the guy with the most interesting name, just coincidentally.

00:38:41.100 Yeah, okay.

00:38:41.600 Well, I think Cardinal Stromboli-Bata, I think he is going to be, yeah, okay, well, are you going to put any money on it?

00:38:48.640 Actually, I don't want to put money down.

00:38:50.620 This doesn't seem like the kind of thing you want to bet actual money on.

00:38:53.920 Speaking of process, Stephen Miller, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, has just come out and responded, I think, in a perfect way that should be emulated by other Republican politicians to the Supreme Court decision that says that Trump cannot use the Alien Enemies Act to deport alien enemies.

00:39:15.880 Here's what he has to say. 0.69

00:39:16.580 So they're all illegal, they're all gang members, they're all foreign terrorists. 1.00

00:39:22.880 And now we are being told that they cannot be expelled from our country without an extraordinary amount of individualized adjudication at the district court, circuit court, supreme court, up and down, up and down, up and down.

00:39:40.560 No American citizen receives this level of so-called due process.

00:39:46.760 This isn't due process.

00:39:48.240 This is called infinity process to keep you here forever.

00:39:51.440 That's what this is.

00:39:52.540 No American citizen charged with a crime, with a serious crime inside the United States, a U.S.-born American citizen receives this kind of process.

00:40:04.500 Millions of dollars in free legal services, representation at every single level.

00:40:09.280 Do you think that there is any, for example, any American citizen who was persecuted, who was innocent related to January 6th, do you think they could just get this kind of relief, this kind of process?

00:40:21.880 It was never available to them.

00:40:24.140 The whole system was rigged against them, just like it's rigged in favor of illegal alien invaders. 0.92

00:40:30.820 Bingo, man.

00:40:32.260 Bingo.

00:40:33.220 Absolutely perfect messaging coming out of Stephen Miller here.

00:40:36.600 However, this phrase infinity process is great because what the libs are saying is you can't use laws that are already on the books, some of which have been on the books for 130 years.

00:40:48.300 You can't use the laws that are on the books to deport the illegal aliens because they need due process.

00:40:54.960 Not even the face-tattooed Satan-worshipping gangsters who are part of foreign terrorist organizations.

00:41:05.040 You can't get them out of the country unless they go through months and years-long court process.

00:41:12.480 They need due process.

00:41:14.080 And what Stephen Miller is saying is the Democrats don't want these guys to have due process.

00:41:18.220 They want them to have infinity process. 0.89

00:41:21.380 They want the process to just keep going on and on and on so they can keep punting the deportations until the Democrats are back in power and they can give them amnesty and put them on a path to citizenship.

00:41:32.640 And get what they really want out of mass migration, what they've really wanted the whole time, chief of all, which is a permanent electoral majority.

00:41:40.400 Because they think, with a fair bit of justification for it, that mass migration is going to redound to their clear electoral benefit.

00:41:51.580 And then if they can't win elections by convincing Americans to vote for them, well, they'll just import voters themselves.

00:41:57.140 That's what they want, infinity process.

00:42:00.540 And the reason that this is so wrong is because it's not process.

00:42:07.860 The Democrats are trying to turn due process into an end in itself.

00:42:12.620 The purpose of due process is to get to the end of justice, giving the criminal or the accused what he deserves.

00:42:21.440 If he's innocent, he's acquitted.

00:42:23.060 He goes free.

00:42:23.720 If he's guilty, he faces punishment for it.

00:42:27.660 But Democrats, that's not what they're doing here.

00:42:30.800 They are not using these legal mechanisms as a process.

00:42:34.140 They're using them as an end unto themselves.

00:42:37.040 The end being to keep these guys in the country and eventually to give them amnesty.

00:42:42.420 Stephen Miller, totally right.

00:42:43.540 I love this line.

00:42:44.340 You want infinity process. 1.00

00:42:46.080 You want to keep the worst people on earth in our country, face tattooed, raping, murdering members of foreign terrorist organizations. 0.99

00:42:54.160 You're going to use infinity process. 0.92

00:42:55.560 Well, no, that's not what the law is for.

00:42:58.480 That's not what due process even is.

00:43:01.640 We're going to ship them out.

00:43:03.580 Okay.

00:43:03.860 Now, moving from this terrible Supreme Court decision, but sticking to unfortunate events.

00:43:09.260 You know, this is a family-friendly program, so I'm actually trying to figure out exactly how I can present this.

00:43:19.080 I'll tell you what.

00:43:19.940 If you've got kids listening to the show right now, some people do that.

00:43:23.040 Just mute it for the next eight seconds.

00:43:27.220 Kanye West has admitted to an incestuous homosexual relationship with his male cousin when they were children, up through their teenage years.

00:43:34.740 All right.

00:43:37.960 You can unmute it now.

00:43:39.320 Well, maybe you can.

00:43:40.200 I don't know.

00:43:41.100 Kanye.

00:43:41.960 Kanye.

00:43:42.440 I don't mean to laugh at it.

00:43:43.520 It's a very sad story.

00:43:44.920 Kanye has a song I called Cousins, and he says this song is called Cousins about my cousin that's locked in jail for life for killing a pregnant lady a few years after I told him we wouldn't look at dirty magazines together anymore.

00:43:58.160 So it just goes right over the whole thing about his cousin killing a pregnant woman.

00:44:03.980 Goes to jail for that.

00:44:04.920 He says, I told him we wouldn't look at dirty magazines together.

00:44:07.820 Perhaps in my self-centered mess, I felt it was my fault that I showed him those dirty magazines when he was six, and then we acted out what we saw.

00:44:16.840 He says, my dad had Playboy magazines, but the magazines I found in the top of my mom's closet were different.

00:44:23.820 What exactly does he mean by that?

00:44:25.500 Does he mean they were more perverse?

00:44:29.800 I don't know exactly what he means by that.

00:44:31.820 He says, my name is Ye, and then he goes on to describe in graphic detail what he and his cousin did, which I'm not going to do that because no one needs to hear about that.

00:44:42.420 Really awful, really terrible stuff.

00:44:45.640 You do kind of feel bad for Kanye, and you definitely feel bad for the cousin.

00:44:49.080 You definitely feel bad for the lady that the cousin murdered and the kid that the cousin murdered.

00:44:52.000 And you just, you just really feel bad for everyone involved in this culture.

00:44:59.140 That was magazines.

00:45:01.920 That's my biggest takeaway from this.

00:45:04.160 That was magazines that Kanye West is talking about.

00:45:07.040 Finding pornographic magazines impelled Kanye West to commit really traumatic acts that have obviously traumatized him, probably his cousin, would really traumatize anybody, and have seriously messed up his life.

00:45:30.200 Kanye West, some years ago, tweeted out, said, pornography ruined my marriage.

00:45:35.220 It took my marriage from me.

00:45:37.080 He talks, and he's, he paraded his most recent wife around in a pornographic way.

00:45:42.220 He said he wanted to start a porn company. 0.99

00:45:43.620 It's just totally poisoned his brain.

00:45:46.200 It's poisoned the minds of many people who are exposed to porn at a young age.

00:45:50.580 That was magazines.

00:45:54.340 The pornography that kids are exposed to today, at age, what, eight, I think is the median age of exposure to pornography, internet pornography, is high-speed, video, immersive.

00:46:07.820 Now, you know, now we've got 3D goggles and sex robots coming down the pike. 0.99

00:46:14.180 It is so much more stimulating than you find a magazine in a closet or something, and the magazines were bad enough to ruin Kanye West's life.

00:46:24.180 So, I'm not, I'm not sitting here like the church lady.

00:46:26.900 I think anybody with two brain cells to rub together knows that porn is bad, and you shouldn't look at it, and you shouldn't expose others to it.

00:46:32.580 But if magazines were bad enough to lead Kanye West to do what he did and to screw up his life the way it has, why, how could anyone oppose age verification laws for porn sites?

00:46:50.820 You know, they're the Democrats now, and the libs, and the perverts, and the degenerates, and the porn industry, and I'm being a little repetitive, I guess, here.

00:46:58.940 They fight tooth and nail to stop laws that simply require age verification so that kids, like Kanye West was when he first discovered porn, don't find much more dangerous, much more stimulating kinds of porn on the internet, or at least it kind of tries to stop them.

00:47:17.920 Pornography companies will stop doing business in whole states rather than comply with age verification laws that are intended to make sure that kids don't look at porn.

00:47:26.540 But you listen to this.

00:47:29.780 This is seriously depraved, dangerous stuff. 1.00

00:47:35.300 And as far as I'm concerned, if you oppose these age verification laws, you are as degenerate a pervert. 0.99

00:47:43.140 You are as dark a force in politics as I have ever seen. 0.97

00:47:48.940 A slightly related issue.

00:47:52.040 Do we need to confess these kinds of things to everyone?

00:47:57.760 Have you noticed this is a modern impulse to confess your sins to everyone, or your traumas, or all the—there's really more traumas because people never want to really own up to sin.

00:48:09.760 Kanye West is doing it a little bit here.

00:48:10.940 But have you noticed that people just confess everything online, on Twitter, or on TikTok especially, you know, the girls crying, confessing all sorts of stuff and traumas?

00:48:24.080 Once again, a vindication.

00:48:25.480 I think we're living through this time where all the old ways that we'd kind of tried to suppress and forget about where they're coming back again.

00:48:30.960 People make fun of the notion that a Catholic goes into a confessional, kneels down in front of a priest.

00:48:38.920 There's a scrim, there's a screen, and anonymously confesses his sins.

00:48:42.640 And then the priest says, you know, because he has this power given to him by Christ in the Gospels, to say,

00:48:48.820 Ego te absolve, absolve you of your sins.

00:48:51.860 In our modern culture, we mock this.

00:48:53.480 But the confessional is just channeling a very human need to get a load off our chest.

00:49:02.340 And I think conferring the real spiritual graces of absolution from God who can forgive your sins.

00:49:08.500 But even if you don't believe that, it's speaking to a deep human psychological need to, you know, come on, get it off your chest, man.

00:49:16.660 We do that anyway.

00:49:18.360 We still have to do that.

00:49:19.680 It's just now, either you confess your sins to your therapist, and it's really you're trying to evade responsibility.

00:49:27.960 So the way you confess your sins to a priest is you actually have to say all the terrible stuff you've done in basically the worst way possible.

00:49:33.920 And, you know, you try to absolve yourself in the therapist's office or on TikTok now.

00:49:38.620 You confess it to the whole world.

00:49:39.920 You don't need to, I don't feel bad for Kanye.

00:49:43.020 He doesn't need to confess this stuff to the whole world.

00:49:44.760 He needs to confess it to a priest who tries to move on.

00:49:47.220 And then we need political solutions to the temptation that people are being led into.

00:49:51.440 Okay, there's so much more to get to. 1.00

00:49:53.680 Jasmine Crockett, the new AOC, the Democrat Congress lady, she calls Elon Musk an idiot. 0.98

00:50:00.200 Nancy Mace got into a fight over the word tranny with a tranny, I guess, who looked like he was threatening to throw a potted plant at her. 0.99

00:50:09.940 There's so much more I want to get to.

00:50:11.440 But we can't because I have to film some excellent episodes of the book club with PragerU.

00:50:18.620 We're all out of time here.

00:50:19.560 I will be back in studio finally, finally tomorrow so I can get my iPad.

00:50:23.940 I can chat with you in the member room segmentum.

00:50:26.220 I will see you then.

00:50:27.560 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:50:28.720 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:50:29.560 We'll see you then.

The Michael Knowles Show - April 23, 2025

Ep. 1720 - RFK Throws Out Food Dyes And The Stale GOP

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